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

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If we get time to work on our spirits then we need to focus on increasing Hanyi health, defence or dogdge to make her less yeetable. As right now she goes down quickly out of group.
 
Your fight scene is as amazing as ever. The way you write it is just so artistic and it fits so well with xianxia setting. I can't wait to see what the loot ends up being.
 
Yeah, if we actually complete the this mission to the duchesses satisfaction we should get our permanently physical soirits some better gear.
 
So a random thought, is the next vote going to be how to split the loot? Because a draft (where Xia Lin and Ling Qi take turns claiming things) is the most fair, as it gives each side a chance at what they want or need, and given the difference between the two, needs shouldn't overlap, and there's nothing that stands out at being so valuable that both sides would want it, but a draft vote would be hell, as the priority of picks in a draft can change pick by pick so even having us vote to rank items by priority and having Xia Lin's list and then just checking of each item in turn can result in super imbalanced picks.
 
Zeful said:
So a random thought, is the next vote going to be how to split the loot? Because a draft (where Xia Lin and Ling Qi take turns claiming things) is the most fair, as it gives each side a chance at what they want or need, and given the difference between the two, needs shouldn't overlap, and there's nothing that stands out at being so valuable that both sides would want it, but a draft vote would be hell, as the priority of picks in a draft can change pick by pick so even having us vote to rank items by priority and having Xia Lin's list and then just checking of each item in turn can result in super imbalanced picks.
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My hope and desire is we are given things and Xia Lin is given things either purely and preferably by QM fiat as per usual or by at most a "here is a list of what's available with arbitrary point costs and here are your arbitrary points, vote by plan until you run out of points" approach so as to avoid the ludicrous amount of argumentation and votes required to go through even a single "split the loot" phase, heaven forbid multiple such votes.

Getting loot is fun, arguing over every minutia of a loot split isn't.
 
Maybe do a vote for one or two pieces of prime loot that both could use, but have most of the stuff just be divied up by QM fiat based on who can use it the most.
 
Based on past examples it'd probably be just a straight out auto-split, Ling Qi and Xia Lin has basically no overlaps in talisman and cultivation material needs outside of generic stones. We may vote or randomly derive a piece of particularly memorable object that won't be blendered immediately into stones-equivalents.

Me, I'm hoping for some new formation manuals. The Hui have some stuff that'd be right up Qi's alley more than Suyin's necromancy 101
 
dycouza said:
lets not forget that this, singing and dreaming forth a sanctuary where she is in control, is her ultimate ambition.
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Was. When a person rejects something as she did, it intrinsically means it's not their greatest goal. She proved that not taking agency from those she loved mattered more to her than keeping them for herself. It's an urge, yes, but that gives it no special meaning besides a reference for how far she's grown since then.
 
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adaer said:
Was. When a person rejects something as she did, it intrinsically means it's not their greatest goal. She proved that not taking agency from those she loved mattered more to her than keeping them for herself. It's an urge, yes, but that gives it no special meaning besides a reference for how far she's grown since then.
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She didn't reject making a home for those she loves. She recognized that the home Zeqing painted was selfish and possessive, it was one sided in how it was what Ling Qi wanted but didn't consider if it was also what they wanted. Meizhen does not want to leave the Bai, none of her friends want to leave their families and all they've ever known to be one of Ling Qi's friends as she hides herself away. Ling Qi resolved that she would build her home but that it must respect the desires of not just herself but her family and friends who would live in it.

The Insight was a specification, not a rejection, of the kind of home she will one day build. She would still create a domain where she has the power to make of it what she wants, but ultimate control does not mean ultimately controlling. She isn't the kind of composer who demands others follow her tune like the Radiant Tyrant, and would rather others add their own to the composition in Music less purely Ling Qi yet closer to what her desire.
 
dycouza said:
She didn't reject making a home for those she loves. She recognized that the home Zeqing painted was selfish and possessive, it was one sided in how it was what Ling Qi wanted but didn't consider if it was also what they wanted. Meizhen does not want to leave the Bai, none of her friends want to leave their families and all they've ever known to be one of Ling Qi's friends as she hides herself away. Ling Qi resolved that she would build her home but that it must respect the desires of not just herself but her family and friends who would live in it.

The Insight was a specification, not a rejection, of the kind of home she will one day build. She would still create a domain where she has the power to make of it what she wants, but ultimate control does not mean ultimately controlling. She isn't the kind of composer who demands others follow her tune like the Radiant Tyrant, and would rather others add their own to the composition in Music less purely Ling Qi yet closer to what her desire.
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...Yes. She rejected what Zequing showed her. Not making a place for those she loved, but doing it that way.
 
Neshuakadal said:
One thing I have loved in this arc is how the arrogance of the Hui has been described. We've been told they were arrogant, but in this arc we truly see it.

In the opening parts of this arc Ling Qi describes the formations as powerful but fragile. The Hui weren't interested in building civic formations. Formations meant for use by those who might not be able to care for them. The Hui also believed that there would always be another Hui to do maintenance on their work. Disinterest for those below them and belief in their continued existence was baked into their formations.

Then during the fight Hui Peng refers to Ling Qi as slave. As if the idea that someone would stand against them is so unintuitive that the rebel lacks free will. To me it is a belief of supreme arrogance that those who oppose you have lost free will.

Subtle details that reinforce the incredible arrogance of the Hui are so interesting to see.
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It cannot be ascertained for sure what the slave comment meant.

It could indeed be what you said. But it may also be that they consider anyone not of noble ancestry a slave. It could just be racist cuz Ling Qi's ethnicity , if I remember right, is of the hill people, due to her father, and she looks the part. It could refer to her art being "muddied" by mortality. It could mean something other than that...
 
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