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

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crusaderstar said:
Also to the "permanence is stagnation" line,

I can just picture Xiangmen responding "U WOT M8?! U CALLIN ME STAGNANT???"
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Xiangmen Preserves, but it's not Permanent, the Tree still grows, the Tree still Provides, the Tree sheds excess from time to time rather than let it build up, and the Tree does its Work tirelessly in holding up the sky.

It'll die--someday--but that day is not anytime soon.
 
Wiggy said:
So, looking at the changes, it sounds like the qi drain is faster and the group movement debuff is stronger, in exchange for not being able to focus on one person in particular to freeze them in place.
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It also injures (and eventually kills) those who are out of qi, unless Ling Qi actively prevents it from doing that.

I'm not sure how dangerous a cultivator is once they're out of qi, so I'm not sure causing them damage is a strict upgrade.
 
Candesce said:
I'm not sure how dangerous a cultivator is once they're out of qi, so I'm not sure causing them damage is a strict upgrade.
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I would say it is an upgrade (this might be a bit dark tho)

before LQ would need to exert extra effort to kill opponents now she can just keep on fighting the still standing ones and the ones out of QI will slowly die.

Depending on whom LQ fights, seeing their comrades lie helpless on the ground and slowly freezing to death would be quite a distracting thing.
As they now would need to decide on what to focus on recovering their fallen and bringing them back (which would open them up for more attacks)
or trying to kill LQ faster, so the effect ends (and killing LQ is really not that easy)
And should the enemy be able to recover them, they likely have to spend extra time and resources to heal them back up again.
LQ does mostly spiritual damage at this point, I think ? And that's probably harder to heal than "just" normal frostbites.

So yea, don't want to fight LQ in a war of attrition.

And as another benefit, LQ will probably fight alongside lower realms as well, so the enemy now also taking extra damage will likely make it a lot easier for them to finish them off, as a 3realm without QI can probably still do a good amount of damage to 1. Or 2. Realms.
Now that 3. Realm would be out of QI fighting a few 2. Realms and taking damage just from LQ being still there.
 
Ha this was an awesome update. Reminds me of Sun Lilings comments of us turning into a control cultivator.

God I'm excited to see our group work in concert when fighting. Can't wait to see the devastation everyone working together would bring.
 
yrsillar said:
Aria of Endings
Potency: G5
Type: Bind, Cold, Drain, Song
Duration: Scene

The beginnings of a song of endings. A howl, a shriek, the blistering cutting wind of the first storm of winter sweeping across the land, burying the world in its frozen embrace, ending the dregs of the old year and consigning it to dust. Heat and Motion die within and those without place in the next year are buried and forgotten. Fills a large and growing area with driving snow and sleet, to the limits of the scene. Enemies in the area of effect have their Movement Trait gradually reduced, by up to half their starting trait value, and their qi sapped. Enemies reduced to zero qi receive damage unless deliberately spared.
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Aw. :sad:
There goes the cool idea to eventually upgrade the name to World's End Aria when it became more powerful. I remember people tossing the idea around as something for the future and thought it was really cool.
 
yrsillar said:
Each turn of the wheel slays the old and births the new. Permanence is stagnation by another name.
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yrsillar said:
There is no peace in emptiness, no content in stillness. Stagnation is death; act, change, move, think, and grow until the very end. (Power, Motion, Freedom)
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Enemy Immortal of Eternal (Insert Concept Here): "You can't kill me, my Way is of Everlasting Existence!"

Sovereign Ling Qi: "Well Permanence is Stagnation, and Stagnation is Death. Or in other words: You are already dead."

Invincible Perfection The Old Busted: "Nani?!" *Scatters in a puff of logic and snowflakes*
 
So looks like of the three great fairies we had:
-Cold/Ice/Snowflake - Defected immediately. Very smug.
-Wind - Frozen, stilled, died immediately when it couldn't move
-Cloud/Rain - Cowed, kinda fuming still, but can't move and can only wet itself.
 
The best point of this upgrade is the insane synergy with Snowblossom Shattering. Before the upgrade setup for Snowblossom Shattering was super clunky - you needed to either use Frozen Night's Refrain on each target or focus Year's End Aria on a single person to make them viable target for Snowblossom Shattering, since AOE mode only lowered movement by one and could never achieve -3 penalty required for Snowblossom Shattering. Now with AOE mod halving movement traits -3 is very achievable - anyone of note will have movement trait 6 for sure. This means Ling Qi can set up Aria of Endings and then after 3 rounds nuke the whole fucking battlefield with a defense-ignoring finisher.

Setting up Aria of Endings is now an ultimatum - dispel this in 3 rounds or suffer the consequences.
 
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yrsillar said:
Though she was no Sovereign, right at that moment, as the feelings she had been turning over in her head came together in acceptance and conviction…

Her shadow stretched over the peak, in defiance of the weak light shining through the cloud cover, and she felt herself in every flake of snow, as the storm turned in her grip, battering the still defiant faeries as boulders and clods of earth rumbled free, and the earth shook, with the tumble of snow and stone down the mountainsides.
One faerie shattered, the other hung limp in the grip of her voice, as submissive as a kitten in its mother's mouth.

The early defector cackled in a voice of freezing ice, zipping around her head before settling in her hair.

And then she was only herself again, standing beside Hanyi, who looked up at her with wide eyes.
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Hanyi trying to negotiate with the snow fairies: "Okay, I gotta prove that I can be lady-like and diplomatic just like Big Sis!"

Ling Qi trying to negotiate with the snow fairies: SUBMIT OR DIE
 
Mafia princess Hanyi gets her beloved older sister to take out the competition. How dastardly!
 
Unrelated, but rereading the ending of Sunday's sidestory...
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He glimpsed the sky as he craned his neck back, his blood running cold as he saw the hole in the sky. In the sheet of iron gray a single perfect circle stood out, the bright full moon shining down, and silhouetted against it was a vessel of stone, which no son of the Polar Nation could mistake.
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The Crone herself made a move for that.
 
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