The world is flawed.
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>>6192166 <span class="mu-s">???, Year ?????</span>
Your consciousness is foggy, but it “is” so this should already be good enough.
“First things first”, You think to yourself
Determining if you have a physical body yet, and if so how it is.
….
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<span class="mu-i">“Only Qi Gathering? Aiya…”</span>
Cultivation, the absorption of energy, and knowledge to sustain and elevate one’s existence.
It has always been part of “Your World”, or at least long enough to have had a clearly set and mostly unchanged categorization for ages.
Qi gathering, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Golden Core, Soul Dividing, Soul Nurturing, Soul Fusion, Immortality.
Your current “Body” and “Soul” seem to be at the very first level, and your abilities are severely limited even by the standards of a human in the Qi Gathering stage, either something went wrong with the body, the Gatekeeper did something you were not aware of, or the world has it against you this time around.
The good thing is that your consciousness is still the same, your knowledge is all accessible, this should prove useful… you hope.
You wake up and decide to face
>East >West >South >North Your name is
>Bai Hua >Jusuf Soren >Kahash >Write in You’ll run a more thorough check on your “Body” and “Soul”,
>roll a 2d20 for body and soul in that order. You can ask yourself a question to refresh your knowledge about something (optional)
>write in Anonymous
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Rolled 1, 3 = 4 (2d20) >>6192168 >>6192182 >Questions -Do we still have our penis
-Does the body have any peculiar constitutions, both good and bad?
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>>6192184 Wow I rolled dogshit.
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Rolled 19, 20 = 39 (2d20) >>6192168 >South >Bai Hua Anonymous
>>6192168 >South >Bai Hua (this means white flower. I think) Based, another cultivation quest alongside heretic and normal. Love to see it!
Anonymous
Rolled 2, 7 = 9 (2d20) >>6192189 Oh forgot the roll and write in my excitement
>do we recall our lowest and highest points in our life? Anonymous
>>6192184 >>6192187 >>6192190 Wonderful rolls, locking in.
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>>6192194 >South You face south, the sun is barely rising to your left, you’re in a slightly tall mountain from the looks of it, not tall enough to see the curve of the world, but just enough to have a wide view of the landscape, you see what appears to be a temple in the vicinity, and very few houses in the plains.
The weather is dry, and although it is a little cold, it is only to the extent of giving you goosebumps. You walk towards a flat rock that’s just started getting some sunlight and use it as a makeshift mat, your butt is warm enough to do a little self inspection.
You close your eyes and circulate a minuscule amount of energy through your body, it will take a little time to check every nook and cranny, so you ask yourself a few questions to confirm you’re still you.
>What was my lowest and highest point in life? The lowest definitely has to be when that little vixen from Jianan’s All Embracing Love Palace bluffed you into a rigged bet and you became a Yang Furnace for the all women sect for 4 years. This caused you to miss out on the appearance of a hidden realm you had been preparing an entire decade for, and earned you the contempt and ridicule of your peers for the next 130 years… They weren’t even that pretty either.
Body inspection complete!
>19 Barring the loss of your cultivation, your body is almost exactly the same as it was in your previous life, with two exceptions.
<span class="mu-g"> One, your penis is still there and it looks to be even bigger than it used to be. </span>
<span class="mu-g"> Two, your meridians, blood vessels, flesh and bones are perfectly suited towards the practice of the Extreme Yin/Extreme Yang/Golden Buddha paths</span>
The highest… If you had to choose one then it’s probably when you fought against four immortals while in the Soul Fusion stage with a broken spear, that brought all types of people looking to do battle with you for about 90 years, never had a dull day back then.
Soul inspection complete!
>20 <span class="mu-g"> Your soul is way better this time around, you’re very unlikely to run into bottlenecks and Qi Deviation</span>
<span class="mu-g"> Your compatibility with ancient Mystic Arts like the Spectral Master/Mistweaver/Star Emperor paths is a given.</span>
What you initially thought had been something wrong turned out to just be a sense of discomfort at how fortunate you were.
With the inspections done, you get off the rock and begin to walk towards the temple-like structure, it will take a few minutes to get there so you continue to ask yourself questions to refresh your knowledge
>Write In Anonymous
>>6192212 >Who are we, what is our past and what region are we in? Including the major powers in the region. Anonymous
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>>6192236 I mean who are we in the sense of who's body is this, not the reincarnated character himself.
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>>6192212 >What was my notable skill, my previous art name, and pertinent reputation. >What did I see beyond the gate. Anonymous
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The temple is empty, you can tell it has been a few years since anyone last passed by thanks to the amount of dust in the offering table.
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You’re not sure where you are just yet, the energy flow is different from what you remember, so you might need to find a map or someone you can talk to.>Sword >Polearm >Ranged weapons >Mystical Arts >Unarmed
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>>6192287 >What did I see beyond the gate. A plane of infinite energy, unbound by the “rules” of this world, a higher state of being if you had to put it in simple terms.
>Choose 2 normal paths, 1 Normal path and leave the sub slot open, or 1 special path >Roll 1d20 for 1 path, 2d20 for two paths. >If you’re unsure, you can always ask yourself a few questions before choosing. Anonymous
Rolled 11 (1d20) >>6192287 >Main: Unarmed Useful anywhere.
>Sub: Mystical Arts Do we pick both two normal and two mystical paths or is it one or the other?
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Rolled 13 (1d20) >>6192293 >>6192289 Oh, well, there’s my answer. Whoops.
>>6192289 >Unarmed Anonymous
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I knew I forgot something, thank you for pointing it out.
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>>6192287 Okay so if we picked Extreme Yang Lightning, we'll be incredibly powerful at channeling lightning through our body but Yang Based Weapons will not like us? But also Yin Based Weapons and Treasure like pills will be more powerful in our hands so for example we'll gain more power from a Thousand Year Snow Flower Herb compared to a Thousand Year Sun Ginseng if we picked YANG?
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>>6192319 Ohh and if we picked Yang then things like Ice Iron and Nether Claw Daggers will be more powerful in our hands if they're Yin Based?
So basically if we pick Extreme Yang we'll max out our internal power for a single Yang Element while being incredibly at using Yin Weapons, Yin Treasures and Yin Pills?
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>>6192289 Tentatively my choice is
>Extreme Yang: Lightning Since we have the constitution to use this technique well. I want to use a lot of Yin Based equipment and rituals because they're cool though and I'm not sure I'm understanding Extreme Yang and Extreme Yin too well.
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>>6192324 You got it right, you'd be doing/consuming/practicing Yin to nurture Yang.
Special paths are very strong in exchange for changing how you cultivate.
Extremes, will let you be a little cheating shit and eventually use all the elements in their respective polarity if you so wish to.
Buddha and Spectral are respectively Light and Dark only, while Mistweaver and Star Emperor are cultivation paths that do not "belong" to this plane, they are only available from the start thanks to Hua's experience beyond the Gate and that nasty nat 20 from the other anon.
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Rolled 8 (1d20) >>6192289 >Extreme Yin Anonymous
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>>6192326 >>6192289 Ugghh this is a hard choice, either Extreme Yin or Extreme Yang seem powerful but personally I wanna do a Black Silence Build where we use all weapons.
Alright I change my vote to
>Extreme Yin Anonymous
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>>6192289 #Ugghh this is a hard choice, either Extreme Yin or Extreme Yang seem powerful but personally I wanna do a Black Silence Build where we use all weapons.
Alright I change my vote to
>Extreme Yin Anonymous
Locking in 20 min, this daoist has a mighty need for roasted bean water.
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>>6192335 Nah the point of Black Silence is having amazing technique AND an entire armory of powerful and unique weapons. Summoning weapons out of nowhere is cheating, we can always just learn Yin Based body enhancements and martial arts then get attributeless or Lightning Weapons.
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Rolled 3 (1d20) >>6192289 >Extreme Yin >>6192338 Or Smoke Attribute Weapons. We can still use Yin Weapons and Treasures, it's just less effective so we could totally have an entire armory of both Polarity. It's just Extreme Yin might mean we get to grab Ice Muscles and Jade Bones Early or some other powerful body buff earlier.
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Locking Extreme Yin, writing.
>>6192338 You have a point there, I was just associating smoke with mist, you might like some of the later stuff in this cultivation world considering you're posting PM stuff.
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Once you’re done confirming your identity is still yours and not a stranger’s, sweep the room with an old broom and dust an old cushion to sit on.
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Rolled 2 (1d12) >>6192381 When you're back in the temple, you notice you’ve gathered a substantial amount of Qi in a single session, enough to push you all the way to the middle stage of Qi Gathering, not bad for using a dark room with no ventilation and full of death energy.
You scavenge the room a little more and find an old and dusty map, looks like the zone you’re in right now is the border between Owayabo and Xingtian, you only recognize Jianan, Zhen and Datong.
Looks like Shun and Zhong ate into it, and Zhong is all territory that used to belong to the Huang empire, this probably started happening after you helped kill the emperor.
The continent looks similar but a few things have changed, for one, the mountain range separating this Owayabo from the rest didn’t exist at all; Then there’s Datong which used to be an island. Either an absurd amount of time has passed, or some good stuff happened while you were gone.
<span class="mu-s">On Events:</span> At the start of each year, Decade, and Century an event will be determined for each, these events will affect the player and offer benefits or challenges, this post will roll for the century's event.
You choose to go towards
>Owayabo >Xingtian Anonymous
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>>6192385 >Xingtian Going Owayabo means we can cultivate relatively isolated in the borders. But I wanna go nearer to the center where information, treasures and people are likelier to be gathering.
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Rolled 6, 1, 5 = 12 (3d10) Doing 1 roll for the decade's event, one for when it will occur and a third to determine when the century's will take place.
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>those rolls
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Century’s Event (2, 5):
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>>6192420 <span class="mu-s">Introducing Causality Denial</span>: Bai Hua exclusive, you start the game with 1 point, then get another upon breaking through to Golden Core, and a third at Immortal.
These points can be used to:
>Bring another character back from the dead or completely reforge their body to Hua’s liking >Guarantee the highest success possible in a single roll >Reroll your cultivation path >Reroll another character's cultivation path Be sure to use them wisely
>If you want to use a Causality Denial point to reroll your path, roll a 1d6 and choose the path you want to follow. >No buyers remorse, no asking for refunds, say hello to the mist and keep walking towards Heipinghua, roll a 1d20 Anonymous
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Rolled 17 (1d20) >>6192423 >>No buyers remorse, no asking for refunds, say hello to the mist and keep walking towards Heipinghua, roll a 1d20 Anonymous
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Rolled 2 (1d20) >>6192423 >No buyers remorse, no asking for refunds, say hello to the mist and keep walking towards Heipinghua, roll a 1d20 I'd rather use the points for Legendary Gear or useful Minions.
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Rolled 8 (1d20) >>6192423 >No buyers remorse, no asking for refunds, say hello to the mist and keep walking towards Heipinghua, roll a 1d20 Anonymous
>>6192443 <span class="mu-i">“I could always use THAT… but… No no, there’s no telling how long this will last, let’s just go to Heipinghua.
Hey, Itztli… if this makes it to you all the way out there, I’m still alive… I hope you and your people are doing well.”</span>
You put the idea of messing with causality for a headstart to rest, sit on your hands in a figurative sense and wait for a better opportunity to present itself.
>17 The walk down the riverside is quieter than what you would be comfortable with, another of the mist’s properties is its ability to also absorb sound, in combination with its energy absorption it makes a great deterrent against annoying weakling cultivators and beasts. You even took a little time to give the clothes you were wearing a wash, fill your gourd with water and find some fruit to eat on the way, nothing really happened.
<span class="mu-s">Heipinghua, Xingyuan</span>
The small city is as quiet as it could be, no doubt because of the mist, you go straight for the nearest street stall, it’s a young woman selling second hand trinkets with mystical properties.
<span class="mu-i">”Say, young lady, do you know where a broke fellow in the Qi Gathering stage can get a few spirit stones to his name?</span>
<span class="mu-i">”Young lady? Little brats these days… I’ll be 78 in a few days I’ll tell you right now so don’t get any funny ideas… but if it’s work you’re looking for then you might want to check the Buddhist Temple in the center.”</span>
A few minutes more and you find yourself before a well maintained temple, there are a few priests rushing in and out, they’re placing things outside the building rather urgently.
You pose the same question (minus the young lady part) to the elderly priest looking over the young ones running, and his answer is simple.
<span class="mu-i">”“When the young ones are done bringing everything out, just follow my instructions and I’ll make sure you get some payment for helping”</span>
You do as the priest says and place a few charms in a couple inconspicuous locations around the temple, then draw some lines along with the young priests to create a very rudimentary array.
<span class="mu-i">”Here you go young man… and you’re no priest, so please do not dress like one if you’re not willing to follow our teachings”</span> Says the priest, his breathing becoming a little erratic, he’s circulating his Qi into the array to activate it.
The activated array repels the mist in a small area around the temple, and everyone’s complexion improves in a few moments.
You
>find a restaurant, get yourself some food and ask where you can buy new clothes. >suggest the elder a way to improve the array in the temple. >explain to the elder that a larger array can be made using the temple as the centerpiece. Write ins welcome!
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>>6192453 >Explain to the priest that you're a traveling scholar who was robbed by bandits and suggest ways for him to improve the arrays in exchange for food, shelter and some spirit stones. Anonymous
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>>6192453 >Suggest the elder a way to improve the array in the temple and help around the temple for some Spirit Stones.. Anonymous
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>>6192453 Do we know anything about this temple or the religion of the temple these monks are a part off?
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>>6192453 >Suggest the elder a way to improve the array in the temple and help around the temple for some Spirit Stones. Anonymous
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>>6192453 >find a restaurant, get yourself some food and ask where you can buy new clothes. Anonymous
>>6192420 Do we know when the Mist will end or we just gonna have to tough it out? Also how common are Cultivators and Martial Artists in this world, is it full weird wacky Xiaxia or closer to a more grounded Wuxia?
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>>6192453 >Explain to the priest that you're a traveling scholar who was robbed by bandits and suggest ways for him to improve the arrays in exchange for food, shelter and some spirit stones. >Suggest the elder a way to improve the array in the temple and help around the temple for some Spirit Stones.. Anonymous
Locking in.
>>6192510 Wanna make a guess?
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>>6192517 Well so far it sounds like it'll be the weird alien Xianxia, especially because of the Mist and the right off the bat knowing about at least two martial arts using energies that cause reality to hate us.
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The priest’s payment was enough for you to eat for a day assuming the economy didn’t change much, but it was just that, 10 Spirit Stones.
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The elder looks back and forth between the horrible scribble and your face, he signals Zopa over and the man rouses the other two priests next to him and rushes out.>Try to talk with some of the priests (about what, roll a 1d6) >Go to the library (what are we looking for, roll a 1d6) >Sleep
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>>6192519 Yes, this is weird alien xianxia territory. We're on our baby steps but it will powerscale appropriately in due time.
>Do we know when the Mist will end or we just gonna have to tough it out? There's a reason it is the decade's event.
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Rolled 4 (1d6) >>6192561 >>Go to the library (what are we looking for, roll a 1d6) >>Look to see if the temple has any basic Fist or Staff Martial Arts that outsiders are allowed to learn, try to get a feel of the Martial Arts of this age. Even if we know better martial arts, it might be a good idea to learn some more basic and common martial arts so that we can defend ourselves without casting too much suspicion. Anonymous
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Rolled 5 (1d6) >>6192561 >Try to talk with some of the priests (about what, roll a 1d6) >Ask around if there are any ploothooks like Bandits or Mythical Creature Sightings that we can help out with to either earn some Spirit Stones or use as Elixirs. Anonymous
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Rolled 2 (1d6) >>6192561 >>Try to talk with some of the priests (about what, roll a 1d6) >Ask whether any great changes in religion or spirituality have happened. Anonymous
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Locking in talk option. Writing
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Rolled 5 (1d6) >>6192561 >Try to talk with some of the priests (about what, roll a 1d6) >Ask the nearby priests if there have been any sightings of Mythical Creatures or Herbs after the sudden mist appearing. Maybe it agitated some creatures or plants out of hiding. Anonymous
>>6192566 The only real question is, are the aliens hot. Or, can we bang the mist?
Anonymous
Buddhism from your time was mostly composed of two temples, the Golden Buddha and the Silver Buddha temples, they had a very heartwarming story to them.>5 on mythical creatures of herbs >2 on religion and spirituality
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>>6192606 A few hours later, the elder, who you’re now aware is named Dakpa, comes looking for you. He leads you through the mist filled city for a few minutes, and a fancy building pops into view.
<span class="mu-i">”The city’s lord, Xia Yan is ready to meet you… I do not think he might give you trouble considering the weight of this information, but please have mercy on the people of this city.</span>
<span class="mu-i">”I’ll keep that in mind… And sir Dakpa, I’d like to apologize for lying earlier. My name is Bai Hua and… I don’t really know how old I am today, I don’t know if my previous titles even carry any weight either so I won’t mention them. Thank you for your generosity entertaining this fool’s lousy acting.”</span>
With those words you leave the priest behind, and enter the building. An old looking steward welcomes you in and guides you to the second story, a long line of maids of all ages are present and give you a deep bow as you make your way past them. After going up the staircase, you’re led to the right wing, where a younger man is waiting for you at a table with two cups of tea ready.
<span class="mu-i">”Welcome, Esteemed Expert. I’m Xia Yan, Heipinghua’s new lord. I took over after my father disappeared in the last mist incident and I’m still kind of wet behind the ears in this whole business, so please cut me some slack.
Ah! What am I doing, come in come in, the tea will grow cold!”</span>
There’s no need to lie… that much, so you introduce yourself as Bai hua, a rogue cultivator who used to be at the Soul Nurturing stage and went into seclusion after a brutal injury, you survived at the cost of your cultivation being completely lost… that’s the story you decide to go with this time.
<span class="mu-i">”Aah that’s saddening to hear, and excuse my rudeness but I’m glad you got injured, otherwise my small city might just have been sucked dry this time around!
Please name your price, I will spare no effort in seeing you compensated for your knowledge!
Should you desire, I can bring you every maiden in the city, every spirit stone in the region, or even give you the land itself!”</span>
Huh? Is this because he’s young or is he just trying to make you humbly decline?
While you’re fond of the idea of trying our son out, doing so right now would be too rash, someone can kill you, or even worse, cut your son off.
Every spirit stone in the region will clearly cut into the people’s wellbeing, and even then they’re worthless if you can’t buy anything with them, the quality of spirit stones for direct cultivation has not been suitable in at least four hundred thousand years from YOUR era, you don’t even know how much has passed so it’s likely worse nowadays, it’s simply a currency at this point.
On the other hand, accepting land will tie you to it unless you find someone to manage things for you, and you’re too weak to protect anything anyways, at least if you play by the book.
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>>6192607 You feel like a compromise can be made
>Rather than a specific sum of stones, you want cultivation materials of Yin Polarity, then you can be on your way to Jianyang >Rather than accepting land, you’d like to borrow a plot of land outside the city, this will delay your travel to Jianyang, but you can set up an area suited for cultivation within the mist, and perhaps run a few tests on vegetation and animal life. Or
>Write in! And roll me a 1d20 for the results.
>>6192578 We can explore the hotness of the aliens eventually, as for the mist, who knows? Where there's a will there's a way.
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Rolled 2 (1d20) >>6192608 I thought since we're Extreme Yin, we need Yang Polarity Elixirs?
>Ask for for a decent amount of spirit stones and Yang Polarity Materials. >Also ask if for a weapon we can have to protect ourselves, either a knife that's easy to conceal or a staff we can use as a walking stick. Anonymous
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Rolled 5 (1d20) >>6192608 >Ask for for a decent amount of spirit stones and Yang Polarity cultivation materials. >Also ask if for a weapon we can have to protect ourselves, either a knife that's easy to conceal or a staff we can use as a walking stick. Anonymous
>>6192612 Wow the dice for this quest have been real fucking hit or miss.
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Aiya you're right. Please treat my words as if I had farted, it wil be Yang Polarity materials.
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>>6192615 >>6192618 >the dice: Did you say you wanted to live in INTERESTING TIMES? Not again!
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Rolled 6, 3 = 9 (2d6) Rolling for the yearly event, will little Hua get fucked over again? We'll find out soon!
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Wew lad.
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Rolled 20 (1d20) >>6192608 Rollin just to see the dice
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>>6192638 The dice are just messing with us now
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Yearly event (6, 3):>5 >Ask for for a decent amount of spirit stones and Yang Polarity cultivation materials. >Also ask if for a weapon we can have to protect ourselves, either a knife that's easy to conceal or a staff we can use as a walking stick.
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You do some small paperwork, both parties sign with their blood and seal a small “dao pact” to keep the promise in place. If this doesn’t pay off it’s no big deal, you can rake it big later. If it does pay off you’ll probably see good results by the end of the decade.>Follow the river to Xuzhou >Beeline to Jianyang
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Rolled 3 (1d20) >>6192673 >Follow the river to Xuzhou >Go look for the flower growing inside the mist along the way. Anonymous
>>6192673 >Follow the river to Xuzhou Our fucking rolls man
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Rolled 2 (1d20) >>6192673 >Follow the river to Xuzhou These Buddhists are ruthless, kek
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Rolled 5 (1d6) <span class="mu-s">Weapon Nurturing</span>>Rolled 3+3+1 (-3 from the Mist) >1
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Well, at least you didn't go into Qi deviation?
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Rolled 6, 2 = 8 (2d20) <span class="mu-s">Qi Gathering progress: 16/60</span>
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<span class="mu-s">On combat</span>>Choose a bandit and then >Use your staff >Use one of the Mystical Arts (Water, Earth, Dark), the simplest art is making a projectile and chucking it at your opponent. >Write in
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>>6192703 >“Ay uncle, run yo’ pockets if you don’t want no trouble” Even so far away, we can never relax.
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Rolled 7, 4 = 11 (2d20) >>6192705 >Hit Bandit 1 With the Dog Beating Staff Technique. >Hit Bandit 2 with the Ball Crushing Staff Technique Anonymous
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Rolled 1, 16 = 17 (2d20) >>6192705 >Beat Bandit 1 with your staff >Beat Bandit 1 again with your staff Anonymous
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Locking at :40, doing a tiebreaker roll if it's still 1-1
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Rolled 19, 10 = 29 (2d20) >>6192707 This
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I don't know anything about cultivation op but you have enthralled me
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Locking, hit bandit 1 with the dog beating staff technique and bandit 2 with the ball crusher.
>>6192713 It's just a fancy "number go up" genre nowadays, just add a little lao gan ma and some msg and you got a cualtivation story.
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>>6192714 What if I want to add rampant xenophobia and horse people? Not to be confused with sea people, a different empire ending threat for a different part of the world.
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Bandit A starts running toward you, his axe held up high and ready to descend. You’re moving faster, your staff is held up higher, and descends faster.
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Rolled 14 (1d20) >>6192731 Meh, we needed to destress by beating somebody to death I feel like.
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Rolled 13 (1d20) >>6192731 Anonymous
Locking, last update for the night.
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>>6192753 >Rolled 14 Neither of the bandits had anything spectacular on them, but the spirit stones in their bags amount to one hundred, which seems to be a decent amount all things considered. Likely the spoils from a few days of robbery. And you did get some Yang infused tea leaves from the former ball haver too, these will at least help you keep from going into deviation when you cultivate.
The rest of the trip is also uneventful, and your steps are even lighter than before, just a little lighter and you’ll be hopping and skipping like a kid.
The dry and arid fog desert slowly becomes a lush forest, and within this forest is Xuazhou, as you approach the city, you can hear the screams of people, the clashing of blades and a few mystical arts being used here and there.
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And that will be it for this session! I'll be back in 10-12 ish hours, maybe earlier if I can get my sunday things done quickly.
Any thoughts so far, questions you want to ask, opinions, suggestions, etc?
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>>6192774 I like it and I love all Xia stories. I know this is the first thread and you're still setting things up but it feels kinda slow, I'd appriciate some clearer plothooks and goals that we can do instead of just wandering aimlessly.
I do enjoy the random dice rolls for events but yeah at the same time I'd prefer if we have goals we could work towards even if it's just like finding Mythical Herbs, Looting Ancient Treasures or Building up our arsenal of gear.
I'd appriciate getting involved directly in a plothook instead of just wandering around in part so we can also figure out what we're capable of and to build up our character's skills and gear.
Hmm it's honestly kinda hard to for me to also understand how strong and smart the MC is supposed to be, as far as I can tell he can basically destroy anybody on the similar realm but does he basically have an entire library's worth of martials arts in his head? The city lord seemed to be begging towards us so are we effectively strong enough to destroy smaller cities?
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Personaly I enjoy the mindless wandering while we cultivate
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>>6192785 >how strong and smart the MC is supposed to be With the starter rolls for body/soul and cultivation he'll have to be at a disadvantage of at least 2 sub stages to start having trouble for a few turns (i.e someone in early qi gathering vs someone in late qi gathering).
>are we effectively strong enough to destroy smaller cities? Not yet, though you could spend a few turns setting up an array that uses the mist to kill everyone but you'd have to go out of your way to set it up, and get good non combat rolls throughout the process.
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Near the outer wall of the city are two stone platforms decorated with Qilin statues on the corners, one of each side of the road. >A lack of understanding on the value of spirit stones, you’re not sure what those 100 stones can even buy you besides food. >A lack of an environment to cultivate in, the mist will keep getting in your way every single time if you don’t do something about it. >A lack of information on how the mist is affecting the cultivation scene as a whole, as well as its effects on wildlife and vegetation.
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>>6193096 >A lack of an environment to cultivate in, the mist will keep getting in your way every single time if you don’t do something about it. We need to get to Foundation Establishment. Everything else is secondary.
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>>6193096 >A lack of an environment to cultivate in, the mist will keep getting in your way every single time if you don’t do something about it. Anonymous
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>>6193096 >A lack of an environment to cultivate in, the mist will keep getting in your way every single time if you don’t do something about it. Anonymous
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>>6193096 >LAck for enviroment. >We can barter for shelter as an array expert. Anonymous
Forgot to post, locked and writing!
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>>6193184 Well seems like everybody just woke up a little bit ago.
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If the mist is going to be constant then you’ll have to work out a solution, you can’t really justify spending fifty years getting to Foundation Establishment, your teacher would hang you by the balls, your brother would hang you by the balls, you yourself would do it before they got the chance to.
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>>6193228 >You can set up an array like the one you left at Heipinghua to redirect the mist so it does not sap your energy during cultivation >>You’ll use 30 stones on materials (twenty talismans, one inkstone and one second hand artifact). You will roll a 1d6 for the suitable location results. (The -3 penalty will be removed) Or
>Look for a more isolated area to set up a sophisticated array. >>You’ll use 77 stones on materials, (fifty talismans, two inkstones and a second hand weapon), The weapon choice will be up to you, and the polarity will be Yang.You can choose a direction to look for your location based on the map and will roll for a 2d6 for the suitable location results and the weapon’s condition. (The -3 penalty will be removed, and depending on the location and weapon results you’ll get a bonus to cultivation rolls) Anonymous
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>>6193230 I forgot to add, you currently have 96 spirit stones and 3 meals a day cost 10.
Do with this information what you will.
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Rolled 6, 1 = 7 (2d6) >>6193230 >Look for a more isolated area to set up a sophisticated array. >Just wander around and let the dice decide our luck. Anonymous
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Rolled 5, 3 = 8 (2d6) >>6193230 >Look for a more isolated area to set up a sophisticated array Anonymous
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Locking at :40
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I'll still need you to decide what kind of weapon you're buying, you can post a picture of it if you want.
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>>6193245 I vote Hidden Weapons, Wires, Needles and Smalls Knives.
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>>6193251 >>6193238 Same person btw, just outside using Data.
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>>6193251 >>6193230 I don't mind Assassination Tools and Hidden Weapons
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Rolled 1, 5 = 6 (2d6) >>6193230 >Look for a more isolated area to set up a sophisticated array. Anonymous
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The duality of dice.
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You decide to try your luck away from the city, so you get fifty talismans and two inkstones, then go towards the weapons section, amongst the used swords and spears, clearly worn out bows and gauntlets, a few cracked shields you spot a small knife with tiny little a black stone embedded to the handle.
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>>6193307 The centerpiece for the array would have been the knife you got, if it didn’t have the black “Stone”
You take the knife apart and extract the stone, then circulate a little energy into the tip of your finger, and the “Stone” begins to melt and reach towards your finger.
<span class="mu-i">”It really was! How did this end up in such a dingy place! It’s the Sunspot! Ahahahahaha!”</span>
Sunspot, a divine Yang weapon crafted by the Primordial Dragon Shama for Demon Emperor Jusuf back in your day.
The weapon’s true form is a liquid that changes its form when infused with energy, its raw destructive power is not the highest, but it is the most versatile divine armament of your era, you can increase the total “liquid” but it’s honestly impossible below Soul Fusion.
The thing gets incredibly hot despite its black color, so you’ll be better off shaping it into small projectiles to control its explosive power and keep yourself out of harm’s way… Being able to shape it at will also means you can make the perfect centerpiece for your needs, assuming the medium can resist the “charge” the Sunspot has.
The sun rises, and it’s time to cultivate.
The array has removed the mist’s -3 penalty!
The vacuum effect of the array will bring in more Yang energy than normal! +2
You’ve found a great location! +6
The unnamed buddhist temple’s staff resonates with you! +1
With the Sunspot as the centerpiece you probably won’t run into any issues! +5
Roll a 1d20 for cultivation and
>choose how you want to cultivate (sitting, practicing combat, physically exercising, dancing, write in), this choice is entirely for flavor, you can go wild if you want. Anonymous
Rolled 3 (1d20) >>6193309 >Cultivate in the Horse Stance to train up your body alongside your mind Anonymous
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Rolled 12 (1d20) >>6193315 >>6193316 kek, check how it's done.
>>6193309 Do the 30x5 exercise. Truly advanced.
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1 for Horse Stance
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Rolled 1 (1d2) Locking, lets see what the dice have to say.
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>12+2+6+1+5= 26 >Reminisce some more (you’ll learn more about Bai Hua, choose about what) >Get some sleep, you’ll cultivate more tomorrow >Get some sleep, you’ll explore the surrounding areas in detail (What are you looking for)
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>>6193366 >Get some sleep, you’ll explore the surrounding areas in detail (What are you looking for) >Look for the Flowers that only grow in The Mist. Anonymous
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>>6193366 >Get some sleep, you’ll cultivate more tomorrow Anonymous
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1 in favor of looking for mist flowers, 1 in favor of cultivating again
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>>6193366 >Get some sleep, you’ll explore the surrounding areas in detail (What are you looking for) >Look for the Flowers that only grow in The Mist. Anonymous
Rolled 6 (1d6) Locking
>>6193373 >>6193382 Give me a 1d6
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>>6193388 It didn't roll been a bit.
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Rolled 15 (1d20) You walked for a couple hours, but couldn’t find any traces of these Mist Flowers.>Attack the goat with your staff (Choose the attack angle) and roll a d20 >Attempt to use a Mystical Art (What element?) and roll a d20 >Use the Sunspot (how are you shaping it?) and roll a d100 >Evade and roll a d10
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Rolled 92 (1d100) >>6193421 >Use the Sunspot (how are you shaping it?) and roll a d100 >Shape some of the Sunspot into tiny needles then fire a swarm of needles into the Goat's Eyes. >Use Mythical Arts to cause the earth beneath the Ram to buckle and tear trying to cause the Ram to lose its footing so that it can't use its speed. Anonymous
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Rolled 25 (1d100) >>6193421 I'll support
>>6193428 >>6193427 Rolling 1d20 and 1d100.
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As expected of the Crimson War God, locking.
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>>6193436 At least our combat rolls have been decent.
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Your instinctual thought is rushing it down and bashing its skull in with the staff, or exsanguinating it by attacking its inner hind legs with your new knife, but there’s not much point in engaging on close combat when you have a divine weapon that can be used from afar.>Use Mythical Arts to cause the earth beneath the Ram to buckle and tear trying to cause the Ram to lose its footing so that it can't use its speed. >The horns are Yang Polarity material that can be held during cultivation for an immediate boost on cultivation rolls, or as an array centerpiece to free the sunspot for use during cultivation. >The liver is a Yang Polarity material that can be used in cooking to obtain a temporary boost to cultivation rolls, or dried and ground into a fine powder, the powder has a variety of uses, but you'll need an apothecary or an alchemist to process it for you.
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Rolled 2 (1d20) >>6193453 Well we couldn't be sure if the Ram would have died or not, we the readers can't really tell what will happen.
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Rolled 11 (1d20) >>6193453 Anonymous
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>>6193458 Of course the Heavens hate us.
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Rolled 9 (1d20) >>6193453 Behold, a natty, for funsies
I figure the kidneys would probably be useful. Based on what? I have no idea.
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>>6193465 Sell the lightning balls as an aphrodisiac.
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>>6193453 >We should be able to sell the fur Anonymous
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You recall the needles, making sure to do so without the intent to harm (A safety measure put in place by Shama and explained to all Immortals). And walk towards the ram, the horns are a given so you chop them off, and you also remember being in an auction once where the liver was being sold, so you open its belly with your new knife and gut the thing. The stench of boiled brains is replaced by the stench of blood and guts, nothing new.
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///>How will you sell the goods? Are you going to keep something? Need anything processed? >What will you do with the earnings?
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Rolled 63 (1d100) >>6193511 Wow the balls were actually an Aphrodisiac lol.
>Sell the Kidneys, the Skin, the Balls and the Penis for 430. >Have the Liver Processed for 20 Stones. >Buy a set of Qi Recovery and Blood Recover/Healing Pills. 80 Stones for a set of each. >Buy 80 Stones worth of lesser Yang Polarity Pills. >That should give us 300 Stones left over. >Haggle to get the best pills we can get, rolling 1d100 since we've had better luck with 1d100s I feel. Anonymous
Rolled 31 (1d100) >>6193511 Supporting
>>6193515 but also ask if she sells any spatial/treasure rings or bags so we can store our items in the future.
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>>6193511 >Sell one of the horns, the kidneys, the skin, the testicles and penis >Proces the liver >Buy 80 stones worth of lesser Ying Polarity Pills. Unless I'm wrong those work better with our Extreme Yang
>Buy a set of Qi Recovery and Blood Recover/Healing Pills. 80 Stones for a set of each. Anonymous
>>6193518 We're Extreme Yin not Extreme Yang. So our Weapons and Pills need to be Yang Based but we can use Yin Abilities through our body pretty well. Not that we've been taking too much advantage of this fact.
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>>6193520 Ahh in that case I'm changing
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>Buy 80 stones worth of lesser Yang Polarity Pills. Anonymous
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>>6193515 >>6193516 I'll take the preemptive haggling roll just this time. Writing
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Last update for the night, will be back in 12 hours or so.
>>6193516 You'll need way more than what you have right now for a spatial treasure.
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<span class="mu-i">”I’m fortunate to have no trouble down there, thank you.
The horns I’m keeping, help me process the liver and I’ll sell you the rest…
Give me a set of Qi Recovery and Blood Recovery pills, and what can 80 stones get me if I want Lesser Yang Polarity pills?”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”About five or so.”</span> Answers the apothecary, already
<span class="mu-i">”About five or so of your best?”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”About five or so of my only ones, when you do this long enough, the only way to get ‘better’ results is with better materials. I’ll give you three more if you shut up and let me process the liver in silence.”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”Fair enough.”</span> You let the woman work her magic, rather than using mystical arts, she rubs some acrid liquid on the liver and it is dried in a matter of minutes, the liquid becoming crystals that are wiped off with a dry piece of cloth. She then uses mortar and pestle to grind it into a fine powder, packs it in a small cloth pouch, and gives you the purchased items as well as the spirit stones.
You obtained 430 spirit stones, of which you used 180 for supplies, leaving you with a total of 250.
Each recovery set you purchased has 10 pills neatly packed into two color coded pouches (blue for Qi, Red for Blood), you instinctively switch the contents of the pouches.
It is late into the night, you can stay at an inn for 10 spirit stones and roll a 1d6, or you can rush back to the array and arrive in time to start cultivating with the first rays of sunlight.
>Stay at an inn (roll a 1d6) or
>Go back to the array to cultivate >>Decide how you will use the Ram's horn, the liver powder, the lesser pills, Sunspot, and the knife and staff >>Roll a d20 Anonymous
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Rolled 5 (1d20) >>6193547 >>Go back to the array to cultivate Anonymous
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>>6193547 >>Go back to the array to cultivate with our new pills Anonymous
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Rolled 5 (1d6) >>6193547 >Stay at an inn (roll a 1d6) Anonymous
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Rolled 16 (1d20) >>6193547 Forgot the Dice
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>>6193547 Hey can we use Casaulity Denial to bring Honest Xu through body reformation/revitalization so that we can have a sexy pocket alchemist?
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>>6193573 >first girling a literal hag damn dude
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>>6193685 My fetish is when actual decrepit hags turn into beautiful women then having intense animalistic breeding sex with them.
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I forgot about the +3 bonus to cultivation rolls from the tower event in
>>6192672 , so I will add it to the results we get this time around.
Tables organized, this won't happen again.
>>6193573 You'll run into better Causality Denial candidates, yes there will be hags I promise.
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>>6193705 Maybe paste the current happening events on the top of the post, the Tower, The Mist and the Opening Grand Treasure Place.
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>>6193705 Also I'm just memeing about the hag thing but once we reach Qi Foundation Establishment we gotta go groom a small child or regress an elderly person to be our assistant.
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You’ll just return to the array site, there should be enough time to start cultivation right as you get there, at this point you’re almost glad the mist is around to keep things free from nosy beasts and people.
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>>6193739 Qi Gathering is the very first stage, where the cultivator begins to project their body and mind into the soul, this projection is called the “Sea of Consciousness”. And as one progresses, this sea of consciousness is transformed.
Foundation requires the individual to “Solidify” this sea into a landmass, many people will not make it past Qi Gathering, because they’re unable to complete the first transformation.
<span class="mu-s">As a former Immortal, Bai Hua’s Mind already has a deep understanding of all cultivation stages, so he is exempt from Breakthrough dice checks. Other characters will be subject to them, but they can be mitigated in various ways by using Bai Hua’s expertise.</span>
You contract the sea of consciousness into a drop of water with the might of your “Body” and compress it with your Immortal mind until it is no longer visible to the naked eye.
The land that you want to form is:
>A vast plain (Earth related trait) >An mountain range (Water/Ice related trait) >A deep trench (Dark related trait) >A tower of strange architecture (???? related trait) What you think about while doing this is
>A positive memory >A negative memory You’ll use this opportunity to
>Temper your eyes >Temper your bones >Temper your veins Roll a 1d6
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>>6193741 >A tower of strange architecture (???? related trait) Mystery Box!
>A negative memory Fuck the Gatekeeper
>Temper your eyes Well our biggest benefit seems to be our intelligence more than anything
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>>6193741 >A tower of strange architecture (???? related trait) >A positive memory >Temper your eyes Anonymous
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Rolled 6 (1d6) >>6193741 >A tower of strange architecture (???? related trait) >A negative memory >Temper your veins Anonymous
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Rolled 3 (1d6) Rolling for post breakthrough event, don't mind me.
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Rolled 4 (1d6) >>6193741 >A tower of strange architecture (???? related trait) >A positive memory >Temper your eyes Anonymous
Rolled 2 (1d2) Memory tie breaker.
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>>6193758 Just wanted to clarify if this is basically our inventory or if we're missing anything. So we get a better idea of what we have.
>[Bai Hua] >Cultivation Level: Lower Qi Gathering | Progress 41/60 [Qi Gathering] -> Foundation Establishment -> Core Formation -> Golden Core -> Soul Dividing -> Soul Nurturing -> Soul Fusion -> Immortality
>Cultivation Path: [Extreme Yin]
The practitioner will excel in the use of a single Polarity of Mystical arts, but cannot use arts of the opposite polarity arts.
On the other hand, treasures and weapons of the opposite polarity will have a higher resonance, and those of the same polarity will be less effective.
>Inventory [Weapons]
Nameless Yang Energy Staff | Weapon Resonance 1
A random staff that Bai Hua got as a reward from some Buddhist monks so that he could protect himself after his rebirth. Helped him recover from almost Qi deviation when a city official kept trying to throw woman at him in an attempt to honey trap him.
The Sunspot | Yang Attributed Liquid |
A malleable liquid totaling the volume of a small palm-sized gem. It can be shaped into whatever the user wants and burns incredibly hot. It was originally a Divine Yang Weapon created for an ancient Demon Emperor but was left rotting in a backstreets store.
[Pills]
Lesser Yang Polarity Pills: 7
Some lesser Yang Polarity Pills can help a cultivator build up their cultivation level.
Qi Recovery Pills: 10
Some Qi recovery pills which can help a cultivator quickly build up their Qi so that they can keep using mythical arts or powerful martial arts.
Blood Recovery Pills: 10
Some alchemical pills which can help heal external injuries around the body while replenishing a person's blood caused by said injuries.
[Misc]
Minor Spirit Stones: 250
Spirit stones are used as currency by cultivators and can help a person with their cultivation by absorbing the energy inside.
Lightning Ram Liver Powder: 1 Liver's worth
??? No Idea, it's a Yang Polarity Material that could probably be turned into a greater Foundation Establishment Cultivation Pill or something.
Lightning Ram Horns: 2 Horns
A Yang Polarity Materials taken from a Lightning Horned Ram. Can be used as a material for cultivation or turned into any number of treasures.
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You made a big, imposing volcano In your past “life” because you thought it was the strongest most imposing kind of landmass... ah to be young. You then learned that in this world trenches are way more imposing simply because of the depth they hold.
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As you’re packing everything up, a lone figure walks out of the forest.>He dares? Beat him up (Combat) >Talk him down, he’s just a brat (Roll a 1d100)
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What is this guy? A bandit? Some common cur? Shameful. No wonder he gets no bitches. He doesn't even have that villain pizzazz. No style. No flourish. Just boring threats. BACK IN OUR DAY, EVILDOERS WERE COOL
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Rolled 31 (1d100) >>6193787 >He dares? Beat him up (Combat) Ahh a young master courting death, classic.
>Throw up a hasty Darkness Spell to cover the area and rob him of his sight. (1d100) >>6193795 It's an arrogant young master probably from some noble clan. There's about a few hundred of those guys running around causing trouble for everybody.
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>>6193797 Getting mixed signals here, the dice check is to talk him down.
If you choose combat we'll have a turn where you can plan your approach and do combat rolls.
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>>6193787 >He dares? Beat him up (Combat) >Charge forward before he has a chance to draw his sword and start fighting him unarmed aiming to incapacitate. Anonymous
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>>6193799 Ahh I misremembered I thought martial arts was 1d20 and mythical arts were 1d100. Turns out that was just the sunspot.
I was aiming for a quick spell before he had a chance to act rip. Just Combat's fine then.
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Post Breakthrough event: Ren Luoyang>Throw up a hasty Darkness Spell to cover the area and rob him of his sight. (Roll a d20) >Charge at him, what good is a sword if you can’t use it (Roll a d20) >Grab your staff, he will unsheathe his sword, but it will give you time to see his stance >Use the sunspot (What form? Roll a d100)
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Rolled 10, 13 = 23 (2d20) >>6193810 >Throw up a hasty Darkness Spell to cover the area and rob him of his sight. (Roll a d20) >Charge at him, what good is a sword if you can’t use it (Roll a d20) Anonymous
Rolled 10, 13 = 23 (2d20) >>6193810 >Throw up a hasty Darkness Spell to cover the area and rob him of his sight. (Roll a d20) >Charge at him, what good is a sword if you can’t use it (Roll a d20) Ohh hey we actually rolled decent. Make sure not to beat him down too hard so we can teach him a lesson.
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Rolled 13 (1d20) Locking, Rolling for Ren Luoyang's reaction.
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Rolled 9, 10 = 19 (2d20) >>6193810 >Charge at him, what good is a sword if you can’t use it (Roll a d20) >Start targeting punching and targeting the man's non vital areas, trying to inflict pain on him while keeping him conscious. Anonymous
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Rolled 15 + 1 (1d20 + 1) >12>15 >Wait and evade (1 action), roll a 1d10 >Focus solely on evasion (2 actions), roll a 2d10 >Charge at him again and try to keep the fight unarmed. (Left or Right), roll a d20 >Throw something at him (Where? What will you throw?) roll a d20 >Prepare your staff >Prepare the knife >Use the Sunspot (What form? Roll a d100)
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Rolled 8 (1d20) >>6193833 >Charge at him again and try to keep the fight unarmed. His Right, keep beating right sword hand where he's channeling his Qi. >Wait and evade (1 action), roll a 1d10 Anonymous
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Rolled 6, 8 = 14 (2d20) >>6193833 >Charge him to keep the fight unarmed >The focus on evading his blows. 1 of 3 turns down.
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Rolled 20 (1d20) >>6193833 >>6193833 >>Prepare your staff >>Meet his attack with one of our own using the Nameless Staff. Anonymous
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Rolled 16 (1d20) >>6193833 >>Prepare your staff >>Meet his attack with one of our own using the Nameless Staff. 1d20 Anonymous
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2 for charging in and evading
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Rolled 1 (1d2) Tie breaker roll.
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>>6193860 Shame that I don't think the rolls will transfer over.
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>>6193874 Yeah, I'm only using the rolls that voted for the decision that wins. It's still the first thread so I could change it if there's enough feedback, I wouldn't mind.
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Bai Hua: 8+2 =10 | Ren Luoyang: 15+1 =16
You kick off the ground to charge at him with the intention of keeping the fight unarmed, but the Jade in his hip glows for an instant and the speed of his Qi’s circulation increases, he’s able to complete infusing the sword and unsheathe it by the time you’re close enough to reach him, all you can do is smack it to your left side.
<span class="mu-i">(”Tch… I can only change the angle of the slash, I’ll have to evade it!”)</span>
Bai Hua: 1+2 =3
You try your best to move out of the way, and barely manage to avoid being sliced in two, in exchange your left arm is left with a long cut from shoulder to elbow. Not a life threatening injury, but it will make beating this dumbass up more difficult.
The brat lands and starts walking towards you, sword in hand. <span class="mu-i">“You were saying?”</span>
Your left arm is injured, if you use the staff, you’ll have to roll at a -2 penalty.
You have two actions
>Use Mystical Arts (What element, how will you use it) and roll a d20 (1 action) >Prepare the knife (1 action) >Use the Sunspot (What form?) Roll a d100 (1 action) >Evade with a d10 (1 action) Turn 2 out of 3
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Rolled 1, 8 = 9 (2d20) >>6193880 >>Use Mystical Arts to Freeze his legs or slow him down >Use Mythical Arts to launch a large boulder at him Anonymous
Rolled 28 (1d100) >>6193880 >Use the Sunspot to patch our wound >Attack him again using the staff. Anonymous
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Rolled 19 (1d20) >>6193887 Rolling 1d20 for the staff.
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Rolled 75 (1d100) >>6193880 >Support >>6193887 A liquid perhaps acting like a cast/gauntlet?
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>>6193880 >Yeah, I'm only using the rolls that voted for the decision that wins. It's still the first thread so I could change it if there's enough feedback, I wouldn't mind. Knowing that people will probably just bait rolls and change their vote to fit whichever roll is higher. Probably better to just share the rolls.
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Rolled 9 (1d20) >>6193889 Staff time, use it to.disarm him of his sword, maybe that him on the elbows.
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Locking at :20
>>6193890 Might as well yeah
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Rolled 7 (1d20) Locked, writing, let's see how well Ren Luoyang does this turn.
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This is the start of turn 3 so you should have had 3 actions, I will add a third one for flavor to make up for my mistake. Please have mercy on this QM, I'll keep better track of the convoluted trait I made in future battles.>Give him some pointers on combat or cultivation (write in your idea and I’ll tweak it if needed) >Ask him about the jade >Ask him if he knows about a better place to cultivate >Ask him if he knows anything about the mist >Write in (you’re invited to be condescending or teasing/mocking)</span>
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>>6193926 >Rob him of his pills, his gear and most of his stones while he's unconscious. >Examine the Jade yourself but give it back to him. >Give him some pointers, firstly tell him not to be such a dumbass next time because he doesn't know what sort of person he'd meet in the world. Then give him some other pointers, his sword technique has a lot of destructive power but it's incredibly slow. He'll need to learn how to intermix faster and more flexible movements in between Qi channeling. Anonymous
>>6193926 >Rob him of his pills, his gear and most of his stones while he's unconscious. Just check to see what interesting things he has. >Examine the Jade yourself but give it back to him. >Give him some pointers, firstly tell him not to be such a dumbass next time because he doesn't know what sort of person he'd meet in the world. Then give him some other pointers, his sword technique has a lot of destructive power but it's incredibly slow. He'll need to learn how to intermix faster and more flexible movements in between Qi channeling Anonymous
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>>6193936 By what sort of person he'd meet in the world I mean making it clear he would be dead by now if we were a more wicked person.
Also it felt like he was using Draw Techniques but his wind up time seemed a bit slow and reliant on the Jade so he'll need to either mix in Low Qi Draw Attacks or learn how to fight with the Sheath while the Qi gathers.
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>>6193936 >>6193939 Seems about right.
>Well youngster, Foolish brutalism didn't work did it? Karmic wise, it is I who shall now reclaim your pills. >Still you have talent, no denying it, but your overconfidence is only matched by the titan wait for your build up. Most disparaging. Anonymous
You roll him around with the staff and start to run your hands through his sleeves and pockets <span class="mu-i">“Aiya kids these days…”</span>
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>>6193991 <span class="mu-i">“The Silver Sword Saint? Then I’m the Crimson War God, nice to meet you!”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”But you ARE the Crimson War God! And that in your arm is Jusuf’s Sunspot!”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“Okay, if you’re Meng Jixia, and I’m supposed to be the Crimson War God, you can just tell me something only the two of us would know”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”The small cave in the way to Chuehoi from Kamshuikok…”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“... You… Forget it, I’m keeping this until he can actually use it, and tell him to keep you safe or I’ll skin him alive, I’ve been practicing.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”You’re going? It’s been a thousand years, we could… talk a bit more… maybe…”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“About what, how we got beaten like dogs and left like this? I’d rather not know how long you’ve been inside that thing, if you’re still around by the time I get my power back I’ll help you out.”</span>
You take the kid’s sword, a fine product from Mount Yengyue’s sword sect, seems to have been made specifically for Core Formation swordsmen, but a sword is a sword and will still cut no matter the stage, if you use it you’ll have to be careful. The Yin Qi was not from the sword but from Meng Jixia, one of the 6 immortals.
There is an inscription in the sword’s guard “Drifting Flower”
You’ll be able to use the sword as is, but it would be better to attune it with Yang for the best results, you’ll need to find a Late Foundation Establishment Yang Beast or higher for the process.
You’ve obtained 243 spirit stones, a white flower, and a Yengyue Mount sword “Drifting Flower”
Your breakthrough will allow you to travel further, now you can:
>Head west towards Xuzhouning and into the country of Zhong >Back to Xuzhou and set off for Jianyang (Are you restocking? anything you want to buy?) >Southwest towards Zhenyun Anonymous
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>>6193993 That post was hilarious actually.
>Spend some spirit stones and ask for information on where to find places teeming with Mythical Beasts and Herbs. Then make your way towards whichever city that is. Do the Xianxia, abuse Elixirs and eat legendary animals.
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>>6193993 Kek
>Spend some spirit stones to find information on which city has the best Alchemists and Artisans then make our way towards it. Let's go kidnap and raise our own pocket alchemist somewhere.
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I'm writing something just for fluff, also here's our current inventory, feel free to vote if you've been lurking.
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>>6193993 >Spend some spirit stones to find information on which city has the best Alchemists and Artisans then make our way towards it. Anonymous
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>>6193993 >Meets old buddy. Talks for 5 seconds. Leaves. Doesn't catch up. Based. >Spend some spirit stones to find information on which city has the best Alchemists and Artisans then make our way towards it. >Spend some spirit stones on a book of the past 100 years of notable events. Preview it as we travel to get more up to date on the times. Some sort of begger sect or historian should have it. Anonymous
Locking information for Alchemists and Artisans, we'll go to Xuzhou for leads and then work from there.
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>>6194038 Ohh shit was that our ex? I thought it was just one of the 5 guys who helped us open the gate.
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>>6194038 kek. What a nerd.
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>>6194041 Bai Hua was battlesexual, Meng Jixia was a self proclaimed rival of his, as well as kind of a fangirl... he never got the hint.
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You go back to Xuzhou while the kid is still recovering… Now that you think about it, you never got his name.
Well, if little Jixia is teaching him you’ll learn his name from rumors in a few years, no need to sweat the details.
<span class="mu-i">“Let’s see, first things first, knowing more about recent history won’t hurt so I’ll look into that… And I guess I’m better off finding an alchemist and an artisan to start working with too.”</span>
It doesn’t take long before you’re back at the apothecary, the old lady greets you by saying <span class="mu-i">“No refunds, no take backs, no exchanges, if you messed up with the powder that’s on you”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“Hahahaha, no no the powder worked wonders, thank you. I’m just here for two things, I’d like to know if you have some idea of what city in Xingyuan has the best Alchemists.”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“Jiping, south from here, and the second?”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“If a kid with a dumb looking mug comes in looking for blood recovery pills, give him a discount will you?”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“Just because I already sold the goat’s goods.”</span>
You leave the store and find a beggar, after talking with him a little, he sells you a little notebook with the most relevant events from the last 100 years for 10 spirit stones, and gives you a little piece of advice.
“Gossip says there was a swarm of Flame Mantises getting ready for mating season before the mist dropped a few days ago, if you want to be safe you might want to follow the river to Jianyang, then Jiang, then Jiping.”
In the last hundred years:
>Zhen lost half of its territory to shun and Zhong after the death of the Iron Fist Sect’s patriarch at the hands of his son, it is said he was thrown into a volcano and never returned. The new patriarch let the other countries take over, but it is clear he’s preparing for war. >Jianan is undergoing a big drop in temperature because a Pure Yin body witch was wronged, Jianan’s White Tiger sect is looking for help >Owayabo has started preparing for a massive exodus across the sea to the other continent, and towards Jianan, the negotiations are already taking place but it is very likely to succeed. >Datong was brought into the continent thanks to the Mystical arts of a group of Soul Fusion masters >Xingtian’s Buddhist monks have been warning Luding’s Crimson Crane clan about the possible appearance of the tower in their territory, but Luding is doing nothing to prepare. You will:
>Take the safe way, your first stop will be the capital, Jianyang >You’ll cut through the swarm. They didn’t call you “The Annihilator” as a joke, flame insects means yang insects and yang guts. (Choose a weapon and roll a d100) Anonymous
Rolled 55 (1d100) >>6194058 >You’ll cut through the swarm. They didn’t call you “The Annihilator” as a joke, flame insects mean yang insects and yang guts. >Shape the Sunspot into a pair of goggles so that our eyes are covered from being slashed. >Possibly use the Buddhist staff to resonate with the dark and water elements inside our body. Cast a massive paralytic mist through where the Flame Mantises are thickest and try to collect as many intact so we can eat them. Anonymous
>>6194058 >>6194064 I too would like to see magic. Going up against a massive swarm of creatures after preparing a massive spell feels like what this character is great at.
We haven't been using our Extreme Yin constitution at all, let's cast a giant spell.
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Rolled 65 (1d100) >>6194065 Whoops forgot the dice
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>>6194064 >>6194065 Would you like to take Lesser Yang Polarity pills before starting? If so how many?
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>>6194069 If it'll help, let's take the pills and let Bai decide.
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>>6194069 I have no idea how many would be a good idea I thought we were about to explode last time we just took one but then again that was the previous level.
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Rolled 9 (1d10) >>6194075 >>6194076 Fair enough, Bai will decide it then, this roll is for some behind the board stuff.
Writing.
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>>6194080 Is it soup saturday?
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Flame Mantises are a beast of the late Qi Gathering stage, about as tall as a teenager, with sickles made of flames, they’re dumb as bricks but make up for it by moving fast for their stage.
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>>6194109 <span class="mu-r">Swing, Crack, Thrust, Smash, Grab an eye and eat it</span>
The mist and your little spell turn the whole zone into a pitch black pit of death.
<span class="mu-r">Crack, Slam, Crush, Scoop the head juice with your hand and drink it.</span>
Eat and move, drink their blood to quench your thirst.
Pop a Blood Recovery Pill when the cuts pile up, a Qi recovery pill when your staff doesn’t smash like it should. A Yang Polarity Pill when the cold starts creeping in.
Your staff slips off a few times because of all the guts, but there’s no time to pick it up, you still have your hands
<span class="mu-r">Slam, Punch, Rip the eyes off.</span>
The ordeal is done in two and a half days.
You’ve consumed:
>8 Blood Recovery Pills >10 Qi recovery pills >5 Lesser Yang Polarity Pills Of the thousand mantises you managed to consume 585 (65*9), the rest you had no time to eat or were consumed by their Conspecific victims amongst the chaos.
You have obtained 146 cultivation experience (1 point per 4 mantises devoured), and a 1.1 modifier from your yang pill consumption for a total of 160 points.
This is enough to push you into <span class="mu-s">Core Formation: 58/180</span>
The mist returns to its normal behavior, and the area starts to warm up. There’s no time to waste, so you sit down and begin to meditate.
Core formation requires the individual to transform the mass into a “Palace” of sorts. Point of failure is the inability to break the landmass down part by part and shape a new structure.
Cultivators often find themselves destroying the landmass (and dispersing their cultivation entirely) or building on top of the existing landmass (if there is not enough Qi, the body and soul are used for the structure, which dries the cultivator up and kills them more often than not)
What would you like to do with your tower?
>Make it taller >Turn it into another structure of strange architecture (go wild) What you think about while doing this is
>A memory of war >A memory of peace You’ll use this opportunity to
>Temper your eyes again >Temper your bones >Temper your veins Roll a 1d6
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>>6194110 Ohh wow we just had an all-you-can-eat buffet.
>Create some smaller buildings feeding energy into the main tower. >A memory of war >Temper your eyes again Anonymous
Rolled 5 (1d6) >>6194110 >>Turn it into another structure of strange architecture (go wild) Make it look like the Gate
>A memory of peace >Temper your veins Anonymous
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Rolled 6 (1d6) >>6194110 >Make it taller >A memory of war >Temper your eyes again >>6194114 I thought we were already making our tower look like one of the buildings we saw through the gate.
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Just so we're clear, I wasn't expecting the risky choice to go through or the rolls go well, so I had my fun writing this, I hope it was entertaining.
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>>6194117 Honestly I'm having the most fun when we do dumb risky shit like walk through a cloud of Fire Mantits and eating them as we go.
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>>6194110 >Turn it into another structure of strange architecture (go wild) >A tower needs a city around it palaces and temples with markets and streets make it a formation with the tower at the center. >A memory of war >Temper your bones Anonymous
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Rolled 2 (1d6) >>6194110 Let's mix two of the options
>>6194114 and
>>6194113 make the main tower look closer to the structures we saw through the gate while making smaller structures around the base to help support it.
>A memory of war >Temper your eyes again Anonymous
Eyes 3
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>>6194124 I'll change my vote
>>6194116 to Smaller Buildings + What you saw on the other side then. Also you forgot another guy that also wanted to populate the surrounding area with smaller buildings.
Honestly I don't understand the leveling up system at all lol.
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>>6194125 layman terms, the number go up and power of creativity = stomping power.
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>>6194125 Shit my eyes glazed over because it was so similar.
If you mean cultivation as a whole then it's "number go up, level up and become exponentially stronger than the previous stage"
The quest system is easy:
>Each stage has an exp requirement, you cultivate with a d20 and try to stack as many bonuses as possible because otherwise you'll take forever in later stages. We can work with smaller buildings+what you saw on the other side then.
Anonymous
>>6194129 Yeah no I get that part, I'm more unsure about how we shape our internal realm actually affecting us or if it's pretty much just fluff and we should just do whatever we feel like.
Anonymous
I'll cheat a bit, and ask for an additional choice from you guys, directly tied to the war story.
If you had to choose between big and small, which would you choose? No context.
>>6194133 Oh, that, for Bai Hua it's just fluff.
I'll make you rack your brains when we have an apprentice/successor/follower, which should be happening soon (unrelated to the question above).
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>>6194135 Big, always go big
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>>6194135 Very big.
They have big guts.
Anonymous
(Here's a full map of the world so you know what I'm even talking about!)
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>>6194152 It took all of The Demonic Prince (at the time) Jusuf Laman, the Silver Sword Saint Meng Jixia, the Wanderer of a Myriad Illusions, the Brilliant Buddha of the South, and intervention from the Primordial Dragon Empress to create a barrier encompassing Raian and isolate the lifeform until it either came to reason or ran out of energy.
No one knew you were there, and you couldn’t break through the barrier alone, so all you could do was fight against that damn thing. You fought for seventeen uninterrupted days.
You knew how it would fight because it had your knowledge and thought processes, the problems were that for one it was way better at mystical arts than you (at least it only had Light attribute arts loaded in), and that it could adapt very easily and was still stronger than you, you resorted to all kinds of tricks to get an upper hand, until it would do the same to you and the board would be back to zero.
It was showing signs of slowing down in the later days, but then it figured out how to absorb energy from the environment…
You managed to damage it enough and it shut down before it could fully recover.
The most annoying part though was that it was BIG, “THICC” as the Kauhing natives would say, and that messed with your… circulation the whole time.
After you left, Jusuf signed a blood contract with you so you wouldn’t intervene, with the promise that you would be well rewarded when his war ended.
When you asked one of the surviving researchers about this design choice all he had to say was <span class="mu-i">“I mean… it’s supposed to be our masterpiece right? You HAVE to make it visually pleasing”</span>.
You might want to go check Raian when you have the chance… just to make sure it’s still shut down.
When you’re done thinking about how much pressure the lifeform could apply with its thighs, you were already done with the transformation.
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>>6194153 <span class="mu-i">“Figures, it all connects to that place in the end…”</span>
The tower looks more complex, a little closer to the real ones, and around it are many buildings each with a different design and function, yet still homogenous when looked at as a whole. There are many streets leading all the way to the tower, like the veins in a person’s body, and the tower is the heart… You already have an idea of what to do for your next breakthrough.
You open your eyes and the world… is still a little bleak, there has to be a reason for this.
<span class="mu-b">Eyes of the Unshackled:</span> Hua is able to see the flow of energy in all things, the mist no longer affects his visibility, he will also be able to see objects that are imperceptible to the naked eye as well as being able to focus Qi into his eyes to look at things up close like a massive magnifying glass, or far away like a grand telescope.
You are met by a group of ten or so cultivators in the middle Foundation Establishment stage, flabbergasted at the scene.
<span class="mu-i">“F-fellow daoist are you okay?”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“Fellow cultivator, I don’t practice daoism… Yes I’m doing very well, thank you.”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“Apologies sir, may I know exactly what happened here?”</span>
>Lie despite being covered in insect guts (roll a d100) >I was hungry >Did you know that the natives of South Kwun practice a form of cannibalism that involves eating the brains of their enemies? >Write in Anonymous
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>>6194155 >I was hungry >Can't we clean ourselves up using Water Mythical Arts? Anonymous
>>6194155 >I was hungry Huh the Eye upgrades are honestly kinda underwhelming, but then again I'm not really sure what I expected and was more looking forward to using our super eyes to create powerful formations and find talented people with rare constitutions from just a glance.
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>>6194155 Man I'm kinda hungry after reading about eating the swarm. I wonder if Flame Mantises taste like Shrimp or Chicken.
Anonymous
>>6194155 >Shrug kill beasts for cultivation resources. Got a rumor and fortune favored me. You know the deal. Haven't had the time to wash myself. Got any yang treasures for trade?
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>>6194164 Spare clothes would also be nice.
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>>6194159 Well, let me give you a hint, you with the right prompt, a little Qi, and a little 1d6 you'll be able to discern a lot from other people.
As for powerful formations, you'll need an absurd amount of Qi to power them, Qi does not <span class="mu-i">Flow</span> through and is not <span class="mu-i">Stored</span> in the eyes, right now you're more suited towards intrincate, minute and detailed work, which should cover one of the things you set out to look for.
>>6194161 It's closer to Shrimp and the head goo is a little bitter.
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>>6194153 Truly these researchers are men of culture. Alas their love for culture superseded their love for making a product that wouldn't blow up in their faces.
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Rolled 23 (1d100) >>6194155 >>Lie despite being covered in insect guts (roll a d100) Anonymous
>>6194176 <span class="mu-i">”I was hungry”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”H-huh?”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”I jest I jest, got a rumor and fortune favored me. You can have all of these for trade, got any Yang Treasures?”</span>
Another daoist speaks up, his face is pale, well their faces are all pale, like you’re some kind of bug.
<span class="mu-i">”Uh, no we can’t possibly use any of this… We simply came here on behalf of our sect, we were hired by Xingtian’s Silver Buddhas to clear the area out and… well we saw the mist acting strangely and decided to wait it out.”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”Makes sense, this mist is a pain I tell you.</span> You stand up and with the little Qi you have remaining, you douse yourself with water to wash the guts away.
<span class="mu-i">So half and half right? And you get me some soft clothes?”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”Pardon?”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”We split the earnings obviously, you fulfill your contract with the Silver Buddhas and get paid, and I get paid too.”</span>
Before the daoist can answer, he’s pulled back to the group. That spends a couple minutes deliberating after which the eldest member turns to face you.
He’s doing the thing! The courteous salute with his hands, look at his bowing posture, he knows his stuff.
<span class="mu-i">”Esteemed cultivator, we wouldn’t dare oppose someone who can do this, but please understand that this is not up to us we will need to rep-”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”Six to four, I get four and you get me some Yang aligned clothes… No, some good Yang aligned fabrics. Take it or get the hell out of here!”</span> You stand up and crack your neck. The staff is too slippery right now, so you reach for the Drifting Flower sword.
In reality you’re too tired to have a proper fight, if push comes to shove you’ll use the Sunspot, loot them and go to Jiping alone.
Anonymous
>>6194192 <span class="mu-i">“Aieee! We’ll do it, we’ll do it!”</span> Says one of the younger daoists. The elder doesn’t seem to rebuke him, looks like he was just trying to haggle you down.
A few minutes later and a bar of soap, as well as four of their scented pouches in your hip, and you’re riding on an artifact towards Jiping along with the ten daoists. The artifact’s design is simple, it is a large green gourd. Made to transport people around.
They’re part of the Jade of Justice, a moderate size sect that operates in Jiping and Zhenyun. When you ask how many people a moderate sect has, the elder answers that it is about a thousand people all hands on deck. A little less than your time.
You arrive at Jiping in little over an hour, and disembark at the Jade of Justice’s main building, the elder daoist rushes off and you can hear a commotion coming from one of the windows. Two young boys rush out of the building, one returning with some Silver Buddha Monks carrying a coffer.
The other returned with a few ladies carrying rolls of fabric of varying colors.
The same elder exits the building, opens the coffer, divides the spirit stones and hands you an enchanted holding bag. invites you to choose what kind of fabric you’d like… The lack of pleasantries, courtesies and fluff is surprising, but not unwelcome.
You have obtained 4500 spirit stones, and an enchanted holding bag. While it does not have the same capacity of a true spatial treasure like a storage jade/ring/bag of holding, it will let you shove a considerable amount of things inside it.
>What kind of fabrics do you want? >What color(s)? >What do you want your fit to look like? (you’ll have to find someone to make the clothes later) Anonymous
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>>6194193 >Primarily Crimson and black in color. Loose clothing that's easy to move around in but can also be tied up with cloths if need be. >Also a cape, whatever's appropriate for the nearby weather but a cape or large cloak would be nice. Anonymous
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>>6194192 >Extravagant and flashy crimson clothing that’s both good for travelling but also catches people eyes. >Also start sewing arrays into the clothing ourselves, ones that can blur our image and give us lightning speed on activation. Anonymous
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I'm stepping off for the rest of the night, will be back in 12 ish hours, maybe less, will post again before locking the vote and beginning.
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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:LQlsM/h0 Tue 11 Feb 2025 12:07:32 No. 6194235 Report Quoted By:
Caught up; delighted to see a GOOD™ cultivation quest.
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>>6194193 Cotton, something durable.
Reds and blacks are good.
Maybe a hanfu and cloak?
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>>6194193 Linen. Blue and white with a black undergarment. This vibe
Anonymous
>>6194193 Is there a way to refine our body without a cultivation breakthrough? Something like forging our body to have Jade Bones and Ice Muscles, our body's already freezing.
Would that be a pill or would that be a spell? I remember it was a thing in Reverend Insanity where they had special consumables. One combination was Jade Bones and Ice Muscles which greatly increased Strength, Flexibility and Durability.
Another was just the regular Iron Bones and Steel Sinew which more focused on just durability and strength.
Actually yeah how does body refining work here since the Paths system seems a bit non standard.
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>>6194426 Well iirc up to a certain point, body refining becomes less important because when you reach a certain cultivation level your body becomes completely purged of purities and building it to become the peak of humanity.
But the cool body cultivation shit makes you higher than human. Maybe they're specialized pills that you need to cultivate or medical baths you need to take over the course of a few years?
Anonymous
Looks like we're up for crimson? Locking votes and will update in a bit, got delayed by some irl stuff.
>>6194426 >Is there a way to refine our body without a cultivation breakthrough? Yes, but the initial body rolls we got make treasures and pills very ineffective before Core Formation.
This is where the quest opens up more so look forward to it, it will also be more write in friendly for a few reasons.
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I'm working out a simple system for Mystical Arts as we speak, "what do you mean QM, you didn't do that shit before starting?"
No, I did not lmao I'm sorry.
>>6194519 You pick out three large rolls colored crimson, black and white. Then ask the ladies to cut a few pieces of different shades of red. When you’re just about to grab a few more rolls, the elder coughs… Well he’s in a rough spot right now, let’s save him some face for now, instead you ask the ladies if there's a place you can have some clothes made.
The whole process is very transactional and once each party is done with their thing they quickly leave, you’re cordially invited to stay for a meal and some tea but refuse, you just know they’ll try to ask you to do something or make annoying questions...
You follow the ladies’ directions, and find yourself in the waiting room of a Tailor's shop. The man was excited by the quality of the materials and you gave him an idea of what you wanted to make.
<span class="mu-i">”I want something easy to move in and durable, but it should be eye-catching too… A hanfu and a cloak or a cape, use the crimson and black ones for this… I also want a white linen coat with a black undergarment, this one should be inconspicuous and ‘laid back’ to mix in easily with the crowds”</span>
The man nods and disappears, in the meantime you'll grab a light meal.
Right now you’re in the Core Formation stage, this is as far as your constitution will carry you without putting any effort in.
You'll have to temper your bones if you want a more durable body, your veins if you want a higher Qi density and efficiency, and your eyes if you want to percieve the world better and increase your overall dexterity.
Still, you could simply continue to cultivate as you have so far, but this will put you in a similar situation to your previous life:
A decent enough body, a relatively mediocre soul compared to other experts, as well as “know how” and “refusing to die” as your only redeeming points.
A crippling reliance on people you don’t know to handle things like medicines, elixirs, artifacts and weapons for you because all you really did back then was fight and kill things.
Little in the way of connections, you were able to strong arm a lot of things before due to your reputation but outside of the Immortals, you didn’t really have any friends… Well you wouldn’t consider all of them your friends either, just Jusuf and Jixia. No one wanted to be your apprentice either, bunch of cowards.
Anonymous
The best choice is to take a break from direct cultivation and let your “Core” settle down, two or three years should be good enough.>Picking up a new ability like alchemy or becoming an artisan/artifact master, off the top of your mind your eye tempering will make fiddling with artifacts easier, and you might be able to find a use for them in alchemy as well. >>How will you go about it, look for a teacher? Buy books and try your hand at things alone? >Finding a good location and setting up a “Base” of sorts, you’ll use this place to live and cultivate in, it will serve as a storehouse while you get a spatial treasure. >>Will you gather information, or trust your eyes and experience? >Look for an artisan or alchemist to work with >>Will you look for someone with an established reputation? Invest in startups? >Look for an apprentice/successor >>What exactly are you looking for? Blessed constitutions? Rich Qi? Women? Men? Blondes? Redheads? Some poor soul out there in need of Causality Denial? What do you want out of this apprentice?
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>>6194560 >Look for an Alchemist disciple don't care for gender lean on female but a bro could be cool. I consider good instincts, memory and a disposition for drug making. >Pay a beggar for information of major factions beast areas magical plants and towns a map of this. To plan where a good base settle down at. >Pay some mortals to create your immortal cave for comforts basically a villa. >And we pick up artifacting and slaying beasts for nearby towns to acquire money to find our studies and our Alchemist. Anonymous
>>6194560 >Abuse the Eyes of the Unshackled to look for diamonds in the rough talents. >>Look for an artisan or alchemist to work with Use our newfound money and powerful eyes to look around the lower-end areas of artisans. Look for somebody who has incredible talent and passion but still hasn't had the chance to soar yet. Use our eyes to check out large amounts of works from craftsmen and/or apprentices from smaller stores to find somebody with talent basically.
>>Look for an apprentice/successor Use our Eyes of the Unshackled heavily again for talented people. Let's look for two apprentices, a decent rivalry will help push them probably.
Firstly look through the back alleys for orphans thrown away but who have great determination and wit. Street Trash has a great will to live no matter the suffering, somebody we can teach our dirties tricks and be our assistant.
Then pay some information agencies to learn about second or third children of minor noble families or just decent children from noble families who were disowned. It'll be funny raising Bai Hua #2 and we can maybe teach them the Crimson Tulip Sword so that our master will have somebody to inherit their swordsmanship.
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>>6194560 >Use our super eyes to look for an apprentice. I want somebody smart and clever that we can use as our assistant and shadow. Bonus points if they're a hot Assassin Girl that can literally hide in our shadow.
You know what, I'm supporting this but I want a cute Assassin Disciple who can be our recon and body guard.
>>6194568 Anonymous
>>6194568 Seeing that the other anon is supporting, will you go full combat route in this life as well or will you pick a craft?
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>>6194582 Well since our boy knows combat to the immortal stage. Seems a waste to not pick up a craft. I mean he's got the sunstone to learn a lot from and help learning artifacts.
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>>6194582 I wanna go for a Craft but I wanna focus on raising apprentices and assistants. I figured we raise our assistants and helpers now then after we've established ourselves and gotten a better idea of the world, we find a teacher that can teach us how to create weapons and treasures.
I thought this was more to do with our immediate plans and wasn't sure if we'd be able to focus on raising helpers and looking for a master all at the same time.
>>6194587 Also yeah if we learn how to create artifacts and weapons we'll have a much easier time using the Sunstone. Maybe figure out how to add to the volume even before we reach Soul Nurturing.
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Good, very good.
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Rolled 10 (1d100) The meal was okay, rice congee with some sliced pork and plum tea for 4 spirit stones>Find a single apprentice, choose what kind and roll a 1d6 >Find two apprentices, choose what kind for each and roll a 2d6
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>>6194605 >Find a single apprentice, choose what kind and roll a 1d6 Anonymous
>>6194607 How does one roll again? If this messes up once more.
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Rolled 3 (1d6) >>6194608 dice + [no. of dice]d[no. of sides on the dice]
So for this it would be dice+1d6 as pic related
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Rolled 6 (1d6) >>6194607 >>6194610 Thank you forgot the plus.
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Rolled 2, 3 = 5 (2d6) >>6194605 >>Find two apprentices, choose what kind for each and roll a 2d6 One street trash or just somebody with a large amount of determination and will while not being a dick.
One family dreg like us since it'll be funny.
Come on, we can be like our senior brother and ourselves.
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Rolled 9, 4 = 13 (2d20) >>6194605 >Find two apprentices, choose what kind for each and roll a 2d6 Anonymous
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Rolled 1, 5 = 6 (2d6) >>6194616 Whoops wrong dice
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Rolled 2, 1 = 3 (2d2) Locking, let's see what the dice have to say about our apprentices' genders
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>>6194618 Streetwise assassin waifu?
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Oh yeah, this is good, the vote rolls are good too, I like this.
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<span class="mu-i">“Can’t be that hard if the master raised me and brother no?”</span>
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>>6194672 You approach them each on a different day, crimson and black robes.
<span class="mu-r">”Shao Rong…”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Lian…”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”The shame of Shao Qun, a blemish in the Jade Lotus unable to get past Qi Gathering”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”A cripple from birth, unable to even cultivate… Abandoned by her parents and the heavens”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”But I can see what they can’t, come with me, and the world will see your true worth…”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”I can show you the path to Immortality, to a land without hunger and fear”</span>
A little trick with the sunspot, some clever use of dark attribute mystical arts, a tiny bit of Qi in your eyes and a confident smile seals the deal. Presentation is important after all.
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<span class="mu-s">Shao Ren</span>
Gender: Male
Age: 15
Stage: Qi Gathering
His gifted physique allows for him to follow the Golden Buddha path, he should also be able to cultivate any of the normal paths (Sword/Polearm/Ranged weapons/Mystical Arts/Unarmed) to an incredibly high level.
His elemental affinities are Light and Fire.
Has a little experience with the sword, teaching him sword techniques will be easier, but he can do just about anything with the right motivation.
<span class="mu-s">Lian</span>
Gender: Female
Age: 13
Stage: No Cultivation
Her meridians are shattered, veins dried of Qi and her body is incredibly weak
You can use Causality Denial to reforge her body, or you can teach her either of the Mist Weaver or Star Emperor paths.
No combat experience, a completely blank slate.
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Pick between
>What will you teach Shao Ren? >What will you do about Lian? >>If you’re using the causality denial point, roll a d6 And Introduce yourself for real this time, any rules in this house? (write in)
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Shao Rong, the heavens are retarded and mixed up your name.
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>>6194676 Well let's teach Shao Ren our old master's Red Tulip Sword technique. That'd be amusing.
As for Lian well much as I want a streetwise assassin Waifu I'm not sure if she's worth the Casaulity denial RIGHT NOW. Let's ask around the alchemists to see if we can fix her up, learn more about her and the costs then decide what we'll do with her.
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>>6194676 >What will you teach Shao Ren? Sword techniques, give him some real experience and try to figure out where he's getting bottlenecked.
>What will you do about Lian? Well the mist is already here, let's teach her Mist Weaver. If she dies, she dies.
Anonymous
>>6194676 >Talk with the two about the paths. And give pros and cons. >Give it to Lain straight the world won't like her. But it doesn't anyways. So who cares, these are the paths. that you know she can only travel. Anonymous
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>>6194693 Yeah if this goes to a tie then I wanna know more about each apprentice first and talk to them first so we know they're worth training and won't just go insane the moment they get any power.
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>>6194676 >Get to know them both better first before we decide their paths. >Try to talk to an alchemist about fixing up Lian's body somewhat. Since Lian's basically a blank slate and her body is shit, does that mean she'll benefit a lot more from Body Cultivation right off the bat?
Anonymous
Writing, then Hua can decide what to do.
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>>6194750 I'm not complaining and I know we can make it work but why did we pick up Lian instead of any number of the orphans in the streets? Is it because only certain people can cultivate or did we see something great about her?
Anonymous
>>6194755 Her body is perfect for alien cultivation, you have a causality point to reforge her body with. Or you can go in a long sidequest to heal her body.
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There’s three people in the house, Bai Hua, Shao Rong, and Lian.
The silence can be cut with a sword.
<span class="mu-i">“My name is Bai Hua, apprentice of the Crimson Tulip Sword, Huang Mengzhou’s executioner, Goia’s Annihilator and Dragon Devourer of the West. This all goes back a very long time, so I wouldn’t be surprised neither of you knows about this ”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“Shao Rong, Shao Qun’s eldest son, you better make it worth my time, old man.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">“Lian…”
<span class="mu-r">“Just Lian?”</span>
“…”
<span class="mu-r">“Oi what’s the meaning of this? How dare you bring this trash along!?”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”Hm? I just see two pieces of trash here, the smell might be different, but trash is trash”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“You! I’ll tell my father about this!”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”Your sect is probably full of trash too, wouldn’t you think? They wouldn’t be able to see a fly even if it sat in their noses.
Hmm…let me ask you a question… Suppose you can get past this hurdle of yours, what then?”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“I’ll show father and the sect that they were wrong, and get my status as the sect’s successor back… I’ll make the Jade Lotus sect the strongest in Jiping!”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”And then?”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“Uh… well…”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”Take your time to think, now little Lian turn your back to me please.”</span>
“Okay…”
You circulate some Qi into her body to do a deeper inspection with your spiritual sense, and she winces in pain.
<span class="mu-i">”Same question for you, suppose we can heal your body… or that you become strong, what then? Anything you want to do?”</span>
“Eat lots of food…”
The damage to the meridians happened shortly after birth, it was left unchecked so restoring them is near impossible.
<span class="mu-i">”And then?”</span>
“Buy a house… with many beds… for everyone.”
Her veins are very weak, just a fragment of your Qi is enough to strain them to the point of bursting, it’s a miracle she’s lived so far. Her body is malnourished, growth stunted and you doubt she’ll develop much.
<span class="mu-i">”Who’s everyone?”</span>
“Me… You... Him… Everyone…”
<span class="mu-i">”Even those people?”</span>
“No… I’ll kill them all… and then I can be happy.”
<span class="mu-i">”Will you actually be happy?”</span>
“...I won’t be angry.”
<span class="mu-i">”Not bad, got an answer like this yet Trash Boy?”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“No… I don’t know what I want to do next… I just… I just want to live up to my father's expectations.”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”And if he dies today? You stop living? I don’t even need to check you out, I already know where your problem is… Let’s eat first shall we, I bought pork meat buns, the greasy ones from the main street”</span></span>
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>>6194759 The kids dig into the food, Lian almost to the point of choking on the meat bun.
<span class="mu-i">”There’s more, take it slow.
Anyways, Shao Rong, your problem is that you’ve never been your own person…
Right now you’re Rong from the Shao family, Rong from the Jade Lotus sect, Rong son of Qun. You ran into a bottleneck and no one expects anything from you anymore, so you can’t see beyond this failure.”</span>
You serve some plum tea for everyone, and add a bit of honey on Lian’s.
<span class="mu-r">”Why are you adding honey to hers? What, is she a baby?”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”You can just say you want some as well”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”No I di-”</span> <span class="mu-i">”Yeah yeah, tough boys get twice as much”</span> <span class="mu-r">”But now it’s too sweet!”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”Aren’t you a tough boy? Tough boys drink what they’re served”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”Geh it’s so sweet eugh!... And what’s HER problem then?”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”It’s easier to say what isn’t a problem… Anyways, here's how I can help you two reach Immortality.
Shao Rong, you were practically born to practice the Golden Buddha path, but I can also turn you into a master of any weapon or element”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”The WHAT? Are you for real? I don’t want to be a baldhead!”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”Brilliant Buddha of the South is as hairy as a monkey, you’ll be fine.”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”Oh… L-light is lame though I want to be a fearsome warrior! That way da…”</span>
He’s droning on about his father again, so you turn to Lian.
<span class="mu-i">”As for you little Lian… I could help heal your body so it can cultivate like a normal person, but the process will be long, arduous and excruciatingly painful… you might actually die.
Or I could teach you arts that don’t require Qi to practice, a way to strengthen yourself without cultivating the normal way using the power of the stars or the mist surrounding us right now… but the rest of your life will be very difficult”</span>
You could also reforge her body, but you’re not sure if she’s really worth altering causality for.
<span class="mu-b">“...Even more difficult? I don’t think it can get worse…”</span>
>Are these kids worth raising? Anything else you want to tell them? (Write in) Anonymous
>>6194762 Ohh wow Lian's adorable and Shao Rong's a little shit. I love them both already and I'll kill anybody that hurts them.
>Teach Shao Rong The Path of The Sword as his main Path and The Path Of Unarmed for his Subpath. >Teach Lian to Practice being a Mistweaver alongside teaching her how to set up arrays >Let's buy supplies for them, use whatever. Can we time skip a few weeks to get a feel for their progress and how our teaching is going? Anonymous
>>6194762 >You may think light is lame however I'll tell you a story. About the killer robot who destroyed that whole area we remembered and killed countless experts. >And fathers want their sons to be their own men. You are not cultivating to prove to anyone, you are cultivating to prove to yourself what you have what it takes to ascend. >For you Lian you have to think further ahead, those paths will make people dislike you. These paths will make you healthy and you can live your life. The worst thing that can happen is being given hope and someone taking that away. That's worse then death. Remember that and brand it upon your heart, never lose your heart no mater what happens. >>6194765 Support
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>>6194771 Actually can we do Sword main and Mystical Art light sub>
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>>6194774 Sure let's do it.
Switching my vote to teach Shao Rong
>>6194765 >Teach Shao Rong The Sword and Mythical Arts: Light instead. Maybe his Golden Buddha Body will help him learn somewhat. Anonymous
Roll me a 2d20 for the results of the timeskip, and if you have any exp- preference for the kid's appearances feel free to post them, I've kept the descriptions vague for this reason.
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>>6194762 >Teach Shao Rong The Sword and Light Mythical Arts. >Teach Lian Mistweaver and Array creations. Anonymous
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Rolled 4, 11 = 15 (2d20) >>6194778 Hmm maybe later. Right now it's not important what they look like, I assume Shao Rong looks like his dad though unless he actually looks like a concubine or something.
Anonymous
Rolled 20, 8 = 28 (2d20) >>6194778 Ohh god I hope we can do smaller errands to correct their training somewhat when the dice decides to fuck us.
Anonymous
Rolled 3, 17 = 20 (2d20) >>6194778 Anonymous
>>6194782 >>6194781 Wew I really hope that's 20 and 17, fingers crossed.
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>>6194783 Best of Three dice maybe? Then again I'm not sure I understand how QM does things.
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>>6194784 It's basically best of 3 since that's about how many votes the quest gets in average, so it's a 20 and a17.
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Locking, and for the sake of consistency, if you have Lian and Rong cultivate in the same turn, the rolls will be
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>guy gets a student one bad night's sleep away from just outright dying of wimp >manages to make her able to lift a full jar of water and not die from slight bumps on a carriage ride >guy gets student that bottlenecks himself because he's a genuine daddy issues twinkoid >smashes the bottleneck by making the dork be a man (as swift as a coursing river, with all the strength of a great typhoon)
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You’ll take the gamble, not like you could bring yourself to give them hope and then take it away anyways, might as well kill them instead of sending them back home.
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>>6194824 <span class="mu-r">”Light is lame! All the stories have the girls use it! And it’s always ‘shields this blessings that’, I wanna be like the Demon Emperor with his calamity flames! Or learn the Crimson War God’s Battle Arts!”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“You think so? Let me tell you a story from a long time ago… It’s about how the Crimson War God was getting his ass kicked by Light Arts”</span>
You recall the story to both of them, switching perspectives around and removing some details for the sake of selling Rong on the idea, you spin the story from a desperate struggle into a COOL DESPERATE STRUGGLE.
<span class="mu-r">”Woaah, you can make a blade with it? And burn the sky too? That guy must have been strong if it gave the Crimson War God Trouble”</span> <span class="mu-i">“Yeah you studied history right? That’s why Raian has no people living in there”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”You’re pretty good at telling stories Teach, it’s almost like you were there”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“I’ll let you in on a secret… I’m actually friends with the Silver Sword Saint and she told me all about this story, that’s how I know, but you two keep this a secret.”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”You’re lying right? Right?”</span> Then his jaw drops when you show him the sword you confiscated from Ren Luoyang, so easy.
You had the idea of teaching him how to absorb Qi while fighting “Not like he’ll get it right?” You were wrong, he got it down in no time.
Your approach to his bottleneck is keeping him so busy he can’t think about failure and give him positive reinforcement outside cultivation.
How did you keep him busy? Sword training, you’ll pass on your teacher’s sword style to him, plus if Jixia is going to raise a brat you’ll raise a stronger brat.
<span class="mu-r">”Wait! WAIT TEACH! TIME! AAAAH”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“No one’s going to give you time in a real fight. Whatever you learned in your sect is obsolete here! Now stand or learn how to fight while lying down!”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”Aiieeee”</span>
>Rolled 17 The array has removed the mist’s -3 penalty!
The world senses the appearance of the tower and prepares its inhabitants! +3
The vacuum effect of the array will bring in more energy than normal! +2
The location is terrible but it was a cheap house! +0
You used the Sunspot as the centerpiece +5!
Total 27!
<span class="mu-s">Shao Rong
Qi Gathering: 27/60</span>
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>>6194825 Lian’s training… proved difficult at first. It was hard for her to understand how to exert influence over the mist, and you had a hard time putting it into words and actions. Once she got the idea, she made a lot of progress. She’s currently sitting in a cloud made of mist.
<span class="mu-b">”Hua… I did it”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”Good, how did you do it again?”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Hmm… I make the mist mine… then bring it in front… then make a pillow…”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”Okay, and if I tell you the pillow is as hard as a rock?”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Oh? It is… No it’s soft… Yes it’s soft again.”</span>
This is uncharted territory, so you make her explain her train of thought and write down, then compare it with your existing knowledge and experiences beyond the gate. It’s also an exercise so she can express herself better.
You’ve been showing her how to make arrays, but it’s been a disaster because she has no Qi. It might be better to teach her how to make arrays with mist as the medium… But you’ll have to try it yourself first to make sure it is safe.
More than anything, her training has been all about getting her body back in shape so you’re paying a lot of attention to her nutrition, once it’s in a good enough state, you’ll start teaching her how to absorb the mist.
>Rolled 20 Mist bonus +3!
The world senses the appearance of the tower and prepares its inhabitants! +3
Total =26
<span class="mu-s">Bai Lian
Qi Gathering: 26/60</span>
>Continue training the kids, you can only train one this turn (Who? What would you like to train them on? Roll a 1d20) >Take a break (What would you like to do) Anonymous
Rolled 17 (1d20) >>6194826 >Go search through the nearby area for Mythical Beasts and Herbs that our apprentices can eat so that they can quickly build up their cultivation. >Regular Qi Refining stuff for Shao Rong. Things that are healthy for the body and can slowly repair it for Lian. >Sell whatever is left over so we have more money for supplies later. Anonymous
Rolled 1 (1d20) >>6194830 +1, maybe we can find that flower that grows in the mist and it might help Lian's Mistweaver training.
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Rolled 17 (1d20) >>6194826 >>6194830 +1 Anonymous
>>6194832 >He rolled 1 because he's unaware Heh heh heh Anonymous, you have eyes but fail to see mount tai.
Hua looted a white flower from Ren Luoyang and no one has said or suggested anything about it Anonymous
>>6194841 Ohh was that what that was, I thought it was like a keepsake from his girlfriend or something? We have so much shit it's kinda hard to keep track of it all.
Anonymous
>>6194843 Right, it might get messier later too. How do other quests keep inventory for the players?
Anonymous
>>6194846 From my personal experience, they have a pastebin link posted at the start of every thread that people cam check out.
I think a lot of people just keep it in their heads mid thread though and usually I don't think people get this much gear all at once. Not that I'm complaining since I'm a hoarder.
Anonymous
>>6194826 >Take a break (What would you like to do) Visit alchemist and get a liquid to strengthen a body and is able to dilute so we can slowly build up Lians body.
Check out flower.
Buy weights and resistance bands for the two to get them in shape.
And look for info on beasts to go kill and make some money.
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>>6194846 >>6194848 You could just make a txt file. Pretty sure you can post those as images here. I know you can with pdfs.
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>>6194850 >>6194850 The liquid used is to sit in and soak up the remedy.
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>>6194853 Yeah Medicine Baths, I'm not really sure I understand the QM's mindset when it comes to Medicine Baths and Body Refining though.
Ohh and QM mentioned that it's gonna be expensive as shit and a long term process getting Lian fixed up the regular way which is why we're teaching her Mistweaving and Hoping the Mist can fix up her body.
Anonymous
>>6194854 Expensive to fix her up so she can cultivate with Qi, since you already picked the mist path, it's just getting her to a "Healthy Non Cultivator" status so she doesn't explode when the mist is being absorbed.
I hope that clears it up.
>I'm not really sure I understand the QM's mindset when it comes to Medicine Baths and Body Refining though. Aiya you guys are just too good at getting body rolls so there's no need for Yin Maiden Bathwater infusions yet.
Anonymous
>>6194855 Obviously what we need is Yang Tomboy Infused Bathwater to help build up our Extreme Yin Cultivation.
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<span class="mu-i">“Today will be our first trip together, you’ll want to get used to moving outside the roads, as well as starting to get an idea of what to look out for”</span>
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>>6194855 >>6194857 Chinese Belle Delphine get out of my head
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>>6194904 She needs some milk.
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>>6194904 We took them? Lian? I figured they stay at home. At least Lian as she's very fragile. I mean it'll build a bond as long as she doesn't die here.
Anonymous
>>6194904 Thanks for running, can we set up an illusionary array for Rong? Looks like his biggest problem is mentality, we have to set up an illusionary array against an overwhelming opponent that can kill him repeatedly so he can fight without fear.
I assume Bai knows a way to set that up while doing the least amount of brain damage as possible?
Damn it Lian, you were out for a few moments. We really gotta fix that broken body problem huh, at least to the point where she isn't constantly dying.
Anonymous
>>6194915 Let's not have it kill him repeatedly. Shocking him numb where it hit's would be better. A shadow that shows the basics of the school of swordsmanship. Fueled by mist energy. Whenever we're out and about he can train against it. And as he beats it we add more/ make it stronger.
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>>6194918 Hmm Agree to disagree but he'll need to get over his weak mentality if he wants to soar. I guess he does have talent so he's got that going for him.
The repeated kill method was one I read about in another story involving a swordsman with no talent at all but overwhelming perseverance and determination. Turns out once you've gotten used to overwhelming death looming over you, a swordsman can take a step forward to deal decisive blows or move with complete certainty.
Anonymous
>>6194920 >>6194918 Ohh I was sleepy I didn't read the whole post. The point isn't just to train his swordsmanship, we have to train his mentality. He needs to get used to overwhelmong odds against monstrous opponents and still say "Fuck It We Ball" without letting fear take over.
That wolf pack situation was shameful. In that regard, Lian with the iron mentality has an advantage.
We really gotta hammer in to Lian that she's not allowed to be trash anymore since she's now our apprentice. In some ways her mentality is good but the mental traum seems to be a problem.
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>>6194922 There are other ways to build mentality without throwing him into the deep end. That's just the quick and dirty way.
It's better to give him a goal or rival character to beat. Something he wouldn't think possible that he overcomes. Overcoming hardship builds a great mentality.
It should give him an unreasonable task like climbing up a cliff with his hands and feet.
And when he fails strap weights on his arms and legs and drive him to be stonk.
And tell him to climb it again.
Prefer that there is another bigger hill. To give wisdom there is always another mountain to climb.
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Hello fellow daoists
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>>6195154 The apothecary leaves past midnight after you took turns stabilizing her body and removing the mist, he gave you a prescription of normal herbs that his assistant will bring in a couple days and some considerations to follow.
It looks like she was too successful and started to absorb the mist little by little on her own, you’ll have to talk to her about this later.
<span class="mu-r">”Teach, will she be okay?”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”Thanks to you, go get some sleep, I’ll look after her.”</span>
The rest of the night goes by without any complications, Lian always wakes up early, and Rong is used to sleeping in late.
Today you will
>Talk to Rong first (write in) >Talk to Lian first (write in) Anonymous
>>6195155 >>Talk to Lian first Hold Lian's hand to comfort her on the bed. Tell her she's not allowed to die especially since she's our apprentice, she represents us and our history from now on. Tell her that we need her and apologize for the fact that she never had a childhood but tell her that soon, once she's established her training it'll all be better and given time we promise to fix her body so that she can run around and play like everybody else.
More than everybody else, she'll be strong enough to protect herself and do whatever it is she wants.
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>>6195158 >>6195157 >>6195155 Make sure to also mention how The Heavens aren't always fair but as cultivators, we are the ones who defy the heavens and decide our own destiny.
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You boil some water and mix a couple ingredients in it, and it cools down a bit in the time it takes you to reach Lian’s room, you’ll talk to her first.>Talk to Rong (write in)
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>>6195182 "Good work on saving Lian junior. I'm proud of you. You've got talent, you've got drive. The only thing you are missing is guts. I can sense it. You are so afraid of letting your friends and family down that it is damaging your will to excel. Will to excel is everything! Don't train for anyone else. Don't even train for me. Train to impress yourself. Only then can you reach your true potential."
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>>6195155 >Talk to Rong (write in) >Good job you stabilized Lian when I went out. It was my failure to not notice how well taken she was to the mist. But you stabilized her until I came back. You succeeded Rong be proud. I as your master am proud of you. I'll make sure to give you the best training.
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>>6195182 >>6195182 >>Talk to Rong Tell Rong that Lian's gonna be okay and he should focus on his training. Tell him that although he's talented if his mindset is weak he'll never break through his bottleneck. Tell him as Cultivators our lives are always on the line so he'll need to get used to fighting overwhelming odds and surviving.
Tell Rong that once he's firmly gotten the right mindset with his talent he'll be unparalleled so we'll need to focus on building that up.
>>6195184 >>6195183 Add these in too, I thought Rong was just gonna be a little shit but he's a good kid too.
Anonymous
The two of you eat breakfast together, you notice the bags under his eyes, and the fact he’s been stealing glances at Lian’s room the whole time.
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You’re not sure if he got the idea, but you’ll keep reminding him if you need to.>Focus on training Rong for a year (On what? Any special approach to teaching him?) Roll a d100 >Focus on hunting beasts and looking for materials, you can entrust Rong with keeping the place and taking care of Lian (Will you venture outside Xingtian or go to other zones within the country?)
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Rolled 58 (1d100) >>6195202 >Focus on training Rong for a year (On what? Any special approach to teaching him?) Roll a d100 The hill with weights training climbing up a steep cliff. He's gonna fail a lot however it'll build up his mentality.
Saving him form falling to he death and calling out how far he climbs.
Teaching him various herbs that are useful and treasures to expand his horizon.
Buying some books and teaching him mystical light arts.
I'd say rotation of these subjects. Also, the blindfold him with logs swinging around to train his instinct. Don't get hit bro.
Once he's got a good mental state he can pick up a sword.
Five days of training and study with two break days.
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>>6195202 >Focus on training Rong. Give him a goal. By years end I want you to have memorised. . . I dunno, the 9th layer of light collapsing sword play or something.
Or have him hit foundation establishment. I want a goal which seems really daunting [and maybe hype it up if we have too] but ultimately achievable with his talents.
Given that Lian is going to waste a year recovering, I think it is best that we put them to bond like Brother and sister, occasionally deligate him to care for her and keep company. Build a bond of gratitude amongst them.
I want to cultivate ourselves for a bit but, meh. Ah, I know.
Part of his training WILL be investigating leads, learning how to tell a good tip from a bad one is 3ssential
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>>6195202 Aww that was a cute post.
>Focus on Teaching Rong for a year. >Set up an Illusionary array so that he can get some practice using semi real situations. Have him a weaker version of us from when we were The Crimson Wargod that's still strong enough to be overwhelming in his mind. Have him work towards beating the Illusion, try to fiddle with the array to make it so that he won't take brain damage but make sure that the illusion feels realistic. Anonymous
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Rolled 30 (1d100) >>6195209 Doh.
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Rolled 16 (1d100) >>6195202 >Focus on training Rong for a year >Build up an illusionary array that Rong can practice in and try to build up his perseverance when it comes to dangerous situations. Anonymous
>>6195202 >>6195207 Can we spend spirit stones to boost the roll a bit?
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Rolled 13 (1d100) >>6195202 >Focus on training Rong for a year >Build an Illusionary array for Rong to practice his swordsmanship with. Anonymous
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Locking at :40
>>6195214 Wanna use your causality denial point? Otherwise no.
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Locking in training using an array to train, writing!
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Rolled 5 (1d6) Rolling for yearly event>inb4 the heavens are with me
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Damn, I'm now emotionally invested in the kids
Anonymous
>>6195309 Yeah I gave up on Waifus and shifted straight to wanting to protect these small children by like their second post.
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>>6195309 >>6195320 The only instinct stronger than BREED. The legendary PATERNAL INSTINCT.
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I wanted to do just one thing but I've ended up wanting to write more, it'll take me a bit longer to finish, thank you for your patience!
>>6195320 >>6195325 Male Cultivators only want one thing and it's fucking disgusting
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<span class="mu-i">“Since Lian will take a while to be able to cultivate, this old man better make it worth your time, eh young master?”</span>
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You didn’t expect things to go this way at all, “I’ll make it worth your time” he said.>You’re the master of five students and… >You're the heir to some sect and your brother is trying to get rid of you… >You’ve found a material to save your wife but… >You just had your treasure stolen by… >You’re a mercenary getting paid to…
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He did well for a rookie, you were concerned because he was too scared during the first three months, he would get it done, sure… But there was no decisiveness to his moves.>Help Rong break through, and spend the next year training Lian while giving Rong pointers on the side >Help Rong break through and have him join the tournament (Any restrictions or things you want him to TRY?)
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>>6195352 Old man in question, Rong's POV (I forgot to add it while dumping the update)
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>>6195357 Is Rong still good with his family? They seemed to bid him farewell in relatively good nature last time and honestly I'm not feeling any animosity.
>Help Rong break through and have him join the tournament. >Just tell him to do his best and make us proud, see how much he's advanced from where he started. Also maybe show his family how far he's gotten so that they won't get worried about him. Anonymous
>>6195357 >Help Rong break through and have him join the tournament This isn't gonna take the whole year right? We can still help Lain Cultivate Later? I feel like we can maybe find an alchemist who can create diluted Mist Pills from the Mist Flowers to help Lian Along but maybe we need to find a specialist.
Basically I really wanna get some progress done on helping Lian with her problems so she's not on the verge of death constantly.
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>>6195363 He's THROUGH with his family and will NEVER come back, EVER (he's a brat throwing a fit, they'll definitely be happy to see him do well)´
>>6195366 This isn't gonna take the whole year right? That'll depend on a few things below the table.
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>>6195363 What about the Ping family? Do they miss their little punching bag?
They deserve a dog's death. Anonymous
>>6195357 Help Rong break through and have him join the tournament (Any restrictions or things you want him to TRY?)
Look at the prelims and judge the gaggle of contestants and give him challenges based on the fighter. Which will be weighted to limit his mobility, which will have a release word for each limb that we'll call out.
Shouldn't take more then a month for the tournament. And then it's work on Lian.
>ALSO BET AND MAKE MONEY ON RONG WE NEED MONEY FOR THE TRAINING. Say use 50% of our funds and keep 25% of the winnings and bet the 75% as he progresses. Anonymous
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>>6195384 If we're betting let's cheat and use our eyes to identify his opponents alongside how to take advantage of their weaknesses
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>>6195357 From what I've gathered, Rong is around 15 now while Lian is 13?
>Help Rong break through and have him join the tournament (Any restrictions or things you want him to TRY?) We should focus him on trying to win this thing. I think we should concentrate on his body fundamentals, he seems to be doing well with swords but I'm getting the feeling his general stamina and strengths are lacking and he'll need that more than anything.
And of course, if Lian health allows, we help her cultivate slowly but surely.
>>6195374 >What about the Ping family? OUT BY THE ROOTS
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>>6195418 They're 16 and 14 now that we skipped a year but yes. Rong is the older one.
Locking breakthrough and tournament.
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<span class="mu-i">“There’s going to be a new talent tournament in Heipinghua in four weeks, Qi Gathering and Foundation Establishment cultivators only. I already signed you up, and we’ll leave in three weeks.
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------------->A landmass, a big and imposing mountain range >Burn the sea and turn it into a large valley full of magma >Turn the sea into a forest of pure steel >Turn the sea into a bright sun >Body >Veins >Eyes >Your battles against the illusionary old man >The time Lian’s sickness got worse
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Rolled 7 (1d100) >>6195525 >Turn the sea into a bright sun >Veins >>Your battles against the illusionary old man Anonymous
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Rolled 98 (1d100) >>6195525 >Turn the sea into a forest of pure steel >Veins >Your battles against the illusionary old man Anonymous
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Rolled 3 (1d100) >>6195525 >Turn the sea into a forest of pure steel >Veins >Your battles against the illusionary old man Anonymous
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Rolled 78 + 40 (1d100 + 40) >>6195525 >Turn the sea into a forest of pure steel >Veins >The time Lian’s sickness got worse Anonymous
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Locking at :20
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>The duality of rolls >didn't even need the master bonus to save the breakthrough
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>>6195548 The Dao of Gambling is the strongest there is.
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Rolled 14 (1d100) Damn, missed the vote again
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You think about your fights against the illusion, the old man always held a steel sword, when he looked at you, the pressure would crush you, when you looked at his blade, you felt like the light reflecting off the steel would slice your eyes.
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You’ve packed your things up and left for Heipinghua, you decided to cut through the forest to save time. Lian would walk until she was tired, then you’d take turns carrying her with Rong.>Teach him the Three Forms of Hoshal from the Hoshal Tangs >Teach him the Burning Heaven Sword of Mount Li >Teach him the Stupid Sword
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Rolled 8 (1d20) >>6195574 >Teach him the Stupid Sword Anonymous
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Rolled 18 (1d20) >>6195574 >>Teach him the Three Forms of Hoshal from the Hoshal Tangs we need to use that qi of him
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Rolled 11 (1d20) >>6195574 Stupid sword sounds like fools guard.
And I like that.
But he can learn it later.
>three forms of tang The tangs are poisoner's by most report.
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Rolled 13 (1d20) >>6195574 >Teach him the Burning Heaven Sword of Mount Li He does have light affinity.
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Rolled 20 (1d20) >>6195574 >Teach him the Burning Heaven Sword of Mount Li Anonymous
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Rolled 9 (1d20) >>6195574 >Teach him the Burning Heaven Sword of Mount Li I figured Silver Saint's apprentice would show up, didn't expect him to show up so soon.
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>wake up >heavens simle upon our group again
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>>6195779 Ohh God are we doing Crits on this quest? I just realized it's possible you decided to screw us with Lian on the previous Herb Search Roll because we rolled a 1 even though we had higher.
You do know that on a best of three for a d20 there's like a 15% chance to roll either a 1 or a 20 right? I don't even know what the chances are of rolling one of 1 or 20 on a best of three but I think it's close to 30%
D20 Best of Threes can get swingy as fuck.
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>>6195795 Swinginess makes perfect sense for Xianxia. The entire genre is just wild swings.
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>>6195795 Lian was going to get sick no matter what, the dice check was to see if Rong could save her in time and we got a 17 (the dc was 15)
Yes, I was ready to kill her off in a couple posts but I had faith in my players, it was a gamble.
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>>6195818 God damn it Lian, you're adorable but you really messed up there.
Personally I'd have voted to use Causality Denial if that happened, fuck reality save the Daughteru.
btw is there any other ways to gain Causality Denial other than just cultivating? What even is that actually, it feels like a game mechanic but Bai's acknowledged it before if I recall correctly.
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>>6195820 You'll have 3 points of causality denial this quest, there are a couple ways to get more but that will depend on events and your choices, might very well be possible you're not lucky enough or choose wrong and miss out.
1 From (re)birth <- You are here
1 at Golden Core
1 at Immortal
They will let you:
>Bring another character back from the dead, death needs to happen in quest. >Completely reforge another character's body (i.e. turning Lian into a normal cultivator) >Guarantee the highest success possible in a single roll (a 1 into a 6 or a 20, etc.) >Reroll your cultivation path (i.e. switching from extreme yin to star emperor or two normal paths) >Reroll another character's cultivation path(s) Anonymous
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<span class="mu-i">“Rong, I’ve seen that you’re still having trouble with the Crimson Tulip Sword.”</span>
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>>6195827 No no I know what they do, I'm asking what they actually are because Bai seems to acknowledge them as something that actually exists and not just a quest mechanic.
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The tournament is being held in a single day, all in all there are 16 participants from Zhong, Jianan and a few people from Owayabo, not many people.>Bet 200 on either Luoyang or Rong, you’ll get double back at best >Bet 200 on the Foundation Establishment martial artist girl from Jianan, she looks sharp but the odds are stacked against her for some reason (roll a d100) >Bet 200 on the young spearman from Zhong, he’s in middle Qi gathering but he is very composed and confident (Roll a d100)
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>>6195830 Oh what they are in lore?
Since Hua went beyond to a higher dimension he's able to use influence causality to a certain extent in the lower dimension (this world). If he does it too much the gatekeeper will notice and we'll be in deep shit...
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>>6195831 >Bet 200 on BOTH Luoyang and Rong, you’ll get double back at best. We know those two are gonna be shoe ins. >Tell Rong to hold back a bit and try to make the fight seem close if possible. If he finishes it too quickly then our betting ratio will be too low but if he acts like it was a close fight the betting ratio might go higher if they make him a dark horse. >Use our eyes of the Unshackled to clearly watch the girl and the spearman so that we can learn if they're worth betting on or watching. >Buy Lian some candied haws and pat her head. >>6195832 Ahh so if we don't care about the Gatekeeper or find a way to keep our influence hidden we can basically get more causality points. Neat.
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>>6195831 >>Bet on both Rong and Luoyang making semi finals >Bet 200 on Rong for overall victor Anonymous
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>>6195835 This is just the first round, nobody's established the bets yet so the ratios are gonna be skewed. Later on we can bet more it seems but if we wanna make bank we gotta set things up.
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>>6195831 >Bet 200 on BOTH Luoyang and Rong, you’ll get double back at best. We know those two are gonna be shoe ins. >Tell Rong to hold back a bit and try to make the fight seem close if possible. If he finishes it too quickly then our betting ratio will be too low but if he acts like it was a close fight the betting ratio might go higher if they make him a dark horse. >Use our eyes of the Unshackled to clearly watch the girl and the spearman so that we can learn if they're worth betting on or watching. >Buy Lian some candied haws and pat her head Anonymous
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Yeah I'll let you guys gamble more, these updates will come relatively fast.
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<span class="mu-r">”You’re done betting, teach?”</span>>Bet 400 on Rong, you’ll likely get double back because of his performance. >Bet 400 on Luoyang, the odds are changing so you’ll get 720 stones with the current standing. >Bet 600 on the Zhong kid, his cultivation is keeping the odds of victory low, you’ll get 1800 stones IF he wins again (roll a d100) >Bet 600 on the Jianan girl, these fools haven’t picked up on her potential yet. You’ll get 1500 stones. (roll a d100)
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Rolled 47 (1d100) >>6195849 >Bet 600 on the Jianan girl, these fools haven’t picked up on her potential yet. You’ll get 1500 stones. (roll a d100) >Bet 400 on Rong, you’ll likely get double back because of his performance. >Bet 400 on Luoyang, the odds are changing so you’ll get 720 stones with the current standing. Even if we only bet and win once we can easily gain a lot of our money! Come on gods of gambling don't fail me now!
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Rolled 40 (1d100) >>6195849 >Bet 600 on the Jianan girl, these fools haven’t picked up on her potential yet. You’ll get 1500 stones. (roll a d100) >Bet 400 on Rong, you’ll likely get double back because of his performance. >Bet 400 on Luoyang, the odds are changing so you’ll get 720 stones with the current standing Anonymous
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>>6195854 Looks like we're back to our normal dice ducking rip.
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Rolled 71 (1d100) >>6195849 >Bet 600 on the Jianan girl, these fools haven’t picked up on her potential yet. You’ll get 1500 stones. (roll a d100) >Bet 400 on Rong, you’ll likely get double back because of his performance. >Bet 400 on Luoyang, the odds are changing so you’ll get 720 stones with the current standing Anonymous
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Rolled 7 (1d100) >>6195856 I'll support.
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The second round went well too, Rong and Luoyang are a given. Looks like rong’s previous round was him being too nervous because this time he moved well and ended the fight in two moves, very good.>Bet 1000 on Luoyang for a 1200 payout. >Bet 1000 on the Zhong kid for a 6000 payout. Roll a 1d100 (Dice check is 80) >Bet 1000 on Rong for a 2000 payout >Bet 1000 on the Jinian girl for a 2500 payout
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>>6195879 Alright, time for us to get serious.
>Bet 1000 on Rong for a 2000 payout >Tell him that the Jinian girl is very slippery and she'll likely try to force the fight into close combat where he won't be able to use his sword very well. Advise him from this point on he should go all out and try to focus on using wide-ranged attacks that are difficult to dodge which he's good at while dodging the girl's close range attacks. Anonymous
>>6195879 >Bet 1000 on Rong for a 2000 payout >Use our eyes to try to see if we can find the Spearman and Girl's masters or their family members. Anonymous
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>>6195879 Excellent winnings all-around.
>>6195881 >>6195885 I agree with both of these anons.
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>>6195879 >Rong >Louyang A nice payout of 3200.
This us already a very profitable trip.
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Rolled 10 (1d20) <span class="mu-i">“Okay Rong, your challenge this time is to win… that’s it.”</span>>Rush her down with a vertical slash >Approach and cut horizontally >Wait for her to approach and thrust your sword >Focus on evading
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Rolled 11 (1d20) >>6195952 >Approach and cut horizontally Keeping a wide stance is critical
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Rolled 5 (1d20) >>6195952 >Wait for her to approach and thrust your sword but don't stop there. Continue putting pressure on her with hard swift, hard-to-defend stabs while keeping your distance. If she passes our defenses then focus a wide slash to hit her at close range. >>6193991 >“If you want a strong attack then there’s better options, ‘Lone Night Petal’ is hard to defend against because it’s a stab, the thinner your sword intent the better. The 13th move ‘Ice Leopard’s Call’ is mostly used to create space so you can sheathe again, but if you rotate your torso fast enough, it becomes the strongest move at close range.” Anonymous
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Rolled 6 (1d20) >>6195952 >Wait for her to approach and thrust your sword, keep your range and wait for an opportunity. Anonymous
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>>6195957 He was staring at her Mt. Tais but fear not for by the skin of his teeth he saw past them.
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Rolled 19 (1d20) >Rolled 11 (+3 from Land of Steel) >Try to move in with a thrust >Wait for her to attack and try to counter with a vertical slash >Try to circle around her while using a horizontal slash
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Rolled 9 (1d20) >>6195997 >>Try to move in with a thrust Well surely she wouldn't use the same move twice, so just get into the range she was just in before disengaging. It's genius.
>that roll Oh no. Anyway.
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Rolled 12 (1d20) >>6195997 >You've fought much more dangerous enemies, step into her attack to meet it head on and stab her using her momentum against her. Anonymous
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Rolled 4 (1d20) >>6195997 >Try to circle around her while using a horizontal slash Anonymous
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Rolled 14 (1d20) >>6195997 >>Try to move in with a thrust Anonymous
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Bros. The uniform was just too strong. I mean, girl. The girls were just too strong. No waitI wonder how "I'm just disappointed" Hua can get.
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You've fought much more dangerous enemies… if she’s going to rush again then you’ll step into her and use her momentum against her.>(Write in)
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>>6196051 >"A failure is only wasted if you do not learn from it. Examine what went wrong. Every step and every detail. Play it in your minds eye as many times as you need. Once you recognize why you were bested you can find a solution. Do not waste your failure, it is the best teacher there is." I am not good at pep talks.
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>>6196051 That was disappointing, Rong's pretty pathetic huh. I'm not sure if we can get both of them up to a useful level before the end of the third year when we'll likely start moving out to focus on our own objectives again.
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<span class="mu-r">”Sorry teach…”</span>>You’ll gamble 1000 on Ren Luoyang, the expected payout is 1500 >You’ll gamble 1000 on the Zhong kid, the expected payout is 6000 (roll a d100, dice check is 70)
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Rolled 88 (1d100) >>6196101 >You’ll gamble 1000 on the Zhong kid, the expected payout is 6000 (roll a d100, dice check is 70) Fuck it we gamble.
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>>6196101 Well it would be dumb not to back
>>6196104 Anonymous
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Nothing like some unhinged gambling to light our boy's spirits up huh?
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You make your way with the two to a small table full of old men just like the old you, everyone seemed surprised by the White Tiger girl’s victory.
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You’re sitting outside the buddhist temple in the city, you wanted to greet the priest elder and check how things were going recently, but he seems to be in a meeting with the buddhist priests from Owayabo in the city lord’s house.>Anything you want to talk about with her? (Write in) >Look for information about the mist flowers. >Look for rumors on beasts or pocket realms of the Core Formation stage. >Check the workshops out and see if there’s anything made by a talented Artisan
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Rolled 2 (1d6) >>6196145 >Tell her more about the Mist >Check the workshops out and see if there’s anything made by a talented Artisan Anonymous
Rolled 2 (1d6) >>6196145 >Go ask Ren if we can borrow Meng Jixia so we can talk to her about the mist. >Go have lunch with Lian while talking to The Silver Saint, asking her if she knows anything about the Mist Flowers and The Mist itself, especially since we want to possibly create some pills using the Mist Flowers to help Lian. >Also ask her why she choose to be a piece of Jade. If it was us we probably would have been something cooler like a sword or maybe a hat. We can ask Lian about her wanting to learn Unarmed Martial Arts later once we've talked to Meng.
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Rolled 6 (1d6) >>6196145 >Lain soon enough we'll begin your training. Your body is well enough to start taking in mist. I know some workings of the mist and'll try my best to advise you. However, I have never traveled the path. What would work for a normal cultivator might not work for you. >Look for information about the mist flowers. Figure might as well since her training will start soon.
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So I can count this as 2 votes for mist flowers?
>>6196149 His writing is this fire?
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>>6196154 >>6196153 Ohh wait did he not notice who we are, darn. I wanted to go talk to Meng Jixia for a bit. Can we nab his Jade piece without him noticing?
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>>6196154 Just pointing out you had a very nice idea.
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>>6196155 It would be impossible to take it without him finding out, he might actually just run away and leave his teacher behind.
Now the question is, do you think Meng Jixia noticed Bai Hua is here?
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Rolled 4 (1d6) >>6196149 Seconding talking to the Silver Saint, I figure she'll know something about the Mist if her apprentice was carrying around a Mist Flower.
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>>6196156 Ohh yeah, just a random thought that came into my mind some day or so ago. Feels totally in character for Bai to ask why Meng would be a piece of jade instead of a meat human like us.
No idea on whether she'd notice though, I don't know her well enough and I don't know how the whole jade thing works.
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You thought about grabbing something to eat and talking a little with Lian about how her cultivation will go. Then maybe look for details about the mist flowers, preferably on the other side of the city just to be away from Jixia while the kids bond…
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<span class="mu-i">”Pretty much…
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<span class="mu-i">”Huh, where do I find some? I want to start researching them”</span>>Travel to Owayabo >Travel to North East Zhong >Travel to Goia >Travel to Raian
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>>6196202 For visual reference.
I'll also get a few pastebins together for character and inventories as well for ease of use later. Thank you for your patience!
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>>6196207 >Travel to North East Zhong >Tell Ren he can have his sword back later once he actually reaches a point where he deserves using such a treasure. >Get Lian ready for the trip either trying to enforce her body with medicine or get her close to a breakthrough so she doesn't just die midway through the trip from existing. Not gonna lie, I still have no idea what we're supposed to do with Lian and I'm kinda scared to experiment on her. If only we had an expert alchemist like Sama helping out but shit's weird and I dunno who to trust.
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>>6196209 We got money could buy a flying treasure of foundation or core formation.
Be better then just walking.
Let's prepare a bit and head to the workshops.
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>>6196207 Also we should head to Owayabo it's the closest flower area. From our location of Heipinghua.
The next question should we give our address to Jixia to visit us/ have Rong have a sparing partner/leave messages.
Third. How much money would we need to raise an alchemist to core formation?
Fourth let's buy a book on beast parts and how to harvest them.
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>>6196218 I wanna go to Zhong so we can hit up the other countries later and maybe go see the irradiated crater after a few years. If we go East we just meet an endless sea and have to circle back but if we go to Zhong we can go to other countries afterwards.
As for the alchemist, I really don't wanna raise a third kid two is already enough and the longer we take to raise an alchemist the longer Lian suffers and can't fully start her training without the risk of her exploding. I think we should instead bank of finding an old alchemist master or mist expert during our travels to Zhong.
As for for the flying treasure, treasures are expensive as fuck, even the semi treasure pouch we got as a reward apparently costs a fortune. We can take a carriage to make things smoother for Lian but I dunno about looking for and buying a flying treasure.
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I want to go to Zhong too
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Barebones pastebins, let me know if you want to see other information or have other pastebins available
Character Information
https://pastebin.com/jwGgsHPe Inventories:
https://pastebin.com/ZzZfUfCb >>6196209 She'll always be a gamble, just believe in the rolls!
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<span class="mu-i">”Lian, we will begin your own training soon… Your body should be strong enough to start taking the mist in by now.
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Regardless, it will be better for you to return to Jiping first, restock, inform Rong’s family that you will be going out of Xingtian and then set out for real. And you can check the artifact sellers again while you’re at it.
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Rolled 3 (1d6) >>6196519 I wonder if we'll run into a dangerous opportunity or just regular danger.
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Rolled 3 (1d6) >>6196519 Btw once we get Lian better we should burn down her old adopted guardian's house.
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Rolled 3 (1d6) >>6196519 Let's go gambling
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Oh sorry I forgot to turn the dice rigger
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>>6196540 That vengeance is hers alone, if she doesn't want to then we'll have to respect that.
Now if they start fucking with her again on the other hand...
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The journey to Jiping is uneventful, save for Rong complaining he didn’t have a sword on the way back, nothing of interest happened and you made it back home safely. Need to get him a sword that can resist the heat of his Qi… you’ll have him hunt for the materials himself once you reach Zhong.>A prayer mat from the extinct kingdom of Raian, big enough to fit all three of you for 6000 stones >A Large gourd one will have to stand on, you’ll have to carry Lian before she breaks through, but it will be faster than the other treasures, 6200 stones. >A Canoe made of ice crystals, big enough for all three but very cold, you’ll have to keep Lian warm… 5500 stones >A long sword made for one person only, you’d have to balance Rong and carry Lian. 4500 stones.
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>>6196618 Did QM forget to say how many stones we have after all the betting? Yes! He did! Sorry.
We currently have 6700 spirit stones.
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Rolled 21 (1d100) >>6196618 >A prayer mat from the extinct kingdom of Raian, big enough to fit all three of you for 6000 stones Would you like to use your Eyes of the Unshackled? If so, what are you looking for? Hidden functions since this is from the tech kingdom. Could call him out if it's a fake for a cheaper price.
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Rolled 57, 5 = 62 (2d100) >>6196618 >>A prayer mat from the extinct kingdom of Raian, big enough to fit all three of you for 6000 stones >Haggle, First 1d100 >Any other treasure around the store that the owner hasn't realized the value of. Second 1d100 Anonymous
Rolled 60 (1d100) >>6196618 >>A prayer mat from the extinct kingdom of Raian, big enough to fit all three of you for 6000 stones >Haggle, First 1d100 Uggh we're gonna maybe wanna pick up some jobs during the travel, our budget's getting pretty low after this and it's not like we can just fix another major disaster for an exorbitant amount of money. Especially not with the kids around.
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>>6196625 >Venered Anonymous coming to the realization that we're a single dad of two juggling expenses to bring food (and cultivation materials) to the table. Anonymous
<span class="mu-i">“Can you do 5000 for the old rug?”</span> You ask.>Escort a group of children and Qi Gathering cultivators from the Jade of Justice to Xinan, your first stop. The Issue is that you’ll be unable to set an array to deal with the mist, so naturally you will travel slower due to Qi inefficiency and have to stop at a few locations. >Transport two large boxes with “undisclosed” goods to Suihuilan, your second stop. The delivery location is outside of the city. You’ve used your eyes to check and it’s essentially two young ladies currently bound with various sealing spells, a little older than Lian. Likely to a brothel as workers or an unorthodox sect for consumption. >Take a woman to Chang, your final stop. You weren’t given any details apart from the payment, which will be 2000 stones.
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>>6196652 >Escort a group of children and Qi Gathering cultivators from the Jade of Justice to Xinan, your first stop. The Issue is that you’ll be unable to set an array to deal with the mist, so naturally you will travel slower due to Qi inefficiency and have to stop at a few locations. I don't really wanna do human trafficking and the woman seems like a pretty fun plot hook but we'd have to carry her till the end which seems like a pain.
This first job doesn't pay much but it means we can maybe befriend The Jade Of Justice Sect and it'll finish up quickly.
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>>6196652 >Escort a group of children and Qi Gathering cultivators from the Jade of Justice to Xinan, your first stop. The Issue is that you’ll be unable to set an array to deal with the mist, so naturally you will travel slower due to Qi inefficiency and have to stop at a few locations What's Rong doing with the letter again?
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>>6196652 >Escort a group of children and Qi Gathering cultivators from the Jade of Justice to Xinan, your first stop. The Issue is that you’ll be unable to set an array to deal with the mist, so naturally you will travel slower due to Qi inefficiency and have to stop at a few locations. Anonymous
<span class="mu-i">“How did things go?”</span>>Help her say goodbye >Meet up with the clients and see if you can leave early
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>>6196666 >Sure go say goodbye as she's out of sight. >"Rong go shadow her and ensure she doesn't get into danger. I'm gonna meet the clients to see if we can leave early. Let's go meet back up at the house(or other known location." Anonymous
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>>6196666 >Help her say goodbye Anonymous
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>>6196666 >Help her say goodbye Anonymous
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>>6196666 >Help her say goodbye. Let's make sure we don't impose ourselves.
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Rolled 5 (1d20) Looks like we're saying goodbye then!
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Sorry anons I passed out.
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>>6197008 Lian leaves the last room.
<span class="mu-b">”...”</span>
Her hands are trembling, full of cuts that she has yet to notice. She can’t let go of the present, now chipped and a little bent at the tip, no matter how hard she tries to.
<span class="mu-b">”Ah…”</span> Her throat is coarse, and her chest hurts a little.
You take the hand holding the present and help her open it… You hide the present for her and then help her wash up.
It’s only when she’s clean and the cuts are being bandaged that she comes back to her senses.
<span class="mu-b">”Hic… Hua… I did it…”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“Yeah.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Master!”</span> Lian cries until she’s too tired to, and by the time morning comes, you carry her out and leave the Ping residence behind. No one will care if she’s gone, just like how no one will care if they’re gone.
<span class="mu-r">”Master…”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“Let’s go, we have things to do.”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”Is this okay?”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“I think it is, but I’m someone who holds grudges too.”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”Well… I’m glad she could do things on her own terms… I guess… It still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“Right, here’s hoping you don’t ever have to understand… And the clients?”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”Waiting outside our residence, five kids and two cultivators.”</span>
You leave the city and go back to your place, the client is waiting for you. Just as rong said, five kids who haven’t started cultivating yet, around ten in age. The Qi Gathering lads are about the same age as Rong, but they’re really nervous… This might just be their first assignment.
“Greetings Seniors! I’m Wangdue, and this is Palden”
“Looking forward to working with you!”
Yeah, they’re definitely fresh out of the sect, how pure. <span class="mu-i">“Greetings, I am Bai Hua, he’s my apprentice Shao Rong and this girl is Lian, we’ll make sure you arrive at the destination safely.”</span>
One of the Jade of Justice kids rides a separate treasure, the other accompanies the children.
You get on your prayer mat and carry Lian, who’s fast asleep.
The idea is to have two stops so everyone can rest and recover their Qi, the locations are in the woods, isolated and kept a secret from the contractor.
You fly all the way to the first location and as you’re waiting for the clients to rest, you’re surrounded by a pack of shade wolves, about 20 in total
Rong should be able to deal with these, or you can do it yourself.
>Let Rong deal with the wolves (roll a d100, check is 40) >Step in and use your staff, knife or sword (roll a d20, check is 7) >Deal with the wolves with Mystical Arts (What element?) (Roll a d20, check is 7) >Just use the Sunspot (Roll a d100, collateral damage check is 60) Anonymous
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Rolled 56 (1d100) >>6197008 Fuck. The Pings had it coming but I fear Lian has scarred her psyche further. We'll have to watch closely to avoid heart demons.
>>6197009 >Let Rong deal with the wolves (roll a d100, check is 40) Kid needs to blow off some steam and get back a sense of accomplishment.
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>>6197009 >Let rong do it. >Give him tips mid battle, and get the clients who aren't cultivators to watch. Free experience tykes.
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Rolled 56 (1d100) >>6197009 >Let Rong deal with the wolves (roll a d100, check is 40) >Keep watch of the surrounding area and be ready to throw a sunspot needle if anything strange happens. Damn I wanted to bunr that place down it would have been cinematic.
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>>6197028 QM left his dice rigger on again.
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Rolled 80 (1d100) >>6197009 >Let Rong deal with the wolves (roll a d100, check is 40) >Keep watch of the surrounding area and be ready to throw a sunspot needle if anything strange happens. >Give Rong Drifting Flower but tell him not to use it unless it's an emergency. Anonymous
Rolled 10 (1d20) Alright, let's see what happens now.
>>6197028 They were worthless people, burning the place down is just going to bring undeserved attention to them, by the time the Jade of Justice and Jade Lotus sects found out, the family was devoured by rats and insects.
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You pass the Drifting Flower to Rong, he’ll be taking care of things this time.>”Wake” Lian up so you can eat (Is there anything you want to say or ask her) >Leave the food on the table and take Rong out for a convenient walk no more than two steps outside the room. (Roll a 1d20)
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>>6197058 >”Wake” Lian up so you can eat (Is there anything you want to say or ask her) >Just sit next to her while she eats and make sure to make it clear that we're here to talk if she wants to talk. >After she's finished eating and if it's an appropriate moment, tell her we need to continue at least some of her studies. Have her continue studying and practicing arrays but make sure she doesn't activate them herself, just make sure she's learned to set them up then we can activate them ourselves. Basically just teach her the theory while. Anonymous
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>>6197065 +1
I honestly don't know why we had Lian trying to activate the arrays I figured when we taught her arrays we would be teaching her the basics and activating it for her. Also I figured during an emergency she could activate arrays using spirit stones.
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<span class="mu-i">“Lian, I brought you something to eat… They didn’t have any meat so I got you more rice.”</span>
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<span class="mu-r">”Oh, you’re awake Lian.>Keep heading to Suihuilan and look for more information there (Anything in particular you want to look into) Roll a 1d6 >Detour to Lilin and look for work related to Jianchang
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>>6197649 >>Detour to Lilin and look for work related to Jianchang Making money along the way.
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>>6197649 >Detour to Lilin and look for work related to Jianchang There's no rush. The more time Rong has to contemplate, the sharper his sword intent will be.
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>>6197659 Also funds for an alchemist to hire on retainer.
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>>6197649 >>Detour to Lilin and look for work related to Jianchang Anonymous
<span class="mu-r">”I think making a detour would be better, if it is part of a trade route like you said then we’ll find work and more information.”</span>>The beggars… cheap, friendly. >The board… “Legit”. >The slums… There’s always work.
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>>6197743 >>The slums… There’s always work. Hmm I wanna find work with the larger sects but I feel like Lian would be more knowledgable about the streets and the slums.
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>>6197743 >>The board… “Legit”. Anonymous
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>>6197743 >>6197743 >Beggar sect Beggars everywhere.
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>>6197743 >The beggars… cheap, friendly Anonymous
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>>6197743 >The slums… There’s always work. Anonymous
Lian ponders for a moment… Looks around a few times and then asks you to follow her.>Information on Chang >Information on Jinzhou >Any rumors on creatures around the heavy mist >How is the crown reacting to this?
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>>6197818 >Information on Jinzhou Anonymous
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>>6197818 >Information on Jinzhou >Any rumors on creatures around the heavy mist Anonymous
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>>6197818 >Mist creatures >the crown reaction Anonymous
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>>6197818 >”Teach Lian.” …This has to be the first time you see her body language being smug. kek
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<span class="mu-i">“Do you have any details on Jinzhou? Last I heard is that there hasn’t been any contact for months.”</span>>Transport a box full of enchanted holding bags to Jianchang, the job would be paid by a commander of Zhong’s army out of his pocket. The payment is 8000 spirit stones, has to be completed in a week tops. >>“Worked with him once, he’s a man who doesn’t like his people suffering so either the bags have resources or they just got a bunch of poison. >Get a Jingwei heart, this one’s a beast that lives in the northern zone so yer’ gonna have to find and hunt it. Payment is 5600 spirit stones but it has to be done within a month. >>”Had my boys do a bit of digging around, this is an artisan that needs the material as soon as possible for a contract of his own. >Escort a woman to Chang. She’s willing to pay 4500 spirit stones >>“We looked a bit into this one, she’s been selling her service as an alchemist ever since she arrived here.”
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>>6197860 >Transport a box full of enchanted holding bags to Jianchang, the job would be paid by a commander of Zhong’s army out of his pocket. The payment is 8000 spirit stones, has to be completed in a week tops. This is an easy job and we can double our money. Only downside is that we've got to hurry to get where we're already going.
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>>6197860 >Transport a box full of enchanted holding bags to Jianchang, the job would be paid by a commander of Zhong’s army out of his pocket. The payment is 8000 spirit stones, has to be completed in a week tops. >>“Worked with him once, he’s a man who doesn’t like his people suffering so either the bags have resources or they just got a bunch of poison. >Escort a woman to Chang. She’s willing to pay 4500 spirit stones >>“We looked a bit into this one, she’s been selling her service as an alchemist ever since she arrived here. Talk with her see if she's got a flying treasure or can she fit on the rug.
I'd like to take both to see if we can hire her since we've been wanting an alchemist
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>>6197876 Looking at the map it's a hop skip step over the spot. So reasonable 2 for one.
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>>6197876 >>6197882 Looks like you've got a plan, you'll have to give me a 1d20 to negotiate with the alchemist client.
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>>6197860 >Transport a box full of enchanted holding bags to Jianchang, the job would be paid by a commander of Zhong’s army out of his pocket. The payment is 8000 spirit stones, has to be completed in a week tops. >>“Worked with him once, he’s a man who doesn’t like his people suffering so either the bags have resources or they just got a bunch of poison. >Escort a woman to Chang. She’s willing to pay 4500 spirit stones >>“We looked a bit into this one, she’s been selling her service as an alchemist ever since she arrived here Anonymous
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Rolled 8 (1d20) >>6197890 Here is my negotiation tactic.
OBEY
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Rolled 11 (1d20) >>6197890 Let's see.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Mon 17 Feb 2025 00:00:56 No. 6197919 Report Quoted By:
I only just realized my fuckin' ID changed yesterday, not like someone would take over my slop but let me try the whole tripcode thing.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Mon 17 Feb 2025 01:20:51 No. 6197979 Report <span class="mu-i">“Hmm… I can guarantee Jianchang within a week, but Chang will need me to see what’s going on with the mist up there. Can I borrow your boy to guide me to both potential clients?”</span>
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Mon 17 Feb 2025 01:21:52 No. 6197980 Report >>6197979 You leave the building and have the kid guide you to the inn where the alchemist is staying.
<span class="mu-r">”Hey Teach, what the commander said back there…”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”I’ll tell you once we’re in Jianchang’s mist, I know you already know… But I’d rather re-introduce myself, is that okay?”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”Okay.”</span>
The inn is bustling, and most tables are full of people with the exception of one in the very back. This table has a single woman, short light colored hair, very peculiar black clothes. She has bags under her eyes and her expression is easy to read unlike Lian’s.
You give a brief introduction and tell her you’re here for her work offer
“Ding Ai, you don’t look like the others… Can you really take me to Chang?”
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You slide her a piece of paper.
<span class="mu-i">”I can’t take you immediately because of a contract in Jianchang, but I can get you to Chang afterwards.
I have a way to deal with the mist, but you have to keep everything you see and hear in absolute secrecy.”</span>
“How can I trust you?”
This time you speak <span class="mu-i">”Can you afford to not take this chance?</span>
“...” The woman weighs her options…
“You better not be lying or I’ll poison all three of you.”
And agrees, you sign the contract just like with the commander and agree to meet outside the city tomorrow after you pick up the box.
........
At night you prepare a stronger array using Core Formation talismans and show both kids the way to inscribe them. Then you make a few spare copies together to make sure they know the way. You’ll instruct them on the logic behind the array when there’s time.
You give clear instructions to both Rong and Lian before leaving for the commander’s residence in the morning, Rong will carry the box, and you will carry Lian. Each disciple will have three advanced arrays on them, and Rong will prioritize Lian should anything happen, both have plenty of recovery pills ready.
The box is retrieved, and the second client is met outside the city.
<span class="mu-i">“Miss Ding, are you ready to depart?”</span>
“Since before you said you could take me to Chang.”
You get her to sit on the mat, activate the artifact and then the new a few minutes away from the city.
Roll a 1d20
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Rolled 18 (1d20) >>6197979 >“I am Luo Bu One letter off from being a man we must not pursue. Whew.
>>6197980 I will roll a 6.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Mon 17 Feb 2025 02:47:23 No. 6198059 Report How do you guys do it!?
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>>6198059 By sacrificing our luck to 2/20 or 5/100 rolls the other half of the time.
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>>6198059 >tfw sucking all the luck from other quests huehuehuehue
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Rolled 11 (1d20) >>6197980 YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Mon 17 Feb 2025 04:12:59 No. 6198141 Report You actually passed an event's DC and saved Ai's ass. It was 15.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Mon 17 Feb 2025 04:14:02 No. 6198143 Report >>6198141 >Rolled 18 You contemplate channeling more Qi to reinforce the Eyes of the Unshackled, but the thing pulsates and makes it obvious that there is something inside… There is a distorted sound coming out of the cocoon, but none of you can perceive it well, let alone understand it. Shortly afterwards, you can see the buildings shake and a cloud of snow rise from the ground.
You turn the praying mat around and speed out of the building, the headquarters, the rising cloud of snow and mist, and the city itself. As the treasure flies at top speed, you notice a figure around you.
You can see that it is standing on two front legs or arms, the legs are an amalgamation of things that should be alive but are not, and things that should not be alive but are. There are no hind legs, and where a head would be you can see something similar to a giant dandelion. Its height is about half a Li (about 250m).
<span class="mu-g">”It's less evolution and more like the mist is ‘replicating’ flowers, wherever there are flowers you’ll see the laws of our world being weaker.”</span>
You think back to your conversation with Jixia as you lower the treasure’s altitude to blend in with the woods, unsure if it will help not being noticed.
After an hour of “crawling” through the mist, you exit at the relay point, and don’t stop until you find the buddhist priests and have them call someone from Zhong’s Army.
The moment the treasure touches ground, Rong rushes to the nearest tree to throw up, Lian glues herself to your arm, and Miss Ding remains in the prayer mat, staring into the void. The talismans for mist isolation are all sticky with viscous mist, and when the priests touch them they burst into flames.
Today it was confirmed that Jianchang has fallen, the fate of the other cities is yet to be determined, but it might not even be necessary to verify. The man in charge of the troops pays you the 8000 stones, and thanks you on behalf of commander Luo.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Mon 17 Feb 2025 04:15:03 No. 6198144 Report >>6198143 <span class="mu-i">“Miss D-”</span>
“Just Ai is fine”
<span class="mu-i">“Alright, are you sure you still want to go to Chang? I can’t get you there right now, but if you give me a few months I can improve the method as well as make some other preparations… Of course, this assumes you still have business there considering what’s happened here. ”</span>
“Shit, everything was real… The damned whispers, the missing people, the thick mist. I should just go back and tell my master it’s a failed mission.”
<span class="mu-i">“So?”</span>
“You’re still asking after seeing that shit? You’re out of your mind.”
<span class="mu-i">“I get that a lot”</span>
“Aaah screw it, I might as well ask you.
I’m looking, well my master is looking for a Mourning Emerald. We had a deal with someone in Chang to buy a little for his breakthrough but this is damn impossible.”
<span class="mu-b">”Hua, what is that?”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“A Yin Polarity material people use during breakthroughs to temper their eyes… Your master’s going for Soul Dividing?”</span>
“Yeah, you wouldn’t know where to find one, would you?”
North of Nangchen is the entrance to a legacy realm, the highest stage that can enter it should be Golden Core, you went once and saw that there is a cave where they’re produced.
The issue is determining when the realm will open or if it has collapsed… Entering it, finding the gem and leaving should be relatively simple.
You currently have 10300 spirit stones, you can:
>Sell her the information you have for about 1000 spirit stones. >Offer her a deal to look into the legacy realm and retrieve the material in exchange for her services as an alchemist (Roll a d20) Anonymous
Uh. Maybe we should start making sure more people get these anti mist arrays if it's getting THAT bad out there this quickly.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Mon 17 Feb 2025 04:38:53 No. 6198158 Report >>6198149 You're too weak right now to do it for profit, if you want to do a service to society as a whole you could do it for free.
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Rolled 2 (1d20) >>6198144 >>Offer her a deal to look into the legacy realm and retrieve the material in exchange for her services as an alchemist (Roll a d20) >Tell her that the situation's gotten really bad right now and we wanna stay in Chang for a little bit to get our affairs and plans in order. We need to gear up and find somewhere to leave the kids. >>6198158 One Favor, I'm willing to spread the mist arrays to everybody for a single and simple favor. I want the authorities to find us a Master Alchemist who can help us refine the Mist Flowers into pills for Lian and that's it, maybe the recipe for it too.
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>>6198160 Of course, we pretty much always roll a 2 when we don't roll an 18.
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Rolled 15 (1d20) >>6198144 >Offer her a deal to look into the legacy realm and retrieve the material in exchange for her services as an alchemist (Roll a d20) Good place to find some more materials, especially for Rong and his new sword.
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>>6198144 >Offer her a deal to look into the legacy realm and retrieve the material in exchange for her services as an alchemist (Roll a d20) >Ask the timetable on when it must be acquired. >Question do we do Commander Lue a solid and give him the way to negate the mist using mist? >Of course, royalties that the government pays us. For using it. A line of spirit stones per month the mist goes on. That can be picked up at any government office. Anonymous
>>6198164 Getting a stipend would be too annoying, let's grab some gear from their armory in exchange for improving their anti mist arrays. I'm pretty sure they're pretty low on supplies but they should be able to spare us some weapons, maybe some armor.
Doubly good if we can take any of the gear they took from criminals, it'd be a win win for everybody.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Mon 17 Feb 2025 05:02:22 No. 6198172 Report >>6198164 >>6198168 If you're okay with giving the second biggest country in the continent unrestricted movement and a massive edge on battle for the next 8 years for a wage or some trinkets then sure, we can go that way if there's enough support, I can write around that.
(assuming the decade event table doesn't just roll mist again and we end up with 20 years)
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>>6198172 I figured we might as well just fix their array while blackboxing it as much as possible in exchange for some trinkets and gear. Not the actual array blueprints itself, just improve and fix it enough that they'll have an easier time moving supplies.
Just so the city doesn't start falling before we even get back from the Legacy Realm.
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>>6198172 What you put it like that. Nvm. If we reach golden core in a reasonable time we'll fly around and give all the kingdoms. Access. Or have the begger sect spread it around.
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>>6198172 That actually sounds pretty entertaining... though the human casualties will be horrific, I wager, since it will push a lot of people from the frontlines only to end up dying into the mist.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Mon 17 Feb 2025 21:06:01 No. 6198498 Report <span class="mu-i">“Well… There is a legacy realm in north Zhen where Mourning Emeralds have been obtained before, it’s supposed to open for a week every 3-4 years.>Physically fly to the heart of the taiga and use your Eyes of the Unshackled and roll a d100 (Anything you want to keep an eye out for while moving) >Focus all your Qi into your eyes and check from a large distance, roll a 2d10
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Rolled 63 (1d100) >>6198498 >Physically fly to the heart of the taiga and use your Eyes of the Unshackled and roll a d100 (Anything you want to keep an eye out for while moving) Herbs/ natural yin treasures in such an area. Maybe a hot spring. Even if we can use yin treasures we could sell/trade for money.
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Rolled 10, 4 = 14 (2d10) >>6198498 >Long range Best avoid it if we can
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Rolled 67 (1d100) >>6198498 >Physically fly to the heart of the taiga and use your Eyes of the Unshackled and roll a d100 (Anything you want to keep an eye out for while moving) Gotta keep an eye on Herbs, mostly the White Flowers since you said before most herbs growing during the mist turn toxic. Aside from herbs if there are any ores or mythical creatures we can see that we can turn into weapons or pills later.
We need some Yang Attuned material to make a sword for Rong and maybe upgrade the sword.
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>>6198498 Please for the love of god I hope Ai can figure out the Mistweaver Pills. QM is literally writing down how being exposed to certain mists even for a few seconds can kill Lian and I'm genuinely stressing on how to make sure she at least doesn't die the moment we look away from her.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Tue 18 Feb 2025 00:11:59 No. 6198645 Report You decide to fly around the zone where the realm’s portal opens in to look for other points of interest.>To Rong’s training regime >To the first entry in Ai’s record >To Liang’s Mist Gathering breakthrough
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>>6198645 >To the first entry in Ai's records Character establishment!
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>>6198645 >>To the first entry in Ai's records LORE!
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Tue 18 Feb 2025 01:53:13 No. 6198730 Report I did an examination of the Teacher and her fellow student. The student’s body does not possess any innate disposition, but the quality of the veins and meridians is some of the best I have seen, vein tempering is evident. No problem with his senses and he’s reserved around me, but very open around the Teacher and the Patient, a healthy young man.>To Rong’s training regime >To Lian’s Mist Gathering breakthrough
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>>6198730 >To Rong’s training regime Let's save Lian for last
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Tue 18 Feb 2025 02:28:52 No. 6198743 Report “Teach asked me to keep a log to help with my training and to write down anything I saw or thought about Lian. I don’t get the point if I can just tell him or the Alchemist… Yeah I’m just missing the point I guess…>To Lian's Mist Gathering Breakthrough
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>>6198743 >To Lian's Mist Gathering Breakthrough Let's go Lian take control of the mist.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Tue 18 Feb 2025 02:42:11 No. 6198757 Report Quoted By:
>>6198755 Sure, after a Lian log entry
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Tue 18 Feb 2025 03:03:10 No. 6198770 Report “Hua asked me to keep a diary to practice my writing and reading, but I know the real reason.
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The sun is rising and everyone is gathered in a small room inside the temple, the door is closed and there is a mist repelling talisman activated so the room doesn’t have any mist. Despite having 4 people, the place is still rather cold… One could blame Hua’s disposition, but the truth is that there would be little difference if he left, it is a very cold day in the tundra.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Tue 18 Feb 2025 03:57:56 No. 6198794 Report >>6198770 Narrow, Small, Dry, Cracked…
A strand of her consciousness has fused with the mist entering her body. The girl is not aware yet, but the first step was a success.
She travels an ashen desert, there are parts of the desert that are split by massive ravines. These ravines all lead to giant empty lakes that all converge in a colossal basin devoid of life save for a few drops of an azure flame in the bottom of the abyss.
When she looks up she can detect three different constellations, all with different colors and warmth to them. She can also see a fine layer of snow beginning to fall.
More and more snow piles up on the desert, slowly filling the ravines and lakes. The basin remains untouched, as the azure flame desperately burns the snow away. Not melting, burning as if it could not stand its existence in the same world.
<span class="mu-b">”...”</span>
She approaches the flame that can ignite the world of snow and burn everything in creation to ashes and she gently holds it with her right hand.
She can feel its reluctance to give up, but it cannot resist her, as the flame is her and she is the flame.
A sea of flames set the world ablaze, and only a drop remains, the girl will fade out if left alone just like the small flame.
<span class="mu-b">”Disappear.”</span>
The flame fades out, the desert begins to freeze and the ravines are caving in on themselves.
The girl fades away, but the strand does not.
The strand, now in the form of a small girl, extends its hand and calls the seemingly infinite snow…
The snow converges into the palm of her hand, and is compressed until she can no longer see it.
The compressed snow becomes a cocoon, and inside the cocoon is
>A sphere >A mirror >A person The strand feels a calling from
>Its Bones (Body Tempering) >Its Eyes (Eye Tempering) The strand recalls
>Warmth >Cold The strand
>Stops >Does not stop Roll a 1d100
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>>6198743 Ahh finally done with what I was doing.
The way I see it, Rong can't learn the Crimson Tulip Sword it's much too delicate and precise for him. I wanted to have somebody carry on our master's legacy but it's obvious that Rong is better suited for a powerful and overwhelming sword that focuses on power rather than a delicate and precise one focusing on control.
We also need him to learn how to take a hit, the previous fights Rong and us have gotten into feel very swingy. Both of us need to be able to keep fighting even after getting a bad roll but I'm not sure how to do toughness training without going overboard.
Overwhelming attacks are good and all but still both of us need some sort of safety net otherwise completely similar fighters that focus on quick kills or get lucky once become our complete counters.
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>>6198795 >but I'm not sure how to do toughness training without going overboard. Maybe try tempering something other than eyes all the time? lmao
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Rolled 51 (1d100) >>6198794 >A family >Its Eyes (Eye Tempering) >Cold, Dark and Very Comfortable >Does not stop Anonymous
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>>6198798 Ahh but we're reaching the point where we can temper without breaking through so we can use the eyes to find herbs to temper ourselves later.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Tue 18 Feb 2025 04:04:13 No. 6198804 Report >I wonder if they'll roll for body tempering on the skelly sticc girl >they still roll for eye tempering
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>>6198802 Fuck I got it wrong it was supposed to be a Cold, Dark and Very Gentle place.
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Rolled 76 (1d100) >>6198794 >A family >Its Bones (Body Tempering) >Cold, Dark and Very Comfortable >Does not stop >>6198804 Fucking kek
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>>6198804 Horses and water as it were.
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Rolled 65 (1d100) >>6198794 >A family >Its Bones (Body Tempering) >Cold, Dark and Very Comfortable >Does not stop Anonymous
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Rolled 13 (1d100) >>6198794 >A sphere >Its Bones (Body Tempering) >Warmth >Does not stop Anonymous
>>6198804 I'm good either way but I kinda figure she'd have benefited a lot more from having tempered eyes if she's gonna learn the White Tiger Style Martial Arts.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Tue 18 Feb 2025 04:13:11 No. 6198814 Report Quoted By:
>does not stop
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>>6198812 Lian's smart and perceptive enough that she should be able to learn the White Tiger Style and read her opponents without tempered eyes at least from the offset. Obviously we start temper maxing later but right now we gotta make sure she doesn't just die randomly.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Tue 18 Feb 2025 04:59:22 No. 6198840 Report The strand thinks back to a night full of sticky warm rain and damp hatred, the raindrops become a myriad of scarlet hands that tug at it and drag it down to the depths of a bottomless swamp.>Thinks of the present >Thinks of the future >a dragon >a tiger >a girl like the strand >Meets a figure in the mist >Meets a figure beyond the mist
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Tue 18 Feb 2025 05:04:04 No. 6198841 Report >>6198840 >the is The cocoon* holy shit me get it together
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Rolled 16 (1d20) >>6198840 >Thinks of the future >a dragon >Meets a figure in the mist Anonymous
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Rolled 14 (1d20) >>6198840 >Thinks of the present > A girl like the strand >Meets a figure in the mist >>6198842 Nice
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Rolled 17 (1d20) >>6198840 >Thinks of the present > A girl like the strand >Meets a figure in the mist >>6198841 If it makes you feel any better I have no idea what's going on during breakthroughs regardless of any spelling mistakes.
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Rolled 6 (1d20) >>6198840 >Thinks of the present > A girl like the strand >Meets a figure in the mist Anonymous
>>6198846 Mah child, mah baby gurl.
I'm kinda disappointed that Lian's already taken our family name in the inventory, I thought it would have been its own big thing.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Tue 18 Feb 2025 05:13:33 No. 6198849 Report Congratulations you have created Mist Jesus.
THEY CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS! >>6198846 > Oh no... maybe I made it too obscure and esoteric?
>>6198848 It's only in the inventory
glad you noticed Anonymous
>>6198849 Well I seem to remember you saying that the whole point of the story is to be mysterious and esoteric but that breakthroughs are mostly fluff. Aside from fluff I assume all we really need to remember is number go up, traits of burr and tempering goes clang.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Tue 18 Feb 2025 05:17:51 No. 6198855 Report >>6198852 The landscape here is an analogy of her body. Anonymous
>>6198855 Just keep going, I'm mostly just a munchkin that's really confused because I don't understand how to min max the absolute shit out of the breakthroughs to give as much power as possible because they're so esoteric.
Above all else I'm happy that Lian's hopefully gonna be in a healthy state and we can work out the detail for other tempering and miscellaneous stuff later
Even now though I'm trying to think about how to min max Lian and Rong's training. Rong's doing well with the sword but the Crimson Tulip just doesn't mesh with him and the other Anon was right we should have trained his body a bit more to be tougher.
I wanted to train Lian as an assassin that's also good at using her head but it seems her interests are in Unarmed Martial Arts and she isn't showing that much aptitude for arrays. She isn't untalented in arrays or cunning but it seems like her main talent above all else is perseverance which we did look for in a student specifically. Seems like she'll likely be another frontliner but we'll need to see her more to figure out more about her future studies.
Ahh shit I just realized why I'm even more confused for Lian because we don't even know how we're supposed to build her during breakthroughs since we don't know how to build her in general.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Tue 18 Feb 2025 05:40:48 No. 6198863 Report >>6198861 The crimson tulip sword is not a sword of talent, we'll have a specific explanation soon for his training.
Also Lian can be an unarmed assassin, if there are no witnesses left you can call it an assassination!
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>>6198863 Meh I love the kids and they'll always be at the back of my mind but honestly I'm also excited about being able to fuck around as Bai Hua again. I'm hesitant to do crazy shit with the kids around.
As for the Crimson Tulip maybe, but even if it's not about talent Rong and his personality seems way more suited for a Strong Sword with overwhelming power instead of a Precise One that relies on Minute Control like Crimson Tulip. Rong himself is a pretty headstrong person which I guess we can temper down the line but still if we've got entire libraries of Martial Arts in our heads maybe another type would suite him better.
As for Lian, touche. With her mistweaver powers she'll probably have a more mysterious, esoteric and versatile fighting style regardless of what we teach her. Hmm I wonder if she can use mist construct focuses to set up arrays quickly. Using those mist constructs as focal points like Mist Woven flags that make mistweaving even easier to do, maybe arrays will be more useful than I thought.
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Rolled 15 (1d20) >>6198840 >Thinks of the present >a tiger >Meets a figure in the mist Anonymous
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>>6198849 I for one love how trippy and slightly comprehensible the inner world scenes are. It's like taking a tab of acid except the walls don't have sharks coming out of them to gnaw my fingers and toes off.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Tue 18 Feb 2025 06:47:50 No. 6198892 Report >>6198861 A lot of the issues come from my absolute failure to explain things in laymans terms.
As well as not really having an actual combat system in place by the time the quest started, not having set arts/spells and giving so many choices for things without much thought behind it for the sake of storytelling.
I am at fault for this.
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>>6198892 Shug when I was writing alot I just winged it most of the time. 10% planning and 90% story. Don't get too hung up on making a system. There isn't many tools to keep track off and pull information on the fly. The more complex the more you crunch numbers and less updates you do.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Tue 18 Feb 2025 07:08:32 No. 6198900 Report >>6198894 Yeah, I figured some relatively simple gimmicks for each weapon path (sword/polearm/ranged/unarmed) and a special snowflake mechanic for mist/star.
For magic/arts... We'll go to custom writeup land and I'll veto/balance as needed wee it is magic after all.
Training arc!
Training arc!
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Tue 18 Feb 2025 07:11:10 No. 6198903 Report Quoted By:
The cocoon is absorbed from the inside by a small figure, it is a girl just like herself.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Tue 18 Feb 2025 07:16:28 No. 6198908 Report Lian successfully took the first strand of mist and continued to absorb at a steady rate, you knew it would take her about three minutes to complete the absorption process, and then shape the first… Cognitive projection? you guess could be addressed as such, should have asked the gatekeeper.
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>>6198908 >Soul Nurturing Did she skip golden core?
And go into Soul Nurturing?
Wha. huh.
Anonymous
>>6198911 Well it's
Qi Gathering -> Foundation Establishment -> Core Formation -> Golden Core -> Soul Dividing -> Soul Nurturing -> Soul Fusion -> Immortality
If she's really on Soul Nurturing she would have skipped about three steps maybe four considering she was probably less than Qi Gathering with her body in such bad shape.
>>6198900 I'm not really sure I'm understanding Mystic Arts but it kinda feels like we don't really use our Extreme Yin Body well enough and mostly just mass cultivate our regular martial arts with Yang Energy.
I feel like we aren't using our gimmick to the best of our abilities but maybe that's just because we're not sure what we can actually do with Mystic Arts and the Extreme Yin Body Mystic Arts.
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>>6198914 >>6198900 What Mythic Arts would poison fall under by the way, I remember when we dove into that swarm of shrimp we used a mixture of Water and Dark to bring up a poison mist but is that right?
Actually since Bai seemed like he focused way more on regular martial arts the first lifetime, is he actually pretty new to the powerful and esoteric mythical arts? Would we benefit a lot from learning from Yin Arts masters or are we just as likely to learn from regular training/remembering our past?
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>>6198908 Thanks for running QM, absoloutely love this quest.
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>>6198916 Down to learn some mystic arts Yang and
Do artisan/artifact master. As our two mystic art paths if I'm reading this correct.
>A cultivator can choose any two normal paths, one as their “main” and one as a “sub” >A cultivator can also choose two different “Mystical Arts” paths, same rules. Since we choose a main path and haven't chosen our mystics yet.
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>>6198921 We're Extreme Yin so our Mythic Arts would be Yin: Water, Earth, Dark.
Also that two path thing only applies to normal paths not sure how things work with special paths.
The path of Extreme Yin is a special path. I'm not sure how QM is gonna be tweaking the Martial Arts learning process.
I think we can probably set up Yang Arrays if we find some Yang Focus treasures but the Mythical Arts we shoot out our body would be Yin Mythic Arts.
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>>6198923 Actually when we get a moment I figured we could turn the Lightning Ram Horns into a handful of small array flags and turn the staff into a large array flag/focus.
The Horns and The Staff we're starting to outgrow but using them as foci to create powerful arrays seems like a decent idea since they're unlikely to break in the heat of battle.
Might be a bit of a waste though since you only really need to pull out arrays to do major mystic arts when you wanna wipe out on army or fight an army.
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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:LoLY504f Tue 18 Feb 2025 08:35:46 No. 6198928 Report >>6198894 >The more complex the more you crunch numbers and less updates you do. I feel this sentence in my very soul.
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Still only able to read as sessions are happening during my sleep time. At least you know you have one more lurker. Good job figuring out the puzzle to break through in an unorthodox way anons, that was carefully planned and executed
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>>6198928 Hey DrDragon good to see you alive. Yeah I've written a few quests on Fiction.live. The main problem I've had with stat stories is math. It's easy at first.
However, you become a human calculator as the story progresses also having to note all the side character progress. Doing math for 2 hours before you can update is not fun.
One of the reasons I want to eventually pay someone to make me a website that I can make said site keep track of and I can reference on the fly all the needed lore and math.
Alas, lack said funds until my investments skyrocket up, and making said website is hard with all the HTML, CSS, Database, Python I'd have to learn.
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>>6198943 You could probably use one of those ttrpg worldbuilding tools.
Like legendkeeper, Obsidian or fantasia archive (though I actually haven't used any of these yet...)
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Wed 19 Feb 2025 14:40:13 No. 6199636 Report I'm still alive, just back in the wage cage and couldn't push an update yesterday. I'll be back later today!
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>>6199636 Not a problem at all life happen, looking forward to when you're free!
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Wed 19 Feb 2025 22:43:19 No. 6199788 Report The second physical check is completed on the spot, Ai goes through a long list of questions and Lian tries her best to answer all of them. As soon as she’s finished, Ai slumps on her chair while staring at you, it’s obvious she has things she wants to know, you’ll talk about it later.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Wed 19 Feb 2025 22:47:53 No. 6199793 Report >>6199788 That said, someone going through every “mental” stage up to immortality at once sounds like something that only happens in books, but her fortunate breakthrough just confirms it is possible.
<span class="mu-i">“You scared us back there you know.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">"Sorry."</span>
<span class="mu-i">“It’s fine, I had faith you could do it… but you better tell Rong you’re fine.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">"He worries too much?"</span> <span class="mu-i">“Is that a bad thing?”</span> <span class="mu-b">"Maybe."</span>
Lian is alive and well, Rong is alive and well, they’re both getting along fine… their dynamic might change from here on, but you’ll do your best so a repeat of your past doesn’t happen. The evening wind blows through the halls of the temple with a low hum, the setting sun dyes the stone bricks a pleasant and slightly warm orange.
Your eyes feel heavy, and your right arm is warm…
Tomorrow will be a long day, you’ll first see Rong’s progress with his regime idea, then help Lian find a suitable fighting style.
…
…
The light from the sun’s first rays wakes you up, you haven’t felt this drowsy in a very long time and the warmth in your lap doesn’t help much, nor does the weight. Looking down reveals Lian as expected, but rong’s head is also resting on your left leg.
You fell asleep with your back leaning against the tree and these two thought it would be better to snuggle up than carry you in.
<span class="mu-i">”Wake up you two, today will be a busy day.”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”It’s still morning though… wake me at noon teach…”</span>
>Just let him sleep more, you can work with Lian in the meantime. >Wake Rong up, the faster you have him out of thinking in circles the better. Anonymous
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>>6199793 >>Wake Rong up, the faster you have him out of thinking in circles the better. Anonymous
>>6199793 >Wake Rong up, the faster you have him out of thinking in circles the better. So uh. What stage is Lian at?
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>>6199793 >Just let him sleep more, you can work with Lian in the meantime Anonymous
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>>6199793 >Just let him sleep more, you can work with Lian in the meantime YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Thu 20 Feb 2025 00:12:16 No. 6199843 Report Quoted By:
Rolled 2 (1d2) >>6199806 Yes
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Thu 20 Feb 2025 02:29:02 No. 6199930 Report <span class="mu-i">”No can do, young master, I want to see what you came up with.”</span>>The physical training sounds good >You should work on the power of your sword intent >Having minute control over your sword intent is important
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>>6199930 Write-in
>Having minute control over your sword intent is important. >Once controlled you can naturally increase the power of your intent. >This allows you to then fight with scraps of Qi and extend your battle capacity. >However there are(idk if he knows can forgo this if it's not a thing) certain secret realms that seal your qi. Making body cultivation important. When you run out of Qi you'll do body strengthening. Which will push you to your mental limits. With whatever you recover of qi well go straight back to using the smallest of qi to cover your weapon in intent. Then rest.
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>>6199930 >The physical training sounds good >Having minute control over your sword intent is important Exercise in the mist and try to have Rong drain his Qi as much as possible while doing so. It's much easier to sense and control Qi when you're absoloutely drained, when a vessel is overflowing it's much harder to notice a few drops and he always did have way more Qi than normal people.
We should oversea the training a bit at first just enough that he doesn't accidentally kill himself in the mist.
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>>6199949 Alright so I think we're kind of in agreement of a general idea, have Rong drain his Qi as much as possible so he'll have better results in minute control and physical exercising.
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>>6199957 Cool idea we could array the hot spring and gather some yang medicine plants. Throwing Rong in for recovery bouts after training.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Thu 20 Feb 2025 23:53:58 No. 6200525 Report <span class="mu-i">”Your first idea is good, the second you’ll see results by practicing the third. Powerful sword intent doesn’t just mean having a lot to throw around.”</span>
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Thu 20 Feb 2025 23:54:59 No. 6200527 Report >>6200525 “Huh, I thought he’d have a problem with it.”
<span class="mu-i">”He’s going to push himself too hard to try and catch up, did you hear what he wants to do for training?”</span>
“I did, I guess you want me to help?”
<span class="mu-i">”Yeah, at least while I teach Lian how to control her strength. Can’t have one killing himself training and the other because she doesn’t know how to use her body.”</span>
“I’m not that good of a teacher though, don’t get your hopes up.”
<span class="mu-i">”He needs a doctor to pull his ear when he’s overdoing it, you’re the right one for the job.”</span>
You explain to Rong that Ai will be looking after him for a few weeks while you work with Lian, and bring Lian to a different part of the temple, where you tell her about the situation with her body.
<span class="mu-b">”I see, but why only my body?”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”That’s because she doesn’t know how to determine your ability with the mist, I don’t either but finding out will be the fun part.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”?”</span>
She looks at you with a puzzled expression, and you pat her head. She’ll soon understand the satisfaction of overcoming challenges.
<span class="mu-i">”Let’s focus on using your body first, then we can look into how to better control the mist, does that sound good?”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Will you teach me martial arts?”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”Yeah, but I won’t teach you the White Tiger Fist, there are better techniques out there, here’s what I can teach you.”</span>
>The basics of the Dragon Emperor Fist, a style you and Shama found in an immortal pocket realm that specializes on raw destructive power >The basics of the Cloud Herding Palm, a style that specializes on redirecting, stopping and countering an opponent’s attacks >The basics of the Divine Star Fist, a style that focuses on disrupting the opponent’s Qi flow. <span class="mu-b">”Hmmm…”</span>
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>>6200527 >The basics of the Dragon Emperor Fist, a style you and Shama found in an immortal pocket realm that specializes on raw destructive power This makes sense as most will be used for confusion arts. So Lian will be a beast with arrays+mist confusion+pure destructive power.
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>>6200527 >The basics of the Cloud Herding Palm, a style that specializes on redirecting, stopping and countering an opponent’s attacks This would synergize well with her minion usage. She's also quite small, that would leave her at a disadvantage in terms of sheer strength against foes of the same or higher stage.
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>>6200551 The average cultivator 5'2", 90 lbs when soaking wet, looks like they've never lifted anything heavier than a tea kettle lad/lass can shatter a mountain with a tap of their finger. Size matters not.
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>>6200527 >The basics of the Divine Star Fist, a style that focuses on disrupting the opponent’s Qi flow. Anonymous
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>>6200527 >The basics of the Divine Star Fist, a style that focuses on disrupting the opponent’s Qi flow Probably a lost cause but I wanna teach Lian assassination.
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>>6200559 >>6200557 >>6200551 >>6200537 By the way I just realized a simple way we can gain some temporary durability before we try and temper Ice Muscles and Jade Bones.
Using our Mystic Arts we can probably flash forge armor made out of Ice or Stone to take a few hits from us so we aren't just getting mutilated from a bad roll.
Stone would be harder but it might slow us down but I assume we can Mystically Harden some ice to create simple armor.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Fri 21 Feb 2025 01:44:31 No. 6200616 Report Quoted By:
Locking at :00
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Fri 21 Feb 2025 03:34:13 No. 6200707 Report Actually forget I held that vote, I'm retarded and (as usual) didn't elaborate on each style or bothered to give more than two words for a description... which kind of feels like an insult to you guys. I'll try to do this with more stuff I introduce, just gotta find a way to word my autistic worldbuilding properly.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Fri 21 Feb 2025 03:36:06 No. 6200709 Report <span class="mu-b">”The Divine Star Fist”</span>
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Fri 21 Feb 2025 03:37:19 No. 6200712 Report Quoted By:
<span class="mu-i">”Sure, then let’s see… for the Dragon Emperor Fist…”</span>
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Fri 21 Feb 2025 03:38:36 No. 6200713 Report <span class="mu-i">”Lastly the Cloud Herding Palm…”</span>>Hua… I still want to learn the Divine Star Fist >...I want to learn the Cloud Herding Palm >I’m strong now… Teach me the Dragon Emperor Fist Yes, one is a blatant HnK reference
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>>6200707 Meh it's alright, sometimes it's good to keep things short and tidy.
>>6200713 >Hua… I still want to learn the Divine Star Fist Anonymous
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>>6200713 >Hua… I still want to learn the Divine Star Fist Anonymous
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>>6200709 This makes me want to throw dynamite.
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>>6200713 >>I’m strong now… Teach me the Dragon Emperor Fist Anonymous
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>>6200713 >Hua… I still want to learn the Divine Star Fist Anonymous
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>>6200713 >Hua… I still want to learn the Divine Star Fist Anonymous
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>>6200767 Shame this would've been fun.
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>Hua… I still want to learn the Divine Star Fist
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Fri 21 Feb 2025 18:24:45 No. 6201022 Report Quoted By:
“Hua… I still want to learn the Divine Star Fist”
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Fri 21 Feb 2025 18:25:46 No. 6201023 Report >>6200942 Ai meets you in the temple’s tree to discuss Rong’s results for the day.
“We didn’t do the full thing, I went to the Hot Springs with him and we found a small cabin that he could rest in, this way it won’t be necessary to fly back and forth all the time… So long as we set an array up that is.
I can also give you a list of materials that I can use to compliment his training, I won’t charge you for processing them either.”
<span class="mu-i">”Oh? We haven’t entered the realm yet, are you okay with that?”
“If we don’t find anything I can simply drag you to my Master and he can find an use for all three of you”
</span>”Fair enough, give me the list and I’ll work it out, I need to visit a city for Lian too.”
You see the items in the list and most of them are cheap and easy to obtain, likely to be used as coagulants, to break down, dissolve, and improve the effects of the more rare ones. This shouldn’t go for more than 500 spirit stones for the amounts that she needs.
What calls your attention are these three items: Three vials of Sixty Year Old Flying Frog Mucus, Seven Two-Headed Bear Brains, A whole bag of Blue Lightning Clam Pearls.
The first can’t be found in this continent, so it will be expensive. The second is a core formation beast so the material isn’t high on demand, and the third is a pain to get your hands on even if they can be found in the western zhen coast.
You’ll also have to get him a sword that can take a beating but not too much so he needs to stay vigilant of his sword intent.
For Lian you’ll need a few books on meridians and the basics of Qi usage, both of them need new clothes, especially Lian since she’s going to be in combat from here on.
“Xingzhaoy is the best city to get these materials in, but Qingzhou has an arena where you can fight for spirit stones if you need… I’m not really sure how much everything will cost though, sorry.”
You have 10.000 spirit stones.
>Go to Xingzhaoy and see how much things will cost, then decide what to do for Spirit Stones >Just go to Qingzhou, there’s Spirit Stones to be won. YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Fri 21 Feb 2025 18:28:48 No. 6201024 Report Quoted By:
>fucked the formatting again
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>>6201023 Sorry at work so I'm skimming why aren't we raiding the Treasure Realm?
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>>6201032 Fuck nevermind I see it now.
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Rolled 3 (1d20) >>6201023 >Just go to Qingzhou, there’s Spirit Stones to be won. >Ask Ai if she can teach us some Alchemy too, we'll pay her extra so she can have some spending money. Rolling 1d20 to persuade her in case Alchemy is supposed to be secret. Anonymous
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>>6201023 Go to Xingzhaoy and see how much things will cost, then decide what to do for Spirit Stones
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>>6201023 >Just go to Qingzhou, there’s Spirit Stones to be won. YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Sat 22 Feb 2025 02:15:17 No. 6201236 Report You decide you’re better off going to Qingzhou, making money there and then dropping by the other city, or just hiring someone to buy the stuff for you. With this in mind you tell the kids.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Sat 22 Feb 2025 02:18:05 No. 6201239 Report >>6201236 “Welcome to the Grand Arena’s Qingzhou branch, fellow cultivators. Are you here to participate?” You’re welcomed in by a young girl in a showy outfit, a pretty face and a nice body… you estimate it would take two Lians to hide her legs. She looks at Rong, then Ai, then Lian and stops at you.
<span class="mu-i">”I’ve been living under a rock for some time, care to explain to these old bones how your arena works?”</span>
“Not at all! I don’t know when was the last time you went out brother but this place is state of the art spatial arts, our guests are transported to smaller realms so they can go all out without worrying about collateral damage. And our observation platforms have some of the best quality around if you prefer to spectate or bet!”
<span class="mu-i">”Interesting, what about your formats?”</span>
“I’m sure you’ll find one to your liking!”
The formats listed are
>Standard tournament: 32 participants, 5 rounds maximum, you pay an entry fee of 1000 spirit stones and the payout increases the higher you go (1.500/4.000/6.000/10.000/32.000) >Gauntlet: The entry fee is 6000 spirit stones, and you get to fight stronger opponents, the payout doubles for every victory and if you win enough rounds you become the “defender” of the title. You’re paid once you win or are defeated. >Free for all: The entry fee is 800 spirit stones and you’ll be thrown in a random location inside the smaller realm, last man standing wins. The payout seems to be about 20.000 stones. You’ll be the one participating this time, Rong is too green and Lian is out of the question despite her body. You also want to show off a little in front of your students, so you will:
>Participate using the Cloud Herding Palm >Participate using the Dragon Emperor Fist >Participate using the Crimson Tulip Sword Anonymous
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>>6201239 >Standard tournament: 32 participants, 5 rounds maximum, you pay an entry fee of 1000 spirit stones and the payout increases the higher you go (1.500/4.000/6.000/10.000/32.000) >Participate using the Crimson Tulip Sword Anonymous
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>>6201239 >Standard tournament: 32 participants, 5 rounds maximum, you pay an entry fee of 1000 spirit stones and the payout increases the higher you go (1.500/4.000/6.000/10.000/32.000) >Participate using the Crimson Tulip Sword >Give Rong and Lian like 1000 spirit stones each to bet on the tournaments. It'll be a good lesson for them to learn to gauge different fighters properly. St. louis Jumpscare.
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>>6201239 Rong. Rong eyes up. RONG!
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>>6201239 >Standard tournament: 32 participants, 5 rounds maximum, you pay an entry fee of 1000 spirit stones and the payout increases the higher you go >Participate using the Crimson Tulip Sword >Give Rong and Lian like 500 spirit stones each to bet on the tournaments. It'll be a good lesson for them to learn to gauge different fighters properly. YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Sat 22 Feb 2025 06:45:52 No. 6201357 Report Quoted By:
<span class="mu-i">”When is the next tournament starting?”</span>
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Sat 22 Feb 2025 06:47:54 No. 6201359 Report Rolled 85, 92 = 177 (2d100) It is a circle surrounded by tall walls, the floor has simple large tiles and the ceiling is pretty high up for this kind of format, at least 30 meters tall. Apart from these details you don’t see anything else even after using the Eyes of the Unshackled to look for surprises.>Restrain your killing intent >Let it flow freely >avoid the cleave by making the smallest movement needed. >jump away from the cleave. >Rush him down with a series of thrusts >Attack from a distance with sword intent
Anonymous
Rolled 26, 16 = 42 (2d100) >>6201359 >Restrain your killing intent Nahhhh.
>jump away from the cleave. >Attack from a distance with sword intent He'll undoubtedly cause a big problem around where he hits if he's going for big windup alpha strikes like that.
>those dice AAIIIIEEEEEE the pain! Bested in a single turn!?
Is what I would have said if I weren't about to roll a hundo Anonymous
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>>6201360 AAAIIIIIEEEE THE PAIN! BESTED IN A SINGLE TURN!?
Somebody quick, roll gud YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Sat 22 Feb 2025 07:00:33 No. 6201362 Report This is not divine punishment for not picking one of the ancient unarmed arts, I swear.
Anonymous
Rolled 22, 33 = 55 (2d100) >>6201359 >Restrain your killing intent Support this
>>6201360 Good moves, bad dice.
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Rolled 16, 2 = 18 (2d100) >>6201359 >Let it flow freely >jump away from the cleave. Figured you'd do DC sets instead of rolling
Hopefully 2 out of 3?
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Rolled 53, 54 = 107 (2d100) >>6201359 >Restrain your killing intent >jump away from the cleave. >Attack from a distance with sword intent YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Sat 22 Feb 2025 07:13:38 No. 6201371 Report >>6201364 It's more fun when everyone gambles, me included.
Locking.
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>>6201371 I mean hopefully we're not losing here on the first round that would suck.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Ji16nfj4 Sat 22 Feb 2025 07:28:24 No. 6201376 Report You’re not feeling too confident on your sword yet, so you keep your killing intent suppressed and try to jump away from what you estimate will be the area of impact, the opponent’s armor glows and he accelerates, falling faster faster than you expected… Not good.>Continue to restrain your killing intent >Let it flow >Focus your Qi on the pommel of your sword, then run in and try to disarm him with a sword bash. He won’t be able to do much without the weapon. >Forget the axe, focus your Qi on the blade and just go for the gaps in the armor. He won’t be able to do anything if his charm is destroyed
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>>6201376 >Let it flow >Forget the axe, focus your Qi on the blade and just go for the gaps in the armor. He won’t be able to do anything if his charm is destroyed Anonymous
>>6201376 >Continue to restrain your killing intent >Forget the axe, focus your Qi on the blade and just go for the gaps in the armor. He won’t be able to do anything if his charm is destroyed Anonymous
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>>6201376 >Continue to restrain your killing intent >Forget the axe, focus your Qi on the blade and just go for the gaps in the armor. He won’t be able to do anything if his charm is destroyed Anonymous
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>>6201376 >Continue to restrain your killing intent We don't want to reveal our reincarnation yet.
>Forget the axe, focus your Qi on the blade and just go for the gaps in the armor. He won’t be able to do anything if his charm is destroyed When wielding a sword, precision is what matters most.
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You keep your killing intent in check, once it’s out you’ll have a few people out there know you’re alive. And now that you know what the trick is, all you have to do is “kill” him before he can pull it off again.
Anonymous
The man isn’t breaking stance or moving beyond keeping you in his sight, it looks like he wants you to take the initiative.>He’s definitely a Mystical Arts user so you’ll see what he’s made of with a ranged technique (Basic/Advanced) >He’s probably a polearm user and is inviting you in to have an easier time responding to your approach, gauge his effective range with a basic movement technique >Try to take him out before he can do anything with an advanced move (Slashing, Thrusting or Ranged)
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Sat 22 Feb 2025 19:13:45 No. 6201621 Report Quoted By:
I will also be around all day so I'll update closer to the old rhythm!
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Rolled 14 (1d100) >>6201617 >>He’s probably a polearm user and is inviting you in to have an easier time responding to your approach, gauge his effective range with a basic movement technique Footsies is a time honored fighting tradition. Also kicking floor tiles at people.
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Rolled 3 (1d100) >>6201617 >Step behind a pillar, movement technique to another and another, then surprise thrust from his front. Anonymous
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Rolled 36 (1d100) >>6201617 >He’s probably a polearm user and is inviting you in to have an easier time responding to your approach, gauge his effective range with a basic movement technique Anonymous
Rolled 36 (1d100) >>6201617 >He’s probably a polearm user and is inviting you in to have an easier time responding to your approach, gauge his effective range with a basic movement technique Our dice fucking suck
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>>6201617 And how will you use the pillars? (Write in)
Movement style that causes after images confusing your opponent where you are leaving qi ghost signatures to confuse qi sense while hiding your own qi signatures. Messes with those who haven't trained there mental and instinct.
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Rolled 43 (1d100) >>6201617 >He’s probably a polearm user and is inviting you in to have an easier time responding to your approach, gauge his effective range with a basic movement technique Anonymous
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Rolled 15 (1d20) >>6201643 We must fix it. Behold the ceremonial roll
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Sat 22 Feb 2025 20:05:41 No. 6201655 Report >he's so powerful the dice have to make him job >Use the pillars to approach his blind spot and attack with a basic technique (Slash? Thrust?) >Whittle him down from a distance with a ranged technique (Basic? Advanced?) >Move in and defeat him with an advanced technique (Slash? Thrust?)
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Rolled 19 (1d20) >>6201655 >Wanna change the quest focus to our lady and savior of rolls, mist jesus, Lian? A good teacher doesn't run away to his students. Unless it's soup sunday.
>Whittle him down from a distance with a ranged technique (Basic? Advanced?) Just keep it basic. If he's going to turtle the whole time he'll inevitably get worn down. And if he's forced to attack we'll have a chance to move in. Attrition is what this style of sword is good for anyway. Efficient.
>inb4 roll a 3 Anonymous
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Rolled 17 (1d20) >>6201655 >Move in and defeat him with an advanced technique. Slash, always Slash. Our dice fucking suck screw holding back. Anonymous
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Rolled 5 (1d20) >>6201655 >Whittle him down from a distance with a ranged technique (Basic? Advanced?) >Piercing attacks using Qi Showing our disiple the weakness of the spear. Unless truly mastered to parry anything the spears weakness is being counter speared. As slashing is easier to block with a spear. >Another weakness is staying in one place unless you have an ultimate defense. Attack = Defense.
Speed beats Attack.
Speed beats Defense Via running away.
Higher Speed beats someone of lower speed.
Therefore unless the attack is massive area of effect Speed will win.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Sat 22 Feb 2025 21:08:17 No. 6201682 Report I love you people and your rolls.>She looks like an unconventional sword user, probably using her large amount of Qi to control the blade without holding it herself. >The sword looks too unconventional to be used as an actual sword, it might just be a catalyst and she herself is a mystical arts practitioner. >”Sure!” Rush in before she has a chance to do anything with an advanced technique (Slash? Thrust?) (Dc is 50) >”Mine are soggy too, you know?” Use the movement technique and your Extreme Yin Qi to freeze the water, prolong the fight. (Dc is 40)
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Rolled 63 (1d100) >>6201682 >She looks like an unconventional sword user, probably using her large amount of Qi to control the blade without holding it herself. ”Mine are soggy too, you know?” Use the movement technique and your Extreme Yin Qi to freeze the water, prolong the fight. (Dc is 40)
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Rolled 77 (1d100) >>6201682 >>The sword looks too unconventional to be used as an actual sword, it might just be a catalyst and she herself is a mystical arts practitioner. With such high qi makes sense. Swords no doubt a spell focus.
>”Sure!” Rush in before she has a chance to do anything with an advanced technique.Thrust (Dc is 50) >Throw Qi into your feet to launch yourself at high speeds at her. Clad Weapon in Qi and extend your range throwing her off the distance. Anonymous
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I wonder if she'd be temporarily distracted if we just kicked sand at her. Getting her dirty would probably piss her off if her first instinct when starting a fight is "My shoes!". Like creasing a man's J's.
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Rolled 83 (1d100) >>6201686 >Support It would be a real waste to not use all thst qi.
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>>6201682 >For shits and giggles use Mythical Arts to fling quick hardening balls of clay at her. First 1d100 dice. >”Sure!” Rush in before she has a chance to do anything with an advanced technique.Thrust (Dc is 50) Second 1d100 >Throw Qi into your feet to launch yourself at high speeds at her. Clad Weapon in Qi and extend your range throwing her off the distance. Anonymous
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Rolled 47, 40 = 87 (2d100) >>6201705 YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Sat 22 Feb 2025 23:14:36 No. 6201777 Report You stand with your legs wide open and prepare your sword, the girl begins to circulate her Qi, and you can vaguely see the outline of a dragon behind her as your own Qi starts freezing the water around your legs.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Sat 22 Feb 2025 23:18:11 No. 6201779 Report …Well, about the arena! The arena this time is a perfect replica of… Huang’s imperial palace throne room, the floor is a massive slab of black marble, cut into east and west by a gorgeous red carpet about seven meters wide. The area is mostly open, but there are many scarlet curtains that were rumored to be dyed with the blood of virgins (it was fake, just very expensive tinctures extracted from rare materials), they were incredibly heavy and would be used as a medium for all sorts of arrays when you were trying to kill Huang Mengzhou.>A measly 32.000 spirit stones? Try getting me all the materials to reach immortality again and I’ll consider it. >If you want it, then you’ll have to take it… But you already knew that, you hag.
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>>6201777 >I promised my wife I wouldn’t be at the arena for a while… She finds out and I’m DEAD!” kek. This man possesses wisdom that exceeds even the heavens.
>>6201779 >>If you want it, then you’ll have to take it… But you already knew that, you hag. Fuck off lady. Just make another one if you're so damn good at making stuff. Man, we're gonna have to use the curtains to blow her up or something.
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Rolled 36, 63 = 99 (2d100) >>6201779 >Shama, so good to see you again but you'll have to take it from me again you hag. >Fire off a Mystic Arts frost wave >Dash through the frost wave and follow up with the Dragon Emperor Fist just to confirm it's Primordial Dragon Shama Grab the first attack!
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>>6201779 >>6201779 >Shama, so good to see you again. Alas, I have need of it to protect my disciples and for cultivation. >Unless you can give something of equal value I'll be losing out unfairly. 32k Spirit stone doesn't hold the value of the Sunspot you know that. >I can also give you some once I reach the stage to produce more. Anonymous
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>>6201779 >All the shit to immortality and maybe. YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Sun 23 Feb 2025 01:03:31 No. 6201865 Report >>6201828 This was part of the plan actually, I'll ignore your rolls here because I feel like you can roll even lower heh heh heh.
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<span class="mu-i">”Shama, so good to see you again but I’ll be losing out here, we both know the value of even a drop of this… I’ll be keeping it unless you can give me something of equal value.”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”What, you’re asking me for materials? What do you need all that for? I’m surprised you’re not at the Soul Dividing stage yet. Are you fooling around?”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”You already know, I need this to protect them for a bit.”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”Hmph… You and Jusuf are both the same, wasting your time on weaklings when I’m here… Fine, let’s play a game then”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”Mahjong? And gossip about others while drinking tea? It’s been a while after all.”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”Shut it brat, beat me and you can keep the Sunspot, lose and you give it back. I’ll fight at the same level as you.”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”That sounds even better.”</span>
The two of you look at each other, there’s no point holding your killing intent back against this one, and the same can be said of her. The air grows heavy and distorted as your “intents” collide. As the pressure builds up and both parties get into position you ask yourself “Do the kids know who this is? I wonder who they’re betting on right now.”
Your last opponent is the Primordial Dragon Empress, the other living master of the Dragon Emperor Fist. Because of her Grand Arena’s rules, she will fight at the early Core Formation stage, that won’t stop her from trying to crush you with bursts of speed and massive power behind every strike.
You will
>Keep using the tournament issued sword. >Pull the Sunspot out and turn it into a sword. >Fight her fist against fist, switch to one of the Divine unarmed styles for this battle, state which one you want to use (you can also choose to use the Sunspot as gloves/gauntlets if you would like to) If you use a sword, will you keep using just the Crimson Tulip techniques? Or will you add in the Burning Heaven style as well?
Roll a 1d100 (DC is a secret)
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Rolled 100 (1d100) >>6201865 >>Pull the Sunspot out and turn it into a sword. Anonymous
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Rolled 7 (1d100) >>6201865 >>Fight her fist against fist, switch to one of the Divine unarmed styles for this battle, state which one you want to use (you can also choose to use the Sunspot as gloves/gauntlets if you would like to) Fuck it we ball. Let's go band for band with her using the Dragin Fist. Of course, we shouldn't play fair. May as well set up spells and traps and arrays as we go. If she's smart she'll do the same, so we should keep an eye out for that.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Sun 23 Feb 2025 01:11:16 No. 6201876 Report >>6201869 You forgot the second part, will you keep using just the Crimson Tulip techniques? Or will you add in the Burning Heaven style as well?
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>>6201876 Crimson Tulip techniques.
Watch carefully Rong, this is what to strive for in this swordsmanship.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Sun 23 Feb 2025 02:52:31 No. 6201961 Report You pull the sunspot out and change it into the form of a sword, take a stance and Shama assumes the Dragon Emperor Fist stance. This time there is no voice, you both move at the same time.>Settle this in one move with the Forgiveness in Summer, the advanced cutting move (DC 70) >Focus on avoiding until she tires out with the Summit's Flower, the advanced movement technique (DC 50) >Fall back into the curtains and try to use them to set an array up (What kind of array?) (DC 50)
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>>6201961 >>Fall back into the curtains and try to use them to set an array up (What kind of array?) (DC 50) How about we set something up to encase everything from hip-height down in solid ice? All we have to do is jump to avoid it and we'll have that split second to attack while she is momentarily immobilized.
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Rolled 79 (1d100) >>6201961 >>6201965 Dropped muh dic
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Rolled 74 (1d100) >>6201967 Support
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Sun 23 Feb 2025 05:07:14 No. 6202055 Report Quoted By:
You fall back into the curtains and run your index finger over a few of them, a small amount of Qi is used to inscribe instructions on them… Connect, Yin, water, flood, connect, Yin, water, flood, connect, Yin, water, flood, connect, Yin, water, freeze. Once you have passed through three or four you activate them with a large amount of Qi, and climb an uninscribed curtain like a rope.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Sun 23 Feb 2025 05:09:36 No. 6202056 Report <span class="mu-g">”IT’S OVER!! YOU’RE DONE FOOORR!!”</span> Shama gathers all of her power into her legs, she crouches and launches herself forward to cover the distance.>What will you do about shama?
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>>6202056 Ah dumb lady. Boneheaded lady. Stubborn lady. We should probably at least give her a hug. And sit down for tea with her to talk and catch up. Maybe discuss with her some steps on how to be more personable so she doesn't drive people away so hard. She may be a hag but she's still a girl at heart, what an outrageous woman.
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>>6202056 >Sit down and talk with Shuma have a heart to hear tell her whats her name is alive(in a jade stone) and everyone but the budda lost there life. >I just woke up less then three years ago. I honest found out recently that anyone was still alive. And well I'm still weak since I want to become stronger step by step. >I'm glad you are alive Shama. Anonymous
>>6202056 >Tell Shama she's being a dumbass, only Ran died and honestly he probably had enough good Karma that he reincarnated into a buddha in another world even after getting his existence erased. >Meng Jixia's... mostly fine but she decided to be Jade for some reason we can probably get her a new body later shouldn't be too hard. >Jusuf's too much of a tough bastard to have died, if we're alive he's definitely fine. >And Wanderer of Myriad Illusions is around but yeah I have no idea that guy's always been weird. >Introduce her to the kids as Auntie Shama and ask them how much money they made gambling. Tell them we're having lunch with Auntie and she's paying. YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Sun 23 Feb 2025 06:10:03 No. 6202098 Report Oh we're almost on bump limit, what does one do then?
Anonymous
>>6202097 +1.
If we're having lunch with her then I wanna try to be constantly indirectly praising our little disciples with pride as we eat.
>>6202060 I wanna hug her but it feels a bit out of character,
Anonymous
>>6202098 The thread will probably last another couple weeks after bump limit. It's no biggie. Only really need to worry once it gets to page 10. But once a thread is nearing its end for whatever reason you can archive it on suptg.
>>6202099 >I wanna hug her but it feels a bit out of character, One of those awkward one armed shoulder hugs.
Anonymous
>>6202098 It means nothing, the thread already got auto saged days ago I'm fairly certain. After a certain amount of posts or 3 days, the thread will no longer go to the front of /qst after every post.
So usually when a new thread is made, it'll go to the top of the board after everypost but once it gets auto saged that won't happen anymore. This means that sooner or later the thread will keep falling lower and lower down the board until it can't fall any lower and get deleted.
With the abysmal speed that new threads are made this thread probably won't get deleted for weeks maybe even months. It might be a good idea to start a new thread once we reach like page 6-7 then link the new thread here. Personally, I enjoy threads that link the new threads to keep things neat and tidy.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Sun 23 Feb 2025 06:24:14 No. 6202104 Report Quoted By:
>>6202100 >>6202101 Thanks! I'll keep an eye on the page count then.
>>6202099 >I wanna hug her but it feels a bit out of character >One of those awkward one armed shoulder hugs. It's a former battle autist and an out of touch friendless hag, it will be awkward no matter what kind of hug it is.
She's protect shaped though, so if you want to hug her you will hug her.
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>>6202101 Dunno if anybody here knows how to archive threads though but so long as you link the old OP to the new OP it should be fine.
Old qst archives are stored here btw
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html Anonymous
>>6202106 It's pretty simple, you just click the "add thread" button on the interface to the left. It'll bring you to a little page where you fill in the page info and details. Just gotta remember to tag it correctly.
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>>6202106 >>6202107 Oh, in case it's unclear, "thread #" refers to the post# of the thread's OP. In our case it would be 6192166
Though asking the /qtg/ they can tell all of this stuff too.
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Can we get Shama to join our group?
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Sun 23 Feb 2025 18:59:05 No. 6202380 Report You manage to get the kids off of you after struggling a little, and pick up the sleeping Shama and place her in your lap, she has a lot of injuries but it’s not too severe, nothing some rest can’t fix. >Order food with a sensible price >Order expensive food >Order VERY expensive food
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>>6202380 >Order VERY expensive food Make Shama pay for it she's a high class artificer so she should have money. Also ask if they serve Yang Mantis.
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>>6202380 >>Order expensive food The kids deserve a treat. But not a waste of money.
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>>6202380 >Order expensive food Anonymous
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>>6202380 >Order expensive food Anonymous
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Sun 23 Feb 2025 22:55:44 No. 6202595 Report Quoted By:
The menu has no prices listed, as is the usual with high class restaurants. You order the autumn festival banquet since it has some dishes with rare ingredients listed. Two bottles of distilled two hundred year earth anise.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Sun 23 Feb 2025 22:57:53 No. 6202597 Report Quoted By:
<span class="mu-i">“These two are my pupils, Lian and Rong. I’m having her cultivate with the mist instead of Qi, and Rong’s innate constitution is very good, so I’m teaching him the sword.”</span>
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Sun 23 Feb 2025 22:58:59 No. 6202598 Report Shama drops the act and tries to stand up <span class="mu-g">”... I’ll go win some matches to pay for this, you can leave when you’re finished if you want.”</span>>Let Shama go earn the spirit stones and part ways for now >Pay for the banquet on the condition she teaches you the art of artifact crafting (Shama will join the group, but will be unable to fight because of her wounds)</span>
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>>6202598 >>Pay for the banquet on the condition she teaches you the art of artifact crafting (Shama will join the group, but will be unable to fight because of her wounds) It's a learning experience for everyone. We've got entire new lives to spend powerleveling with even more knowledge than we had last time. It's like taking one in a million talents and coating them in gold.
Lian is experiencing emotions she never thought possible. Anonymous
>>6202598 >Pay for the banquet on the condition she teaches you the art of artifact crafting (Shama will join the group, but will be unable to fight because of her wounds) Anonymous
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Also>tfw hua doesn't understand shama was flirting with him, not pretending to be childish
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>>6202598 >Pay for the banquet. You really need someone to stop you getting scammed.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Mon 24 Feb 2025 00:06:16 No. 6202647 Report >>6202644 We're also scamming her right now, it's not like the ordered all that food, or will eat it all herself. Anonymous
>>6202647 I realised, but it's okay when we do it.
After all, would we hurt a friend?
Don't answer that.
Anonymous
>>6202598 >Pay for the banquet on the condition she teaches you the art of artifact crafting (Shama will join the group, but will be unable to fight because of her wounds) >>6202658 >>6202644 >>6202633 >>6202601 Hey, why not use a Causality Denial to go fix Shama up? As an Artificer she's probably the most useful person we can use Causality Denial on since she can mass produce Artifacts and probably pills. Also with her help we can probably get Jinxia The Silver Sword Saint a new body and have an expert on dealing with the radioactive cow.
I was saving it up on the off chance that Lian would die during training but she's fine now.
>Pic unrelated Anonymous
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>>6202679 A written here
>>6192423 Introducing Causality Denial: Bai Hua exclusive, you start the game with 1 point, then get another upon breaking through to Golden Core, and a third at Immortal.
These points can be used to:
>Bring another character back from the dead or completely reforge their body to Hua’s liking >Guarantee the highest success possible in a single roll >Reroll your cultivation path >Reroll another character's cultivation path Be sure to use them wisely
So we can use a Causality Denial Point to at least bring her back to a Nascent Dragon or something.
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>>6202679 It's certainly an idea.
But then she'd start bullying us Anonymous
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>>6202681 We're the Crimson War God even at Core Formation where we're at we can bully her all the way up to Soul Dividing and she probably won't get her full Immortal Body back immediately. This'll likely just give her a boost back to the right path.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Mon 24 Feb 2025 01:21:22 No. 6202698 Report >>6202679 There's a small caveat, to reforge Shama's body we'll need to know how dragon bodies work.
>>6202681 You're altering reality for the sake of another person with that, you probably won't get bullied (too much), but the other person might get the wrong idea. Anonymous
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>>6202698 Ahh so we gotta hunt down some dragons then, that's good we can study their corpses and gain some materials.
Anonymous
>>6202698 Lurker here, this quest is like seeing a dragon soar the air and it's been a blast to catch up to!
Really bringing out the awesome wackyness of cultivator stories, keep it up young master!
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Mon 24 Feb 2025 05:29:23 No. 6202807 Report >>6202737 Thank you,
I was originally thinking of running a quest using the Cloud Herding Palm's backstory where you play as the Sword of Deceit from his very early days , but I read the other xianxia quests running and saw it would be a bit similar to some and decided to try and give a different experience... hopefully it feels different enough.
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<span class="mu-i">”I was thinking it would be good to become an artisan, why don’t you come with us and teach me the craft? That should pay for the Jingwei you ate.”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”All my knowledge for a measly seven thousand spirit stones after you said all that? Are you trying to con me too?”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”Of course I am, do you want to be scammed or not?”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”You’ve really changed, Bai Hua… the old you wouldn’t do something like this.”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”What do you mean? Remember Myriad Illusions? The alliance’s pope? It’s not my first time scamming someone.”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”You never scammed someone into a better deal, you fool.
Fine, I’ll gladly let myself be ‘conned’ this time.
But you’ll have to carry me around for a bit though, I really am too tired to move right now.”</span> The rest of the banquet is eaten in peace, save for Lian’s particularly cold disposition. There was too much food, so you had it be wrapped up and put into your enchanted holding bag.
<span class="mu-i">”So… Lian, Rong, how did your betting go?”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”I looked at the brackets and asked around a little so I was able to find out that there were regulars participating.
I used the first round to bet on one of the newcomers, then paid attention to other matches to get an idea of the rest of the groups.
In the second round I bet on participants that won the first round and were regulars.
The third round I bet on the regulars because they were stronger.
For the fourth round I was paid compensation because of Lady Shama’s entry.
Last round I bet everything on Teach”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”That’s pretty good, how many times did you win?”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”Including you then three out of five. I lost in the first and third rounds because I failed to account for artifacts correctly.”</span>
So he won twice.
<span class="mu-i">”And Lian?”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”I bet everything on Hua every round.”</span>
And of course, she won five times.
<span class="mu-i">”I’m happy you believe in me that much, but how many stones did each one of you make?”</span>
In the end Rong made 9.800 stones through strategic betting while Lian made 6.200 by going all in on you, you can tell she’s a little frustrated at the difference in results.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Mon 24 Feb 2025 05:30:25 No. 6202808 Report >>6202807 <span class="mu-r">”Teach, I told her what she could do but she just bet on you.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Why do that when Hua will win every fight?”</span> <span class="mu-g">”Why do that when Hua will win every fight?”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”... ”</span> <span class="mu-i">“...”</span>
It’s not that they’re wrong but…
<span class="mu-i">“What if I’m up against someone I can’t beat like Shama?”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”Your Crimson War God’s Dance?”</span> <span class="mu-i">“Well…”</span> <span class="mu-g">”Your Divine unarmed styles? The Halving Blade? Your other sword styles? Movement techniques? All the other fighting techniques? Your Manif-”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“Fine fine I get it! But that’s not the point… The idea was for her to learn how to gauge opponents as well as being able to make some money on the side.”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”It’s just gambling at the end of the day, don’t listen to either of them.” <span class="mu-b">”Okay.”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“Haah my authority as a teacher… Forget it, since your earnings were this good, let's go do the only thing better than making money, spending money. I’ll give you some advice on things to look out for while we shop, and we’ll see how to best use what you earned for your training materials.
Our senior sister Shama will also have some good advice for artifact materials and crafting tools, yes?”</span>
”Of course, I assume you will also buy me a few things, yes? As you can see I have nothing but the clothes I’m wearing.”
<span class="mu-i">“Definitely, so long as the budget allows it.”</span>
>To Lian’s Material Shopping >To Rong’s Material Shopping >To Hua and Shama’s Material Shopping</span> YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Mon 24 Feb 2025 05:31:38 No. 6202809 Report Quoted By:
Shamefur dispray I keep fucking my greens despite "proofreading"
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>>6202807 >To Rong’s Material Shopping Anonymous
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>>6202808 >To Rong’s Material Shopping Anonymous
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>>6202808 >to hua's material list Show em what they need for core formation
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>>6202808 >>To Hua and Shama’s Material Shopping Featuring some contraceptives from our resident dragon girl?
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Mon 24 Feb 2025 14:53:44 No. 6202940 Report >>6202923 You wouldn't dual cultivate with a dragon loli hag would you?
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Mon 24 Feb 2025 15:16:13 No. 6202952 Report Quoted By:
Doing a tie breaker roll at :30
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>>6202808 >To Hua and Shama’s Material Shopping Does Shama know alchemy too? I feel like Artificing and Alchemy is gonna have some overlap.
Also by now has our energies stabilized? A part of why we were taking it slow was because Hua said he needed like three years after the mantis incident to stabilize going from just starting Foundation Establishment almost immediately to Core Formation.
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>>6202940 >Loli hag this read pleonasmic
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Tue 25 Feb 2025 04:43:25 No. 6203352 Report Sorry I couldn't run today, my right wrist is falling off and I can't quite type or hold anything it. Hopefully back tomorrow!
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>>6203352 Take your time to heal in case it gets worse.
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>>6203352 Hope you get better and we can wait. Some quests get updated like once a day or not even that.
Question, how common are dragons and are we right to assume we can turn dragon corpses into food/medicine/weapons?
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Tue 25 Feb 2025 21:23:00 No. 6203694 Report Quoted By:
>>6203369 >Does Shama know alchemy too? No, she's more into the mechanical side
>Artificing and Alchemy There is an overlap of both the higher you go (i.e needing processed materials to craft something, or an artifact to process a material) but for the most part they will be treated separately.
>stabilized Mostly it should be safe to cultivate a little once Lian has some combat knowledge.
>how common are dragons Pretty rare (and strong), shape shifters like Shama are Primordial dragons and an anomaly. Yes you can procure materials from dead dragons.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Tue 25 Feb 2025 21:24:30 No. 6203698 Report Quoted By:
You pay the tab at the restaurant and ask a few questions before leaving. The waiter mentioned a couple places where you can find materials for alchemy, supplies for cultivation, and an artisan’s shop. He gave you a written recommendation for the latter, so you walk across the city to the place, since Shama is tired she’s being carried by you, and the rest of the group follows from behind.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Tue 25 Feb 2025 21:25:31 No. 6203700 Report <span class="mu-i">”Ah.”</span>>To Lian’s Material Shopping >To Rong’s Material Shopping
Anonymous
>>6203700 >>To Lian’s Material Shopping Love Hua's autism but the shop scene itself I'm not sure how I feel about.
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>>6203700 >>To Lian’s Material Shopping Anonymous
>>6203700 >>6203708 +1
However it's not out of line since first few updates. He's a rogue although a rogue whose didn't see affection much and is starting to understand it. Is my view on it.
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>>6203886 I just thought he was bro'ing out. Like how you say to your boys how one of them could absolutely fit that traffic cone up their ass.
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>>6203700 >To Lian’s Material Shopping Anonymous
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>>6203700 >>To Lian’s Material Shopping YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Thu 27 Feb 2025 23:30:01 No. 6204929 Report Holy shit the painkillers I got turn you into a living husk, I'm pushing this or I will die without being able to move things forward!>Lian will look for books on humans, roll a 1d20 (check is 15) >Lian will look for books on demons, roll a 1d20 (check is 15) >Lian will look for books on dragons, roll a 1d100 (check is 95)
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Rolled 15 (1d20) >>6204929 >>Lian will look for books on demons, roll a 1d20 (check is 15) Maybe mist creatures have been misreported as demons. I will now display this truth by rolling a 12
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Rolled 13 (1d20) >>6204929 >Book on demons Alternative cultivation paths?
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Rolled 17 (1d20) >>6204929 >Lian will look for books on demons, roll a 1d20 (check is 15) YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Fri 28 Feb 2025 02:25:48 No. 6205039 Report Heh, I could put a 99 DC in a Lian d6 and and you guys would still manage to roll a 101 somehow.
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Rolled 73 (1d101) >>6205039 Anonymous
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>>6205039 Yeah in exchange you'd give us a DC 30 and non of us would roll higher than 7
It balances itself out.
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Rolled 44 (1d100) >>6204929 Rollin
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Rolled 87 (1d100) >>6204929 YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Fri 28 Feb 2025 21:05:02 No. 6205384 Report Quoted By:
Out of the spirit stone mines for the weekend in a couple hours, will update with whatever has the most votes by then!
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Sat 01 Mar 2025 06:13:08 No. 6205599 Report <span class="mu-b">”Hm… Dragons.”</span>
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:dA+3sh5p Sat 01 Mar 2025 06:15:28 No. 6205602 Report >>6205599 The next stop is a tailor’s shop, this one is full of ladies, and the moment you explain you’re here to get clothes for your disciples, a swarm of aunties floods from the inside of the shop and both Rong and Lian are practically carried inside. You, Ai and Shama are invited in by the strongest of the ladies and tea is served for everyone.
Two ladies walk up to the table you’re having tea at, each holding a piece of paper and after some whispering to the strong lady, she turns to you and asks.
“I can get Mister a good deal, both in core formation materials for eight thousand spirit stones each. Or I could make something for them with foundation establishment materials for four thousand each.”
You have 26.300 stones, Lian 6.200 and Rong 9.800
>Core formation materials for a total of 16.000, you’ll cut into your own stones for Lian and hope Rong’s cultivation materials are cheap >Foundation establishment materials for a total of 8.000, the clothes might not survive the training or the upcoming legacy realm, but you’ll have more stones for Rong’s materials. You can try to haggle with a d20 and a write in.
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>>6205602 >Foundation establishment materials for a total of 8.000, the clothes might not survive the training or the upcoming legacy realm, but you’ll have more stones for Rong’s materials. Anonymous
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Rolled 4 (1d20) >>6205602 >Oh I would have loved to pay full price but as I was fresh off my winnings, I came across a woman crying and under heaven there is no more generous beggar than I, I stopped to ask what happened. . . Just continue with a story like this about how we had to buy medicines, food, clothes for widows, sick spouses, children, disabled children, ect ect.
Repeatedly and heavily use "from the forests of streets of Houzhu to the palace in Mizhan you will find no beggar as honest as I". To try and break them down with exasperation, entertainment or most unlikely of all, they believe us.
I think 5k for a core formation cloth is nice but I will accept 6.
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>>6205602 >Core formation materials for a total of 16.000, you’ll cut into your own stones for Lian and hope Rong’s cultivation materials are cheap >haggle Anonymous
>>6205626 You need a d20 and a write in for haggle
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Rolled 1 (1d20) >>6205626 >>6205627 Dear beauty as first time customers can we perhaps get a discount for my cute little disiples as a first time customer?
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>>6205657 Absolutely lacking any and all rizz
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Rolled 20 (1d20) >>6205602 >>Foundation establishment materials for a total of 8.000, the clothes might not survive the training or the upcoming legacy realm, but you’ll have more stones for Rong’s materials. I would like to haggle, but anon has rolled a 1. Dooming us all. Alas.
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Rolled 7 (1d20) >>6205602 Haggling and had how we bought the girl apprentice from slavery despite no potential because how heartbreaking her condition was
And how the one sit on our right can never become our official dao partner if we're too poor to pay for a proper wedding.
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>>6205976 Are you haggling for core formation or foundation establishment materials?
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>>6205977 >Core formation materials for a total of 16.000, you’ll cut into your own stones for Lian and hope Rong’s cultivation materials are cheap Anonymous
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:RNsZDYT/ Sun 02 Mar 2025 04:37:28 No. 6206253 Report Core formation materials will be for the best, if the craftsmanship is good then it should be enough to last them both until golden core. The price is rather high, sure, but you can understand why.>Try your luck at the local apothecaries (roll a d6) >Leave for Xingzhaoy, if you’re fast enough you’ll make it to the city before the gates close. (roll a d6)
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Rolled 6 (1d6) >>6206253 >>Try your luck at the local apothecaries (roll a d6) Behold, century old rabbit tendons. How does a rabbit even live that long?
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Rolled 3 (1d6) >>6206253 >Try your luck at the local apothecaries (roll a d6) Anonymous
Rolled 1 (1d6) >>6206253 >>Try your luck at the local apothecaries (roll a d6) Anonymous
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Rolled 4 (1d6) >>6206253 >Apothecaries Anonymous
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Rolled 11 (1d20) >>6206253 Ughh damn I missed the post last night.
>Check out the auction house and use our eyes to find hidden treasures. YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:RNsZDYT/ Mon 03 Mar 2025 04:49:02 No. 6206928 Report Last in your shopping list is what Ai listed for Rong, the Apothecary is still open for business and before entering you ask your disciples and Shama to stay outside, as Ai is still having a hard time talking when in front of the primordial dragon.>Pay 19.000 stones for the Flying Frog Mucus and Two-Headed Bear Brains. Better final Qi control and physical prowess at the cost of having to wait more between training sessions. (You’ll have to come up with something for him to do in between sessions or have this be free time.) >Pay 22.000 stones for the Flying Frog Mucus and Blue Lightning Clam Pearls. Better final Qi control and faster recovery after training at the cost of not being as physically strong as he could be once finished.
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>>6206928 >Pay 22.000 stones for the Flying Frog Mucus and Blue Lightning Clam Pearls. Better final Qi control and faster recovery after training at the cost of not being as physically strong as he could be once finished. Anonymous
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>>6206928 >19.000 stones Slower training but better training.
In-between sessions we can have em do history shit or plan for the future or chores.
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>>6206928 >>Pay 19.000 stones for the Flying Frog Mucus and Two-Headed Bear Brains. Better final Qi control and physical prowess at the cost of having to wait more between training sessions. (You’ll have to come up with something for him to do in between sessions or have this be free time.) Anonymous
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>>6206928 >Pay 19.000 stones for the Flying Frog Mucus and Two-Headed Bear Brains. Better final Qi control and physical prowess at the cost of having to wait more between training sessions. (You’ll have to come up with something for him to do in between sessions or have this be free time.) Hmmm we could buy him books on mystical light arts and have him learn the theory. As he rests which would strengthen his mystical art.
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<span class="mu-i">”Let’s go with the Flying Frog Mucus and the Two-Headed Bear Brain.”</span>>Fully focus on artifact crafting with Shama >Explore where you want to take your Mystical Arts >Improve your mastery and affinity with the Sunspot
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Rolled 92, 14 = 106 (2d100) >>6207427 >Fully focus on artifact crafting with Shama Anonymous
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Rolled 59, 1 = 60 (2d100) >>6207427 >>Fully focus on artifact crafting with Shama Anonymous
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Rolled 20, 93 = 113 (2d100) >>6207427 >>Fully focus on artifact crafting with Shama >>6207444 >>6207455 Poor Rong indeed kek
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>>6207427 >Fully focus on artifact crafting with Shama Anonymous
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Rolled 77, 91 = 168 (2d100) >>6207427 >Mastery with sunspot Anonymous
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YoungMasterQM !!Fkj5VmwjscB ID:RNsZDYT/ Wed 05 Mar 2025 04:55:23 No. 6208059 Report Quoted By:
Today is the first day of your path as an artisan, the sun is just starting to rise and you’re sitting next to Shama.
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YoungMasterQM !!Fkj5VmwjscB ID:RNsZDYT/ Wed 05 Mar 2025 04:56:46 No. 6208061 Report <span class="mu-g">”Quiet, I’ll teach you so seriously you will be begging for more every da- “>A mist array >A cultivation array >Maybe offensive/defensive mystical arts?
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:RNsZDYT/ Wed 05 Mar 2025 16:23:49 No. 6208085 Report Quoted By:
It looks like we're back!
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>>6208061 Yeah, 4chan shot the bed.
>Some kind of stealth/group stealth artifact? We have travel, mist avoidance, battle stuff.
Maybe defence or an improved travel mat?
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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:IM2Tlon5 Wed 05 Mar 2025 21:31:39 No. 6208244 Report >>6208061 >>6208061 >>6208061 A weapon for our treasured girl student.
Something that pull the mist over time, like a hammer with a censer-like head. She can use it to strike and liberate the deadly fog to handicap the opponent
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>>6208061 Alright simple enough idea for a write in.
>Building an immortal mansion that can shrink to a necklace or ring that we work on to add workshops, living space and defensive measures. Anonymous
>>6208123 I'll swap from this to
>>6208244 On the basis of a cool idea. And if she can store a lot of kist it makes for a good cultivation/clearing aid
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>>6208545 >Storing lost of kist Introducing new Forbidden technique, the Cyst Mist! Forcing a bundle of mist in a wound, this proliferate and rot quite fast, multiplicating the amount of mist.
Useful for when it won't be there anymore
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>>6208061 >Something to store mist YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:t9g0xV1A Sat 08 Mar 2025 01:17:14 No. 6209329 Report Quoted By:
My apologies fellow cultivators, I got recommended Tale of Immortal and got hooked.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:t9g0xV1A Sat 08 Mar 2025 01:19:59 No. 6209331 Report You write simple instructions in a talisman to gather, the opposite of your usual arrays for the purpose of showing her how you’ve been manipulating the mist.>Use the good old common stone >Use the Lightning Horned Ram’s horns >Use some Yang polarity copper that resisted even after being affected by the mist. >Use a combination of all 3 (roll a 3d20 instead of the d6s) >Jewelry like a bracelet or a necklace >A Censer >A bottle >Write in
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Rolled 6, 4, 6 = 16 (3d6) >>6209331 >Neckless I'm not sure I see a great value in the other forms.
>Use lightning ram horns. Anonymous
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Rolled 1, 1, 2 = 4 (3d6) >>6209331 I agree with
>>6209352 , a necklace makes a lot of sense.
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Rolled 2, 3, 6 = 11 (3d6) >>6209352 Necklace support
>Use lightning ram horns Anonymous
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Rolled 3, 3, 2 = 8 (3d6) >Ram Horns>Censer
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Rolled 3, 4, 2 = 9 (3d6) >>6209331 >Use some Yang polarity copper that resisted even after being affected by the mist. >necklace Anonymous
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:8NMag3r2 Thu 13 Mar 2025 16:07:26 No. 6212027 Report >>6211565 I'm still alive, just having some life issues getting on the way of things. I'll update over the course of the day.
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>>6212027 GL. Life takes time.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:8NMag3r2 Fri 14 Mar 2025 01:58:02 No. 6212346 Report You end up deciding on a necklace, cultivators and daoists are always full to the brim with trinkets and jewelry so it will be easy to pass it as a normal artifact. After a little consideration with Shama, you settle on making it with the Lighting Horned Ram’s horns.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:8NMag3r2 Fri 14 Mar 2025 01:59:17 No. 6212347 Report >>6212346 Shama takes your designs and adds a few more spells to each, you notice that they’re all placed near the failure points you had and connect to both main spells, she also makes some changes to how different pieces are connected.
<span class="mu-g">”These here react to the mist’s frequency and reduce the flow of Qi in the inscriptions for the pocket space if there is too much of the mist, this way your girl and everyone near her won’t blow up if the artifact is damaged either… We just won’t be able to absorb a lot of mist at once.”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”Oh so that’s what those do, I didn’t know they worked like that.”</span> You had seen such mechanisms used before but never thought much about how they worked.
Crafting process: <span class="mu-s">Rolled 6</span>
You take out the carving tools, set up the magnifying glasses and keep all the needles nearby. A piece of the horn is cut off and slowly transformed into the shape of a stem, hollowed out and then cut in half. You carefully work on the spells that will act as the switches on each half.
The carving is done with two of the smallest needles available and a small fraction of Qi, you blow and wipe the horn dust as you work and all your focus is on the artifact. The surrounding sounds are filtered out and you enter a trance-like state.
You recall an old song your teacher used to sing in a now long dead language, she really liked it, and it rubbed off on you and your senior over the years.
<span class="mu-i">”hmm... hmm hmm”</span>
Something you realized almost immediately was that the magnifying glasses were useless, as using the Eyes of the Unshackled lets you control how close you want to look. You move to the leaves when the stem is finished.
<span class="mu-i">”hmmmm humm...“</span>
Lastly comes the bud, you cut the petals separately and inscribe the mist absorption spell on each. All pieces fit together using shama’s changes to the design, and after some clicking here and there the whole thing comes together. All that’s left is activating the spells and…
The flower absorbs and compresses the mist before depositing it inside the pocket space, the safety switches make it work as if it were breathing the mist around it, and in a few minutes of stress testing the temple is almost completely cleared out of mist. The fake function you added was to simply attract Yin Qi, it should keep her fresh in hot places and will most likely pass off as such a trinket to the eye of your average person.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:8NMag3r2 Fri 14 Mar 2025 02:02:38 No. 6212349 Report >>6212347 When you come to your senses from the crafting trance, the sun has long since set, and there are four people sitting around you.
<span class="mu-i">“Oh… I didn’t check on you two today, sorry.”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”Wow Teach, I didn’t know you could also sing.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Shama helped.”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“I was singing? …What did I sing?”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”I don’t know… But you sound happy.”</span>
“W..hat language was that?” Ai is still struggling to speak with Shama nearby, but at least it’s only to the point she can actually make half a sentence.
<span class="mu-g">”It’s a branch of ancient demonic… I recall hearing it from the sages of the flame haze clan.”</span>
Leave it to a primordial dragon to know ancient history.
<span class="mu-g">“I can't live life
Without you by my side..”</span>
Of course she would also understand the language… leave it to a primordial dragon to know ancient history.
<span class="mu-g">”I’ll believe the will engraved in my heart
In the flames of battle I find it again and again
Even if the world is painted with emptiness
Residing in your memory, telling me what I got now
I notice the flame of certainty
My reason for existence is there…</span>
<span class="mu-i">“Huh… So that’s what it meant? I didn’t know at all.”</span> You knew.
<span class="mu-r">”It feels off somehow, but it sounds good when teach sings it.”</span>
“Prob bably… lost in translat ion”
<span class="mu-g">”Certainly, it uses rather romantic words in its native language too. I really didn’t take you to be the type to like these kinds of songs, Hua.”
<span class="mu-i">”It’s just something my teacher would sing a lot…”</span>
”And you made a tulip too, do you know the meaning of flowers?”
<span class="mu-i">”I might have been a young master, sure, but I never bothered with that drivel. I just made a tulip because I like tulips, is that wrong?”</span>
{Not at all, but if you would like to I can teach you the symbolism of flowers, you know?} Yes, she would also be a fluent speaker. As expected of a primordial dragon.
<span class="mu-i">”...What does that even mean? I hope you’re not insulting me too much with that tiny mouth of yours.”</span> You’ll pretend you didn’t understand what she just said, and instead give Lian the artifact.
<span class="mu-b">”Ah…”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”I made this for you Lian, it is not too refined, but I hope it can be of help in the future.”</span>
You try to explain to Lian how to use it and what it is supposed to do, but your words seem to enter one ear and come out through the other. She’s clearly lost in thought and not responding to anything… Well, you’ll explain things to her later.
<span class="mu-s">Crafting success!</span>
Even with Shama’s supervision and your own abilities there was a risk of failure, but everything went better than expected. Lian has obtained an artifact to absorb mist, she will be able to use it to empower herself twice or fully recover her energy once during battle, it will take a few months to refill if the mist is not present.
>To Rong’s training (Part 1) >To Lian’s training (Part 1)</span> YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:8NMag3r2 Fri 14 Mar 2025 02:05:10 No. 6212352 Report It's not a proper update without fucked formatting I guess. I've been a bit swamped with work lately and had two relatives hospitalized for different reasons in quick succession, so there wasn't much time for anything.
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>>6212352 >It's not a proper update without fucked formatting I guess >tfw >had two relatives hospitalized for different reasons in quick succession Damn, hope they're doing okay dude.
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>>6212349 >To Rong’s training (Part 1) >>6212352 The QM curse strikes again
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>>6212349 >To Rong’s training (Part 1) Solid update.
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>>6212352 >To Rong’s training (Part 1) Formatting is a bitch.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:8NMag3r2 Sat 15 Mar 2025 19:53:32 No. 6213092 Report Lian is still getting used to her body and the basics, so you dedicate most of your time to Rong’s training. Or would have if he didn’t wake up at noon almost every day, in a sense it works because you get more time to look after Lian and make sure she doesn’t get hurt.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:8NMag3r2 Sat 15 Mar 2025 19:54:54 No. 6213094 Report Quoted By:
>>6213092 “Well I have my own building, it’s far in the mountains and we have a lot of arrays set up to make a balanced environment… oh… Hua, it might be a bit rude to ask, but do you know if Lady Shama is Yin or Yang aligned?”
<span class="mu-i">“Yang… you don’t suppose that…”</span>
“It can only be that, I’m assuming both you and Shama being present during the process boosted the potency of all the ingredients and the final medicinal power of the results.”
<span class="mu-i">“Can you determine by how much?”</span>
“Not without testing, I’ll come up with a way to do it but it will take me a bit of time. Let’s stay away from the medicines for now.”
<span class="mu-i">“That works, Rong might not like the sound of it, but I don’t want to risk him getting hurt either.”</span>
Rong remains out cold for the rest of the afternoon, and at night everyone shares a meal in the cabin. You brought Lian and Shama along so he wouldn’t feel lonely, but it backfired.
It turned out he was so exhausted he could barely move, so eating by himself was not an option, and it somehow turned into a game of everyone feeding the young master. The two ladies were especially into it and kept teasing him the entire time, while you and Ai could only let out a bitter smile.
<span class="mu-r">”L-Like I said I’m fi- munch”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Young master, the rice will get cold if you keep talking”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”Yes yes, the little master has to eat his greens or he won’t grow up”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“My lord, the soup is just at the right warmth.”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”You too!?”</span>
“Sorry… Master Rong, but please drink some tea as well.”
<span class="mu-r">”Give me a break!”</span>
He complained and blushed and tried to fight the whole time, but it was clear he wasn’t upset, everyone had a good laugh and then Lian and Shama went back to the temple, Ai wanted to go for a walk and left the two of you alone.
<span class="mu-i">“Rong.”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”Teach.”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“We’ll train for a while without Ai’s medicines, they ended up being too strong.”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”Sorry, I didn’t know I wouldn’t be strong enough to handle them.”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“It’s not that, Shama and I messed with the process by being close, so I should be the one apologizing here if anything.”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”Really?”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“Yeah, I’ll join you from next session onwards and we can train together. I’ll guide you the whole time, does that sound good?”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”I… Thanks, Teach.”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“Don’t mention it.”</span>
The way back to the temple is short, but you don’t feel the need to rush over. The freezing winds of the tundra keep the sky clear of clouds, the firmament is visible through the mist and the moon shines brightly. You run into Ai, who is on the way back to the cabin to stay with Rong.
“How did it go?”
<span class="mu-i">“About what I expected, it will be fine.”</span>
“That’s good… I’ll do my best to figure those elixirs out”
<span class="mu-i">“You’re better off telling Rong that, rest well Ai.”</span>
“Thank you, you get some rest too.”
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:8NMag3r2 Sat 15 Mar 2025 19:57:09 No. 6213099 Report Quoted By:
The next month is spent following the regime, you skip the meditation and go straight for warmups and exercise, then Qi control practice, then end the day by doing some meditation in the hot springs. This works better and despite seeing little progress, progress is seen.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:8NMag3r2 Sat 15 Mar 2025 19:59:08 No. 6213101 Report Quoted By:
You’ve been in his position so you know the feeling, you’re very aware that words will have a hard time getting through, no matter how sincere they are… But you still have to say them, because back then that person chose silence.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:8NMag3r2 Sat 15 Mar 2025 20:00:45 No. 6213105 Report Rong’s disposition changed after your talk that certain night, he no longer tried to recklessly push himself far beyond his limits, and instead started training around them. His exercise was shorter because of this, but he quickly became strong enough to outlast Ai, who was still making progress, just not as fast as he did.>To Lian’s Training (Part 1)
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>>6213105 Nice.
And just as a point QM, can I ask the reason for asking a vote on proceeding to the only other option?
Is it to gauge if people are still there or give a natural break point to the end of the posts?
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:8NMag3r2 Sat 15 Mar 2025 21:35:06 No. 6213147 Report Quoted By:
>>6213144 The latter, like a dogshit rpg that forces you into a single choice.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:8NMag3r2 Sat 15 Mar 2025 21:36:12 No. 6213148 Report Quoted By:
Lian’s training, on the other hand, went well for the most part from the start.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:8NMag3r2 Sat 15 Mar 2025 21:38:22 No. 6213149 Report …Well, you will be going into a treasure realm soon, so why not.>Head to Qingzhou and have everyone tackle the Grand Arena, get more experience fighting other cultivators >Fight them yourself to check their abilities in real time (Choose between Hua’s POV or the pupils’ POV)
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>>6213149 >Head to Qingzhou and have everyone tackle the Grand Arena, get more experience fighting other cultivators. Arena time! We got to make money. Poor until treasure vault opens.
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>>6213149 >Do both If we can't do both,
>Head to the Arena MORE MONEY!
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>>6213149 >Head to Qingzhou and have everyone tackle the Grand Arena, get more experience fighting other cultivators YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:8NMag3r2 Mon 17 Mar 2025 03:06:08 No. 6213833 Report Arena time it is! it looks like I'll have to update tomorrow, sorry everyone.
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Your three disciples have made notable progress in the last four months, especially Rong, who seems to have hit his stride. Because of this you have given them all a little free time to relax.
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You have 7000 spirit stones, the formats available are:>Choose a format for Rong. >Choose a format for Lian. If the tournament is chosen, will you accept Lu’s favor?
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>>6214236 >Rong Tourniment >Lian free for all In this manner we spend 2800 with a good shot at 84k payout if all goes well.
>Comfortably bet 500 on Rong's second round. I can't think of anything to instruct them with. Have fun?
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>>6214268 Support bet 500 spirit stones each round on Rong and 2000 on lian.
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Are we allowed to inscribe all the girls in free for all and turn it in team against mob?
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:WfcUBfps Tue 18 Mar 2025 17:39:10 No. 6214544 Report Quoted By:
<span class="mu-i">“Ai, how about you join the free for all as well? Actually, can that be done to begin with?”</span>
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:WfcUBfps Tue 18 Mar 2025 17:40:11 No. 6214545 Report Lian is teleported to a jungle, she’s currently standing on the face of a mountain, hidden by large trees, in the distance is a large pyramid made of black stones, a large river can be seen to the west and ruins of what used to be a city to the east.>Join the fight with the cultivators (roll a 1d100) >Chase the lone cultivator (roll a 1d100) >Head towards the pyramid (roll a 1d100)
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Rolled 8 (1d100) >>6214545 >Head for the lone cultivator This is also for combat practice remember
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Rolled 58 (1d100) >>6214545 >>Chase the lone cultivator (roll a 1d100) Anonymous
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Rolled 37 (1d100) >>6214545 >Chase the lone cultivator (roll a 1d100) YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:WfcUBfps Thu 20 Mar 2025 04:13:26 No. 6215228 Report Quoted By:
Lian locks her sights on the lone cultivator, their gender and details too vague due to the distance and jumps off the tree. She kicks off the floor as soon as her feet make contact with ground and rushes towards her target at full speed.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:WfcUBfps Thu 20 Mar 2025 04:15:49 No. 6215231 Report Just looking at her brings back old memories, her steps make too much noise, her movements disrupt the environment too much, and her killing intent is barely concealed. By the time she reaches the location of the battle, it has been mostly settled, there are only two young men left in a standoff.>Attack the swordsman >Attack the spearman >Wait and see, then attack whoever wins >Just attack both of them at once (Roll a 2d100)
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Rolled 54, 89 = 143 (2d100) >>6215231 >Just attack both of them at once (Roll a 2d100) Anonymous
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>>6215231 >Wait and see, then attack whoever wins Anonymous
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Rolled 69, 54 = 123 (2d100) >>6215231 >Attack both Combat experience. Not just money
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Rolled 91, 36 = 127 (2d100) >>6215231 >>Just attack both of them at once (Roll a 2d100) YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:WfcUBfps Fri 21 Mar 2025 05:32:15 No. 6215786 Report Rolled 19 (1d20) >Time to see what my dear cultivators chose>Absolute madmen >Absolutely fortunate madmen >Roll a d20
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Rolled 17 (1d20) >>6215786 Anonymous
Rolled 18 (1d20) >>6215786 Anonymous
Rolled 20 (1d20) >>6215786 Nat1 time.
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>>6215788 >>6215813 >>6215960 Guys, I don't think Lian is born lucky.
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>>6216039 She makes her own luck.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:WfcUBfps Sat 22 Mar 2025 00:09:05 No. 6216108 Report >A nat fucking 20 You made me rewrite half the update!
>>6216039 You don't need luck when interdimensional gods are intent on turning you into an unstoppable machine by using their own fortune.
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>>6216108 >You made me rewrite half the update! YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:WfcUBfps Sat 22 Mar 2025 00:36:40 No. 6216125 Report Quoted By:
It has been nearly two hours since the match started and the total of cultivators eliminated is 87, a good portion of the remaining participants have a kill or two to their name, and are all converging on the pyramid. The weather in the jungle changes from sweltering hot to a cold and suffocating mist when the clouds get low enough to cover the trees.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:WfcUBfps Sat 22 Mar 2025 00:39:15 No. 6216127 Report Quoted By:
Shin sheathes his katana after defeating his seventeenth cultivator and begins walking towards Lian’s position. Omar knocks another steel rod to shoot the easiest target of the day, it doesn’t even attempt to hide, it doesn’t move erratically, it simply runs in a straight line towards its prey.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:WfcUBfps Sat 22 Mar 2025 00:41:51 No. 6216129 Report Rolled 4 (1d4) <span class="mu-b">”Atta!”</span>>Roll a 1d4 for Lian
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Rolled 1 (1d4) >>6216129 Ouchie. She needs a bandaid.
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Rolled 3 (1d4) >>6216145 https://youtu.be/7W_Ja7SQD60?si=tIW6TYwheKXEbIR2 Lien break the unbreakable row row fight the power.
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Rolled 4 (1d4) >>6216129 Come on Lian!
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:WfcUBfps Sun 23 Mar 2025 17:21:11 No. 6217033 Report Quoted By:
The remaining seven or so participants begin to move again after a few moments from Omar’s defeat, a few rush to the pyramid in the hopes they’ll catch the injured demon, while another group, Shin included, runs towards where Lian was.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:WfcUBfps Sun 23 Mar 2025 17:22:14 No. 6217034 Report “Okay, here goes… one two three!” The young man plays rock, and Lian plays paper… with the hand she’s having trouble moving.>Write in >Ask Miss Lu if Rong can join a core formation group instead >Just let him clean house in foundation establishment (skips to round 4)
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>>6217034 Use 7k spirit stones on whatever lian wants rest 10k for cultivation stuff and 3k is her pocket money
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>>6217034 Ask Rong if he wants to go for it or make some easy money. It's his choice on the matter.
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>>6217138 >Support >>6217034 She can have 3k as spending money.
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Rolled 13 (1d20) >>6217034 >Buy some materials for crafting something nice to Lian she got a kick ass necklace, let's build her some broken artifact.
My heart scream "Teapot" but here's the full table I made :
Lantern
Gourd
Teapot
Mirror
Cauldron
Necklace
Ring
Robe
Bell
Compass
Brush
Bead
Instrument(Flute, Cithare…)
Brush
Boots
Cloak
Hat
Mask
Incence burner
Hourglass
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>>6217174 Alright boys, here me out.
A Mist-filled Bagpipe of Chaos.
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>>6217034 >Use 5k spirit stones on whatever Lian wants rest 12k for cultivation stuff and 3k is her pocket money >Ask Miss Lu if Rong can join a core formation group instead YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:Fysvwhxh Tue 25 Mar 2025 16:07:27 No. 6217942 Report >wake up >isp rolled me into a banned range
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:i5LzaByz Thu 27 Mar 2025 00:17:11 No. 6218510 Report Quoted By:
Lian’s arm was already recovering by the time the staff got to her so they didn’t have to do much besides applying some ointment and bandaging, she slowly makes her way to your group under the gaze of the other spectators. Rong rests his arm on her left shoulder and gloats in an audible tone.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:i5LzaByz Thu 27 Mar 2025 00:22:19 No. 6218512 Report Oh yeah OP formatting lmao, this is hell, shameful display, aaahhh what a blunder aiiieeeee the humiliation.>Approach with the first move, Red Tulip (Wide coverage slash) >Focus in a single spot with the second move, Maculate Blade (The sword is covered in sword intent for a thrust) >Attack from a distance with the fifth move, Petals in the River.
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Rolled 1 (1d20) >>6218512 >>6218512 >Swxond move, Maculate blade. YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:AIjbIfzL Thu 27 Mar 2025 00:53:24 No. 6218525 Report [b:lit]Testing[/b:lit]?
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:AIjbIfzL Thu 27 Mar 2025 00:54:50 No. 6218526 Report It's fucked, but at least I can post from my PC now aiya.
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Rolled 8 (1d20) >>6218512 >>Focus in a single spot with the second move, Maculate Blade (The sword is covered in sword intent for a thrust) The way to beat power is penetration. No not that kind, Rong.
>>6218525 uh oh
>>6218526 Damn you, ISP!
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Rolled 19 (1d20) >>6218549 Support
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:AIjbIfzL Thu 27 Mar 2025 03:16:04 No. 6218613 Report The match starts with Rong running towards Jung-Hwa, he moves the sword close to his chest, puts his other hand on the pommel and channels Qi into the blade. As he runs, a tulip petal manifests in front of the weapon’s tip and is gently pierced, covering the sword’s edge with sharp sword intent.>Use the Maculate Blade again (1d10) >Start to move with Murmur of a Cool Stream and look for a chance to attack (1d20) >Opt for the first move, Red Tulip to limit her movements (1d20)
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Rolled 7 (1d20) >>6218613 >Start to move with Murmur of a Cool Stream and look for a chance to attack (1d20) Anonymous
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Rolled 4 (1d20) >>6218613 >Start to move. Damn, A neice?
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Rolled 4 (1d20) >>6218613 >>Start to move with Murmur of a Cool Stream and look for a chance to attack (1d20) Let me try to salvage the roll
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:AIjbIfzL Thu 27 Mar 2025 21:57:45 No. 6218974 Report Rolled 68 (1d100) I noticed I've forgotten to make you add the bonuses from traits to the rolls or announce I'm counting them in (blame the colossal failures and overwhelmingly high rolls we always get here)>Just my teacher, Bai Hua! >A successor of the blade! >The Crimson Tulip Sword herself! >It’s time to go for a decisive move, use the explosive power of the Burning Heaven Sword! (Thrust/Slash/Ranged) and Roll a d100+3 >Bet on stamina, keep using the movement technique and try to tire her out, roll a d100
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Rolled 65 + 3 (1d100 + 3) >>6218974 >Defeat me for the answer. >It’s time to go for a decisive move, use the explosive power of the Burning Heaven Sword! (Thrust/Slash/Ranged) and Roll a d100+3 Anonymous
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Rolled 22 + 3 (1d100 + 3) >>6218974 >Just my teacher, Bai Hua! >It’s time to go for a decisive move, use the explosive power of the Burning Heaven Sword! Thrust and Roll a d100+3 Anonymous
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Rolled 65 (1d100) >>6219012 >Support Though maybe "you answer if you lose" may work better.
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Rolled 38 + 3 (1d100 + 3) >>6218974 >Defeat me for the answer. >It’s time to go for a decisive move, use the explosive power of the Burning Heaven Sword! (Ranged) and Roll a d100+3 YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:AIjbIfzL Sat 29 Mar 2025 06:02:56 No. 6219659 Report Rong uses his superior speed to move behind Jung-Hwa, he doesn’t attack and simply sneers an answer to her question.>Don’t even bother to call out her shameless lies and defeat her >Let her tie the noose around her neck and try to get more information (write in what you want Rong to ask her) >My teacher and I will go save you, just tell me where you are at!
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>>6219659 >Let her tie the noose around her neck and try to get more information Oh? And what does this "Bai Hua" look like? After I beat you let's discuss in more detail. Bonk.
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>>6219659 >>Don’t even bother to call out her shameless lies and defeat her Well it seems like your master has a plan. I'm sure he'll be back soon enough. Indeed he is probably on his way right now with the most jade-est of maidens. Or something. Sure. Far be it from us to interfere with his whatever.
Girl needs to learn proper communicating skills. Just ask for help next time. Ah these haughty cultivators. Anonymous
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>>6219659 >>Don’t even bother to call out her shameless lies and defeat her Anonymous
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>>6219659 >Don't call her out >See you soon Anonymous
>>6219659 >Let her tie the noose around her neck and try to get more information Oh? And what does this "Bai Hua" look like?
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>>6220269 Does he look like a bitch?
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:AIjbIfzL Mon 31 Mar 2025 00:36:29 No. 6220801 Report Quoted By:
“Oh? And what does this ‘Bai Hua’ look like?”
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:AIjbIfzL Mon 31 Mar 2025 00:37:31 No. 6220803 Report It comes down to Jianan and Zhen, the former is suffering from a cold spell because of a Pure Yin Witch who was betrayed, and the land was cursed as she died. The latter is this very arena, and seeing as it is so close to the pole it would make sense to dress as such, even more so if the quality of your clothes is low.>There stones to be spent, if you’re fated to meet you will meet again. >>Go to the apothecary and see if you can get the last material you missed for Rong last time. >>Go to the Artisan’s Shop you were recommended last time, you’re itching to make more artifacts >Look for the girl with someone helping you, assuming she’s here and not in Jianan. (Choose one person to bring along and roll a d6)
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Rolled 5 (1d6) >>6220803 >Look for the girl with someone helping you, assuming she’s here and not in Jianan. (Choose one person to bring along and roll a d6) >Rong because it's fitting Anonymous
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Rolled 2 (1d6) >>6220803 >Look for the girl with someone helping you, assuming she’s here and not in Jianan. (Choose one person to bring along and roll a d6) Anonymous
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Rolled 3 (1d6) >>6220924 >Support Anonymous
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Rolled 5 (1d6) >>6220924 This
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:AIjbIfzL Mon 31 Mar 2025 23:01:32 No. 6221197 Report Quoted By:
You call the kids over and share your idea of looking for the demon girl Rong fought against, Lian is on board, Ai doesn’t seem to mind and Shama seems more interested in your actions than the person in question. You don’t really need to get their approval, but it’s good for them to know what you’re up to.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:AIjbIfzL Mon 31 Mar 2025 23:03:55 No. 6221199 Report You guide Jung-Hwa back to your group, Rong was approaching from the other direction as well, but chooses to keep a sensible distance from everyone once he sees you walking together to avoid alerting her.>Introduce yourself with a fake name (write in) >Just say you're Bai Hua >How many users of that sword style are out there? >When and where did you meet this teacher you were talking about? >Can you speak ancient demonic? >Write in
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>>6221199 >Just say you're Bai Hua >Tell me as one of the four known users of that sword style. One my master, me my brother and Rong here. Who taught you that style? Anonymous
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>>6221212 >Support No point being Coy
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:+j5BakXA Thu 03 Apr 2025 06:02:25 No. 6222123 Report Quoted By:
Thanks gookmoot., nice fucking april fools joke.
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:+j5BakXA Thu 03 Apr 2025 06:06:19 No. 6222129 Report The food looks cheap, but a single try and it is obvious that the greasy feeling you find on street stalls is being carefully replicated. Lian takes on the task of sharing her food with Jung-Hwa, who was reluctant at first but eventually gave in to the pressure.>The Divine Star Fist’s soft techniques to modify the Qi Flow (You will work with Lian) >Use of artifacts and arrays to create a “seclusion chamber” (You will work with Shama) >Dual cultivation with a Yin polarity cultivator to nurture Yang with Yin, complemented with a variety of elixirs and medicines (You will work with Ai) >A combination of the Sword of Hithering Light and Eight Hundred Metal Swords Traverse the Great River sword styles. (You will work with Rong)
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>>6222129 Question so she's our Master of a mirror world to this world? Does this mean our Master swapped places with her in the other world?
We could consider this the "Yin World" and the other the "Yang world"
>I'd want to grill her on her other "Yang world" for it's history and did they pratice mainly Demonic. (Was she our master or was she our disiple in that world. Wasn't clear on that.) And the year to figure out if generally follows the same timeline/year. Not that I don't believe her it's to consider if Bai Hua Master is "alive/reincarnated" in the other realm. >Then ask her method of cultivaion as it's a waste to use the ammount of money to stablize a realm/pureify her demonic energy. Listing out various other options that would get the same results. It's Sixteen thousand for the Clam Pearls so 10k for if we want to help her.
>Dual cultivation with a Yin polarity cultivator to nurture Yang with Yin, complemented with a variety of elixirs and medicines (You will work with Ai) I figure this isn't a bad option As Ai gets stronger and Wu Hwa gets sablization. I'd also throw her in as a training partner for Rong as having someone spar on the same level would be good.
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>>6222146 I think she is meant to be us from the other world.
But so be it.
>Support I generally feel like making the offer to fix her method of cultivation.
And duel.cultivation ought to happen, so that we can return some more of our strength
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>>6222129 >>The Divine Star Fist’s soft techniques to modify the Qi Flow (You will work with Lian) YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH
YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:+j5BakXA Mon 07 Apr 2025 15:12:36 No. 6224851 Report Let's call it for this thread, it's been archived already.>What did you like so far? >What did you dislike? >What can I improve? >Who is Best Girl? >What do you want to see in the future? >Do choices meaningful so far? >Curious about any "what if" from a different choice?
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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:7LCbjNow Mon 07 Apr 2025 15:26:01 No. 6224854 Report >>6224851 >What did you like so far? Tone, setting, update pace
>What did you dislike? >What can I improve? I'd love more visuals of characters
>Do choices meaningful so far? The meaningfulest was casualty rewrite, then steel land creation. Else, it's strange because I feel at the same time we're quite free but there seem to be little "pressure" behind the choices
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YoungMasterQM !!cWxOCLWoKjH ID:+j5BakXA Mon 07 Apr 2025 23:11:54 No. 6225057 Report >>6224854 >there seem to be little "pressure" behind the choices It's a combination of factors, the century/decade events working in your favor (Golden realm is a neutral event, Alien Mist is a negative but it has a workaround and has put the cultivation world in a lull). The good rolls on cultivation so far, path choice, as well as the choice to raise two disciples at once and not making a few choices that would lead you to be in the world's "shitlist".
It could be said you're having a comfy "slow life" so far.
If we rated the paths by difficulty then
>Normal: Extreme Yin/Extreme Yang, Golden Buddha >Hard: Spectral Master >Very Hard: Mistweaver/Star Emperor For reference, if either of the otherwordly paths were chosen you'd probably be having a hard time tryting to get just 1 disciple at this point in time, and Lian is lucky because at the very least she'll have you as an ally, provided you don't fuck up along the way.
With this headstart from good rolls and choices you have the freedom to choose between keeping the quest comfy or willingly go look for trouble.
I'll try to have some self made doodles by next thread provided I can find my tablet's pen. Anonymous
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>>6225057 Can consider the most a blessing in disguise to ramp up and hit treasure planes since no one can travel through the mist really.
Keep it comfy until golden core is my opinion.
