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I don't know. I mean Cao'er and Yifang have known each other as sisters for all of what, a couple weeks? Plus, while Cao'er seems okay with sharing I'm sure she'd be more than happy to move up the ranks or even be Jing's one and only love. Then when you add in the crazy stalker factor, I'm sure she'd find a way to justify almost anything Jing does as acceptable. Look no further than the Codex's own Roguey and Josh Sawyer.

 

This actually isn't a problem. It's not like an observer could link Man Tiger Pig throwing a cap at an Emei nun and suddenly conclude that we're Zhang Jue's apprentice.

Sure, but she nevertheless decided to stay close to her family for the next three months, a family she never knew she had. You could be right about Cao'er, as I'm just speculating here and I can't really say I'm certain that she'll be upset at us. This is probably one of the weaker parts of my argument, I'll grant you that.

However, a much stronger argument is Yifang's motivation in the tournament itself:

Yifang has only decided to compete in the tournament because of us, so that she can "understand us". At first I dismissed it as a teenage girl crushing on a charming bad-boy type like Jing so that she can change him, but now I'm convinced there's more to it. Her demeanor right now is stoic and serious, which is way different than how she usually is. I don't think that our usual trolling bullshit that worked so well against Nie Mudan - and which I wholeheartedly supported - are going to work in this case. She came here specifically so that she could fight Jing, and I think that any attempts to throw her off her game aren't going to work in this case, because she's not here for the tournament, she's here for us. And in this case, trolling will only embolden her to learn about the real Jing.

I think the clean option in this case is actually the smarter option that's better for victory. Not everyone can be trolled, and I think that Yifang is a lot more resilient than we've been giving her credit for. If it were Bai Jiutian, troll away, but I'm not sure that'll work here.

 

It's hard to argue one way or the other when I have absolutely no idea what we'd use the cap for, so I'm going to abstain.

 

There're a few things you can do to weaken her resolve with it. For example, you could apologize for stealing it, repent and return it to her.

 

The question is though, and I think it's a fair one, what are we going to do with it? I'm sure Jing isn't enough of a dickhead to pick on a girl like Yifang, plus she's kind of our sis, but what are we going, or at least planning, to do with it?

The words "Jing" and "sane" don't belong in the same paragraph.

 

Well, sure we could do that... we've also seen suggestions from certain people to use it as a covering along the line's of Yao's Protective Sheath and engage in stripping, so...

Ah, forget about it. We're almost certainly cursing ourself by straying too far on the side of the r00fles, but I just want to see what happens. I've already gotten that stat boost, I'm satisfied.

A

 

Well that's a bit too much. There's no need to go that far.

Probably you guys might want to consider if it might possibly be wiser to let Yifang fight Nameless instead while you see if you can poke around behind the scenes a bit. But of course if you leave it up to the character, he's in it to win it at this point, and there's also other information to be obtained from a match with the Persian fighter.

 

Hey, I got it. We're going to give her the cap back, apologize and that will set her off balance a bit, not because of shit talk, but because we're in the middle of a fight and from what she's seen, we're not the "polite fighter" type. The fuck's going on?
Next thing you know, Cao'er is reading too much into it and Yifang is suddenly dead. Oh God, A will kill her!

I guess I'm just wondering how antagonistic Jing is feeling towards her right now and how mean spirited A will be, "Nie Mudan" levels of embarrassment, or something softer?

Also, I propose each vote now have a kingcomrade "Let Jing decide what to do" option, for when we trust him to take care of shit. The results will be hilarious.

 

Say what you want about Cao'er, but at the moment she would give up her mind, body and soul to become useful to Jing. Refuse to heal him up? Are we even looking at the same character? Jing is pretty much the only person in the world, besides Yao, she truly cares about. It is partly where her stalker tendencies are coming from - she is bad at communicating with people, so she poured all of her affections on you.

You also never took care to clear up the misunderstanding you created two years ago. At this point, Cao'er accepts you as a womanizer, and thinks that you like pervy stuff, so she would expect nothing less from you. In fact, she seem to think that the more kinky she herself gets, the more you'll like her. If you want for the date rapes to stop, you might need to have a long talk with her, and not of a didactic kind.

Besides, I am rather curious what you think we would be doing right now. I doubt that whatever that is we are going to do would even qualify as a mean prank, much less the pinnacle of deprivation that you seem to paint it as.

Why would he even be antagonistic? Yifang is just someone who he likes to tease, not someone he'd like to see suffer.

 

Just wondering how far he is willing to go with that teasing thing, but I was over thinking it.
On an unrelated note, treave, from what Jing learned of Zhang in the eighteen months he's been on the island, what are his views on personal bonds? For instance, if he finds out that we have friends or someone we love very dearly, what would be his expected reaction? "IDGAF so long as you give me results and be the best you can be" or "personal attachments are a weakness, there is no love, there is peace passion." Now obviously, he's not a social butterfly, despite my haunting suspicions that the woman-in-black is his psycho ex, yet he obviously has cordial relations with a some people, like Lady Ji.

 

Speaking of Lady Ji, I'd really like us to go back to the manor someday and take advantage of its resources. We never really got the chance before.

 

This is the fun part of being with Zhang - you'll never know his reaction to something until you try it.
What, you want to introduce your friends to him to find out?

 

He'll find out one way or anther through the stories people spread and our personal legend. No one is safe from the Terminator.

 

Zhang has two moods: Amused and Not Amused. We want our friends to keep him Amused, or he will find a way to amuse himself if he's not amused.

Some comments:

1. Forfeitting here is a ship that already has departed, folks. We showed too much stuff in the fight with Guo and I think its actually better if we go all the way, win, get that manual and start the challenge.

2. For those worried about being telegraphed, we have possibilities of getting aces in the hole:
- Non-used moves.
- Beggar Master teaching us some more stuff if we win for him
- Shaolin manual if we win.
- We can go to the Manor and see if we can study some techniques there
- Whatever we learn during the tournament and after it (Yuhua Hall?)
- Mix-and-matches of different styles and attacks we learned.
My idea is to essentially use and tap into our learning to build a pretty diverse and heterodox set of techniques. Having us use a weird mix of Maniac's, Beggar, Shaolin, Tujue and self-taught styles will really thrown our oponents off-guard in countering us. Combine it with our neigong and Jing can pull some pretty cool shit soon. We will also have to fight through less people if we win the tournament, which means they will have less time to watch our techniques while we fight with their lesser students.

3. Switching to B. I don't think Yifang will be trolled here today anymore.

Same here. it will give us a edge over our oponents.

 

I'm just saying it'll make it easier. Also, ffs, Yifang would rat us out to a grown up if the bloke appeared trusting and in authority-like. We'd just make it easier to connect Yifang to us, with a stunt like this, which can indicate past acquaintance, to the paranoid observant.

 

The Abbess seems to strongly suspect otherwise. I'll trust her authority on that - she has been raising the girl for quite a while now.

Anf tell them what, exactly?

I am thinking along the lines that if it was enogh for Zhang to be considered a part of Yifang, it would be for her, too. Work it from that angle. Yes, I am an old perverted fetishist like that.

 

Well, even if we won and declared we are the Maniac's apprentice, they still wouldn't know we are going after each and every one of them personally. Not if we don't declare it now. If we then show up at their doorstep later and challenge them, they would still have to accept the challenge because of what we have shown here. It might give some extra edge for the first few opponents. Declaring our challenge here and now would force them all on a defensive, trying to work out a counter to us immediately, and those sects that are already pissed at us might even start cooperating with this goal in mind.

 

See guys? We should totally have picked Yuhe finger way back then.

OK, alright. I am over it. This was just too good to let slip.

 

Doesn't matter. We would have lost it anyway when we joined the Manor.

 

There are more factors to this to consider than just the challenge value (although that, too, can really help us fuck with our opponents, especially Jiutian: with the man's preening and peacocking, having the disciple of the most unorthodox person in China outstrip him at his own game and publically call him out, then proceed to talk shit about him at every corner will really set him off), for instance:

Look, with the way the crowd adores us right now, declaring ourselves Zhang's disciple and getting that claim backed by the Frathouse Bros (and Miecao) will pretty much bulletproof the both of us from any mud-slinging attempts by the WiB for a long time to come. And it may also make them come after us, making our job that much easier.
Also, since we were wearing our mask here all the time and did not bother unmasking ourself, our claims may be questioned at the monasteries regardless. The Masters we made contact with may very well oblige us, for the lulz if nothing else, but the others, eh, not so much. Meaning we still may put our shit up for display, where they'll start bisecting it and telling their best students how to best defeat us.

That, and at this point, we're just getting a whole shitton of positive rep and attention just by declaring ourself. The move just makes sense.

 

I wasn't talking about not declaring ourselves here. By all means, if we win we should take of the mask (or even take it of before the final fight if it is impairing our perception - every little bit could count there) and declare that we are the Maniac's apprentice. That way we get the credit and recognition. What I was talking was not issuing the challenge here in front of everyone, but to do it one sect at the time.

 

"No battle plan survives contact with the enemy."? More like: "No battle plan survives contact with the ego." It's not like we didn't have a choice, bro.

I'm fine with the way it turned out - like treave said, our enemies probably missed most of our moves. It's just that there was no reguard to previous decisions when making this one. It was just, "I wanna see Jing go all out." and "Jing wouldn't want to win like that!" (*cough* Then why not quit seeing as how many of us had agreed before that winning wasn't paramount? *cough*)

Thing is, in these LPs we always start out with a plan, but I have a feeling that, for some, that plan is nothing more than an expression of the character they feel like playing today because they think it will be cool. Then the next day they want to LARP someone else and the plan falls by the wayside without a second thought. My gripe is that I think that this poor outlook will lead to painful consequences in the future. (E.g., Balls. Chopped. Off. ) Anyway, I don't have too much of a problem with LARPing in general, just try and do it consistently and in a way that makes sense for the character, bros.

Ah, screw it. Play how you want, just expect me to bitch about it.

Nun Trolling +1

 

My bad, I misunderstood that. Originally, I wanted to call them all out to our preffered spot and beat the tar out of all of them at once, Alien vs Predator style, with them as the Marines, but I changed my mind about that because, through our own schoices and the way the matches were set up, we didn't actually learn a whole lot about the Eight Sects' styles to pull that off.

Still, I say we must call out Jiutian at the least, and then start talking shit about him as per Esquilax's plan. The new champ is coming for the old champ, get your tickets now (we should probably encourage some sort of massive betting pool).

 

I know. That's the main reason I'm good and well over it. It does, however, underline just how useful a qi-disrupting technique would help us.
If we could go seek out Cao'er and see if she'll teach it to us, I'd really appreciate that. If not, maybe Yao would be so inclined?

 

Heh, I'm not sure if injecting our opponents with raw warpstuff is the brightest of ideas, even if it will be very effective and entertaining to watch.