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Hero Sky is here!

>>43142112
Apologies for missing yesterday.
The Common Cold is an evil thing.

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>>43142140
Hey no worries would rather ya be healthy than try to run when your sick. Also pic related.

It's time for electric mountain hobo!

>>43142178
Lightning Mountain Hobo Style.

Legend of the Lightning Condor Hobo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p467ro3IXg

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You KNEW playing bodyguard to Yuan Qiyue was a bad idea. Everything that happened involving her father was trouble for you too, it just goes to follows right?
This crazy guy dressed up like a demon is maybe a bit unexpected though. I mean, seriously; how could you have possibly predicted THIS weirdo would show up out of nowhere?

And of course he knows you. Somehow.
You sometimes wonder at the irony of everyone in the jianghu knowing more about yourself then you do.

In between being choked by white snake skin whips held by crazy loonies in golden demon masks of course.
Because that's really, really distracting, honestly.

"fENg TiAnkOng! DeATh cOMes For YOU!" the scratchy and warped voice howls as you fall towards the city, air being torn from your throat as hos bone-white hair flies behind his head, his left hand pulled back into glowing cobalt talons that his bones somehow show through and his right wrapped around the handle of the whip around your throat.

"aNy LaST wORDS?!"

>WDYD?

>[Twist free of his grip and try to kick away!]

>[Start hitting him until he lets go!]

>[Call for backup!]

>>43142355
>>[Start hitting him until he lets go!]

>>43142355
>[Twist free of his grip and try to kick away!]
>[Call for backup!]
Lightning his ass.

>>43142355
>>[Twist free of his grip and try to kick away!]

>>43142355
>>[Twist free of his grip and try to kick away!]

>>43142391
also
>[Call for backup!]
MIGHTY KAMUSHIN!

>>43142355
>>[Twist free of his grip and try to kick away!]

>>43142355
>>[Start hitting him until he lets go!]

>>43142355
>>[Twist free of his grip and try to kick away!]
Not sure if undead(?) can feel being punched so...

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You try to pull him off you but he's got fingers like a vice and he refuses to loosen his grip as you fall! His shiny silver mask glints in the moonlight, hiding his eyes and features.

You try to twist free instead as you fall, getting just enough leverage to get some air, though still not enough to circulate your qi. This guy knew what he was doing when he started the fight; by choking off your air supply you can't use any of your breathing techniques.
He's not out for a fight or vengeance like Qiu Qiang is, just to kill you.

"GGhhhKKK!" you gargle as you get a small amount of air!

"PoOr cHoiCe of LaSt WordS!" he taunts coldly.

"I....said.....KAMUSHIIIIIIN!" you shout as loudly as you can, putting as much internal energy as you can manage into it, your voice echoing across the city and empty night air.

"SKREEEEEE!" comes the answering cry, and vast white shape swoops from the clouds towards the both of you as you fall.

>INTERLUDE 1

Golden Eagle Tower watched in alarm as Sky and the assassin fell, mustering guards.
Han Ren's eyes widened as the echo of his voice reached them and the Great White Condor swooped after the plummeting figures.

"Lady Yuan...," he said with a slow smile. "Is there anything about your bodyguard you'd like to tell us now?"

>INTERLUDE 2

The xia laughed heartily with a woman in each arm as he sipped the wine, which was just as good as the resturaunt owner claimed it would be, high class stuff.

He looked out the balcony at the echo, frowning and blinking his eyes.

"Huh. Now THERE'S somehow you don't see every day.....," he admitted, his eyes growing sharper as he took another sip.

Dinner with a show; nothing beats it.

>INTERLUDE 2

She woke up when she heard his voice, rushing to the balcony to see his plummeting form and the mighty winged shape.

"Lord Sky?" she breathed in shock.

>INTERLUDE END

You see Kamushin's mighty wings fly past you both as you fall, swooping below and catching you both on his back!

>>43142669
Good ol Kamushin.

>WDYD?

>[His grip is loose, kick him off!]

>[Control the grapple, try to put him in a lock yourself!]

>[Form One and try to shock him off you!]

>>43142743
>>[His grip is loose, kick him off!]

>>43142743
>[His grip is loose, kick him off!]

>>43142743
>>[His grip is loose, kick him off!]

>>43142743
>>[His grip is loose, kick him off!]
Do we even know any grappling? I know last season we didn't...

>>43142743
>>[His grip is loose, kick him off!]
Oh god dragon lady is here!

>>43142800
MISUNDERSTANDINGS will happen.

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>>43142800
good

>>43142800
Wait, which one is the dragon lady?

There are so many women, I am having trouble remembering them all.

>>43142743
>>[Control the grapple, try to put him in a lock yourself!]
We've got some questions, pal!

>>43142838
Ao Shin? I wanna say but I'd need to double check the spelling. The one who got Sky confused for a lord when he didn't back down to one of her guards.

>>43142743
>[His grip is loose, kick him off!]

>>43142838
But isn't that a GOOD trouble to have?

>>43142880
No, it's not.
Trust me.

>>43142880
When each one of them is a small army unto themselves, they al want you to themselves and are willing to kill for it? NOPE.

>>43142880
It's kind of a problem if you can't tell them apart. Then you may as well just go for casual relationships to avoid. >>43142914

Piece of shit phone just deleted a 2000 word post.

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>>43143063
Fuck your phone, man.

>>43143063
Son of a bitch. Damn phones.

>>43143063
>phone
shiggy diggy

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"Get! OFF!" you grunt as you pull back a powerful right kick and knock him off you onto his back, which he swiftly kip-ups to his feet in response just as you do the same, both of you balancing on the condor's back.

His white and silver mask with black lacquer on it glints in the cold moonlight, hiding his features except his lower jaw and eyes, both of which are in shadows.

His qi is way fucked up.
Earlier he hid his presence so well it was like he never even existed, hiding it even better then you can using that Tang Clan skill Zhu'er taught you where you blend in with the backround, but then when he stopped concealing himself his killing intent was so overwhelming that it almost became a physical pain when you detected it the first time.
His internal energy is screwed up; his breathing is ragged and strange like no other internal skill you've seen but he's still still freakishly strong, moving like he's heavy as lead and lighter then air at the same time.

He howls and leaps forward, his sickly-glowing skeletal claws leaving cobalt contrails at the fingers in the night air, and you parry a left strike at your side with your right wrist and pull back your head to dodge the left!
You instantly move to counter, stepping towards him and throwing a right kick at his knee which he promptly parries by raising his foot and knocking it aside as you swing a right whip-fist at his skull which he has to party with his right forearm!

It's all a distraction, and you step in farther and launch a heavy right low hook at his exposed left with all of your upper body weight and momentuum, landing a blow like iron lightning into his liver before pulling back a left palm strike and slamming it into his ribcage hard enough to feel something give in his torso!

You grin as he falls back, staggering.
That time down south REALLY helped you with your in-fighting; since you learned that Yue boxing stuff you can use your elbows and knees just as well as your fists and feet!

>WDYD?

>[Don't let up and keep laying down physical punishment onto him! He's having a harder time keeping his balance up here then you!]

>[He's winded, now completely distrupt his stance with Form One!]

>[Kick is weird ass right off Kamushin's back now that he's shaky!]

>>43143385
>>[Kick is weird ass right off Kamushin's back now that he's shaky!]

>>43143385
>>[Kick is weird ass right off Kamushin's back now that he's shaky!]

>>43143385
>>[Don't let up and keep laying down physical punishment onto him! He's having a harder time keeping his balance up here then you!]

Let's try to capture this faggot alive. Barely, but alive.

>>43143385
>>[Kick is weird ass right off Kamushin's back now that he's shaky!]

>>43143385
>>[He's winded, now completely distrupt his stance with Form One!]

nice to see you back.

>>43143385
>>[He's winded, now completely distrupt his stance with Form One!]

>>43143385
>[Kick is weird ass right off Kamushin's back now that he's shaky!]

>>43143385
What we really need to do is take that whip from him so he can't just lolnope us and grab us with it as he falls. Or break his arms.

>[Don't let up and keep laying down physical punishment onto him! He's having a harder time keeping his balance up here then you!]

>>43143385

>>43143385
>[Don't let up and keep laying down physical punishment onto him! He's having a harder time keeping his balance up here then you!]

>>43143385
>>[Don't let up and keep laying down physical punishment onto him! He's having a harder time keeping his balance up here then you!]

>>43143385
>>[Don't let up and keep laying down physical punishment onto him! He's having a harder time keeping his balance up here then you!]

You pull closer, throwing a brutal right hook which he blocks with one arm, before landing another in his kidneys to the right, pulling back slightly to hook his head with your left elbow behind his neck and dragging him down to hammer your left knee into his guts!

Yue-boxing is different from Han-style stuff; it's got less internal energy mastery, but compensates with huge amounts of brute force and power, using speed and violence and body-conditioning to supplant the rather basic internal arts they have down there!

Sky's been learning the principles and techniques of Thai-style martial methods and incorporating them into his learned maneuvers.

You pull back and land a swift left jab on his face that feels like it shakes something loose, then toss a right cross that land straight on his silver and white porcelain mask and shatters it, knocking him to his back!

"Chew on THAT, asshole!" you comment as fragments go scattering into the night!

He staggers before rising back up.
His broken nose fountains blood and there's red stains on his teeth bared into a feral grin, and he'd actually be not bad-looking if it weren't for the psychotic grimace on his features and his eyes, which have the whites and blacks somehow inverted in color....

What in all the hells did this guy DO to himself?

He lunges forward again, and you raise an arm up to block, but the glowing skeletal talons lock into your arm and pierce the flesh like rice paper, eliciting a grunt of agony!

"iS THAT wHat yoU conSIDer PaiN, LighTning TIGer?!" he laughs, blood flicking from his mouth (are his organs bleeding? Why doesn't he notice?) as he expels air like a dying man's breath.

"I'lL SHOW yOu whaT ReaL paIN feeLs LIKE!" he howls, and his talons dig deeper into your arm, causing incredible icy agony, and he slashes in another strike the rakes across your face and your left eye, and you feel white-hot pain lance across your eyelid!

"AAAAGH!" you shout in surprise and pain.

>WDYD?

>[Get AWAY from him, those claws are NASTY!]

>[Tough it out and keep hammering him until one of you drops!]

>[Form One and hit him with as much power as you can muster!]

>>43143846
>>[Form One and hit him with as much power as you can muster!]

>>43143846
>[Form One and hit him with as much power as you can muster!]

>>43143846
>>[Form One and hit him with as much power as you can muster!]

>>43143846
>>[Form One and hit him with as much power as you can muster!]

>>43143846
>[Form One and hit him with as much power as you can muster!]

>>43143846
>>[Form One and hit him with as much power as you can muster!]

>>43143846
>[Form One and hit him with as much power as you can muster!]

>>43143846
>>[Get AWAY from him, those claws are NASTY!]
Am I the only one who thinks this guys just not going to go down? Like at all? He has ruptured organs and is just ignoring them, after Sage told us they seriously screwed people up for the rest of a book.

>>43144024
But anon, badass scars.

Also, we're standing on the back of a giant flying bird, where the hell are we going to retreat to?

>>43143846
>>[Form One and hit him with as much power as you can muster!]

>>43143846
>[Form One and hit him with as much power as you can muster!]

Can we snark about his dating prospects before we taser his ass?

"Listen, dude, if you only cleaned yourself up a bit and stopped going on psychotic revenge sprees for reasons unknown to the people you're having revenge on, I'm pretty sure you'd be able to get a prospective wife in no time flat."

>>43144042
Good point. Get THE MIGHTY KAMUSHIN to do a barrel roll and catch you in his talons maybe?

>>43144084
>>43144084
OH, and then we can hit him while he monologues!

Apologies, I must pause while getting into a wordy argument with a friend.

>>43142099
Holy shit this lore is deeper than One Piece

>>43144544
That's not hard.
Long running manga authors make up lots of lore as they go along because the objective is to keep the manga going as long as possible so they can get the sweet, sweet IP rights to all secondary products sold.
Hell, the Bleach guy openly admitted to making the shit up as he goes, he's just good at tying it together. Retroactively tying unused concepts together is not particularly hard, after all.

Mine took a bit more planning, but also borrowed from a number of existing Wuxia fiction sources.
WHQ was sort of created originally as an "introduction" to Wuxia fiction presented in a format easier for folks to grasp.

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>>43144544
I know it's great.

Trying to hurry home.
Sorry about the delays.

>>43144791
After waiting so long for your return I don't think we might waiting a little longer.

I'm still kinda miss not fighting against the Begger's Fraternity guy. I kinda wanna see how our hobo style compares with his, and how his hobo-fu works.

>>43144858
Hahaha your technique is good hero sky! Now feel my flurry of unwashed foot strikes!
Ugh! Formidable. Taste my spork strike!

Genshu best guy

>>43144858
Barefoot Doctor Shi Hualong will show up eventually.
And aboveboard he could beat Sky's ass into the ground. He's the second most powerful of the Top Ten Young Heroes after Genshu.
Dat Beggar Sect be scary.

>>43144934
To be fair they have one or two years of advantage don't they?

>>43144934
How well would we stack up against them with dragon qi enlightenment going? Equalish (while it lasted), or would we still get rolled?

>>43143807
So...this guy uses whips and claws, has messed up internal energy, is seemingly immune to pain, and can cause incredible agony with even glancing blows. Are we dealing with Nine Yin Manual?

>>43144934
Beggar's Sect were always my favorite, so that makes me happy. If we're going to be severely outclassed by any of our peers, I'd want it to be Shi Hualong.

So should we spec further into sword or saber? Or should we get another weapon style going?

>>43145052
Rather, let's expand our qi abilities

>>43145052
I'm holding out for another yanmaodao so we can use both. There has to be at least one legendary yanmaodao some damn place.
>>43145087
That's one of those things that increases slowly overtime isn't it?

>>43144983
Five years, actually.
>>43145012
Depends.
Dragon Chi Enlightenment boosts Sky's internal energy reserves and his upper limit of internal energy expenditure on attacks.

It doesn't actually improve his techniques, strategies, or martial knowledge at all; Sky becomes a STRONGER fighter while using it, but not necessarily a BETTER fighter.
>>43145026
Yes, exactly. Was wondering if someone would notice the description of Nine Yin White Bone Claw.
>>43145043
Shi Hualong is VERY much inspired by a younger Hong Qigong.

>>43145106
>That's one of those things that increases slowly overtime isn't it?
Yes and no.

The overall qi capacity increases with age, sure, but there should be techniques that Sky is ignorant of, but that he should be able to perform.

>>43145145
Ah. I still think we should get a good weapon so we can better use what we already have, but learning more techniques is always good. Where would we get more though? Those are (mostly) jealously guarded secrets right?

>>43145186
Very good weapons, able to withstand our qi powers, are even more jealously guarded secrets.

They're the kind of stuff entire wuxia stories are about.

>>43145216
Case in point, the only one we know about is Black Dragon Slayer. And that one is...problematic.

>>43145216
>Heaven Sword/Dragon Saber

>>43145235
Power has a price, always.
Sometimes the price is less then obvious.

Also, I am back and will begin posting.

>>43145244
Are there any famous yanmaodao? I am not admittedly the most familiar with this genre though I do like it.
>>43145216
They can't be secrets and legendary at the same time. More heavily guarded though, yeah I agree. If only because whoever has their hand on it is probably a total badass.

>>43145235
Yeah, that sword seems kind of... Well. A Seriously Bad Idea.

>>43145297
>Are there any famous yanmaodao? I

Not really.
It's not a very common weapon in modern wushu, which generally likes to have swords and sabers be more clearly defined, though in most wuxia stories they don't particularly describe in detail legendary weapons.

Storm Riders, being a visual medium (a manhua), was a bit better then that was.
Storm Riders was a heavy inspiration for both the Legends of the Wulin RPG and it's predecessor Weapons of the Gods (at least one legendary weapon was straight ripped straight off it), as well as this very quest.

>>43145244
Even a short work like Sword of the Yüeh Maiden revolves around one of such "precious" blades.

>>43145297
Cursed ones will be kept hidden very well by the Shaolin or extremely insular mountain hobo hermits.

>>43145373
>yanmaodao
How about in 'verse?
>>43145422
Using cursed weapons is not what I had in mind. That's typically a bad idea. I'm guessing there's more than one wuxia work where using such a weapon bites somebody's ass.

>>43145422
Damn it, Ba, you couldn't have had just ONE cursed sword hidden away?

>>43145458
>I'm guessing there's more than one wuxia work where using such a weapon bites somebody's ass.
There is an element of "do not acquire power/defy the gods" mentality in several Eastern stories, this isn't limited to wuxia, even the oldest Japanese story, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Kaguya), has this buddhist moral.

In Sword of the Yueh Maiden, the titular character cannot become the main character's bride, perhaps for the better.

Muggles and the jianghu, mortals and gods, etc. shouldn't mix.

"Get OFF me you weird son of bitch!" you shout, concentrating past the icy pain and Rotating Yin and Yang, dumping as much power as you can muster in this awkward stance and striking out with your left fist right into his neck, sending cobalt electric flame shooting through his body!

He grunts in pain and seizes up and finally lets go, and you place your leg against his spasming body in an attempt to kick him off, and while seizing up he simply wraps himself around your leg and suicide-tosses himself with you off the side of Kamushin's back!

"CRAZY SON OF A BIIIIITCH!" you shout as you try awkwardly to kick him off before you use your superior mastery of Lightfoot to twist him towards the ground just as both of you smash through the window of some huge building (an inn, you think?), sending wood and splinters everywhere!

You roll with the impact, landing on a table and trying to roll off of it before it simply shatter from your weight and the force of the fall, shrieks and yelps of surprise coming from the crowded room you just fell into as you roll onto the grown, breaking your momentum!

"Ugh....fucking...weird-ass...zombie...motherfucker....," you grumble, rolling onto your back and trying to get up.
You ache EVERYWHERE; if your Yue-style boxing hadn't conditioned the fuck out of your body you'd be messed up. As it is you're just going to have a ton of bruises and nasty splinters.

"Don't anyone rush to help all at once or anything...," you cough as you stagger to your feet, looking at the still form of the Ghost, left hand going to your left eye.
You can't see anything out of it and it's bleeding enough that it's messing up your peripheral vision, and it STINGS like a bitch.

"Motherfucker. You better not have taken out my eye or I will kill you all over-" you swear, then the still figure rises to his feet without even using his arms like a corpse rising from the grave.

"....again?" you say in disbelief.

>>43145735
>if your Yue-style boxing hadn't conditioned the fuck out of your body you'd be messed up
I'm glad we picked up some external techniques down there

>>43145793
From black whirlwind?

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The Ghost cracks his body like a wooden doll fitting it parts back into place so it can move again, disturbing and alarming the customers.
Oh, and you.

"yoU cAn'T KilL DeaTh, LiGHtning TiGer! DeaTh ALWays WiNs!" he rasps.

The entire restaurant crowd looks over at you in terror when they hear what the Ghost calls you.

"What?" you say in protest, somewhat annoyed by their reaction. "How I am I the bad guy here all of a sudden!?! I mean LOOK at this guy! He looks like he climbed out of hell behind Zhōng Kuí's back or something!!"

You hear a delighted clapping and laughing beside you and you tiredly turn to your left to see who's so amused.

"Dinner and a show! This is turning out to be an AWESOME night!" a man sitting rudely atop a table says, mirth in his voice.

If you had to find a phrase to describe this guy it would be....manly. He's several inches taller then you and doesn't bother closing his shirt and showing off his manly, well-defined pecs, he's got biceps the size of melons and sun-bronzed skin on his arms, a manly stubble on his chin and brown hair kept short.

He looks wealthy and roughshod at the same time.

>"Enjoying yourself?" [Sarcastic]

>"Might want to back off there guy, this dude's pretty crazy." [Warn]

>"If you're a xia, jumping in wouldn't be remiss?" [Request]

>>43146086
>"Might want to back off there guy, this dude's pretty crazy."

>>43144670
I can dig it, though all the factions seems a bit..disorganzied, like they just seemt o be all over the place rather than having a set rhyme or reason

>>43146086
>"Might want to back off there guy, this dude's pretty crazy.

>>43146086
>>"Might want to back off there guy, this dude's pretty crazy." [Warn]

>>43146086
>>"If you're a xia, jumping in wouldn't be remiss?" [Request]

>>43146086
>>"Might want to back off there guy, this dude's pretty crazy." [Warn]

>>43146086
>>"Might want to back off there guy, this dude's pretty crazy." [Warn]

>>43146086
>"Might want to back off there guy, this dude's pretty crazy." [Warn]

>>43146086
>>"Might want to back off there guy, this dude's pretty crazy." [Warn]

>>43146086
>"Enjoying yourself?" [Sarcastic]

>>43146124
What, you mean like having distinct archetypes like a CCG game?
The reason you see that mostly in CCG games is because they invented it to sell more cards.

Wulin Groups are like actual political ones in that they have a martial philosophy they follow that is the basis of their skills, and then everything else is just secondary political garbage.

Like how the American Republicans and Democrats both have ideals both are supposed to be based off of but the actual objectives of both is more or less to beat the other side at politics.

>>43146086
>"If you're a xia, jumping in wouldn't be remiss?" [Request]
Man, what are you doing here? Your dad's been looking for you, and you're actually just down the street?

>>43146086
>"Might want to back off there guy, this dude's pretty crazy." [Warn]

>>43146086
>"Enjoying yourself?" [Sarcastic]

"Hey, I'd keep your distance dude, this guy is pretty nuts. Pretty sure he's just after me, but I don't think he's picky," you point you.

"Is that a dare?"
"What?"
"Are you daring me right now?"
"What!? No, I-"

"CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!" he loudly proclaims, getting up from the table and having another swig of wine and going to stand next to you, loosening his limbs.

Everyone knows a xia fight starting when they see one, so they get out in a hurry.

"By the way, I'm Hawk," he says, eying Ghost and flexing his fingers like claws while the freakish xia readies himself to lunge into an attack.

"Seriously? Your Uncle's been looking for you all night and you're literally right next door getting drunk?" you ask in disbelief.

"I know, right? Shit sounded SUPER boring. The wine here was great but this was starting to get pretty dull too before your bird fell caught you (that was sick by the way) and then you fell through the window."

"I just want you to know that I have been repeatedly lectured on my irresponsibility as a person and I STILL think you're incredibly irresponsible," you say dryly.

"I can live with that. Wine?" he offers.

>WDYD?

>[Accept]

>[Decline]

>>43146732
>>[Decline]
After the guy trying to kill me is dealt with. Lightning and wine don't mix, makes it taste funny.

>>43146732
>>[Accept]

FINALLY SOME WINE!

All it took was getting choked, stabbed, cut, and thrown through a fucking building to get it!

>>43146233
I meant like how you had the Wudang/Tao dichotomy or elements like the four houes or 13 clans/ That X Y's thing just make a world feel like it has a strcure behind it.

Like , taking OP for example; you have the Three Powers of Government, Pirates and the Warlords and then the Pirates have the 4 great captains and then Government has its owns structure going on.

Like, even a set number of "major houses' maybe tie that into Chinese numerology or something, or even a rough categorization of the houses into genres based on philosophy or style; it feels a lot like a stream of consciousness list of cool faction ideas.

I mean even Game of Thrones, or to keep it Chineese Romance of the Three Kingdoms knows the values of sorting the factions in some way. The op just seems to be a bit over the place; especially with the several federated factions like the Four New Houses or the Heavenly Sword Alliance, even something as simple as having "Ten Major Houses" to fit in with the top ten theme or since this is a Wuxia riff, do a take off of the Eight Great Schools (especially since you use several of them here) or maybe the traditional 18 Chinese provinces, or the overcoming and united paths of the Wu Xing; and then you have the Vietnamese fire cult and the Muslims of central asia as the "foreign styles" sorry if I seem like I am sperging I get this way when i find something really cool. And this is Che Cool.

>>43146732
>>[Accept]
Fuck yeah, I guessed his personality right. Great success.

>>43146732
>[Accept]

Engage drunken boxing!

>>43146732
>[Accept]

>>43146732
>>[Accept]
Eh, fuck it.

>>43146732
>>[Accept]
I'm pretty sure there needs to be at least a trio of sworn brothers. Just as planned.

>>43146732
>[Accept]
Don't wanna look uncool

>>43146732
>>[Accept]

>>43146732
>[Accept]

>>43146732
>>[Accept]
Good choice. It WAS super boring.

>>43146732
Already voted but I wanna second this dialogue

>>43146732
>[Decline]
Wine is best when celebrating after a fight.

>>43146732
>>[Accept]
At last!

>>43146732
>>[Accept]

>>43146775
I'm trying to make it look like an actual wuxia story, which always has factions coming out the ass for dozens of different things, and in the end who is most "powerful" mostly has to do with how good at politics they are.

>>43146890
Which one?

>>43147077
o shit
>>43146852

You pause for a second.
"Sure, why not?" you say and take the wine jug from him and take a swig. It's pretty good.

"aRE yoU BoTH DonE?" the Ghost asks dryly, a hint of annoyance in his voice.

"Sheesh, YOU'RE impatient, aren't you? Also, what's up with his qi? His energy's all...funky. Or maybe that's just the wine...," he asks openly.

"Nah, it's him. He's....done something to his qi meridians I think. His internal energy is just way out of balance. It's made him stronger, but...," you begin, and Hawk nods.

"Gotcha. Well, whatever. Still gonna kick his ass," he says confidently, raising up his right hand in a claw shape and pulling the other back into a fist.

"You DO know I was one of the more successful Top Ten Young Heroes, right? I mean, I'm kinda no pushover and this guy is pushing me," you warn, wary that his overconfidence might screw you both over.

"Yeah, I heard. Too bad the tournament couldn't happen a year ago, right?" he says with a manly grin of self-assurance.

"Why's that?"

"Because I turned 26 early. this year. Was disqualified from competing."

>WDYD?

>[Go on offense and let Hawk follow!]

>[Wait for Hawk to attack first and back him up!]

>[Wait for the Ghost attack and then counter him!]

>>43147063
No I for sure got that; I'm saying another element of these types of stories(both Wuxia and the more general... "Faction Opera") is some for of periodization of the groups , that Jin Yong flow that goes back to what Guanzhong did with the original Romance.(Or to use a western analogy the post Tolkein fantasy styling)

Even something as vague as having countless major and minor houses still sorted into broader religious geographic or political groupies would serve the similar purpose because when you frame it as a mess of a free for all, you loose a lot of the context of conflict that forms a richer story in the end.

Seriously though I am a fan, and am playing in other posts so I am not just throwing shit here, I really like what you are doings and enjoy that we are having a fun conversation on the game we both love.

>>43147286
>[Go on offense and let Hawk follow!]

>>43147286
>>[Wait for Hawk to attack first and back him up!]

>>43146732
>[Accept]

>>43147286
>>[Wait for the Ghost attack and then counter him!]

Lock up those fucking limbs with a drunken style partner.

>>43147286
>>[Wait for the Ghost attack and then counter him!]

>>43147286
>[Wait for Hawk to attack first and back him up!]

>>43147286
>>[Go on offense and let Hawk follow!]

>>43147286
>[Wait for the Ghost attack and then counter him!]

Continue to shoot the shit with Hawk.

>>43147286
>[Wait for the Ghost attack and then counter him!]

>>43147286
>>[Wait for the Ghost attack and then counter him!]
Keep talking like he's not even there until he's pissed off and attacks you, then counter his ass.

>>43147286
>[Wait for Hawk to attack first and back him up!]
Lets see what you got then.

>>43147286
>>[Wait for the Ghost attack and then counter him!]

>>43147286
>>[Wait for the Ghost attack and then counter him!]

The crazed xia darts forward at both of you....or mostly at you, and you turn and expose your back to him only to kick off a support pillar for the upper floor (you appear to be on some kind of second-story balcony thing overlooking a courtyard inside the building) and spinning into a kick which stops the Ghost short as Hawk moves in with slashing talon-like fingers he has to dodge and parry aside!

You move up on the opposite side of Hawk's slashing and thrusting fingers, sending a rapid-fire series of kicks the Ghosy has to leap back from!
You leap into the air like a cloud just as Hawk does the same, crossing each other in mid-leap and reversing the routine, you throwing brutal and swift punches while Hawk sends flying powerful kicks punctuated by claw-slashes!

You notice as his fingers pass near a wooden pillar just in front of his fingers a series of for razor-thing claw-marks appear on the wood, as if Hawk's fingers were longer and sharper then they actually are!
Hawk basically uses Nanto Seiken when fighting.

The Ghost's right hand flashes down to his side and comes up with a crack, his white snakeskin whip blurring out between you as you both pull your head back at the same time!

"How's the eye?" Hawk asks as he leaps into a flying kick just as you do the same, trying to close the distance between you both and that whip!

"Fucked up, I can't see on my left side!" you admit.

The white whip wraps around your leg and yanks you to the side with incredible force, slamming you into some empty tables as he dodge's Hawk's kick and Hawk tries to put him on defensive!

>WDYD?

>[Form Two while he's fighting Hawk!]

>[See if you can distract the Ghost from your ally!]

>[Try to maneuver behind the Ghost while Hawk presses from the front!]

>>43148058
>[Try to maneuver behind the Ghost while Hawk presses from the front!]

>>43148058
>>[See if you can distract the Ghost from your ally!]
Hawk's got a slightly better chance to hit, what with our eye.

>>43148058
>>[See if you can distract the Ghost from your ally!]
dont want to crash into hawk

>>43148058
>>[Form Two while he's fighting Hawk!]

>>43148058
>>[Try to maneuver behind the Ghost while Hawk presses from the front!]

>>43148058
>>[Form Two while he's fighting Hawk!]

>>43148058
>[Try to maneuver behind the Ghost while Hawk presses from the front!]

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>>43148058
>[See if you can distract the Ghost from your ally!]

so Hawk is basically Juza?

>>43148058
>[Form Two while he's fighting Hawk!]

>>43148335
He's less outwardly obsessed with women and more into just enjoying himself, which includes fighting interesting fights and drinking, and unlike Juza there's absolutely zero "hidden depth" to Han Ying; what you see is what you get.

His style is based off of real-life Eagle Claw boxing, which has both grapples and chin na locks and lots of aerobatic kicks and Long Fist strikes, which here look a lot like Shin's Nanto Koshou Ken.

>>43148058
>>[Form Two while he's fighting Hawk!]

>>43148058
>>[Form Two while he's fighting Hawk!]

>>43148058
>>[See if you can distract the Ghost from your ally!]
we have a fucked up eye im not gonna rush anyone

>>43148058
>>[See if you can distract the Ghost from your ally!]

You get up, shaking yourself off a bit as Hawk moves with flashing speed at the Ghost, claw parrying claw as he tries to overwhelm the weird xia with sheer velocity and the other uses hellish ferocity in return to put Hawk on the defensive, neither gaining ground!

Hawk's slashing fingers score minor hits on the Ghost, but he's seemingly immune to pain and fights with suicidal abandon, trying to land strikes that would viciously injure Hawk but would leave him open to counter-attacks, seemingly exploiting the fact that the Eagle Talon hero actually cares if he's injured or not while the Ghost does not!

You stand up and kick a nearby wooden stool at the Ghost, who responds by drawing out his bone white whip and cracking it through the air hard enough to split the wooden stool in twain!
Hawk launches himself into another flying kick at the now-exposed Ghost in response, who is forced to pull back rather then receive the full weight of the blow!

In mid-dodge you Traverse the Instant Path towards him, crossing Hawk's flight path as he sails past your foe, leaving glowing blue trail as a thunderclap splits the air and you shoulder HARD into the Ghost like a thunderbolt, sending him slamming into the opposite wall just next to the window you destroyed coming inside!


>WDYD?

>[Keep up you offense and corner him against the wall!]

>[Pull back and link up with Hawk before trying to hit him again!]

>[No mercy! Form One him while he's stunned!]

>>43149114
>>[Keep up you offense and corner him against the wall!]

>>43149114
>>[Pull back and link up with Hawk before trying to hit him again!]

>>43149114
>>[No mercy! Form One him while he's stunned!]
This guy sure can take a beating.

>>43149114
>>[No mercy! Form One him while he's stunned!]

>>43149114
>[No mercy! Form One him while he's stunned!]

>>43149114
>>[No mercy! Form One him while he's stunned!]

>>43149114
>>[No mercy! Form One him while he's stunned!]

>>43149114
>>[No mercy! Form One him while he's stunned!]

>>43149114
>>[No mercy! Form One him while he's stunned!]

>>43149114
>>[No mercy! Form One him while he's stunned!]
AAAAATATATATATATATATATATATATATA!

>>43149114
>[No mercy! Form One him while he's stunned!]

>>43149350
calm your self kenshiro

>>43149114
>[Pull back and link up with Hawk before trying to hit him again!]

>>43149553
He's already dead

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You rush up and let him have it, Rotating Yin and Yang and tossing a full flying right hook at him, sparking blue flame and cobalt lightning as you land it on his block!

He grunts as the tremendous impact slams into him deeper into the wall, already dented from the force of your Form Two hit, his body seizing up with electricity before you slam another lighting-charged left hook into his gut, driving him deeper before you spin and land a final Form One empowered kick that drives him straight through the wall and out into the night air, falling to the street below!

"FUCK your shit!" you say as you plant your feet back onto the ground, a little wobbly from such heavy exertions of power in such a short period of time.
The injuries he gave you are messing you up a bit and with your eye out your balance is a bit shaky.

>WDYD?

>[Go after him!]

>[Wait for Hawk to back you up.]

>[Pack it in and fall back for now, get your injuries looked at.]

>>43149775
>[Wait for Hawk to back you up.]

>>43149775
>>[Wait for Hawk to back you up.]

>>43149775
>>[Wait for Hawk to back you up.]

>>43149775
>[Wait for Hawk to back you up.]

>>43149775
>[Wait for Hawk to back you up.]

Damn Sky curses a lot now.

Filthy southern barbarians undomesticating him.

>>43149775
>[Wait for Hawk to back you up.]

>>43149970
what did you expect? This guy just pounce at him, caught off guard and stuff.

>>43149970
he's in a stress full moment

>>43149775
>[Wait for Hawk to back you up.]
Also, ow.

>>43149775

>>43149844
You lean on the wall to catch your breath as Hawk moves up next you.

"Nice shot!" he comments.
"Thanks."
You both leap out into the alley beside the restaurant without another word, landing facing opposite directions.

You see nothing.
"Where'd that creeper go?" Hawk asks quietly.
"I dunno. He can hide is presence almost perfectly though, and the shots I hit him with should've messed him up pretty bad, maybe even stopped his heart. If he's still getting up and hiding then there's something seriously messed up with his body," you note.

"I'll say. Man, what the hell you DO to this guy that he'd fuck up his internal energy so much just to kill you?" Hawk wonders as you both circle the alley, backs to each other.

"Hell if I know. I only ever met the guy today."
Hawk laughs at that.
"Man, when you make a bad first impression you don't screw around, do you?" he jokes.

"Yeah, tell me about it. At first I though he was after my employer but-", you begin, before pausing and thinking back to months ago.

>"Your Ghost hears your name in the jianghu. He stalks you, even now. He is drawing closer."

"....aaah shit. I think this guy may have been after me for the last couple of months," you say, swearing for not figuring it out sooner and paying more attention to see signs if you were being followed.

Why could that stupid Immortal given you a LITTLE bit more clarity in his weird prophecies?

"What do you mean 'you think'?"
"I mean 'I don't know'! This guy sorta fits the description I got but I never saw him in person and when he didn't show I sorta....forgot about him!" you admit.

"I'd think this guy would be pretty memorable if it were me....," Hawk comments.
"Yeah? Well I was REALLY busy that month and had a lot of shit on my mind at the time! Besides, what the hell do you know?" you snap back, annoyed at yourself.

"Well, for one I'm pretty sure he's gone," he decides, dropping his guard.

After a minute you follow suit, and no attack comes.

Well that was a depressingly short thread.
I must abscond for now, hopefully to come back later but I'll archive this guy just in case I can't.
As always I'll try to answer questions people have without giving away too much plot.

Also, if people could upvote or downvote my threads on tg archive that would be great; it lets me now how well or how poorly I'm doing compared to other threads I've done, which helps me work on my writing, or at least falteringly attempt to imitate what other people liked in other threads I did I suppose....

>>43150679
Okay. See you later, WS. Thanks for running.

>>43150715
Like I said, I hope I can come back.

>>43150679
thanks for running

>>43150735

I hope so, too.

>>43150735
That's why I said "see you later" and not "see you next time". But in either case, I figured I should show some appreciation anyway.

>>43150679
We'll miss you!

>>43150764
Welcome.

One of the things that confuses me is how much traffic these threads I made seemed to get early on compared to how much there is now.

Was I doing something more right earlier or less wrong? I dunno. I just keep writing, and I never know what people like and they don't and sometimes I kinda struggle with it a little.

>>43150813
People are afraid to hope
There is a distinct lack of waifus at current.
Most questions we had are not answerable as of yet.

>>43150813
I think it's just that people are still finding the quest again. Also sundays tend to be a little slower questing wise.

>>43150813
I didn't know it was running since I rely on the twitter QM directory.

>>43150852
>People are afraid to hope
Not much I can do about that.
>There is a distinct lack of waifus at current.
I try not to do waifu stuff anyway.
Romance subplots is an important part of Wuxia but waifu stuff gives me a goddamn headache mostly.
>Most questions we had are not answerable as of yet.
Yeah, I'm having difficulty trying to figure out how to pace the story without revealing EVERYTHING right away and then having no more mysteries while still giving you enough info to keep things interesting and develop the secondary plotlines.
>>43150856
Yeah, I was worried about the shift to weekends, but it's when I most usually have time.

>>43150934
I thought I updated my Twitter feed?
Man, FUCK Twitter. It's supposed to be easy as writing and hitting "send" not a whole goddamn process...

>>43150813
You garnered a large following by running everyday for a while. Then you cut out for a couple months and your twitter combusted. That combination probably lost you a significant amount of your following as most of them probably aren't even aware you're back and so they don't look for your threads. Especially beacuse they're in a new time slot.

>>43150813
You still have more players than a lot of quests. Don't worry about it. These things happen after you disappear for a while.

>>43150813
Well, I think it's because all of the old quest heads found other quests to do while life was beating you over the head. Combine it with the two month hiatus, and a few people might be hesitant to jump back on, fearing a repeat of missing QM.

>>43151038
>You garnered a large following by running everyday for a while.

Funny thing, if I hadn't fucked up my leg and didn't have all that time to flesh out all the stuff I had thought up originally I'd probably never have been able to do that.
I'm clearly slower now that I have to write as I go.

>>43150972
Oh shit you did post on twitter. I just didn't recognize your new account.

>>43151143
>found other quests to
Been noticing something of a bloat of quest threads since I came back.
Not sure that's a good thing; they probably deserve their own board rather then clot up /tg/ with sometimes only semi-related content.

Other times it looks more like they're really just /a/-focused as opposed to /tg/ material, and I question how relevant it is to /tg/ at ALL.
At least mind is KINDA based off an existing P&P game....

>>43150942
You must have had constant headaches during the tournament arc then.

>>43151368
No, I was having an easier time writing then and the humor of the situation just allowed me to work with it.
Besides, I actually did more plot development then waifu stuff (quite a bit more main plot info then I thought I'd get done), and sort of ensured Sky avoided any and all serious talk about waifu stuff as part of his personality.

Unless you mean stuff players did.
Then yeah, kinda.
I'm the kind of guy who played the Fate games and when it came to not plot-relevant junk and waifu stuff I literally could not click my mouse fast enough to get the fuck past it and into the actual plot again.

>>43151581
Good man. Fuck the waifu wars, go on merry adventures with Lei, Zhu'er, and Mighty Kamishin

>>43151632
When we find them.

IF we find them...

>>43151632
What? No. Hawk needs to come too. And maybe Vageta. Sworn brotherhoods should have more than two members. And Zhu'er is a waifu candidate so that won't help too much.

>>43151701
Yeah but she is best buddy/ sworn sister tier. Being a waifu is secondary.

>>43151701
Genshu's invited too, right?

As if not being invited is going to stop him showing up from nowhere.

>>43151632
I deeply hesitate to move forward too much with the romance subplots, I admit.
Too bad I'm gonna have to start doing it soon with what I've set up....
>>43151701
Hawk isn't the "sworn brother" type.
That requires more commitment then he's willing to give anything in his life at all.

Speaking of Duan Lei I kinda feel at times I undersold him; he's actually Sky's martial peer in many ways, just since this story focuses on Sky we didn't get to see much of it so far.

The guy is definitely hero/MC material just in terms of personality and skill though.

>>43151838
Then we need to find him again.
I swear if it's been one of those things where we just barely miss each other. Like just as we enter a restaurant he leaves from a different door.

>>43151768
>Genshu's invited too, right?
Hell no he's not!
It would be less fun if he didn't pop up uninvited in the middle of increasingly unlikely circumstances.
>>43151838
>Hawk isn't the "sworn brother" type
God damn. We need at least one more. Maybe we can just beat up Vageta until he get's over his murder kick? If not I guess the search for a second bro will continue.
>>43151759
You know that people will focus on the waifu bit anyway right? I thought that was what you wanted to avoid.

>>43151877
Yeah I know. sadly the waifu warriors will always be there. There can never be a female character who can be just a friend.

>>43151838
Will we be seeing Duan Lei and Zhu'er soon?

>>43151951
Hell, finding them would actually be as easy as publicly announcing we were somewhere. They'd find us eventually.
>>43151926
Maybe the emei clan girl? She acted really young.

>>43151876
>I swear if it's been one of those things where we just barely miss each other.

This isn't that far off. Part of the problem with both is that neither have a home base and both can move EXTREMELY quickly thanks to how good they are at Lightfoot and how Sky travels by wing rather then on foot. Neither of them leave predictable patterns to follow.
>>43151877
>Maybe we can just beat up Vageta until he get's over his murder kick?
Qiang will never "get over it", really.
It's not in his nature, and a friendly rivalry is really as close as he'll ever get to having a normal friend.
>>43151951
Yes.

>>43152094
I wan's talking about getting rid of the rivalry bit. That's fun. I want to get rid of 'I MUST KILL HIM' bit. Sworn brothers can't go around murdering each other.

>>43152140
>Sworn brothers can't go around murdering each other.
Sworn Brothers don't rival each other either; they agree to treat each other as family, whom you mutually support and aid when they request it or need it.

Rivalry can be a LOT like regular friendship though as long as somebody doesn't kill someone's children or spouse and fuck it up for everyone.

>>43152140
Are you kidding? I'd love for Qiang and Tiangkong to both attempt to kill each other every time one visit's the other, but still be somewhat friendly about it. Just talking about how Qiang's wife is doing and bringing the kids over to play while throwing 100 mph punches on fast forward at each other.

>>43152214
Damn. So much for that idea. Well, will it be possible to get another sworn brother in quest? If not I'll shut up about it and just enjoy what is possible. This quest is my favorite after all.
>>43152261
... That's pretty good too.

>>43152313
>Well, will it be possible to get another sworn brother in quest?

Maybe? Hadn't thought about it actually.

>>43150507
Ghost is that douche we Form One'd in the first threads ages ago, isn't he?

>>43152261
This actually pretty close to the "ideal" jianghu rivalry should look like to many.

They frequently agree to try and fight or kill each other on previously agreed-upon dates and locations, exchange pleasantries and greetings before the fight, and of they have family frequently there's an agreement beforehand to adopt or take care of the children of the looser so they don't go without a father.

>>43152411
Well. I'll shut up about it for now at least.

>>43152439
How'd I fuck that one up, *Form Two.

The dash move.

You know what I fuckin' mean!

>>43152439
Nope. Sky has literally never met the Hungry Ghost before.

>>43152475
Oh.

Well in that case he has no valid reason to hate us, and is thus a double-faggot.

>>43152551
Rule of thumb; if somebody hates Sky for something he didn't do and he has never actually met this person before, chances are he's taking the fallout for something his dad did.

This is ninety percent of the storyline, actually.

>>43152579
Sins of the father and all that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZAHk0g-Nfk

>>43152579
Goddammit Ba.

>>43150507
>>"Your Ghost hears your name in the jianghu. He stalks you, even now. He is drawing closer."
I hope you do this for everything the Immortal said when it happens.

>>43152683
I'll have to only because nobody can be expected to remember it all.

>>43152748
Save I remember all of it. It was Genshu, in every field.

>>43152766
Goddamnit phone!!! Sage not Save.

>>43152766
Genshu

>>43150813
I don't even use Twitter. I used to check the suptg archive from time to time to see if it was back, then eventually stopped. I just found it it was back today when randomly checking the catalog.

>>43152974
It's kinda tricky when not everyone is following the same media alert system.