Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
- Thread starter yrsillar
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- Europe
I think it works and I prefer that you continue doing it.
If you're worried about it being distracting maybe try using footnotes1.
1 Sort of like this.
in competitive games when a match is stupidly lopsided the game is called early. Its mainly to keep people from having to play a game that they have no chance of winning. This is called a mercy rule.
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- The United States
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I liked it quite a bit.
The reader doesn't have Qi's senses. The immersion break there and again at the skill upgrade serves to show that this was and challenge we almost didn't make, in a way unique to the format that is both more striking and more concise than you introducing another bound spirit who's only job is to Picolo commentary fights.
I'd bet good money that all of them have 1 spirit. Not a good one, but most of the bandit yellows had them.
I just had a thought.
Ying isn't in charge of defense because she's the strongest or the best sensor.
She's in charge of defense because she's the strongest Earth/Mountain besides Zhou, and someone had to bind those things.
"If a vote leads by x amount, voting locks"
They're mostly good for pissing off Australians.
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- United States of America
You would win that bet hands down. For the Cloud barbarians to even cultivate they require a binding with a spirit companion.
Dharitri
EternalObserver
eYe Gaze baCk
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- The Void
I am very tired, and it took me a while, but I fiiiinnnaally did it.
Here's Sun Liling's very own Spirit(s), Dharitri, and the jungle crow, the Eye of the Goddess
Here is my interpretation of what Dharitri would look like, though I purposely split the face between a dangerous bewitching plant woman and a human skull (with glowing eyes). As for crow, I think I might have to follow up another drawing about my concept of him. Basically he's infested by a plant so he has lots of flowers in him (plus his eye is bleeding). Also added sunflowers to the hair background.
Here you go @yrsillar more art
Hopefully I finish my other drawing
Edit: Now that I'm awake, I went ahead and edited/ retraced some parts that seemed faded as well as add stuff in the drawing.
Here's Sun Liling's very own Spirit(s), Dharitri, and the jungle crow, the Eye of the Goddess
Here is my interpretation of what Dharitri would look like, though I purposely split the face between a dangerous bewitching plant woman and a human skull (with glowing eyes). As for crow, I think I might have to follow up another drawing about my concept of him. Basically he's infested by a plant so he has lots of flowers in him (plus his eye is bleeding). Also added sunflowers to the hair background.
Here you go @yrsillar more art
Hopefully I finish my other drawing
Edit: Now that I'm awake, I went ahead and edited/ retraced some parts that seemed faded as well as add stuff in the drawing.
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- Canada
Cloud barbs cultivate by bonding with their spirit beast
Also they were all riding their spirit beasts in that scene, otherwise they wouldn't be flying
I'm expecting them to be utility spirits if so. More useful to scouts than combat spirits and easier to get.
A tracker dog or a mount most likely
Since Argent cultivation arts build qi efficiently and allows spirit binding up to one level up, its even feasible for a Yellow cultivator to keep a Green spirit as an emergency bruiser, though thats probably too expensive that they'd be doing much else...which isn't a problem for Sect Army lifers I suppose, since if they plateau on base cultivation, and run into the meridian softcap, grinding qi is a thing..
I'm guessing diplomance more. Wouldn't fit in Dantians would they?
Also not really useful for this quest format since Yrs updates on a semi-fixed schedule anyways. Locking early doesn't do anything but piss people off.
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- earth
[X] One close call was enough, she would just report the activity.
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- United States
Ling Qi should invest heavily into strength so she can play so-long-K-bowser with Zhengui.
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- United States of America
So, I want to take some time to talk about our skill Vanishing. And why I'm super excited about it, and the possibilities it represents.
This seems like a skill that will take some practice getting used to, but once that practice happens it will be a devastating tool in our stealth arsenal. While it does seem incredibly taxing to use, being able to vanish from an area for even a couple of moments to avoid detection will allow us to more easily hide from probing examinations or getting into places we shouldn't. It's everything I wanted from our stealth upgrade.
Given it's connection to Sable Grace, I'm wondering if we would be able to eventually combine the two skills so that whenever we dodge we vanish from the area, only to reappear in another. With our propensity to generate fields under our control, this style would be exceptionally annoying to fight against. All in all, I'm super happy with the skill advancement, and I can't wait to see what we are able to do with it given some time and practice.
This seems like a skill that will take some practice getting used to, but once that practice happens it will be a devastating tool in our stealth arsenal. While it does seem incredibly taxing to use, being able to vanish from an area for even a couple of moments to avoid detection will allow us to more easily hide from probing examinations or getting into places we shouldn't. It's everything I wanted from our stealth upgrade.
Given it's connection to Sable Grace, I'm wondering if we would be able to eventually combine the two skills so that whenever we dodge we vanish from the area, only to reappear in another. With our propensity to generate fields under our control, this style would be exceptionally annoying to fight against. All in all, I'm super happy with the skill advancement, and I can't wait to see what we are able to do with it given some time and practice.
More importantly
Its synergy with ENM is utterly disgusting as it allows Ling Qi to break detection to enable its best techs.
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- The Temple of the Winds
That is not necessarily true.
IRL Mount Everest is fully inside the Earth's Atmosphere and yet a significant part of it's peak is just not livable. As in you literally can not breath enough air to remain at that altitude for more than a few hours, assuming decent physical state. Heck, i doubt the average couch potato could even last a few hours...
I think that and the fact the scouts are all significant greens is more an indication that the higher you personal cultivation realm the wider the range of environment you can survive/live in. Highest mountain peaks, lowest caverns, deepest reach of the ocean, ect...
Obviously, those extreme areas are also where you find the strangest resources, which considering their strangeness require the highest level of skill to process into usable stuff. All in good Xianxia fashion...
Perhaps, though if my previous idea is accurate then the fact the scouts are all greens is due to the fact that they need to be at least that powerful to survive the altitude and has little to do with what the average power level of barbarians is. Yellow scouts would simply not be able to work there, hence why the barbarians need to send three green scouts instead of say three dozen of yellow scouts.
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EternalObserver
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- The Void
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- The Temple of the Winds
Barbarians and the Empire seem to be based on Mongols and China, so i'll venture the guess that the first bounded spirit of basically any barbarian is their horse.
EternalObserver
eYe Gaze baCk
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- The Void
Went ahead and added and edited some stuff to the Dharitri art now that I'm fully awake and saw my drawing. Didn't completely like how it turned out so I did some stuff.
From the barbarian interlude we know that their bonded spirit isn't always a horse, one of them had an eagle. Personally I suspect it depends on tribe.
No but for real
Had we trained ENM and equipped it, following these barbarians wouldve been completely on the table.
The sheer number of options this Tech now opens up for Ling Qi is stunning
We want to stick with the squad, in order to soak the info for the team building. We want to break away from the squad to also demonstrate initiative when reasonable. We want to report in, because the risk doesn't seem believably worth it. (and because the last time we ignored a warning we got ganked by bad moon)
Black Noise
Curious
- Location
- About 1AU from Sol
Even if the actual risk isn't that high the perceived risk seems too big compared to uncertain and not clearly necessary gains.
(also the thread is secretly a bunch of goody two-shoes and it'll take much better bait to get us to ignore imperial law and "we were warned about this" mission parameters)
Frankly, going back and reporting on what we saw is actually our job.
Following three guys we probably can't beat behind enemy lines where even more perceptive and powerful people will be, on the off chance we find something useful, is practically the definition of foolhardy.
Like, is it worth most likely getting wrecked for whatever info we could recover? I doubt that very much.
Edit: Besides. Nothing we gather will matter if we cannot get back to report on it.
Following three guys we probably can't beat behind enemy lines where even more perceptive and powerful people will be, on the off chance we find something useful, is practically the definition of foolhardy.
Like, is it worth most likely getting wrecked for whatever info we could recover? I doubt that very much.
Edit: Besides. Nothing we gather will matter if we cannot get back to report on it.
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