[X] Claim the tapestry as part of your share and give the Meng right of first refusal(-.5 multiplier to loot auction value. +1 Meng opinion)
[X][talisman] Dream Drenched Compass:
-[X] Perceptiveness, Survival: A Navigational aid for use in the Liminal Realm
[X][talisman] Flask of Spirits (for Sixiang)
-[X] Improves Dispel. If someone actually imbibes a significant amount from it all their effects are Dispelled and they immediately fall asleep. This has no effect on Cyan or above.
[X][talisman] Liminal Scrying Mirror
-[X]Enhances scrying and allows one to peer and step into the Liminal Realm
Shifting my votes now that more ideas are out there:
[X][talisman] Liminal Scrying Mirror
-[X]Enhances scrying and allows one to peer and step into the Liminal Realm
[X][talisman] Flask of Spirits (for Sixiang)
-[X] Improves Dispel. If someone actually imbibes a significant amount from it all their effects are Dispelled and they immediately fall asleep. This has no effect on Cyan or above.
[X][talisman] Sash
-[X] +Projection, allows the user to apply taunt effect on projections and constructs
"Oh, this is a shiny one, I like it," Sixiang said, lying back on the polished surface of an antique table. They held a slip of white jade up to their face as if they could look into it with their eyes.
Ling Qi glanced up from the near empty box and the jade slips arranged on the cover of a massive atlas of the Emerald Sea that lay on the floor before her. "Oh, what do we have there?" She asked cheerfully
Sixiang flicked it to her, and Ling Qi caught it out of the air, threading qi into the talisman to read the encoded information. Ling Qi frowned only a moment later. "Sixiang this is another play."
"But it's really intriguing, you know? I want to see how things turn out for the general and the prince. Can't we watch it?" Sixiang replied with a grin, letting their head hang off the table to peer at her upside down.
Ling Qi huffed. "And I told you we could see about investigating things more closely later. We're organizing right now."
Despite her words, Ling Qi did want to look into it further. Many of the jade slips recorded performances, poetry and songs. While they didn't seem to contain techniques or Arts obviously, she could tell that there were insights to be found. As a musician, she had the itch to study the scores and the meter, but she just didn't have time right now.
"Boo, I'm gonna hold you to that later," Sixiang huffed.
"They're not even full recordings. If anything you should be bothering me to sell them to a theatre troupe so we can see them performed properly," Ling Qi shot back. There was no heat in it though. She really had hit a treasure trove here. There were dozens of arts here, mostly minor second realm things, but a few breached the third realm. From her study they did not seem much lower in quality than her old Thousand Ring Defense Art, she was beyond them herself, but she could still see their value.
She would have to split them with Xia Lin of course, and she could already see ones the girl might be interested in, but even so, it was a great boon for her burgeoning clan library. More important though, were the five jade slips that she had added to a third pile.
They contained teachings on the crafting and modification of arts, and even a cursory glance had shown that their lessons were far deeper than the basic instruction offered by her Sect lessons. There was musing on the shape of meridians, on insights and tribulations and breakthroughs that she knew she would want to study more closely later.
It took a moment for Ling Qi to tear her eyes away from the remaining jade slips and turn her head to see how Meng Dan was doing. All around him were neat stacks of documents, books and treasures, and dozens more floated around him, swiftly organizing themselves even as Meng Dan himself remained standing before the tapestry rapidly going back and forth between it and the book. "Any luck so far?"
"I believe I may have found the trouble," Meng Dan said sourly. "The reason our prince has been so hard to find."
Ling Qi glanced from Meng Dan to the tapestry. He was glaring at it, and the tapestry was giving off an air of haughty indifference. "What is the problem then?"
"Whatever miscreant embroidered the earlier names changed those that did not fit the dominant imperial and Weilu naming schema," Meng Dan said. He sounded as if he had been gravely insulted. "I have enough context that I was able to locate him by the princess and her relations."
Ling Qi gave the tapestry a long look, and considered the ravings of Hui Peng, written and otherwise. "I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Does he even have an entry in the book?"
"He does," Meng Dan sniffed. "Although he is recorded merely as a 'southern prince' with few accomplishments. It seems that the High Kingship moved to a more northerly line after his father-in-law's passing."
"The line continues though, right?" Ling Qi asked in concern. It would be problematic for their argument if the line dead ended.
"I am determining that, he and the princess certainly had children at least," Meng Dan replied. "Tracing those lines is proving more difficult however."
Ling Qi nodded, looking back to her own work as she took up another jade slip. Threading qi through the formation, she peered at the information, and this time she paused.
"Heh, I know that look. Found something you like this time, huh?" Sixiang chuckled.
"Maybe," Ling Qi said. The jade was partially locked, revealing only a few tantalizing bits of information, it was the a recipe for a potent breakthrough elixir meant to aid in achieving the fourth realm and the opening of the middle dantian. Heart's Dream elixir it was called.
But the information encoded within was clouded from her sight. It was going to take time to puzzle through, but even what scraps she could make out told her that it's ingredients would not be easy to acquire. It looked like she might have picked up a new long term project to be done with Suyin.
***
Ling Qi was not certain how long it was before the last old talisman was placed in a pile. Time was hard to keep in this sunless little pocket realm. But it was at last done. Ling Qi stretched her arms overhead as she surveyed the contents of the ring. Still a mess, but a catalogued mess. Sort of.
Things were mostly piled with similar things anyway.
"Any luck yet?" Ling Qi asked, turning back to Meng Dan. He had fallen back into a chair at some point, with Yinhui perched on its arm. The book lay open in his lap and a pile of densely written notes had begun to pile up beside his chair.
"I have begun to gain a picture of events," Meng Dan said with some satisfaction. "The minor civil strife which ended the High King's rule, the passing of his grandchildren into the care of other tribes…. I have traced a few generations, they seem to have been on the winning side of the mason's war at least. Signs seem to indicate that their blood concentrated in the southwest. There may be some connection to the fallen Li."
"Is that bad?" Ling Qi asked. "That's still the dead end problem again."
"Ah, but both my family and the Diao adopted refugees from that clan when absorbing their lands," Meng Dan said cheerfully. "Not to mention intermarriages. If I am correct, our argument remains solid."
"Good," Ling Qi said in relief. "Do you need anymore help, or should I head out and let Lady Cai know that the organization is mostly done?"
She was feeling significantly better, her qi beginning to recover well. So they must have been in here for awhile.
Meng Dan nodded, closing the book in his lap and gathering his notes as he stood. "I believe so. Meaning no offense, but the work remaining is rather more in my realm of expertise."
"I take none," Ling Qi said. "Are you coming out as well then?"
"I think I shall, this place is rather dreary," he agreed cheerfully.
"I will remain unless called," Yinhui murmured, sliding into his chair with a tome the size of her torso in hand. "It is comfortable here."
"Only for you," Sixiang chuckled. "I'll be glad to get out."
Ling Qi nodded, preparing to leave the ring, only to pause as Meng Dan extended a hand to her, holding a sheet of paper, packed with his dense hand writing.
"A small gift, Miss Ling," he said, dipping his head. "While I acknowledge your earlier words…"
Ling Qi took the paper as he spoke, glancing down to see names and deeds. A musician in court of the second Weilu duke, a brave general who had been lauded for saving a burgeoning city from an eruption of malignant spirits, and playwright whose performances were in circulation until their loss in the disappearance were the first to catch her eye. There more than a half dozen others as well. They were not dukes or provincial heroes or truly notable historical figures, but at a glance, they seemed good people at least.
"…I do not believe it is a good thing to dismiss one's ancestry wholesale. Many of our predecessors were foul, this is true, but many were admirable as well," Meng Dan said. "A single man is not a family tree."
Ling Qi paused. She had already dismissed thoughts of ancestry from her head. It was a curio, she had thought, no reason to give it more thought than that. "There was no need."
There really was no harm in knowing she supposed.
"I am being somewhat presumptuous, I know," Meng Dan shrugged. "Putting my own belief upon you. But I think it is a sad thing to have no roots."
"...It's fine, and thank you I think," Ling Qi said after a moment. Some names looked a little familiar, had there not been a few talismans with that name etched upon them, and a sculpture matched to that one?
It might not be the worst thing, to put those in her claims.
"Although, if you wish to track the 'other side' I may have to charge," Meng Dan chuckled. "That cantankerous old talisman does not much like maternal bloodlines."
Ling Qi blinked. She had said… The man had ruled other Weilu, so it made some sense that his… dalliance would be somewhere as well.
"I'll consider it," Ling Qi said, folding the parchment. "But let us get out for now."
***
Ling Qi had not been certain what she expected to see when she emerged, but this was not it.
Under the dark canopy of the valley, lit by the fey lights and the eyes of the wood spirits lurking among every bough, were spiders in their thousands. They stood in a glistening castle of webbing, woven among millenia old trees. In the center, hovering above the form of a great brown spider the size of s small house, Cai Renxiang burned like a star with wings of radiance on her shoulders.
The spiders bowed, one and all, pressing their bodies to the ground, to the webs, to the branches. A gesture of supplication, obvious despite their inhuman frames.
"Negotiations are complete then. The House of Cai accepts your reparations and your oaths," Cai Renxiang said.
…Well, it looked like they both had some things to share.
AN: Time for some loot voting as we finish out this arc. Firstly on the fate of the tapestry.
[] Claim the tapestry as part of your share and give the Meng right of first refusal(-.5 multiplier to loot auction value. +1 Meng opinion)
[] Claim the tapestry as part of your share, but make no agreement(-.5 multiplier to loot auction value)
[] Allow Xia Lin to claim the tapestry (.5 multiplier to loot auction value)
Yes, this means that there is an auction arc coming in your future. Secondly, there are a huge number of talismans minor and powerful, please vote as in Talisman creation to generate mechanically useful accessory Talisman's to claim.
Use the following format
[][talisman] Physical form of talisman
-[]Derived attribute or skill Talisman buffs
Talismans such as your formation breaking tools are valid, those would be a formation buffing talisman for example. These are not weapons however, so don't try to design them that way. We'll get to your flute eventually. Each person may create one talisman, the three talismans with the most votes will be claimed by Ling Qi.
Few things to edit for me in this update.
As for the tapestry vote: As it stands giving up the tapestry is effectively a tripling of the auction value which is very nice. I have no interest in keeping the tapestry so only the Meng ROFR option is attractive in that sense but I'll go ahead and vote for auction value before reading the discussion :Ü™ [X] Allow Xia Lin to claim the tapestry (.5 multiplier to loot auction value)
Edit: Time to throw in a suggestion of my own. I heard stealth is one of the things on our wishlist so I'll pitch one of those.
[X][talisman] Hood made of mutedly shimmering fabric. Covers the head and shoulders but does not fall much further than that.
-[X] Improves the wearer's stealth by smoothing out the footprint of the wearer's spirit on the liminal realm. Effect is activated by pulling the hood up.
Other suggestion I find neat:
[X][talisman] Dream Drenched Compass:
-[X] Perceptiveness, Survival: A Navigational aid for use in the Liminal Realm
[X][talisman] A mirror that appears full of shimmering mist
-[X] Enhances abilities that involve shifting things in and out of Dream Edit: In case Erebeal changes the wording to of the talisman, I'll add the alternative flavour in advance:
[X][talisman] Dreampearl: A fist-sized pearl that shimmers with the colours of the rainbow and doesn't seem to be entirely there...
-[X] Enhances abilities that involve shifting things in and out of Dream
[X][talisman] A triptych of a misty forest. If one looks closely perhaps they will see a small quartet of misty figures in the distance of the woods.
-[X] When sung too the triptych absorbs the sounds. A short while after the song ends the triptych will sing back to the user. It seems to be a way to study your own songs. The triptych does not hold onto the song for more than an hour.
[X][talisman] Practicioner's Divining Rings, a set of large inscribed rings that offer much of the benefit of a more traditional stationary scrying setup for the practitioner on the move.
-[X] When channeling a divination art across the rings, they serve to stabilize and enhance the connection offering the user much finer control, and additionally aid in piercing any illusions or barriers that may bar one's sight.
[X][talisman] Sash
-[X] +Projection, allows the user to apply taunt effect on projections and constructs
[X][talisman] Flask of Spirits (for Sixiang)
-[X] Improves Dispel. If someone actually imbibes a significant amount from it all their effects are Dispelled and they immediately fall asleep. This has no effect on Cyan or above.
[X][talisman] Sash
-[X] +Projection, allows the user to apply taunt effect on projections and constructs
[X] Mask of the Dramatic Entrance
-[X] Gives +Stealth, upon Stealth breaking (whether by user choice or enemy detection) switches to a lesser bonus to Projection and applies a free taunt effect to all enemies that can observe the user. Taunt may be reactivated every other turn for a qi cost.
[X][talisman] DreamCatcher
-[X] Protects the wearer from having nightmares in their sleep and mitigates damage from events taking place in the Liminal Realm.
[X][talisman] Flask of Spirits (for Sixiang)
-[X] Improves Dispel. If someone actually imbibes a significant amount from it all their effects are Dispelled and they immediately fall asleep. This has no effect on Cyan or above.
[X][talisman] Sash
-[X] +Projection, allows the user to apply taunt effect on projections and constructs
[][talisman] A mirror that appears full of shimmering mist
-[] Enhances abilities that involve shifting things in and out of Dream
[][talisman] Liminal Scrying Mirror
-[]Enhances scrying and allows one to peer and step into the Liminal Realm
Ehh.. these two seem to be the exact same thing
[X][talisman] Liminal Scrying Mirror
-[X]Enhances scrying and allows one to peer and step into the Liminal Realm
[X][talisman] Flask of Spirits (for Sixiang)
-[X] Improves Dispel. If someone actually imbibes a significant amount from it all their effects are Dispelled and they immediately fall asleep. This has no effect on Cyan or above.
[X][talisman] Sash
-[X] +Projection, allows the user to apply taunt effect on projections and constructs
[X] Mask of the Dramatic Entrance
-[X] Gives +Stealth, upon Stealth breaking (whether by user choice or enemy detection) switches to a lesser bonus to Projection and applies a free taunt effect to all enemies that can observe the user. Taunt may be reactivated every other turn for a qi cost.
[X] Claim the tapestry as part of your share and give the Meng right of first refusal(-.5 multiplier to loot auction value. +1 Meng opinion)
[X] Allow Xia Lin to claim the tapestry (.5 multiplier to loot auction value)
[X][talisman] Flask of Spirits (for Sixiang)
-[X] Improves Dispel. If someone actually imbibes a significant amount from it all their effects are Dispelled and they immediately fall asleep. This has no effect on Cyan or above.
[X][talisman] A triptych of a misty forest. If one looks closely perhaps they will see a small quartet of misty figures in the distance of the woods.
-[X] When sung too the triptych absorbs the sounds. A short while after the song ends the triptych will sing back to the user. It seems to be a way to study your own songs. The triptych does not hold onto the song for more than an hour.
[X][talisman] DreamCatcher -[X] Protects the wearer from having nightmares in their sleep and mitigates damage from events taking place in the Liminal Realm.
[X][talisman] Practicioner's Divining Rings, a set of large inscribed rings that offer much of the benefit of a more traditional stationary scrying setup for the practitioner on the move. -[X] When channeling a divination art across the rings, they serve to stabilize and enhance the connection offering the user much finer control, and additionally aid in piercing any illusions or barriers that may bar one's sight.
[X][talisman] Dreaming Scribe's Quill, a writing tool used for composing text imbued in Dream qi. Intended as a learning aid for initaites into the Liminal realm. -[X] Using this quill to write about a dream one had recently causes that dream to repeat itself for the author. Paired up with the right ink, it can be used to cause specific kinds of dreams on others.
[X][talisman] Brick of Conflagration
-[X] A charred brick that was once part in multiple destroyed and rebuilt fortresses.
-[X] Destroys a Qi construct you created, either refunding Qi proportional to how damaged it is or burning it down increased by how undamaged it is.
[X][talisman] Practicioner's Divining Rings, a set of large inscribed rings that offer much of the benefit of a more traditional stationary scrying setup for the practitioner on the move.
[X] Claim the tapestry as part of your share and give the Meng right of first refusal(-.5 multiplier to loot auction value. +1 Meng opinion)
While they are not talismans per se, what about cultivator food/consumables? A good meal, some cultivator tea or my favorite of those:
[X][talisman] A Bottle of cultivator wine
-[X] Can be consumed by a cultivator of appropriate realm to get drunk. Will be spent when used.
Maybe this is stretching this vote a bit far, but i think some consumables among the other stuff would not be unreasonable to expect. I'd imagine that their value would also be within limits (or they might just get downshifted a realm), even if those items were uncommon.
[X] Claim the tapestry as part of your share and give the Meng right of first refusal(-.5 multiplier to loot auction value. +1 Meng opinion)
[X][talisman] Dream Drenched Compass:
-[X] Perceptiveness, Survival: A Navigational aid for use in the Liminal Realm
[X][talisman] Flask of Spirits (for Sixiang)
-[X] Improves Dispel. If someone actually imbibes a significant amount from it all their effects are Dispelled and they immediately fall asleep. This has no effect on Cyan or above.
[X][talisman] A mirror that appears full of shimmering mist
-[X] Enhances abilities that involve shifting things in and out of Dream
[X][talisman] A mirror that appears full of shimmering mist
-[X] Enhances abilities that involve shifting things in and out of Dream
[X][talisman] Dream Drenched Compass:
-[X] Perceptiveness, Survival: A Navigational aid for use in the Liminal Realm
[X][talisman] Practicioner's Divining Rings, a set of large inscribed rings that offer much of the benefit of a more traditional stationary scrying setup for the practitioner on the move.
-[X] When channeling a divination art across the rings, they serve to stabilize and enhance the connection offering the user much finer control, and additionally aid in piercing any illusions or barriers that may bar one's sight.
[X][talisman] Liminal Scrying Mirror
-[X]Enhances scrying and allows one to peer and step into the Liminal Realm
[X] Claim the tapestry as part of your share and give the Meng right of first refusal(-.5 multiplier to loot auction value. +1 Meng opinion)
[X][talisman] Dream Drenched Compass:
-[X] Perceptiveness, Survival: A Navigational aid for use in the Liminal Realm
[X][talisman] A mirror that appears full of shimmering mist
-[X] Enhances abilities that involve shifting things in and out of Dream
[X][talisman] Practicioner's Divining Rings, a set of large inscribed rings that offer much of the benefit of a more traditional stationary scrying setup for the practitioner on the move.
-[X] When channeling a divination art across the rings, they serve to stabilize and enhance the connection offering the user much finer control, and additionally aid in piercing any illusions or barriers that may bar one's sight.
[X][talisman] Flask of Spirits (for Sixiang)
-[X] Improves Dispel. If someone actually imbibes a significant amount from it all their effects are Dispelled and they immediately fall asleep. This has no effect on Cyan or above.
[X][talisman] Comb of Forgotten Memories
-[X] Perceptiveness, Stealth. A strange and ethereal comb, the eyes easily slide away from it but when successfully focused on it evokes a feeling of eerie familiarity.
[X] Claim the tapestry as part of your share and give the Meng right of first refusal(-.5 multiplier to loot auction value. +1 Meng opinion)
[X][talisman] Dream Drenched Compass:
-[X] Perceptiveness, Survival: A Navigational aid for use in the Liminal Realm
[X][talisman] Liminal Scrying Mirror
-[X]Enhances scrying and allows one to peer and step into the Liminal Realm
[X][talisman] Practicioner's Divining Rings, a set of large inscribed rings that offer much of the benefit of a more traditional stationary scrying setup for the practitioner on the move.
-[X] When channeling a divination art across the rings, they serve to stabilize and enhance the connection offering the user much finer control, and additionally aid in piercing any illusions or barriers that may bar one's sight.
[X][talisman] Phantasm Tea Set
-[X] A crisp white etheraly tea set that said to shown up on day, it's mysteriously always full, used for peering into Liminal Realm as well as aide for scrying through it's tea.
[X] Claim the tapestry as part of your share and give the Meng right of first refusal(-.5 multiplier to loot auction value. +1 Meng opinion)
[X][talisman] Dream Drenched Compass:
-[X] Perceptiveness, Survival: A Navigational aid for use in the Liminal Realm
[X][talisman] A mirror that appears full of shimmering mist
-[X] Enhances abilities that involve shifting things in and out of Dream
[X][talisman] Flask of Spirits (for Sixiang)
-[X] Improves Dispel. If someone actually imbibes a significant amount from it all their effects are Dispelled and they immediately fall asleep. This has no effect on Cyan or above.
[X] Claim the tapestry as part of your share and give the Meng right of first refusal(-.5 multiplier to loot auction value. +1 Meng opinion)
[X][talisman] Comb of Forgotten Memories
-[X] Perceptiveness, Stealth. A strange and ethereal comb, the eyes easily slide away from it but when successfully focused on it evokes a feeling of eerie familiarity.
[X][talisman] A triptych of a misty forest. If one looks closely perhaps they will see a small quartet of misty figures in the distance of the woods.
-[X] When sung too the triptych absorbs the sounds. A short while after the song ends the triptych will sing back to the user. It seems to be a way to study your own songs. The triptych does not hold onto the song for more than an hour.
[X][talisman] Practicioner's Divining Rings, a set of large inscribed rings that offer much of the benefit of a more traditional stationary scrying setup for the practitioner on the move.
-[X] When channeling a divination art across the rings, they serve to stabilize and enhance the connection offering the user much finer control, and additionally aid in piercing any illusions or barriers that may bar one's sight.
[X] Claim the tapestry as part of your share and give the Meng right of first refusal(-.5 multiplier to loot auction value. +1 Meng opinion)
[X][talisman] Dream Drenched Compass:
-[X] Perceptiveness, Survival: A Navigational aid for use in the Liminal Realm
[X][talisman] Flask of Spirits (for Sixiang)
-[X] Improves Dispel. If someone actually imbibes a significant amount from it all their effects are Dispelled and they immediately fall asleep. This has no effect on Cyan or above.
[X][talisman] Comb of Forgotten Memories
-[X] Perceptiveness, Stealth. A strange and ethereal comb, the eyes easily slide away from it but when successfully focused on it evokes a feeling of eerie familiarity.
[X] Claim the tapestry as part of your share and give the Meng right of first refusal(-.5 multiplier to loot auction value. +1 Meng opinion)
[X][talisman] Dream Drenched Compass:
-[X] Perceptiveness, Survival: A Navigational aid for use in the Liminal Realm
[X][talisman] A mirror that appears full of shimmering mist
-[X] Enhances abilities that involve shifting things in and out of Dream
[X][talisman] Practicioner's Divining Rings, a set of large inscribed rings that offer much of the benefit of a more traditional stationary scrying setup for the practitioner on the move.
-[X] When channeling a divination art across the rings, they serve to stabilize and enhance the connection offering the user much finer control, and additionally aid in piercing any illusions or barriers that may bar one's sight.
I'm not a fan of the flask of spirits. Here's a few reasons why, in response to some of its proposed uses:
-Trick someone into drinking it.
This sounds niche, very rarely applicable, pretty hard to accomplish, and roofie-ing people is weird.
-Sleep aid, mundane or helping them interact with Sixiang's space.
I don't think there are many, or perhaps even any, real cultivators out there who have any trouble falling asleep on the rare occasion they want to. And I don't think people would have much trouble interacting with Six's space, if they and Six both wanted to.
-Force a captive to drink it.
This is imo the only valid use of the item as it's been described, and I don't like the idea of forcing captives to drink strange stuff from a strange flask. I don't want to be a CIA interrogator all that much either, and it feels like a weird direction to take Sixiang too.
[X] Claim the tapestry as part of your share and give the Meng right of first refusal(-.5 multiplier to loot auction value. +1 Meng opinion)
[X][talisman] Flask of Spirits (for Sixiang)
-[X] Improves Dispel. If the wielder (or their binder, if the user is a spirit) actually imbibes a significant amount from it all their effects are Dispelled and they immediately fall asleep. This has no effect on Cyan or above.
[X][talisman] Practicioner's Divining Rings, a set of large inscribed rings that offer much of the benefit of a more traditional stationary scrying setup for the practitioner on the move.
-[X] When channeling a divination art across the rings, they serve to stabilize and enhance the connection offering the user much finer control, and additionally aid in piercing any illusions or barriers that may bar one's sight.
It was an especially cold year, Xuan Xue noted idly, watching her younger and lesser cousins working so diligently to prepare the docks and receiving zone (...)
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Edit: Nvm. It was an interlude at the end of the last thread
If the wielder (or their binder, if the user is a spirit) actually imbibes a significant amount from it all their effects are Dispelled and they immediately fall asleep
this is a really major downside. It makes using it during a combat situation or if there is any danger around really really dangerous for us.
I understand that this is meant as a last ditch dispel thing to use on Ling Qi if she is badly poisoned, but if there is still danger around (like the time we took the knife for example) or if we are still mid-combat then this is un-usable. the side-effect is actually worse in those scenarios than staying poisoned. It is important to understand that dispells are still stat-based contests, so there is a chance that this also ends with Ling Qi poisoned and asleep, which would be really bad.
I like the idea of giving Sixiang an item that gives them a stronger dispell vs poisons and similar on Ling Qi, but this one is nerfed way too much with this side-effect and completly unusable in basically any fight we get into
[X][talisman] Illustrative Fan
-[X] The images painted on the fan seem to shift to accentuate the words and attitude of the holder. Improves Speech.
[X][talisman] A triptych of a misty forest. If one looks closely perhaps they will see a small quartet of misty figures in the distance of the woods.
-[X] When sung too the triptych absorbs the sounds. A short while after the song ends the triptych will sing back to the user. It seems to be a way to study your own songs. The triptych does not hold onto the song for more than an hour.
[X][talisman] Sash
-[X] +Projection, allows the user to apply taunt effect on projections and constructs
[X][talisman] Practicioner's Divining Rings, a set of large inscribed rings that offer much of the benefit of a more traditional stationary scrying setup for the practitioner on the move.
-[X] When channeling a divination art across the rings, they serve to stabilize and enhance the connection offering the user much finer control, and additionally aid in piercing any illusions or barriers that may bar one's sight.
