Exactly, yeah.
Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
- Thread starter yrsillar
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Turn 13: Arc 1-1 Fantasia
Ling Qi leaned back against the rough cliffside with a sigh, closing her eyes against the rays of the evening sun.
"And you call me over dramatic," Sixiang chuckled. "It's not that bad."
"Maybe, but it's frustrating," Ling Qi muttered. She had underestimated the change fully breaking through into the Fourth Step, the Threshold of Green Realm and Bronze Physique would cause. She should have known better, given that she had received lectures to that effect.
The sun glinted off the portly elder's faintly metallic flesh, causing little flashes of light to reflect off the stream that ran round the lecturer's isle. "All of you have begun to approach the mid point of the Third Realm. To get here you have spent much time studying your arts gleaning insights, and have no doubt undergone at least one trial which has tested you to your core. I'm sure you each have your own tales of adventure and derring-do to tell. All the while you have built the base power of your dantian. From stones, from the world, from battle, whatever your cultivation art has demanded, you have drunk it in."
Elder Yongrui stood in the center of the grove where the class took place, his fingers laced together, resting on his belly. "This is good, it shows that you have both the patience and the ambition to endure the long, slow grind which characterizes such a large part of the path of cultivation," the Elder chuckled, his wide smile not wavering even as the disciples failed to laugh. "Hah, I'm afraid that never goes away, children. It takes time to accumulate power even for the most talented. But as you achieve the Threshold, you will find that merely accumulating more power in its raw form is not enough. Already you need to seek understanding to shape that power in the insights that arise from your arts and tribulations, but that too is not enough!"
"To rise further, you will need understanding, to study the concepts which underlie our world, or all the power you gather will simply leak away like wine from a holed barrel. Many of the tools and medicines which aided your advance will fade in usefulness, and even in the realm of Arts you will find yourself forced to slow down and deeply contemplate their lessons, rather than simply rushing through their practical exercises."
The pleasantly smiling Elder glanced around. "With that in mind, please take out the jade slips I have distributed. Interpretation of the lessons encoded at the Threshold stage and above require a different mindset to interpret, and the focus of this lesson will be instilling that in each of you."
"Yet you're still miffed that half of the cultivation sites you know don't work for you anymore," Sixiang huffed in amusement.
"Just a bit," Ling Qi said irritably. "It's the arts too though you know? It feels like I had a blindfold on, and now I can actually see."
Studying the jade slips and tablets she owned showed that there was so much more to learn than she had thought. It humbled her a bit. Some proud part of her had always wondered if it would really take more than a couple years to finish the third realm. Now… Well she didn't intend to be left behind, but her expectations had been tempered.
Ling Qi sat up and opened her eyes, looking out over the little ruin, with only the crumbling foundations and its single standing cherry tree. Here was the place where the three moons, or their avatars at least had come to her, nearly a year ago now, to take her forth on a quest to study her own past.
It was here that she had decided was the best venue to start her own real explorations.
"Done moping around?" Sixiang asked, looking up from where they were crouched over the three rings of bronze and jade which made up the ancient scrying device and gate she had pulled from the dead Hui's rotting storage ring. They were placed carefully among the browning grass, to line up with the faint lines of energy in the area.
"I wasn't moping," Ling Qi grunted. "We needed to wait for the rings to charge. How's your manifestation holding up anyway?"
"Easy peasy," Sixiang said with a smirk, puffing out their slim chest. Sixiang had chosen to look a little more masculine today, keeping their hair shorter and their features sharper. "Told you that thing would be useful."
Ling Qi hummed, glancing toward the golden idol which they had placed in the centerpoint between the rings. It did seem to make the rings power up faster, as well as easing the effort it took for Sixiang to manifest. She hadn't really had a chance to study why yet though. She was a little interested in how the talismans worked.
"Well," Ling Qi sighed. "I can work out my new cultivation schedule later. For now, let's see what we can do with this."
"Onward to adventure," Sixiang drawled, tracing their finger around the rim of the closest ring, it spat luminous sparks, and the air inside wavered.
For this turn you will have 3 (2+1) Cultivation actions, please choose Ling Qi's focus for this turn. SInce this is a tutorial the narrative actions are fixed, the arc focuses of this turn will be exploring the Dream with Sixiang, Hanyi's latest concert, and the conclusion of Zhengui's gardening arc.
"And you call me over dramatic," Sixiang chuckled. "It's not that bad."
"Maybe, but it's frustrating," Ling Qi muttered. She had underestimated the change fully breaking through into the Fourth Step, the Threshold of Green Realm and Bronze Physique would cause. She should have known better, given that she had received lectures to that effect.
The sun glinted off the portly elder's faintly metallic flesh, causing little flashes of light to reflect off the stream that ran round the lecturer's isle. "All of you have begun to approach the mid point of the Third Realm. To get here you have spent much time studying your arts gleaning insights, and have no doubt undergone at least one trial which has tested you to your core. I'm sure you each have your own tales of adventure and derring-do to tell. All the while you have built the base power of your dantian. From stones, from the world, from battle, whatever your cultivation art has demanded, you have drunk it in."
Elder Yongrui stood in the center of the grove where the class took place, his fingers laced together, resting on his belly. "This is good, it shows that you have both the patience and the ambition to endure the long, slow grind which characterizes such a large part of the path of cultivation," the Elder chuckled, his wide smile not wavering even as the disciples failed to laugh. "Hah, I'm afraid that never goes away, children. It takes time to accumulate power even for the most talented. But as you achieve the Threshold, you will find that merely accumulating more power in its raw form is not enough. Already you need to seek understanding to shape that power in the insights that arise from your arts and tribulations, but that too is not enough!"
"To rise further, you will need understanding, to study the concepts which underlie our world, or all the power you gather will simply leak away like wine from a holed barrel. Many of the tools and medicines which aided your advance will fade in usefulness, and even in the realm of Arts you will find yourself forced to slow down and deeply contemplate their lessons, rather than simply rushing through their practical exercises."
The pleasantly smiling Elder glanced around. "With that in mind, please take out the jade slips I have distributed. Interpretation of the lessons encoded at the Threshold stage and above require a different mindset to interpret, and the focus of this lesson will be instilling that in each of you."
"Yet you're still miffed that half of the cultivation sites you know don't work for you anymore," Sixiang huffed in amusement.
"Just a bit," Ling Qi said irritably. "It's the arts too though you know? It feels like I had a blindfold on, and now I can actually see."
Studying the jade slips and tablets she owned showed that there was so much more to learn than she had thought. It humbled her a bit. Some proud part of her had always wondered if it would really take more than a couple years to finish the third realm. Now… Well she didn't intend to be left behind, but her expectations had been tempered.
Ling Qi sat up and opened her eyes, looking out over the little ruin, with only the crumbling foundations and its single standing cherry tree. Here was the place where the three moons, or their avatars at least had come to her, nearly a year ago now, to take her forth on a quest to study her own past.
It was here that she had decided was the best venue to start her own real explorations.
"Done moping around?" Sixiang asked, looking up from where they were crouched over the three rings of bronze and jade which made up the ancient scrying device and gate she had pulled from the dead Hui's rotting storage ring. They were placed carefully among the browning grass, to line up with the faint lines of energy in the area.
"I wasn't moping," Ling Qi grunted. "We needed to wait for the rings to charge. How's your manifestation holding up anyway?"
"Easy peasy," Sixiang said with a smirk, puffing out their slim chest. Sixiang had chosen to look a little more masculine today, keeping their hair shorter and their features sharper. "Told you that thing would be useful."
Ling Qi hummed, glancing toward the golden idol which they had placed in the centerpoint between the rings. It did seem to make the rings power up faster, as well as easing the effort it took for Sixiang to manifest. She hadn't really had a chance to study why yet though. She was a little interested in how the talismans worked.
"Well," Ling Qi sighed. "I can work out my new cultivation schedule later. For now, let's see what we can do with this."
"Onward to adventure," Sixiang drawled, tracing their finger around the rim of the closest ring, it spat luminous sparks, and the air inside wavered.
When choosing your cultivation for the turn you may select a number of projects indicated at the top of the planning the section to try and acquire in the turn. To complete a project you need Successes equal to the number in parenthesis. (0/3) requires three Successes for example.
You receive one success just for choosing the project, Cultivation traits, sites and medicines can give you additional successes, as can your cultivation art. All bonuses will be listed at the top of the choice menu. Completing an arts project will often give successes to concepts making it often more efficient to complete them. Successes are referred to as steps as well, something I'll be taking care of as I comb through for standardization of terms.
It may seem easy then to end up 'overflowing' the requirements in certain projects due to stacked bonuses, and it is. If you can overflow a project by twice its required XP, it adds an additional success to each concept the project advances on completion. There is no benefit for overflowing further however.
In addition to permanent bonuses, Sites and Medicines can be used to boost projects. Each Project can have one site Assigned to it, and each site may only be assigned to one project. Medicines, when introduced, will apply to the whole plan, but you will only be able to apply one.
Ling QI also has an assignable cultivation trait which may be applied to one project for a bonus each turn.
A complete vote looks like the following
[] X Plan
-[] Project 1, assigned bonuses
-[] Project 2, assigned bonuses
-[] Project 3, assigned bonuses
You receive one success just for choosing the project, Cultivation traits, sites and medicines can give you additional successes, as can your cultivation art. All bonuses will be listed at the top of the choice menu. Completing an arts project will often give successes to concepts making it often more efficient to complete them. Successes are referred to as steps as well, something I'll be taking care of as I comb through for standardization of terms.
It may seem easy then to end up 'overflowing' the requirements in certain projects due to stacked bonuses, and it is. If you can overflow a project by twice its required XP, it adds an additional success to each concept the project advances on completion. There is no benefit for overflowing further however.
In addition to permanent bonuses, Sites and Medicines can be used to boost projects. Each Project can have one site Assigned to it, and each site may only be assigned to one project. Medicines, when introduced, will apply to the whole plan, but you will only be able to apply one.
Ling QI also has an assignable cultivation trait which may be applied to one project for a bonus each turn.
A complete vote looks like the following
[] X Plan
-[] Project 1, assigned bonuses
-[] Project 2, assigned bonuses
-[] Project 3, assigned bonuses
For this turn you will have 3 (2+1) Cultivation actions, please choose Ling Qi's focus for this turn. SInce this is a tutorial the narrative actions are fixed, the arc focuses of this turn will be exploring the Dream with Sixiang, Hanyi's latest concert, and the conclusion of Zhengui's gardening arc.
Bonuses are representative of Ling Qi's natural inclinations, cultivation art bonuses and benefits from her bound spirits. These are added to all projects which have the keyword. Eg. A Yin and Moon project receives 5 bonus successes, if its Wind too it could have 7. Remember if you can double a project's Success requirements you double the number of successes to the project's concepts!
Project Bonuses
+2 to Yin
+3 to Moon
+2 to Music
+2 to Wind
+2 to Power
+1 to Darkness
+1 to Cold
+1 to Persistence
+1 to Renewal
+2 Expression
+1 Dream
+1 Creation
+1 to Cycles
+1 to Endings
+1 to Dance
+1 to Support Arts
+1 to Meridian projects
Project Bonuses
+2 to Yin
+3 to Moon
+2 to Music
+2 to Wind
+2 to Power
+1 to Darkness
+1 to Cold
+1 to Persistence
+1 to Renewal
+2 Expression
+1 Dream
+1 Creation
+1 to Cycles
+1 to Endings
+1 to Dance
+1 to Support Arts
+1 to Meridian projects
Resources have to actively be assigned to a project, a project may only have one resource of each type assigned to it, and each resource can only be assigned once.
Sites
Argent Vent(Greater):
+1 Success to Any Project -or- +2 Success to any Balanced Project.
+10% Success rate to Assigned project.
Reduce Cultivation Upkeep by 4 Green Spirit Stones.
Silent Stones:
+1 Success to a Moon, Sun, or Earth Project
Mirror Basin:
+1 to Water or Lake Projects
Misc
+1 to a project of your choice
Sites
Argent Vent(Greater):
+1 Success to Any Project -or- +2 Success to any Balanced Project.
+10% Success rate to Assigned project.
Reduce Cultivation Upkeep by 4 Green Spirit Stones.
Silent Stones:
+1 Success to a Moon, Sun, or Earth Project
Mirror Basin:
+1 to Water or Lake Projects
Misc
+1 to a project of your choice
Base/Domain Cultivation
Conceptual Projects
Arts Development
Songseekers Ceremony: Moon, Yin, Mystery, Motion, Expression
Phantasmagoria of Lunar Revelry: Yang, Dance, Moon, Chaos, Dream, Revelry
Starless Night's Reflection: Yin, Lake, Darkness, Reflection, Stillness, Void
Beast King's Savage Dirge: Yang, Wood, Darkness, Music, Beasts, Conquest, Power
Melodies of the Spirit Seekers: Balanced, Music, Bargaining, Sincerity, Understanding
Laughing Flight of the Wind Thief: Yin, Darkness, WInd, Freedom, Motion, Want
Winter Hearth Resounding: Cold, Fire, Music, Boundary, Home, Renewal
Unstoppable Glacier's March: Yin, Cold, Music, Expression, Inevitability, Pressure
Social Arts
Playful Muse's Rapport:
Dreaming Muse Rapport VII: Continue to study the art of wielding honesty and friendliness to achieve your social goals. Advance the Trait by one (0/1)
Moonless Saboteur's Smile
Hidden Smile IV: Continue to hone your ability to keep your poise and defend against the social probes of your peers. Advance the Trait by one. (0/1)
Meridian Slot Projects
Open New Slot: Open a new Meridian Slot. (0/4) 40% Chance of Success
Alter a Meridian Slot: Change one slot to another Type: 0/6 40% chance of Success.
Unlearned Arts
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Modifiable Arts
-CurrentlyLocked
Successor Creation
-Currently Locked
Conceptual Projects
- Isolation III (2/5): As starvation is privation of the body, isolation is privation of the soul. To be alone is to suffer,yet it is possible to find meaning in hardship. What do the cold streets of that sad city mean?
- Expression III (0/5): Art, music is the expression of ideas, the sharing of concepts with other people and beings. It can express the truth of your soul, it can express desires, it can express simple observations and so much more. You have only begun to explore the truth of art.
- Community III (-/5): Family is the most fundamental unit of society, the block from which all else is built. Yet, what is the meaning of family, where does obligation stop, and love begin?
- Want II (0/3): Want is the fundamental drive of all things. All other motivations are but rationalizations for desire.
- Power II(0/3): Without power, you are nothing. In the end, only the strong may make decisions.
- Motion II (0/3): To fly, to run to climb, these are happiness
- Endings I (0/2): All things end in time, it is the journey to ending that has meaning.
- Freedom I (0/2): Freedom is a blade, joy and isolation are its edges
- Persistence I (0/3): The world is in flux and things last only due to the exertion of will.
- Truth I (0/2): Truth trades short term hurt for long term harm
- Causality 0 (0/1)-?
- Creation 0 (0/1)-?
- Courage (0/1)-?
- Protection (0/1)-?
- Cycles (0/1)-?
- Home (0/1)
- Mystery (0/1)
- Chaos (0/1)
Arts Development
Songseekers Ceremony: Moon, Yin, Mystery, Motion, Expression
- Grinning: It is the seeking that brings joy, the journey and the acquisition. Delve into the deeper mystery of the Grinning Moon, seek, adventure, explore to integrate its lessons. Advances the Freedom, Motion, and Isolation projects one step on completion. 30 XP to physical cultivation. (0/3)
- Dreaming: Songs of ancient days, the playful ballads of modern theater, the buskers tune, too long have you failed to look outward and hear that which surrounds you. Advances the Community, Truth, and Creation projects one step on completion. 30 XP to Spiritual Cultivation (0/3)
- Hidden: The past lives. The present is its child. You understand so little of the world still. Your vision is still so small. Seek the roots, and find the way of the leaves. Advances the Mystery, Power, and Causality projects 1 step on creation. 30 XP Spiritual Cultivation (0/3)
Phantasmagoria of Lunar Revelry: Yang, Dance, Moon, Chaos, Dream, Revelry
- Phantasmal Mastery: You have tasted the cruel wine of isolation, and known the pain of loneliness. Is it any wonder then that the arts of conjuring have been core to you since the day that you first took up the melody of the Forgotten Vale. At your direction, phantoms and figments dance more deftly and with more mind, animated by the lingering dreams of a girl who can never forget loneliness. Grants the Phantasmal Mastery Trait, which increases the power and flexibility of summon techniques. Advances Isolation by 1 Step. (0/5)
- The Dreaming Gala: Only once have you tasted the wine of Dream, and reveled in her halls. Those memories are blurry. Those memories are slippery. You have grown, and you know in your heart that you always have an invitation. Seek again that cacophonous hall, that phantasmal concert, and find the lessons you may have yet missed: Fuses the Ephemeral Dreamlit Dancer technique in to the Dreamwalker Trait. Advances the Dreamwalker Trait by 1 level, and the Creation Concepts by 1 step. (0/5)
- Echoing Grandeur: In the techniques of the Lunar Revelry, there is one which stands out unfiotting from the others. The Joyous Toast, which amplifies the power of your songs. From whence does that power come, flooding in from the Dream? What does even the applause and adulation of mere figments raise the potency of your music so? Advances the Power and Community projects one step. Alters the Joyous Toast technique. (0/5)
Starless Night's Reflection: Yin, Lake, Darkness, Reflection, Stillness, Void
- Lake Hei is Wide: The great lake is bottomless, but it is also wide, a sea in its own right, there is nothing which cannot vanish into its depths. So to can you render inert even assaults that would strike down a whole company. Improves Rippling Starless Shroud as well as your passive defense against Area Arts. Unlock Two Projects. (0/3)
- It's Depths Without End: The imperturbable surface, a skin of shimmering black that lies over the infinite deeps beneath. All vanishes into the dark, leaving mere ripples behind. Where sleeps that which vanishes from world, sight, and memory?. Advances the Mystery and Ending Projects one step. Reveals text of Imperturbable Soul Trait. (0/3)
- We are but Ripples: In waters deep, under skies far, we bear witness to our own crushing smallness. Where then does meaning rise, in the infinite dark? Advances Isolation and Mystery Projects one step. 40% Chance of acquiring Void concept for your Domain.(0/3)
Beast King's Savage Dirge: Yang, Wood, Darkness, Music, Beasts, Conquest, Power
- Bear God's Fury: The Bear God, avatar of wrath, whose crushing paws sundered trees and reshaped hills, Learn the stanzas of the great ballad which spoke of his coming and the ruin of the wolf gods plans. Learn the Bear God's Fury technique, which summons the phantom limbs of the titan to crush and pin down foes. Unlocks One Project. (0/3)
- Primacy of Beasts: Learn the song of nature, the melody of tooth and claw. Where lies the line between beasts and men, which brings us to war? Mere greed and pride, or something more? Alters the primal War Calling technique. Advances the Power and Want Projects by one step. (0/3)
- Xiangmen, Fortress of Tsu Pt. 1: Before the ravening of the Gods, Xiangmen stood uncaring, and in the trunk sheltered all of the people of the Emerald Seas. Against the Gods stood the Diviner, who would see that man was never subjugated again. Alters the Eagle God's Defiance technique. Advances the Motion and Home projects by one step. (0/5)
Melodies of the Spirit Seekers: Balanced, Music, Bargaining, Sincerity, Understanding
- Spirit Seeker VI: Go forth and practice your art on the spirits of the land. Advance the Spirit Seeker trait by 1 (0/3)
- Raising the Bastion: In the harsh south, under the gaze of Bleak Skies yearning, you received a taste of the casual cruelty which spirits unbound and uncaring of man may display. In the lessons of the Bastion's Melody, you find the lessons needed to mitigate their harm, and even bring understanding of their doings to spirits most inhuman. Alters the Bastion's Melody Art, giving a chance to negate damaging environmental traits of higher spirits. Advances the Community and Protection projects by one step. Unlocks one project. (0/5)
Laughing Flight of the Wind Thief: Yin, Darkness, WInd, Freedom, Motion, Want
- The Opened Vault: Ten thousand Locks and not one to stop you. Learn the lessons of the first thief, whom no vault or security could stop. Acquire the Thief of Winds technique, which allows you to interact with and steal from dimensional storage and bypass many forms of security. Advances Vanishing by 1. Advances Want project by one. (0/5)
- The Laughing Wind: Flight is freedom, defiance of one of the First Laws. Feel the wind on your face,witness all the earth below, and laugh in the midst of the clear blue sky. Advance Sable Grace by 1. Advance Motion and Freedom projects by one. Unlocks Two Project. (0/3)
Winter Hearth Resounding: Cold, Fire, Music, Boundary, Home, Renewal
- Kindle the Hearth: So long as the hearth burns still, home remains. Nurse the embers and ashes, no matter how mean, and one day the fire will burn again.Acquire the Technique Ashen Hearth Return. A technique which sacrifices the function of the Winter hearth Resounding Art to negate negative traits on you and your allies. Advances the Community Project by one. (0/5)
- Winter Reinforcement: The task of preparing for the winter comes every year without fail. A home must be maintained, it's walls repaired, its portals reinforced. A home is a work without end, a project of a lifetime. Yet, in the end, is there any more vital art? Advances Home and Protection projects by 1. Improves Unbroken Will by one. (0/3)
- Release of Spring: So in sorrow, so in joy. Another year and you remain. What you have, you have kept. Celebrate the wild ides even as the next hardship drifts on the horizon, and Know that you will survive again. Improves the Passive effects of the Art. Advances the Home and Want projects by one. (0/3)
Unstoppable Glacier's March: Yin, Cold, Music, Expression, Inevitability, Pressure
- Soul of Ice: Blizzard and glacier, fine snow and driving sleet. cruel wind and soft snow. Stasis, Inevitability, Endings and Renewal. There is more to ice, more to winter than meets the casual eye. Is your own understanding too narrow? Advances Isolation and Want Projects. Advances Winter's Heart by 1. Begins Trait Quest Chain. (0/5)
- Path Unyielding: To know what you wish and to advance toward it with all of your heart, this is something you know well. Study and meditate upon what you have learned and seen of the glaciers of the wall, and ponder the value of Implacability: Advance persistence and Want projects by one. Improves Grinding Glacial Melody. Unlocks one Project. (0/3)
Social Arts
Playful Muse's Rapport:
Dreaming Muse Rapport VII: Continue to study the art of wielding honesty and friendliness to achieve your social goals. Advance the Trait by one (0/1)
Moonless Saboteur's Smile
Hidden Smile IV: Continue to hone your ability to keep your poise and defend against the social probes of your peers. Advance the Trait by one. (0/1)
Meridian Slot Projects
Open New Slot: Open a new Meridian Slot. (0/4) 40% Chance of Success
Alter a Meridian Slot: Change one slot to another Type: 0/6 40% chance of Success.
Unlearned Arts
-Currently Locked
Modifiable Arts
-CurrentlyLocked
Successor Creation
-Currently Locked
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The way that Kindle the Hearth works is not very impressive, but it also doesn't reflect Zhengui's approach to Renewal, as far as I can see. Look at his exploding technique. It can activate when he's been beaten down a lot, then he does the giant blast and has his armor and health restored while he passes out. On a conceptual level, Zhengui doesn't sacrifice anything. Renewal is transformative, yes, but it's also strongly additive. Kindle the Hearth trades security and staying power for temporary reprieve, which is kind of unimpressive.
But I'm also just really hesitant to commit to big thematic twists when we're already committed to a WHR alteration project with Zhengui. Without actually knowing what the art looks like philosophically now, I'm uninterested in tweaking it. It's a blind choice.
But I'm also just really hesitant to commit to big thematic twists when we're already committed to a WHR alteration project with Zhengui. Without actually knowing what the art looks like philosophically now, I'm uninterested in tweaking it. It's a blind choice.
- Location
- Earth
Is this meant to have a number of successes needed Yrsillar?
ImperatorV
The Laughing One
- Location
- The Voyaging Realm
Lol Ling Qi be like "My math cabal plans! All of that hard work calculating schedules, down the drain!"
Alright, so before we start planning out our cultivation projects, I think we have to first figure out: Where do we want Ling Qi to go, in terms of both character and cultivation? What concepts do we think are most important to advance?
We also need to resolve the Heart Demon - if anyone has any guesses as to what kind of lesson we need for that, and what concepts it might fall under, hearing those would be nice.
Alright, so before we start planning out our cultivation projects, I think we have to first figure out: Where do we want Ling Qi to go, in terms of both character and cultivation? What concepts do we think are most important to advance?
We also need to resolve the Heart Demon - if anyone has any guesses as to what kind of lesson we need for that, and what concepts it might fall under, hearing those would be nice.
Will Cultivation Projects and Narritive Interactions be pulling from the same action pool, or will there be seperate pools for each in the future?
- Location
- California
So I wonder if the Home concept is related to having a specific place to call home, where as Community covers the relationship of a family. Which is why Xiangmen and WHR deal with Home, since they're related to actual places where people live, as opposed to the nature of family.
- Location
- United States
Thief Ling Qi. Best Ling Qi.
Ok, so baseline plan I'd suggest would take Hidden Smile for tournament prep (need to get our social defense up!) and it bounces well of Hanyi's concert which is also a social event. Then I would take Echoing Grandeur because I think it's tackling Heart Demon related stuff vis a vis Power and Community, as well as expanding LQ's ideas on power and her music. Its description also has the best fit to a deep Dream dive imo - "From whence does that power come, flooding in from the Dream? What does even the applause and adulation of mere figments raise the potency of your music so?". We have to finish all projects anyway to master an art, and this feels like the best time to do this specific project. Gala and Phastasmal Mastery feel more grounded, and more separate events.
The question is then what we should take in the final slot. Lots of options here. We could go with even more social, but that might lack shiny appeal. SSC Dreaming or Hidden could also maybe be solid picks?
Getting some BKSD progress seems very popular too though, and BIG TREE could be a solid pick there going into the tournament. It's very thematic on the whole "great stand of ES coming together" stuff, which is relevant to the politics here, and also BIG TREE is cool
. We do still need to keep an eye on war prep afterall.
Alternatively, Laughing Wind would open up LFWT for us, and could be some nice fun downtime for Ling Qi?
[] Plan We Dream of a Society
-[] Echoing Grandeur
-[] Hidden Smile IV
-[] Xiangmen, Fortress of Tsu Pt. 1
No point assigning sites as Hidden Smile doesn't get anything from them, and Echoing Grandeur and BKSD can only get up to 9/5 and 8/5 progress if I'm counting correctly? So we can't get any doubles there.
The question is then what we should take in the final slot. Lots of options here. We could go with even more social, but that might lack shiny appeal. SSC Dreaming or Hidden could also maybe be solid picks?
Getting some BKSD progress seems very popular too though, and BIG TREE could be a solid pick there going into the tournament. It's very thematic on the whole "great stand of ES coming together" stuff, which is relevant to the politics here, and also BIG TREE is cool
. We do still need to keep an eye on war prep afterall.Alternatively, Laughing Wind would open up LFWT for us, and could be some nice fun downtime for Ling Qi?
[] Plan We Dream of a Society
-[] Echoing Grandeur
-[] Hidden Smile IV
-[] Xiangmen, Fortress of Tsu Pt. 1
No point assigning sites as Hidden Smile doesn't get anything from them, and Echoing Grandeur and BKSD can only get up to 9/5 and 8/5 progress if I'm counting correctly? So we can't get any doubles there.
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On a purely story level, I'd like to explore Isolation and more Hidden and Grinning Moon stuff more.
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Getting some BKSD progress seems very popular too though, and BIG TREE could be a solid pick there going into the tournament. It's very thematic on the whole "great stand of ES coming together" stuff, which is relevant to the politics here, and also BIG TREE is cool
Alternatively, Laughing Wind would open up LFWT for us, and could be some nice fun downtime for Ling Qi?
Eh, since this is our first vote in the new system, I would rather vote on something more core to LQ. Echoing Grandeur(PLR) is Dreaming, Hidden Smile is Hidden, so I think would like LFWT (or Grinning from SSC) instead here for Grinning moon.
Here's a plan:
[] Plan Full Moon
-[] Grinning
-[] Echoing Grandeur
-[] Hidden Smile IV
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- Location
- Canada
I really like how it feels like you justified the mechanical changes in the narrative by focusing on the shift Ling Qi faces at the Threshhold stage. I thought it was a clever manner of intertwining the narrative and the meta mechanics.
Hmm, Grinning actually fits pretty solidly with the Dream adventure too, yeah. That's a solid full moon plan.
... also amusingly still no point in adding sites to SSC, because yrs isn't letting us get triples yet
... also amusingly still no point in adding sites to SSC, because yrs isn't letting us get triples yet
Expand on this? I am still wrapping my head around the new system.
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- Elsewhere
We get extra value if we get to double an option's requirements.* We do not yet get any extra value from tripling them.
*Specifically, double the xp for a project.
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SSC gets 8 progress baseline with our permanent bonuses. The projects require 3, which means we're currently doubling them and will get double concept progress. If we added, say, silent stones then that would put us up to 9/3, which would be triple, but yrs currently isn't giving us any benefit for going beyond double.
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- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
[X] Plan Go TREE or Go Home
-[X] Bear God's Fury
-[X] Primacy of Beasts
-[X] Xiangmen, Fortress of Tsu Pt. 1
For a more modest plan
[X] Plan Prepare for FUN
-[X] Grinning
-[X] Xiangmen, Fortress of Tsu Pt. 1
-[X] Hidden Smile IV
This plan tries to get ready for the social jousting at the tourney will also touching on the history of the Wielu since that spooky skeleton spooked us last arc.
Edit: approval voting
[x] Plan We Dream of a Society
-[x] Echoing Grandeur (7/5)
-[x] Hidden Smile IV (1/1)
-[x] Xiangmen, Fortress of Tsu Pt. 1 (6/5)
-[X] Bear God's Fury
-[X] Primacy of Beasts
-[X] Xiangmen, Fortress of Tsu Pt. 1
For a more modest plan
[X] Plan Prepare for FUN
-[X] Grinning
-[X] Xiangmen, Fortress of Tsu Pt. 1
-[X] Hidden Smile IV
This plan tries to get ready for the social jousting at the tourney will also touching on the history of the Wielu since that spooky skeleton spooked us last arc.
Edit: approval voting
[x] Plan We Dream of a Society
-[x] Echoing Grandeur (7/5)
-[x] Hidden Smile IV (1/1)
-[x] Xiangmen, Fortress of Tsu Pt. 1 (6/5)
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There's still that whole war business going on, with much better cultivators getting shrecked, and much of LQ's profit came from being tough.
That and I miss Argent Mirror as a narrative device.
[X] Plan: All in on reflect.
-[X] Lake Hei is Wide ( +2 to Yin, +1 to Darkness )
-[X] It's Depths Without End ( +2 to Yin, +1 to Darkness )
-[X] We are but Ripples ( +2 to Yin, +1 to Darkness, Mirror Basin )
That and I miss Argent Mirror as a narrative device.
[X] Plan: All in on reflect.
-[X] Lake Hei is Wide ( +2 to Yin, +1 to Darkness )
-[X] It's Depths Without End ( +2 to Yin, +1 to Darkness )
-[X] We are but Ripples ( +2 to Yin, +1 to Darkness, Mirror Basin )
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- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
This is very exciting. Tons of plans and ideas are coming to the front. Very nice to see!