- Location
- Florida
[X] To travel as a group for the initial scouting. This would slow them down, but allow her to get a better feel for her team and a more comprehensive feel for the region before taking care of individual issues.
Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
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[X] To travel as a group for the initial scouting. This would slow them down, but allow her to get a better feel for her team and a more comprehensive feel for the region before taking care of individual issues.
To highlight this, anyone noticed that Meizhen, Xuan Shi, and Liling are all missing? Its exceptional for a ducal clan to deploy their scions.
Baby dragon. I guess he found an egg, since based on the rumor timing its at about the same stage of cultivation as Zhengui was from the time we found his egg.
I'm assuming thats a combat talisman if she's wearing it on deployment.
Doesn't look very protective.
Hope we get a good view of her cutting loose at her new level though.
...I guess its mostly the way Meizhen tortured him in the tournament. He's now constantly dreading and anticipating Meizhen appearing behind him some day to finish him off.
I died laughing.
She made a Cyan disciple take the test seriously. Thats a full stacked FVM Ashfall Zhengui Tank...and I'd note she didn't punch through Zhengui so much as physically uproot the poor guy. Guess he's kind of hard to crack even for her without doing potentially serious injury.
Poor Zhengui.
And Sixiang likes muscle girls. Noted for the record.
So mission objectives:
1) Mark out local spirits, gauge their disposition and then if dangerous, end the threat one way or another.
2) Update map with geographical changes. With spirits and cultivators, terrain is pretty mutable.
3) Check for signs of barbarian movement.
This is a job, not a loot hunt. Caution is advised.
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Sentence does not compute?
So a realistic test.
She gets maps and reports of the area, as well as interviews with the previous scout about fishy points in the reports, but no more.
To be fair Ling Qi hadn't HAD usual ever since she started cultivating. Luck is itself a talent.
inb4 5th realm spirit shows up
-Tribal war party - Theres been foreshadowing for this for a while.
-Delicious Zhengui - Hmm...eat or be eaten huh?
-Ogre king - *Eyes his mask and abs*...sure...
Doesn't Yukionna/Yukiko feed on the heat of the living?
Has she been using him as a snack plate while riding Zhengui literally everywhere?
Sneak in close and scan for details.
Recon specialist then. Possibly using burrowing and sensory arts to see from the burrow.
Skirmisher. It sounds like she's mainly intended to launch spoiling attacks or to lure pursuit away before disengaging for regrouping?
Tank and diplomat.
Lots of calming/damage absorb stuff, and he's at Peak so breakthrough wouldn't be far away. His appearance being old suggests he either started late in life, or he's spent a REALLY long time in Red.
His advice probably should be prioritized. You don't get old in a scouting role at his power without being very competent.
Stealth talismans, but minimal armor, so engagement is strongly not recommended. And they all probably have a basic Perception art + Movement art each.
Might be good to keep a camera on them, they might see more.
#Bully
Unusually heavy spirit presence huh?
Guess that could well be Ling Qi's specialty here.
[] To split everyone up for preliminary scouting, they could get a rough overview on the first day and then she could make individual assignments later. This would be the fastest method, but was more risky as well.
Outright bad idea. The team, as far as their documents show, are designed to work as a team. Each of them has some specialization which requires the other two to back them up.
[X] To travel as a group for the initial scouting. This would slow them down, but allow her to get a better feel for her team and a more comprehensive feel for the region before taking care of individual issues.
Cautious and thus slower, but as far as we know we have pretty good timeline leeways if we don't take too many curiosity side trips.
[] To have her subordinates scout as a group while she split off to surveil the more notably dangerous regions on her own. Somewhat risky due to potential ecology changes, but balances speed and comprehensiveness.
This is textbook Smug Noob Officer Mistake assuming they're better than the rest, still they'd get the job done, and we'd probably be able to manage. Won't look good on the report if it buggers up though.
I'm pretty sure she could have destroyed him easily if she wanted. That wasn't the point of the exercise.
EternalObserver
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- Location
- The Void
mmm, I'd say at most, he found him at Red, depends on when exactly did he found a dragon.
I'm curious on what kind of relationship do the two have
Misintepreting my post. I meant that Zhengui was difficult enough to damage AND annoying enough to bypass that her options were:
1) Cause real harm to him.
2) Lift him.
3) Have Ling Qi actually pass the Kobayashi Maru
...which also bypasses Zhengui's explosion(briefly reminded of Magnamon's politically incorrect move name).
Again.
I'm pretty sure she could have knocked him out if she wanted to too. The point though was to stop us from escaping, which she accomplished by yeeting him into the pass.
[X] To travel as a group for the initial scouting. This would slow them down, but allow her to get a better feel for her team and a more comprehensive feel for the region before taking care of individual issues.
- Location
- The Temple of the Winds
I think Ling Qi fails to read Ji Rong in a major way here. He's a street mob boss, the 'aniki' of all the random thugs in his couple of streets.
Ji Rong has zero issues with weaker minions. Commanding them and 'protecting' them is what he does. How useful they are is much less important than the fact that they are his.
It's dealing with peers, and even worse: superiors, that he has problems with. Particularly ones he can't punch away...
it begs the question why didn't Ling Qi simply have Zhengui return to her dandian before he crushed her escape path.
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- Finland
Agreed.
Also, being a street mob boss, Ji Rong might actually prefer weaker minions, beings he can push around, and who can't challenge him.
And, the important word here being mob, more is better, and quantity has quality all of its own.
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- Fabulously Rainbow Ireland
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- Space
@yrsillar What's the scale of the main force we're attached to? Are we the lone scout for a group of fourish greens and a dozen yellows or one of many scouts for a group of many greens or something else entirely?
We've known Xiulan long enough to know that whatever this new talisman does, it definitely isn't primarily defensive in nature.
Wiggin42
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[X] To travel as a group for the initial scouting. This would slow them down, but allow her to get a better feel for her team and a more comprehensive feel for the region before taking care of individual issues.
I love that the moratorium forces early discussions, but I keep forgetting to come back and actually vote.
I love that the moratorium forces early discussions, but I keep forgetting to come back and actually vote.
Too surprised because fuck, who the hell expects to see Zhengui being used as a Blue Shell?
Well, of course she doesn't get it.
From her side of the streets, minions are there to be exploited, and she has fears of being part of the loot to be shared.
She's actually surprisingly tanky, but right, in an archer formation output is more important than personal durability
Given what we've seen while bandit hunting I'm guessing something like a dozen Green scout-lieutenants each commanding 3-4 Yellow scouts. The Melee and Ranged formation probably has a more lopsided ratio, something like 1 Green to 8-10 Yellows, while the Support contingent I suspect would look more like the Scouting.
But thats pure spitballing based on feels
Aw, because everyone is a Cultivator that means there won't be any campfire scenes where everyone swaps graphic war stories.
[X] To travel as a group for the initial scouting. This would slow them down, but allow her to get a better feel for her team and a more comprehensive feel for the region before taking care of individual issues.
"I knocked him down with a hammer, GOD'S I WAS STRONG THEN! Caved in his breastplate. Probably shattered every rib he had. Stood over him, hammer in the air. Right before I brought it down he shouted 'Wait! Wait!'"
Mo Lian adds more kindling to the fire and Chun Yan nods in a understanding while Chang He finishes his tale.
Ling Qi sits quietly, the smooth mask of a dignified noble woman firmly in place.
"They never tell you how they all shit themselves. They don't put that part in the songs... stupid boy."
Ling Qi squirms internally.
[X] To travel as a group for the initial scouting. This would slow them down, but allow her to get a better feel for her team and a more comprehensive feel for the region before taking care of individual issues.
"I knocked him down with a hammer, GOD'S I WAS STRONG THEN! Caved in his breastplate. Probably shattered every rib he had. Stood over him, hammer in the air. Right before I brought it down he shouted 'Wait! Wait!'"
Mo Lian adds more kindling to the fire and Chun Yan nods in a understanding while Chang He finishes his tale.
Ling Qi sits quietly, the smooth mask of a dignified noble woman firmly in place.
"They never tell you how they all shit themselves. They don't put that part in the songs... stupid boy."
Ling Qi squirms internally.
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[X] To travel as a group for the initial scouting. This would slow them down, but allow her to get a better feel for her team and a more comprehensive feel for the region before taking care of individual issues.
so I was thinking
Zhengui getting tossed into the entrance of that exercise, why not desummon him and move on?
Zhengui getting tossed into the entrance of that exercise, why not desummon him and move on?
- Location
- United States of America
He was used to collapse the entrance of the tunnel they had to go through