All right, now that I've had time to think
beyond jokes:
[] Moonlight Accompaniment: Transforms the wisps from pure observation to focal points. This will allow centering an aoe music techniques origin on a wisp. Combines Inquisitive study, Seeking Moon's Eye and Watchful Moon Analysis.
This is way more tactical than it seems at first glance, because it lets Ling Qi create traps and set up where her enemies can't see it. It also makes her better against dispelling or conceptual effects that can destroy/nullify her music (I'm thinking of "I cut your music with my sword, which can cut everything"), because those effects are going to have range limits and she's likely to exceed them, so she can do all her set-up where they can't affect it and then push the enemy into their effects or else retreat and bait them in--plus, she can get more effects like Traveler's End, bringing it up and then creating ablation against disruption.
This option is way trickier, and it gives Ling Qi much more option to build into it to take advantage of its options. Built well, it can be way,
way stronger than precognition, at the cost of requiring much more investment. I like the idea of Ling Qi always being able to set up favorable ground, and this is damn good at it. The focus on being able to do things off-camera also feels like it'd be cool as hell from a writing perspective, and it furthers the "mook horror show" aspects that create cool scenes.
[] Auditorium of Secrets: Transforms wisps into focal points for a modular zone around the user enabling limited combat precog within. Combines Inquisitive study, Seeking Moon's Eye and Watchful Moon Analysis.
The thing to note, with her new Insight, is that I'd expect she'll now never see just one future outcome, no matter how likely it is. As a result, she can't use many of the offensive uses of combat precognition, like striking an exact vulnerability in time and space--without that precision, it becomes an early warning for dodging and a way to prepare for hidden aces. But, on the other hand, I'd actually say this uncertainty makes it even better for this kind of temporal scouting, because "break out your ace" is something someone's always going to be considering long before they actually do it. Similarly, if anyone's considering joining the fight, she'll know about them long before anyone but the most impulsive person actually runs in, because even if it would be unwise they
could do it at the first moment. Her use of it is also going to be uncommonly durable against effects intended to disrupt precog, because she expects imprecision and she expects precog to be fallible.
But the nature of this kind of precog also makes it an unbelievable pain in the ass to write, unless it's done mostly as "and then they did X, which Ling Qi had already seen in a past possibility, so she Y" retroactive bits. Which works, but also feels less interesting.
