A world where might makes right. A world of Jade and Gold, of Phoenix and Dragons, of Pills and Talismans, of Martial and Spiritual arts.A world where diligent training yield strength, meaning freedom. A world where loneliness means death, meaning social chains.A world still unfair, as the ones reaching the heavens are most likely born rich - be it political riches of the aristocrats, power of secret knowledges and hidden realms of clans, or lucky enough to be born one-in-a-thousand genius.This is not your case. You're a confused children - barely not a toddler anymore. As some other, your mother sold you for a lowly amount to be another seed evaluated and either nurtured into growth or discarded. Already, her physical features are blurring in your mind - the effect of the memory seal applied on your mind when you cross the gates leading to the courtyard where the examination takes place.Already, groups are forming; gathering around various instructors, showing the basic of various activities to curious children; recording their performances. Sieving natural affinities.>Character building : Are you a boy or a girl?>Each anon can write-in a cultivation-like activity to test for natural affinities toward things. Each of them will be undertaken by your character, giving you an idea of his potential talent.Activities example : Gazing at a candle until it's completely burnt to evaluate concentration, running laps to test stamina, handling a trinket that react to fire affinity, getting punched in the chest to test for physical resistance, recognize a spiritual grass blade amidst looks-alike, mix simple ingredients to create a basic Blood and Qi pill
>>5883865>boy>plucking single grains of sand out of huge bowls of rice. The precision is exhausting
>>5883865Boy.Snatching some food from a herd of goats.
>>5883865Boy.Staring at the sun.
>>5883865>Daboi>Dark chamber water immersion beneath a mountain. Sink or swim.
>>5883889Support
>>5883865>Boy>Being told to observe a weird chromatic tablet, inducing visions of fish in a frenzy.testing understanding/seeing through illusions.I'm unsure on the validity of a second choice, so I'll put it down here and you can ignore it if it's bad.>Being handed placed before paper, brushes, hammers, furnaces, almenacs and resources for 60 minutes to see what you do.
>>5883865>Girl>Trying to catch an hold bird in your bare hands, without harming it
>>5883897You don't need to support. Everything written will happen (making for an already miserable day for our 5 year old protag). Feel free to write-in instead
>>5883901Only one choice per anon.
>>5883905Remember what the politicans tell us.Fuck the Kids.
>>5883865I know "boy" is winning, but I'm no sheep.>GIRL, DAMN YOU>Activity: Balancing cups of water atop the head, elbows, and knees while sitting in full lotus atop a pillar.
>>5883865>Boy>Expoed to various mild hallucinagens in a room full of terrifying laughing monks.
>>5883865>Boy>Cutting things with a blade.I want to become a blade lunatic/sword ghost like in I killed the Academy player.What kind of wuxia and cultivation stories have you read op?
>>5883865>Man>Eating shrimpshrimp man
>>5883865>Girl>Speaking with a forest creature to convince it to give you an appleTesting animal empathy.
>>5883865>Boy>>Using magnifying glass to kill ants while screaming YOU HAVE COURTED DEATH
>>5883865>boy>Hearing one of the temple cat's footsteps
>>5883865>Girl>Being sent into a room blindfolded and instructed to avoid people inside smacking your bottom with paddles while music plays.
>>5883865>Girl>Mimicing the voices of passersby If we don't have any great talent for cultivation, maybe disguise arts are the ticket for us? From assassins to spies to Hao or Beggar's clan informants, there's always a use for it
>>5883865>Boy>Handling training weapons to test affinity for daos of various weapons
Locking; writing.
You first head toward the pens holding several type of animal.An onyx-blacked hair, amber-eyed, squat and tanned man address the dozen kids around, telling you to take a cabbage in the goat's trough.A guy rushes, yells to one of the Ovin to not stand in its path, fetch a cabbage and dashes back. Emboldened, most of the other kids rush in the pen. You abstain, having quite the idea of what's going to happen.Startled by the noise, the rush, and even the one assaulting directly the goat, the situation degenerates quickly into a brawl - interrupted by a young girl walking in while humming a tune, freezing beasts and kid alike while she picks naturally her cabage and walks away, fighting resuming in her wake."Why aren't you trying?, asks the man in charge- They've got enough cabage. I'll wait for them to calm down and will just move in slowly."The examinator nods, you do just as you said and bring back the prize. Your display of beast-taming potential was not the most impressive, but you feel you could fit in with those kind of tasks.Next up is a collection of Flying Tamarins munching on apples. The collection of kids cat-call or whistle at them, but to your greater surprise (and pleasure), you are among the three that succeed to that endeavor - the two other being the still-humming girl and the boy that intimidated a monkey into doing what he wanted. Then, you go toward the aviary. To your greater frustration, you never manage to catch up with the birds.Next, you go inside in a first room. Your eyes close, you have to focus to hear the footstep of the cat on the beams above your head. You succeed quite way at that particular endeavor - for the first time of the day, you feel like the best of the handful of kids but the scary boy and the charming girl are not in the room.Then, you proceed to a room filled in a purple mist, when you are assaulted with laughing bald facing hurling toward you in all directions. Terrified, you feel the pressure unbearable and immediately scuttle out.You stumble into a robe-wearing man with a strange blue hat, that hands you a tablet with shiny colors and swirling shapes. Engrossed in the spiritual kaleidoscope, the objet in your hands is yanked away "Let it go, kid!", then you can hear him muttering about rarely seeing people so weak to illusions.You need a breath of fresh air. Stepping outside, yet another guy in robe (although different cut and with yellow and red tons instead of blue and white) direct you toward the middle of the courtyard and makes you stare at the sun - wait, on your left is the intimidating dude... Is he insulting the sun to get it to be less bright?The worst part is it seems to work. When you take your gaze out, you can see it's a bit less bright around that guy. The evaluator seems quite happy with the time you lasted, as he directs you toward a bowl of rice where you have to pluck sands out.
You abandon the taks when more than half of participants are done while you're a bit above halfway done.It's around half of the day, and you're starving. Good thing : a few priests in golden robes, shaved head, and donning collars with wooden spheres are giving kids bowls of food.You're really intrigued in shrimp - coming from inside the land, it's the first time you are offered such a food. The unique smell and taste, as well as the texture (firm, albeit delicate, a tad chewy) conquer your heart on the first bite."Disgusting! Shrimps are nasty and smelly!- Well, I like them.- That mean YOU'RE nasty and smelly!"Is that guy looking for a fight?"Oh, you dare stand and not lower your gaze in front of the great Xiao Niar?"You kindly give him what he's looking for with a haymaker in the cheek while he's boasting. The punch sends him flying and crashing down, winning you a couple laugh in the assembly and a frown from the monks."Coward! You ambushed the great Xiao Niar! That lucky hit was the only time you will touch me!"You faint the same right hook and kick him strongly in the shin, sending him on the ground clenching his leg and proving him wrong. You're a bit tempted to caress his ribs with your feet while you're at it, but the monks are chasing you away.
A guy in armor grasps your arm."A bit shoddy, but nice potential. Let me see you what you're worth with a blade in your hands."Turns out, not much - the sword jumps from your hand after a first strike on a wooden pillar. You hold your own better with a saber and a bow - although it's nothing to be particular proud of. But of what you tried, the one that worked the best for you was the spear.You're not a genius - not like that other boy that can shot two bullseyes-arrows in the same draw of his bow - but you're pretty sure you heard the guy in armor mutter something about you being "naturally gifted" in the way of the spear.You also want to try the other weapons, but the armored man tells you to try your hand at Elemental tests. In that direction, you walk in a room where they blindfold you and spank you. You feel deeply uncomfortable and scamper away as fast as you can. You stumble in a hidden courtyard with strange people in dark robes handing magnifying glass to kids and making them yelling something stupid at ants while burning them. You don't have much interest on keeping doing that, while a pale girl on your right is laughing maniacally while the ants are dying not only under the death ray but in its trail too.Moving on, you step in a room. You open the door to a corridor with light dying out. Scampering toward a door, you open it and fell into water in absolute darkness. Drawn down, you struggle while the oppressive weight squeezes the air away from you, until a hand grasp your collar and pulls you away. "Looks like you have really poor affinity with Water - or Darkness for that matter"Shivering, you go back out. There's a bit of time for a couple more trials.You start with the woman in ninja attire, that order you to mimic her voice while she takes a range of accents and intonations. Your poor performance makes her shooing you away. Finally, you walk to the people with Lotus-embroidered robes. They make you sit on a wooden pillar with a lotus carved in it, placing cups of water on your knee, head and elbows.Then, the pillar begins to shift. Water splashes on you, while the lotus stays carved - a few of your neighbors have it turning into a flower that shields them from the disturbance of the pillar.You quickly fell. This conclude your day of testing.In the end, of the various guilds and sects present today, a few are interrested in you - which is frankly nice; at least you're not like those kids that are accepted by nobody.You chose to join : >Eastern Province branch of Tamers of Hundred Beasts Focus on Beast taming, beast hunting, >Stable Lotus harbor military youth recruits Focus on Body + Martial prowess.>Versatile Harmony Quest Jack of all trade sect
>>5884699>Eastern Province branch of Tamers of Hundred BeastsBeastman
>>5884699>Eastern Province branch of Tamers of Hundred BeastsYoung masters are arrogant until the trash sics their heavenly dogs on them
>>5884699>>Stable Lotus harbor military youth recruitsbig man, strong
>>5884699>Stable Lotus harbor military youth recruitsHeavenly dogs tend to hump your leg. A spear will only thrust into whatever you point it at.
>>5884711Sounds like cutsleeve talk, martial brother
>>5884699>Eastern Province branch of Tamers of Hundred BeastsThe lotus has failed us.
>>5884699>Eastern Province branch of Tamers of Hundred Beasts
>>5884699>Stable Lotus harbor military youth recruits
>>5884699>Eastern Province branch of Tamers of Hundred Beastssomething something strength that relies on others
>>5884699>Versatile Harmony Quest
>>5884699>Eastern Province branch of Tamers of Hundred BeastsAw hell yeah
>>5884711Kek>>5884699>Stable Lotus harbor military youth recruits
>>5884733>The lotus has failed usIndeed. This is why Stable Lotus Clan (the boss of the town Stable Lotus Harbor) have not open their door to you.But you can be confused by the similar names as a five year old to rationalize like this.
>>5884699>Eastern Province branch of Tamers of Hundred BeastsFocus on Beast taming, beast hunting, I like it.
>>5884901Qm I have a question, what did you do to determine the qualities of our character? Threw a d100 for each test? Or you already had an idea of how the character is going to be and only said what would happen on each test?
>>5884927Created a list of skill before starting. Rolled for potential of the one you tested (and another one by mistake). Will keep the results secrets for now. Test had one or two rolls associated. Multiple roll involved beasts but beat tamer affinity was roll only once
>Current status
You chose to join the Eastern Province branch of Tamers of Hundred BeastsYou know you're not a genius. However, your performance in beast taming was good enough for them to be quite interested in you - maybe your path to greatness would be befriending powerful beasts and make them fight for you?The thousand of kids are split among the 10-or-so sects. Most selective ones are the crazy bastards that made you burn ants and the also-crazy ones making you drop in the dark water, followed by the Lotus-Pillar guys.The Army and the Versatile Harmony Quest are accepting heaps of people, while the Beast Tamers are on the restrictive side - 20 of disciples have been chosen.The particularly striking ones are the humming girl and the angry dude. Even with your limited world knowledge, you recognize they are something else.Still, you are pretty confident you're on par or better than the rest of the class. All of you head toward the pen, when you are asked to take a few of the beast to corral to your new home.Of course, the girl hops and hum, half dancing while taking in her wake a myriad of birds, rabbits, mouse, cat and dog on the smaller side, while the boy shout at two colossal hounds and a fully-grown tiger, making them cower and advance crawling belly-down.You gaze at the various animals around and feel thunderstruck when your gaze meet the brown eye of an Alezan foal.Like magnet, you walk toward the youngling, your hand extended. He steps once, then twice toward you - and nuzzle its head on your hand."Looks like you won't need an Halter for that one."The onyx-hair, amber-eyed examiner nods approvingly. "Come on. Let's see if you have other strong affinities... Is something bothering you, kid?"You gaze around. You're not the most skilled one. You're far from struggling, too."Why helping me? - the man smiles.- This is the best use of my time. The two genius don't need me right now. The other will take twice the effort to nurture. You are the best suited to receive help right now for the better future of the Sect."Under the man's guidance, you tour the pens. Farm animals follow docilely, albeit a bit reluctantly."You're not fated toward them. You can order them easily due to their domestic mentality, but this would be a waste of your talents." The various sized aquariums makes you take a step back - still feeling yourself drowning from earlier, you prefer staying away from anything seawater-related for now. You have way better affinity with forest delvers.The thunderstruck-scene replays similarly with a wolf cub. Then, a viper coil on your left arm while an hawk roost on your right shoulder."You might take more with you, but that would be pushing your luck. Use your Inner Voice to reach them - the same you talked the Flying Tamarins with"With that last word of advice, he leaves you to go help other youngsters.
On the road, you...>Talk with one of the kid (The humming girl? The intimidating boy? A normal one?)>Ask questions to the Examiner (What?)>Focus on one of your animal and try ordering itOne vote by anon. You will attempt everything.Anons have a "veto" right - if (You) find an idea stupid ("get the snake to bite the wolf!") reply with only '>Veto'. Enough veto will cancel it. Veto are not votes.
>>5885446>Focus on one of your animal and try ordering itThe viper, order it to present its fangs without biting. If we can do this, we can be of use to the sect gathering poisons. Also its good practice for suppressing the instinct of our partnersLast thing we want is to infuriate a young master cause our heavenly dog pissed on his shoes worth a nation's treasury
>>5885446Just realized the first option is a bit stupid.You'll have to write-in what you want to ask/say.
>>5885446>>Focus on one of your animal and try ordering it
>>5885457Which one/To do what?
>>5885446>Focus on one of your animal and try ordering it (Hawk)>>Shit on the intimidating boys head
>>5885458Have the wolf find a bone.
>>5885446>Focus on one of your animal and try ordering itTell the wolf to sit
[g]>Focus on one of your animal and try ordering it[/g]aclimate the foal to the wolf
>>5885446>Instruct the Hawk to circle the caravan and come back.remember to feed them for doing a good job
>>5885446>Order the foal to shit on the intimidating goy
Alright, several of you are set on poop attack directed to a certain other kid.Do you care to elaborate why you resent him? Important for the characterisation and it will help me wright.
>>5885553I assume those brothers just want to court death
>>5885553masochism or boredom I guess
>>5885553I veto any of the votes on shitting the intimidating kid. We already fucked with him, unless he wanna pick another fight there's literally 0 reason to keep fucking with him.>Tell the wolf to get on the ground and show it's belly.This is something of dominance. The wolf came to us because he wanted to, but that doesn't mean we have all the control over him. If we can order him to do this act of submission and let us rub it's belly without too much time since we met, that's a really good sign, either our control is really fucking good, or the wolf is already going to be tamed without much work
>>5885553Mainly to see what happens. He’s a scowling person and looks prone to a big reaction. Just a bit of mischievous fun at his expense.
>>5885446>Talk with one of the kid (The humming girl?)You're cute. Do you want to have my kids or do you an arranged marriage already?
>>5885658Sorry anon, because of the memory seal you don't know how baby are made yet
>>5885659Damn. Okay."You're cute. Do you want to 'make-out'?"If she asks what's "making-out", say you don't know, but it was something you heard a guy and girl did when they wanted to have fun with each other.
>>5885658>>5885661>VetoI know I literally voted to shit on someone for no reason but you need to draw a line somewhere. Lets keep it in our pants for at least more than 1 update anon.
>>5885460>>5885674>VETOI'm vetoing to shit on a guy we just met, is a fellow disciple of the only good school that would let us in, and a guy who looks like we is just waiting for an excuse to murder someone's face off.
>>5885661>Focus on one of your animal and try ordering it>Order the Hawk to go kill something>>5885658>>5885661VetoAre you genuinely retarded?
>>5885460>>5885551>>5885579>>5885658>>5885661>>5885674>>5885690>>5885694Yeah; update can wait a bit more to see how you're sorting this among yourself
>>5885694You're okay with figuratively and literally shitting on a man for no reason at all? Fucking imbecile.
>>5885703I didn't vote for that retard. I just dislike acting like the average Indian when they see a white woman more than shitting on some faggots head. I don't want to spam vetos.
>>5885708No, you did fucking vote for it because you didn't veto it, dumbass. Present is equatable to acquiescing. Or is such a concept too much for your drug-addled mind to handle?
>>5885708Maybe not, since you obviously went out of your way to veto talking to the only girl we know, have met, or will have contact with for the foreseeable future, like a normal heterosexual male, but somehow thought spreading your asscheeks over a man's head to poop on them just because was somehow fine.Fuck you. Go sit on a pole. Literally, figuratively, or metaphorically, take your pick, faggot.
>>5885720Yeah adding my veto your vote. We're a little kid, I know cultivatio MC's follow the Dao of download, but try to contain your own heart Demons until our character reaches puberty, for heavens same
>>5885725Fucking phone post. But to be clear I am veto brother Coomer here's horniness, since I do not believe in the Dao of downbad and he's proven himself a whiny bitch. That's all I shall say on the matter
>>5885720Why are you having a meltdown over this lmao. Just at least wait till we’ve had one single conversation with her before cooming all over the place.
Following the man's advice, you Talk to your new companions, attempting to set a few orders.Can you get the wolf to sit? Yes. The Viper to present its fangs? This works to.You feel relieved - this dissipate the last doubt you had : you will make yourself useful to the sect.You set your goal on harder tasks. Getting the wolf to lie down and show his belly? He growls and refuse. Send the Hawk circling the caravan? Your voice reach it; he soars. In the meantime, you work on settling a calm relationship among the foal and the cub. This is also a success - but you think the animals have been conditioned for that beforehand.You're feeling bolder. As the Hawk is letting a piercing shriek to let you know he's back - and tear a bit your shoulder when he lands, drawing blood - you send the cub to fetch a bone.The girl slow her pace, you overtake her. She seems nice. "Wanna be my friend?- Sure. My name's Ai; nice to meet your!"That was easy.What next? you're a bit bored; you wish you could communicate better with the Hawk to see by his eyes or ask it how far are the sect's ground. A reckless idea tickle your mind when you hear the scary boy yell at his retinue. "Time for a double pungent mud attack. Hawk, airborn; Foal, Circumvent!"Your troops disperse."What's this! Scram!" A gaze and shout startle the Hawk, making him miss by a couple feet. The ennermy is weak. You think really hard the timing is perfect. The foal attack - two spheres bounce on the target's feet."YOU! IT'S YOU! I'LL MAKE YOU PAY FOR THE DISHONOUR UPON THIS DHUNDAN KEPA!"Here he comes, beelining for you. You brace for impact, and curse you lack of prevision with the cub away - a searing pain emerge in your left ear.A lithe and nimble elder, with piercing gaze and hooked noise holds both of you. Raising his voice :"I don't care who started it. I don't care who did what. The only thing I care is I don't want to see, or hear, of you two fighting ever again. You'll both be on manure duty until the end of your Hundred Day Foundation training. After all, being in deep shit together is the better recipe for close bonds."Both of you are sheepish. You ignore each other on the end of the trip.The wolf comes back empty-pawed; you're pretty sure the Hawk that caught a mouse was laughing at him.
Soon, you make it to the sect itself.First thing that surprise you is a lack of wall. Various building house myriads of animals. The adult makes you drop the menagerie in various building where they stay with there kin, and guide you toward a mess where you all eat, then toward bunk beds where you spend the night.In the morning, you all are gathered in a courtyard where there explain the usual day and your duties. Wake up before dawn, go check your assigned beasts before breaking fast, then calisthenics. Once warmed up, you'll go back to caring to your assigned beasts and the sect common beasts until night. Supper, rince and repeat.That, and shovelling manure for you and Dhundan Kepa.It does not take two days for you to understand your Body Condition is quite weak. You lack strength, stamina, balance in regard to the other novices.Are you already falling behind?>Spend your spare time training your body. Your duties will suffer from it. [Write-in for training methods allowed]>Just do what the sect assign you to do, at the risk of falling behind>Ask someone for help [Who? How?]
>>5885753>Spend your spare time training your body. Your duties will suffer from it [Do as the animals do: flap our wings like a hawk, gallop like a horse, howl like a wolf, and strike like a viper to train ourselves] Animal-fu
>>5885753>Spend your spare time training your body. Your duties will suffer from it. Woodchopping. Gotta see if we have wood affinity. Or would this be metal, I forget which one when applied to martial arts means chopping / axe strikes
>>5885753>Spend your spare time training your body. Your duties will suffer from it.Mimicking animals like >>5885756 said makes sense. I don’t think we’ll be flapping wings like a hawk though.Make it better by involving said animals in your training to increase your personal affinity with them. Chase wolf pups to teach them how to fight, have the hawks swoop down on you while doing work to make sure you stay alert at all times, have snapping turtles strike at you to train your reactions.>Ask someone for helpSome of the normies. We can trade our thoughts on growing your affinity with animals for their tricks to train their body cultivation. As the third-best, we can be the “approachable” one of our group for juniors.
>>5885795Supporting
>>5885753>Just do what the sect assign you to do, at the risk of falling behind
>>5885751>>5885753>Spend your spare time training your body. Your duties will suffer from it.If we don't get our foundation straightened out, we'll never amount to anything. I'll admit, I wasn't expecting to see an artistic masterwork of this degree when I opened the thread. I am like the man on the stormy mountain, thunderstruck.>>5885795I'll support this reasoning, with the exception of the snapping turtles. The last thing we need is to get mutilated just as soon as we joined the sect. Snapping turtles are dangerous as hell.
>>5885753>Spend your spare time training your body. Your duties will suffer from it. [Write-in for training methods allowed]Exercise outside naked at night until midnight with your animals.
>>5885795Supporting this one.>>5885753
>>5885753>Spend your spare time training your body. Your duties will suffer from it.
>>5885756>>5885757>>5885795>>5885798>>5885835>>5885850>>5885863>>5886066>>5886075>>5886165>Tally status
You can't afford falling behind before the foundation stage, really.Duties can wait a bit - this is the first week joining the sect; this should give you a bit of leeway, right?Your day is split among the stable, the wolf's dens where the mundane wolf live as a few big packs, the aviary, and the snake pit. Also, shoveling manure.>Decision of training with your animals + Leeway of newly joined - of the hook relatively easy for slacking of on your dutiesInstead of taking care of each and every animal, you focus solely on the one you've bonded with.The wolf-master seems to appreciate this course of action (hard to tell; the gaze of the salt-and-peppered hair middle-age woman is frightening);However, you can feel the unvoiced disapproval from the Hawk Master (which is the one that punished you for the incident) and the Horse Master, a tall and broad shouldered man.The only one voicing displeasure is the Snake Master, a light-brown athletic woman with countless braids. Still, most kids assigned to the Snake Pit are too scared of the reptile to approach them, letting you get away with only bonding with what you now think is "your" viper.You exercise by imitating your companion and extensively playing with them. Flailing your arms like the hawk, running with the foal, slithering on the ground with the snake, bouncing like the wolf.Despite your severe lack of talent regarding body energy, putting twice the work pays of and in less than two weeks, you're slowly catching up with the second-last kid.You tried to trade pointers with some of your fellow disciples : Yi Norm, a brown little boy as well as Sin Din, a horse-loving little girl and her twin sister Man Din, which wander around all beast Master without favorite creatures yet.However, they seem to perceive you as a duffer and want nothing to do with you.Last point is the Manure shovelling : you're stuck in the building with Dhundan Kepa until the task is done. He resents you for the punition AND for the fact he's working five time faster than you, leading him to clean most of the filth.>Apologize to Dhundan Kepa>Antagonize him more - he's the less-liked of disciples and that will be good to release your frustration>Ignore him>Write-in, as always, allowed.
>>5886243>Apologize to Dhundan KepaI don't want him to grow up and give us the "Human stick" treatment
>>5886243>Apologize to Dhundan KepaWe're just playing at the time of the incident. Not exactly an accident, but we didn't intend to cause this amount of shit.
>>5886243>Antagonize him more - he's the less-liked of disciples and that will be good to release your frustration
>>5886243>Apologize to Dhundan KepaWe have to be nice since we’re a weakling
>>5886243> Offer a deal to him. He gets to train you, in as grueling a way as he likes, as an apology.Kid can warp reality by being mad at it. Let him vent his anger to our advantage.
>>5886263With your Martial Art score and the fact the military wanted you, you're more a Glass Canon
>>5886243>>5886272+1
>>5886272I mean that's a great idea, but I don't think he's gonna agree to that.
>>5886243>Ignore him
>>5886283If he sees it as a way to make our life hell (and isn't the best training hell?) then he might go for it.
>>5886243>Apologize to Dhundan Kepa
>>5886244>>5886257>>5886260>>5886263>>5886272>>5886278
>Apologize to Dhundan KepaA couple time in the first weeks, you attempted to overcome the fear seizing you when attempting to get closer and talk to the other kid while shoveling dung. You failed each time.Good Mental Resistance (Sun-gazing test) and great test roll for this particular attemptHowever, third time's the charm. You step closer, and a stare weighting you down like the whole saddlery of the imposing draft horse you had to move around a couple time for your lateness turn your movement into a slog.Still, you take a slow and small step crawling ever so closer to your goal. A hint of surprise lace in the pure anger of the gaze, then the pressure double. Still, you take another as slow and as small step, inching forward to reach him. The anger mask placed on Dhundan's face fissures, but the glimpse is too brief to catch the deeper feeling."Stop here. You'll regret it.- It's alright. Sorry." - he stares silently - "Sorry for making animals crapping you. I was just playing."He's still standing, mute. The storm rages against your mind in unpredictable bursts, followed by calmer light knocking."...Why?...- I was wrong. So I have to make excuses.- No. Why aren't you running away like the others? Only the masters talk to me, and I can always feel them angry. You're not angry. I don't understand."The pressure gradually soften, until coming back hitting as a charging ram. You take a step back. Gritting your teeth, you muster all of your willpower to endure, overcome, and slowly reclaims the lost ground. Both of you stare at each other without a word."Not over yet? I don't have all day!"Both of you quickly go back to shoveling.The next morning, the body preparation instructor tells you during daily practice that he felt your Mental Energy rised up and to keep up with your effort.You quickly link the two events. Later, while scrubbing the sticky guano in the Aviary, you approach him again."What do you want.- Talking with you. Actually, the pressure when we talk is great training for me.- ... Pressure? ..."Wait... He doesn't realize he's scary and angry at everything?"Let's make a deal. In exchange to me getting train by your pressure, I can maybe tell and help on how it's working?"Pressure recede."That mean you'll keep talking with me? Even after we are not punished any more?"Turns out the little tomfoolery engaged toward Dhundan Kepa might have been one of the best decision you took in your life so far.
Two months have passed since you joined the Eastern Province branch of Tamers of Hundred BeastsMeanwhile, thanks to your efforts, you're selected with around a third of the ones that joined at the same time than you (including every named child) as well as most of the other Novices already under training when you joined the sect.However, you didn't progressed much in the way of animal handling.The first step in the road of cultivation is The Hundred Days of Foundation BuildingYou are of the perfect age to take this step on the way as you still have a mouthfull of Inborn True Qi.>Inborn True Qi : No bottleneck for 3 year (until Third Stage)Without this breath of Inborn true qi, even if one builds one’s foundation, cultivation would be fraught with difficulties.The required amount of time and resources spent on every advancement would be at least twice as much more than those who completed their Foundation Building before eight.The steps are as follow :>First, physical training for 2 to 6 month to increase the body's Qi and Blood Vigor>The second step is the consumption of an elixir known as "body tempering liquid".>Use a Body Tempering Technique to raise Qi & Blood>Use a meditation technique to capture Qi&Blood strands in the Heart AcupointYou will need both a Body Tempering Technique and a Meditation technique. Your sect will provide several options, linked to animals.>Good write-in last timeActually, the way you trained with your favored animals is close to a body tempering technique. The Masters have remarked it and stepped-in to give you access to the following>The Jade Wolf's Body, an overall balanced Body Technique>The Armored Cavalier's Defense, a static collection of move focusing your Body Energy on Defense>The Hawk's Wide Ballet, a dance-like collection of movements>The Water-Snake's Swiftness, an elemental body technique developing AgilityFor now, you will have trouble to pick more than one - after all the Snake Master pulled you apart and had quite harsh words expecting you to work diligently on your duties and stop jerking your own snake around once she'll show you how to properly do it; herself or one of the other masters.You'll also need a meditation technique. However, this one will be the standard version of the sect,
>>5887100>The Jade Wolf's Body, an overall balanced Body Technique
>>5887100>The Water-Snake's Swiftness, an elemental body technique developing AgilityBest defense is not getting hit
>>5887100>Jade Wolf body cultivation techniqueA jack of all trades may be a master of none, but still better than a master of one.
>>5887100>>The Hawk's Wide Ballet, a dance-like collection of movementsmulti hit hell yeah
>>5887100>The Water-Snake's Swiftness, an elemental body technique developing AgilityI guess our retardation of imitating animals worked out.
>>5887100>The Hawk's Wide Ballet, a dance-like collection of movements
>>5887104>>5887106>>5887114>>5887120>>5887121>>5887122>>5887131>>5887165Ok this votes looks more closely tied than the last one.>Intermediary tally statusI like to post those. Unless I explicitely write that I'm locking it consider it just informative
>>5887100>The Jade Wolf's Body, an overall balanced Body TechniqueI was out for a few updates. My last vote was >>5884711, so you know I'm not a samefag.Anyway, I think a balanced foundation is a good starting point; we can specialize when we have a good idea of our strengths and weaknesses.
>>5887100>The Jade Wolf's Body, an overall balanced Body Technique>Ask the Snake Master if being bitten by a Snake and forcing the venom out of our bloodstream is a valid body tempering technique or if it's some kids foolishness that I just have (Make sure we make it clear we don't wanna do it, it's just curiosity)For some reason, I just read the Blood Vigor requirement next to the Heart Acupoint and I just came up with this weird idea, and maybe the scenes with the Cobra supersoldiers in the 2009 movie had something to do with this train of thought.I also thought that maybe either going mystical xianxia Cardio training could work, or maybe going around the woods, getting bitten by smaller red ants and increasingly other venomous insects and animals, paired with eating poisonous or venomous plants or fruit could work with those kinds of trainings, or maybe develop some ability to reject poisons
>>5887291>>5887121This is me btw I’m switching. Being a jack of all trades when we’re already terrible at cultivating is not a good idea. We need to specialize.
>>5887294>when we’re already terrible at cultivating You're ill-suited to body-cultivation, one of the 3 pillars of cultivation. There is still Mental energy, which you kinda find a cheat for and Spiritual energy, which you don't know yet how proficient you are. However, you won't hit bottlenecks for 2 year and 10 months; and you joined a sect that fit you quite well where you had good luck regarding the potential totems for your character, allowing to work around your strength and weaknesses to keep your character arc interresting. This is Normal Cultivator Quest - where your skilled, but average character will attempt to navigate to the pinacle of cultivation among freaks, cheater, and other Mary-sues
>>5887100>Hawks wide balletMovement is king.
>>5887100On reflection, I'm going to back>The Hawk's Wide Ballet, a dance-like collection of movementsWith our poor aptitude for water, the Water-Snake's Swiftness is a trap option and our incompetence in body cultivation means that we'll lag behind in Jade Wolf's Body. Besides, it was the hawk shitting on the aggro genius that caused of all of this. Isn't it only fitting that we embody them?
>Perfectly balanced, as all thing should beCan't update this morning anyway; if still tied tonight I'll break it somehow.However, I might take a page in RQM's book and I'll ask preemptively to 1PBTID to backlink
>>5887100>The Hawk's Wide Ballet, a dance-like collection of movementsWe gotta' be a little 'out there' and unpredictable to make up for being weaker, slower, and less intelligent than the real prodigies.
>>5887280I'll change my vote to >The Hawk's Wide Ballet, a dance-like collection of movementsBut I still wanna make those questions to the Snake Master
You choose the Technique named the Hawk's Wide Ballet. Over the course of the next week, you spend your free time with the Hawk master to learn the movements.He instruct you with the physical part of the technique as well as the spiritual and intent : you learn that this technique is composed of 18 figures, that can be combined in the order you want.Performing those movements take a wide space : around 15 steps in each direction. You have to perform the dance with an Hawk, which is not an issue for you - your feathered companion learns at your side what's expected of it. This Body-Tempering dance features open-hand brush imitating graciously the wings of the hawk, as well as a good deal of coordination.Soon, The Hawk master deems you ready. You are given a small porcelain white pot finely painted with the 33 beasts in blue, and are instructed to drink the liquid.You sniff. Dire mistake. The elixir is pungent, acrid, strongly-herbal scented and the smell buries in your nose.Still, with the Hawk Master on your side to monitor your first real cultivation, you take a swig and swallow the precious thick gooey black mouthful of elixir allocated to you.The taste is worst than the smell. Then, your throat starts to hurt - the spicy concoction lights a fire in your throat, making you clutch it with both hands."Don't waste time! Wings Unfurling!"Listening to the Hawk master, you turn your clutch into cross hand on your chest extending vertically elbows-first while the Hawk circles you.Just in time for the sensation to turn warm and fuzzy in your stomach, diffusing as wanting to be let out. Want sated by the movements you're undertaking.Something happens in the tip of your fingers. The energy inside your belly rushed through your arms, extending over there, flattening grass as if you were, indeed, a giant hawk exerting a mighty wingbeat propelling into flight."Soaring Ascent! Swooping Dive!" Three moves in, and you're already reaching your limit, drenched in a dark, sticky sweat. You've been warned of it : your body is rejecting impurities.This confirms it : this technique is quite well suited to you, as show your first success in body cultivation.You feel your heart beating and thumping, with residual spiritual energy overflowing in every vein and artery.You successfully created 3 strands of Qi and Blood, a satisfying result for a first real attempt at a body technique. You can't go farther in your body cultivation technique : you sit down, close your eyes, and focus on using your sect's Spiritual Meditation Technique : the Way of the Spiritual Beast Whisperer
You perceive yourself surrounded by your four companions, with the Hawk how-so-little brighter, in a kingdom of gray emptiness. The next step is to guide the strands of Qi and Blood in your heart aperture. You don't immediately perceive said aperture - by the time you focus on the glass-like sphere you now see in your spiritual self, a first strand have dissipated back in your body.You send the Hawk to quickly grasp the second one, but the brusque approach ripped the second strand when the talons touch it. You makes the bird of prey catch the third one more gently, guiding it to the aperture, when you stumble into a sizeable problem : you can't find an opening. You press the strand against the glass sphere, hoping the aperture will catch it, but this is a miss. The strand starts to dissolve. You slide it across the sphere, to no further result. Finally, you find the opening - in the top half of the aperture, directed toward your spine, as the strand frays.You desperately attempt to shove it, but it's too late. You've missed by a couple seconds."This is unfortunate. You'll better remember that the road of cultivation is hard. No step toward the Heaven's pinnacle is free."This conclude your first session of cultivation. Of course, you benefited from it as your body condition improved. However, at the eye of the sect, your first attempt is not successful as you haven't even started to fill your heart Aperture.The worst part, you know you've been unlucky, that you were damn close missed the roll by 4 percent, and that this technique is suited to you.Of course, Ai and Dhundan have succeeded perfectly.Body Tempering Liquid is a rare and expansive resource. Your failure means you won't get more of it before next month - an eternity away, that will turn the gap between you and the geniuses into a rift. Maybe you can court favor to someone (another disciple, a master?) to decrease the wait to your next attempt? Or just accept your mediocre fate and wait?>Ask the Snake Master if being bitten by a Snake and forcing the venom out of our bloodstream is a valid body tempering technique or if it's some kids foolishness that I just have"This is an as valid test as any to test Poison Affinity. But that's stupidly dangerous at your current realm. First, gather Qi and Blood in your heart aperture. Then, turn it into True Qi. That's the minimum point to materialize Energy Qi."What are you doing this week/month?>Work diligently with the sect to regain favour [require clever writes-in]>Let it go and focus on your duties as well as mental training with Dhundan>Ask someone [Who? How do you convince them?]
>>5888420>Let it go and focus on your duties as well as mental training with Dhundan>>Argue that socializing with Dhundan IS apart of our sectly duties. He is a peerless prospect, but is ill-socialized and seems to be prone to experience heart demons or fall to the Unorthodox or Demonic way if this is not remedied. Us being around him and getting him used to peers his own age can only be beneficial for the Sect. >Ask Someone [Wolf-Master]Wolf guy liked us focusing on only one cub, it small rapport but it doesn't hurt to ask.
>>5888431>Supporting
>>5888420>Work to regain Favour. (Volunteer to help the Masters with Hunting)We have viper venom and a spear affinity. This might be the way to get our favour up. Teachers always love a suck up.
>>5888420>>5888431That and the singer and intimidator don't seem to be friends with each other, but both have expressed a friendship with us. We can link them together. On their own they will have no peers to properly compete against and will end up weaker for it in the end. >Ask Ai to try and use her voice on us so that we can try to resist it, as we have resisted fear. Point out that both she and Dhundan Kepa use the Voice, just in different way. >While sleeping, try to manipulate the dreamrealm. Are we a lucid dreamer? If we are then we can train our mind while others sleep, giving us an advantage.
>>5888431>>5888780+1
>>5888431>>5888780+1Also, I wanna do something more > Ask the Wolf Master why did he liked that we focused on one of the wolfs? If wolfs comes in packs, we would think that he would be more pleased if we focused on a group instead of only one wolfAnd, if we're not strong but smart, i guess this could help with some insight on our next roll for the elixir>Ask the different Masters we know, how was that test for them? What did they saw? Maybe we can internalize it and have a better idea for our next try
>>5888431Counting that as "Work diligently with the sect to regain favour" thanks to the clever write-in.Writing.
You wake up bothered by a full bladder. You get out of bed, and go outside before being pushed by an empressed Yi Norm.You hide a smirk : good. You weight for him to release a bit of pressure before stepping on his right."[You] Oh, you dare to challenge me Yi Norm? The other day defeat have not been sufficient?[Yi Norm] - Scram! I'm the best at this![You] - Ah? Last time, Man Din reached the farthest. How does it feel, getting beaten by a girl at this boy game?"[Man Din] - I beated you up too! And I can do it again this morning![Sin Din] - Go, Sis!"You keep bantering while having your daily childish bout. Dhundan Kepa silently joined the contest. Good. Other haven't remarked. Looks like your training is bearing fruits for him too. With that bout of harmless fun, you also strengthened the case you'll be defending later. Arming yourself with resolve, you grit your teeth and mentally rehearse your plea. You pondered, hesitated. In the end, you think your best chance was directly asking the Master which seems to like you the most, the Wolf Master. She's rough in her training, maybe the harshest in her approach (even if the Horse master is the most intransigent). Still, she have genuinely as a priority the well-being and growth of her disciples (unlike the other woman-master, the Snake master, which seems to generally disdain pupils). Your strategy is simple : strike a conversation with a few question that you have, then > Ask the Wolf Master why did SHE liked that we focused on one of the wolfs? "It's simple, really. Can a young kid really take care propelly of more than one member of a species? In addition to learning to know this individual, you will have to learn how to deal with the species at a whole.">If wolfs comes in packs, we would think that he would be more pleased if we focused on a group instead of only one wolf"Mammals have a deep personnal bond, so it will be better for it to have your full attention. Besides, You're too wet behind the ears to be a true Pack Leader - and you kinda have a pack; one of various species, dontcha?"
" I have one more question. No, not a question. A request.- Go on?- I deserve a second attempt with Body Tempering Liquid. I know I miss the first, and I won't blame anyone or anything except me. But I understood what I did wrong. I need to try again. And this is for the good of the sect, too."Her face turns into a mask. That's not good. Not good at all."I'm spending time with Dhundan Kepa. He is a peerless prospect, but is ill-socialized and seems to be prone to experience heart demons or fall to the Unorthodox or Demonic way if this is not remedied. Me being around him and getting him used to peers his own age can only be beneficial for the Sect. I know I'm not a genius. I know I won't be a peerless master. But for him to really become one, he'll need dear comrade. Thus, letting me fall behind is a dangerous choice."Some way too slow seconds of silence crank your stress up while she's still impassible."You should have asked this to your technique master."Silence again. Your hope is dwindling."I'll give you one drop. Less than half of half of a normal amount. The rest will depend on you. Come back here once your duties are down before the evening meal."Your blood rush and you feel your energy raise under the excitation and prospect - raising almost enough for Qi and Blood strands to form, or so you feel. Hope is back.As promised, you meet her in secrecy. she hands you the precious vial, which indeed have a pitiful amount remaining.You gulp the medicine without any consideration for taste or smell, feel its still-surprising burn in your throat diffusing in your body. You're already in motion.Wings Unfurling. Soaring Ascent. And you're already out of Body Tempering Liquid provided energy : your body cultivation won't progress much from this session. You sit down, and starts the Meditation of the Spiritual Beast Whisperer Already, you see yourself circled by the spiritual totems of your beasts. You have only one chance : only one thread of Qi and Blood is available for you to guide to your aperture. The Astral Hawk dives, clutches it gently, pulls it on the opening of your aperture.The thread is already half as long as it was a couple seconds ago. You grit your teeth, and the physical feedback almost pulls you away from the spiritual world of the meditation. You brace yourself, and regain your focus just in time to regrasp the short thread that was slipping away.guiding it, then dropping it in the Heart aperture.You've done it. You open your eyes. The wolf master nods, and leave. You feel the weight of indebtedness on your shoulder.The next day, while training with all the other novices, the Hawk Master lightly taps your shoulder."The other day, you said the Qi and Blood thread frayed before you could have put it in your Aperture? I think you managed it - and the thread reconstituted itself."
Looks like Body Tempering Liquid Privileges are back.One more week have passed. You're still extremely busy with the dung shovelling punishment and the training with Dhundan Kepa.What would you focus your free time on this week?>Attempt to craft a friendship bond between Ai and Dhundan>While sleeping, try to manipulate the dreamrealm>Focus more on one of the animals [which one?]>Write-in
>>5889407>Ai and DhundanWe're making ourselves. . slightly redundant, which is risky. But I also think if we can form a power trio then we're going really damn good.
>>5889423I'm making no judgements yet. But seems like our survival strat is tied to making friends with important people.Just gotta make ourselves useful to remain in this state
>>5889407>Focus more on one of the animals>>El hawk
>>5889407>>5889443+1El Hawko
>>5889407>Make friends by day and dream by night. That's half the point of dream training.
>>5889407>Attempt to craft a friendship bond between Ai and Dhundan
>>5889423>>5889443>>5889446>>5889480>>5889779>Tally status
>>5889836>Be me>Post vote status>This scare players into lurkingAre you ok guys?
>>5890144No, we shall never be.
>>5890144Personally, when I don't know what I want to vote I just wait it out to see what the outcome is. And when there's an option I feel it's like the most optimal, I just vote and post my reasoning behind it. In this case, I just don't feel inclined to vote for any of the options so I'm just waiting for an update
>>5889407>While sleeping, try to manipulate the dreamrealmWe need some kind of advantage.
>>5890186+
>>5890186Fuck it, the idea is really up my valley to support it, +1
>>5889407>Attempt to craft a friendship bond between Ai and Dhundan>>5890144Been busy.
Can't update before at least 12 hours.
Will try to update tonight. Either the tie is broken at that point or i'll coinflip it
Rolled 1 (1d2)Tiebreak roll.1 for Friendship2 for Dreams
>Attempt to craft a friendship bond between Ai and DhundanThe goal is simple : Turning you into the bind between Ai and Dhundan. Future chances, or opportunities, or missions you will need to team up? Piece of cake with those two monster-to-be. As the saying goes, no battle plans survive engagement.First, you realize no one really knows or spend time with Ai - she's always humming and skipping, not willing to discuss or play with the others.When you approach her, and explicitly ask for her to join activities, she declines it finding rules exposition "boring chatter" and unable to stay down or keep focus for more than a few breath before getting up and humming-hopping away.Then, there is the whole matter of incompatibility between the two of them.Dhundan seems relatively lowly confident when you suggested to play with both of them in your free time. Despite engaging more with the others, he have more a recluse temperament and needs a couple hour of alone-brooding every day.His mere presence seems to act as a repellent to Ai. After three weeks of a circular chase (involving strategical planning and baiting), you realize the inverse also holds true.You confront both of them on the matter : Ai feels "he disturbs my music" while Dhundan think "it's exhausting just having her in sight".This is a complete failure, and you're afraid there's nothing you can do to improve that fact. This took quite an amount of free time, and kept you a little bit awake at night.
>Cultivation : keeps progressing.Meanwhile, you keep diligently cultivating. You are allocated once a week, with the other "talented kids", a spoonful of Body Tempering Liquid.Your progress are good - holding up with the other normal kids and even the two gifted ones. Your supply of Body Tempering Liquid is no longer challenged.Your Heart Acupoint is, week after week, filling up with threads of Qi and Blood. With your diligent work, you pull at least a couple of them each week, with last week turning into a record with generating (and catching) five of them.Of course, you felt quite dizzy afterward - this prowess left few energy left for the body itself, and it took the rest of the day and a good night of sleep for you to recover feeling miserable, but you were praised for going all the way toward progress.Your teacher instructed that you'll need around 300 strands to fill your acupoint, and be worthy of the "Cultivator" title. Of course, with your body and spirit strengthening, you will soon be able to take Body Tempering Liquid twice a week. That is, until they start showing why they're different from the ordinary ones such as you : first, Ai's peculiar skipping movement changed somewhat, making her the fastest (by far) not only among the younger novices, but also other children still working on opening more advanced acupoints. Second, Dhundan have also grasped something further. You only caught glimpses of it - from your closeness to Dhundan. You don't quite understand what it is, and Dhundan is secretive about it.The genius are rewarded for their insight with Qi and Blood Pills. You've come to understand that your group's main strenght is your remaining amount of Inborn true Qi, allowing all of you to progress seemlesly.However, all of you are limited by your children body, with low amount of Qi and Blood to turn into strands and shove into your acupoint. This is why the sect does not give the young disciples Body Tempering Liquid every day.This is also why despite its name, the Hundred Days of Foundation Building will take likely more time for your group. Well, depending if you get allocated Qi and Blood Pills.Four month have passed since you joined the Eastern Province branch of Tamers of Hundred Beasts.You successfully pulled 18 threads of Qi and blood so far, with an increasing rate (1-2-2-3-2-3-5). Genius are tied at 23 threads - going further than you thanks to the extra session provided by the pills. Other kids in the "talented" group are at 17, 14 and 11.Regarding Dhundan, you...>Decided to press him on his newfound technique (risk of rubbing him the wrong way, reward ???) >Accept his silence on the subjectYou decide to allocate your free time on...>While sleeping, try to manipulate the dreamrealm>Focus more on one of the animals [which one?]>Investigating on additional techniques hidden in your cultivation>Write-in
>>5892007>Accept his silence on the subject.We are meant to be his friend, so just. . you know, leave it.>Focus more on the Hawk.We seem to use his style for out cultivation, maybe there is more we can learn from studying it.
>>5892007>Accept his silence on the subject>Investigating on additional techniques hidden in your cultivation
>>5892074>We seem to use his style for our cultivationIndeed. Your body tempering technique is a Hawk technique, which reflects in your Way of the Spiritual Beast Whisperer Meditations.
>>5892086Supporting, maybe we can become a utility character with lots of useful skills but a low power level.
>>5892007>Accept his silence on the subject>Focus more on the Hawk.
>>5892007>Decided to press him on his newfound technique (risk of rubbing him the wrong way, reward ???)>Write-inPlay with Ai and become a true friend.
I'd appreciate a tiebreak between Way of the Hawk and Secret stuff investigation.>>5892313Oh? A secret contender appeared? If the heap of lurker is fast enough while I cook my pastas, you might change the course of this quest. Vote now!
>>5892007>Accept his silence on the subject>Focus more on the Hawk.Did I vote already, I forget.
You choose to accept Dhundan silence, mainly because of the debacle of trying to turn Ai, him and you in a power trio.Your relationship resumes normally - except the body cultivation is starting to bearing fruits and the amount of dung shoveled by both of you in your still-ongoing punishment is more even.>Focus more on the HawkYou allocate more time and effort in the aviary. After your daily duties, you take some time to increase the bond with the Hawk.You start being able to have basic communication with it - sending him fly then come back, you taught him to differenciate Dhundan and Ai. Your hawk is able to cawk once for yes, twice for no, letting you improve its use as a scout.However, you makes few progress with your cultivation technique by training this way. No more ideas? That's what Masters are for!So, you simply asks the Hawk master where does the secret techniques lies in your technique."Nice try. I won't just tell you the secret, but here's an hint : focus on the third, sixth, ninth and seventeenth stances."Those are Swooping Dive, Talon's Grip, Hovering Glide and Wind-Brushed Waltz. You think and ponder for the rest of the day. You'll surely prioritize those move in your next sessions of training. Sadly, that doesn't pay up the next day, which happens to be when you get your next dose of Body Tempering Liquid.Back at the aviary, you keep your thoughts going while sending your Hawk fetch. Maybe a hint lies in higher realm disciples way of training?You gaze at them. A first realization dawns on you : you're pretty sure most of them does not practice the same technique as you. More advanced technique for higher tier disciple or your sect have a far more wide collection of art that you imagined?Then, the hawks themselves. They move differently than your own and most of the one you're helping tending. Essentially differently. Inspiration struck. You start circulating your Way of the Spiritual Beast Whisperer. You feel them faintly on the edge of your spiritual perception. Some colorful, other sharp. Your vision fade - this trick was only possible thank to the Body Tempering Liquid remaining in you since yesterday.
This is worthy to ask the Hawk Master. He smiles cryptically."You'll know more with the Transplanhumance"Then, he left you flabbergasted.At least, your diligence coupled with your astute questions seems to score a few point with him, even though you didn't immediately grasped more about your cultivation.The best way forward would be asking an grown-up disciple about that. You beeline toward Bathias, a 3rd realm -as known as "Battle King" realm - 14 year old boy."Big brother Bathias, "- As a sect specializing in beast-taming, the novice practitioners deal with ordinary beasts that haven't even reached the first realm. These creatures serve merely as a means to teach you the fundamentals of care and handling.This mundane beast parts are not worth much or difficult to procure for higher level cultivators. The sect's edge truly lies in nurturing and hunting Spiritual beasts.- Spiritual beasts? - You'll see in less than two weeks if you're lucky."Better not push it. other disciples seems to be delighted not telling you, as you provide them entertainment in your repeated requests.Even by taking care to prioritize the hinted movements in your body-tempering routine, the only tangible result your got after this week of cultivation and two doses of body-tempering liquid are 8 more threads in your acupoint.So,there's something coming up soon™>Do you focus the incoming week on preparations for the Transplanhumance? [write-in how you prepare]>Or focus on other things [write-in; previous votes are valid options]
>>5892391>Do you focus the incoming week on preparations for the Transplanhumance? [write-in how you prepare]Spend two days each running with horse, wrestling with wolf, and, I don't know, slithering and biting shit with snake.Maybe melding with your other animals will reveal a secret in the Transplanhumance, spirit animal, and Way of the Spiritual Beast Whisperer as well as Hawk's Wide Ballet.
>>5892391>Focus on hidden techniques.>Take a minute to tell Dhundam about the incoming event. He might have not heard yet, though thats unlikely.See, the three things described appear to me, to be how a hawk hunts. Dive in, grab and float away. Use gravity to smash hard defences against the ground or carry it away.So extending off of that, and this being a mobility one, it could drag a target or it could be some sort of escape from melee technique?We dont know what the Transplanhumance is, so how can we prepare? Sounds like when we get spiritual beasts or they test our bloodlines. Either way, Nothing I can figure.Been trying to post for a fucking hour. WORK DAMNIT
>>5892391>>Do you focus the incoming week on preparations for the Transplanhumance? [write-in how you prepare]>Maybe the hint is in the style that which we used in combat, and trying so that the lines which separates Beast from Men are blurried, and that could explain the name of: Transplanhumance": Focus on the martial arts, and try to translate those movements into a fighting style of elegant but quick and lethal movement
>>5892391Transplan- obviously close to transplant. And humance, could be something like transferring a conciousness, or the lifeforce of a human or energy- our ki.If I had to guess the hint of the disciple gave us of specifically stating SPIRITUAL beasts, is that transplanhumance is transferring our Ki with a bonded animal into them and making them spiritual beasts.Another hint was that our hawk was acting notably different from the other hawks, maybe our training is having an effect to get it ready for transference, and we're moving onto the final stage of making the hawk a spirit beast.>Do you focus the incoming week on preparations for the Transplanhumance? [Practice moving our Ki in and out of our body smoothly, maybe try pouring KI into things like plants that won't be missed if they die. Also keep bonding with Hawk.]
>>5892443support
>>5892391>>5892481 +1
>>5892481>>5892762You'll try the Qi out of body thing but that won't take a week.That specific action doesn't work before True Master realmSo, feel free to change your vote so your input don't get demoted to a single sideline of exposition in next update
>>5892848Switching my vote >>5892762 to >>5892481 + 1
>>5892913>Switching support between >>5892481 to >>5892481That doesn't help much, but thanks for the input.
>>5892437>>5892443>>5892452>>5892481>>5892482>>5892762>>5892913>Take a minute to tell Dhundam about the incoming event. He might have not heard yet, though thats unlikely."Dhundan, something's incoming. An event next week. Something called Transplanhumance. Did you heard anything about it?- Nothing. I'll avoid overextending myself then. Thanks, my friend."You decide to also focus on the incoming unknown event. But how?Maybe the truth lies in your Way of the Spiritual Beast Whisperer Meditation? A good way forward would be strengthening the bond with your animals. You try to split your time fairly among them this week, and carefully watch what differentiate the beasts and the cultivator.Maybe suppressing those differences will lead to insight? At least, there are several move variation you want to try in your next cultivation : You've got an hunch about the secret being related to how the eagles hunt : dive, grab, float away. Something you'll have to try.Before falling asleep at night, you also try to guess what the Transplanhumance is about :>Transplan- obviously close to transplant. And humance, could be something like transferring a conciousness, or the lifeforce of a human or energy- your Qi.Maybe you can send a thread of Qi and Blood directly in a spiritual beast? Crafting a rope-like bond between your souls? You decide to ask Bathias the next day - better safe than sorry."That doesn't work. Not like that. Not with Qi and Blood. You'll need to reach the second realm - True Master rank. Your Qi and Blood will then turn into True Qi - pure, shapeless. Then, and only then, you can shape it into elements or pour it out of you." In the end, this week's cultivation does not yield great results - a miserable lone thread of Qi and Blood on each occurrence. You're not happy with the way you worked. Moreover, you're not sure either your cultivation-technique-related hunches are somewhat right or completely wrong.
In the end, it turns you guessed wrong about the Transplanhumance.Ryota, the strong man you haven't seen much since the day you've joined the sect (not that you explicitly tried to get his advice or anything), comes to talk to all novices at the Hundred Days of Foundation Building stage during the mandatory calisthenics session.Said novices include your group, but most of the pupils are kids which are six month to one year older than you, with some really close to break through."Hello novices. The incoming days will be marked by a great opportunity for the sect - and one of the reason the branch have been built here : Transplanhumance.This is a rare event where a whole ost of spiritual beasts migrates among planes. Those beasts' might scale from the first to the third realm.We have a pretty good estimation of where and when the even will start, thus strongest disciples will be located to the metaphorical eye of the storm. You are already strong enough to be of some use to the sect : in the outskirts of the phenomenon, your role will be to capture weaker spiritual beasts that might flee away.Some stronger beasts might try to force through your position. In that case, you'll need to notify more advanced disciples. The perturbation will be moving - you'll have to be careful and move along. We'll deploy today. The sect is counting on you today, novices."You're quite happy you didn't babbled much at everybody about how to prepare for transplanting something in your humanity.
Carts are prepared, novices are transported in the countryside. You insist to not watch the coastline or inside the sea itself, and you're instead positioned in the woods. Without any of the beasts - too dangerous for them, or so you've been told.You've also been told of the meaning of Transplanhumance : it's simply a Transplanar Transhumance.You've been issued one spiritual bead - a pearl-like treasure that can capture a weakened spiritual beast, as well as a Spiritual Flare - another glass sphere, filled with spiritual energy, that can notify cultivators able to sense Qi; this can be used as an emergency request for help simply by smashing it on the ground (or just to know where to pick you up at the end of the day).Last, a clay tablet with five vertical marks. Those marks will lit up when closer to the eye of the storm - five marks meaning on spot where reality blend together. You are on your own, with no one in sight. Time to make a decision.On one hand, the danger is real. On the other hand, you feel like you're slipping more and more behind the geniuses in your progress : you've been surpassed by Yi Norm this week, with Sin Din on your heels. >Stay away from all sort of danger [almost riskless, very low chance of meeting a spiritual beast]>Keep your position at the one-mark mark [a little bit of risk, coinflip wether you'll meet something]>Push at the two-marks mark [You WILL meet something. High-risk, high-reward choice]
>>5892949>Push at the two marks mark.You only improve in situations that demand it.
>>5892949>Push at the two-marks mark [You WILL meet something. High-risk, high-reward choice]
If I have one more input supporting the two marks I'll lock and update tonight.
>>5892962>>5892993>>5893206Perfect.In situation such as this, I'll get 3 of you to roll 1d100 to determine the outcome.Remember than the higher you roll, the better the outcome.
Rolled 99 (1d100)>>5893211
>>5893213Heavens have blessed us for our hubris
Rolled 72 (1d100)>>5893211I don't think I'll top that, but hey
>>5893218I don't recall uttering the words "Best of 3"; what kind of protagonist-tier bullshit power do you think your character have?
>>5893224. . . .>>5893211>I'll get 3 of you to roll 1d100 to determine the outcome.>Remember the higher you roll the better the outcome.Well how the sam hell am I meant to interpret that?maybe "first roll" woulda clarified.
>>5893233This was purposefully misleading you playing on the ususal expectations of the board. I'll use the 3 rolls in the update to come.
>>5893234So you did want us to roll 3 times. And admonishing me on saying 'I don't think I'll do better" as I implied it was best of 3.You are not rebuffing me for rolling. Right.
>>5893241I am not rebuffing your roll, which happen to be a good one that will yield a positive reward.I was just trolling a bit waiting for a third roll.
Alright going to bed; update will wait another roll and free time on my hand.
Rolled 75 (1d100)>>5893211Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh
>>5893278let's gooooo
>>5893213>>5893218>>5893278>>5893317>>5892993The only choice you have is to push forward. Disregarding danger, you use the clay tablet as a detector toward the epicenter of the phenomenon. Signal flickers down while you try several directions, then rises when you walk towards the nearby woods. >99 + extremely lucky roll on the loot tableBefore half an hour passed, you see your first spiritual spirit : a radiant bird, nimbled in flame. It is wounded, and flying fast toward you - fleeing something?You've heard of such a magnificient being : it's clearly a Phoenix! You'll catch that opportunity!It have seen you. A couple wingbeats raises its altitude to avoid you...Not on your watch. You throw the sphere, which catch it in the middle of its flight before coming crashing down. With all your energy, you run and dive before the bead breaks on the ground - and catch it.You're extremely proud of yourself and your decision making. That is, until you realize you're alone in a forest without any way to deal with the dangerous spirits inside. >Your 3-roll result is in the best 0.1% possible outcomeAn eye at your clay tablet shows the danger is rising as a third mark begin to lit. You quickly rotate your meditation technique and the drop of remaining Body Tempering Liquid instantly consumes as several more beasts flare on your mind's sight.You realize that you made a strategical mistake : stockpiling this week's Body Tempering Liquid would had been a better call to use it as detection fuel instead of using it for its main purpose; a cultivation resource (especially given on how slow your progress were). You quickly turn on your heels and begin to run while clenching your fist, cracking the Spiritual Flare. Instead of a burst of spiritual energy, a trickle leaks out, living an easy-to-follow trail.Luckily, one of the sect members finds you before you meet another beast - although her sudden appearance as if she was already waiting in front of you startles you.You know the 10 year old girl - Kyo Ko, which broke through the Second Realm two or three weeks ago. You know she has a Snake affinity, as she also follows tutelage of the Snake Mistress. "What's the matter?- I don't have any more spiritual bead and the storm is closing in! - I can bring you back to the cart... But I'll lose the opportunity for captures. So what's in for me? "You didn't expected that. And you don't want to just hand away the Phoenix. Think quick!"There are other spiritual beasts close! I can help you catch them in exchange?- That can work for me. Do you have martial techniques? Movement techniques?"Your silence is eloquent. "So your only worth to me is that of a bait."
Wait, where is she? The forrest around you warps. A long-tailed mouse (a dormouse?) stands in front of you. The big-eye rodent is the fluffiest, most pettable animal you've ever seen.You advance toward it, extending your hand, when its eyes glister.>76Kyo Ko suddenly appears behind it, and strike with a piercing punch, before slamming a spiritual bead on it, catching it in the marble."Careful there. You fell for its charming technique. Here's another flare : can you do again what you did to attract me?"And just like that, she's gone again. You clench your fist, letting the spiritual energy leaks again. You move again to try leaving the woods. Without any way to perceive spiritual beasts around you, you can only trust the older disciple for your safety.Distant noises. Something scratching at the limit of your perception, that you might feel when more apertures will be open but are just distant echoes for now.Your unrest grows. Until something jumps at you from the trees.Fear submerges you, and you can already feel the nimble claws tearing at your muscles, the fangs burying in the soft flesh of your neck. >75Kyo Ko suddenly appears on your right side, punching the Spiritual Panther in the face, before slamming a spiritual bead on it, catching it in the marble."Alright, it was my last bead. We'll head back to the carts now.- We... weren't ?- No, you were walking along the Transplanhumance direction all along. This way.- Is my debt paid?- Well, I had almost no luck on my side before following your flare. There's no way to say how it would had gone... But thanks to you I made four captures. So It is I who owe you : take this as your part of the spoils".She flicks a marble at you - hey it's the Dormouse one!"Thanks! ... What should I do with it?- Either keep it or give it to the sect. Keep it if it's compatible with one of your animals or to trade directly with someone. Give it against pills, or techniques, or maybe another one more compatible with you and your beasts.By the way, what did you caught before calling me?- A Phoenix!- I don't believe you. Let me see? Come on, I won't steal it from you!"Well, she saved your life at least twice today and seems to like you a lot thanks to the bountiful harvest. It won't hurt, right? You give her the marble."Haha, it's not a Phoenix! But I see why you thought that. What you have there is most likely the spirit of a Hawk with attunement to fire and maybe gold? What, don't make this face; it's still really good!" So, at the end of the day, you acquired a Golden Flame Hawk spirit, a Dazzling Dream Dormouse spirit and made an extremely favorable first impression to a senior.
Regarding the Golden Flame Hawk spirit, you...>Keep it for yourself>Give it to the sect (trade for what? Resources? Technique? another Spirit?)Regarding the Dazzling Dream Dormouse spirit, you...>Keep it for yourself>Give it to the sect (trade for what? Resources? Technique? another Spirit?)
>>5894107>Keep the Hawk spirit.EMMINENTLY SUITABLE.>Doormouse, Trade for Snake spirit or Qi pills.
>>5894107>>5894111 +1
>>5894107>Keep both spiritsI want to see what Dream Realm shit is, and our senior gave it to us, besides.
>>5894107>Keep itI wanna go to the Dream RealmBut I guess that at any other moment we can do any of the other options like trading and stuff, right?
>>5894107>Keep it for yourself>Trade for Qi and blood pills
>>5894275Oops, i mean>Keep them both
>>5894107I'm >>5893278 but my IP's changed. This was a very auspicious encounter indeed.Golden Flame Hawk Spirit>Keep it for yourselfThis has an incredible amount of synergy.Dazzling Dream Dormouse Spirit>Trade to the Sect for Qi and Blood pillsDistracting our cultivation now would be a dangerous mistake.
>>5894275>But I guess that at any other moment we can do any of the other options like trading and stuff, right?How would that make that choice, well, a choice?logistics involved means you will have to hold it at most until next Transplanhumance if you keep it and desire to trade, unless you find a buyer
>Intermediary tally statusLooks like trading the dormouse is the leading choice for now (for Qi and Blood pills). Vote still open.
>>5894107>Keep Hawk for yourself>Trade to the Sect for Qi and Blood pills
>>5894107>Keep them both. >Sleep with Dormouse friend
Locking Keeping the Hawk and Selling the Dormouse for Qi pills; writing.In the meantime, I have a reader question :>Why do you think Qi and Blood pills are the most valuable things for you right now instead of techniques or spirits?This is not fundamentally wrong or right
>>5894945Being that we are just beginning our cultivation this sect aint gonna have any profound talent enhancing techniques.So its down to what is suitable. Hawk spirit? Quite suitable. More techniques to spread us thin? Nah.Then again, having a master to advise us would be nice, but you gotta earn that.
The Horse Master is waiting at the carts. You are among the first to come back.Part of you want to keep both of the spirits. But you let reason get the upper hand over heart. "Young true master. Novice.- Horse master. I'll keep this two for myself. And give this one to the sect.- A Panther spirit? Third stage... Attuned to agility and suffering... Great catch. This was quite the harvest. Did the boy helped?- More than that. Come on, present your spoils!- Here, master. a Dazzling Dream Dormouse- Second stage? Impressive catch for a novice. You're practicing an Hawk Technique, so you will most likely wants the sect to give you such a spirit?- Actually, I got one... I'll keep this one myself". The Horse Master smiles; seemingly pleased by your results exceeding wildly all expectations."Mmmh... That Hawk is obviously attuned to Gold and Fire... But there's something more... This is a great catch. Alright, so you want an Horse spirit? Or a Technique maybe?- No, no. Qi and Blood Pills will do. Thanks, Master.">Obtained 20 Qi and Blood pillsSlowly, higher level disciples comes back, some with a novice. Some of them present wounds - including your friend Man-Din, clenching her arm with eyes filled with tears.Most are empty handed.Dhundan used your warning well. He set aside Body Tempering Liquid, and made a great catch himself. For now, he keeps it to himself, only flashing it briefly to the Horse Master.Three older novices were luckier - you're expecting them to open their heart aperture soon instead of soon-ish.>Giving the Dormouse to the sect for merely Qi and Blood Pills will grant you FavorYou're seen as a diligent, reliable disciple : you overcame the insane odds of facing several third stage Spirit Beasts with a single Spiritual Bead. You smartly used ressources allocated by teaming up with the right person, resulting in a net positive outcome for the sect.In addition, you're diligently giving the Dazzling Dream Dormouse spirit to the sect for a small reward (huge to you, inexpensive in the grand scheme of things)
The novices that obtained a spiritual beast are taken in secrecy in the main compound of the sect.There, circles are drawn with thunder-struck-willow charcoal. You are told to step inside, and to circulate your Way of the Spiritual Beast Whisperer meditation.Soon, you feel things are disposed around you - but once again, you lack the Spiritual Awareness to identify what's happening.However, you're easily aware of something : the Hawk have been brought to you. He chirps, roost on the hand you extend to him in the physical world, and his Astral self joins you in the spiritual one. Soon, the Golden Flame Hawk, still trapped, appears in the spiritual world. Your hawk set in motion, and you recognize its moves as the one you've practiced numerous time : Wings Unfurling, Skyward Spiral, Swooping Dive, Aerial Hunt.While your hawk is bathed in energy, the spiritual one, diminished and trapped, does not stand a chance. It attempts to resist but the fight is an alredy-lost one. Soon, the Spirit is absorbed by the Astral, completing their merge.>Obtained a Bonded Golden Flame HawkYou open your eyes, and get a glance at Dhundan's catch : a Mighty Black Pangolin Spirit. Wait, the empty Spiritual Bead still look in good condition. You pocket it.>Obtained 1 Spiritual Bead "Congratulation, all of you. Bonded beasts are the heart of our sect and techniques. You will find soon your practice will yield twice the results for half the effort"With those words from Ryota, the five of you go to sleep, spiritually exhausted.
Your schedule resumes as normal, when you're given Body Tempering Liquid two times a week. The main difference, of course, is that the Golden Flame Hawk became a part of you. Quite literally, as it can, wherever it is in the physical world, get back to your spiritual self and re-emerge from your position.In your first cultivation, most of your effort is getting used to the bonded beast. It yields 4 threads of Qi and Blood despite an average session - without even a light fatigue following.Second attempt is better : You understand the body technique better since merging, and the Golden Flame Hawk is faster, more tuned to you than the Astral one. You smash through your past record, pulling 10 threads. What would have been dangerous and pushing yourself way too much in normal conditions becomes the right way to practice thanks to the pills restoring your inner energy.The best part : those pills are so potent that you only licked a bit of one to feel your energy fully coming back. You spit it and put it aside - you'll consume this one in priority, but you will be able to draw energy from it again.As Ai surprisingly collected nothing at all, you're slowly catching up with her cultivation level despite her natural gifts - thanks to the conjunction of the pills and the spirit.Indeed, your bonded Golden Flame Hawk makes cultivating far easier.It's been five month since you joined the Eastern Province branch of Tamers of Hundred Beasts, and your last attempt leads to 8 threads pulled, but more importantly you breakthrough in your Hawk's Wide Ballet technique comprehension.Choose one Hawk's Wide Ballet technique advancement among : >Gliding Waltz - Movement Technique. crossed terrain on an apparently slow normal movement>Hawk's alacrity - a partner beast technique. You can now provide spiritual energy to a partner beast to fasten it.>Hawk's double talon - a Fighting Technique sending an improbably fast second attack following a hit.>Technique Advancement : create a new technique based on this one. You can add or replace one keyword in the technique name.
>>5894997>>5894997>Spearing Hawks double talonAdapt specifically for a spear. We have an affinity for them.
>>5895019I am a bit retarded. Excuse me.>Spear Hawks wide ballet >>5894997
>>5895022Nice thinking out of the box.Let's discuss the consequences of this choice as well as >>5895019 explicitly>>5895019 would result in you acquiring a Fighting Technique. This will give you an edge in a fight, by letting you turn a hit into a double-hit. This is viable for unarmed combat as well as sword, spear or even bow attack. Adding the word "Spear" to your technique (that I will probably rename something like "Hawk Lancer Wide Ballet" will make cultivation a bit harder (number of word impact your chances of result behind the QM's screen) but will train you in the art of the Spear, improving your raw fighting ability while you work on your body tempering.
>>5894997>>5895031 +1
>>5895031However, are we not possessing a natural affinity for it? So is that why there is only a slight reduction in cultivation ability?I do know that we have no affinity for water or dark, and our spirit is fire and gold aligned, so whatever anyone else suggests, bear this in mind.My vote is for making Hawk Lancer Wide Ballet. Its a worthwhile trade in a world of might makes right.>>5895053Which?
>>5895058I am very obviously >>5895022
>>5895058 >>5895053Oops meant >>5895022 +1, thanks for catching that
>>5894997>Hawks Wide BulletKi Technique Ki Technique Ki Technique
>>5895058>Natural affinityOf course it helps. However, the more words in the name, the harder it is to practice the technique.>>5895087On the subject of Qi Technique, you'll need True QI. Cf >>5888420 >>5892947
>>5895019+1
>>5894997I'm surely going to vote for the Lancer Hawk vote, or if there's others willing to vote for the technique that let's you have a bonus overall in battle then I'm more inclined to vote for it. But still I had an idea and I wanna see what other anons thing about it>Hawk's Sharp Eye: In general the MC sights improve even slightly, but the active ability let's him analyze his rival and determine the most accesible weak spot that he can strike>Decesive Descent: While airborne or falling, the daoist dives to the sky in a daring technique and before touching the grounds, liberates Qi to stop the movement and "flap his wings" for his well being, while also granting advantage when attacking from an elevation higher than the enemy and on ambushing from above I feel that the second might just be an overpowered version of Gliding Waltz, so maybe discard that one.But the first one I fell that it could be a "final attack" sort of. We can just fall at high velocity and if our attack could be dodged or blocked, we get to safety, or at least prevent that we split our skull against the ground
>>5895141Thank you for your input, but for lore reason, I have to veto the first (it would more be an Innate Skill than a technique). The feather-fall-AOE-burst technique is a nice idea; however this is not feasible before second stage as a Technique based on creating a material effect outside your body with your Qi
Tally status.Counting>>5895073>>5895110>>5895141 (on Lancer Hawk Wide Ballet) >>5895022My dear >>5895087 I'll let you vote on something else
>>5895019I'll support this, and am also >>5894302, as it goes. Improving our fighting ability is worth a reduction in efficiency. Hopefully our sect elders are impressed by how much we've done so far.
>>5895315that's a single move, Not teaching us Raw fighting ability.
>Ai alacrity - a partner technique. You can now provide spiritual energy to a partner to fasten it.Why not boost the best beast? Since it's Ai based, I'm thinking that it's some sort of song or music.
>>5894997>Ai alacrity - a partner technique. You can now provide spiritual energy to a partner to fasten it.if permittedotherwise...>>5895019 +1
>>5894997>Gliding Waltz - Movement Technique. crossed terrain on an apparently slow normal movement
>>5895775>Ai alacrityI think you misread.
>>5895280>>5895315>>5895775>>5895792>>5895836>Tally statusSo, I like it when the votes are close. It's usually a good tell in terms of game design as both choices feels enticing.(I also like landslide wins from time to time)
If not tiebroken in the next 30 minutes, I'll coinflip between upgrading technique and the Fighting Technique .If someone decide to contribute toward alacrity I'll roll 1d3
>>5896018Sure fuck it, three way tie y'all
Rolled 2 (1d3)>>58960191 : Hawk Lancer’s Wide Ballet2 : Hawks double talon3 : Hawks alacrity
There it is. Hiding in the 6th Figure of the Hawk's Wide Ballet, Talon's GripThe move is strange : it is made of multiple claw motions of the right arm, while the left one is folded in your back.The Golden Flame Hawk circles around you; positioning itself as a sparing target. Of course, you broadly miss it the first time. Piqued in your pride, you attempt again.This time, it's closer. Still not enough. Again! Forward Talon; Sideways Talon; Downward Talon; Upward Talon! Each strike miss, but the Hawk's dodge are narrower and narrower.One more time ! Forward Talon; Sideways Talon; Downward Tal-the hit connects. Your body brimming with Qi and Blood, you feel one strand absorbed by your left arm. It moves fast - unbelievably fast. The hit was already sending the Hawk flying away, it still reached your bonded beast>Discovered hidden technique Fighting technique : Hawks double talonWith your body brimming with energy, you circulate your meditation technique.Focusing your perception on your Astral self, something strikes you : one of the Qi and Blood thread generated thanks to the union of Body Tempering Liquid and your body cultivation technique is missing : this was the price to activate your technique>You don't have met <Condition> to generate Qi and Blood threads without Body Tempering Liquid for now. >That mean if you want to use your technique, you need to have taken said liquid without pulling the Qi and Blood threads in your Heart ApertureThreads located in Aperture are not an usable resourceThis is a great win for you. In the coming days, you feel that your standing in the sect improved a bit, cementing your position as less gifted than the two genius, but a step ahead the other skilled novices.You still have to shovel crap with Dhundan though.The weeks following the Transplanhumance have become paradoxically calmer and calmer : the Master are allocating most of their time with more advanced disciple nurturing the caught spiritual beasts.That gives you a quite ample amount of time.>Focus on cultivation grind. You can ask for more frequent Body Tempering Liquid intake as your Qi and Blood Pills let you recover faster, allowing to cultivate every day>You have a spiritual bead, and Ai might fall too much behind without a spirit. Go see if any spirit are left behind after Transplanhumance>Maybe it could be time to ask for proper martial training? Man Din still have not recovered from the slash on her arm; the world is dangerous [Burns your favor and you might not chose what you will be trained at]>Just slack off and enjoy life>Write-in
>>5896218>Maybe it could be time to ask for proper martial training? Man Din still have not recovered from the slash on her arm; the world is dangerous [Burns your favor and you might not chose what you will be trained at]
>>5896218>Focus on cultivation grind. You can ask for more frequent Body Tempering Liquid intake as your Qi and Blood Pills let you recover faster, allowing to cultivate every dayWe need to focus on cultivating
>>5896218>Ai might fall behind if left without a spirit.Nurture a genius. But hey. . . it can also benefit us
>>5896218>You have a spiritual bead, and Ai might fall too much behind without a spirit. Go see if any spirit are left behind after Transplanhumancefrens?
>>5896218>You have a spiritual bead, and Ai might fall too much behind without a spirit. Go see if any spirit are left behind after TransplanhumanceFren. :)
>>5896218>Focus on cultivation grind. You can ask for more frequent Body Tempering Liquid intake as your Qi and Blood Pills let you recover faster, allowing to cultivate every day
>>5896218>You have a spiritual bead, and Ai might fall too much behind without a spirit. Go see if any spirit are left behind after Transplanhumance
>>5896218>Focus on cultivation grind. You can ask for more frequent Body Tempering Liquid intake as your Qi and Blood Pills let you recover faster, allowing to cultivate every dayAi will be fine, she's probably moving as fast as us without a spirit as we're moving with one.
>>5896233>>5896235>>5896263>>5896266>>5896302>>5896347>>5896365>>5896409
(this is a tally status. Vote still open. Will try to update in around 12 hours; if not this will have to wait Sunday)
>>5896515Power of friendship winning.
>>5896218>Grind
>>5896409good point, but I think being kind with our friend would also be spiritually healty for us.
>>5896218>Focus on cultivation grind. You can ask for more frequent Body Tempering Liquid intake as your Qi and Blood Pills let you recover faster, allowing to cultivate every dayWomen are only useful for dual cultivating we must focus on ourselves.
>>5897115They are also useful for sect favour and repaying in the future.We need all the help we can get, and you get that help by doing favours.
You spend the next two weeks cultivating diligently every day, using your Qi and Blood pills to boost your energy recoveration.Thanks to your good standing with the sect, they have no problem letting you consume Body Tempering Liquid, the necessary component to spin your energy in Qi and Blood threads.In the end, each of your training yields less thread than the previous ones, but quantity have a quality of its own : with your daily cultivation, you end up more than doubling your pulled Qi and Blood Threads.Your heart Aperture is now filled just over one-third, at the low-cost of five of your Qi and Blood pills.This might have been the best use of your time : your extremely focused training reached the level of Dhundan - and overtook him by 2 threads on the last day.Ryota, the strong man that selected you, guided you to your four beasts, and announced Transplanhumance, comes to talk to all novices at the Hundred Days of Foundation Building stage during the mandatory calisthenics session.Said novices include your group, minus the ones that recently break through - you've caught up to the slowest of the kids that were here before you."Hello novices. In two weeks of time, Stable Lotus harbor city will hold its yearly tournament. I learned today the tournament will be open to beginners such as yourself.The participation is optional; this tournament is a friendly spar as Stable Lotus harbor city are allied : I don't want to see any foul play from anyone affiliated with Tamers of Hundred Beasts.Some of you want to try and prove your worth?">Step up and request to represent the sect>Lie low, you don't want to risk humiliating yourself
>>5897227>Step up.>Also request some pointers with martial capabilities.
>>5897244+1
>>5897227>Step up and request to represent the sect
>>5897227>Step up and request to represent the sectI think we can pull it off.
>>5897227>Lie low, you don't want to risk humiliating yourself
are we competing against other 5 year olds? How does this tournament work?
We showed SOME talent with spears and maybe brawling in general with how we punched Dhundan at the start. If we get some more training and with our technique, me should at least win 1 fight
>>5897244>>5897292>>5897337>>5897386>>5897494>>5897501>>5897540Of course you accepted. Being a cultivator is standing proud and defy the Heavens, what hope do you have to reach greatness if you refuse to attempt a simple tournament?You snuff out the tinge of fear. You will be worthy of the Sect.You and several other novices are presented a few techniques of the sect, depending on your predilection animal.You decide to work on...>Steel Wolf Saber>Windy Cavalier's Halberd>Aware Snake's Dagger>Hawk's Mystic Bow
>>5897798>Windy Cavalier's HalberdWe were good with spears, right?
>>5897798>Windy Cavalier's HalberdDoesn't QUITE fit out theme given the animal prefixes but fuck it. Spear Team!
>>5897798>Windy Cavalier's HalberdWe have a natural affinity for spears and are meh at projectiles, it's only sensible to sharpen it.
>>5897798>Windy Cavalier's Halberd
>>5897798>Windy cavaliers Halberd.Don't squander heaven's gifts.
>>5897798>Windy Cavalier's HalbredWe are also bad at awareness I believe, or at least telling truth from illusion.
>>5897814>>5897820>>5897830>>5897848>>5897872>>5897977>>5898303>Martial art trainingThe choice is a no-brainer - you have been dubbed proficient with spears, so the Halberd is the obvious choice, right?Turns out it's a completely different weapon. Spears are metal points mounted on long, thin, supple stick allowing surprising motion thanks to the haft's flexibility.The Halberd is more like a Saber mounted on a wider, more rigid shaft. While the spear is a thrusting weapon, halberds are slashing ones.What could have been a mistake because of poor hindsight turns into a boon, as you find out you're as gifted with the halberd than you're with the spear.The technique itself consist in a collection of moves and techniques for mounted fighting - against mounted or unmounted opponents.The Horse Master, instructing you in the style, share his wisdom and hindsight regarding mounted fighting.Mounted fighting is an oddity in the cultivation world, and quite marginal. Granted, mounted fighters are expected to be more mobile, with a stronger armor and an advantageous higher position - not even factoring the need to adapt techniques to a mounted opponent.Most mounted fighters have tamed a Spiritual Horse, which is the easiest and most accessible way to bring into a fight a mount that won't instantly get killed by an adversary which level surpass the second realm.However, the downside is obvious : the spiritual horse can still be wounded or slain, making the mounted fighting an option requiring deep pockets to be sustainable on the long term. That's when your sect unique Meditation technique comes into play : As you can bond with Spiritual beast, making them part of your Astral Self, hits and wound to them will instead affect your pool of energy - making them dissipate on what would be lethal hit and allowing you to materialize them again if you have enough Qi.>Cultivation :Of course, your cultivation suffers from your diverted attention. Qi and blood thread kept for training the fighting style instead of filling the Heart Aperture turns your dashing progress speed into a crawl.Obviously, Dhundan Kepa overtakes you in raw cultivation progress. At least, you didn't used your precious pills this two weeks.
>Tournament proceeding : Of course, you ask Bathias and Kyo Ko as much questions as possible about the tournament :The tournament is organized in age-based fighting categories. You can enter with equipment, however external help such as a non-bonded normal or spiritual beast is not permitted.That will put you at an immediate disadvantage : your meager martial technique is mounted fighting, after all.In your age category, the most menacing foes will probably be the Stable Lotus harbor military youth recruits - the only opponents fitted with armor in that age bracket, a waste for most sects but a necessity for training strong and efficient frontliners once they reach 16.Participant less than ten year old have a special spiritual formation applied to them. To avoid wounds, hits will turn into ghostly attacks, leaving colored marks letting know without risks of injury the winner of a bout.Six month have passed since you joined the Eastern Province branch of Tamers of Hundred Beasts. The tournament will happen in two days.In the end, you...>Ask the sect for a Horse Spirit to merge with [Basically gamble your favor for the incoming tournament. Doing well will grant back favor, doing sub-par won't]>Don't ask for a Horse Spirit [WILL put you at a disadvantage in fights]AND>Safekeep Body Tempering Liquid for powering your Hawk's Double Talon>Consume allocated Body Tempering Liquid for cultivating
>>5898629>Gamble the favour for a horse spirit.>Stockpile some tempering Liquids.We are still getting a horse spirit out of this.
>>5898629I'll stop lurking for this one.I'm not sure anons want the horse. It's been rejected once. It also looks like most anons thought we'd get a spear technique, but the halberd one doesn't help, and railroads us into mounted fighting, which I haven't seen brought up. And even then, there has been a focus on the Hawk. So for combat growth, I see our main options as:>Mounted fighting using some random Horse: split focus, not a starting animal, could be wasted effort>Mounted fighting using the Hawk (making it bigger somehow?) long-term effort for getting a mount and applying the halberd technique?>On-foot fighting using the Hawk: what we're going for, just tag-team the opposition. Ditch the technique, keep the favor, and either eke out a win or get honorably beaten by some random genius kid.I say we>Don't ask for a Horse Spirit [WILL put you at a disadvantage in fights]>Consume allocated Body Tempering Liquid for cultivatingIf I'd caught up sooner I'd have voted to sit out the tournament altogether. We are not some favored under the heavens combat genius. We aren't winning the prize, or stumbling into a forgotten treasure form a mysterious merchant, or being handed an instant-win card by helping an old cultivator granny cross the street. I say we hope to win one fight, but focus on our growth. We aren't going to pull a win out of our ass, this place will be brimming with geniuses. We're a sideshow, but we have proven dedication can at least help us keep up. Cultivation for non-protagonists is a long and arduous path that requires dedication, not fooling around.I'm guessing we can't back out now? In case some anons were doing this for pointers for a spear technique we very much aren't getting? Or could we have asked for a spear technique on the last choice?
>>5898629>Ask the sect for a Horse Spirit to merge with>Safekeep Body Tempering Liquid for powering your Hawk's Double Talon
>>5898795No, no, You're right.Focus on our strength.Swapping >>5898731 for "DONT ask for a horse spirit."A horse spirut still helps, for transport and cultivation but the halberd can still be used on the ground. We just need space.Still, I value the favour more. Because we have put our name forwards we have to win if we want to keep our favorable position. So lets keep some fuel in the tank.The tournement isnt fooling around, its combat practice.
>>5898795>Regarding spear-techniques and animalsThis comes back to you chosing to go to an animal-focus Sect. The sect detected you were proficient with 4 animals that you've been handling daily (hawk, wolf, horse and hawk). So while you're at this sect, the option you'll be offered will revolve around those animals. The sect techniques actually favor having several bonded animals, opening specific synergies. Let's say you somehow end up with a Golden Snake Arrow technique - your Hawk spirit will empower it thanks to its Golden attribute.Joining the military youth would have granted choice based on weapons of predilection with elements, material or animals secondary options.>Can we back out now?Not really, unless there's a landslide support for that write-in.>Regarding main optionsYou lack one : sooner or later acquire a Horse spirit to fuse with the young horse you have been spending time with lots of time with.Confusion might come from ESL from me: one of your "starting animals" is picrel>Regarding spear and HalberdIn the crunch behind the scene, the confusion between spear and Halberd could have costed much. In the end, you were quite lucky on that aspect.
>>5898815Ohhh the foal 2qs a HORSE not a DEER.Well fucky do rahs, back I go, flippity flopping.Ignote my above change, just ask the sect to try and line it up with our affinities!
>>5898826I thought it was clear with one of the master you interracted most with being a HORSE master and not a DEER master; however my mistakes. I'll commit Sudoku
>>5898815My bad also, we've been spending so much time wih the Hawk that I only remembered it, along with the more memorable wolf pup and viper. Poor foal, being so overshadowed.I guess it's worth trading a favor, especially if we don't get it back, to get another spirit animal. Also, it means we can't lose said foal. We don't need the grief from losing a bonded animal, and the sect does have a method to avoid that.Flipping completely, then.>>5898795Since we're committed>Ask the sect for a Horse Spirit to merge with [Basically gamble your favor for the incoming tournament. Doing well will grant back favor, doing sub-par won't]>Safekeep Body Tempering Liquid for powering your Hawk's Double TalonThe Halberd is heavier than the spear, so being able to flow into a second strike can prove a very surpising ace. Also we can make it a 3-on-1 by still using the Hawk as a flanking or overhead threat. Okay, I can see this coming together.Though I have to admit that pic here >>5898628 isn't helping. It does look like a thicker spear, and while halberds do have a pointed end, and make good use of it almost like a lance, they do have a large axe-like head as well. It really is the bastard baroque lovechile of a spear and an axe. Best clarify what it is we'll be using, especially with double-attacks coming into play. Can we launch a first attack with the axe, the use our ability for a thrust immediately after, or reverse the axe blade's momentum for a follow-up strike for the opposite direction?
>>5898883>Halberd talkCouldn't get satisfying result using stable diffusion and no time to draw.We are talking vietname Dai Dao/Chinese guan Dao.Typically, a broad saber mounted on a stick; usually Rotin. The weapon is mostly use to slash, but you can also thrust. Its historical strength lies in its reach and momentum - good luck blocking that with a sword, and martial art tell tales on how halberdier could decapitate a charging horse. If you get engaged on close quarter (sword reach), you're not completely fucked up as you can switch your grip close to the blade to use both ends of your weapon. Moving hands around the shaft are fundamental for accelerating your strike and cleave, as well as being overall mobile.The main weakness of the weapon, as you can guess, is its slowness, its weight and its heft.With Hawk's double talon, you can send a mighty cleave and unnaturally cleave again if it connects. This is a quite surprising move, so someone not aware of it will be most likely hit twice.
>>5898895>With Hawk's double talon, you can send a mighty cleave and unnaturally cleave again if it connects. This is a quite surprising move, so someone not aware of it will be most likely hit twice.Good to know the lack of weapon limitation on the double talon was no accident. This will certainly be useful, mounted or not.
>>5898829I did wonder that, why was the deer never mentioned again.But ah well.
>>5898895QM, is it possible to make a mix between one of those three section staff and the Guan Dao? Or make them so they can be separated in the half? My idea is that we can use the Guan Dao as a large sword once we're in close combat, or if we have enough strength then we might use it as two weapons, the staff and the blade on each handI'm not asking for doing this NOW for the tournament, just an idea that I had
>Ask the sect for a Horse Spirit to merge with>Safekeep Body Tempering Liquid for powering your Hawk's Double TalonWe gotta dominate here or we'll lose big.
>>5898917Possible.To do so, you'll need to>Create a technique mixing Triple-Staff and Guan DaoThis can be done with lucky encounter /breakthrough in a Triple Staff or Guan Dao Technique (like the breakthrough in >>5894997) by, for example, adding the "Triple Staff" keyword to a Halberd technique >Get a custom-made weapon fitting your techniqueLetting you edit your technique on Breakthrough is a way for you to deeply customise your character to the playstyle that interest you, among other stuff.
>>5898933Do we know what doing well in the tournament translates as, for gaining back favor? Do we at least know how many matches there will be? I'm guessing an elimination phase where you need to win as many matches as possible, then classic 1v1 tournament ladder matches? Or a free-for-all for starters?
>>5898945format is brackets. expect 5-to-6 matches.Regarding favor and what would be acceptable results...You have no idea.
>>5898954At this point, I imagine we have a weird reputation going on as a promising but really regular cultivator. We made friends with Dhudan and helped him with his weird unique technique, we got extremely lucky the Transplanhumance event and we got a good relationship with two of our senior cultivators.I'm >>5898917 btw, I sometimes switch from phone to my pc
>Tally statusI hope I understand your wish correctly anons
>>5898629>>Ask the sect for a Horse Spirit to merge with [Basically gamble your favor for the incoming tournament. Doing well will grant back favor, doing sub-par won't]>Consume allocated Body Tempering Liquid for cultivating
>>5898629>Ask the sect for a Horse Spirit to merge with [Basically gamble your favor for the incoming tournament. Doing well will grant back favor, doing sub-par won't]
>>5898629>Consume allocated Body Tempering Liquid for cultivatingWhoops forgot
>>5898629>Ask the sect for a Horse Spirit to merge with [Basically gamble your favor for the incoming tournament. Doing well will grant back favor, doing sub-par won't]>Safekeep Body Tempering Liquid for powering your Hawk's Double Talon
>>5898815Can we more than one spirit animal of the same species, like say multiple hawks?
>>5899594Not really.Spirits have "tier" (meaning they won't bring benefits after certain level). You can update them to an higher tier by finding a higher-level spiritual beast, creating a formation, and burn ressources to let the lower tier spirit beat up (and consume) the higher tier one. Keywords can change at that opportunity. It's easier for the spirit to consume something with related keywords.
>>5899594>>5899617But once again, we're in a cultivator world with marvel unravelled and possibilities unbounded.As the fellow asked over there >>5898883You can find ways to reach a point where your soul host a whole fleet of hawks - which will result in a quite unique cultivation technique based on the setting
Going to a fight with a specialization as a Mounted fighter and without said Mount is an epitome of stupidity.You simply can't represent the sect in those conditions. Thus, you approach the Horse Master."Horse Master; this Disciple have a request.- You want a Horse Spirit? I told you about taking one after the Transplanhumance. Now, the choice will be reduced."Your moral plummet. The Master notice."Hey, hey, kid! I am not denying your request! Comes in the main building tonight, after the meal."Thus, after the meal, you leave your dormitory. Nobody bats an eye : Dhundan, secretive as always spend much time training out of sight, Ai is humming softly in a corner.Yi Norm, Sin Din, Man Din and a few other kids (mostly ungifted and irrelevant, you didn't even bothered learning their name) are playing a card game based on the 33 animals.You cross the field separating the various dormitories to the main compound, where Novices do calisthenics on the morning. Said main compound is an immensely huge building collection : despite not holding any beast, Spiritual or Normal, a Sect needs separate locations for pill refining and storing, a Library to protect the written form of technics, the Forge, the Treasury, as well as chambers for the various Masters or advanced Disciple. There you are, waiting in front of the building in which the Spirit Bonding formation was drawn, in the company of your rapidly growing Foal. The Horse master gets out of a building restricted to Disciples (you already feel way out of your place as a lone Novice on this courtyard), and slowly walks to you.Your apprehension is growing, while you awkwardly notice he noticed you, and you don't know when exactly you should engage the conversation - if you should engage the conversation.Looks like the master is testing you : he's slowing in advance, surely to increase the pressure of the trial? You keep standing perfectly still. He's reaching you, as tension rise to its climax. Still, not a word is uttered. Both of you are standing, locking your gaze. A long, long, minute pass."So. Regarding our earlier discussion... I asked the Sect Master. I was wrong - we stockpiled something especially for a gifted pupil with an interest for the Martial thing. Turns out you're a highly suitable plot for cultivating this precious seed."
Due to undisclosed variable, I rolled with advantage the quality of the Horse spirit; you got a 74 over 100.Complete victory. You somehow asserted subtle social dominance. You execute a kneeling bow - the highest form of respect"This Novice heartfully thanks the Master, and through him the sect, for the precious gift bested upon me.- Thanks? Nice respect, but words are cheap. We are trusting you with precious resources. Now, you'll have to be worthy of them. Every day. This is the hard part - not qualifying for the investment in the first place."You feel the weight of the words upon you in this quite solemn moment.You're subsequently taken once again, foal in tow, in the Formation room, where thunder-struck-willow charcoal circles are already drawn. A spiritual bead is placed in front of you while you circulate your Meditation technique, and some elements are placed around you : Silver, a tuft of fur coming probably from an Horse Mane, and a mysterious third component.You open your eyes one instant. It looks like lotus seed? You close your eyes again, and pull the Spiritual Horse forward - he neigh, and soon, the metallic-looking horse trapped in the spiritual beads comes forward.Once again, the spiritual projection of your horse overcome the trapped spirit, merging effortlessly.>Obtained an Horse Spirit You haven't had time to precisely examine the provided spiritual bead, nor will before the tournament. You'll have to discover it on the fly - the couple day before the tournament is necessary for the Bonded spirit to stabilize.
Next day is a slow day : you stockpiled your allowance of Body Tempering Liquid, and try not to let stress pile up.Carts are readied and loaded up - the event is a rare gathering of all cultivators in the vicinity, so you expect quite a good amount of trade behind the coliseum's walls.Of course, there is a coliseum : what city doesn't have the basic facility to house the people's favorite amusement?The place is crowded : easily over a thousand participants, with one hundred in your particular category.You glance at the Bracket.You can't read. So you ask Kyo Ko for help - she finger-point your position."You're here. First opponent is a Military Youth named Xiao Niar."You still understand one thing : by luck, you're drawn in a bracket avoiding one round of fight. Nice.Of course, you're not the opening act. That honor is granted to a kid you recognize - the one gifted using a bow, facing a nameless face in a dark hood... And the fight's already over, the other kid covered in teal paint.Is the bow a cheat pick? In any case, the formation set up by the referees seems to be effective.And the realization dawns you : your Fighting technique, the Hawk's double talon is useless in that kind of fight. After all, if the fight is concluded after one hit succesful hit, a second one won't make a difference.Stockpiling the Body Tempering Liquid was a bad choice - not that a single extra session would have made such a difference, you cope.Soon enough, it's your turn. You step on the ring, halberd in hand. You focus on the main advice given to you - hide your techniques as long as possible. "Disgusting nasty Shrimp man! This Xiao Niar will get its revenge!"Oh, right, this retard. Flailing his sword like he's scared of it.>Introducing the fighting system in that quest!Fights are perilous event for cultivators. In particular, engaging in a fair fight to death with a cultivator a couple realms over your one will grant you an immediate date with lady death.You're not a officially a cultivator yet - not with your Heart Aperture still closed. However, you've been diligently training, already seized a fortuitous opportunity, and have been rewarded with unlimited Body Tempering Liquid as well as pills by the Sect.Last week, one of the smaller disciple could indulge for the first time in Body Tempering Liquid. You're certain Xiao Niar didn't had any, most likely because of his completely unlikeable attitude.>This fight will be a landslide win. No roll require.Now, how will you end this?>A single Halberd thrust. End his misery while sparing his pride as much as possible.>Ask the judge to coat your hand instead. Punch him in the shit-spitter thing which acts as his mouth>Just wait for him to maim himself.>Write-in
>>5899993>A single Halberd thrust. End his misery while sparing his pride as much as possible.
>>5899993>Ask the judge to coat your hand instead. Punch him in the shit-spitter thing which acts as his mouth
>>5899993>Single thrust to spare him his pride.No reason to be cruel.
>>5900053Qnd to consolue ourselves, we can use any stock we didnt use as trading agents.Other sects nearvy might have something worth trading for.
>>5899993>A single Halberd thrust. End his misery while sparing his pride as much as possible.No need to make enemies.
>>5899993>Stockpiling the Body Tempering Liquid was a bad choiceI wouldn't be so sure. It's useless if the first strike connects, but that's rarely the point. The point is to use the weapon's weight to get the opponent's weapon out of the way, then use our skill to double back and hit them while they're out of position. Or just use either strike as a feint. Or use the second strike to recover from having our own weapon parried or dragged down.With enough technique, we could even make use of the intertia we're so brazenly ignoring, giving the halberd a burst of speed and letting its weight carry us to aid a dodge, though that only works on the ground. Still a useful trick to look into, since if we're ever dismounted and stuck with a halberd, dodging and repositioning could be a good idea.
>>5899993Ah, and also>A single Halberd thrust. End his misery while sparing his pride as much as possible.
>>5899993>A single Halberd thrust. End his misery while sparing his pride as much as possible.He IS quite annoying, but I'd say that we learned not to be cruel with this kind of strong personalities when we became friend with Dhundan. Maybe he needs a friend too.
>Let him maim himselfIt hides our technique for a round.
>>5900003>>5900009>>5900053>>5900059>>5900095>>5900141>>5900485No need to be cruel. You step forward, thrust."Touch! Win for the Eastern Province branch of Tamers of Hundred Beasts disciple!"Xiao Niar, eyes wide open, drop his sword, focusing on the blade that turned liquid and completely smeared his shirt in purple.>Over 100 Disciples, you're without a doubt in the best of 32.Most matches are brutally one-sided. As Kyo Ko said, it seems like the Military Youth recruits have a strong advantage at this low level thanks to their training focus on the martial thing.Regarding your friends, Ai didn't registered for the tournament. Yi Norm lost his first match in the unlucky bracket - tried to brawl against a knife, Sin Din won the unlucky bracket first turn and was beaten on the second one with her sword, while her twin Man Din beat her first opponent in the lucky bracket with her staff. Of course Dhundan won. He glared menacingly, Saber in hand, and his opponent simply stepped down.It's time for your second fight : you're facing a kid with a blue and black tunic, spear in hand.>This opponent will be tougher. Still, with your favorable encounter and level you should come ahead easily.>DC should be 25 (1d100, roll-over). However, you're currently unmounted, giving a +5 malus (DC : 30) Introducing the fighting mechanic : trump card!You currently have 2 Trump Cards : the horse and the hawk spirits. If you fail the test against an opponent unaware of one of your Trump Card, a Trump Card will be revealed if you chose so.This means the DC against this opponent will decrease of a dice roll (dice size depends on several factors behind the screen), and you get to roll a new d100.Future opponent will be aware of your Trump card, so no extra d100 roll against them. However, the DC-decreasing dice will be rerolled.Now, let's begin.>1 roll of 1d100; DC 30!
Rolled 56 (1d100)>>5900736
Rolled 49 (1d100)>>5900736
>>5900789Discarded.Only 1 roll was necessary. Should have locked and call that I'm writing.
>590074656 for DC 30 : Success! (without revealing any Trump Card)The boy spin his weapon twice and set in his favored stance : a forward lunge, pointing the spear toward your head. You keep the Halberd on your right hand, staff vertical.You've seen the boy previous fight. He's fast. But you can take him."Tidal Spear : current thrust!"Who yells their technique name, seriously? However, this is a fancy name for a forward stabbing motion. On horseback, you'll use the shaft downward to deviate it, and keep the momentum for a slice.You're not on horseback. Thinking quickly with reflexes only allowed to your superior cultivation, you reverse the movement and reel upward, changing the spear course away from your body and following with a thigh slice."Touch! Win for the Eastern Province branch of Tamers of Hundred Beasts disciple!"That was an easy fight : your opponent only had for himself >Over 100 Disciples, you're probably in the best of 16.Of course, you take some time to observe other matches.Dhundan effortlessly qualifies. He looks like one of the most fearsome competitor, alongside the bow-kid. Due to the Bracket construction, if you win all matches, you'll face Dhundan in half-finale and the other one in finale.Your next opponent, a Stable Lotus Aspirant, won its fight by sheer cultivation difference : almost untrained in the martial thing, fighting bare hand, she have overcame her previous opponent by sheer force and speed - Bathias pointed out she've already opened the heart aperture, an impressive feat."This Young Mistress LienWen YanEr will show you the strength of an heir of the Stable Lotus!">Incoming fight DC : 52 - 40 (Base DC) + 7 (revealed trump card : Strong, but unskilled) + 5 (Unmounted fighting malus)>1 roll of 1d100!
Rolled 30 (1d100)>>5900796>>5900793That was my bad, I'm so used to best of three that I missed you clearly said one roll
>>5900804>FailureTime for a choice. do you Burn a Trump Card?>Reveal Spiritual Hawk>Reveal Spiritual Horse>Take the L
>>5900807>Reveal Spiritual HawkI can't help but feel "I have a fucking horse!" is our best trump.
>>5900807>Take the LLets be low key about this
>>5900807>Reveal Spiritual Hawk>>5900809Reasonable, but with prestige comes opportunity and we must show that the resources allotted to us were not of waste.
>>5900814I mostly just don't want to attract Young masters this early into our cultivation.
>>5900816Fair enough
>>5900807>Reveal hawkGotta show.
>>5900830If we win, we are at minimum in the top 8. Thats great.
>>5900807>Reveal Spiritual HawkSorry hoe, we got a rival to meet.
>>5900796>Reveal Spiritual HorseHonestly, I just want us to do good enough to get our favor back. So te far we get, the better.
>>5900807>Reveal Spiritual Hawk
>>5900807>Reveal Spiritual HawkThis is the best approach.
Rolled 12 (1d20)>>5900807>>5900808>>5900809>>5900814>>5900830>>5900931>>5900983>>5901020>>5901194Ready? Fight!>Missing by 22The girl grins, and immediately rushes onward. You narrowly dodge a punch to the face, a circular kick to the trunk. You took three step back, under the flurry of blow. And then, she grasps your halberd."The win is mine. Thanks for being a stepping stone for my legend... WHAT THE F">Revealing the Hawk : easy to overwhelm an untrained opponent - Trump card maximal effect>I'll take one more d100. DC : 52 - [roll result]
Rolled 76 (1d100)>>5901301Beat 40 I guess.
>>5901307We're back
>>5901301"Your legend ended before it could even begin."Get rekt bitch
>>5901316"Better watch where you walk, because sometimes you can misstep"
>>5901301"Cringe."Would a normal cultivator consider the tired cliched cultivation banter complete cringe or perfectly normal, anyway?
>>5901301>You have courted death! This Senior will punish you for your hubris!
Alright, your guys are spilling golden punchline upon golden punchline. However, the fight will be to short to use all those material. So you'll either sort among you what's the funniest for five year old karate turnament or I'll roll for it.
>>5901343"Better watch where you walk" is the best for a 5 year old. "Legend ended" is second best, because it's a direct slap back.
>>5901343>what's the funniest for five year old karate turnamentHmm, right. Then how about going for simple? "You talk too much. Eat feathers."
>>5901301>>5901316 +1
>>5901301"Get beaked"
>>5900807 >Reveal Spiritual HawkI’m suddenly getting a Pokémon vibe from this quest
>>5901343Thats 3 for "your legened ended"In the interest of progress, Id request we move with that one
>>5901307>>5901310>>5901316>>5901331>>5901336>>5901339>>5901354>>5901359>>5901381>>5901400>>5901415"Your legend ended before it could even begin."She looks surprise. She's pressing you hard, forcing you to retreat more and more. You're two steps away form losing, how could you ever be so confident?"What? Oww! It was all the time it took for the Hawk to circle her, then back to you."Touch! Win for the Eastern Province branch of Tamers of Hundred Beasts disciple!- What? No! That's cheating! External mingling!- Sorry young Mistress LienWen YanEr. That's perfectly allowed- I'll get my revenge! Curse the day you displeased the heir of the Stable Lotus Sect!"And just like that, you're in the best 8 cultivator of your age in the town. Meanwhile, the girl is dragged by the ear by one of the Sect elder, reprimanding her bad manners.She's thoroughly lectured, and she comes back to apologize to you. Next opponent is a disciple with the plain tunic of Versatile Harmony Quest Sect. He's good, really good. However, he didn't displayed any Trump or outlandish abilities : just raw skill."Hello! Nice Hawk. Honestly I don't know how I made it this far haha! ">Roll 1d100. DC : 64 (60 +5 from unmounted -1 from Revealed trump card : Hawk roll)
Rolled 39 (1d100)>>5901433Bowlol Me neither.
>>5901435And that's a failure. You're outskilled. But you still have a Trump Card. Do you : >Take the Loss>Reveal Spiritual Horse
>>5901436>Reveal Spiritual Horse
>>5901436>Reveal the horse.>"Simple, you've very good!" Always reciprocate respect.I mean. . why not?
>>5901436>Reveal Spiritual Horse"Nah I'd win",But seriously I ain't stoppin till we face dhundan
>>5901442Supporting. I feel that we have to go for broke here - we’re an average guy who consistently outperforms expectations, even if we’ll never be at the pinnacle.
>>5901436>>5901442 +1
>>5901433>Reveal Spiritual HorseYou have courted death!
>>5901446I think we ought to conceed to Dhundan. It allows us to keep the fact that we uaed up all of our tricks under wraps.
>>5901485I say we should actually go and speak with him after this fight to ask him. We should ask if, in the remote possibility we're going to fight each other, he would feel insulted if we conceed the fight because we think he's more powerful than us and have more chances to win, or if he really wanna fight us
>>5901485>concede outrightNo way, we have to get our ass beat as the honorable jobber of the Sect
>>5901506good idea
>>5901516Not that I'm uncurious as to how we match up. But. . Well. I got an inferiority complex here.
He just a scary boy and we ain't scared. Rock/paper/scissors him if we get there? Flipa da coin?
>>5901433>Reveal Spiritual Horse, discard this 5 point malus.
>>5901433>Reveal Spiritual Horse
Rolled 15 (1d20)>>5901438>>5901442>>5901446>>5901483>>5901623>>5901912>>5901931You bow back."Well, me neither.- Ready? Fight!"You deploy the golden hawk, sending him circling the opponent, while you meet is charge with a cleave, blocked by the shield while a sword swat delay the Hawk. He retaliates with a thrust, you narrowly dodge the incoming attack.You start vertical moulinets, attempting to threaten once again. Another sword directed to the Hawk, then the shield meets the halberd just under the blade, opening the way for a diagonal slash. You tumble under the blow."I think I know how you got there : you're really good! I'll have to go all the way against you."You jump while, for the first time in your life, the Spiritual Horse materialize under you.>New DC : 45 - roll result ( 60 - 5 from Mounted, -1 from revealed Hawk, -10 from ???, -roll result from revealed Horse)
Rolled 95 (1d100)>>5902006
>>5902011Locked.Will write when I have time.
>>5902011Oh my, now this is going to get interesting
>>5902011where were you when we needed you motherfucker!
>>5902011>95You immediately start charging. You see the surprise in the eyes of your opponent, when your halberd cleaves down on the sword side, leaving the boy hopeless against the strike."Touch! Win for the Eastern Province branch of Tamers of Hundred Beasts disciple!"You dispel the spiritual horse, while the Versatile Harmony Quest disciples steps toward you, stretching out his hand with a big, bright smile."Congratulation. This Ping Jun truly wasn't your match in the end.- You were completely. My won is simply due to a very favorable encounter, a crutch to my low skills.- Haha haha, but luck is a skill itself!"You part ways, and you felt like you met a kindred spirit today.> ??? BonusHowever, that's not all there is to it. Once you revealed your second trump, something happened.The horse seems born to battle - your synchronicity, the feedback loop of energy between him and you... You'll have to investigate more about that matter.With this win, you made it to the half-finale! Sin Din and Man Din are congratulating you (making Yi Norm obviously jealous), as well as Kyo Ko and Bathias."This is quite unfortunate : two disciples in the half finale, but on the same branch of the tree."Indeed, your next opponent is Dhundan. Your match is next - the archer just won against another Versatile Harmony Quest disciple without breaking a sweat.You feel a pull on your sleeve. Dhundan is on your right, coming close to your ear, whispering :"Listen, you have to concede.- What?- They have seen your techniques. Mine are still hidden. You conceding would offer the better chances for the sect, really.">He got a point [Concede]>He's completely wrong. HE should concede [Support this with write-in]>You didn't climbed the ladder to hop once one step away from the top. Bring it on!
>>5903102>You didn't climbed the ladder to hop once one step away from the top. Bring it on!"If I were to concede, anyone would be able to figure out why, and scheming in such a way would undoubtedly bring shame to the sect. Let us battle honourably, and let the winner carry on the sect's hopes with pride."
A/N : Kudos to >>5901485>>5901506for anticipating the potential incoming vote and plotline
>>5903102Hmm, we have been playing the dutiful disciple up to this point, so conceding instead of pushing the genius to reveal his cards might earn us more favor. Besides, we have proven that we can keep up already.>He got a point [Concede]Let's get in there, make a bow, and say something pleasant beforebowing out. Talented, compensates genius with effort, yet mindful of the greater benefits to the sect, knows not to pick a reckless fight for personal glory at the cost of the sect's victories. It all falls within the role we wish to play.Third place is still more than I, and perhaps most of our sect Masters expected, frankly.
>>5903130+1
>>5903102>concede
>>5903102>He got a point [Concede]
>>5903130>SupportThough I would like to duel him when we return to the sect. Just a friendly spar
>>5903116>>5903130>>5903152>>5903159>>5903178>>5903193That's extremely reasonable. You nod, and step on the ring."Ready? Fi...- I concede."The referee shows a glimpse of surprise, before pulling his neutral face again."Alright, if you wish so... Victory for Dhundan Kepa, of the Eastern Province branch of Tamers of Hundred Beasts"Without much delay, the next fight starts."And for the finale between this year's seedling of cultivator... On the left, from the Eastern Province branch of Tamers of Hundred Beasts, Dhundan KepaOn the right, from Stable Lotus harbor military youth recruits, Ster Ling!Ready? Fight!"Both of the genius have not revealed their deeper techniques yet. Who will prevail?>You will roll for Dhundan. BO3d100. DC : 85
Rolled 14 (1d100)>>5903231Do not disappoint us, Martial brother
>>5903232I JUST COUGHED UP BLOOD
>>5903116Support. It’s bad form for us to give up this easily.
Rolled 86 (1d100)>>5903231Watch THIS
Rolled 56 (1d100)>>5903231
>>5903237We beat the DC By a hair. Good job anon
>>5903231Ster Ling, really?How sterling is >>5903237
>>5903236He's our friend and our sect will gain standing from having their genius step up to win.It's not bad enough form to condemn us. If anything, I hope it improves our bond.
>>5903241It's a really bad joke. I regret nothing.
>>5903254You shouldn't regret it. That there is a chinese alcoholic moron who is inexplicably the best cultivator in their sect is truly hillarious.
>>5903256He's five. A bit young for alcoholism.
Immediately, Dhundan starts exhuding his terrifying pressure. From the other side, Ster Ling shoot an arrow anyway."Oh, you're not shivering? This will be interesting., Dhundan taunts while dodging.-Alright, dodge this! Technique of the Four Arrows!"A technique were the opponent grabs 4 arrows in the quiver, and with a speed enabled by his Qi and Blood, fire them in a quick succession.You feel it's way stronger than your Hawk's Double Talon, which is frankly unfair."That won't work! Pangolin's Dark Shield!"A black leaf-shape form materialize in front of Dhundan. Wait, he can shape his Qi while still at the first realm? Unfair too, so unfair!The four arrows collide on the dark form."Think that will stop me?"Another arrow notched. Dhundan keep his shield up."Come forth, my bonded spirit!"A bulky, black pangolin materialize, and rushes forward. The arrow is released, seemingly out of mark. Before drifting back toward Dhundan, unbeknownst to him, circling around the Shield Technique.Another arrow is notched, but the Pangolin reaches and strike before the bow is drawn. Dhundan realize something's wrong. Dropping the shield, he ducks, lying prone and dodging the arrow at the last instant."[bi]Touch! Win for the Eastern Province branch of Tamers of Hundred Beasts disciple, Dhundan Kepa![/bi]"Ster Ling starts throwing a fit, drowned in the thunderous applauds, yourself hitting your palms until they hurt.In the end, the Eastern Province branch of Tamers of Hundred Beasts won the tournament, with two spots in the best of four.This is the ranking of the gifted an potentially, future genius. You're really happy of your placement, despite feeling like you don't belong :Could you have won against Ai? How many are there in the town which didn't wanted to fight, and are stronger?Your doubts dissipate when Ryota congratulate both of you for the amazing results, the good strategical thinking putting the sect first, and the overall display of skill."See? Only a little push half a year ago, and you grew tremendously."You feel less like an impostor. The Horse master nods, and mumble how you were a perfect recipient for that Horse Spirit.>Gambled favor regained.
The day moves on, with older age categories progressing. In the end, the most successful sect is the Stable Lotus Sect - perks of being the richest around, more riches to nurture promising students you guess.Of course, the military youth score victories in the two ages categories above your own - but they quite soon fall behind, as the spiritual arts of the other sects are almost unmatched.Your own sect is among the impressive ones, with a second victory : a 12 year old boy which you don't know, with a Poison Kelp Whale spirit, flattened opposition. The third one making a strong impression is the Versatile Harmony Quest Sect.Despite - or maybe because ? - accepting the most student and your first impression of it being the dumping group sect is revised. You feel like the Sun adorators and the Temple of Abyssal Water disciples are dejected by their lack of result; you also notice Buddhist monk - teenagers, not partaking in the tournament but watching attentively.You had ample time to navigate and discuss with people from other sects - if you wished so.>Did you discussed with one of your adversary? [Write-in who]>Performed excedingly well.At the end of the day, you are taken with all the participant that scored among the top four of their age. Senior Daoist of all the city sects are gathered."You gifted children are the future of our town. In those dire times, we have to stay united. Closer than we used to be. If it takes a village to raise a kid, it takes a town to nurture a Cultivator.Thus, today we will teach you as if you were all our own disciples. What you can learn will depend only on you. Unless your prefer a material reward?"Of course, the champion will get better spoil. Still, you didn't expected a reward - having been preemptively gifted by your sect. Present sects list : Aspirants of the school of the Stable LotusStable Lotus harbor military youth recruitsAdorators of the SunDeath Harvester CultTemple of Abyssal WatersStable Lotus Harbor Buddhist TempleVersatile Harmony Quest>Who are you asking What? [A technique? Or a precious object? Something else?]
>>5903532>Did you discussed with one of your adversary? >>Ask the stable lotus heir why she’s so weak when her sects so strong? >We received a precious object
>>5903292Maybe with THAT attitude.>>5903529And on this day, we gave him a reason to drink, kek.>>5903532>Did you discussed with one of your adversary? [Write-in who]Yes, sort of... A Buddhist monk. Let's learn why they are here, and about their beliefs.>Who are you asking What? [A technique? Or a precious object? Something else?]Adorers of the Sun seem like they may have a technique which synergizes well with our hawk-friend.
>>5903532>Speak with Ping Jun, the friendly swordsman.it's always good to make friends.>Technique from the Adorators of the Sun [One with specialised fire/metal atributes]
>Daily reminder YOU CAN'T MATERIALIZE ELEMENTS as a first stage cultivator
>>5903554I'd like to congradulate and gush about his skill.But don't want that to be our action.
>>5903532>Adorators of the SunSOLAR FLARE!
>>5903532>>5903539>>5903548I'm supporting these two
>>5903532>Talk with the Adorators of the Sun, who we also adored during our initial tests. >Seek the Spark of Solar Glory from this sect. The sun rules, let us be a mirror of that majesty.
>>5903532>Did you discussed with one of your adversary?The cheerfull boy>Who are you asking What?Precious object
So here we are.There's a consensus on which sect to ask.What ask is really close. So this remains open for now.
>>5897227>Step upWe have something beyond genius - genre familiarity
>>5904026Technique>>5904255F5 more often, my friend
>>5903532>LienWen YanEr>Treasure
>>5904255>>5904333>6 day delayA new record?>>5904026I voted for the Buddhist monk, but will change vote to>Ping Jun
>>5903539>>5903637>>5903669>>5903710>>5904255>>5904333>>5904337>>5904346>>5903543>>5903548>>5903565You're lost in thought, recalling the several discussion you had today.The most intriguing people where, by far, the Buddhist Monk watching the fights; thus you approached them and simply asked.They were all quite grown up, not uttering a word. Their leader, an old man at least 30, answers you with a nice smile."We monks are non-violent. However, the world does not agree with our philosophy. As Spiritual guardians, we have to shield people from threats. We solve this paradox by refusing laying hand on humans, while still fighting monsters.This is why we're here : my pupils can definitely get insights from watching the battles."Then, you beeline toward Lienwen Yaner, paying little attention toward the current battle on the field.But before you can ask her anything, she takes the initiative."I have a question : Why did you humiliated me by stepping down in the challenge? The least you could do was winning the tournament to soften the blow to my honor!- What? There was no way I could win against Ster Ling - not even talking about Dhundan. At least, you can tell yourself you lost against someone undefeated?"Somehow, that seems to score some points with her."All right. I'll win next time - don't lose to anyone other than me!- Allright, but you'll have to reach me. How someone so advanced in her cultivation is so weak?"You dosed it perfectly. She admires you somehow - so you can capitalize on that and her Ego to scout for information about her and her style for next time."Everybody knows Stable Lotus style is based on Spiritual Arts! That mean I can't display the Sect's might before reaching the 2nd realm!"How do you feel about the Young Mistress? >Annoying and Weak. Little talent, just well born. She'll probably grow up into an insufferable master.>Friendly enough. Maybe she can become a friend in the future?>You like her, and she push your buttons just the right way. Definitely rival material.But you spend most of your time with Ping Jun.Over the day, you discuss the daily life in the sects. Versatile Harmony actually makes him do wildly different exercises every day, including pill-making, crafting, beast-taming, cultivation, caligraphy, music and origami) until he chose those he prefers.He's wildly interested in your spiritual beast. Although you don't say anything about your cultivation technique itself and the details of the spirit-bonding, he manifests strong interest about a Spiritual Beast, after you tell how you captured the Hawk.He insists he'll do his best to compensate you if you happen to bring him such a boon at the next occasion students of sect should meet. Overall, you have a pleasant day. You feel, for the first time, you made a real friend : much in common - not being the strongest of the sect but surely in the best three of your age tend to do that.
You snap back into the present. You'll capitalize on the current opportunity as hard as you can. Instead of heading to the treasury, and get a weak item barely mystical, better learn a technique in your mind.You immediately swerve toward the Sun Adorators. Some are displaying Spiritual Techniques. No use to you except looking at the lights, which almost immediately hurt your eyes. Better look for the weapon masters.Three of them in particular caught your eyes : they wield a Saber, a Spear, and a chain linking two metal round weights.>3 anons roll 1d100 (threshold : ???/Variable for each technique.)
Rolled 13 (1d100)>>5905008
Rolled 84 (1d100)>>5905008
Rolled 65 (1d100)>>5905008>>5905006>You like her, and she push your buttons just the right way. Definitely rival material.
>>5905006>Push buttons the right way. Rivals it is
>>5905006>You like her, and she push your buttons just the right way. Definitely rival materi
>>5905006>You like her, and she push your buttons just the right way. Definitely rival material.
>>5905009>>5905010>>5905022Quest Quick Time Event!You still have the vial of Body Tempering Liquid>Reply to this post with one more d100 and the word Saber, Spear or Meteor-HammerThis can allow you to grasp something more. Only the first valid reply will be counted.
Rolled 78 (1d100)>>5905061 Meteor-Hammer
>>5905064Rolls locked.Vote still open until I can actually take time to write.DC for each technique was 76/64/86 BUT you figured out that you were really, really skilled with that Meteor-Hammer thing, just you didn't resonnated at all with the technique itself
>>5905006>You like her, and she push your buttons just the right way. Definitely rival material.Not like fucking Xiao Nar, who is nothing to us.
>>5905006>Friendly enough. Maybe she can become a friend in the future?I hate tsunderes.
>>5905009>>5905010>>5905022>>5905030>>5905037>>5905045>>5905064>>5905168>>5905237"Alright, watch this. Sun Splitting Saber!- The Spear of Helios, Vengeful Spear of the Sun God!- The grace of Orbital Motion, Blinding Meteor Hammer!"All those move are hard to watch - like the time they made you stare at the sun. The Saber skill is literally unwatchable. The Meteor Hammer skill is even worst - still, when you asked to try the weapon, you felt a hard kinship with the weapon.The Sun Adorator master evens comment that your low Sun affinity is quite unfortunate. But the spear skill displayed... There's something you just get, despite the Sun part completely eluding you.The Spear Technique is straightforward : it capitalize on the opening created in an opponent's guard when their weapon is striking you. Good part is allowing a sure hit. Bad part is you'll have to take a hit first.>Learned Spear skill : Vengeful Spear"'Tis a shame the Sun didn't chose you. You seem like a worthy disciple for the Twin Star Styles.- 'Tis a shame you didn't joined the Military Youth. You would had made a damn fine Weapon Specialist.- Well, the boy is fine where he is."The Hawk master, walking from behind, put a protective - possessive? - claw-like hand on your shoulder.And just like that, the tournament is over; every sect heads back toward their compound. On the way back, you're left on your own - praise is focused on the two winners of the day.You're thoughtful - thoughts flying toward your new friend, Ping Jun. Your new rival, LienWen YanEr, will probably continue her fulgurent ascension in cultivation - you'll have to pull twice the effort to not fall behind.However, you got something more of this whole tournament : your cultivation progressed, and you think you might be close to have another Breakthrough in one of your techniques. Which one?>Best roll of Tournament trial : 95 - Imminent Breakthrough among Hawk's Wide Ballet, Windy Cavalier's Halberd or Way of the Spiritual Beast Whisperer
>>5905496>Way of the Spiritual Beast WhispererTraining our core
>>5905496>Way of the Spiritual Beast Whisperer
>>5905496> Hawks wide ballet
>>5905496>Way of the Spiritual Beast WhispererFor when we get that dragon mount.
>>5905496>Way of the beast whisperer
>>5905496>Hawk's Wide Ballet
>>5905496Way of the Spiritual Beast Whisperer
Guys, hear me out.Way of the spiritual beast whisperer.Six words.What if in our breakthrough we removed "the" from the technique. It could make our progression easier, through the reduction in length.
>>5906353Other ideas are "spirit beast tamer" "spirit beast warrior" "spirit beast hunter" to improve our fightan abilityPlus whatever premade options exist
>>5906368 That sound cool, but I actually like >>5906353 more, I would love to see the changes after we remove it.
>>5906353>>5906379As funny as it is, the only words that matter in that Technique are "Spiritual Beast" and "Whisperer"
Your daily life in the sect resumes.Aiming to capitalize on the hindsight in your technique the fights granted to you, you focus on your cultivation on the incoming week.Of course, the two first sessions doesn't grant you more than usual progresses in your cultivation - which is still appreciable. However, you ponder a lot about the use of bonded spiritual beasts in your cultivation. Granted, they move the threads from your body to your aperture, but there's more to it : you can summon them, they empower your related techniques.Why? How? Until you glimpse at the mechanism's gear at the end of a week with every moment dedicated to put them under scrutiny.Breakthrouh!>Overture to a Spiritual Beast realm [Mystery box, chose among Wolf, Horse, Hawk, Snake]>Technique Advancement : create a new technique based on this one. You can add or replace one keyword in the technique
>>5906412>Overture to a spirit beast realm [Horse]We got a high quality one.
>>5906420Supporting, plus I vaguely remember that becoming a cavalryman is possible and that is dope
>>5906412Out of curiosity QM, what would the changes be if we replace "Whisperer" with "Commander"?
>>5906412>Overture to a Spiritual Beast realm [Mystery box, Wolf]
>>5906436Won't answer that before the vote is resolved. Might not answer after too. I'm trying to go with a global vibe of "unknown" in that quest - be it the exact metrics governing your character, the global plot, the exact consequences of each actions, the best treasures availables.
>>5906412>>Overture to a Spiritual Beast realm [Wolf]
>>5906554Fair!>>5906412I'm really curious so I'll go with>Technique Advancement: replace "Whisperer" with "Strategist"
>>5906412>Overture: snake Snakes are the coolest
>>5906412>Jaunt to a Spiritual Beast realmTeleportation?
>>5906412>Overture to a Spiritual Beast realmsnakeAlso it might be smart to make a google doc or something with all our techniques
>>5906693I'd love it if you could in addition vote for one animal.
>>5906412>Way of the Spiritual Plant WhispererBroaden our understanding of the spirit world to help us better understand the flow of existance. Some other ones that I thought of were these: Perfected Way (pretentious), Exalted/Mythical Spiritual Beast, Alchemical Beast Whisperer, Way of the Spiritual Whisperer (removing Beast, talk to all spirits), Spiritual Beast Transmuter (upgrade spiritual beasts), Daemonic Beast Whisperer (dangerous), Spiritual Beast Finder (weak, but useful to sect), Solar Beast (not sure if there are any), Spiritual Plant Whisperer (double-dip)
>>5906420>>5906430>>5906513>>5906562>>5906570>>5906601>>5906693>>5906716>>5906789>Tally statusWill probably leave it open for the night, lock and write.
>>5906693>>5906788Sure.SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!
>>5906420>>5906513>>5906562>>5906570>>5906601>>5906693>>5906716>>5906789>>5906825I'll take 1d100 for loot.Higher is better
Rolled 24 (1d100)>>5907454
>>5907470Fuck sake, lowest percentile above a 10
You pulled a good enough amount of threads of Qi and Blood during this week. But while your spiritual Hawk and Horse funnels them toward your aperture, you feel there's something more with your Astral self.Mainly, why do you see a Wolf and a Snake? Why no other animals? Will it be forever like this?Plus, you're not bonded to any Wolf or Snake spirit : where are they coming from?Your gaze shift, showing a wooden door ornate with snakes engraving. Your spiritual self pushes it.You are sucked in. You see from above a subterranean maze - somehow seeing through the rock walls - with each turns leading to caves with various environment : crystal, lava, forest, light, darkness...You fell face first. Picking yourself up, you are surrounded by Spiritual snakes. Small ones - a nest?They rise, hissing. You attempt to calm them.>24To no avail. A first one, Golden, jumps at you. You brace for impact - but the spiritual Hawk is already let out, tearing the assailant to shreds.You dodge while all around you, snakes launch a relentless assault - most are golden, but some are deep crimson, one is strikingly rainbow-colored, and a few seems made of pure element : Fire, Thunder, Rock, Water. You hold on a few seconds, until a more potent spiritual snake awoke - made of a blinding pure light. You turn on your heels, and flee. Mind numbing pain. Your leg have been stabbed, a fang completely traversing your left thigh. You fell. In your back, the Horse - when did he appeared? - charges the Light Snake, get dispelled in a tail whip-motion. The Hawk charges for your sake, and is dispelled in a blast of light. With both your spiritual beasts hit, you feel weaker, on the verge of exhaustion, in addition to your wound. You turn from your stomach to your back, only able to see the attack coming from your throat. You're pulled back from the Spiritual realm. "You're alright, kid?" The Snake mistress is bent over your prone self. "I... think so? Wait, what's in my hands?" You can see relief upon her face while you speak. You look at your hands - a few snake scales, a moult, a fang, a couple viscera, a stone? Wait, the pain in your leg haven't subsided. Is that... blood? "Wait, I'm... not... so... well..." Blood gush from the wound. "Quick! someone with a fast beast! He needs to be taken to the Infirmary!". The world fades to black.
You awake in a comfortable bed. You immediately throw the sheet up - and see blood-soaked bandages, circling the upper part of your leg. "You're awake? Good. Don't move - I'll fetch Maya Tao" You have no clue who's the person who talked, or who Maya Tao is. You're too worry being concerned about your bonded beasts - you circle your meditation technique. There they are - even though more incorporeal and ethereal they should be, even in the astral world. You have the certitude they'll be safe once they'll have recover their energy - once you'll have recover your energy. Relieved, you open your eyes on the Snake Master, with a concerned frown on her brow. "Don't attempt to go back there while wounded! - I'm not that stupid. - You're definitely not stupid : not even a cultivator, yet able to walk in a spiritual realm. You were quite lucky I was there to pull you back. - What are those realms? - Worlds one step away as well as an infinite distance away from ours. Entering them are rare, lucky events. This is the home of the Spiritual beasts; they sometime leave it in events like Transplanhumance. Speaking of, did you catched a Spiritual beast? Spiritual beads are transported in those planes and back, as well as treasures. - No. I haven't realized I could. Are the thing I've found treasures? - Yes. They are high-grade ingredients - they can be used in rituals like the Spirit Bonding ceremony, or the creation of treasures. The wisest course of action would be trading it to the sect. But your most important boon is the fact you've entered and come out of the Spiritual Snake realm. At such a young age, it means this plane will be easier for you to reach in the future. Also, your affinity toward "Snakes" in general shall have progressed. - What else could be found in those realms? - Treasures. In addition to material, treasure-weapons, insignia, clothes can be found. You can also find secret techniques, as well as spiritual beasts. The luckier cultivator can also find hidden legacies and inheritances."You spend the rest of your seven month in the infirmary, recovering your strength - recovery sped up by your Qi and Blood pills.You feel like you owe the sect for saving your life, thus you've given all the materials collected to the treasury.It's been seven month since you joined the Eastern Province branch of Tamers of Hundred Beasts.With your high favor, as well as your last gift to the sect, the Elders have decided to reward you.Chose among : >A new spiritual beast! <What?>>Guidance to enter a spiritual plan! <Which one?>>A treasure! <Write-in the general idea, subject to veto>>A new cultivation technique!>A Movement technique!>A Fighting technique!
>>5907589>Guidence to enter a spiritual plane [Snakes]Lets go back and catch us a really good beast.Sure the elders could give us one, but actually going there also increases our affinity
>>5907589>>5907611 +1Good idea, increased affinity as well as a way to collect spirits and treasure
>>5907589>Guidance to enter a spiritual plan! <Which one?>Never give up!Also that light snake was hella strong, if we can form a sacred friendship bond we will be hella strong by association
I'm in the mood to pull up one more update tonight so if any lurker can handwave or argue about the decision in the making i'll appreciate it.
>>5907932>>5907589You asked, therefore make the decision I will!>Guidence to enter a spiritual plane [Snakes]We're no longer wounded, right? This time, we know better for sure.
>>5907939Would you look at that! my summon worked; I'm a planeswalker now.
>>5907589>Guidance to enter a spiritual plan! (Snake)If we already had a glimpse into it, we're more prepared for it than the others
>>5907589>A new spiritual beast! <What?>Wolf to round it out.
>>5907611>>5907637>>5907808>>5907939>>5907995>>5907996Over the course of the seven month, you spend less and less time in the infirmary and more and more time outside, resuming your daily duties (including dung-shovelling)You approach the Snake master during your daily tasks, after making a full recovery from the attack on your Astral Self - still, that left a mark you might bear your whole life.However, you're seriously falling behind in cultivation - Dhundan reaped the rewards from winning the tournament, opening his heart aperture. Ai overtook you while you recovered, so did Sin Din, Man Din and Norm Yi.Other kids have joined the "advanced" group - none that you especially care about. You can't let the last encounter seal your fate. You decide to go back exactly the same spiritual realm; this time asking for the sect's support.You approach the Snake Mistress on that subject."Brave of you. However, you'll have to know it's not something that can just happen like that. We're preparing an excursion next month. Train diligently meanwhile."And so you did. You wonder about if you should focus your attention on your Fighting technique - improving your fighting capacity to the best your cultivation allows - or focus on filling your Aperture.>Qi and Blood pills availableSo you do both. On the plus side, you made a complete recovery without sequels. You're stronger than you've ever been. On the minus side, you didn't filled your Aperture this month.You think it's your wound that impeded you - despite the basic speed provided by your two spiritual beasts.That's a shame, but nothing can be done about that, other than diligently cultivating in the future.Soon enough, the fated day - the fated evening - comes by.You're called from the dormitory by the Snake Mistress, and go wait in the main compound courtyard. A few other disciples are fetched, you recognize them as the most gifted snake-tender - hey that's Kyo Ko!"Why is that kid there? - Pity?- He's the one that got bitten, right? - So shameful.- He made it to the Half-final in the tournament and was wounded in the spiritual realm we're going into - spiritual realm he entered by himself. He's brave and my personal Lucky charm. Leave him be."Everybody falls silent when the Snake Master enter the courtyard with the last disciple.You're handed another Spiritual Bead, and the group start meditate in a room close to the infirmary, the red-hair girl that tended your wound directly present.All of you start meditating and circulating the sect's technique. Incense is burned, and you focus on the door half a step away. Smoke reach the astral world, and turns into the familiar door. You pushed it once again.>Supervised, planned delve in the Spiritual Snake Realm : I'll take 2d100. This roll is "favorable best of 2"A bad roll will be superseded by a good one. Two good ones will lead to 2 favorable outcomes.
Rolled 17, 25 = 42 (2d100)>>5908017Here goes
>>5908036nobody likes dice hogger.Discarding the second one to let another anon the chance to click some rocks
Rolled 51 (1d100)>>5908039You are following the dao of based I see,
>>5908039My mistake, read this as one anon rolls 2d100. Might be for the best to let another anon roll.....
Rolled 52, 85 = 137 (2d100)>>5908017is it 2d100 best of 2, or 1d100 twice best of 2confusing wording, rolling just in case
Rolled 80 (1d100)>>5908017
>>5908039To me the confusion is understandable as roll 2d100 typically means one person rolling 2 dice
Looks like not writing EXACTLY "2 anons roll 1d100" leads to this kind of behavior. Should have known better.
Preparing the update.Perks of an Ok-roll in the spiritual Snake realm, you can chose what Pokemon you'll catch among>Life-ending Poison Snake>Cosmic Spear Snake>Nimble Spiritual Guardian Snake>>
>>5908634>Cosmic spear snakeHell to the fuck yes. All in on glass cannon.
>>5908634>Life-ending Poison SnakeFor when you have to get serious.
>>5908634>Cosmic Spear SnakeI would preffer to vote for Life-ending Poison, but "Cosmic" is my weakness
>>5908634>Nimble Spiritual Guardian Snake
>>5908634Hmm, the Spear sounds like it would help, for sure, and the Cosmic makes it sounds protagonist-y.But I'm partial to the poison. The entire point of it should be our last secret technique. Secret because we'd only ever show it to people we're trying to kill. But then again killing a fellow cultivator usually comes with consequences. As for the guardian, we seem to be going more glass canon anyway. Also, defensive snake sounds rather strange. Uncanny dodge rather than a shield, perhaps? One that could be refined into a movement technique?I'll go poison but I could see myself voting for all 3 depending on build argumentation.>Life-ending Poison SnakeAlso, the Spiritual Snake is a 4-word. Would it be more powerful, but harder to control and grow?
>>5908855I think that because it is the third down and the last 2 are empty, that it is the strongest one. or the most valuable/high tier.I'm tempted to change to guardian snake, but I'm fiercly opposed to life ending.
>>5908855See this? This is why i'm happy with the random splicer system I came with.None are more valuable; the keyword of the third one are "Nimble", "Spiritual Guardian" and "Snake" - You're right. it can provide some kind of defense capacities. If it sound strange it's because I'm rolling stuff on my tables until I find something making sense.
>>5908017Kyo Ko confirmed for bestgirl.>>5908634>Cosmic Spear Snake
>>5908634>Cosmic spear snek
>>5908691>>5908766>>5908823>>5908827>>5908855>>5908999>>59090194 cosmic spear, 2 Life-poison 1 guardian.Locking, moving on.
Once again, you feel aspired toward the parallel realm. Your Astral self, as well as those of the other disciples, fell like meteor toward the Maze.Ǫ̸͙̥̝̙̫͖̤̪̭̺͔͕̗̐͊͋͌̂̐̆̃̂͝͠ẖ̴̡͕̺͉̰̻̪̣̥̬̖̜͔́̈́̆̍̌̄̔̆̉̓̿̓?̸̢̨̛̛̯͔͓͈̥̱̀̏͌̐̈́̏͌̿͆̒͑̂͑͜͝͝ ̴̡̧̛̻͔̳̤͎̤͙͆̇́̀̃̋͘Y̶̢͙̘̜̹͚̯̫͍̺̝͕͎͉̼͌́̓́̿̾͒̓͊̔͆̂́͜͝͝͝ö̴̢̘̪͇̬͍̗̭̬̪̫̻̂̓̈́͑̔̏̋͂͑̾͛̒̆͊̒͒ư̵͎͇͂͒͌̆̓̓̎͆̇̃̓̄̒̈́͜'̷̡̙͚̟̣̜̱͆̎̈́͑̃̃̀͘ͅͅr̸̨̻̤̩̖͔̱̥̄͑̂͋̏̿͋̿ę̵̠̠̟̼̮̜͙̝̤̂̌̃͂͐̉̀̍͋ ̴̹̣̣͍̜̀͐̂̇̂̀̊͋͋͛̌̈b̶͇͔͉͂a̸̧͓̮̰̙̱͈̩͓̪̥̠̹̺̝̱͒̋̈́̊͒͒̀͆̀̍̈́c̷̢̢̪̻͚̝̫͔̞͍͇̱̠͍̒̾͐́̓̂̾͐̆̕͘k̶̢̨̝͙̞̩̙̘̠̆̍̏̈́̊͂́̇͑̀̀̓̉͘͠͝?̵̠̳͇̩͎̮̭̆̂̈́̀́͌̈͊̋͌̿̍̀͘This was probably your imagination.Your corporeality comes back. In the young snake nest. You hear startled hisses. Not again!A flash of light projects your shadow in the wall you're facing. Is this it? You just came back so that this light snake could finish its job?Wait, you're thinking for too long and you are not hurt.You turn around, and Kyo Ko is behind you, launching and catching a blue marble with a dao-too-bright wriggle. "I wanted to capture this one!- As if. It's the one that wounded you? He's stronger than you and full of animosity. You really think you could have bound that Stalking Light Snake?"You shut up. In truth, you don't know if you could have done it. And you quite enjoy retaining your physical integrity. Still, this cemented the view in the eye of the bigger disciples you're a small fry that got lucky in the past.You don't want to break that image - for it's true and safer for you.You have more time for appreciating the landscape. This realm is made of an interconnection of tunnels of varying width; carved in a scale pattern. Each step let you see spiritual beasts - big, small, strong, weak.However, most interesting preys such as elemental-made snakes are snatched just under your nose. Well, such is life of an insect among true practitioners.On one hand, you feel like this out-of-world adventure is a reward in itself. The uncomfortable feeling of pressure and not-belonging makes the main world and your own hesitation feel petty.That is, until the one insulting you to begin with snaps back in the main world.
"Allright, looks like most of you guys time is out. You'll snap back depending on your own affinity and power level"You recognize this as your best chance. Your rivals have either snapped back or spent their beads - you quickly rush in a previously unexplored corridor, where a particular spirit catch your eye.You release the Hawk in a surprise kamikaze move, startling the spirit. Hawks get dispelled while you summon the Horse. He's quickly done with too - this is when you slam the spiritual bead, while you feel your spiritual self turn into smoke and getting pulled back in the main world.>Obtained Cosmic Spear Snake SpiritSoon, you wake up in the main world, safe and sound. The Snake Mistress is still in deep meditation. Once the field trip is over, you feel spiritual snake energy dramatically increasing and condensing around her. Over the course of the next two hours, various shallow wounds emerge on her body.Until she opens her eyes, and release a sigh."Looks like it was not for this opportunity."Soon, she gets back to her usual bossy self, helping the group drawing the spirit-binding formation - mostly for first-realm cultivators. This is when you get a closer look to your catch : the spirit snake holds stiff, with a head without any right to look so pointy and sharp. Dark as the night sky, sparkled with lighter spots, you feel a profound affinity toward your lucky catch.Thus, this was the tale of the acquisition of your third beast-spirit. It's been eight months since you joined the Eastern Province branch of Tamers of Hundred Beasts.Because of your wound while entering the Snake Realm, and your second quite poor performance linked to say realm, your standing in the sect plummeted.From close-to-genius, you're turning into a diligent, a tad more than average blur in the mob of disciple.How do you feel ?>Miserable. You're not gifted by the Heaven, but being a cultivator is standing tall and proud against the Heaven's lightning. You'll burn all your remaining Qi and Blood pills [10] in an attempt to keep up with the genius>Bittersweet. You'll keep cultivating diligently, using your resources reasonably to speed up a bit the process [consume 5 pills over the next month]>Really good. Unburden by the shackle of a weight you didn't felt was dragging you down tremendously. You can get use to it [don't consume pills]
>>5909221>Miserable.Keep up or burn out. There is no alternative.
>>5909221>Bittersweet. You'll keep cultivating diligently, using your resources reasonably to speed up a bit the process [consume 5 pills over the next month]
>>5909221>Ask your masters if we have solid grounds as a cultivators of or levelDepending on what they say, or how really good our foundations are, I say we either consume the piils to catch up with our friends, or just go the normal route of the bittersweet.Hell, i'm going to add>Ask Ai and Dhudan if they think there's a chance we can keep up with them or if they're willing to help us, and if the answer is not, then make clear that they shouldn't feel bad or anything, it was an accident what made us not keeping up
>>5909311This isn't a question of "what's the sure thing, the cautious thing". This is "Do you want to be the best and will you push yourself to be the best? Or will you give up and accept your own mediocrity"it's character defining.
>>5909221>Miserable. You're not gifted by the Heaven, but being a cultivator is standing tall and proud against the Heaven's lightning. You'll burn all your remaining Qi and Blood pills [10] in an attempt to keep up with the genius
>>5909323Well shit, that's change it then. We're young, maybe it's time for our own hubris to take hold of us and later redeem ourselves. >>5909221changing >>5909311 to >Miserable. You're not gifted by the Heaven, but being a cultivator is standing tall and proud against the Heaven's lightning. You'll burn all your remaining Qi and Blood pills [10] in an attempt to keep up with the genius
>>5909221>Miserable. You're not gifted by the Heaven, but being a cultivator is standing tall and proud against the Heaven's lightning. You'll burn all your remaining Qi and Blood pills [10] in an attempt to keep up with the geniusyeah we don't have the luxury of playing it cautious, the top performers get more resources so we need to top perform, or as close to it as possible
>>5909254>>5909284>>5909311>>5909323>>5909343>>5909345>>5909552>>5909843
Special blogpost timePlayer that knows me from other threads know I'm heavily crunch oriented. On the advice and review of nice people of /qtg (thinking about archivebro and RQM in particular) I decided to keep the crunch, but let most of it contained on my side.This is an attempt to let as few numbers bleed in the thread as possible, while keeping roll prompt for events. Rule of thumb : you roll - there is a chance Protag gets hurt (you were at risk of losing your leg here >>5907470 at 18 or less)For example, the body tempering liquid prompt would have been one more roll on the side. Mostly inconsequential, but could lead to a breakthrough on good roll.Cultivation works with couple of rolls. Advantage means I take the best couple of rolls (not splitting couple to take best dice).So, this happens. Expect fun times.
You have no choice but giving your all. You soon fell in a routine leaving you alone despite the crowd of cultivator around you. Wake up before everybody. Cultivate one hour. Calithenics. Daily duties, done well and quick to cram in another hour of cultivation. Dung shoveling, cultivate, eat, cultivate. On the verge of exhaustion, go sleep a handful hours, and do it all again.You focus on your foundation - Hawk's wide Ballet as well as the Way of the Spiritual Beast Whisperer.Mainly, this is what you feel is lacking, plus there is one more bother : your snake spirit.When you materialize it, it naturally comes in your hand, stiffening while coiling the far end of its tail around your arm. You got the best weapon one could dream of : bonded to your soul, able to subtly move to land a hit or change the angle of attack.The head of the snake is surprisingly sharp, able to bury into wood or straw mannequin way deeper than an animal should. This weapon bound to your soul will probably turns into a great asset in the future. However, one detail irritates you deeply :Although you learned by chance the Vengeful Spear technique, you have no spear cultivation method. Spear and Halberd are fundamentally different, so adapting your Windy Cavalier's Halberd would require a Breakthrough.Plus, you will need a backup weapon - you spent a day without the Horse and the Hawk after your last incursion; quite unfavorable in a battlefield situation. Also, starting a fight with said backup weapon would mean keeping the spear-snake as a trump.You're stressed enough by the whole "falling behind" issues, so you cram this problems under a rug in your mind for the future-you to deal with. Still, it bothers you and you have to actively repress the dread.At first, you find a bit of solace and comfort with Spiritually bonded animals; until on the second day after they materialized back. You realize as they're part of your soul, or destined to be, it's like hugging yourself. You were gazing in the abyss, this realization was a good step forward.However, not all is grim. Your bonded snake spirit presence smooth your cultivation even more - somehow, your Hawk Wide Ballet benefits greatly from the new spirit.You don't take time, nor mental energy, to delve on that particular point. Your aperture is filling at an hysterical pace. Until, after one week...
It is midnight, and your sixth cultivation session of the day. Elders have granted you a full vial of Body Tempering Liquid after two days of you bothering them every couple hours for more, granting you total autonomy on your training.After an especially good physical practice session, where you chained the 18 moves of the Hawk's wide ballet in a 46-combination sequence, your body is brimming with an uncountable at a glance amount of threads. You start circulating them with the Meditation technique.Ten thread in. Twice as much remains. Your heart aperture wildly warm up - the same exhilarating, filling feeling that procure putting a thread in the metaphorical fishbowl, increased tenfold. However, instead of a invigorating warmth, heat keeps rising to an uncomfortable level as the stockpiled energy screams for being released.You keep cramming threads, in a Hawk-Horse-Snake circle optimizing the flow and the output; the most effective way you find to avoid said threads to dissolve.Heats keep up rising, your focus completely erasing the physical world. Your aperture is full. Thread turns completely liquid, volume double, painfully pushing across the glass ceiling of the aperture. You await for sweet release as pressure becomes unbearable.You feel the aperture cracking. Times slow down, until coming to a complete stop.What's happening? Are you getting denied the just reward of your efforts?Four doors materialize in front of you, adorned in carved beasts - Hawks, Horse, Wolf and the familiar Snake one.You can feel in your very soul that this occasion is doubly special - such a moment will grant more reward in the exploration to come.>Chose to push yourself despite the risks to your psyche : you won't get the choice to step back here?So, which door will you push this time?>Wold door>Horse door>Hawk door>Snake door
>>5910005>Wolf.Finish out our quadret.Also may be time, come the next breakthrough, to revisit the idea of Hawks wide Lancing Ballet
>>5910005>Hawk doorBack to basics. This is a heavenly opportunity, we must seize it with as must power as we can muster, and we are the most experienced with the hawk. After all this breakthrough is because of us stringing the hawks ballet together. Plus it’d be really extremely badass to have two quite rare hawk spirits sitting on our shoulders as little 5-6 year old.
>>5910005>Snake doorAdapt spear to halberd techniques. We aren't quite finished with the foundation of our snake cultivation I think.
>>5910005>Hawk doorI would like to get some wolf loot, but since Hawk is our main thing at the moment I think we should use this awesome oportunity for that.
>>5910011+1
>>5910005>Wolf
>>5910005>Hawk door
>>5910005I really want the snek, but woflbros have a point, we should round out the gang
>>5910011>>5910043>>5910104>>5910190>>5910237>>5910259>>5910376>>5910482Looks like a close win for wolfbros.>2 anon roll 1d100. Best of.
Rolled 100 (1d100)>>5910558
>>5910578Epic
You can always roll the second dice.
Rolled 9 (1d100)>>5910626Gotcha. Usually that’s in bad taste so I don’t do it.
>>5910635Wouldn't had changed much in any case - this was not a "favorable best of 2"
>>5910578YOOOOOOOOOOO
>>5910712Btw I didn't vote on this update, but if we really needing a secondary weapon maybe a Dagger could work, and surely the Wolf door could help us with some techniques to master the dagger or more offensive options that could help us out. At the end of the day, we could go full Hoarah Loux and pummel our enemies with our bear hands while the wolf gives us strength
You turn away from the familiar, enticing, snake door. The best call seems to be the wolf plane - despite your envy of having a pair of hawk, roosted one on each shoulder, you decide to round up your spiritual rooster.You push the door.Behind lies a realm of a stary night with a bright full moon. Mountains covered in woodland, with a rock promontory dominating the scenery.You fell toward a wolf-filled clearing."A lost cub? Perfect."Your journey is highjacked. Rerouted toward the promontory. Pressure rise - exceeding far the relatively low influence of Dhundan.You're afraid your mind will collapse, while darkness surround you. Pressure is marginally less crushing. "Rejected by his mother, the cub is wondering about his place in the pack."The voice is guttural, coming from all direction at once. You try to circulate your meditation technique. Dire mistake - the veil rips for a plit second, revealing an assembly of wolf spirit of all shape and colors, each mighty enough to gaze you to death.You quickly stop. The veil shroud them once again. It's better than facing immediate death, but you wish you didn't knew what lurked in the shadows"A bold one? Relentless, and putting the pack above himself? You might grow in a fine guardian under some... guidance."Your mind race wildly. Is this a legendary opportunity, to be a chosen one, the lucky encounter setting a young cultivator on the path of genius?"Are you... proposing to merge with me? Impart me the Primodrial Wolf Hidden Legacy maybe?"If you seriously think this can happen, re-read thread name and first four lines of opening postThe Primordial Wolf laugh at your hubris, and doesn't dignifies you with an answer.
"This son of mine only wants to grow - he can on your side.Be wary, as this is not a gift but a curse : most people that can glance at my scion and perceive its worth will try to rip it from you."The spiritual bead on your pocket is snatched, and put back. You feel the weight of the new burden.You wonder a second if handling it to the sect wouldn't be the safest course of action. Your other pocket is filled."You'll need materials. You'll draw the formation and will conduct the ritual immediately."You're propelled back in the main world, still under shock. Your mind expands, the bind of the immense spiritual pressure disappearing at the instant you left the Spiritual planeYou feel like a suffocating person able to greedily inhale once again. That's when the acupoint bottleneck finish shattering.
Power surge through your body, through your veins. It's been eight month and one week since you joined the sect. Since your fifth anniversary. Today, you officially became a Cultivator.Your head spin; the pressure, self imposed as well as the terrifying encounter, prevents you to appreciate this landmark. The fear of not being worthy enough and fall behind is enhanced by the new secret you'll have to hide.You order the wolf to sit, while you draw the now-familiar circles, and fill them with your pocket's contents : a wolf skull, a bamboo sprout which seems to be naturally ornated with wolf patterns, a obsidienne and quartz Yin-Yang, with both forces represenete as a carved wolf.All those precious relics turns to ash while you complete the binding ritual.Then, you realize : your Heart aperture opened. You're no longer dependent on Body Tempering Liquid, which can now be used as a weak Qi and Blood pill. Good for you, as three servings of Body Tempering Liquid remains in your medicine gourd. You didn't had time to consume all your Qi and Blood pills - you still have five of them, due to your unexpected breakthrough speed.You go to sleep. Your slummer is not restful.You wake up just in time for calisthenics. You're approached by the Snake Mistress."Today you go to town.- What? But tasks! cultivation!- You're training too hard since you stepped in Snake realm. It's not good for you. This is a sect-imposed, mandatory rest day.I can see you broke through. This should make you insufferably happy, which you're not. Take this."She give you a string, tying together a collection of bronze coin, round and with a square-shaped hole in the middle."Your disciple outfit should deter trouble. But I'll understand if you don't want to be on your own.">Ask for someone to come with you for the day [Who?]>You'll be, actually, perfectly fine on your own.
>>5910786>Ask Dhundan to come with us.Lets get him out of the shit shovelling. The others don't really seem like our friends, Ai sorta but that's just her nature.
>>5910794+1
>>5910794He's out of shit-shovelling since he broke through his heart aperture a couple month ago.You're out of it too by the way
>>5910786>Ask for someone to come with you for the day [Kyo Kyo, Dhudan, and Ai]Ask all of them, why not? Safety is in numbers and we’ve just gotten a nat 100 wolf that people are going to try to rip away from us.
Also, >feel free to write what you'd want to do in town.
>>5910807Still, I'll keep at it.He's basically the only friend we've really got and even then he's not. . . much for the company.>>5910809the option does say "someONE". But also. . you know, maybe Kyo Kyo. That could be alright? Not sure about the grounds of that relationship, given she doesn't see us as much.
>>5910786>Ask Ai to come with, see how she's doingWe've already hung out with Dhundan a bunch, let's give the other genius a chanceAlso we definitely don't want to go alone, wolf spirit just warned us people will want to steal our shinyThough if even snake mistress didn't see it or comment maybe we're safe for a while
>>5910786>With Ai and Dhudan >Explore the town, buy snacks for Dhudan and Ai while insisting they call you “senior brother” for treating them. Just relax and have fun
>>5910786>Ask Dhundan>She can't make us take a break. Practice calisthenics and aerobic exercise on the way to buy some paper and fluid for practicing calligraphy.
>>5910786>With Ai and Dhudan
>>5910578>>5910774Absolutely based.
>>5910786>>5910891 +1
by the way QM, sorry if this is a little off topic, may I ask which is the manhua from the images that you had been using? like >>5910786I want to start reading cultivation stuff but I dont know what.
>>5911293Of course. However, I base a lot my cultivation system upon these so you'll get some OOC knowledge of lore I'll ask to keep or yourself.Manga's called "Cultivation Chat Group". A normal 2019 boy happen to join a discord server of cultivator masters. Hinjink ensue. Best cultivation story I read so far.
>>5911302Understood sir! thank you!
>>5911302Huh I actually know that one, didn't quite get it into last time I read it buut maybe I should re-add it to my reading list
The dreaded personal life is back.No update today; not sure about tomorrow.
>>5911349np QM, good luck with your shit
>>5911349Thanks for the heads up!
>>5911349Hang in there.
Alright I survived. Will try to write tonight.
In the end, you ask Ai, Dhundan and Kyo Ko to come to town with you. Kyo Ko seems quite happy, Ai take that as a statement, and Dhundan seems a bit scared, then calms down in the idea of the incoming good time. The four of you gets walking south-east from the sect compound to Stable Lotus Harbor. Ai start her hops, quite quickly the two of you in the dust. Two of you? Where is Kyo Ko?"So... Both of her have movement techniques?- Maybe I have too. I just don't want to reveal it."Ox shit. You summon the Martial Silver Horse."Shut up and climb.- I don't need your help. I can keep up."Two hundred meters later, you've got enough proof he lied. "Stop acting so prideful and climb.- So you're helping me conceal my techniques once again?"That's the closest you'll get to formal thanks from this bad friend of yours. Girls are waiting you near the city gates. The guards, young adults of the Military Youth, gauge you."So this is the one that beat up Ster Ling?- Maybe we should avenge him?- You two really want to spark a feud between our sect? Your sergent assigned you to guard duty, and you dare court death?"They mumble, but let you in.First thing first, snacks. You aim toward sweets, settling on sugar-glazed fruit skewer "Wasn't that risky, with those guards?- No, they're trash. Working on their Dragon Tail and Dragon Claw dantian with 6 years more than me? "You're unable to tell. First, you are unable to gauge a cultivator's level yet. Second, you don't know about the minor realms of the first stage - so those of the second are arcane knowledge in your eyes."Young mistress, you're harsh. Yourself is the oddity - it is sayed that cultivator breaking through the second stage before 10 have a limitless future! You are the gifted ones, be gentle to us normal folks!"Kyo Ko have the decency to excuse to the old man. In this world, everybody is a cultivator. Your circumstances are good - a disciple seen as promising of a well-established sect. On your own, would you have filled your Heart Aperture before 10? Slow cultivators are doomed never crossing the second realm. Most people, if focusing most efforts and ressources on their cultivation, can hope to reach the third stage after 60 to 70 years. It is known.
"Alright everyone, snacks. But you'll have to call me 'senior brother'"Ai accept without raising any question. Dhundan refuses, antagonize you, asking for the honorific as the winner of the tournament. You kindly yells back that he never won against you and he's still owing you a fight, which he denies while cranking up the menacing aura.The pressure is minimal in regard of the Primordial Wolf Spirit, so you call him a practitionner of the Pitiful Wet Chicken, winning you the trash-talking bout. Kyo Ko scoffs, and asks you to call her "benevolent senior sister Kyo Ko".That stops you in your tracks and makes you think. How are you feeling toward her? Truth is, she's strong, a bit mysterious, and a solid support. She's also quite pretty, but this also is normal for cultivator : the body is refined, making practitionner of the secret art uncannily aesthetically pleasant if they wish so.Other choose a dreadful, mighty, or wise appearance; each got its charm. You feel a tad confused. >You lack some stade of development called Puberty to investigate more this specific "feeling" matter and get prompted options. Also applicable to Ai."Alright, benevolent senior sister Kyo Kyo".That barb strike true. The cute nickname completely breaks the respect induce by the extremely formal title. And she finds it cute. Complete victory.Now, what's next? There's a nagging thought that you do something to help your cultivation right now. But what?>Soldiers rubbed you the wrong way. Pick a street fight with Military Youth of your level.>Maybe there's a library? Can you find something nice?>You'd like to see what would be on the stalls of a Cultivator Market>Write-in
>>5913311>You'd like to see what would be on the stalls of a Cultivator MarketIn classic cultivator style, if we need something we can't afford we just steal it
>>5913311>Go and inspect the stalls. If all else fails, we can just beat up somebody else and take their shit.
>>5913311>Maybe there's a library? Can you find something nice?
>>5913311>You'd like to see what would be on the stalls of a Cultivator Market
>>5913311>You'd like to see what would be on the stalls of a Cultivator Market>>5913366Easy tiger. We are not yet truly strong, and our valuable wolf spirit makes us a target for theft as well, if we attract too much attention.
>>5913349Support
>>5913311>>Maybe there's a library? Can you find something nice?
>>5913311>Write-inTour the city
>>5913349>>5913366>>5913390>>5913405>>5913413>Intermediary tally status
>>5913311>Maybe there's a library? Can you find something nice? Not sure if our kid is the book learnin' type or not. Seeing as he's 5 I'd guess not yet. So we'd probably be looking for something to help us learn to read or a pictographic breathing technique scroll or something.
>>5914053This vote perfectly ties the situation.Still, I can work with that.
>>5913311>>Maybe there's a library? Can you find something nice?Least chance of Wolf Spirit stealers jumping out of the bushes at us.
>>5913349>>5913366>>5913390>>5913403>>5913405>>5913413>>5913504>>5913536>>5913645>>5914053>>5914165You want to check the cultivator's market. All of you head south, toward the Stable Lotus compound - a town in the town, like your own sect's compound. Except bigger, with towers and building shaped like closed lotus flower, countless canals filled to the brim with Lotus flower.You also think you might have seen a Spiritual beast or two, catching a glimpse at a snake delving among them. You wonder if Lienwen Yaner is training right now.You unglue your eyes from the city lord's compound. On the same city square, the headquarter of the town's Military, a couple shops - the most expensive doctor, inn, potter, caligraph and tailor of town - as well as a covered market. The cultivator's market.Your group step inside, under the treasure-chest-on-a-boat sign. Adult are zooming around dragging carts of valuable materials, in the counter-alleys letting cultivators wearing the familiar outfits of Stable Lotus Harbor various sects.You go from stall to stall. Metals imbued with elemental energy. Blood vial charged with energy of their potent lines. Spirit grass. Lightning in bottles. Even an impossible stands selling flames embued with other element, such as the water-flame hybrid burning in a jar of seawater. But the first thing really drawing your eye is a stall selling various Cultivation Resources : Qi and Blood pills and Body Tempering Liquid, that you already know of. Some other pills are said to help break other apertures open, improving eyesight, smell, and audition.Some other pills, out of your budget, are said to increase temporally affinity toward some elements : useful for exploiting to the best some special opportunity if you have such a pill on hand at a critical time.You're the only one even remotely interested in those. Kyo Ko deem them "too weak for me, or too situational for the price" . Ai "doesn't like the taste" of Body Tempering Liquid and Qi and Blood pills.Dhundan think buying some is a "crutch mediocre cultivators use to delude themselves into believing in their potential."You point out he's a faggot (no clue why firewood-allegation is an insult) as pills were useful for you and your training. He say you're not the same as "you're strong, thus its rightful when you do it".There's a nagging feeling something is off with this reasoning, but in the end you kinda agree : might is right.Another stall seems filled with product your sect provides.A repellent of spiritual beasts, making long travel safer - "Those are useless - we have techniques for that". Spiritual beads are damn expensive - way out of your current budget. You are glad to still have a spare one in pristine condition - the one holding the wolf spirit broke, maybe because of the repeated usage from Horse to Snake to Wolf?
You're a bit curious toward weapons and armors. The shopkeep humors you, making a great point on how wasteful it might be to buy a spiritual weapon that won't fit you one year later. Then, a medicine seller. Antidotes of countless poisons you never heard of, remedies of cultivator-specific affliction, energies complement to realign levels in case of imbalance, and several Medicinal Pills.Physical Medicinal pills allow to recover from wounds from minor to serious. It won't regrow a cut limb or torn organ by itself.Spiritual Medicinal pills could help you recover a dispelled bonded Spiritual beast almost instantly.Mental Medicinal pills must certainly have an use too. You're not sure what could deplete your mental energy though.Last, a stall of produce. You wonder why they are in the cultivator's market, until the shopkeep tells you about how Prolific Valley, a close town, grow renowned Spiritual Fruits, delicacy brimming with energy helping with cultivation like pills could, alleviating the shortfalls of abusing of said pills.You don't delve much more in the market, and leave toward the library.The building, quite old, present a recent extension. You step in, and an old man smiles while greating your group in."Welcome young masters and mistresses. Oh, winner and third of this year's tournament? It seems genius are blessing Old Jiang today.- What do you have for cultivators?- Surprisingly, treaties roughly at the price of the papers they're written on. A recent development - all sects of the town gave away a few of their techniques for the library! Never heard of that before, here or in Prolific Valley City and Stiff Cliff Fort."You look at the various treaties. You still can't read - yeah, that might cause problems.Of course, the only relevant technique your sect gifted the library is the Hawk's wide Ballet, the Military Youth gifted a sword treaty of all things, and other techniques are at least second stage. Useless to you.However, something catch your eye. It is on the regular section. Something maybe expected to appeal to a young child.An old, doggy-eared tale book, green and brown like your robes."What's this, old Jiang?- A good choice, dare I say. The true story of Gar Ruk the Druid, Realm Wanderer. Don't let the name fool you - it's children tales. But good ones."It's within reach of your funds.In the end you spend the remaining coins on...>Spiritual fruits from Prolific Valley City, to eat and share with the group.>Resource : [write in what]>Medicine [Physical, Spiritual, Mental?]>The book "The true story of Gar Ruk the Druid, Realm Wanderer">Better save those coins for now
>>5914392>>Spiritual fruits from Prolific Valley City, to eat and share with the group.
>>5914392>Spiritual fruits from Prolific Valley City, to eat and share with the group.Inb4 Dhundan calls us a fruit
>>5914392>Spirit fruitsI just want to be happy with our friends, before the bad thoughts come in again.By convention, the "true story" is the much better buy
>>5914392>>Spiritual fruits from Prolific Valley City, to eat and share with the group.Kids like fruit.
>>5914392>The book "The true story of Gar Ruk the Druid, Realm Wanderer">>5914412>>5914445>>5914526>>5914686>don't have the bone structure and chi flow of a kung fu prodigy
>>5914392>>The book "The true story of Gar Ruk the Druid, Realm Wanderer"
>>5914392>Resource: Some paper and houndsgall to practice our writing. Hawk feathers don't make the best pens, but I think that there were geese around. That Gar Ruk guy sounds like he might inspire us to travel to the spirit realms, but I don't know. He's got a yangy rep.
>>5914412>>5914445>>5914526>>5914686>>5914737>>5914865>>5914944
No point buying a book you can't read. Better spend the remaining coins in more fruits. You thank the bookstore owner, and move back to the cultivator's market. With the end of the day, activity is winding down. You find the Prolific Valley stall while the merchant are starting to tidy up. "Mister seller, do you have fruits for first stage cultivators? How much?"They answer. You won't be able to buy enough for the fourth of you... Not with that attitude, at least."What if I told you they would be to eat here and now? I'm sure some of them are ripe, to the point they won't be good tomorrow? I'll buy them for this much!"Either the merchant is sensible to your point or the cuteness of your group, but you get a small discount.The fruits are sliced, mixed with honey, spices and placed under several spiritual flames - one that look like it burns... cold?, and given to you in cups.You all indulge in the delicacy. It's sweet, fresh, hot. Light cream counterbalance the deep flavor of the spiritual fruit, flavor of regular fruits enriched with spiritual energy.It's delicious, and filling. The four of you shut up and appreciate, even Kyo Ko which level is high enough so that the treat should be almost effect-less on her. "So Dhundan, not calling me a melon-licker or anything?- Yeah, you're merely a melon-licker! I'm a melon-biter, kneel!- That sound painful, don't let your melons get biten Ai."Ai doesn't says anything, busy picking the remaining cream with her fingers and licking them clean. You're not sure of what she means, but stare at the young girl nevertheless."What? Oh, thank you for treating me again, Senior Brother!"
With all said and done, you ride back to the sect.In the end, this day out helped you feel better. You feel validated by the other geniuses of the sect, despite knowing in the depth of your soul you're not their equal.The next day, you wake up and do calisthenics. Then, you're ordered to go with the other disciples working on opening their Eye aperture.The younger of the group are Dhundan, Ai and you. Other kids are six to eleven - granting you some resentful gaze as yet another gifted kid coming from below to steal opportunities and sect focus from them.The Snake Mistress takes you on the side. She nods approvingly upon seeing you."You are in better shape today kid. Never forget : taking time to sharpen the axe doesn't make the tree-falling longer.- Thank you. For that, and yesterday...- Good kids like you deserved to be spoiled from time to time. Now, back on work : next step for you is opening the Eye Aperture. You don't need Body Tempering Liquid anymore to coalesce your Qi and Blood in thread. Move, and start your cultivation. Your eye aperture is hourglass-shaped, hidden behind your eyeballs. Work diligently.One important thing : take care of spiritual realm. You got away with entering them because of your low-level, but you're a cultivator now. Entering a spiritual realm will let the beasts inside know a tasty snack just entered, and you will be submitted to greater danger.The spiritual beast you merged with are bounded by your own level in addition to their limits; don't do anything stupid now you're aware alright?"Over the course of the next month...>You focus your cultivation on your foundational basics - Hawk's wide ballet and Spiritual Meditation, acting extremely careful.>You work on something specific : [write-in what]There's also the matter of spare resources :>Better use them here and now. The clock is still ticking.>It's okay to keep them in reserve for now.
>>5915569>You focus your cultivation on your foundational basics - Hawk's wide ballet and Spiritual Meditation, acting extremely careful.>It's okay to keep them in reserve for now.
>>5915569>You focus your cultivation on your foundational basics- Hawk, Horse, Snake, Wolf>Better use them here and now. The clock is still ticking.
>>5915569>Focus on basics.>Use em now.
>>5915569>You work on something specific : [write-in what]Attunement with the snake spirit, since we're currently tight with the snake mistress>Better use them here and now. The clock is still ticking.
>>5915569>You focus your cultivation on your foundational basics - Hawk's wide ballet and Spiritual Meditation, acting extremely careful.>It's okay to keep them in reserve for now.Let's get our footing in this next realm before trying to run.
>>5915569>>You focus your cultivation on your foundational basics - Hawk's wide ballet and Spiritual Meditation, acting extremely careful.>>It's okay to keep them in reserve for now.Let's not pull our spirit hamstring... or something.
>>5915569>You work on something specific: try to figure out how to use our high mental energy/resistance>It's okay to keep them in reserve for now.
>>5915573>>5915579>>5915596>>5915611>>5915619>>5915640>>5915734>>5916331Tally status.Vote still open until it isn't.
After this nice vacation day, you get back to diligent practice, not putting yourself under much pressure : the sect's allocated amount of training is, you found out while talking to Ping Jun, already generous.The most groundbreaking change is the lack of need of Body Tempering Liquid. With each of your heartbeat, your blood flow through your now open heart aperture. Martial practice or body tempering techniques rise the Qi present in your blood, Qi-enhanced blood then flow through the energy nexus of the opened Heart Aperture, spinning itself into threads.The rest of the process is the same as the one that lead you to open your Heart aperture : spiritual beasts grasp the threads in the Astral world, and pull them on the aperture's opening.Slowing down on the crunch, associated with your previous luck, seems to pay dividends : your Eye aperture is slowly filling up, thread by thread.You steadily progress, even catching up with the two genius. First, Ai, held back by her lack of bounded spirit. Then, you catch up with Dhundan; not the "sitting idly meditating diligently" kind, despite his impressive physical prowess.That feels great. Until Ryota comes back to talk to everybody :"It's time to leave for the Main Sect Tournament."You're quite surprise not being warned previously, while the Hawk Master indicate with an head motion you have to leave with the other chosen disciples.You're flabbergasted. Why haven't you been warned of that earlier?"Oh, we did tell that the day I sent you into town. I personally warned the kids that went with you once you came back.We didn't told you because you would have pushed yourself too much." Is your face as easy to read as an open book? Sneaky Snake Mistress! If you had known, you would have burn through your whole reserve of pills while also training your mounted fighting technique and...Yeah, you kinda see her point."I see you're understanding. This is one of the boon of cultivators : they tend to be smart. Is smarts necessary for cultivation, thus creating a selection bias? Does fool deviate more easily in their practice? Or are strong people enable to exact their vision? Or maybe, as the body is tempered, the mind follows, letting gifted people ahead in their cultivation overtake in more ways the slower disciples.This mistress can't answer."
Carts are readied - several master are coupling them to numerous beasts of higher-level disciples. You are grouped by age : disciple of 5, 6, 7, 8-10, 11-14, 15-20 for the younger; older are grouped by cultivation level.You are grouped with Dhundan, Yi Norm, Sin Din and Man Din. The later three are still working on their Heart Aperture.And soon, the Flame Boar couple leading your cart runs, until their fire-laced steps... doesn't step on the road any more. Stepping on thin air, your cart follows the previous ones, in a long line.Under you, the sect's compound becomes smaller, smaller and smaller.You feel...>Anguished. The rumbling of the cart means you're one swerve away from plummeting way too fast and way too long to your promised doom>Blasé. This is a world of Jade and Gold, of Phoenix and Dragons, of Pills and Talismans, of Martial and Spiritual arts. What is a flying cart travel surprise among that?>Thrilled. Feeling the rush of wind in your hair and the sheer speed of movement feels exhilarating ...A few moment later, you decide to ask for more information."So, where are we going? what are we looking for?- The main sect is in another town, not quite here - we have two weeks of travel despite our speed- And the tournament?- Team fight based. Touch for taking out, like in Stable Lotus Harbor one. One more thing : there is a matter of teams and captains. It will start with a brawl, then round-robin individual fights. Captain's taken, all the team out.Speaking of, everybody, we agree I'm the captain?">Agree. He's the strongest.>Disagree. He's not the best strategist. You are, and you being the captain is better because [write-in]It's been nine month since you joined the Eastern Province branch of Tamers of Hundred Beasts.
>>5916967>thrilled. We are a lad.>Agree that he should be team captain, but they should follow our callouts.I went back and forth on this. But Dhundan has a much higher level of durability than we do, and thats important, because a captain loss is a total loss.We have a movement technique, which I thought might be worth something, but some of the other teams might have some as well.Overall my argument is that we have a better head on our shoulders than Dhundan, but he is the safer pick for captain. We can collaborate.
>>5916967>Thrilled. Feeling the rush of wind in your hair and the sheer speed of movement feels exhilarating >Agree. He's the strongest.
>>5916967>Thrilled. Feeling the rush of wind in your hair and the sheer speed of movement feels exhilarating >Disagree. He's not the best strategist. You are, and you being the captain is better because>>He's going to be the main fighter, and the tank as the strongest one among us. It doesn't make sense for him to be captain when he's going to do the bulk of the fighting, a captain needs to stand back, and lead the others. And- no offense Dhudan, you aren't exactly the leading type with your personality. Also wink and say we have an ace up our sleeve should things get hairy.Dhudan really should not be captain despite being the strongest. We barely got him to stop being completely anti-social, and I don't see him as an "intelligent" type, both things that are needed to be a decent leader. Collaboration can only do so much when dealing with a stubborn 6 year old.
>>5916967>Thrilled. Feeling the rush of wind in your hair and the sheer speed of movement feels exhilaratingwith an undercurrent of anguished though, heights are scary>Agree. NOT because he's the strongest, but because he's tankier.I'd argue if not for the team goes down with the captain rule. We're more offensively oriented while he has the pangolin dark shield technique, so he's better suited to survival.We should be on par if not stronger than him right now though, especially since he's apparently not even using items. He may be a genius but he's not a one in a quadrillion ultimate prophesied one. >>5917037has the right idea>>5917097Agree with your reasoning but there's many opportunities to properly socialize Dhu but only one main sect tournament. Not the right time, we need the best results we can get here.
>>5916967>Thrilled. Feeling the rush of wind in your hair and the sheer speed of movement feels exhilarating>Agree. He's the strongest.
>>5917037>We have a movement techniqueNot really, but you have a mount, which is similar.>Higher level of durabilityYou have around half of the optimal reasoning. However, here's one more information that your character knows : the Defensive technique of Dhundan seems to be a Frontal shield.
>>5917737A mount is a movement technique when he doesn't have either.Well he can also manifest qi a lot better than we can. Before heart apature, in fact, so that shield [in spite of only guarding the front] is bound to be much stronger than before.
>>5917932Ah. Strengh doesnt matter, as it is first touch and out.
>>5916967>Blasé. This is a world of Jade and Gold, of Phoenix and Dragons, of Pills and Talismans, of Martial and Spiritual arts. What is a flying cart travel surprise among that?>Agree and also mention that we should try to cover the blind spots of Dhundan's Qi shield, his back.
>>5916967>Thrilled>AgreeDhundan isn't AS smart as us, but he's not super dumb, I don't think. And he's a good figurehead and face; a vizier works best when he advises a leader, not when he leads.
>>5917037>>5917058>>5917097>>5917102>>5917677>>5917957>>5918128"I disagree. You're not the stronger for sure."He becomes all red, but before he chokes, you add :"But you're the most durable for sure. And with the captain out, all the team gets taken.Just, listen to us. We'll cover your dead angles, so follow our callouts.- Yeah, yeah."You don't let this "enter one ear, get out of the other" reaction deter you. After all, it's not everyday you can fly.You're thrilled, and overall having an amazing time. What's best, novelty doesn't wear of over the course of the few following days.You can't see the sea anymore (how BIG is the sea, to start with? You'll have to investigate the matter), and the green plains with rolling hills gave way to a few mountains, then abrupt slopes covered in forest.Time flies - it's already been three days, where you diligently cultivated (although hiding it a bit), while your companions seems bored out of their mind. The caravan took a detour to avoid the highest peak, but you're amazed : tree leaves look like a green sea from above.Forget the scary water : you want to walk and roam in this woods. You gaze so much down you almost fell after the cart entered turmoil, but you came back gazing down quite soon.There seems to be some kind of calling for this environment. That's not so hard to rationalize - you just have to think about your bonded animals.Hey, maybe that's why this "Dream Wanderer" book seemed nice to you?
Before you can delve more on this feeling..."Sky Shark! At least True Monarch level! "True Monarch? That's like the... 6th realm? Are all of you doomed?"Allright everyone with ranged spiritual arts, shoot!"The empowered voice of Ryota reached all carts. Of course, you first year cultivator are useless, as well as all first stage cultivators.However, a good number of cultivator have already reached second stage, True Master. The master themselves are at least at the peak of third stage, Battle King.Countless explosion, as well as a few flying Spiritual Beasts, are sent to attack the threat.Of course, individually each could be ignored, sweeped by a backfin of the dominating monster. But such a barrage from so many cultivator can, and is, hurting the beast.Yourself, you could help with the Hawk.>Take part of the Caravan defense. Drops of water turns into mighty rivers>Stand back - you're a weakling in regard to any second stage cultivator, that is unnecessary risk.