"Alright, follow me."

You are lead outside, to a secondary building, made of steel, jewels, decorated with Cat's Eye Jade and other precious materials. The two of you step inside, you see 6 staircases, for Shi, Zun, Zong, King, Emperor and God Stage Consolidated Equipment.

"Now then Zou, we will make a trip to the 6th staircase, I will be able to block their aura for you. Remember, they know who you are and what the Fourth Princess is doing, make a show!"

He leads you up, the walls lined with Amethyst and Beryl. Interesting choices.

"Good morning, welcome to our Palace, would you like any help?"

You see a very strongly built old woman sitting next to some pieces of very gold paper. Xing-Shu speaks for you.

"Yes, my most esteemed God Level Consolidated Equipment Master Shao-Dai. This is the boy I was talking to you about earlier, Zou-Do-Shai."

"Wind, Spacial, Saint, the possibility of him becoming a Heavenly Jewel Master, yes yes. Come here boy."

"Yes maam." You bow to her.

"Well at least you have some manners. Now then, I am willing to make you some God Tier Consolidated Equipment for you, if you awaken, under one condition. I train you as at least a Zun Stage Consolidated Equipment Master, ie, 1 try in 10000 for a success. Do you accept? I have been looking for someone with your combination of Elements to train, so here we are.

Player Choice
>Accept
>Refuse
>Try and attempt to only need to learn to become a Shi Stage Consolidated Master (Needs a roll)

>>3708287
>>Accept
would it be a god tier set? cause if so then yes, if not a set then try to roll for Shi

>>3708287
>Try and attempt to only need to learn to become a Shi Stage Consolidated Master (Needs a roll)

Let us test our luck! (Says the guy responsible for the only Nat1 of the Quest).

>>3708287
>Accept
I don't see why we wouldn't want to be one

>>3708291
Yep, a whole set. She wants to make a set to work around your Saint Element.

>>3708305
Set of the Saintly God

>>3708307
Divine Angelic Harmony set

15 minutes longer for voting.

>>3708287
>>Accept

>Accept

"Really? Wow I at least thought you would put up a fight, it takes a long while to learn how to do this. Firstly, how are your writing skills?"

"Sub par"

"Then we'll start with that, making and designing Scrolls for the stuff needs a steady hand, and being a good writer, for certain things during the process. Come with me."

Xing-Shu leaves the two of you alone.

She leads you to a small and stuffy room, she leaves and comes back with a pile of paper.

"Let me show you some things I would like you to copy. I will summon my Jewels, but do not worry, I have learn't how to contain my aura."

She summons her Jewels. 12 pairs, with Pure Red Jade and Cat's Eye Jade.

Oh boy.

"Now, how many Jewels do you have?"

"2."

Then I can train you up to Shi Stage now, then when you awaken your 4th Jewel, we can start on that. Begin."

>Roll 1d100+40 for Literacy gains, best of three, +40 with Shao-Dai's help

Rolled 87 + 40 (1d100 + 40)

>>3708370

Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>3708370

Rolled 40 + 40 (1d100 + 40)

>>3708370

>>3708375
>127
>Literacy 20/20
>Skill Up!
>Useful Literacy 0/100 *Only progresses when doing Consolidated Equipment practice*

You finally learn how to read a write properly, the new patterns revealed by the teacher are invigorating, you remember all those books you were given, and you think you can start reading them

"Good enough, now for some learning. Firstly, Consolidated Equipment is the designer's way of making a Physical Jewel more powerful and useful. This is done by drawing said design on some really expensive paper, with really expensive ink made from beast cores, The better you are and the higher quality the Consolidated Equipment you make, the fewer copies you have to make. As a Shi Stage, the chance of success is 1 in 100000, you will be making the poorest quality trash, good only for the garbage, you can only use a scroll for a design as a buyer once a day, so increasing the success rate of your designs is paramount. Shi is 100000, Zun 10000, Zong 1000, Grandmaster, or the peak of Zong 100, and for anything above, only 1 copy is necessary. Now, you can join pieces of Consolidated Equipment to make sets up to 12 Jewels, I am especially proud of meeting the design Jessica made for her Jewels, it has 3 forms! You can make a bigger weapon, or, you can make armour. Next, the more pieces a set has the better it is, 12 Jewels being the best. Next, in order to make the Scrolls, one needs the Spacial Element, to stuff all that Heavenly Energy and beast cores in one place much smaller than it is supposed to be in. This is where you come in, you have both Spacial and Wind, Wind allows for double the drawing speed, i.e half the training time."

"I need you to look at this Scroll for a simple spear, and copy it, you may well fail the first 100 tries, but the 101st will work slightly. You need absolute focus. Take this pen, and let your Spacial Element flow through it, then activate your Wind Element, then start to fill in the blanks. I will be back by this evening to see your progress. If you do not fill in the blanks in one stroke, throw the scroll away. Now begin!"

She leaves you with all the things necessary. Time to learn.

>Roll 1d100 best of three to increase Literacy and copy the spear scroll.

I need some sleep. Thank you all for playing! The quest will resume at 8 am BST tomorrow. Goodnight!

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>3708444
>444
nice

Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>3708444

>>3708444
Trips of death!
>Writing for Scythe shenanigans tomorrow. Have fun with that!

Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>3708444

>>3708462
C'night and thanks for running!

>70
>444

You start to work, the design is incredibly intricate, as the spear is made from the Jade of a Physical Jewel itself, you can see spaces where all the details of the crystalline material must be filled in. You dip the pen in the ink, strangely, a gold ink with specks of other colours, shimmering like a rainbow. You put the pen on the page, and start to draw, you don't make it very far, you go off course, now the page is ruined. You try again, and make it about a third of the way through when you realise you dipped the pen in too much ink. This is some valuable writing experience.

You are about to try again, with more experience in tow, when the Reaper's Scythe starts to hum and it hovers above you, glowing black. You remember what happened last time and try to grab the handle to stop it from flying away.

>Roll 1d100 STR for a strength check best of three

Rolled 99 (1d100)

>>3710750

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>3710750

If no-one else rolls again in the next 5 minutes, please feel free to roll again.

Rolled 23 (1d100)

>>3710750

>>3710758
>99

You grab the handle, and hold it in place. Instead of flying away and probably killing someone, you hold it until the glow slowly fades. You consider the possibility of trying to destroy it at some point.

Time to get back to work. You try again, this time making it about a 35% through. You can feel muscles in your arms and hands you didn't know existed start to strain.

>Useful Writing is now 3/100
>+3 to all Consolidated Equipment crafting rolls

You have the entire day here, lets use it appropriately

>Roll 1d100+3 to draw in the scroll, middle of three.

Rolled 78 + 3 (1d100 + 3)

>>3710792

Rolled 55 + 3 (1d100 + 3)

>>3710792

Rolled 18 + 3 (1d100 + 3)

>>3710792

>>3710796
>58

You do much better the next time, you compete more than half of the spear, reaching the spearhead at the end, and making it a bit way through.

>You have 280 HE, it is 25 HE per scroll

>Useful Writing is now 6/100
>+6 to all Consolidated Equipment Crafting rolls.

Lets try again.

>You can make 11 more Scrolls with the amount of HE you have, therefore
>Roll 11d100+6, best of three. I will find 11 middle rolls for each, and tally up the bonuses, you will have become a Shi Stage Consolidated Equipment Master if the roll+bonus is larger than 100 for any of them, if this does not happen, you will always have another day.

Sorry, middle of three for this one, typo.

Rolled 4, 6, 1, 12, 65, 49, 49, 91, 36, 27, 9 + 6 = 355 (11d100 + 6)

>>3710817

Rolled 23, 68, 93, 75, 91, 62, 39, 13, 25, 18, 29 + 6 = 542 (11d100 + 6)

>>3710817

Rolled 62, 89, 83, 11, 5, 81, 49, 69, 30, 88, 78 + 6 = 651 (11d100 + 6)

>>3710817
Another if nobody shows up.

>>3710826
This is me.

Rolled 39, 22, 1, 32, 95, 40, 29, 9, 22, 90, 10 = 389 (11d100)

>>3710817

Okay, tallying it all up

>Useful Writing is now 34/100

You have not managed to become a Shi Stage Consolidated Equipment Master.

"Zou? I see you have made some progress. No completed ones but that's to be expected. Take 50 more copies, some ink, and that pen, come back here when you have done all 50."

"Yes, maam."

"That's yes Mistress to you."

"Yes, Mistress!"

You head back to your room, you see a letter that tells you you have 3 days off. You have a lot to do. You could see Shara, you could complete those scrolls, more research with Jessica, train your Heavenly Energy amount, Teach Jiang.


>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 46th day.

*Knock Knock*

"Zou! It's me Jiang, can I have some more training this morning?"

Player Choice for the morning
>Complete 15 Scrolls, using all your Heavenly Energy
>Train Jiang
>Cultivate
>Check on Jessica's progress
>See Shara
>Train Sword Technique
>Ask Fei for training
>Reading Practice
>Writing Practice
>Manners Practice
>Call someone (Who?)
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Try an Element
>Other? (Write-in)

>>3710854
>Train Jiang

>>3710854
>Train Jiang
Ask if she could improve our writing

>>3710859
Nah, the only way you can improve it is by doing Consolidated Equipment Scrolls.

>>3710854
>Complete 15 Scrolls, using all your Heavenly Energy
Let's do this.

>>3710854
>Complete 15 Scrolls, using all your Heavenly Energy

Rolling 1d2 for choice
1.Jiang
2.Scrolls

Rolled 1 (1d2)

Dammit.

>Train Jiang

"I'll train you. How about some Agility training, running away is always an option."

"Sure! What will you do?"

"Run along side you, I am faster than you."

"Tch, Show off, I should punish you. Oh! I make Jessica's coffee really hot this morning! She's going to be really mad! It's even her day off today!"

"She has days off?"

"She does now, apparently she's been getting really sick."

"Huh, well run to the training room, then don't stop until lunch, you have the Stamina to do that."

>Roll 1d100+15 for AGI training+teaching. Best of three, this roll will also count as a bonus to the Teaching skill.

Sorry guys I have to go to the Karate course. Expect a real update at around 12:40 BST today, which is when lunch is. Thanks for playing!

Rolled 92 + 15 (1d100 + 15)

>>3710886

Rolled 51 + 15 (1d100 + 15)

>>3710886

Rolled 47 + 15 (1d100 + 15)

>>3710889
Another roll if nobody shows up.

>>3710889
107 sensei
>AGI is at Max. I will update the paste later.

You do very well. Jogging along at a good speed. Jiang keeps up with you. Face burning red with pain.

Jiang stops.

"Can we continue into the afternoon?"

Player Choice for the afternoon.
>Complete 15 Scrolls, using all your Heavenly Energy
>Train Jiang
>Cultivate
>Check on Jessica's progress
>See Shara
>Train Sword Technique
>Ask Fei for training
>Manners Practice
>Call someone (Who?)
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Try an Element
>Other? (Write-in)


This will be the last update until 15:45 pm BST.

Fuck. I've just realised I have made a grave mistake in the OP. It says thread 2. It should be 4. Should I just make a new thread or leave it as is?

>>3710971
>Complete 15 Scrolls, using all your Heavenly Energy

>>3710974
I was wondering about it. Then again, the thread is already underway...

>>3710974
make new thread now.

>>3710971
>Complete 15 Scrolls, using all your Heavenly Energy
Just continue with this one

>>3710971
>Complete 15 Scrolls, using all your Heavenly Energy
>>3710974
Too late. It's not really a big problem anyway.

>>3710974
Continue as is,
Just remember to archive correctly.

Rolled 73, 75 = 148 (2d100)

I will keep the thread running, just, when we get to about 900 posts, someone please remind me to archive it properly, thank you.

>Complete all 15 scrolls

"Sorry, but I can't, I need to draw some Consolidated Equipment Scrolls."

"What! No! I told you to not do that! Why!?"

"I was promised something worthwhile."

"Well, if she tries to make you anything above Zun, then tell me and I can tell her to shove it in her face, I am not having you toiling away in a small room for their enjoyment and some money! I own you, not them!"

"Alright."

The two of you keep running until lunch. You then leave, you have things to do.

You take out 15 scrolls, the pen, and the ink in the seclusion and quiet of your room.

>Roll 15d100, middle of three, you will get bonuses afterwards, then we will see if you have made it as a Shi Stage Consolidated Equipment Master. Even if you do, you need to complete all the scrolls, reminder that by cultivating you can restore all of your Heavenly Energy.

>Rolling 2d100 for stuff, first for the King, Second for Jessica, DCs 50 and 70 respectively.

Rolled 81, 80, 40, 64, 27, 34, 7, 68, 36, 63, 42, 3, 93, 85, 97 = 820 (15d100)

>>3711068
>I own you, not them!"
...yikes, she has more issues than i thought

>>3711071
If no-one else rolls in the next 5 minutes, please feel free to roll again, 2 different posts with a 15d100 each please.

Rolled 22, 86, 78, 71, 61, 15, 63, 25, 69, 61, 62, 43, 40, 54, 91 = 841 (15d100)

>>3711074

Rolled 24, 100, 65, 3, 2, 84, 4, 12, 71, 58, 67, 90, 88, 39, 74 = 781 (15d100)

>>3711068

>>3710777
missed some trips of luck

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>>3711099
Yep, sorry about that I was in Karate mode, wasn't concentrating, same as last time, write-in for some information you know as the player, but Zou-Do-Shai doesn't, I gave you some options last time as an example, a trial run, this time. I'm leaving it to you, the players, the vote for this will be open 30 minutes.


>39
>100

>Both DCs passed, oh boy.

>Useful Literacy is now 73/100

>You have become a Shi Stage Consolidated Equipment Master! 1 in 100000
>35 Scrolls left.

You do a lot better today, even completing a few scrolls, they shimmer gold for a second, until the full design finally gets some colour, namely it is a Waxy Jade handle, with a Icy Jade spearhead.

You don't know how much time this is supposed to take and progress in, but you are about 3/4 there until you can safely call yourself a real master.

Your about to decide what to do for the evening, when you hear an alarm sound across the whole Palace.

"KRRRST!"

"WARNING, WARNING, ALL MEMBERS OF STAFF REPORT TO THE STATE MILITARY GARRISON, THIS IS AN EMERGENCY, I REPEAT, THIS IS AN EMERGENCY."

You hear a knock on your door.

"Zou! It's me Jiang! I need you to follow me instead, just run as fast as you can! My dad has called a City wide emergency!"

>Roll 1d100 AGI check best of three
>DC 70

Rolled 28 (1d100)

>>3711117
>You need to get to 4 jewels to be able to eliminate the demon currently possessing Shan-Bai, or the demon might go berserk and kill her
moon shit happening

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>3711117

Rolled 88 (1d100)

>>3711117

Rolled 63 (1d100)

rape the cute chink girl

>>3711135
Pardon? I said the Dershwas had black hair and sometimes black eyes, like the King, but...they have chalk skin, which is a trait only done by makeup in those of Chinese decent. Also, no raping the girl, you don't have the Evil Element to justify it.

>>3711134
>88
Success

You follow Jiang all the way to the throne room, in it, are all the Dershwa Clan, including an unconscious Shan-Bai, who is propped up in a chair, connected to a small liquid pouch, and Jessica, who is sitting alone in the corner. You don't recognise a few of the people here. You see your 3 colleagues standing to the side, you join them. The King sits in his throne.

"Good afternoon everyone, I have called an emergency because of new reports filled by the Space Program, Jessica is...unstable at the moment because of it. So I will explain. Firstly, I want to to look up in the sky, in the day it is not here, but at night, the clear white moon is visible, harmless. However, they took a ship there, and saw a massive, armed civilisation of monsters, new information suggests they are turning the inside of the moon into one large cannon. What I am saying is, in the coming year, we will be under attack by forces on the dark side of the moon."

There is silence for a minute, then Fei Dershwa speaks.

"Well..if we can send a ship there, can't we send people to-to talk to them?"

"No, they are building an invasion, that cannon could, according to the calculations, wipe out an entire city, including ours."

You see most of the people in shock and awe, struggling to process that information.

"The good news is, I have a plan in place. We will focus our efforts on making a fully functional Space Force, to launch a preemptive invasion of the moon, and we will be sending the word, and pictures, to other nations, and ask them for assistance. So, orders."

"I will be imposing martial law, none of you will be able to leave the Palace without my consent, the Hunters will be ordered to stop work, all efforts moving forward are about making a superior defensive wall, and a better way to attack."

"Fei Dershwa, I need you to focus on your Cultivation, you must be a Heavenly Empress sooner rather than later, like your sister, Shian. I am putting you as the second in command of the State Military's Air Force"

"Shian, I order you to make the Skill Storing Palace open to the public, and to assign Darkness users to all who come, people must need Skills to have a chance of being useful, or surviving the attack."

"Sun-Di, you must become a Heavenly King, and use your Earth Element to assist in the defensive efforts."

"Jessica, if you can hear me, continue your work, but focus on the Space Program, and the new Medicine."

"Jiang, focus on your cultivation, and work with the ballistics division."

"Li, continue your work as the Air Force Commander."

"Xang, use the army to help the citizens grow stronger and safer. You will be the general force on the ground."

1/2

"Chen-Wei, your Navy will be put under the Air Forces command."

"To the various bodyguards, either assist the people you are assigned to, or help other departments."

"We are preparing for war! We have less than a year to do so! Do not run! Dismissed!"

People start to leave, however, the King calls you over.

"Zou-Do-Shai, I ask that you assist Jessica and Jiang at all opportunity, you must have the Resurrect Skill in the coming days. You will be absolutely critical, as if people die in the initial bombardment, I need you to revive them."

"Yes, your Majesty!"

You leave the room with Jiang and the other bodyguards. Jiang decides to take executive decisions.

"I say we head to the ballistics division, Zou, I need you to go see Shara again, she's your best bet at the Resurrect Skill."

Shian walks over to you, a displeased look on her face.

"Follow me."

You travel for a short time, until you get to the chamber that Shara is in.

"I will come with you, not invisible, this time."

You walk in, and find Shara is just skin and bones.

"She seems to eat something that we cannot provide to her, she didn't know what it was called either, so...she ended up like this."

You walk over.

"Shara?"

Nothing

She must be asleep. You have a job to do.

>Roll 1d100 to store Resurrect best of three
>DC 30

Player Choice
>Also store her most powerful Wind Skill (Heavenly Slash, 12 Stars, variable HE, produces a slash of wind that deals damage where 1 HE= 5 Damage.)

2/2
>Don't

Rolled 61 (1d100)

>>3711193
>Don't

Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>3711193
> Take Heavenly Slash too.

Is that our finisher? Our Kamehameha equivalent?

HEAVENLY...

...SLASH!

Something like that?

>>3711198
Nah, just something for the future, your skills currently, apart from Dimensional Swap, don't scale well. This is one way to fix that. Also, thematically, it works for something you never found out because you so rarely went to see Shara.

>>3711209
yeah we kinda dropped the ball on that one, we even told her we would go visit when we got our second jewel and wouldnt be with any of the dershwas

The 777 vote is still open, not one suggestion has come forward

>>3711211
If you want the spoiler for Shara:

She is actually from the moon, she grew up there as a bird like creature, but decided to fly away, to earth, she knows about the big cannon stuff. She is a Saint and Wind beast, she grew up and evolved to look like a human as much as possible, so she could fit in. She eats something on the moon, but sustained herslef using the Saint Element. She would have lived a lot longer if not for the Darkness Element weakening her, preventing her from using her Heavenly Energy..

If no-one else rolls in the next 5 minutes, feel free to roll again.

>>3711238
... i suggested we know the requirements for destroying the demon and the consequences of not being good enough to do it, but hell yes am all for this being the info we get

Rolled 3 (1d100)

>>3711193
>Also store her most powerful Wind Skill (Heavenly Slash, 12 Stars, variable HE, produces a slash of wind that deals damage where 1 HE= 5 Damage.)
The least we can do if she dies is to carry on her legacy.

>>3711193
>Also store her most powerful Wind Skill
This doesn't hurt her, right?
>>3711238
Would definitely like to know that. Hopefully we can save her

>>3711238
> 777
> Time travel quest to save Shara?
> Sneaking around through the palace
> Avoiding paradoxes

>>3711264
Sneaking around the Palace for what?

>>3711244
Zou already knows this, he said it to Shan-Bai on the third day of training.

>>3711245
You can always bring her back

>94
Success!
>Also store her most powerful Wind Skill Heavenly Slash

You reach in with your Heavenly Energy, and feel no resistance, you feel 2 different energies move into your second Jewel. One, a cross on the Saint section, the other a Wind Skill with a golden wing symbol.

However, you know that Shara feels this more than you, the last time she screamed in pain. You check her pulse. Nothing

You have just killed a monster.

You look at your second Jewel, the golden cross crying out to you.

>You have 5 HE.

You don't have enough Heavenly Energy to use the skill. You need to cultivate. Shian looks at you.

"H-hey, you're going to bring her back right? She kept saying that you could do it, please, help her."

"Yes, I will, I promise you that."

>Roll 1d100 best of three to cultivate and restore your Heavenly Energy.

Rolled 27 (1d100)

>>3711293

Rolled 86 (1d100)

>>3711293

Rolled 27 (1d100)

>>3711293

>86

Progress to the next Level
3483/16000

>You have 380 HE

You finish, and begin to use the Skill.

>You have 180 HE

A small cross sits on your left palm, shining gold. You touch it to Shara's body.

You see her awaken, her body becomes filled out, she looks at you. Smiling.

"You came...you really came."

"Shara!" Shian rushes at her, with no resistance from Shara, she hugs her tightly."

"Thank you, oh thank the Dao you're alright."

"It's fine, I had Zou!"

>Resurrect, for 200 HE, can revive anyone, as long as you can touch the corpse, corpse part, or their ashes
>Cost down 1/20

This skill...could be the key to your very future.

"Hello again Shara, I'm sorry for what I did, I had to."

"I know! It was really hot for a second, but I'm here now!"

The two of you chat for a bit. Then Shian steps in.

"Shara, are you aware he took 2 skills?"

"Yep! That second one is really good, will help with destroying that cannon."

"Cannon?"

"Yeah! The one on the moon!"

Shian takes the words right out of your mouth.

"How do you know about that? Why didn't you ever tell me you were from the moon!"

"I was weak...no energy to think, sorry...how did you find out about cannon?"

You step in.

"I teleported a ship to the moon, and saw it from orbit."

"Coooool. How was it?"

"I want to see more, but the army they were building terrifies me."

"Don't worry, with that slash, you can do almost anything! Apart from move in stopped time..."

Right. Shian coughs a bit, then speaks to you.

"I have a plan to improve her conditions now, if she is from the moon, then I can try and convince Father that making her this weak will be a detriment to how much she can tell us about the moon. Can I have a moment alone with Shara?"

Player Choice
>No, I need to ask her some questions
>Yes (Go to sleep.)

Sorry guys, gotta have something to eat for tea, be back for 18:30 pm BST. Thank you for playing! Congratulations on storing your second Saint Skill!

>>3711347
>Yes (Go to sleep.)

The possibility of releasing some of Shara's shackles permanently far outweigh a couple of questions right now.

>>3711347
>>Yes (Go to sleep.)
>Let me know if I can help, I'll be helping out Jiang and Jessica for now
>write a letter for Fei detailing the guards technique before you go to sleep and have a servant bring it to her saying its urgent business for the military

>>3711347
>Yes

>>3711347
What
Did she rape shara and mindbreak her
It's the only possible explanation

>>3711411
No, she just used what you said as a springboard to make Shara ignore Shian's black hair.

>Yes

"Yes, I will be aiding Jiang and Jessica for now, so I may not have many chances to see Shara."

Shara speaks up.

"Third Jewel, Last healing Skill. Come find me."

You leave the two alone, and head back to bed.

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 47th day.

*BANG BANG*

"ZOU! IT'S JESSSICA! GET THE FUCK OUT OF THERE NOW BEFORE I KILL YOU."

Player Choice
>Answer the door
>Call for help (Who?)
>Go back to sleep

Voting will be 30 mins, I need a break, I don't feel too good, the Karate exhausted me physically and this quest has sapped me mentally for 3 days straight, so I will be making voting times longer to give me more time to rest, or I'll burnout by Friday, sorry about this. The mental exhaustion probably caused the typo in the OP. My deepest apologies.

>>3711478
>>Answer the door
>> have your communicator hidden in your pocket set to call Fei at the push of 2 buttons, to avoid butt dialing but still being able to call her in a moment

>>3711478
>Go back to sleep

You could take a few days off or run the quest on different days of the week. Nobody says it's gotta be a non-stop marathon. You're the QM.

>>3711478
feel better QM, loving the quest

>>3711478
>Answer the door

>>3711478
>Answer the door

>777 choice has been altered slightly, sorry

>Answer the door

You get your communicator, and pre-dial Fei, she may be busy, but Jessica is not working, that's a reason to come.

You open the door.

"Ah, hello. I need your help. Meds, Gone, will have more tomorrow, Saint Element could help, please. please, please."

She keeps repeating please, you start to watch as her body shakes, you see her raise her fist, a crazed look in her eyes.

>You have 270 HE

You use your Heavenly Energy Control to funnel the Saint Element into her brain, she immediately slumps down forward, you catch her, she feels very light, you can feel distinctly some ribs. When did she last eat?

Well, either, you let the attendants take her to the medical centre, or you can take her there yourself.

That's when everything goes white, it's happening again.

*DONG, DONG*

"YOU WHO WISH TO OBTAIN THE POWER OF GODS, WE WILL GRANT YOU INFORMATION, CONSIDER THIS A LUCKY BREAK."

*DONG DONG*

"THE PALACE HOLDS MANY SECRETS, MANY PATHWAYS, YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE SPIES FROM THE BEAST NATIONS LIVING AMONG YOU, WE WISH YOU LUCK IN DEFEATING THEM."

*DONG DONG*

Player Choice
>Take Jessica with you to the Elemental Research department, and help her recover there.
>Let the attendants take her, and go find Jiang for the morning

>>3711596
>Take Jessica with you to the Elemental Research department, and help her recover there.

>>3711596
>Take Jessica with you to the Elemental Research department, and help her recover there

>>3711596
>>Take Jessica with you to the Elemental Research department, and help her recover there.
need to help her anyways

>A version of this post got deleted by accident, so that's why it is late

>Take Jessica with you to the Elemental Research department, and help her recover there

You pick her up and run to the Elemental Research department. Find the closest bed for a recovering test subject, and wait.

She stirs and wakes up.

"Hello, Jessica, are you OK?"

"No...I think whatever you did helped though.

"Yeah, what happened back there?"

"I..I am taking some medication to make me less...invigorated with work, after the expedition, I realised that I had to stop throwing people's lives away for my own wants, so I started with this. I became dependant on it, I used up my supply too quickly, so none was ready for me."

"Is there anything I can do to help? Like use the Saint Element again?"

"No...maybe stop me from taking my meds more than once in a day."

"Okay, I'm here for you if you need me alright?"

"Huhuh. About that, 2 things, firstly, Zhang Xi-Tze wants your help in the Space Progr-, sorry, Space Force, so go there. Secondly, by the end of the day I'll have something for you based on your cultivation technique by the end of the day, so stick around."

"Got it. Don't work too hard."

"In wartime? I have no choice, dad's been talking crazy, saying stuff like "This is the one, I can feel it!", so he's pushing me to make as much progress as possible."

"Huh."

Player Choice
>Tell her that her dad's a time traveller, as he resets time every 500 years to prevent the end of the world
>Just say by and leave to find Dr. Zhang Xi-Tze

>>3711720
>>Just say by and leave to find Dr. Zhang Xi-Tze
we gotta talk to Long when we can, let him know about the beastmen infiltrators

>>3711720
>>Tell her that her dad's a time traveller, as he resets time every 500 years to prevent the end of the world

Kind of want to see what she does with that information.

>>3711720
>Just say by and leave to find Dr. Zhang Xi-Tze

>>3711720
>Bring her some food and be sure she eats it

>>3711737
massively freaks out and goes "SCIENCE!!!"

>Bye

"Well, he's 500 years old, that can do things to a man, you want some food?"

"Nah, not hungry,"

"You look pretty famished."

"Well, I don't eat much anyway, so I'm used to it, fine, get me a snack, something that won't get stuff all over the equipment."

You run off and find a condensed snack bar.

"Catch."

She's awake now at least, she catches it with no problem.

"Fuck you I know when I'm awake, don't test me."

"Got it, heading off to the Doc now."

You run to the small testing room, to find it looking completely different. You see a long firing range, but no bows, only some weird looking guns.

"Zou! Welcome back! How's that glove treating you!"

"I haven't used it yet actually." You see the frail, now very pale form of Dr. Zhang Xi-Tze standing behind you.

"Pah, what good are you for! I know why you're here. I'll give you a choice today."

He picks up a pistol, except the magazine appears to be empty.

"This can shoot condensed space at people, it was built from a new drill we were designing until, you know, the moon happened."

He puts it down, then picks up a pair of glasses.

"Normally this kind of stuff is for the Light Element, but we made our own way by using the Spacial Element to make a virtual world where that wall, or that defensive structure doesn't exist, we're working on a version where you can also walk through walls, and not just look through them, I'm afraid this one's a bit in house. The few women who work here don't trust anyone with X-Ray glasses. So you can't have this one."

He picks up a larger two handed rifle.

"This one can shoot expanding space, pretty devastating."

He puts them both down, and picks up another glove.

"This one can allow people to grab things that are normally too far away. Like telekinesis."

He puts that one down.

"Lastly, a really good telescope, it's a proof of concept for a big one we're building to observe the moon. It uses Spacial to shrink the distance between you and the view in here, but it doesn't actually shrink the space, pretty nice."

"Choose 1 to try out, and apart from the glasses, I can weasel you another one for you to take with you, I'll put it under the reason that it will aid in protecting Jiang, wink wink. I will need you to test them here first, so it isn't free."
Player Choice of equipment to test.
>Compressed Space Pistol
>X-Ray Glassess
>Expanding Space Rifle
>Far Reaching Glove
>Spacial Telescope

>>3711863
>X-Ray Glasses

>>3711863
>>Spacial Telescope
with the transposition skill this is fucking broken and can effectively replica long range teleportation and other such insanity

>>3711863
>>Spacial Telescope

>Spacial Scope

"Good choice, you must have a sight based skill right?"

"Yes."

"Well, look through it, and look to the right of the firing range. You'll need a tiny amount of Heavenly Energy to power it, give it a shot, and tell me what you see, then use that skill."

>You have 265 HE

>Roll 1d100 best of three for perception

I need some sleep, sorry everyone. The quest will not be running tomorrow, as I am going for the next belt (brown and black stripe, one before black) on the Friday, so I need my energy. The quest will start again on Friday 2nd at 16:00 pm BST. Thank you all for playing! Feel free to discuss Stored Skill ideas in the meantime, and other ways to use your Elements. I will be checking the thread every so often, so I might post a reply about a particularly interesting Skill idea or Element use. Same rules as last time. Goodnight!

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>3711946
kk good luck QM
Also i wanna push fr getting sword type skills for water, lightning and maybe space

Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>3711946

Rolled 4 (1d100)

>>3711946

Sick rolls.

Is there some kind of water skill that allows us to spread a thin layer of water or mist onto various surfaces and then do something with it when one of those surfaces is touched by an enemy?

>>3714916
I could make a proper Skill if you told me what you wanted to do with the mist

>>3716541
Maybe have it turn into spikes when one of the surfaces is touched?

>>3716676
Or have it stick to them when they touch it, binding them firmly to the surface.

>>3716676
Right. I don't consider positioning when in fights much. So I can make a skill which launches mist at the enemy. Blinding them, then it hardens into spikes or sticky substance. Damaging or paralyzing them. Your choice. No garuntee it will be voted for when we get there.

>42

You can't see much, you see some people standing around, talking to each other, an office? You activate Dimensional Swap, using it on another person. Through the telescope you see the people clearly.

>You have 215 HE

You now stand in the middle of an office block, probably miles away.

Everyone turns to look at you, shock or fear on their faces, one of them summons his Physical Jewels.

"Uh..Hello, I'm from the Space Force, testing something out."

"Where's Shang-Phua?"

"Give me a second."

You turn back around, you spot a rather shocked woman being talked to by Dr. Zhang-Xi-Tze through the scope.

>You have 165 HE

You now stand back with the Doctor, he looks at you with a bemused expression.

"That looks like a fun Skill, the poor woman was scared out of her mind. Alright, I think we're done here, any abnormalities to report?"

"No. Is there anything else I can do?"

"Yeah my back is feeling reaaaally achy, old age and all. Do you think you could do a poor, old man a favour and use the Life Element to relieve this pain?"

You see him smirking a bit. He has 9 Jewels, appearances are always a lie.

You refuse and head off to do something else.

"Oh screw you!"

Player Choice for the afternoon.
>Complete 6 Scrolls, using all your Heavenly Energy
>Cultivate
>Train Sword Technique
>Look through a book (Which? You have ones on exorcism and the Saint Element, Medical, the Guard's techniques, Demons and stuff)
>Manners Practice
>Call someone (Who?)
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Try an Element
>Other? (Write-in)

Oh and
>Dimensional Swap
>Cost down 3/20

>>3716876
>>Cultivate

>>3716876
>Cultivate

Rested and ready to fight space monsters, QM?

>>3716876
>>Cultivate
need to get that HE higher and hopefully reach teh 4 jewel level so we cna heal Shan Bai, she would be a great addition to the war effort

>>3716884
Kinda, grading was tough, imagine almost 2 hours of hard working out without water, my mouth tasted like the smell of ammonia afterwards until I drank about 4 pints of water, my mind is rested though.

>Cultivate
>Roll 1d100 best of three

Rolled 44 (1d100)

>>3716890

Rolled 78 (1d100)

>>3716890

If no-one else rolls in the next 5 minutes, please feel free to roll again.

Rolled 19 (1d100)

>>3716890

>>3716897
>78

Progress to the next Level
5511/16000
>HE has been fully restored!

>Choice for evening locked to go see Jessica

You remember that Jessica said she would have something ready by the end of the day. So you should probably see her.

You make your way to her office, she is sitting there with another 2 boxes on the desk. You knock on the door.

"Come in."

"Hello, are you feeling OK?"

"Yeah, I got my supply back, so I'm all good."

"Did you tell them to make spare?"

"Yeah, I've already taken my dose, so I'm just leaving it there for now, let me show you my genius!"

She opens the box, you see a pair of upper wrist guards, made of steel.

"Using the data I...procured last time, I made this prototype Cultivation Tool, it isn't as good as it could be, but it is better than the one you have now, take it. Oh have you tried asking anyone for those lessons I said you'd get?"

"No, I haven't had the time"

"Same. Well do ask, I can't really help you with stuff personally, I mean, I have so much to do. There should be a course for everything, so...go at it."

You thank her, and leave to go to bed, you could help with Jessica tomorrow as well, but Jiang could need some help too, being the Fire Element, the Nature Elemental Master can't help much, the Darkness and Lightning ones maybe, but you have Water to calm down the aftermath of explosions, and have a talent for teaching.

>Gained Prototype Specialised Cultivation Tool, increases the cultivation pool by 3000, replaces Giga-Ultra Cultivation tool.

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 48th Day

You don't awake to the sound of Jiang today, you instead wake up with a notice posted on the inside of the door.

>"Due to the use of a Spacial Skill without permission on someone who didn't consent, you have been fined 5 Gold."

>You have 22021 Gold

What the hell? That bastard tricked you!

>Player Choice for the morning
>Complete 15 Scrolls, using all your Heavenly Energy
>Go see Jiang
>Cultivate
>Help out at the Elemental Research department, including asking about those lessons
>Train Sword Technique
>Go see Fei about the Guard's technique
>Manners Practice
>Call someone (Who?)
>Train a Stat (HE)
>Try an Element
>Other? (Write-in)

>>3716954
>Go see Fei about the Guard's technique

>>3716954
>>Go see Fei about the Guard's technique
if she can use it to improve even further before the war even better, then we can train with jiang

>>3716954
>>Go see Fei about the Guard's technique

>>3716954
>Go see Fei about the Guard's technique

>>3716954
>Go see Fei about the Guard's technique

>>3716954
>Read up on demons
Need to learn how to waifu them

>>3716983
We aint got the Evil element cant waifu demons, our very existence will result in them melting as we become an embodiment of the Saint Element

>>3716983
>Only some demons have anything close to human emotion, you would need the use of either the Darkness or Evil Elements to tame them, then make them your familiar. You can use the Saint Element to purify them into angelic beings, then making them your familiar, at the 10 Jewel and above stage.

>Go see Fei about the Guard's technique

You need to do this sooner rather than later, after all, there is a war coming.

You run to the Air Force, and call Fei on the way there.

"Hi Fei, I need to talk to you about something. Do you have time?"

"I have loads of time! Li just put me in an office somewhere so I don't have to work! It's great! I've just been cultivating. Just follow my directions."

As you get closer you are stopped by a clerk.

"Sir bodyguard, may I ask why you are here? Should you not be attending to Jiang? Fei has not been assigned any work for...the time being, is it a personal matter?"

"I am going to prepare her for the war."

You see his face turn white as a sheet.

"Of course Sir, I'll be out of your way."

He scurries off, with your improved hearing, you hear him mumble something about a memo to the special forces.

You find her messing with a pen.

"Hi Zou! What did you want?"

"I want to teach you something someone showed me, you have impossibly good Heavenly Energy Control, so I think you can do it with a bit of work, I want to teach you how to change the shape and effect of your Jewels, including things like a new set of Consolidated Equipment, think like how you can make skills on the fly, but with armour, or a weapon."

"Huh? I don't know, the woman who made my equipment said it was permanent...I'll try at least. Sounds cool!"

>Roll 1d100+15 for teaching best of three

Rolled 60 (1d100)

>>3716990
>>3716994
I'm so sad right now

Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>3716994
comeone teaching memes, dont let me down

Rolled 52 (1d100)

>>3716994

>>3716999
TRIPS OF EVOLUTION!

>>3716999
Huh. TRIPS OF EVOLUTION. SHE DID IT BOYS
>77

You tell her the basics, but, maybe in a minute of profound clarity from Fei, she gets it immediately.

"It's like making Pizza! I just have to knead my Jewel! Hehehe this is fun!"

You see her 10 Dragonstone Jade Jewels mould into one large sword arm around her right arm. Then a ginormous shield, then a cannon.

"This is great! Now I can finally get rid of those wings!"

"What about flying?"

"Oh I can just use the Wind Element for that, I wanted some wings to fly...but then they became useless after I figured out how to do it myself, top tip, don't get wings!"

Huh. Maybe you should become a professor in your old age, you don't have any classical training, but you will have 200 years total if you become a Upper Zong Stage Jewel Master to learn.

>Your bonus will come when you become a Heavenly Jewel Master.

>Basic Teaching is now 20/20
>+25 to all teaching rolls, this will cap at 100 points, so the gains for it are much harder to come by, but 999 gets you some.

Fei get's a call soon after.

"Hello? I'm busy...Li?! What do you mean you want me to-fine! I'll come! Some Uncle you are!"

She hangs up.

"Thanks Zou!"

"Uncle? The King has brothers?"

"My mum's brother, he likes flying, but he wanted to go really fast, so he couldn't use Wind for that, there are limits, so he got special armour for it."

You remember the Jet Type Consolidated Equipment from the expedition, well at least you know the name of who wears it now.

"I gotta go kill some stuff, bye!"

You see her dash out, still looking at her right arm in amazement.

Player Choice for the afternoon, last update until 18:30 BST, I gotta eat.
>Complete 15 Scrolls, using all your Heavenly Energy, includes Writing Practice.
>Go see Jiang
>Cultivate
>Help out at the Elemental Research department, including asking about those lessons
>Train Sword Technique
>Manners Practice
>Call someone (Who?)
>Train a Stat ( Bonus to HE)
>Try an Element
>Other? (Write-in)

>>3717032
>Complete 15 Scrolls, using all your Heavenly Energy, includes Writing Practice

>>3717032
>Complete 15 Scrolls, using all your Heavenly Energy, includes Writing Practice.
Time to level up our literacy.

>>3717032
>Help out at the Elemental Research department, including asking about those lessons

>>3717032
>Help out at the Elemental Research department, including asking about those lessons

>>3717032
>>Go see Jiang
its our job to help her and jessica, we helped jessica yesterday

Rolled 1 (1d2)

We have 2 options in a tie, so I'm rolling a 1d2 for choice
1. Scrolls
2.Elemental Research Department

>>3717117
>Complete 15 Scrolls
>Roll 15d100, middle of three, I'll tally it all up. You should make progress into Extensive, by that point, you will not be able to improve Literacy without Zun Stage Scrolls, the 15 Shi Scrolls will be an auto-pass, but it will still count as an action.

>>3717129

Rolled 45, 88, 16, 96, 88, 78, 59, 70, 20, 51, 19, 47, 94, 17, 63 = 851 (15d100)

>>3717129

Rolled 64, 31, 27, 76, 95, 45, 55, 44, 74, 58, 6, 47, 74, 40, 61 = 797 (15d100)

>>3717129

Rolled 15, 89, 65, 32, 29, 77, 30, 11, 37, 90, 11, 12, 45, 26, 59 = 628 (15d100)

>>3717134
seems like I messed up somehow

>Literacy +35
>Useful Literacy 100/100
>You cannot progress beyond this point without Zun Stage Scrolls
>Doing Shi Scrolls still requires HE, but will not require a roll.
>Scrolls remaining: 20

You can now do this pattern without thinking about it, why did you ever struggle before? If it took you this short a time to become a Shi Stage Consolidated Equipment Master, why did Jiang and Shimuko both tell you not to do it?

Player Choice for the evening
>Go see Jiang
>Cultivate
>Help out at the Elemental Research department, including asking about those lessons
>Train Sword Technique
>Manners Practice
>Call someone (Who?)
>Train a Stat ( Bonus to HE)
>Try an Element
>Other? (Write-in)

>>3717178
>Manners Practice

>>3717178
>>Go see Jiang

Rolled 2 (1d2)

Rolling 1d2 for Choice

>Go see Jiang

You'd better go see Jiang, she said she'd be in the ballistics department. She would have also got her first Stored Skill.

You go there, and find her, and your three colleagues standing around a map. This looks like training.

"Ah Zou! Come here we need some help. We need to know the best place for me to use my new Skill "Heavenly Explosion", we can either destroy a ship coming from the moon or I can explode a temporary base the moon monsters launched onto the ground. Which do you think?"

"Is your Skill a projectile or a stationary thing?"

"Projectile."

"Ship, we would need all the air supremacy we can get to make an opening for our ships."

The darkness user interjects.

"But if we don't deal with the base, that means they have a chance to do anything they want for a few seconds, like infect the earth or a plant with an alien virus. Just thinking about it makes me sick."

Then Xing-Shu makes his own assessment.

I am for taking down the ship, if it is an alien virus or any alien monster, why would it affect anything on Earth? It may not even have DNA."

The Lightning user steps in.

"Base. More enemies to kill, more soldiers dead."

Jiang puts her head in her hands.

"We're 2 for 2, I'm taking charge, ship it is."

You look over her shoulder, and see a model "Spaceship" in the sky.

You see her fire a golden ball of fire at the ship. It explodes in a massive sphere that releases a huge boom, and when it fades, there is nothing there, only a few burning scraps of wire the ship was connected to.

"Phew, job done! Can I be left alone for a bit?"

The four of you start to leave.

"Zou come back here!"

You run back, she looks a bit angry with you.

"All this time here, no actual training! I am ordering you to teach me more Heavenly Energy Control. It doesn't matter if another member of the ballistics team comes around, I'll smash them! I know I'm good with bombs! Why am I still training?! I'm a Princess I should be able to train how I want!"

"Alright, just don't blow anyone up with that fancy new Skill of yours. What ranking is it?"

"Only the best, 12 Stars. Unlike other skills, I am not limited to how much Heavenly Energy I need to use it, do you have a 12 Star Skill?"

Player Choice
>Tell the truth (Yes)
>Lie (No)

Also

>Roll 1d100+25 for teaching Heavenly Energy Control best of three

Rolled 23 (1d100)

>>3717323
>>Tell the truth (Yes)

Rolled 39 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>3717323
>Tell the truth (Yes)

Rolled 85 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>3717323

>>3717362
Your vote?

>>3717362
>Tell the truth

>105
>Tell the truth

"I do, a Wind Skill called Heavenly Slash."

"Ehhh? Now I'm really fired up! I can be better than you, I know I will!"

It goes quite well, you can see she can bring her Heavenly Energy out of her meridians, She is very tired by the end of it though.

"Zou? Thanks for that. I've been doing nothing but setting up bombs and exploding stuff, you never realise what boredom really is until you spend an entire day blowing shit up!"

"Isn't it fun? You do have a really good Skill."

"Yeah, but imagine doing the same thing again an again, this is why I told you not to become a Consolidated Equipment Master! Hey can you try out that 12 Star Skill for me please?"

"Sure, it won't be as powerful as your explosion, I don't have much Heavenly Energy left after all."

>You have 5 HE

>Improve Ratio 1/50

You use the Skill, and out of your left hand, a large slash forms, golden, covered in golden angel wings, it soars through the air and into a target, completely slicing it to bits, the extra golden wings almost grinding it down. It is beautiful.

Jiang looks on with shining red eyes.

"Wowwww, I wish I had that...."

"Do you have the Wind Element?"

"Shut up! Unlike you I'm a Heavenly Jewel Master! My Fire Element can suffice!"

The two of you talk some more, you see Jiang use the Skill again and again. The time flies, and you have to go back to bed.

"Hey Zou! Fei wanted to see you tomorrow about some teaching, so don't forget!"

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 49th day
>HE has been restored!

You wake up at a normal time, but soon get a call from Fei.

"Hey can you come to my training room please? Li says I have a day off today, he's put me in the combat regiment, so I don't have much to do...I need some help and Jiang says a lot of praise about you....If you're busy that's fine too."

Player Choice for the morning
>Go see Fei
>Complete 15 Scrolls, using all your Heavenly Energy (20 Left)
>Go see Jiang
>Cultivate
>Help out at the Elemental Research department, including asking about those lessons
>Train Sword Technique
>Go see Fei about the Guard's technique
>Manners Practice
>Call someone (Who?)
>Train a Stat (HE)
>Try an Element
>Read a book (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)

>>3717435
>>Go see Fei

>>3717435
>Go see Fei

>Go see Fei

You find her sitting down in the middle of the training area. She appears to be meditating.

"Fei?"

"Ah! Don't scare me like that!"

"Sorry, if everything OK?

"No...sit down here, I need to explain something."

"Firstly, I am a Heavenly King, 10 pairs of Jewels, secondly, I am the oldest sibling, thirdly, Shian has 11 Jewels. Father told me all he wanted me to do was break through to 11 Jewels, like Shian. I don't know how to do this! Cultivating at above 10 Jewels is really different, you have to assign a meaning to your cultivation. My dad chose time reversal, Shian chose psychological entrapment, for my 10 Jewels, I chose control for my Wind, but I don't know what more I can do...I think that unlike my sister and my Father, because my Element is a basic Element, I can spec into more than one idea, but I can't think how I can invoke the Idea of Travel. I want your help in becoming a Heavenly Empress."

"What do you want me to do?"

"Can you use your Saint Element to buff my..thinking?"

"I think so."

"Then let me help you."

Player Choice
>Tell her to focus on the idea of control through something, like her own Wind, or thinking about Wind in a different context, like how if Wind is just air moving along a pressure gradient, then she should be able to control pressure, or how she can control Wind to be made of different gasses. (Specialisation through her Element, will be better with the Wind Element, will improve her intelligence slightly)
>Move forward with her idea. (Specialisation through her Idea of what an AGI and Wind Element user can do. Will improve fighting ability slightly)

>This will have an effect on what Stored Skill she will get. Her identity as a divine being. Some aspects of her personality for a short while.

>>3717547
>Tell her to focus on the idea of control through something, like her own Wind, or thinking about Wind in a different context, like how if Wind is just air moving along a pressure gradient, then she should be able to control pressure, or how she can control Wind to be made of different gasses. (Specialisation through her Element, will be better with the Wind Element, will improve her intelligence slightly)

>>3717547
>What is wind? Air in motion... and that's it. No matter what is the force causing it, or if what the air moving is composed off in the end Wind is a gas moving. Wind itself is the concept of motion taken to an extreme. If there is no motion there is no wind just stagnant gas, if there is no speed or acceleration there is no wind. All travel is motion and all wind is motion, all Wind is the Travel of the air around us

there tried to make it as xianxia as i could while keeing to the logic of wind as simply air in motion

>>3717585
Thanks! I can also tie this to other ideas too with other stuff as well.

Sorry guys, I need some sleep. The quest will restart at 8 am BST tomorrow. Consider this vote to be open overnight. Thank you all for playing! Goodnight!

>>3717547
>Tell her to focus on the idea of control through something, like her own Wind, or thinking about Wind in a different context, like how if Wind is just air moving along a pressure gradient, then she should be able to control pressure, or how she can control Wind to be made of different gasses. (Specialisation through her Element, will be better with the Wind Element, will improve her intelligence slightly).

Wind is the result of a change in equilibrium in the system known as atmosphere. Hot air moves up, cold air moves down. Two simple laws cause a complex system which is both result and cause of the climate of the world.
In other words, once one knows how to control the ascending hot air and descending cold air, one controls the climate.

>>3717581
+1. Why not?

We have a tie I think.

>>3717572
>>3717625
vs
>>3717581 (Her Idea)
>>3719158

Voting will be open until 8:15, I'm having a late breakfast; I woke up late, so I have no time to write for 8:00, sorry.

>>3717547
>>Tell her to focus on the idea of control through something, like her own Wind, or thinking about Wind in a different context, like how if Wind is just air moving along a pressure gradient, then she should be able to control pressure, or how she can control Wind to be made of different gasses. (Specialisation through her Element, will be better with the Wind Element, will improve her intelligence slightly)

>>3717547
>Move forward with her idea

>>3717547
>>Tell her to focus on the idea of control through something, like her own Wind, or thinking about Wind in a different context, like how if Wind is just air moving along a pressure gradient, then she should be able to control pressure, or how she can control Wind to be made of different gasses. (Specialisation through her Element, will be better with the Wind Element, will improve her intelligence slightly)

>Tell her to focus on the idea of control through something, like her own Wind, or thinking about Wind in a different context, like how if Wind is just air moving along a pressure gradient, then she should be able to control pressure, or how she can control Wind to be made of different gasses. (Specialisation through her Element, will be better with the Wind Element, will improve her intelligence slightly)

"I think that with your Heavenly Energy Control, specialising in your Element, like Shian and the King, is a much better way to go. Think controlling pressure with a gradient, or changing the makeup of the gas the wind is made from, or controlling the thermal density to control the weather, or my focusing on the movement aspect of wind, move quickly."

"OK! I trust you Zou!"

>You have 200 HE

You pump the Saint Element into her brain, amplifying her thoughts and her cultivation, you can feel a solid core of Heavenly Energy in her heart begin to change from a perfect sphere with one with engravings of the wind on it. Showing a slight green tint.

Her wrists glow, she starts to rise in the air, dress fluttering and hair waving about. You see another pair of Heavenly Jewels form on either of them. She has become a Heavenly Empress!

"Hah, Hah, my head hurts...I think I'll just go to sleep..."

The energy cuts out, and she slumps to the floor.

Player Choice for the afternoon
>Leave her on a bench in the training room, with a note explaining where you have gone and congratulating her.
>Stay with her

>>3720080
>Stay with her

>>3720080
>>Stay with her

>Stay with her

You pick her up and leave her steady on a bench, then wait for her to wake up.

"Hmmm, Zou? How long was I out?"

"Not long, are you OK?"

"Yeah!"

She summons her Jewels and looks at them, pride glowing on her face.

"Look! Look! I did it! We did it! I can finally not be the second best! Woohoo!"

She jumps up and starts using her Heavenly Energy to fly around, using her new control over Wind to see what she can do.

"Hehehe, Jiang's going to be so jealous! Watch this!"

You see her 11 Dragonstone Jade Jewels mould into armour, with cyclone like ports on her arms, she is still flying, The cyclones start to spin, releasing a massive shock wave.

*BOOOM*

You are flung back by the sheer force of the blast.

"Cough, what else can you do?"

"I don't know but I want to try later! I need to show my father this!"

She runs off at a speed you can't process correctly, leaving you alone.

Player Choice for the afternoon
>Complete 8 Scrolls, using all your Heavenly Energy (20 Left)
>Go see Jiang
>Cultivate
>Help out at the Elemental Research department, including asking about those lessons
>Train Sword Technique
>Manners Practice
>Call someone (Who?)
>Train a Stat (HE)
>Try an Element
>Read a book (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)

>>3720192
>>Help out at the Elemental Research department, including asking about those lessons

>>3720192
>Complete 8 Scrolls, using all your Heavenly Energy (20 Left)

>>3720192
>Other?
Did we inspect the scythe?

>>3720230
Nope, inspecting it partially opens up another side-quest.

>Btw those quads of curiosity are causing an event to occur in 2 days. It's related to the moon war.

Rolled 2 (1d3)

Rolling 1d3 for choice

>Complete 8 Scrolls
>Auto-Pass
>You have no HE
>12 Scrolls left.

Player Choice for the evening
>Go see Jiang
>Cultivate
>Help out at the Elemental Research department, including asking about those lessons
>Train Sword Technique
>Manners Practice
>Call someone (Who?)
>Train a Stat (HE)
>Try an Element
>Read a book (Which?)
>Inspect Reaper's Scythe
>Other? (Write-in)

I guess I'll take the first vote that comes.

Btw the quest will not be able to run from 9:45-12:15 and from 5:30 onward.

10:45*-12:15 sorry.

Where have my players gone?

>>3720281
>Inspect Reaper's Scythe

>>3720281
>Call someone (Who?)

King Long. Tell him about spies.

I just woke up, was watching pools all night...

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>3720443
>>3720484
PLAYERS!

How was the pool? I don't have much interest in it myself.

I thought this quest was over thank the lord. I lost 3 players with one post.

Rolling 1d2 for choice

>Inspect Reaper's Scythe

You take out the scythe, unsheathe it from the cloth you cover it in, carefully hold it by the handle, and take a close look at it.

You see engravings of skulls, icons of death, and curiously, a name "The Association of Tsumao", the name sounds similar to Shimukos, maybe you could call her or look in the Library for the information.

You decide to wield the scythe, using it on some freshly cut wood, it does nothing, you remember that it turned a living tree almost to ashes, so why isn't it working now? Does it do that to intelligent monsters? You'll find out later. You put it back in the cloth and go to bed.

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 50th day.

Again, Jiang doesn't come to wake you up, instead you see a letter from Shao-Bao asking you to hurry up with the scrolls, she is getting bored waiting for you. If you asked Dr Zhang-Xi-Tze for a favour and be asked to be set up to the HE Grid, you could be done in the afternoon and go to see her in the evening. You could go to the Library, you could help out in experiments, you could train Jiang.

Player Choice for the morning
>Cultivate
>Go to the Space Force and ask to be put in the HE Grid to do all the scrolls
>See Jiang
>See Fei
>See Jessica and ask about research you can help with
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Go to the Library
>Train a Stat (HE)
>Try an Element
>Manners Practice

>>3720497
>Go to the Space Force and ask to be put in the HE Grid to do all the scrolls

Mostly watched SFV and some UNIST, the highlight was probably Chris T's Ken match. Way too many Karins, though.

>>3720497
>Go to the Space Force and ask to be put in the HE Grid to do all the scrolls
Yeah, let's do this.

>>3720521
Oh I thought you were talking about pool the sport! I googled some stuff and it turns out to be a Street Fighter Five tournament. Righto. My choice of game isn't fighting games unfortunately, but like any sport, it must have been exhilarating none the less.

>HE Grid

You need to get these Scrolls done now, so you dash over to the Elemental Research Department, find Dr Zhang-Xi-Tze and ask for the same bracelet for a bit.

"Sure kid, what do you need it for?"

"Consolidated Equipment Scrolls."

"Good luck, never known why people even do them, it's antiquated technology as far as I am concerned, can a God Tier Set take you to the moon? I don't think so."

He leaves you to do it on your own.

>Auto-pass, you don't get any bonuses

One day you should try and design your own piece. You still have all your Heavenly Energy, so you hand back the bracelet and run off to Shao-Bao

>Choice auto set for the afternoon.

You see her at her "Stall" if a stall were made of Gems that is.

"Zou! Have you written on them all?"

"Yes, I managed to complete the majority as well."

"Huh? Give them here."

You give them to her, and she looks them over one by one.

"What the hell? You may be born for this young man. Hmmm, Well I have a promise to keep, follow me!"

She leads you inside, and passes you a much more complicated Scroll, with colours of different inks.

"This is a Zun Stage Scroll, it enables a person to imbue an Element, this one makes a helmet with the Lightning Element, many of our Physical Jewel Master electrical engineers get it for the Lightning resistance. If you become a Zun Stage you will have a success rate of 1 in 10000, a poor person wouldn't disregard it, but it is still 27 years of their life, so don't think you can sell it to the populace."

She puts down a stack of 50.

"Do these, come back to me when you are done and we can check your progress, it will not be as fast as before. Also, I am giving you some extra sheets so you can design your own Shi Stage Consolidated Scroll, you would not be able to sell it, as you would need 100000 of them, but meh, it is progress. Now get to work!"

>Roll 15d100 middle of three for Zun Stage Scroll completion. I will tally up the bonuses, for Extensive Literacy, every 5 is 1%, and you will become a Zun Stage Consolidated Master with 400/500.

Rolled 79, 18, 84, 26, 1, 51, 67, 74, 61, 56, 52, 14, 66, 63, 63 = 775 (15d100)

>>3720540

I figured that thing about the pool a minute after I posted. Thinking about it, with this heat...

>>3720543
What's the temperature like for you? I'm living in a comfortable 23 degrees Centigrade. So I'm fine. I

Rolled 82, 79, 47, 13, 45, 86, 91, 16, 35, 10, 9, 70, 72, 35, 86 = 776 (15d100)

>>3720540

If no-one else rolls in the next 5 minutes, then do feel free to roll again.

Rolled 86, 37, 88, 60, 49, 64, 61, 43, 89, 38, 72, 1, 62, 92, 60 = 902 (15d100)

>>3720547
Sure.

>Literacy increased by 35
>Useful Literacy 35/100
>Skill UP!
>Extensive Literacy 35/500
>You can complete a singular scroll with a roll of 93 or more.
>You have no HE

You try the first scroll, and find it is a lot more complicated than it looks, you realise that it is only possible with 4 hands, as it needs to be done in one stroke, yet requires the normal Ink, and Lightning Core ink followed by Earth Core Ink, with some normal Ink to top it off. You learn eventually that you can manipulate the Spacial Element to move the Ink itself, so you only need to draw with one hand, and move the rest with your control. However, the helmet was drawn in 3D, so it is much more difficult to draw in due to the off angles.

You don't get very far. Shao-Bao comes back in.

"Let's see, now that is some good progress! I will give you some more sheets, 50, which I expect to be done soon!"

"Yes, Mistress."

You head out with some Zun Stage Scrolls.

Player Choice for the evening
>Cultivate
>Go to the Space Force and ask to be put in the HE Grid to do all the scrolls
>See Jiang
>See Fei
>See Jessica and ask about research you can help with
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Go to the Library
>Train a Stat (HE)
>Try an Element
>Manners Practice
>Other? (Write-in)

>>3720572
>Jiang
Let's do some training.

>>3720587
I mean,
>See Jiang

>See Jiang

You think you need a break, time to teach someone else. You go find Jiang in a special room named *Cultivation Room".

"Hello? Jiang?"

"Zou?" She opens her eyes, and makes a quizzical expression at you.

"Why're you here?"

"Do you want some training to increase your Heavenly Energy amount?"

"Yeah...but I need to cultivate, sis is now a Heavenly Empress after all, so I need to catch up."

"If you breakthrough without training your Heavenly Energy you'll forever miss out on some."

"Really? Well...I can spare an afternoon."

You take her to one of those Orbs, and the both of you get to work, using your Heavenly Energy to grab more and more.

>Roll 1d100+25 for training Jiang and yourself on the HE stat, best of three.

Rolled 67 (1d100)

>>3720593

>>3720603
If no-one else rolls in the next 5 minutes, could you please roll a 2d100 for me?

Rolled 24, 18 + 25 = 67 (2d100 + 25)

>>3720593

Rolled 95 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>3720593

Sorry guys, I need to go visit my grandma, it's her birthday, something came up so I will have to finish for now and end early, the quest will start again at 8am BST tomorrow, thanks for playing!

>120 best teacher

You give her some tips, and tell her the most effective way to get more. You do excellently, your superior Heavenly Energy Control has made this an easy task. You finish quite early.

>HE is at MAX

Jiang stops after a few hours, she realised she couldn't fit any more in to her Dantian.

"I hear I get a 2.5 multiplier when I get a new Jewel, does this mean the Heavenly Energy just now will also double?"

"Yep, so remember to do it every time you break through, how close are you to the next Level?"

"I'm at the 7th Level already, I should get my second Jewel in about a month. Mum says I seem to be born for this."

Wait, does that mean she's more powerful than you now? You'll have to start cultivating again in order to catch up, work harder.

"I'm glad for you. after not cultivating for so long this must be an unexpected blessing."

"Yep! My dad said that he thinks I'll make it to 6 Jewels within the year! I don't really believe him, he just likes to coddle me, but I want to get as far as possible!"

Huh, with her dad being a time traveller, what he says might be true after all.

"Good luck, I'll do my best to match you!"

"Hehe, I'll start to worry if you ever become more powerful than me, but that won't happen!"

She sticks her tongue out at you.

"Bye!"

Then runs off, probably back to her room. You need some sleep.

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 51st day

You wake up; get ready in your uniform, but notice another letter on the desk. It has the Dershwa Royal Clan Symbol on it.

"Dear Zou-Do-Shai, Royal Bodyguard to the Sixth Princess Jiang Dershwa and Mid Level Shi Stage Elemental Jewel Master,

You have been cordially invited to an invitational dinner hosted by her Highness Kurushi Tsushuri, the Matriarch of the Tsushuri Clan, Heavenly God Master, for the express purpose of your deployment for the continued war efforts against the newly discovered threat of the moon.

You will be accompanied by the Sixth Princess, Jiang Dershwa, Low Level Shi Stage Heavenly Jewel Master, and His Majesty Long Dershwa, Patriarch of the Dershwa Clan, Heavenly God Master and Her Highness Kurushi Tsushuri.

We expect to accept you this day as soon as is comfortable. Please make the attendants aware when you are available.

From Her Highness Kurushi Tsushuri, the Matriarch of the Tsushuri Clan, Heavenly God Master."

Ah, another Heavenly God wants to see you, what joy.

Player Choice for the morning.
>Cultivate
>Go to the Space Force and ask to be put in the HE Grid to do all the scrolls
>Go to the dinner, in formal dress
>See Fei
>See Jessica and ask about research you can help with
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Go to the Library
>Train a Stat
>Try an Element
>Manners Practice
>Other?(Write-in)

>>3723383
>Cultivate
We need to be better than Jiang. A bodyguard weaker than his mistress is useless.

>>3723426
Eventually, given enough time, she will out pace you and her other bodyguards, as she is a Heavenly Jewel Master
>Cultivate

>Roll a 3d100 for me please, best of one. I don't expect any other players for the morning, so I will need you to roll for 3 people until more arrive. Thank you for your cooperation.

Rolled 27, 98, 100 = 225 (3d100)

>>3723428

Rolled 77, 18, 77 = 172 (3d100)

>>3723428
Shit, I was late.

>>3723441
>>3723442
100, so I'm sorta glad you're late
>NAT 100! Total roll amount is doubled to 9100!

Progress to the next Level
14611/16000

You promised yourself that you would work even harder than Jiang, you need to get stronger.

Something happens to your generators, due to the new cultivation tool, their generation is doubled! You are close to breaking through.

You known that before you eat at the dinner, you need to brush up on your food etiquette, which Jiang blasted you for, calling you a disgrace, with how fiery she is now, you shudder to think what could happen is you mess up. You do have a book on it, you have realised that even the difficult medical books are no problem for you, maybe now's the time to get presentable.

Player Choice for the afternoon
>Manners Practice (+60 bonus with the book and Extensive Literacy to the roll)
>Cultivate
>Go to the Space Force and ask to be put in the HE Grid to do all the scrolls
>Go to the dinner, in formal dress
>See Fei
>See Jessica and ask about research you can help with
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Go to the Library
>Train a Stat
>Try an Element
>Other?(Write-in)

>>3723455
>Manners Practice

>Manners Practice
>Roll 1d100+60 best of three, if only 1 person rolls, feel free to roll a 2d100 after 5 minutes with no more rolls.

Rolled 79 + 60 (1d100 + 60)

>>3723482

Rolled 67, 60 + 60 = 187 (2d100 + 60)

>>3723484

>This is the 1111 encounter

>>3723484
Thank you
>139
>Manners increased by 6!
>Rudimentary Manners 8/5
>Skill UP
>Basic Manners 3/20

You get the basics of table manners down, but struggle with doing more than that.

>Choice for the evening LOCKED to the dinner.

You ask to be dressed formally by the attendants, and say that you will be joining Her Highness in the evening.

Once dressed you are lead to a massive banquet hall, but with only 4 chairs, you recognise the dignified Long and Jiang Dershwa, but the new woman is at the head of the table.

Like all cultivators, she is impossibly young, looking only around 22, with black, sometimes dark brown hair, and solid black eyes, you see a distant similarity to Shimuko. She has darker skin than her though. You introduce yourself to her with the utmost respect. Looking at her face, it seems expressionless, almost like a soulless statue.

"Good evening, Your Highness, how was your journey to the Palace?"

"It was without interruption. Please be seated."

You sit down without complaint. The King takes over.

"Now then, I am not sure how, but Her Highness caught word of a Saint Element user, she has asked us to make the offer personally for your temporary transfer to her medical unit. I have my objections, but we are all friends here, so I will allow you to come to your own decision. Tsushuri if you would please?"

Throughout that and the following exchange you don't see a change on her face, still stone cold.

"I have 12 Beryl Jewels, with the Divine Element, I can see everything. I have seen your compassion and availability to help and heal. I know that you played a major role in healing King Dershwa's daughter. I want you to join our army, so that we may study you, learn from you. In preparation for a moon assault. I ask that you only stay with us for 2 weeks, you will be fed, allowed time to train and cultivate. You will be allowed to make calls home. You will be allowed to hunt for money and other things. Do you have any questions?"

>Roll 1d100 best of three not to embarrass yourself at the dinner table.
>DC 85

Player Choice
>Write-in to ask questions before you accept or refuse, 30 minutes.

Rolled 43 (1d100)

>>3723516
>"How exactly will you be studying me?"

Rolled 7 (1d100)

>>3723516

Rolled 59 (1d100)

>>3723516

>>3723519
>>3723524
>>3723530
...At least she knows we're compassionate.

>59
Failure.

You haven't had enough practice at this manners thing, you end up dropping your fork at one point. Jiang's face turns sour.

*Clang!*

Tsushuri's face stirs slightly.

Jiang steps in.

"I'm so terribly sorry about him! He wasn't brought up in high society so-"

"I know. Please be quiet."

She shuts up.

"Any questions?"

"How will you be studying me exactly?"

"You will use your skills and Saint Element in what ever capacity my subjects deem to be useful. Healing the sick, reviving the dead, weakening demons. We want to test you. Will you be coming with us? You will be taken there by plane, please use that opportunity to talk to my subjects, or cultivate, it will last 1 day of travel. I think spending 1 day on improving your dexterity will be in order. I do not want that to happen again."

The King steps in.

"Yes, yes, of course. My turn now. I am personally opposed. I hear you've been doing some excellent work with Jiang and you are now a Shi Stage Consolidated Equipment Master. Our country has all the resources you need, you could do some more work in the Elemental Research department. The good Dr. Tze praised your work ethic and approach to the Spacial Element. I could always have a fellow Great Element user around. Please take both sides of the matter at hand here. If you do decide to go with Tsushuri, then I will have a farewell gift for you, nothing special, but it's something."

Her Highness talks again

"I expect a swift answer. You do not keep a Divine Element user waiting."

Player Choice
>Accept
>Refuse

>>3723543
>Accept

>>3723543
>Write-in: Ask for Jiang's permission to stay with their army.
Our first and most important duty is to the princess. She should be the one deciding if we can work for them.

>>3723547
Switching. This makes sense

>Write-in

"Jiang, what do you think, you are my priority, do I have permission?"

Tsushuri answers in her stead.

"I invited her so that she may observe, she has other bodyguards, she seems concerned for you, it does not matter. You do not need her permission to help people."

You look over to Jiang, she looks terrified, she isn't speaking, she just stares at the wall. Red eyes wide as globes. You don't know what the Divine Element does, but even as a Princess, she doesn't argue with a Heavenly God Master.

The King confirms this.

"Yes, Zou. I'm sorry to say that between my now strong and powerful daughter and a favour to an old friend....this will take precedence. I assure you that I will keep her safe in these troubled times."

He smiles at you a bit sheepishly. He hasn't summoned his Jewels, so there must be no danger of harm.

Player Choice
>Accept
>Refuse