Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
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If we're meant to be the Song to Xiulan's Deng, wouldn't Xiulan be the one most likely to be targeted? At least, she's the one most likely to be sitting in an office.
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- United States
This is exactly how I feel. I want to know so badly. Investigate is so very interesting, but our people...
[X] Investigate
Because it should lose but not as badly as it will.
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- United States
It's possible that the tea was poisoned so the green officer was weak in mind or body or both.
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- United States of America
I generally think that if they were capable of poisoning an individual and they wanted to kill that same individual, they would use the poison to kill him. It doesn't make sense to me to take the risk to poison an individual and then take another risk to sneak in and kill that same individual after he's been poisoned. I think they would have just used the poison to kill him and saved themselves the time and risk.
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- UK
Erm don't know if this has been brought up or not but is it not the most likely case that the assassin just killed the guy by ripping out his throat with a poison element technique, just cause that's what the assassin practices?
Like if Xuilan was the type to use a sword and stabbed someone you wouldn't think 'why did Xuilan decapitate this dude then burn the corpse', you would just think 'huh, Xuilan attacked this person'.
Like if Xuilan was the type to use a sword and stabbed someone you wouldn't think 'why did Xuilan decapitate this dude then burn the corpse', you would just think 'huh, Xuilan attacked this person'.
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- scrabbling
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- Staring into the void
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- United States
I would guess that green poisons can't be both undetectable and easily kill a green, but undetectable and making a green vulnerable to assassination is a lower bar.
A quick kill like that is too powerful, so it should have downsides of some kind and "it was a two step process" is one potential downside. Although I can think of a whole bunch of other potential downsides: maybe it can only be used to kill once a day, or it has a huge wind up time, or it costs a ton of channels leaving such an assassin extremely specialized.
That it can only be activated on unready targets doesn't seem like a big enough downside and we don't even know that it has that.
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- Chicago
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- She/They
We could pull it on a yellow. This may just be a cyan or violet assasin.
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- Colorado
If this was a Violet assassin they would have literally killed the entire defensive line, including us, before we knew what was happening.
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- Chicago
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- She/They
So, we are in agreement but you think it unlikely because you think a violet would have done a lot more. I'm so-so on that: we don't know strategy, goals, or context here, and it seems weird that a random village would have a high-level assasin killing it's protection unless something larger were going on. Maybe the guy had a family connection to something, or maybe this was the assasin clearing a way into the empire for a larger group?
Lots of reasons to hide strength and use minimal force. None of which we have the context to speculate on.
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- Colorado
Let me be a little clearer, it's possible this is a Cyan cultivator, but Violet is 6th realm. I'm having a hard time imagining any reason someone of similar stature to Elders Zhou or Jiao would be here and do nothing but kill a single random 3rd realm cultivator. There is no evidence to suggest anyone above the 4th realm is here.
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- The Void
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Li Suyin took the opportunity to deploy her manufactured hero to dispose of a tiny portion of the empire's inadequate nobility. Obviously.