ImperatorV
The Laughing One
- Location
- The Voyaging Realm
Yu Nuan: So yeah if you go somewhere with Ling Qi there's a 100% chance of an improbably lucky event. This adoption request is looking like the best decision I've ever made.
Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
- Thread starter yrsillar
- Start date
- Original Users' Choice!
Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
Over 100% in the Thunder Palace exploration!
Now we will get a full pack of Thunder Puppers to protect our fief!
Seriously though, I think it would be awesome if the Thunder Birdman gifted Yu Nuan a jade slipe with an art that embodies his natural abilities. Like Zeqing did with Ling Qi.
It wouldn't only be a great boon for Yu Nuan and thus our fief, we could also add the art to our family library so future Ling clan members could learn it.
The Ling clan is shaping itself to be masters of music, weather and seasons!
Now we will get a full pack of Thunder Puppers to protect our fief!
Seriously though, I think it would be awesome if the Thunder Birdman gifted Yu Nuan a jade slipe with an art that embodies his natural abilities. Like Zeqing did with Ling Qi.
It wouldn't only be a great boon for Yu Nuan and thus our fief, we could also add the art to our family library so future Ling clan members could learn it.
The Ling clan is shaping itself to be masters of music, weather and seasons!
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- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/His/Him
What were the levels of the dice rolls for the Thunder palace and hunt for land? Trying to figure it out.
Also, we got AMAZING luck on that Thunder Palace roll. 92?! Plus the bonus points?!
Also, we got AMAZING luck on that Thunder Palace roll. 92?! Plus the bonus points?!
- Pronouns
- He/Him
soooo I know that we have a looooooooot of stuff on our to-do list but getting a cool storm art from this would be really cool.
We have 4 empty art slots atm.
I'm kinda afraid how our cultivation options would look like with 4 more art's ...
A nice Talisman is probably better for us, or a protag lvl cultivation side for when we decide to let our new sis stay in the sect.
I'm hyped for the palace since we got the invite all those turns ago.
We have 4 empty art slots atm.
I'm kinda afraid how our cultivation options would look like with 4 more art's ...
A nice Talisman is probably better for us, or a protag lvl cultivation side for when we decide to let our new sis stay in the sect.
I'm hyped for the palace since we got the invite all those turns ago.
- Location
- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
Looks like we cleared thunder place, and got the first three benchmarks on our survey
Yu Nuan: "So, is this how being around LQ works?"
Li Suyin, Cai Renxiang, and Su Ling, each in a very different tone of voice: "Yes"
- Location
- Staring into the void
So 58 +40 (liege) +40 (omakes) = 138
Not bad, not bad at all.
Considering that future additional action/rolls are cumulative, it's a solid start.
I knew how this would end, but that wasn't enough to stop a couple of tears. Wtf dude
Ha. Wow. This was quite a thing to say about She-who-is-REVOLUTION.
Speaking of which, I find it quite interesting that Shenhua is indeed revolution not rebellion. By which I mean she very much includes the "repeats in cycles" aspect
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- He/Him
So here was the process.
Me: *reads WoG about dog spirit beasts* Huh, that might be fun to write about from the dogs perspective. Oh, what if it was like a seeing eye dog for a blind cultivator?!
Me: *writes the first couple of paragraphs*
My Brain: Make it sad.
Me: but why?
My Brain: You gotta.
Me: *holding back tears writing the ending* You're the boss
Epsilon Rose
The King of Unrest
Nah. It just means she really likes pulling swords out of the Prime Minster's chest.
View: https://youtu.be/tyPv7QyuZl0
... That works far better than it has any right to.
Turn 14: Thunder Rumbles 1-1
"You're surprisingly pushy about this," Yu Nuan grumbled, hunching her shoulders under the fur collared mantle she was wearing.
"You're surprisingly shy about this," Ling Qi replied dryly. They passed through the gates of the Sect town without pause, staying off to one side of the street to not disrupt traffic too much as mortals moved to give them a respectful berth.
"I'm not shy," Yu Nuan grunted, sparks jumping between the row of metal studs that pierced her ears. "A little more warning would have been nice is all."
"I think it's more genuine if you don't have a lot of prep time," Ling Qi said primly. "Besides I didn't see you at the tournament at all, what were you up to?"
"Training, working on a new piece for the storm lord," Yu Nuan replied. Their footsteps carried them swiftly through the outer part of the town and into the. "Not like I had anything to do there."
"It doesn't hurt to mingle a bit," Ling Qi replied. She ignored Sixiang's incredulous snort.
"Whole reason I'm doing this isn't it? I'm not cut out for that," Yu Nuan replied.
"I'm not going to let you become a hermit," Ling Qi said.
Yu Nuan grunted in reply as they passed down the cobbled streets just dusted with the winters first snows.
"Being serious, I did talk to a couple folks. I'm not hopeless," Yu Nuan said, keeping her eyes ahead. "Got a few auditions, little courts, nothing like what you deal in. It's rough though since I'm up for deployment."
Ling Qi hummed in reply as familiar gates came into view. "But you're not looking to get out of that?"
"I'm not," Yu Nuan grimaced. "I'm not some charity case. If you let me in, I'll pull my weight."
"There's nothing wrong with charity," Ling Qi said quietly, but she didn't press the issue. She understood pride and how important it was for a person to have theirs. The guards standing before the gates of her mothers house saw her and bowed, turning to open the gates at a gesture from her.
Yu Nuan watched. "You really are just full in on this stuff aren't you?"
Ling Qi gave the guards a nod as they stepped through onto the well kept path and the snow dusted grounded. "People like to see what they expect, but that doesn't mean you can't ease them into accepting different."
She smiled at one of the girls sweeping the path as she stepped out of the way and the young woman, something Min if she remembered bowed low with a murmured "Lady Ling."
No quiet panic or fear, just low level anxiety in the mortal. Ling Qi was getting better at this!
"It's Fa Min, by the way," Sixiang drawled.
Yu Nuan looked around with some curiosity, not lingering on the servant as they entered. "So, we're just meeting your mother then, that's it?"
Ling Qi hummed, opening the front door with a tap. "Well I am sure we'll see my little sister too, but she's four, so I don't think she'll contribute much. You have your dog with you?"
"Course," Yu nuan replied stepping hastily after her.
"Then I think you'll have her approval," Ling Qi said dryly. Tangent aside, she did understand what Yu Nuan was aking. "So just my mother, yes."
"...Sorry," Yu Nuan said, running a hand through her spiked up hair anxiously. "Not good at this."
"Well, you'll fit right in then," Ling Qi said. "Dining room is this way."
"...I heard things got a bit crazy at the end of the tournament," Yu Nuan said quietly.
Ling Qi paused, one hand resting on the wall. "...Yes. Do you want to change your mind?"
She still didn't know what to think exactly, that was one reason she was doing this now. She wanted to take her mind off of things until Renxiang was ready to talk.
"Nah, I don't think the blast zones have changed much," Yu Nuan said with a weak chuckle.
"Dark, but not wrong," Sixiang snickered.
"Then lets have a chat with my Mother, then you can show me this revel of yours. Leave that in the future for now."
"Got it matriarch," The older girl drawled, following as they resumed walking.
Ling Qi grimaced, shooting her a look. That was not going to be a thing.
Entering the dining room, she found that her mother had things moved around a little, the previous table had been replaced with a more ornate one, with more space for seating. There were a few things placed out on the table, a tea set, as well as plates and platters holding the sort of little snacks often served with it. Her mother had picked out a nice, understated gown in dark blue and black. Ling Qi had told her she didn't need to stick to Ling Qi's color scheme, but she'd not taken any of it. It was important for a clan to keep a theme apparently. She had taken well to her cultivation. Some of the lines on her Mother's face had smoothed, and the signs of hard living had lessened if only a little.
Biyu in her lap fiddling with one of the tight pigtails that mother had wound her hair into. She brightened up when she saw Ling Qi and blinked curiously at Yu Nuan.
"My daughter, welcome back to our home," Ling Qingge said formally. "I see you have brought a guest."
"I have," Ling Qi replied, stepping forward. They'd actually rehearsed this bit! "I bring Yu Nuan, who approaches as a supplicant to the Ling clan, requesting adoption.
Yu Nuan nodded once, stepping forward beside her and bowing. "Yes, I am Yu Nuan, the only cultivator of the Yu family, and it is my wish to join my fortune to the Ling family."
"I understand," ling Qingge said. She was proud of her mother, she came much more naturally to this sort of formality than Ling Qi did. "And what is it which you believe you may bring to the Ling clan?"
"I bring a strong and talented pair of hands and a talent which has reached the third realm. I bring skills in music and beast handling, I bring connection to the Argent Peak Sect," Yu Nuan spoke with a practiced air, and that was fair, this was the formal bit. "And I bring a spirit beast of my own, the Storm Herding Hound Qiu and the possibility of more of his like."
There was a faint crackling pop as the spirit beast appeared beside her. The dog was not shrunken fully into little fluffball, but instead rose just past her knee, his fluffy blue and white coat crackling with static. The hound held his head high.
There was a sound, high pitched and sudden.
Ling Qi glanced at her little sister who was staring at the dog with wide, wide eyes, she was naturally the source."
Ling Qingge sighed. "I am sorry."
Well that was why they had done this little rehearsal with low stakes. Yu Nuan still looked a little bewildered as the formality dropped, even though Ling Qi had explained this too her. They sat down around the table as Biyu wriggled out of her mother's lap and rushed over to fawn over Qiu.
"He is safe around children isn't he?" Ling Qingge asked, ringing the little bell on the table indicating for a servant to come in and start serving the tea.
"Ah, yeah, gentle as can be he was a herding dog even before I got him," Yu Nuan said awkwardly. "I prepped him for this too."
"If I didn't trust you with that much the offer wouldn't be on the table," Ling Qi said. It helped that in her presence little threads of protective qi wrapped invisibly around her mother and sister always. Against a peer it would be nothing but against regular everyday harm and accidents, her family might as well have been wrapped in steel.
Ling Qi gave the girl…
"Du Ai," Sixiang recalled. "I'll keep an eye on the squirt, so don't worry."
Ling Qi gave Du Ai a small nod as she poured everyone's tea, confident Biyu would be fine.
"Welcome to my home then, Miss Yu," Ling Qingge said. "Rehearsal aside, I do have some important questions I must ask you."
"Yes, I expected that," Yu Nuan said still seeming to waver between formality and her normal tone. "I'll answer whatever I can. I understand this isn't a small thing."
"Of course," Ling Qingge said. "The first must be, are you bringing others with you, mortal family?"
"No," Yu Nuan said, her expression tightening. "Just me, you don't have to take on anyone else."
"I am sorry," Ling Qingge said, lowering her head.
"It's… not like that," Yu Nuan grimaced. "Look, I have an aunt and uncle, some cousins, they took me in for awhile, but you don't gotta worry about them."
Ling Qingge frowned. "You would just leave your kin behind?"
"I know it sounds bad," Yu Nuan grimaced, leaning back in her chair. She hesitated for a long moment before speaking further. " But they were pretty clear throughout my life where we stood, even if they changed their tune after I got here. Heh, I mighta respected 'em more if they didn't. But point is I bought them a nice house in Leigong, paid my oldest cousins apprenticeship off, and left them a pile of silver for the rest. As far as I'm concerned, I've done my duty."
She pushed through the explanation at a hurried pace, finishing with a deep breath.
"There are many who would see that as an abrogation of duty," Ling Qingge said said. "They would say that it makes you unlikely to stand by the family you have entered if a better offer comes."
Ling Qi thought that sounded a little unfair, but her mother probably couldn't sense the knot of bitter resentment, flaring like a burned out coal in Yu Nuan's chest as they spoke on this.
"That's fair. It's definitely unfilial of me," Yu Nuan agreed. "All the same. I don't want them, I'm not gonna lie about that."
"While I don't know the full details, Yu Nuan has never struck me as a mercenary person," Ling Qi said carefully, considering the other girl. She considered the little bit she understood of her mother's family and her… father. She could comprehend the idea of a family you did not want.
'So this is part of your motivation?" Ling Qingge said.
"I'm not suitable to managing a clan," Yu Nuan said with a helpless shrug. "I get that and the only other way around it would be to marry in and I'd not like to put myself in some guys power like that with no guarantees. And being a clan of one, with no backers, that'd be how that would go. I just want to live, cultivate and work on my art. I'll make sure to profit you, but that's the real root of it."
Her Mother's expression pinched in distaste and Yu Nuan looked worried. Ling Qi patted her on the shoulder, understanding the source of that expression. The darker edge to the air shattered again, under the sound of a child's laughter and cheerful barks.
Biyu had managed to clamber onto Qiu's back, who had begun to trot around the room. Biyu's hair had frizzed up wildly from the static. Ling Qi could sense Sixiang's playing with the wind, keeping Biyu from falling. She caught her mother's eye and gave a small nod.
"If my daughter trusts your integrity, I will accept that," Ling Qingge said after a long silence spent draining her tea cup. "I hope that you will never have cause to find the Ling clan so odious."
Yu Nuan glanced toward Ling Qi. "I think as long as I do right by you, your daughter will do right by me. That's good enough for me."
"I like to think we can manage better," Ling Qi said. "I think I've said it before, but family should be more than that."
Her mother cast her eyes down for a moment. "It should."
But it wasn't often enough, Ling Qi knew. She thought of the Cai, and the He and other's snippets heard from friends and acquaintances. If anything she was the one being naive and unreasonable. "Well something to work on."
"That's one way to put it," Yu Nuan said.
"More personally," Ling Qingge asked, gesturing uncomfortably toward you Nuan. "Those… metal things, why… precisely?"
Yu Nuan fingered the piercings through her lower lip. "It started as a cultivation thing. I found an art that used bits of metal piercing the body as qi foci. It got me into the Inner Sect. Now I just like them."
"I see," Ling Qingge said, though she obviously didn't.
"Sis!" Ling Qi glanced down at the exclamation seeing Biyu and Qiu had made their way back around to them and now both girl and dog grinned up at her. Biyu raised her hands. "Up!"
Ling Qi chuckled lifting her little sister into her lap as Mother and Yu Nuan talked. Qiu scooted under her chair, shrinking as he went to curl up atop Yu Nuan's feet.
Well, this would probably work. But, all the same, she felt like this conversation wasn't done.
They had quite a little hike after this though.
-When you speak with Yu Nuan on the journey towards the Thunder Palace, you will speak of-
[ ] Where the two of you have come from (+1 to Freedom XP)
[ ] Where the two of you are going (+1 to Persistence XP)
"You're surprisingly shy about this," Ling Qi replied dryly. They passed through the gates of the Sect town without pause, staying off to one side of the street to not disrupt traffic too much as mortals moved to give them a respectful berth.
"I'm not shy," Yu Nuan grunted, sparks jumping between the row of metal studs that pierced her ears. "A little more warning would have been nice is all."
"I think it's more genuine if you don't have a lot of prep time," Ling Qi said primly. "Besides I didn't see you at the tournament at all, what were you up to?"
"Training, working on a new piece for the storm lord," Yu Nuan replied. Their footsteps carried them swiftly through the outer part of the town and into the. "Not like I had anything to do there."
"It doesn't hurt to mingle a bit," Ling Qi replied. She ignored Sixiang's incredulous snort.
"Whole reason I'm doing this isn't it? I'm not cut out for that," Yu Nuan replied.
"I'm not going to let you become a hermit," Ling Qi said.
Yu Nuan grunted in reply as they passed down the cobbled streets just dusted with the winters first snows.
"Being serious, I did talk to a couple folks. I'm not hopeless," Yu Nuan said, keeping her eyes ahead. "Got a few auditions, little courts, nothing like what you deal in. It's rough though since I'm up for deployment."
Ling Qi hummed in reply as familiar gates came into view. "But you're not looking to get out of that?"
"I'm not," Yu Nuan grimaced. "I'm not some charity case. If you let me in, I'll pull my weight."
"There's nothing wrong with charity," Ling Qi said quietly, but she didn't press the issue. She understood pride and how important it was for a person to have theirs. The guards standing before the gates of her mothers house saw her and bowed, turning to open the gates at a gesture from her.
Yu Nuan watched. "You really are just full in on this stuff aren't you?"
Ling Qi gave the guards a nod as they stepped through onto the well kept path and the snow dusted grounded. "People like to see what they expect, but that doesn't mean you can't ease them into accepting different."
She smiled at one of the girls sweeping the path as she stepped out of the way and the young woman, something Min if she remembered bowed low with a murmured "Lady Ling."
No quiet panic or fear, just low level anxiety in the mortal. Ling Qi was getting better at this!
"It's Fa Min, by the way," Sixiang drawled.
Yu Nuan looked around with some curiosity, not lingering on the servant as they entered. "So, we're just meeting your mother then, that's it?"
Ling Qi hummed, opening the front door with a tap. "Well I am sure we'll see my little sister too, but she's four, so I don't think she'll contribute much. You have your dog with you?"
"Course," Yu nuan replied stepping hastily after her.
"Then I think you'll have her approval," Ling Qi said dryly. Tangent aside, she did understand what Yu Nuan was aking. "So just my mother, yes."
"...Sorry," Yu Nuan said, running a hand through her spiked up hair anxiously. "Not good at this."
"Well, you'll fit right in then," Ling Qi said. "Dining room is this way."
"...I heard things got a bit crazy at the end of the tournament," Yu Nuan said quietly.
Ling Qi paused, one hand resting on the wall. "...Yes. Do you want to change your mind?"
She still didn't know what to think exactly, that was one reason she was doing this now. She wanted to take her mind off of things until Renxiang was ready to talk.
"Nah, I don't think the blast zones have changed much," Yu Nuan said with a weak chuckle.
"Dark, but not wrong," Sixiang snickered.
"Then lets have a chat with my Mother, then you can show me this revel of yours. Leave that in the future for now."
"Got it matriarch," The older girl drawled, following as they resumed walking.
Ling Qi grimaced, shooting her a look. That was not going to be a thing.
Entering the dining room, she found that her mother had things moved around a little, the previous table had been replaced with a more ornate one, with more space for seating. There were a few things placed out on the table, a tea set, as well as plates and platters holding the sort of little snacks often served with it. Her mother had picked out a nice, understated gown in dark blue and black. Ling Qi had told her she didn't need to stick to Ling Qi's color scheme, but she'd not taken any of it. It was important for a clan to keep a theme apparently. She had taken well to her cultivation. Some of the lines on her Mother's face had smoothed, and the signs of hard living had lessened if only a little.
Biyu in her lap fiddling with one of the tight pigtails that mother had wound her hair into. She brightened up when she saw Ling Qi and blinked curiously at Yu Nuan.
"My daughter, welcome back to our home," Ling Qingge said formally. "I see you have brought a guest."
"I have," Ling Qi replied, stepping forward. They'd actually rehearsed this bit! "I bring Yu Nuan, who approaches as a supplicant to the Ling clan, requesting adoption.
Yu Nuan nodded once, stepping forward beside her and bowing. "Yes, I am Yu Nuan, the only cultivator of the Yu family, and it is my wish to join my fortune to the Ling family."
"I understand," ling Qingge said. She was proud of her mother, she came much more naturally to this sort of formality than Ling Qi did. "And what is it which you believe you may bring to the Ling clan?"
"I bring a strong and talented pair of hands and a talent which has reached the third realm. I bring skills in music and beast handling, I bring connection to the Argent Peak Sect," Yu Nuan spoke with a practiced air, and that was fair, this was the formal bit. "And I bring a spirit beast of my own, the Storm Herding Hound Qiu and the possibility of more of his like."
There was a faint crackling pop as the spirit beast appeared beside her. The dog was not shrunken fully into little fluffball, but instead rose just past her knee, his fluffy blue and white coat crackling with static. The hound held his head high.
There was a sound, high pitched and sudden.
Ling Qi glanced at her little sister who was staring at the dog with wide, wide eyes, she was naturally the source."
Ling Qingge sighed. "I am sorry."
Well that was why they had done this little rehearsal with low stakes. Yu Nuan still looked a little bewildered as the formality dropped, even though Ling Qi had explained this too her. They sat down around the table as Biyu wriggled out of her mother's lap and rushed over to fawn over Qiu.
"He is safe around children isn't he?" Ling Qingge asked, ringing the little bell on the table indicating for a servant to come in and start serving the tea.
"Ah, yeah, gentle as can be he was a herding dog even before I got him," Yu Nuan said awkwardly. "I prepped him for this too."
"If I didn't trust you with that much the offer wouldn't be on the table," Ling Qi said. It helped that in her presence little threads of protective qi wrapped invisibly around her mother and sister always. Against a peer it would be nothing but against regular everyday harm and accidents, her family might as well have been wrapped in steel.
Ling Qi gave the girl…
"Du Ai," Sixiang recalled. "I'll keep an eye on the squirt, so don't worry."
Ling Qi gave Du Ai a small nod as she poured everyone's tea, confident Biyu would be fine.
"Welcome to my home then, Miss Yu," Ling Qingge said. "Rehearsal aside, I do have some important questions I must ask you."
"Yes, I expected that," Yu Nuan said still seeming to waver between formality and her normal tone. "I'll answer whatever I can. I understand this isn't a small thing."
"Of course," Ling Qingge said. "The first must be, are you bringing others with you, mortal family?"
"No," Yu Nuan said, her expression tightening. "Just me, you don't have to take on anyone else."
"I am sorry," Ling Qingge said, lowering her head.
"It's… not like that," Yu Nuan grimaced. "Look, I have an aunt and uncle, some cousins, they took me in for awhile, but you don't gotta worry about them."
Ling Qingge frowned. "You would just leave your kin behind?"
"I know it sounds bad," Yu Nuan grimaced, leaning back in her chair. She hesitated for a long moment before speaking further. " But they were pretty clear throughout my life where we stood, even if they changed their tune after I got here. Heh, I mighta respected 'em more if they didn't. But point is I bought them a nice house in Leigong, paid my oldest cousins apprenticeship off, and left them a pile of silver for the rest. As far as I'm concerned, I've done my duty."
She pushed through the explanation at a hurried pace, finishing with a deep breath.
"There are many who would see that as an abrogation of duty," Ling Qingge said said. "They would say that it makes you unlikely to stand by the family you have entered if a better offer comes."
Ling Qi thought that sounded a little unfair, but her mother probably couldn't sense the knot of bitter resentment, flaring like a burned out coal in Yu Nuan's chest as they spoke on this.
"That's fair. It's definitely unfilial of me," Yu Nuan agreed. "All the same. I don't want them, I'm not gonna lie about that."
"While I don't know the full details, Yu Nuan has never struck me as a mercenary person," Ling Qi said carefully, considering the other girl. She considered the little bit she understood of her mother's family and her… father. She could comprehend the idea of a family you did not want.
'So this is part of your motivation?" Ling Qingge said.
"I'm not suitable to managing a clan," Yu Nuan said with a helpless shrug. "I get that and the only other way around it would be to marry in and I'd not like to put myself in some guys power like that with no guarantees. And being a clan of one, with no backers, that'd be how that would go. I just want to live, cultivate and work on my art. I'll make sure to profit you, but that's the real root of it."
Her Mother's expression pinched in distaste and Yu Nuan looked worried. Ling Qi patted her on the shoulder, understanding the source of that expression. The darker edge to the air shattered again, under the sound of a child's laughter and cheerful barks.
Biyu had managed to clamber onto Qiu's back, who had begun to trot around the room. Biyu's hair had frizzed up wildly from the static. Ling Qi could sense Sixiang's playing with the wind, keeping Biyu from falling. She caught her mother's eye and gave a small nod.
"If my daughter trusts your integrity, I will accept that," Ling Qingge said after a long silence spent draining her tea cup. "I hope that you will never have cause to find the Ling clan so odious."
Yu Nuan glanced toward Ling Qi. "I think as long as I do right by you, your daughter will do right by me. That's good enough for me."
"I like to think we can manage better," Ling Qi said. "I think I've said it before, but family should be more than that."
Her mother cast her eyes down for a moment. "It should."
But it wasn't often enough, Ling Qi knew. She thought of the Cai, and the He and other's snippets heard from friends and acquaintances. If anything she was the one being naive and unreasonable. "Well something to work on."
"That's one way to put it," Yu Nuan said.
"More personally," Ling Qingge asked, gesturing uncomfortably toward you Nuan. "Those… metal things, why… precisely?"
Yu Nuan fingered the piercings through her lower lip. "It started as a cultivation thing. I found an art that used bits of metal piercing the body as qi foci. It got me into the Inner Sect. Now I just like them."
"I see," Ling Qingge said, though she obviously didn't.
"Sis!" Ling Qi glanced down at the exclamation seeing Biyu and Qiu had made their way back around to them and now both girl and dog grinned up at her. Biyu raised her hands. "Up!"
Ling Qi chuckled lifting her little sister into her lap as Mother and Yu Nuan talked. Qiu scooted under her chair, shrinking as he went to curl up atop Yu Nuan's feet.
Well, this would probably work. But, all the same, she felt like this conversation wasn't done.
They had quite a little hike after this though.
-When you speak with Yu Nuan on the journey towards the Thunder Palace, you will speak of-
[ ] Where the two of you have come from (+1 to Freedom XP)
[ ] Where the two of you are going (+1 to Persistence XP)
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- Location
- France
[ ] Where the two of you are going (+1 to Persistence XP)
Learning more about her backstory could be interesting, but I think that learning more about her plans and hopes for the future is more important - especially if this leads LQ and YN to state shared goals. That would create a nice overall framework for future interactions, which could hopefully help reduce the awkwardness.
I do wonder where they got the lines for the rehearsed part though. @yrsillar, did LQ ask CRX for a book about it or something?
Learning more about her backstory could be interesting, but I think that learning more about her plans and hopes for the future is more important - especially if this leads LQ and YN to state shared goals. That would create a nice overall framework for future interactions, which could hopefully help reduce the awkwardness.
I do wonder where they got the lines for the rehearsed part though. @yrsillar, did LQ ask CRX for a book about it or something?
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Curse you Yrsillar, this is a devil's bargain.
Allow me to explain.
They're both interesting topics that I want to hear more of, so let's set that aside and look at the XP
1 Freedom XP levels up our Freedom Concept to rank 2 right now. Which is great, better Concepts are always good. It gives nuance to our Domain and this in particular is a major bugbear.
However... Persistence XP only exists in one place on our menu, and it's in a field we can't double if I'm not mistaken, because we can only shake loose 2 bonus points for it. Which means that +1 Persistence XP is the difference between having Persistence 2 in the near future, and potentially not getting it at all, since UGM should be almost done at this point.
Allow me to explain.
They're both interesting topics that I want to hear more of, so let's set that aside and look at the XP
1 Freedom XP levels up our Freedom Concept to rank 2 right now. Which is great, better Concepts are always good. It gives nuance to our Domain and this in particular is a major bugbear.
However... Persistence XP only exists in one place on our menu, and it's in a field we can't double if I'm not mistaken, because we can only shake loose 2 bonus points for it. Which means that +1 Persistence XP is the difference between having Persistence 2 in the near future, and potentially not getting it at all, since UGM should be almost done at this point.
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this should be my little sister too I think
- Location
- Finland
No, it's little sister two.
As opposed to Hanyi, who is obviously little sister 1.
Pandemonious Ivy
Panties, Revolution. Big Drawers. Parachute.
[] Where the two of you are going (+1 to Persistence XP)
Love to see these updates. No input on the numbers but I think being forward focused will reflect well on Ling Qi.
Love to see these updates. No input on the numbers but I think being forward focused will reflect well on Ling Qi.