Ah yes good old Fey "I cannot lie, but will totally take liberties with the truth if you give me reason to do so".
Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
- Thread starter yrsillar
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Wait, do you need reason?
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- UK
Spiders got literally ROFLstomped haha.
Wonder what Xia Lin is thinking about that. Maybe just as shocked as the spiders as how quick that fight was.
Now time to loot them!
Nomads do not generally engage in advanced intrigue like that. High level backstabbing is an emergent product of highly stratified civilization, its a skillset mainly useful if you wish to avoid conflict while also weakening your enemies, where for a nomad, thats a great way for everyone to die to external threats.
The Cloud Nomads are self professed to be unhappy about negotiating with the underground, but they did so anyway. Not particularly fitting them.
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- Florida
It'd be nice to have a spot of tea with the spiders topside, they must love the juicy gossip we'd share and have a laugh at the story of the spider hobo's below
Varder
Tired Cultist
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- Hell
Now that I think about it, flying thunder spiders are a cool enemy to face.
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- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
Thank you for the nightmares.
Li Suyin agrees
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- Florida
I was thinking about all those stories about god's hiding as poor old people earlier on the previous vote, their warning's and teach you to be polite in case such a thing were to occur.
She's going to be big sad when we tell her we didn't manage to make friends here.
Lol yeah it's one thing to read the reports and intellectually know that a Cai would never suffer an incompetent to pal around with them. It's another to meet that person, who outwardly seems like a flighty musician who has a comedy routine as her spririt host. Then they casually walk into an known ambush, trip the trap, and grind their enemies under their boot with the weight of an epoch's worth of glacial might
In what world do you see the Duchess allowing a surviving Hui to continue surviving beyond the moment they came to her attention?
She should chat with people about going on Adventure with Ling Qi.
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- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
All the time providing real time updates on the position of each hidden spider moving around.
One in which the surviving Hui could pay for the privilege.
Yes as Fey have a sliding scale of truthfulness, and are often inhuman in logic meaning they can do some amusing jumps through hoops if you give them reason to do so.
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- Third planet from the star named Sol
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- He/They
Ling Qi put honesty and self-truth into her Way. She can't lie to herself without violating her own truths, and she's not going to lie to others if she can at all help it. But technical truths are still completely sincere, it's not her fault someone lacks the clarity to divine the truth within those 'deceptive' words.
Teleporting spiders were always the worst in Baldur's Gate
Yeah, a line that cheesy really earned them their fate.
Well, it was a joke. I thought more of the Aes Sedai in wheel of time, as they too can't lie and deceive in the same way, but seldom do they tell the truth unless they have actual reason to do so.
They just seem to deceive and keep secrets for fun
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Varder
Tired Cultist
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- Hell
I actually kinda liked it...
The funny bit is that their illusions were the ones that were shattered.
'Lord Scribbler' sounds like he'll be an interesting antagonist, a writing-based spymaster of the Hui that we can't just defeat but who uses other characters and intrigue against us. Ling Qi and Xia Lin travels around investigating where CRX and Meng Dan points them, Ling Qi steals documents that they may match their own administrative skills against. All the while Gan Guangli plays defense by inspiring loyalty in our own institutions.
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- Somewhere.
Quite true, that.
Hey yrs I think you're missing something around here. (Also, typo.)