Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
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- The Temple of the Winds
i'd argue that not having any money besides the strick minimum is hurting our protag. For example we now don't really have the money if we want to upgrade our lowest level gear or if we want to gear up or three spirits. Same for consumables or other services.
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
There has been no system present for doing that with money in this thread. The marketplace, where things cost red stones, was OK when we were just a baby cultivator, but we've been commissioning stuff from good Inner Sect crafters, and soon from Core Sect. That costs Sect and Contribution points; money will not buy us new talismans.
BungieONI
Seven gremlins in a trench coat
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- Lickwidget
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- She/Her
Yeah, and consumables like High Drugs are uh, well, basically not worth it.
Luxuries are not inherently bad for people. You may not like the particular luxury Ling Qi has spent her money on, but arguing that Ling Qi is harming herself by having spent money on one luxury rather than another is just flat out wrong.
Why arent they worth it? Isnt Darkness month due to pills?
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- Who Knows
I have actually zero idea how many people want to husbando Xuan Shi, but he's not very attractive to me personally with Ling Qi.
I'm biased of course ever since my true husbando showed up lol, but it's not a dynamic that I find interesting?
... It's kind of bland to me. The only aspect of Xuan Shi being appealing to Ling Qi being his inoffensive and nonthreatening status....rubs me the wrong way as a foundation? I think being nonthreatening is such a.... meh reason To like someone.
I suppose that's one reason I do like the light flirtatiousness of some of the other dudes who've interacted with Ling Qi before is because they've always been an inoffensive way of teasing her while also respecting her boundaries? (Moon senpai mentioned it but I think I agree that she needed different things from him than Su Ying and well, I also think it's cute when she's teased)
It's never been the focus of the situation basically, and I feel like she'd be more comfortable with a light touch in terms of relationship building. Someone's whos happy when she's there but not necessarily bothered when she's got her own life to live, whose got their own life to live?? Their own shit to do.
(drop in on Ling Qi like a hurricane and dip out just as she's getting overwhelmed lol)
honestly, Lanlan's cousin could have worked-ish in terms of personality, but the arrangement was wayyyy too heavy for Ling Qi from the start. He *was* someone loose enough to let her dip out whenever she's uncomfortable And comfortable about it, but active in terms of expressing their appreciation and pursuing opportunities.
[X] Find a way to broach the subject, and figure out what he wants. You don't want him to misinterpret things.
leaning this way because I'm a proponent of healthy communication.
I do not....want to actually go down a romantic path with Xuan Shi. I'm not sure it'd affect my reading of the Quest but.... I would keep thinking about how they'd be kind of incompatible a both of them settle into a "thing"??
Rip shipping politics
I'd personally be happy for this quest to remain nonromantic lol. Don't really see Ling Qi as ready for romance at all. Let's check back in after a hundred years lol.
I'm biased of course ever since my true husbando showed up lol, but it's not a dynamic that I find interesting?
... It's kind of bland to me. The only aspect of Xuan Shi being appealing to Ling Qi being his inoffensive and nonthreatening status....rubs me the wrong way as a foundation? I think being nonthreatening is such a.... meh reason To like someone.
I suppose that's one reason I do like the light flirtatiousness of some of the other dudes who've interacted with Ling Qi before is because they've always been an inoffensive way of teasing her while also respecting her boundaries? (Moon senpai mentioned it but I think I agree that she needed different things from him than Su Ying and well, I also think it's cute when she's teased)
It's never been the focus of the situation basically, and I feel like she'd be more comfortable with a light touch in terms of relationship building. Someone's whos happy when she's there but not necessarily bothered when she's got her own life to live, whose got their own life to live?? Their own shit to do.
(drop in on Ling Qi like a hurricane and dip out just as she's getting overwhelmed lol)
honestly, Lanlan's cousin could have worked-ish in terms of personality, but the arrangement was wayyyy too heavy for Ling Qi from the start. He *was* someone loose enough to let her dip out whenever she's uncomfortable And comfortable about it, but active in terms of expressing their appreciation and pursuing opportunities.
[X] Find a way to broach the subject, and figure out what he wants. You don't want him to misinterpret things.
leaning this way because I'm a proponent of healthy communication.
I do not....want to actually go down a romantic path with Xuan Shi. I'm not sure it'd affect my reading of the Quest but.... I would keep thinking about how they'd be kind of incompatible a both of them settle into a "thing"??
Rip shipping politics
I'd personally be happy for this quest to remain nonromantic lol. Don't really see Ling Qi as ready for romance at all. Let's check back in after a hundred years lol.
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- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
The special pills we buy from senior Sect pillmakers, such as what we're using this month, cannot be bought with money. We use Sect Points for it. Bungie is referring to this:
The math cabal has deemed buying higher levels of generic cultivation drugs to be not worth it, so we mostly just go with the free level (Medium Pills). In general, stuff that adds a flat amount of dice to our cultivation is rarely That Great.
BungieONI
Seven gremlins in a trench coat
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- Lickwidget
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- She/Her
Its due to specific specialist pills as Pickle noted.
The thing that gets brought up a lot is the marginal value in AP compared to other options IIRC and it just doesn't gain us enough AP to be worth it.
DeusExBritannia
Red-White-Black-White
- Location
- Texas
Meizhen: "...Qi, why are you wearing a veil?"
Qi: "I realize now that I've made a terrible mistake..."
M: "And you're wearing gloves too. Qi, what-"
Q: "I've been revealing too much skin!"
M: *frustrated snek noises*
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- The United States
- Pronouns
- He/They
I mean, we'd want High Drugs if like, there was WoG that "Losing fight at end of next chapter is Bad End" and there were a couple things with unpleasantly close odds of finishing.
Besides something that silly I can't ever imagine taking it, which is fine, its not really for us.
- Location
- The United States
- Pronouns
- He/They
It's also worth keeping in mind that the Cultivator definition of luxury and price are absurd.
We have access to so much silver worth a single gss it's illegal for us to spend it in one place for mortal goods without filling out the right paperwork so markets don't collapse.
[X] Find a way to broach the subject, and figure out what he wants. You don't want him to misinterpret things.
It's not like this is a dating choice. I like turtle boy, and would like the friendship to continue.
I can just imagine the amount of effort people need to go through to actually start dating Ling Qi.
The obstacles are:
- Ling Qi not noticing
- Ling Qi noticing and running away
- Best Snake making you disappear
- Ling Qi's spirits
- Cai being disappointed in you
- Ling Qi's dress eating you.
Just look at how many successes you must roll.
It's not like this is a dating choice. I like turtle boy, and would like the friendship to continue.
I can just imagine the amount of effort people need to go through to actually start dating Ling Qi.
The obstacles are:
- Ling Qi not noticing
- Ling Qi noticing and running away
- Best Snake making you disappear
- Ling Qi's spirits
- Cai being disappointed in you
- Ling Qi's dress eating you.
Just look at how many successes you must roll.
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- Staring into the void
We know Xin ships them
Man, Ling Qi could use a friend who isn't broke brained about men and relationships. Help us Bian Ya, you're our only hope!
As a general things you are correct, however Ling Qi (and the thread) over spending like this as a habit is not a good pattern to start off a new barony fief with. We're gonna be off on the border in a year or two and won't have the armies of the Sect to protect us. What then?
As a general things you are correct, however Ling Qi (and the thread) over spending like this as a habit is not a good pattern to start off a new barony fief with. We're gonna be off on the border in a year or two and won't have the armies of the Sect to protect us. What then?
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- She/Her
[X] Find a way to broach the subject, and figure out what he wants. You don't want him to misinterpret things.
- Location
- Random place
[X] Find a way to broach the subject, and figure out what he wants. You don't want him to misinterpret things.
[X] Find a way to broach the subject, and figure out what he wants. You don't want him to misinterpret things.
The same thing that happens to anyone else in changing circumstances - the line for what's a luxury and what's a necessity changes. Making an expensive yet affordable purchase now does not lock Ling Qi into making an equally expensive but no longer affordable purchase later.
Bakkasama
There is always a greater fool
- Location
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Pronouns
- He/his
So does duches Cai.
It might be for the best that they talk them out since turtle boi has history with going overboard helping his crush from how much support he gave to CRX. That said, I can't recall: I know CRX regrets going overboard with punishing Ji Rong, but was trapping him in a formation for several months her idea or Shi's?
On the topic of shipping. I like both turtle boy and trader guy but I don't see them fitting so well with LQ (pending confirmation on how buff Xuan Shi is under his cloak). Of the two, I like Xuan Shi better personality wise but I think that Bao Quian is a better match, both because it helps our boss' political goals and because he has been very understanding about LQ's hang ups even though he is figuring them as they go. He seems like he would be the more romantic of the two once the courting starts properly. Shame he has very little in common with Ling Qi.
On the topic of the liminal spirit being the one that might have tried to have us killed for the lols... if that is the case, I wouldn't take it too seriously. Some spirits and liminal ones in particular seem to have trouble understanding death and consecuances like that since they experience death and rebirth constantly and before attempting that Zhungui had been really hostile towards Xuan Shi so it might have thoight it was fair payback.
- Location
- The United States
- Pronouns
- He/They
Then we'll have the support of our liege, who will no longer be operating on the jacked up Ducal version of a dorm room and 200 dollars a month for food college budget.
I honestly don't think this is overspending though, our previous investment level made sense when we thought they were up jumped spirit beasts who stole an alphabet. They're a real civilization though. This is a real war, against a real enemy, and the shishigui are fully mobilizing.
We should accept that, prepare for it, and take the first strategic advice ever given to us by a martial instructor and not underestemite the outsider.
Beats sipping tea in your tent with assassins moving in.
*I am not saying the 2 stone option was sipping tea in our tent.
eternal-potato
He who vegetates
- Location
- Moscow
[X] Leave the subject alone, there is no point in making things awkward. Try to continue as before.
