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Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)

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[X] Join Wang Chao in the pavilion. [Make yourself more approachable, influence Wang Chao Bond. Give Zhengui room to act on his own, for better or worse.]
 
[X] Join Alingge with the Beasts. [Actively help Zhengui be more social. Advice on the vagaries of raising spirit beasts, Influence Alingge bond.]
 
[X] Join Alingge with the Beasts. [Actively help Zhengui be more social. Advice on the vagaries of raising spirit beasts, Influence Alingge bond.]
 
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Adhoc vote count started by EternalObserver on Jun 10, 2020 at 2:00 PM, finished with 215 posts and 119 votes.
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[X] Join Alingge with the Beasts. [Actively help Zhengui be more social. Advice on the vagaries of raising spirit beasts, Influence Alingge bond.]
 
Black Noise said:
More seriously, some thoughts about the arts:
  • BKSD action econ continues to be insane (double C damage followed by a free fast of a long high damage field effect that later also acts as a multiple-charge team prefect defense/damage mitigation), the theme of just summoning an army seems to come together pretty well with it as well. Shame about the range loss though since 100m frankly just isn't that much in cultivator battles (and that applies to things like Zhengui's field setup too).

  • UGM seems to be delivering both in overclocking our offense in general (yellows get sooo fucked with straight up ignoring D rank defense forcing them to roll armor vs pen), and giving us a way to scale powerful single target damage that's in its own way as powerful as CtE, especially against opponents that would be difficult to 1-shot with it. Dirge(once we pick it up) should also work pretty well in team context since everyone will benefit from the stacking armor debuff. Plus the CC aspect has a lot of combo potential like using splash damage to double-blast opponents trapped by Zhengui.

  • If this level of attack stacking is reasonable for Count-level mid greens then I'm pretty glad we're picking up SNR for its defense against repeating effects, and wind thief/PLR7 for increased defenses and mobility to avoid landing in killing fields where you're forced to deal with like 6~12 simultaneous C rank damage attacks (3 stacks GGM, 2 from eagle, 1 from primal war calling, all potentially doubled by dirge)
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*Cai Renxiang looks at the arts Ling Qi has learned. Sighs. Then pencils in a stress reducing tea session after every spar in her schedule*
 
Ling Qi is turning into That One Boss in rpgs that is annoying to defeat even if you know how because due to having too many annoying attacks that disrupt strategies and make the whole battle longer than it needs to be.
 
[X] Join Wang Chao in the pavilion. [Make yourself more approachable, influence Wang Chao Bond. Give Zhengui room to act on his own, for better or worse.]

Rationale:
1. Wang Chao has given us significant social face in treating us as an equal throughout this scene. Ignoring his invitation to socialise would be a significant insult to him, and would set back one of our key objectives from this event possibly significantly
2. We already know that Ling Qi's lack of socialisation leads her to be viewed as aloof and judgmental as we saw in the Luo socialisation event. Lets not keep compounding our mistakes
3. Monitoring Zhengui both denies him the chance to develop and make his own mistakes, and reduces the chance for us to have introspective time with him later - an important part of childhood is talking about what happened in school today and being guided through analysis of mistakes/successes (or it was for me).
4. Zhengui doesn't normally have a chance to develop off screen (because he is generally asleep). This is a real chance for this to start happening and it gives Yrsillar more tools to develop his story further, which the tenor of thread discussions about Zhengui for the last couple of months suggests his story needs.
5. This isn't going to be a one and done event - we will have time and indeed a duty to socialise with Alingge and giving Zhengui's story a chance to develop more independently allows for a more organic role for her in the scene.
 
[X] Join Wang Chao in the pavilion. [Make yourself more approachable, influence Wang Chao Bond. Give Zhengui room to act on his own, for better or worse.]
 
If we are truly being an asshole to Zhengui, Alingge will definitely call us on it. She might well frog march us out of the pavilion and I doubt that Ling Qi would resist.

She cares far more about him and his wellbeing than about our opinion of her.
 
JohnnieBoy123 said:
If we are truly being an asshole to Zhengui, Alingge will definitely call us on it. She might well frog march us out of the pavilion and I doubt that Ling Qi would resist.

She cares far more about him and his wellbeing than about our opinion of her.
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I think calling us an asshole to Zhengui would be a strong overstatement. Overall, we have done pretty darn well as a mother to Zhengui.
 
[X] Join Wang Chao in the pavilion. [Make yourself more approachable, influence Wang Chao Bond. Give Zhengui room to act on his own, for better or worse.]
 
[X] Join Wang Chao in the pavilion. [Make yourself more approachable, influence Wang Chao Bond. Give Zhengui room to act on his own, for better or worse.]
 
GlassMask said:
I think calling us an asshole to Zhengui would be a strong overstatement. Overall, we have done pretty darn well as a mother to Zhengui.
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I'm not saying we are. I'm saying that Alingge will definitely get on our case if that's how she feels. It would normally be a big risk on her part but she definitely cares about him (albeit currently without really understanding him as they haven't interacted much and that takes time) and would probably be willing to make an enemy of us to make sure that he is treated well.

However, as we also care deeply about Zhengui and our appreciation of sincerity is carved into our very domain, there is only upside to such an interaction.

Or, to put it simply, there isn't really that much risk if we are misreading the situation and should have helped Zhengui socialize instead.
 
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Oh, and I almost forgot to mention. We actually have had this dynamic of bringing one of our spirits to a noble gathering and then leaving them alone as we fulfilled our duties play out before. Only that time it was with Hanyi. Everything enjoyed themselves and Hanyi tried to set us up with Xuan Shi.
 
[X] Join Wang Chao in the pavilion. [Make yourself more approachable, influence Wang Chao Bond. Give Zhengui room to act on his own, for better or worse.]

Getting in good with Wang Chao is our job, apparently.
 
[X] Join Alingge with the Beasts. [Actively help Zhengui be more social. Advice on the vagaries of raising spirit beasts, Influence Alingge bond.]
 
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