The Wudang are really bro-tier, I kind of regret that we didn't end up joining them in the first place. The fact that everyone is starting to hate us, orthodox and unorthodox is getting concerning. We really ought to make at least one ally with a sect, and may as well do it with one of the most powerful and chill. Plus Bro Fu is a member.
I wouldn't go as far as to say that I regret going unorthodox - we have freedom to move around as we see fit with little to tie us down, the ability to get into places that orthodox types can't, and of course Zhang Jue, who is probably worth it all on his own. But I definitely agree that with the enemies that we're making, we are dangerously close to biting off more than we can chew. Our antics pissed off the Huashan at the tournament, our pirate adventure pissed off nearly everybody, and our most recent escapade pissed off the Black Dragon Society; a long list of enemies and a short list of friends. Master Zhang doesn't really have to give a fuck about who he offends because he's one of the Five Greats, so he can afford not to care. Until Xu Jing reaches that level of skill, he's got to mind himself a bit more.
This is like the classic gambler's dilemma: People are so worried about all the money they've already "invested" with previous losses on a bet, but don't give enough heed to the future losses that are to come. This is why many people lose all their money by continuing to bet on a losing horse or a bad financial investment. There's a point when you have to cut your losses and ditch. This is it.
You cannot have your cake and eat it too in these let's plays. Our wasting too much time on side quests is what caused us to miss out on talking to Changfeng. There is a reason treave is giving us the opportunity to ditch here and I say we take it.
This is a very good point. In a bad situation, the best remedy is to cut your losses and move on. But I don't think that this is that sort of situation. There's plenty of reasons to stay here other than "well, we're here already, we're invested in the situation, we have to see it through to the end". First, as I mentioned above, we desperately need a friend among at least one sect considering all the enemies we've been racking up. Second, BJ is our biggest rival, and this could be a great chance to fuck him over. Even if we don't steal the manual (which we shouldn't, regardless) using our PER and INT to become familiar with the swordplay might allow us to devise a counter as we did at Songfeng. Yes, Bai Jiutian is
far better than Rong Zhiyu, but my point is that we might be able to use the situation to gain an advantage against our biggest obstacle in this challenge.
Oh, and what caused us to miss out on talking to Chanfeng was that we didn't declare our allegiance to Shun to buy time for Jing's escape. That choice had plenty of downsides, but the one silver lining in it is that the poison we were hit with healed us a lot and gave us our
neigong back, which should go a long way to shortening our overall recovery time.
Also, its just me or Bai Jiutian has IMMENSE agility? Bai seems very fast, so I would give him a 9 or 10 AG. We barely beat Mr. Ultra Strength and Endurance (Guo Fu) using the full power of our maniac techniques, and they're usually lethal against most fighters, as the Hundred Man Fight proved.
Maniac techniques in general seem suited for quick, messy and all-out attacks against multiple opponents, for killing entire crownds of martial artists gunning for you. Against a single, nearly indestructible target like Guo Fu, they worked but just barely (Because even Jing was barely strong enough to hurt him). Jing managed to beat the faster Yunzi by going all out, through.
Yeah, I'm getting the feeling that BJ might be as fast as Yunzi. Anyways, the reason that Zhang's techniques didn't work as well against Guo Fu was both his high END and his defensive
neigong. It also didn't help that we broke through the barrier through sheer brute force instead of a qi disruption technique like Master Yao's Healing Finger because we didn't have any options other than brute force in that situation.
A for now.
