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

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[X] Hold your ground. You are Zeqings student and nearly a master of the Forgotten Vale Melody. Let these creatures lose themselves in your song and despair. Hold the cavern against all intruders preserving whatever is within.
 
[X] Hold your ground. You are Zeqings student and nearly a master of the Forgotten Vale Melody. Let these creatures lose themselves in your song and despair. Hold the cavern against all intruders preserving whatever is within.
 
[X] Choke Point. Retreat only to the entrance tunnel, and hold your ground there. May result in the caverns contents being damaged, but offers greater defensibility in the coming conflict.
 
[X] Hold your ground. You are Zeqings student and nearly a master of the Forgotten Vale Melody. Let these creatures lose themselves in your song and despair. Hold the cavern against all intruders preserving whatever is within.
 
So, an interesting thought is the dichotomy between Li Suyin's hypothetical domain and Kang Zihao's predicted domain.

I believe that Li Suyin's domain will revolve around "Using the unpleasant for useful means" or something along those lines. Her most recent crafting exploits revolve around that. The bone soldiers, the impurity devourer, and her desire to use the materials found in these caverns for her projects. Additionally, that theme also allows her to rationalize what she considers unpleasant about herself (ie. her vindictiveness) and accept that part about herself.

Kang Zihao, on the other hand, seems to deal primarily with the appearance of virtue. Of appearing like the knight in shining armor, of appearing unblemished and unstained in the face of danger. He seems to care more about his actions appearing pleasing than the actual usefulness of the actions. This can be seen when he ditches allies who have failed him. Presumably, so that he can distance himself from failure. Even when not ditching them might be more useful down the road.

I think that these two characters are going to be diametrically opposed during their stay at the inner sect. Not only where they on opposite sides of the Outer Sect Conflict, but the core philosophies are also on opposite sides of the spectrum. One deals with turning ugly and nightmarish things into something useful, while the other cares only about appearing virtuous possibly to the detriment of actual usefulness. Additionally, one is a fighter and the other is a crafter.

There just seems to be so much potential for conflict between the two ideologies. And while the conservative side of me wants to say that there will be no conflict between them simply because they operate on different levels of society at the moment, the more adventurous side of me thinks that it is possible that a true nemesis relationship could develop between the two of them.

Admittedly, Li Suyin could develop a domain that revolves around an entirely different idea. I find that unlikely, however, given the amount of work that she has put into developing this line of products. Additionally, Li Suyin has felt first hand how thin the veneer of the virtuous is given her troubles in the outer sect. Furthermore, the idea of looking at the world and seeing the ugly, nasty, and nightmarish reality underlying a lot of the world and dedicating to turning those things into something useful just feels like a powerful direction for Li Suyin to go.
 
[X] Hold your ground. You are Zeqings student and nearly a master of the Forgotten Vale Melody. Let these creatures lose themselves in your song and despair. Hold the cavern against all intruders preserving whatever is within.

Target rich environment. Open... Ice?
 
yrsillar said:
"Retreat is not always cowardice, but can become it if relied on over much. Think hard on what stands to be lost before choosing to cede ground,"
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Elder Zhou, during his Trials

There are materials here that Li Suyin could use to rapidly advance her craft. Materials that could be exceedingly rare and this could be her only opportunity to acquire them. Retreat and we lose those materials. Move to a chokepoint and many of those materials will have been devoured by the swarm. Hold our ground and we give Li Suyin the time she needs to extract worthwhile materials from the den of the Impure Antlion. We are not Ji Rong, the one hit wonder. Our arts and techniques seem tailored made to deal with this situation. Their advantage of numbers is greatly diminished due to the ability of FVM to separate and confuse them.

Let the hordes come into our vale. Let them come and threaten those we have chosen to assist. Let them come and die, wandering in the mists forever alone.

[X] Hold your ground. You are Zeqings student and nearly a master of the Forgotten Vale Melody. Let these creatures lose themselves in your song and despair. Hold the cavern against all intruders preserving whatever is within.

On a less dramatic note, I'm not entirely sure that we can hold out indefinitely against the horde. However, we can inflict enough casualties to make them cautious and buy Li Suyin the time she needs to extract whatever materials she can find from this den. Ultimately, we have an escape method and so does Li Suyin, so if things get really bad we can always jump ship.

Also, this prompt sounds much more epic and inspiring than the other prompts. A song could definitely be written about holding back hordes of opponents to give more time to friends and family to gather what they need from the place.
 
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Thor's Twin said:
Admittedly, Li Suyin could develop a domain that revolves around an entirely different idea. I find that unlikely, however, given the amount of work that she has put into developing this line of products.
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Arguably there's also her very deep relation with "healing". Sure she didn't do much with it lately, but the whole healing art or art suite is a long therm goal for her.
 
[X] Hold your ground. You are Zeqings student and nearly a master of the Forgotten Vale Melody. Let these creatures lose themselves in your song and despair. Hold the cavern against all intruders preserving whatever is within.

Get good loot for pal. Most likely be showered in medicine later as a reward for helping! It can't go wrong!
 
[X] Hold your ground. You are Zeqings student and nearly a master of the Forgotten Vale Melody. Let these creatures lose themselves in your song and despair. Hold the cavern against all intruders preserving whatever is within.
 
[X] Hold your ground. You are Zeqings student and nearly a master of the Forgotten Vale Melody. Let these creatures lose themselves in your song and despair. Hold the cavern against all intruders preserving whatever is within.

Sounds fun.
 
[X] Hold your ground. You are Zeqings student and nearly a master of the Forgotten Vale Melody. Let these creatures lose themselves in your song and despair. Hold the cavern against all intruders preserving whatever is within.
 
Thor's Twin said:
Their advantage of numbers is greatly diminished due to the ability of FVM to separate and confuse them.
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It's not just the Vale it's the everything. If they keep sending stuff we can beat we will actually ramp up and become stronger overtime. Worms got a buff to last for a whole scene so if we keep draining more qi we get a bigger and bigger army over time.
 
[X] Hold your ground. You are Zeqings student and nearly a master of the Forgotten Vale Melody. Let these creatures lose themselves in your song and despair. Hold the cavern against all intruders preserving whatever is within.
 
[X] Hold your ground. You are Zeqings student and nearly a master of the Forgotten Vale Melody. Let these creatures lose themselves in your song and despair. Hold the cavern against all intruders preserving whatever is within.

Into the breach!
 
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Adhoc vote count started by Arkeus on Feb 13, 2019 at 3:38 AM, finished with 8915 posts and 93 votes.
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[X] Hold your ground. You are Zeqings student and nearly a master of the Forgotten Vale Melody. Let these creatures lose themselves in your song and despair. Hold the cavern against all intruders preserving whatever is within.

Alright, let's do this


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[X] Hold your ground. You are Zeqings student and nearly a master of the Forgotten Vale Melody. Let these creatures lose themselves in your song and despair. Hold the cavern against all intruders preserving whatever is within.


We may never again have a chance so perfect with which to hone our Dao.

Let them come.
 
[X] Hold your ground. You are Zeqings student and nearly a master of the Forgotten Vale Melody. Let these creatures lose themselves in your song and despair. Hold the cavern against all intruders preserving whatever is within.
 
[X] Hold your ground. You are Zeqings student and nearly a master of the Forgotten Vale Melody. Let these creatures lose themselves in your song and despair. Hold the cavern against all intruders preserving whatever is within.
 
[X] Hold your ground. You are Zeqings student and nearly a master of the Forgotten Vale Melody. Let these creatures lose themselves in your song and despair. Hold the cavern against all intruders preserving whatever is within.

Lets do this! For the Loot!
 
Pretty unnecessary giving the tally, but I quite agree:

[X] Hold your ground. You are Zeqings student and nearly a master of the Forgotten Vale Melody. Let these creatures lose themselves in your song and despair. Hold the cavern against all intruders preserving whatever is within.
 
[X] Hold your ground. You are Zeqings student and nearly a master of the Forgotten Vale Melody. Let these creatures lose themselves in your song and despair. Hold the cavern against all intruders preserving whatever is within.
 
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