Cut out the middle man and snort the ground up mirror shards?
I like your spunk. Lets do it.
In other news, time to build up that classic party music for our diplomacy playlist.
Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
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I like your spunk. Lets do it.
In other news, time to build up that classic party music for our diplomacy playlist.
- Location
- US
More arts are always nice. That said, I'm curious how easy it will be to find something that matches us. Given Renxiang's own focus on Light arts, I don't really expect the Cai to have a whole lot of Darkness arts. Likewise, her Renxiang's reaction to PLR during our spars last thread makes me think they don't collect Moon arts. A Music art, maybe? Or perhaps a stealth/spying art that's not Dark based?
I approve. Good way for Ling Qi to be involved at party time in a way that utilizes her talents, while also giving her more incentive to play music for enjoyment, rather than simply as a tool for arts.
I really, really love this bit. It's so nice to see Renxiang admit that tea something she does purely because she enjoys it, rather than because it's "practical".
- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Their archives aren't limited to core Cai arts so I think there's a chance it'll have a darkness art they took from someone.
And yeah, I'm stoked for us playing music.
Varder
Tired Cultist
- Location
- Hell
I'm not sure I wish LQ to officially claim that she has something poison-related that Bai don't have.
Well, if they have a head archivist, that suggest there are subordinate archivist.
If you need that many people just to manage your archives, I imagine your library must be rather extensive.
- Location
- The United States
- Pronouns
- He/They
I wouldn't expect to find something that Shenhua has spent time on like Renxiang's suite, no, but Shenhua needs carrots to give to vassals.
She may have a stick heavy incentive system, but she's not the Bai.
If someone in her cour wants something, and she can get it for cheaper than them(and it's not a threat to her reign, but lol Greenarts), it's likely in her Archive.
I'm not expecting something mindblowing, but something about on the tier of TRF that starts at Green 1.
- Location
- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
Libraries do get out of hand really fast. One day you don't think you have enough books and so start an audit. Day 2 of the audit you have discovered that you have more books than your library was expected to ever house and you just finished the first floor. What was supposed to be a month long project turns into a grueling 1/2 year hell project trying to figure out where the hell you got some of these books.
I do not envy the head archivist because I bet he will have to go into those dark corners of the library where you know that statue is following you and forgotten books lie in wait with their dusty covers.
Libraries are scary places especially if your a librarian.
- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I mean, honestly a TRF tier art would kinda be mindblowing if it's in our themes.
Theunderbolt
"Prepare for trouble..."
- Location
- USoA
I mean Ling Qi did perform at the spirit rave party so she has to have some hip music for the spirits to dance the night away.
- Location
- The United States
- Pronouns
- He/They
BungieONI
Seven gremlins in a trench coat
- Location
- Lickwidget
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Yessssssssssssss. Dooooo it.
Origami Clock
Right twice a day
- Location
- Brighton, UK
Remember, these are magical books. The ones that survived the last Ducal house purging the place need special training to handle because they go for the throat, or for the ones that survived from Weilu times, the soul.
The Unseen University's Library is probably a good jumping off point, especially the vaults in which the Librarian is only able to survive because he's no longer technically human (ook!).
- Location
- The United States
- Pronouns
- He/They
Name of the Wind's University is what I'm thinking of, with a side of three dimensional architecture, a healthy sprinkling of *totally not cyber-decking in jade scripts* with a heaping serving of "We're in a tree lol" for desert.
- Location
- The Core
Since Cai Renxiang seems to have a fairly specific role in mind for Ling Qi, I'd bet on something in support of that. perhaps a better perception art, to aid her future spymistress, or as others have said, they might have dark arts nontheless. I kind of don't see them having moon/music arts, those seem fairly exotic and not really the Cai style (even less so than a few dark arts, really)
Remember, the Head Archivist has no doubt been at this for decades if not centuries. His Way is built around knowledge and books and tomes and scrolls, like that one sect lifer green Beauracrat who's domain was very solidly one of paperwork.
Those strange places and dusty corners he's venturing into are new for a few of the other Archivists under his command, but not for him. He knows the place like the back of his hand. Better, even; he doesn't deign to pay attention to his hands inasmuch as they make it easier to care for his precious books, such critical repositories of knowledge.
Now, those newbies being given the shit jobs, yeah; they're kinda fucked.
[X] Invite Xuan Shi to help you with building his breakthough nest. Surely his knowledge will improve it
[X][M] Ask Cai Renxiang to put it up for auction
Note: pick up a social support music art...and the Imperial March
The Weilu established agriculture. Wonder what the last did
[X][M] Ask Cai Renxiang to put it up for auction
An excellent excuse NOT to talk, to be seen and to set the literal tone of the event.
Note: pick up a social support music art...and the Imperial March
Reading behind the lines, the Xuan alliance is still needed, but Renxiang(or rather, Shenhua) has bigger fish than Xuan Shi to fry
Oh a low noble hmm? Well, useful but evidently not high level useful
This exchange is a fine way to show how they're more comfortable with each other now...even if Renxiang is suspicious of Ling Qi asking for something that doesn't boost cultivation.
Ling Qi: "Might as well grind my Academics while waiting then"
Honey is one of the easier luxuries to fence for sure. Divisible at full value too, so you could sell small bits to even relatively poor middle class.
Fancy...also I suspect it might well be a Red cultivation aid
So hmm, the Bais started the Bronze age.
The Weilu established agriculture. Wonder what the last did
Shenhua is disturbingly like Ling Qi...
Ling Qi did express some creative difficulty with music variety. She has technical skill but needs more work.
Probably Weilu loot. Moon, Music and Traditional 5 stuff maybe?
- Location
- The United States
- Pronouns
- He/They
So when Xiulan gets her Bronze brealthrough, we should congratulate her, then immediately say the "You should let friends know when you're doing heavy cultivation" that she said to us when we did our first Sable Light Week.
BungieONI
Seven gremlins in a trench coat
- Location
- Lickwidget
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Where did you get this ordering from?
[X][M] Keep the mirror
[X] Invite Gu Xiulan along to help you, if the last one was any indication, you would need to start a lot of fires.
[X] Invite Gu Xiulan along to help you, if the last one was any indication, you would need to start a lot of fires.
Kai Merah
Hound Hearted Hedonist
- Location
- Somewhere in the corners of my imagination
[X] Invite Xuan Shi to help you with building his breakthough nest. Surely his knowledge will improve it
[X][M] Ask Cai Renxiang to put it up for auction
Only the best for our baby boy. Xuan Shi is likelier to cough up important info if there aren't any third wheels around. And we absolutely need more drugs right now, more than we need a cool artifact later. Drugs now lead to potential success upon success that might give us a cool artifact later anyway.
[X][M] Ask Cai Renxiang to put it up for auction
Only the best for our baby boy. Xuan Shi is likelier to cough up important info if there aren't any third wheels around. And we absolutely need more drugs right now, more than we need a cool artifact later. Drugs now lead to potential success upon success that might give us a cool artifact later anyway.
Weilu is straight from this update. The Bais were an earlier WoG, they fished the ore out of their lakes apparently. Not exclusively of course. Concurreny discoveries are dime a dozen.