- Location
- Florida
Dissonance of the Lonely Street our domain technique is what I'm referring to, not
Darting Labyrinth Shadow
Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
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Darting Labyrinth Shadow
EternalObserver
eYe Gaze baCk
- Location
- The Void
Sounds to me like you're gonna have to change its abbreviation
- Location
- The United States
- Pronouns
- He/They
Nah, confusing metaphors are a big part of what we do here.
That's why AS is a crucial part of our foundation but AS was a discarded source of one or two niche tricks.
Nope, that's Abyssal Exhalation.
AS is either Argent Soul or Argent Storm.
EternalObserver
eYe Gaze baCk
- Location
- The Void
in which case, Yeti's probably referring to Argent Soul.
Do guandao fall under Blades?
I asked @yrsillar before, and he said RME's overlapping eye zones were not valid targets of DLS's damage buff. Because he hates fun
It does actually make sense insofar as the domain ability is about turning an environment hostile and RME's eyes, while Lung constructs, do not embody a region withing the context of that construction, but rather act as organs in extension of the cultivator's form. But fun!
Polearms, I'd expect.
- Location
- Florida
That's a shame guess we'll have to wait to use the long range on BKSD thenI asked @yrsillar before, and he said RME's overlapping eye zones were not valid targets of DLS's damage buff. Because he hates fun
It does actually make sense insofar as the domain ability is about turning an environment hostile and RME's eyes, while Lung constructs, do not embody a region withing the context of that construction, but rather act as organs in extension of the cultivator's form. But fun!
Can still use PLR though with it
A Guandao is a Dao/Saber and thus a Blade by virtue of being a Curved Blade onna stick
EternalObserver
eYe Gaze baCk
- Location
- The Void
pretty dang sure it classifies under polearm
- Location
- Right Behind You.
I'd imagine most techniques that use it would focus on using it like a staff with a sabre on the end rather than a blade with a staff attached. So, it'd probably be a pole arm as that what the focus of its use is.
Turn 8: Arc 5-9
"I'd say hit the river place, since it seems real important to 'em, but that'd ruin the spy crap those two just did wouldn't it?" Ji Rong was the first to speak, and Ling Qi's eyebrow twitched a little as he stole the words from her mouth.
"A fair point, the principle of reciprocation would indicate a strike at the village," Liao Zhu said blithely. "Given their own attempt on our civilians. If we were to limit our strike to a piece of vital industry, such as that bridge, we would also get some intelligence on their ability to repair infrastructure in a timely fashion.
"...We should just hit the soldiers," Su Ling grunted, looking displeased. "That's the important bit."
"I have to agree. I think focusing on their military response would be for the best," she did want to kill these things for their assault on her home, but she couldn't muster any enthusiasm for killing a bunch of noncombatants.
"Breaking armies is important, but breaking economies is much more effective. "This was the lesson that Ogodei taught us," Bian Ya said. "However, I do not believe that is our role."
"This one must agree with the sentiment. The shipyard is far more vital than the admiralty, to strike it with these forces would be hubris," Xuan Shi.
"Just use normal words, there's not a damn boat in sight," Ji Rong grumbled under his breath.
"Fair points all," Liao Zhu admitted. "Commander?"
Guan Zhi was silent for a moment. "My inclination is to strike at the most vital point within our reach, but it is correct to say that this is not our role in this mission. For our current objective, striking a military target will be the most effective. If this disrupts their current attempt to organize and grants the Sect and the empire further time to prepare, so much the better. Disciple Liao, sketch out the layout of our target, Disciple Xuan, study his notes and determine which of the five anchor points is most vital to the construction. It is time to plan our assault."
A thrill went up Ling Qi's spine, warring with her worry and caution. Soon, she would once again be taking part in a real battle, not just a duel or a spar.
Ling Qi was a little surprised by the simplicity of the plan. Some part of her still expected grand and intricate gambits from a cultivator strategist, but she supposed it made sense. This wasn't a heist or a burglary, this was smashing a shop's front window to test the response times of the guard, or a gang burning a stall to prove that yes, they were serious about the money.
They stood amongst the thick fungal trees on the hill overlooking the fortress, which was several kilometers north and west of their entry point, proving the strange bends which space took in these tunnels. She stood with Su Ling in the shadow of a particularly large trunk as the final preparations were made.
"Are you ready for this?" Ling Qi asked quietly, as a single silver wisp drifted out to the edge of the forest.
"As ready as I am for anything involving you," Su Ling replied dryly.
"You can't blame me for this one, I was following you," Ling Qi joked back. "Seriously though, Su Ling. Do you think you're ready?"
She grimaced, her ears lying flat against the sides of her head. "...Nah, but it's not like I have the hard part. Me and Flowers just gotta protect the beacon and make sure the rest of you can bug out."
"Not really the point, but I get it," Ling Qi murmured, glancing toward Bian Ya, who stood a short distance away, crouched in front of her spirit beast, they seemed to be having a private conversation. "...Well, I trust you to have my back."
"Hmph, I guess I trust you to have my front, crazy girl," Su Ling replied huffily. "Besides, we have that Xuan guy, right. He's some kinda ducal boy like the snake princess, right?"
"This one will endeavor to match the praise of Sister Su," Xuan Shi, who kneeled a few meters away, examining the scores of ceramic plates which Ling Qi knew to be a potent defensive formation. "It is the pride of Xuan that the land itself shall break ere we will."
"Let's hope we don't have to test that down here under a few million tonnes of rock," Ling Qi replied dryly. "...We'll be relying on all of you though. It's only a matter of time till we're going to have to retreat."
Xuan Shi dipped his head. "This one will see to his duty. Miss Ling may rely upon that."
"Indeed," Bian Ya said, brushing dirt from her gown as she straightened up. "Ling Qi, you are being called to the front."
Ling Qi bowed her head in acknowledgement. "As you say. Good luck everyone."
As the others reciprocated her farewell, she turned and faded into the shadow of the trees, heading for the edge of the forest.
She could aready see her destination. Their position lay at the bottom of a valley, whereas the fortress occupied a hilltop, build from blocks of white bone, the thing bristled like the shell of an insect, five pointed towers rose, equidistant from one another, joined sturdy walls whose upper reaches were marked by angular spikes. The central structure was a stepped pyramid of black stone, marked by luminescent and foreign carvings.
<Do you understand the plan Zhengui?> Ling Qi thought as she flitted forward.
"Zhengui understands, together with Big Sister, and Hanyi we are going to put on a very loud show!"
Ling Qi chuckled to herself, that was a good enough understanding of it. After Guan Zhi broke a hole in their defenses with the initial assault, she and Liao Zhu were to move into the breach and begin laying about while avoiding stealthier tactics. Ji Rong was paired with her, to act as a skirmisher and assist with enemies who proved too tough for her to run over, and impeded her general havoc raising attention gathering role.
It was a little ironic that he was acting as her support.
<And you Hanyi? I know this wasn't the sort of stage you had in mind?> Ling Qi thought absently.
"This is this and that is that. I can't wait to do a proper duet with Sis!" She boasted.
Guan Zhi would have to pace herself, due to the cost of using fourth realm techniques down here, saving her strength for the inevitable reinforcements.
<...Sixiang?> Ling Qi thought as she approached the woods end.
"I've got this, just worry about yourself," Sixiang chuckled
She arrived at the forests edge a moment later, landing in a crouch beside Guan Zhi. "Reporting in," she said evenly as she stood up.
"Very good, Our retreat route is plotted?" Guan Zhi asked
"The route is plotted out," Ling Qi agreed, she had already shared the map with Bian Ya, who would be guiding the retreat.
"Finally, time to actually do something," Ji Rong said, grinning as he looked down the hill.
Liao Zhu, crouched on a branch, was not so crude in his expression, but there was a visible tension in his shoulders.
Her commander merely, nodded, standing with her arms behind her back. "Very good, get to your positions then. I am not my uncle, it would be unwise to be near while I unleash my power."
Ling Qi nodded, and joined the others in acknowledging her words. She leaped away from the little clearing, flitting through the tall grass, where the very last of the fungal trees grew.
But she couldn't help but keep an eye behind her, where she could feel the gathering of power.
Guan Zhi, standing in the knee high grass, exhaled and rotated her arms, bringing her hands together in front of her chest, elbows pointed out. The air vibrated. The valley shook. In a circle two meters around her feet, grass flattened as if crushed by an immense weight. The fungal trees shook and bowed, branches ripped down to be crushed into the flattened dirt. Then the circle widened.
Four meters.
Tree trunks groaned as they strained, and screamed as they shattered as if crushed by a giant's hammer.
Eight meters.
Dust and wood shards failed to fall to earth, pulled irresistibly toward Guan Zhi, an orbiting sphere of debris. The air shimmered, and Ling Qi could feel light qi distorting.
Sixteen meters.
Nuaght stood higher than her feet in the whole of the circle, and Guan Zhi's hand snapped out, catching a stone from the cloud of debris.
Thirty Two meters.
Cries of alarm were beginning to rise from the fortress, and Ling Qi could hear the faint sizzle of impurity burning flesh from within the warped and darkening cloud.
Sixty Four meters.
As Ling Qi completed the arc of her leap, and landed atop a still standing tree, she saw the blurry form of Guan Zhi move, cocking her arm back, and then a boom of thunder as a projectile whizzed out. Ling Qi tightened her hands upon the branch as the wind screamed and her perch rocked in the passage of the missile.
Ling was just barely able to see it, the ragged stone she had thrown. When she had snatched it, the stone had been the size of a fist, now, it was a perfect sphere the size of a marble, and air and light alike warped around it.
The stone struck the tower and went black.Ling Qi shielded her eyes from dust and the noise of crumbling masonry rang out, washing over her as the sphere of warped light expanded a dozen times over. Blocks of bone, enhanced by the Shishigui's foreign formations crumbled to powder, ripped inward toward the center of the distorted smoky gray sphere two score meters wide that expanded outward from the point of impact.
Ling Qi could feel the screams from within the vanishing tower, even if the actual sound was unable to escape the circle. It lasted only a second, and when it vanished, a compressed sphere of dust and stone the size of her head dropped to the ground, oozing pinkish froth, leaving a perfect spherical scoop missing from the tower. At the edges of the scoop, severed formations sparked and spat, and the air trembled with the fluctuations of the destabilized array.
Inside, Ling Qi saw a scene of confusion and alarm, Shishigui who had been patrolling the walls fallen back on the floor and staring, those inside gaping at the hole in their defenses, and the many individuals in the courtyard scrambling to respond.
Ling Qi leaped from her perch.
Zhengui landed in the courtyard with a ground shaking boom.
Balanced on her toes at the highest point of his shell, Ling Qi raised her flute to her lips as The Mist rolled forth, from the singing blade which circled overhead. Standing on a lower spike, Hanyi laughed and raised her hands and her voice in Spring's End Aria.
Ling Qi joined her, and together they brought winter to the underworld. Frost spread across stone and flesh alike as the temperature dropped, and in The Mist, frost coalesced into haunting skeltal shadows, whose raspy voices joined the song, even as frozen claws tore into rubbery grey flesh.
Below, her, Gui bellowed, and the frozen earth cracked as tendrils and roots reached up to spear unready foes. Spiralling and climbing up crumbling bone walls to stab and grab at enemies still in the broken halls. Above, smoke rose from Zhen's maw as he snapped down lightning fast, sinking his fangs into a squealing Shishigui with only a single bandoleer and flung it away, flames leaping from its wounds.
Yet her enemies were not overwhelmed, in the handful of seconds after she had appeared, the wide open and chaotic courtyard saw order was already forming, drill sergeants and officers howling and yipping for their comrades. To her left was something like a kennel, where shishigui stood gaping as dozens of rat beasts cowered and yowled in confusion. A single shishigui almost twice as tall as the others and clad in heavy chitin armor let out a bellowing bark which silenced the yowling, and before Ling Qi's eyes the chaotic mass began to fall into order as lesser 'herders' joined in, their qi propgating through the pack and each other.
To her right was a short, twisting tower which looked like a carven waterspout, where two dancers stood at the entrance, already recovering their poise. In the center was the pyramid keep, from which she could sense many gathering auras.
Just a short distance away, a squad of the creatures armed with slings seemed to be forming up, preparing to barrage her, guided by a pair of low third realm officers.
Then Liao Zhu landed in their center, and his arms blurred, weeping red wounds opened across the third realm officers throat, wrists and inner thighs, and the creature let out a strangled scream as he collapsed, gushing blood from his everything. The creature's companions struck out, and his spear slashed through Liao Zhu's mask…. Only fur his form to blur, and then there were two of him, arms blurring and flashing as his knives butchered them like animals being carved up for market. His twin forms strode untouched through them like a whirlwind of steel and death, heading for the entrance of the pyramid.
Even as Zhengui took his first stomping steps forward, and Ling Qi prepared to lash her still gathering foes with ice and death, the air surged with the crackle of lightning, and the Shishigui nearest too her screamed as jagged bolts of white light exploded among them, charring flesh to ash as Ji Rong arrived at her side, his hair spiked and sparking with crawling arcs of static.
Taking in the scene, Ling Qi prepared herself to move toward…
[] The shrine and the Dancers (hinders enemy stealth attack efforts, morale damage to enemy)
[] The Kennel and the Brute (Hinders Enemy buff structure and tracking/intelligence gathering)
[] The Drillyard (Overall chaos, prevents enemy organization for forming up.)
Known enemies consist of uncounted red and yellow combatants, 12 Green 1-2 combatants, two G3 assassins and one G4 Leader type. Ji Rong will follow your lead, Liao Zhu is bottling up the majority of reinforcements. Guan Zhi will also assist in various ways depending on results and choices.
"A fair point, the principle of reciprocation would indicate a strike at the village," Liao Zhu said blithely. "Given their own attempt on our civilians. If we were to limit our strike to a piece of vital industry, such as that bridge, we would also get some intelligence on their ability to repair infrastructure in a timely fashion.
"...We should just hit the soldiers," Su Ling grunted, looking displeased. "That's the important bit."
"I have to agree. I think focusing on their military response would be for the best," she did want to kill these things for their assault on her home, but she couldn't muster any enthusiasm for killing a bunch of noncombatants.
"Breaking armies is important, but breaking economies is much more effective. "This was the lesson that Ogodei taught us," Bian Ya said. "However, I do not believe that is our role."
"This one must agree with the sentiment. The shipyard is far more vital than the admiralty, to strike it with these forces would be hubris," Xuan Shi.
"Just use normal words, there's not a damn boat in sight," Ji Rong grumbled under his breath.
"Fair points all," Liao Zhu admitted. "Commander?"
Guan Zhi was silent for a moment. "My inclination is to strike at the most vital point within our reach, but it is correct to say that this is not our role in this mission. For our current objective, striking a military target will be the most effective. If this disrupts their current attempt to organize and grants the Sect and the empire further time to prepare, so much the better. Disciple Liao, sketch out the layout of our target, Disciple Xuan, study his notes and determine which of the five anchor points is most vital to the construction. It is time to plan our assault."
A thrill went up Ling Qi's spine, warring with her worry and caution. Soon, she would once again be taking part in a real battle, not just a duel or a spar.
***
Ling Qi was a little surprised by the simplicity of the plan. Some part of her still expected grand and intricate gambits from a cultivator strategist, but she supposed it made sense. This wasn't a heist or a burglary, this was smashing a shop's front window to test the response times of the guard, or a gang burning a stall to prove that yes, they were serious about the money.
They stood amongst the thick fungal trees on the hill overlooking the fortress, which was several kilometers north and west of their entry point, proving the strange bends which space took in these tunnels. She stood with Su Ling in the shadow of a particularly large trunk as the final preparations were made.
"Are you ready for this?" Ling Qi asked quietly, as a single silver wisp drifted out to the edge of the forest.
"As ready as I am for anything involving you," Su Ling replied dryly.
"You can't blame me for this one, I was following you," Ling Qi joked back. "Seriously though, Su Ling. Do you think you're ready?"
She grimaced, her ears lying flat against the sides of her head. "...Nah, but it's not like I have the hard part. Me and Flowers just gotta protect the beacon and make sure the rest of you can bug out."
"Not really the point, but I get it," Ling Qi murmured, glancing toward Bian Ya, who stood a short distance away, crouched in front of her spirit beast, they seemed to be having a private conversation. "...Well, I trust you to have my back."
"Hmph, I guess I trust you to have my front, crazy girl," Su Ling replied huffily. "Besides, we have that Xuan guy, right. He's some kinda ducal boy like the snake princess, right?"
"This one will endeavor to match the praise of Sister Su," Xuan Shi, who kneeled a few meters away, examining the scores of ceramic plates which Ling Qi knew to be a potent defensive formation. "It is the pride of Xuan that the land itself shall break ere we will."
"Let's hope we don't have to test that down here under a few million tonnes of rock," Ling Qi replied dryly. "...We'll be relying on all of you though. It's only a matter of time till we're going to have to retreat."
Xuan Shi dipped his head. "This one will see to his duty. Miss Ling may rely upon that."
"Indeed," Bian Ya said, brushing dirt from her gown as she straightened up. "Ling Qi, you are being called to the front."
Ling Qi bowed her head in acknowledgement. "As you say. Good luck everyone."
As the others reciprocated her farewell, she turned and faded into the shadow of the trees, heading for the edge of the forest.
She could aready see her destination. Their position lay at the bottom of a valley, whereas the fortress occupied a hilltop, build from blocks of white bone, the thing bristled like the shell of an insect, five pointed towers rose, equidistant from one another, joined sturdy walls whose upper reaches were marked by angular spikes. The central structure was a stepped pyramid of black stone, marked by luminescent and foreign carvings.
<Do you understand the plan Zhengui?> Ling Qi thought as she flitted forward.
"Zhengui understands, together with Big Sister, and Hanyi we are going to put on a very loud show!"
Ling Qi chuckled to herself, that was a good enough understanding of it. After Guan Zhi broke a hole in their defenses with the initial assault, she and Liao Zhu were to move into the breach and begin laying about while avoiding stealthier tactics. Ji Rong was paired with her, to act as a skirmisher and assist with enemies who proved too tough for her to run over, and impeded her general havoc raising attention gathering role.
It was a little ironic that he was acting as her support.
<And you Hanyi? I know this wasn't the sort of stage you had in mind?> Ling Qi thought absently.
"This is this and that is that. I can't wait to do a proper duet with Sis!" She boasted.
Guan Zhi would have to pace herself, due to the cost of using fourth realm techniques down here, saving her strength for the inevitable reinforcements.
<...Sixiang?> Ling Qi thought as she approached the woods end.
"I've got this, just worry about yourself," Sixiang chuckled
She arrived at the forests edge a moment later, landing in a crouch beside Guan Zhi. "Reporting in," she said evenly as she stood up.
"Very good, Our retreat route is plotted?" Guan Zhi asked
"The route is plotted out," Ling Qi agreed, she had already shared the map with Bian Ya, who would be guiding the retreat.
"Finally, time to actually do something," Ji Rong said, grinning as he looked down the hill.
Liao Zhu, crouched on a branch, was not so crude in his expression, but there was a visible tension in his shoulders.
Her commander merely, nodded, standing with her arms behind her back. "Very good, get to your positions then. I am not my uncle, it would be unwise to be near while I unleash my power."
Ling Qi nodded, and joined the others in acknowledging her words. She leaped away from the little clearing, flitting through the tall grass, where the very last of the fungal trees grew.
But she couldn't help but keep an eye behind her, where she could feel the gathering of power.
Guan Zhi, standing in the knee high grass, exhaled and rotated her arms, bringing her hands together in front of her chest, elbows pointed out. The air vibrated. The valley shook. In a circle two meters around her feet, grass flattened as if crushed by an immense weight. The fungal trees shook and bowed, branches ripped down to be crushed into the flattened dirt. Then the circle widened.
Four meters.
Tree trunks groaned as they strained, and screamed as they shattered as if crushed by a giant's hammer.
Eight meters.
Dust and wood shards failed to fall to earth, pulled irresistibly toward Guan Zhi, an orbiting sphere of debris. The air shimmered, and Ling Qi could feel light qi distorting.
Sixteen meters.
Nuaght stood higher than her feet in the whole of the circle, and Guan Zhi's hand snapped out, catching a stone from the cloud of debris.
Thirty Two meters.
Cries of alarm were beginning to rise from the fortress, and Ling Qi could hear the faint sizzle of impurity burning flesh from within the warped and darkening cloud.
Sixty Four meters.
As Ling Qi completed the arc of her leap, and landed atop a still standing tree, she saw the blurry form of Guan Zhi move, cocking her arm back, and then a boom of thunder as a projectile whizzed out. Ling Qi tightened her hands upon the branch as the wind screamed and her perch rocked in the passage of the missile.
Ling was just barely able to see it, the ragged stone she had thrown. When she had snatched it, the stone had been the size of a fist, now, it was a perfect sphere the size of a marble, and air and light alike warped around it.
The stone struck the tower and went black.Ling Qi shielded her eyes from dust and the noise of crumbling masonry rang out, washing over her as the sphere of warped light expanded a dozen times over. Blocks of bone, enhanced by the Shishigui's foreign formations crumbled to powder, ripped inward toward the center of the distorted smoky gray sphere two score meters wide that expanded outward from the point of impact.
Ling Qi could feel the screams from within the vanishing tower, even if the actual sound was unable to escape the circle. It lasted only a second, and when it vanished, a compressed sphere of dust and stone the size of her head dropped to the ground, oozing pinkish froth, leaving a perfect spherical scoop missing from the tower. At the edges of the scoop, severed formations sparked and spat, and the air trembled with the fluctuations of the destabilized array.
Inside, Ling Qi saw a scene of confusion and alarm, Shishigui who had been patrolling the walls fallen back on the floor and staring, those inside gaping at the hole in their defenses, and the many individuals in the courtyard scrambling to respond.
Ling Qi leaped from her perch.
Zhengui landed in the courtyard with a ground shaking boom.
Balanced on her toes at the highest point of his shell, Ling Qi raised her flute to her lips as The Mist rolled forth, from the singing blade which circled overhead. Standing on a lower spike, Hanyi laughed and raised her hands and her voice in Spring's End Aria.
Ling Qi joined her, and together they brought winter to the underworld. Frost spread across stone and flesh alike as the temperature dropped, and in The Mist, frost coalesced into haunting skeltal shadows, whose raspy voices joined the song, even as frozen claws tore into rubbery grey flesh.
Below, her, Gui bellowed, and the frozen earth cracked as tendrils and roots reached up to spear unready foes. Spiralling and climbing up crumbling bone walls to stab and grab at enemies still in the broken halls. Above, smoke rose from Zhen's maw as he snapped down lightning fast, sinking his fangs into a squealing Shishigui with only a single bandoleer and flung it away, flames leaping from its wounds.
Yet her enemies were not overwhelmed, in the handful of seconds after she had appeared, the wide open and chaotic courtyard saw order was already forming, drill sergeants and officers howling and yipping for their comrades. To her left was something like a kennel, where shishigui stood gaping as dozens of rat beasts cowered and yowled in confusion. A single shishigui almost twice as tall as the others and clad in heavy chitin armor let out a bellowing bark which silenced the yowling, and before Ling Qi's eyes the chaotic mass began to fall into order as lesser 'herders' joined in, their qi propgating through the pack and each other.
To her right was a short, twisting tower which looked like a carven waterspout, where two dancers stood at the entrance, already recovering their poise. In the center was the pyramid keep, from which she could sense many gathering auras.
Just a short distance away, a squad of the creatures armed with slings seemed to be forming up, preparing to barrage her, guided by a pair of low third realm officers.
Then Liao Zhu landed in their center, and his arms blurred, weeping red wounds opened across the third realm officers throat, wrists and inner thighs, and the creature let out a strangled scream as he collapsed, gushing blood from his everything. The creature's companions struck out, and his spear slashed through Liao Zhu's mask…. Only fur his form to blur, and then there were two of him, arms blurring and flashing as his knives butchered them like animals being carved up for market. His twin forms strode untouched through them like a whirlwind of steel and death, heading for the entrance of the pyramid.
Even as Zhengui took his first stomping steps forward, and Ling Qi prepared to lash her still gathering foes with ice and death, the air surged with the crackle of lightning, and the Shishigui nearest too her screamed as jagged bolts of white light exploded among them, charring flesh to ash as Ji Rong arrived at her side, his hair spiked and sparking with crawling arcs of static.
Taking in the scene, Ling Qi prepared herself to move toward…
[] The shrine and the Dancers (hinders enemy stealth attack efforts, morale damage to enemy)
[] The Kennel and the Brute (Hinders Enemy buff structure and tracking/intelligence gathering)
[] The Drillyard (Overall chaos, prevents enemy organization for forming up.)
Known enemies consist of uncounted red and yellow combatants, 12 Green 1-2 combatants, two G3 assassins and one G4 Leader type. Ji Rong will follow your lead, Liao Zhu is bottling up the majority of reinforcements. Guan Zhi will also assist in various ways depending on results and choices.
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Hmmm, decisions decisions... deny the enemy assassins, buff stacks, or army tactics?
Actually!
@yrsillar which vote let's Zhengui set the most things on fire with Paradise Forge?
Actually!
We have Zhengui, we have localized volcanic eruption capabilities. I want to set the whole thing ON FIRE!!!!
@yrsillar which vote let's Zhengui set the most things on fire with Paradise Forge?
[] The shrine and the Dancers (hinders enemy stealth attack efforts, morale damage to enemy)
We know they're no joke, and we know how bad they can be.
We know they're no joke, and we know how bad they can be.
- Location
- Canada
Just of the top of my head I like these two:
[] The Kennel and the Brute (Hinders Enemy buff structure and tracking/intelligence gathering)
This one would be good for our retreat, it would, as it says, hinder their tracking abilities.
[] The Drillyard (Overall chaos, prevents enemy organization for forming up.)
I see this one as lengthening our chaos causing time. Stop them from forming up and we have more time to do damage.
[] The Kennel and the Brute (Hinders Enemy buff structure and tracking/intelligence gathering)
This one would be good for our retreat, it would, as it says, hinder their tracking abilities.
[] The Drillyard (Overall chaos, prevents enemy organization for forming up.)
I see this one as lengthening our chaos causing time. Stop them from forming up and we have more time to do damage.
- Location
- Austria
Stealth is the enemy. As long as you know where the enemy is, there is a pretty good chance to countering them, but a hidden dagger can hit you at the worst time, when your defense are at your worst. As we should know.
Eh, whatever, damaging morale is probably good too.
Eh, whatever, damaging morale is probably good too.
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
I like the narrative symmetry of our first combat encounter with the assassins being "tanking one of them with our face" and our second encounter being "hitting them from the front in a loud and obvious way," but maybe I've been rereading Pact too much.
ImperatorV
The Laughing One
- Location
- The Voyaging Realm
Hey guys, remember when we chased that huge cloud tribe warband and they mostly got away because of the buff network they had set up? Let's shut down the enemy supports. Shutting down their intel/tracking capability will also be helpful, because it makes our evac easier and leaves them confused as to what happened longer.
Bakkasama
There is always a greater fool
- Location
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Pronouns
- He/his
I haven't been following the discussion that closely, could you please clarify?
- Location
- Germany
You mean Naught
You mean skeletal shadows
Only for his form
I tend towards the kennels, since they have the numbers on us and preventing a good buff structure from forming can stop them from escalating their damage.