Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
- Thread starter yrsillar
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Blunting an opponent's attack with your own is classic defensive play.
- Location
- At the end of the world
[X] Plan: Rainbows and Glitter
[X] Plan Rise of the Muses
[X] Plan Rise of the Muses
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- Location
- Elsewhere
That's fair.
DeusExBritannia
Red-White-Black-White
- Location
- Texas
What is this part of the vote supposed to be handling? What is it changing?
I figure the lesson he learned last year was "I need to make good decisions, be smart about what I do. All the strength, talent and money in the world didn't make me or Sun Liling win because we made shit decisions". Hence his deciding to educate himself and in general be smarter so he could be good at being a noble.
Now he's taking a step further, with the idea that he doesn't need to do it all by himself, but build a team to help.
- Location
- Brazil
Nice fight and all that, but man, Ji Rong is such a spitting image of the traditional xianxia MC it hurts.
His style? Punch. His element? Heaven monofocus. His spirit? Heavenly Dragon. His special techniques? Becoming one with lightning, ominous tattoos, third eyes and blooming lotuses. His domain weapon? A Special bar that charges up as he gets hurt, creates a "god's crown" and enables a super blasty move.
For every single technique the throws at us, I can all but read the pretentious name involving somehow Heavenly, Gods, Wrath and Supreme.
Pretty sure Yrs does it just to make fun of the tropes, because damn.
His style? Punch. His element? Heaven monofocus. His spirit? Heavenly Dragon. His special techniques? Becoming one with lightning, ominous tattoos, third eyes and blooming lotuses. His domain weapon? A Special bar that charges up as he gets hurt, creates a "god's crown" and enables a super blasty move.
For every single technique the throws at us, I can all but read the pretentious name involving somehow Heavenly, Gods, Wrath and Supreme.
Pretty sure Yrs does it just to make fun of the tropes, because damn.
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Oh hey, I'd forgotten I noticed Ji Ring's cool lightning clone decoy he used to get one over on us when we used HR. Neat move there.
Wait. Doesn't that mean we only hit Ji Rong with HR's splash there? And it actually hurt him? And did that part of the tech even apply the DoT that CtE relies on?
Uhhh. I'm legitimately confused now.
Wait. Doesn't that mean we only hit Ji Rong with HR's splash there? And it actually hurt him? And did that part of the tech even apply the DoT that CtE relies on?
Uhhh. I'm legitimately confused now.
Something like that, yeah. Come on @yrsillar make it happen. You know you want to.
(admittedly the case for us choosing to do Sect Jobs rn for rank up runs into the problem where we're actually ahead of where we need to be: if we linearly interpolate where we "should" be rn to meet our endgoal then our target would be ~726, while we're currently at 701)
I guess Yrsillar didn't feel like writing 'and then Ji Rong spent a few minutes losing slowly because he was 4v1 and couldn't do that big blast again'.
- Location
- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
I think the big problem I have with lineraly interpolating where we should be is that it implies that advancing through the ranks will require liner effort which I think is unlikely.
- Location
- United States of America
I don't think it was a clone decoy, so I would imagine HR hit him and actually hurt him, applying the DoT that CtE relies on. It seemed to me to be more of a move in line with West Wind Step, just without the defensive focus and more of the offensive focus. He took the HR hit, but then retaliated with some significant damage of his own.
Oh, I agree, but it's really hard to predict those things and our history has, if anything, taught us that we should expect to exceed projections.
Like, short of actual WOG saying "yes I will not be giving you enough free rank advancement to get you there without you doing work yourself" it's hard to make the case.
Offensive counter-teleport? Yeah, that's a sensible tool for his toolset. Free closer.
Those arts have Upkeep techniques. Upkeep techniques have the option to be always active, but to do it we need to reserve Qi for it. The amount of Qi the technique uses is in the brackets.
One detail is that i decided to list the art name instead of the technique name, since the art names are more familiar and each of those arts only has 1 Upkeep technique, so it still works out.
So as concrete example having RME(2) on Upkeep means that we reserve 2 Qi to always have the Inquisitive Study technique of the Roaming Moon's Eye art active.
We have a few more of those techniques after the last turn and together they cost quite a bit of Qi, so the vote is to decide which of them should be on Upkeep for the next turn. (techniques that are not on Upkeep can still be used, they just arent active all the time).
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
No stealth? I was expecting him to forget he was fighting us and fight our buffed spirits. Then we catch him by surprise.
- Location
- Castle
Not a good idea, Hanyi would take the brunt of that if we tried it and she's not too well equipped for it.
Hrm. My thought was was actually referring to CC vs. ignoring the supports.
That is, I think he took the lesson of being chain cced by first, the worms then the dancers and went, oh, I bet I could win if I can't be cced in that way. So now, he can no longer be constrained or contained by the dancers in that way.
But the actual turning point of the fight was the worms - and Zhengui! - creating that opening for Ling Qi to win.
In both fights, his strategy was to aim straight at the leader and dodge or bulldoze the supports only if they got in his way. But he essentially ignored Ling Qi's supporting cast both times - and both times, the supports create opportunities that Ling Qi exploits.
I think this is very characteristic of him, and I suspect it's similar to how he would have won gang fights back in the day. KO the leader and the rest fall into line - but it doesn't quite work that way with bound spirit teammates!
One of Ling Qi's supports is a giant turtle and the other is incorporeal, neither give a damn about being targeted, or about AoE if Ji Rong had it. Targeting Sixiang would require some kind of esoteric spiritual attack, and the day someone is actually dumb enough to ignore Ling Qi and hit him instead will be the happiest in Zhengui's life.
Hanyi is the one he could go after, but she's also not a support in the normal sense, more of a secondary CC who takes other enemies out of the fight.
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- Location
- Florida
[X] Plan: Whispering on the Wind
[X] Plan: Fire and Flowers
Finally we can go mad scientist on our art's, as a side note I feel bad we left Bian Ya without speaking to her when she was clearly rattled by the expedition and this plan has a good chance of bringing her back and get to talk to her.
[X] Plan: Fire and Flowers
Finally we can go mad scientist on our art's, as a side note I feel bad we left Bian Ya without speaking to her when she was clearly rattled by the expedition and this plan has a good chance of bringing her back and get to talk to her.
- Location
- At the end of the world
It seems Ling Qi became even more scary. And I'm not even talking about a third type of fantoms that she now has (thanks to BKSD). No. It's her 'Wind Thief' laughter that is scary, because you do not expect it. LQ never laughs at public, more so in fights. That's why it's unnerving, because it feels unnatural, like something Hanui, you know daughter of spirit of heat death will do. And to think that I was against West wind. I seems to forget who stole it.
Good job Ling Qi, now you only need to up your Speech again, but this time turn it into Intimidate skill. Everyone would kneel to their new Overlady. 👍
[X] Plan: Rainbows and Glitter
[X] Plan: Fire and Flowers
[X] Plan: Fire and Flowers