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Hmm, since it looks like we're going for the tournament anyway, let's visit Yunzi in the night to touch base and see what she's up to over here. Tigranes, Elfberserker, Anabanana, Esquilax, can you bros be persuaded for a 2C vote?

 

B, C > B, A2 > B, A1

 

treave, a question. You appear to be keeping a seperate tally of the A votes, is that being kept as a seperate vote? Say that there's a distribution going on like right now, where each A option has less than the total votes for B yet if they were all added together it'd beat out B. Would you resolve that by having B win, or by having A win and giving what way we go about making A happen to the largest number of votes for the particular option?

 

I'm regarding A as a bloc, and it is in the lead right now because I think joining/not joining is a lot more significant than how you go about joining.

 

But what if someone is voting for a certain method of entry, say an A2>B vote, would you still count that as a flop? Because otherwise it seems rather pointless to set up conditional votes for it.

 

If they're that concerned about how they want to join the tournament, I'll consider it as a flop.

 

Give me a quick brief on why C if we're in the tournament, the options in this update has me a bit confused.

 

C because we get in contact with Yunzi, touch base with her in a more-or-less private setting and see what's what. We did come here primarily for her, and I would rather not fuck up anything she has going here regardless of whether or not we participate. Heck, we may even be able to help, depending on what it is she's doing here.
That, and having a rakish young rogue visit her at night by climbing through a window will certainly give us points. Massive points.

 

Or else get us slaughtered by her guards. Either way.

 

I agree with Baltika9, for once. If we want to avoid miscommunication, talking to her directly would be good.

Still not sure about forfeiting our trolling ways.

 

Meh, 7 Stealth and spiderwebs should be good enough. treave did mention that security around here is lax, I'm pretty sure that C guarantees us a meeting.

 

Oh come now, nothing is better than trolling out in the open. Especially those stuffy orthodox sects.
Since it seems that 1A is going to win because the votes are counted in bloc, I'll set up an alternate:
B>A3, C.
Going out in the open, I think, is our best option. For one, we have no reason to hide right now, and if Gao Ying or any imperial guys are around here, then going in under our true name will guarantee us a meeting with them.

 

A2 is such a paper-thin disguise that I don't consider it not being in the open.

I do it just to have 'shameless' added to our title. You have to work on those.

 

You guys do realize that the Holy Maiden isn't likely to go anywhere without being escorted by at least one Amesha Spenta, right?

 

Ah, well, I'm sure our darling won't let us come to harm. We're not kidnapping her, and we're on decent terms, so we'll be fine with just talking. Really, I'm not concerned with Vahista, he won't do shit unless Yunzi tells him to.

 

There goes the Palace...

 

I came here mostly because I was interested in what the Tufan were doing. If we're going to waste time running about chasing after a princess, and then likely either (1) throw a fight (pwahaha codex deliberately throwing a fight phwahaha - also huge insult if people find out and with martial artists everywhere this has a good chance of happening) or (2) marry the princess and then skip out (even bigger insult) or (3) marry the princess that Jing has absolutely no interest in... (and with it a whole new set of obligations that we need to attend to - what, are you planning to lead the Tufan army against Shun, if it comes down to it? Or sit around playing CYOA: Bureaucracy? Obviously I don't actually think it'll be turning into CYOA: Bureaucracy, but treave mentioned that we would be becoming either a Tufan general or a minister, and neither of those sound like a great time to me. Marriage, to a PRINCESS of all people, isn't something that we should be going after because LOL HAREM LOLZ. I like our current harem setup, Qilin and Cao'er are great, fuck you all.)

Most importantly, Jing himself is NOT going to make the princess primary wife before Qilin. treave has already mentioned that this is going to be a problem. Some random Han upstart marrying the princess and then having the audacity to not make her his first wife? That might just be the biggest insult of all. Jing has already suffered enough already, let's not put him through this shit please.

Goddamnit, should've stayed to learn more about the Fire Cult and martial arts instead. Now that's something to consider. Will we have time to go back and find out more about the Fire Cult and their situation if we're tied down dealing with some random Tufan princess? Why are we putting harem expansion on the top of our priority list? And with a character that we haven't even met?

Look, people will literally kill for the opportunity to marry into royalty. Let's not be a dick and give the chances to people who actually want it okay

Anyway for the second choice I'll flop to A1 - wear a pig mask >C. Man Tiger Pig rises again. Mostly because it'd be hilarious. I'm really not all that invested in which A choice win as long as we troll (but hey as long as we're trollin' might as well go all the way? So.) Also I want to test our skills against the Prince. That should be more than enough for skill-testing, and then we can go snooping around if we're not busy being tied down by the tournament.

 

And how about talking about the opportunities that the choices actually offer, and not your projections of what you think they are?

Right now the choice is between signing up for fights, and chilling with hobos or running around town sniffing for rumors in broken Han and playing a spy with a totally inconspicuous eyepatch.

If an opportunity to 'chill with Yunzi' presents itself, and it will promise a chance to go for something greater, you might step out of the tournament without even showing up, provided that you don't register under your actual name. In fact, you can go about your business in any point in time, if you find something more interesting to do. But there isn't anything yet.

So don't make it 'Yunzi vs princess', when right now it is 'hobos vs a fight'.

 

I'd say 2C is more important in the context of Yunzi: we get to talk to her in a private setting (more or less, with Vahista around) and see what's what, maybe we can help her with something regardless of whether or not we're participating. Plus, it's pretty damn romantic, sneaking into her bedchambers at night. Totally worth it.

 

Hmm, would her bodyguards take kindly to us meeting her for a private rendezvous though? Also, sneaking through the palace at night seems a little... well, easy for people to misunderstand our intentions. That said, I won't mind if C wins at all. Just not going to flop to it, because I think trollin' will be more fun. I even think I'd go for B over C, just because I want to see the exhibition matches and find out more stuff about Tufan fighters.

 

Nah, treave said that security around the place is lax:

So the guys we really need to worry about are only her Ameshas. And even then, they know us, we're on friendly terms with the Cult and they won't do anything Yunzi doesn't tell them to.
I just think that C is the best option in terms of our relationship with Yunzi: we both get to have a d'aww moment and we get to actually talk to her and see what's up and if maybe we can help. Better than A, I'd say.

 

It's more like they will do something, and won't stop until Yunzi tells them to.

Would be fun if our fight attracts the whole palace. Also, so much for private conversation. But hey! Not complaining.

I also doubt she will accept our offer of help, because of this:

Not with Amesha Spentas present.

 

Well if her bodyguards do attack us I see it as a positive thing. Everyone is saying we should test Jing, well we know that the Amesha Spentas are a true challenge.

If we beat them we know we have improved. If Yunzi calls them off then we get a private conversation.


If it attracts a crowd, well we can always declare out undying love for her...

I see no outcome that is not a win for us with C.

 

Fat chance Vahista or anyone else will leave their Holy Maiden alone with a pervert who confused her to the extent their God had to intervene.

Fat chance Yunzi will snap out of her commanding persona while others are present.

But hey, at least we will get a fight!

 

Goddamn we should've taken arts with Zhang Jue; see, now we can't even recite a appropriately romantic poem to Yunzi under her balcony even if we want to.

(Still more interested in seeing the exhibition matches though lol)