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Well no, that's why I tried to pick useful stuff, mostly focusing around the wodao and our legendary sword, along with making sure we finally get the artistic skill we should have gotten forever ago, and some bonding time with Qilin as well as ensuring a steady supply of silk.

 

I'm going to put together a tentative package, not voting just yet. Going to include more techniques than necessary, and then cut down later.

5. Intensive basic thrown weapons training. (Thrown Weapons +4, 1 month)
We could use more range, and it's just one month. Bonus points for being usable with silk.

6. Practice art with Zhang Jue. (Artistic Skill +2, 2 months)
I think this is a crucial investment for learning more techniques in the future; we've run into a ton of poetry-based manuals so far. Besides, what could be more romantic than spending evenings alone with Zhang Jue, composing love poems to each other?

8. ‘Practice’ sleight-of-hand with Qilin... (Sleight-of-Hand +1, 1 month)
This will help with feinting and spider silk and shit. Also we get to spend time with Qilin. Again, it's only a 1 month investment.

15. Learn the rare Minamoto-style Kenjutsu focusing on quick draws and flowing attacks from Yorimitsu. (+1 Sword, 3 months)
Emphasis on this being a rare technique. Nobody except us and Zhang Jue will have experience with this kind of technique, and I think it'll give us an edge on our sword-wielding opponents.

16. Learn the Fanfeng Feixue Sword technique devised to counter Huashan. (+1 Sword, 3 months)
We're going to need to deal with Huehueshan sooner or later, nuff said. Also the technique name is fucking badass.

22. Further improve your mastery of Reikan by training with Yoriwaka. (+1 Reikan PER, 1 month)
We need the Reikan PER, being half-blind. Non-negotiable.

25. Undergo strenuous neigong training to unlock your potential (Neigong +2, 6 months, Yuanshi Hundun now gives +2 to STR, AGI and END)
Having a strong neigong is the foundation by which one conquers the jianghu. This is also non-negotiable.

27. Focus on qinggong practice by running around the island with the tigers, naked. (Qinggong +2, 6 months, Kuanglang Step now gives +2 to agility and increased ability to shrug off grabs)
This would synergize very well with our kicking technique, I think.

29. Intensive perception training. (+1 PER, 5 months)
We're half-blind. So.

34. Pray to the gods for better luck. (???)
If it succeeds, great. If it fails, the results should be hilarious. YOLOTIGER GO

(More than two years in total, but I'll be cutting down later.)

---Techniques I'm considering---
I have questions about the following techniques that I'd like treave to answer, if possible.

23. Learn Wudu Fushun: animal handling and rearing from Qilin. (2 months)
Will this let us put a snake or spider or scorpion in our eye socket?

26. Learn how to absorb qi from other people at a faster rate by ‘practicing’ with Qilin and Cao’er. (3 months)
I wonder if this also includes learning how to absorb and integrate qi in a safer way, since this kind of technique tends to lead to serious side-effects if we're too greedy with the absorption.

 

I agree that it'd be more conducive to first vote on the time period we're willing to train for before deciding the specifics of our training regimen.

I'd vote for the longest period that wouldn't compromise our attendance at the Huashan Summit. Screw the outside world, attain personal power.

 

My problem with the Fanfeng sword is this:

Finding out that the technique is a dud right in the middle of an intense battle with BJ is kind of a shitty time for that. I'd rather we pick the rare kenjutsu, or improve on our own Yuchang style.

 

I'd rather we make our own style.

 

I remember Treave saying that he would roll for animal companion. I believe choices were Frog, Snake, Scorpion, Toad and some other one, but I can't remember

 

Regarding animal in eye socket, yes. As for qi absorption, your own qi type has the advantage of being able to subsume other qi more easily in return for less efficient conversion, so danger is lesser.

 

Is nobody interested in saber training? One of our swords is actually intended to be used as a saber, and it'll eat up all of one month to learn decent saber skills (not to mention it should synergize well with the Japanese technique, as, again, that is the intended use of the sword).

 

Saber skills will make the kenjutsu even more efficient, yes, though its serviceable with just sword thanks to its balance and quality.

 

Hmm, well I'm with you on the swords, but I have to vote for qi absorption upgrade over the endurance training. Like endurance, Qi absorption seems to increase our durability in battle but at the cost of our opponents. So, since we get a boost from that, another +2 endurance from inner strength and our inner strength is no longer limited by endurance, I must say that 5 months for endurance seems like a bit of a waste.

Also, you list lacks praying. I remember what was said about our fate when we researched the star we were born under, maybe this is an opportunity we will get to turn it all around. Or at least, make it not suck so much it will cause the entire country to go up in flames. Since it has no time cost and could lead to something interesting as well, why not try it.

 

I'm also pretty sure we can switch from using it as a sword to using it as a saber and back again just by shifting our grip, which is again, super useful in an actual fight. Gives us lots of fluidity and flexibility without much effort on our part.

 

treave, is the Wodao equally as good as a sword and as a saber, or is the saber part of it still better?

This implied that it's good as both. Is there any penalty to suing the wodao as a sword?

 

Well, according to the Valentine's Day update, the whole reason we were born under the unlucky star was because we pissed off the gods, so maybe praying to them might not be the best idea.

Then again, Nuwa coming down to have hatesex with us would be hilarious.

And dang. Definitely going for the kenjutsu + saber combination then, especially since the saber adds just one month to the regimen.

 

Normal use it's equally good. But the wodao specific technique will get boosted if you also have saber skills.

Regarding orthodox sects, Nie is the current leader, next summit in roughly three years, and travel time to Yunzi is going to take the better part of a month.

 

It's a katana. It's intended as a saber. It's just well-balanced enough to also be useful as a sword, but it's still improvising a use for it that it's not actually intended for. Using it for what it was originally designed for is always going to result in better performance on the weapon's part. On our part, we simply happen to have way more sword skill than saber skill.

Or that, sure.

 

Qi absorption, especially RAPID qi absorption is going to freak out any and all opponents we meet, on top of, you know, actually reducing their qi. Neigong is something that you spend a lot of time cultivating so having it being rapidly sucked out of you in the middle of a fight would be terrifying. Definitely vote for this.

 

Guys, we have done just fine with one eye, and let's not invest 5 months into a stat so that we can get it to a level that is still worse than it was before. Our PER before was 6, and it'll still be 5 after the boost. The eye is gone, let it go, bros.

For the stat boost, we really ought to go with END. Given our raging qi and the constant scrapes that we get into, this seems like the wisest investment:

This seems to be really crucial given that we'd be more likely to burn ourselves out with a higher skill at neigong. Is this the case, treave?

The inner strength boost confers another +1 END (we already have +1 END at our level), but I am more concerned with Jing's rather fragile ability to handle his qi. I might be wrong, but I'm under the impression that at high levels of neigong, we might injure ourselves, and higher END will allow us to compensate for the effects by being generally tougher and hardier.

As for praying, maybe it's a chance to make it even worse. It's definitely interesting, though.

 

Cultivating more amounts of that chaotic qi will hurt you more when you go nuts with it, yes.

 

We'd already get END, STR and AGI boosts with the 6-month neigong training, though.

 

I'm pretty sure those are the boosts the neigong grants when it's active. The boosts when our neigong are activated are probably not going to make us more resistant to the risks and downsides associated with activating our neigong.

 

Not the same thing. You need to improve the base END if we're going to go nuts and cultivate a shitload of our chaotic qi. Right now our neigong is at 5, and after the boost, it will be at 7, which is two above our current END level. Boosting our base END will allow us to cultivate more of that chaotic qi without hurting ourselves in the process, and if we do need to go nuts and unleash our full +2 AGI, +2 STR, +2 END qi, we won't fuck ourselves up too badly because we'll be resilient enough to withstand it. This is why the END boost synergises so well with the neigong upgrade. It is a must.

Also, Jing is too skinny for his own good. A boost to END will make him more swole, like our lover mentor, Zhang Jue.

 

Jing also has a history of getting hurt really, really badly, so the END boost will help there too.

He's not exactly gentle with his body even without his chaos neigong shaking him apart.

 

Yeah, it is probably a wise choice, given our constant attempts to get ourselves injured.

 

So so far as far as musts go we've got:

Neigong boost and END boost for synergy.

Kenjutsu tech and Saber skill for synergy.

Reikan boost for holy crap +1 PER for only one month!

Artistic skill for seriously how many poems with techniques in them have we encountered already, we really really need this.

 

I can see the point in taking 6 months for an inner strength upgrade as it will make us stronger, faster and tougher. But 5 months for a single point in stat is just too expensive. With the sword skill and technique and the qi absorption, both of which I think are a must it already nears 2 years. 1 years, 1 and a half top - that's all I can vote for. Let's get out there and do shit instead.

Fucking hell, this voting is going to be a mess. Seriously, who is going to count all this and how are we even going to determine winning options? I can already see a whole week of discuss! ahead of us.