Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
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To be honest I don't like it at all.
It removes a lot of the character complexities and ambiguity in favour of a feel good message.
Cai Renxiang getting a sudden injection of intrigue competency just for a "gotcha" moment feels really cheap. Especially as she's so hypercompetent everywhere else, having her explicit weakness suddenly get wiped out like that is irritating. As is the other interpretation that we're just shit at intrigue when it was one of her original reasons for considering us. A significant part of our later arc with her has been Ling Qi's development toward Bard and away from spy, and Renxiang's reaction to that change.
Honestly, I also think the Royal Road version actually makes Cai look kind of bad? Because she knows what happened, and yet while Ling Qi gets some punishment (her "becoming a Cai Retainer gift" going to those she sabotaged) by all indications Fu Xiang, the instigator gets off scott free? It makes Cai look a lot more hypocritical than I think is intended, which dilutes her message of idealism. Which is a problem because that's what Ling Qi is really wanting to follow IC.
With the quest version, we see much more that Ling Qi is still groping her way towards idealism, yet held back out of fear. There's a lot more ground to cover with her relationship with Renxiang. Especially because they are not yet friends. This just rushes ahead with all that development potential out the window.
Frankly if the story was going with this route I'd have much preferred it just toss out the quest vote entirely and have Ling Qi fess up to it herself, since a lot of the tension is gone anyway.
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I would agree with you that there is less tension this way, but that Confession plotline was one of the FoD plots that really got missed.
For me it felt like the business with Fu Xiang said something important about Linq Qi's character. She felt an obligation to pay her debts, even it was something she really didn't want to do and even if it meant compromising her own sense of what was right. Linq Qi didn't confess to Renxiang, not so much because she feared punishment, as because that would be screwing him over.
I've often thought about Fu Xiang when the thread has voted on several recent occasions, "sure we'll incur a debt to X over this". Mostly it's been to people who seem much nicer than Fu Xiang and probably won't ask Ling Qi to do something she really doesn't want to do... but if they did, she'd do it. For me that was the important thing about Fu Xiang, not some unresolved business with Renxiang.
I've often thought about Fu Xiang when the thread has voted on several recent occasions, "sure we'll incur a debt to X over this". Mostly it's been to people who seem much nicer than Fu Xiang and probably won't ask Ling Qi to do something she really doesn't want to do... but if they did, she'd do it. For me that was the important thing about Fu Xiang, not some unresolved business with Renxiang.
Honestly that seems more hypocritical if anything. Ling Qi gets what is in practice a significant fine and Fu Xiang doesn't get a recommendation? He should at least get a similar quiet conversation where he agrees to "discreetly" donate something (a month or two of his potential inner sect salary entitlement?).
I agree it's a plot that sort of fell by the wayside, but this ending feels cheap. It changes a significant area of weakness for Renxiang into a strength just to try and get rid of a single neglected minor plot thread. As I said if the ambiguity of the situation was going out the window anyway I'd have actually preferred Ling Qi fess up herself, since there really is no reason not to now.
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Here's the updated derived stats since I figured it's nice to have some idea of where we stand before yrs drops the update:
Music skill are also pushed up fully by a rank thanks to skill bonuses which currently has unknown effects.
Other than that, a bit about the point of contention for the next vote - what to do with the currently-planned spare AP.
Here's the primary options as I see them:
EDIT: to be clear, I personally support HDW modding since explore here feels way too game-y for me and it's both near-guaranteed useful and adds a cool narrative arc.
█ = Unconditional or Nominally True, ░ = Conditional; 1 block = 10 points
Color key: █░=D, █░=C, █░=B, █░=A, █░=S, █░=SS, █░=SSS
General
Immunities:
• reduction of Speed/Initiative/Avoid if Effect Rank < C (modified by potency)
• compulsion or illusion-caused action against Bond 3+ for Effect Rank < A (potency)
• induced immobility/helplessness for effects Rank < U (potency, paired)
Health_______ B38____█████████_____________ DR: F vs Cold, H vs Poison/Disease, D vs Music/Sound, G vs Fire, E vs Dark
Available Qi_ A28(A3)██████████░░__________ G regen (flower) • Upkeep: -2 (RME), -3 (HDW), -5 (WHR), -15 (LFWT) • • A1 with social • Upkeep: -5 (MSS, replace HDW), -5 (UGM)
Speed________ S-S10__████████████████______ airborne 10
Initiative___ A25-A35████████████░_________ PMR 10
Utility
C.Perception_ B30-A__██████████____________ RME techs 10
Stealth______ S2-SS5_████████████████░░░░░_ Airborne 10 • <Non-Vanishing base stealth: B37> • Night 3, +30 twice per turn (Way) • Stealth gear 5, Stellar Tools 10 (+30 once) • +15 vs divination (LFWT)
Debuffs______ -0.5 perception rank (active domain), -10~40 tracking (way), -5 perception (shawl), -10 scrying (band)
S.Perception_ A-S5___██████████░░░░░_______ +1 rank in "our" space, RME techs 10
Poise________ B5-B10_███████_______________ non-social -5
Defense
• C-rank movement tech required to enter or exit mist, attacks from outside suffer -1 Rank to hit [active domain]
P.Avoid______ A48-S8_██████████████░_______ vs impediment 10
P.Armor______ A10-A40████████████░░________ Zhengui 10, low light 5 • vs Repeating 15
S.Avoid______ A38-S__█████████████░░_______ band 2, vs impediment 10
S.Armor______ A30-S__█████████████░░_______ Low light 5 • vs Repeating 15
Offense
• multiattack +1/stack (allies) and -1/stack (enemies) [active domain], minimum 1
Music Hit____ A40-S38████████████████░░____ Spiritual 25, Dark 3 • <FSS Vocals A43(S13), Doot A25> • Lung-spiritual 20 (active domain)
Music Pen____ A5-S3__████████████░░░_______ Spiritual 20, Dark 3 • <Doot B35> • Cold 25, Physical -20
Dance Hit____ A15-S13███████████████░______ grapple 15 • Lung 20 (active domain) • <FSS touch S13> • Music 25, Dark 3
Dance Pen____ B15-B15███████_______________Cold 25, Dark 3
Domain Weapon
• Defense/Offense (except HP) stats based on LQ's (inc.tech buffs)
Health_______ S30____██████████████████____ Damage received from non-domain sources reduced by 1 rank
FVM Hit______ S38____██████████████████____
FVM Pen______ A28____████████████__________
Technique
• Three Moon's Chime: Absorb up to 3 dispels of rank B or less, gain +5 resist for each (per Scene)
Dispel(def)__ -S12___█████████░░░░░░░______ West Wind Step uisng derived stealth (~S12) • Chaos Phase (Sixiang): B35(base), Eternal Roots (Zhengui): B(phys)/D(spirit)
Dispel(atk)__ C______░░░___________________ implacable advance (pre C + tech C): C • Phantasmal Revel's Regrets (Sixiang): B(base)
Resist(C)____ B35-A35███████████░░_________ Chime stacks 15 • Music 5, Dark 5, Lung 20 (active domain) • <Rank D: -15, Rank B: +15>
Music
Hit: (Manipulation A, Woodwind A) = A + Domain 20, Equip (flute) 5, Spirits 15 (Sixiang 10, Hanyi 5) = A40
• Qualified Bonuses: Dark 3, spiritual 25 (ENM 5, HDW 10, BKSD 10), spiritual lung art 20 (awk.domain)
Penetration: (Presence C, Woodwind A) = B + Way 10, Domain 20, Equip (flute) 10, FSS 5 = A5
• Qualified Bonuses: Phys -20 (Way), Cold 25 (FSS 15, Hanyi 10), spiritual 20 (UGM 10, BKSD 10), Dark 3 (Way)
FSS vocals hit: (Manip A, Vocals B) = B20 + Domain 20, Spirits 15, Dark 3, spiritual 25 = A43 (+20 awk.domain)
Doots:
• hit: (Manipulation A, Woodwind A) = A + Domain 20, Equip (flute) 5 = A25
• pen: (Presence C, Woodwind A) = B + Way -10, Domain 20, Equip (flute) 10, FSS 15 (cold) = B35
• Damage E (flute)
Dance
-- always spiritual, even if the tech says otherwise
Hit: (Dexterity A, Dream Step B) = B20 + Sixiang 10 + Spiritual 25 (ENM 5, HDW 10, BKSD 10) = A15
• Qualified Bonuses: Dark 3, lung art 20 (awk.domain), grapple 15
• Music+dance qualified: Hanyi 5, Domain 20
Penetration: (Presence C, Dream Step B) = C15 + Way 10 + spiritual 20 (UGM 10, BKSD 10) = B15
• Qualified Bonuses: Cold 25 (FSS 15, Hanyi 10), Dark 3 (Way)
Art Hit|Pen numbers (within awk.domain):
• FVM: S23|A18
• FSS HR: S8(S23)|A43
• FSS CtE[touch]: vocals A33(A48)|-, Dance A8|-
• BKSD: S8(S23)|A18
• UGM: S8(S23)|A43
• PLR: A30(A45)|B15
• SES:S5|A15
Additional Effects
• Bond 4+ Passive: +1 rank to S.Avoid, S.Armor and C.Perception (up to LQ's)
• Once per Scene, Ling Qi may negate an effect which would reduce an ally of bond 5 or 6's health to zero (Bypassed by effects which make use of Shen)
Color key: █░=D, █░=C, █░=B, █░=A, █░=S, █░=SS, █░=SSS
General
Immunities:
• reduction of Speed/Initiative/Avoid if Effect Rank < C (modified by potency)
• compulsion or illusion-caused action against Bond 3+ for Effect Rank < A (potency)
• induced immobility/helplessness for effects Rank < U (potency, paired)
Health_______ B38____█████████_____________ DR: F vs Cold, H vs Poison/Disease, D vs Music/Sound, G vs Fire, E vs Dark
Available Qi_ A28(A3)██████████░░__________ G regen (flower) • Upkeep: -2 (RME), -3 (HDW), -5 (WHR), -15 (LFWT) • • A1 with social • Upkeep: -5 (MSS, replace HDW), -5 (UGM)
Speed________ S-S10__████████████████______ airborne 10
Initiative___ A25-A35████████████░_________ PMR 10
Utility
C.Perception_ B30-A__██████████____________ RME techs 10
Stealth______ S2-SS5_████████████████░░░░░_ Airborne 10 • <Non-Vanishing base stealth: B37> • Night 3, +30 twice per turn (Way) • Stealth gear 5, Stellar Tools 10 (+30 once) • +15 vs divination (LFWT)
Debuffs______ -0.5 perception rank (active domain), -10~40 tracking (way), -5 perception (shawl), -10 scrying (band)
S.Perception_ A-S5___██████████░░░░░_______ +1 rank in "our" space, RME techs 10
Poise________ B5-B10_███████_______________ non-social -5
Defense
• C-rank movement tech required to enter or exit mist, attacks from outside suffer -1 Rank to hit [active domain]
P.Avoid______ A48-S8_██████████████░_______ vs impediment 10
P.Armor______ A10-A40████████████░░________ Zhengui 10, low light 5 • vs Repeating 15
S.Avoid______ A38-S__█████████████░░_______ band 2, vs impediment 10
S.Armor______ A30-S__█████████████░░_______ Low light 5 • vs Repeating 15
Offense
• multiattack +1/stack (allies) and -1/stack (enemies) [active domain], minimum 1
Music Hit____ A40-S38████████████████░░____ Spiritual 25, Dark 3 • <FSS Vocals A43(S13), Doot A25> • Lung-spiritual 20 (active domain)
Music Pen____ A5-S3__████████████░░░_______ Spiritual 20, Dark 3 • <Doot B35> • Cold 25, Physical -20
Dance Hit____ A15-S13███████████████░______ grapple 15 • Lung 20 (active domain) • <FSS touch S13> • Music 25, Dark 3
Dance Pen____ B15-B15███████_______________
Domain Weapon
• Defense/Offense (except HP) stats based on LQ's (inc.tech buffs)
Health_______ S30____██████████████████____ Damage received from non-domain sources reduced by 1 rank
FVM Hit______ S38____██████████████████____
FVM Pen______ A28____████████████__________
Technique
• Three Moon's Chime: Absorb up to 3 dispels of rank B or less, gain +5 resist for each (per Scene)
Dispel(def)__ -S12___█████████░░░░░░░______ West Wind Step uisng derived stealth (~S12) • Chaos Phase (Sixiang): B35(base), Eternal Roots (Zhengui): B(phys)/D(spirit)
Dispel(atk)__ C______░░░___________________ implacable advance (pre C + tech C): C • Phantasmal Revel's Regrets (Sixiang): B(base)
Resist(C)____ B35-A35███████████░░_________ Chime stacks 15 • Music 5, Dark 5, Lung 20 (active domain) • <Rank D: -15, Rank B: +15>
Tech rank: [D|C|B] (with chime stacks and [the mist])
• FVM, FSS, BKSD [A20|A35|S]
• SNR [A10|A25|A40]
• PLR, RME [ A10|A25|A40]
• UGM [ A |A15|A30]
• HDW/MoSS/SES/LFWT/ENM [ A5|A10|A25]
• FVM, FSS, BKSD [A20|A35|S]
• SNR [A10|A25|A40]
• PLR, RME [ A10|A25|A40]
• UGM [ A |A15|A30]
• HDW/MoSS/SES/LFWT/ENM [ A5|A10|A25]
Health: (Stamina C, Qi A20) = B8 + Way 10, Zhengui 10, WHR 10 = B38
• Damage Reductions: H vs Poison & Disease (way), G vs Fire (Zhengui), F vs Cold (way), E vs Sound/Music (domain), E vs Darkness (SNR)
Derived Qi: Base Qi A20 + Way 20, Equip 17 (Flute 5, Gown 5, Anchor 2, flower 5), Zhengui -13 (SSC 2, Way 5), Sixiang -8, Hanyi -8 = A28
• Upkeep techs:
- Inquisitive Study (RME) -2
- Spring Breeze Canto (HDW) -3 <--> Mirthful Sabotage (MSS) -5
- Implacable Advance (UGM) -5
- Burning Hearth, Winter Wind (WHR) -5
- Zephyr's Mocking Escape (LFWT) -15
Speed: (Athletics C, Dexterity A) = B + Domain 30, LFWT 25, ENM 20, PLR 15 = S
• Qualified Bonuses: +10 while airborne (LFWT)
Initiative: (Dexterity A, Wits B) = B20 + Way 5, Domain 30, LFWT 10 = A25
• Qualified Bonuses: +10 when PMR equipped
• Damage Reductions: H vs Poison & Disease (way), G vs Fire (Zhengui), F vs Cold (way), E vs Sound/Music (domain), E vs Darkness (SNR)
Derived Qi: Base Qi A20 + Way 20, Equip 17 (Flute 5, Gown 5, Anchor 2, flower 5), Zhengui -13 (SSC 2, Way 5), Sixiang -8, Hanyi -8 = A28
• Upkeep techs:
- Inquisitive Study (RME) -2
- Spring Breeze Canto (HDW) -3 <--> Mirthful Sabotage (MSS) -5
- Implacable Advance (UGM) -5
- Burning Hearth, Winter Wind (WHR) -5
- Zephyr's Mocking Escape (LFWT) -15
Speed: (Athletics C, Dexterity A) = B + Domain 30, LFWT 25, ENM 20, PLR 15 = S
• Qualified Bonuses: +10 while airborne (LFWT)
Initiative: (Dexterity A, Wits B) = B20 + Way 5, Domain 30, LFWT 10 = A25
• Qualified Bonuses: +10 when PMR equipped
Stealth: (Dexterity A, Vanishing A) = A + Way 2, Equip 5 (Robe 5), LFWT 15, ENM 30 = S2
Qualified Bonuses:
• +10 airborne (LFWT), +3 Night, +30 twice per turn (Way), +5 Stealth gear (Band of Occlusion 2, Slippers 3), +15 vs divination (LFWT)
• Stellar tools: +10 to appropriate stealth checks and +30 to one test in a scene.
Enemy debuffs:
• -0.5 Rank perception (active domain), -5 to perception (Shawl)
• -10 tracking, additional -30 without an active tech (Way), -10 to divination (Band of Occlusion)
Combat Perception: (Wits B, Intensive Focus B) = B + Way 10, RME 10, HDW 10 = B30
• Qualified Bonuses: +10 when using remote viewing techniques (RME)
Social Perception: (Manipulation A, Empathy C) = B + Way 10, RME 10, HDW/MSS 10, PMR/MoSS 10 = A0
• Qualified Bonuses: +1 rank when in a space considered "ours" (Domain), +10 when using remote viewing techniques (RME)
Poise: (Composure C, Sincere Negotiator B) = C15 + Unqualified Bonuses: PLR 10, MSS 15 = B10
• Qualified Bonuses: -5 in combat loadout (+10 MoSS, -15 MSS)
Speech derive: (Manipulation A, Sincere Negotiator B) = B20 + Robe 5, FSS 5, MSS 10, PMR 10 = A10 (B30 with combat loadout)
Qualified Bonuses:
• +10 airborne (LFWT), +3 Night, +30 twice per turn (Way), +5 Stealth gear (Band of Occlusion 2, Slippers 3), +15 vs divination (LFWT)
• Stellar tools: +10 to appropriate stealth checks and +30 to one test in a scene.
Enemy debuffs:
• -0.5 Rank perception (active domain), -5 to perception (Shawl)
• -10 tracking, additional -30 without an active tech (Way), -10 to divination (Band of Occlusion)
Combat Perception: (Wits B, Intensive Focus B) = B + Way 10, RME 10, HDW 10 = B30
• Qualified Bonuses: +10 when using remote viewing techniques (RME)
Social Perception: (Manipulation A, Empathy C) = B + Way 10, RME 10, HDW/MSS 10, PMR/MoSS 10 = A0
• Qualified Bonuses: +1 rank when in a space considered "ours" (Domain), +10 when using remote viewing techniques (RME)
Poise: (Composure C, Sincere Negotiator B) = C15 + Unqualified Bonuses: PLR 10, MSS 15 = B10
• Qualified Bonuses: -5 in combat loadout (+10 MoSS, -15 MSS)
Speech derive: (Manipulation A, Sincere Negotiator B) = B20 + Robe 5, FSS 5, MSS 10, PMR 10 = A10 (B30 with combat loadout)
Physical Defense
Avoid: (Dexterity A, Sable Grace A) = A + Way 3, Domain 10, PLR 15, LFWT 20 = A48
• Qualified Bonuses: +10 vs impediment (LFWT)
Armor: ( Resolve B, Unbroken Will B) = B + SNR 15, UGM 10, Equip 25 (Robe 20, Anchor 5) = A10
• Qualified Bonuses: +10 when with Zhengui, +5 in low light/darkness (Robe), +15 vs repeating (SNR)
Spiritual Defense
Avoid: (Manip A, Fade C) = B + Way 3, Domain 10, PLR 15, ENM 10, RME 10, HDW 10, LFWT 20 = A38
• Qualified Bonuses: +10 vs impediment (LFWT), +2 Band of Occlusion
Armor: (Resolve B, Unbroken Will B) = B + FSS 10, WHR 10, UGM 10, SNR 15, Equip 25 (Robe 20, Anchor 5) = A30
• Qualified Bonuses: +5 in low light or darkness (robe), +15 vs repeating (SNR)
Avoid: (Dexterity A, Sable Grace A) = A + Way 3, Domain 10, PLR 15, LFWT 20 = A48
• Qualified Bonuses: +10 vs impediment (LFWT)
Armor: ( Resolve B, Unbroken Will B) = B + SNR 15, UGM 10, Equip 25 (Robe 20, Anchor 5) = A10
• Qualified Bonuses: +10 when with Zhengui, +5 in low light/darkness (Robe), +15 vs repeating (SNR)
Spiritual Defense
Avoid: (Manip A, Fade C) = B + Way 3, Domain 10, PLR 15, ENM 10, RME 10, HDW 10, LFWT 20 = A38
• Qualified Bonuses: +10 vs impediment (LFWT), +2 Band of Occlusion
Armor: (Resolve B, Unbroken Will B) = B + FSS 10, WHR 10, UGM 10, SNR 15, Equip 25 (Robe 20, Anchor 5) = A30
• Qualified Bonuses: +5 in low light or darkness (robe), +15 vs repeating (SNR)
Hit: (Dexterity A, Archery C) = B + Unqualified Bonuses: FSA 5, Sixiang 10 = B15
Penetration: (Strength E, Archery C) = D + Way -10, FSA 10, Equip (Bow) 3 = D3
Penetration: (Strength E, Archery C) = D + Way -10, FSA 10, Equip (Bow) 3 = D3
Music
Hit: (Manipulation A, Woodwind A) = A + Domain 20, Equip (flute) 5, Spirits 15 (Sixiang 10, Hanyi 5) = A40
• Qualified Bonuses: Dark 3, spiritual 25 (ENM 5, HDW 10, BKSD 10), spiritual lung art 20 (awk.domain)
Penetration: (Presence C, Woodwind A) = B + Way 10, Domain 20, Equip (flute) 10, FSS 5 = A5
• Qualified Bonuses: Phys -20 (Way), Cold 25 (FSS 15, Hanyi 10), spiritual 20 (UGM 10, BKSD 10), Dark 3 (Way)
FSS vocals hit: (Manip A, Vocals B) = B20 + Domain 20, Spirits 15, Dark 3, spiritual 25 = A43 (+20 awk.domain)
Doots:
• hit: (Manipulation A, Woodwind A) = A + Domain 20, Equip (flute) 5 = A25
• pen: (Presence C, Woodwind A) = B + Way -10, Domain 20, Equip (flute) 10, FSS 15 (cold) = B35
• Damage E (flute)
Dance
-- always spiritual, even if the tech says otherwise
Hit: (Dexterity A, Dream Step B) = B20 + Sixiang 10 + Spiritual 25 (ENM 5, HDW 10, BKSD 10) = A15
• Qualified Bonuses: Dark 3, lung art 20 (awk.domain), grapple 15
• Music+dance qualified: Hanyi 5, Domain 20
Penetration: (Presence C, Dream Step B) = C15 + Way 10 + spiritual 20 (UGM 10, BKSD 10) = B15
• Qualified Bonuses: Cold 25 (FSS 15, Hanyi 10), Dark 3 (Way)
Art Hit|Pen numbers (within awk.domain):
• FVM: S23|A18
• FSS HR: S8(S23)|A43
• FSS CtE[touch]: vocals A33(A48)|-, Dance A8|-
• BKSD: S8(S23)|A18
• UGM: S8(S23)|A43
• PLR: A30(A45)|B15
• SES:
any hit:
+10 music/dance/wind art (sixiang)
+10 music (domain), +5 music (flute), +5 music art (hanyi)
+3 dark art (way)
+10 grapple (PLR)
spirit hit:
+5 ENM, +10 HDW, +15 lung (active domain), BKSD +10
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any pen:
+10 (way)
+10 music (domain), +10 music (flute), +5 music art (FSS)
+3 dark art (way)
+15 cold (FSS), +10 cold art (hanyi)
spirit pen:
BKSD 10, UGM 10
+10 music/dance/wind art (sixiang)
+10 music (domain), +5 music (flute), +5 music art (hanyi)
+3 dark art (way)
+10 grapple (PLR)
spirit hit:
+5 ENM, +10 HDW, +15 lung (active domain), BKSD +10
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any pen:
+10 (way)
+10 music (domain), +10 music (flute), +5 music art (FSS)
+3 dark art (way)
+15 cold (FSS), +10 cold art (hanyi)
spirit pen:
BKSD 10, UGM 10
Health: Domain D - 1 = E + 5x(31 + 3) = E170 = S30
Meridians: music 12, dark 14, water 5 = 31
Meridians: music 12, dark 14, water 5 = 31
Resist: (Resolve B + Tech [D|C|B]) = [C|C15|B] + Equip 20 (three moon's chime 15, Anchor 5), WHR 15, BKSD 10 = [B15|B30|A5]
• Qualified Bonuses: Chime stacks 15, Dark 5 (way), Music 5 (flute), Lung 20 (active domain)
Dispel (UGM): Presence C + Tech C = C
• Qualified Bonuses: Chime stacks 15, Dark 5 (way), Music 5 (flute), Lung 20 (active domain)
Dispel (UGM): Presence C + Tech C = C
| Bonus | General | Bond 0 | Bond 3 | Bond 4 | Bond 5-6 | Paired |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speed | 15 | 25 | 25 | 35 | 25-35 | |
| Initiative | 15 | 25 | 25 | 35 | 25-35 | |
| Health | 10 | |||||
| Resist | 20 | 30 | 20-30 | |||
| C.Perception | 10 | |||||
| P.Avoid | 15 | 20 | 25 | 30 | 25-30 | |
| P.Armor | 15 (SNR) | 15 (SNR) | 15 (SNR) | 15 (SNR) | 15 (SNR) | 15 (SNR) |
| S.Avoid | 10 | 15/40 | 25/55 | 15-25/40-55 | ||
| S.Armor | 15 (SNR) | 15 (SNR) +10/40 | 15 (SNR)/35 | 15 (SNR)/40 | 15 (SNR)/45 | 15 (SNR)/40-45 |
| Qi regen (Lost Child's Elegy) | E | D | C | D-C | ||
| Poise (with MSS) | 15 (MSS) | 15 (MSS) | 15 (MSS) | 15 (MSS) | 15 (MSS) | 15 (MSS) |
| Resolve | +1 Rank | |||||
| Composure | +1 Rank | |||||
| Immunity to compulsion/illusion which would cause action against Bond 3+ allies (2+ for B5-6) | Effect < C | Effect < B | Effect < A | Effect < S | Effect < A-S | |
| Immunity to effects which reduce speed, initiative, or avoid | Effect < C | Effect < B | Effect < C-B | |||
| Immunity to Effects which induce Immobility or Helplessness | Effect < U | |||||
| Immunity to effects which would isolate or remove an ally from the Mist or its beneficial effects | Effect < A |
• Bond 4+ Passive: +1 rank to S.Avoid, S.Armor and C.Perception (up to LQ's)
• Once per Scene, Ling Qi may negate an effect which would reduce an ally of bond 5 or 6's health to zero (Bypassed by effects which make use of Shen)
Active Domain [The Mist]:
• Multiattack +1/stack (allies) and -1/stack (enemies)
• Space Distortion: C-rank movement tech required to enter or exit mist, attacks from outside suffer -1 Rank to hit
• Enemies suffer -0.5 Rank perception
HDW - Canto (upkeep):
• Clear sight and sound of all listeners in range
• +Combat Perception and Hit (or social perception out of combat)
WHR - Burning Hearth, Winter Wind (upkeep):
• Music arts gain IFF if they don't already posses it
• Music arts are more difficult to dispel, and gain 1 'shield' charge (bypassed by A rank or higher dispels)
• Allies within the aoe of Lung of Heart arts receive a small bonus to Resist and Resolve
LFWT - Zephyr's Mocking Escape (upkeep):
• Greatly increased Physical and Spiritual Avoid, Speed and Initiative
• G rank Damage Reduction vs physical
• Cannot be impeded by physical barriers for a destination within perception range
• Cannot be grappled or rooted by effects less than B rank (or up to 2 ranks potency)
MSS - Mirthful Sabotage (upkeep in social):
• See the threads connecting foes and informing their plots and how they may be brought embarrassment or revelation.
• large bonus to social perception and tests which use the manipulation attribute as a component.
UGM - Implacable Advance (upkeep, currently off):
• Increased damage and penetration from spiritual arts
• Free dispel attempt against C-rank damage-negating effects, effects of rank D or lower are ignored entirely
PLR - IPF:
• User and 5 allies gain +0.5 Rank P+SP.Avoid, allies additionally gain +0.5 Rank Speed
WHR - Frozen Walls, Homely Keep:
• Far range AoE, allies get D qi regen as well as bonus sp.Avoid+sp.Armor, enemies get D qi degen
• If cast on self as the origin, LQ gets Q qi regen and a significant buff to sp.Armor and Resist
FSS - Echoes:
• User dark/cold attacks gain +1 Rank to hit or pen (chosen by user)
• Enemy techs aimed at user or overlapping the aoe suffer -1 Rank to pen
• Multiattack +1/stack (allies) and -1/stack (enemies)
• Space Distortion: C-rank movement tech required to enter or exit mist, attacks from outside suffer -1 Rank to hit
• Enemies suffer -0.5 Rank perception
HDW - Canto (upkeep):
• Clear sight and sound of all listeners in range
• +Combat Perception and Hit (or social perception out of combat)
WHR - Burning Hearth, Winter Wind (upkeep):
• Music arts gain IFF if they don't already posses it
• Music arts are more difficult to dispel, and gain 1 'shield' charge (bypassed by A rank or higher dispels)
• Allies within the aoe of Lung of Heart arts receive a small bonus to Resist and Resolve
LFWT - Zephyr's Mocking Escape (upkeep):
• Greatly increased Physical and Spiritual Avoid, Speed and Initiative
• G rank Damage Reduction vs physical
• Cannot be impeded by physical barriers for a destination within perception range
• Cannot be grappled or rooted by effects less than B rank (or up to 2 ranks potency)
MSS - Mirthful Sabotage (upkeep in social):
• See the threads connecting foes and informing their plots and how they may be brought embarrassment or revelation.
• large bonus to social perception and tests which use the manipulation attribute as a component.
UGM - Implacable Advance (upkeep, currently off):
• Increased damage and penetration from spiritual arts
• Free dispel attempt against C-rank damage-negating effects, effects of rank D or lower are ignored entirely
PLR - IPF:
• User and 5 allies gain +0.5 Rank P+SP.Avoid, allies additionally gain +0.5 Rank Speed
WHR - Frozen Walls, Homely Keep:
• Far range AoE, allies get D qi regen as well as bonus sp.Avoid+sp.Armor, enemies get D qi degen
• If cast on self as the origin, LQ gets Q qi regen and a significant buff to sp.Armor and Resist
FSS - Echoes:
• User dark/cold attacks gain +1 Rank to hit or pen (chosen by user)
• Enemy techs aimed at user or overlapping the aoe suffer -1 Rank to pen
Other than that, a bit about the point of contention for the next vote - what to do with the currently-planned spare AP.
Here's the primary options as I see them:
- Explore action:
- The reason for it now is that we're due a moon quest for a flute upgrade. We don't know if it's the first turn we're training SSC or the second (t10 gets us SSC3-4, t11 gets us SSC5), or if it's entirely after, but considering that a good explore roll timed with a moon quest is what got us wind thief, now is probably as good a time as it gets.
- We get 2x d100 rolls at +10, so about 36-28% for at least 1 90-95+ roll with a 20% for a crit. Decent odds but not really something to count on, so do keep in mind that this is likely gonna be a wasted effort. Such is the truth of gacha.
- Modify HDW:
- As was already discussed, this would likely involve help from Bian Ya and possibly the rest of music club, explore the themes of communication though wind-connections, and quite likely get us an art with more than a single 1 out of 4 usable techs.
- This also has some nice potential narrative meshing with what we're trying to do with perception; the plan is to buy a talisman and train the base perceptiveness skill angling for a more appropriate/music-inclined advanced skill since Intensive Focus doesn't fit that well with what we're trying to do a lot of the time.
EDIT: to be clear, I personally support HDW modding since explore here feels way too game-y for me and it's both near-guaranteed useful and adds a cool narrative arc.
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TimEd
Meteor maker
In the RRL version, it was stated that CRX didnt do anything special regarding the matter due to Ling Qi not being her subordinate at that time.
Would CRX have ratted Ling Qi and Fu Xiang out? I dont think so, since there really shouldnt be any evidence regarding the matter. Though I do agree that the way it is currently phrased makes the whole event seem cheap and uneccesarily preachy.
Maybe making CRX less certain regarding the matter would make it better? Though CRX really isnt the type to blatantly speculate on anyone's thing.
the part to remember here is that getting a recommendation for a junior position into the ministry of communication is Fu Xiang's ambition for the future.
I dont know if he means the Imperial or the Emerald Seas capital, but either way a recommendation by CRX could have helped him a lot to get his dreamjob and with how generous she has been about rewarding loyalty in her student council and given that we know from the tournament arc at the end of FoD that she did write recommendations for other disciples (i think we delivered some of those to the Bao representative), he likely would have gotten one from her. So I would say that this is not such a trivial setback for Fu Xiang
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I dare say it probably hurt him a lot more than not getting a gift she wasn't expecting to get hurt Ling Qi.
Renxiang does account for regret it seems, and Fu Xiang regrets nothing.
So he got nothing.
Varder
Tired Cultist
- Location
- Hell
For me the price the story will pay later is not worth getting this ending to the plot line. Quest!Ling Qi resolved to never do something like that again without any pressure from her superiors&peers, entirely on her own. RR!Ling Qi gets a clear warning to never do it again from her direct superior. Where's the character development?
For all that he's had time to prepare, Rong doesn't have confidence in his counterplay. He *expects* to get his ass kicked. Unless he's completely reversed his position dramatically in the past month, I don't expect him to pull a rabbit out of his hat. he doesn't even have a hat to pull from.All the good words. But it's Ji Rong we are talking about. Remember his dragon Relong. He was Yellow 1 four months ago, Green 1 last month. And I bet he is Green 2 now. Every time you think that Ji Rong is just talented boy he is doing something absurd and getting absurd bonuses. He is TOD's own shounen protagonist after all.......
- Location
- Fabulously Rainbow Ireland
I prefer Ling Qi not being the kind of character that's easily duped into "compromising her own sense of what's right" purely because "Oh I need to repay this person". Like what? You want her to be the kind of person who'd do stuff she hates or morally opposes (for instance potentially help a cruel and abusive brothel owner escape legal punishment just because he saved Biyu from a mugging) simply because "I need to repay this debt to someone who helped me"?
I don't see how that's much different than the annoying anime protagonist who lets the abusive tsundere "love interest" make him her "slave" and boss him around when he can just stand up for himself and tell her off instead of accepting it because he's so kind and forgiving.
Especially when Ling Qi could have always told Fu Xiang that she's not going to repay him in by doing that kind of shady shit and that he should pick some other thing he wants done instead of meekly complying with the request of the creepy glasses dude who had no actual power over her.
Besides the voter discourse over the "to confess or not" vote was predominantly over "If we confess then P-Zombie Renxiang will screw us over by punishing us" anyway, only a vocal handful really seemed to care about not selling out Fu Xiang.
Fu Xiang wasn't a friend, he didn't ever deserve the kind of Loyalty LQ gave to Meizhen, Xiulan, Su Ling or Suyin so I'm happy that's been retconned and instead we actually get to see more of Renxiang's character and her values instead of needing to wait nearly a year later when we fight off the bandits and get comforted by her over being horrified by killing that Bai dude.
Nothing much ever came of that vote anyway and nothing would likely ever come of it later because people chickened out on the plot hook of confessing and resolved to make sure it didn't come to light so we wouldn't get punished.
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Varder
Tired Cultist
- Location
- Hell
You missed my point. Like, entirely.
There's limits of course, but I think there's a moral and practical reason to repay your debts.
Well, it's different because voluntarily repaying real debts you owe is right and letting someone play on your emotions to boss you around is wrong.
- Location
- Fabulously Rainbow Ireland
Also frankly it's a bit baffling to say this change ruins some meaningful part of Ling Qi's character about how she's soooooo determined to repay her debts even if she hates doing so when literally one of the first times she ever gets saved from severe injury/crippling is when Gan Guangli stops Kang Zihao from impaling her while Ling Qi was just a Red (and not even remotely allied to Cai Renxiang's faction at all) and who then escorts her shopping in the market afterwards, instead of repaying him no matter what as people insisted on doing so with Fu Xiang, voters proceeded to ignore the option to repay his kindness by just making him a damn meal (we can spare time and expense to sabotage unrelated cultivators at risk of getting caught and banned from the market but cooking is too much for us?) every time it came up until Ling Qi forgot about her "debt" to him entirely.
Especially when at that time Ling Qi was in far more danger of serious injury (possibly even death if Kang really intended to hurt Meizhen emotionally) whereas Fu Xiang saving her was.......a coworker basically doing his job and preventing her from getting mugged (yes the dress is incredibly valuable but not as valuable as Ling Qi's life).
So this whole narrative of "Ling Qi always pays her debts and it's an awesome part of her character" rings false and if anything it's Su Ling's thing.
It just smacks of hypocrisy and disliking Ling QI becoming less "morally ambiguous" instead of actually lamenting a loss of some of LQ's characterization
Especially when at that time Ling Qi was in far more danger of serious injury (possibly even death if Kang really intended to hurt Meizhen emotionally) whereas Fu Xiang saving her was.......a coworker basically doing his job and preventing her from getting mugged (yes the dress is incredibly valuable but not as valuable as Ling Qi's life).
So this whole narrative of "Ling Qi always pays her debts and it's an awesome part of her character" rings false and if anything it's Su Ling's thing.
It just smacks of hypocrisy and disliking Ling QI becoming less "morally ambiguous" instead of actually lamenting a loss of some of LQ's characterization
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Turn 9 End
As the Core disciple overseeing the match raised his hand to signal the start, Ling Qi briefly considered her options. She could try to beat him at his game, rush him down, freeze and defeat him before he could build up a charge, but that was not what she had spent the month practicing. That would allow him to dictate the pace.
The referee's hand came down, and everything outside the field distorted as it expanded, putting hundreds of meters distance between them. A trilling wintery melody rang out as her Singing Sword materialized above her head, and The Mist spilled forth.
Across the field, thunder boomed and a ring of inscribed discs appeared behind Ji Rong's shoulders. His fists rose, static crackled in whitening hair, and his silhouette seemed to frizz and jump.
In the field between them, Ling Qi felt their domains clash. Both were still formless, nameless. The Mist spilled into the world, and sang of winter's hardship, but Ji Rong projected nothing outward.
He had become the lightning.
In that moment, she met his eyes, and found commonality. Neither wind nor lightning could be caged. She would not trap him with laughing revelers again.
Then he was in front of her, his fist outstretched, sparking knuckles nearly touching her nose. Ling Qi became the wind, and scattered as the heavenly bolt crashed through her. In the boom of thunder, her laughter could be heard.
Even as her silhouette reformed, she heard glass shatter as his heels dug into the melted dirt and launched himself back at her.
This time a palisade of writhing wood rose to stymie him, even as a young girl's laughter mingled with a dragon's roar.
As new grown wood blackened and bulged inward, Ling Qi used the moment bought and played the first notes of the Spring's End Aria, and called upon the echoes of true winter. Hoarfrost spread across the ground, and icy mist trailed from the hems of her dress as she ghosted backward, carried on the wind, riding the shockwave of the explosion that tore through Zhengui's barrier. When Ji Rong ripped through, a battlecry on his lips, she met him with a Hoarfrost Caress.
The screaming howl of a blizzard lashed him, and the scouring cold poured into his channels. Ji Rong, suspended in midair, shattered like fine glass, a great waterfall of sparks and static falling to earth amidst sparks of ice.
A fraction of a second later, she felt an impact on her cheek, From a scattered crackle of static, Ji Rong's fist materialized, followed by the rest of him. Her head snapped to the side as heavenly power ripped through layers of defensive qi. The follow up punch deflected off a ringing note in the air, and the third and fourth crashed through naught but air. The fifth struck her in the chest. Then within her mind, Sixiang stirred, and chaotic qi rippled out, disrupting Ji Rong's technique.
They flew apart to rematerialize on the ground. For a second time, their eyes met. Ling Qi's cheek stung where his hit had landed, and frost clung to strands of Ji Rong's hair.
Ling Qi smiled thinly behind her flute, and flew backward without turning, toward Zhengui, flaring her qi in a prearranged signal.
Her little brother was engaged with Ji Rong's dragon, stabbing roots leaving scrapes and cuts across flying golden coils, but the moment that she gave the signal, he stopped, allowing the beam of liquid lightning that the young dragon spat to splash across his face to no effect.
Hanyi 's voice rose in song and drove Relong back with the voice of winter. She hopped from Zhengui's shell onto a squirming root, following as he retreated. That was the plan, she trusted Hanyi to deal with the dragon.
Ling Qi had managed that situation perfectly well at that level after all.
As Ji Rong cut through the air, hot on her trail, a massive quantity of qi flowed down through Zhengui's legs and into the field below.
The earth roiled with life. Roots the size of entire saplings erupted, interposing themselves. A flurry of fists tore apart a score, but a score more sprouted in their place. Ling Qi landed atop Zhengui's shell, it's volcanic heat only a pleasant warmth to her, and played a single ear piercing note.
Even if something could not be stopped, it could be redirected. Ji Rong, rocketing toward her still, despite the lashing and obstructing roots, was taken by surprise as an eagle screamed, and talons seized his shoulders from behind, using his how momentum to fling him across the battlefield. Amidst the grasping roots the phantoms of beasts rose, and the song of her sword and the Mist girded their claws and fangs in frost.
She wondered briefly what she looked like to the audience, shrouded in mist standing atop Zhengui's back, surrounded by a growing phantasmal army that stalked among root and branch.
Ji Rong landed with a thunderous boom at the end of his flight as a crackling fan of lightning rippled outward, ripping apart the phantasmal eagle. He glared across the field at her, crackling static pouring down his limbs and blackening the grass as he crouched there.
Two of his nine discus were burning blue.
Then, he did something that surprised her.
His hand rose, two fingers extended. He stabbed them into his own chest, lightning shrouded fingertips parting flesh like paper, and roared.
It was not a sound which was meant to come from a human throat, pebbles rattled and rose from the earth and the Ling Qi felt the wind vibrate and shake. Blinding lightning erupted outward in every direction from his position and bolts fell from the clear , reflexively, Ling Qi called on the Starless shroud technique, and the bolts which fell upon her and her spirits vanished with nary a ripple.
Ling qi focused through the lightning, eyes flickering silver, and she saw him. A tracery of curling red lines like tattoos marked his flesh, and the wound in his chest bled freely, a crimson line running down his chest. Sparks crackled around his fingers and his eyes burned blue.
A third disc was alight.
Ji Rong flung his hand outward and crimson droplets scattered, each holding a single catalyzing spark, and orbs of lightning the size of a man's head bloomed in the sky. Beneath her, Zhen's throat swelled as he spat a boiling mass of glass and magma.
It struck him head on, and he erupted from it, bearing no more than scorched clothes and smoking skin.
A fourth disc burned.
Ji Rong charged, a roaring tail of lightning following him as if he were a comet.
Ling Qi leapt down from Zhengui's shell, her dress trailing behind her limbs like ripples of the night sky, and called forth the memories of revelry, the last link she needed to call forth to complete her defenses. Around her, howling beasts rose onto their hind legs, and snarls turned into callous laughter, robes and intricate arade armor bloomed across fur and hide, and Ling Qi felt the brush of dream.
Zhengui tensed, and ash began to fall like snow. The aches of what few hits had landed began to fade.
Overhead, orbs of lightning pulsed and Ling Qi prepared herself to defend, only for the jagged bolts that erupted to strike Ji Rong. With each one, his aura flared brighter, she felt his qi surging, building up power.
A fifth and sixth disc glowed.
He hit the front lines of her phantasmal army and howled like a beast himself as he tore them apart, fists flickering faster than her eye could track, phantoms were torn into scraps of mist and dream. On his forehead, a third eye, blazing with golden radiance burned, and behind his head, she caught a flickering vision of a thousand petaled lotus.
...and the area he plowed through stayed clear. The Mist rolled back in, but new phantoms and revelers did not arise.
But he paid for his advance. A great black wolf the size of a horse tore gashes in his right arm with it's fangs before lightning ripped it apart. A screaming hawk tore at his face before a fist crushed it, a striking serpent's fangs found his leg before he trampled it. He carved a path of violence toward where she stood.
Zhengui's roots stabbed at his feet and snatched at his limbs, but they failed to slow him down any longer.
He charged, and Ling Qi remained still as the air around her shimmered, faint and dreamlike afterimages trailing her limbs as she raised her flute to her lips once more. Dissolving, she rematerialized behind him.
The pressure of her spirit smashed into him with the weight of glacier, and ice burns spread across his back, visible under his tattered robe. Ji Rong stumbled, and for a moment, she thought that he would be launched forward, ready to take another flume of magma from Zhengui.
Instead, his feet dug into the earth, and he spun, throwing a punch at the open air.
Ling Qi scattered, but this time it didn't help. A ten meter wide gash opened in the earth as the wind roared, and Ling Qi felt dizziness as the tremendous force tore apart the currents of wind on which she flowed, scattering, for a brief moment her perception into a thousand whirling sparks of color and noise.
Scattered and dizzy, she was struck a hundred times and more, sparking fists battering her spirit.
Ling Qi reformed, crouching on the ground, feeling as if she had been run over by a cart. Ji Rong stood above her, and Ling Qi prepared to step into dream, dragging them all away to rest the match.
The seventh and eighth disc activated.
But around her, she felt the dream deepen, the world blurring and rippling, in a moment of communication with Sixiang, she understood. As Ji Rong drew back his fist, the world bent, and Sxiang manifested, slender arms wrapped around his chest. Their features were feminine, and as they leaned forward to nip at his ear, space bent and his movements slowed.
"Heeeey cutie, things are about to get hot," Sixiang giggled.
It was at that point that magma concentrated down to a single point erupted under his feet, and Ling Qi flowed back to her feet, the revelers around her beginning to cheer and stamp their feet.
The ninth disc erupted in light, and the magma was blown away.
Ji Rong was far from unharmed, burns marred his skin, his clothes were tattered and charred, and she could see a trembling in his right leg that spoke of coming collapse. None of that changed the ring of scintillating lightning that burned overhead like a gods crown. None of that changed the exultant cry of falling lightning that fell upon them, a blast which she could only compare to Cai Renxiang's light in experience.
The silence did.
The roar of lightning, the music and revelry and howls of beasts, even the distant sound of Hanyi's laughter all fell silent. Starless Night's reflection was an art that mimicked the bottomless lakes of the Bai lands. The Black Mirror technique was it's most potent defense, and she used it now, draining her reserves precipitously. Darkness bloomed from Ling Qi, and swallowed them all.
A moment later it shattered, and the lightning was gone, the field lay unchanged, as if nothing had happened at all.
Ling Qi stepped forward and laid her hands on the gaping young man's smoking shoulders.
She sang silence, and the revelers roared.
"It was a good match," Ling Qi said quietly, offering a hand to her opponent.
It was to Ji Rong's credit that he hadn't needed intervention. He knelt there, blackened skin cracking under the returned heat. His qi was gone, but he was still conscious.
"...Yeah, you win. I yield," he said through frost cracked lips.
Off to one side, Hanyi stood proudly atop his defeated dragon. Her dress was a little charred, and she'd gotten some cuts and scrapes, but she was in good humor.
Zhengui stood ominously behind her, glaring down at Ji Rong.
Ji Rong stared at her hand, as if it might bite him.
"...It's not enough to keep getting stronger on my own, is it?" he mumbled.
Ling Qi's silence was her answer. She thought it was obvious.
Ji Rong took a shuddering breath and took her hand. She helped him to his feet as the referee deactivated the field.
Ji Rong Bond increased to 0
Month Vote Time!
Funds
Income:
Sect: 2 Green Stones 60 yellow
Liege: 3 Green Stones
Expenses:
Household Expenses Increase! (Pills/Medicines)
Cost defrayed by Cai contacts
+4 Red Stones per month
Household: 10 red stones
Spirits: 2 Green Stone -Paid by Cai
176 Red Stones
617 Yellow Stones
15 Green Stones
162 Sect Points
115 Contribution Points
How many stones will you use?
4 Free Green stones automatically used due to cultivation arts and sites
[] Additional Stones
How much will you invest in pills and medicine this month?
Low-5 dice for 5 red stones per action
[] Medium- 10 dice for 15 red stones per action Provided freely from Cai Renxiang
[] High- 20 dice for 25 (40-15) red stones per action
[] Very High- 30 dice for 60(75-15) red stones per action
What would you like to cultivate this month? (Select 1 subvote per category)
[] Physical Cultivation
[] Spiritual Cultivation
[] Meridian
-[] Head, Heart, Spine, Arm, Lung, Leg
[] Art
[] Unlearned Art (replace with desired art
[] Take Sect Jobs(Earns Sect Points 11-20 per AP, provides penalized exploration roll)
[] Perform Sect Duties (Earns Contribution Points 1-4 per AP, provides a penalized exploration roll)
[] Exploration Via New Moon Sect Map (MAX 2 AP)
[] Research Arts in Sect archive (Max 1 AP)
[] Research Formations in the Archive(Max 1 AP)
[/] Household Time (1AP, locked)
[] Skill training
-Example
[] Skill plan 1
-Dex 3, Manip 3, Presence 1, Stamina 1(16 dice)
-Spirit Ken 3, Athletics 2, Dance 1, Empathy 2, Fade 2, fortitude 2, Speech 1, Perceptiveness 2, Stealth 3(18 dice)
-Woodwind 3(6 dice)
AN: So having some mathematical issues with the Extra spirit cultivation that should hopefully be resolved by tomorrow. Pretty sure you're going to hit green 4 with it tho.
The referee's hand came down, and everything outside the field distorted as it expanded, putting hundreds of meters distance between them. A trilling wintery melody rang out as her Singing Sword materialized above her head, and The Mist spilled forth.
Across the field, thunder boomed and a ring of inscribed discs appeared behind Ji Rong's shoulders. His fists rose, static crackled in whitening hair, and his silhouette seemed to frizz and jump.
In the field between them, Ling Qi felt their domains clash. Both were still formless, nameless. The Mist spilled into the world, and sang of winter's hardship, but Ji Rong projected nothing outward.
He had become the lightning.
In that moment, she met his eyes, and found commonality. Neither wind nor lightning could be caged. She would not trap him with laughing revelers again.
Then he was in front of her, his fist outstretched, sparking knuckles nearly touching her nose. Ling Qi became the wind, and scattered as the heavenly bolt crashed through her. In the boom of thunder, her laughter could be heard.
Even as her silhouette reformed, she heard glass shatter as his heels dug into the melted dirt and launched himself back at her.
This time a palisade of writhing wood rose to stymie him, even as a young girl's laughter mingled with a dragon's roar.
As new grown wood blackened and bulged inward, Ling Qi used the moment bought and played the first notes of the Spring's End Aria, and called upon the echoes of true winter. Hoarfrost spread across the ground, and icy mist trailed from the hems of her dress as she ghosted backward, carried on the wind, riding the shockwave of the explosion that tore through Zhengui's barrier. When Ji Rong ripped through, a battlecry on his lips, she met him with a Hoarfrost Caress.
The screaming howl of a blizzard lashed him, and the scouring cold poured into his channels. Ji Rong, suspended in midair, shattered like fine glass, a great waterfall of sparks and static falling to earth amidst sparks of ice.
A fraction of a second later, she felt an impact on her cheek, From a scattered crackle of static, Ji Rong's fist materialized, followed by the rest of him. Her head snapped to the side as heavenly power ripped through layers of defensive qi. The follow up punch deflected off a ringing note in the air, and the third and fourth crashed through naught but air. The fifth struck her in the chest. Then within her mind, Sixiang stirred, and chaotic qi rippled out, disrupting Ji Rong's technique.
They flew apart to rematerialize on the ground. For a second time, their eyes met. Ling Qi's cheek stung where his hit had landed, and frost clung to strands of Ji Rong's hair.
Ling Qi smiled thinly behind her flute, and flew backward without turning, toward Zhengui, flaring her qi in a prearranged signal.
Her little brother was engaged with Ji Rong's dragon, stabbing roots leaving scrapes and cuts across flying golden coils, but the moment that she gave the signal, he stopped, allowing the beam of liquid lightning that the young dragon spat to splash across his face to no effect.
Hanyi 's voice rose in song and drove Relong back with the voice of winter. She hopped from Zhengui's shell onto a squirming root, following as he retreated. That was the plan, she trusted Hanyi to deal with the dragon.
Ling Qi had managed that situation perfectly well at that level after all.
As Ji Rong cut through the air, hot on her trail, a massive quantity of qi flowed down through Zhengui's legs and into the field below.
The earth roiled with life. Roots the size of entire saplings erupted, interposing themselves. A flurry of fists tore apart a score, but a score more sprouted in their place. Ling Qi landed atop Zhengui's shell, it's volcanic heat only a pleasant warmth to her, and played a single ear piercing note.
Even if something could not be stopped, it could be redirected. Ji Rong, rocketing toward her still, despite the lashing and obstructing roots, was taken by surprise as an eagle screamed, and talons seized his shoulders from behind, using his how momentum to fling him across the battlefield. Amidst the grasping roots the phantoms of beasts rose, and the song of her sword and the Mist girded their claws and fangs in frost.
She wondered briefly what she looked like to the audience, shrouded in mist standing atop Zhengui's back, surrounded by a growing phantasmal army that stalked among root and branch.
Ji Rong landed with a thunderous boom at the end of his flight as a crackling fan of lightning rippled outward, ripping apart the phantasmal eagle. He glared across the field at her, crackling static pouring down his limbs and blackening the grass as he crouched there.
Two of his nine discus were burning blue.
Then, he did something that surprised her.
His hand rose, two fingers extended. He stabbed them into his own chest, lightning shrouded fingertips parting flesh like paper, and roared.
It was not a sound which was meant to come from a human throat, pebbles rattled and rose from the earth and the Ling Qi felt the wind vibrate and shake. Blinding lightning erupted outward in every direction from his position and bolts fell from the clear , reflexively, Ling Qi called on the Starless shroud technique, and the bolts which fell upon her and her spirits vanished with nary a ripple.
Ling qi focused through the lightning, eyes flickering silver, and she saw him. A tracery of curling red lines like tattoos marked his flesh, and the wound in his chest bled freely, a crimson line running down his chest. Sparks crackled around his fingers and his eyes burned blue.
A third disc was alight.
Ji Rong flung his hand outward and crimson droplets scattered, each holding a single catalyzing spark, and orbs of lightning the size of a man's head bloomed in the sky. Beneath her, Zhen's throat swelled as he spat a boiling mass of glass and magma.
It struck him head on, and he erupted from it, bearing no more than scorched clothes and smoking skin.
A fourth disc burned.
Ji Rong charged, a roaring tail of lightning following him as if he were a comet.
Ling Qi leapt down from Zhengui's shell, her dress trailing behind her limbs like ripples of the night sky, and called forth the memories of revelry, the last link she needed to call forth to complete her defenses. Around her, howling beasts rose onto their hind legs, and snarls turned into callous laughter, robes and intricate arade armor bloomed across fur and hide, and Ling Qi felt the brush of dream.
Zhengui tensed, and ash began to fall like snow. The aches of what few hits had landed began to fade.
Overhead, orbs of lightning pulsed and Ling Qi prepared herself to defend, only for the jagged bolts that erupted to strike Ji Rong. With each one, his aura flared brighter, she felt his qi surging, building up power.
A fifth and sixth disc glowed.
He hit the front lines of her phantasmal army and howled like a beast himself as he tore them apart, fists flickering faster than her eye could track, phantoms were torn into scraps of mist and dream. On his forehead, a third eye, blazing with golden radiance burned, and behind his head, she caught a flickering vision of a thousand petaled lotus.
...and the area he plowed through stayed clear. The Mist rolled back in, but new phantoms and revelers did not arise.
But he paid for his advance. A great black wolf the size of a horse tore gashes in his right arm with it's fangs before lightning ripped it apart. A screaming hawk tore at his face before a fist crushed it, a striking serpent's fangs found his leg before he trampled it. He carved a path of violence toward where she stood.
Zhengui's roots stabbed at his feet and snatched at his limbs, but they failed to slow him down any longer.
He charged, and Ling Qi remained still as the air around her shimmered, faint and dreamlike afterimages trailing her limbs as she raised her flute to her lips once more. Dissolving, she rematerialized behind him.
The pressure of her spirit smashed into him with the weight of glacier, and ice burns spread across his back, visible under his tattered robe. Ji Rong stumbled, and for a moment, she thought that he would be launched forward, ready to take another flume of magma from Zhengui.
Instead, his feet dug into the earth, and he spun, throwing a punch at the open air.
Ling Qi scattered, but this time it didn't help. A ten meter wide gash opened in the earth as the wind roared, and Ling Qi felt dizziness as the tremendous force tore apart the currents of wind on which she flowed, scattering, for a brief moment her perception into a thousand whirling sparks of color and noise.
Scattered and dizzy, she was struck a hundred times and more, sparking fists battering her spirit.
Ling Qi reformed, crouching on the ground, feeling as if she had been run over by a cart. Ji Rong stood above her, and Ling Qi prepared to step into dream, dragging them all away to rest the match.
The seventh and eighth disc activated.
But around her, she felt the dream deepen, the world blurring and rippling, in a moment of communication with Sixiang, she understood. As Ji Rong drew back his fist, the world bent, and Sxiang manifested, slender arms wrapped around his chest. Their features were feminine, and as they leaned forward to nip at his ear, space bent and his movements slowed.
"Heeeey cutie, things are about to get hot," Sixiang giggled.
It was at that point that magma concentrated down to a single point erupted under his feet, and Ling Qi flowed back to her feet, the revelers around her beginning to cheer and stamp their feet.
The ninth disc erupted in light, and the magma was blown away.
Ji Rong was far from unharmed, burns marred his skin, his clothes were tattered and charred, and she could see a trembling in his right leg that spoke of coming collapse. None of that changed the ring of scintillating lightning that burned overhead like a gods crown. None of that changed the exultant cry of falling lightning that fell upon them, a blast which she could only compare to Cai Renxiang's light in experience.
The silence did.
The roar of lightning, the music and revelry and howls of beasts, even the distant sound of Hanyi's laughter all fell silent. Starless Night's reflection was an art that mimicked the bottomless lakes of the Bai lands. The Black Mirror technique was it's most potent defense, and she used it now, draining her reserves precipitously. Darkness bloomed from Ling Qi, and swallowed them all.
A moment later it shattered, and the lightning was gone, the field lay unchanged, as if nothing had happened at all.
Ling Qi stepped forward and laid her hands on the gaping young man's smoking shoulders.
She sang silence, and the revelers roared.
***
"It was a good match," Ling Qi said quietly, offering a hand to her opponent.
It was to Ji Rong's credit that he hadn't needed intervention. He knelt there, blackened skin cracking under the returned heat. His qi was gone, but he was still conscious.
"...Yeah, you win. I yield," he said through frost cracked lips.
Off to one side, Hanyi stood proudly atop his defeated dragon. Her dress was a little charred, and she'd gotten some cuts and scrapes, but she was in good humor.
Zhengui stood ominously behind her, glaring down at Ji Rong.
Ji Rong stared at her hand, as if it might bite him.
"...It's not enough to keep getting stronger on my own, is it?" he mumbled.
Ling Qi's silence was her answer. She thought it was obvious.
Ji Rong took a shuddering breath and took her hand. She helped him to his feet as the referee deactivated the field.
Ji Rong Bond increased to 0
Dexterity 4d6+4
4, 5, 5, 4+4= 22
75/80
Presence 2d6+4
1, 1+4=6
22/50
Resolve 4d6+4
4, 6, 3, 5+4= 22
66/60 Rank A achieved!
Fade 4d6+4
2, 2, 3, 6+4=17
30/25 capped
War 4d6+8
2, 2, 2, 5+8= 19
30/20 Rank C achieved
Government 4d6+8
3, 5, 5, 5+8= 26
36/20 Rank C achieved
Unbroken Will 4d6+4
5, 3, 6, 6+4= 24
27/35
Qi 8d6+8
4, 5, 5, 4+4= 22
75/80
Presence 2d6+4
1, 1+4=6
22/50
Resolve 4d6+4
4, 6, 3, 5+4= 22
66/60 Rank A achieved!
Fade 4d6+4
2, 2, 3, 6+4=17
30/25 capped
War 4d6+8
2, 2, 2, 5+8= 19
30/20 Rank C achieved
Government 4d6+8
3, 5, 5, 5+8= 26
36/20 Rank C achieved
Unbroken Will 4d6+4
5, 3, 6, 6+4= 24
27/35
Qi 8d6+8
4, 3, 5, 1, 3, 2, 2, 2+8=30
Event Drip
0 Grinning
20 Hidden
100 Dreaming
Ebon Spirit Virtual Spirit cultivation
9, 4, 5, 1, 2, 2, 7, 10, 8, 9, 10, 8, 10, 2, 3, 7, 9, 6, 5, 8, 9, 3, 8, 6, 9, 2, 3, 6, 6, 2, 7, 6, 4, 6, 6, 2, 8, 7, 5, 3, 1, 7, 3, 4, 7, 1, 4, 10, 1, 6, 1, 10, 9, 8, 9, 1, 8, 8, 1, 5, 2, 1, 2, 9, 4, 10, 2, 3, 9, 9, 1, 5, 10, 7, 6, 7, 6, 7, 2, 8, 10, 3, 10, 7, 1, 9, 8, 3, 3, 8, 4, 6, 8, 8, 1, 9, 8, 1, 1, 8, 8, 2, 9, 5, 8, 7, 4, 9, 8, 5, 10, 1, 5, 10, 1, 9, 7, 6, 1, 2, 2, 5, 5, 1, 5, 3, 8, 8, 8, 2, 1, 9, 1, 2, 9, 1, 1, 4, 9, 8, 8, 7, 4, 9, 7, 7, 6, 6, 7, 5, 7, 8, 1, 7, 7, 5, 4, 6, 9, 8, 2, 10, 1, 5, 3, 6, 1, 8, 3, 9, 2, 5, 5, 9, 2, 8, 10, 3, 10, 1, 5, 7, 3, 8, 6, 7, 2, 7, 9, 4, 5, 8, 3, 3, 2, 5, 8, 6, 3, 9, 9, 2, 7, 6, 4, 5, 9, 5, 1, 2, 8, 1, 2, 1, 9, 10, 7, 10, 10, 3, 6, 2, 10, 1, 8, 6, 10, 1, 8, 5, 8, 6, 3, 6, 10, 4, 4, 6, 10, 10, 2, 9, 9, 7, 7, 10, 1, 7, 6, 5, 1, 6, 4, 8, 6, 9, 10, 4, 3, 2, 1, 10, 10, 5, 3, 5, 9, 6, 5, 4, 4, 9, 8, 9, 2, 7, 5, 9, 9, 6, 9, 7, 2, 7, 8, 1, 9, 8, 4, 2, 10, 3, 1, 2, 3, 6, 6, 7, 5, 6, 10, 9, 2, 8, 1, 7, 8, 3, 10, 8, 5, 9, 9, 2, 10, 10, 6, 6, 9, 3, 10, 5, 9, 3, 9, 5, 8, 2, 1, 1, 9, 1, 4, 1, 8, 5, 10, 6, 8, 7, 7, 8, 10, 7, 1, 2, 6, 4, 6, 2, 2, 2, 4, 4, 2, 4, 10, 4, 7, 10, 9, 2, 7, 3, 4, 3, 2, 4, 9, 5, 7, 4, 1, 5, 5, 1, 7, 3, 7, 9, 1, 8, 7, 2, 3, 8, 8, 7, 5, 9, 5, 6, 4, 4, 7, 10, 2, 9, 2, 2, 4, 10, 3, 5, 2, 5, 8, 1, 5, 2, 1, 5, 6, 2, 9, 1, 8, 5, 7, 2, 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 9, 2, 2, 4, 8, 5, 5, 10, 4, 6, 1, 4, 4, 10, 9, 7, 6, 1, 5, 8, 4, 4, 1, 9, 5, 5, 3, 5, 8, 10, 7, 5, 2, 8, 10, 9, 5, 4, 7, 2, 6, 3, 8, 2, 8, 2, 9, 4, 4, 10, 9, 10, 6, 2, 9, 2, 6, 2, 2, 8, 8, 7, 2, 4, 3, 10, 1, 10, 4, 1, 5, 9, 10, 8, 9, 7, 7, 6, 2, 10, 8, 10, 2, 5, 10, 5, 7, 3, 6, 5, 7, 5, 10, 7, 3, 8, 6, 4, 8, 2, 8, 2, 4, 2, 7, 6, 9, 10, 10, 2, 6, 4, 6, 3, 3, 8, 3, 1, 1, 6, 9, 5, 10, 2, 3, 4, 9, 5, 7, 8, 8, 5, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4, 4, 10, 3, 4, 7, 6, 1, 9, 5, 1, 6, 1, 9, 10, 4, 4, 7, 2, 5, 8, 9, 4, 3, 6, 3, 10, 7, 2, 9, 10, 5, 2, 7, 6, 9, 5, 3, 4, 3, 8, 3, 2, 6, 2, 2, 10, 8, 1, 8, 9, 1, 6, 4, 4, 5, 9, 7, 8, 10, 7, 8, 6, 6, 9, 4, 9, 2, 8, 8, 9, 9, 5, 8, 10, 1, 9, 7, 3, 3, 9, 2, 5, 6, 6, 2, 9, 3, 9, 8, 7, 6, 4, 3, 5, 2, 8, 3, 4, 3, 4, 2, 8, 2, 8, 1, 1, 5, 9, 10, 5, 1, 9, 7, 8, 8, 1, 3, 9, 10, 6, 3, 9, 2, 7, 1, 9, 5, 8, 10, 2, 5, 7, 10, 9, 3, 7, 3, 3, 5, 2, 1, 2, 9, 10, 7, 7, 2, 9, 3, 6, 5, 3, 7, 7, 10, 2, 4, 6, 5, 7, 10, 5, 2, 2, 4, 8, 10, 1, 3, 7, 8, 9, 1, 2, 9, 9, 10, 10, 4, 10, 9, 6, 1, 10, 7, 7, 7, 4, 5, 5, 2, 7, 3, 3, 5, 6, 5, 1, 10, 7, 6, 10, 10, 6, 1, 8, 9, 5, 3, 4, 1, 7, 7, 3, 5, 7, 3, 9, 7, 3, 5, 9, 2, 5, 4, 10, 7, 5, 9, 2, 7, 7, 2, 3, 3, 4, 1, 5, 8, 10, 10, 1, 9, 5, 8, 4, 5, 8, 8, 6, 4, 9, 6, 4, 5, 9, 8, 2, 6, 3, 9, 6, 10, 1, 10, 2, 10, 6, 3, 9, 6, 7, 6, 4, 2, 9, 2, 4, 7, 3, 7, 8, 6, 2, 2, 9, 7, 1, 10, 4, 2, 3, 6, 10, 3, 1, 10, 1, 7, 1, 8, 6, 8, 9, 8, 3, 3, 6, 9, 10, 6, 4, 1, 8, 10, 3, 5, 6, 10, 5, 1, 3, 4, 10, 8, 1, 7, 8, 8, 5, 9, 1, 3, 2, 2, 7, 8, 7, 2, 5, 1, 5, 2, 3, 1, 3, 7, 6, 4, 8, 9, 4, 7, 4, 3, 7, 3, 9, 9, 6, 1, 3, 1, 8, 6, 9, 4, 8, 2, 5, 6, 10, 3, 6, 1, 9, 5, 3, 7, 2, 1, 7, 10, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 3, 6, 3, 2, 5, 9, 10, 5, 2, 1, 8, 1, 8, 3, 1, 3, 9, 3, 9, 5, 8, 4, 2, 8, 2, 3, 6, 1, 8, 1, 10, 5, 3, 5, 4, 8, 6, 5, 4, 7, 7, 10, 5, 3, 10, 8, 10, 8, 7, 2, 6, 7, 1, 8, 3, 7, 7, 1, 1, 2, 7, 9, 3, 4, 10, 6, 1, 4, 6, 5, 10, 2, 7, 7, 5, 6, 9, 10, 9, 9, 5, 9, 4, 4, 9, 8, 10, 6, 10, 1, 6, 6, 6, 7, 6, 6, 7, 6, 10, 10, 2, 9, 10, 4, 4, 5, 10, 3, 10, 8, 5, 1, 10, 8, 5, 8, 3, 6, 10, 3, 2, 7, 10, 7, 10, 3, 2, 7, 8, 8, 3, 2, 8, 1, 9, 1, 10, 4, 9, 7, 3, 1, 6, 8, 5, 1, 3, 10, 1, 1, 5, 10, 4, 2, 1, 1, 10, 3, 10, 2, 10, 9, 3, 4, 1, 7, 5, 1, 10, 7, 4, 8, 1, 5, 3, 6, 3, 10, 9, 4, 10, 3, 10, 10, 2, 3, 9, 1, 7, 9, 2, 3, 7, 3, 6, 2, 8, 2, 2, 10, 3, 5, 8, 1, 6, 6, 8, 6, 6, 10, 5, 8, 9, 2, 7, 7, 4, 2, 4, 6, 9, 6, 2, 5, 10, 2, 4, 8, 2, 3, 9, 1, 6, 8, 2, 10, 7, 5, 6, 5, 9, 7, 3, 4, 6, 7, 2, 7, 4, 3, 5, 5, 5, 6, 8, 1, 10, 10, 7, 6, 2, 6, 8, 9, 4, 1, 4, 3, 8, 7, 1, 5, 6, 4, 1, 2, 1, 6, 2, 6, 6, 1, 9, 10, 9, 9, 8, 7, 6, 8, 7, 9, 6, 7, 5, 1, 8, 1, 1, 3, 1, 9, 4, 3, 5, 6, 4, 8, 3, 10, 2, 7, 3, 2, 3, 5, 10, 4, 4, 5, 1, 6, 9, 7, 10, 9, 7, 8, 10, 4, 2, 1, 2, 6, 1, 6, 2, 3, 5, 1, 10, 5, 9, 9, 1, 3, 4, 7, 7, 10, 3, 7, 10, 1, 10, 10, 7, 7, 7, 2, 6, 10, 9, 3, 9, 6, 4, 4, 2, 8, 1, 8, 6, 6, 8, 6, 1, 7, 3, 9, 8, 6, 9, 3, 9, 3, 8, 6, 7, 2, 5, 7, 8, 5, 7, 4, 8, 2, 4, 6, 3, 9, 2, 6, 9, 3, 5, 3, 2, 6, 8, 1, 3, 5, 5, 6, 7, 9, 6, 7, 8, 9, 7, 10, 5, 9, 9, 3, 4, 9, 3, 10, 7, 5, 5, 4, 3, 5, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 1, 3, 10, 10, 7, 4, 4, 8, 8, 10, 3, 5, 8, 10, 1, 6, 5, 6, 8, 5, 2, 9, 10, 5, 8, 1, 7, 6, 9, 10, 7, 7, 8, 4, 7, 5, 3, 5, 6, 5, 9, 5, 10, 10, 2, 6, 4, 6, 9, 9, 4, 9, 9, 2, 1, 7, 1, 7, 1, 3, 6, 2, 1, 3, 4, 6, 5, 1, 5, 2, 6, 4, 7, 7, 5, 9, 7, 7, 7, 3, 5, 4, 7, 5, 4, 4, 9, 1, 8, 8, 6, 6, 9, 2, 6, 5, 8, 3, 2, 1, 3, 8, 7, 7, 7, 10, 10, 1, 8, 4, 1, 1, 2, 1, 6, 3, 7, 7, 5, 5, 1, 8, 5, 5, 5, 8, 8, 8, 4, 6, 8, 3, 8, 9, 5, 9, 5, 10, 9, 6, 6, 5, 8, 5, 4, 10, 4, 6, 9, 4, 10, 10, 8, 4, 10, 4, 1, 9, 1, 3, 7, 8, 1, 7, 5, 9, 3, 4, 7, 9, 9, 5, 7, 7, 1, 5, 6, 3, 8, 3, 6, 1, 4, 9, 3, 8, 5, 8, 2, 10, 6, 8, 6, 3, 8, 8, 8, 2, 7, 6, 4, 3, 10, 9, 6, 10, 1, 8, 8, 3, 7, 7, 1, 1, 2, 8, 4, 7, 9, 6, 5, 6, 2, 4, 7, 8, 3, 10, 3, 2, 8, 7, 8, 10, 2, 8, 3, 7, 2, 9, 9, 3, 4, 5, 1, 7, 4, 4, 3, 10, 1, 3, 1, 5, 4, 4, 8, 1, 4, 8, 4, 5, 3, 4, 8, 5, 3, 2, 4, 4, 5, 1, 4, 3, 7, 2, 7, 2, 1, 10, 7, 5, 8, 2, 5, 10, 5, 8, 6, 7, 9, 4, 3, 4, 10, 7, 1, 4, 2, 4, 3, 8, 4, 8, 4, 7, 4, 6, 6, 5, 2, 5, 5, 4, 9, 8, 2, 7, 9, 9, 3, 8, 6, 6, 8, 10, 6, 10, 9, 10, 6, 6, 10, 5, 8, 1, 6, 9, 3, 3, 8, 8, 9, 10, 6, 1, 1, 7, 3, 3, 8, 10, 4, 6, 10, 6, 7, 9, 5, 9, 8, 5, 9, 3, 3, 1, 8, 7, 3, 2, 4, 7, 3, 3, 1, 5, 3, 8, 8, 10, 1, 3, 4, 3, 4, 5, 6, 2, 3, 3, 7, 9, 6, 3, 8, 1, 4, 10, 5, 2, 1, 3, 5, 10, 10, 6, 6, 5, 9, 4, 4, 1, 4, 9, 1, 9, 8, 7, 1, 10, 4, 7, 8, 6, 10, 1, 4, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 8, 9, 8, 10, 1, 6, 5, 5. 896 successes
Rerolls
2, 8, 9, 2, 4, 9, 1, 5, 1, 7, 2, 3, 1, 5, 7, 3, 3, 6, 10, 3, 1, 1, 7, 9, 1, 7, 5, 8, 5, 5, 5, 9, 4, 3, 7, 8, 6, 10, 8, 2, 6, 2, 4, 3, 6, 8, 5, 6, 2, 9, 8, 9, 3, 8, 2, 5, 1, 5, 10, 10, 2, 1, 10, 7, 2, 6, 8, 8, 4, 8, 9, 5, 5, 3, 2, 7, 5, 8, 5, 7, 6, 7, 7, 5, 6, 1, 1, 6, 9, 5, 9, 3, 10, 4, 9, 10, 8, 5, 9, 5, 7, 4, 1, 10, 1, 10, 4, 2, 4, 10, 1, 8, 10, 4, 9, 6, 5, 10, 5, 8, 5, 2, 8, 7, 10, 3, 9, 1, 6, 9, 2, 1, 4, 4, 6, 10, 7, 8, 2, 1, 9, 1, 6, 6, 6, 1, 7, 6, 4, 2, 4, 5, 3, 5, 6, 6, 4, 5, 5, 9, 9, 9, 8, 9, 1, 5, 3, 3, 8, 1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 5, 9, 7, 9, 7, 10, 2, 8, 4, 4. 93x2=186 successes
1082x1.1=1190 successes
4943/4800 Green 4 achieved
Event Drip
0 Grinning
20 Hidden
100 Dreaming
Ebon Spirit Virtual Spirit cultivation
9, 4, 5, 1, 2, 2, 7, 10, 8, 9, 10, 8, 10, 2, 3, 7, 9, 6, 5, 8, 9, 3, 8, 6, 9, 2, 3, 6, 6, 2, 7, 6, 4, 6, 6, 2, 8, 7, 5, 3, 1, 7, 3, 4, 7, 1, 4, 10, 1, 6, 1, 10, 9, 8, 9, 1, 8, 8, 1, 5, 2, 1, 2, 9, 4, 10, 2, 3, 9, 9, 1, 5, 10, 7, 6, 7, 6, 7, 2, 8, 10, 3, 10, 7, 1, 9, 8, 3, 3, 8, 4, 6, 8, 8, 1, 9, 8, 1, 1, 8, 8, 2, 9, 5, 8, 7, 4, 9, 8, 5, 10, 1, 5, 10, 1, 9, 7, 6, 1, 2, 2, 5, 5, 1, 5, 3, 8, 8, 8, 2, 1, 9, 1, 2, 9, 1, 1, 4, 9, 8, 8, 7, 4, 9, 7, 7, 6, 6, 7, 5, 7, 8, 1, 7, 7, 5, 4, 6, 9, 8, 2, 10, 1, 5, 3, 6, 1, 8, 3, 9, 2, 5, 5, 9, 2, 8, 10, 3, 10, 1, 5, 7, 3, 8, 6, 7, 2, 7, 9, 4, 5, 8, 3, 3, 2, 5, 8, 6, 3, 9, 9, 2, 7, 6, 4, 5, 9, 5, 1, 2, 8, 1, 2, 1, 9, 10, 7, 10, 10, 3, 6, 2, 10, 1, 8, 6, 10, 1, 8, 5, 8, 6, 3, 6, 10, 4, 4, 6, 10, 10, 2, 9, 9, 7, 7, 10, 1, 7, 6, 5, 1, 6, 4, 8, 6, 9, 10, 4, 3, 2, 1, 10, 10, 5, 3, 5, 9, 6, 5, 4, 4, 9, 8, 9, 2, 7, 5, 9, 9, 6, 9, 7, 2, 7, 8, 1, 9, 8, 4, 2, 10, 3, 1, 2, 3, 6, 6, 7, 5, 6, 10, 9, 2, 8, 1, 7, 8, 3, 10, 8, 5, 9, 9, 2, 10, 10, 6, 6, 9, 3, 10, 5, 9, 3, 9, 5, 8, 2, 1, 1, 9, 1, 4, 1, 8, 5, 10, 6, 8, 7, 7, 8, 10, 7, 1, 2, 6, 4, 6, 2, 2, 2, 4, 4, 2, 4, 10, 4, 7, 10, 9, 2, 7, 3, 4, 3, 2, 4, 9, 5, 7, 4, 1, 5, 5, 1, 7, 3, 7, 9, 1, 8, 7, 2, 3, 8, 8, 7, 5, 9, 5, 6, 4, 4, 7, 10, 2, 9, 2, 2, 4, 10, 3, 5, 2, 5, 8, 1, 5, 2, 1, 5, 6, 2, 9, 1, 8, 5, 7, 2, 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 9, 2, 2, 4, 8, 5, 5, 10, 4, 6, 1, 4, 4, 10, 9, 7, 6, 1, 5, 8, 4, 4, 1, 9, 5, 5, 3, 5, 8, 10, 7, 5, 2, 8, 10, 9, 5, 4, 7, 2, 6, 3, 8, 2, 8, 2, 9, 4, 4, 10, 9, 10, 6, 2, 9, 2, 6, 2, 2, 8, 8, 7, 2, 4, 3, 10, 1, 10, 4, 1, 5, 9, 10, 8, 9, 7, 7, 6, 2, 10, 8, 10, 2, 5, 10, 5, 7, 3, 6, 5, 7, 5, 10, 7, 3, 8, 6, 4, 8, 2, 8, 2, 4, 2, 7, 6, 9, 10, 10, 2, 6, 4, 6, 3, 3, 8, 3, 1, 1, 6, 9, 5, 10, 2, 3, 4, 9, 5, 7, 8, 8, 5, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4, 4, 10, 3, 4, 7, 6, 1, 9, 5, 1, 6, 1, 9, 10, 4, 4, 7, 2, 5, 8, 9, 4, 3, 6, 3, 10, 7, 2, 9, 10, 5, 2, 7, 6, 9, 5, 3, 4, 3, 8, 3, 2, 6, 2, 2, 10, 8, 1, 8, 9, 1, 6, 4, 4, 5, 9, 7, 8, 10, 7, 8, 6, 6, 9, 4, 9, 2, 8, 8, 9, 9, 5, 8, 10, 1, 9, 7, 3, 3, 9, 2, 5, 6, 6, 2, 9, 3, 9, 8, 7, 6, 4, 3, 5, 2, 8, 3, 4, 3, 4, 2, 8, 2, 8, 1, 1, 5, 9, 10, 5, 1, 9, 7, 8, 8, 1, 3, 9, 10, 6, 3, 9, 2, 7, 1, 9, 5, 8, 10, 2, 5, 7, 10, 9, 3, 7, 3, 3, 5, 2, 1, 2, 9, 10, 7, 7, 2, 9, 3, 6, 5, 3, 7, 7, 10, 2, 4, 6, 5, 7, 10, 5, 2, 2, 4, 8, 10, 1, 3, 7, 8, 9, 1, 2, 9, 9, 10, 10, 4, 10, 9, 6, 1, 10, 7, 7, 7, 4, 5, 5, 2, 7, 3, 3, 5, 6, 5, 1, 10, 7, 6, 10, 10, 6, 1, 8, 9, 5, 3, 4, 1, 7, 7, 3, 5, 7, 3, 9, 7, 3, 5, 9, 2, 5, 4, 10, 7, 5, 9, 2, 7, 7, 2, 3, 3, 4, 1, 5, 8, 10, 10, 1, 9, 5, 8, 4, 5, 8, 8, 6, 4, 9, 6, 4, 5, 9, 8, 2, 6, 3, 9, 6, 10, 1, 10, 2, 10, 6, 3, 9, 6, 7, 6, 4, 2, 9, 2, 4, 7, 3, 7, 8, 6, 2, 2, 9, 7, 1, 10, 4, 2, 3, 6, 10, 3, 1, 10, 1, 7, 1, 8, 6, 8, 9, 8, 3, 3, 6, 9, 10, 6, 4, 1, 8, 10, 3, 5, 6, 10, 5, 1, 3, 4, 10, 8, 1, 7, 8, 8, 5, 9, 1, 3, 2, 2, 7, 8, 7, 2, 5, 1, 5, 2, 3, 1, 3, 7, 6, 4, 8, 9, 4, 7, 4, 3, 7, 3, 9, 9, 6, 1, 3, 1, 8, 6, 9, 4, 8, 2, 5, 6, 10, 3, 6, 1, 9, 5, 3, 7, 2, 1, 7, 10, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 3, 6, 3, 2, 5, 9, 10, 5, 2, 1, 8, 1, 8, 3, 1, 3, 9, 3, 9, 5, 8, 4, 2, 8, 2, 3, 6, 1, 8, 1, 10, 5, 3, 5, 4, 8, 6, 5, 4, 7, 7, 10, 5, 3, 10, 8, 10, 8, 7, 2, 6, 7, 1, 8, 3, 7, 7, 1, 1, 2, 7, 9, 3, 4, 10, 6, 1, 4, 6, 5, 10, 2, 7, 7, 5, 6, 9, 10, 9, 9, 5, 9, 4, 4, 9, 8, 10, 6, 10, 1, 6, 6, 6, 7, 6, 6, 7, 6, 10, 10, 2, 9, 10, 4, 4, 5, 10, 3, 10, 8, 5, 1, 10, 8, 5, 8, 3, 6, 10, 3, 2, 7, 10, 7, 10, 3, 2, 7, 8, 8, 3, 2, 8, 1, 9, 1, 10, 4, 9, 7, 3, 1, 6, 8, 5, 1, 3, 10, 1, 1, 5, 10, 4, 2, 1, 1, 10, 3, 10, 2, 10, 9, 3, 4, 1, 7, 5, 1, 10, 7, 4, 8, 1, 5, 3, 6, 3, 10, 9, 4, 10, 3, 10, 10, 2, 3, 9, 1, 7, 9, 2, 3, 7, 3, 6, 2, 8, 2, 2, 10, 3, 5, 8, 1, 6, 6, 8, 6, 6, 10, 5, 8, 9, 2, 7, 7, 4, 2, 4, 6, 9, 6, 2, 5, 10, 2, 4, 8, 2, 3, 9, 1, 6, 8, 2, 10, 7, 5, 6, 5, 9, 7, 3, 4, 6, 7, 2, 7, 4, 3, 5, 5, 5, 6, 8, 1, 10, 10, 7, 6, 2, 6, 8, 9, 4, 1, 4, 3, 8, 7, 1, 5, 6, 4, 1, 2, 1, 6, 2, 6, 6, 1, 9, 10, 9, 9, 8, 7, 6, 8, 7, 9, 6, 7, 5, 1, 8, 1, 1, 3, 1, 9, 4, 3, 5, 6, 4, 8, 3, 10, 2, 7, 3, 2, 3, 5, 10, 4, 4, 5, 1, 6, 9, 7, 10, 9, 7, 8, 10, 4, 2, 1, 2, 6, 1, 6, 2, 3, 5, 1, 10, 5, 9, 9, 1, 3, 4, 7, 7, 10, 3, 7, 10, 1, 10, 10, 7, 7, 7, 2, 6, 10, 9, 3, 9, 6, 4, 4, 2, 8, 1, 8, 6, 6, 8, 6, 1, 7, 3, 9, 8, 6, 9, 3, 9, 3, 8, 6, 7, 2, 5, 7, 8, 5, 7, 4, 8, 2, 4, 6, 3, 9, 2, 6, 9, 3, 5, 3, 2, 6, 8, 1, 3, 5, 5, 6, 7, 9, 6, 7, 8, 9, 7, 10, 5, 9, 9, 3, 4, 9, 3, 10, 7, 5, 5, 4, 3, 5, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 1, 3, 10, 10, 7, 4, 4, 8, 8, 10, 3, 5, 8, 10, 1, 6, 5, 6, 8, 5, 2, 9, 10, 5, 8, 1, 7, 6, 9, 10, 7, 7, 8, 4, 7, 5, 3, 5, 6, 5, 9, 5, 10, 10, 2, 6, 4, 6, 9, 9, 4, 9, 9, 2, 1, 7, 1, 7, 1, 3, 6, 2, 1, 3, 4, 6, 5, 1, 5, 2, 6, 4, 7, 7, 5, 9, 7, 7, 7, 3, 5, 4, 7, 5, 4, 4, 9, 1, 8, 8, 6, 6, 9, 2, 6, 5, 8, 3, 2, 1, 3, 8, 7, 7, 7, 10, 10, 1, 8, 4, 1, 1, 2, 1, 6, 3, 7, 7, 5, 5, 1, 8, 5, 5, 5, 8, 8, 8, 4, 6, 8, 3, 8, 9, 5, 9, 5, 10, 9, 6, 6, 5, 8, 5, 4, 10, 4, 6, 9, 4, 10, 10, 8, 4, 10, 4, 1, 9, 1, 3, 7, 8, 1, 7, 5, 9, 3, 4, 7, 9, 9, 5, 7, 7, 1, 5, 6, 3, 8, 3, 6, 1, 4, 9, 3, 8, 5, 8, 2, 10, 6, 8, 6, 3, 8, 8, 8, 2, 7, 6, 4, 3, 10, 9, 6, 10, 1, 8, 8, 3, 7, 7, 1, 1, 2, 8, 4, 7, 9, 6, 5, 6, 2, 4, 7, 8, 3, 10, 3, 2, 8, 7, 8, 10, 2, 8, 3, 7, 2, 9, 9, 3, 4, 5, 1, 7, 4, 4, 3, 10, 1, 3, 1, 5, 4, 4, 8, 1, 4, 8, 4, 5, 3, 4, 8, 5, 3, 2, 4, 4, 5, 1, 4, 3, 7, 2, 7, 2, 1, 10, 7, 5, 8, 2, 5, 10, 5, 8, 6, 7, 9, 4, 3, 4, 10, 7, 1, 4, 2, 4, 3, 8, 4, 8, 4, 7, 4, 6, 6, 5, 2, 5, 5, 4, 9, 8, 2, 7, 9, 9, 3, 8, 6, 6, 8, 10, 6, 10, 9, 10, 6, 6, 10, 5, 8, 1, 6, 9, 3, 3, 8, 8, 9, 10, 6, 1, 1, 7, 3, 3, 8, 10, 4, 6, 10, 6, 7, 9, 5, 9, 8, 5, 9, 3, 3, 1, 8, 7, 3, 2, 4, 7, 3, 3, 1, 5, 3, 8, 8, 10, 1, 3, 4, 3, 4, 5, 6, 2, 3, 3, 7, 9, 6, 3, 8, 1, 4, 10, 5, 2, 1, 3, 5, 10, 10, 6, 6, 5, 9, 4, 4, 1, 4, 9, 1, 9, 8, 7, 1, 10, 4, 7, 8, 6, 10, 1, 4, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 8, 9, 8, 10, 1, 6, 5, 5. 896 successes
Rerolls
2, 8, 9, 2, 4, 9, 1, 5, 1, 7, 2, 3, 1, 5, 7, 3, 3, 6, 10, 3, 1, 1, 7, 9, 1, 7, 5, 8, 5, 5, 5, 9, 4, 3, 7, 8, 6, 10, 8, 2, 6, 2, 4, 3, 6, 8, 5, 6, 2, 9, 8, 9, 3, 8, 2, 5, 1, 5, 10, 10, 2, 1, 10, 7, 2, 6, 8, 8, 4, 8, 9, 5, 5, 3, 2, 7, 5, 8, 5, 7, 6, 7, 7, 5, 6, 1, 1, 6, 9, 5, 9, 3, 10, 4, 9, 10, 8, 5, 9, 5, 7, 4, 1, 10, 1, 10, 4, 2, 4, 10, 1, 8, 10, 4, 9, 6, 5, 10, 5, 8, 5, 2, 8, 7, 10, 3, 9, 1, 6, 9, 2, 1, 4, 4, 6, 10, 7, 8, 2, 1, 9, 1, 6, 6, 6, 1, 7, 6, 4, 2, 4, 5, 3, 5, 6, 6, 4, 5, 5, 9, 9, 9, 8, 9, 1, 5, 3, 3, 8, 1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 5, 9, 7, 9, 7, 10, 2, 8, 4, 4. 93x2=186 successes
1082x1.1=1190 successes
4943/4800 Green 4 achieved
Month Vote Time!
Funds
Income:
Sect: 2 Green Stones 60 yellow
Liege: 3 Green Stones
Expenses:
Household Expenses Increase! (Pills/Medicines)
Cost defrayed by Cai contacts
+4 Red Stones per month
Household: 10 red stones
Spirits: 2 Green Stone -Paid by Cai
176 Red Stones
617 Yellow Stones
15 Green Stones
162 Sect Points
115 Contribution Points
How many stones will you use?
4 Free Green stones automatically used due to cultivation arts and sites
[] Additional Stones
How much will you invest in pills and medicine this month?
Low-5 dice for 5 red stones per action
[] Medium- 10 dice for 15 red stones per action Provided freely from Cai Renxiang
[] High- 20 dice for 25 (40-15) red stones per action
[] Very High- 30 dice for 60(75-15) red stones per action
What would you like to cultivate this month? (Select 1 subvote per category)
[] Physical Cultivation
[] Spiritual Cultivation
[] Meridian
-[] Head, Heart, Spine, Arm, Lung, Leg
[] Art
[] Unlearned Art (replace with desired art
[] Take Sect Jobs(Earns Sect Points 11-20 per AP, provides penalized exploration roll)
[] Perform Sect Duties (Earns Contribution Points 1-4 per AP, provides a penalized exploration roll)
[] Exploration Via New Moon Sect Map (MAX 2 AP)
[] Research Arts in Sect archive (Max 1 AP)
[] Research Formations in the Archive(Max 1 AP)
[/] Household Time (1AP, locked)
[] Skill training
-Example
[] Skill plan 1
-Dex 3, Manip 3, Presence 1, Stamina 1(16 dice)
-Spirit Ken 3, Athletics 2, Dance 1, Empathy 2, Fade 2, fortitude 2, Speech 1, Perceptiveness 2, Stealth 3(18 dice)
-Woodwind 3(6 dice)
AN: So having some mathematical issues with the Extra spirit cultivation that should hopefully be resolved by tomorrow. Pretty sure you're going to hit green 4 with it tho.
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- Location
- Somewhere
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Sixiang is the best.
- Location
- Who Knows
Oh man what a fight!!
Loved how it played out and the ending of the Bond being reset to 0 felt really freaking good, wow
Great update~
Loved how it played out and the ending of the Bond being reset to 0 felt really freaking good, wow
Great update~
- Pronouns
- He/Him
You are getting measurably better at writing fights, that was spectacular.
Ling has *convinced* Rong of the virtues of connection.