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For those of you unfamiliar with Heavenly Jewel Change. It is a Chinese Wuxia web-novel.
You can read it here, it is completed: https://www.wuxiaworld.com/novel/heavenly-jewel-change

The Wiki (May lack information with certain characters but has all the mechanical information we need): https://heavenly-jewel-change.fandom.com/wiki/Heavenly_Jewel_Change_Wiki

Lots of things like place names and people will be OC. so I can run with interesting character ideas.

First Thread: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/3638342
Last Thread: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/3708232
MC Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/eUJQC3YB

You play as Zou-Do-Shai, a personal bodyguard to Princess Jiang Dershwa, a Heavenly Jewel Master. Last time you started work on becoming a Shi Stage Consolidated Equipment Master, which you became, and you are working towards becoming a Zun Stage Consolidated Equipment Master, however, almost immediately, the King of Dershwa City put the City under martial law! The beasts from the Moon are preparing a massive cannon which would be ready in about 10 months time, you are at war! You got a shiny new telescope from the Space Force. You were invited to join on a two week trip to a place where the Moon-Slimes attacked, whilst the people you joined studied your Saint Element, you accepted, going to an island with a Moon-Pod with a Commander at the helm, which you killed personally in due time. In the meanwhile, you were resurrecting the dead Jewel Masters from the initial attack/landing, however, the people you were helping think of normal people like dirt, so there were none to revive! You don't like this, but you can't do anything about it. When you came home, you awakened as a Heavenly Jewel Master, thanks to Jessica, and were utterly smashed by Jiang in a duel! You now stand with only one goal: get stronger, so no-one else has to suffer.

>Go see Fei Dershwa
>I have a space limit, so this will be in the next post.
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You want to catch up with Fei; last time you talked to her she was working on her Physical Jewel Moulding Technique, but thanks to you, she knew about some Beastman spies hiding in the Palace. She took control and found them. She supposedly holds them by her own, you're not sure on the King's feelings on this, but he hasn't stopped her.

You ask around, and are directed to a separate building you know well. The Prison, you ask the people at the entrance, and they tell you where she is: the deepest part of the prison, where she is holding the spies, 3 of them. You walk for a long while, until you find a door labelled "Spies! No Entry!", that sounds like her. You knock on the door, and it opens with a sharp creak. Fei only opens it a bit, you can see her face, but not the interior of the building.

"Hi Zou! Uh...I'm not sure you'll want to come in right now...welcome back anyway! How are you?"

"Uh good, but, I was responsible for the information about the spies, I think I should see them."

"S-sure, but please don't shout at me! I had no choice! They, uh, resisted!"

>Roll 1d100 best of three for perception.
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Rolled 35 (1d100)

>>3741979
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Rolled 30 (1d100)

>>3741979
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If no-one else rolls in the next 5 minutes, do feel free to roll again.
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Rolled 51 (1d100)

>>3741988
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>>3741988
heres hoping Fei left them at least able to talk
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>>3741996
>51
Average Success!

You can see three people, one has a pair of blue wings on her back, another looks completely human, female, but time will tell, the last looks almost human from this angle, except his ears of a horse. The winged one and the horse one are unconscious, but the human one is awake, you can tell with your Life Element, however, her eyes are closed. You can see minor injuries on all three. They are all chained to the wall, with Onyx suppressors on them, stretching to the almost human one you see a Waxy Jade spike is digging in somewhere, you see blood. You look back to Fei.

She is standing there with an almost embarrassed expression. You see the spike coming from her right hand.

"Who are they, and how are they?"

"Well, we have one Horseman, one Birdwoman, and one Snakewoman. They were snooping around in the spaces between the walls, all of them have the Flexibility attribute on their Physical Jewels, which explains a lot. I think they are fine! Ignore the...the spike, its precautionary!"

"You know how to torture people?"

"I-It's an essential part of being in the army. I haven't killed them, but I have got some information out of them. After martial law was implemented, they sent the information we gathered about the Moon-Beasts back home, and they also sent some information about you, back home. I don't want to kill them, but they keep giving me reasons to-"

The Snakewoman opens her eyes, slit pupils looking back at you, in that instant, she spits on Fei.

"Filthy cursed bitch!"

"Bluegh! You see! I don't want someone like Jessica or Sun-Di or Shain take over because they would just kill them and be over it, Jiang is a no for obvious reasons, but, I have been keeping them like this."

You look back at the Snakewoman, straight into her yellow-green eyes. She stares at you with animosity.

"What do you want, False Saint, a simple boy like you-guah!"

Fei kicks her in the stomach. The Spike reaching even further.

"That should shut you up! If you want to try asking some questions, go ahead, but, soon...I will be handing them to Jessica, for a proper dissection."

You see the Snakewoman is nonreactive to that statement, she must have come here thinking she would die then. Time to get tough.

"I am going to ask you some questions, if you do not answer, I have many ways of causing pain, you know about my Jewels, I think its time you learn what they truly mean."

Player Choice
>Write-in for questions to ask the Snakewoman, she will not answer all of them.

Also

Roll 1d100 best of three for persuasion to see how much she is willing to tell you. You will be using the Saint, Lightning and Spatial Elements to "persuade" her. A nat 100 will result in no harm caused by you to do this.
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>>3742005
What information about me did you send?
Why and how did you infiltrate the castle?
Do you have any connection to the moon beasts?
Why did you call me false Saint, is it about my element or something specific?
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Rolled 25 (1d100)

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Rolled 34 (1d100)

>>3742005
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Rolled 98 (1d100)

>>3742005
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>>3742023
>98

You activate your Lightning Element, reds and blues and golds glittering around you. You shock her a little bit. You see her face writhe in pain.

"What information about me did you send home?" You continue the Lightning chain.

"Gurrah! You. Are. A. Body. Guard. For. The. Princess!"

You stop the Lightning, that should be enough.

"Anything else?"

"That you have the Saint Element! It was important!"

"Right, is that why you called me false saint?"

"Someone like you, who sides with her cursed blood has no right to call themselves a Saint! Here you are, causing pain in others!"

"Your country is planning to go to war with us! I see no reason to spare you from torment. You could be planning an attack with the Moon-Beasts for all we know!"

"No! Those things are an abomination, they hate us as much as they hate you!"

"Really? They looked a lot like animals when I saw them, they could have used your people as a reference."

"Fuck. You. ARRGH!"

You see Fei moving the Jewel Spike around.

"How did you get into the castle, and why? You had to get through the Wastelands of all things"

"We walked. Then we used some disposable tools to hide ourselves."

"How was the Wasteland? Whatever it was like, I can show you worse."

"That's the attitude we hate about you humans. You always think of yourself as the top, the smartest, the most powerful! Our ancestors had to survive as the monsters themselves to get to where we are now!"

"Is that why you started to spy on us?"

"Maybe. You see the fruits of our efforts soon."

You think back to the information about the Moon-Pod you were told, that a force much larger would be landing, or attempting to land to attack Dershwa City very soon. They must be using that to make 2 fronts. This confirms that there are spies in the Sunrise army. Things to tell the King for sure.

"Well. I think I am done here. Good luck Fei."

You turn around to leave when you want to ask one more question.

"I was told by a reliable source that Beastmans were not supposed to have animal features, what happened to you?"

You see her grit her fangs.

"We are the true culmination of the Beastmans, we ignored our Beast heritage for so long, but no longer! We are but a small step to supremacy. May you suffer and die!"

Fei punches her and knocks her out.

Are they trying to turn themselves into monsters again? Things to think about.

"Zou? Sorry to rush you, but the King requested your appearance for this afternoon, so if you could leave them to me..."

"Sure, I'm done here."

You leave to go see the King.

Player Choice
>Write-in for things to tell the King, not only about your trip, but the information from the Beastmans. 30 minutes.
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>>3742048
>I seem to have the ability to improve my skills the more I use them. Spent most of the trip resurrecting people but also did some minor combat, killed a moon commander, and started learning life mutation. There is a large force from the moon planning to attack teh city in the near future, it looks like there is a group of radicalized beastmen that are planning to use the opportunity to attack us at the same time, force us into a 2 front war. Has any of this happened in previous timelines?
>Also show him the scythe and explain what it is and what it does. Be reading to swap anyone the scythe tries to kill with some random piece of furniture
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Rolled 45 (1d100)

OH BOY A LIGHTNING AND THUNDER STORM.

If the power goes out. I will change to my phone. What luck I have.

Rolling 1d100 for the probability this lightning storm gets worse.
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>>3742048
This
>>3742053
Plus
> I've seen another Demonic Being lately.
> I feel like we have a lot of enemies: none of the Divine Element User's subjects were particularly friendly.
> Report about Jessica and Jiang's recent exchanges with you.
> Ask if he stopped time recently.
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>Choice LOCKED to go see the King

You are told by the attendants to head to the Library again. The King is there, with a notebook in front of him. Unlike normal, he looks...tense.

"Hello, Zou, please come in. How was the trip?"

"Well. I spent most of the time resurrecting people who had died in the initial attack from the Moon-Slimes. However, I have learnt a lot more in that time."

"Go on, start with the Saint Element."

"I am able to make a small amount of Holy Power, which completely destroys beasts of the Evil Element. I can resurrect people if they are ashes, in parts, or full-bodied. I need something like a body to use the Skill. Greater Resurrection can work on major injuries and diseases. That's about it."

"Next, the Moon."

"They are weak to Water, and resistant to Lightning, they are metallic slimes, but can look like other things, the Commander looked like a human, he's dead now and the Pod they arrived in is scheduled to be destroyed. I killed the Commander. You should expect an attack on the City very soon. I am not sure of the size. However, the Beastmans are planning to attack at the same time, I learnt this from the spies held by the 1st Princess."

"Ah...what a shame, what were the species of animal?

"Horse, Bird and Snake, they appear to be radicals. They had animal features."

"I see. I think now is the time to ally with the Dragon, Lion, Wolf and Tiger tribes then. I thank you for this. Anything else?"

"Well. I have to ask before I tell you much more. Are you a time traveller?"

You see nothing change in his expression.

"In what sense?"

"How old are you? How many times have we had this conversation? How many times have you reset?"

"30. I will tell you more later, but, I do not know everything about the world. I do know where you might have received this information, do not worry. Your choices are not predetermined."

"About that. Jessica helped me to awaken as a Heavenly Jewel Master, I have the Strength attribute."

"Tch, well, at least you have become one. Sometimes you have multiple Physical attributes. I guess you are not as lucky as your other timelines."

You see his usual friendly face droop into something much more solemn.

"Were the Sunrisers and Her Highness as brutal as they always are?"

"Yes."

"Ignore them, we can deal with them when we can stop the attack from the Moon. I will succeed!"

"My King, have you stopped time recently?"

"Yes, training, I can stop time only for a few seconds, my Consolidated Equipment focuses on reversing time, even mine to a degree, so other uses of time are weaker. I need to train them for the final battle."

"I feel like we have a lot of enemies. How did you beat them in other timelines?"

1/?
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"I can't tell you, or this timeline could be ruined, and I would have to reset. The Sunrisers are weak apart from the Queen, Miller is fine, I have told you about the Beast tribes. Only focus on the Moon, if you do not, everyone, including you, will die. They are supported by an alien with the Destruction Element, it is the very antithesis to the world, and it is unique to them. We must kill them, or all hope is lost."

"Yes sir. I have something that could help."

You draw out your Reaper's Scythe.

"Anything this touches, dies. It has activated and flew on its own though, so it isn't safe."

"Good idea, does it require a technique to use?"

"No. I think it just relies on your Strength."

"Well, you will have amazing Strength, and you will be better suited for Space travel, so keep it, just make sure to keep a hold of it."

"Yes, My King!"

"Anything else you want to tell me?"

"I was given a book on the Mutation of Life. I also appear to be able to make my Stored Skills more powerful with training, is that normal?"

"For you? Yes. Use and abuse it all you want. I have yet to see a version of you where you become too powerful, but be wary about destroying the world."

That's a bit ominous.

"How do you feel about Jiang beating me?"

"If you get your Consolidated Equipment, you will have a much better chance. I will prepare for the 2 front attack. Your next orders are to get that God Tier Consolidated Equipment, and prepare to join Jessica as part of the Space Force to do two things when the attack occurs."

"One, try and shoot down the Ships they will come in. Two, for those that survive, kill on site. I will be training my Element. I also have one last request. Do not tell anyone about my time travel, some of the monsters have figured it out, but if my family knew, they would feel nothing but disgust and fear. As in every other timeline, they are dead, the planet is taken over, and I left to start anew. Please."

"Of course. I promise."

"Dismissed!"

You leave, a much more worried man than before. 30? That means 29 times over, they have won. You need to prepare for the Destruction Element, and put everything into getting stronger."

Player Choice for the evening (Remember about that call.)
>Cultivate
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Go see Shao-Bao for more Scrolls, you can do 95 in one go at the moment, I will change the rules for the bonuses when we get to it, because that was exhausting.
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Perhaps the Guards, to learn Heavenly Whip a bit more.)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who?)
>Other? (Write-in)


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>>3742171
Train with Scythe
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>>3742171
>Cultivate
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>>3742171
>>Go see Shao-Bao for more Scrolls, you can do 95 in one go at the moment, I will change the rules for the bonuses when we get to it, because that was exhausting.
We got our orders, lets get to Zun so we can grab that God Set
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Btw people I just found a HJC manhua, it is in Chinese...but I'm sure people can work things out with context. It looks...okay so far.

https://www.kuaikanmanhua.com/web/topic/3091/

Voting will be for 10 minutes longer.
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>>3742199
awesome, heres hoping it gets translated
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>>3742171
>Train with the Reaper's Scythe
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Rolled 276 (1d400)

>Training with the Scythe
>Then the call (The one triggered by the 444)
>Oh boy
>Time for that 555 too I guess

You might want some experience with the Reaper's Scythe. So you take a small trip outside, and find a tree to kill. You hit it with the Scythe's blade, you see it die immediately, falling and crumbling to ashes.

You then try looking for something that can fight back. However, the only thing would be some monsters the Darkness department keep around for Stored Skill testing. You ask if you can kill one. Yep, but nothing too powerful.

You find something with a lot of endurance, and swing it two handed towards the monster, a turtle with the Earth Element, around the 2 Jewel stage.

>Roll 1d700 best of three to attack with strength.

Rolling 1d400 for the opponents END to not die.
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Rolled 349 (1d700)

>>3742230
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>>3742232

Do feel free to roll again if no-one else rolls in the next 5 minutes.
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Rolled 135 (1d700)

>>3742230
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Rolled 445 (1d700)

>>3742230
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>>3742268
>445 vs 276

You strike the shell. The Earth Turtle dies instantly, flesh rotting away until only a core is left.

You leave, your job done, and go back to your room. You get a call from Song Chad-Pah.

"Hey, buddy, we need to talk."

He sounds sad, anxious even.

"It happened a yesterday evening, but, I needed time to-to reflect. The Mama has passed away. Old age, the doctor said, her heart just gave out. One of the older kids told me in person, ran all the way to the academy."

Oh.

"I think I can-I can resurrect people! I'll come over right away!"

"I don't know, how does it work?"

"I mean, it makes people alive again, same as they were before."

"She's old, as soon as you awaken her, she is just going to die again. I don't think it's going to work that way. I-I don't think she'll want to come back either, she's had a good life."

"I see. What will we do next?"

"Well, the funeral is in a week, seven days, at the orphanage. I think one of the older women who works there is taking over the place. I have made arrangements to go with the academy. So if you can, try and come, martial law can't stop us from doing this."

You hear him sobbing up on the other side of the call.#

You think back to the attack. Very soon? That could be a week! You need to be here to fight, but she's the closest thing to your own mother!

Player Choice
>Arrange to attend the Funeral, with a tool from the Spatial department to teleport you back to your station if it comes under attack
>Don't

>555 will come in the next post.
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>>3742294
>Don't
Sorry, old buddy, but saving the world is too important.
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>>3742294
>>Arrange to attend the Funeral, with a tool from the Spatial department to teleport you back to your station if it comes under attack
we going, its one actiona nd we can make it back immediately if we need, this is basically our mother figure, not going would be like not going to your own mothers funeral
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>>3742294
>Arrange to attend the Funeral, with a tool from the Spatial department to teleport you back to your station if it comes under attack
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>>3742294
>Arrange to attend the Funeral, with a tool from the Spatial department to teleport you back to your station if it comes under attack
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Right. Sorry guys but I need to eat some tea, so expect the next update at 18:30 pm BST.
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>>3742316
Or scratch that. It doesn't look anywhere near like cooked. Risotto takes a long while.

>Arrange to attend the Funeral, with a tool from the Spatial department to teleport you back to your station if it comes under attack

"I'll come. I guess I'll see you there."

"Thank you. Goodbye."

He ends the call. You make another one to Dr Zhang Xi-Tze.

"Hello, would it be possible to make me a teleportation tool that returns me to a specific spot every time?"

"Uh yes, why do you ask?"

"In a week I am attending a funeral. I need a way to get back here quickly."

"Oh, I'm so sorry for your loss. Who is it?"

"The closest thing to a mother I have."

"Shit, well give me some time, and I can send something for you for tomorrow afternoon in your room. When is the funeral?"

"In a week."

"Wait, you mean like what the 4th Princess was saying-"

"Yep."

"Good to know. I'll have it done as soon as possible."

He ends the call. That's when you hear something you have hear before, the bells, the discolouration.

*DONG*

This time, you see the shadowy outline of an old man standing in front of you.

"Hello. I can be considered the closest thing you might consider to be the Dao."

What?"

"I want to tell you, that when you have reached the Zong Stage, your Saint Element can work to make people younger, more filled with life, there is hope for the Mama. Do not worry."

With that, he disappears. You need some sleep.

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 69th day

With the Mama dead, the Dao itself talking to you, and everything yesterday, you know that you have several things to do, work with research, train Jiang, cultivate, Consolidated Equipment Master work. Asking if your Master can make a 9 piece for Song Chad-Pah. Too many things to do, too little time.

Player Choice for the morning
>Cultivate
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Go see Shao-Bao for more Scrolls, you can do 95 in one go at the moment, I will change the rules for the bonuses when we get to it, because that was exhausting.
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Perhaps the Guards, to learn Heavenly Whip a bit more.)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who? Jessica?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3742341
>Go see Shao-Bao for more Scrolls
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>>3742341
>>Go see Shao-Bao for more Scrolls, you can do 95 in one go at the moment, I will change the rules for the bonuses when we get to it, because that was exhausting.
gotta get scrolling so we can get that set
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For real this time. That risotto is ready. I need to eat, so no updates until 19:05 BST. Voting remains open.
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>Go see Shao-Bao for more Scrolls

You need to complete that promise soon. You take the 50 Zun Stage Scrolls, and run to Shao-Bao.

"Mistress! I have done them!"

"Eh? Good to know. Let's see how far you have gotten in 2 weeks. 50 pages isn't a lot. So I expect you to fail. I've been coming up with ideas for your set, but we'll get to it when we get there alright?"

She passes one Zun page to you, a different design, an Ice Element spear, you have 2 inks to deal with.

"If you do it, I will say you have passed. If you don't you will stay here until you can do so."

>Roll 1d100 best of three to complete it.
>DC 66. as Literacy is 168/500.
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Rolled 83 (1d100)

>>3742419
we gonna get another tirps of death, i can fucking feel it
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Rolled 21 (1d100)

>>3742419
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Do feel free to roll again if in 5 minutes there are no new rolls.
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Rolled 47 (1d100)

>>3742419
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>>3742430
>83
Success!

You manage to complete it by sheer luck. It glimmers gold.

"Hmmm, I think some more practice will be needed, but this is good too. Fine. I have a few options. Considering your Strength attribute we could do something with that, it would just increase your Strength to unimaginable heights, it is an old set, we found a version with 11 pieces, but we made another one for some completion. 12 pieces, The first ten multiply by an extra 2, such that of you had 10 pieces, your Strength would be multiplied by 20, 11 multiplies it by 3, and 12 multiplies it by 4, resulting in a total multiplier of 27. Take your base Strength at 12 Jewels and multiply by 27, that will be your maximum strength by the end, however, it uses a pair of Hammers and you use a Sword. it is called "Legacy of Strength: Handle on the World" set.

You could have one of my own creations called "Angel of Death God Tier Set" 12 pieces. It makes use of the fact the Saint Element can double any stat once or twice. With 1 piece your buffing will increase to 4 times, with 2 pieces 6 times, and so on for 12 pieces, resulting in a buff worth times 26 times at the 12th Jewel , it will also improve your Saint Element, making it stronger, and halving the cost of all Saint Element Skills, like the King's set for Time, and when you hit 10 pieces, it makes the Skill Resurrect automatic, you would never die by anything other than old age with it, and even that can be delayed with the Saint Element. I can consider it one of my greatest achievements, it uses a sword hilt that boosts holy power, making a Sword out of Holy Power that deals a ton of damage. A glowing laser Sword sounds cool right?

You could have a mixture I guess. With a 13 times multiplier of strength, the Holy Hilt, a times 13 to buffing at the 12th Jewel. I personally would not recommend this option, specialisation is the way to go."


Player Choice for your Consolidated Equipment God Tier Set, this is permanent, so choose wisely.
>Legacy of Strength, Handle on the World
>Angel of Death
>Legacy of Angelic Strength (Mixture)
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I was planning to make it to the power of 2 instead, but this also works, thoughts?
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>>3742498
>>Angel of Death
the buffing is too good to pass up, it results in a lower max limit to strength but allows us to apply the buffing to our other stats, like our HE, imagine the magnitude of the Heavenly Slashe we could do with this thing
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>>3742498
>Angel of Death
This is useful for both combat and healing
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IMPORTANT CHANGES

>Instead of a rolling increase, each new piece will just double your Strength or buffing ability.

>Legacy of Strength, by twelve Jewels will result in 2^13 multiplier for Strength, it will just double.
>Angel of Death, by twelve Jewels will result in 2^12 increase to your buffing, meaning a total of 2^13 for your buffing in total.

Sorry this change just makes my life a lot easier, and jkeeps in line with what I showed with Jessica.
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>>3742515
cool, still going for the buffing but thats a much cleaner change
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>>3742498
Oh shit, having to decide between OC stuff and the best thing from the original is hard. "Hate Ground No Handle" is the best single thing to come from that novel, period, so...
> Angelic Strength Set
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>>3742546
Sorry you were just a bit too late...

>Angel of Death God Tier Set Chosen

Writing, I will try and fine a good image for it, but imagine a mixture of a Valkyrie and Angel armour, it will initially be pure white due to your Icy Jade, but as you get more Jewels, it will become Gold and White, representing your Saint Element.

Something to note, your Jewels will embed themselves in the armour. One Jewel in the Hilt, another in the breast plate, another on the Helmet. Where do you want the other 9 to go in the end? They can be in groups of three or separate. Just go for it.
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>>3742515
Still going with
>Angel of Death
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>>3742553
> Two shoulders, facing outward; two knees; two on the palms of the hands; two on the ankles; one in the navel
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>>3742581
am ok with this except i rather then one on the navel actually be on our back in the opposite position to the one on our chest
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>>3742171
QM...
This Destruction Element...
Okay, this actually ties in with a question I've had for some time: will you adapt that awesomely nonsensical bullcrap that was the Saint Creation Energy?
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>>3742611
we would need to find a source for the other 3 saint elements and a way to simulate vortex creation for fusing them
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>Angel of Death, posting 2 images, first has the glowing sword, except replace with a golden coloured one, second one has the gold colour, and the wings. Pretty fancy. Changing the colour to keep in line with book cannon, realised that it has to be the opposite colour to the Jewel it came from. I have it all laid out:

Sword, First Jewel, hilt
Breastplate, Second Jewel, around the heart (only covers the front)
Helmet, Third Jewel, on the forehead
Right Glove. Fourth Jewel, on palm
Left Glove Fifth Jewel, on palm
Right Arm, Sixth Jewel
Left Arm, Seventh Jewel
Right Leg Eight and Ninth Jewels on the Kneecap and Ankle
Left Leg, Tenth and Eleventh Jewels on the Kneecap and Ankle
Boots, no Jewels
Waist-guard/Groin-plate, no Jewels
Back-plate, 1 Jewel in the centre. Covers the back.

>>3742611
No fucking way, that is too complicated to set up a system for. I will however get you to choose how to progress when you hit 9 Jewels though, as the Divine Independence Technique only goes to 9 Jewels, but that will come later.

"Angel of Death set."

"Good to hear, I have made 6 pieces, but each Scroll is pretty heavy, so I am going to give you one at a time. Take this."

She hands you the "Scroll", it is more like a thick rainbow crystal tablet! It is completely solid, you look inside the crystal structure, and see angelic motifs and heavenly imagery carved inside the very crystal! Even with your Strength, it is difficult to carry.

"You see, as they get more complicated, you have to start drawing in 3-D. I won't force you to go that far. It is heavy because it is weighted down by ideas and thoughts and the divine will of a Heavenly God Master. Use it by inserting your Heavenly Energy, then bringing the tablet to your Physical Jewel. Try it out here for me. I'll go get something sturdy."

She walks off. You follow her instructions. You see the crystal melt into your Jewel, shrinking until you feel its imprint on your Jewel Itself! You summon it, for free, as is supposedly unique to God Tier sets. It is only a hilt, a Pure Black one, contrary to your Icy Jade, but you then move your Elemental Jewel from your left wrist into the Holy Hilt in the middle, and a shining gold blade made of Holy Power, glitters in front of you.

>Holy Blade deals damage according to how many Jewels you have, at the moment it deals 1d700 damage.
>Buffing is now a 4x effect, which can be used once with no consequences, and twice with a STA roll.

With that done, you de-summon it, reverting to one Icy Jade Jewel. Master comes back with a slab of metal. She has also brought with her a second God Tier Scroll, and a Spatial Ring.

"Summon the Sword! Hit it with that buffing!"

>STR has been buffed to 2800!

>Roll 1d3850 (2800 STR+80 Sword Technique+700 Holy Blade) best of three for attack with the Holy Blade!
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Rolled 1806 (1d3850)

>>3742639
Can we shoot a havenly slash out of the sword? hell can we get a special fro heavenly slash that allows it to be shot out of a blade to add the damage of said blade to it?
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Rolled 2542 (1d3850)

>>3742639
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>>3742650
You can shoot Skills from the blade, because it has a Jewel in it. I will not be providing a special bonus. You already have the buffing.

If no-one else rolls again in the next 5 minutes, do feel free to roll for them.
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Rolled 163 (1d3850)

>>3742672
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Rolled 1091 (1d3850)

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Rolled 602 (1d3850)

>>3742672
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Rolled 3612 (1d3850)

>>3742672
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Rolled 2926 (1d3850)

>>3742639
>>3742615
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>2524
>Junior Brother Mo, you can go to sleep now, this will be the last update until tomorrow.

You summon your Holy Blade, insert your Jewel, making the blade of golden Holy Power appear from the black hilt. You swing down, and cut clean straight through the metal!

"Ahahaha! Now that's more like it!" Shao-Bao is looking excited, which looks a bit off as she is considerably old.

"Kuhum! Take these two. The Spatial Ring is indispensable, use it to store all of your stuff, and it weighs practically nothing. The second is the Scroll for the Breastplate, and second piece of Equipment! Enjoy!"

You leave, and now wear a black ring on your left index finger. You go back to your room, and store everything, it is now the afternoon. You have yet to use the Scroll for the Breastplate.

Player Choice for the afternoon
>Cultivate
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Store your second piece of the Angel of Death set.
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Perhaps the Guards, to learn Heavenly Whip a bit more.)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who? Jessica?)
>Other? (Write-in)

This is the last update until 6am BST tomorrow until 8am, this is because I may have to go see my Grandma for the day to help her with some stuff she cannot do on her own. If this is the case, I will post so, if it is not the quest will restart at 14:00 pm BST. Thank you all for playing! Congratulations on getting your Consolidated Equipment Set! Goodnight!
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>>3742734
>Store your second piece of the Angel of Death set.
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>>3742734
I appreciate your consideration, but I shall abuse my NEETdom and just wait until deep night for the guy over at Awakening Mirror to post an update. Good night, though!
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>>3742734
>>Store your second piece of the Angel of Death set.
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>>3742734
>Go see someone (Shian and Shara)
I forgot.
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>>3742734
>Store the second piece.

Now in the safety of your own room, you can now get this over with. You take out the rainbow slab. Insert your Heavenly Energy, and bring the imprint into your second Icy Jade Jewel. You feel like the shape is a lot larger than the Holy Blade.

You summon both pieces of Consolidated Equipment, the hilt forming in your right hand, and the second one moving from the wrist, and to the chest. Where it expands and flattens out to an immpossibly large black Breastplate with another socket for your Elemental Jewel in the centre, where your heart could be.

You move both of your Jewels to there resoective sockets, you start seeing small gold decals coming from the socket, a similar gold to the Holy Power in the Holy Blade.

>Buffing with the set on is now ×8

Well. You now have an evening to train. Your orders from this point are to help with the Space Force and prepare for the upcoming attack.

You check in the post section and find a small package with both a note explaining what is inside but also how to use it. It is that teleportation device. Merely break the crystal and you will be brought back to the Elemental Research department.

Player Choice
>Cultivate
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Go to the Space Force to help with the prep.
>Help out Jiang
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Perhaps the Guards, to learn Heavenly Whip a bit more.)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who? Jessica?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3744010
>Help out Jiang
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>>3744054
>Help out Jiang

You would find Jiang in the ballistics division. So with everything you have tucked neatly away in your Spatial Ring, you walk there.

You find her and the 9 Jewel Nature Master looking over a map of the City. 8 points have been marked in red.

"Princess? Sir? Is there anything I can help with?"

Jiang looks up at you. A you can see she is a bit tired.

"Uhuh. The eight points are places I could be stationed in the event of an invasion. My current job is to explode any enemy ships I see and to help with setting up some mines for the ground invaders. However. Out of these points. I don't know which one I should go for. There's one where the Cursed Forest Hunters are. One next to the border with the Wastelands. One on the north where Miller is. One on the south where there is nothing to get through so an open area to attack and the other 4 are just somewhere inbetween the cardinal directions."

>To note, Dershwa City looks like a rough semi-circle. With the flat side on the west, where the Wastelands is.

The Upper Level Zong Stage Master voices his opinion. Saying that she should be aiming for the north, as the monsters from the Wastelands will ignore her in the even they use this attack as an opportunity, and she won't burn down the forest with an explosion. She will also be closer to the allies that will travel from Miller.

Jiang says that she wants to be as close to the battle as possible. Which would be the Wastelands to the west.

Player Choice
>North (Miller side)
>South (Nothing much, farmland really)
>East (Cursed Forest)
>West (Wastelands)
>North-East
>North-West
>South-East
>South-West
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>>3744110
>South (Nothing much, farmland really)
Aliens always go for farms
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>>3744149
>South
>At least you got her out of harms way.

"Aliens would target our food, so the south."

"That makes sense. Alright. South it is."

With that done. You want to teach her some more Heavenly Energy Control. So you begin to describe how to move Elemental energy, but you don't knpw the pattern for fire. So you'll just have to wing it.

>Roll 1d100 best of three for teaching and Heavenly Energy Control. You get a +25 bonus. If only one person rolls, wait 5 minutes, then roll a 2d100 for me please.
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Rolled 26 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>3744192
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Rolled 90 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>3744192
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Rolled 1, 36 = 37 (2d100)

>>3744192
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>>3744205
>I'll be kind and ignore that 1
>90+25=115
>Heavenly Energy Control increases by 5.
>I will update the paste later.

She does really well. In fact, she is close yoa breakthrough! You decide to leave it and go to your room. You decide to not summon your Consolidated Equipment yet, you may as well save it for when the two of you fight next.

Player Choice for the evening.

>Cultivate
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Go to the Space Force to help with the prep.
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Perhaps the Guards, to learn Heavenly Whip a bit more.)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who? Jessica?)
>Other? (Write-in)

This is the last update until possibly around 17:00 BST, maybe later. I don't have to see my Grandma, because I have a surprise appointment this afternoon, so the quest will be on hold until that finishes. Thank you for playing!
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>>3744227
>Cultivate
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>>3744227
>Cultivate
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>>3744227
>Cultivate
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>>3744227
>>Cultivate
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>Cultivate
>Roll 1d100 best of three, the pool is 4640, due to the increase in Heavenly Energy Control.
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Rolled 21 (1d100)

>>3744606
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am gonna wait 5 more minutes before doing extra rolls
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Rolled 20 (1d100)

>>3744606
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Rolled 89 (1d100)

>>3744606
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>>3744628
>89
>Progress to the next Level
17384/2000

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 70th day. (Funeral is on day 76, your superiors know you are unavailable for that day, but not why, they don't need to know after all.)

Player Choice for the morning
>Cultivate
>Use one of the Gold Medallions to store Skills for free, for the day, you currently have a +20 to the summoning rolls due to the martial law in place meaning those looking for skills, they have more powerful Water skills, those designed to attack mainly, up to 9 Stars, thanks to what you told the King.
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Go to the Space Force to help with the prep.
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who? Jessica?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3744641
>>Cultivate
lets breakthrough and then go all in on space force, also need to talk to the master about commissioning a set for our bro
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>>3744641
>Cultivate
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>>3744641
>Use one of the Gold Medallions to store Skills for free, for the day, you currently have a +20 to the summoning rolls due to the martial law in place meaning those looking for skills, they have more powerful Water skills, those designed to attack mainly, up to 9 Stars, thanks to what you told the King.
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>>3744641
>Cultivate
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>Cultivate again
>Roll 1d100 best of three to cultivate.
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Rolled 18 (1d100)

>>3744675
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Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>3744675
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Rolled 57 (1d100)

>>3744675
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>70
Progress to the next Level of Heavenly Energy
20632/20000!

>You have an opportunity to break through into the next Level of Heavenly Energy!
>Roll 1d100 best of three to break through!]
>DC 50
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Rolled 69 (1d100)

>>3744693
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Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>3744693
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Rolled 12 (1d100)

>>3744693
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>Success!
>You have broken through to the 9th Level of Heavenly Energy!
>All stats increase by 10!

Status!

Strength 710 (720 Max)
Agility 170 (180 Max)
Endurance 170 (180 Max)
Flexibility 170 (180 Max)
Coordination 170 (180 Max)
Stamina 160 (180 Max)
Heavenly Energy 960 (970 Max)

Progress to the next Level
3834/40000

Player Choice for the afternoon
>Cultivate
>Use one of the Gold Medallions to store Skills for free, for the day, you currently have a +20 to the summoning rolls due to the martial law in place meaning those looking for skills, they have more powerful Water skills, those designed to attack mainly, up to 9 Stars, thanks to what you told the King.
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Go to the Space Force to help with the prep.
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who? Jessica?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3744724
>Use one of the Gold Medallions to store Skills for free, for the day, you currently have a +20 to the summoning rolls due to the martial law in place meaning those looking for skills, they have more powerful Water skills, those designed to attack mainly, up to 9 Stars, thanks to what you told the King.
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>>3744724
>>Go to the Space Force to help with the prep.
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>>3744724
>Go see Shara
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>>3744724
>Go to the Space Force to help with the prep.
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>Go to the Space Force to help with the prep.

Writing. However. I need to eat some tea, so it will be ready for 19:00 pm BST.
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>Go to the Space Force

With your new height of power. You think you should help prepare for the attack. You head over to the Space Force, and are asked to join one of the Elemental divisions for the defence.

Player Choice
>Spatial, where you will be manning a Spatial cannon and may be part of the counter attack force, people who will work as two man teams in small teleships to scout out the Moon and its estimated size in all the chaos, which will mean your role will be to redirect incoming Moon-Pods and other ships to people who can attack them or as stated above. You will learn the Fly skill, which will work for not only your own flight, but with any flying ship.
>Lightning division, you will man a Lightning attribute cannon, and will be shooting down any ships directly. Frying their circuits, even if they are resistant, it could do something.
>Life, healers to the injured, as you also have Wind, you will be on call for emergencies
>Water, you will man nearby Warships, which have been outfitted with Spatial technology using something akin to the telescope you have to fire long range Ice and Water, these creatures are weak to Water.
>Wind, information and message transfer between troops.
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>>3744804
which of these units is in the most need of manpower? and which of these units puts us in a situation where the resurrection skill will be the most used? Need to make sure we are maximizing our effect on the war
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i imagine either the life or spatial units are the ones in most need of Jewel Masters and Jessica is probably gonna lead the lightning corps if we manage to help the research department distill holy power well enough that she doesnt kill herself in despair when the month is out
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>>3744804
>Life, healers to the injured, as you also have Wind, you will be on call for emergencies
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>>3744809
I mean, they all have spaces for people. Life would be the best opportunity to use the Resurrect Skill. You would revive people in the battlefield and at base when you get the opportunity.

Jessica will be leading the Weapons department, which will focus on using new and recent technology in battle, some of which was tested on the expedition to the Wastelands.
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>>3744804
>>Life, healers to the injured, as you also have Wind, you will be on call for emergencies
we are the only person in the entire city with the Resurrection skill, might as well make sure to use it a lot to reduce the burden, using HE buffing we should be able to ressurrect 14-15 people a day with the skiils current cost, we can then work up the Special upgrade for teh passive resurrection contingency and apply it to the princesses
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>>3744832
oh wait focused regeneration, 14-15 people a section of the day
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>>3744839
Using your Consolidated Equipment, 960*8=7680, Angel of Death set halves the cost of all Saint Element Skills= 153 people per session, however the number of dead will depend on your rolls during that period.

>Life

You make your choice, you reckon that being the only person with the ability to resurrect, and your new Angel of Death set. Your usefulness will skyrocket!

You are join the division, and are immediately told to report to the Doctors. They tell you that they need to teach you some first aid, and some more specialised techniques. This means some more medical study. They say that it is mandatory, and they want to decrease the number of deaths any way possible, so they want to train you not to rely on your Saint Element.

They bring you to a classroom with fake cadavers and many first aid kits. You are joined by about 20 others, all with the Life Element. You begin with first aid in an emergency.

>Roll 1d100+100 best of three or increasing Surgical Technique, which will apply for all medical uses. You will be taught to a maximum of Useful Level, which will teach you to use your Life Element in specific ways.
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Rolled 33 (1d100)

>>3744849
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Rolled 67 + 100 (1d100 + 100)

>>3744849
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Rolled 83 + 100 (1d100 + 100)

>>3744849
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>>3744857
>183
>Surgical Technique increases by 9!
>Basic Surgical Technique 20/20
>Skill UP to Useful Surgical Technique 0/100

By the end, you can use both normal equipment and the Life Element to perform first-aid.

You are then asked personally to then use your Resurrect Skill to help revive some of the people the old Jessica used in experiments. You are lead to what looks like a mass burial grave outside the Palace, or at least, it looks like it. The doctors tell you that you are still in the Palace, but you can see sky.

"You know, most of these people were Jewel Masters testing out Stored Skills, or acted as live test subjects for new equipment. The people with the skill job new what they were signing up for, the test subjects didn't. We have people on standby to help. Beneath us are about 2000 people give or take. That's how many were murdered by the 4th Princess. I hope we can get through them all."

You summon your Angel of Death set, the Blade glowing gold, and buff your Heavenly Energy.

Player Choice for evolution of Resurrect, you have 153 points to spend
>Rank up 0/200 (Will make it so that you can revive someone even with just their soul)
>Cost down 0/30
>Special Evolution 10/20
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>>3744877
>30 cost down
>30 Special
>93 Rank up
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>>3744877
>Rank Up: 103
>Cost Down: 30
>Special: 20
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>>3744877
> Special Evolution +10 (Self-Resurrection upon Death)
> Cost Down +30
> Rank Up +113
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>OK, 30 into Cost Down confirmed

>You have 123 Points to spend. Everyone has different spreads, so voting for this will continue for 20 minutes longer, if it hasn't. I will be rolling for it.

>Cost of Resurrect decreases to 90 HE!
>Cost Down 0/60
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>>3744905
I want to change to
> Cost Down +60
> Rank Up +53
> Special Evolution +10 (Self-Resurrection upon death)
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Rolled 1 (1d3)

Rolling 1d3 for Choice

1=>>3744885
2=>>3744887
3=>>3744907
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>Cost Down as before
>Evolve Special 40/20
>Evolve Special goes to 20/40
>Rank up 93/100

>I am assuming people will go for Contingency, adding to the Paste. You do not have enough HE for the while, so you do not have it on currently.

You end up spending an entire afternoon resurrecting people. They are angry, disorientated, and will need therapy to recover. You on the other hand, receive a huge growth, not only does the Skill decrease in cost, you also learn right at the end that you can apply this to live people, to act upon their death, This will become handy soon.

With that done. You take your leave, and go back to your room, using Focused Regeneration to restore the Heavenly Energy you used. You wonder. If you gain control over your Heavenly Energy like Fei can, what could you be able to do?

Player Choice for the evening
>Cultivate
>Use one of the Gold Medallions to store Skills for free, for the day, you currently have a +20 to the summoning rolls due to the martial law in place meaning those looking for skills, they have more powerful Water skills, those designed to attack mainly, up to 9 Stars, thanks to what you told the King.
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Go to the Elemental Research centre, and ask if they can do some more research on your Saint Element, to see if they can use it to help Jessica.
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who? Jessica?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3744946
>Go see Jiang and apply the contingency to her
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>>3744946
>>3744951
>Go to the Elemental Research centre, and ask if they can do some more research on your Saint Element, to see if they can use it to help Jessica.
switching to this cause i need to think longer before voting
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>>3744946
>Go to the Elemental Research centre, and ask if they can do some more research on your Saint Element, to see if they can use it to help Jessica.
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>Go to the Elemental Research centre

You think back to how Jessica was acting when you came back from the island. If you don't do something, then she will do something to herself she may never come back from. You can bring the dead back to life, but insanity and depression is something else entirely. With that thought, you use Resurrect on yourself.

You hide as well as you can and find the medicinal part of the department. You don't want Jessica finding you if she's having one of her moments. You get there no problem.

"I was wondering, I have used my Saint Element to help her symptoms before, I want to know if I can help her further with a medicine based on my Saint Element."


"Certainly, we can try. We have been working on trying to learn the pattern of Saint Energy, so that we can use it in tools like any other Element, but it is tricky. The King's Time Element is the same. We think that it has something to do with how much one Element can do. Anyway follow me and we can run some tests for the pattern."

He takes you to a spherical room covered in Amethyst, Onyx and Opals. Supposedly you just have to release the Element into the surroundings, and it can get somewhere with it. However, the success seems to solely rely on luck.

>Roll 1d100 best of three for success in finding the pattern and structure of the Saint Element
>DC 85
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Rolled 8 (1d100)

>>3745002
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Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>3745002
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Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>3745002
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damn, does this at least lower the DC for future attempts?
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>>3745005
>>3745006
... Pitiful is an understatement...
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Good shit
So we have enough HE to purge shan of her demon aids
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>>3745023
i think it was said we need like 4th jewel or equivalent power
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>>3745011
By 5 sure.

>82, not good enough!

You do as they say. When you finish. They say it is a failure, but they can calibrate the chamber for the next time you come.

With that, you go back to your room to sleep.

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 71st day

Player Choice for the morning
>Cultivate
>Go show off your new Angel of Death set to Jiang, or someone else (Who?)
>Use one of the Gold Medallions to store Skills for free, for the day, you currently have a +20 to the summoning rolls due to the martial law in place meaning those looking for skills, they have more powerful Water skills, those designed to attack mainly, up to 9 Stars, thanks to what you told the King.
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Go to the Elemental Research centre, and ask if they can do some more research on your Saint Element, to see if they can use it to help Jessica. DC lowered to 80
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who? Jessica?)
>Other? (Write-in)


I need to go to sleep. Weather permitting, I might be able to go see my Grandma tomorrow to help with some gardening, that would mean the quest would start a lot later, think like 18:30 pm BST. If it rains too badly, the quest will start at 14:00 pm, BST. Thank you all for playing! Goodnight!.
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>>3745023
You need the 4th Jewel. Demons and medication are different things entirely.
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>>3745030
>>Go show off your new Angel of Death set to Jiang, while there explain the contingency to her and use it on the both of you and her other bodyguards
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>>3745030
>Go to the Elemental Research centre, and ask if they can do some more research on your Saint Element, to see if they can use it to help Jessica. DC lowered to 80
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>>3745030
>>Manners Practice
The world is ending so we need to practice our etiquette.
In all seriousness,
>Go to the Elemental Research centre, and ask if they can do some more research on your Saint Element, to see if they can use it to help Jessica. DC lowered to 80
There's less than 50% we get it bo3
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>>3745030
Also, how does the Contingency work with Skill Points? If we got it at application, we would have gotten a new one already, right?
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>>3745047
well contingency means we are caasting teh skill on a live target and the energy effectively remains around them, so figures its prob worth same as a regular resurrection
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>>3745030
>Go to the Elemental Research centre, and ask if they can do some more research on your Saint Element, to see if they can use it to help Jessica. DC lowered to 80
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When do we just randomly become an asshole as is tradition with cultivation novels?
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>>3745946
I mean, it shouldn't be random, but there are ways to move forward to make the PC more cynical, most notable being reluctant to tell people things about what you did, with the excuse that you can't trust them. You could also start progressing towards the Sunriser way of thinking, however this would put you through self doubt and depression, as you would begin either to think of yourself as superior due to your Elements and your status as a Heavenly Jewel Master, and you would then get curb-stomped by someone stronger than you, or inferior due to your current cultivation, which would result in you feeling like your are useless. We can think about these things when we get there. Your personality is built partially on the Elements you chose. Just like Fei is a bit air headed, she embodies the wind. Jiang is roaring like a fire, Tsushuri believes herself to be above everyone due to her Divine Element, you will come to embody a saint as you get more powerful and versatile.

>>3745047
You do have one more Skill Point to spend yes, I was just tired, so I didn't include it in the last update.

Player Choice, you have 1 point to spend
>Rank up 93/200 (Will make it so that you can revive someone even with just their soul)
>Cost down 0/60
>Special Evolution 20/40

>Go to the Elemental Research centre, and ask if they can do some more research on your Saint Element.

With the battle to be expected in a few days, you need to make sure one of your resident Heavenly Kings is in tip top shape, so you go back to the same place as yesterday evening, and ask them to calibrate the machine for you to try again. They agree, and this time you see that the Onyx in the walls of the Sphere has been changed to some Rainbow Moonstone, and there is a different arrangement of Amethyst. Where do they get all these precious jewels from anyway? They tell you that the Rainbow Moonstone will try to absorb the Saint Element, as it is compatible with it, which should get them focal points of where the pattern and structure become have their maximum and minimum displacement. You don't really get it, but you are glad that they at least told you some stuff about the process. You repeat what you did yesterday.

>Roll 1d100 best of three for them to find the pattern of the Saint Element
>DC 80
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>>3747125
*You are useless. Not "your are useless" I need to type more slowly.
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Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>3747125
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Rolled 35 (1d100)

>>3747125
> Rank Up +1
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>>3747128
Update in a bit. Had to pop out for a minor emergency. Feel free to roll again if nobody else rolls in 5 minutes.
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Rolled 45 (1d100)

>>3747125
Let's hope for my streak of bad luck to end here...
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>>3747156
Could someone please roll a 1d100 again for me?
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Rolled 24 (1d100)

>>3747163
Sure.
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>>3747163
>>3747162
Welp, 20 seconds apart.

>45
>Failure!
>Future DC lowered to 75

You try again, however, it fails, it supposedly works one in every 5 tries, however, not this time. The researchers say they may need some Onyx to dampen the white noise...they could do it now, or later. They have a better idea of what to do next. However, they can't do the evening, as they need to work on other projects.

Player Choice for the afternoon
>Cultivate
>Go show off your new Angel of Death set to Jiang, or someone else (Who?)
>Buy a Water Skill, with a +20 to the sealing DC
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Continue work in the research of the Saint Element, DC 75
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who? Jessica?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3747166
> Go see Shian and Shara
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>Go see Shian and Shara

You need a break, you also want to go see someone you were worrying about since the last time you saw her. Shara. You think for a bit and assume that if anything, she would be under protection by Shian. So you look around for the Darkness department, which is unsurprisingly near the Stored Skill Palace.

"2nd Princess? This is Zou-Do-Shai?"

You walk around until you find only one door to the side, labelled "Darkness Department". This must be it. You knock on the door.

"Who is it?"

"Zou-Do-Shai."

"Come in."

You open the door to find Shian sitting at an empty desk, she has summoned one piece of her Consolidated Equipment, an extra arm which is being used like a punching arm. She dismisses it when she sees you.

"Sorry about that, just making sure it is you. Why have you come here? I'm not helping with Spatial Skills."

"I would like to see Shara."

"Oh right. Sure. I managed to get her out of the cell. However, I am personally responsible in protecting her, So I need to make sure anyone who comes close is someone she can trust. Follow me."

You look around, things are cold, dark, you can't see much light from windows or crystal lamps. You see Shian summon her entire Consolidated Equipment set, and you see all the limbs shift and mould into very specific tools, which you see her use to unlock something in the walls. An entire section disappears, revealing a normal room.

"Be aware that the room is filled with hidden microphones to record stuff she says about the Moon."

You walk inside.

"Zou? Is that you?"

You see Shara looking at something on her desk. She looks healthy, there are no chains. Her wings are free. She looks up at you, smiling.

"Hehe. What do you think?"

You look behind you and the wall has been made real again.

Player Choice
>Write-in for both questions to ask Shara and things to tell Shara since the last time you saw her. Shian will hear everything you say, as she has an ear-piece to the room. 30 minutes.
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>>3747197
>It's been a while. How are they treating you now?
>I fought the Moon-Men. Do they hatch from eggs? Because I found one.
>How is it, being born with the Saint Element? I've had it for a while and it's been a doozy.
>Anything you need these days? Not to brag, but I got some rep lately.
>Sorry for last time, by the way. However, know that your "Heavenly Slash" saved my life and let me kill a Moon-Commander.
>How long have you been on Earth?
>How was life on the Moon? Is it as barren as it looks from here? Any good food?
>Does everyone from your species have Resurrection? Talk about an evolutionary advantage.
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Writing. That's a lot. Confused of your use of doozy, some people use it to mean "easy", some people use it to mean "difficult", please clarify.
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>>3747213
The "difficult", "complicated", "my body is changing and I'm blond now?" sort of doozy.
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"Well...how has everyone been treating you anyway? It's been awhile."

"Better. I can't go outside, but if I talk to some of Shian's friends every week I can have all of this!"

She points to the various things in the room. A bathroom, a 1 person bed, a desk, something you think might be designed to show images screwed into the wall, a big rectangle, and some other things. It is slightly untidy. You don't see a cupboard for clothes. So she must make them herself. She is wearing a sheet that covers her body and not much else.

"What's the thing in the wall?"

She makes a smug face at you. She seems a lot more happy than last time.

"I can use it to see almost anything I want! I've been learning how my wings work, it's been really interesting. I can't use them at the moment , but I am sure that will change soon!"

"I have made myself a respectable reputation, is there anything you might like?"

"I mean, a way to get stronger would be nice. Apparently, If I get strong enough, I can become human, but Shian and her friends don't want that...some way to get Heavenly Energy would be the best way, but everyone keeps telling me no, saying that my power could be useful to you. Oh that's right! I learnt what it's called now! Saint! That's what I am! I just knew I can help people really well. People seem really scared of me for some reason. I'm glad my power has helped you at least."

"Yeah. That Wind Skill I..stored from you was used to defeat a Moon Commander."

"Oh they're small fry. What was he?"

"All the monsters that attacked where I was put were metallic slimes, they could shape-shift."

You see her expression change to one of confusion.

"That's not right. When I was there they were a minority...you didn't see anything else?"

"No, how was the Moon like? Things must be a lot different now."

"Well. It was a long time ago. I don't really know time all that well. A bird can only do so much. Longer than you've been alive at least. It was grey...the Sun hurt so we all lived underground, none of us needed to eat, so I never went hungry, but there was nothing to do but fight and kill each other, I didn't like that. There was this one guy trying to gain power called "Kreyzar", he was all red and stuff. He said that we shouldn't live here any longer and tried to kill those that disagreed. I kinda agreed, so I came here one day. It was nice for a while."

"I was told about something called the Destruction Element, does that ring any bells?"

"I don't know? Is it something like our Saint Element?"

"Kinda, but it will be used with the cannon."

"Oh yeah! That sounds about right for Kreyzar, he dug tunnels and stuff. Destroyed the ground and everything."

"Huh. With our Saint Element, does everyone in your species have it? My experience has been complicated. I can resurrect people, but my body is changing. I wasn't always this blond."

"Hmm I don't really know. I don't remember anything. I just knew I was a bird and I could fly and help people."

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>>3747248
"Well. I'll keep you updated. I gave an egg from one of those slimes to someone, so we should have some answers soon."

"O-Ok. I'm just. I was watching something about birds on this place. Do you think that there are others like me? No-one else I met could do the things I can. Then now I hear that the red guy only has slimes, there was so much more. He could have done anything!"

"Don't worry about it. You're safe here."

"Huhuh! Shian promised me she would keep me safe. Your hair looks nice, so don't worry! Wings are nothing to be ashamed of!"

Well that's not exactly inspiring. You see her try and stretch her white wings out in a display.

"I'm sure I'll have fun with that. You mentioned that you have a third Skill for me last time, well it might take a little longer to get there. I still have two Jewels, but I am a Heavenly Jewel Master, so it will take a little longer, any spoilers?"

"No! Work hard and find out!"

"Sure. I'll come see you if there's any news alright?"

"Sure! I'll tell Shian to tell you if I want something."

"Got it." You knock on the same patch of wall, and leave the room. You see Shian looking at you with narrowed eyes. The wall appears behind you.

"Just so you know, she doesn't know about the attack in a few days. I don't want her to hear a peep afterwards, you got that?"

"Promise. How much of that did you already know about?"

"Most of it. Congrats on loosing to Jiang. If I see you grow wings I personally volunteer to cut them off. How's resurrection working out?"

"Good. Do you want a death protection contingency?"

"Uh what?"

"Shian might have something similar now that she doesn't have her power drained from her. If you die of something other that old age, you will be revived instantly."

"Sure. No funny business right? I know you need to touch someone to use that Skill." She rolls up her normally long sleeve.

As you are getting older, you are becoming more aware of these things, an namely that even though Shian is the second oldest, she is the most...developed out of the sisters. When you're done here you need to get out. She just hasn't learned to trust people like you. What does she think about Shara then? You know she has inclinations...things to think about later.

Player Choice (1), you have one point to spend for Resurrect
>Rank up 93/200 (Will make it so that you can revive someone even with just their soul)
>Cost down 0/60
>Special Evolution 20/40


Player Choice (2)
>Cultivate
>Ask Shao-Bao if she can arrange a 9 piece set for Song-Chad-Pah
>Go show off your new Angel of Death set to Jiang, or someone else (Who?)
>Buy a Water Skill, with a +20 to the sealing DC
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who? Jessica?)
>Other? (Write-in)

2/2
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>>3747297
>Rank up
>Ask Shao-Bao if she can arrange a 9 piece set for Song-Chad-Pah
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>>3747297
Shouldn't it be Rank Up 94?
Anyway,
> Rank Up +1
>Buy a Water Skill, with a +20 to the sealing DC
Time for Water Skill brainstorming!
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Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>3747310
Right yes 94, my word document didn't save properly it seems. Thank you.

>Rank Up 95/200

Rolling 1d2 for Choice
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>Buy a Water Skill

>Alright, this seems to be a good time to take a break. So I will leave the vote open for a long while.
>Some restrictions: Must be 9 Stars or less, Must cost 100 HE or less, they must all focus on attacking or making affects, as they want Skills to kill the Moon-Slimes. So no defensive skills. Can be Ice related at 4 Stars and above, Ice Skills still count as Water Element.
>Voting will last until 18:30 pm BST, I may or may not be here to answer questions as I need to cook tea, for previous sessions on deciding skills, look at previous threads, they are all archived with the same tags. I will consolidate the ideas people come up with when I get back, then offer my changes or improvements and my own ideas.
>The Rank of Skill you get will decide its cost, with 9 Stars costing 5000 Gold, and 1 Stars costing 200 Gold. You need to make some choices. Higher ranks mean more power and a better effect, but will cost more, which you won't get back if you fail the summoning, and have higher thresholds to rank up.
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>>3747377
>Hunter River Dragon: Create a long serpentine water dragon that catches multiple opponents inside its current, hitting them with the full length of its body, can be sustained with more HE to continue its hunting within the skills range
Basically an automated water attacking skill, the idea is to use the dragon and then jsut mantain the HE cost so it fights independent of us
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>>3747377
>Mirror, Mirror, Rank 7 Water Skill, creates illusions using copies made of water, can attack the target or be used to evade an attack. Costs 60 HE. Can only copy objects or people present during it's use.

> Rain Arrows, Rank 8 Water Skill, manifests an high number of raindrops in front of the users, to be shot at faster-than-sound speed. The number of raindrops is based on HE consumption (1 Raindrop = 10 HE, min. 5 Raindrops per Skill usage). Can be used to attack small, medium, large, wide, and super-wide areas.
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>>3747443
To explain further:
> Mirror, Mirror
It creates a copy made of water or ice of anything Zou can see; this limitation is because I doubt that Zou would be able to remember enough, for example, of Her Highness, to create a perfect copy of her to order her soldier around. Can be removed as Zou becomes more experienced with it (Rank Up).
> Rain Arrows
This skill deals lacerating damage, as it is, for all intents and purposes, an extremely sharp and durable bullet rain.
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>>3747377
>Black Turtle's Jaws, Rank 8 Skill, costs 200 Heavenly Energy.
>Conjures forth a misty image of the Northern Black Turtle, which grabs nearby enemies in its jaws and bites down. Despite its immaterial appearance it is incredibly strong, but physical attacks simply pass through without causing harm.
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>>3747441
Good Idea. Let me change some stuff
>Hunter River Dragon, 7 Star Skill. For 70 HE per round. can be used to restrain 1-5 opponents inside its length, dealing 1d4000 damage per round to each person inside its body, can be avoided with a roll of above 4000 for END, FLX and COORD. When restrained, the victim cannot attack or run, only take or avoid the hit. 4000 Gold.

>>3747443
>>3747461

Lets change some things, the limitation will be loosened to mean something you know very well, we can discuss this further.

>Mirror, Mirror, 7 Star Water Skill, creates an illusion of something the user knows the appearance and size of, will be made of Water and where appropriate, Ice, costs 70 HE, the illusion can be made to attack for damage equivalent to the amount of excess HE the user inputs. Evolution in the quality and colour of illusions, sight through the apparition and other aspects like the possibility to have the illusion become solid enough to hold weapons. The illusion will be destroyed immediately upon contact by an enemy. 4000 Gold.

>Rain Arrows 6 Star Water Skill, manifests a number of raindrops in front of the user, to be shot at faster-than-sound speed. The number of raindrops is based on HE consumption (1 Raindrop = 10 HE), where each raindrop deals 1d400 damage. Can be used to attack small, medium, large, wide, and super-wide areas. Evolution in power of raindrops, and the potential for snipes. 3000 Gold.

>>3747484

>Northern Black Turtle's Jaws, Rank 9 Skill, costs 100 Heavenly Energy.
>Conjures forth a misty image of the Northern Black Turtle, which grabs nearby enemies in its jaws and bites down. Despite its immaterial appearance it is incredibly strong, but physical attacks simply pass through without causing harm. Will deal 1d7000 damage to one opponent. 5000 Gold

My changes, feel free to ask questions. By a rule, unless the Skill is 10 Stars or above, they must cost less than 100 HE, so that Elemental Jewel users can use them at the first Jewel level.
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>>3747508
It's interesting that you changed so Rain Arrows can be used to snipe, because the "min. 5 Raindrops per usage" was exactly to avoid that, because it might overlap with other Skills. I actually envisioned the Skill as a wide area tactical bombardment attack, to be used in tandem with Flight.
I even had a variant in mind, which creates a massive Ice bullet to be dropped from orbit a la colony drop.
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>>3747508
for the new version of the dragon, do we use the skill once and then the effect remains like with the rapier? can we recast the skill to trap new people in the same dragon? Also what is the HE cost?
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>>3747520
Well, the min 5 raindrops per use thing sounded limiting, so I changed it. The wide area thing can still apply, this just gives you options if you encounter something that is weak to water in the wild, and you don't want to damage everything in its surroundings. Flight is achievable through many means, so go for it. It made sense to me. Evolution can develop this Skill into something like making Ice Meteor rain down.

>>3747521
70 HE per round, you would cast it for 70 HE and maintain it fpr 70 HE the next round, it will stay until it is dismissed, aiding to its relatively high Star Rank. You cannot recast it to catch new people in the same dragon. You can however cast a new dragon, but that means twice the upkeep in HE.
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Well, voting and ideas will last until 19:40 pm BST, if a decision isn't made by then, I will be rolling for it.
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am voting for the dragon, we currently lack restraining capabilities in general and even on 1v1 its damn good with its damage
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>>3747556
> Vote for Rain Arrows
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>>3747556
>Rain Arrows
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>Rain Arrows 6 Star Water Skill, manifests a number of raindrops in front of the user, to be shot at faster-than-sound speed. The number of raindrops is based on HE consumption (1 Raindrop = 10 HE), where each raindrop deals 1d400 damage. Can be used to attack small, medium, large, wide, and super-wide areas. Evolution in power of raindrops, and the potential for snipes. 3000 Gold.

>18821 Gold left.


You need something in the event you encounter a Moon-Slime on the ground, so you want to buy a Water Skill. You head right next door and look at the list. Almost all of them are attack Skills. You choose Rain Arrows. It is scale-able to any situation, and has multiple avenues of evolution.

You are joined by a small team of Darkness users in the ranges of 4-6 Jewels each and are lead to the tank of a very large Archer Fish, which apparently uses the Skill to deter any attackers, and to kill enemies who enter its territory.

You go close to the top, and the Darkness Element covers the entire thing from head to tail fin, paralysing it and stopping it from attacking. Time to go.

>Roll 1d100+20 Best of three to store the Skill
>DC 65
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Rolled 46 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>3747643
C'mon! There's bound to be an end for my bad luck!
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Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>3747643
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>>3747652
>66 wew
>Nat 1 next time it seems
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If no-one else rolls in the next 5 minutes, do feel free to roll again.
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Rolled 11 (1d100)

>>3747643
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>>3747653
>97
Success!

Adding it to the Paste and the word document.

You force your Heavenly Energy through the scales, and pull out the Skill, on the Water Section of your Second Jewel, you see an image of a rainstorm, with that done, you leave to go to bed.

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 72nd day!

You wake up with a letter. From Jessica Dershwa

"I found out about your work with the Saint Element, thanks, but wait until the attack is over, focus on preparing for that instead."

Player Choice for the morning.
>Cultivate
>Ask Shao-Bao if she can arrange a 9 piece set for Song-Chad-Pah
>Go show off your new Angel of Death set to Jiang, or someone else (Who?)
>Continue work in the research of the Saint Element, DC 75
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who? Jessica?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3747725
>Go work with the Space Force
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>>3747725
>Train a Skill (Which?)
In that mass grave or whatever it was, there were 2000 corpses, right? Are those still usable for Resurrection practice (Rank Up grinding)?
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>>3747733
Eyup. Precisely 1847 left.
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>>3747733
well yeah i figured thats what we would be doing if we went to the space force life element users
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>>3747750
Well there is a lot more to learn and consider, like which front will you initially be stationed in the event the attack happens on a day not on the funeral. Protocol if you come under fire. Details which you need to know in order to work better. This army runs on Life Element users being there for them and always knowing what to do, you know first aid and can revive people.

>Go work with the Space Force: Life division.

You think Jessica may have a point. So you head on over to the same place as last time, and start to ask a few questions and details.

You will be stationed at the border to the Wastelands, normally only those with 4 Jewels at a minimum can go there for military deployment, but considering your Resurrect Skill, they think it important that you are there to help.

They also tell you that in the event of any attack that comes too close, you are to retreat. Do not fight. You will be entering the Wastelands, you will die. You are also introduced to the name of your General: "Shuan-Bo", an Upper Level Zong Stage Life, Water, and Nature user, an experienced doctor, and will be held responsible. Your direct superior during the attack is any one of the nurses or doctors on hand, followed by head command, who will give you information by use of Wind Skills. You will be given a Light based flare gun to use in case of an emergency you can't handle, or in the event you think you will die. Replies to commands from the Life division will not be prioritised.

It is to note, that the Hunters, namely the Central Hunters, will be joining the war efforts.

They tell you that more will be told to you, such as general procedure during war, and what to do, through the post. You are told to report to the mass graveyard again.

You go there, don your Angel of Death set, and proceed to go through another 153 people one by one.

Player Choice for evolution of Resurrect, you have 153 points
>Rank up 95/200 (Will make it so that you can revive someone even with just their soul)
>Cost down 0/60
>Special Evolution 20/40


This is the last update until maybe tomorrow at 14:00 pm BST. However, it is results day for me (A-Levels, yes I am young), so I may not run tomorrow to sort out some paperwork for university. Thank you all for playing! Goodnight!
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>>3747809
> Rank Up +105
> Special Evolution (Stack Contingency +1) +48
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>>3747809
shouldnt we haave resurrected more people now that the cost went down to 90?
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>>3747809
>105 Rank up
>20 Special (Apply Saint stat buff to a stat upon contingency trigger)
>28 Cost down
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>>3747842
Right. Sorry about that. I'm tired and nervous. 171 points it is.
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>>3747864
in that case
>105 Rank up
>20 Special (Apply Saint stat buff to a stat upon contingency trigger)
>46 Cost down
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>>3747864
> Rank Up +105
> Special Evolution (Stack Contingency +1) +66

Anyway, have a good rest and good luck for tomorrow!
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>>3747864
>>3747873
Supporting This
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>>3747864
I have had my results back. I have a place at University. This means I will be spending the afternoon sorting out paperwork for the enrollment. So I won't be able to run today. Thank you for your patience.
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>>3749668
congratz!
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>>3749668
yay!
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>>3749668
The quest will restart at 15:30 pm BST today at the lastest. I apologise for the delay.
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Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>3747873
>>3747886
Rolling 1d2 for Choice, not for the route of evolution, but for the point distribution.
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>>3747886
>Rank Up +105
>Evolve Special +66

>Resurrect ranks up to 13 Stars
>The white and gold cross changes colour into a rainbow glimmer colour, like a metallic sheen except everywhere.
>As you only have 2 Jewels, you do not notice anything different, just that the cost of Resurrect drops to 40 HE. You cannot see souls, you will be able to much later in the future and roll for shenanigans, but not now. You are able to revive someone even if you only have their soul, and you can touch the soul

>Rank Up is now LOCKED
>Evolve Special 86/60
>Evolve Special 26/120

Player Choice
>Write-in for how you want this Skill to evolve. 20 minute voting time as normal.
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>>3752203
> Contingency Stack +1

Welcome back, QM!
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>>3752203
> Apply Saint Buff to a stat upon contingency trigger
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Rolled 2 (1d2)

Rolling 1d2 again for choice.
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im mostly thinking this can be used to buff for an attack since it shoould prob ginve a surprise round or something to just suddendly resurrect, or an agi buff to runt he fuck away
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>Apply Saint Buff to a stat upon contingency trigger
>We'll decide when we get there.

After doing that, you realise that not only does the Skill cost less, but you see a change in the colour, it becomes like a rainbow, shining bright. You look at the colour wheel, to see the cross surrounded by 13 Stars. You stare at it in disbelief. Skills only went to 12 Stars did they not? You think asking the King would be a good idea for the future.

You are dismissed by the doctors. They don't want to hang around a graveyard any longer, and they have nearly 200 people to re-home. So they tell you that if anything you should come back tomorrow. They give you 500 Gold for your continued services in helping the rest of these people, encouraging you that researching your Saint Element will help prevent future deaths, all though not all of them.

>You have 22321 Gold

Player Choice for the afternoon
>Cultivate
>Ask Shao-Bao if she can arrange a 9 piece set for Song-Chad-Pah
>Go show off your new Angel of Death set to Jiang, or someone else (Who?)
>Continue work in the research of the Saint Element, DC 75, ignoring Jessica's advice
>Go train Jiang
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3752262
>>>Go show off your new Angel of Death set to Jiang, while there explain the contingency to her and use it on the both of you and her other bodyguards
Jiang is gonna be in the wastelands and rob int he middle of combat, prefer her alive
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>>3752262
>Go train Jiang
And while there, let's ALSO show off our new bling.
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>>3752264
>>3744110
>>3744192

She is going to the south, where there isn't much, not the wastelands.
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>>3752267
ah, ok mb, still wanna apply the contingency
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>Go see Jiang and bodyguards for showing off and applying contingencies.

With your new additions, you think now is a good time to do your job. So you head off to the ballistics division, only to not find her there, and to see her instead a ways off in a private cultivation room. Apparently she broke through to the 9th Level a few days ago soon after your duel. Huh.

You knock on the door, and ask is she would like some Heavenly Energy Control teaching, and that before, you wanted to show her something. You don't see her bodyguards, they must be training.

"Hmm? Sure. Hey, Uh, I heard from...someone that you won't be here in the Palace in about 4 days; mind telling me why? I mean, there will be an attack any day now, and I want to be there to protect you when it happens. I can't really do that if you leave."

Player Choice
>Tell her about the funeral for Mama, and the teleportation device, then summon the set.
>Tell her it's nothing and summon your Angel of Death set at a distraction. applying the Skill
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>>3752319
>>Tell her about the funeral for Mama, and the teleportation device, then summon the set.
>>Been trying to distract myself with work and training, it doesn't feel real you know? and since she died from old age resurrecting her now wont do anything
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>>3752319
>Tell her about the funeral for Mama, and the teleportation device, then summon the set.
Usually it's good if your employer knows where you are.
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>Tell her

"I'm going to a funeral. You know the Mama I talked to you about last time? Well, old age just caught up with her. I can't miss it."

"Oh gosh I'm so sorry. I-I don't know what I would do without my mum. Can you revive her? Can I do anything?"

"No, I've been trying to distract myself with work and training, it doesn't feel real at the moment, and since she died from old age resurrecting her now won't do anything, I'll just make her suffer."

She gets up and hugs you for a bit. Head on your neck, as the two of you get older, you are slowly growing taller than her.

"Do you think I can come? I want to be there for you, always. It must be a long way from here, your old home."

"Yeah, but I got something to teleport me back in an emergency, so it should be OK. I have a best friend there too, so I won't be entirely alone, everyone there is my family, even gave them my old Cultivation Tools. So even if I can't help the Mama. I helped someone."

"Male or female?"

"Huh?"

"Your best friend."

"Male, he is training as an ambassador for the Dershwa Clan. Why do you ask?"

"No reason. Can I come? I want to see your family, you've seen mine."

You don't know how to feel about this, you haven't really gotten over the news, yet she wants to just straight out asked, her fire-like nature is really starting to show, flickering, she wasn't invited, but she is a member of the Royal Family. That could be good for Song. You would be glad to have that support, and there is time to ask for another teleportation tool if you are sneaky about it, you're not sure if her Father would consent. You need to think about this.

Another Player Choice, sorry but it felt like the obvious thing to do, I don't think I'll let you invite anyone else, as more people means less secrecy.
>Tell her she can come
>Tell her that you want to go alone, just to keep you safer.

>After this you will be showing off the skill and fancy armour, sorry about this.
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>>3752353
>Tell her that you want to go alone, just to keep you safer.
Now that the moonmen are attacking it's more dangerous than ever outside the palace. She needs to stay safe inside, where there are a bunch of really strong people to help her.
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>>3752353
>*Tell her that you want to go alone, just to keep her safer.

Dammit
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>>3752353
Male or Female? she got her priorities straight
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>>3752353
>>Tell her she can come
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>>3752353
>Tell her she can come
Bring the lady to greet the family.
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>Tell her she can come.

"Yeah. Make sure to wear something appropriate, the place is kinda poor. I'll be coming in my uniform. I'll be leaving in the morning so just find me then okay?"

"OK. Is there anything else I need to be worried about?"

"I'll get you another teleportation tool under wraps. If people ask who you are. Tell the truth. Lairs are not liked and we know when to keep secrets. I didn't ask about food and stuff, but it'll be fine."

You need more time to think about what to bring, and what you'll do to remember her, but you don't like talking about it, not now at least. Time for a distraction.

"To make a more happy moment, let me show you something."

You let her go, and summon your two pieces of Consolidated Equipment, the black and gold hilt, followed by the breastplate, each with a Jewel.

"Woah! Uh I mean. Congratulations?"

She looks at the glowing gold Holy Sword, the Holy Power shimmering.

"What does it do?"

"Well, you know I can increase other people's stats with my Saint Element? This currently allows for an 8 times increase, instead of the 2."


"Wait, with only two pieces? I can get a 4 times multiplier with my Stamina burn, no way is that fair! That's it! I'm going to see Shao after this! Teach me!"

"Before that, hold out your arm. I need to do something."

"Hm?"

You use Resurrect, the rainbow glowing cross appearing on the palm, and you touch it to her arm. The Saint Element pours through her body. Strangely, you feel like the Skill almost reacts with something in the air, but that can't be right.

"There, if you end up in a sticky situation, that should help. Now back to work, with enough Heavenly Energy Control you might be able to burn excess Stamina naturally, so it should make it even more powerful."

"Hmph. All that power with one of the Great Elements has gone to your head!"

You see her holding her arm with her other hand, where you touched her with the Skill. After beating you, then breaking through, then realising you are still more powerful, she must feel pretty disheartened.

"Keep talking like that and I won't teach you anymore."

"Whatever Mr Angel, how's that blond hair working out for you?"

After talking to Shara, you realise that this could become a serious problem. Is it your age, your cultivation is too strong for your body to handle, and it just changed it to make it more compatible? The King doesn't seem to show any signs like this.

You put your foot down and tell her to start to meditate, and you help her establish the control over structure one needs to use their Element in fun ways.

>Roll 1d100+25 for teaching and Heavenly Energy Control training, best of three. You will also have the choice of stat to train from after this.

Player Choice for the one point for Resurrect Evolution
>Cost down 0/60
>Special Evolution 26/120
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Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>3752443
>Special
that was way too close to trips of death
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Rolled 1 (1d100)

>>3752443
> Special Evolution +1
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>>3752456
THE NAT1 IS HEREEEEEE!
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>>3752456
goddammit mo
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Rolled 98 (1d100)

>>3752443
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Rolled 14 (1d100)

>>3752456
>>3752464
Should have rolled a 17.

Ah. Joy. Guess you might not be doing that Stat training after all. Poor Jiang, she was about to get a breakthrough too.

Rolling 1d100 for stuff
>DC 50 for her walking out on you afterwards in a huff
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Rolled 33 (1d100)

>>3752486
I'm feeling kind of bad for Jiang now...
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>Special Evolution 27/120

>>3752486
>NAT 1
>Critical Failure! You make no progress, and Jiang makes very minimal progress!

You see her try, and you try and explain it, but nothing seems to work.

"Zou. I think the good news someone so graciously told me is affecting me. What next, you gonna buff my training skill or something?"

Now that's an idea.

Player Choice
>Choose the stat to train her in out of the 7.

>Roll 1d100 for success in buffing something more abstract, DC 95. best of three

>>3752492
Does not count towards this roll.
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Rolled 88 (1d100)

>>3752486
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Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>3752501
>Strength
we gotta train Strength and HE now to avoid losign out
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Rolled 80 (1d100)

>>3752501
>Stamina, if already fully trained then Agility
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>>3752501
> Buff Strength
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>IT'S FUCKING RAINING AGAIN FOR THE ETERNAL DAO'S SAKE

>88 close but no cigar
>Train Strength.

You think some strength training is in order. You haven't trained any of your stats since the trip, and the new Jewels you have certainly give you an incentive for strength. You try buffing her training, but you only buff her Heavenly Energy, which gives her a small fright as her Heavenly Energy skyrockets by 8 times.

"Wow. I take it back, I feel so powerful!"

You see her summon her staff, and start practising her attacks with this new strength, using boosting occasionally. At least she's happy now.

>Roll 1d100+25 best of three for teaching and Strength gains, bearing in mind that until this point, you have not trained any of your stats, including Heavenly Energy.
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Rolled 44 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>3752535
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Rolled 11 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>3752535
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Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>3752535
btw do we need to use an action to get get cores for HE training or is there a machine already set up in here to do so?
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Rolled 67 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>3752535
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>>3752545
Machines are here. No Gold needs to be spent.

>69 total whilst training Jiang.


You do better, but not spectacular. The buff stays for the entire duration, which means she could just train her strength. She doesn't seem all to into it.

"I thought you didn't want me to have muscles?"

"We are going to war. Your strength is supplied mainly by your Heavenly Energy anyway, so your figure will stay mostly as it is."

"Huh? Oh. Okay!"

She happily continues training.

>Strength is now 713

With that done, you need to find your comrades.

"Where are the others?"

"Discussing strategy, I will only have the user with me, so they are discussing where the others will go. I know you were put on the wastelands. Good luck! You'll find them in the Library. The Lightning user like it."

"Alright".

They are actually quite far away, you don't have much time in the afternoon left, and you can't make the trip unless you want it to take the evening.

Player Choice for the evening
>Cultivate
>Go to the other bodyguards, there is not enough time to see them in the afternoon, only the evening
>Ask Shao-Bao if she can arrange a 9 piece set for Song-Chad-Pah
>Go show off your new Angel of Death set to someone else (Who?)
>Continue work in the research of the Saint Element, DC 75, ignoring Jessica's advice
>Go train Jiang
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who?)
>Other? (Write-in)

I need to eat some tea (Spicy Thai prawn curry, easy to make if you buy de-veined prawn, and delicious). So the quest will restart at 18:45 pm BST. Thank you all for playing!
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*19:00 pm BST. Sorry.
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>>3752575
*I will only have the Nature user with me

Damnit.
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>>3752575
>>Ask Shao-Bao if she can arrange a 9 piece set for Song-Chad-Pah
need to arrange this before the funeral
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>>3752575
>Ask Shao-Bao if she can arrange a 9 piece set for Song-Chad-Pah
>>
Update later, possibly 19:15. Cooking took longer than expected.
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>>3752575
>Continue work in the research of the Saint Element, DC 75, ignoring Jessica's advice
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>Ask Shao-Bao if she can arrange a 9 piece set for Song-Chad-Pah.

Jiang is tired after that, so calls of her trip to Shao. Telling you that she needs to something else.

You decide to take a trip instead, you need to sort this out before the attack.

You see her at her stand. When she sees you, she narrows her eyes at you.

"Another Jewel, so suddenly?"

"No, a favour. My best friend, and ambassador in training, is looking for a 9 piece Consolidated Equipment set. I was wondering of you could make one."

"Hmm, which attributes?"

"Flexibility, Coordination, Stamina, 70% Waxy Jade, 20% Red Jade and 10% Black Jade."

"I agree, but only if you do some more Scrolls. How many can you do now with that Angel of Death set?"

"With Buffing? 307."

"Hehe. Well then. Get to work! It has some Zong Stage Scrolls. This is the Ring I made to store the huge number of scrolls you might need to progress, only come back when you have done exactly 307 of them, there are 10000 total Zuns and 1000 Zongs. You don't need to keep them all, but please do so if you have the ambition."

She throws a special Spatial Ring at you, you assume it must have the said Scrolls.

This is going to take forever.

>Roll 1d100 best of three, I will apply said roll to all 307 scrolls for the bonus, then add it too Literacy, this way, you can also break through into Master Literacy, not Divine, but we can get there in time.
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Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>3752744
Secret Technique: Nat1Nat1Nat1!
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Rolled 65 (1d100)

>>3752754
*Hijutsu! Natu Wano!
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>>3752760
Ah well. I no-one else rolls in the next 5 minutes feel free to roll a 2d100.
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Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>3752744
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>>3752766
them lucky 7s
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Rolled 36, 84 = 120 (2d100)

>>3752763
>>
>77
>Total Bonus of 921
>Extensive Literacy 1089/500
>Skill UP! to Master Literacy 589/2500
>You will become a Zong Stage Consolidated Equipment Master at 2000/2500, with Grandmaster at 2500/2500, however, you will not be able to progress to Divine, as you will not have the Heavenly Energy to create them. Rules for good Zong and above Scrolls are slightly different.

You spend the entire evening doing as many as you can. At the end of it all you don't even think until you mindlessly change the scrolls to Zong halfway through and start struggling more. You complete all 307, and collapse at the desk in exhaustion. Your Heavenly Energy is usable a bit, but your physical Stamina can't keep up. Zong Scrolls are 3-D, like the God Tier ones, but are made of paper. Your control over the Spatial Element allows you to fill in the many different piles. However they all end up using at least 5 different kinds of ink. So you fail even by the end.

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 72nd day

You wake up at the desk, with Shao-Bao hitting you on the head.

"Ow! What? Where am I?"

"At my desk. Get out of that chair, or I won't be able to make that set!"

You shoot up at start to bow to your Mistress on both knees.

"Thank you Mistress!"

"Congratulations on making your first step to becoming a real Consolidated Equipment Master, some of these Zong Scrolls look half decent if they were completed correctly. Now come back in the evening for the set. This'll be easy. To match his Flexibility and Coordination I'll give his actual armour Water Element, but something like Fire for his weapon will be great. What does he use again?"

"Sword I think. He mostly writes with a pen though."

"Gotcha. I can whip something special up. He could be a summoner."

"What?"

"With his limited Heavenly Energy, boosting will not be useful. So I shall give him an alternative to create and write into existence some Fire Element familiars. They won't be able to grow or anything, but I'm sure some Skill out there can change that. Good luck young man!"

"Thank you Mistress!"

You do as ordered, and leave to do something else. Those Zong Scrolls were hard. She can make a unique set in a day?

Player Choice for the morning
>Cultivate
>Go to the other bodyguards, to apply the contingency and check where they will be
>Practice routine with the Life Element division of the Space Force.
>Continue work in the research of the Saint Element, DC 75, ignoring Jessica's advice
>Go train Jiang, she is currently coming to see Shao-Bao anyway
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3752830
>Go train Jiang
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>>3752830
>Continue work in the research of the Saint Element, DC 75, ignoring Jessica's advice
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>>3752830
>Continue work in the research of the Saint Element, DC 75, ignoring Jessica's advice
>>
>Continue work with the Saint Element

You need to get this done soon. You rush over to the Elemental Research department, before you make it very far however, you are given something by one of the staff. A hat.

"Hey, wear this, we don't want Jessica to see you. Her medication is working less and less, I'd give it 2 weeks before we need you to take her medication and replace it with your Saint Element. She's in her bonkers mode. So we need to hide you as you walk through."

The hat works, and you try again at the same machine. You see that there is a small amount of Onyx embedded to help with something.

>Roll 1d100 best of three for them to get the pattern of your Saint Element.
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Rolled 30 (1d100)

>>3752881
home stretch to save jessica
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>>3752888
welp, i triped
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Rolled 26 (1d100)

>>3752881
NAT1NAT1NAT1NAT1NAT1NAT1!
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Rolled 28 (1d100)

>>3752881
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Rolled 8 (1d100)

>>3752881
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Rolled 22 (1d100)

Seriously! This is the third time you failed!. The dice gods want Jessica dead or something!

Rolling 1d100 to see how much the dice gods dislike Jessica.


>26, 28, 30
Failure!

It doesn't work.
>DC lowered to 70 for future rolls.

"Don't be so disheartened, she's in a strop so we can try again in the afternoon."

Player Choice for the afternoon
>Cultivate
>Go to the other bodyguards, to apply the contingency and check where they will be
>Practice routine with the Life Element division of the Space Force.
>Continue work in the research of the Saint Element, DC 70, ignoring Jessica's advice
>Go train Jiang, she is currently coming to see Shao-Bao anyway
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3752888
>>3752897
>>3752905

Seriously, is it us or Jessica who are so stupidly unlucky? Don't answer, I already rolled a Nat1 and some terrible gacha pulls today: I know it's me.
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>>3752915
>Continue work in the research of the Saint Element, DC 70, ignoring Jessica's advice
I'm feeling lucky
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>>3752915
>Continue work in the research of the Saint Element, DC 70, ignoring Jessica's advice
Can we anything else to lower the DC?
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>>3752920
Nope! You already have a 15 lower DC! It'll keep going until you pass.

>>3752919
>8
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>Continue work in the research of the Saint Element, DC 70, ignoring Jessica's advice

>Roll 1d100 best of three again! Nat 100 gets you maxed HE considering your previous failures.
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Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>3752936
There's only so much bad luck
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Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>3752936
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Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>3752936
>>3752888

do we get anything for my 888?
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>>3752981
We'll probably find another Diamond on the side of the road. People keep throwing those away, for some reason.
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>>3752981
Yep. 150 Gold for your success. I actually didn't see the trip. So thanks for pointing it out.

>You have 22821 Gold, you will be getting your Salary soon.

>96 Success!

"We've got it! "

Finally. You get out of the sphere.

"When can you start to make use of it?"

"We'll work on it for this evening, she'll be fine as long as she stays in her office or her room. We'll make a piece of equipment for her. Thanks for the help. Take 150 Gold for your time."

With that, you leave, your job done.

Player Choice for the evening
>Cultivate
>Go to the other bodyguards, to apply the contingency and check where they will be
>Practice routine with the Life Element division of the Space Force.
>Go train Jiang
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who?)
>Other? (Write-in)

Last update until 15:00 pm BST tomorrow. I have work tomorrow as well, so the quest won't be able to run for about 3 hours in the afternoon. We'll make do. Thank you all for playing! Congratulations on getting your first 13 Star Skill! Goodnight!
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>>3752999
>Go to the other bodyguards, to apply the contingency and check where they will be
Also 999
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>>3752999
>>Practice routine with the Life Element division of the Space Force.
TRIPS OF EVOLUTION!
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>>3752992
You don't have that Diamond. Jessica crushed it in a rage with her teeth when she tried to swallow it.
>>3752999
Trips of evolution!

Player Choice
>Independent Rotational Charge increases to 2d30, making that the free limit for Barrages/Gatling's
>You get to choose to fill in a Skill evolution category once, like you would choose the Skill, then choose the category.
>Guaranteed 10 Star Saint Skill at the 4th Jewel, of which there is none available.
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>>3752999
>Go to the other bodyguards, to apply the contingency and check where they will be
Also, Trips of Evolution!
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>>3753022
>Independent Rotational Charge increases to 2d30, making that the free limit for Barrages/Gatling's
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>>3753022
>>Guaranteed 10 Star Saint Skill at the 4th Jewel, of which there is none available.
Saint skills are too hard to find otherwise
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>>3753023
Btw said Diamond was a remnant of a Low Level Shi Stage Earth user who died in the assault, remember the Jewels get left behind after death? Well that was him. His soul is probably around somewhere.
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>>3753022
>Guaranteed 10 Star Saint Skill at the 4th Jewel, of which there is none available.
Space Gate skill here we come!
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>>3753036
guess well see him when we get stronger and become able to see souls
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>>3753036
>>3753042
That said, how many dead people keep hanging around? If we started roaming the Palace spamming Resurrection, would we end up resurrecting someone important?
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>>3753052
i imagine the souls move on and only recent or regret ones stick around
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>>3753052
I mean. Not many sit at surface level. Some go to Heaven. Some go to Hell. The ones that stay normally don't belong to either camp. So most people. Powerful cultivators go to Heaven, except Evil Element ones, because they are divine beings, so can bend the rules. You are unlikely to find anyone worthwhile, but you are welcome to try. You would roll a 1d1000 as you cannot see souls. This would determine the quality of the soul. Some powerful cultivators stick around for a while to see their decendants more closely. A Nat 1000 could mean a Heavenly King at best or one of your biological parents. Which do have a minor backstory, Zou doesn't remember much about them.
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>>3753077
i now am convinced our paprents souls are following us around and when we get strong enough to see and sort through souls we can bring them back, prob aroudn the same time we can revert the effects of aging and bring back Mama
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>Guaranteed 10 Star Saint Skill, on the 4th Jewel
>Go see your fellow bodyguards.

Time to find your comrades. You end up just calling them one by one. You actually find out they are in different places. The Darkness user is in a secluded place for Cultivation, but can make some time if you think it appropriate. The Lightning user is in a training room specially built for Lightning Skills and the leader, the Nature user. Is discussing strategy with the Fire Element head about what Jiang might do.

You see the head first.

"Sir?"

"Pardon? Ah yes. You said it was important?"

"I need to use a Saint Skill on you."

"Sure. The others?"

"After this."

You use the Skill on him, and tell him the effect. He seems very shocked, and congratulates you on "discovering" a new use of the Resurrect Skill. He tells you that he will be joining Jiang on the south due to his Element supremacy.

You leave to find the Lightning user. You have to enter with permission from a guard nearby, as apparently the Skills being used are too powerful to just let the door open randomly. This process takes a little long, but you also use the Skill on him.

"Huh? I didn't know it could do this? Well, with all this training, I shouldn't need it. Thank you anyway. I'll be in the north, so I can be supplied by some batteries for attacks."

He goes back to shooting Lightning. You leave before anything too powerful is summoned.

You find the Darkness user resting, asleep, not cultivating.

"Huh? Ah whuzzat? *Cough*. Just get it over with. I need some beauty sleep."

You remember in the Cursed Forest that he was a lot more laid back, but this was unexpected. This must be the reason he only has 6 Jewels.

You use the Skill, and ask where he might be.

"Forest. It's already dark, so it's home turf. Good luck dying in the Wasteland. Thanks for the pre-rez..."

He goes back too sleep.

Player Choice
>Cultivate
>Practice routine with the Life Element division of the Space Force.
>Go train Jiang
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3755522
>Train HE
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>>3755522
>Train HE
>>
>Train HE

You need to get this done sooner rather than later. You haven't been cultivating or training much, and it shows. Jiang broke through before you too. Time to train. You go find an Orb. Apparently being a bodyguard to a Princess means you don't have to pay. As it is in everyone's interest you get stronger.

>Roll 1d100+40 best of three to increase HE stat.
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Rolled 81 + 40 (1d100 + 40)

>>3755544
>>
Rolled 91 (1d100)

>>3755544
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>>3755550
does this count as quads?
>>
Rolled 86 (1d100)

doing the third roll cause am shamelessly fishing for quints
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>>3755552
Probably not
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>>3755555
ok so 5 5s, what does that mean?
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>>3755552
No.
>>3755555
QUNITS OF GOD! MAY YOUR FISHING BE FOREVERMORE FRUITFUL. What this means is that the Dao itself will break the rules a bit to help you in certain ways. Voting for this will be open for 30 minutes,

Player Choice for evolution of Resurrect, 3 points
>Cost down 0/60
>Special Evolution 27/120


Feel free to roll again if no-one else rolls in 5 minutes.

Player Choice due to 55555, the Dao/God gives you a hand.
>Get a free increase to your Heavenly Energy Level count by 3, with all the trimmings like Stats, making your Energy Level count 11/48 with full stats.
>A special divine power separate from your Jewels, this one means that instead of rolling a 1d100 for cultivation rolls, you would roll a 1d200, with rolls above 100 counting as more than your cultivation pool, if you rolled a 150 you would gain 1.5 times the amount you have in bonus.
>Roll for a new Element, with a High DC, you would be limited to a stage 2 Element or below each with different DCs.
>Q&A with the personification of the Dao.
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>>3755568
wait so is teh free increase effectively breaking thourhg 3 times in a row with max stats and everything?
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>>3755568
>Special: 3

>Get a free increase to your Heavenly Energy Level count by 3, with all the trimmings like Stats, making your Energy Level count 11/48 with full stats.
>>
>>3755571
Yup.
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>>3755573
>>3755568
>Get a free increase to your Heavenly Energy Level count by 3, with all the trimmings like Stats, making your Energy Level count 11/48 with full stats.
yeah that put us one level away from the next jewel, like the divine power is prob better int eh long term but we need to power up for teh incoming war, we dont really need mroe elements, and the questions with the dao would be interesting but cant really use that if we die before we can use it
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>>3755568
>A special divine power separate from your Jewels, this one means that instead of rolling a 1d100 for cultivation rolls, you would roll a 1d200, with rolls above 100 counting as more than your cultivation pool, if you rolled a 150 you would gain 1.5 times the amount you have in bonus
>Special +3
>>
this is retty funny
>I should train some more Jiang is kinda beating me in speed right now
>*goes train HE a little bit*
>Oh I had 3 full breakthroughs with maximized training... cool
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>>3755568
>Special Evolution: 3
>A special divine power separate from your Jewels, this one means that instead of rolling a 1d100 for cultivation rolls, you would roll a 1d200, with rolls above 100 counting as more than your cultivation pool, if you rolled a 150 you would gain 1.5 times the amount you have in bonus.
>>
I think it's best to take the permanent boost to our Cultivation rolls. It has much greater long-term benefits than three ranks.
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>>3755568
>Special Evolution: 3
>A special divine power separate from your Jewels, this one means that instead of rolling a 1d100 for cultivation rolls, you would roll a 1d200, with rolls above 100 counting as more than your cultivation pool, if you rolled a 150 you would gain 1.5 times the amount you have in bonus.
>>
(BTW, it is the 73rd day today, forgot to mention, it is the afternoon now.
>>3755607
Sorry man you missed the 30 min limit.

>Get a free increase to your Heavenly Energy Level count by 3, with all the trimmings like Stats, making your Energy Level count 11/48 with full stats.

>Current Status

Strength 780 (780 Max)
Agility 220 (220 Max)
Endurance 220 (220 Max)
Flexibility 220 (220 Max)
Coordination 220 (220 Max)
Stamina 220 (220 Max)
Heavenly Energy 1030 (1030 Max)


Progress to next Level: 3834/46000, where you will break through to the third Jewel.


You are about to start training, when you get the same sensation of the Dao.

"Hello. It looks like you might be needing some help. Well. Consider this my small token of support."

You suddenly feel a huge change! You feel 3 new generators being made instantly!

You take stock. What the hell. You use the Life Element to check your spiritual body, and see all 11 generators spinnig and making new Heavenly Energy.

You are close to breaking through. However, how on this blue earth do you explain this to anyone? You know this isn't normal. The King won't mind. However, Jiang, everyone really, are going to start asking questions, it has not even been 2 weeks since you awakened as a Mid Level Shi Stage Heavenly Jewel Master, yet, you could very well soon become a High Level. This could pose some problems. You just sit down on a bench, and meditate for a while on it, running these new generators to test them out.

>Roll 1d100 best of three to Cultivate

This will be the last update until 19:45 pm BST as I have work. Thank you all for playing!
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Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>3755625
time to get a nat 100 and get our third jewel
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Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>3755625
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Rolled 85 (1d100)

>>3755625
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Rolled 4 (1d100)

>85
Progress to the next Level.
7778/46000

Your sudden increase will help during the attack. However. You still haven't gone to collect Song's set. Now might be a good time. You need a break from things like this. You start to formulate retirement plans. Maybe become a teacher, maybe doctor, or find a different trade. Something where you won't have to explain things like this. Something quiet.

Player Choice for the evening of the 73rd day.
>Cultivate
> Go see Shao-Bao for Song's 9 piece set.
>Practice routine with the Life Element division of the Space Force.
>Go train Jiang
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Try looking for that feeling in the air when you used Resurrect with Shian
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who?)
>Other? (Write-in)

Rolling 1d100 for stuff, DC 95
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>>3756070
Real plot spoilers
Something to note. I have made plans, not to use Saint Creation Energy, but the Creation Energy/Origin Element later on in the story. We have the parts for it. So I don't see why we can't make use of it at least once right. Also, with your recent connection to the Dao, you are temporarily more in tune with the afterlife, this means that if you start to investigate the Resurrect Skill, for a small while, you will have a greater chance of success in unlocking something early to do with souls.
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>>3756070
>> Go see Shao-Bao for Song's 9 piece set.
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>>3756093
how long does the blessing last?
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>>3756101
Until the end of the attack, which could be in about 2-3 days. Then because of the death overload in wartime, it will break.
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>>3756070
> Go see Shao-Bao for Song's 9 piece set.
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Rolled 54 (1d100)

>Go see Shao-Bao for Song's 9 piece set.

No time like the present. You run over, using your impressive natural speed to make the journey short.

Your having some trouble controlling it, but you learn to pace yourself.

"Mistress. Zou-Do-Shai has arrived!"

"Late! I expect better from you!"

She throws you a satchel.

"There, there are 9 boxes in there. Each with 1 Scroll, A God Tier Quality 9 piece set. He will only need one for each piece. However. If you truly want to know what it does. Then you'll have to wait for him to use the scrolls. I think our business is done here. Goodnight!"

She slams the door to her place shut. At least you have the satchel. You dash back to your room.

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 74th Day.

I am rolling 1d100 for stuff, DC 90, if met, then your choice for the morning will be replaced.

*Knock knock*

"Hi Zou! I want some training! Fei's been ignoring me and everyone so she hasn't been teaching me! Come on wake up!

After last time you're not sure you want to try again...

Player Choice for the morning
>Cultivate
> Go see Shao-Bao for Song's 9 piece set.
>Practice routine with the Life Element division of the Space Force.
>Go train Jiang
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Try looking for that feeling in the air when you used Resurrect with Shian
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who? Fei? Jessica? The King?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3756166
>>Go train Jiang
we can train our heavenly energy control i guess, then we can go resurrect and cultivate
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>>3756166
>Go train Jiang
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>Go train Jiang

"Sure. Let me get ready."

You slowly get up, but something isn't right. You can feel something almost pushing down on you. You swear you can hear chitters and scratches in the walls. Which doesn't make sense, as they are solid Amethyst, no room for bugs to crawl around. You open your door after getting dressed, and try to look at Jiang. She's wearing her normal clothes, but something isn't right.

You see new reds in her already red green training clothes. Her skin looks greyer. Then it looks normal again.

Are you ill? Jiang comments that you look tired, but doesn't make any more comments. Maybe she thinks this must be about the Funeral, and wants to leave it alone. You know different.

>For today and tomorrow, you will suffer -10 to all rolls requiring mental concentration, or the use of your Saint Element, this includes Cultivation, and Heavenly Energy Control training. That close encounter with the Dao has had an impact.

You start to focus on what matters, and get ready to train your Heavenly Energy Control with Jiang in the training centre, and then also help her with Stamina training whilst you do something else.

>Roll 1d100+15, -10 due to malus best of three for HEC training.

Player Choice of what to do whilst she trains her stamina.
>Cultivate
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice twice in a row
>Try looking for that feeling in the air when you used Resurrect with Shian, maybe it's just an anomaly
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone in private (Who?)
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>3756239
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>>3756239
Shouldn't have really included training a stat, but I have a massive headache. So I'll chalk it down to that. Tea (The drink), not even once.
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>>3756239
>Try looking for that feeling in the air when you used Resurrect with Shian, maybe it's just an anomaly
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Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>3756239
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>>3756239
>Try looking for that feeling in the air when you used Resurrect with Shian, maybe it's just an anomaly
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If in 5 minutes no-one else has rolled. Do feel free to. I don't think we have a third player this evening.
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Rolled 99 (1d100)

>>3756270
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>>3756284
>99
>114
>Try to hold on to that feeling.

You can feel your Control increasing, even with the noises and visions, you do excellently.

Jiang makes a major breakthrough! You see her start to control her existing Heavenly Energy outside her body! She tries to use the fire to burn something, and it works! You see her strength start to increase.

"I did it! Now I can finally match you!"

With that over, she starts vigorously training her Stamina. You begin to use Resurrect and try to see what happens. You notice the hallucinations get louder. Sharper.

>One Point put into Special Evolution for Resurrect
>Special Evolution 31/120

>Roll 1d100 to unlock something early. You won't actually revive someone here, just get something else. Best of three.

And that's the last update for tonight. Thank you all for playing! The quest is due to start again at 14:00 pm BST, however I could also be seeing my Grandma. We'll see, I might be developing an illness, let's see where this headache goes. Goodnight!
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>>3756303
>Heavenly Energy Control Increases by 6!
>Increases all cultivation rolls by 1d1670
>Extensive Heavenly Energy Control 34/500
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Rolled 21 (1d100)

>>3756303
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Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>3756303
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Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>3756303
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Quest will start again at 14:00 pm BST.
Thank you for your patience.
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>>3756986
>70
Success!

You continue to use the skill, but before it can solidify. It cuts out. Instead, the voices you can hear get louder, more distinct. You don't see anyone, just hear them. You can't move your Heavenly Energy, caught in a mixture of fear and confusion.

"What the hell is he doing?"

"You shattered me you bitch!"

"God why can't I just go to heaven or something!"

"All that power with the Saint Element and you won't even help us!"

"Hmph, he's nothing to me in my prime! I might as well stick around, see if I can get back."

"What'd you'd jus' say! Fucker get over here so I can smash your face in!"

You hear other sentiments, so many voices. You think they must be ghosts. You can sense some are stronger, but that's it. Most just ignore you. A few notice you, and loose interest after saying one thing. Even fewer talk to you. You get the sense that they are unfulfilled or are undecided on who they are. You don't try to respond, mainly because Jiang is right in front of you. She looks normal.

That's when you run out of Heavenly Energy and the voices stop.

>You have no HE
>You have unlocked the ability to hear the souls of those who have not passed on to the next realm by expending all of your HE.

Player Choice (1)
>Write-in for how Zou-Do-Shai feels about this predicament. 30 minutes

Player Choice (2) for the afternoon
>Cultivate
>Practice routine with the Life Element division of the Space Force.
>Go train Jiang
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Go back to your room, and see if you can talk to these spirits
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who? Song?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who? Fei? Jessica? The King?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3762753
>Write-in for how Zou-Do-Shai feels about this predicament. 30 minutes
Compassionate. Death is supposed to be the end of your suffering in this life, so it must be terrible to have to stay as a ghost.
>Cultivate
We need to get stronger.
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You feel compassionate for these people. For some of them. They would have lived more than 150 years. Yet when they died. They just kept going. It inspires you to get stronger, so you can see them. Tell them you can help.

Jiang leaves to work with the South side of the city, with the Fire department.

You decide to go back to your room, to cultivate.

>Cultivate
>Roll 1d100 best of three.
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Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>3762775
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Rolled 100 (1d100)

>>3762775
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If no-one else rolls in the next 5 minutes, do feel free to roll again.

>>3762798
Nice!
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Rolled 86 (1d100)

>>3762775
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>>3762798
>NAT 100
>Cultivation pool doubles for this time.

Progress to the next Level: 17118/46000

Player Choice for the evening
>Cultivate
>Practice routine with the Life Element division of the Space Force.
>Go train Jiang
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>See if you can't try to listen to the souls again
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who? Song?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who? Fei? Jessica? The King?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3762818
>Practice routine with the Life Element division of the Space Force.
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>>3762818
>>Practice routine with the Life Element division of the Space Force.
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>Practice routine with the Life Element division of the Space Force.

Even in the evening, preparations are still going on. Some people are getting tired of preparing for war, but it must go on.

You ask around for some drill practice.

"Sure, but, it's only live-wire stuff, so you'll have to go to the Wasteland. Are you sure about this?"

"Yes, if I can't survive it now, then I won't during wartime."

"Alright. Good luck out there."

You find out the only way to get to the Wastelands from the Palace is by teleportation through an authorised gate.

"Just so you know, the closer you get to the Palace the weaker the monsters are, but they start at the 4 Jewel level.

You go to the gate, and are teleported with a few others in the Life department.

You arrive in a small metal corridor. No crystal. Harsh metal and ceramics.

"Welcome, if you would all follow me."

You see a Mid Level Shi Stage Life user standing in front of you.

"Now then, when ever this attack comes, your job will be to stay here on the border, and help the defence, if you are called out to the war zone, you will be accompanied by someone who can defend you. Normally a Physical Jewel Master, due to them being more frequent. You will receive orders to heal on the battlefield or bring someone back here. For now, we have thrown out some dummies in the sand for you to find and bring back here. Is that understood?"

"Yes Sir!"

You are relocated to be alone, you still stand in a metal box, but there is a metal sheet in front of you which can be lifted to reveal the Wastelands. You have never seen it before. You only know that it is considered to be the most dangerous side of Dershwa City.

>Roll 1d100 best of three for both finding a dummy, and an encounter. DC 75 for the encouter. DC 60 for the dummy.
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Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>3762841
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Rolled 46 (1d100)

>>3762841
so are the wastelands underground or are we inside of a floating metal box near the battlefield?
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Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>3762841
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Rolled 76 (1d100)

>68

The gate opens to reveal...

Nothing, nothing but a flat plane of grey sand. The sky has no clouds. It is a grey desert. Apparently completely lifeless from what you can see at the moment, you activate your Wind, and run around to look for a dummy.

You find something a few minutes later about 2 miles in. A brown sack with some green and blue highlights on it. You pick it up and run back to the metal box with no incident. You now realise that the box is being lifted over a massive metal wall, stretching as far as the eye can see on either side. When you get back, you give your sack over. They say you are done.

"Glad you made it our alive kid, that place is hell on earth. I got no clue why any beastman would go through that place to get here."

"I didn't see anything, just...flat layers of sand, for a good few miles too."

"Lucky you, sometimes Earth Worms breach the surface and eat a few folks. Most of the real danger is much farther in of course, but I don't know how the brass imagines we're going to fight here, any Aliens that come are going to get devoured, with us in tow. But anyway. Do you feel more prepared for it?"

"Yes, thank you."

"Course you are, Heavenly Jewel Master and all that. You'll be fine. Have a good one!"

He walks off. You now stand inside the metal walls, you see Lightning and Fire based cannons in the walls, apparently most of the spacial ones were installed on the ships themselves.

>Encounter rolls will have a -5 malus during the attack, and any action roll, such as performing an attack or for special circumstances, will have a +5 bonus for the duration of the attack

You go back home. Tomorrow could be the attack, it might not you never know. At least you are a bit prepared.

Rolling 1d100 for stuff tomorrow, DC 70

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 75th day.

Tomorrow is the funeral, you think now is the time to find something to give as a present for the orphanage. You have a spare cultivation tool. You have some money. Time to think now.

Player Choice for the morning, will be disregarded if the DC is met.
>Cultivate
>Write-in for what to give to the orphanage as a farewell present to the Mama
>Go train Jiang
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>See if you can't try to listen to the souls again
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who? Song?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who? Fei? Jessica? The King?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3762877
>>Give the orphanage 500 gold and see if you can use saint element to awaken the jewels of the older kids
>>Train Heavenly Slash
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>>3762877
>Give 3000 gold and the spare cultivation tool to the orphanage
>Cultivate
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>>3762888
hey, trips of wealth
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>>3762888
Trips of wealth, you're finding something in the carnage. Worth 300 Gold.

>>3762882
It might be possible with one of them when we get there, but not now.

>DC MET

That's when you hear an alarm.

"THE PALACE IS UNDER ATTACK, I REPEAT THE PALACE IS UNDER ATTACK! ALL UNITS GO TO YOUR STATIONS. I REPEAT ALL UNITS GO TO YOUR STATIONS. THE MOON IS LAUNCHING AN ASSAULT FROM THE AIR. PODS INBOUND!"

You are instantly teleported to the Elemental Research department thanks to your charm, where you have a much shorter journey to the wasteland wall.

"Everyone to the medical labs!"

Protocol is maintained, you grab a first aid kit, a radio set, and are assigned to a 5 Jewel Physical Jewel Master.

You hear explosions, screams, and the thuds of both the cannons firing and the Moon-Pods, like the one which took maybe a week to finally kill, sound on mass. You have a large job to do.

"Saint user Zou-Do-Shai! You can revive people on the battlefield, so do so! Don your Consolidated Equipment!"

You are too do this, until you run out of Heavenly Energy, you summon your Sword and your Breastplate, buff your Heavenly Energy, and use it to use Wind to double your speed to set out.

Time to fight this alien invasion head on again.

>Roll 1d100 best of three to find people and for an encounter. You will be fighting with one other person I will be taking control of, DC 50 to find a dead or injured person, DC anything for an encounter, you are still able to run.
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Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>3762898
oh boi, shit ggoing down, well the 2 trips of wealth we get stashed now should trigger since we had one earlier that never got cashed in
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>>3762901
Wait when? I remember one in the Elemental Research department where I did give you something, was there another one?
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Rolled 18 (1d100)

>>3762898
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Rolled 52 (1d100)

>>3762898
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>>3762903
ah nvm forgot we got paid the 150 in the research department afterwards
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>>3762907
>52
Success
>You will encounter a Moon Slime

You outpace your assigned Jewel Master for a bit. However, he boosts to catch up to you, where you have found a dead body, well, half of a dead body. You look around you to see most of the Pods being combated in air, and crushed by Spatial cannons. Leaving only a few to land. You are about to Resurrect this bisected man, when the Pod, which could only be around 400 Yards away. Explodes violently, launching the visage of an Ape like Silver Monster towards you, with Amethyst coverings on his fists. You see some peculiar red energy glowing around his body.

"Chuhchuhchhchcuhchuchcuhcch!"

He doesn't sound like a gorilla, you see him jump at you, readying an attack.

>You have 8235 HE

Player Choice, you are in combat!
>What will you do?
>Skill (Which?)
>Attack with Sword?
>Buff a Stat and take the hit?
>Run? Any boosting?
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3762929
>Attack with Sword
this is the second absolute weakest thing we could have encountered, lets just hit it with our sword and if it survives maybe use a skill. Could we get a rough estimate of how strong something is as we encounter them? dont wanna wast HE on a worthless opponent or attack a powerful opponent with a weak attack liek what hapened with Jiang. Like i know this thing is weak cause we dont even gain stats fom fighting it
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Rolled 327 (1d600)

>>3762934
Well. Base it off the roll. If it is 50, it is as strong as you without anything special. If it is 100, it is about 2 Jewels stronger than you. 1 means nothing.

I am Rolling 1d600 to attack as the gorilla. The Physical Jewel Master will roll 1d3500 to attack with his strength and weapon.
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>>3762929
>Attack with Sword
Might as use this to christen our laser sword.
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Rolled 3280 (1d3500)

>>3762937
Sure, I have called it the Holy Sword so far, but other names are appreciated. Go ahead.

>Attack with Sword (Put the name you want for the Sword in the roll post as well please.)
>Roll 1d1560 (780 STR, 700 Sword, 80 Technique) best of three to attack with the Sword.
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Rolled 1399 (1d1560)

>>3762944
ok brainstorming names gonna put a bunch in a post and you jsut ick what you like
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Rolled 885 (1d1560)

>>3762944
I'm fine with any name as long as it doesn't suck.
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Saints Radiance
Holy Handle
Heaven Splitter
Heavenly Light
Angels Mercy
Azraels Lament (thats the angel of death so i guess ti works)
thats the fancy id eas i ahve am fine with any of this or other ideas so up to you QM, though i am partial to Saints Radiance and Azraels Lament
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>>3762954
I'll vote for Saints Radiance
>>
Do feel free to roll again if no-one else rolls in the next 10 minutes. Same time for name voting.
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Rolled 93 (1d100)

>>3762994
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Rolled 1120 (1d1560)

>>3762997
worng dice lol
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>>3762997
I mean roll a 1d1560 please. We have 2 votes for Saint's Radiance.
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>1339
>3280
>327

You swipe with your glowing gold sword, which you think you will call Saint's Radiance. You see the Physical Jewel Master attack with a hammer as well.

The Slime is demolished! However, the red energy that surround it does something to your Sword. As it touches it. Your Saint's Radiance disappears on contact! You have to reform it with more Heavenly Energy.

"Huh? I can't feel my Heavenly Energy?" The Physical Jewel Master replies.

This must be the Destruction Element! It is destroying the Heavenly Energy it touches!

You look at the corpse, and see a Gold Diamond on his corpse, probably some sort of trophy.

>You have 22321 Gold

>You have 7913 HE, your HE will deplete with every attack you make with a melee attack, such as a sword each time it comes into contact with the Destruction Element!

>Special Evolution 32/120

Player Choice
>Stay on the battlefield searching for another injured man
>Go back to base, and respond to a call, (+15 to an encounter roll when responding, remember there is the -5 to all encounter rolls, making this +10)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3763019
>Stay on the battlefield searching for another injured man
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>>3763019
>>Stay on the battlefield searching for another injured man
>if you start running out of Heavenly Energy let me know so we can head back
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>>3763019
>Stay on the battlefield searching for another injured man
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>Stay on the battlefield searching for another injured man

"Do you have any Heavenly Energy left?"

*BOOM*

This is no place to talk, the artillery are firing at the slimes with Water cannons. You revive the man, a 1 Physical Jewel Master. Then continue. He runs back into the fray, you have a few moments to speak.

"Not much, doesn't matter. I wasn't planning on using it anyway!"

You see him summon his own set, 5 pieces. Using all his Heavenly Energy.

"My strength is doubled with this! Can I have a buff?"

>You have 7793 HE

You buff his strength, multiplying it by 8.

"We need to find others!" You tell him.

"Got it boss!"

>Roll 2d100, best of three, first for the encounter, second for perception. -5 to the encounter roll. Perception on the weaponry Jessica is bringing out and for the presence of the Beastmen.
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Rolled 65, 95 - 5 = 155 (2d100 - 5)

>>3763041
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Rolled 78, 92 = 170 (2d100)

>>3763041
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Rolled 56, 21 = 77 (2d100)

Rolling 2d100 for stuff, first for Dershwa, second for the Aliens. Thanks to your efforts: A +1 for that one man, and a +10 for Jessica. Aliens get a +6 for the Key items you missed back in the first pod.
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Rolled 51, 69 = 120 (2d100)

>>3763041
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>78-5=73 Encounter, will be as slightly stronger than a 4 Jewel Human.
>95 Perception
>67 Dershwa
>33 Aliens


You look around. There are no beastmen, not from farther in the Wastelands. The flat sand providing a great view. You see drones in the air. Massive metal and crystal machines and men start to appear from the other side of the wall, a singular one is adorned with Opal. That must be Jessica's weapon.

You look around, and see the slimes are being killed quickly by both the metal men, and the Light based Laser beams from the Elemental departments weapons, tearing through the sand. You are winning.

You find a person that has just been killed by a rather large green tinted Dragon Fly, made of metal. You see it release acid from its mouth, melting the body it has caught.

Player Choice, you are in combat!
>What will you do?
>Skill (Which?)
>Attack with Sword?
>Buff a Stat and take the hit?
>Run? Any boosting?
>Other? (Write-in)

I need to eat some tea. Quest will restart at 18:30 pm BST. Thank you all for playing!
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>>3763079
>Rain Arrows (5 raindrops produced with independent rotational charge)
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>>3763079
>Skill (Which?)
Rain Arrows.
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>>3763079
Rotational Raindrop Barrage
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>>3763091
i like this name for it, though at 5 drops we would be doing half a Raindrop Barrage, and save the other 5 for later
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Rolled 786 (1d1800)

>>3763121
Rotational Raindrop Rainstorm (Only 5 drops/10)

>Roll 5d400, with the help of Rotational Charge. Best of three. If you ever want to do more than 25 drops, then I will just increase the size of the dice to compensate for that.

Rolling 1d1800 to Endure, It is weak to Water, so you will deal double damage to it.
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Rolled 25, 194, 287, 26, 21 = 553 (5d400)

>>3763139
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Rolled 29220 (1d48500)

>Rolling 1d48500 for the Physical Jewel Masters attack with his hammer.
>3000 STR, times by 2 due to Consolidated Equipment, times 8 due to buff, +500 Hammer Technique. Oh boy.

>I might change the name of it to Rain Arrowstorm for the rotational charge.

Player Choice for evolution of Rain Arrows, you have 1 point to spend due to Rotational Charge.
>Cost Down 0/20
>Damage Up 0/20
>Rank Up 0/40
>Evolve Special 0/20
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Rolled 94, 37, 117, 169, 21 = 438 (5d400)

>>3763139
>>3763151
>Damage Up 0/20
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>>3763151
>Rank up
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Rolled 54, 18, 43, 64 = 179 (4d100)

Rolling 4d100 for stuff with Fei/Jiang/Sun Di/Shian. They are all in different areas.
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>>3763163
Well. Not much is happening, except for Shian who found something interesting. Jiang is faced with nothing, and is not happy about it.
>>
If in 5 minutes, no one else has rolled, do feel free to roll a 5d400 again please.
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Rolled 115, 238, 200, 209, 295 = 1057 (5d400)

>>3763177
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Rolled 23, 9 = 32 (2d100)

>1047 doubled to 2094
>29220 from the Physical Jewel Master
>786 END

The two of you kill the bugslime in seconds. You fire off 5 sharp bullet like water droplets that pierce its armour and kill it. The Physical Jewel Master utterly smashes it to bits! Leaving an Earth Core and a Nature core from one creature.

You resurrect the person beneath, using your Water Element to clean any acid to clean them. They are in no state psychologically to fight, and ask for an escort back to base.

The Physical Jewel Master takes them. Leaving you on your own.

You get a message on your radio.

"Saint of Death. We are currently winning but we need you up further in the front to revive stronger people. We will update you later on your orders. Continue as you were or progress further. Over"

Welp. You can just run back to base, but you think you can handle things on your own for a while.

Rolling 2d100, first for Dershwa, second for Aliens, +11 bonus to the Dershwa, +5 bonus to the Aliens, due to them loosing the last round. Then rolling 1d2 for Evolution Choice.

>Player Choice
>Stay on the battlefield searching for another injured man
>Go back to base, and wait to respond to a call, (+15 to an encounter roll when responding, remember there is the -5 to all encounter rolls, making this +10)
>Retreat back to base for a HE refill and work as a buffing station for those who want it whilst you work.
>Other? (Write-in)
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Rolled 1 (1d2)

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>>3763223
>Retreat back to base for a HE refill and work as a buffing station for those who want it whilst you work.
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>>3763223
>>Stay on the battlefield searching for another injured man
so our title is now the Saint of Death, nice
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>>3763223
>Stay on the battlefield searching for another injured man

Hey, I finally made it. The Nat1 Warrior reports in!
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Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>3763259
o7! Nat ones be gone!

>>3763253
Well, it is the fancy armour that makes you so useful to people, look at the Mid Level Shi Stage Physical Jewel Master, to reach that kind of strength naturally, he would have to be a 7 Jewel Master! The information team will have new orders for you after this.

>Damage Up 1/20
>34 Dershwa
>14 Aliens
>Win by repression 2/3.

You look around you, the combination of the Water and Ice cannons and the Massive Mechs firing Elemental Lasers everywhere in sight. Combined by the Spatial Ships and aerial work by the planes and the Navy up north means not only is the main force on the ground being made smaller by the second, but any future attacks are prevented, exploding the Pods as they fly closer in a multicoloured explosion as the Cores detonate. Things are going too plan. You estimate that there must be about 2500 casualties on your side so far, and 9000 on their side. You do however see more and more enemies with the Destruction Element sewn into them. Some of them even use it as a ranged weapon! You can see people disintegrating from the red beams! For a moment you can hear other screams, the screams of souls, can it destroy them too? By the Dao what is it?!

>Stay on the battlefield searching for another injured man

You are so close to winning. You decide to stay on to search for another man up close. Maybe for fights in the future, making Resurrect usable on an area of people sounds like a good idea. You can only revive 1 person at a time at the moment.

>Roll 1d100 best of three for an Encounter.

Rolling 1d100 DC 60 for alien stuff.
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Rolled 64 (1d100)

>>3763276
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Rolled 32 (1d100)

>>3763276
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Please feel free to roll again if in 5 minutes someone else has not rolled.
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Rolled 19 (1d100)

>>3763320
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Rolled 30 (1d100)

>>3763276
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>>3763333
quads of truth
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>77

>65-5=59 encounter comes later, the DC for a test fire of the Moon Cannon has been met
You hear a message from the radio.

"Angel of Death retreat! Retreat! The Moon is firing its cannon! The Space Force has detected large amounts of the red energy you see on the ground being built up! Retreat to safety!"

You have that Long-Range Teleport glove, you can also swap to get away using the telescope. You also have that contingency to survive the blast. What will you do?

Player Choice
>Use glove, 50 HE per mile, to get out of the blast radius
>Dimensional Swap with something on the wall
>Run like the Wind with maximum efficiency, with double buffing and boosting and Wind
>Tank the Destruction Element, and continue fighting with no HE, being used up to counter your Soul not being destroyed
>Other?
>>3763333
You get to ask me the QM 3 Questions about the quest, voting will be open for 30 minutes.
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>>3763355
does teh glove bring others with us?
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>>3763382
No. You can take yourself only.

I am not counting this as one of the questions.
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>>3763355
Use the glove and then use the telescope to Swap as many people as we can with random furniture and debri closer tto the wall
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>Use Glove, then Swap others away.

Roll 1d100 best of three for how many people you save.

Voting for the 3 questions is still open.
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Rolled 100 (1d100)

>>3763355
>Use glove, 50 HE per mile, to get out of the blast radius

Questions:
1. How strong is the Moon King? Specifically his END but other stats are welcome.
2. How much does King Dershwa know about us? Does he just know the basics or does he know even things we don't know about us?
3. Who else remembers previous cycles?
>>3763450
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>>3763455
... wow we saved a lot
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>>3763455
>NAT 100!

>Taking these questions due to the fact that the time is up for voting.

1. Called Kreyzar. As strong as a Heavenly God, he does not focus on END, so it is one of his weaker stats, he focuses on his Heavenly Energy to maximise the use of the Destruction Element, he has around 6 million HE and 2 million END. This is all without things like armour and other things to increase said stats. His base HE is literally almost 6000 times higher than yours at base.
2. He knows a lot, obviously. Different timelines have different Elements, but you always have the Saint Element. He has little idea about your parents, he does not care. He knows how you are likely to move and what you are likely to do in the future, but luck controls everything. He trusts you to make the correct move, but not how well you will succeed in it.
3. Just him. He is the only one with the Time Element who can go back in time after all. He built his entire existence to be able to do this one thing.

>Please feel free to roll again after this post, after all. Nat 1s counter nat 100s.
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Rolled 31 (1d100)

>>3763504
mo for the love of god dont roll
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Rolled 78 (1d100)

>>3763504
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Rolled 57, 26 = 83 (2d100)

>>3763455
>100

You use the glove to teleport onto the top of the wall.

"Angel the range will not touch the wall, save as many as you can."

You take out your telescope. Shoot some lightning at some stone and stuff in the ground far below, use Wind to bring it up to the wall. Then start to use Dimensional Swap.

You manage to get everyone you can, using all of your HE. Tranpsorting 154 people including the dead onto the wall. You see Fei and Jessica Teleport using items out harms way.

The slimes stay on the grey sand. You see a bright red glow appearing from the sky.

There must be thousands of souls still there. You wonder if your parents are anywhere.

*SHOOOOOOOOMSH!*

A massive straight beam of red light scorches the Wasteland. Killing all the slimes. Nothing is spared. You are safe on the wall though. You can feel no heat from the beam. Just that nothing but the grey sand is safe. No pods. Empty, quiet Wasteland.

Then it ends as soon as it began. Hang on a second, if it is on the moon, how is it shooting now? It is daytime!

Everyone gets a message on the radio.

"THIS IS THE SPACE FORCE, WE ARE LAUNCHING AN ATTACK ON THE MAIN CANNON TO DAMAGE IT, CONTINUE WITH CAUTION. THE CANNON IS STILL OPERATIONAL, IT WILL NOT FIRE FOR A FEW MINUTES IF WE FAIL. EVACUATE IF WE DO NOT SEND A MESSAGE OF SUCCESS!"
1/2

Rolling 2d100, for stuff, first for Dershwa spaceships, second for Aliens, +20 due to that 100, Aliens get +3, loosing two rounds and wiping out their army on the ground has not helped.
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>>3763575
daaaaamn, sow e used up all our HE saved a bunch of people and even recovered corpses for rez, and now have a ton of points for swap
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72 vs 30
>Success by repression 3/3
>You have won this day!

You wait, and wait. then all of you have a radio message.

"WE'VE DONE IT! THE CANNON IS BROKEN IN TWO! WE THINK IT WILL TAKE ANOTHER 4 MONTHS TO REPAIR IT. WE WON!"

You breathe a sigh of relief.

Time to take a break.

Player Choice (1) evolution of Dimensional Swap 154 points
Rank UP 0/120
Cost Down 6/20
Evolve Special 0/20


Player Choice (2) for the afternoon
>Call someone (Who?, remember that Shian found something, Fei is nearby, so is Jessica, Sun-Di is bored, Jiang is angry.)
>Cultivate
>Go to the mass grave for resurrect
>Go train Jiang
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>See if you can't try to listen to the souls again
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who? Fei? Jessica? The King?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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Last update until 14:00 pm BST tomorrow. I need some sleep. Thank you all for playing! Goodnight!
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>>3763591
>120 to rank up
>20 to special
>14 to cost down
>Go resurrect
hoping we can grab an AOE resurrection mode to speed up the grave stuff
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>>3763591
Rank Up: 120
Cost Down: 14
Special: 20
>Mass grave resurrection
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>>3763591
(1)
> Rank Up +120
> Special Evolution +20 (Larger size difference in swapped objects)
> Cost down +14
(2)
> Visit Mass Grave
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for the special i want the ability to swap parts of objects instead of he whole thing, like we can swap someone with a chunk of earth without havin to break it off first, or being able to swap someones head with a ball, like i imagine gainst other people they can resist it with HE but still
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>120 to rank up
>20 to special
>14 to cost down

>Rank Up 120/120
>Dimensional Swap is now 11 stars, size limitation has been loosened, meaning that you can now swap things of a different size, but nothing too absurd.
>Rank Up 0/500
>Evolve Special 20/20
>Choose the direction of your evolution, 20 minutes
>Evolve Special 0/40
>Cost Down 20/20
>Cost for Dimensional Swap lowered to 40 HE
>Cost Down 0/40

>Visit Mass Grave 1675 left

You think leaving some time for the people you know to relax, and instead do some more work, would be a good use of your time. With the extra corpses here. You have your work cut out for you, but you should focus on the people in the grave.

"Sir! Sir!"

It's one of the soldiers from the state military.

"Thank you so much for saving me! I don't know what I would have done without you!"

You thank him, and continue to walk on. Straight to the place Jessica was responsible for. Your Consolidated Equipment halves the cost of all Saint Skills, you can buff your Heavenly Energy. You could do a maximum of 412, but due to time, you can only manage 200 in one sitting. Then you might want to prepare for the funeral tomorrow. Jiang must be doing something for it.

Player Choice for evolution of Resurrect, you have 200 points to spend
Cost down 0/60
Special Evolution 32/120

Player Choice for special evolution of Dimensional Swap
>Write-in. 20 minutes.
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>>3765606
>Cost down 0/60
112 points.
>Special Evolution 32/120
88 points.
>Special Evolution choice
Dimensional Swap can now swap parts of an object, rather than targeting the entire object.
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>>3765606
Cost Down: 80
Special: 120

> Dimensional Swap can now swap parts of an object, rather than targeting the entire object.
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Rolled 1 (1d2)

Rolling 1d2 for point spread

>Dimensional Swap can now swap parts of an object, rather than targeting the entire object.
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>Cost Down 60/60
>Cost of Resurrect falls to 30 HE
>Cost Down 72/120
>Special Evolution 120/120
>Player Choice for evolution of Resurrect 20 minutes
>Special Evolution 0/240


Player Choice (1), special evolution for resurrect
>Write-in. 20 Minutes

Player Choice (2) for the evening
>Cultivate
>Go train Jiang
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>See if you can't try to listen to the souls again
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Call someone (Who?)
>Read a book (Which?)
>Continue to resurrect people here in the grave.
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who? Fei? Jessica? The King?)
>Other? (Write-in)

Player Choice (3), decide for what to gift to the orphanage after the funeral.
>Write-in. 20 minutes
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We so far have these two votes for the gift:
>>3762882
>>3762888
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>>3765633
Special Evolution:
>Contingency Stack
Evening:
>Go train Jiang
Funeral:
>Spare cultivation tool, book for learning to read, and 3000 gold
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>Contingency Stack applies
>Your old cultivation tool, 3000 Gold and the book you learnt to read with.
>Gold is now 20321
>You don't have the Giga-Ultra Cultivation Tool anymore
>No reading book.

>Go train Jiang

You decide first to prepare a gift for tomorrow. You decide to store it in your Spatial Ring with the set for song. Enough Gold to last them a generation, a book you think you'll hand back to them, and your old but still top of the line cultivation tool.

You then go to find Jiang, you find her in the skill training room.

"God Dammit! Nothing! Nothing came!"

"i don't think you should envy me, hundreds of people almost died this morning."

"I didn't get to fight and that's that!"

"Well, maybe some Heavenly Energy Control would suit you more for now, help calm you down."

>Roll 1d100+25 for HEC training and teaching best of three

I need to go. Be back for 16:30 pm BST. Thanks for playing!
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Rolled 5 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>3765673
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Rolled 77 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>3765673
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Rolled 83 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>3765673
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>>3765673
>"I don't think you should envy me, hundreds of people almost died this morning."
>"I didn't get to fight and that's that!"
All this power is really getting to her head...
>>
>128
>Heavenly Energy Control increases by 6
>Extensive Heavenly Energy Control 40/500
>Cultivation Pool increases by 1d1700

You don't particularly like her attitude.

"I know spending the morning doing not much isn't fun, but think of all the people there. Have you not heard about the red beam?"

"Who cares any longer? You can resurrect the dead!"

"Not if their souls are gone. That beam cut out a few. I'm sure of it."

"Well. I want a fight! Fight me!"

"You are going to a funeral tomorrow, I will not have you going with bruises and scratches. Understood?"

She sighs, all that pent up energy for this attack and she probably only saw snippets of it.

"Fine. What's next for the Heavenly Energy Control. Fei's busy with something, not sure what."

"Bring your Heavenly Energy out further, then use it to establish a domain. I haven't reached that point, but it won't be long."

"OK, I think I should focus on this for now. Cultivation is slow ever since this morning."

"I think that may have been due to the beam. Destroying the Heavenly Energy in the air."

"Really? Then what happens if all of it disappears?"

"It probably won't. Don't worry about it."

"OK!"

She does well, very well. You can tell by now she must be about 4 times more talented at this than you are. Must be why Fei managed to get so good, despite her inadequacies.

You tell her to focus on stamina training. You have full stats, so you decide to cultivate. You decide not to tell Jiang that you are now 1 Level off the next Jewel, she will catch up quickly after all.

>Roll 1d100 best of three to cultivate.
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Rolled 98 (1d100)

>>3765761
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Rolled 6 (1d100)

>>3765761
why contingency stacking? aoe rez would ahve been much better
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Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>3765761
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>>3765792
>98
Progress to the Next Level
21724/46000

You do extremely well. Notably, you are now more than half way through to the next Level.

"Hey. I'm gonna go back to my room, sort out some stuff. See you tomorrow morning!"

Jiang finishes, and walks off, satisfied for now. You head back to your room.

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 76th day (Day of the funeral)

You wake up early in the morning, get dressed. Make sure to bring both Spatial Rings, the money, the tool, your bodyguards uniform, the book and anything else you might need. You don't have a quick way to get back now, after the charm was used for the attack, but you shouldn't need something like that today anyway.

Jiang knocks on the door. You open it to see her in a cloak. You can see her bright red eyes and part of her face, but not much else.

"Hey. We need to get a move on. After yesterday the Palace is in panic mode for anything else. So just keep quiet."

"Got it. After we get out just follow me. I can work my way out of here."

>Roll 1d100 best of three to stealth without anyone seeing you as the two of you escape. The people involved in making your tool know you are going, but they don't know Jiang is coming.
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Rolled 94 (1d100)

Forgot something.

Rolling 1d100 for stuff. DC 75
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Rolled 22 (1d100)

>>3765815
man we gotta get ourselves a shared teleport skill, the glove covers personal teleportation but we lacking a way to take eople with us
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>>3765823
Ah. Well. I mean. Shit. Guess that's happening. Glad Shian saw that thing yesterday.

If in 15 minutes no-one else has rolled do feel free to roll again.
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Rolled 67 (1d100)

>>3765815
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Rolled 86 (1d100)

>>3765839
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>>3765853
>86
Success!

You manage to sneak pass unnoticed. Jiang leads you to a side entrance where you could reach the Cursed Forest quickly. You have to use Dimensional Swap a few times with the improvement to get past some guards, but you make it.

It takes a few hours to get to the Orphanage, but you make it. You see the architecture of the City change from Gems and Jewels to Metal, then stone.

"Closed for the day."

You knock anyway. A woman, who you assume is the new head, answers.

"Zou? Is that you? Welcome back. Might I ask, who is the young lady with you?"

"4th Princess Jiang Dershwa, my employer."

"Hello! He's met my family. I wanted to meet his."

She puts out her hands for a hug, which are in stark contrast to the woman's beige hands. To her. Jiang looks like an alien, and as a princess, a matter of great importance.

"My deepest apologies for any offence to you my princess!"

You see her, someone who have known, get on her knees and bow profusely at the doorstep.

"Wait no no. No. Let us get inside before that I don't want to attract any attention!"

"Yes of course I am so incredibly sorry!"

"Zou I thought you said they would be Okay with it?"

"Head Mother, please. It is nice to see you again, but I think we need to talk inside. Everyone can see us."

She hastily gets up and runs to the kitchen.

"Prepare tea and food! We have an important visitor! Your Senior Zou is here!"

You walk inside, you notice that extra flowers and decorations have been raised. The Mama would be happy if she saw this. You're sure of it.

As that happens, a small girl runs up to you. You don't recognise her, is she new? She has pure white hair, and shimmering yellow and golden eyes.

"Hello. Thank you. For the tool. I have Heavenly Engi now."

She brings out the cultivation tool you gave to the home last time. So this is what the Mama did with it.

"Heavenly Energy. Nice to meet you. How is the home?"

"I want out. Tool will help me. Thank you." She looks at you with intent a lot stronger than a child of her age should, she looks around 10.

Jiang starts a conversation with her, basically treating her like an adorable small animal

"Look at your hair! It's so nice! Mine's all black. How are you..."

Well it's something. You know that the main ceremony will be this afternoon, you can talk to a few people between that time

Player Choice
>Talk to the new Head Mother
>Find and Talk to Song
>Talk to the little girl, also try and boost her cultivation, the earlier the better after all
>Other? (Write-in, think the priest who might be there for the reading and the ceremony, some of the kids, you may want to try to use the Saint Element to help them with cultivation.)
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>>3765886
>>Find and Talk to Song
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>>3765888
heeeey another trips of wealth, nice
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>>3765886
>Find and Talk to Song
>>
>888
>The orphanage have nothing of note. So guess you're finding something later.

I gotta eat some tea. Will be back for around 18:40 pm BST. Thanks for playing.
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>Find and Talk to Song

You want to talk to Song.

"Jiang. I'll be off for a bit. Don't get into any trouble."

"OK!" Her conversation with the new girl has ended already, it seems she wants to go speak to the other girls."

You go outside, to the training courts where you first displayed your power. You find Song sitting by one of the trees, which must be older than even the Mama.

"Hey."

"Hey, how was the trip here?"

"A bit difficult, but a guest showed me a good way out of the Palace."

"A guest?"

"My employer."

"Oh shit..do you think I could..meet her? A Princess?"

"Sure. She's a lot more impulsive than one would expect, she's only 14 after all. I doubt she would mind."

"Right. I got a question. The whole academy yesterday went into lockdown. The only thing we saw about it was a bright red light to the Wastelands, you know anything about it? The paper's been barred from talking about it, Palace orders as the martial law is still in effect."

"That was the attack from the Moon. They were testing out their orbital cannon. We managed to avoid it in time, and it shouldn't fire again for a good few months, but it killed everything in its path. I was there."

"Fuck. I'm kinda glad I wasn't drafted for the army now. Oh. I managed to use that contact to secure a meeting for a Consolidated Equipment Master for that set. I don't have anywhere near the amount for it, but there's that."

"I have something for you."

You throw the box from your Spatial Ring with the set at his feet. He catches it.

"9 pieces, focusing on your flexibility and skill with the pen. Apparently you'll be able to draw Fire Element summons with it."

"Holy fuck! Who is your Master?"

"Shao-Bao. Heavenly God. I became a Zun Stage Consolidated Equipment Master under her in short time."

"Hahaha! Anything you can't do?"

"Bring back the Mama."

"Hue? I guess that Saint Element of yours isn't all powerful after all!"

He summons his singular Physical Jewel. The Jade glowing.

"Have you got a decent set? I can't have my sworn brother be a weakling now!"

You summon the two pieces of your Equipment, glowing gold, and made of black jade.

"Well then. Your employer is very generous!"

He puts the box away.

"Thanks buddy. I'll be going on a second trip soon, so any help is appreciated. A trip to the Sunrisers no less!"

"Be careful, they treat the weak like dirt."

"Got it. By the way. Have you met YianEyue? She has bright white hair and gold eyes."

"Yeah?"

"She's at the first Level of Heavenly Energy already, but look out for her. I don't think she likes staying here that much. She thinks like a caged animal. So be careful with her."

"Got it. Anything I need to know for the ceremony?"

1/2
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>>3765968
"Yes. Mama will be buried under this tree. We'll have the remembrance, then it's gonna be an evening festival. The Gold you gave last time has paid for a lot of this, and you aren't the only adult turning up. Have fun. I think I will look for the 6th Princess now. Try and curry my favour. Bye for now!"

You look around, this would be a good place to hear to souls in the area.

He leaves to find her. Everyone else is inside. That girl might be a problem for the future, but today can be a happy day. No problems, nothing to fix, just-"

You get a call on the communicator. Dr Zhang-Xi-Tze.
>This was the roll for stuff earlier
"Hey FUCKER! The beastmen are attacking the City from the Forest side! Get out of there or fight! Shian saw something yesterday but apparently the radicals are sweeping thinking we were decimated after the attack! Get ready! We're looking for Jiang too. If you two went on a ruddy date now of all things then I swear I gonna teleport right on over and-"

You end the call. You look around and see smoke to where the forest would be. The Guard and Shimuko are there!

Player Choice
>Shout to Jiang about this, risking panic in the orphanage, and YianEyue event
>Run to the battle as fast as possible for support, leaving immediately
>Raise the alarm in the area, you are wearing your uniform and are technically the highest authority for a good few miles, take advantage of this to rouse a small army and hold the line.
>Other (Write-in)
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>>3765978
rush to Jiang and tell her whats going on, then rush to the battle, boost Agility with wind and Saint
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>>3765978
>Raise the alarm in the area, you are wearing your uniform and are technically the highest authority for a good few miles, take advantage of this to rouse a small army and hold the line
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Rolled 1 (1d2)

Rolling 1d2 for Choice
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You run to Jiang, finding her looking around the kitchens with the staff and the older kids working on some last minute preparations.

"Princess! I need you to follow me, alone!"

"Sure? What's wrong? Why do you have your armour on?"

You take her outside and point to the smoke, now much larger.

"Attack by the beastmen, we need to go fight!"

You see her crack a smile, and charge off. You grab her and buff her. Then you use Wind to boost your Agility and buff it. The two of you run off at the speed of sound, jumping over the buildings and running as fast as you can.

"Finally a chance to fight!"

You run to the Hunter's Camp. Where there would be the most people.

>Roll 1d100 for perception for any injured and the strength of the enemy best of three.
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Rolled 33 (1d100)

>>3766033
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Rolled 14 (1d100)

>>3766033
>>
If no-one else rolls in the next 5 minutes, feel free to roll again.
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Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>3766067
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>>3766097
>84
Success!

Jiang runs further into the fight, charging away into the forest. You look around and see a few injured from ranged attacks. You recognise one of them. The Guard.

You instantly run over and use Greater Restoration.

"Huah! Zou! It's you! I thought you'd forgotten!"

He gets up and summons his Jewel again.

"Forget about these people, the fights up there!"

You see his Jewel start to shift around, seems he got the hang of it.

He runs off ahead of you.

>Greater Restoration Cost Down 2/20

You run to him, to the fight. You can see a good 50 enemies, all of them with animal traits.

You see the person responsible for the fire. A Birdman with 3 Rubies, launching fireballs all over the place. You decide to go at him. He sees you and takes aim at you. You have your Angel of Death Set on you. Saint's Radiance and all. He has less than half of your Stamina.

Player Choice
>Which Skill to use
>Buff a Stat
>Attack with Saint's Radiance
>Other?(Write-in)
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>>3766122
>Rotational Rainstorm
hopefully water has some bonus to getting past fire based defenses
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>>3766122
> Kinetic Barrier on, charge with SR.
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Rolled 553 (1d1500)

>Rotational Rainstorm
>Roll 10d400 best of three
>Damage Up 2/20
>This will put out the fire, and will deal area damage.

>Rolling 1d1500 for Firestorm, this will deal half damage due to your use of the Water Element to block, but depending on the damage, hurt everyone in a large area. Even his allies.
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>>3766201
Sorry man, you missed the 20 min mark.
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Rolled 213, 381, 32, 70, 337, 154, 67, 337, 239, 365 = 2195 (10d400)

>>3766203
>>
I think I will end tonight slightly early. Thank you all for playing! The quest will restart at 14:00 pm. Goodnight! Leave rolling to the people visiting the thread overnight please.
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Rolled 30, 23, 355, 130, 95, 379, 342, 300, 300, 303 = 2257 (10d400)

>>3766203
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Rolled 99, 238, 343, 43, 98, 153, 148, 15, 201, 312 = 1650 (10d400)

>>3766203
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>>3766257
Quest will start slightly later than planned.
>>
Sorry for the wait. I had to buy a replacement pair of work gloves in short time. I thank you for your patience.

>2257
>553
Success!

You jump up into the air at blinding speed, aided by the wind. Where you use your Independent Rotational Charge to power some Raindrops.

They slam downwards! You see the beastman's body teared apart, and the resulting air pressure from the attack put out some of the fire. You however use your Water Element to absorb as much damage as you can. You come out unscathed. However, the now 49 folks are angry.

You are still in the air, falling. You see 1 Heavenly Jewel Master with 2 sets of Jewels preparing an attack. You see Amethyst and Waxy Jade. You could target him. He could paralyse your team in seconds, after all. None of the Hunters apart from you have Lightning. You think buffing people's Endurance would help a lot. The fight looks evenly matched, but your Saint Element could be the tipping point. Jiang is firing Heavenly Explosions all over the place, however. It is not doing much apart from setting new fires in the forest. You can see her Stamina drop by the millisecond.

Player Choice
>Land, dash out and roll to buff as many people as you can, improving your chances for the main battle
>Attack the Heavenly Jewel Master
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3767729
> Air-dash, buff yourself, and impale the Heavenly Jewel Master with Rapiers and Saint's Radiance.
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>>3767729
>Attack the Heavenly Jewel Master
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Rolled 513 (1d1050)

>>3767737
>Buff Self for strength. to 6240
>This will be your limit, no more buffing stats without some Stamina checks.
>Wind
>Piercing Wind in left hand 1d250
>Saint's Radiance in right 1d700

>Roll 1d13590, for (6240 STR+80+700 Saint's Radiacnce) +(6240+80+250 Piercing Wind) best of three

Player Choice for evolution of Piercing Wind, you have 1 point to spend
>Rank 2/40
>Cost down 0/20
>Damage Up 5/20
>Evolve Special 0/20


Rolling 1d1050 for FLX with Consolidated Equipment for the Heavenly Jewel Master to dodge, if successful, your allies will be paralysed.

>You have 8075 HE
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Rolled 3356 (1d13590)

>>3767759
>Damage Up
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Rolled 6681 (1d13590)

>>3767759
>Rank up
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>>3767767
>>3767770
If in 10 minutes, there are no more rolls. Do feel free to roll again.
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Rolled 9833 (1d13590)

>>3767772
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Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>3767774
>9833
>513

Mid air. You summon your Wind Rapier, and force your boddy to move with some more wind straight into the Heavenly Jewel Master's path. You see him recognise the attack. The glowing gold sword showing him the path. You see him try and step and bend out of the way.

You slam into his chest. Then slice him apart vertically. His Consolidated Equipment shattering and the life disappearing in his eyes.

You have just killed two people. Such is the price of war.

You see the radicals see this.

"NOO!"

"GREAT LEADER!"

"KILL HIM!"

You see them ignoring all their current enemies to attack you.

>Roll 1d38 for how many are not stopped by the Hunters, middle of three

Rolling 1d2 for point choice
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Rolled 4 (1d38)

>>3767784
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Rolled 13 (1d38)

>>3767784
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>Rank Up 3/20
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>>3767794
If no more rolls have been made after 5 minutes, do feel free to roll again.
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Rolled 36 (1d38)

>>3767803
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>>3767793
>13

You see the majority are stopped by combat, but you see 13 people rush at you with rage. They start to circle you, drawing melee weapons for a more personal touch. You can assume they must be at the 5th Level of Heavenly Energy each for an average.

Player Choice
>Write-in for what to do 20 mins, they all have 150 stats across the board for their speciality.
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>>3767811
>throw 2 rain drops at each of them
this is a really good mob killing skill
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>>3767813
This
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Rolled 30, 74, 76, 150, 68, 107, 66, 96, 148, 67, 45, 96, 86 = 1109 (13d150)

>>3767813
>Roll 25d416 best of three

The 13 is due to the extra 400 which can't happen, as 4chan has a 25 dice limit.

>Rolling 13d150 for action of the attackers.
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>>3767834
We have one nat 150! This man will survive unless you also crit.
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Rolled 217, 416, 237, 364, 73, 88, 82, 305, 187, 184, 387, 366, 356, 369, 234, 29, 376, 269, 218, 305, 95, 58, 175, 347, 138 = 5875 (25d416)

>>3767834
well even if he survives he should still be super injured, so prisoner i guess, or jiang burns him to a crisp
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Rolled 94, 155, 173, 30, 410, 54, 274, 405, 415, 71, 317, 279, 133, 320, 190, 76, 202, 291, 42, 118, 347, 171, 188, 54, 386 = 5195 (25d416)

>>3767834
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Rolled 402, 135, 346, 208, 219, 339, 112, 323, 376, 258, 35, 180, 415, 64, 241, 43, 326, 306, 383, 269, 346, 137, 189, 354, 155 = 6161 (25d416)

>>3767834
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Rolled 31, 63 = 94 (2d100)

>>3767848
>All are dead. Goricnac got a nat 416. So he dead.

You fire Water Rain Bullets at them, you see a line of attackers fall beneath you.

You are starting to feel sick. You have killed monsters before, but these are people! You don't know how much longer you can go on. You see their Jewels fall to the ground. You can imagine hearing their souls, howling at you.

>Roll 1d100 best of three DC 80 to not activate your Soul Hearing.

Rolling 2d100 for battle conditions. +35 to the Hunters. Nothing for the radicals.
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Rolled 22 (1d100)

>>3767860
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Rolled 59 (1d100)

>>3767860
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>>3767860
>Beat by 3. Wew. The +35 vs nothing was for: against 2 Heavenly Jewel Masters, 20 vs your 45 and their leader is dead.

Please feel free to roll again if in 15 minutes, no-one else has.
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Rolled 60 (1d100)

>>3767860
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>>3767875
>60
Failure!

>You are now incapacitated. No matter, the radicals are defeated anyway.

You start to hear voices...

"DIE! FUCK YOU!"

"YOUR KIND DESERVE TO DIE ON SPIKES YOU FILTHY MONGREL!"

"We'll kill them all!"

"DEATH TO THE DRAGON CLAN!"

"FUCKING CHEATING HEAVENLY JEWEL MASTERS!"

You go blind as their voices crowd around you. With your actions earlier forcing a few of these people to stay here in perpetual torment. You collapse. You can't go on like this!

"Zou!"

You hear Jiang shouting at you.

You wake up in the same dark part of the forest. Jiang is jostling you a bit.

"Zou, they're all dead. It's OK now."

You can see blood on her cloak. That's not a nice image. You stand up, using her as support.

"It's Okay. We're going back to the orphanage now. You're fine. We're fine. Just calm down."

You look around you. Roughly 60 Jewels sit on he ground. Some by the Heavenly Jewel Master. Others for the Hunters, most for the radicals.

Those are their corpses. You need to calm down. You slowly compose yourself. When you get back, the ceremony hasn't begun at all. The battle only took about an hour from start to finish to conclude. There could be more. You need to take stock. The Guard has left the battlefield to do something else. Probably log the attack. You might want to go see him.

Jiang rests her head on your shoulder. You and her need a break before the ceremony. You make it back there. Jiang sits next to you. This was her first time killing as well. She was trained for this. You weren't. Song is inside. He can see you need some room.

Player Choice for the morning before the ceremony
>Call someone (Who?)
>Talk to someone (Who?)
>Go back
>Cultivate
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>See if you can't try to listen to the souls again
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3767889
>Go resurrect the hunters that died during the attack yesterday
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>>3767889
>Resurrect and heal the hunters.
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Rolled 57 (1d100)

>>Resurrect and heal the hunters.

"I need to go back. I can resurrect them!

"Alright. Just don't get lost."

You run as fast as you safely can back. You personally recognise all 5 who died. Some have Heavenly Energy.

You touch the first man first, then activate the Skill.

"AHHH! What the hell! Oh shit it''s you! Fucking hell buddy I thought you abandoned us!"

"What?"

"I mean the Guard said you were going to the Palace but god damn did I never believe that shi-"

He sees your Pure Icy Jade Jewels.

"Hahaha! So that's why! What's with the look?"

"You just died. I brought you back. Hello."

"What? Oh fuck. I mean. Can I have a moment?"

"Sure."

You go around and revive the other 4 who died. 1 man and 3 women.

"I need you all to remain calm. We can tend to the corpses of our enemies soon. Just get back to base."

All but one woman leaves. She goes to pick up one of the Jewels before she goes. You don't see the point in stopping her. She stops to ask you something.

"Hey, do you think you could try and awaken my Dantian for some Jewels? The Guard told me one time that the Saint Element could heal anything. If it can bring me back to life, then it can surely do this right? I have 2 Levels of Heavenly Energy already"

Player Choice, you have 5 points to spend for the evolution of Resurrect.
>Cost down 72/120
>Special Evolution 0/240

Player Choice, you have 26 points to spend for the evolution of Rain Arrows
>Cost Down 0/20
>Damage Up 2/20
>Rank Up 0/40
>Evolve Special 0/20

You look at the corpses. The animal parts showing on all of them, a mixture of the 4 tribes Long told you about, and a few others. These things did something horrible to themselves for power, now look at them. 50 Jewels now sit there on the ground. Ready to be taken. You wondered how the Palace had so many Jewels. This might be the answer. You look back at the woman, probably around 35. Even if you helped her she would never make it past the third Jewel without extra help.

Player Choice
>Help her awaken (Roll)
>Don't

Player Choice
>Take the Jewels for selling/ resurrection in the future, they are still in attack mode, and can be revived for future endeavours
>Leave them, and go back to attend the ceremony for the first part.

Rolling 1d100 for stuff, DC 50. For YianEyue event
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>>3767928
>Player Choice, you have 5 points to spend for the evolution of Resurrect.
All 5 to Cost Down.
>Player Choice, you have 26 points to spend for the evolution of Rain Arrows
18 to Cost Down, 8 to Rank Up.
>Help her awaken (Roll)
>Take the Jewels for selling/ resurrection in the future, they are still in attack mode, and can be revived for future endeavours
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>>3767928
Resurrect
>Cost Down:3
>Special: 2
Rain Arrows
>Damage Up: 18
>Rank Up: 8
Player Choice
>Help her awaken (Roll)
>Take the Jewels for selling/ resurrection in the future, they are still in attack mode, and can be revived for future endeavours
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>>3767943
>18 to Cost Down, 8 to Rank Up.
I mean, 20 to Cost Down and 6 to Damage Up.
>>
I gotta eat some tea. Be back for 18:30 pm BST maybe.
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>>3767928
>Resurrrection:
>5 to special
>Rain arrows
>18 damage up
> 8 rank up
>Leave them, and go back to attend the ceremony for the first part.
not worth missing part of the ceremony to collect gems
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>>3767971
Vote on helping for Saint?
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>>3768006
yes to helping
>>
>Help her awaken
>Take the Jewels. I'll let you use Wind to save enough time not to be late. This was just a moral thing.

>Damage Up 20/20
>Damage increased to 1d500
>Damage Up 0/40
>Rank Up 8/40

"Sure, but once you do. Get back to base. There could be anything out there looking for a free meal. Start cultivating now."

You use your Saint Element, and try to buff her cultivation

>Roll 1d100 best of three for success.
>DC 95
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Rolled 51 (1d100)

>>3768046
we need better control to make this easier
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Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>3768046
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>>3768062
awesome
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Rolled 11 (1d100)

>>3768046
1
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>>3768069
Double 1s! Even better!
>>3768062
Fucking hell. Madman!

>96
>Wew

You feel your Saint Element fill her entire body, reaching her spiritual anatomy and doing something to it. You see 1 Opal and Earth Elemental Jewel appear.

"Hahahaha! I did it! Thank you so much!"

She runs off, examining the changes to her body as she goes.

You use the Wind Element to pick up all the remaining Jewels. You don't think they will sell for much here, but in a place with more freedoms...well. They could justify it.

You run back, using all of your Heavenly Energy to do so, using Water to clean your Uniform of blood to make it back in time for the funeral.

When you get back. You see song standing in a green and blue suit, colours which he would wear for his academy.

Jiang is wearing a dark grey long skirt. She has a wide-brimmed hat on.

You see 4 other adults. One looks like a member of the State Military. The others? Tradesmen, from wood, to food. Everyone was made men and women by this place, by the Mama. Now it it time to give back. You join Jiang's side, and Song joins yours. The priest begins with a recounting of the Mama's life.

"She was a kind soul, but resolute. Many here knew her as someone who would go on to the bitter end. She is a great example of the harmony between those of young and old. Determined to raise those who had little in life, she worked tirelessly to bring happiness to those she could. We remember today as a proud, kind woman, and most importantly, a mother. May the Dao's eternal vision guide us all."

He lets you all pray for a minute, before gathering the staff for the final lowering of the coffin.

"She wished to be buried under one of the trees in this garden. Please sit for the lowering."

Almost everyone sits down. However, as you do. You notice that someone is absent. YianEyue. She is only 10, but should understand what loss could mean. She dares to be this rude?

You watch as a simple brown coffin is brought out by members of the Dao priests, and is lowered into a pit you didn't see earlier.

The smoke from the battle earlier is still in the air. It is a bright and sunny day. You wonder, if you listened closely, could you hear her voice?

There are no words. It is simply done. Earth starts covering the coffin. You see the children. Some of them too young to understand death. Cry. You need to stay strong now. You must be stronger, less time to waste on others. The Dao itself told you you could fix this. Why wait around?

The Funeral ends with any gifts the adults have for the orphanage.

You hand over the book, 3000 Gold in a heavy pouch, and the Giga-Ultra Cultivation tool.

Song hands over a smaller amount of gold, different books, and a letter, to the new Head Mother.

The others make similar contributions.

Jiang hands a letter and a small package to the Head Mother, which she guards well.

The Funeral is over.

"Alright everyone. Mama wouldn't want all this sadness! Food time!

1/2
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All the children and most of the adolescents leave to go back into the house.

You see one of the staff shouting around.

"YianEyue! Where are you! I have something for you! Where on earth is she?"

She walks up to you and beckons the State Military adult over.

"I can't leave here because of...everything, but would you two kind gentlemen look for our young YianEyue? She is a Dragonwoman by birth, but we are allies with them, so no problem. She has really white hair and golden eyes, about 10 years old, can't miss her. Please?"

Dragonwoman? You think back to the corpses on the ground in the forest. Surely she can't smell them surely? You know she didn't like it here. Dao forbid, she could be in the Cursed Forest!

Player Choice
>Look, roll for it
>No thanks. I have other things to do
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>>3768152
> Look for rude Dragonkid
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>>3768152
>>Look, roll for it
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>>3768152
>Look, roll for it
>>
>Look

>Roll 1d100 best of three DC 60. You know basically where the battle was.
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Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>3768178
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Rolled 47 (1d100)

>>3768178
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Rolled 90 (1d100)

>>3768178
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Rolled 20 (1d100)

>>3768211
>90

You and the other man run out into the woods. You tell him you know where you want to go. He decides to check another area, cover more ground. You see 4 Jewels, and a 4 piece set appear. He is more powerful than you.

You go back to the battle to find her on her knees, crying and sobbing over a dead radical Dragonman's head. His corspe bleeding still, his horn and dragon wings visible.

She spots you.

"YOU! YOU DID THIS! This was my people! I am a dragon!"

You can sense Jealousy, Pride and Wrath from her.

"Unlike you. I remember my parents! I knew them!"

You start to see a weird mist gather around her.

"I can smell them on you. Their Jewels. I want to have mine. I am a proud dragon! Why hide it!"

You can see the bodies of the corrupted beastmen disintegrate and the ashes pool into her. You can sense a rise in her cultivation.

"I will be like them! I will be whole!"

>Rolling 1d100 for something. DC 75

Player Choice
>Write-in for what to do. You greatly outrank her in strength. This will require no roll to complete. Let it happen? Knock her out?
>Try and persuade her to stop and tell her to come back to the orphanage, she has a special gift when she gets home, roll for persuasion in this case. DC 80
>Saint Element roll to purify her sin with a DC of 94, as you succeeded last time with a Master Level feat.
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>>3768244
>>Saint Element roll to purify her sin with a DC of 94, as you succeeded last time with a Master Level feat.
wait so is she the daughter of a few radical dragons that is now trying to kill us cause shes gone nuts with power? am confused
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>>3768244
>Saint Element roll to purify her sin with a DC of 94, as you succeeded last time with a Master Level feat.
Might as well push our luck right now.
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>>3768276
No. She is normal Dragonwoman. She can smell her kin, and mistakenly thinks that she should be like them. She is the only beastman in the orphanage and doesn't know any different.

She has failed at developing dragon traits under this ritual. She will do something else in the next post with success.

She is a child. She knows who and what her parents are, they were not radical, but died too young to tell her that having animal traits is not normal and for her to understand it (There are some more spoilers for them but not for now). She now sees her kin dead by your hand. She wants revenge for this and is using a technique developed by these radicals to infect others unwillingly. She has instinctively used this to gain more power.

She is making a stupid mistake based on the fact she was raised by humans. She still has a connection to her beast side, and wants more out off jealousy of the humans she can't entirely relate to.

She mentioned her parents to try and hurt you some way. Trying to make you angry or jealous.

Lots of things to unpack. You can assume this is a temper tantrum if you want. You can talk with her more if you succeed this roll.


>Saint Element roll to purify her sin with a DC of 94, as you succeeded last time with a Master Level feat.

>Roll 1d100 best of three please.
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Rolled 59 (1d100)

>>3768325
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Rolled 76 (1d100)

>>3768325
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Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>3768325
>>
>79
Failure!

You try and purify her sin. It doesn't work.

You see as the ash makes her increase in Levels of Heavenly Energy, all the way to four.

You see as 1 Pure Yellow Jade forms on her right wrist, and on her left, 1 Diamond and Opal rather chaotic Jewel forms.

She has just become a Heavenly Jewel Master. One with even better prospects than Jessica, with both the Light and Earth Elements, and Endurance.

"Hah Hah. Where, where are they?"

You see her scratching her head and her back. She looks the same.

"NO! NO!"

You see her Jewels disappear. She collapses onto the dirt. The corpses completely disintegrated.

"I want to be whole!"

You see her summon her Jewels again, and activate her Earth Element. You see no visible change.

"Work! Fire! Do something!"

It's at this moment the State Military person finds you.

"Oh shit! Heavenly Jewel Master head on!"

You see him ready his Jewels. 4 Physical Jewels.

You see her stop in fear.

"W-what?"

You need to stop this. You don't want to kill her and revive her, but it looks like it could come to it.

"Sir Orders! I know you are my superior!"

You see her start to use the Light Element, she looks desperate. Scared mostly. The sin you can sense from her is fear, then pride. Must be a dragon thing to be prideful. You remember the Laser beams that Jessica could do. This is bad.

Player Choice
>Write-in for what to do.
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>>3768414
> Actually try to rouse her Ancestral Dragon characteristics with the Saint Element or Life Element
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>>3768414
>Stand down, shes a scared orphan and she just awakened
>Knock her out, will have to take our time trying to purify her sin
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>>3768432
arousing ancestrl traits fucks them up, this sounds liek trying to replicate teh effect of what teh radicals do, god no
>>3768444
dammit got trips of death, scythe prob about to do somethin
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>>3768448
I mean, if the kid wants to become a Dragon, who are we to dash her dream? Hell, if I had the choice to become a Dragon, I'd go for it.
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>>3768458
shes already a dragon, at higher level divine beast ancestry peeps can shift into those forms, right now what shes trying to do is basically become a fucked up human dragon hybrid that cant turn into either form. She wants to do it cause noone bothered to explain how divine beast ancestry people actually fucking work to her. Givent eh dershwa are allies with the dragons and the king is gonna reach otu to them soon the best idea is prob take her in, explain how things actually work and maybe ask some of the dragon clan for help
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Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>3768458
BAD. VERY BAD. She can turn into a dragon in the future anyway for a short while, this way is the worst way of doing it. Bloodlines are a thing, she happens to have a good one. She'll have to wait, but she has a long time ahead of her.

>>3768444
HAHAHAHA. TRIPS OF DEATH PEOPLE.

You're about to do something. When you feel your Scythe reacting.

For the Dao's sake!

You boost your strength, but feel it charge up even more.

>Roll 1d6240 for a Strength Check to not kill the girl or the Guard. Best of three.
>DC 5616

Rolling 1d2 for in the case of failure 1 for girl, 2 for State Military,
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Rolled 4475 (1d6240)

>>3768465
god fucking dammit scythe
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Rolled 3497 (1d6240)

>>3768465
We let our little sister die.
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Rolled 4849 (1d6240)

>>3768465
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>>3768471
>>3768472
>>3768474
This little girl is cursed.
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Rolled 3849 (1d11000)

>>3768474
>4848
Failure!

You try and grab the Reaper's scythe, but you can't hold on.

It flies towards YianEyue. You see her face light up in shock and absolute terror.

Then it sinks into her chest. You see it stop glowing.

"Gauh!"

There is a short scream. Then all but her Jewels start to turn to ash.

The other adult looks at you. Jewels still summoned.

"What the fuck! What the ever-living fuck was that?!"

You see him take aim at you.

"I can revive her!"

"Oh fuck that that weapon is cursed! She was one of us! You monster!"

He takes a swing at you.

Rolling 1d1100 for Strength

You need to dodge this and just use the skill. Jessica said that Water can help with flexibility?

You summon the Angel of Death set, and use Water to try and flow out of the way. You do it. You can do this!

>FLX to max efficiency with unlocking of FLX boost with water, roll 1d67480 best of three. With 220 FLX doubled with Water to 440, boosted with 8115 HE to 8435, buffed with Angel of Death set to 67480.

I think I will end things tonight. I will start again at 14:00 pm, however I have work in the afternoon/evening, so I will have a 3 hour break in the middle of it.

Thank you all for playing! Congratulations on killing a newly awakened Heavenly Jewel Master who just so happened to be a little innocent girl who knew nothing about what she was doing! Goodnight!
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Rolled 43545 (1d67480)

>>3768514
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Rolled 56911 (1d67480)

>>3768514
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Rolled 9134 (1d67480)

>>3768514
I hope we can clear up this misunderstanding.
>>
The fuxkker knows its a cursed weapon and stilla attacks us anyway when he saw us try to stop it and sees us try to help the girl....
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>>3769405
I mean, cursed weapons usually work by cursing the user, in this case, you.

>>3768531
56911 vs 3849

You feel the Water enter your very bones and flesh, and it feels almost natural when you entire spine and ribs bend to the right like a snake to avoid the dodge.

You use your allies misstep in punching you to run over in a flash to revive the poor girl with a touch to her Jewels

>Cost Down 73/120

You watch as her body reform bone by bone and very slowly. You see the face of terror still plastered on her body when she comes too.

"Ah! Ah! Stop I won't try it again! Please!"

You take a glance round at your ally. You see him still dazed from the actions you just took. The corpses are gone, but you can hear things in the forest that do not sound so good. The vultures smell death.

"Throw that fucking scythe away now! The power to revive or not that is not safe!"

You look back at the girl you just killed, she looks almost despondent, but you think a hug could cheer her up. You need to talk to her parents, maybe using Soul Hearing near her might be a good idea. You consider taking her to the Palace as your disciple for protection would be the best and legal way of doing it. Leaving a Heavenly Jewel Master in an orphanage is not a good idea.


Player Choice
>Put the Scythe away in the Spacial Ring, then tend to YianEyue, he might not know the difference
>Throw it deep into the forest, if it activates, it will probably kill a tree or a beast, not a human
>Ignore him and tend to YianEyue.
>Attempt to subdue the Low Level Zun Stage Physical Jewel Master
>Other (Write-in)
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>>3769832
>Throw it deep into the forest, if it activates, it will probably kill a tree or a beast, not a human
We can always grab it later
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>>3769832
>Put the Scythe away in the Spacial Ring, then tend to YianEyue, he might not know the difference
>>
Rolled 2 (1d2)

Rolling 1d2 for Choice
>>
>Put the Scythe away in the Spacial Ring, then tend to YianEyue, he might not know the difference

You flash the Scythe away, and in turn, throw a Wind gust from your hand.

"OK! Ok. Thank fuck."

You turn back to YianEyue, and just give her a hug. Everything's going to be okay.

"Okay. Okay...I won't do it again. I promise!"

"I know. I know. We just need to go back. If I won't tell anyone what you did, do you promise not to tell anyone what just happened."

"Um!"

She just buries her head in your chest. She wants to go back home.

You pick her up. You need to explain to the soldier something now.

"That Scythe was something the King asked me to keep safe, but if it did something like that...well, I'll make up some excuse."

"Thank you sir!"

He stays by your side, looking out for monsters. Luckily there are none who turn up, and you make it back to the orphanage. You put YianEyue down, she needs some food, some sleep, a lot of things really.

"I promise not to tell anyone about the gems."

"Jewels, I don't think that is a viable option. Well, go have fun with the other kids. I need to have a talk with someone important alright?"

"Okay!"

She seems remarkably sure of herself as she runs upstairs, that could be good or bad. You see the Soldier go to the Head Mother and say that she's back, no injuries. However, he turns back to you. He has a few questions it seems.

"Hey, between you and me, what was that all? There was ash? A new Heavenly Jewel Master, and that scythe? I need answers, none of that was normal."

Player Choice
>Classified
>Tell him she was trying to use the recent corpses of the battle earlier in some kind of ritual, you don't know its aim, but she awakened from it. Tell him that the Scythe was a secret military project for the war, but well, now it's gone.
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3769859
>Tell him she was trying to use the recent corpses of the battle earlier in some kind of ritual, you don't know its aim, but she awakened from it. Tell him that the Scythe was a secret military project for the war, but well, now it's gone.
>>
>>3769859
>Tell him she was trying to use the recent corpses of the battle earlier in some kind of ritual, you don't know its aim, but she awakened from it. Tell him that the Scythe was a secret military project for the war, but well, now it's gone.
>It's also classified
>>
>Tell him she was trying to use the recent corpses of the battle earlier in some kind of ritual, you don't know its aim, but she awakened from it. Tell him that the Scythe was a secret military project for the war, but well, now it's gone. Classified


"Well, from what I can tell. You know about the attack earlier?"

"Yeah?"

"That was mostly beastmen, she was trying to use their corpses in some form of ritual, I don't know what, but she awakened from it. The Scythe was a secret classified project for the war, but, well, it's gone now. Remember, classified, don't tell a soul."

"Got it. What about the girl? She's a bit young for the military I'll tell you that. Do you have any plans for her? She's going to be found by the Dershwa Clan soon enough, then there's no telling what'll happen to her. The 4th Princess is famous for the sick stuff she'll do to anyone. The military will brainwash her, and anything else will try and kill her. Jealousy is a strong emotion after all."

Player Choice
>What is the plan to keep her safe, if she stays here, she will be killed by "accident" from someone who sees her messing with her Jewels. Write-in.
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>>3769872
> She'll come with me. I'll keep an eye on her, and work with the people of the Palace to tend at her lack of discipline and... instability. Anyway, the Dragon Tribe is our ally, and she can only come in contact with them through us anyway.
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>>3769872
> Take her to the palace where we can keep an eye on her. Definitely get her to meet normal beastmen. Maybe train her.
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>mfw just downloaded Chrono Trigger, I'll be playing it during voting time. Looks to be one of the best use of £10 yet.

>She'll be coming with me.

"She'll come with me. I'll keep an eye on her, and work with the people of the Palace to tend at her lack of discipline and... instability. Anyway, the Dragon Tribe is our ally, and she can only come in contact with them through us anyway. I could also train her in how to control her new power with some effort."

"Understood sir! Any orders?"

"Where is your patrol?"

"Near here sir, the Hunters sometimes require help, so we come over."

"Keep a lookout for beastmen with animal features. That won't have been their entire force. Dismissed."

"Yes Sir!"

He salutes, and walks back to the festivities. You need to find YianEyue.

You find her sitting alone on a bench, eating some chicken. Her legs touch the ground, most things in this place were designed for children.

"Do dragonwomen like meat?"

"I do!"

You let her finish her food.

"Hey. You know what I said earlier about you not staying here?"

"Hm?"

"Well. I meant it. I need to take you to the Palace."

You see her eyes light up.

"I can get out? I can leave? Will there be people like me there?"

"There can be. Show me your Jewels again."

She summons her Endurance and Dual Elemental Jewels.

"People normally don't have two sets. They have one. If the wrong people see those then you could be in a lot of trouble."

She unsummons her Jewels, looking around at people.

"Well. If you come with me, I can help show you how to use them properly, and get you in touch with some real Dragonmen."

"Really?!"

"I promise."

"Okay! When can we go?"

"I need to have a chat with the Head Mother, come with me, she'll want your permission. "

She gets of the bench. She looks very excited.

You ask around and find the Head Mother in her office, organising things like the power of attorney and the massive amount of inheritance tax this place will have to pay. You are glad you gave some money."

"Ah Hello Zou! Thank you so much for the gifts! It's been a right pain looking for the money, but everything's worked out in the end."

"Your welcome. I need to talk to you about something. YianEyue? Could you show her those things?"

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She summons her Jewels. You see the happy face of the Head Mother turn pale and grim.

"Oh Gosh! What-What happened?! Oh no...I thought you were at the first level only."

"She's quite talented. You are aware of what my job is yes? Well. I wish to use my authority and power to help her grow and develop under my and the Palaces protection. Is that a good thing to do?"

You see her hesitate.

"YianEyue? Are you OK with this?"

"Huhuh! I'll get to see my people too!"

"R-really? Well. I suppose I can't say no to a bodyguard to the 6th Princess. You promise to keep her safe?"

"Absolutely. You have my word as a Heavenly Jewel Master."

"Thank you. I accept your offer."

You thank her, and leave with YianEyue in hand. You find Jiang.

"Hey. This one's a Heavenly Jewel Master. I'm taking her back to the Palace so she doesn't die."

"Buweh? I leave you alone for a few hours and you bring some random girl home? I might have to put some measures in place..."

"She's like my sister. Say hello."

"Hello!"

"Oh but she's still adorable! Alright! We'll keep her! What's her Jewels?"

"Jessica's but with Earth."

"Hehe. I'm liking her already! Do you want to stay the evening or go back now?"

Player Choice
>Go home now
>Stay the evening with a night trip home for tomorrow morning.

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>>3769908
>Stay the evening with a night trip home for tomorrow morning.
I want to go see that magical tree we healed
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>>3769908
>Stay the evening with a night trip home for tomorrow morning.
Let's talk to that tree.
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>Stay the evening.

"I think we should stay. This could be her last chance to see some of these people again. I also have something to do."

"Hmm...where are you going?"

"The Forest. I need to take care of something."

"Alright, but no more people. It looks like we'll be travelling at night."

"I understand. YianEyue. Do you want to spend the rest of your time with Jiang?"

"Okay..."

With her distracted. You take off for the Forest. You can't remember where that tree monster was, but it must have grown a bit more by now. You decide to find it again and ask about your reward.

>Roll 1d100 best of three to find the tree. DC 70
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Rolled 45 (1d100)

>>3769936
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Rolled 98 (1d100)

>>3769936
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Rolled 60 (1d100)

>>3769936
Dragon Loli, GET!
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>98

And with that. I think I'll stop for now. I need to get ready for work. Be back for about 19:45 pm BST. Thank you all for playing.

>>3769953
Well, she might be going to the Dragonman country, so you may not have her for long.
Also, Chrono Trigger is shaping up to be great. I will play more tomorrow.
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>98

You look for a vibrant green tree. You find sings of its roots and foliage quickly. You find a wizened face of the Nature Element beast, sitting with blue and green leaves.

"Ah you. You are the young man who saved me, are you not?"

"Yes. You said you had something for me?"

"I suppose. It may not be entirely useful to you now, but, in time and with nurture and care. You may see great benefits."

You see one of the leaves fall, and break in the air, releasing green Nature Element. You see it form into the shape of a tiny person. Faceless, but recognisable with small wings.

"That is a small essence of a potential future, consider it a seed, it will take long for maturity to show, but if you feed it. There will be progress."

The, well, fairy, you suppose, floats over to you, then lands on your left wrist, facing you expectantly.

You summon your Jewels, and it rests in the first one.

>Key Item, Nature Element Seed, obtained, with continuous use of the Life and Saint Elements, it will grow stronger. It will provide a few benefits, but none are available now.

"Now then young man. In that same vein, I can also feed on your energy of life, and the energy you used to save me, would you be so kind, as to indulge in my selfish request, and help me grow, like that seed I gave you?"

Player Choice
>Use the Life, then Saint Elements to try and improve his cultivation (Will need a roll with a DC of 94)
>Tell him no, and leave
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>>3770196
>Use the Life, then Saint Elements to try and improve his cultivation (Will need a roll with a DC of 94)
Might as well get some practice
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>>3770196
>>Use the Life, then Saint Elements to try and improve his cultivation (Will need a roll with a DC of 94)
sure why not?
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>Use the Life, then Saint Elements to try and improve his cultivation

>Roll 1d100 best of three to succeed, DC 94
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Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>3770220
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Rolled 85 (1d100)

>>3770220
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>>3770222
>Trips of Challenge!
>Upon the third roll, if you succeed, you will have to re-roll all three dice.
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Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>3770220
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>85
Failure.

"I can try, but I cannot assure I can succeed."

"Very well."

You try the same thing you tried last time with the woman, yet, you get the sensation that nothing is happening.

"I can tell this isn't working, but do you feel healthier?"

"Yes. My thanks to you."

With that, you leave, and make your way back to the orphange in quick time.

You have probably a few hours to do something else, why not make use of your time.

Player Choice for the evening (Bonus action why not)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Talk to someone (Who?)
>Cultivate
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>See if you can't try to listen to the soul of YianEyue's parents
>Teach YianEyue some basic Heavenly Energy Control, as people still know she has Heavenly Energy, this makes perfect sense to the others
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3770246
>Teach YianEyue some basic Heavenly Energy Control, as people still know she has Heavenly Energy, this makes perfect sense to the others
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>>3770246
>Teach YianEyue some basic Heavenly Energy Control, as people still know she has Heavenly Energy, this makes perfect sense to the others
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>Teach YianEyue some basic Heavenly Energy Control, as people still know she has Heavenly Energy, this makes perfect sense to the others.

You go find YianEyue, who has been ditched by Jiang.

"Hi. Do you want to learn something cool?"

"Um. Ok! How cool?"

"Well, I'll be teaching you on how to use the Heavenly Energy in your body. It is an essential part of being a Heavenly Jewel Master. Where's Jiang?"

"I don't think she likes me...have I done something bad to her?"

"I don't think so. She was happy when I last saw her. It'll be fine, just follow my instructions. Firstly, start cultivating."

You see her face drop.

"But that's boooring!"

"Just do it. This will pay later in life."

"Okay..."

"Now focus on the energy, the warmth flowing through your body, then try and bunch it up to one point in your meridians, this won't hurt, and you have me to protect you."

>Roll 1d100+25 best of three for HEC training and teaching best of three.
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Rolled 33 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>3770285
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Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>3770285
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Alright. I will be ending it here for today. Thank you all for playing! The quest will restart tomorrow at 14:00 pm BST. Leave the last roll to a different anon please. Goodnight!
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Rolled 20 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>3770285
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Quest will not run today. I have uni bullshit to do. Thanks for your patience.
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>>3771532
kk good luck with uni bullshit
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Quest will be running for the same time frame as Thursday, as I have work in the afternoon/evening, thank you for your patience. Uni stuff can't be sorted until Tuesday due to bank holiday Monday next week screwing things up. Terrible organisers these places of education are.

>>3770290
>67
meh

You try and teach the basics to her, but probably due to her undeveloped mind and her lack of certain keywords and knowledge, she struggles. You can sense her making minute progress, which is good, but it could take maybe two or three more intense sessions like this to teach her.

>Heavenly Energy Control increases by 3
>Extensive Heavenly Energy Control 43/500
>Cultivation Pool increases by 1715

She gets incredibly bored, seeing probably no progress she can tell.

"I want something else. Can I do something else?"

Her best option would be endurance training, as there is no orb here for Heavenly Energy absorption. However, you don't exactly want to hit her. Not after what happened with the Scythe. Perhaps you can explain later. You need to get ready.

"Sorry, but you need to pack for our trip back to the Palace. Get anything you need, and want. There's all the space you'll need."

"Will there be food?"

"Yes. However, you'll need it less and less as time goes on. So eat now."

Instead of packing, you see her grab the last bit of chicken, then run upstairs. You go find Jiang, and tell her to get ready.

"Huhum! I have almost everything. I just wanted to show you something before we went back."

"What?"

"Well, I was wearing the cloak for most of the day...I didn't get to show you what I was actually wearing! So gaze upon your Mistress!"

She takes her brown cloak off to reveal a red dress, with gold curly highlights. It looks nice on her.

"When we get back. I am going to use this dress for its intended purpose, and dance. You look like you need some practice, and some time off. There was the attack yesterday. Then I had my fun today, but I think you need a break."

"Got it. Just for now keep the cloak on, it could be stolen easily if someone sees it."

"Spoilsport."

Despite your comments, the fight earlier has at least made sure she isn't angry or bored. Which is some consolation. YianEyue comes out with a large suitcase, with clothes, and you believe some legal identification. You see a blue crystal pendant strapped to it. Family emblem?

"Alright. I have a communicator, maybe I'll tell Song to ask the orphanage to buy a phone. Try not to draw attention as we go back. Jiang, if anyone asks. She's your little sister, she technically counts as mine anyway, so it isn't a lie. Let's go."

>Roll 2d100 best of three, first for staying awake during the whole night. DC 80. Second for stealth, variable DC.
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Rolled 76, 75 = 151 (2d100)

>>3773782
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Rolled 15, 27, 43, 22 = 107 (4d100)

>>3773786
Two more rolls if nobody shows up.
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Rolled 58, 20 = 78 (2d100)

>>3773782
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Rolled 69 (1d100)

>>3773786
>>3773792 (First two)
>>3773787

Taking these rolls. Thank you for seeing the thread.

>76, YianEyue will need to sleep. She is but a child
>75, Little to no problem. Someone does question why you and another cloaked figure are carrying an unconscious girl, but it can be circumvented.

You manage to keep walking for a good 5 hours, until sleep gets the better of YianEyue. Jiang carries her, as she has a lot more Stamina. So you put her suitcase in the Spatial Ring, then let Jiang give her a piggy back.

When you start to get close to the entrance you used last time, one of the merchants calls to you. It is the early morning, he must be dedicated.

"Young man! Young woman. May I ask where you are taking that child?"

Jiang replies.

"I'm taking my sister somewhere safe to sleep."


"Well, there is a small hotel not far from here, but I simply must warn you, it is not for the...less well off. 20 Gold a night."

The fuck? 20 Gold, your monthly salary is only worth 10 days there! You might want to ask about that, you haven't received it yet, and you have been here a lot longer than a month. You cut Jiang's reply off.

"No thank you sir, we have somewhere else in mind. Thank you kindly for the offer though."

"I see. I see. All be well then."

You ignore him. You were taught about things like this. As much as you want to help people, most use that kindness as a guise for greed, to prey upon others desperation. 20 Gold, what a rip off! He probably owns the place.

You continue going, until the Palace is in sight, and you get into the hallways. You have to whisper, to avoid waking her up.

"Jiang. Can you keep her in your room? I don't think we can explain this unless her Jewels are shown. Otherwise she's just a random, she'll be tossed out by the morning by the doctors."

"Well, if you want to teach her, *cough cough*, as you did last evening, then you get to keep her."

She takes her slowly off her back, and pushes her into your arms, and at this point, you're too tired to care. You decide to forgo the bed, and let YianEyue have it tonight. You need some sleep, perhaps until the afternoon.

Rolling 1d100 for stuff

Player Choice for morning/afternoon depending on the roll.
>Call someone
>Cultivate
>Go to the mass grave for resurrect
>Go train Jiang, she has a lot of stamina, so needs less sleep
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>See if you can't try to listen to the souls again (Who?)
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who? Fei? Jessica? The King? (Perhaps on a report on both battles.)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>69 (Not relevant for the event I promise.)

Morning it is. No sleep for the wicked. Choose who wakes you up.

>Jiang
>Jessica
>Long
>Shian
>Sun-Di
>Dr. Zhang Xi-Tze
>Other? (Who? Not YianEyue)
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>>3773802
> Cultivate
>>3773805
> Jessica
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>>3773802
>Cultivate
>>3773805
>Jessica
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>Jessica

You think you get about 2 hours sleep, then a loud pair of thuds smashes against the door.

"Helloooo?"

"Hello, this is Jessica. I want to talk, about a lot. Can you open the door?"

"Sure."

You get the bare minimum on to be presentable, and open the door. The most distinct change is the massive impractical metal box with Amethyst and Rainbow Moonstone accents which is attached to her left arm, like a portable Saint Element IV. She doesn't walk in, so doesn't see YianEyue.

"The box? Well, your efforts in looking for the pattern helped with that. I want to say: I'm sorry for dismissing your help when I found out about it. I wasn't in the right frame of mind, ya'know? I want to thank you. Thank you so much. This helped me keep composure during the last fight. I know it's just another medication, but my body has a less chance of becoming resistant to it. I have also had a lot more clarity and free time to perfect the cultivation device for your cultivation technique. So come to my office when you are ready. Can I come in? I have something a bit more...private to ask of you. I know you spent all day sleeping, I would to if I were you, but today you can get some work done, with the cannon damaged, we have time to scout out the Moon, and think about launching our own assault. Anyway, may I please come in?"

You are distinctly aware of the small child sleeping on your bed, this could be troublesome. You could also use this opportunity to explain, but your brain is frazzled from 2 hours of sleep. You don't have the energy to do lots of talking.

Player Choice
>Let her in
>Don't, and just cultivate.
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>>3773830
We do need to cultivate, buuuut...

> Let her in
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>>3773830
>Let her in
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>>3773830
>Let her in
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>Let her in.

What the hell. You let her in.

"Ok, so what I want-what the hell?!

You see YianEyue wake up from her sleep, the sharp and rather shrill voice of Jessica like needles.

"Whoosit? Big Bro Zou? Teacher?"

"Zou why the hell is there a random kid on your fu-on your bed?"

"No swearing. YianEyue, summon your Jewels."

You see YianEyue rub her eyes dizzily, then summon her Heavenly Jewels. She then promptly falls asleep again. Snoring away.

"That doesn't explain much. I want something more...detailed."

You see her Consoldiated Equipment form from only 3 Jewels, with a lens each.

"Kid from the orphanage, Dragongirl, awoke as a Heavenly Jewel Master yesterday. She would die if left there. She has 2 Elements. Just think of her like my sister."

"Haha. I thought you were sleeping, but no, you take a trip home, did you even tell anyone?"

"Yes, thank you. Plan is to get in contact with Dragon Tribe, let them take her."

"Well, at least you have a plan. Anything you want me to do?"

"She has Light, Earth and Endurance. Teach her, please."

"Well. You helped me. I can help...that."

"Good, just come back later, she needs sleep. What did you want?"

"I-uh. I wanted you to heal me...I have a small scar after the procedure for the box. I want it healed."

"Why not ask the doctors, you know, the people we pay for that?"

"I'm embarrassed! I also think it might be something infected from when I was working on Shan-Bai soon after."

"What?"

"Yeah, the demon is trying to reproduce, but can't, so it may be using me as a host through the scar. Saint Element please."

"What about that box?"

"It would be too overclocked, it is already dealing with my...brain."

"Fine...I need to cultivate after this, see me in the afternoon for the girl. YianEyue will be awake then.

>Roll 2d100 best of three, first for Zun Stage Saint technique, with a dc of 94, second for cultivation roll.
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Rolled 72, 12 = 84 (2d100)

>>3773852
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Rolled 56, 100 = 156 (2d100)

>>3773852
If it's for Jessica, I'll use my strongest technique:
Reversal of the Fortune of Heaven and Earth! Ultimate Form: Nat1 into Nat 100!
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>>3773854
It kind of worked.
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Rolled 65, 99 = 164 (2d100)

>>3773852
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>72 no dice, but the visible scar is gone.
>100, dice pool is double!

You try to use the Saint Element to mimic Holy Power, but you fail, and when Jessica lifts her left arm, you do heal visible damage, but you're not so sure about the demon stuff.

"Well, it's a step forward, at least. Thanks!"

She goes away, now for some sle-cultivation, yes cultivation!

Something happens, something unusual, you do about double of what you are supposed to be doing, truly, a miracle.

>Progress to next Level: 31153/46000

You finish to the feeling of YianEyue tapping you.

"Where are we?"

"In my room. Welcome to the Palace."

"Why's it so empty, why's it purple, and gold?"

"I have a Spatial Ring, the purple is for energy to pass through. Ask Jessica."

"Huh?"

There's a knock on the door, you get up and open it to reveal a Jessica with a backpack of scientific analysis equipment, and some Cores.

"Sup kid, I'm your teacher now."

"Are you a Dragon? You have Fire hair."

"No I'm something better, a Princess."

"I thought Princesses were beautiful? Dragons are beautiful. Nothing will ever compare."

"Zou? Permission to punch her in her stupid face?"

"Not granted. YianEyue, you shouldn't treat people like that. The Mama taught you better than that."

"What's with her hair, it's all black on one side and red on the other? Green eyes?"

"Worry about it later, she will train you until your Tribe arrive. I have other things to do. Bye. Good luck with her Jessica."

You walk off, the only thing you hear is:

"Your first lesson is to call me beautiful, OK? Me and my sisters are all beautiful. Ask Zou next time."

Glad you're out of that. Time for something to do this afternoon.

Player Choice for the afternoon
>Report both attacks, and look for more specific orders from The King
>Call someone (Who?)
>Cultivate
>Go to the mass grave for resurrect
>Go see Jiang, for a dance
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>See if you can't try to listen to the souls again (Who?)
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who? Fei? Jessica? The King?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3773872
>Report both attacks, and look for more specific orders from The King
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>>3773872
>>Report both attacks, and look for more specific orders from The King
also need to pick up our new tool from the labs and kinda wanna go dance with jiang
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Sorry guys. I have to go to work now. Be back for around 19:45 pm BST. Thanks for playing.
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>Report both attacks, and look for more specific orders from The King.

You need to report to the King. You find him, as always, in the Library, where, instead, he is writing his own book.

"My King?"

"Long, yes, I want to here about the attack on the City and by the Cursed Forest. Please, do not miss anything, it is vital that this timeline is at least preserved for the next."

"The main attack, I revived and teleported almost everyone. I have yet to revive all of them, but it will come in due time. The battle ended with a massive beam of what I think is the Destruction Element. I think it even destroyed souls. How are we going to even counter it?"

"I don't know. That's why I have kept repeating. The only thing I have managed to find out about it, is that it is a tier 4 Element. Do you understand what I mean by that?"

"Yes, our Saint and Time Elements are tier 3. What is tier 4? Is there a tier 5?"

"There's no use in speculating. However, we need to know how to counter it. Its name would imply something called the Creation Element, yet I have found no records of this. I do not know of anything else with the Destruction Element either. In other words, without a miracle, we are stuck. Consider it your overall mission to find a counter to the Destruction Element, we must do anything we can."

"Yes, your Majesty. The attack yesterday was by the radical beastmen, they all had weak cultivations, and their leader was a Heavenly Jewel Master."

"In other words, we can take the initiative with them, are their corpses still intact?"

"No, burnt to ashes and disintegrated."

"Tch, I can only reverse time in an area, not an entity. This may prove a problem. I'll give an order for Shian and Fei to investigate further. Shian has distracted herself with Shara, this should help get her in a fighting mood."

"What are my orders going forward sir?"

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"Reach the 4th Jewel, and work with the Elemental Research department on developing equipment for warfare on the Lunar Surface. We cannot sit here at the misery of the cannon, we must take the initiative. By the time we have attacked the base, we should have a better idea of how to counter the Destruction Element. Jiang has asked me to tell you to see her as soon as possible for urgent training. Dismissed."

When you first came here, he seemed a bit creepy, but quite happy? He is becoming more serious by the day.

"Sir, are you aware about the Dragongirl I invited here?"

"Yes, I will call the Dragon Tribe Alpha. He will arrive by teleportation tomorrow morning. She will leave to be trained. That will be all."

"Yes, your Majesty!"

You leave to do something in the evening.

Player Choice for the evening of the 77th day.
>Call someone (Who?)
>Cultivate
>Go to the mass grave for resurrect
>Go see Jiang, for a dance
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>See if you can't try to listen to the souls again (Who?)
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who? YianEyue?)
>Other? (Write-in)

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>>3774258
>Go see Jiang, for a dance
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>>3774258
>>Go see Jiang, for a dance
ok and after this go pick up our new and improved cultivation tool
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>Go see Jiang, for a dance

You want a small break. At 14 you don't have many hobbies, you suppose rather like the King, ironically, neither of you really have the time for them, maybe when this is all over. For now, you can have fun with people instead.

You think for a bit, then make your way to the ballroom where Jiang first taught you. You find her siting down, wearing the same red dress.

"Hello. First things first? Suit. No uniform."

"Right. Do I have to march in time for you as well?"

"Why not. march to the training room, then change."

You get changed into a black dress suit. A certainly different attire than what you wore to the Funeral. Whether it is because of your age, or your height and general build. You think it looks off on you. The shoes hurt, it feels uncomfortable. You think back to the people you killed yesterday. Only one phrase comes to mind:

"Wolf in sheep's clothing."

Maybe it is due to the influence of your Elements, but acting like this. Clean, friendly, refined. It does not fit who you are. You are a warrior, but, if it makes Jiang happy, then you could be anything, even a lie.

You get out, putting your uniform in your Spatial Ring.

"Oooo. You look good. Not as good as me of course, but you look divine! Those angelic features are really showing now. Anyway, I taught you the basics last time, but with your improved Coordination, I can get you your sense of rhythm. Think of it like sparring, but your aim is to guide someones attack into a way you can make them move. Grab my arm, twist me, bend your legs. Give me signals, and I will follow. In this way, you are mine, and I am yours. Never forget it."

1/2
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She switches on some brassy dancing music, something even your untrained ear can tell is meant to have fun with. The notes flicker and tumble like a candle's flame, sometimes roar with the force of a volcano, and soften like rolling waves, it gives you time to think, adjust, experiment, it's fun watching Jiang bend and coax you into moving her way. As much as she was raised differently to her sisters, she is still very dominating, or tries to be, she is still a Princess. Sometimes you follow her, jumping and spinning her to her whims, sometimes you lead, forming a more slow sway, so you can see this person's face in more detail, most often smiling. You wonder, do people born in the middle-higher classes enjoy doing this? This is one of the expectations set for them, yet, with Jiang and you, it is instinct, not a chore, something you enjoy.

>Fixed Event, Dancing is now Useful 0/100, progress will be made by practising things like martial arts which focus on display, and other styles.

You end after about 2 hours. Jiang can continue, but you are tired still. This does put a small damper on things, but at least now you can have a proper nights rest.

You say goodbye to Jiang, and you leave, using Dimensional Swap to change clothes. You wonder why you didn't do it before. You come back to an empty room. YianEyue must still be with Jessica. Poor Jessica or YianEyue, you may never know.

Player Choice, you have 1 point to spend
>Rank UP 0/500
>Cost Down 0/40
>Evolve Special 0/40

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 78th day

Player Choice for the morning
>Go to the Elemental Research Department, not only to pick up that tool, but to help with the research
>Cultivate
>Go to the mass grave for resurrect
>Go train Jiang
>Call someone (Who?)
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>See if you can't try to listen to the souls again (Who?)
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who? YianEyue?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3774350
>Go to the Elemental Research Department, not only to pick up that tool, but to help with the research
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Alright. I think I will end early today. Don't want to wake up at 2am again and not fall back asleep. My eyes bloody hurt. I will hopefully have no interruptions tomorrow. So the quest will start at 14:00 pm BST tomorrow. Goodnight!
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>>3774350
>Cost Down 0/40
>Go to the Elemental Research Department, not only to pick up that tool, but to help with the research
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Lunch is taking a lot longer to cook this day, so the quest will start later, think like 14:15 BST.

>Cost Down 1/40#

>Confirmed for go to the Elemental Research Department, not only to pick up that tool, but to help with the research.
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>Go to the Elemental Research Department, not only to pick up that tool, but to help with the research.

Jiang hasn't come banging about training, so you guess you have a free morning. You will do your duty. You get ready, and walk to the Elemental Research department.

You are stopped by one of the researchers.

"Hey man, the Space Force Vice-Martial wants a word."

"Who?"

"Dr Xi-Tze, I don't think he'sin a good mood."

This must be about the phone call. You decide to grit your teeth, and face him. You find him in a much larger office than Jessica's. He looks a lot less frail, mainly due to the look of contempt on his face.

"Well. Well. Well. If it were not for the fact you fended off an attack on our great City, I would tear you to pieces with a snap. I understand you going to the Funeral, but Jiang? A Princess! Stupid boy. If it weren't for our enemies weak force, you , and her would be dead. As punishment, I will have you directly testing our equipment for manned combat, and lookie here, some flight training for our teleships! In the weeks since the State Military, or at least the important sections have been made aware of the threat. Fewer people are becoming Consolidated Equipment Masters, as they now have an opportunity to go to space. So you actually have a partner! You do know them. I scouted them for our normal spaceship regiment, and they passed, we then found out they were a suitable match for you. So, no, I will not be your partner in flying the teleship. I believe the Marshal wants a word as well this evening. We now have ranks! Jessica is our Space Marshal, I am the second in command, then there are others.

With your promotion and training today, you are officially appointed to the rank of Teleship Lieutenant. Grats, you'l get an increased salary later. Now be off with you!"

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You want to reply in protest, as you are already a bodyguard, and have orders from the King himself, but your Vice-Marshal blinks you out of the office, and uses Spatial Element to lock it somehow, what luck. You will take it for now, but you should get this sorted out soon.

You head to the carrier you flew the small teleship in, to find one technician, and someone you recognise, your personal pilot, you see 1 Cat's Eye, Tourmaline and Amethyst Elemental Jewel, she must have awakened with the prototype medicine, as she looks about 19!

"Teleship Officer Shwei-Fa reporting Sir!

"Good Morning Teleship Officer, congratulations on your awakening, 3 Elements is nothing to scoff at. Will you be by partner for the flight?"

"Yes Sir! Our technician will be guiding us on how to fly after teleportation, it is an honour to be working with a Heavenly Jewel Master such as yourself."

"Thank you."

You turn to the technician. He takes the first word.

"Well, we'll start with some teleportation jumps around the north, the Miller folk have been warned, so feel free to make yourselves calm. You two will be piloting a ship which can carry 50 others, so we need you to be the best, Lieutenant. If you two would follow me.."

>Roll 1d100+20 to obtain Basic Flight Technique, best of three.
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>>3776160
Also. Expect the next update around 15:15. Something else came up. Just my luck.
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Rolled 63 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>3776160
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>>3776164
Do feel free to roll again if no-one else rolls in the next 10 minutes.
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Rolled 43, 100 = 143 (2d100)

>>3776160
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>>3776183
>100, as you seem to be the only player, the quest will be starting at 16:00 pm BST. Thank you for playing.

>NAT 100!

You and your pilot take a seat each, the philosophy behind 2 pilots is that one can focus on flying through the peril of space, and the other can guide, attack and offer more detailed observations.

You take the flying spot. The ship has 2 parts to it, the teleporter, and the actual flying bit, used for more fine procedures. You start the engine, and are told by the technician to teleport all the way to the north, around 3 miles off the border of the City about halfway into the atmosphere. You take a look at the map, and funnel in some Heavenly Energy. You realise that compared to the last time, you don't need as much Heavenly Energy to teleport. In an instant, the three of you now sit in the air. Your co-pilot then activates Hover mode, where you take control, using your innate spatial awareness to fly the ship.

"By the Dao, you're a natural! No wonder the Vice-Marshal recommended you! The technician is giving you a glowing report, your co-pilot is less impressed."

"Well, you are getting the hang of it, at least. we'll try some other manoeuvres."

You are taught the basics of strafing, proper acceleration, then Hover mode is taken off, giving you an opportunity to fly properly, you have no problems. You know when to angle up, where your bearing is, you feel like the ship is just another part of you.

"This must be a trait all Spatial users have. Shame I never got my Jewels, I'm told that's one of my specialities."

Your pilot is now a bit more impressed.

"Sir, where did you learn to fly like this?"

"Nowhere; guess I'm just good."

"Alright. I want to try, let me take control. I want you to familiarise yourself with the weapon systems."

You switch controls, and have a look at the new display. You see a slot for Heavenly Energy, and non-portable form of your telescope. You realise that to attack, you have to insert your own Heavenly Energy. You have a small viewpoint when attacking, but a larger one for general observation.

With that, your co-pilot doesn't have enough Heavenly Energy to teleport home, so you do the job. Your Co-pilot gives you some information.

"Sir? Your uniform and patch designation, with your salary will be delivered to you tomorrow morning."

"Thank you."

With that, you could leave to do something else, or stay here and go to other departments and help with their research, namely battle suits.
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>Basic Flying Technique 20/100 earned!

Player Choice for the afternoon
>Help with the developing of battle-suits somehow
>Cultivate
>Go to the mass grave for resurrect
>Go train Jiang
>Call someone (Who?)
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>See if you can't try to listen to the souls again (Who?)
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who?)
>Other? (Write-in)

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>>3776196
>Cultivate
We should reach the 4th Jewel now, pop that cherry.
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>>3776196
>Cultivate
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>>3776196
>Cultivate
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>>3776196
wait did we get out tool? i dont see it mentioned
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>>3776225
No, not yet. You could be seeing Jessica in the evening if you choose to go see her.

>Cultivate
>Roll 1d100 best of three to cultivate.
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Rolled 45 (1d100)

>>3776230
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Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>3776230
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Rolled 36 (1d100)

>>3776230
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>>3776236
>63
Progress to next Level: 34123/46000

Player Choice for the evening
>Help with the developing of battle-suits
>Cultivate
>Go see someone (Who?)
>Go to the mass grave for resurrect
>Go train Jiang
>Call someone (Who?)
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>See if you can't try to listen to the souls again (Who?)
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3776249
>Go see Jessica
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>>3776249
>Go see Jessica
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>>3776254
>Go see Jessica

You want to get a new tool and you were asked to go. So you head over to Jessica's office.

"Hello?"

"Come in."

You open the door. You see patterns and other things on the walls, Jessica is not wearing her box. On her arm, you can see a red mark, shaped like a claw. You healed that yesterday. She has not bothered to cover it up.

"Right. Catch, Lieutenant."

She throws a small box at you, you open it to find three small diamond shapes plates, one to be worn as a necklace, the others on the wrists.

"It's more than three times as powerful, you should reach the 3rd Jewel in no time thanks to this. Feel free to go to the medical bay and use it."

Why not?

>Divine Independence Cultivation Tool has a pool of 10000, this replaces the prototype, the prototype will not work for anyone else but you.
>+50 due to a trip of evolution a while back
>Cultivation Pool is now 11765

>Roll 1d100 best of three to cultivate in the Elemental Research department.

Player Choice
>Ask about the mark
>Leave it, she's smart enough to know what to do about it.
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Rolled 31 (1d100)

>>3776264
>Ask about the mark
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Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>3776264
>Ask about the mark
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Rolled 100 (1d100)

>>3776264
>Ask about the mark
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>>3776276
niiiiiice
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>>3776276
Second nat 100 of the day! Congrats!

>Nat 100
>Cultivation Pool doubles to 23530, fuck.
Progress to next Level: 57653/46000.

With your new tool, comes a new realisation, you are could to break through and finish the first section of the Divine Independence Technique! You could reach the peak of the Shi Stage (in Jewels)! I mean, Jessica did say, in no time, this is true.

>You have a chance to break through!
>Roll 1d100 best of three to break through, this will count also as a roll for cultivation after the breakthrough. If you fail, your current cultivation total will half, and you will not break though.
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Rolled 14 (1d100)

>>3776279
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>>3776279
Sorry forgot to mention. DC 50
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Rolled 33 (1d100)

>>3776279
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Rolled 39 (1d100)

>>3776279
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We need to find out how to bring the DC down.
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>>3776291
You can't, ever, it is the one drawback to this technique, a normal one would need much higher rolls to even progress forward, this one allows for continuous progress, and a 1 in 2 chance of failure, which is pretty good.

>39
Failure! Bad luck.

Something happens that hasn't ever happened before, your Heavenly Energy is rejected, and you loose half of the stuff you were saving! You didn't break through! Well, you can always try again later.

>Progress to the next Level:
Progress to next Level: 28827/46000.

>Ask about the mark.

You take a break, and ask Jessica about the trident mark on her arm.

"Hm? Well, you know about yesterday? It's...growing on me. Demons are tricky like this, her spawn are not hiding in my arm, but in my brain, tries to trick people into cutting their arm off, in hopes to make them weaker, but it does nothing, so, if you want to have another crack at it then be my guest, otherwise go to bed. I'm expecting more flying from you tomorrow."

You will certainly have a shot, after that failure, what could possibly go wrong?

>Roll 1d100 best of three with a DC of 94 to use a Master level technique to kill the demon child possessor hiding in her brain.
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Rolled 19 (1d100)

>>3776297
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Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>3776297
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Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>3776297
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Rolled 73, 5 = 78 (2d100)

>>3776313
>41
That's a nope.

You try, and you don't succeed. Is this punishment for your flying this morning?

"Thanks for nothing, bye."

She kicks you out, and yo go back to you room, ready to sleep.

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 79th day

Player Choice for the morning
>Help with the developing of battle-suits
>Cultivate
>Go see someone (Who?)
>Go to the mass grave for resurrect
>Go train Jiang
>Call someone (Who?)
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>See if you can't try to listen to the souls again (Who?)
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who?)
>Other? (Write-in)

Rolling 2d100 for stuff, first for YianEyue, second for Sun-Di.
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>>3776317
>Cultivate
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>>3776317
>Cultivate
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>Cultivate, but first.

You hear a knock at your door. You open it to reveal the giant of a very old, yet athletic old man, grey hair and beard, with very bright green eyes. You see around his wrists, 12 Icy Jade Jewels, and 12 Green Jade, Emerald, Ruby and Diamond Jewels.

"Good morning. My name is Shin-Dou. I am the Alpha of the Dragon Tribe. This girl will be coming with me. I hear you found her, she is now my disciple. Any questions? As a courtesy, you Dershwa people like answers and I will give you some."

He sounds gruff, and dismissive, you get the sense he sees you as nothing but an ant, behind his giant leg, you see YianEyue, eyes sparkling at you, proud of her new toy, and obviously, impressed at meeting one of her own. She is wearing something like royal garb? You see the blue pendant on her neck. She is much cleaner, and looks like she could belong at a royal dinner party. She hasn't spoken a word to you, but she looks smug.

Player Choice
>Write-in for questions for Shin-Dou, 20 minutes. Then I might have to go eat, we'll see.
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>>3776367
Am eating, back for 18:30 BST. Thanks for playing.
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>>3776367
>Does that mean shes a princess now?
>Will there be any side effects from what happened with the radicals corpses
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>>3776367
> "Old man, some stuff here isn't right. If the kid's so important, why was she in a random human orphanage in a random human settlement? One which was, let me remind you, just attacked by radicals who underwent Beastification, which convinced the brat that she should look like that, too. Good thing she failed. Even then because she run away, not only did she scare everyone, but also ended up getting killed! Thank god I was the one with the scythe and not some other idiot! And why were even some Dragonkind radicals in our territory? I really hope you're reflecting on you management skills, right now."
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>>3776367
>Do you know of YIanEyue's ancestry?
>Did explain to her what normal beastmen look like and the situation with the radicals?
>What does being your disciple entail?
>Will she be treated well?
>What's it like where you're from?
>Can I visit her at some point in the future?
>Any health problems you might need cured?
Just the basic stuff
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>>3776438
It might be best not to mention the scythe incident or even the scythe at all.
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>>3776438
shes important now cause she awoke as a dual element heavenly jewel master, before she was jsut a random orphan
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>>3776425
>>3776438
*Audible face-palm sound effect.*

Bruh you dead.

>>3776443
I mean....yes, but really no? Wait patiently.

>What is her heritage, is she a Princess?
>If she's so important, why was she here, with dead parents, and in an orphange
>How could you let radicals of your own race and tribe join?
>Did you explain to her what normal beastmen look like and the situation with the radicals?
>What does being your disciple entail?
>Will she be treated well?
>What's it like where you're from?
>Can I visit her at some point in the future?
>Any health problems you might need cured?

He will not answer some of these questions. Writing.
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>>3776452
can we please not mouth off to the 12 jewel dragon god king about his very obviously long lost granddaughter and dead children?
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>>3776452
seriously could we at least have a run off vote on wheter or not to call hi out on his management skills? this is suicidally stupid
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>>3776457
Sure. Btw she's not his grandkid. Complicated matters.

Player Choice
>Ask him about his "management skills"
>Don't
>Ask him about YianEyue's heritage/ is she your grandaughter.
>Don't (2)

He'll give you some information anyway, just that he won't give you the whole story.
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>>3776462
>>Don't
>Ask him about YianEyue's heritage/ is she your grandaughter. (just dont be a sarcastic little shit about it, as much fun as it would be)
also we were waaaaay too close to trips of death triggering again
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>>3776462
>Don't
>Ask him about YianEyue's heritage/ is she your grandaughter.
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>>3776462
> We totally should call him out: losing a kid on foreign territory? A possible descendant? The guy deserves mockery.
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>>3776466
I mean dying by his hands and coming back to life would be very impressive, why not give it a shot?
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>>3776472
The scythe can kill anybody, right? Could it kill Grandpa Dragon?
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>>3776474
Not without rolling a higher strength roll. Good luck with that. His Jewels are Strength.
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>>3776471
why are you so insistent on insulting the 12 jewel god? or killing him, the dershwas are allied with the dragons. Also calling him out on teh radicals make no sense, that would be like out the dershwas on the existence of any criminal elements in the city as though they were funding them. Every group has radicals, he obviously doesnt support them since hes not upset at the dead radicals and apparently we are allying with him to fight the radical majorities from other beastmen tribes
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>>3776490
One, I don't want to kill him: I just wanted to know if the scythe could be used in retaliation.
Two, I want to mock because of two reasons: firstly, the radical attack is suspicious as all hell, when the Palace's only Saint is in town, deep into human territory, sudden and with people involved that might be not just radicals, and in case you don't get it I'm saying that the Dragon Tribe might have known or be complicit in this incident, and secondly, Grandpa Dragon wouldn't dare attack us, when we're so close with the Palace, are a relatively important member of the army, and it might cause a diplomatic incident. He'll take it, maybe be a little threatening, but that's all.
We're supposed to be a Xianxia protagonist, for fuck's sake, I'm not saying to descend into homicidal rage, but let's show some guts.
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>>3776503
Maybe when you don't have an at least 2.5^10 difference in strength, then you can have some hunting fun.

There was an attack because of the Moon assault, and their false assumption that Dershwa was weakened enough by it for them to gain a foothold on the edge of the City. They are also stark raving loony and think themselves to be so superior that they couldn't possibly lose, look where that got them.

Voting ended, confirming for:

>What is her heritage, is she a Princess?
>Did you explain to her what normal beastmen look like and the situation with the radicals?
>What does being your disciple entail?
>Will she be treated well?
>What's it like where you're from?
>Can I visit her at some point in the future?
>Any health problems you might need cured?

You could find out more later. Just not now.
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>>3776503
i think you are seriously underestimating how prideful xianxai dragons are, insulting a 12 jewel god like that is suicide regardless of the situation, also just insulting him over sucha mild suspicion makes no sense.

The attack wasnt even close to targetting us, we were there cause we got a call about it and if it was an attempt against it they would have had something more powerful than that weakass fire user we could have killed before we even got our physical jewels. There is a difference between showing guts and walking up and insulting someone that could kill us by looking at us hard enough because of an extrmeely thin chain of logic. Seriously the attack is not suspicious at all, there have been radical attacks before and it makes perfect sense for renegades or criminals from our allied tribes to have shacked u with them.

And he would totally dare to kill us, hes a god tier cultivator in a xianxia world, we are a low tiwer cultivator that hapens to have a lot of potential, insulting him is not a good idea by any stretch of the imagination
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>>3776513
can we add a
>anyone you would like me to revive while your here? just need some remains, prob will be able to work with just the soul once i get better control over my saint energy for perceiving souls
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>>3776520
Sure.
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>>3776517
I guess I'm the only one who's hotblooded today. Oh well.
I'm still baffled we're not subjects of hundreds of assassination attempts a day, though.
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>>3776535
well i guess the ones with the resources to call those assassinations are either on our side or busy with the war, would nto be surprised if the moon people do start sending assassins to us though, and a fw of the radicals did send back say that they now have info on us, so assassins on that front prob gonna start up
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>>3776535
I mean, who says you're not? You just haven't seen anything. Ah well, you'll never know. It's not that many. No-one in Dershwa City has the stupidity to attack one of the King's favoured, and, in the case they capture you, well, free healing (Torture included). Moon people haven't bothered yet.

Fuck I need to make and compose 1 email, then I can write properly.
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>>3776542
...ok so we should prob get the long range teleport skill when we have the chance
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Rolled 2941091 (1d7152945)

>Not sorry.

>Done, that should be cooked by Wednesday if I'm lucky.
>>3776543
YOU HAVE THE GLOVE, YOU FOOL. Tch, all that work of one roll and you have never voted to use it.

"Yes, actually, is she a Princess now? is that what the pendant means?"

"She was always a Princess, you cretin. I will not give you the whole story, but she is alive, and talented, with two Elements and both Earth and Endurance, that is all that matters! She will be taught to be a warrior! My protege!"

Wait what, how the hell was she here? In an orphanage? With dead parents, is he her grandfather?

"Is she yours?"

"No. Otherwise she would have my green eyes, stupid brat. One more comment like that and I'll show you a real Heavenly Jewel Master."

"Yes sir. Have you explained to YianEyue what beastmen are and how they work? The last ones we met had animal parts...an she absorbed some of them."

"Of course! She must learn the proper way! I have personally checked her with my Life Element, there is no contamination."

"I can turn into a Dragon!"

"Be quiet."

"Eep."

Pardon? Well, next question.

"What does being your disciple entail?"

"She will learn how to lead, how to progress her cultivation, how to use her strength, and with the help of you humans. She will learn how light works with some new science from the 4th Princess. I hate working with half breeds, but she has outshone herself with her intelligence."

"Will YianEyue be treated well?"

"Yes, she will be fed, trained, taught to act like a proper Dragonwoman and sent back home for some breaks. I will not break my disciple, only temper her. Women are less built for battle, and she seems to excited yet to fight, so it could take some time. I have taken consideration of her birthplace for her treatment."

Damn, they respect the royal blood there don't they?

"Talking of, what's it like where you're from?"

"Stong live, weak, like you, die. It is hot, with a varied climate, has to be, there are many kinds of Dragon people, who all need homes fit to them. She is a Light Dragon, and as such, will hate areas that are dark. I am a Nature Dragon, but I can live around fire thanks to by Jewels. I like forests. It is very simple."

"Can I visit at some point in the future?"

"Yes. She will be coming home every so often, and after this damn war against the Moon of all things, we, the Dragon, Cat, Lion and Wolf tribes will be hosting a Grand Tournament! I expect my disciple to fight in this. I hope to see you there. However, if you want to see her when she is in our Palace, you will need to be...around the 9th Jewel, otherwise I and the others will kill you."

What great people they must be.

"Any health problems you might need cured?"

He looks at you, dead-faced. Insulted.

"You. You need to be cured. Goodbye."

He grabs you, then he punches you, at your heart.

Rolling 1d7152945 for his strength at base. Oh boy.

>Roll 1d220, you don't have your set on, so no boost and you are rolling for END, best of three
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Rolled 96 (1d220)

>>3776580
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Rolled 92 (1d220)

>>3776580
Of course we get sucker punched.
Man, if we picked the Hate Ground No Handle at least we would have gotten to kill this bastard way sooner. At least we now have a name for our obligatory "List of people we'll kill when we are strong enough" that any self-respecting Xianxia MC should have.
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>>3776596
No actually, at this point you would have the same endurance, and possible strength, bad luck kiddo.

Hey, at least he now respects you more. Being able to revive from the dead is impossible with the Life Element, so you are in a sense, stronger than him in this respect.
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>>3776608
>Notices you are in the 6600-6700 range.
*Heavy breathing*
>>
If in 10 minutes, no-one else has rolled again, feel free to go for the crit.
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>>3776580
we used it during the battle, am syaing in case we get captured and someone takes the glove from us
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Rolled 212 (1d220)

>>3776618
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>>3776622
Right right. But I mean like, if you are under attack, you will have enough time to use the glove as using a skill, so there's little point. Compared with learning something like Spacial Rend and Long-Range Teleport...the choice is obvious.

>212, death 1

>END has been boosted by 8 times

Your vision goes black, but instantly, you feel your body reform, the sensation of life fills you.

"BIG BRO ZOU! WAKE UP!"

"Ow, that hurt, Dragon-lord or whatever."

"Huh?"

You see him turn around. Then his eyes open in shock.

"HAHAHA! Now there's a party trick! Get up lad!"

He pulls you up, the blood still visible on his fist. Your blood.

YianEyue has not stopped hugging you, crying.

"Come on girl, he's not dead anymore."

"I hate you! Go die!"

"Not yet, I need to talk with the boy. That was the Saint Element wasn't it?"

"Yes, and thanks to you, I will need to reuse the Skill."

"Well. Consider yourself a guest to my home, that Skill is something even I can't do-"

"Try not to get my blood on the halls."

You look around you, gore and bone sit on the far wall, red and pink and white.

"Fair enough. Disciple, we need to go. Thank you for bringing her to us."

You have a look at YianEyue. Her Jewels are summoned, and her eyes are glowing.

"Now, now, I am not a patient man, but you should wait before using that technique-"

You see her body turn completely white, then she transforms in to a pure white Dragon, with golden eyes, very small, still coiled around your arm. What.

You see her fly away, into the corridor.

"I'm telling the King!"

"Disciple come back here! Dammit boy, it was nice to meet you, but it looks like our time has been cut short, goodbye. I hope to see you at the Palace."

Player Choice
>Call the King, and tell him about this
>Cultivate, and recast Resurrect, you have one contingency left, but 2 can't hurt
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>>3776644
>Cultivate, and recast Resurrect, you have one contingency left, but 2 can't hurt
can we only stack the contingency twice?
never tell jiang about this, she will lose her fucking mind
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>>3776644
>Cultivate, and recast Resurrect, you have one contingency left, but 2 can't hurt
Let's not let our death ruin a perfectly good morning.
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>>3776652
It says it in the paste. Twice.

Jiang will lose her mind. She could know....but I'll leave that to lady luck.
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>>3776644
> Don't call the King: we'll kill the dried up lizard cunt when we get stronger ourselves, and HE doesn't get multiple lives.
>Cultivate, and recast Resurrect, you have one contingency left, but 2 can't hurt
>>3776652
I mean, with each Special Evolution we can get another stack. Soon we'll have unlimited lives as long as we're not hit with the Destruction Element or someone has a buff dispell Skill.
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>Cultivate

>Roll 1d100 best of three

>Cost Down 74
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>>3776661
6666 has been taken, F in the chat boys.
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Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>3776661
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Rolled 86 (1d100)

>>3776661
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I think I will end for today. Thanks for playing! Congratulations on dying once! The quest will start again at 14:00 pm BST tomorrow. It is Bank Holiday Monday. So there should be no interruptions fingers crossed. Goodnight!
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Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>3776661
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>>3776677
Luck has not treated me well, and I am going out with the family under thier request. This means an update might not be prepared until 16:30 pm BST. I am deeply sorry for any inconvenience this information provides. Thank you for your patience.
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>86

Progress to next Level: 38945/46000

When you finish, you get a call. The voice of Long Dershwa rings in your head.

"Good afternoon. I was informed by the Dragon Alpha's disciple that you were killed this morning. Sadly to say, not much can be done. If you want him to encounter any punishment, then you will have to do it yourself. You will find an envelope with your salary in it, and this afternoon, your uniform as a member of the Space Force will arrive. This will be worn instead of your bodyguard's uniform. As Jiang get's stronger, the need for a bodyguard disappears over time, however, you will still be offered a place here as an official member of the State Military, with an honourable mention of your previous title and role. Your position gives you come level of command, but not as much as you enjoyed before. I hear you are very good at flying. Keep up the good work. Just so you know. YianEyue and her Master have left already by teleporter, and contact can really only be made by phone. Have you made any progress to a counter to the Destruction Element?"

"No. I am sorry."

"No matter. Keep at it."

He ends the call, you look around, and see an envelope with 250 Gold in it. Both the salary as a bodyguard, and that of your rank as a Teleship Lieutenant.

>You have 23581 Gold

Player Choice for the afternoon.
>Help with the developing of battle-suits/ space related research
>Cultivate
>Go see someone (Who?)
>Go to the mass grave for resurrect
>Go train Jiang
>Call someone (Who?)
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>See if you can't try to listen to the souls again (Who?)
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3778323
>>Cultivate
so freaking close
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>>3778323
>Cultivate
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>Cultivate

>Roll 1d100 best of three.
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Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>3778343
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Rolled 24 (1d100)

>>3778343
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>>3778344
>>3778358
If no-one else rolls in the next 5 minutes, do feel free to roll again.
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Rolled 8 (1d100)

>>3778362
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>>3778344
>94

Progress to next Level: 50004/46000

>You have a chance to break through!

>Roll 1d100 best of three to break through to the next Level of Heavenly Energy
>DC 50
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Rolled 72 (1d100)

>>3778372
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>>3778378
Do feel free to roll again, if no-one else does in 5 minutes.
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Rolled 86 (1d100)

>>3778372
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Rolled 24 (1d100)

>>3778397
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>>3778399
>86
Success!

Give me a few minutes to sort it all out. Grats on the third Jewel.
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>>3778411
YES, time to go show off to jiang, get our third piece and visit Sharra
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>>3778420
Not in that specific order maybe, but sure. You have also been given permission to take orders for places outside Dershwa City, and, well, it is in your best interest to go to Miller, you have yet to meet Demon Hammer.

Status
High Level Shi Stage Heavenly Jewel Master
Levels of Heavenly Energy: 12/48
Progress to next Level: 14122/48000

Strength 1950 (1970 Max)
Agility 230 (240 Max)
Endurance 230 (240 Max)
Flexibility 230 (240 Max)
Coordination 230 (240 Max)
Stamina 230 (240 Max)
Heavenly Energy 2575 (2595 Max)

>Saint's Radiance now does 1d1950 damage

>Indpendent Rotational Charge is now 3d30, allowing Skills up to 45 HE to be used for free and in barrages.

>Elemental strengths get a tiny bit stronger.

You make the next breakthrough! You have now finished the first section of the Divine Independence Cultivation Technique, the next part will involve your currently 14 generators, by improving them, to make your Heavenly Energy into a liquid form by making the concentration of Heavenly Energy in your body so dense it becomes a tangible thing, not a gas, hence improving the state of your soul. When you have done this to 4 connected generators, you will have reached the Zun Stage, you can tell it isn't far away.

You see another pair of Jewels appear, each with room for Skills, which you still haven't used the Medallions for, and you can Consolidate another Scroll. What joy.

You don't think Jiang has broken through. This will take a long while to explain.

Player Choice for the evening
>Go see someone (Who?)
>Help with the developing of battle-suits/ space related research
>Cultivate
>Go to the mass grave for resurrect
>Go train Jiang, show off Jewel
>Call someone (Who?)
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>See if you can't try to listen to the souls again (Who?)
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3778452
>Get next piece of the Angel set
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>>3778452
>Get third piece for Angel of Death
We can always just say that the new cultivation tool was better than expected.
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>Get the next piece

You want to get your third piece now, before reporting your improvement. So you run over to Shao-Bao.

"Boy? Why are you here now? Want some more Scroll training? You are very talented. Anything else?"

You summon your Jewels.

"Third Jewel, third piece please."

"How in the hell did you do that?"

"New cultivation tool, it's very good."

"Well I never. I'll have to pay a visit to Jessica and ask for a tour, if she can make something like that, then I can surely benefit to go and look for some nice ideas."

"Why not make your own?"

"I'm lazy, disciple, sue me. Actually, don't. I would give it to you now...but have you even done any of those scrolls?"

"No. I have not needed to-"

"Well then. I guess I'll just hold onto it then. Your set is mindbogglingly overpowered, you know that right? At the 6th Jewel, you could amass the kind of Strength that rivals the base 12th Jewel! I have changed the bargain. As many scrolls as you can do, now. Each should take only a minute, over the 4 hours you could do now, that's 240 Scrolls. Either take it or leave it."

"I'll do it. Why are you obsessed about me doing this? There is a war going on, I have a job as a Teleship Lieutenant! There are more important matters!"

"Because you have done what took the majority of people years to complete, you could make it to a God Tier, in Skill, by the end of this year! You may not have the raw power of the Zong Stage yet, but you will after your next 2 Jewels, with buffing, so you can create some of the Zong Scrolls and make your own designs. You know Fei? She's been looking here for designs for her to copy and wants some input from you at some stage, but she's all too busy with something else. Just do this for me. I have no proteges, and you are incredibly talented."

Fine, you take out 240 Zong Stage Scrolls.

>Roll 1d100 best of three for Literacy gains, you will get the piece after this.
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Rolled 26 (1d100)

>>3778529
so is this now operating sor off like cultivation with a pool being based on how may scrolls we making and the d100 effectively being the %?
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Rolled 90 (1d100)

>>3778529
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>>3778533
>Your roll will count as a certain bonus, this will be multiplied by 240, then added to Literacy.

If in 10 minutes, no-one else has rolled again, do feel free to roll in their stead. Junior Brother Mo is not here with us, it seems.
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Rolled 7 (1d100)

>>3778541
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Rolled 1, 31, 21 = 53 (3d100)

>>3778535
>90
>Total Bonus 960
>Master Literacy 1549/2500

"Hahaha! I knew it! Take this boy! You have earned it!"

She tosses another Rainbow block, the scroll, at you. You store it, and summon a Black Jade Helmet, with 1 slot for a Jewel.

>Buffing has increased to 16 times with the full set on.

You run back home, and drop asleep.

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 80th day

Rolling 3d100 first for Sun-Di, second for Jessica, third for Jiang.

Player Choice for the morning.
>Go see someone (Who?)
>Help with the developing of battle-suits/ space related research
>Cultivate
>Go to the mass grave for resurrect, this also includes now the few corpses of the people who died in the Moon attack.
>Go train Jiang, show off Jewel
>Call someone (Who?)
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>See if you can't try to listen to the souls again (Who?)
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3778615
1, 31, 21

Literally nothing. Sun-Di even improves! Lucky you I guess?
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>>3778615
>Go see Shara for our next saint skill
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>>3778615
>Go train Jiang, show off Jewel
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Rolled 2 (1d2)

Rolling 1d2 for Choice
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>>3778654
>Go train Jiang

You want to show off at least. Give her some solace.

You find her cultivating, after all, she probably needs no stat training.

"Jiang, I would like to show you something."

"Yes?"

You summon your Jewels.

"I...what? How?!"

You can see the fire rising by the second.

"Explain."

This could be bad. You see her summon her Consolidated Equipment, and begin to burn her stamina, using her Heavenly Energy Control to get further than before.


>You are under attack by her ultimate attack, with 1d57560 damage.

Player Choice
>Go with the excuse you used with Shao-Bao, with a persuasion roll
>Max Efficiency END, with STA roll.
>Max Efficiency FLX, with Water and a STA roll afterwards.
>Other?
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>>3778675
>Max efficiency HE boost to supercharge a Kinetic barrier
we can use HE to supercharge skills right?
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>>3778678
Yep. Your max boost with Kinetic Barrier would get you 1d42300 damage protection. You have yet to purposefully train this Skill, it seems
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>>3778687
good thing its a water techn ique so fire damage should be halved like it was when we fought the fire beastman
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>>3778691
Yep. Btw I did the maths, you could reach the 7th Jewel of Flexibility with boosting and buffing and the Water boost. Great stuff.
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>>3778696
thats like around 8000 right? our flexibility *16 for boost and then *2 for water +2500 for HE. so like 10000?
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>>3778675
>>3778678
This
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having as many elements as we don and with the constnat buffs to our HE from trips of fortune, and our cheat on top of that am prob gonna read our skill list everytime we are faced with a situation like this and see if we have a skill that can solve it
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>>3778698
*10th, sorry.
You can use buffing twice. Once on HE, the other on FLX. Take 2575 HE, multiply by 16, 41200, minus 245 for two lots of buffing, and 5 He for the doubling with water. Means you have 40955 HE to boost with, 230 FLX+40955=41185, multiply by 16=658960. Lastly multiply by 2 due to Water= 1317920, 10th Jewel level with Heavenly boost is normally 1144359. Your set is very over powered.

Jiang: 720 HE+719 Sta, times by 8, times by 5 due to Heavenly Explosion means big explosion, but it could be improved with your buffing.

Have fun with that. You have not yet learned how to buff Skills, that is a Master Level Technique.
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>>3778709
...ok so am voting to buff flexibility now instead
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>>3778711
Actually there is a slight inconsistency, but I will let it slide for now, it bears no difference on this.
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Voting time extended to 5 minutes from now.
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>>3778715
oh wait you meant using saint buff to buff skills? i thought you were saying we didnt knwo how to use HE to buff skills
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>>3778717
No no, I have actually buffed your HE, then taken away the 120 HE for it, which is inaccurate. It should be more like 1260320 FLX with proper maths, but I'll let it slide for now.
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Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>3778711
>>3778702
Rolling 1d2 for Choice
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Rolled 29998 (1d57560)

>>3778740
>>3778711
FLX it is.

>Roll 1d1317920 for FLX to dodge with God-like precision. This will involve another roll for something else. BEST OF ONE, just because this is the first time you are trying something this big, and it should be difficult.

Rolling 1d57560 for Jiang's attack
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Rolled 1304238 (1d1317920)

>>3778744
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Rolled 1184535 (1d1317920)

>>3778744
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>>3778747
>1304238
i wold like to point out this has a 1.04% chance so i effectively critted if we were using a d100 system, am pretty happy with myself
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>>3778747
Now that's close, huh, I'm sure you have all realised, that as you get stronger, crits will become less common, however, if you progress to Divine Heavenly Energy Control, things do become a tad different.

You immediately don your Angel of Death set, all three pieces, time to test it.

You quite literally, turn into water, your "body" phases in and out between the minute gaps between the Fire of the Skill.

Then you reform, Jiang is standing by a thread, weak.

However, you are not much better. Your soul is struggling, at your cultivation, you felt every separation. You felt every nerve separate, and all the pain. You start to hear the chimes of death, as your soul starts to rip itself from the strain of performing a move normally only completed by Heavenly Kings like Shan-Bai.

You can feel yourself dying in front of the person you grew to love dancing with, at least you'll come back.

>You have encountered a problem, using things like this, with more than the Saint Element, will put a strain on your soul, as you are not there yet in terms of real cultivation. This will become easier over time, not only as you get more Jewels, but as your Soul gets stronger. Every time you boost a Physical Stat plus HE, you will suffer to the soul, you will need to perform a death save. This counts as a balance for your set.

>Roll 1d100 best of ONE for a death save. DC 70
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Rolled 33 (1d100)

>>3778782
good thing we have a contingency left
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>>3778789
Eyup.
>33
>Death 2. Putting these on the Paste, for mockery purposes.

You die again. You feel your soul, tangible again, shatter. However, just moments later, you feel your body come to again.

Jiang is on the ground. You check and she is unconscious, in desperate need of medical attention, her heart and brain are working, but the blood is kind of rejecting oxygen, you need to support her here, or she will die. You can feel the pain of the Water move coursing through you, your arm shaking.

You will need to ask someone about this. Shao-Bao, or maybe Jiang's Mother might know. It matters little.

You spend the morning just sitting with her, her head on your lap, supplying her with the Life Element, any gap, any break in concentration, even a call, could stop this, and her heart would stop. She has a contingency, sure, but you can't let her die. It would break everything you did for her, all she did for you.

She starts to gain a bit more life, her skin is chalk white anyway, but you see her red eyes flutter and blink. She is sleeping soundly. She wakes up soon after, eyes looking straight at yours, on her lap. You decide to talk first.

"Hello, Jiang. I don't think you should react like that in the future, you almost died."

You start to cradle her head in your hands. she doesn't stop you.

"I have no way to explain how I got to the third Jewel other than with the new cultivation tool given to me by Jessica."

"Can you help me get better? With your buffing and Saint Energy?"

"I have done so once in my life. I can try, but I doubt I can succeed."

"Leave it. Can I just stay here for a bit. I'm sorry I did all that...I was talking to Fei about this...when she awakened, her brain, her personality changed, she became more wispy...she didn't notice anything was wrong until someone called her an idiot and having a complete lack of awareness, in front of everyone. Ha-have I changed? I don't feel any different...but I-(she starts crying a bit) I tried to hurt you! It wasn't even a duel! That's not normal! Please Zou, tell me the truth. Tell me something."

Player Choice
>Write in for what to tell Jiang, 20 minutes. I need to take my meds, so be back in a sec.
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>>3778814
>>3778814
>(hug the girl) You're more volatile, you have become quicker to anger and other extreme emotions, but there are positives. You have also become more passionate and your eagerness to fight can be a good thing. Every Elemental and Heavenly Jewel Master goes through this, I lucked out with my elements countering each others influence and Saint being the main influence. You will need to practice more control of yourself, but I know you will get there, if anyone can it's you
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I think I will end it here. Thank you all for playing! Congratulations on reaching the third Jewel! The quest is again, due to start at 14:00 pm BST, but things may get in the way. Goodnight! I will leave voting on this for tomorrow as well, hopefully by then we will have some input by our other american readers.
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>>3778814
>"You've become far more passionate about everything. This makes you volatile but it also makes you more dedicated to your training and other things. It's this dedication combined with the will you've always had that will help you learn to control it. I'm also here if you want help with that."
>Hugging the whole time
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>>3778814
> "Heh. It's fine. It's like going through puberty twice, isn't it? Well, the point is, we all go through this: your father is a nervous wreck of a time-traveler, I'm slowly turning into a saintly being who may or may not lose his sense of self to attain the realm of One with the Dao, and there's a nutcase on the moon whose idea of conquest may as well mean annihilating everything in his path with a giant cannon which leaves nothing behind. You just gotta accept as it comes."
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Update a bit later.

>Taking a mixture, if the next update does not feel like the right thing, then I can change and retcon it after the fact. This thread will be archived today, we are on page 9, hoo boy.
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>>3780050

You decide to tell her the truth, and what it will mean for her. Cultivation is harsh, in every aspect, it seems, she needs to take it in her stride. You lean down and bring her into a hug. Your heart may have stopped earlier, but it couldn't be beating faster now.

"You're more volatile, and have become far more passionate about everything, in both your temper, and other fiery aspects, as in, you are much more dedicated to your training, your cultivation and your life, in general. It's this dedication that has brought you this far, your will, it will take time to control it. Fei isn't as airy as she was a few months ago, for example. I will be here every step of the way to help you, no matter the cost. I lucked out, many of my Elements contrast each other, but my Saint Element pushes me to do the right thing, or at least, do something. This will not make me popular with those who do less than savoury things, but I will carry on, even if I lose myself to the heavens as I get closer to the peak, I will still be me. This happens to every Jewel Master, it's like puberty, your Father is a distressed nervous wreck, time travel is not safe, and the guy on the Moon running the place thinks he can rule the world by destroying it with whatever his Element makes him think. It affects everyone. Roll with the punches, and take life as it comes. People awaken Jewels that are a reflection of who they are. I wanted to bring in money for my orphanage, now I can bring back the dead. You were more demure, but you now have a fire in you to burn down anything that holds you back. Trust in it, let your mind flow with the smoke and light. If anyone can get there, you can."

You stop hugging her, and just look at her.

"You said that you were loosing yourself?"

"Well, my hair wasn't always this blond, and I had brown eyes before I met you. Now, blue eyes, whiter skin. My body itself is changing. Whether or not this is due to my buffing, I do not care. I will do what you do, and control it, grow with it."

She gets off your lap, and sits down on your left.

"So I can get really angry, but I can also be really happy and I train more. I just have to get angry at better moments...I promise not to do that again, do you think we can do some training now, better Heavenly Energy Control would be better for making myself calmer."

"Sure, just take it slowly. Your mind will probably still be suffering after that last attack, so just go through the motions of forming a domain, using your Element as a guide, establish control and dominance."

She starts to meditate on your shoulder. This proves to be distracting slightly, with the controlled breath and heat flowing through you. This could be slightly difficult.

>Roll 1d100+15 best of three for teaching and HEC training, +25 for teaching, -10 for combined puberty and minute soul growth from the death that has yet to fully solidify.
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Rolled 74 + 15 (1d100 + 15)

>>3780071
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Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>3780071
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Rolled 70 + 15 (1d100 + 15)

>>3780071
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>>3780087
111, nat 96
>Teaching bonus increases to 26
>Heavenly Energy Control increases by 5!

>Extensive Heavenly Energy Control 48/500
>Cultivation bonus increases by 1740
>Maximum Cultivation Pool is now 11790

You can tell she has now progressed much further than you, she might be a month of the next big breakthrough. Fei would be a better teacher for her.
She has no more stats to train on her end, but you do. So you get to work, Jiang could help with Stamina training, or heck Heavenly Energy total, as she now has more control to guide you with that.

Player Choice, choose a stat to train
>Strength
>Agility
>Endurance
>Flexibility
>Coordination
>Stamina
>Heavenly Energy

current stats are in the paste.
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>>3780093
>Strength
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>Strength

>Roll 1d100 best of three for STR training
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Rolled 16 (1d100)

>>3780116
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Rolled 99 (1d100)

>>3780116
>>
If no-one else rolls again in the next 10 minutes, do feel free to roll again.
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Rolled 16 (1d100)

>>3780116
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>>3780137
>99 trumps the double 16

>Strength increases by 5 to 1955

With that, you leave Jiang to do some thinking and refection, she tells you to leave her alone for a bit, then she can come up with a better plan.

Player Choice for the afternoon
>Go see someone (Who?)
>Help with the developing of battle-suits/ space related research
>Cultivate
>Go to the mass grave for resurrect,
>Call someone (Who?)
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>See if you can't try to listen to the souls again (Who?)
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3780156
>Cultivate
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>>3780156
>Cultivate
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>>3780156
>Help with the developing of battle-suits/ space related research
>>
>Cultivate
>Roll 1d100 best of three to cultivate.
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Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>3780178
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Rolled 81 (1d100)

>>3780178
>>
If no-one else rolls in the next 10 minutes, please roll for them.
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Rolled 80 (1d100)

>>3780156
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>>3780183
>81
Progress to the next Level: 23672/48000

Player Choice for the evening
>Do your Job as a Teleship Lieutenant, and scout out some of your allies, and surroundings, you now have what is essentially a plane.
>Go see someone (Who?)
>Help with the developing of battle-suits/ space related research
>Cultivate
>Go to the mass grave for resurrect
>Go train Jiang
>Call someone (Who?)
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>See if you can't try to listen to the souls again (Who?)
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3780232
>Do your Job as a Teleship Lieutenant, and scout out some of your allies, and surroundings, you now have what is essentially a plane.
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>>3780232
>>Do your Job as a Teleship Lieutenant, and scout out some of your allies, and surroundings, you now have what is essentially a plane. (Restock your contingencies on the way there)
we seriously need to go to angel lady for teh third saint skill
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Rolled 57 (1d100)

>>3780232
>Do your Job as a Teleship Lieutenant, and scout out some of your allies, and surroundings, you now have what is essentially a plane.
Damn it, I missed the rolls.
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>>3780247
Take a ballpark of 20 minutes after I post for things, give or take 5 minutes sometimes. Otherwise if two players can't play all of a sudden, I could be waiting hours for a roll or vote that could never come.
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>Do your Job as a Teleship Lieutenant, and scout out some of your allies, and surroundings, you now have what is essentially a plane.

Time to do your new job. You set our for the Hanger, and use Dimensional Swap to change clothes and to reset your contingencies.

>Cost Down 2/40
>Cost Down 75/120

You arrive to see your partner sitting down, on a chair, enjoying some tea, the ship is still intact. She looks at you disapprovingly.

"Where were you, Lieutenant? An entire day for flying in sunlight, and you choose some evening flying."

"To be fair, I was helping the person I am employed to protect from having an existential crisis. Top secret. That was a morning. I literally died! That's also secret."

"Right. Well, as you are in charge here, and seem to be good at flying. Where would you like to go for a few hours, we can teleport there, and fly around for a bit. There's the Wastelands, the castle in the Cursed Forest, the north where we can go see Miller...well take your pick. I don't mind really, I've been quite bored here, so anything will do, anything other than cultivating that is. I find it so boring, when you fly there's a lot to check and maintain and change, your altitude, your angle, your engine speeds, your relation to the horizon, the stars if you are flying at night, the weight of the plane. With training and cultivating and meditating. It is so incredibly boring, any tips?"

"Think of what you will be able to do if you succeed, have you stored any Skills yet? Tried out your Elements?"

"No Skills, too much money, but I have looked at my Elements for a bit. Lighting seems fun. Some old bat was asking for me about Consolidated Equipment. One of yours?"

"Shao-Bao, my Master. Try not to give into her demands."

"Got it. The Vice-Marshal has been teaching me on Spatial techniques. I have managed to get a better grasp, but not by much. Anyway, where will we be going?"

Player Choice, where would you like to go, due to time, you are a bit limited, and also martial law limits where you can go as well.
>North, to Miller for a bit, fly over it.
>Have a detailed overview of the Cursed Forest, and the Castle, maybe see what is beyond.
>Wastelands, see some beasts, etc
>Other? (Where, must be reasonable, Beastmen country is too far to teleport, not enough Heavenly Energy.)
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>>3780276
>>North, to Miller for a bit, fly over it.
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>>3780276
>North, to Miller for a bit, fly over it.
Now is the time to talk to the Demon Hammer.
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>>3780280
I mean, you would be breaking some rules, as martial law means that those of the Military, such as yourself. Must stay and be ready for combat. To see the Prime Minister of Miller on short notice, you would need permission from the King, permission from Demon Hammer, and you would need an ambassador so you don't get culture shock. There is a lot to work out for such a busy man. If you want to break the rules anyway, go ahead.
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>>3780284
nah i just wanna take a look at the country, no need to cause an international incident
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>>3780284
Of course. I'm just being facetious
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>>3780284
>North, to Miller.

"How about to Miller, I've never been."

"Sure! You'll get to see all the lights they have too! Get you kit on then hop in the Teleporter's seat, you have much more Heavenly Energy than me, being at 2 Jewels."

"3 now, Officer."

"R-right, 3."

You hop in, take some suggested coordinates for Miller, and instead of teleporting straight away, your partner wants you see Dershwa City at night, just for the 'contrast'. You take off, using the innate sense of how to fly, using your Heavenly Energy as fuel and the controls normally, you take off on the west side, the desert being quite flat providing a good surface for runways. You spend a good 10 minutes on pre-flight checks. Stuff which you don't know about, but your partner does, having...how much flight experience? She's in her late teens!

You look out the window at the City as you face north, the City glowing basically with a few white lights outside of the Palace, providing illumination, but not enough 'to be seen by people on the Moon', good choice. You can see that from the outside the Palace looks remarkably small, you swear it isn't that small. Must be more Spatial magic. Due to martial law, most if not all of the City is pitch black.

"Time to go, just get ready for your eyes to readjust."

You activate the Teleport, draining a third of your Heavenly Energy. You are immediately blinded by the massive array of colour! All manner of blinky lights and shop displays cover the entire country.

"Oh Dao! Where is the edge of the country?"

"We're on it. Just look closer, at the centre of the place."

You see that the buildings get higher, much higher than the edge, eventually scraping the sky. Best not to hit any of those.

"Right, the actual government building where it all goes down in the weird way these paints do it is the really small building to-yes you've got it, like it?"

You see a tiny speck in the midst of all these massive buildings, with Crimson decals. It is indistinguishable from the rest of the Country.

"All of it has electricity, and what do they do? Use it to cover every inch of the skyline with a random spray of coloured lights. Not very useful if you want to land anywhere, as you can't see the bloody runway! Well, have a good look round, as we haven't spent the entire morning getting here, we can have a really good look. I've heard from someone else that about 70 percent of the population sleep every night. Some just stay up to party. How much Heavenly Energy do you have left?"

"Two thirds."

"No cloak it is, have away but people can still see you."

>Roll 1d100 best of three for perception, get a better idea of what the country is like.
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Rolled 26 (1d100)

>>3780316
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Rolled 96 (1d100)

Rolling 1d100 for stuff. DC 70
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Rolled 26 (1d100)

>>3780316
rollan
>>3780319
So they're trying to shoot us down?
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Rolled 1 (1d100)

>>3780316
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>>3780329
NAT1 is here, baby! My luck never fails to amaze me.
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>>3780330
ok so we crashed or there was a thunderstorm and we had to book it
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>>3780323
No. Something else. You are allies.

Update in a bit. I need some food.
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>>3780334
OR they shot us down and we'll get to meet the Demon Hammer anyway.
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>>3780329

>96 (Fun for tomorrow maybe)
>1, the specialist Italian reliability has shown itself again. If only we had a nat 100er to balance it out.

You can't see anything. At all, the myriad of lights breaking your poor eyes.

"Swei-fa, please take control of the ship. I am currently blind."

"What?"

"Those lights are too bright! I cannot see. Take control now!"

"Ah fuck!"

She takes control, giving you precious moments to close your eyes, and recover.

"See I told you it was hard to see whilst landing! Just sit for a bit, 'll fly out of the country, and you can take control to teleport us home. I'll land the ship. Got it?"

"Yep. Ready."

You are given control, and you almost immediately teleport back home with some prepared coordinates for Dershwa.

You feel the ship land in its hanger. The both of you get out of your seats and take off the kit. Leaving the ship.

"You all good Lieutenant?"

"Thanks to you, yes. Do we have anything to do tomorrow?"

"Well, some more exploring wouldn't hurt I guess, if you want to take another trip to space...then go ahead. I haven't seen the Moon up close, and you haven't seen what the bombardment after the attack did to the surface. Do you have anything else important to do?"

"Maybe, I need to talk to a monster, and work with the Elemental Research team on something else. You want to come with for the Elemental stuff? I can teach you how to use your Spacial Element?"

"Nah. I'll be listening to an Upper Level Zong Stage Master, not some peasant like you, you weren't even a Heavenly Jewel Master to begin with!"

"6 Elements when I awakened."

"3 Elements on my end, how useful is Life again?"

"6 Elements, including all three that you have. Including Saint."

"Must be a consolation prise for being an orphan."

"Try not to insult a superior."

"I'm a better pilot than you! How are you a higher rank than me?! I actually know my stuff! I was born to!"

"Heavenly Jewel Master, bodyguard to the Princess and I can reach 3 Jewels at least above my current cultivation."

"Show off. How much does a good Skill cost again?"

"Excluding Spatial, 3000 Gold."

"Fucking hell, what about Spatial?"

"Don't ask. Shian will kill you and me if I talk. Genuinely terrifying, is all I can say, be glad you don't have the Darkness Element with Spatial, your life would be over."

"Fine. I'm going to bed. See you if you ever decide to turn up."

You go back to your bed, you won that argument.

1/2
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Rolled 50, 64, 38 = 152 (3d100)

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 81st day

Rolling 3d100 for stuff, first for Demon Hammer, second for Sun-Di, third for Jessica.

Player Choice for the morning
>Do your Job as a Teleship Lieutenant
>Go see someone (Who?)
>Help with the developing space related research
>Cultivate
>Go to the mass grave for resurrect
>Go train Jiang
>Call someone (Who?)
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>See if you can't try to listen to the souls again (Who?)
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)

2/2
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>>3780382
>go see Sharra, bring along monsterphile princess if shes available
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>>3780382
> Go see Shara
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>Go see Shara

>Rolls do nothing, again, well, apart from Demon Hammers.

Time to get that third Skill. You get your right clothes on, and make your way to the same place as before.

"Shian?"

"What?"

"I have my third Jewel, I would like to speak to Shara."

"No."

"Pardon?"

"Taking Skills hurts her immensely, no."

"She did tell me to come here, ask her yourself. You heard our conversation and everything!"

"Still no. You have a way to defy death, you don't need anything else. I will keep her safe. As I have been doing."

You need to get in somehow. You can't fight her, and drawing her away from Shara will be downright impossible.

>Roll 1d100 best of three for persuasion, DC 75
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Rolled 100 (1d100)

>>3780409
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>>3780419
i rest my case
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>>3780419
God fucking dammit, I'll still be waiting for additional rolls, but, damn it.
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Do feel free to roll again if no-one else has after 5 minutes.
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Still waiting.
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Rolled 34, 99 = 133 (2d100)

>>3780462
sorry had to go to lunch
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>>3780424
Now you gotta write something worthy of Nat100, QM. Gotta bring out all of Zou's flirting abilities.
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>>3780473
I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO, I DIDN'T PLAN FOR THIS, TAKE YOUR SKILL AND GO.

>>3780466
100, 99, wew. I guess Shara is now a bit of a masochist for you or something, hang on, why not I just make this a choice
>Shian now views you more favourably, for some inexplicable reason
>Angel likes punishment

"We are at war, Resurrect has provided an extraordinary benefit to Dershwa, it has saved my own life, imagine what my third Jewel Skill could do."

"Dammit! Fine!"

She lets you in.

"Shara?"

"Hello! Is is the third Jewel?"

"Yes. Are you ready?"

"Yes. Do it."

You move your Heavenly Energy in, and rip out the third Skill. On the colour wheel you see a visage of a book, what?"

"AHHHHH!"

You see Shara shudder and scream in unrelenting pain.

Shain runs in.

"That's it! Out!"

You see Shara's body start to glow. Her more animal side is taking part it seems.

You run like the wind away to safety, you then check the Skill

>Enlighten, 10 Stars, can be used on an Evil Element beast to turn it into a Saint Element beast you now have control of, you can raise enlightened beasts to make them stronger for different things. Costs 100 HE.

Ok that's nice, time to do something else, before Shian kills you.

Player Choice for the afternoon (You will have an interruption, but you can still do things for the afternoon, you are getting a visit from you local neighbourhood Evil Element Heavenly God)
>Do your Job as a Teleship Lieutenant
>Go see someone (Who?)
>Help with the developing space related research
>Cultivate
>Go to the mass grave for resurrect
>Go train Jiang
>Call someone (Who?)
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>See if you can't try to listen to the souls again (Who?)
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3780482
>>Go to the mass grave for resurrect
have we reapplied our contingency yet?
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>>3780484
Yes, also pick for the first choice, you did get the nat 100 after all.
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>>3780482
>>Shian now views you more favourably, for some inexplicable reason
can the inexplicable reason be that the angel likes punishment but Shian is the only one who knows?
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>>3780482
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
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>>3780492
I don't think I understand, could you explain this more thoroughly?
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>>3780497
Angel likes punishment now and gets it from Dom Shian, and thats why Shian likes us more, we jsut never find out that shes happier with us cause now she gets to dom an angel
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>>3780501
I uh. I mean, sure, why not. Shara and Shian weren't originally doing anything, but sure. I guess Shian can use those transforming limbs another way now.
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Rolled 2 (1d2)

Rolling 1d2 for Choice
>>3780484
>>3780496
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>>3780502
i jsut think that its hilarious, like teh angel liking punishment doesnt really help us but its too funny to pass up and shian liking us is an objective +
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>>3780504
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice, but first, a visit.

You run back to your room. However when you're just about to sit down and read a nice book.

"THUNK* THUNK*

"Let me in, now."

It's a gruff voice, you recognise it, what the hell do you do now? Your Elements literally oppose each other and he has 12 pairs of Jewels! Well, you think you got the whole picture from Long.

You let him in.

Standing in front of you you see a massive 6 foot 4 person, with bright crimson hair. wavy, running the whole length of his back, with blood red eyes.

"It is nice to see you again. I will say my piece, soon. However. For getting this far. I will grant you an opportunity to learn about your Master, disciple Zou. Obviously, things since the days in the Forest have come a long way. Ask away."

You see 12 Icy Jade Jewels and 12 Gold Diamonds. Lots of the leaders have Strength don't they?

Player Choice
>Write-in for questions for Demon Hammer. Real name Zhong Chizui. 30 minutes.
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>>3780518
>Did you know I would awaken Saint when you first saw me?
>Why do so many national leaders have Icy jade?
>What were you doing in the woods that day?
>If Saint is going to turn me into an angelic embodiment does that mean you are a demonic embodiment?
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>>3780518
> Why "Demon Hammer"? A bit on the nose, if you ask me.
> So, you're my Master now? Are you going to teach me stuff?
> I heard Demonic Element users have unique skills, including transformations? Can you transform into a Demon?
> Being a sovereign seems like a hard job, where do you find the time to run a secret organization?
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>>3780535
>Where do you find the time to run a secret organisation?

Pardon? Is this like a play on the master disciple thing? I don't think I hinted at anything like that. Is it the crimson building in Miller?
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OK people, leaving it there. I will be making a new thread for tomorrow at 14:00 pm BST, where I will be writing up all these answers and more, voting time has been extended. Thank you all for playing. I am archiving this thread now, just in case, but feel free to make more posts, I will include them in the new thread. Goodnight.
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>>3780539
Oh! I thought that Demon Hammer was also the name of a secret organization he headed. Guess I remember it wrongly? It's been a while from the first thread, and the guy only said to "look for Demon Hammer" and that makes it sound like it's more of an entity than a single person.
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>>3780547
Oh right. Well it just comes from his weapon, and his unique Element. That's it.
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>>3780547
thats the dudes nickname, like demon hammer is the title off the ruler of miller
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Archiving now!
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>>3780550
A bit late I know. Bad news. Quest will not run today. I have to sort out more university stuff. I apologise for the inconvenience
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New Thread!

>>3783535
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