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Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
- Thread starter yrsillar
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- Location
- Mt. Morninglight
[X] Investigate the migrating earth spirits. Together you can try to tease out the source of their agitation, and save the cartographers some work.
Why isn't the voting closed already? Because it nearly always is when I start reading this thread. Very unusual and spooky.
Why isn't the voting closed already? Because it nearly always is when I start reading this thread. Very unusual and spooky.
- Location
- UK
[X] Investigate the migrating earth spirits. Together you can try to tease out the source of their agitation, and save the cartographers some work.
- Location
- Germany
[X] Investigate the migrating earth spirits. Together you can try to tease out the source of their agitation, and save the cartographers some work.
[X] Seek to quell and disperse the malicious spirits gathering at the Old Watch, and find what is causing the quelled spirits to rise again.
[X] Seek to quell and disperse the malicious spirits gathering at the Old Watch, and find what is causing the quelled spirits to rise again.
- Location
- United States of America
So, I haven't seen much discussion here regarding our domain bonus from slotting SCS. For reference, here is the text.
Now, I really, really like this bonus. With the increases in SCS speed passives, we jump from low B's in speed to low A's. Basically, an entire rank of speed. Initiative gains a half rank, but those are the... least exciting. In my opinion.
No, the most exciting part is the increase in physical avoid and the fact that Ling Qi is immune to effects which reduce speed, initiative, or physical avoid as long as those techs are equal to or less than Ling Qi's domain rank. Now, our domain rank is... pretty weak right now. But the potential for this to be explosively good increases with each rank we get in our domain, something we are incentivized to do anyway.
Furthermore, we've seen effects which reduce physical avoid. Heck, Ling Qi has a couple herself. We've also seen others, such as Ji Rong and Sun Liling in the previous thread. How those have changed for the current thread is unknown, but techs which try to disrupt a person's physical avoid are known to exist. This also has some interesting synergy with Sixiang because, narratively at least, they have had difficulty in the past with the more physical aspects of debuffs. By allowing her to focus more on spiritual debuffs to dispell, we save her time and qi.
Fighting Ling Qi, at least once we get our domain rank up to a respectable level, will be incredibly difficult for the physically oriented enemies. Slowing her down and reducing her dodge will become increasingly difficult which means that they have to have to match our dodge with their hit, and won't reliably be able to reduce it. Meanwhile, we will be reducing their hit through PLR, Zhengui's ashfield, and possibly other later arts as well.
Ling Qi is going to be fast, quick on the draw, and extremely difficult to slow down or even contain (due to her other bonuses against immobility and helplessness.) It's going to be a nightmare to fight, and I look forward to seeing how this develops as Ling Qi gets stronger.
Now, I really, really like this bonus. With the increases in SCS speed passives, we jump from low B's in speed to low A's. Basically, an entire rank of speed. Initiative gains a half rank, but those are the... least exciting. In my opinion.
No, the most exciting part is the increase in physical avoid and the fact that Ling Qi is immune to effects which reduce speed, initiative, or physical avoid as long as those techs are equal to or less than Ling Qi's domain rank. Now, our domain rank is... pretty weak right now. But the potential for this to be explosively good increases with each rank we get in our domain, something we are incentivized to do anyway.
Furthermore, we've seen effects which reduce physical avoid. Heck, Ling Qi has a couple herself. We've also seen others, such as Ji Rong and Sun Liling in the previous thread. How those have changed for the current thread is unknown, but techs which try to disrupt a person's physical avoid are known to exist. This also has some interesting synergy with Sixiang because, narratively at least, they have had difficulty in the past with the more physical aspects of debuffs. By allowing her to focus more on spiritual debuffs to dispell, we save her time and qi.
Fighting Ling Qi, at least once we get our domain rank up to a respectable level, will be incredibly difficult for the physically oriented enemies. Slowing her down and reducing her dodge will become increasingly difficult which means that they have to have to match our dodge with their hit, and won't reliably be able to reduce it. Meanwhile, we will be reducing their hit through PLR, Zhengui's ashfield, and possibly other later arts as well.
Ling Qi is going to be fast, quick on the draw, and extremely difficult to slow down or even contain (due to her other bonuses against immobility and helplessness.) It's going to be a nightmare to fight, and I look forward to seeing how this develops as Ling Qi gets stronger.
- Location
- Canada
[X] Investigate the migrating earth spirits. Together you can try to tease out the source of their agitation, and save the cartographers some work.
[x] Seek to quell and disperse the malicious spirits gathering at the Old Watch, and find what is causing the quelled spirits to rise again.
[x] Seek to quell and disperse the malicious spirits gathering at the Old Watch, and find what is causing the quelled spirits to rise again.
- Location
- Yes
[X] Investigate the migrating earth spirits. Together you can try to tease out the source of their agitation, and save the cartographers some work.
[X] Investigate the migrating earth spirits. Together you can try to tease out the source of their agitation, and save the cartographers some work.
[X] Investigate the migrating earth spirits. Together you can try to tease out the source of their agitation, and save the cartographers some work.
Now Ling Qi needs a foghorn to pass the Spring Breeze Canto through..
Also she's moving like a horror movie antagonist.
Ooo, first Domain immunity.
It sounds like this is PROBABLY pretty essential to higher level combat, since while its weak now, it'd be a very different mess later, since the domain imposed absolutes makes any battle of peers or anyone fighting a superior to need to understand their opponent and thread their way through the holes in their concepts.
She is alright.
From the first day, she just walked up to some of the highest nobility in the Empire and talked to them like it was nothing special.
Hanyi: "That was only once! I usually sit on you!"
Tunnel vision + Inner Math Cabal: "Don't waste time on NPC mooks! They aren't cute!"
Passed the hidden test then.
I wonder just how many proud noble scions just ignored the mooks and only looked at the reports?
...would Renxiang fall for the equivalent suckerpunch on her side?
Well, that sounds like a Wishiwashi. Killing it won't matter because its an agglomoration of all the minor water spirits(like a river is made of uncountable drops of water), theres no central identity to the thing to put it down, its a democratic entity.
I'd guess the previous batch killed it for the loots too.
Yep, deliberate test. Especially with their mentor emphasizing that everything's in the report huh?
Ah hah! Classic Jianghu geography!
This guy:
Well, it was a fair bit easier than a certain river eel.
Far being relative when these guys can all sprint a mile in a minute easily.
Threat assessment:
-Can we deal with it? Maybe. Ling Qi is good at Spirit Ken, and if the rock spirits can hear her, she can sense them with Spring Breeze Canto.
-Can our subordinates deal with it?
--Chang He(aka Long River) is specialized partly into Earth and Social arts and should be relatively well suited to asking the rocks whats wrong. His name is spelled differently from the previous post though.
--Chun Yan is going to be of limited use as a Wind based mobility-offensive specialist.
--Mo Lian is specialized partly into Earth and Sensory arts, which should allow him to penetrate ground cover.
-Can the main army deal with it? Theres not a lot they can do about valleys not being where they should be other than march down the valley and then navigate the hard way.
Typos in this section @yrsillar
Threat assessment:
-Can we deal with it? Probably, we're unlikely to be in direct danger, though the worms can escape underground to avoid our mists.
-Can our subordinates deal with it? Its more or less straight combat assessment.
-Can the main army deal with it? I will note the main army has Yan Renshu, who's a specialist in these worms. And entire ranks of fight dedicated cultivators.
Threat assessment:
-Can we deal with it? Maybe. Spoopy shit is in our purview and theres plenty of shadows to teleport between.
-Can our subordinates deal with it? Depends on what exactly is up with the, but I will note that Ghosts mean spiritual attacks and none of them pack anything in the way of spiritual stuff.
-Can the main army deal with it? Really what you need here is some kind of massive area Dispel type cultivator to just scour it down to the rock of miasma while shedding all the spiritual attacks. *Eyes Renxiang*
It DOES seem likely for sempai to be posing with his back to the setting sun and then erase the memory of your seeing it...
[X] Investigate the migrating earth spirits. Together you can try to tease out the source of their agitation, and save the cartographers some work.
Only one that the main army isn't better suited to deal with.
Also I'd note that Ling Qi taking after Meizhen and Renxiang is...pretty suitable? They're basically socially awkward people who learned how to formally social by the best tutors in the Empire, so they have approaches which are very compatible with her own difficulty at making connections(and Ling Qi goes full street rat with people she's comfortable with)
Thats what Ling Qi is running on. She asked Liao Zhu whats standard procedure for a group movement and the answer is "spread out a bit, keep your Green in position to reinforce your Yellows and make sure everyone is in range to regroup rapidly in the event of trouble"
Lets put it this way, look at this:
And imagine the Green 5 Hill Spirit had decided to take a walk up to its opposite neighbor, right in the way of whats supposed to be a calm valley path. Only its now sitting in the river, water is building up into a small lake from all the agitated water spirits and its going to cascade out over the neighboring hills, and the map is completely useless in the entire affected zone. ...and then it moves AWAY and the impromptu dam is now gone.
And now remember that both Earth and Mountain elements are associated with stability and stillness. They won't move without reason. Usually "a few" will shuffle around because this is Xianxia and Reasons happen.
- Location
- Finland
Awesome, now if we just could get some more mortal perspectives of Ling Qi.
