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[X] As starvation is privation of the body, isolation is privation of the soul. Thus, the greatest foe is I. No hand may reach the one who has clenched and withdrawn. The blade Isolation rends all warmth into cold.
 
[X] As starvation is privation of the body, isolation is privation of the soul. Thus, the greatest foe is I. No hand may reach the one who has clenched and withdrawn. The blade Isolation rends all warmth into cold.
 
[X] As starvation is privation of the body, isolation is privation of the soul. Thus, the greatest foe is I. No hand may reach the one who has clenched and withdrawn. The blade Isolation rends all warmth into cold.
 
[X] As starvation is privation of the body, isolation is privation of the soul. Thus, the greatest foe is I. No hand may reach the one who has clenched and withdrawn. The blade Isolation rends all warmth into cold.
 
[X] As starvation is privation of the body, isolation is privation of the soul. Thus, the greatest foe is I. No hand may reach the one who has clenched and withdrawn. The blade Isolation rends all warmth into cold.
 
I wonder if LQ forgetting about Bao Qian under the influence of the spirit is due to the bond being only rank 1.

Also, this counts as a minor tribulation for Hanyi I think. It's nasty how the the Abandonment hits her where it hurts the most. I hope she gets something nice out of it.
 
[X] As starvation is privation of the body, isolation is privation of the soul. Thus, the greatest foe is I. No hand may reach the one who has clenched and withdrawn. The blade Isolation rends all warmth into cold.
 
[X] As starvation is privation of the body, isolation is privation of the soul. Thus, the greatest foe is I. No hand may reach the one who has clenched and withdrawn. The blade Isolation rends all warmth into cold.
 
[X] As starvation is privation of the body, isolation is privation of the soul. From lack and loss is born suffering, in many forms. One soul has but two hands, yet in multitude the chain is unending. The blade Isolation cannot be dulled by one heart alone.
 
[X] As starvation is privation of the body, isolation is privation of the soul. Thus, the greatest foe is I. No hand may reach the one who has clenched and withdrawn. The blade Isolation rends all warmth into cold.
 
CoatRackRanger said:
Ling Qi is gonna make a terrifying assassin. If she catches you alone, you're gonna have a truly bad time.
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I don't think physical isolation matters much when it comes to these conceptual attacks. This is the typical Shounen answer of "I am never alone, because I have my friends and allies with me every step of the way" *cue the appearance of all the allied minor characters doing that stupid smile thing* Power of Friendship solution.
 
abhisrkckl said:
I wonder if LQ forgetting about Bao Qian under the influence of the spirit is due to the bond being only rank 1.

Also, this counts as a minor tribulation for Hanyi I think. It's nasty how the the Abandonment hits her where it hurts the most. I hope she gets something nice out of it.
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Bao Qian on the other hand experiences isolation from LQ, and nopes so hard he proposes on the spot :ogles::V

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[X] As starvation is privation of the body, isolation is privation of the soul. From lack and loss is born suffering, in many forms. One soul has but two hands, yet in multitude the chain is unending. The blade Isolation cannot be dulled by one heart alone.
 
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[X] As starvation is privation of the body, isolation is privation of the soul. Thus, the greatest foe is I. No hand may reach the one who has clenched and withdrawn. The blade Isolation rends all warmth into cold.
 
TimEd said:
I don't think physical isolation matters much when it comes to these conceptual attacks. This is the typical Shounen answer of "I am never alone, because I have my friends and allies with me every step of the way" *cue the appearance of all the allied minor characters doing that stupid smile thing* Power of Friendship solution.
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I think that would matter a lot unless you're a shonen hero though.

Like yeah, LQ is weak to shonen heroes. Most cultivators aren't cultivating the Way of the Shonen Hero though.

And even then, that requires them to be cultivating the Way of Nakama. What if they're cultivating the Path of the Lone Hero?
 
Besides, Ling Qi already cultivates the Power of Friendship, she's just edgy about it. You don't put two shounen heroes cultivating the Power of Friendship against each other unless it's a tournament arc, and Ling Qi was very careful to avoid doing another one of those.
 
[X] As starvation is privation of the body, isolation is privation of the soul. Thus, the greatest foe is I. No hand may reach the one who has clenched and withdrawn. The blade Isolation rends all warmth into cold.
 
[X] As starvation is privation of the body, isolation is privation of the soul. From lack and loss is born suffering, in many forms. One soul has but two hands, yet in multitude the chain is unending. The blade Isolation cannot be dulled by one heart alone.
 
[X] As starvation is privation of the body, isolation is privation of the soul. Thus, the greatest foe is I. No hand may reach the one who has clenched and withdrawn. The blade Isolation rends all warmth into cold.
 
[X] As starvation is privation of the body, isolation is privation of the soul. From lack and loss is born suffering, in many forms. One soul has but two hands, yet in multitude the chain is unending. The blade Isolation cannot be dulled by one heart alone.
 
@yrsillar , both the options say "the blade Isolation". Is that right? Should it be the blade of Isolation? Because I dont want Ling Qi's to internalize an insight (something that changes her soul) which is grammatically incorrect.
 
[X] As starvation is privation of the body, isolation is privation of the soul. From lack and loss is born suffering, in many forms. One soul has but two hands, yet in multitude the chain is unending. The blade Isolation cannot be dulled by one heart alone.
 
Hm... interesting. I did not expect abandonment to be one's word to built around, but i guess spirits do not really have that much choice for the first one in the wild?
yrsillar said:
Weeping Mother of Lonesome Streams

All children leave home. The ice recedes, she is abandoned. The waters flow away, she is abandoned. The winds take her children, you take her children. She is forgotten. Mother is always forgotten. They flee. They flee. They flee. Ever eager to leave her. Ever eager to leave you. From you too they will flee, flee, flee. Little winter, little cold. Neither will your hands hold anything. Motherhood is loss.
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...I know its bad, but i want her to have tea with Qingge.
yrsillar said:
[ ] As starvation is privation of the body, isolation is privation of the soul. From lack and loss is born suffering, in many forms. One soul has but two hands, yet in multitude the chain is unending. The blade Isolation cannot be dulled by one heart alone.
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Neat, armor pierce.
At least, that's what this sounds like to me, with the more techs/arts that protects others overlapping mitigating the armor pierce effect.
yrsillar said:
[ ] As starvation is privation of the body, isolation is privation of the soul. Thus, the greatest foe is I. No hand may reach the one who has clenched and withdrawn. The blade Isolation rends all warmth into cold.
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Hm... this seems similar to the active Domain effect?
yrsillar said:
Lonely End: Active
Type: Isolation
Duration: Scene
An elegy to things lost and unattainable, left behind in the mists of time; of hearths that will never be warmed and happiness forgotten. The blade circles a foe, thickening the mist and cutting them off from the world and their allies. The target has their Qi potency, primary movement, and ally traits reduced by 2. Each time the enemy acts this penalty increases by 2. If Qi potency is reduced to zero, the target is incapacitated. Enemies under this effect only perceive Ling Qi and her domain weapon. Ling Qi may only target one enemy at a time.
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Probably a similar separator effect and single target attack as well. Against most cultivators, this would work wonderfully.
Against the Ith though? Nah. The cultivate by suffering. and they sacrifice themselves for the others. Not to mention their lifespan gets shorter the higher they are, iirc that talk when LQ went for a recon mission there.
Humbaba said:
I am slightly concerned that even when Ling Qi stepped up at the end she still doesn't seem to have regained her memory of Bao Qian.
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She is not in direct contact with him and the spirit has kinda overwhelmed spiritual senses in her cavern, so that makes sense. Bao Qian cultivating gold, which is neutral is kinda a double edged sword in this situation, it being neutral and impregnable to other effects. But she still got the feeling there are 3 people before the spirit and the lodestone rings will help after the spirit is more... accommodating, i am sure.
Lena27 said:
Big improvement on option 2 but I'm still unclear on "the greatest foe is I", these insights need to be clear, they are going to be an integral part of who we are.
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The self, The ego.
The Hui with their self centered delusions would take extra damage from option 2.
Oliver_Twister said:
Also, a reminder that this is a choice that affects our main concept and Domain, not FFS.

Isolation isn't a key word in FFS
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Except this whole arc is about FFS and upgrading it. the choices effect both LQ and her art, because the system is made so they are linked.
So, no cultivator that has a way of peace and love and honesty will use arts of poison, torturous pain and crippling.
They walk the way they talk, no saying one thing and doing the opposite.
(I do agree more clarification in the effects the choices have would be great though)
fictionfan said:
I would expect it to be just about universal. Or at least for all the Cultivators that are called talented. Waste not want not and all that. Trauma is just a shorter way to say tribulation. What did you think that the Bai children raising methods were just for fun or something?
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You know, i gotta wonder. how often it is that parents/families tailor the traumatizing of the kids to achieve desired development? and how often does it backfire?

[X] As starvation is privation of the body, isolation is privation of the soul. From lack and loss is born suffering, in many forms. One soul has but two hands, yet in multitude the chain is unending. The blade Isolation cannot be dulled by one heart alone.
 
[X] As starvation is privation of the body, isolation is privation of the soul. From lack and loss is born suffering, in many forms. One soul has but two hands, yet in multitude the chain is unending. The blade Isolation cannot be dulled by one heart alone.
 
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