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

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yrsillar said:
"Happy Days, eh, Emissary Ling Qi?" Rostam said, his expression smoothed back into a bright one. "It is a shame you had to miss all of the riveting chit chat on the exact fiddly meanings of the little eh…. Pre- Prop…"

"Prepositions, is the word you are searching, Emissary Rostam," Dzintara said flatly.

"Aha, yes, that is the word," Rostam said sheepishly, reaching up to adjust his fluffy hat.
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If the joke here is that Rostam was uncertain but right and Dzintara is very confidently wrong ("propositions" are a plan submitted for proposal, "preposition" is a grammatical unit) then I think you could use a bit more lampshading here.

yrsillar said:
"And here I thought you were the one encouraging everyone to share," Jin Tae said.

"Eh, what's that? You wanna let me have a look at your pretty formations for a bit?" Zheng Fu laughed. "Come off it."

"I merely.."
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Bringing Zheng Fu in is reaping dividends for these meetings as well as actual execution of the plans. It helps to have someone on your side in a discussion! Especially if the alternative is being outnumbered two to one.
 
The ES Nobility is the clear option.
They are one the factions we are going to deal more closely and personally with moving forward, and one of the most immediately affected by the result of the Summit.
We should get their favorabilty at 8-9.

I'm doubtful between Theocracy and WS.
Theocracy is now tied with MoI as the lowest faction, and we have a bonus on their next roll. So this maybe a good chance to get them up to a more comfortable value.

On the other hand, the roll bonus doesn't expire, so it may be better to reserve it for a more delicate subject. Something we wouldn't have already discussed with them yet.
Narratively, it also isn't really appealling to meet the Theocracy again so soon .

The argument that improving our already good Favorability earlier helps to not lose Favorability when we take risky options is really convincing. And let's be real, we'll be taking risky options.

Regarding the parasite, the suspects are as we had guessed. Ith Ia and Meng. Though the Ith cannibalizing Hui arts is an interesting possibility.
Heck, I wouldn't put it beyond the Hui to have actually fled underground and joining the Ith Ia.
If Yan Renshu can do it, why not them.

Now we can only wait for Cao Chun to finish the analysis of the parasite and hope he gleams something useful.
 
Anderein said:
If the joke here is that Rostam was uncertain but right and Dzintara is very confidently wrong ("propositions" are a plan submitted for proposal, "preposition" is a grammatical unit) then I think you could use a bit more lampshading here.



Bringing Zheng Fu in is reaping dividends for these meetings as well as actual execution of the plans. It helps to have someone on your side in a discussion! Especially if the alternative is being outnumbered two to one.
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Ah yes, I suppose the little joke is unclear there
 
Doramas said:
We should get their favorabilty at 8-9.
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If this post by Yrsillar is still accurate, then favorability caps out at 6. If we get any numerical benefits, I suspect it'll be a modifier or some such thing.
yrsillar said:
Organization Reputations

Ling Qi's organization reputations describe how well known and regarded she is by the organization in question. The scale ranges from -6 to 6, with lower numbers being more negative
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I think the Polar Theocracy is good, since we can further talk about the sabotage with them. But if it's for the next arc, the WS may be good
 
Algon33 said:
If this post by Yrsillar is still accurate, then favorability caps out at 6. If we get any numerical benefits, I suspect it'll be a modifier or some such thing.
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That's general organisational reputation. Favourability is a new mechanic for the summit.

yrsillar said:
Favorability: Each faction involved in the summit has a quantity of this resource. Representing the factions investment and interest in negotiation. This resource is spent or gained by actions, negotiations or exchanges taken during the course of the summit. Favorability ranges from -10 to 10 and during any rolls relevant to the faction applies a bonus to the success chance equal to 10x the number.

Managing favorability will be important to the Summit's success! Any faction with negative favorability at the end will significantly inhibit accomplishing your goals. Higher favorability with all factions will significantly bolster success.

There are five factions whose favorability is of primary relevance during negotiations. Smaller factions, like the ducal observers may interact with favorability but do not have their own score since they are not primary participants.
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[X] Emerald Seas Nobility
[X] Polar Theocracy

I think the Polar Theocracy needs a bit more focus a bit quicker here. Sure, we'll have more opportunities later, but the two we had opportunities with last time were not on this list. What if we then start over from the beginning and only get two more rounds of choices on who to focus on? If we only get to focus on 4/5 per 'cycle'? Losing out on opportunities to increase our lowest Favorability numbers seems real bad.
 
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[X] White Sky Confederation
[X] Emerald Seas Nobility

I think I agree that legal negotiation is a poor subject to focus on the Polar Theocracy with, but Emerald Seas Nobility and the White Sky Confederation should be fairly engaged here.

I think it probably also makes sense to try to slip in actions with each delegation early on as to get a sense of what they're likely to be doing later into negotiations. While we admittedly only got the basics on the Polar Theocracy, we did still get an idea of their political placing and therefore where they fit into the delegation. And of course dealing with Cao Chun to the extent that we now have has completely transformed our insight on the MoI for the better.
 
[X] White Sky Confederation
[X] Emerald Seas Nobility

Let's build up our best relations while checking up on the ES Nobility
 
[X] White Sky Confederation
[X] Emerald Seas Nobility

tbh I just don't see looking at the Theocracy too much as our place. It's Jaromilla's job to handle her affairs and we shouldn't poke our nose in too much.
 
yrsillar said:
The beasts underground are truly… consummate scavengers. The Ministry has begun to sift through their methods, and finds there is significant danger of technique theft by their foul arts," Jin Tae said lightly. "As expected of ghoulish corpse eaters."
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Lets pray to the fuckin sun they didn't get the blood body arts of the Usurper King. Because holy fuck it would be so fucking bad and absolute on theme for a faction about strength from sacrifice.
 
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