Gatdamn Meizhen, fuckin' get it girl!
Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
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So happy for Meizhen taking such positive steps in her life. I'm kind of worried about Ling Qi's heart demon though. It sounds like we may have a real issue if we can't all somewhat agree on what her domain or dao path going forward will be. If we keep picking insights to maximize tactical gains we'll end up as the most powerful Green cultivator who has crippled their path to Cyan.
Meizhen's burgeoning sense of humor is adelight
Does this mean Ling Qi will be getting Grinning Moon's EPC benefits when she gets into battles now
?I love when Ling Qi is having fun. And she's having the most fun when she's looting people bare!
Grinning Moon: That's my girl
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Holy shit, it's the Girl Talk episode.
A classic for a reason, though an unusually apt reminder of the time that Meizhen thought Qi was dead and was quietly devastated over it.
Hah! It's true! Meizhen you are amazing!
Yes, they are two high school girls with one interrogating the other about every detail of her big romantic confession. I love it. My imagination is picturing a lot of squealing on Qi's part as Meizhen's face struggles between giddiness and embarrassment.
Yesssss, this is good.
I suppose Sixiang could be the giggling person in this scenario. Meizhen is smoooooth as butter.
Lol. "Sixiang has been trying to teach me to move like them, but they literally don't have a body, so it's pretty challenging".
A classic for a reason, though an unusually apt reminder of the time that Meizhen thought Qi was dead and was quietly devastated over it.
Hah! It's true! Meizhen you are amazing!
Yes, they are two high school girls with one interrogating the other about every detail of her big romantic confession. I love it. My imagination is picturing a lot of squealing on Qi's part as Meizhen's face struggles between giddiness and embarrassment.
Yesssss, this is good.
I suppose Sixiang could be the giggling person in this scenario. Meizhen is smoooooth as butter.
Lol. "Sixiang has been trying to teach me to move like them, but they literally don't have a body, so it's pretty challenging".
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Iirc Cui's father is a 500. Year old assassin dagger spirit. Why did that spirit conceive Cui with Cui's mother? Does it belong to Suzhen?
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The dagger? Who knows. Maybe he just likes thiccc snake girls. A man of taste
She did once brutally murder a beast for pretending to be Ling Qi. I'm not sure if that makes it more or less funny.
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That sounds like the kind of whimsical anecdote a Bai would tell a friend over tea.
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And then they play a round of "name the poison in this tea".
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- Canada
The subtext in this line... I guess Ling Qi still views these relationships with the lense of control being the most important factor.
Hmm, I'd guess future Ling Qi teaching younguns Bai 101: The more gruesome the things they do to people who have/might hurt you, the more they like you. With that story as an example as the time she realised that Meizhen really cares about her a whole lot.
Ling Qi views all relationships like that to an extent
It's even more curious because object spirits don't typically have an inclination towards reproduction. So it was probably Cui's mother who pursued him if it wasn't an arranged thing.
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Loved this chapter. So much great stuff.
Wang making a showing of perhaps the easiest social manipulation in green we've seen pushing him significantly closer to Social Cinnamon Roll territory.
Meizhen being amazing in dating and Life. Sixiang being amazing in reaction.
And, perhaps best of all:
So, Cast, how would you all describe battle?
Meizhen: "It is a rushing river of violence and terror, and to win means to control the flow and direct it against the opponent."
Renxiang: "It is a great debate, order must be sought beneath the chaos to understand the battlefield, such that each move by the enemy can be countered by the correct reaction."
Xuilan: "It is a raging conflagration, where you must seek the vulnerabilities of the enemy and use it as fuel for your own forces to explode forth in overwhelming power."
Sixiang: "It is the bloodiest of dances, countless participants pushing and reacting to each other, desperate to keep in step with the whole stage or fall completely."
Ling Qi: "It's a violent heist lol."
Truly incredible insight. Maybe even Art material right there. 10/10
Wang making a showing of perhaps the easiest social manipulation in green we've seen pushing him significantly closer to Social Cinnamon Roll territory.
Meizhen being amazing in dating and Life. Sixiang being amazing in reaction.
And, perhaps best of all:
So, Cast, how would you all describe battle?
Meizhen: "It is a rushing river of violence and terror, and to win means to control the flow and direct it against the opponent."
Renxiang: "It is a great debate, order must be sought beneath the chaos to understand the battlefield, such that each move by the enemy can be countered by the correct reaction."
Xuilan: "It is a raging conflagration, where you must seek the vulnerabilities of the enemy and use it as fuel for your own forces to explode forth in overwhelming power."
Sixiang: "It is the bloodiest of dances, countless participants pushing and reacting to each other, desperate to keep in step with the whole stage or fall completely."
Ling Qi: "It's a violent heist lol."
Truly incredible insight. Maybe even Art material right there. 10/10
As I understand it she has not had a single example of an equal pairing in her entire life. In her experience relationships are very much an exchange of resources between two unequal parties. Which given her desire to avoid her mother's profession...
Unseelie
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- Tír fo Thuinn
Meizhen doesn't complain about getting to watch Qi dance? What a surprise.
The entire scene was very cute.
Now the question is, how much do you like heists?.
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I know everyone else is gushing about the chapter but...
Finaly... finally... we won't get dunked every time a tactical battle with someone moderately competent comes around.
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Yeah, we just have to pretend large scale battles are actually heists. Make the opposing force think you are going to do something and then do something entirely different to achieve the objective. Violently.
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- Greece
If it works for Kelsier, it works for us.
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Curious
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I suppose this is a fitting analogy given her background and skill set. The direction of learning also fits in nicely with us gaining more tools to make use of it with various ally and enemy relocation effects. Shame about missing athletics cap by 2 but I'm sure we'll get it later this turn.
On this note:
- This turn's spirit roll was 23xp below average. With this, we're short an average of 387 xp to make it to G4 next turn as planned.
- EPC bonus to spirit in the last 4 turns was 130-230, varying with the amount of stealth we engage in and secrets we uncover. This means that under a pessimistic scenario we'd still be short ~130xp from break-even, and ~200 from having a 99+% chance.
- Getting our 0.2 multi back is worth ~220xp and would solve our problem, but it's hard to count on that happening.
- Invest 20 omake points over 2 turns to guarantee the outcome (would work but is expensive).
- Invest 10 omake points and use the extra AP next turn on Spirit (worth ~100xp) instead of PLR7 (less expensive but no PLR7 and risky if we have unexpected AP costs).
- Switch to AG over SSC for the turn (worth ~100 spirit xp but loses 66xp on UGM (no level 2), 124xp on SNR, and 105xp on MSS). Generally not worth the trade compared to just sacrificing an AP.
Basically if you've got omake points now's a good time to throw them into spiritual.
EDIT: thank you @Thor's Twin for covering us for this turn.
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