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24 months, most likely. We seem to have at least some compromise on a few plans here.

I am too much of a pussy to go for 34. Perhaps Baltika9 can convince me on this one. Ah fuck it,

34) Pray to the Gods

This should be fun.

 

It is already separate from the packages, I think.

And Pray to the gods.

 

If we are indeed Chi You, 34 will help us to finally start with the main plot instead of being bogged down with "Man Tiger Pig adventures with the Pirates" subplots.

Let's make treave's job easier, ok?

 

If we go with this, we bring that sword skill all the way up to where Jing is with his unarmed skill now, which is to say, still not good enough to properly fight on the level of a master. Coincidentally, many of our biggest enemies such as BJ are in the master tier of fighters. Why be lesser than them when we can be stronger?

We never had a choice in Jing becoming better at unarmed skill than in sword skill. At that time, his sword skill was the better of the two. The Zhang Jue update happened, and it wasn't. If we'd had a choice in the first Zhang Jue training I would have focused on the sword skill, yet here we are with the unarmed combat firmly in the lead and ready to be improved.

It's not as respectful as being a bonified master in unarmed ability with the stats to effectively compete on the level of the masters of the pugilist realm. The Sword Saint literally gave us a slip of paper to make training in sword stuff come fast to the laziest possible practicioners of the stuff, we're not going to be low on chances to upgrade that if the first sword technique we come across gives an upgrade in the skill. Meanwhile, it's hard to rise into the ream of a master. I'd rather be competing on the master tier of fighting by the time we make our way over to the Fire Cult rather than just blindly hope that we get unarmed skills thrown our way to compensate for using all of our efforts to make a mediocre skill on par with a stagnant unarmed skill.

 

Pray?

 

Uh, stagnant unarmed skill? We went from 5 to 7 in five months. U mad bro?

 

Pray to the gods.

This should be popcorn-worthy either way.

Also, regardless of whether we specialize in swords or unarmed, as long as we focus on our unique neigong/qi leeching as a base, I'm fine with it.

EDIT: I see treave has been indulging in naga hentai lately.

 

Jing carries around a ridiculous number of herbs and other crap already, he's no stranger to carrying some number of supplies for his trade. You've completely ignored the point that we can bond with more than one animal if we put any effort into the skill, making the roll irrelevant.

If this is a cool gimmick, it's still a better cool gimmick than silk if for no other reason that at the end of the day with the silk skill it's still fucking silk while a maxed animal taming skill can put Jing up as the leader of armies of scorpions and so on.

 

Guys, it's a trap! How many times must we get fucked up the ass, literally, in two years? First Cao'er, now our mother Nuwa. Why are you doing this to Jing. Why?


Anyway, I'll be counting the actual options, including 34, after the polls for our time limit close in thirty hours.

 

And your plan is to have us sit at that 7 for two years while everyone else trains, so, basically yes. I'd be incredibly mad if we didn't go for it, yes. The butthurt I had over swords would be miniscule compared to that if this last thing I have here is taken from me.

 

Option 34, I think you mean Rule 34. Hot snake-woman action awaits us.

 

Talk to me, man. It helps to vent.

 

Last thing you have? Jesus fucking Christ that sounds grim.

Our character has been progressing a shitton and we have a really good build set up here that focuses heavily on Jing's defining attribute, his amazing neigong. We're doing good here man, I don't see why you're so invested in that single point. I mean, I want it too, but there is a ton of potential in using our qi leeching with our spider silk, there's just so much synergy there with the Throwing and Reikan as well.

It seems like a cunning set of techniques that we can really catch a lot of people off guard, especially given the fact that a lot of people didn't like spider silk initially - being able to eventually leech qi via the silk would be fucking phenomenal too, and a tremendous advantage for us. It would be what Yang Xue was going to teach us, only this way we don't need to give up our fucking arm to get it.

Perhaps you can propose a 24 month package of your own that includes your preferred stat boosts and Unarmed skills?

 

Right now, we can only leech qi via direct contact, right? Correct me if I'm wrong.

If that's the case, you could make a case for an unarmed/neigong build which focuses on upping unarmed and shouwang claws because this:

looks like it would synergize really well with qi-leeching.

 

At the moment, yes. I just noticed what treave had said earlier and I thought that investing in the silk and the qi leeching provided an interesting avenue in the future for qi leeching via either silk or the Yuchang Sword. I'm not sure how much closer we'd be to this after the upgrades, but it seems like a very worthy goal.

But hey, let's say that Kipeci is right and we don't need no stinkin' long-range qi leeching. Well, we can compensate with close-range badassery:

13. Intensive sword training with Zhang Jue (Sword +1, 2 months)
14. Intensive hand-to-hand combat sessions with Zhang Jue. (Unarmed +1, 6 months)]
19. Improve your understanding of the Shouwang Mad Claws technique. (2 months)
25. Undergo strenuous neigong training to unlock your potential (Neigong +2, 6 months, Yuanshi Hundun now gives +2 to STR, AGI and END)
26. Learn how to absorb qi from other people at a faster rate by ‘practicing’ with Qilin and Cao’er. (3 months)
30. Intensive endurance training. (+1 END, 5 months)

That's 24 months, and I had to pare things down to cram everything in. However, it looks pretty fucking sweet. Forget the silk, just come in and kick ass; using endurance, tremendous strength from our improved neigong, and an improved Shouwang Claws technique to brutalize the enemy once you manage to close the distance. With a Master-level Unarmed skill and brutal attacks from our claws, they won't be able to retaliate. Our Master would be proud.

The only downside is that we won't get a sword technique, but as treave stated earlier, the upside is that once we do learn another sword technique in our travels, our skill will naturally go up by 1 anyways. Think of this as a placeholder for now.

This is a narrow focus, but it's more about really getting in and brutalizing a motherfucker with superb skill, technique and qi leeching. I think this looks really good, bros.

 

There's also something to be said for mastery being very hard to achieve, so we should take the opportunity to master at least one skill while we have a long stretch of time at our disposal.

I would be down for that package - but no 1 month Reikan boost? With it we'd have 7 PER while Reikan is active.

 

Right, updated the roster with Kipeci's Unarmed Mastery.

 

Alright. Since we can't seem to agree on a timeframe just yet, I thought I'd write what things I want to see Jing train, and rank them from most to least important.

That way I won't miss out on the actual voting, if I have to be without internet connection for a day or two, which could happen.

From top priority to lowest priority, assuming up to a 36 month training schedule:[EDITED OUT, NEW VOTING POST]

 

I need it to fit within the 24 month constraint. I'd have to remove either the +1 Sword or the Shouwang Claws upgrade to fit it in. Sadly, it just wasn't as big of a priority given the need for a boost to at least one technique and I didn't want to neglect swords. This particular build doesn't need as much PER since it's all about closing in with extreme brutality. Another upside is that at Unarmed 8, we can modify Zhang's techniques so that they're non-lethal while at the same time retaining effectiveness.

 

I'd rather we try not to up that luck, it's about at the most useful value it can be.

 

Guys. Treave said that the Yuhe finger would be a step towards projecting qi outwards...

treave, would pursuing the Yuhe finger technique now potentially allow for qi leeching at a distance later? Once Jing learns how to manipulate the flow of qi outside of his body?

 

Aren't we already doing that with his techniques, though?

 

Not quite. I can't find the quotes at the moment, but in a situation like a tournament, other than in cases where we're fighting a total tank like Guo Fu, we really need to hold back on our techniques and be less effective in using them as a result. With a high enough skill level (treave said that this skill was 8, since that corresponded with Mastery), you can modify lethal techniques to be non-lethal without a drop off in effectiveness. That's one of the perks of a six month training time, I suppose.

 

Okay, fair enough. That does sound good, but I'm still in favor of Kenjutsu+Qi leeching>Yuchang+Qi leeching, all for reasons I have already stated.