Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
- Thread starter yrsillar
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Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
- Location
- New York
[X] The messenger cadre.
Honestly I was torn up between this choice and village choice. In the end, I chose this one because it seems to have a balance of plot, narrative importance, flexibility, and an effective use of our abilities. Villages is still pretty good, what with the focus on ZG, and how our abilities give us good prowess in that zone. However, we will be doing that kind of thing a lot most likely in the future, and it seems to be a more standard assignment. Being in the ranger group also allows us to make our own decisions and can be used to fight in different battles as need be. Overall, frontlines is the one I do not consider to be useful. With some bias, I'd like to state that the majority of people seem to be voting for it as either a) we are the protag b) we were responsible last time c) PLOT d) Shenhua. Sure there are others, but that seems to be people's main points. More than that, it's not really something offered by our commander. It's us going up to her and asking to follow her around. Not do any of the other jobs she asked for. Just seems strange to do that, when we are not that strong, and would be more effective literally anywhere else.
Honestly I was torn up between this choice and village choice. In the end, I chose this one because it seems to have a balance of plot, narrative importance, flexibility, and an effective use of our abilities. Villages is still pretty good, what with the focus on ZG, and how our abilities give us good prowess in that zone. However, we will be doing that kind of thing a lot most likely in the future, and it seems to be a more standard assignment. Being in the ranger group also allows us to make our own decisions and can be used to fight in different battles as need be. Overall, frontlines is the one I do not consider to be useful. With some bias, I'd like to state that the majority of people seem to be voting for it as either a) we are the protag b) we were responsible last time c) PLOT d) Shenhua. Sure there are others, but that seems to be people's main points. More than that, it's not really something offered by our commander. It's us going up to her and asking to follow her around. Not do any of the other jobs she asked for. Just seems strange to do that, when we are not that strong, and would be more effective literally anywhere else.
- Location
- earth
[X] The messenger cadre.
[X] The front line.
My main reasoning here is what Abeo mentioned. Although I don't mind the village option because Zhengui's been on a downer recently, and he could use some spotlight.
Or maybe repeatedly putting him in suboptimal positions will force a mobility ability to coalesce, idk.
(I don't support progress through repeated trauma. This is a joke.)
[X] The front line.
My main reasoning here is what Abeo mentioned. Although I don't mind the village option because Zhengui's been on a downer recently, and he could use some spotlight.
Or maybe repeatedly putting him in suboptimal positions will force a mobility ability to coalesce, idk.
(I don't support progress through repeated trauma. This is a joke.)
- Location
- Staring into the void
Inserted tally
- Location
- UK
[X] The river villages
[X] The messenger cadre
Arrogance comes before the fall, and I'm aiming for Ascendance.
[X] The messenger cadre
Arrogance comes before the fall, and I'm aiming for Ascendance.
No. Many people claimed that not taking high risks would stymie our cultivation, but then it turned out that doing stupid things gets us a malus instead. This is exactly the same thing. The front lines is the high risk option, but we have no guarantees that it's also the high reward option.
Sundancer
Always drifting~
- Location
- Germany
I don't know about Red Spirit stones being not *that* expensive. They kinda are? A single stone is 100 silver which can feed a mortal family for some time. A month, or a full year. Maybe more, depending on what quote you pick/where Yrsillar changed his mind about the economy. (Note, it's perfectly fine for him to keep the economy somewhat woobly or change his mind at times; this is a fantasy quest, not a economics simulator.)
But the fact remains that a single Red soldier requires several Red Stones to train, meaning it is a huge investment going by these numbers. I doubt a town of 2k could support 150 Reds. Maybe 20, a bit more if they were at full war footing. From my understanding though, the town is both the local strong point, housing the main military force and also at the frontlines thus defended more strongly than usual. What this means is that I wouldn't look at the 2k town population to square them up with the garrison, but include the peasants and outer villages which easily could be ten times the people or more and a two digit number of Cultivators.
Furthermore, since the town is close to the border it probably does have further military support from the interior of the province. So I can totally see the number of reds, under the assumption that it totally isn't the "average of the population" or anything like that.
What is much more surprising to me is the Green-5 captain and the 'handful' of Green officers. I didn't think that you'd necessary have more than one Green, maaaaybe two, in a hundred Reds. Judging from the narrative so far, and how we learned very early in the previous quest that Late Red was average for inner city guard officers.
Maybe I am just wrong, or it is simply the same effect as above. The high amount of Greens might simply be drawn from the interior of the province and it really is more of a 1 Green to 100 Reds ratio. Or not. I doubt Yrsillar really wants to go into too much detail there and give hard numbers.
Anyway, and much more important, the update was pretty neat. Seeing Xiulan again and seeing that she is doing well (... for her, at least) was nice, as well as the friendly bickering. Of course I already see trouble brewing with Xiulan, but she's an adult now (well, Green, that's all that counts no?) and can handle herself. Maaaaaybe.
I'd have wished to see more of Ling Qi interacting with the normal people and lower Cultivators in the town, but I am a sucker for such scenes and they are just boring for most people I guess.
Votewise, I am tempted to go with the Guan Zhi option, just to see if she remains hard-boiled and professional or if we can form a slightly more personal link. It's always good to have connections to the higher ups, but mostly, I just want to see past her hard-boiled professional attitude^^+
So off to
[x] The front line.
with us. Who cares about risks or optimal deployments or strategy. Let's poke at senpai.
ImperatorV
The Laughing One
- Location
- The Voyaging Realm
[x] The front line.
I'm kinda curious to see what happens if we do this. I won't mind if either of the other two win though.
I'm kinda curious to see what happens if we do this. I won't mind if either of the other two win though.
Hm. Briefvoice is correct that the malus we got from that event was the result of choosing the risky path and then second-guessing it rather than following through. Merely being bullied by the forest king wouldn't have had such a profound impact on her; the damage to Ling Qi was in large part her loss of confidence in her own convictions.
Arkeus
Crazy cat guy
- Location
- France
To be fair, @yrsillar also has gone on record saying that having the full attention of the Forest King would screw up Ling Qi no matter what.
OTOH, I would say that her having to examine her convinction was actually good. I don't believe high risk = high reward, but I believe that it's ingenre that high risk increases the potential for character development which might lead to crippling/advancement.
- Location
- Canada
Hello everyone, got some information that may or may not be relevant to your vote from discord
I still don't know if front line is the best out of all the options, since river villages is at least equally viable in my eyes, but I do feel comfortable approval voting for front line now
Ling Qi isn't going out on her own with Guan Zhi, she's volunteering for the group that goes out with Guan ZhiDiscord said:
I still don't know if front line is the best out of all the options, since river villages is at least equally viable in my eyes, but I do feel comfortable approval voting for front line now
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[x] The front line.
- Location
- Castle
[X] The river villages.
