The Way Forward: Helping a mortal navigate the Celestial Bureaucracy (Transmigration Quest)
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- holed up in my room
Shoot.... Im not going to be able to make it this time. My eyes are going cross at the mome0nt
No worries. Get some sleep. Your health is more important than this quest.
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[X] plan,last minute plan
-[X] Spend Point On:
--[X] Dexterity
-[X] Spend Points On:
--[X] 3 tranquility 3 concentration
You can pick a feat/ability. Please keep in line with powers on sheet or demonstrated in the quest.
-[X] To be a guardian: when defending innocents, gain a +2 (+3 if the action costs you hp) bonus to all rolls that directly defend them from harm
--[X] Covertly Repair the Tree of the Heavens (2 FP 2 AP): This action is repeatable up to Xiaomei's level. (Current Times: 2/5), and can be repaired by approximately 3.2%.[QM Note: Do not take this more than once a turn unless you want negative consequences. Amount repairable is tied to Xiaomei. Also note the slowdown means the Tree will slowly take more damage.] [At 40%, Enemy loses one action permamently] [10% chance Xiaomei refuses to perform this action]
--[X] Celestial Bureaucracy Anti-Corruption Actions (3/?? Completed)
---[X] (Unlocked) Investigate and Purify the Chapel of the Void (2 AP25 30 RP)[Event: Xiaomei gains an Ability, History Event] [Makes Risk of Retaliation Lowered]
--[X] Get Xiaomei a fortunate encounter (2 AP. Spend +2 AP to make it more fortunate.)
-spendonly 2 ap
--[X] Some worlds have no gods that intervene. This could be a problem for Xiaomei. You should investigate ways around it. (2 AP, Must be taken 5 times, does not need to be every turn.)
--[X] Work with Kerian Pantheon to create resource deposits for Pheonix City. They will ask for a favor in return. (Cost:30 36 RP, +2 encounters spent on Xiaomei, +1 potential quest, possiblity of locked AP/FP expenditure for 2 turns.)
--[X] Burn 2 FP for -10 Defiance (Can take as many times as you want.) (Cost goes up every fifth time)
---[X] Ask a local deity for assistance in giving Xiaomei a quest. (Cost: 2 FP, locked. They may not be something you want, but unless you pick badly, it should always be something good for Xiaomei, or a lesson, etc.)
-[X]Senian - God of Merciful Justice. Sigil: Scales.
--[X] Set One Good Roll to .. 50/2 FP (Specify if it's one of Xiaomei's rolls, or yours. Default: yours)
--ours
--[X] Counter your enemies blocking your sight. (2 AP)
--[X] You could use some assistance and resources. (Gain hints as to which actions have what results. But also: gain a slow trickle of resources.) (1012 RP and 2 AP per turn, must be taken every turn till completed.) (4 Turns)
---[X] [Celestial Bureaucracy] You may be sealed up, but you know the ways of things. Grease palms to get things done. This will primarly have ??? benefits, as you're paying for information or slowing down event chains. (Unlocked by the Intrique action completing) (Explain the cost and what you're looking for for that cost. Assume you'll need at least35 42 RP to get anything useful.)
-[X] investigative void and demons.102rp
is this ok?
-[X] Spend Point On:
--[X] Dexterity
-[X] Spend Points On:
--[X] 3 tranquility 3 concentration
You can pick a feat/ability. Please keep in line with powers on sheet or demonstrated in the quest.
-[X] To be a guardian: when defending innocents, gain a +2 (+3 if the action costs you hp) bonus to all rolls that directly defend them from harm
--[X] Covertly Repair the Tree of the Heavens (2 FP 2 AP): This action is repeatable up to Xiaomei's level. (Current Times: 2/5), and can be repaired by approximately 3.2%.[QM Note: Do not take this more than once a turn unless you want negative consequences. Amount repairable is tied to Xiaomei. Also note the slowdown means the Tree will slowly take more damage.] [At 40%, Enemy loses one action permamently] [10% chance Xiaomei refuses to perform this action]
--[X] Celestial Bureaucracy Anti-Corruption Actions (3/?? Completed)
---[X] (Unlocked) Investigate and Purify the Chapel of the Void (2 AP
--[X] Get Xiaomei a fortunate encounter (2 AP. Spend +2 AP to make it more fortunate.)
-spendonly 2 ap
--[X] Some worlds have no gods that intervene. This could be a problem for Xiaomei. You should investigate ways around it. (2 AP, Must be taken 5 times, does not need to be every turn.)
--[X] Work with Kerian Pantheon to create resource deposits for Pheonix City. They will ask for a favor in return. (Cost:
--[X] Burn 2 FP for -10 Defiance (Can take as many times as you want.) (Cost goes up every fifth time)
---[X] Ask a local deity for assistance in giving Xiaomei a quest. (Cost: 2 FP, locked. They may not be something you want, but unless you pick badly, it should always be something good for Xiaomei, or a lesson, etc.)
-[X]Senian - God of Merciful Justice. Sigil: Scales.
--[X] Set One Good Roll to .. 50/2 FP (Specify if it's one of Xiaomei's rolls, or yours. Default: yours)
--ours
--[X] Counter your enemies blocking your sight. (2 AP)
--[X] You could use some assistance and resources. (Gain hints as to which actions have what results. But also: gain a slow trickle of resources.) (
---[X] [Celestial Bureaucracy] You may be sealed up, but you know the ways of things. Grease palms to get things done. This will primarly have ??? benefits, as you're paying for information or slowing down event chains. (Unlocked by the Intrique action completing) (Explain the cost and what you're looking for for that cost. Assume you'll need at least
-[X] investigative void and demons.102rp
is this ok?
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So, some thoughts (and this is largely because some ofthese choices are wasted spending.)
-[X] To be a guardian: when defending innocents, gain advantage on rolls that directly protect them from harm.
She has advantage, and while she might lose it, I can almost guarantee she'd get that. I would recommend something thematic, but that's up to you.
-[X]Change: a group of priests, not far from phoenix city, have long since noticed that connecting to the gods got more difficult. they have been waiting and preparing rituals to strengthen the connection once it got some basis strength back. wich it just did. Any group of priests sympathetic to phoenix city can be the one that was changed.
This is rejected becuase it's already happened in quest. I'd spend it on other FP stuff.
---[X] [Celestial Bureaucracy] You may be sealed up, but you know the ways of things. Grease palms to get things done. This will primarly have ??? benefits, as you're paying for information or slowing down event chains. (Unlocked by the Intrique action completing) (Explain the cost and what you're looking for for that cost. Assume you'll need at least35 42 RP to get anything useful.)
-[X]we want to find some info about the reason xiaomei becomes more defiant when we do certain investigative actions.102rp
Okay, so. This is a good choice, except as QM, I'm going to point you to the "investigate Xiaomei" action.
I'd point you to the [--[] Xiaomei has inherited the soul of someone who was once a god, and this must meant she was one of the dead gods. That'll take some time but maybe it'll identify the enemy some. (1 AP5 6 RP per turn, 9 turns)] action instead. (102 RP is a lot to spend on what is basically going to be "It's weird that when demonic and void stuff comes up, she responds strongly."
Alternatively, I could take it as spending on void and demonic, if that works out for you?
-[X] To be a guardian: when defending innocents, gain advantage on rolls that directly protect them from harm.
She has advantage, and while she might lose it, I can almost guarantee she'd get that. I would recommend something thematic, but that's up to you.
-[X]Change: a group of priests, not far from phoenix city, have long since noticed that connecting to the gods got more difficult. they have been waiting and preparing rituals to strengthen the connection once it got some basis strength back. wich it just did. Any group of priests sympathetic to phoenix city can be the one that was changed.
This is rejected becuase it's already happened in quest. I'd spend it on other FP stuff.
---[X] [Celestial Bureaucracy] You may be sealed up, but you know the ways of things. Grease palms to get things done. This will primarly have ??? benefits, as you're paying for information or slowing down event chains. (Unlocked by the Intrique action completing) (Explain the cost and what you're looking for for that cost. Assume you'll need at least
-[X]we want to find some info about the reason xiaomei becomes more defiant when we do certain investigative actions.102rp
Okay, so. This is a good choice, except as QM, I'm going to point you to the "investigate Xiaomei" action.
I'd point you to the [--[] Xiaomei has inherited the soul of someone who was once a god, and this must meant she was one of the dead gods. That'll take some time but maybe it'll identify the enemy some. (1 AP
Alternatively, I could take it as spending on void and demonic, if that works out for you?
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- washington
This looks like it could be really really cool though I gotta ask how long might it take to get like legendary skills and stats over eighties much less 100s in real life? Like it possible to do in world 1 in a few hundred thousand words?
Also what's romance like in quest? Like gay, straight, asexual? I'm hoping the latter but I can deal with anything.
Also what's romance like in quest? Like gay, straight, asexual? I'm hoping the latter but I can deal with anything.
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Uh.. let me put it this way. 80s is.. meant to be in a while. I'm not sure when the next world will be, but the capstone quest on this world is Level 10.
Romance is gay, but tbh, Xiaomei won't run into her wife for ... well, to put it this way, I'd like to explore a lot of other things before I start working on writing romance. Xiaomei thinks she's dead, and isn't the type to remarry, after all.
Romance is gay, but tbh, Xiaomei won't run into her wife for ... well, to put it this way, I'd like to explore a lot of other things before I start working on writing romance. Xiaomei thinks she's dead, and isn't the type to remarry, after all.
World 1: Land of Keria; Part 2.5.1 - Gorpiaos 12 to Gorpiaos 29, Year 217 of the Peace of Tair; [Part 1]
World 1: Land of Keria; Part 2.5.1 - Gorpiaos 12 to Gorpiaos 29, Year 217 of the Peace of Tair; [Part 1]
Action: They attempt to disrupt Xiaomei's levelup
Roll: 1d100+46 vs 1d100+82 => 105 vs 156; Major Failure
Gains are *1.5, lose an action.
Action 2
Action: They attempt to curse Xiaomei
Roll: 1d100+50 vs 1d100+50 => 63 vs 118; Major Failure
Lose a 2nd action.
[Xiaomei has gained the Title "Curse Breaker" (Acqusition Conditions: Break 5 curses) "You ain't afraid of no curse." (+10 Resistance)]
Feat: To be a guardian: when defending innocents, gain a +2 (+3 if the action costs you hp) bonus to all rolls that directly defend them from harm
Xioamei: +1 pt Vitality, +2 pts Perception, +2 pts Harvest, +2 pts Diplomacy
[Xiaomei gains "A True Righteous Warrior" (Acquisition: >1000 Qi) "Your spiritual sea is a raging ocean, your mind clear. This is a true righteous warrior. Your first step on the path to challenge the heavens." (+10% chances of gaining understanding)]
[1d100 vs DC 10: 60; Xiaomei performs the action]
[1d100+30 => 102; Sublime Success; Progress Multiplied *1.25]
It doesn't take much thought to realize that the Tree of the Heavens goes through the Chapel of the Void, and therefore connects all through it. Still peculiar it takes Xiaomei to do it, and to release energy you're pretty sure she doesn't actually have.
(3.65 * 1.25 => 4.56% + 36.95% => 41.52%)
[Celestial Operatives now have Very Limited oversight, and the enemy has lost one action.]
With this, the celestial bureaucracy enforcers have more time to do more than counter Meiling's actions. Not much more, but it's something. You think that completing the Labryinth will also assist in this.
[Labyrinth of Regret now increases enemy penalty to -8; 7 turns remaining until fixed.]
- Investigate and Purify the Chapel of the Void [Event: Xiaomei gains an Ability, History Event] [Makes Risk of Retaliation Lowered]
[1d100+30 vs DC 70 (Difficult) => 100; One Success]
The Chapel of the Void was once an impossibly beautiful cathedral of the stars. Now, it's tainted by an excess of light and descreation. Your agents clean it up, but there's a bit of light and demonic energy that refuses to go away.
[Xiaomei: 1d100+27(VIT)+10(Qi/100)+10(Godslayer)+5(Titles+Epithets/4)+10(2 Moments of Exceeding Yourself) vs DC 110 (Divinely Difficult) => 1d100+62 vs 110 => 90; Failure, -1 Success
And it didn't clear. Peculiar.
[1d100+43 vs DC 70; On Failure, Gain +7 Defiance => 88; Success, No Defiance Gain.]
Undeterred, the Kerian Pantheon gets on the action.
[One More Time: 1d100+62+20(Kerian Pantheon) => 1d100+82 vs 115 (+5 for Second Try) => 129 vs 115; Success (One Success)]
This time it clears.
[Xiaomei gains Ability "The Stars of the Heavens Purify All In Their Sight" (+10 to any roll purifying or cleansing an area, can spend +50% Qi to make any area attack cleanse.)]
A faint echo of a memory stirs. You see what looks hazily like Xiaomei, but with a definite divine aura being struck down by thousands and thrown off the edge of the Chapel into the Void.
.... But none of you remember any event like that. Weird.
[Unlocked "Find the Hall of Histories", "Improve and Restore the Chapel of the Void"]
- Get Xiaomei a fortunate encounter (2 AP. Spend +2 AP to make it more fortunate.)
See Xiaomei Actions.
- Some worlds have no gods that intervene. This could be a problem for Xiaomei. You should investigate ways around it.
You can name a few worlds that the Celestial Bureaucracy refuses to enter. Sometimes it's simply you can't bring enough power in, some is due to it being a bad world, and a few.. well, the Celestial Bueaucracy might destroy in a few thousand thousand millenia.
That said, Xiaomei sitll needs help, and your pool should function with some changes, right?
.. But what changes?
- Work with Kerian Pantheon to create resource deposits for Pheonix City. They will ask for a favor in return.
They seem happy enough to do so, creating a titanium mine that shoukld allow them to mine their own coins, as well as use it various applications....
Continued in Xiaomei Actions.
- Burn 2 FP for -10 Defiance (Can take as many times as you want.) (Cost goes up every fifth time)
Xiaomei is now at 9 Defiance
- Ask a local deity for assistance in giving Xiaomei a quest. (Cost: 2 FP, locked. They may not be something you want, but unless you pick badly, it should always be something good for Xiaomei, or a lesson, etc.)
-[X]Senian - God of Merciful Justice. Sigil: Scales.
Continued in Xiaomei Actions.
--[X] Set One Good Roll to .. 50/2 FP (Specify if it's one of Xiaomei's rolls, or yours. Default: yours)
--ours
- Counter your enemies blocking your sight.
1d100 + 30 => 123; Sublime Success
You add several offensive arrays, and clean out some blockers. (-6 to enemy rolls.)
You also get the name of the agent fighting you and some idea of her resources.
--[X] You could use some assistance and resources. (Gain hints as to which actions have what results. But also: gain a slow trickle of resources.)
1d100+30 vs DC 55 => 80; One Success
You start working on your contacts. So far, so good. It'll take time, though.
- Investigate Void and Demons
So it's peculiar Xiaomei responds oddly to Void and Demonic energy. You choose to investigate what is known about those. The Void seperates the Heavens from the Demons from the Worlds. There used to be gods and goddesses of the Void, but you haven't heard much of them in a long while.
Demons, on the other hand, are just evil for evil's sake Gods and Goddesses, the Fallen. They usually don't leave the Underworld, and the Celestial Enforcers constantly battle them.
.. Come to think of it, they've been unable to do much recently, haven't they? It's concievable things could sneak past them.
.. Worrying.
Gains: +1 Melee Attack, +2 Use Magical Device, Magic Missile now L2, Dodge +2, Block +4, Diplomacy +2
And finds herself woken up in a coutroom's waiting room. Bemused, she follows the queue of endless faces, some glaring at her in hatred. It doesn't take her long to realize there was a trial on for each soul. And..
There's something off about that Judge as the mass entered. Something false. Something wrong.
Xiaomei walked up, feeling her power flare.
[Meditant: +10 Progress. Evil from the heavens must be opposed.]
[Justicar: +5 Progress. The world is not just. Therefore you are.]
"Stand down, pentient." The Judge barks, as Xiaomei's blade appears as if by magic, stunning the observers.
"I will not let the tribunal of justice, nor the mercy of death be ruled over by a foul imposter." Xiaomei responds. "Awaken the power of miracles!" She sings, her blade igniting in rainbow colored fire as her Qi swirls around her.
(Xiaomei has activated the Song of the Just (-40 Qi) Xiaomei has activated Perfect Vision (-20 Qi))
The Judge sends a bolt of purest darkness, followed by the Baliff while some souls look up in hope.
[1d100+15 (Roll vs Fate)+20(Daughter of Endings Tier 2)+42(Perception)+20(Perfect Vision)+4 (Class Level)+10 (Senian Bonus)+10 (Morale: Song of the Just) => 1d100+123 vs DC 200 (Hellishly Impossible) => 204 Success]
[Xiaomei has gained the title "The Exceeder" (Acquistion: Beat a DC 200) "To surmount a challenge by the gods is to surpass all reason." (+15% XP, one time +30 Respect from friendly Celestial Bureaucracy entities)]
Xiaomei blocks the bolts, continuing to advance inexorably, singing as the magic flows around her. The Judge sneers at her.
"Does a lowly mortal really think she could kill a Greater God?"
"She's capable of it." A new voice speaks up, smoothly. "But she doesn't have to." The Judge pales as a sword cuts him and the baliff in half, killing them instantly.
A new Judge had been standing there, clearly taking advantage of Xiaomei's distraction. "Let the trials begin. Cilia, this is not your time. You are dismissed, with thanks of the court."
She wakes. Had that all been a dream? Well.
[Xiaomei's Fox Maid no longer auto fails Persuasion, and is not automatically suspected.]
[+400*(1.2)=>480 XP gained]
[Kerian Pantheon presence on Keria now stronger.]
Still, she remembered to do her morning prayers facing the Temple before moving on with her day.
The next night..
She's in a empty courthouse, this time, instead of a waiting room, she faced the God of Justice
"Thank you for your assistance yesterday." He says. "And I apologize that I have to ask you for more work, but that is the way of it. There is a priest of mine who has claimed to speak for me in a nearby city, but he preaches naught but hate. I would like to see him dealt with - without violence. You will find him in the city of Egai, on the edge of the Moncolisian Empire. I believe doing so would prove beneficial to you, but I would teach you something first to make sure."
He nods at Xiaomei's kimono. "You have no doubt wished at times to wear your armor but something else. I will teach you the ancient art of Glamouring, such that with the maintenance of some energy, you can have your kimono appear to be anything else."
[You have unlocked the True E- I mean, Glamouring.]
[Glamouring is a 10 Qi/hour action, and you can make your kimono look like anything you want. For 10 Qi more an hour, it will touch, feel, and smell like anything you want. For 20 Qi more an hour (40 total), it will appear that through any kind of magical sight.]
Xiaomei wakes.. and reflects on how there needs to be more priests so that they don't all ask her to do things.
She does know what a priestess of Senian wears, which was identical to what priestesses of Khalia, and glamours her kimono. And after some thought, puts some energy into it so people don't just see it as an illusion.
And off she sets, working on her Flash Step to gain more understanding of it. Only by trying, contemplation, and study could one master themselves.
Sadly, Flash Step refused to be better mastered. Still, she headed into the town, and got some hostile looks, before a doubletake at her amulet and look. Khalia's priestesses hadn't been active in years, and some began to rethink their thoughts about the goddess. Maybe she was coming back like Senian?
It wasn't hard for Xiaomei to find the priest. The crowd alone was a good hint, and Xiaomei grimly, and determinly pushed through it, relying on her Qi.
[Gain "The Mountain Stands Alone Against The Wind and Trees", (30 Qi/minute) [Approaching Understanding][Intermediate] (120 damage negated per each attack.)]
And it worked, with people surprised they were completely unable to hit or do anything to her. A sense of awe came as they let her approach the priest, who was beginning to jeer at her.
"You, foul beast, dare pretend to be a priestess of Khalia?"
"I do not pretend." Xiaomei says. "I am a Celebrant of Khalia."
"Why sh-"
"Because, as it is said, the divines are interested in the rightness of the person, and moreso, is not justice for one, justice for all?"
[1d100+41 => 77 + 44 => 121; Persuasion Success]
The crowd began to mutter as the two debated. The priest's face got red and redder.
"You twist the words, foul spawn of the demon! You seek to undermine the righteousness of the cause!"
"Righteousness." Xiaomei's face grew taut, and a sense of anger came from her.
"I am not the one who comes to villages, and kills children who are innocent. I am not the one who says 'You look different, therefore you must die.' Think of the elves who think humans should die. Naturally, such people are looked down on. And consider that historically, the Hero Dariah had a fennebeast priestess of Senian. You have twisted your cause to hide behind righteousness when it is about power and wealth. Such an act.. is not worthy of a priest of Senian.
[1d100+44 vs DC 80 (Difficult) 138 vs 80; Major Success]
The crowd began to murmur as they considered the points. Most intelligent monsters just wanted to be left alone, after all, and the Fifth Hero did have a fennebeast priestess. It just wasn't talked about much.
The priest screamed and went to attack before his holy symbol exploded in his hands. Xiaomei looked at him sadly.
"You've persuaded yourself that your biases are that of your cause, haven't you? It is not too late. Repent, and dedicate your life to your god and atonement, and you too can find peace."
[1d100+44 vs DC 90 (Very Difficult) 115 vs 90; Major Success]
The priest stammers "I-I-.." and walks off in a daze. Xiaomei shook her head, and after answering questions, walked to the closed Temple Way, and spent the day cleaning and blessing the temples in the name of all of the divines.
The next day, after she's returned, word spreads the temples have been reopened, with priests and celebrants rededicating themselves to worship.
[Moncolisan Empire's Crusade weakened.]
[Completed Quest "Quell the Firebrand", 'Convince a crowd that a message of hate is not a message of justice.' (Objectives: Discredit the Priest without using violence, Rewards: 625 XP)]
[Gain +750 XP]
Part 2, tomorrow.
.. So either I need to up DCs or cut Xiaomei's boni in half. At least, if the dice I'm using keep giving me such high rolls. That DC 200 was meant to start a quest when she failed.
(so I used it for the favor. <_<)
Part 2 will be the quests.
[X] plan,last minute plan
-[X] Spend Point On:
--[X] Dexterity
-[X] Spend Points On:
--[X] 3 tranquility 3 concentration
You can pick a feat/ability. Please keep in line with powers on sheet or demonstrated in the quest.
-[X] To be a guardian: when defending innocents, gain a +2 (+3 if the action costs you hp) bonus to all rolls that directly defend them from harm
--[X] Covertly Repair the Tree of the Heavens (2 FP 2 AP): This action is repeatable up to Xiaomei's level. (Current Times: 2/5), and can be repaired by approximately 3.2%.[QM Note: Do not take this more than once a turn unless you want negative consequences. Amount repairable is tied to Xiaomei. Also note the slowdown means the Tree will slowly take more damage.] [At 40%, Enemy loses one action permamently] [10% chance Xiaomei refuses to perform this action]
--[X] Celestial Bureaucracy Anti-Corruption Actions (3/?? Completed)
---[X] (Unlocked) Investigate and Purify the Chapel of the Void (2 AP 25 30 RP)[Event: Xiaomei gains an Ability, History Event] [Makes Risk of Retaliation Lowered]
--[X] Get Xiaomei a fortunate encounter (2 AP. Spend +2 AP to make it more fortunate.)
-spendonly 2 ap
--[X] Some worlds have no gods that intervene. This could be a problem for Xiaomei. You should investigate ways around it. (2 AP, Must be taken 5 times, does not need to be every turn.)
--[X] Work with Kerian Pantheon to create resource deposits for Pheonix City. They will ask for a favor in return. (Cost: 30 36 RP, +2 encounters spent on Xiaomei, +1 potential quest, possiblity of locked AP/FP expenditure for 2 turns.)
--[X] Burn 2 FP for -10 Defiance (Can take as many times as you want.) (Cost goes up every fifth time)
---[X] Ask a local deity for assistance in giving Xiaomei a quest. (Cost: 2 FP, locked. They may not be something you want, but unless you pick badly, it should always be something good for Xiaomei, or a lesson, etc.)
-[X]Senian - God of Merciful Justice. Sigil: Scales.
--[X] Set One Good Roll to .. 50/2 FP (Specify if it's one of Xiaomei's rolls, or yours. Default: yours)
--ours
--[X] Counter your enemies blocking your sight. (2 AP)
--[X] You could use some assistance and resources. (Gain hints as to which actions have what results. But also: gain a slow trickle of resources.) (1012 RP and 2 AP per turn, must be taken every turn till completed.) (4 Turns)
---[X] [Celestial Bureaucracy] You may be sealed up, but you know the ways of things. Grease palms to get things done. This will primarly have ??? benefits, as you're paying for information or slowing down event chains. (Unlocked by the Intrique action completing) (Explain the cost and what you're looking for for that cost. Assume you'll need at least 35 42 RP to get anything useful.)
-[X] investigative void and demons.102rp
-[X] Spend Point On:
--[X] Dexterity
-[X] Spend Points On:
--[X] 3 tranquility 3 concentration
You can pick a feat/ability. Please keep in line with powers on sheet or demonstrated in the quest.
-[X] To be a guardian: when defending innocents, gain a +2 (+3 if the action costs you hp) bonus to all rolls that directly defend them from harm
--[X] Covertly Repair the Tree of the Heavens (2 FP 2 AP): This action is repeatable up to Xiaomei's level. (Current Times: 2/5), and can be repaired by approximately 3.2%.[QM Note: Do not take this more than once a turn unless you want negative consequences. Amount repairable is tied to Xiaomei. Also note the slowdown means the Tree will slowly take more damage.] [At 40%, Enemy loses one action permamently] [10% chance Xiaomei refuses to perform this action]
--[X] Celestial Bureaucracy Anti-Corruption Actions (3/?? Completed)
---[X] (Unlocked) Investigate and Purify the Chapel of the Void (2 AP 25 30 RP)[Event: Xiaomei gains an Ability, History Event] [Makes Risk of Retaliation Lowered]
--[X] Get Xiaomei a fortunate encounter (2 AP. Spend +2 AP to make it more fortunate.)
-spendonly 2 ap
--[X] Some worlds have no gods that intervene. This could be a problem for Xiaomei. You should investigate ways around it. (2 AP, Must be taken 5 times, does not need to be every turn.)
--[X] Work with Kerian Pantheon to create resource deposits for Pheonix City. They will ask for a favor in return. (Cost: 30 36 RP, +2 encounters spent on Xiaomei, +1 potential quest, possiblity of locked AP/FP expenditure for 2 turns.)
--[X] Burn 2 FP for -10 Defiance (Can take as many times as you want.) (Cost goes up every fifth time)
---[X] Ask a local deity for assistance in giving Xiaomei a quest. (Cost: 2 FP, locked. They may not be something you want, but unless you pick badly, it should always be something good for Xiaomei, or a lesson, etc.)
-[X]Senian - God of Merciful Justice. Sigil: Scales.
--[X] Set One Good Roll to .. 50/2 FP (Specify if it's one of Xiaomei's rolls, or yours. Default: yours)
--ours
--[X] Counter your enemies blocking your sight. (2 AP)
--[X] You could use some assistance and resources. (Gain hints as to which actions have what results. But also: gain a slow trickle of resources.) (1012 RP and 2 AP per turn, must be taken every turn till completed.) (4 Turns)
---[X] [Celestial Bureaucracy] You may be sealed up, but you know the ways of things. Grease palms to get things done. This will primarly have ??? benefits, as you're paying for information or slowing down event chains. (Unlocked by the Intrique action completing) (Explain the cost and what you're looking for for that cost. Assume you'll need at least 35 42 RP to get anything useful.)
-[X] investigative void and demons.102rp
Enemy Action
Action 1Action: They attempt to disrupt Xiaomei's levelup
Roll: 1d100+46 vs 1d100+82 => 105 vs 156; Major Failure
Gains are *1.5, lose an action.
Action 2
Action: They attempt to curse Xiaomei
Roll: 1d100+50 vs 1d100+50 => 63 vs 118; Major Failure
Lose a 2nd action.
[Xiaomei has gained the Title "Curse Breaker" (Acqusition Conditions: Break 5 curses) "You ain't afraid of no curse." (+10 Resistance)]
Level Up
You: +1 pt Dexterity, +3 pts Tranquility, +3 pts ConcentrationFeat: To be a guardian: when defending innocents, gain a +2 (+3 if the action costs you hp) bonus to all rolls that directly defend them from harm
Xioamei: +1 pt Vitality, +2 pts Perception, +2 pts Harvest, +2 pts Diplomacy
[Xiaomei gains "A True Righteous Warrior" (Acquisition: >1000 Qi) "Your spiritual sea is a raging ocean, your mind clear. This is a true righteous warrior. Your first step on the path to challenge the heavens." (+10% chances of gaining understanding)]
Your Actions
- Covertly Repair the Tree of the Heavens : This action is repeatable up to Xiaomei's level. (Current Times: 2/5), and can be repaired by approximately 3.65%.[1d100 vs DC 10: 60; Xiaomei performs the action]
[1d100+30 => 102; Sublime Success; Progress Multiplied *1.25]
It doesn't take much thought to realize that the Tree of the Heavens goes through the Chapel of the Void, and therefore connects all through it. Still peculiar it takes Xiaomei to do it, and to release energy you're pretty sure she doesn't actually have.
(3.65 * 1.25 => 4.56% + 36.95% => 41.52%)
[Celestial Operatives now have Very Limited oversight, and the enemy has lost one action.]
With this, the celestial bureaucracy enforcers have more time to do more than counter Meiling's actions. Not much more, but it's something. You think that completing the Labryinth will also assist in this.
[Labyrinth of Regret now increases enemy penalty to -8; 7 turns remaining until fixed.]
- Investigate and Purify the Chapel of the Void [Event: Xiaomei gains an Ability, History Event] [Makes Risk of Retaliation Lowered]
[1d100+30 vs DC 70 (Difficult) => 100; One Success]
The Chapel of the Void was once an impossibly beautiful cathedral of the stars. Now, it's tainted by an excess of light and descreation. Your agents clean it up, but there's a bit of light and demonic energy that refuses to go away.
[Xiaomei: 1d100+27(VIT)+10(Qi/100)+10(Godslayer)+5(Titles+Epithets/4)+10(2 Moments of Exceeding Yourself) vs DC 110 (Divinely Difficult) => 1d100+62 vs 110 => 90; Failure, -1 Success
And it didn't clear. Peculiar.
[1d100+43 vs DC 70; On Failure, Gain +7 Defiance => 88; Success, No Defiance Gain.]
Undeterred, the Kerian Pantheon gets on the action.
[One More Time: 1d100+62+20(Kerian Pantheon) => 1d100+82 vs 115 (+5 for Second Try) => 129 vs 115; Success (One Success)]
This time it clears.
[Xiaomei gains Ability "The Stars of the Heavens Purify All In Their Sight" (+10 to any roll purifying or cleansing an area, can spend +50% Qi to make any area attack cleanse.)]
A faint echo of a memory stirs. You see what looks hazily like Xiaomei, but with a definite divine aura being struck down by thousands and thrown off the edge of the Chapel into the Void.
.... But none of you remember any event like that. Weird.
[Unlocked "Find the Hall of Histories", "Improve and Restore the Chapel of the Void"]
- Get Xiaomei a fortunate encounter (2 AP. Spend +2 AP to make it more fortunate.)
See Xiaomei Actions.
- Some worlds have no gods that intervene. This could be a problem for Xiaomei. You should investigate ways around it.
You can name a few worlds that the Celestial Bureaucracy refuses to enter. Sometimes it's simply you can't bring enough power in, some is due to it being a bad world, and a few.. well, the Celestial Bueaucracy might destroy in a few thousand thousand millenia.
That said, Xiaomei sitll needs help, and your pool should function with some changes, right?
.. But what changes?
- Work with Kerian Pantheon to create resource deposits for Pheonix City. They will ask for a favor in return.
They seem happy enough to do so, creating a titanium mine that shoukld allow them to mine their own coins, as well as use it various applications....
Continued in Xiaomei Actions.
- Burn 2 FP for -10 Defiance (Can take as many times as you want.) (Cost goes up every fifth time)
Xiaomei is now at 9 Defiance
- Ask a local deity for assistance in giving Xiaomei a quest. (Cost: 2 FP, locked. They may not be something you want, but unless you pick badly, it should always be something good for Xiaomei, or a lesson, etc.)
-[X]Senian - God of Merciful Justice. Sigil: Scales.
Continued in Xiaomei Actions.
--[X] Set One Good Roll to .. 50/2 FP (Specify if it's one of Xiaomei's rolls, or yours. Default: yours)
--ours
- Counter your enemies blocking your sight.
1d100 + 30 => 123; Sublime Success
You add several offensive arrays, and clean out some blockers. (-6 to enemy rolls.)
You also get the name of the agent fighting you and some idea of her resources.
--[X] You could use some assistance and resources. (Gain hints as to which actions have what results. But also: gain a slow trickle of resources.)
1d100+30 vs DC 55 => 80; One Success
You start working on your contacts. So far, so good. It'll take time, though.
- Investigate Void and Demons
So it's peculiar Xiaomei responds oddly to Void and Demonic energy. You choose to investigate what is known about those. The Void seperates the Heavens from the Demons from the Worlds. There used to be gods and goddesses of the Void, but you haven't heard much of them in a long while.
Demons, on the other hand, are just evil for evil's sake Gods and Goddesses, the Fallen. They usually don't leave the Underworld, and the Celestial Enforcers constantly battle them.
.. Come to think of it, they've been unable to do much recently, haven't they? It's concievable things could sneak past them.
.. Worrying.
Training
Melee Attack(Roll: 59, Modifier: 26 => [Tier 2] 85 < DC 90: +1 skill progress; +2 Prof Progress)
Ranged Attack(Roll: 13, Modifier: 29 => [Tier 1] 42 < DC 60: No Bonus; +1 Prof Progress)
Use Magic Device (Roll: 42, Modifier: 36 => [Tier 2] 78 < DC 90: +2 skill progress)
Light(Roll: 19, Modifier: 36 => [Tier 1] 55 < DC 60: 1 spell cast progress)
Magic Missile(Roll: 1, Modifier: 36 => [Tier 1] 37 < DC 60: 1 spell cast progress)
Detect Magic(Roll: 31, Modifier: 36 => [Tier 2] 67 < DC 90: 3 spell cast progress)
Dodge(Roll: 43, Modifier: 29 => [Tier 2] 72 < DC 90: +2 skill progress)
Block(Roll: 70, Modifier: 26 => [Tier 3] 96 < DC 130: +4 skill progress)
Knowledge(Dungeoneering)(Roll: 9, Modifier: 32 => [Tier 1] 41 < DC 60: No Skill Progress)
Repair Skills(Roll: 23, Modifier: 32 => [Tier 1] 39 < DC 60: No Skill Progress)
Craft Skills(Roll: 71, Modifier: 32 => [Tier 2] 87 < DC 90: +2 skill progress)
Craft(Metalworking)(Roll: 22, Modifier: 32 => [Tier 1] 54 < DC 60: No Skill Progress)
Stealth(Roll: 27, Modifier: 29 => [Tier 1] 56 < DC 60: No Skill Progress)
Diplomacy(Roll: 42, Modifier: 36 => [Tier 2] 78 < DC 90: +2 skill progress)
Ranged Attack(Roll: 13, Modifier: 29 => [Tier 1] 42 < DC 60: No Bonus; +1 Prof Progress)
Use Magic Device (Roll: 42, Modifier: 36 => [Tier 2] 78 < DC 90: +2 skill progress)
Light(Roll: 19, Modifier: 36 => [Tier 1] 55 < DC 60: 1 spell cast progress)
Magic Missile(Roll: 1, Modifier: 36 => [Tier 1] 37 < DC 60: 1 spell cast progress)
Detect Magic(Roll: 31, Modifier: 36 => [Tier 2] 67 < DC 90: 3 spell cast progress)
Dodge(Roll: 43, Modifier: 29 => [Tier 2] 72 < DC 90: +2 skill progress)
Block(Roll: 70, Modifier: 26 => [Tier 3] 96 < DC 130: +4 skill progress)
Knowledge(Dungeoneering)(Roll: 9, Modifier: 32 => [Tier 1] 41 < DC 60: No Skill Progress)
Repair Skills(Roll: 23, Modifier: 32 => [Tier 1] 39 < DC 60: No Skill Progress)
Craft Skills(Roll: 71, Modifier: 32 => [Tier 2] 87 < DC 90: +2 skill progress)
Craft(Metalworking)(Roll: 22, Modifier: 32 => [Tier 1] 54 < DC 60: No Skill Progress)
Stealth(Roll: 27, Modifier: 29 => [Tier 1] 56 < DC 60: No Skill Progress)
Diplomacy(Roll: 42, Modifier: 36 => [Tier 2] 78 < DC 90: +2 skill progress)
Xiaomei Actions
Xiaomei dreams..And finds herself woken up in a coutroom's waiting room. Bemused, she follows the queue of endless faces, some glaring at her in hatred. It doesn't take her long to realize there was a trial on for each soul. And..
There's something off about that Judge as the mass entered. Something false. Something wrong.
Xiaomei walked up, feeling her power flare.
[Meditant: +10 Progress. Evil from the heavens must be opposed.]
[Justicar: +5 Progress. The world is not just. Therefore you are.]
"Stand down, pentient." The Judge barks, as Xiaomei's blade appears as if by magic, stunning the observers.
"I will not let the tribunal of justice, nor the mercy of death be ruled over by a foul imposter." Xiaomei responds. "Awaken the power of miracles!" She sings, her blade igniting in rainbow colored fire as her Qi swirls around her.
(Xiaomei has activated the Song of the Just (-40 Qi) Xiaomei has activated Perfect Vision (-20 Qi))
The Judge sends a bolt of purest darkness, followed by the Baliff while some souls look up in hope.
[1d100+15 (Roll vs Fate)+20(Daughter of Endings Tier 2)+42(Perception)+20(Perfect Vision)+4 (Class Level)+10 (Senian Bonus)+10 (Morale: Song of the Just) => 1d100+123 vs DC 200 (Hellishly Impossible) => 204 Success]
[Xiaomei has gained the title "The Exceeder" (Acquistion: Beat a DC 200) "To surmount a challenge by the gods is to surpass all reason." (+15% XP, one time +30 Respect from friendly Celestial Bureaucracy entities)]
Xiaomei blocks the bolts, continuing to advance inexorably, singing as the magic flows around her. The Judge sneers at her.
"Does a lowly mortal really think she could kill a Greater God?"
"She's capable of it." A new voice speaks up, smoothly. "But she doesn't have to." The Judge pales as a sword cuts him and the baliff in half, killing them instantly.
A new Judge had been standing there, clearly taking advantage of Xiaomei's distraction. "Let the trials begin. Cilia, this is not your time. You are dismissed, with thanks of the court."
She wakes. Had that all been a dream? Well.
[Xiaomei's Fox Maid no longer auto fails Persuasion, and is not automatically suspected.]
[+400*(1.2)=>480 XP gained]
[Kerian Pantheon presence on Keria now stronger.]
Still, she remembered to do her morning prayers facing the Temple before moving on with her day.
The next night..
She's in a empty courthouse, this time, instead of a waiting room, she faced the God of Justice
"Thank you for your assistance yesterday." He says. "And I apologize that I have to ask you for more work, but that is the way of it. There is a priest of mine who has claimed to speak for me in a nearby city, but he preaches naught but hate. I would like to see him dealt with - without violence. You will find him in the city of Egai, on the edge of the Moncolisian Empire. I believe doing so would prove beneficial to you, but I would teach you something first to make sure."
He nods at Xiaomei's kimono. "You have no doubt wished at times to wear your armor but something else. I will teach you the ancient art of Glamouring, such that with the maintenance of some energy, you can have your kimono appear to be anything else."
[You have unlocked the True E- I mean, Glamouring.]
[Glamouring is a 10 Qi/hour action, and you can make your kimono look like anything you want. For 10 Qi more an hour, it will touch, feel, and smell like anything you want. For 20 Qi more an hour (40 total), it will appear that through any kind of magical sight.]
Xiaomei wakes.. and reflects on how there needs to be more priests so that they don't all ask her to do things.
She does know what a priestess of Senian wears, which was identical to what priestesses of Khalia, and glamours her kimono. And after some thought, puts some energy into it so people don't just see it as an illusion.
And off she sets, working on her Flash Step to gain more understanding of it. Only by trying, contemplation, and study could one master themselves.
Sadly, Flash Step refused to be better mastered. Still, she headed into the town, and got some hostile looks, before a doubletake at her amulet and look. Khalia's priestesses hadn't been active in years, and some began to rethink their thoughts about the goddess. Maybe she was coming back like Senian?
It wasn't hard for Xiaomei to find the priest. The crowd alone was a good hint, and Xiaomei grimly, and determinly pushed through it, relying on her Qi.
[Gain "The Mountain Stands Alone Against The Wind and Trees", (30 Qi/minute) [Approaching Understanding][Intermediate] (120 damage negated per each attack.)]
And it worked, with people surprised they were completely unable to hit or do anything to her. A sense of awe came as they let her approach the priest, who was beginning to jeer at her.
"You, foul beast, dare pretend to be a priestess of Khalia?"
"I do not pretend." Xiaomei says. "I am a Celebrant of Khalia."
"Why sh-"
"Because, as it is said, the divines are interested in the rightness of the person, and moreso, is not justice for one, justice for all?"
[1d100+41 => 77 + 44 => 121; Persuasion Success]
The crowd began to mutter as the two debated. The priest's face got red and redder.
"You twist the words, foul spawn of the demon! You seek to undermine the righteousness of the cause!"
"Righteousness." Xiaomei's face grew taut, and a sense of anger came from her.
"I am not the one who comes to villages, and kills children who are innocent. I am not the one who says 'You look different, therefore you must die.' Think of the elves who think humans should die. Naturally, such people are looked down on. And consider that historically, the Hero Dariah had a fennebeast priestess of Senian. You have twisted your cause to hide behind righteousness when it is about power and wealth. Such an act.. is not worthy of a priest of Senian.
[1d100+44 vs DC 80 (Difficult) 138 vs 80; Major Success]
The crowd began to murmur as they considered the points. Most intelligent monsters just wanted to be left alone, after all, and the Fifth Hero did have a fennebeast priestess. It just wasn't talked about much.
The priest screamed and went to attack before his holy symbol exploded in his hands. Xiaomei looked at him sadly.
"You've persuaded yourself that your biases are that of your cause, haven't you? It is not too late. Repent, and dedicate your life to your god and atonement, and you too can find peace."
[1d100+44 vs DC 90 (Very Difficult) 115 vs 90; Major Success]
The priest stammers "I-I-.." and walks off in a daze. Xiaomei shook her head, and after answering questions, walked to the closed Temple Way, and spent the day cleaning and blessing the temples in the name of all of the divines.
The next day, after she's returned, word spreads the temples have been reopened, with priests and celebrants rededicating themselves to worship.
[Moncolisan Empire's Crusade weakened.]
[Completed Quest "Quell the Firebrand", 'Convince a crowd that a message of hate is not a message of justice.' (Objectives: Discredit the Priest without using violence, Rewards: 625 XP)]
[Gain +750 XP]
Part 2, tomorrow.
.. So either I need to up DCs or cut Xiaomei's boni in half. At least, if the dice I'm using keep giving me such high rolls. That DC 200 was meant to start a quest when she failed.
(so I used it for the favor. <_<)
Part 2 will be the quests.
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i dont thi k we should be punished for good rolls. wd also shouldnt get pitty for bad rolls. defeats the whole quest format. just beef up the challenge rating for the next world. but please also beef up the rewards.
A player who is good at the game should be challenged and rewarded for it.
Just as a player who is bad at the game should inconvinienced and given extra training for it.
Thats just game design.
A player who is good at the game should be challenged and rewarded for it.
Just as a player who is bad at the game should inconvinienced and given extra training for it.
Thats just game design.
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Yea that is the dilehma of power creep. Seems that weve progressed past your expectations. That can be alarming when you want to give yourplayers a challenge, but i encourage you to simply adjust and learn for next time
But I also want to assure you that miscalculating and having to readjust seems to be normal for QMs
That theres nothing wrong with hitting goals early or excelling, and recycling ideas for further down the road
And that if you do increase difficulties or create new problems out of nowhere, dont tell the players. Then theyll focus more on feeling cheated than the fun they had playing in ignorance and working to overcome the challenges to win anyways
But I also want to assure you that miscalculating and having to readjust seems to be normal for QMs
That theres nothing wrong with hitting goals early or excelling, and recycling ideas for further down the road
And that if you do increase difficulties or create new problems out of nowhere, dont tell the players. Then theyll focus more on feeling cheated than the fun they had playing in ignorance and working to overcome the challenges to win anyways
the best play,i think, is to have incredibly powerful secret final boss who spends very little effort in destroying the mc at first. if we excell they spend more effort,which makes it harder for us but also harder for them to reach their final goal. think of it as metaprogression. in the moment stuff gets harder, but on the whole setting we are making more progress. a nice way to do this would be, for example, getting us a new powerful agent as an opponent, but in an interlude show how the guy the agent should be killing right now escaped and can do more good somewhere else. who knows he might show up later to help out one time.
World 1: Land of Keria; Part 2.5.2 - Gorpiaos 12 to Gorpiaos 29, Year 217 of the Peace of Tair; [Part 2]
Your Actions
- Investigate Urgent Times (2 turns, 2 rolls:1d100+30 vs DC 50 => 67+30 => 97
1d100+30 vs DC 50 => 23+30 => 53
(Complete.)
You continue to investigate. It is possible to surcharge your pool to provide more resources in Urgent Times, but it will require either Good relations with the Pantheon or a structure built to provide divine resources if it is feasible. This will also give you some idea as to enemy actions, even if you can't interfere.
(RP regen now 75% in Urgent Times. Requires Good relations/"Provide Divine Resources" action completion per world. You will now know the enemy actions.)
Xiaomei Actions
(Encounters 1 )
Tarimster Eulia, The Birth of a Nation: The Rise of the Tranquility of Cilia
Week 1
Gorpiaos 14-15, 217 Peace of Tair (6th Age)
Xiaomei had always kept the the goddess being imprisoned in the back of her head. But there was a bit of a hurry around getting the city ready. She, and a number of guards, were also tasked to build several secure warehouses where food would be stockpiled to help with sieges.
[Perception 1d100+42 vs DC 80 (Difficult) => 98;]
Still, she overheard a concerning conversation.
"Is the plan ready?"
"Yes. We've got the stuff at the Barrow of the Heroes of Eari"
That was back in the Third Age, if Xiaomei remembered correctly.
"Good. These beasts won't know what hit them. And the false gods shall burn in the fires of hell."
Well then. Xiaomei reported back in, and headed out to Barrow of the Heroes of Eari. It was located to the northeast, in a hill that rose from the surrounding savana. It was once one of the holiest of sites for worshippers of Khalia, but over the centuries had lost importance. Xiaomei would blame the civil war that took place and would eventually split the Grand Duchy of Molia and Moncolisan Duchy - now Empire - apart. The hill.. was shourded in rain, and she had a foreboding feeling. Xiaomei carefully activated her Qi and stared at the hill, looking for guards, or something.
[Perception 1d100+42 vs ??? => 116]
Xiaomei rather thought she could see the corrupted Qi and inflow. She probably couldn't, though. But maybe Detect Magic could help - it'd at least detect mana. She had to cast it a few times, but she began to see multiple flows.. to mulitple locations. And it wasn't just mana. That was.. a lot of energy. She shivered involuntarily. There were four large sources, and two of them were.. corrupted.
[Under the light of the Milky Way, everything becomes enlightment. Lose access to spells Observe Aura, Detect Magic.]
[Perfect Vision now can see more information]
Well. They did say something about false gods, didn't they? Xiaomei wraps her energy around her again and starts working on the way in.
[Objective unlocked "Investigate the Barrow of the Heroes of Eari"]
There weren't any living guards, but Xiaomei had to resort many times to scattering enemies with fire. As if to back her rather dark thoughts, she found channeling divine magic to be quite difficult. After a while, she had to start emulating the spells with her Qi, but even that left them weaker than she'd like. She almost certainly was going to have to meditate on this.
The barrow was.. almost haunted, she'd say.
[Perception 1d100+42 vs DC 90 => 103]
.. but not so haunted she didn't find a passageway to a hidden shrine. Guarded by a dark elf wearing the vestments of a priestess of Khalia.
.. and she was one of the sources of corruption. The two didn't exchange any words, immediately launching into attacks agaisnt each other, Xiaomei channeling the cleansing fire into her blade immediately. Xiaomei smoothly dodged the dark staff and brought her katana up in a smooth blow to attack, but the Priestes was only slightly injured.
The two cast at each other for a second, before Xiaomei began to attack again with her blade. The corrupted priestess stares in disbelief as Xiaomei was completely unaffected by the Miasma, as her blade ignites again. Xiaomei knew she could not let this go on any further. The risks were too great she'd slip up.
But she overextended, and the Priestess took immediate advantage to swing her staff, black energy bolting out at Xiaomei.
Gritting her teeth, Xiaomei resisted the pain and tried again .. and again. This time, she connects, and the priestess is caught on fire, then burns with a blue-white holy fire. The priestess snarls, and returns fire with her own dark fire, throwing it and hitting Xiaomei straight on. Xiaomei began to burn with a black fire, and she barely fights off the curse as she is now severely hurt.
"None can withstand the power of the Demon Queen! The Void shall feed!"
But she couldn't let this corrupted priestess win. She had to win.
It was this moment when she had an insight into the nature of what it means to clean and render judgement.
She channeled this insight into her blade, then brought it in a wide slash, attempting to end the fight before it got too much. She channeled her energy into her awareness, and for a moment, she had a moment of everything slowing down as the blade turned a white-orange as it sliced through the air.
The priestess exploded into holy flames, her vestaments reforming as Xiaomei watched. She picked it up, feeling a strong blessing from Khalia as it melded into her amulet. (Blessing of Khalia strengthened, now +10 Armor, +25% Holy Damage)
Xiaomei purifies the room, including the corrupted shrine, and the oppressiveness seems to leech out as she wearily leans against it, spending some of her mana to heal herself.
[Xiaomei takes a short rest]
[Xiaomei HP: 325 (+210 HP)/325 Qi: 512(+250 Qi)/1027]
She had to finish, but she swore to herself to investigate making elixers and potions, since she was saving hers for an true emergency. She got up and wearily headed back to finish investigating the burrow. But it did seem the corruption was lessening. She could purify things, and methodically did so, before she reached the lowest level, and on the Hero Eari herself, she saw a clearly demonic artifact, if she wasn't wrong, it was to the Demon Queen. She destroyed it, and finished purifying, heading back home. Tiredly.
[Corrupted Priestess 1d100+45 Melee Attack vs Xiaomei's Dodge 1d100+31 => 57 vs 62; Xiaomei Dodged]
[Xiaomei 1d100+30 Melee Attack vs Corrupted Priestess 1d100+40 Dodge => 109 vs 62; Success (+10 Damage)] [-80 Qi]
[3d12 + 3d12 + 40; 1d100+36 DC to resist purification (roll Resistance)]
[Damage: 69 damage - 20 damage = 49, DC 114 vs 1d100+50 => 114 vs 148; Priestess was not purified.]
[Xiaomei Resistance vs Venomous Miasma 1d100+55 vs DC 120 => 133]
[-105 Qi, 4 uses of Divine Judgement,1 x The Light That Cleans in Fire]
[Xiaomei 1d100+34 Melee Attack vs Corrupted Priestess 1d100+40 Dodge => 38 vs 56; Critical Failure
[Corrupted Priestess 1d100+45 Melee Attack vs Xiaomei's Dodge 1d100+1 (Critical Failure) => 73 vs 31; Success (+10 Damage)]
[Damage: (4d10 corruption + 3d10 melee + 35) => 66 - 49 = 17 damage]
[-105 Qi, 4 uses of Divine Judgement,1 x The Light That Cleans in Fire]
[Xiaomei 1d100+34 Melee Attack vs Corrupted Priestess 1d100+40 Dodge => 76 vs 140; Failure]
[Xiaomei takes a -5 to Dodge and -5 Armor for the rest of the combat.]
[-105 Qi, 4 uses of Divine Judgement,1 x The Light That Cleans in Fire]
[Xiaomei 1d100+34 Melee Attack vs Corrupted Priestess 1d100+40 Dodge => 134 vs 128; Success]
[(24d10 * 1.2) + 4d8 + 6d8 + 25; DC 134 (+20 Damage) vs 1d100+50 to resist purification; 134 vs 129; Failure]
[Damage: 259, bypasses Armor. Takes 30 holy damage each tick.]
[Corrupted Priestess 1d100+51 Dark Fire vs Xiaomei's Dodge (1d100+26) => 134 vs 82; Spell Damage * 1.2
[Damage: (12d10 corruption + 6d10 fire) * 1.2; bypasses armor. => 109 damage]
[Resistance: 1d100+75 vs DC 120 (Infernal Curse) => 145; Success]
[Combine Divine Judgement L3 with The Light That Cleans in Fire, and get "The Blade of the Stars That Judges" [90 Qi][Adept Art][Understanding](L3)[1/? use] "The light of the stars overflows with the judgement of the just." (Damage: 10d8 normal + 12d10 holy + 9d8 fire)(Purify is Spiritual Arts+Class Level+Understanding Level+(2*Technique Level)+50(Justicar 1) => 97)
Traits: Purifying Judgement: Gain +20% damage against enemies standing in the way of a new dawn as long as they are equal or greater than you in power.]
[-175 Qi; The Blade of the Stars That Judges; new Qi power "True Strike" (-35 Qi, doubles attack bonus to a cap of +50)]
[Xiaomei 1d100+68 vs Corrupted Priestess 1d100+40 Dodge => 157 vs 118; Success; +10 damage]
[Damage: (10d8 normal + 12d10 holy + 9d8 fire + 35) * 1.2 (Divine Judgement) * 1.5 (+50% Qi) * 1.5 (Holy Weakness) => 486]
[Xiaomei 1d100+30 Melee Attack vs Corrupted Priestess 1d100+40 Dodge => 109 vs 62; Success (+10 Damage)] [-80 Qi]
[3d12 + 3d12 + 40; 1d100+36 DC to resist purification (roll Resistance)]
[Damage: 69 damage - 20 damage = 49, DC 114 vs 1d100+50 => 114 vs 148; Priestess was not purified.]
[Xiaomei Resistance vs Venomous Miasma 1d100+55 vs DC 120 => 133]
[-105 Qi, 4 uses of Divine Judgement,1 x The Light That Cleans in Fire]
[Xiaomei 1d100+34 Melee Attack vs Corrupted Priestess 1d100+40 Dodge => 38 vs 56; Critical Failure
[Corrupted Priestess 1d100+45 Melee Attack vs Xiaomei's Dodge 1d100+1 (Critical Failure) => 73 vs 31; Success (+10 Damage)]
[Damage: (4d10 corruption + 3d10 melee + 35) => 66 - 49 = 17 damage]
[-105 Qi, 4 uses of Divine Judgement,1 x The Light That Cleans in Fire]
[Xiaomei 1d100+34 Melee Attack vs Corrupted Priestess 1d100+40 Dodge => 76 vs 140; Failure]
[Xiaomei takes a -5 to Dodge and -5 Armor for the rest of the combat.]
[-105 Qi, 4 uses of Divine Judgement,1 x The Light That Cleans in Fire]
[Xiaomei 1d100+34 Melee Attack vs Corrupted Priestess 1d100+40 Dodge => 134 vs 128; Success]
[(24d10 * 1.2) + 4d8 + 6d8 + 25; DC 134 (+20 Damage) vs 1d100+50 to resist purification; 134 vs 129; Failure]
[Damage: 259, bypasses Armor. Takes 30 holy damage each tick.]
[Corrupted Priestess 1d100+51 Dark Fire vs Xiaomei's Dodge (1d100+26) => 134 vs 82; Spell Damage * 1.2
[Damage: (12d10 corruption + 6d10 fire) * 1.2; bypasses armor. => 109 damage]
[Resistance: 1d100+75 vs DC 120 (Infernal Curse) => 145; Success]
[Combine Divine Judgement L3 with The Light That Cleans in Fire, and get "The Blade of the Stars That Judges" [90 Qi][Adept Art][Understanding](L3)[1/? use] "The light of the stars overflows with the judgement of the just." (Damage: 10d8 normal + 12d10 holy + 9d8 fire)(Purify is Spiritual Arts+Class Level+Understanding Level+(2*Technique Level)+50(Justicar 1) => 97)
Traits: Purifying Judgement: Gain +20% damage against enemies standing in the way of a new dawn as long as they are equal or greater than you in power.]
[-175 Qi; The Blade of the Stars That Judges; new Qi power "True Strike" (-35 Qi, doubles attack bonus to a cap of +50)]
[Xiaomei 1d100+68 vs Corrupted Priestess 1d100+40 Dodge => 157 vs 118; Success; +10 damage]
[Damage: (10d8 normal + 12d10 holy + 9d8 fire + 35) * 1.2 (Divine Judgement) * 1.5 (+50% Qi) * 1.5 (Holy Weakness) => 486]
- Get Xiaomei a fortunate encounter (2 AP. Spend +2 AP to make it more fortunate.)
Xiaomei meets a farmer who gives her a ride back. The farmer is a font of local gossip, and after asking..
"Oh, I've seen people with red cloaks entering that burrow. They're from an abbey over there."
Xiaomei thanks the farmer, and..
[Complete Quest "Investigate the Perpetrator"]
[Gain (+1500+500)+2000 * 1.2 => 2400 XP, 20 Qi, Amulet of the Seven Moons Upgrade, Pilgrimages Unlocked, School Upgrade Available, +5 Rep with Kerian Pantheon]
[Gain Quest "The Cult of the Demon Queen"]
For the rest of week 1 she spent it actually going through the items she had, including taking the items she didn't need to the College so they could use it.
At the college, the machinist there examined her broken caliver curiously, then smiled. "I think we can make a working version. Maybe equip the guards with them."
[Xiaomei turns over her Ring of Force, Broken Culivar, Old Missile Staff]
[Phoenix City Guards now have Culivar Units, increasing their battle efficiency. The Machinist is experimenting with magical ammunition, as well. Research time: 5 turns.]
[Phoenix City is now a center of pilgrimages to the rediscovered Burrow of the Heroes of Eari, boosting it's prestiege and economy.]
[School Upgrade Progress +3 due to donated wages]
[The Storm Clouds Gather...]
Week Two
[Xiaomei HP: 325/325 Qi: 1027/1027]
No one in Phoenix City was comfortable leaving this abbey uninvestigated. And yet, all the A-rank parties were busy with a flurry of jobs that had appeared. Xiaomei was sure that was related, but decided not to complain about it.
The abbey, a beautiful older temple built of sandstone on a cliff overlooking the sea, was deserted when she reached it. And that set off her wariness even more.
[Perception 1d100+44 vs DC 80 (Difficult) => 143 (Critical Success)]
Xiaomei spotted the hidden magical traps that would detonate the abbey, and spent sometime casting Dispel repeatedly.
[15 casts of Dispel; -60 Qi; Dispel L6 is now sealed.; gain "The Pale Light of the Moon Leeches All" [Dim Insight][Adept](L1) (-10 Qi) "Dispel magic effects up to 90 levels above you; affect permament curses on a DC 100 Spellcrafting check." with Traits: Divine Healer, Disenchanter". Can spend 4 uses for "Disjunction." ]
She explored the temple and her eyes rose up at reading about the grave of Khalia. In alarm, mind you. She also noted the process of making the priestess fall.. and their theories about how the Demons always returned.
Xiaomei considered going back for help but knew that she didn't have time. She left the temple, and strode off into the forest after collecting all of the notes..and after blessing and purifying the unholy water. It might be important later.
The temple was well hidden in what were clearly magically induced jungles. She ended up experimenting with the various elemental arts of Jigen Haoh on the way, and came to the conclusion wind and stellar qi were the only viable methods. Fire seemed to excite as much as it destroyed.
It was half past the afternoon when she finally reached the temple. Full of visily corrupted and dark aspected people, and it became a running attack.
It took her a good hour of constant fighting, from palm techniques, to chakram uses, to katana attacks, and even the spontaneous usage of the Earth-Rending Wave Fist to clear a path, as much as she was trying to avoid collteral damage.
[Gain Technique "Earth-Rending Wave Fist" [Seeking Understanding][Novice] L1 (Damage: 8d10 fire in a 120' wave in front.)(-50 Qi)]
[Xiaomei HP: 265/325 Qi: 797/1027]
Still, she faced a fork in the path, and with a weary sigh, decided to take out the priestess first. Given her luck, it was likely the more difficult fight.
[stealth: 1d100+17 vs DC 60 => 51; Failure]
Xiaomei's attempt to be stealthy fails, but given the fact that the priestess is half demon, she wasn't entirely sure it'd ever have worked. The two face each other for a long moment.
"So they've found a new fool to fight for those who would scorn them, eh?" The other priestess, a bunkit, says.
Xiaomei smiles. It's quite chilly. "I fight for righteous justice. And, of course, my people. But most importnatly, I do not betray my oaths."
The priestess snarls, but before she could attack..
[-295 Qi; The Blade of the Stars That Judges into Spinning Wave Punch; "True Strike"]
[Xiaomei HP: 265/325 Qi: 502/1027]
[Xiaomei 1d100+68 vs Fallen Priestess 1d100+50 Dodge => 140 vs 106; Success;]
[Damage: 10d8 normal + 12d10*1.5 holy + 9d8 fire + 50 + 9d10 stellar) * 1.2 (Divine Judgement) * 1.5 (+50% Qi) => 522]
.. Xiaomei straight kills her. She follows the passage, and sees a very descreated grave. She spends some time there, and focusing, hallows and purifies it. The feeling in the air instantly dissipates, and she takes a deep breath to go clear the rest of the temple.
[Xiaomei gains Special Action Hallow.]
Granted, finding the portal was very anticlimatic after that. The succubus seemed sickly and upset.
".. maybe you should just return to your realm instead of ..?" Xiaomei suggested delicately, wishing to avoid another fight
[Persuade DC 120 vs 1d100+44 = 140 (Critical Success)]
The succubus.. eyes Xiaomei and laughs. "For the chaos you'll cause? Worth it." The succubus returns. Di.. did she just per..
Xiaomei shakes herself free, and purifies the portal before closing it. That should stop any incurions for a long while.
[Quest Completion; Chain Completion]
[+1800*1.2 => 2160 XP, +Reputation with Kerian Worshippers, +Crafting Materials(Rare Crystals), +Unlock the Cleric Subclass, +Kerian Pantheon Ability to Intervene Rises; +Blessing of Senian,+Pilgrimages Upgraded, +Xiaomei gains 'Hallow', +Shrines built across the nearby lands]
[Shrines are built across the lands, spreading into the nearby Grand Duchy of Molia and Moncolisan Empire. Pilgrimages increase, and Phoenix City becomes a Holy City.]
[The Storm Clouds Thicken]
Spend ..
[ ] (50 RP) and magically speed up defenses of Pheonix City
[ ] (75 RP) and magically speed up defenses of Pheonix City + School Upgrades (Gain more healers and support units. Has follow on effects in Urgent Times Actions.)
1 turn to Urgent Times.
You have 170 RP, 12 AP, 10 FP to spend on actions.
- Main, Defining: Attain the Dream: Be a Defender: You saw once how the dearth of compassion, and the unwillingness in those in power resulted in the death of an entire world. You swore to strive to never let that happen again. Objectives: Gain Level 10, VIT 20, Resolve Quests Survive the Onslaught, Resolve Quests To Stand Free, ??? Successfully, Defend the Weak. Reward: Epithet, Power, Special Item.
- Main, Defining: Become Who You Were Meant To Be.": You saw a beautiful ten-tailed kitsune in that pool of stars, pretty and strong. You saw your future. Objectives: Gain Level 100, CHA 100. Have Eight Moments of Exceeding Yourself [2/8], ???? , ????. Reward: Epithet, Power.
- Main: To Stand Free: You have triumphed, and now breathe free air. Yet others will come to attack... Objectives: Either Clear both Pheonix City Nights and Trouble in the Jungle OR Reach Level 8, [locked]Send For Aid From Nearby Countries, [locked]Ambush the S-Class Party, [locked] Stop the Magical Bomb from Detonating or Nearing Pheonix City, [locked]Defend Pheonix City; Bonus Objectives: Stop the Long Range Magic Artillary from bombarding villages; Save or Evacuate Villages on the outskirts; Defeat the Crusader Assassination Squad. Results: +4000 XP, Epithet "Xiaomei, the Founding Mother" Through your arms, you have assisted in the foundation of the United Clans of Keria, and will always be remembered as one of the founding mothers of a new form of government: representative democracy. (+4 CHA, +Reputation with Revolutionaries, +30 Rep with Aphrial, +100 Rep with the Clans of Keria, +20% Damage against Tyranny, -100 Rep with Principality of Yang, Moncolisan Empire); Bonus Rewards: Title("Dawn-seeker: Knowing who deserves death is as important as extending mercy and justice for any righteous warrior. (+5 Perception, +5 Gather Information, +5 Sense Motive), +2000 XP, +15 Morale in The United Clans of Keria, unlock Special Subquest "Establish the Starsight Stones"; Gain Technique "Pheonix Strike"
- [Keria][Trouble in the Jungle Chain]: "Investigate The Perpetrator": The local goddess has been recovered, but it would take an artifact or someone of some power to imprison even such a minor god. And they clearly are up to no good. Objectives: Reach Level 6, [locked] Investigate the Barrow of the Heroes of Eari, [locked] Destroy the Artifact, Bonus Objectives: Find the Hidden Shrine Room, Defeat the Corrupted Priestess of Khalia, Rewards: +1500 XP, +20 MP, Amulet of the Seven Moons Upgrade, Shrine of the Divines Created in Pheonix City, School Upgrade Available, Unlock "The Cult of the Demon Queen", Bonus Objectives: +500 XP, +Reputation with Kerian Pantheon, Priestess of Khalia Vestaments
- [Keria][Trouble in the Jungle Chain] "The Cult of the Demon Queen": 'You've found the source, a demonic portal. Peculiarly, it doesn't lead to the former realm of the Demon King, but it needs sealing all the same. Still, what was that about the Void the priestess said? You are a bit uneasy.'Objectives: Reach the Hidden Temple, Fight Your Way To The Portal Room, Defeat the Fallen Priestess, Defeat the Succubus, Close the Portal, Bonus Objectives Purify the Remains, Purify the Portal, Rewards: +1250 XP, +Reputation with Kerian Worshippers, +Crafting Materials(Rare Crystals), +Unlock the Cleric Subclass, +Kerian Pantheon Ability to Intervene Rises; Bonus Objectives +Blessing of Senian, +550 XP, +Pilgrimages Upgraded, +Xiaomei gains 'Hallow', +Shrines built across the nearby lands
- [Keria][Pheonix City Nights] "The Dark Chapel of Kaliria": Investigate the HQ of the Circle of Silence. Objectives: Reach Level 6, [locked] Lead a Party, [locked] Survive the Ambush, [locked] Investigate the Chapel, [locked] Find the Hidden Door, [locked] Defeat the Archmagi Larin, [locked] Survive the Destruction of the Chapel, Results: 1200 XP, Mithril Ingot, Crystal of Darkness, Crystal of Light, 4 Sapphires, 3 Diamonds, Unlock "Pheonix City Nights"]
Relations with Kerian Pantheon: Very Good
AP: 12 (4 Bonus AP persists until end of this world.) (2 AP spent)
RP: 170 (30 Bonus RP persists until end of this world) (10 RP spent)
FP: 10 (15 completed quests.)
RP Storage (Urgent): 70 RP
RP Storage (non-Urgent): 0 RP (1080 RP cap)
Labyrinth of Regret Repair Progress: 3/10 [Enemy takes -8 to all rolls]
Tree of the Heavens Health: 41.52% [Penalties: Many Pantheons unable to intervene locally; Celestial Operatives Have Limited Oversight; Heavenly Resources Constrained; Celestial Bureaucracy Internal Affairs Bureau: Inefficient] (3/6 Times) [Next Tier at 50%]
Incarnation Investigation: 1 Success; 1 Heat Meter
Enemy: Hong Meiling; Rep: Takeda Dachika [Goddess of ???]
[Enemy Stats Unknown]
[3 Actions, +10 bonus to countering on Keria]
Enemy Rolls vs You: +21 (+10 Enemy Bonus +5 Heat Gauge +35 Enemy Bonus -8 Labyrinth Progress -15 Your Sight -6 Enemy Sight Arrays Blocked)
Urgent Times: Know Enemy Actions.
Enemy Rolls vs Xiaomei: +16 (+5 vs Xiaomei directly -10 Xiaomei Defense)
Enemy Chance to Detect Your Action: 80% (1d100 on rolls >20)
You vs Enemy: +85 (+10 Enemy Failure Bonus (last turn) + 15 Sight +10 Enemy Lacking Information +10 [Keria] Senian +35 [Keria] Kerian Pantheon +5 Celestial Intrique Bonus )
Sight: +15 (Mystical) (Gain more information, including the current of Fate, and a +15 to resist enemy.)
[3 turns to attempt to decrease your bonus by (35/2???)]
Ci Xiaomei (Cilia) Awareness: 32/300
Ci Xiaomei Defiance: 9 (Low)
Ci Xiaomei Level: 7 XP: 3150/5500
Event Notes: Certain Events in the Next World Locked; Dao of Luck ??? Event Unlocked
- Military Strength: Good
- Governance: [LOCKED] trending to [LOCKED]
- Economy Strength: Adequate, trending to Good
- Counter-Intelligence Strength: Extensive trending to Masterful
- Adventurer-Guild: Strong, trending to Primary HQ. (The Adventurer's Guild is moving a lot of it's resources here, for various reasons) [++Economic +Military]
- Temples: Simple, Elegant. [+Luck +++Morale ++Military +++Economic]
- School L4: Normal, Guards Training, Crafts School, Specialist School,
School of Divinity(Requires 23pc to Unlock); Training Quality: Normal (Upgradeable) [++Military ++Economic] - Morale: High.
- Defenses: Weak to Medium-Strength Barriers on Walls, Weak Anti-Divination Overlay, Guard Post Network, Murder Holes in the Gates, Gates Lv. 1, Walls Lv.2, Lookout Posts, Anti-Air Arrow Repeaters, Mounted Magical Turrets (require mage), Patrols Every 4 hours
- On-Going Improvements: (Night Hawk) Stronger Anti-Divination Overlay, Civilian Guard Training, Establishing Spy Networks in Nearby Cities (Phoenix City Guards) Transition to Special Forces/Army, Walls Lv. 3, Patrol Schedule Cut in Half (Recruiting), Gates Lv. 2, (Adventurer Guild Contracts) Moving trees to a wide swath around settled lands, contractual patrol of outlying farms, (Magi Tower) creating a ditch in front of the wall and filling it with flowing water, Stronger Barriers on Walls, Magi Training for Guards (Civilian/Army) (Civilian Volunteers) Assists in Patrols every 4 hours of low threat city stuff (allowing for stretching of Phoenix City Guard) (Temple) Establishing a proper Hospital and Shrines across Phoenix City and Surroundings.
- Completion Time: 3 Turns.
- Siege Defenses: Very Poor (No Food Storage)
You add 1 stat point to the pool on level up. See the Mechanics: Stat Growth for how much things cost. If you don't want to spend it, you can add it to the pool for later use.
Pool Status: 0 pts
-[ ] Spend Point On:
--[ ] Write In
-[ ] Add Point to Pool for Later Use
Skills get 6 stat points, with no skill advancing more than 3 ranks. See Mechanics: Skill Growth for how much things cost. You can choose to add unspent points to a pool.
-[ ] Spend Points On:
--[ ] Write In.
-[ ] Save Skill Points for Later Use
-[] AP Pool
--[] Get Xiaomei a fortunate encounter (2 AP. Spend +2 AP to make it more fortunate.)
--[] Burn AP to reveal a hint about an ongoing quest. (1 AP for subquests, 2 AP for Main quests.)
--[] Improve RP Pool (4 AP for +10 RP. Cost triples every 3 AP spent. RP cost increase is for this world, see transmigration mechanics.) (Taken three times)
--[] Help cloud your enemies sight. (2 AP) (Repeatable)
--[] Improve Your Sight.(5 AP), +5 to your rolls on Enemy Action, more Information on action results. Cost increases +1 AP each time.) (Current Roll: +12) (Level 2 Sight)
--[] Send a Omen to the World. (6 AP. ??? Effects, mostly beneficial to Xiaomei.)
-[] Celestial Intrigue Actions (mixed) (+30 to rolls (+10 this world))
--[] Covertly Repair the Tree of the Heavens (2 FP 2 AP): This action is repeatable up to Xiaomei's level. (Current Times: 3/6), and can be repaired by approximately 3.65%.[QM Note: Do not take this more than once a turn unless you want negative consequences. Amount repairable is tied to Xiaomei. Also note the slowdown means the Tree will slowly take more damage.] [At 40%, Enemy loses one action permanently]
--[] Celestial Bureaucracy Anti-Corruption Actions (4/?? Completed)
---[] Clean the Faction Meeting Spaces (4 AP 30 RP) (
---[] (Unlocked) Find the Hall of Histories (2 AP 20 RP)[Leads to ??? Event]
---[] (Unlocked) Improve and Restore the Chapel of the Void (4 AP 40 RP)[Leads to ??? Event] (Moderate Risk of Retaliation)
---[] (Unlocked) Investigate the Labyrinth Oversight Office (2 AP 10 RP)[Leads to ??? Event]
---[] Further Actions Locked.
---[]
--[] What has Aphreal been doing (1 AP)
--[] Hong Meiling Actions
---[] (Light Risk) Gain an idea to her resources. (1 AP 10 RP) [Gain more information on Agent]
---[] (Moderate Risk) Investigate her actions. Backtrack how she even was able to interfere with the Celestial Princesses Plans. (2 AP, 1 FP,
---[] (Moderate Risk) Investigate the trail. See if you can cut off some of her resource base. [Reduced Enemy Resources, Goodwill with the Bureaucracy, +trickle of resources] (3 AP, 3 FP)
---[] (High Risk) Get one of her catspaws removed from their position. This might give you away, though.. [Reduced Enemy Actions] (100 RP, 1 FP, 1 AP)
--[] Xiaomei has inherited the soul of someone who was once a god, and this must meant she was one of the dead gods. That'll take some time but maybe it'll identify the enemy some. (1 AP 5 RP per turn, 9 turns)
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--[] Some worlds have no gods that intervene. This could be a problem for Xiaomei. You should investigate ways around it. (2 AP, Must be taken 5 times, does not need to be every turn. Taken: 1 Time.)
--[] Incarnation seems risky, but yet the enemy persisted? (3 FP per turn, increased risk.) [Taken 2 Times]
--[] You could use some assistance and resources. (Gain hints as to which actions have what results. But also: gain a slow trickle of resources.) (10 RP and 2 AP per turn, must be taken every turn till completed.) (1/4 Turns)
-[] RP Pool
--[] Create Magical Items For Sale in the Market: Come up with common magical items. Try for utility over weapons and armor. Inspire an artisan or professional depending on cost to sell them frequently (12 RP to come up with a single per three-week availability, 30 RP for a seller to have them available up to 9 times a turn.) [Market Event][Historical Outcome]
--[] Work with Kerian Pantheon to create resource deposits for Pheonix City. They will ask for a favor in return. (Cost: 30 RP, +2 encounters spent on Xiaomei, +1 potential quest, possiblity of locked AP/FP expenditure for 2 turns.)
--[] Bank RP for later-use. (Banked RP caps at the same cap as unspent.) (Cost: ??? RP)
--[] Spend resources to enhance your AP (Improve your magical options) (Gain +1 AP per 55 RP spent.) (Cost increases every +2 AP by +20 RP per AP) (AP is for this world, see transmigration mechanics.) (Taken three times)
--[] Spend resources to make your interference less obvious to potential watchers in the Bureaucracy. (Enemy difficulty to directly affect your DCs increases, your bonus on opposing them increases. Cost: 170 RP.) (Actions taken 3 times.)
--[] Spend 5 RP per "suggestion" to have Xiaomei replace one of her training times with another skill or spell she knows to train it. (Limit: 6 suggestions per turn)
--[] Create a Spell. (Cost: 40 RP)
--- Note that it must be *in line* with generally shown stuff. Song magic will get better results. Please refrain from now from creating Kamehameha or Dragon Slave expys. Is prone to approval.
--[] Spend resources in aiding someone. (Cost: Variable)
---[] [Keria] A Deity. This will usually be some form of a power up. This could be bad or good. (Insufficient Sight to Have More Information)
---[] [Celestial Bureaucracy] You may be sealed up, but you know the ways of things. Grease palms to get things done. This will primarily have ??? benefits, as you're paying for information or slowing down event chains. (Unlocked by the Intrigue action completing) (Explain the cost and what you're looking for for that cost. Assume you'll need at least 35 RP to get anything useful.)
--[] Spend resources to create very bad luck for someone.. (Write-In, explain. Better explanations decrease cost, may have other benefits.)(Cost: 70 RP)
-[] FP Pool
--[] Burn 2 FP for -10 Defiance (Can take as many times as you want.) (Cost goes up every fifth time) (Times Taken: 2)
--[] Burn 2 FP for -5 Awareness (Can take as many times as you want.) (Cost goes up every fifth time)
--[] Spend X points of FP to get more random encounters for Xiaomei. (1 FP = 2 encounters)
--[] Send an inspiration for new defense mechanisms or types to .. (1 FP, 2 FP if Xiaomei)
--[] Bend Fate. (Awareness +5)(This is a visible warping of fate, obvious to Xiaomei and the enemy, as well as anyone of sufficient magical power. Certain things cost more FP.) (1 FP, ??? Effects.)(Spend more FP to increase the effects. Awareness increases by 3 per FP spent.)
---[] Change the history of an organization (Base Cost: 2 FP. Please explain the change, and why.
---[] Set an encounter for Xiaomei to change the fate of someone. (Explain why, and who. Base Cost:2 FP. Note if this is something impossible it'll convert to a quest. Note that she cannot see Quests.)
---[] Ask a local deity for assistance in giving Xiaomei a quest. (Cost: 2 FP, locked. They may not be something you want, but unless you pick badly, it should always be something good for Xiaomei, or a lesson, etc.)
--[] Set One Good Roll to .. (30/1 FP, 50/2 FP, 70/3 FP) (Specify if it's one of Xiaomei's rolls, or yours. Default: yours)
--[] Ensure a fateful meeting is positive for character. [Follow-Up Cost] (+8 FP, ??? effects, +?? Awareness)(If no person met is specified, this is QM's choice. The more FP spent here, the more positive effects, basically.) (Has a chance for follow up RP or FP costs depending on encounter.) (Action taken 6 times)
--[] Change the Fate of a Character. Note that more blatant displays of divine power will increase Awareness and possibly Defiance. (2 FP)
--[] Cause a sidequest to appear for Xiaomei. (2FP, spend additional FP to make it easier or increase effects.) (Write in quest in *detail.* Note better rewards might make the quest very annoying if you do not also spend more FP, and Xiaomei cannot see the quest details yet.)
Going forward:
The enemy only loses actions if they critically fail or you critically succeed, or you get intrique actions done that remove enemy actions (Albeit that's every turn)
Success thresholds are now:
+0~35 Success
+35~70 Major Success
+70~140 Sublime Success
>+140 Cosmic Success
Critical successes must be at least major, and criticals are 96-100 and 1-4.
Correspondingly:
-0~35 Failure
-35~70 Major Failure
-70~140 Sublime Failure
<-140 Cosmic Failure
This should both a) keep your boni relevant and b) stop it from snowballing them to doing nothing.
Xiaomei was one good attack away from dying. I think I worried about nothing.
Note: Next turn Xiaomei will resolve the Phoenix Nights Questline, which will kick off Urgent Times.
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how is fp calculated?
do we have to write in the task we started and have to continue,isnt that automatic?
Urgent times start after the next turn, so that we can do other stuff now and have one more turn to prepare?
in character we should know military organisations outside of phoenix city who will help us in urgent times,right? i need a name for an ally we can make retroactively more powerful.
if we invent a new defense now is it too late to built it for the city?
if we create a ressource with the pantheon, can we decide its a lot of easily harvestable food?
also thanks for the chapter
do we have to write in the task we started and have to continue,isnt that automatic?
Urgent times start after the next turn, so that we can do other stuff now and have one more turn to prepare?
in character we should know military organisations outside of phoenix city who will help us in urgent times,right? i need a name for an ally we can make retroactively more powerful.
if we invent a new defense now is it too late to built it for the city?
if we create a ressource with the pantheon, can we decide its a lot of easily harvestable food?
also thanks for the chapter
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Eternal_0bserver
(Unverified Bookworm)
- Location
- Earth, Northern Europe
Hmm, is there a reason why Cilia doesn't get a rep for the second turn in a row? Especially from Kerian Pantheon, I would have thought it would have been much higher than 13 considering how many things she's done for them during that time.
FP is calculated per mechanics, but it's 5 + (completed quests/3 rounded down). I recounted, and it should be correct now.
Task Started uh.. there shouldn't be any right now? Let me know if I missed one.
Phoenix City has zero allied military forces.
As for defense, if you spend double you can make a more durable one, but any defense proposed normally will have reduced effectiveness.
I'm updating the sheet after this, actually. I just didn't have time to finish last night (and the experiment of using my laptop in my bed wasn't real helpful.)