Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
- Thread starter yrsillar
- Start date
- Original Users' Choice!
Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
- Location
- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
The elder's having different power level's is not surprising. My question is if there is different administrative levels of the elders. Like Minor Elder, Elder, Greater Elder.
[X] Plan: Social Meridians
-[X] High Pills (free)
-[X] Resources: 16 GSS, 8 YSS (8 free GSS, 8 from cash, 8 YSS from cash), Drip on Spiritual Cultivation
-[X] buy Gushing Spring Pill (60 SP)
-[X] Spiritual Cultivation (4 AP)
-[X] Songseeker's Ceremony (3 AP)
-[X] Frozen Soul Serenade Efficiency Upgrade (2 AP, Lung, Lung)
-[X] Meridian opening (2 AP, Spine, Head)
-[X] Beast King's Savage Dirge (1 AP)
-[X] Playful Muse's Rapport (1 AP)
-[X] Moonless Saboteur's Smile (2 AP)
-[X] Equipment: Unequip: Anchor of Eight Imperial Duties, Equip: Dusk Wind Studs
-[X] Sideboard: Combat/Adventure: HDW + MoSS <-> Social: PMR + MSS;Translation: RME + HDW + MoSS -> PMR + HDW
-[X] Upkeep: HDW (5) <-> MSS (5), RME (2), LFWT (15), WHR (3), UGM (5), SNR (10)
-[X] non-Upkeep: none
-[X] High Pills (free)
-[X] Resources: 16 GSS, 8 YSS (8 free GSS, 8 from cash, 8 YSS from cash), Drip on Spiritual Cultivation
-[X] buy Gushing Spring Pill (60 SP)
-[X] Spiritual Cultivation (4 AP)
-[X] Songseeker's Ceremony (3 AP)
-[X] Frozen Soul Serenade Efficiency Upgrade (2 AP, Lung, Lung)
-[X] Meridian opening (2 AP, Spine, Head)
-[X] Beast King's Savage Dirge (1 AP)
-[X] Playful Muse's Rapport (1 AP)
-[X] Moonless Saboteur's Smile (2 AP)
-[X] Equipment: Unequip: Anchor of Eight Imperial Duties, Equip: Dusk Wind Studs
-[X] Sideboard: Combat/Adventure: HDW + MoSS <-> Social: PMR + MSS;Translation: RME + HDW + MoSS -> PMR + HDW
-[X] Upkeep: HDW (5) <-> MSS (5), RME (2), LFWT (15), WHR (3), UGM (5), SNR (10)
-[X] non-Upkeep: none
- Location
- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
[X] Plan: Social Meridians
Arkeus
Crazy cat guy
- Location
- France
I parse minor elder the same way you do simply because there is also 'minor tutoring/major tutoring' with core disciples, so it following the same logic just makes sense.
As for 'levels' of Elders, Jiao is the head of Talisman, Hua Su is head of medicine, Ying is Head of ... mortal defense forces? unsure of the term. Iirc, @yrsillar confirmed not all elders are head of a department, so the ones which are head likely have greater influence on the sect.
I have a feeling that none of the elders want to be known as "minor elders"
- Location
- Staring into the void
DeusExBritannia
Red-White-Black-White
- Location
- Texas
Wait, this doesn't add up. 16 + 12 = 28. 8 + 8 + 8 = 24. Does this plan use 28 stones total or 24?
Hello, Thread! I just finished assimilating the story so far into my dantian through my ear meridians. Kudos to @yrsillar!
I confess, I had almost dropped the story when our heroine joined CRX after a close vote. It made sense from the munchkin perspective: the playerbase got their talent bonus for starting as a street rat and the resources of a ducal scion; and it seems to be working out.
But, I just couldn't see the free-spirited, Chaotic Neutral Ling Qi, whose most significant mentor was a sapient blizzard, and who got along with spirits and demihumans far better than she did with her human peers, submitting so unreservedly and irrevocably to the Lawful Neutral boss. (Once she agreed, my first thought, "So, when's CRX gonna order her to play her flute at a party?")
That said, I am glad that I persevered: while I am sad that Ling Qi's wild adventure was foreclosed, it is very interesting to watch her navigate her new conflicting reality while remaining true to herself.
I don't know how much time I will have to participate in the quest, but I look forward to seeing where this goes.
I confess, I had almost dropped the story when our heroine joined CRX after a close vote. It made sense from the munchkin perspective: the playerbase got their talent bonus for starting as a street rat and the resources of a ducal scion; and it seems to be working out.
But, I just couldn't see the free-spirited, Chaotic Neutral Ling Qi, whose most significant mentor was a sapient blizzard, and who got along with spirits and demihumans far better than she did with her human peers, submitting so unreservedly and irrevocably to the Lawful Neutral boss. (Once she agreed, my first thought, "So, when's CRX gonna order her to play her flute at a party?")
That said, I am glad that I persevered: while I am sad that Ling Qi's wild adventure was foreclosed, it is very interesting to watch her navigate her new conflicting reality while remaining true to herself.
I don't know how much time I will have to participate in the quest, but I look forward to seeing where this goes.
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- Location
- All around you.
- Pronouns
- Lord/Master/God
Edited Chapter:
If she spoke for it, Ling Qi knew Cai Renxiang would accept the deal. Normally, she might be able to influence her liege's thoughts one way or the other, but right now, she was in a unique position. She was the one with the invitation. Certainly others might be able to better parley with these foreigners, but she was the only one whom they knew could even open a dialogue. If she declined this, and spoke to Cai Renxiang about not wanting to endanger the main task, she thought the heiress would listen.
But, Ling Qi thought, this was an opportunity. The Meng were notoriously closed off, much like the Bai had been. A chance to begin a good relationship with one of their main family was not to be scoffed at. Perhaps there was some additional motive as well, but Ling Qi did not believe that outright sabotage was on the table.
"I will speak in favor of your offer, Lady Meng, although Lady Cai must have final say," Ling Qi said humbly.
"Naturally," Meng Diu agreed, dipping her head in acknowledgement.
"If I may," Ling Qi began carefully. "May I know something of your grandson, so that I may speak more clearly in my recommendation?"
"Meng Dan is a scholar," Meng Diu said, turning her gaze back to the rest of the guests. "And attends the Blue Mountain Sect, he follows the Way of the Hidden, with more singularity than yourself."
Sixiang chuckled in her head, and Ling Qi coughed uncomfortably. She didn't think Meng Diu was speaking directly against her scattered focus, but still. "I see, you believe his knowledge will be useful then?"
"That child has always been focused on the past, to his detriment at times," Meng Diu said musingly. "However, his mind is sharp and his ability to collate and analyze large amounts of information into useful form is exceptional."
"Well, given your arguments for doing this, that kind of thing does seem useful," Sixiang mused. "You're probably gonna be asked to go over every word and gesture they make with a fine toothed comb when you report in."
It seemed like it, Ling Qi thought. "Thank you very much, Lady Meng."
Again she gave a shallow nod. "Indeed. You may take your leave now, Baroness. The performance will begin soon, and I am certain that you would rather be in the company of peers."
"I would not reject Lady Meng's company," Ling Qi said, standing and giving a polite bow. "But I will thank you for releasing me to see to my other guests."
The older woman dismissed her with a wave of her sleeve. "Go, we may have more to speak of in the future."
One more bow, and then Ling Qi turned to leave, not letting the sigh of relief that wanted to escape out into the world. Leaving the range of the Meng's domain, she was soon greeting guests again, but only for a short time before she took a conspicuously empty seat next to Meizhen.
"You are well?" her friend asked evenly. She didn't turn her head from the stage as the lanterns arrayed around the room began to dim, signalling that the performance was nigh.
"Yes, just some negotiations," Ling Qi said, leaning back in her seat as she mentally prodded Zhengui to wakefulness. "I'll tell you about it later."
Meizhen raised an eyebrow, glancing her way, but made no more of it.
The curtain on the stage rose. If Ling Qi wasn't intimately familiar with her aura, she might not have recognized Hanyi. Her hair was done up and threaded through pale white flowers, and somehow, between the lightning and the cosmetics, her deathly pallor looked ethereal instead. As the curtains rose, Hanyi stepped forward, her hands clasped together, and began to sing.
Ling Qi breathed out, and let the melody wash over her and carry her away.
A soft wind blew, cold and brisk. The flakes began to fall, dancing like airy crystals under the pale silver light of the moon. The cold wind blew from the mountain high, where cold eternal lived, and with it descended the maiden. Daughter of ice, maiden of winter. With a train of purest white, and lilting song descended the maiden to the valley below, and with her came the snow.
"Peace, peace", whispered the wind.
And the snow did fall.
Branches bare of leaves swayed in the soft wind, cold wind, and withered grasp whispered along to the maidens song as the flakes fell, to paint the world in white. Across the valley brook danced the maiden, with long hair of black, woven with crystal flowers. In her steps trailed calm, burbling waters falling silent under the spread of ice. In the forest around did the tall and tired trees bow at her passing, branches heavy with snow. They passed into slumber well earned through the year, and the creaking of wood joined the song of the wind and snow.
Under falling snow the detritus of fall hid away, painted smooth by drifting white. Under maidens feet did signs of toil vanish, leaving only a land pristine and stark. Under the light of the moon, the maiden sang the silence of winter sleep. O beautiful maiden, most lovely of all; gone was the wilting decline of autumn, and distant were the chaos of spring and the toil of summer!
O winter, time of preservation and tales, when all the world quiets. O winter, when the people gather and share the spoils of a year hard won.
O winter, time of remembrance, when past becomes present in the mind, and memories of days gone by warm the soul. O winter, the time of cherishing, to hold tight what you have in the face of the cold.
O winter, who lives eternal upon the high mountaintop, forever and ever.
Outside danced the maiden, her train was the wind, and her laugh the rattle of window frames and the groan of roofs heavy with snow. Outside was the maiden, who would never return home. Daughter of ice eternal, the drifting snow and the whispering wind, who belonged now to the valley below.
Ling Qi breathed deep as the song went on, the image's of deepening winter dancing in her minds eye. Hanyi had been a little dishonest, to say that the maiden was not her. That was fine though, Ling Qi thought. It had taken a great deal of prodding from Sixiang to really tease things out.
"I guess I just think I've been trying too hard to be different from Momma," Hanyi had said dejectedly. "I want to do new things, and live like she said, but I still want to be her daughter, you know."
"I don't think there's anything wrong with that," Ling Qi had said. "It can be hard to find the right balance, between who you were, and who you want to be."
"Especially when most of us can't even easily really say what we want to be," Sixiang had mused, their voice a chime among the hanging ice.
Hanyi had nodded, scuffing her foot in the dirt. "…I'm not like Momma, but I'm still the winter. I don't think I can be anything else, not really. I don't really wanna be."
"And there's nothing wrong with that," Ling Qi had said, resting her hand on her shoulder. "So, let's figure out how to work that feeling in, okay?"
Ling Qi closed her eyes as the song reached its finish, a clash with the oncoming spring, a doomed battle that the maiden could not win, with the spring came the melt, and the rain, deluge and chaos.
But winter would be back, and peace with it, if they only endured.
Polite applause rang out through the hall. Ling Qi gazed around her, and saw that the guests seemed all in good humor. Most did not seem particularly excited or touched really, but here and there were a few. Beside her, Meizhen offered quiet applause with a thoughtful look, and somewhere behind them, she heard Wang Chao giving loud approval.
Peering out of the corner of her eye, she saw Meng Diu, her expression indecipherable. Yet, as she watched, she saw the older woman shake out her sleeves, revealing dainty hands as powder white as her face. She clapped three times.
On the stage Hanyi beamed as she lowered her upraised hands, and bowed to the audience as the curtain fell.
In the time after the show, Ling Qi got around to mingling with the rest of her guests. Hanyi stayed at her side the whole time, and was unfailingly well behaved. Sweet almost. It actually took Ling Qi a bit of effort not to laugh at what an inaccurate picture these young men and women were getting of her spirit, but she wasn't going to ruin Hanyi's fun.
Eventually, things wound down, and guests got on their way, leaving Ling Qi with her spirits, and Bao Qian backstage. Hanyi sat balanced on Zhengui's back, who had shrunk himself down to the size of a big dog to avoid doing any damage, and Bao Qian stood before them, counting out the nights proceeds.
"And this is you're share, young Miss," he said, Bao theatrically as he placed a small pouch in Hanyi's hands. "A wonderful first performance certainly. I hope you are ready to compose more songs in the future."
"Uh huh!" Hanyi said excitedly, tugging the drawstrings of the pouch open, inside were many glittering yellow stones and a single green one, shining like an emerald.
Hanyi gains 1 Green Spirit Stone, 75 Yellow Spirit Stones
"That's surprising, for just entrance fees. How does this place stay open, charging in green stones?" Ling Qi asked curiously. It didn't seem like the clientele was that wealthy.
"They do not," Bao Qian admitted. He cast her a searching look. "However, Lady Meng approached me to commission the first recording. That includes Miss Hanyi's part of the initial fee."
"Oh! Somebody is wanted to buy my song already! Isn't that great Big Sis?" Hanyi said happily, picking through and counting her stones.
"Mmhm, Hanyi is good!" Gui agreed cheerfully.
Bao Qian gave her a look, and Ling Qi just smiled. "I'm glad, you'll definitely be really popular," Ling Qi said, reaching down to muss Hanyi's carefully arranged hair. "Did anyone else see Lady Meng buy?", she asked Bao Qian.
"They did, though I am certain no one immediately recognized her. She was quite restrained," Bao Qian said shrewdly. "I shouldn't be surprised if word gets around however. I may have to prepare more materials."
Ling Qi nodded absently. She was definitely involved in matters beyond the Sect now, it was way too late to go back.
Month Vote Time!
Funds
Income:
Sect: 3 Green Stones 60 yellow
Liege: 4 Green Stones
Bao/Zhengui Deal: 4 green stones 20 Yellow
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
131 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?
[] High- 20 dice for 25 (40-15) red stones per action. Provided freely by Cai Renxiang
[] Very High- 30 dice for 60(75-15) red stones per action
Due to the Journey this month, Ling Qi will only have 15 AP and thirty Skill dice to spend. Family AP is suspended for one turn.
In addition cultivation sites are unusable this turn
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
[] 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)
Sorry I wasn't around lately; first I had no (stable) OS for 2½ days because I fucked up and coming down from the frustration did not call for ToD and since then I've been feeling under the weather because I didn't go out to catch sun, so now I'm on vitamin D supplements again instead (damn you, winter!) :Ü™
Not sure what this was supposed to be, but »where cold eternal lived,« sounds good to me. (The comma is necessary any way otherwise the descent becomes coupled with the cold instead of the wind)
This needs some kind of quoting and/or formatting. I'll go with a simple quoting: »"Peace, peace", whispered the wind.«
Bao
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Hanyi gains 1 Green Spirit Stone, 75 Yellow Spirit Stones
Meng
Bao
If she spoke for it, Ling Qi knew Cai Renxiang would accept the deal. Normally, she might be able to influence her liege's thoughts one way or the other, but right now, she was in a unique position. She was the one with the invitation. Certainly others might be able to better parley with these foreigners, but she was the only one whom they knew could even open a dialogue. If she declined this, and spoke to Cai Renxiang about not wanting to endanger the main task, she thought the heiress would listen.
But, Ling Qi thought, this was an opportunity. The Meng were notoriously closed off, much like the Bai had been. A chance to begin a good relationship with one of their main family was not to be scoffed at. Perhaps there was some additional motive as well, but Ling Qi did not believe that outright sabotage was on the table.
"I will speak in favor of your offer, Lady Meng, although Lady Cai must have final say," Ling Qi said humbly.
"Naturally," Meng Diu agreed, dipping her head in acknowledgement.
"If I may," Ling Qi began carefully. "May I know something of your grandson, so that I may speak more clearly in my recommendation?"
"Meng Dan is a scholar," Meng Diu said, turning her gaze back to the rest of the guests. "And attends the Blue Mountain Sect, he follows the Way of the Hidden, with more singularity than yourself."
Sixiang chuckled in her head, and Ling Qi coughed uncomfortably. She didn't think Meng Diu was speaking directly against her scattered focus, but still. "I see, you believe his knowledge will be useful then?"
"That child has always been focused on the past, to his detriment at times," Meng Diu said musingly. "However, his mind is sharp and his ability to collate and analyze large amounts of information into useful form is exceptional."
"Well, given your arguments for doing this, that kind of thing does seem useful," Sixiang mused. "You're probably gonna be asked to go over every word and gesture they make with a fine toothed comb when you report in."
It seemed like it, Ling Qi thought. "Thank you very much, Lady Meng."
Again she gave a shallow nod. "Indeed. You may take your leave now, Baroness. The performance will begin soon, and I am certain that you would rather be in the company of peers."
"I would not reject Lady Meng's company," Ling Qi said, standing and giving a polite bow. "But I will thank you for releasing me to see to my other guests."
The older woman dismissed her with a wave of her sleeve. "Go, we may have more to speak of in the future."
One more bow, and then Ling Qi turned to leave, not letting the sigh of relief that wanted to escape out into the world. Leaving the range of the Meng's domain, she was soon greeting guests again, but only for a short time before she took a conspicuously empty seat next to Meizhen.
"You are well?" her friend asked evenly. She didn't turn her head from the stage as the lanterns arrayed around the room began to dim, signalling that the performance was nigh.
"Yes, just some negotiations," Ling Qi said, leaning back in her seat as she mentally prodded Zhengui to wakefulness. "I'll tell you about it later."
Meizhen raised an eyebrow, glancing her way, but made no more of it.
The curtain on the stage rose. If Ling Qi wasn't intimately familiar with her aura, she might not have recognized Hanyi. Her hair was done up and threaded through pale white flowers, and somehow, between the lightning and the cosmetics, her deathly pallor looked ethereal instead. As the curtains rose, Hanyi stepped forward, her hands clasped together, and began to sing.
Ling Qi breathed out, and let the melody wash over her and carry her away.
***
A soft wind blew, cold and brisk. The flakes began to fall, dancing like airy crystals under the pale silver light of the moon. The cold wind blew from the mountain high, where cold eternal lived, and with it descended the maiden. Daughter of ice, maiden of winter. With a train of purest white, and lilting song descended the maiden to the valley below, and with her came the snow.
"Peace, peace", whispered the wind.
And the snow did fall.
Branches bare of leaves swayed in the soft wind, cold wind, and withered grasp whispered along to the maidens song as the flakes fell, to paint the world in white. Across the valley brook danced the maiden, with long hair of black, woven with crystal flowers. In her steps trailed calm, burbling waters falling silent under the spread of ice. In the forest around did the tall and tired trees bow at her passing, branches heavy with snow. They passed into slumber well earned through the year, and the creaking of wood joined the song of the wind and snow.
Under falling snow the detritus of fall hid away, painted smooth by drifting white. Under maidens feet did signs of toil vanish, leaving only a land pristine and stark. Under the light of the moon, the maiden sang the silence of winter sleep. O beautiful maiden, most lovely of all; gone was the wilting decline of autumn, and distant were the chaos of spring and the toil of summer!
O winter, time of preservation and tales, when all the world quiets. O winter, when the people gather and share the spoils of a year hard won.
O winter, time of remembrance, when past becomes present in the mind, and memories of days gone by warm the soul. O winter, the time of cherishing, to hold tight what you have in the face of the cold.
O winter, who lives eternal upon the high mountaintop, forever and ever.
Outside danced the maiden, her train was the wind, and her laugh the rattle of window frames and the groan of roofs heavy with snow. Outside was the maiden, who would never return home. Daughter of ice eternal, the drifting snow and the whispering wind, who belonged now to the valley below.
***
Ling Qi breathed deep as the song went on, the image's of deepening winter dancing in her minds eye. Hanyi had been a little dishonest, to say that the maiden was not her. That was fine though, Ling Qi thought. It had taken a great deal of prodding from Sixiang to really tease things out.
"I guess I just think I've been trying too hard to be different from Momma," Hanyi had said dejectedly. "I want to do new things, and live like she said, but I still want to be her daughter, you know."
"I don't think there's anything wrong with that," Ling Qi had said. "It can be hard to find the right balance, between who you were, and who you want to be."
"Especially when most of us can't even easily really say what we want to be," Sixiang had mused, their voice a chime among the hanging ice.
Hanyi had nodded, scuffing her foot in the dirt. "…I'm not like Momma, but I'm still the winter. I don't think I can be anything else, not really. I don't really wanna be."
"And there's nothing wrong with that," Ling Qi had said, resting her hand on her shoulder. "So, let's figure out how to work that feeling in, okay?"
Ling Qi closed her eyes as the song reached its finish, a clash with the oncoming spring, a doomed battle that the maiden could not win, with the spring came the melt, and the rain, deluge and chaos.
But winter would be back, and peace with it, if they only endured.
Polite applause rang out through the hall. Ling Qi gazed around her, and saw that the guests seemed all in good humor. Most did not seem particularly excited or touched really, but here and there were a few. Beside her, Meizhen offered quiet applause with a thoughtful look, and somewhere behind them, she heard Wang Chao giving loud approval.
Peering out of the corner of her eye, she saw Meng Diu, her expression indecipherable. Yet, as she watched, she saw the older woman shake out her sleeves, revealing dainty hands as powder white as her face. She clapped three times.
On the stage Hanyi beamed as she lowered her upraised hands, and bowed to the audience as the curtain fell.
In the time after the show, Ling Qi got around to mingling with the rest of her guests. Hanyi stayed at her side the whole time, and was unfailingly well behaved. Sweet almost. It actually took Ling Qi a bit of effort not to laugh at what an inaccurate picture these young men and women were getting of her spirit, but she wasn't going to ruin Hanyi's fun.
Eventually, things wound down, and guests got on their way, leaving Ling Qi with her spirits, and Bao Qian backstage. Hanyi sat balanced on Zhengui's back, who had shrunk himself down to the size of a big dog to avoid doing any damage, and Bao Qian stood before them, counting out the nights proceeds.
"And this is you're share, young Miss," he said, Bao theatrically as he placed a small pouch in Hanyi's hands. "A wonderful first performance certainly. I hope you are ready to compose more songs in the future."
"Uh huh!" Hanyi said excitedly, tugging the drawstrings of the pouch open, inside were many glittering yellow stones and a single green one, shining like an emerald.
Hanyi gains 1 Green Spirit Stone, 75 Yellow Spirit Stones
"That's surprising, for just entrance fees. How does this place stay open, charging in green stones?" Ling Qi asked curiously. It didn't seem like the clientele was that wealthy.
"They do not," Bao Qian admitted. He cast her a searching look. "However, Lady Meng approached me to commission the first recording. That includes Miss Hanyi's part of the initial fee."
"Oh! Somebody is wanted to buy my song already! Isn't that great Big Sis?" Hanyi said happily, picking through and counting her stones.
"Mmhm, Hanyi is good!" Gui agreed cheerfully.
Bao Qian gave her a look, and Ling Qi just smiled. "I'm glad, you'll definitely be really popular," Ling Qi said, reaching down to muss Hanyi's carefully arranged hair. "Did anyone else see Lady Meng buy?", she asked Bao Qian.
"They did, though I am certain no one immediately recognized her. She was quite restrained," Bao Qian said shrewdly. "I shouldn't be surprised if word gets around however. I may have to prepare more materials."
Ling Qi nodded absently. She was definitely involved in matters beyond the Sect now, it was way too late to go back.
Attribute rolls
Dex 3d6+3
3 1 2 3=9= 84/80 S rank achieved 4/120
Int 4d6+4
1 2 1 1 4=9 35/40
Presence 4d6+8
4 6 6 6 8=30 52/50 B Rank Achieved
Qi 8d6+16
1 1 6 6 3 3 6 6 4 16=52 88/80 A40 achieved
Perceptiveness 3d6+6
5 3 5 6=19 31/25 Perceptiveness capped
Sincere Negotiator 2d6+6
4 3 6=13 13/35
Beast Handling 4d6+12
1 1 3 3 12=20 25/15 D rank achieved
War 3d6+6
3 5 4 6=18 28/25 War capped
Art 1d6+3
3 3=6 10/10 Rank E achieved
Art(S) 10
10/20
Woodwind(S) 10
??? The Mist grows deeper
Dex 3d6+3
3 1 2 3=9= 84/80 S rank achieved 4/120
Int 4d6+4
1 2 1 1 4=9 35/40
Presence 4d6+8
4 6 6 6 8=30 52/50 B Rank Achieved
Qi 8d6+16
1 1 6 6 3 3 6 6 4 16=52 88/80 A40 achieved
Perceptiveness 3d6+6
5 3 5 6=19 31/25 Perceptiveness capped
Sincere Negotiator 2d6+6
4 3 6=13 13/35
Beast Handling 4d6+12
1 1 3 3 12=20 25/15 D rank achieved
War 3d6+6
3 5 4 6=18 28/25 War capped
Art 1d6+3
3 3=6 10/10 Rank E achieved
Art(S) 10
10/20
Woodwind(S) 10
??? The Mist grows deeper
240 to Spiritual
100 to Spiritual
100 to Physical
282 Domain XP
100 to Spiritual
100 to Physical
282 Domain XP
Month Vote Time!
Funds
Income:
Sect: 3 Green Stones 60 yellow
Liege: 4 Green Stones
Bao/Zhengui Deal: 4 green stones 20 Yellow
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
131 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?
[] High- 20 dice for 25 (40-15) red stones per action. Provided freely by Cai Renxiang
[] Very High- 30 dice for 60(75-15) red stones per action
Due to the Journey this month, Ling Qi will only have 15 AP and thirty Skill dice to spend. Family AP is suspended for one turn.
In addition cultivation sites are unusable this turn
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
[] 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)
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- Appraisal Green(8)
- Appraisal Bronze(8)
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Physical:
Strength: F
Dexterity: B
Stamina: D
Mental:
Intelligence: D
Wits: D
Resolve: C
Social:
Presence: A
Manipulation: C
Composure: C
Special:
Base Qi: B
Domain: ???
Attribute Bonuses:
+1 rank to Stamina tests (with Zhengui)
+10 stamina and resolve (TRF aura) -
Physical:
Athletics: C
Dance: D
Perceptiveness: C
Stealth: E
Mental:
Academics: F
Social:
Art: E
Spirit Ken: E
Empathy: E
Music: C(Max)
-Vocals: A
Speech: E [E5] (+5 Locket)
- Qualified Bonuses: +10 LWM
Martial:
Unarmed: G
Dodge: C
Fortitude: E
Fade: D
Resilience: C -
General:
Base Health: B10
Available Qi: B
- E rank qi regen with LQ domain active and Elegy up (bond 3)
Speed: C20-B10 (LQ domain 20)
Initiative: D10-C10 (LQ domain 20)
Resistances:
Damage Reductions: D vs Cold, E vs Dark
Ling Qi Domain (Bond 3, ranks modified by potency realitve to LQ):
- immune to compulsion or illusion-caused action against Bond 3+ for Effect Rank < B
Utility:
Stealth: D
Combat Perception: D
Social Perception: D
Poise: D10
Defense:
Physical
- Avoid: C15-B (+15 LQ active domain)
- Armor: D15-C15 (+10 TRF aura, +10 Zhengui Way)
-- Midnight Scattering: +40 once per combat (B5-B25)
Spiritual
- Avoid: C5-C15 (+10 LQ active domain)
- Armor: C20-B5 (+15 LQ active domain)
Offense:
Dance: (Physical)
- Hit: D10
- Penetration: C
Vocals: (Spiritual)
- Hit: B10
- Penetration: B20
Technique:
Dispel: -N/A-
Resist: [D10|C|C15] (Composure C+[D|C|B] Rank tech)
General:
Base Health: (Stamina D, Qi B) = C + LWM 15 + FPS 10 + Gown 15 = B10
Speed: (Dex C, Athletics C) = C+ FSC 20 = C20
- Qualified bonuses: +20 with Ling Qi Domain
Initiative: (Wits E, Dex C) = D + FPS 10 = D10
- Qualified bonuses: +20 with Ling Qi Domain
Utility:
Stealth: (Dex C, Stealth E) = D
Combat Perception: (Wits E, Perceptiveness C) = D
Social Perception: (Manip C, Empathy E) = D
Poise: (Composure C, Speech F) = E10 + Equip 20 (Robe 5, Locket 15) = D10
Physical Defense:
Avoid (Dex C, Dodge C) = C + FSC 15 = C15
- Qualified bonuses: +15 with Ling Qi active Domain
Armor (Stamina D, Fortitude: E) = E10 + Equip 25 = D15
- Qualified Bonuses: TRF aura 10, Zhengui way 10
Spirit Defense:
Avoid: (Manip C, Fade D) = D10 + FSC 15 = C5
- Qualified bonuses: +10 with Ling Qi active Domain
Armor: (Resolve C, Resilience C) = C + LWM 20 = C20
- Qualified bonuses: +15 with Ling Qi active Domain
Offense:
Physical (Unarmed)
- Hit: (Dex C, Unarmed G) = E
- Penetration: (Strength F, Unarmed G) = G5
Physical (Dance)
- Hit: (Dex C, Dance D) = D10
- Penetration: (Presence B, Dance D) = C
Spiritual (Vocals)
- Hit: (Manipulation C, Vocals B) = C15 + FPS 15, LWM 10 = B10
- Penetration: (Presence B, Vocals B) = B + FPS 20 = B20 -
- Way
- Lonely Winter Maiden
- Frozen Peak Serneade
- Maiden of the First Snow
- -N/A-
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Equipped Talismans:
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An elegant white dress with a midnight blue underlayer and swirling embroidery patterns reminiscent of wind and clouds. With a full length hem, flowing sleeves, and a closed collar, it is perfect for a demure young lady.
+25 to Physical Armor, +15 to Health, +5 to Poise and Speech
-Midnight Scattering: Once per combat, the user may activate the dress, which turns briefly black. They gain a +40 Bonus to physical armor against the attack which is currently hitting them. -
A small teardrop shaped white jade locket on a silver chain, which opens to show a portrait. A lesser type of the sympathetic talisman developed by Argent Sect's craftsmen, it draws on the bond between two people to grant confidence and poise to the wearer, typically a child, younger sibling or significant other.
This Locket contains a portrait of Hanyi seated on Ling Qi's lap. Hanyi is smiling brightly.
+15 to Poise - -Empty-
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What are our plans for FSS+? Like, I know we want to make it at turn 13, but what do we actually want from it?
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
"FSS but moreso, maybe finding some way of incorporating the insight we got from the original," probably: qi drain, debuffs, and biggatons damage. It's our only real fight-finisher, but it'll fall behind due to art potency, so we need a successor. Erebeal posted a design a few months ago, but people have yet to really dig into specific proposals yet because it's premature to fuss over details of implementation.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Yeah, a lot of people peg CRX as Lawful Neutral (The less charitable call her Lawful Evil), but the truth is that she's Lawful Good to the hilt and most of her problems boil down to "Most people aren't as good as I am, and I struggle to proactively determine when they aren't"
She's a good girl, by far one of the goodest in the cast, and it always give me a sad when people go "ACKTUALLY IT'S A CUNNING RUSE"
ImperatorV
The Laughing One
- Location
- The Voyaging Realm
I agree. I had her pegged as LG after her first real talk with LQ (we all know the one), and the aftermath of the BINO fight upgraded Renxiang from "Lawful Good" to "Actual legit paragon, what Paladins should aspire to be."
I think part of the reason Renxiang can come across as anything other then Lawful Good is that she doesn't view herself as Good. See that talk with LQ, and her calling herself a monster in the original version (the RR version cut that line). As for why she sees herself that way... Well, like most of Renxiang's problems, it's Shenhua's fault.
- Location
- the internet
Hey guys I had a thought. This coming turn, LQ is gonna travel past the Wall to get to the Forge-verse South Pole, right? The huge, mountainous Wall that is the focus of our Unstoppable Glacier March, our icy Damage art?
LQ is gonna see the epic icy mountain ranges and glaciers that make up the Wall. What actually inspired someone to make the UGM art. Witnessing the actual epicness in person should give her an insight into the art, right? I don't think its a stretch at all to expect that. Maybe she should cultivate UGM this turn???
The rivers which wind through and water the Emerald Seas have their origin in the high mountain ice of the Wall. This melody seeks to capture the crushing inevitably of the eons long migrations of these great entities of ice, which in turn birth the great rivers and their unstoppable flow.
Well, we have time, but since we have more info about making arts now, we might want to start discussing that, and start understanding what we wany, to avoid great mess when really creating the art. I for one would like to add some moon part to the art if it is possible, and increase area and damage
Black Noise
Curious
- Location
- About 1AU from Sol
Some mathy notes:
- Arts:
- Losing out on sites and the 0.1 intermediate lessons multi bonus is quite painful for the lower-multi arts, especially SSC, PMR and MSS.
- We're losing 0.3 multi from most arts other than the moon ones which lose 0.4; this translates to 60-90 lost xp/AP, so in a sense it's good that we're planned on a lot of meridian AP and art levels that aren't close to their breakpoints (though we'll be paying for those later probably).
- For specific arts:
- MSS is still fine on 2AP, in that it gets us level 3 (though it still loses ~100xp/AP)
- PMR is currently at 27% on 1AP (91% with +50 from omake, naths math doesn't account for the missing 0.1)
- SSC5 is at 1.1% in the originally planned 1AP, 8-9-10 points gets us 97.5-99.2-99.7% though so that's still a recoverable AP, though barring omake point commitment we're gonna have to eat this AP cost.
- Skills:
- Dex SS costing 120 makes up for some of the lost dice.
- No more event xp means lower gains but at least planning for specific targets should be a lot more reliable, expect an updated stat plan sometime when I get around to it.
- Losing site access means we're incentivized to train things that don't benefit from sites as much, I'm currently eyeing Int (poor roll but at least it canceled out somewhat with presence) and survival from the previous plan lineup.
- Other than that, social skills and others with the SSC keywrods are a bit of a wash since they're losing out on like +2xp/die, though we'll have an opportunity to further train them later. Other than government, I'm not seeing many close to a breakpoint, and gov is still at 74% of capping at 3 dice even without the +2.
- Unbroken will remains reasonable if we're still training SNR, otherwise it can probably wait unless we really want that skill rank up (8 xp away means 2-3 dice there).
- Still have to do base, since that's determining how fast we're getting to G5 and can start using another 4gss; delaying phys hurts but not as much since it's essentially just delaying wind thief in an already very busy period where it would compete with PLR/SNR mastery and the like.
- Not seeing a reason to deviate from turn 12 water arts+drugs followed by starting FSS+ turn 13; which means FSS meridian scrunching is necessary.
- Other than that, looking at previous plans there's an AP in SNR which didn't get us level 5 but rather reduced the cost by 1 for later, but now it looks like it's better to spend the AP on a meridian instead.
- Social arts still seem like a good idea despite the price hike, ideally without increasing their immediate AP cost though.
[X] Black Noise
We might get some xp from songseeker ceremony due to the journey, which would cover losses a bit