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For those of you unfamiliar with HJC. It is a Chinese Wuxia web-novel.
You can read it here, it is completed: https://www.wuxiaworld.com/novel/heavenly-jewel-change

The Wiki (May lack information with certain characters but has all the mechanical information we need): https://heavenly-jewel-change.fandom.com/wiki/Heavenly_Jewel_Change_Wiki

Lots of things like place names and people will be OC. so I can run with interesting character ideas.

First Thread: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/3638342
Last thread : http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/3686357
MC Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/eUJQC3YB

You play as Zou-Do-Shai, a personal bodyguard to Princess Jiang Dershwa, a Heavenly Jewel Master. Last time you saw the Guard make a new Physical Jewel Technique, accepted the job as said bodyguard, and got to work, by being tested by 6 members of the Dershwa Clan, including its Patriarch, you passed! You were tasked with making another Princess, Shan-Bai, more sociable, when you found out she was possessed by a demon, and her real personality is really nice. You are striving to be strong enough to exorcise this demon in the future. After that you went to space in a teleporting spaceship, and saw a massive monster army on the moon, this is very worrying, but you are eager to discover more. Then you found out whilst training Jiang that you are an excellent teacher for her! You are now going to visit the Consolidated Equipment Palace with Xing-Shu, your direct superior. Join Zou-Do-Shai on his journey to Godhood!

>Go with Xing-Shu

Writing
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"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)
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>>3708287
>>Accept
would it be a god tier set? cause if so then yes, if not a set then try to roll for Shi
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>>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).
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>>3708287
>Accept
I don't see why we wouldn't want to be one
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>>3708291
Yep, a whole set. She wants to make a set to work around your Saint Element.
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>>3708305
Set of the Saintly God
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>>3708307
Divine Angelic Harmony set

15 minutes longer for voting.
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>>3708287
>>Accept
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>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
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Rolled 87 + 40 (1d100 + 40)

>>3708370
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Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>3708370
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Rolled 40 + 40 (1d100 + 40)

>>3708370
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>>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!
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Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>3708444
>444
nice
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Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>3708444
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>>3708444
Trips of death!
>Writing for Scythe shenanigans tomorrow. Have fun with that!
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Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>3708444
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>>3708462
C'night and thanks for running!
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>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
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Rolled 99 (1d100)

>>3710750
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Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>3710750
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If no-one else rolls again in the next 5 minutes, please feel free to roll again.
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Rolled 23 (1d100)

>>3710750
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>>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.
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Rolled 78 + 3 (1d100 + 3)

>>3710792
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Rolled 55 + 3 (1d100 + 3)

>>3710792
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Rolled 18 + 3 (1d100 + 3)

>>3710792
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>>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.
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Sorry, middle of three for this one, typo.
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Rolled 4, 6, 1, 12, 65, 49, 49, 91, 36, 27, 9 + 6 = 355 (11d100 + 6)

>>3710817
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Rolled 23, 68, 93, 75, 91, 62, 39, 13, 25, 18, 29 + 6 = 542 (11d100 + 6)

>>3710817
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Rolled 62, 89, 83, 11, 5, 81, 49, 69, 30, 88, 78 + 6 = 651 (11d100 + 6)

>>3710817
Another if nobody shows up.
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>>3710826
This is me.
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Rolled 39, 22, 1, 32, 95, 40, 29, 9, 22, 90, 10 = 389 (11d100)

>>3710817
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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)
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>>3710854
>Train Jiang
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>>3710854
>Train Jiang
Ask if she could improve our writing
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>>3710859
Nah, the only way you can improve it is by doing Consolidated Equipment Scrolls.
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>>3710854
>Complete 15 Scrolls, using all your Heavenly Energy
Let's do this.
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>>3710854
>Complete 15 Scrolls, using all your Heavenly Energy
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Rolling 1d2 for choice
1.Jiang
2.Scrolls
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Rolled 1 (1d2)

Dammit.
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>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!
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Rolled 92 + 15 (1d100 + 15)

>>3710886
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Rolled 51 + 15 (1d100 + 15)

>>3710886
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Rolled 47 + 15 (1d100 + 15)

>>3710889
Another roll if nobody shows up.
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>>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.
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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?
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>>3710971
>Complete 15 Scrolls, using all your Heavenly Energy

>>3710974
I was wondering about it. Then again, the thread is already underway...
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>>3710974
make new thread now.
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>>3710971
>Complete 15 Scrolls, using all your Heavenly Energy
Just continue with this one
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>>3710971
>Complete 15 Scrolls, using all your Heavenly Energy
>>3710974
Too late. It's not really a big problem anyway.
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>>3710974
Continue as is,
Just remember to archive correctly.
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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.
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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
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>>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.
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Rolled 22, 86, 78, 71, 61, 15, 63, 25, 69, 61, 62, 43, 40, 54, 91 = 841 (15d100)

>>3711074
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Rolled 24, 100, 65, 3, 2, 84, 4, 12, 71, 58, 67, 90, 88, 39, 74 = 781 (15d100)

>>3711068
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>>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
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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
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Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>3711117
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Rolled 88 (1d100)

>>3711117
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Rolled 63 (1d100)

rape the cute chink girl
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>>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
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"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
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Rolled 61 (1d100)

>>3711193
>Don't
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Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>3711193
> Take Heavenly Slash too.

Is that our finisher? Our Kamehameha equivalent?

HEAVENLY...

...SLASH!

Something like that?
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>>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.
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>>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
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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.
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>>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
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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.
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>>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
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>>3711238
> 777
> Time travel quest to save Shara?
> Sneaking around through the palace
> Avoiding paradoxes
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>>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.
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Rolled 27 (1d100)

>>3711293
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Rolled 86 (1d100)

>>3711293
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Rolled 27 (1d100)

>>3711293
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>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.)
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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!
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>>3711347
>Yes (Go to sleep.)

The possibility of releasing some of Shara's shackles permanently far outweigh a couple of questions right now.
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>>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
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>>3711347
>Yes
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>>3711347
What
Did she rape shara and mindbreak her
It's the only possible explanation
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>>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.
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>>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
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>>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.
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>>3711478
feel better QM, loving the quest
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>>3711478
>Answer the door
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>>3711478
>Answer the door
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>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
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>>3711596
>Take Jessica with you to the Elemental Research department, and help her recover there.
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>>3711596
>Take Jessica with you to the Elemental Research department, and help her recover there
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>>3711596
>>Take Jessica with you to the Elemental Research department, and help her recover there.
need to help her anyways
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>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
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>>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
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>>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.
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>>3711720
>Just say by and leave to find Dr. Zhang Xi-Tze
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>>3711720
>Bring her some food and be sure she eats it
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>>3711737
massively freaks out and goes "SCIENCE!!!"
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>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
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>>3711863
>X-Ray Glasses
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>>3711863
>>Spacial Telescope
with the transposition skill this is fucking broken and can effectively replica long range teleportation and other such insanity
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>>3711863
>>Spacial Telescope
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>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!
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Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>3711946
kk good luck QM
Also i wanna push fr getting sword type skills for water, lightning and maybe space
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Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>3711946
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Rolled 4 (1d100)

>>3711946
>>
Sick rolls.
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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?
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>>3714916
I could make a proper Skill if you told me what you wanted to do with the mist
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>>3716541
Maybe have it turn into spikes when one of the surfaces is touched?
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>>3716676
Or have it stick to them when they touch it, binding them firmly to the surface.
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>>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.
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>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)
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Oh and
>Dimensional Swap
>Cost down 3/20
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>>3716876
>>Cultivate
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>>3716876
>Cultivate

Rested and ready to fight space monsters, QM?
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>>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
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>>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
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Rolled 44 (1d100)

>>3716890
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Rolled 78 (1d100)

>>3716890
>>
If no-one else rolls in the next 5 minutes, please feel free to roll again.
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Rolled 19 (1d100)

>>3716890
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>>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)
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>>3716954
>Go see Fei about the Guard's technique
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>>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
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>>3716954
>>Go see Fei about the Guard's technique
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>>3716954
>Go see Fei about the Guard's technique
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>>3716954
>Go see Fei about the Guard's technique
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>>3716954
>Read up on demons
Need to learn how to waifu them
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>>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
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>>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
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Rolled 60 (1d100)

>>3716990
>>3716994
I'm so sad right now
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Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>3716994
comeone teaching memes, dont let me down
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Rolled 52 (1d100)

>>3716994
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>>3716999
TRIPS OF EVOLUTION!
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>>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)
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>>3717032
>Complete 15 Scrolls, using all your Heavenly Energy, includes Writing Practice
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>>3717032
>Complete 15 Scrolls, using all your Heavenly Energy, includes Writing Practice.
Time to level up our literacy.
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>>3717032
>Help out at the Elemental Research department, including asking about those lessons
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>>3717032
>Help out at the Elemental Research department, including asking about those lessons
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>>3717032
>>Go see Jiang
its our job to help her and jessica, we helped jessica yesterday
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Rolled 1 (1d2)

We have 2 options in a tie, so I'm rolling a 1d2 for choice
1. Scrolls
2.Elemental Research Department
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>>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.
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>>3717129
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Rolled 45, 88, 16, 96, 88, 78, 59, 70, 20, 51, 19, 47, 94, 17, 63 = 851 (15d100)

>>3717129
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Rolled 64, 31, 27, 76, 95, 45, 55, 44, 74, 58, 6, 47, 74, 40, 61 = 797 (15d100)

>>3717129
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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)
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>>3717178
>Manners Practice
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>>3717178
>>Go see Jiang
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Rolled 2 (1d2)

Rolling 1d2 for Choice
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>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
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Rolled 23 (1d100)

>>3717323
>>Tell the truth (Yes)
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Rolled 39 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>3717323
>Tell the truth (Yes)
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Rolled 85 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>3717323
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>>3717362
Your vote?
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>>3717362
>Tell the truth
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>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)
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>>3717435
>>Go see Fei
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>>3717435
>Go see Fei
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>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.
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>>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)
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>>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
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there tried to make it as xianxia as i could while keeing to the logic of wind as simply air in motion
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>>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!
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>>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.
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>>3717581
+1. Why not?
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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.
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>>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)
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>>3717547
>Move forward with her idea
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>>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)
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>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
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>>3720080
>Stay with her
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>>3720080
>>Stay with her
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>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)
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>>3720192
>>Help out at the Elemental Research department, including asking about those lessons
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>>3720192
>Complete 8 Scrolls, using all your Heavenly Energy (20 Left)
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>>3720192
>Other?
Did we inspect the scythe?
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>>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.
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Rolled 2 (1d3)

Rolling 1d3 for choice
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>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)
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I guess I'll take the first vote that comes.
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Btw the quest will not be able to run from 9:45-12:15 and from 5:30 onward.
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10:45*-12:15 sorry.

Where have my players gone?
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>>3720281
>Inspect Reaper's Scythe
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>>3720281
>Call someone (Who?)

King Long. Tell him about spies.

I just woke up, was watching pools all night...
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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
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>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
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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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...
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>>3720543
What's the temperature like for you? I'm living in a comfortable 23 degrees Centigrade. So I'm fine. I
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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.
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Rolled 86, 37, 88, 60, 49, 64, 61, 43, 89, 38, 72, 1, 62, 92, 60 = 902 (15d100)

>>3720547
Sure.
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>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)
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>>3720572
>Jiang
Let's do some training.
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>>3720587
I mean,
>See Jiang
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>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.
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Rolled 67 (1d100)

>>3720593
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>>3720603
If no-one else rolls in the next 5 minutes, could you please roll a 2d100 for me?
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Rolled 24, 18 + 25 = 67 (2d100 + 25)

>>3720593
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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!
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>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)
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>>3723383
>Cultivate
We need to be better than Jiang. A bodyguard weaker than his mistress is useless.
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>>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.
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Rolled 27, 98, 100 = 225 (3d100)

>>3723428
>>
Rolled 77, 18, 77 = 172 (3d100)

>>3723428
Shit, I was late.
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>>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)
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>>3723455
>Manners Practice
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>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.
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Rolled 79 + 60 (1d100 + 60)

>>3723482
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Rolled 67, 60 + 60 = 187 (2d100 + 60)

>>3723484
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>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.
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Rolled 43 (1d100)

>>3723516
>"How exactly will you be studying me?"
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Rolled 7 (1d100)

>>3723516
>>
Rolled 59 (1d100)

>>3723516
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>>3723519
>>3723524
>>3723530
...At least she knows we're compassionate.
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>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
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>>3723543
>Accept
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>>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.
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>>3723547
Switching. This makes sense
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>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
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>>3723557
>Accept
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>>3723557
>Accept
>>
>Accept

"I accept, when will we be leaving?"

"Tomorrow. Bring everything you have, spend the rest of the evening dealing with things you need to."

She stands up and leaves, her job done.

The King and Jiang don't leave.

"Give me one moment. I think I'll give you this now."

He reaches into his robes, and brings out a letter and a small device.

"Read the letter later, the device is a tracking beacon. I don't want to loose you. Have a good time!"

He leaves, only you and Jiang sit together now.

"Zou...why? I want you to stay here, with me! Training me! I can't go a whole 2 weeks without that! I could be a Mid Level Shi Stage Master by the time you come back!"

Player Choice
>Write-in for Zou-Do-Shai's reason to accept 30 minutes, will help develop his personality. He wants to work hard and is eager to explore space so far.
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>>3723577
Zou wants to help as many people as he can. If he has an Opportunity to heal people and expel demons he'll jump at it.
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>>3723624
Thanks. Taking this.

"Instead of being stuck here, I could help people on the battlefield! There could be Evil Element beasts to kill! I want to help as many people as I can."

Jiang's face softens a bit.

"Fine, just come back in one piece."

"I promise."

You leave to pack, you realise you have a decent chunk of the evening left. You could do something before you go to bed.

Player Choice for the evening/2
>Cultivate
>Go to the Space Force and ask to be put in the HE Grid to do half of the scrolls
>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)
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>>3723577
> The Saint Element... its power is untapped. I still don't know much about it. And if I don't use this opportunity to mature my understanding of it, in the near future, I may miss things. I'm a bodyguard. Your bodyguard. Can't afford to miss things. Don't worry, I'll be back soon, stronger than ever, and by then, I'll want to see if your cultivation progressed or if you slacked off, 'kay?
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>>3723631
>Go to the Library

Demonology 101.
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>>3723633
Dammit I missed it by 1 MINUTE!

Re-writing!

(You dont't leave, retconning some stuff.)

"Instead of being stuck here, I could help people on the battlefield! There could be Evil Element beasts to kill! I want to help as many people as I can. Not only that, but my Saint Element... its power is untapped. I still don't know much about it; if I don't use this opportunity to mature my understanding of it, in the near future, I may miss things. I'm a bodyguard. Your bodyguard. I can't afford to miss this, I could save lives, help people like I helped you! Don't worry, I'll be back soon, stronger than ever, and by then, I'll want to see if your cultivation progressed. You said about 30 days? Try for 10."

"Fine, just come back in one piece. I can't loose you like this! I'm just going to get my first piece of Consolidated Equipment too! Tell you what! When you get back! I am going to fight you, and I will beat you! Just you wait!"

"Sure! I'll get stronger, may the best bodyguard win!"

You leave to pack, you realise you have a decent chunk of the evening left. You could do something before you go to bed.


(Continue with choice, I have to eat some lunch, so I won't be back until about 1:30pm BST, so voting will be open until then. I have a roast pork cooking.)
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>>3723641
>Manners Practice
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>>3723675
Missed it by 4 mins sorry.

>Demonology

You have to learn a bit more about demons before you leave.

You walk to the Library and pick up 1 of about only 20 books on the Evil Element.

>Evil Element beasts focus on mental cultivation, yet are physically incredibly weak for their cultivation. They possess mind bending and psychic abilities
>They have a hierarchy of a yet undetermined criteria
>The Saint Element can kill, banish or purify demons in rare cases. The ability to kill or banish (Seal) demons is available at the Zun Stage, a problem so far, as many of those who awaken with the Saint Element have all died at an early stage due to no combat ability to protect them in their early life as a Jewel Master.
>Skills such as Holy Sword. Incarnate, and Resurrect are all high level skills
>Then we have buffing skills, followed by Purify, then de-buffing skills at lower levels
>There are no 6 Star or below Stored Skills.
>For most people however, it is suggested to physically attack them, and to obtain a holy amulet to prevent psychic ability from penetrating the mind
>Evil Element beasts become more human with strength, but only some can appear to be human like
>Strong examples include the Succubus, the Minotaur, the Mind Scalpel, the Cyberdemon, the Emissary and the Acidic Maw.
>Weak examples include Demonic Tentacles, Blood Spheres, Possessors, Vampires (Can also be strong), Witches and other animal like beasts.
>All Evil Element beasts are rated 4 Stars or above. Even if they are physically weak.
>DO NOT FIGHT THEM, YOU WILL EITHER BE KILLED, HAVE YOUR SOUL DRAINED OUT, OR KILL YOURSELF

Wew, that's a lot. You put the book back, and go to your room to sleep.

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 52nd day.

You wake up and immediately get your stuff, get dressed and get on the plane. You are joined by Her Highness, and about 6 others, who have all covered their faces. They have their Jewels out. You see that same woman who took you here at the helm when you first went to the Palace, you see that she has one Physical Jewel out. She makes an announcement.

"This flight will take until the evening, your Highness, so please make yourself comfortable."

Welp, what to do. Maybe you could speak to one of the face covered people, you could just cultivate. You see an Upper Zong Stage Physical Jewel Master. A Upper Zong Stage Life Element Master, a Mid Level Zun Stage Wind Element Master, a Water Master of the same strength, a Low Level Zong Stage Darkness Element user, and a Mid Level Zong Stage Lightning user.

Player Choice for the morning
>Cultivate
>Speak to someone (Who?)


Sorry guys, the family has insisted we play a game of scrabble, so the quest will stop now, then restart at 15:30 BST. Thanks for playing!
>>
I go to sleep and when i wake up people have given up access to Fei training, Jessicas cultivaton tools and the skill storing palace in order to go heal people in a war zone, god fucking dammit
>>
we havent even told Long about the beastment spies, who are totaally gonna report us and make us an assassination target, why the fyck did people accept this, its fucking stupid
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>>3723682
>Cultivate
>>
>>3723682
>Call Fei in private and inform her about the beastmen spies in the palace
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>>3723682
>Cultivate
>>
We finished early. Good news is that I won by 19 points with the Q, Z and a really open J. Nice.

>>3723694
Do this when you get a room to yourself. There is nothing that soundproof on this plane, especially with the HEAVENLY GOD sitting nearby.

>Cultivate
>Roll 1d100 best of three
>>
Rolled 39 (1d100)

>>3723720
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Rolled 7 (1d100)

>>3723720
>>
If no-one else rolls in the next 5 minutes do feel free to roll a 1d100 afterwards.
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Rolled 3 (1d100)

>>3723728
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>>3723724
>39
Progress to the next Level
16386/16000!
>You have an opportunity to break through!

You can feel it! A new generator can be made!

>Roll 1d100 best of three to break through, failure will result in your Heavenly Energy total being halved
>DC 50
>>
Rolled 28 (1d100)

>>3723738
>>
Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>3723738
>>
Again, if there are no more rolls after 5 minutes, do roll again.
>>
Rolled 46 (1d100)

>>3723747
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>>3723746
>82
Success!
>All Stats increase by 10!
Levels of Heavenly Energy 7/33
Status
Strength 110 (120 Max)
Agility 110 (120 Max)
Endurance 110 (120 Max)
Flexibility 95 (120 Max)
Coordination 100 (120 Max)
Stamina 100 (100 Max)
Heavenly Energy 400 (420 Max)

Progress to the next Level
4117/18000

You feel another Heavenly Energy Generator form in the solar plexus, providing a central area of Heavenly Energy generation. There is still the afternoon and evening to go through. You look outside for a bit, and see a massive desert beneath you, the wasteland? Sometimes you see a speck of a monster. You hear a message from the pilot.

"Captain speaking, at this stage you can leave your seats and do whatever, we are at cruising altitude."

You look around, and see that this place is rather large, so you can do a lot of things. There is even a desk. Not much room to train in though.

You see most of the people around you stretch a bit and start writing letters somewhere. Do they not have communicators? It must be exclusive to Dershwa City.

Player Choice for the afternoon
>Cultivate
>Speak to someone (Who?)
>Do 16 Zun Scrolls somewhere, hopefully people just ignore you
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Which?)
>Other?(Write-in)
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>>3723770
>Cultivate
This is a good time to catch up on all the cultivation we could've done.
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>>3723770
>cultivate
as long as we take the time to train our HE before our next breakthrough this is prob a good idea
>>
>Cultivate
>Roll 1d100 best of three, same rules as last time.
>>
Rolled 66 (1d100)

>>3723796
cultivating, the equivalent of sleeping during the flight
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>>3723804
Do feel free to roll a 2d100, please.
>>
Rolled 1, 75 = 76 (2d100)

>>3723815
>>
Rolled 8 (1d100)

>>3723796
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>>3723818
>>3723819
That gives me
66,1,8? I'm taking your first roll of the 2d100.
>Nat 1
Failure!

You try to cultivate, but nothing happens! You swear something must be off, is it the interference from the Heavenly God? The divine Element? It is now the evening. The Captain asks that people remain seated for the final bit of the flight. You look outside, and for the first time in your life, see the ocean!
It's beautiful, greens and blues merging and swaying, with white pockets of sea foam.

Player Choice for the evening
>Cultivate
>Speak to someone (Who?)
>Read a book (The Guard's, on Heavenly Energy Control)
>Other?(Write-in)
>>
>>3723830
>Cultivate
>>
>>3723830
>Read book
>>
>>3723830
>Cultivate
Not this time.
>>
>Cultivate

You must not fail again! The scenery is beautiful, but cultivation is more important.

>Roll 1d100 best of three to cultivate.
>>
Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>3723836
>>
Rolled 24 (1d100)

>>3723836
>>
Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>3723836
>>
>94
Progress to the next Level
8394/18000

This time things go much better.

"Alright everyone! We'll be landing in a few minutes!"

You look outside, and see a massive concrete complex, however, it looks incredibly new. It almost touches the sky!

The Life Element Master taps you on the shoulder.

"Welcome to out base of operations, for two weeks we will be stationed here, from tomorrow, we will be testing your Saint Element. So please have a good nights rest."

The plane lands, and all of you leave. Her Highness is immediately swarmed by people.

"Her Highness! How was it!"

"Her Highness! Please let me help you in any way!"

Other comments are made. You are lead to your room, it is furnished well enough. There are purely electrical lights at regular intervals.

"Where are we?"

"On Sunset Island, we are currently facing an invasion by a small team of monsters from the moon, so we...wanted someone to revive the fallen, as there are many. If you like, you can join the war effort, but not on the front lines. We thank you for your continued cooperation. Be aware, we are probably going to face a wave of enemies tomorrow, if you have a ranged attack, it would be appreciated if you could help in the morning."

You thank the man, and go to sleep.

>You have run out of time
>Sleep
>Start of the 53rd day

Being in an unfamiliar environment doesn't help in sleeping, and you wake up at the crack of dawn. You hear the movement of patrols on the building, in the corridors and outside, it is an active military base.

>Roll 1d100 best of three for an encounter before the morning
>>
Rolled 34 (1d100)

>>3723871
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Rolled 49 (1d100)

>>3723871
>>
Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>3723871
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>>3723879
>84

You hear a message blaring through the halls.

"ATTTENTION, WE ARE UNDER ATTACK, PLEASE READY YOUR WEAPONS."

You look outside, and see a green forest, different to the black forest you know, but through the trees, you see every so often, a grey flash, a sudden movement.

Then you see an army, an army of metallic, grey forms, some even look almost human, you hear juddering from them, like they are trying to breathe, but can't. One of them pulls off a tree branch, and throws it at great speed towards the complex.

You see one of them come closer to where you could hit it from your room.

You see through your telescope where people are shooting arrows at them, they kinda work. You could try Dimensional Swap from one of those arrows and the aliens. You could use Heavenly Slash. You could use some Wind Blades from Piercing Wind. Double Lightning shot could be used repeatedly for free with Independent Rotational Charge. You could just charge some for Heavenly Slash.

Player Choice
>Choose a Skill (Ranged) from your Stored Skills to use against this. If you choose Heavenly Slash at this range you would need to roll a 1d100 against my 1d100 and then choose the amount of HE you want to use, as it can't home yet.
>>
>>3723887
>Double Lightning
>>
>>3723887
Piercing Rapier.
>>
>>3723887
Piercing Rapier
>>
>>3723887
Piercing rapier
>>
>Piercing Wind

>You have 360 HE

Player Choice
>Cost down
>Damage Up
>Evolve Special

Also
>How many Wind Blades (10 HE per Blade)
>>
>>3723914
>Damage Up
we already had some improvement points on the rank up right? what hapened to those?
>>
>>3723914
>10 blades
>>
>>3723914
> 10 Rapier
> Evolve Special
>>
>>3723916
Sorry, the word document glitched a bit

Currently:
Rank 2/40
Cost down 0/20
Damage Up 2/20
Evolve Special 0/20
>>
>>3723919
the special is if we wanna make any specific changes to the skill, so you gotta specify what the special evolution is, like shooting multiple blades or the ability to stack blades into a single uber blade
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>>3723920
> Switch vote for "Evolve Special" to "Rank Up"
>>
Weird question, if I wanted to participate in OPBP quest, could I continue using this trip? I don't want to get another, or risk loosing this one, so yea.

Damage Up
>>3723916
Rank Up
>>3723927

LOCKING for 10 Wind Blades, will finish voting in about 10 minutes.
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>>3723926
I've decided we can choose the Special Evolution result when we have a full 20/20, otherwise I could have 20 conflicting Ideas.
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>>3723937
Losing your trip's not a problem if you remember the password, and you could just be anonymous.
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>>3723937
i dont think it would be a problem, i played without a trip for a long ass time and only got one cause they use it to keep track of stashed crits
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>>3723949
Yeah, but with this trip, it looks like I am promoting my quest by hogging of another QM's project, very rude of me, so...I don't know.
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>>3723956
you could just change your name but keep the trip
>>
Rolled 1 (1d2)

Rolling a 1d2 for the evolution choice.
1 for Damage
2 for Rank Up
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>>3723959
Like this?

>>3723962
>Damage Up 3/20

>Roll 10d80 for Wind Blades best of three

>You now have 260 HE
>>
Going to eat some tea now, I'm pretty hungry and need a break, thank you for playing! I think I will stick with Goricnac's idea for now. Thank you very much.
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Rolled 73, 53, 38, 48, 57, 40, 36, 3, 64, 15 = 427 (10d80)

>>3723966
ok time to cut up some bitches
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Rolled 50, 76, 74, 72, 8, 40, 55, 73, 74, 73 = 595 (10d80)

>>3723966
>>
Feel free to roll again if no-one else rolls in the next 5 minutes.
>>
Rolled 21, 32, 14, 19, 20, 45, 60, 80, 47, 32 = 370 (10d80)

>>3723996

might as well do teh third roll
>>
Rolled 6, 71, 70, 60, 24, 19, 57, 59, 19, 42 = 427 (10d80)

>>3723966
>>
>595

You summon your Rapier, and launch a barrage of Wind Blades at it, slicing it to pieces. One of the blades strikes a brown coloured Beast Core and the creature dies.

You realise that the other members are quickly killing the rest. Leaving molten metal piles and Cores on the floor.

At least that remains constant.

"ATTENTION ALL UNITS, THIS IS THE ALL CLEAR, STAND DOWN."

You relax, making your Rapier disappear.

Someone smashes the door open. It's the Life Element user you met yesterday.

"Are you alright?! Oh dear Kami you're okay. Ignore the door, someone will fix it, just follow me.

You are lead to a separate building, entitled in a language you can't read. You can hear and understand them, but not their writing?

"It reads "Cemetery", it's an archaic way of doing it, but the Queen insists it be written this way. We will do two things, one, revive some people, and analyse your Skill. How many times can you use that Skill?"

"Once more, then I can cultivate during the afternoon, and do it twice more in the evening."

"Okay, follow me."

He leads you to one coffin.

"In here is one of our proud generals who gave his life in combat in one of the first attacks, for now, please could you revive him, oh Saint."

You want to help.

>You have 60 HE

Player Choice
>Rank up 0/200 (Will make it so that you can revive someone even with just their soul)
>Cost down 1/20
>Special Evolution 0/20

You use the Skill on the body, an aged man, he is rotting a bit.

You let the golden shining cross touch his forehead, the Life Element user watching intently. You see his body return to peak form.

"Guaahhhh!"

He launches up and grabs you by the soldiers.

"Gahhh! I'll kill you alllll!"

He then stops, looks around, then lets you go.

"Whatt? I...It was dark? I don't understand."

"I have resurrected you, welcome back."

You lean forward and hug him, you know he needs time to adjust.

"I died? I..see, what's you're name?"

"Zou-Do-Shai, I'm from Dershwa City."

"Thank you! I thank you! I will do anything in my power to repay you!"

He gets out of the coffin, and hugs the Life Element user, before going away to get some air.

"R-right. Phew, we have a total of about 20 more to do, so if you could restore your Heavenly Energy?"

>Roll 1d100 best of three to cultivate and restore your Heavenly Energy, do not worry, you can use the book from the Guard and your own Heavenly Energy Control to increase your HE total tomorrow with some cores. So no need to worry about breaking through and missing out on HE.
>>
Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>3724039
>Cost Down
if we gonna be in a war zone might as well improve how many we can rez at a time
actually would multi rez be an acceptable Special upgrade?
>>
>>3724043
Yep. You could specify aoe, or just do two people, we'll get there when we get there.
>>
Rolled 19 (1d100)

>>3724039
>Rank up 0/200 (Will make it so that you can revive someone even with just their soul)
Something to work toward.
>>
Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>3724039
>>
>>3724054
Your vote?
>>
>>3724056
>>Cost down 1/20
>>
>62
>Cost Down 2/20, 1 point due to Shara, I chose it for you because plot.

Progress to the next Level
11215/18000
>HE has been fully restored to 400!
>Choice for the evening has been LOCKED

"Good job! Now these two here are technicians, always in demand, were repairing equipment when they...anyway, do your thing,

>You have no HE

Player Choice (2 points for 2 uses, you can spread them around)
>Rank up 0/200 (Will make it so that you can revive someone even with just their soul)
>Cost down 2/20
>Special Evolution 0/20
>>
>>3724066
>Cost down 2/20
>>
>>3724066
>>Cost down 2/20
>>
>>3724066
wait if multiple uses result in multiple points shouldnt we have gotten 10 points from the wind blades? or is it only when we form the raier that counts?
>>
>>3724066
Can we use special evolution to be able to revive ourselves as we're dying?
>>
>>3724075
Yeah, You could pre-use the Skill to activate on death, bearing in mind that you only have 17 bodies left at the moment, there could be more, depending on your encounter rolls.

>>3724070
Only the Rapier, as it is the base. The Wind Blades is a side function of the skill, not the skill itself.

>Cost down now 4/20 hehehe

You resurrect them, they seem disortiented, but with some extra healing from the Life Element user, they head off to bed.

"Astonishing, only 2 Jewels...yet you surpass me...I, I think I need a minute, not your fault, just need a minute to curse lady luck for not blessing me with the capability to give life to the dead."

He walks off. You're tired, so you head to bed

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 54th Day. (Day three of the trip)

You wake up again, at the crack of dawn, is there something about this island?

>Roll 1d100 best of three for an encounter
>>
Rolled 50 (1d100)

>>3724086
well today we need to improve out HE or we might end u losign int he long run
>>
Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>3724086
>>
Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>3724086
>>
>>3724095
>63

You hear the alarm again, but this time, the army is much smaller, are you whittling down their troops or are they scouting out our forces?

You see a metallic wolf walk around, its face is shifted slightly, melting.

Player Choice
>Choose Skill, those with a cost of 20 HE or less can be spammed up to 10 times, make sure it is ranged. Same as last time.
>>
>>3724107
>Heavenly Slash (use 200 HE)
>>
>>3724107
Double Lightning Shot
>>
>>3724107
Sorry, I meant those with 20 HE or less can be spammed 10 times with the Independent Rotational Charge, making it free up until that point.
>>
>>3724112
+1
Need to upgrade our trump card
>>
>>3724117
so independent rotational charge lets us spam 20 HE or less cost skills up to 10 times without spending HE? cause if so am switching to 10 double lightnings so we have all our HE for resurrections after the fight
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>>3724123
Yeah, it is a cheat after all. As you get more Jewels that HE cap will increase.

Voting is open for 5 minutes longer.
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>>3724130
ok so withcing my voe from Heavenly slash to
>Double Lightning spam barrage
>>
>Double Lightning Shot Barrage, needs a cooler name

>Roll 20d50, best of three, with 1 being 2d50, multiplied by 10,

Also

Player Choice (10 points) (Showing current)
Rank 1/10
Cost down 0/20
Damage Up 0/20
Evolve Special 1/20
>>
Rolled 25, 26, 21, 29, 27, 36, 40, 26, 40, 25, 44, 6, 27, 11, 7, 37, 20, 46, 10, 44 = 547 (20d50)

>>3724154
>Special
am gonna guess teh rank is meant to be 1/40, also putting the points in special since thats how we can get lightning gatling going
>>
Making this more clear

>>3724154
>Double Lightning Shot Barrage, needs a cooler name

>Roll 20d50, best of three, with 1 being 2d50, multiplied by 10,

Also

Player Choice (10 points) (Showing current point spread)
>Rank 1/10
>Cost down 0/20
>Damage Up 0/20
>Evolve Special 1/20
>>
>>3724166
No, rank is 1/10, it is a 1 Star Skill, it increases with higher ranks.
>>
>>3724171
... ok switching to
>Rank 9 points
>Special 1 point

10 to rank if we nt allowed to spread them like that
>>
>>3724175
You can do this yes.

If no-one else rolls in the next 5 minutes, feel free to roll again for 2 separate posts with a 20d50 each
>>
Rolls people?
>>
Rolled 38, 23, 17, 29, 5, 16, 23, 37, 47, 8, 20, 36, 14, 7, 40, 23, 34, 5, 3, 40 = 465 (20d50)

>>3724199
sorry was writing a rant for OP quest
>>
Rolled 30, 26, 42, 32, 11, 5, 45, 33, 26, 8, 25, 35, 29, 19, 18, 28, 23, 9, 35, 37 = 516 (20d50)

>>3724199
>>
Rolled 14, 22, 1, 43, 6, 48, 5, 46, 4, 6, 22, 33, 24, 20, 46, 18, 15, 41, 37, 6 = 457 (20d50)

>>3724168
>>
>>3724215
Ah okay, sorry. Got too excited there.

>547
Player Choice (10 points) (Showing current)
Rank 10/10
Cost down 0/20
Damage Up 0/20
Evolve Special 2/20

>Rank UP to 2 Stars
>Cost is now 19 HE, it will reach 0 at 13 Stars
>Damage is now 2d100

Double Lightning Shot, 2 Stars!
Rank 0/20
Cost down 0/20
Damage Up 0/20
Evolve Special 2/20


>547
>Due to natural Lightning Resistance, damage is halved to 274!

You charge up your Jewels again and again, firing at the wolf, they all hit, and unfortunately, it lives, is it resistant to Lightning? You don't know how much is left in it. You see it writhe and scream, one of the few left, it makes a leap at you in the air!

That's when you feel it, that Energy Demon Hammer gifted you, it reacts in your first Jewel! Powering up your Skill! You see in the wheel that a 2 Star sign is next to it, what? You're too focused on the battle to care, it is now much closer, probably close enough to use melee skills.

Player Choice
>Choose Skill, same rules as last time, melee skills are now available.
>>
>>3724242
>Rapier sword attack
>>
>>3724242
>Dimensional swap us with the wolf
>Rapier melee attack
>>
>>3724259
Uh it's still flying in the air towards you, I am going to make you do a falling roll, if you swap with it.
>>
>>3724266
btw is this thing strong enough for us to get stat points from killing it? am guessing yes given that it has elemental resistances and over 270 stamina
>>
>>3724283
Yep, 1 point of END
>>
>>3724266
It's better than being hit by a massive wolf
>>
Rolled 1 (1d2)

>Rolling 1d2 for choice
1. normal attack
2. swap, then attack. then roll
>>
Rolled 242 (1d300)

Normal attack

>You have 360 HE
Player Choice 1 point to distribute, showing current
>Rank 2/40
>Cost down 0/20
>Damage Up 3/20
>Evolve Special 0/20

>Roll 1d430 best of three to attack (250 Sword, 110 STR, 70 Useful Sword Technique)

Rolling 1d300 to Endure
>>
Rolled 148 (1d430)

>>3724330
>Damage Up
>>
Rolled 118 (1d430)

>>3724330
>Damage Up
>>
If no-one else rolls in the next 5 minutes, do feel free to roll again.
>>
Rolled 293 (1d430)

>>3724330
>>
>Your 293 to its 242
>You deal 51 damage, the wolf is dead.

You summon your Rapier in a flash, striking the wolf in the air, you can feel a lot of resistance, but eventually, your blade passes through. Killing the moon creature and leaving a pile of metal, and a Beast Core on the ground far below.

*ALL CLEAR SOUND*

Phew, that was close.

You need to head to the cemetery. You also could buy some of these cores, and try and see if the Guard included anything in that book of his for turning it into pure Heavenly Energy.

Player Choice for the morning
>Go tell Life Element user about your plan, then start to train HE stat. After all the preparation has been done
>Go straight to the cemetery.
>Other? (Write-in)
>>
>>3724363
>>Go tell Life Element user about your plan, then start to train HE stat. After all the preparation has been done
also END +1 now and lightning barrage is gonna increase fast with the rotational spamming option, good synergy
>>
>>3724386
Yep. For small increases I'll just put them in the paste.

That Railgun on legs is a Heavenly Emperor powerhouse for a reason.

Demon Hammer has something special. Spoilers so can't say more than that.

These two together make something truly astonishing.

Why the hell am I only getting captcha now?
>>
>>3724363
>Go tell Life Element user about your plan, then start to train HE stat. After all the preparation has been done
>>
>Plans

You find him near the Cemetery.

"I'm very sorry but I think I might break through soon, so if I cultivate today I will loose out on some trainable Heavenly Energy. So I can't help you at the minute."

"Uh..sure, I mean, not sure how you're going to do that here, is it something with the Saint Element?"

"No, but I need to do this."

"Okay, just make sure you don't leave any dead when you go."

You leave, and start reading through the book the Guard gave you. It tells you that with some work, you can change the very structure of cores, the same way an Orb does it, but with your own Heavenly Energy.

You buy 100 Gold worth of cores, it took you a while for them to accept foreign currency, but it worked. You gain 10 Shi Stage Cores

You go back to your room, and start to work with a Water Core, changing it into pure Heavenly Energy, and pulling it in.

>Roll 10d100 best of three to train HE stat, you will be doing this once for each core.


I need some sleep. Thanks for playing! Tomorrow I need to go see my grandma again to help out with some gardening, which she isn't in the physical state to do on her own anymore. Straight after her birthday. Therefore, the quest will not start until 18:30 pm BST tomorrow. Real life is more important.

Please use this time to discuss Special Evolution plans, and future Stored Skills. Goodnight!
>>
Rolled 15, 39, 79, 74, 82, 29, 85, 37, 93, 44 = 577 (10d100)

>>3724423
>>
Rolled 3, 42, 54, 21, 76, 41, 86, 16, 20, 5 = 364 (10d100)

>>3724423
>>
Rolled 29, 73, 77, 29, 6, 39, 26, 93, 68, 74 = 514 (10d100)

>>3724423
>>
Sawing 6 inch trunks was fun. Only 10-20% of the job is done however, so I may need another day this week to do some more.

>HE has increased by 20!
>HE is now 420 (Heh) at maximum!

You end up only using 7 of the cores, you feel that absorbing any more Heavenly Energy would be impossible.

You finish in the afternoon with a full Dantian, ready to resurrect some more people.

You go to the Cemetery, and see the Life Element user waiting patiently.

"Hello, are you all ready now?"

"Yes, who do you want me to resurrect?"

"These two, one is a Wind user, the other is an Earth user, helped make this place, and with communications."

>You will use 400 HE to do so.
Player Choice for 2 points to evolve Resurrect, showing current.
>Rank up 0/200 (Will make it so that you can revive someone even with just their soul)
>Cost down 4/20
>Special Evolution 0/20
>>
>>3726062
>cost down
>>
>>3726062
> cost down

Spammable Miracles here we come!
>>
>>3726062
>Cost down 4/20
Gotta do one at a time. Special next, maybe. It'll be easier to grind up if it costs less as well.
>>
>Cost down 6/20
>You have no HE!

They wake up confused, after the last few times you learn to jump back before they can crush you. You see that the Wind user died with his Jewels summoned, as they rested next to his wrist as a corpse. However, as he came back, new ones formed. Guess they are related to the soul after all.

"Can you use the Skill with the extra Heavenly Energy you used?"

"No, I'm sorry, but it will pay dividends later on."

"That's fine, we have a few more days, about 16 people are left. I've been resettling them you see, some of them had family who received word of their son or daughter dying, one of the people you revived was part of a rich family on the mainland, so they may come here to thank you in person. So, the more the merrier."

You thank the man, and go back to your room. It's a choice between Cultivating, trying to find out what happened earlier, and reading the Guard's book a bit more.

Player Choice
>Cultivate
>Investigate the change to Double Lightning Shot
>Read the Guard's book (Unlocks some stuff to do with Heavenly Energy Control
>Call Fei Dershwa about the spies in the Palace
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3726082
>>Call Fei Dershwa about the spies in the Palace

we really need to do this
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>>3726082
>Call Fei Dershwa about the spies in the Palace

"Why I waited this long? Uh... Had to grind?"
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>>3726092
we were trying to find a private spot and then we got distracted cultivating
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>>3726092
I mean you don't have to tell her when you found out...it's not like you know where they are hiding. Btw, how on earth do I make text *italic* or **bold** or in colour[/red{?

>Call Fei

You decide to recover a shred of Heavenly Energy to make a call to Fei, those voices told you there were beastman spies hiding somewhere, probably in some secret underground passageways or in the walls.

"Hello Fei? Can I talk to you for a bit?"

"Sure! How are things? Is the battlefield really scary? It was for me at first too, but I got to killing soon!"

"Right...well, I found out something important, you know when you went to Miller for talks about the beast countries?"

"Yeah? He was kinda rude, said he wanted to "gift" me something, but I know better than that! I'm a Heavenly Empress! I can do so much more now!"

"It's not about that, I think there are beast country spies hiding somewhere in the Palace, I'm not sure where, but keep your eyes and ears out."

"Huh?! I..I know you're probably right...I just don't know how they got in! I'll sweep the building! Bye!"

She ends the call. You're not sure if sweeping the building or quietly preparing is better, you know that Fei isn't the brightest in the world but she should have more intelligence with that breakthrough to think a bit more, you wonder how she was without some Jewels.

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 54th day (Day 4 of the trip)

Again, you wake up at dawn, your body is strong enough to handle a few hours less sleep a night, but a normal person would be struggling right now...you haven't seen any, you don't think, the people who were asking Her Highness questions would all have Jewels. You get ready with the attack

>Roll 1d100 best of three for an encounter
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>>3726135
Fuck, I need to experiment with this.
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Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>3726135
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>>3726139
Hello, world!

[italic]Hello world![/italic]

[bold]Hello, world![/bold]
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Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>3726135
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>>3726144
Hello world!

Hello world!

[#F7E400]Hello world![/#F7E400]

If no-one else rolls again in the next 5 minutes, do feel free to roll again.
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>>3726149
[F7E400]Hello world![/F7E400]

Ignore me, just trying some things out.
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>>3726150
[dark_blue]Dark Blue[/dark_blue]

[dark_blue]Dark Blue[/dark_blue]

[gold]Gold[/gold]

[gold]Gold[/gold]
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Rolled 43 (1d100)

>>3726149
From what I know, only Red Blue and Green are accepted.
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>>3726159
Dammit! Why haven't they updated the colour palate! This should be compatible with HTML.

Oh well now I can swear with style

Fuck!
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>>3726161
It's actually a board rule. Only OPs can use Red, Green, Blue, italic and bold.
It seems for anyone else they're disabled.
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>>3726172
It is kind of restrictive, especially when we could do so much more! Oh well, I don't run the site or anything, I guess I just won't use them.

>42, no bonuses this time.

You prepare for an invasion, but only a few scouts come nearby, you see a small metal, slimy bat fly up and start looking around, you want to kill it now, if they find our there are more people around, or some they know they killed, that could be bad. They could try and target you!

Player Choice
>Choose Ranged Skill to attack, it is resistant to the Lightning Element
>Independent Rotational Charge rules have been changed for balance, You can have a Double Lightning Shot Barrage all you want, but it will only give you 1 point to spend, sorry but it would become too powerful too early, you can keep the change you made earlier though, the same rule applies to Heavenly Slash.
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>>3726183
>Heavenly Slash Storm (10 uses at 20 HE from Rotational Charge)
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>>3726183
> Swap it with something on the ground, then impale it with the sword.
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>>3726195
*something on the floor
is what I assume you mean?
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>>3726198
Yeah? Did I say something weird?
It's bound to happen, English isn't my first language.
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>>3726204
looks fine to me
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Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>3726204
"Ground" would refer to the literal ground, as in the earth beneath your feet, so if you meant the ground, then you would swap the bat in a similar place in the forest. Used when outside. As in "The ground is wet." Not to be confused with "Grounds", which is a larger piece of land that surrounds a building, normally an estate.

"Floor" is not earth. It is what you stand on when inside a building, like inside this skyscraper. As in "I slid on the floor."

Not to be confused with the "Ground Floor", which is the floor that is connected to the ground.

What is your first language? That is honest to God probably the second time I have seen that mistake.

Rolling 1d2 for choice
1 >Heavenly Slash Storm (10 uses at 20 HE from Rotational Charge)
2. > Swap it with something on the ground, then impale it with the sword.
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>>3726218
*floor, I copy pasted that sorry,
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>>3726218
ah i see the confusion, in American english ground can also be used to refer to floor, didn't know it was different in britbong english
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Rolled 138 (1d150)

>>3726225
Yes, well it made sense to differentiate the two, specificity is incredibly important, especially when talking to someone with learning difficulties, who may not speak a lot of English, or a child, clarity and diction were paramount. So britbong English is very particular, I think it came from our empire days.

>Swap it with something on the floor, then impale it with the sword.

You need to bring it closer. You look at both the bat, and a piece of furniture, empty, it is a similar size to you.

>You have 370 HE

The bat pops up in front of you! It doesn't seem to have realised what has happened, still in shock.

>The bat is now stunned for a round!

>Roll 1d430 Best of three to attack

Rolling 1d150 to endure
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Rolled 339 (1d430)

>>3726243
I'm Italian, but I've learned English almost solely relying on American products, so can understand how it comes off a bit janky. In this particular instance, I'd say my first language is also to blame: we use our equivalent of floor only to refer to pavement.
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Rolled 129 (1d430)

>>3726243
wouldnt know, Spanish is my first language, learned gringo english in highschool and college
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>>3726257

"Dear, could you wash the pavement?"

"What?"

Ignore me, stupid joke.


Right, I don't think it should matter most of the time, just when teleporting, I think being specific with what you want to swap, or being vague with something along the lines of "something in the room." would be handy.

>>3726260

Same for you, but I would possibly invest more time learning some punctuation. For example.

" wouldnt know, Spanish is my first language, learned gringo english in highschool and college"

Would be:

"I wouldn't know; Spanish is my first language; learned gringo English in high-school and college."

In proper English, semi-colons replace connectives like "and" & "because", so they are very useful.

I shouldn't be lecturing you, sorry, I want to be a teacher, so this stuff is personal to me. Back to questing!

Could someone please roll another 1d430 please? It is stunned, meaning that it cannot attack or run or dodge, next round, it will try to run.
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Rolled 206 (1d430)

>>3726287
well yeah but i dont keep an eye on my punctuation in 4chan, you gotta cause you writting a quest but me get to write like caveman
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Rolled 338 (1d380)

>>3726291
Good point.

>339

>You have 330 HE

You summon your Rapier, and thrust straight into its body! You see its head plit apart and reform slowly. It starts to fly backwards! It is still alive! You swipe at it again!

>Roll 1d430 again best of three to attack before it can get away

>Rolling 1d380 to RUN

Player Choice, you have 1 point to use. I am showing the current spread. Piercing Rapier (1)
>Rank 2/40
>Cost Down 0/20
>Damage Up 3/20
>Evolve Special 0/20

Player Choice, you have 1 point to use. I am showing the current spread. Dimensional Swap (2)
>Rank 0/120
>Cost Down 3/20
>Evolve Special 0/20
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*split not plit sorry
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Rolled 78 (1d430)

>>3726319
(1) Damage Up

(2) Cost Down
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All right. I'll leave the voting for this overnight. I need some sleep. Thanks for playing! The quest will resume at 8 am tomorrow BST, Goodnight!
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Rolled 55 (1d430)

>>3726319
>(1) Damage Up
>(2) Cost Down
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Rolled 327 (1d430)

>>3726319
>(1) Damage Up
>(2) Cost Down
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>Piercing Rapier
>Damage Up 4/20

>Dimensional Swap
>Cost Down 4/20

>Your 327 vs Bat's 338

It flashes away with a speed you have never fought against before! A gust of wind pushing you back and making you miss slightly, it flies away. You still have a chance. You could probably swap it again or used a ranged attack.

>You have 330 HE

Player Choice
>Use Dimensional Swap again
>Let it go
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3727421
>Use Dimensional Swap again
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>Use Dimensional Swap again
>You now have 280 HE

You need to bring it closer! You quickly smash a person sized piece of concrete from the walls, then swap it with the bat again. The concrete falls quickly to the ground, squishing a MoonSlime to pieces in the forest!

The bat looks disorientated again! Time to kill it once and for all! You can see it is struggling to reform.

>It has 42 STA

Player Choice
>Choose Stored Skill to use
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>>3727421
>Use Dimensional Swap again
KILL
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>>3727442
Uh how? It can fly. How would you like to use Dimensional Swap?
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>>3727453
I was late.
>Double Lightning Shot
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>>3727460
>I'm just going to assume you mean

>Double Lightning Shot Gatling with the use of Independent Rotational Charge

>Roll 10d100 best of three

Also

Player Choice for evolution of Dimensional Swap, you have 2 points to spend, this is the current spread
>Rank UP 0/120
>Cost Down 4/20
>Evolve Special 0/20

Player Choice for evolution of Piercing Wind, you have 1 point to spend
>Rank 2/40
>Cost down 0/20
>Damage Up 4/20
>Evolve Special 0/20

Player Choice for evolution of Double Lightning Shot, you have 1 point to spend
Rank 0/20
Cost down 0/20
Damage Up 0/20
Evolve Special 2/20
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>>3727463
Wait ignore that last post

>I'm just going to assume you mean

>Double Lightning Shot Gatling with the use of Independent Rotational Charge

>Roll 10d100 best of three

Also

Player Choice for evolution of Dimensional Swap, you have 2 points to spend, this is the current spread
>Rank UP 0/120
>Cost Down 4/20
>Evolve Special 0/20

Player Choice for evolution of Double Lightning Shot, you have 1 point to spend
>Rank 0/20
>Cost down 0/20
>Damage Up 0/20
>Evolve Special 2/20
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>>3727464
>Cost Down +2

> Evolve Special +1

For once I woke up at a decent time.
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>>3727485
Good morning.
Could you roll a 20d100 for me please?

>Cost Down 6/20

>Evolve Special 3/20
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Rolled 78, 39, 74, 71, 9, 88, 21, 72, 79, 37, 52, 19, 69, 95, 44, 8, 24, 5, 49, 61 = 994 (20d100)

>>3727492

Good morning to you too.
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>>3727505
>994
>Halved to 497

The Lightning you shoot melts it! That may have been overboard. Strangely, it seems almost twice as powerful! You don't know why but it must have something to do with the change you saw in the colour wheel. You hear the all clear sound. After asking an Earth user to fix the wall. You head to the Cemetery for the morning.

>Choice LOCKED for going to the Cemetery

"Sorry, but because of the attack. I can only use the Skill once today. Then I have to cultivate."

"Understood, thank you for your effort. This one was one of the catering staff, was killed by accident during an explosion. Their body is in a few pieces. So please choose one before using the Skill."

"How's the data looking?"

"Okay, I have heard from Her Highness that your home has better science, but we can do some things concerning the Saint Element with it.

>You have 80 HE

Player Choice for evolution for Resurrect, you have 1 point.
>Rank up 0/200
>Cost down 4/20
>Special Evolution 0/20

Also

Player Choice for the afternoon
>Cultivate
>Investigate the change to Double Lightning Shot
>Read the Guard's book (Unlocks some stuff to do with Heavenly Energy Control)
>Train a Stat before you break through and miss some physical stats for a while.
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3727512
> Cost Down
> Train Endurance

Looks like I'm the only one around today.
Wanna wait for later?
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>>3727528
Sure. Goricnac will be here at around 2-3 BST. I might get one more player in that time as well.

Alright. Quest will resume at 14:00 pm BST. I thank you for your patience and playing.

I think I'll leave the vote for this open until then as well.
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>>3727512
>Cost down 4/20
>Read the Guard's book (Unlocks some stuff to do with Heavenly Energy Control)
Sorry for bailing, but shit went sideways and I had to go.
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Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>3727704
That's fine; similar things have happened to me whilst running this quest, so all is forgiven. I should be free for all this afternoon and evening, but tomorrow morning I could be gone for a bit.

>Cost Down 5/20

Rolling 1d2 for Choice
1. Train END
2. Read Guard's book
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>Read Guard's book

You now have time in the afternoon. You could cultivate to restore your Heavenly Energy, but reading that book for an alternative could be a better idea in the long-run.

"I don't think I can use the Skill this afternoon either."

"Really? I thought you could cultivate and restore it?"

"Still too close to a breakthrough, I need to train."

"When will you need to stop?"

"At the minimum 6-7 days perhaps. If I were put somewhere where I didn't have to fight then I could use the Skill twice as I wouldn't have to fight in the afternoon."

"I'll see what I can do."

You go back to your room, the wall fixed and look through the very old leather-bound book.

It shows the main steps of developing Heavenly Energy Control. Which follow: Move Heavenly Energy around the meridians to make it more dense in places, move Heavenly Energy out of the meridians to boost something about you, move Heavenly Energy out of your body to gain more control and use of your Elements and Physical stats. Proceed to move Pure Heavenly Energy outside the body to establish a domain, then finally, using the direct control, simulate either Consolidated Equipment or Stored Skill imprints to mould your Heavenly Energy enough to never need Skills or Consolidated Equipment.

It then talks about when you reach the stage where you can take your own Heavenly Energy out of the body, you can attack with it, without using Heavenly Energy. The Guard gave each of these attacks a special name too. You are meant to learn them in order, by starting to move Pure Heavenly Energy out through the skin, and moving it around.

Technique one is called "Unfocused Regeneration", it is a way to restore your Heavenly Energy on the fly, by instead of using the circulation of a cultivation technique, you spiritually drag the Heavenly Energy from the atmosphere using your own Heavenly Energy like a massive scoop. You generate your own Heavenly Energy, so this could be very helpful to you now, as a way to restore Heavenly Energy without cultivating.

Technique two is called "Heavenly Energy Whip"

>Roll 1d100 to learn Unfocused Regeneration" best of three
>This will work different from other skills
>Techniques like this will be a set DC to train every time, which you will need to meet a certain number of times
>DC 70, 0/1
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Rolled 81 (1d100)

>>3727726
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Rolled 60 (1d100)

>>3727726
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Do feel free to roll again for the nat 1
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Rolled 55 (1d100)

>>3727741
Here.
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>>3727735
>81
Success!

You remember back to the Orb you took Heavenly Energy from, and use that as a base to restore your Heavenly Energy. To your surprise, it works! You can feel that the density of Heavenly Energy has increased in your meridians only, and not your Dantian.

>HE is now 420!

Player Choice for the afternoon
>Go to the Cemetery
>Train a Stat
>Investigate the change to Double Lightning Shot
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3727748
>Investigate the change to Double Lightning Shot
>>
>Investigate the change to Double Lightning Shot

You could go back to the Cemetery, but you need to figure out what happened with the Skill. You open your colour wheel, and look at the icon. You see the image for the Skill, but something new is next to it, "2 Star", you know that it is a single Star skill, one of the weakest you can get, but very cheap because of it.

You also know that what you used was twice the power than normal, and that when people go up a gem, there is a doubling effect on the amount of Heavenly Energy they have.

Your Skill just grew. You don't know why, how or what to do in order to replicate it, but you do know that it was caused by the energy gifted to you by Demon Hammer, he said that when you reach 3 Jewels, you needed to see him. He might know what is going on.

You need to investigate this further, later, you have a job to do.

The Life Element Master barges into your room, demanding you come to the Cemetery.

"We need to get someone revived now! Their family are coming soon!"

>Choice for the evening LOCKED for going to the Cemetery

You follow him, and are lead to the covered body of a noble, medals and notes of wealth decorate his clothing.

"She's a High Level Shi Stage Heavenly Master, so we need to do this now!"

Next to her is a member of the artillery who had the Fire Element. His entire face has burnt to a crisp.

"Is the Heavenly Jewel Master's family coming today?"

"Yes, in about 20 minutes."

You can see him worrying slightly, trying not to egg you on to do this. You try and use your Saint Element to sense any sin, like Shimuko did, and you sense a bit of greed, however, you only have 2 Jewels, so it could be more."

You need to focus on what happens when you use your Skills.

>You have 20 HE

Player Choice, you have 2 points to spend
>Rank up 0/200 (Will make it so that you can revive someone even with just their soul)
>Cost down 5/20
>Special Evolution 0/20
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>>3727772
> Cost Down +2

Man, my connection is really bad today.
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>>3727776
>Cost Down 7/20

Writing
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>>3727772
>Cost Down
had to take my mom to the airport so ended up delayed
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>>3727777
heeeeey quads of fortune!
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>>3727779
Ok, at least you're here to choose....


>>3727777
QUADS OF LUCK!
>Same as last time, choose a boon

Player Choice (1)
>Permanently increase HE by 50, remember that with every new Jewel your HE practically doubles
>Permanently increase every stat by 5
>A guaranteed 12 Star Skill for your new Spacial Element Jewel
>Independent Rotational Charge increases to 2d50


The girl wakes up, she is disorientated, you see 3 pairs of Jewels form, on her right, Icy Jade, on her left Opal.

She wakes up shocked and afraid. She doesn't like the dark much. The Life Element Upper Zong Stage user bows to her, and graciously takes her to her family.

You put the cross to his forehead, and see his face restructure.

"What...Where am I? Am I in the Cemetery?"

"You're fine. You are safe. I'm afraid that you...died. I have revived you."

You see him summon his Jewels, 8 Rubies. You could be in trouble.

"Who the hell are you! What do you mean I died! No brat from Dershwa should be here! I'll kill you!"

This is bad, you need to get out of here soon, even if it means disturbing the noble family. You could try running away with the Wind Element and using Unfocused Regeneration to get enough Heavenly Energy to buff your Heavenly Energy amount with the Saint Element, then boost your Agility to run away with the aid of the Wind Element. Giving you enough speed to ask a guard to calm him down, or try and calm him down yourself.

Player Choice (2)
>RUN, using maximum efficiency to find someone who could convince him to stop.
>Try and persuade him to stop and calm down yourself
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3727794
>A guaranteed 12 Star Skill for your new Spacial Element Jewel
I want the fucking Spacial Rend.
Give it to me. I need it.
>RUN, using maximum efficiency to find someone who could convince him to stop.
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>>3727794
>>>A guaranteed 12 Star Skill for your new Spacial Element Jewel
the others might be better for now but this is the best short term option
>Run bitch RUN!
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>>3727794
>Try and persuade him to stop and calm down yourself
>Permanently increase HE by 50, remember that with every new Jewel your HE practically doubles

"Sir, your family is here. Please follow me." Being calm yourself is the first step in calming someone else.
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>>3727794
>>3727807

Switching to the 50 HE boost
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Rolled 150 (1d200)

>>3727808
I mean his family isn't here. The Heavenly Jewel Master's is.

>HE Permanently increases by 50! Soon!

You need to run. Step one, boost yourself with Wind. You see him using his Fire Element, you recognise the Stored Skill Fireball being prepared. You need some time to use the recharge.

>HE is now 15
>AGI is now 220!

>Roll 1d220 best of three to RUN

Rolling 1d200 for him to attack with Fireball.
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>>3727810
NO
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Rolled 127 (1d220)

>>3727813
>If we fail to dodge us transposition with some rock or piece of furniture
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>>3727817
You can't, you have 15 HE, and no time to use Unfocused Regeneration. Dimensional Swap requires 50 HE.
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Rolled 192 (1d220)

>>3727813
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Rolled 151 (1d220)

>>3727813
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>>3727819
ok in that case can we use Kinetic Barrier if we cant dodge the fireball?
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Rolled 807 (1d1200)

>>3727827
Not until you have restored your Heavenly Energy, which, now you have, you can use the Skill for 70 HE. But It is also only a temporary measure, as he still has buckets of HE, and other, much more powerful skills he can use. Running is better.

>>3727820
>192

You run away from the ball of fire, almost singeing your clothes. You run to the entrance, and make enough time to try out that new technique.

>HE restored to 420 using Unfocused Regeneration

Then you use the Saint Element, making the energy sit for a bit, and slowly change it's structure. Cancelling the Wind Element.

>HE is now 300 due to use of the Saint Element.

That's when it happens, everything goes white again. The bells sound out.

"ONE WHO WISHES TO BECOME A GOD. WE WILL GIVE YOU A TOKEN OF OUR SUPPORT."

>HE is now 350! (470 Max!)

Then everything starts moving again, you use this time to buff your HE.

>HE is now 700 with buffing!

You then boost your Agility using almost all of your Heavenly Energy.

>You have 5 HE

>You have 805 HE

Then you use Wind to double that. You can see him preparing a Fire Skill you don't recognise, much more powerful than last time. Time to get out of here.

>AGI is now 1610!

>Roll 1d1610 Best of three. I will be rolling a 1d1200 for his use of a Fire Element Skill.
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>>3727834
*>You have 805 AGI, sorry
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Rolled 128 (1d1610)

>>3727834
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Rolled 512 (1d810)

>>3727834
ah misread the HE cost of kinetic barrier
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Rolled 277 (1d1610)

>>3727834
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>>3727838
Roll a 1d1610 please, not a 1d810

If you do not roll high enough, you will be defeated.
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>>3727842
BTW, buffing can be used normally. I am take the liberty of doing so now for tomorrow morning in the event you only use 50 HE during the encounter.
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>>3727846
I should proof-read. Fucks sake, *taking the liberty.
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Rolled 987 (1d1610)

>>3727842
jsut to be clear the formula is (AGI+HE*2)*WindBuff?
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>>3727852
Without buffing at max HE with the wind boost
(AGI+(HE-5))*2 Such that 2(110+465)=1150
OR
With buffing
((((HE-120)*2)-5)+AGI)*2, such that 470-120=350, 350*2=700, 700(Buffed HE)-5=695, +110 AGI=805 AGI, 805*2=1610 AGI, with no HE remaining.

A bit confusing, just take it step by step.

>987

You avoid a massive explosion, tendrils of red fire sweeping out from him. As you sprint with all the force you have, you realise you are running almost faster than the sound itself!

You stop near a guard-post. The sonic boom ringing out behind you.You only hear it properly when you stop.

*BOOOM*

The life Element user charges after you.

"What the hell was that!"

"Fire Element user, trying to kill me, go see him, now!"

He runs off again. You feel absolutely exhausted, you don't think you'll be able to buff or boost repeatedly, otherwise your body would rip itself to pieces trying to run much faster than it can do. You can feel yourself getting dizzy, your legs burning up. You don't have the focus to restore your Heavenly Energy now....

>Roll 1d100 for a STA check, you have exerted your body too much
>DC 90, failure will result in skipping the morning tomorrow. You will wake up in the afternoon.
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Rolled 56 (1d100)

>>3727873
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Rolled 31 (1d100)

>>3727873
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Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>3727873

Nat1Nat1Nat1
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Rolled 52 (1d100)

>>3727873
>demand that the life element user be with you when you resurrect people from now on, or someone else with a high rank
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>>3727883
It works! I found a way to fight my bad luck!
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>>3727883
You did it the mad man!
>>3727884
This was a special case remember? He was attending to a noble.

You stay awake, your legs burn, but they still work.

You trudge over to the Life Element user. The Fire Element user is out cold, having been medically subdued.

"In the future, do not leave me alone. I almost died back there!"

"I'm sorry! It was helping you or a literal noble, and a Heavenly Jewel Master! What choice did I have!?"

"If I die then no more people will be back! I do not care who it is, you do not leave me to die by the hands of a stranger!"

"Fine, Do you want to meet the family and their daughter after all that? I'll deal with this man, don't worry. They are called the Tashomu. A direct retainer family to Her Highness herself."

Player Choice
>Go see them, maybe they might give something to you that is better than a Fireball to the face
>Sleep, you don't need to, and you coming to see them looks like you just want something in return.
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>>3727895
god i cant decide, on the one hand we are tired, out of energy and have backers powerful enough that this group is inconsequential, on the other hand we jsut ressurrected their patriarch and they probably want to at least meet the man that saved his life... screw it am voting for meeting them
>Go see them, maybe they might give something to you that is better than a Fireball to the face
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>>3727895
>Go see them, maybe they might give something to you that is better than a Fireball to the face
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>>3727895
>Go see them, maybe they might give something to you that is better than a Fireball to the face
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>>3727895
>Go see them, maybe they might give something to you that is better than a Fireball to the face
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>>3727902
You just resurrected their female first descendant.

"The girl wakes up, she is disorientated, you see 3 pairs of Jewels form, on her right, Icy Jade, on her left Opal."

"Girl"

>Go see them, maybe they might give something to you that is better than a Fireball to the face.

You might as well go see them. You slowly make your way back to the Cemetery, where a Mother, Father, and the girl you just revived are all hugging each other. The Father looks at you with a quizzical eye.

"Are you the man that saved my daughter? What was that sonic boom about?"

"I have both the Wind and Saint Elements. Someone else was a bit...disoriented when he awoke. I need to run."

"I see, I must thank you somehow. Shizuka? Do you want to give him something?"

The girl looks around at you, red face from tears showing. You can see now that she is beautiful, in the weird way people from this place look.

"I want to know your name, and title."

"Zou-Do-Shai, Royal Bodyguard to the Sixth Princess Jiang Dershwa, Mid Level Shi Stage Elemental Jewel Master, pleased to make your acquaintance. "

"You already belong to a family? I..I don't know what I can give you...how about this. I grant you permission to visit our family home. It is on the main Island. If you ever visit, just state your name, and how them this."

She takes off a piece of ribbon with her family sign on it, and gives it to you.

"Thank you. I need some rest now. Please have a pleasant time. Will you be staying on the battlefield?"

"No, I died once already, I can't afford to do so again."

The two of you say your goodbyes, and you leave to sleep.

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 55th Day (Day 5 of the trip.)

>Roll 1d100 best of three for an encounter

I need eat some tea, be back at around 18:30 pm BST. Thanks for playing!
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Rolled 88 (1d100)

>>3727926
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Rolled 78 (1d100)

>>3727926
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Rolled 30 (1d100)

>>3727926
>>3727927
oh boy we already rolling high for this
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>>3727927
>88

You wake up to a very early alarm, at the crack of dawn, your body is healed, but it still makes you grumble.

You look outside, and see metal slimes squelching across, some of them start forming tendrils with Diamond tips. Earth Monsters? You see them push the Diamond tips down into the earth. This could be bad, you may need to jump out of here, otherwise this building could collapse if the slimes aren't skilled, it seems they got word from a scout.

Player Choice
>ATK (Ranged Skill, choose)
>Prepare for the collapse, by jumping out of the window, or using Dimensional Swap on a piece of debris to get you out of here
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3727963
*killed.
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>>3727963
>> Heabenly Slash Barrage (20 HE for 10 uses)
they are metal slimes grounding themselves, lightning resistance must be huge
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>>3727963
> Swap away!
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>>3727967
... to what and with what? swap doesnt actually do anything besides putting us in melee range
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>>3727967
oh you meant for running away cause they gonna collapse the building, mb
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>>3727963
>>Prepare for the collapse, by jumping out of the window
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Rolled 1 (1d3)

Rolling 1d3 for Choice
1 Heavenly Slash Tornado
2 Swap
3 Jump
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>>3727997
Heavenly Slash Tornado
>Roll 10d10, for 20HE over 10 Uses, with each converting 2 HE into 10 Damage.

>Rolling 1d600 to Endure

Player Choice, you have 1 point to spend, showing current
>Cost Down 0/20
>Improve Ratio 10/50
>Special Evolution 0/20
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>>3727969
Yeah, sorry. Was meant to be a "Grapple away!" joke.
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Rolled 144 (1d600)

Dammit
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Rolled 3, 1, 10, 5, 10, 10, 10, 5, 2, 7 = 63 (10d10)

>>3728003
> Improve Ratio +1
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>>3728003
um, i meant to use the rotational spam for using 10 skills with a 20 HE cost for using 10 heavenly slashes with 20 HE each
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Rolled 7, 2, 10, 8, 4, 7, 7, 6, 4, 9 = 64 (10d10)

>>3728003
>ratio
guess i need to word my votes better in the future
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>>3728019
Shit, sorry. Changing
>Roll 10d100, using 200 HE, then? Best of three.

>>3728021
Use this way.

Heavenly Slash, 10 separate uses, 20 HE each, for 200 HE total, the word each is a better thing to use.

or

Heavenly Slash, 10 separate uses, 2 HE each, for 20 HE total
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>You have 270 HE

Player Choice, you have 10 points to spend, showing current
>Cost Down 0/20
>Improve Ratio 10/50
>Special Evolution 0/20
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Rolled 63, 76, 7, 13, 43, 12, 44, 97, 6, 82 = 443 (10d100)

>>3728026
wait am saying to use or independent rotation, like how we use it for lightning barrage, or is that effect exclusive to lightning techniques? the independent rotation lets us use a skill that ahs a cost of 20 HE or less 10 times at no cost am saying to use that. If thats not how it works then ok lets jsut spend the HE either way its the 10d100 only difference would be HE left afterwards.
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Rolled 96, 61, 35, 30, 35, 97, 33, 79, 3, 72 = 541 (10d100)

>>3728026

And here I was excited for getting 4 10s...
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>>3728031
> Improve Ratio +10
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>>3728038
Sorry. I must be having a bad day.

>Keep Rolls, but you will only get 1 skill point for the barrage, same as last time. Not ten. If you want 10 points, then specify you don't want to use Independent Rotational Charge.

We have two votes for Improve Ratio. I need a third roll. Voting will end in 5 minutes.
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Rolled 24, 45, 88, 71, 35, 83, 87, 10, 92, 93 = 628 (10d100)

>>3728059
would say no rotation for teh points but ratehr keep teh HE for mroe resurrections
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>>3728066
>Improve Ratio 11/50
>628
>Remember that outside of battle you can recover your HE using Unfocused Regeneration, I won't let you now due to time, but think about it next time.

You decide to attack it, like everyone else, you use Heavenly Slash, supplementing it with your Independent Rotational Slash (I think? It is not clear.).

You launch a massive tornado of golden feathered slashes which tear it apart!.

>The Slime is dead! The building does not collapse!

You head to the Cemetery, with that being done. You boost your Heavenly Energy like last time. Your Dantian is struggling to hold it all in, but you can use the Skill 3 times now.

"I can do three people, but quickly!"

"Uh, these two Hunters! Then the Physical Jewel Master in the corner."

With that done, you feel a distinct change in your Jewels. You can feel that with every use, they gain potential. Is this the way to make them more powerful?

>You have 100 HE, Restoring it is not automatic outside of battle, but it can be made so with more reading of the Guard's book.

Player Choice for the afternoon.
>Cultivate
>Train a stat (Which?)
>Read the Guard's book on how to make this automatic
>Unfocused Regeneration
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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Also

>You have 3 points to spend for Resurrect
>Rank up 0/200 (Will make it so that you can revive someone even with just their soul)
>Cost down 7/20
>Special Evolution 0/20
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>>3728092
>>Read the Guard's book on how to make this automatic
> 3 points into cost down
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>Cost Down 10/20
>Read Book.

You want some automatic Heavenly Energy regeneration. The book talks about permanently having your scoops on stand-by, but it is difficult for those who don't have their own domain. You start to practice it.

>Roll 1d100 best of three to upgrade Unfocused Regeneration into Focused Regeneration
>DC 95, to make it lower, you need Master Heavenly Energy Control
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Rolled 15 (1d100)

>>3728127
come on nat 100
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Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>3728127
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>>3728148
the hero
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>>3728148
And put everything into cost down
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>>3728148
Wew

Waiting on the last roll, Junior Brother Mo are you here? Nat1Nat1Nat1
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Rolled 27 (1d100)

>>3728127
Nat1Nat1Nat1
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>>3728159
it worked! You have beaten the curse!
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>>3728148
>96
>That's a fucking success.

You manage it with no problem. You can feel an invisible wall of Heavenly Energy on your skin
>Unfocused Regeneration has upgraded into Focused Regeneration.

>HE will automatically restore when not in battle, this is including after a successful RUN with an AGI check

>Choice for evening LOCKED for going to the Cemetery.

You go back to the Cemetery, and repeat the process you did this morning.

"How many are left?"

"10, some died this morning."

>I'm just going to dump all the points into Cost Down until you get it.
>Cost Down 13/20

You need some sleep,

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 56th day (6th day of the trip, almost halfway through)

>Roll 1d100 best of three for an encounter
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Rolled 60 (1d100)

>>3728199
yeah we prob gonna aim for special after the cost down to see if we can get multi target rez or something, that or start investing in the power for the long term
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>>3728213
Someone was talking about you using the skill on yourself, so that if you are killed, you can come back. Just a thought.
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Rolled 66 (1d100)

>>3728199
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>>3728223
right contingency rez, prob a good idea
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Rolled 97 (1d100)

>>3728199
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>>3728241
...fuck
>>3728199
wait does this mean that if we are not in a combat situation we have effectively by using atmospheric HE instead of our own reserves?
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>>3728252
You will not have infinite HE, you will have your maximum, which will restore after the morning/afternoon/evening automatically. Your body can't take more than 1000 HE atm anyway without your Dantian bursting.


>>3728241
>97 OH BOY

You wake up to an evacuation alarm.

"WARNING. WARNING. MOON BASE COMMANDER APPROACHING THE FRONT LINE. ALL UNITS WHO ARE NOT A LOW LEVEL ZUN STAGE OR ABOVE MUST EVACUATE. REPEAT, ALL UNITS WHO ARE NOT A LOW LEVEL ZUN STAGE OR ABOVE MUST EVACUATE."

Ah. That doesn't sound good, you take a peak outside, and spot a humanoid metal goo person, with fractals in places for a face. He speaks, in a human voice.

"I will kill all of you vermin! This planet will be ours! The trees, the metal, the sea! Everything!"

He is then followed by a huge army.

Player Choice
>RUN, with the same as last time, using all your HE, Boosting, buffing and Wind, to RUN.
>RUN, but just with WIND and Boosting
>Fight (How?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3728272
>Use the Space telescope and Transposition to swap the commander with the furthest object you can find, then evacuate
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>>3728272
> Fight

Too many enemies, too strong an enemy to safely run.
Heavenly Slash. Full Power. Full Buffs.
And the pray we hurt it enough to stall the thing.
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>>3728272
Seconding >>3728276
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>>3728272
>MEGA HEAVENLY SLASH!!
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>>3728284
What would that mean? Do you mean buffing to 700 HE, then using it all in 1 Slash?
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>>3728293
Basically. Our most powerful single-target attack, with all we have. It's gonna make the Nat1 I'm going to roll all the more poignant, I guess.
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Rolled 1 (1d2)

Alright people, we have a 2 way tie.

Fight
>>3728279
>>3728284
Swap. then evacuate
>>3728276
>>3728280

Rolling a 1d2 for choice. Then heading to bed. I need some sleep. Thank you all for playing! (I'm sorry Goricnac that I can't run as late as BPQM. She must be...of unsound judgement. Plus medical issues on my side, sorry.) Quest will resume at 8 am BST tomorrow unless I get no players, then I will reschedule to 14:00 pm BST tomorrow. Goodnight!
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>>3728315
chill, am half convinced BPQM is operating on dark spider magic to run the hours she does. Running college student hours like that is just not normal, I should be onlie around 16:00 pm BST, since depending on traffic i get to teh office at 9 am panama time and i do this while am working
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>>3728315
welp if we fighting then might as well use regeneration to take in as much HE as possible, use Saint to boost it and shoot out a max powered Heavenly Slash
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>>3728328
Wait. Your workplace allows access to 4chan(nel)? Mine completely blocks it. Mobile data is fickle for me. Lots of IPs are banned. So I can't update at work.
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>>3728341
In countries where English isn't generally spoken often, sites with predominantly English users are usually unknown and therefore not banned, while Twitter or SNS with significant representation are. Almost nobody here knows the "chans", so maybe it's the same for Goricnac.
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>>3728341
my work place is not very tech advanced, most engineering done in panama is mechanical rather than digital, also im the youngest by like a decade and i think panama has almost no 4-chan users, hell if i wanted to i could access fucking 8-chan in a government building
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Rolled 1210 (1d3000)

Well, after that learning experience, we need to fight. Oh boy. Please never take your access to this place for granted. I know people joke about it on /pol/, but every day a little more is taken from us brits, eventually this quest will die either by inactivity, or by the government shutting down our access to the site, and I don't have access to very good VPNs. so yeah, I am having a tiny bit of culture shock from how lax things are elsewhere.

>Fight

You need to fight it, you know that you can produce power beyond your Cultivation. You buff your Heavenly Energy again, then prepare for a Heavenly Slash to reach the 5th Jewel of Power!

>470 HE is buffed, using the Saint Element, to 700 HE
>All HE is being used, resulting in a 3500 damage attack

You can feel the Wind Energy fill your arm, the energy reacting slightly with the gift from Demon Hammer. You're ready. You see the Commander start to melt and bend around arrows and other ranged attacks, but he doesn't return any of his own, just walking forward, his army dropping behind him as others, including the Fire Element user you were almost killed by yesterday releasing a massive Fire wave, melting the weaker ones. The commander continues to move forward. Unaffected. Bending out of the way.

>Roll 1d3500 best of three

Rolling 1d3000 to DODGE FLX
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Rolled 1757 (1d3500)

>>3729503
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>>3729519
Could you roll a 2d3500 please?
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Rolled 1335 (1d3500)

>>3729503
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Rolled 417 (1d3500)

>>3729523
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Rolled 2154 (1d3500)

>>3729503
You time this to start just as I'm off to bed, but I enjoy reading nonetheless.
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>>3729543
Fucking hell, what time-zone is that Australian? Thank you for your continued participation!

>>3729519
>Your 1757 vs his 1210

Success!
>He takes all 1757 Damage
>The Commander is Dead!

You fire a massive 10 meter long, 4 metre wide slash!, It soars through the air, the wings on the side shredding anything in its path. You see him try to bend and jump out of the way, but the sheer size of the attack, blinding. the gold overshadowing everything else. Means he can't. You see the chunks of metal and his Zun Stage Amethyst Core fly out! You can't exactly hear what he said as he died; you are too far away from him to hear it after all.

You have just killed a Moon Commander. The other army isn't dead, but thanks to you, the rest start retreating. That's when you hear an order blare through.

"DO NOT LET THEM ESCAPE, FOLLOW THEM NOW! WE WILL FIND THEIR POD AND DESTROY IT! GO! THERE LEADER IS DEAD! THERE ARE ONLY THE WEAK LEFT! FOR HER HIGHNESS!"

Focused Regeneration takes affect, restoring all your Heavenly Energy. You could do that, but you could also resurrect some more people.

>HE is now 470

Player Choice for the morning
>Join the assault on the moon pod, you will then join a Group, and all combat will be done by a 1d100
>Go to the Cemetery
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3729545
>Go to the Cemetery
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>Go to the Cemetery

You don't want to die today, let's go and perform some miracles.

As you leave your room however, you see people looking at you in bewilderment. Someone runs up to you. He looked to have just been evacuating, but was joining the assault.

"Hey! Did you kill the Moonman?"

"Yes. I used a special Skill."

"Well yeah, I saw that, but..how? You're only a boy!"

You show him a small version of the same Skill, and explain that the Saint Element is really good for this stuff.

"Huh. I never got my Jewels. You don't think your Saint Element could help with that could you? I heard that it can revive people, so this shouldn't be much of a problem right?"

You see other people looking at the two of you talking, they too don't believe their eyes at who killed the leader of the moon people who troubled them for so long.

You think it should be possible? The Saint Element can heal even spiritual organs, so it should be able to buff spiritual essence and boost cultivation in other people...you don't want to be swarmed by people asking for the same thing, but you do want to help people...you could say no now, and after everyone has been revived, start with this.

Player Choice
>Try to copy the action of the medicine, and tell him to cultivate, as you do not have Master Heavenly Energy, the DC will be very high for a success
>Tell him it isn't possible, and move on.
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>>3729563
*Master Heavenly Energy Control
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>>3729563
>Try to copy the action of the medicine, and tell him to cultivate, as you do not have Master Heavenly Energy, the DC will be very high for a success
We might as well try.
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>>3729580
>Try to copy the action of the medicine, and tell him to cultivate, as you do not have Master Heavenly Energy, the DC will be very high for a success


>Roll 1d100 best of three.
>DC 95
>If no-one else rolls after 10 minutes, do feel free to roll again with a 2d100
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Quest will be stopped now, and will be restarted at 14:00 pm BST. Thank you to the few that played this morning.
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Rolled 46 (1d100)

>>3729584
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Rolled 93 (1d100)

>>3729584
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Rolled 4 (1d100)

>>3729603
Another if nobody shows up.
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Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>3729584
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>>3729665
One off
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>93
Close but no cigar

You use the Saint Element and try and figure out, using Jiang as a reference, what his spiritual anatomy would look like, then try and speed up the movement of his own little Heavenly Energy, whilst simultaneously trying to heal the places you think would fail first, say the tightly bound meridians near the hands and feet, the chamber of the heart, and perhaps the area the brain would sit.

However, doing all of this is no simple task, you tell him to start cultivating, and you feel his energy start to move, yet you lack he control to keep up, his anatomy is different, as he already has Heavenly Energy flowing through everything is shifting about, the hands and brain are all fine too. You eventually just give him a really good check-up. His body, mind and spirit are reportedly refreshed. Whilst you didn't help him awaken, you did do something good for him.

"I'm terribly sorry about pushing you like this, I know you're meant to be working with Danojou, but I thought that maybe one of the 4 Great Elements could help. Thanks for the healing though."

He shakes you hand, and walks off satisfied. You ignore everyone else and head to the Cemetery. The Life Element user walks up to you. On the way you restore a bit of your Heavenly Energy, you need all you can get.

"Ah hello! How was everything this morning, I hear you managed to kill the big bad! I didn't want to join the assault, I can't really do much unless I find a weak enough monster or animal. Nothing like the Saint Element of course."

"Why's that?"

"You have the Life Element too right? Tell you what, when you've resurrect these people, and we can assign you to a proper research facility, I'll give you a technique to learn, it's called "Mutation of Life". It's something all Zun Stage Life Element users have to learn to not become a doctor. What Elements do you have by the way? I know you have Saint and Life, but I haven't has the chance to look at your Jewels."

You get ready to revive 3 people, after that, there should be 7 left. You would think that there would be more casualties, but the Life Element user tells you not to worry.

Player Choice 1 (How does Zou-Do-Shai feel about killing something like the Commander, it has made you a site-wide name after all)
>Write-in)

>Resurrect is now Cost Down 16/20

Player Choice 2
>Show him your Jewels properly, and tell him your Elements
>Refuse, and just tell him that only the Saint Element Matters.
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3729742
> Proud, but cautious: you feel like it was a stroke of good luck aiding you.

>Show him your Jewels

Zou already used Saint, Life, Space, Lightning and Wind in public. Telling him we also have Water won't change much.
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>>3729790
support
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>>3729790
Good afternoon. As it has been almost 45 minutes since the last post. I will be taking your suggestion.
>>3729809
Good afternoon to you as well

You think back to the Heavenly Slash, you remember your days as a Hunter 2 months ago, and you have seen your progress first hand, you are proud of what you have accomplished, but you are also cautious, anything could have happened, it could have been a fluke, a stroke of good luck. Time will tell. You feel like there is no problem showing your Jewels to him, after all, you have used many of your Skills in the few days.

"I have Saint, Spatial, Lightning, Life, Water and Wind. See the streaks on the Jewels?"

"How the fuck? Sorry for my language, but most people end up with 1 Element, even Her Highness, yet you get 6? Just imagine if you were a Heavenly Jewel Master. No wonder Her Highness went to ask for you, have you met anyone else with 6 Elements?"

"No, but there is someone from an Organisation back home that I am a part of, technically. I don't know what Elements she has though."

"Is everyone in Dershwa City like this?"

"No, but we have an...intelligent young woman at the helm of our Elemental Research who does a good job. She is very driven."

"Right. I know you guys are preparing for war like us, but I think I might visit. Nothing should get in the way of an Upper Level Zong Stage Master after all. Should be a fun learning experience. Any ideas of what families to look out for?"

You stay quiet at that. You've only ever seen the one. Is it different in other countries?

"Just the Dershwa Clan."

"Just them? Well..you do you. I guess."

"Yep. By the way. I think that I can do 6 more today. I found out a way to get more Heavenly Energy, nothing too special, Saint Element stuff. So I could be done by tomorrow morning."

The Guard told you to hide these techniques, and who's going to find out it isn't the Saint Element anyway.

"Shit really? Well done you! Your parents are going to be proud of you when you get back!"

You stay quiet at that. You haven't been to the orphanage in so long, maybe a visit is in order after you fight Jiang. Maybe you should call the Palace, Fei has said nothing about those spies...

Player Choice for the afternoon (HE will be automatically regenerated)
>Cultivate
>Stay in the Cemetery
>Make a call (Who?)
>Train a stat (Which?)
>Read more of the Guard's book
>Read a different book (Which?)
>Ask around for the state of the assault
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3729812
>>Make a call to Jiang
>Give her an update on what we been doing, downplay the danger we were in with the fire dude and mostly just talk to her
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>>3729812
> Call Jiang
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>>3729818
Seconded.
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>Call to Jiang

"About that. Do you mind if I make a call home? It might go on for a while."

"Call?"

You take out the mobile and tell him you can talk to people through this via their Jewels.

"Huh, well I don't see why not, you'll finish tomorrow anyway."

You thank him, and leave the Cemetery to make a call to Jiang in private.

"Hello? Jiang? It's Zou. How have things been?"

"Huh? Hi! Um..good? How...how is the war?"

"I actually killed the main guy...so it could finish tomorrow. i won't be able to come home, sorry."

"Oh yeah? Funny that. You can make a call to Fei about spies but you only call me now? Guess that Moon-Pod stuff took aaaaalll your time up?"

"I mean, I was resurrecting people, you know just your basic miracles, nothing special."

"Pshh, I want you to know that while you've been hanging around coffins and corpses. I've been training! I'm going to beat you soundly! I'm only a few days away from breaking through too? How about that!"

"I would break through today, but I need to train. Killing that Commander...well, have you done anything like that?"

"I shot down a Ship from the moon, my Consolidated Equipment is great. I can already do damage to the 6th Jewel already! I'll leave it to a surprise...but I could have 2 pieces by the time I get back. So...get yourself ready. "

You managed the 5th Jewel of Power at 2 Jewels, she managed the 6th Jewel at the First, Heavenly Jewel Masters really are something...

"You mentioned Fei? How has everything been going with that?"

"She found 3 people underground. She thinks they're cute...says they have animal traits and everything, one of them hisses, the other has wings...it's all a bit worrying. The King knows, but Fei has taken complete control of them, apparently her breakthrough means she can create special toxins using the molecules in the wind? I don't really know, but thanks for the heads up! I've been pranking Jessica too, but she's learning my tricks, spending less time in a lab makes you more observant than you would think.

Sounds like things are more complicated than you thought.

The two of you talk a bit more, and you just pass the time. When the evening arrives for you, you realise that there is a solid time difference, as the evening is earlier for you than Jiang by a few hours, where the hell are you? You could use the Long-Ranged Teleport Glove to take you a few miles into the Sky and get a better look, but you must ask at some point. You end the call, Jiang is still burning bright, but is more smug now, less angry and revengeful.

You could go back to the Cemetery, but a call to either Jessica or Fei could do, even if they are busy. You need to finish tomorrow anyway. You want to learn more about the Mutation of Life anyway.

Player Choice for the evening.
>Cultivate
>Stay in the Cemetery
>Make a call (Who?)
>Train a stat (Which?)
>Read more of the Guard's book
>Read a different book (Which?)
>Ask around for the state of the assault
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3729863
>>Read more of the Guard's book
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>>3729863
>>Cultivate
just to be clear HE is the only stat we can lose out on i we dont train it before breakthrough right? the other stats have the same mx value regardless of whether or not we train them before a level up?
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>>3729870
Yeah, but that's only as an Elemental Jewel Master. If your were a Heavenly Jewel Master things would be different, because there is a multiplier for Physical Jewels as well.. So keep that in mind.
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Oh btw I'm making some changes to your Physical Stats if you awaken as a Heavenly Jewel Master, not just the 2.5* multiplier, but a distinct change in their amounts, my planning for them went a bit pear shaped, so I'm going to use that opportunity to fix it..

Voting will be open for 5 more minutes.
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>>3729874
>Right we would have the extra multiplier to a physical stat
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>>3729863
>Cultivate
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>>3729877
Why the > ? Is that a note you want me to write down?

AH FUCK IT'S RAINING WHYYYY IT'S AUGUST FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE!

>Cultivate

You tell the Life Element user that you won't be there to use the Skill. HE understands, but says you must be there all day tomorrow.

>Roll 1d100 best of three to Cultivate
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>>3729888
*He, not HE sorry

Also, trips of wealth!

>You will find a medium sized Diamond to sell somewhere, maybe not here, as they have a different currency, but somewhere.
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Rolled 20 (1d100)

>>3729888
no i just added the green text by accident, was jsut agreeing with your statement
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Rolled 11 (1d100)

>>3729888
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Rolled 49 (1d100)

>>3729888
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>>3729903
>49
Progress to the next Level: 13445/18000

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 57th day (Halfway through the trip.)

You wake up at sunrise again, but this time, an alarm doesn't sound, instead, you wake up normally, did they destroy the Moon-Base? Well, guess you still have a job to do.

>Choice for the morning LOCKED to go to the Cemetery

You revive 3 more Jewel Masters, and realise that, with the 4 people left. None are normal people, would they not be the first to die? Oh well, you have the afternoon to worry about.

>Cost Down 19/20

Player Choice
>Ask the Life Element user why there are no normal people to revive (Persuasion roll required)
>Don't, this is a war base, why would normal people come here anyway

>Choice for the afternoon LOCKED for more reviving. Just want this choice done now.
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>>3729912
>>Ask the Life Element user why there are no normal people to revive (Persuasion roll required)
so they seem to be trying to use us as a political tool by prioritizing jewel masters over soldiers?
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>Ask the Life Element user why there are no normal people to revive (Persuasion roll required)

"Hey, why are there no normal people, why has it just been Jewel Masters?"

>Roll 1d100 best of three for persuasion
>DC 75
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Rolled 26 (1d100)

>>3729937
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>>3729940
If you could roll a 2d100 if no one else rolls in the next 5 minutes, it would be appreciated.
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Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>3729937
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Rolled 16 (1d100)

>>3729945
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Rolled 47 (1d100)

>>3729937
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>>3729940
>26
Failure!

He looks at you funny for a second, but shrugs it off.

"No particular reason, this is a military base, we just send people who can fight. Don't worry about it."

"Alright."

You resurrect 3 more people, and you recognise something happen to the Skill! The Energy reacts again, you feel like a ditinct change has occurred with the Skill! You don't know what it was, but you will find out this evening!

>Cost Down 20/20!

>Cost of Resurrect has halved to 100! Zou does not know this yet!

Player Choice for evolution of Resurrect, you have 2 points to spend.
>Rank up 0/200 (Will make it so that you can revive someone even with just their soul)
>Cost down 0/30
>Special Evolution 0/20

>Choice for the evening LOCKED to staying in the Cemetery.
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>>3729961
>put 2 points in special
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>Special Evolution is now 2/20
>There is one more corpse to revive, I'll just put that in as well.
>Special Evolution is now 3/20!

You restore your Heavenly Energy, and revive the last person, a Low Level Shi Stage Physical Jewel Master with a 70% Coordination Jewel, and 30% Stamina Jewel.

You realise then and there, that your Skill cost has halved! This is astonishing!

>You have 370 HE

"Well, we're all done here, thank you for your effort. I'll move your room closer to the research place we have. I'll see you in the afternoon I think."

You look at the time, and there is still most of the evening left to do something. You look around at the empty coffins, a bit morbid, but you fixed that yourself, you could revive 4 people at a time now!

Player Choice for the evening.
>Cultivate
>Make a call (Who?)
>Train a stat (Which?)
>Read more of the Guard's book
>Read a different book (Which?)
>Ask around for the state of the Moon-Pod
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3730008
>>Read more of the Guard's book
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>Since I seem to have only 1 player, I'll shorten the voting times to 10 minutes and not 20 for a while.
>Read Guard Book#

You look for the next Technique "Heavenly Whip". You launch out a whip made from Heavenly Energy to grab things from further away to get them into melee range, he is a Physical Jewel Master with partially Icy Jade Jewels, so it would make sense for him to learn this.

>Roll 1d100 best of three to partially learn it 1/5
>DC 60
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Rolled 24 (1d100)

>>3730029
well its the middle fo the work day state side, only reason i can even play is cause panamenian economy is dead enough i barely do shit at my internship beyond read contracts
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Welp. Now sounds like a good time to take a break then. I need to eat some tea anyway. Be back for 18:30 pm BST. Thank you all for playing!
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Rolled 74 (1d100)

>>3730029
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Rolled 87 (1d100)

>>3730029
I'm a Yankee, but I work swing shift. Your runs start at 2 AM where I live.
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Update will be late. I don't feel too well.
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>>3730075
Feel better soon.
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I was eating some salmon, must have been under cooked slightly.

>>3730075
>87
Success!

You do it. You start to bring your Heavenly Energy out from your body, making a separate layer, your next step would be to condense it into one circle, but you have run out of time for the evening.

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 58th day (8th day of the trip)

You are woken up by the Life Element user, who tells you that you have a free day today, as they need some more time setting up equipment for analysing your Saint Element. You could try and purposefully train a Skill today...you think using your Independent Rotational Charge won't count for more than a tiny bit of growth. On your way outside you find a small Diamond tip from one of those slimes, you think you could sell this for 150 Gold back home. Nice!

Player Choice for the morning
>Cultivate
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Ask around about the Moon-Pod
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?) (Involves using all HE possible to get evolution points, Zou now knows about it, so has an IC reason to do it.
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3730100
>>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
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>>3730100
*Complete 16 Zun Stage Scrolls, for the increase to Literacy.

Sorry, thought people might have forgotten about this.
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>>3730100
>Ask around about the Moon-Pod

It seems to me that we're not concerned enough about the alien invasion.
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>>3730100
>Train a Skill Heavenly Slash
if we can improve teh ratio of this skill we gonna be able to do some retardedly strong shit
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Rolled 2 (1d3)

Rolling 1d3 for Choice
1 Heavenly Energy Control
2 Moon-Pod
3 Train Heavenly Slash.
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what is the minimum mount of HE we ust spend in a heavenly slash for it to count for evolution points? am guessing is 20 since thats the cut off for rotation?
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>>3730145
No actually, with Extensive Heavenly Energy Control the minimum you can use to have an impact is 50 HE. When reaching Master Heavenly Energy Control, this becomes 10 HE, when reaching Divine: 1 HE, i.e 470 points per full training, at the moment per training for Heavenly Slash, you could get 8 points.

>Ask around about the Moon-Pod

You want to know about the moon pod after the attack. So you ask around and get a few things:

1. All the aliens and their methods of reproduction are gone or destroyed
2. It is to the north, and for you, it a short trip, you could leave here when you wake up and see it in the morning
3. The researchers have taken it over
4. People with 2 Jewels or more are allowed to visit in their off-time, but those with the Life Element need only 1 Jewel.
5. They have been sending information about Earth and its people to the Moon.
6. We should expect another pod to arrive soon to the main land of Sunset Island, and a larger force to attack Dershwa City and Miller within the month. Not good for you.
7. They are apparently weak to the Water Element, as there is normally none on the Moon, so their bodies don't know how to deal with it.

That's all. You don't have much of a way to attack with Water, maybe asking around for one may be a good idea...

Player Choice for the afternoon
>Cultivate
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Complete 16 Zun Stage Scrolls
>Train Sword Technique
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Go to the Moon-Pod (Can make it there for the afternoon)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3730153
>>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
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>>3730153
*9 points sorry
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>>3730153
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
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>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice

You want to practice your Heavenly Energy Control, and the Guard's book tells you how to move forward. Taking your Heavenly Energy around you in an area to create a domain of control, where you then know the exact movement and position of every bit of Heavenly Energy inside. The Guard is not here in person, but his words in the book count for some really good help.

>Roll 1d100+60 best of three for Heavenly Energy Control practice.
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Rolled 49 (1d100)

>>3730183
Guard Bro has been so good for our cultivation, am glad we could help him awaken his jewels
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>>3730188
Yeah, shame he won't get any further without your help. Of all things, he has no talent for his cultivation technique, and he can't change it. The Saint Element could help, but...you would need a cultivation of 9 Jewels to get him to 9 Jewels, what a shame.
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>>3730195
Here's hoping we get random quints of evolution when talking to him and suddenly he gets some of the leftover power boost we receive. Also am rolling again in 5 minutes if thats ok with you?
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Rolled 28 + 60 (1d100 + 60)

>>3730183
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>>3730203
Yep. You can also help him by using the Saint Element either with a roll now with a 95 DC, or, at Master Heavenly Energy Control, boost his Cultivation, allowing him the chance to break through to the next Level.
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Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>3730183
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>>3730228
1 off!

>109
>Heavenly Energy Control is now 17/500
>All Cultivation roll pools increase by 1585

You do really well, and you can feel a minor change. You know it will be a long time without a major breakthrough, but you have at least 10 months until the year is up, and the Moon-Monsters attack, so you have loads of time to practice.

Player Choice for the evening
>Cultivate
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Complete 16 Zun Stage Scrolls
>Train Sword Technique
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Go to the Moon-Pod
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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Rolled 69 + 60 (1d100 + 60)

>>3730183
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>>3730243
>Train Sword Technique
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>>3730244
CORRECTION! I WILL BE PRIORITISING NEW ROLLS! Ignore the last post!

>129
>Heavenly Energy Control is now 18/500
>All Cultivation roll pools increase by 1590

You do really well, and you can feel a minor change. You know it will be a long time without a major breakthrough, but you have at least 10 months until the year is up, and the Moon-Monsters attack, so you have loads of time to practice.

Player Choice for the evening
>Cultivate
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Complete 16 Zun Stage Scrolls
>Train Sword Technique
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Go to the Moon-Pod
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3730243
>>Cultivate
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>>3730248
>Manners Practice
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Rolled 3 (1d3)

We have a 3-way tie. So I am rolling for it.

Rolling 1d3 for Choice, in chronological order of appearance.
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>>3730297
>Manners Practice

You want to appear well mannered when seeing Jiang again, perhaps some learning is in order. You take out one of the books you own. Jiang gave it to you from before her awakening, she still seems worried about manners even with her more fiery personality

>Roll 1d100+40 best of three for manners practice.
>I need some sleep, so the next post will be the last one.
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Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>3730302
gotta be a refined murder machine proto angel
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Rolled 70 + 40 (1d100 + 40)

>>3730302
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>>3730304
Ah yes. New name for the Consolidated Equipment

"Angel of Death God Tier Set."
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>>3730311
niiiiiice am guessing its optimized to abuse our Saint element buffing or something liek that, seems like the munchkinery consolidated equipment masters would go for
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>>3730318
It will do a few things, but it will make your Saint Element more powerful in every regard.

No spoilers now. You are not even at the correct Heavenly Energy Level to try the medicine.

Could you roll a 1d100 again for me please?
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Rolled 4 + 40 (1d100 + 40)

>>3730302
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>>3730304
>122
>Basic Manners increases by 6 to 9/20

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 59th day

You are woken up by the Life Element user, who tells you that they have contained an Evil Element beast, someone who died yesterday of an illness, could simulate someone in great injury, and someone who would be willing to be buffed. You have a choice for this morning, on what to focus on for research, then you will be let go for the rest of the day.

Player Choice for the morning
>Research Buffing
>Research Greater Restoration
>Research Evil Element beast purifying/killing
>Research Resurrect

I need some sleep, thank you all for playing! The quest will restart at 6 am BST for the one person who never gets to play, do not worry, I normally wake up at 4:30 to 5 in the morning, so I will not be tired, I will then run until 8 am BST, then take a break and restart at 14:00 pm BST, then I have to go to work in the evening, so that will take a small chunk out of the day, anyway. Goodnight!
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>>3730345
>>Research Evil Element beast purifying/killing
need to get better at this to eliminate Shan-Die
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>>3730345
>Research Evil Element beast purifying/killing
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>>3730345
>Research Evil Element beast purifying/killing
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>>3730345
>Research Evil Element Killing

You think about Shan-Bai. She is probably still stuck in a coma. You don't exactly know how to kill demons with the Saint Element, but you might as well try.

You are lead through some procedures first. They ask if you have enough Holy protection in case you run out of Heavenly Energy. You do; you have that Cross enhanced by the priest, which should give you mental stability if nothing else. You are then given a run down of what they caught. A Demonic Tentacle. It can die in one hit really from anyone without Heavenly Energy, but it has incredibly strong psychich power as a result. They then have you wear a crude suit to record data, it is a bit big on you, it must have been made for a small adult, and not a child. With all the preparations done, they send you in with an emergency call button in the case of emergency. All of this sounds a lot safer than what a certain Dershwa might do. You ask them how much they know about killing Evil Element beasts, they say nothing, and are using you as a starting point.

You walk in, quite far actually, it must have long range. When you see the thing you saw on the expedition. A red, writhing mass of tentacles, this time trapped in a mess of wires and holy symbols, slowly cutting away at its flesh. You need to kill it sooner rather than later. You use the Saint Element, and try to figure out how to properly use it to kill the demon.

>Roll 3d100 best of one, as I only expect 1 player this morning, to figure out how to kill the tentacle using the Saint Element.
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>>3731444
>TRIPS OF DEATH
>DC lowered to 10 for this roll.
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Rolled 73 (1d100)

>>3731444
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Rolled 89 (1d100)

>>3731444
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Rolled 21, 32 = 53 (2d100)

>>3731444
Whoops
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>>3731455
>>3731456
Well. Two players. I wasn't expecting this.

If in another 5 minutes. Someone else hasn't rolled. Then do feel free to roll again.
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>>3731460
I'm the yank from before. This is when I get home from work.
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Rolled 88 (1d100)

>>3731444
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>>3731463
Yes. I thought it would just be you. I didn't account that there could be someone else. No matter, I can still run.

>89.
Success!

You let the energy permeate around you, weak as it is, you have control over its density. So you collect it into one glowing area of light on your hand, like the sunlight at midday. Already you see the tentacles recoil, unlike last time, you don't hear any voices, just its squelching. You change the shape of the light on your hand slightly to make a pin, the colour becoming whiter execpt for a golden layer of light over the pin, is this Holy Power? You force it as hard as you can into the Evil Element beast. You feel like that without a much higher cultivation, you will not be able to use this in combat any time soon.

It reacts harshly. It starts to burn profusesly around the contact area, where small white fires start to spring up and kill it from the inside.

After about 3 seconds. All that is left are some ashes, and another Zun Stage Core, which you pick up. All the wires are tanlged, no blood or anything remains.

With that a success, you move on back to the centre. They spend a.good few minutes checking you over and making sure you are Okay. One of the researchers walks up to you.

"I think you deserve that Core, so keep it. Fucking hell that thing is...was terrifying, well done on killing it. We have a good chunk of people working on analysing that Holy Power. So...if you want to stay and help then so be it, or do something else. You have the day off. Go enjoy it."

You are then told by the Life Element user that he is willing to help you with the Mutation of Life any day you want, it isn't a one time learning technique either, it has stages and progression. You think about what to do this afternoon.

Player Choice for the afternoon
>Mutation of Life learning
>Cultivate
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Complete 18 Zun Stage Scrolls (Sorry I keep forgeting you have 470 HE and not 420)
>Train Sword Technique
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Go to the Moon-Pod
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3731494
>Go to the Moon-Pod
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>>3731494
>Cultivate
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Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>3731494
We have a 2-way tie. So I am rolling for it with a 1d2
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>>3731507
>Go to the Moon-Pod

You think a trip to the Pod is in order. It is currently the only thing we have in relation to what the aliens live like. You are a Mid Level Shi Stage Jewel Master, so you can just go.

You are about 5 times faster than a normal person, so you don't take long to reach it. It is massive. A tall egg shaped structure, white in most places, but with silver and blue accents in places. You spot a researcher making notes and ask if you can look around. He says sure, they have apparently combed this place for everything, but if you find something of interest, do give a shout.

You have a look inside, you see...chambers where the main slimes might live and breed, many computers made of both the metal of Earth, and alien materials from the Moon. There is light from lamps the researchers have put about where the same almost organic metal and rock form the interior, you see crystals on the roof where the aliens might have sourced their light. There is a large computer in every room. You cannot read the language, but with your superior literacy knowledge, you can guess this is a database of some kind, what it's storing, you do not know.

There are living quaters, the command base, everything you would expect to see, execpt for a weapons storage place. Unusual for an invasion. You didn't see them using weapons at all really.

With that cursory look around, time for a deeper look.

>Roll.1d100 best of three for perception
>Multiple DCs
>Be back for 7:45 am BST. I need a shower.
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Rolled 15 (1d100)

>>3731526
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Rolled 11 (1d100)

>>3731526
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Rolled (1d00)

>>3731526
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Rolled 49 (1d100)

>>3731526
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>>3731555
>49
>Partial Success found key item 1/3

You look around the breeding areas. They look torn apart. Burnt by fire mostly. However, in the corner, you spot a tiny blue, white and grey egg. You pick it up. It might contain one of those Moonslimes.

The researchers asked you to hand anything in, but, if you kept it, and gave it to Jessica, she could do better work. You could also try and raise it yourself...Shimuko told you that the Saint Element could purify things, things like sin and hate.

Player Choice
>Keep it for now
>Give to researcher

This is the last update until 14:00 pm BST. Thank you all for playing!
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>>3731561
>Keep it for now
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>>3731561
>>Keep it for now
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>>3731561
> Keep it for now
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>Keep it for now

You decide to keep it. For whatever you need it for, you realise it is quite cold. You think something is still alive in there though.

You look around for anything else, but can't see much through the debris. So you leave rather early. The researcher comes up to you.

"Did you find anything?"

"No, everything looks picked clean."

"Well it just means we are doing are jobs. Have a nice day!"

"You too."

You run back to the base for the evening. You don't think you can do much with the egg at the moment, so you just keep it in your robes, safe from view.

Player Choice for the evening
>Mutation of Life learning, go see the Life Element user
>Cultivate
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Complete 18 Zun Stage Scrolls
>Train Sword Technique
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3731755
>Mutation of Life learning, go see the Life Element user
>>
Sorry about that I fell asleep for a bit.

>Mutation of Life learning, go see the Life Element user

This new technique sounds pretty useful, so you find him in the medical centre and pull him away. He starts explaining the basics.

"Well, firstly, the Life Element can heal. right? Well using that we can also heal specific parts of the body, using this we can make animals stronger, not beasts at the moment, not yet, by making their minds and claws or teeth mutate to follow your orders. Your first task will be to focus your Life Element in one area. Let me find a cat or something.

He comes back with a cat.

"Now try here."

>Roll 1d100 to obtain Basic Mutation of Life best of three.
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Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>3731801
hello, prob will be on and off today, finally gto something to do aside from document reading
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>>3731830
Good to know. I'll be gone in about an hour and a half for about 3 hours anyway, I have work. When you see this, do roll a 2d100 for me please.
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Rolled 23, 62 = 85 (2d100)

>>3731832
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Rolled 93 (1d100)

>>3731801
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>>3731830
>96
Success!

You use the Life Element, letting it permeate around the cat's paw, then you bring it in closer, using your superior Heavenly Energy Control, you manage to do it perfectly.

>Basic Mutation of Life 0/20 learned.

"Your next task would be to start healing only the cells that grow the claws, but I doubt you have the scientific or medical knowledge to do that. So when you have the opportunity, see me tomorrow and I can get you a special manual I made for myself when I was younger, and pass it to you, so that you can practice on your own. I need to go to bed. Bye."

You are tired from that as well. The cat is confused, but is glad to have a nicer paw. It jumps out of your hands, and scurries off. Never to be seen again.

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 60th day (10th day of the trip) (2 Special events will happen today, but they won't take up a time-slot)

You wake up, again, at sunrise, you need to ask about that, it is starting to drain on you. You go back to the research facility. Time for more work

Player Choice for the morning
>Research Buffing
>Research Greater Restoration
>Research Resurrect
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>>3731852
>>Research Greater Restoration
ok now we can use this to treat the other dershwa issues, like jessicas insanity
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>>3731854
Nah, that will come under the Holy Power you did yesterday. They want to see you use your "Greater Restoration" skill, to test its limits and other parameters, consider it a training for the skill if you will.
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>Research Greater Restoration

You ask about the greater restoration, and they lead you to a segregated part of the medical ward. There lay five people, three have missing limbs, the other two look fine, but have more intensive medical equipment attached to them suggest they may have lost organs.

"Use Greater Restoration on them all please."

Player Choice for evolution of Greater Restoration, you have 5 points to spend
>Rank UP 0/120
>Cost Down 1/20
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>>3731873
>cost down
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>>3731873
>Cost Down
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>>3731873
> Cost Down +5

Even if Rank Up is a better long-term investment, we are wayyyy too weak to care about long term now. Having an higher efficiency should help stall people stronger than us.
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>>3731873
>Cost Down 6/20

With that, you leave, as you leave, the Life Element user comes up to you, and passes you an old, almost decaying book to you.

"There, use that back home, it's about 70 years old so treat it with care."

Care? You might want to reverse time on this. That's a point. If wood is processed and dead tree matter. How would it react to the Saint Element? Questions for another time.

You go back to your room, restoring your Heavenly Energy as you go. That's when you get a call. You look at the mobile, and in the split second before you answer, you see a Jewel you don't recognise. 70% Waxy Jade, 20% Red Jade and 10% Black Jade.

"Guess who it is!" You hear the voice of Song Chad-Pah on the other side of the phone.

"I would know that voice from anywhere! How are you man?"

"Great! I got this Jewel yesterday! The headmaster says that it is a good combination too! How about you? It's been a while, anything happened in that time? Still a pathetic Hunter or did you get the job?"

There is a lot to tell, but you might want to ask about how Dershwa City is, with the city under martial law and all. Also asking what he has been doing would be good. Too much to tell.

Player Choice
>Write-in for what to tell Song Chad-Pah/questions for him. The voting/writing time will be until 19:45 pm BST. I need to go to work in about 30 minutes. Thanks for playing!
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>>3731886
>Well I became bodyguard to a princess, research assitant to another princess, destined savior of another princess, training partner to another princess, went to the moon, have spent the past 5 days bringing the dead back to life and 2 days ago I killed a metal man from the moon at the Zun Stage using a blast of Holy/Wind Heavenly Energy that is roughly at the 5th jewel in power. Hows your week been?
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>>3731886
> "Nothing interesting. Killed a Moon Man, brought people back from the dead, got an alien egg. Normal administration.
You?"
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>>3731886
>"Her Highness Matriarch Tsushiri invited me to work in her medical unit for a while, and I accepted. It's hard work but I get to save people."
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>>3731896
+1
>>
>I can read now
>I got my second Jewel all figured out
>I got the Job
>Worked with Jessica as a research partner
>I am working on trying to perform an exorcism on someone I shouldn't mention the name of]
>I turned another Princess into a training maniac
>I am a really good teacher
>I went to the moon, you know about the war? We are fighting them...they have a big gun.
>I am now thousands of miles away, I have been spending the last few days performing miracles and resurrecting people because Her Highness Matriarch Tsushuri asked me personally to join her for some research, haven't spoken to her since.
>I killed a Moon Commander single-handedly, He was basically human, really proud of that
>I can reach the 5th Jewel of power with some Saint techniques
>I have a Moon Egg, not sure what it does
>All in all, nothing too exciting, how's life?
>Ask about martial law, his feelings about his Jewels, and what the academy is like, any actual jobs?


That's a lot; may take multiple posts, writing now. I have added my own stuff.
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"Well, firstly, I got the job, but there's been so much more since then. I am busy. So good news is, I can read now! I might even be better than you considering I can understand Consolidated Equipment scrolls now."

"You wish! That was child's play, I've been working on understanding ancient texts, apparently it's good for relations if you know the history of a place, lots of the government buildings in far off places use foreign text, so I need to learn that, so learning how to read Consolidated Equipment Scrolls was good practice."

"But have you made one?"

"Fuck! You have the Spatial Element don't you. Well, I bet you haven't been to another country! I took a trip to Miller when the First Princess Fei Dershwa went for talks as some diplomatic support. I need to learn the ropes quickly with the war and all."

"I actually train with Fei Dershwa, and I discovered my talent for teaching, so, I taught her a new technique, the Princesses are...complicated. You know the one I was assigned to? I helped her awaken and all, but I turned her into a training maniac, so, I've been telling her to keep going."

"Some bodyguard you are! I bet they kicked you out of the castle!"

"I mean...I'm not there at the moment, I was asked personally by Her Highness Matriarch Tsushuri to join her on a mission to kill some forces...from the moon."

"The moon? I thought we were fighting the beast nations?"

"Yeah...about that. I have been to the moon, it's astonishing, truly, turns out we can teleport there if we have the right equipment. Jessica-sorry, the 4th Princess is smart, driven, but a bit..off, so she is really good at making stuff, like said teleporter, it took me to the orbit of the moon, but, it is inhabited. They have an army of monsters, intelligent monsters, on the moon. They are turning the thing into a massive weapon. I managed to kill one of their Commanders a few days ago..I need you to keep yourself safe, and in the City, I promise you ev-everything will be Okay, the orphanage will be Okay, but I need you to keep yourself protected."

"The fuck...how long do I have? I-I mean, I know you have 1 Jewel and can kill them-"

"I have 2 Jewels, but I can reach the power of the 5th with some effort from the Saint Element. I need you to either get more powerful, or get more powerful allies other than me, in the academy, that was something found in a small pod, imagine what they have elsewhere."

"Oh god. I..I can depend on you when it counts right? I mean, I have some friends here...oh god. I...I met someone from a higher year...she's a Heavenly Jewel Master, but only has 1 Jewel."

"That's fine. You maybe have 10 months, help her progress, get stronger, we can't stand on the top if we die! I need you to promise me that when a pod comes, which could be in a few days, you either run, or fight! Do you have plans for some Consolidated Equipment?"

"No? I mean, that stuff is expensive, for someone like me. Dude, I know you made a Scroll but-"

1/?
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>>3732185
lets see if we can swing our connections to the Equipment Masters to get him a good set
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"How much would you need for a 9 piece set?"

"What?"

"The King gave me loads of money. I can always get more. How. Much?"

"I-I think about 20000? I would need to check, but with my Physical types, I would need something to relate to that. What are the Moon monsters weak to?"

"Water, it should go well with your Flexibility."

"I'll try and find some then."

"I have around 22000. Give me some time to think. I need to get home anyway. I could be able to send stuff home from my master, she is a God Tier, so something like this would be paltry for her, no offence."

"None taken, you have some strong contacts huh?"

"Yep. I need to make use of them soon, I might give something I got to Jessica. These Moon things come from eggs, I think. They look like slimes mostly, but the Commander looked almost human. So, I need her to research that."

"About her, you said Princesses were complicated? I need to know man, the First Princess seemed nice when I saw her."

"Well, the first is a bit dumb, but not as dumb as she was a few weeks ago, the third just cares about strength, but...may have an inferiority complex, the second was the strongest, but has a thing for...some beasts, I think. The fourth is insane, tried to kill me in the name of research, she has medication for it, but..it is only a shortfall. The fifth is...I..she is nice, but can be a bit...demonic. The last one is a bit fiery, but is calming down."

"I guess they have their own lives, these are the people running the show?"

"Yep, well, the King is, he's, well, he has the Time Element, so, you never really know uh, how many times you have met him."

"What? Has he known about the Moon then, forever?"

"I don't know, but it may be a possibility. Just don't think about it, the conclusions aren't fun."

"Right. Man, are you OK?"

"Yeah, I'm proud of what I have done, I want to to more, but, I am still cautious, there is still so much I can't do yet, the top seems so far away, I need to keep going. How about you? You mentioned a trip to Miller?"

"Yeah, it's a weird place, people are..brightly coloured, in their hair, in their eyes, there are multiple families controlling sections of the place. They have a better standard of living at the bottom rungs apparently, but the top brass all don't want to be there. They have something called a democracy, there is no King! Instead they vote for a leader, called the Prime Minister, out of people who step up for it, however, the current Prime Minister has been leading for 30 years, so he's getting tired, likes going out for walks, when I saw him once, he looked almost evil. So yeah, there was also some trouble organising the paperwork back home when martial law was implemented, as we had to be escorted by soldiers if we wanted to deliver letters or buy something like this communicator. You can't really do anything as a ambassador apprentice without a member of the State Military getting involved now."

"Right. Well I have some plans going forward. You?"

2/?
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"Yep. Get friends, get stronger, look for a set of Consolidated Equipment. Prepare for war against the Moon, you?"

"Get stronger, use my Saint Element to heal, help, and resurrect those who need it, I will find a way to defeat this enemy! I will find a Consolidated Equipment Set for you!"

"Understood! To stand on the Heavens, we will step forward into the darkness of space if we have to. Brother-in-Power!"

"To stand on the Heavens! Brother-in-Power!"

The two of you end the call together.

You have the afternoon to do something, you now have some crucial information about the people back home and what Miller is like. Time to train!

Player Choice for the afternoon
>Mutation of Life learning, go see the Life Element user
>Cultivate
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Complete 18 Zun Stage Scrolls
>Train Sword Technique
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)

3/3
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>>3732261
>Cultivate
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>>3732261
*Sorry, you have that book now, you don't actually need to see the Life Element user.
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>>3732261
>>Cultivate
tim to try for a breakthrough
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>Cultivate

>Roll 1d100 best of three, if you wanted to break through now, you would need either a 99 or a 100.
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Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>3732283
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Rolled 22 (1d100)

>>3732283
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As always, if no-one else rolls in the next 5 minutes, do feel free to roll again.
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Rolled 15 (1d100)

>>3732283
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Rolled 92 (1d100)

>>3732283
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>>3732306
>22 Shamfur

>Progress to the next Level
14455/18000

You are about to take a break, when you get another call.

"Hi Zouuuu! It's Jiang. Guess what?"

Oh no.

"I have 2 pairs of Jewels now, get ready for an ass-kicking so bad that you'll never think about running away again!"

She ends the call. Ah. You need to catch up soon.

Player Choice for the evening
>Mutation of Life practice
>Cultivate
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Complete 18 Zun Stage Scrolls
>Train Sword Technique
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)

This is the last update for tonight. I need some sleep. Thank you all for playing! The quest will resume at 11 am BST tomorrow. I know it's bad to leave you on such a cliffhanger, but...my eyes hurt from keeping open. Goodnight!
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>>3732336
>>Cultivate
we need to get this higher or we ded
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>>3732336
>Cultivate
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>>3732336
> Cultivate
We need to go higher! Higher!
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>>3732336
>>Cultivate
How do we become a heavenly jewel master? Being weaker than your waifu is the height of shame for a xia protag.
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>>3732336
>Cultivate
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>>3732532
I have something organised. I have made hints about it in the various threads. However...you are going to have to thimk ahead in order to avoid the clutches of Jiang when you get home if you want to not get beaten up.

Also. We may have some bad news for the future of the quest. Posting from my phone on mobile data of all things becuae my internet service provider has just blocked all of 4chan(nel) from being accessed, my mobile data provider does not block it, yet. Speak of the devil from this morning. I'll see what I can do about it today, but will be making updates on my phone when I can. My computer does not have access to anything like mobile data, so that is not an option. I thank you for your patience as this problem may continue.
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>>3733852
Christ. I heard... Nor? Nord? Nordvpn is an international provider that'll help just about anyone in any country get around such bans.
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>>3733852
Oh, and fiction.live is another alternative, if a VPN is a no go.
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>>3733852
Better news. Have mannually re-enabled access to /qst/ through the safesearch function my isp provides, so problem solved! However, bad news is they don't seem to recognise the distinction between 4chan and 4channel. So other boards which I don't want access to are still open. I will work on a fix to this. However, short-term, the quest can continue. I thank you for your patience in this brief period of trouble.

The quest will continue at around 11:00 am BST as planned.
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>Cultivate
>Roll 1d100 best of three to Cultivate for the evening
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>>3734116
Let's change that name shall we? Ignore the last post if you want to.

>Cultivate
>Roll 1d100 best of three to Cultivate for the evening
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Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>3734124
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>>3734126
If no-one else rolls in the next 5 minutes, do feel free to roll again.
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Rolled 59, 66 = 125 (2d100)

>>3734128
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>>3734126
>70
Progress to the next Level
17668/18000

You can feel it, you're so close! However, you are tired, and need some sleep after all that cultivation.

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 61st day, 11th day of the trip.

You wake up with the urge to cultivate, but! You need to do some work!.

Player Choice for the morning
>Research Buffing
>Research Resurrection
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>>3734138
>Research Resurrection
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>>3734138
>Research Buffing

For us personally, Resurrection isn't going to help for a long time. If we knew more about buffing, we'd be more effective in battle.
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Rolled 2 (1d2)

Rolling 1d2 for choice, had to go out for a bit. So that is why this is late.
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>Research Buffing

You head to the research centre, and are told the following. The plan will be that you try buffing someone as much as possible, until signs of pain or injury show. You don't know how many times it can be used, you've kept to once after your leg started ripping itself to shreds that one time.

You see a man and a set of metal weights, apparently they can make these heavier on the fly thanks so some magnets installed in the ground beneath you.

You firstly buff your own Heavenly Energy reserves, then you try to buff again, then you move the Saint Element to the other person, he starts to lift, holding the metal in place. You buff him again. This time, there are some problems. You see his muscles strain, bulging in strength. His face is taught, grimacing in effort. The test is not called off, this time, you buff your own Heavenly Energy again, then use it specifically on his Stamina and again on his Endurance. This time, it works, but by now the strain is showing, even with increased stats, his spiritual anatomy, i.e , his Jewels, can't take it. They are built to support a level of strength you are exceeding.

Finally, the test is called off. In order to double his Strength, it was simple, in order to quadruple it, you had to use it 3 times. This concludes their efforts, saying that your Buffing would be very useful at the high level, and especially with the strengthening of Elemental attacks. Particularly with the artillery. Those conclusions are made, and you are let go. The Life Element user is not here, so you'll have to rely on his old book, you haven't even looked inside it yet.

Player Choice for the afternoon
>Mutation of Life practice
>Cultivate
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Complete 18 Zun Stage Scrolls
>Train Sword Technique
>Train a Stat (Which?)
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3734217
>Train Sword Technique
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>Train Sword Technique

>Roll 1d100 best of three. if no one else rolls for 10 minutes after your post, do feel free to roll a 2d100.
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Rolled 61 (1d100)

>>3734255
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Rolled 40, 100 = 140 (2d100)

>>3734264
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>>3734271
NAT 100 BABY

Progress to the next Level
26848/18000

>You have an opportunity to break through!

>Roll 1d100 best of three to break through to the next Level! Failure will result in your current Heavenly Energy total halving and you will not break through
>DC 50
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Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>3734272
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>>3734275
Same as last time, do feel free to roll a 2d100, not only does a higher number mean a more progressed cultivation, but a Nat 1 would be...interesting.
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Rolled 25, 34 = 59 (2d100)

>>3734272
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>>3734284
Terrible, but at least I didn't roll a 1
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>>3734275
>96!
Success!
Progress to the next Level
13254/20000

>You have broken through to the 8th Level of Heavenly Energy!
>All Stats increase by 10

Status
Strength 120 (130 Max)
Agility 120 (130 Max)
Endurance 121 (130 Max)
Flexibility 105 (130 Max)
Coordination 110 (130 Max)
Stamina 110 (130 Max)
Heavenly Energy 480 (500 Max)


You have done it! It took longer than you thought, but you have broken through to the next Level, you know that the next one is for your 3rd Jewel, you will do this. You need to train your Heavenly Energy to do so, but , when you do, you'll reach the peak of your Stage. You feel another generator forming in your solar plexus, you can feel a solid line of generators forming along your spine, not only that, but you can feel your Heavenly Energy becoming denser.

Player Choice for the evening
>Cultivate is BLOCKED until HE reaches maximum, just so you don't loose out on some Heavenly Energy later on
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Complete 18 Zun Stage Scrolls
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Train a Stat (HE. you have 3 cores left, you can purchase more, or perhaps find some people left on the battlefield for Heavenly Energy training)
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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Also, Sword Technique increases by 10 due to the Nat 100, Useful Sword Technique is now 30/100, boosting all attack rolls with a sword by 1d80.

I actually forgot we were going for sword, and got a bit ahead of myself, I just wanted to get this breakthrough over now, sorry if this was impromptu or out of line, I just didn't want to delay it.
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>>3734294
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>>3734299
It's cool
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>>3734304
>Read the Guard's book

With that done, the exhilaration from breaking through settling in, you sit down and try to get a handle on controlling your new Heavenly Energy, you can't feel anything like a domain building, so, more work is needed. You open up the Guard's book, and, instead of looking at his technique, focus on his words concerning controlling your Heavenly Energy, the structure, the position, the rate of flow.

>Roll 1d100 best of three for Heavenly Energy Control.
>Considering you appear to be the only player at the moment, if you want to stop now and come back for 16:00 pm BST, when Junior Brother Mo and Goricnac might be here, do say so. Same rules apply for rolling.
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Rolled 55 (1d100)

>>3734311
Yeah starting up later sounds good
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>>3734316
Good to know. Quest will be on hold until 16:00 pm BST then. Thank you for playing.
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Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>3734311
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>>3734311
if you lost 4chan i heavily recomend you use Fiction.live, should be easier to get more players and it gives a notification when the quest is live, honestly i think its much better than /qst/
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Rolled 99 (1d100)

>>3734311
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>>3734374
I just checked it out. I have made an account just in case, but it is not intuitive by any means. There also seems to be a huge number of nsfw quests, which I don't exactly want to see every time I open the site. It could be a back up option, but this site looks much more reliable and user friendly from a QM's standpoint. I have also fixed the issue with my ISP blocking this place. So I can continue here. Thank you and >>3733989 for suggesting it, but /qst/ looks a lot more attractive.

>99 wew

You look through the book, at what this domain thing is, what it means. You read about the things the Guard told you before, how Heavenly Energy is everything. If that were the case, then, to stand as a god, all you would need to do would be to control the Heavenly Energy of the world. to make it your own, if your own soul, your meaning, your will is represented through your Jewels, and your Heavenly Energy, then you need to make your soul, your very centre of Heavenly Energy larger, to even affect sources of Heavenly Energy that aren't yours. You wouldn't need to shoot fire, you could just take some from the campfire, you wouldn't need to shoot lightning, you could just control the pattern of Heavenly Energy in the sky to produce a bolt, or summon a rainstorm, or anything really. You are determined to grow, and you do excellently, you are far off any progress, but it is a bit closer to where you want.

>Heavenly Energy Control has increased by 5!
>Extensive Heavenly Energy Control 23/500
>The cultivation pool increases by 1615

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 62nd day (12th day of the trip)

>Choice locked for Resurrection in the morning.

You are lead to 3 hastily buried people, one is a full corpse, one is in pieces, the other is just ashes.

"How many times can you use that skill again?"

"Seven." You think back to when it only costed half, you can do this. They bring out more dead, 4 more, it seems they want to make maximum use of you.

Player Choice, evolution for Resurrect, you have 7 points to spend
>Rank up 0/200 (Will make it so that you can revive someone even with just their soul)
>Cost down 0/30
>Special Evolution 3/20

Also

>Roll 1d100 for perception on the bodies. Best of three
>DC 65
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Rolled 12 (1d100)

>>3734437
>Special
need to get that contingency rez, am thinking of making it so you can use the skill on a living target and the effect triggers if they day before the skill expires, like a 24 hour eriod or further if we can push it
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>>3734437
well in the ffront page you can put preferences for what is displayed when you opent eh site so you could jsut make nsfw quests not show up, granted most of the site is smut, but at least from the player side is a bit mroe intuitive tan 4ch. Anyways this is jsut an idea in case 4ch gets taken down for some reason, i do recommend you keep most of the quest backed up in a doc somewhere in case that happens
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>>3734443
Well, you can only make 1 major change with special evolution. For a contingency, you would need to make the change:

"Resurrect can be used on an already living target, so that, in the event of their death, they would revive instantly."

For a timed thing? You would need a different evolution, such that:

"The user can set a timer for Resurrect, such that, if someone dies, they will resurrect after a time set by the user."
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>>3734457
neat, jsut wondering how long the rez effect lasts, am guessing it jsut lasts indefinetely, but would be nice to have confirmation. If its idnefinite we should use it on the princesses and the king when we can, also Jiangs otehr bodyguards
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Rolled 83 (1d100)

>>3734437
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>>3734460
It is a contingency, so it would last until the death. A reminder that you would only stack once, so if someone were killed, then they came back, they would just die again. So. You would need another round of Special Evolution to make it stack-able for more than once.
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>>3734474
im thinking of adding stuff like a blink effect to the contingency rez to avoid being trapped as well, effectively turn this into a better version of the Izanagi
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If in the next 5 minutes, no-one else has rolled, do feel free to roll again. Thank you.
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Rolled 52 (1d100)

>>3734437
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>>3734469
>83
>Cost Down 10/20

As you resurrect the bodies, you realise that some of them seem fresh, you take a closer look and spot stab wounds that have been sewn, and other injuries as your Saint Element, and the wings cover the body. These people were killed. Perhaps only a few minutes ago. For the sole purpose of this test. As they wake up nothing seems amiss to them, they all think they died in a random monster attack, but anything could happen with the Darkness Element. You try to examine their cultivation, but discover they have no Heavenly Energy at all. They are just normal people.

Around you are 3 Jewel Masters, all above 6 Jewels. Including one Darkness user. They watch on with close intent, seeing the strength and possibility of your Skill in person. A Lightning user starts talking to the people you revive one by one, 8 Jewels summoned.

"Look at that! Just from her ashes. Ah you there. How are you feeling? I know everything seems a bit odd, but if you would just follow me..."

You want to help people, all these people have done are hurt them. They are in the middle of a war! They could have found any number of corpses, yet they just find some people to kill? Who do they think they are?

Player Choice
>Ask about the fact these people were murdered by the researchers
>Do nothing, you can't match that power. Just walk off like you never noticed anything
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3734533
>Murder people for research like this again and I will kill you
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>>3734533
>>3734535

>Ask about the fact these people were murdered by the researchers
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>>3734533
>Ask about the fact these people were murdered by the researchers
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>Ask about the fact these people were murdered by the researchers

"Hey. Where did you find these people?"

"Out on the battlefield."

"No you didn't, my Saint Element shows me that these people were killed. Recently. You, or someone like you, killed these people. Murder people for your tests again and I will kill you."

You don't see much of a change in their faces. The Lightning Element user scoffs slightly.

"Why do you care? They aren't really people, they can't even cultivate. They are like the animals, the dirt beneath our feet. Their lives are useless except for this."

"You, and I were people like them, they are more human than the monsters for one. Do you consider a beast to be greater than a human?"

"No? Just leave it. I don't know what rubbish they taught you in that City of yours, but it isn't right. They don't cultivate, they are the cattle. Her Highness has complete control over them. If you have a problem with it then just go away."

"No, you have been researching my Saint Element long enough to know that it only helps people, not hurt. Your Jewels form your very identity, yet unlike the Lightning you control you do not care about who you strike. What about your mother, your child? Are they just tools to you?"

You see his Jewel shine as Heavenly Energy fills them up.

"No, they are my family. If anything they are tools to our Queen. Family is sacred to us. These things are not family."

The Darkness Element user steps in.

"It matters little anyway, they are alive, thanks to you, and thanks to me they do not remember a thing. Just leave. I heard that one of the Princesses of Dershwa herself is willing to do worse. What do you say to that? Have you even worked on reviving those people?"

You haven't, but that could be a new job for when you get back home.

"She is learning. I have seen her develop in someone who at least cares with what they work with. How about the people in the Cemetery, what happened to all the normal people?"

The third Jewel Master, a 6 Jeweled Water Element user, steps in.

"I think we burned them and threw away the ashes. It was not worth it to revive such...useless things. If you have any complaints, please direct them to Her Highness, we merely follow her guidance and her light. I doubt you will have the opportunity though. Well. We have what we all need, so toodaloo!"

He disappears out of sight. The Darkness user follows. The Lightning Element user stays.

"Why do you care? You are an Elemental Jewel Master like us! You are superior, you were born with one of the 4 Great Elements! You should see the light. The only people that matter in this world are the ones with the power and strength to be useful. Normal people are too old to awaken, they are useless to the world, why not make them useful here?"

1/2
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>>3734585
ah, theres the super discrimination you should expect from a xianxia world, guess the dershwa really have done a great job in reducing that in their domain
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OH BOY MORE RAIN! Fucks sake, I hate this. What happened to global warming? No? Just climate change?


He then leaves, leaving you alone to think. You have just helped in a disastrous ploy. You revived only the people they cared about. If normal people are useless, then what about the Guard? If only the useful should survive. Why not only let Heavenly Jewel Masters live? Why not just kill those without maximum potential! Humans stand at the top, not because they are strong, but because they are intelligent! Cultivation can only go so far for the mind, but those people could have made lives for themselves, yet they treated them as toys!.

You need some time to think, some time to calm down. Maybe some training. You could also try calling Her Highness, you don't know if the Communicator has made its way outside of Dershwa, but, hopefully the Queen would have one.

Player Choice for the afternoon. (You will get a call from Jessica as a bonus, something has been made complete, and she wants you to know.
>Cultivate is BLOCKED until HE reaches maximum, just so you don't loose out on some Heavenly Energy later on
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Complete 18 Zun Stage Scrolls
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Train a Stat (HE. you have 3 cores left, you can purchase more, or perhaps find some people left on the battlefield for Heavenly Energy training)
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3734600
>Train HE
we are so close to the next jewel, lets see if we can push for it before meeting jiang again
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the queen is not gonna giv a rats ass about this, this is some very insitutionalized thinking right there, just make it clear that if anything like this is done againw e will refuse to resurrect anyone else for them
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>>3734600
wait does the lack of cores mean we can only train so many points for HE till we get mroe cores? cause if so am changing my vote to
>Train Heavenly Slash
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>>3734600
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice

We need to alternate our schedule, and avoid being too focused on only one thing, or might suffer later.
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>>3734654
we barely get any control increase jsut form teh book, and until we raise HE we aint breaking to teh third jewel, also Heavenly Slahs upgrade is improving the ration of damage to HE spent. Even with teh current ratio we would have 8800 points of damage on Heavenly Slash on the third jewel at max power
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Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>3734652
You can spend some time searching for cores. You can just buy them for 50 Gold a pop.

Rolling 1d2 for Choice. In the meantime. A message from Jessica.

When you get back, you get a call from Jessica.

"Hello, just calling to say we made that Heavenly Jewel Master medicine we were working on...but there's a problem, the user needs the Saint Element to survive the injuries it causes...and the user needs to break into the 8th Level for the most efficient use of the medicine. So break through. Then don't go for your 3rd Jewel. It will disappear when you take the medicine. See you when you get back. Don't die. Jiang's going to kill you unless you see me first and break through then and there. Bye."

She ends the call.
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>>3734660
... welp, that changes some plans, also we gonna need to do training on whatever physical element our jewel becomes
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Oh, I forgot my name for a while.
This
>>3734654
And this
>>3734144
Were me.
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>>3734666
goddamit Mo, you got trips of evil, good thing it wasnt on any votes or rolls
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>>3734663
You will be rolling for how many Physical Jewels you get, just like with the Elements, but with higher DCs than the Element ones.

>Train Heavenly Slash

You need to get stronger if you want to match up to anyone here. You restore your Heavenly Energy, and try to use Heavenly Slash, but, you realise that to make any affect with that growth thing, you need to do it in large enough chunks. You can probably use it 14 times. You find a secluded area in the forest to cut down some trees, and use the Skill.

Player Choice for evolution of Heavenly Slash, you have 14 points
>Cost Down 0/20
>Improve Ratio 10/50
>Special Evolution 0/20

>>3734666
TRIPS OF SATAN
Well well well. If only you happened to be outside and training, oh wait how silly of me, you are!...I'll make you roll for it.
>Roll 1d100 best of ONE for a special encounter
>DC 70
>>
Rolled 90 (1d100)

>>3734671
>Improve Ratio
what would cost down even do for the skill? would it just be a lesser version of improve ratio?
>>
>>3734674
Ah fuck. I just put it for every skill. Consider it a typo.

You need to get stronger if you want to match up to anyone here. You restore your Heavenly Energy, and try to use Heavenly Slash, but, you realise that to make any affect with that growth thing, you need to do it in large enough chunks. You can probably use it 14 times. You find a secluded area in the forest to cut down some trees, and use the Skill.

Player Choice for evolution of Heavenly Slash, you have 14 points
>Improve Ratio 10/50
>Special Evolution 0/20

>DC met!
>>
>>3734678
>14 to ratio
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>>3734678
>Improve Ratio 10/50
All 14.
>>
Alright. I gotta eat and have some tea. So the quest will stop now and restart at around 18:45 pm BST. Thank you all for playing!
>>
>Improve ratio 24/50

You end up slicing down a huge Chunk of the forest, instead focusing on one tree, as to not kill so many.

Player Choice for the evening
>Look around for left over cores on the battlefield.
>Cultivate is BLOCKED until HE reaches maximum, just so you don't loose out on some Heavenly Energy later on
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Complete 18 Zun Stage Scrolls
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Train a Stat (HE. you have 3 cores left, you can purchase more, or perhaps find some people left on the battlefield for Heavenly Energy training)
>Read a book (Which?)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3734756
>Train a Stat
Strength.
Let's max out our stats again so we don't fall behind in the next breakthrough.
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>>3734756
>>Look around for left over cores on the battlefield.
while i agree that we need to up our physical stats before getting our physical jewels i really wanna get some more cores for HE training
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Rolled 1 (1d2)

Rolling 1d2 for Choice.
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>>3734666
By the way, this makes
1 Trips of Nothing
2 Trips of Death
1 Trips of Satan
And a Nat1 from me alone.
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>>3734831
No quads yet

>DC 90
>Amulet does not work!

With all these logs here, you may as well start throwing some around and train your strength. However. As you're about to do so. You see the sky turn red, you feel your body start to feel rotten, and bloody. You see in the distance a bloody, pulsating red mass. You try to run, but your legs don't work. You feel nothing but absolute fear and terror. You know what this is. You need to do something. You can't help about what it will do if it gets you. You cannot move your legs.

>You are in combat!
>You cannot RUN.

Player Choice
>Attack with Sword
>Skill (Which?)
>Endure
>Dodge
>Other? (Write-in)
>>
>>3734838
... fuuuu, ok need to take care of this thing
>full rotational charge lightning barrage
should give us a benchmark if it survives this then we HE to hell and back
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>>3734842
i mean Heavenly Slash with full boost if it survives the rotational lightning barrage
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>>3734842
>>3734845
Supporting
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>>3734838
>>3734842
This
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Rolled 5 (1d100)

>HE Buffed to 720
>Rotational Lightning Barrage

>Roll 20d100 best of three

>Rolling 1d100 to use its skill "Torment", DC 60, which will prevent you from attacking the next round. The beast's move will take priority, as you are in DESPERATE FEAR.

>As you have encountered this beast before, you know it has 50 STA.
>>
Rolled 97, 3, 61, 24, 19, 89, 48, 56, 45, 90, 1, 89, 38, 42, 21, 75, 96, 52, 23, 22 = 991 (20d100)

>>3734869

also looking at that image makes me hungry, octopus is so delicious man, so chewy
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Rolled 2, 70, 46, 11, 8, 76, 20, 87, 81, 78, 52, 29, 41, 46, 39, 29, 31, 41, 11, 28 = 826 (20d100)

>>3734869
>>
Also

Player Choice, you have one point to spend
>Rank 0/20
>Cost down 0/20
>Damage Up 0/20
>Evolve Special 3/20
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>>3734882
>Special
working up to either that triple lightning or some other fun stuff
>>
Rolled 89, 89, 64, 20, 20, 91, 25, 52, 38, 7, 5, 11, 37, 65, 77, 80, 95, 44, 71, 47 = 1027 (20d100)

rolling again jsut cause
>>
Rolled 31, 10, 70, 36, 91, 4, 97, 77, 15, 14, 67, 3, 45, 37, 17, 92, 10, 5, 66, 28 = 815 (20d100)

>>3734869
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>>3734882
>Evolve Special
>>
>991
>The Tentacle is dead!
>Evolve Special 4/20

You see it squirm a bit. Before you instinctively shoot out some lightning. It shocks the thing dead. Well, that was anti-climatic. Maybe you should report this later.

You pick up your now third Zun Stage Core.

Back to training strength.

>Roll 1d100 best of three to train strength
>>
Rolled 99 (1d100)

>>3734903
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Rolled 59 (1d100)

>>3734903
>>3734908
well damn we strong boy
>>
Rolled 24 (1d100)

>>3734903
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>>3734908
>99
>Strength is now 125

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 63rd day (13th day of the trip.)

You wake up in your room with a note.

"Tomorrow morning will be the trip home, you will be taken alone, with your personal pilot at the helm. You may spend this day how you like. Consider yourself without official duty."

Huh.

Player Choice for the morning
>Look around for left over cores on the battlefield.
>Cultivate is BLOCKED until HE reaches maximum, just so you don't loose out on some Heavenly Energy later on
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Complete 18 Zun Stage Scrolls
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Train a Stat (HE. you have 3 cores left, you can purchase more, or perhaps find some people left on the battlefield for Heavenly Energy training)
>Read a book (Perhaps the Guards, to learn Heavenly Whip a bit more.)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)
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>>3734950
>Train Strength again
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>>3734957
actually am gonna change to searching for cores, better if we can get HE at max to focus on physical stats before breaking through when we take the medicine
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>>3734950
>Look around for left over cores on the battlefield
>>
>Look around for cores.

You know that the Zun Core of the commander was probably swiped, but some of the Shi Cores should remain. You go back into the forest, the logs from yesterday rotting slightly.

>Roll 1d100 for perception best of three.
>>
Rolled 21 (1d100)

>>3735012
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Rolled 53 (1d100)

>>3735012
just to be clear we have more cores thanks to the zun core we jsut picked up form the tentacle thing right?
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>>3735018
If you want to use Evil Element Zun Stage Cores, sure, but I'm saving them for when you meet Demon Hammer, you have 3 spare Shi Stage Cores. I am using those by default.
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>>3735022
kk wasnt aware if there was something extra special about them
>>
If no-one else rolls in the next 5 minutes, do feel free to roll again.
>>
Rolled 44 (1d100)

>>3735047
>>
>53

You find about 5 Shi Stage cores, pretty good, all of them are Earth Cores. You now have 7.

Player Choice for the afternoon
>Continue to look around for left over cores on the battlefield.
>Cultivate is BLOCKED until HE reaches maximum, just so you don't loose out on some Heavenly Energy later on
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Complete 18 Zun Stage Scrolls
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Train a Stat (HE. you have 3 cores left, you can purchase more, or perhaps find some people left on the battlefield for Heavenly Energy training)
>Read a book (Perhaps the Guards, to learn Heavenly Whip a bit more.)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)
>>
>>3735056
>Train HE
>>
I am running out of time, so I am taking this vote.

>Train HE
>Roll 7d100 best of three for HE gains, same rules apply in the case someone doesn't roll.
>>
Rolled 29, 60, 16, 50, 69, 76, 66 = 366 (7d100)

>>3735091
am gonna wait like 5 minutes before rolling again
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Rolled 32, 54, 73, 95, 99, 57, 51 = 461 (7d100)

>>3735091
shouldnt it be 8? or are we limited to 7?
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>>3735111
>Trips of curiosity 1/5
>Fuck I'm tired. 5+3=8, roll an extra 1d100 please. I'm very sorry I keep making these mistakes. It is just coming from the fact this is my first quest. Whenever I make another one I should make it a bit less complicated.
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Rolled 23, 33, 51, 58, 32, 41, 79, 36 = 353 (8d100)

>>3735116
chill quest still fun and its kinda late where you are
>>
Rolled 37, 38, 72, 47, 24, 25, 95, 17 = 355 (8d100)

>>3735116
seems Mo and the anons are busy so am just gonna roll the rest ok?
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Rolled 8, 11, 56, 62, 25, 13, 96, 41 = 312 (8d100)

>>3735116
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>>3735121
Yep. It is 10 at night for Mo. He is probably asleep. Our other anon may be euro, so it will be late for him as well. Please roll again for me, then I can calculate it all, then I can go to bed.
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>>3735129
Hey QM are you GMT+2 too?
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>>3735132
BST. GMT+1. UK time. I have a certain...condition that means I need to go to sleep a bit earlier than most people. Otherwise I would run to about 10 in the evening.

>Sadly, not good enough for a full 20.
>HE is now 496!

Player Choice for the evening (This will be your last action before sleeping, then getting on the plane.)
>Look around for left over cores on the battlefield.
>Cultivate is BLOCKED until HE reaches maximum, just so you don't loose out on some Heavenly Energy later on
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Complete 18 Zun Stage Scrolls
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Train a Stat (HE. you have 3 cores left, you can purchase more, or perhaps find some people left on the battlefield for Heavenly Energy training)
>Read a book (Perhaps the Guards, to learn Heavenly Whip a bit more.)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Other? (Write-in)

I need some sleep. Thank you all for playing! The quest will start again at 14:00 pm BST tomorrow. I also need to go to work in the evening, so that will cut some time. Next time. You will be coming home, fighting and very probably loosing to Jiang, reporting to the King, and training with the help of the Elemental Research department.
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>>3735140
>>Explore the Moon-pod
might as well take another look around before we leave
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>>3735140
>Explore the Moon-pod
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>>3735140
>Explore the Moon-pod
>>
>>3735140
> Explore Moon-Pod

Just an head's up, you'll probably not see me today. Gotta go where even Internet does not reach.
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>>3736922
Good to know. Good luck out there.
>>
>Explore the Moon-pod

You want to go back to the Moon-Pod. Not only to gather data the King can use, but possibly to find something about that egg.

You go back, even faster than before. To find that the researchers have apparently stripped it clean, according to someone you speak to in the way, and they are scheduling for its destruction in a few days. So be aware its a bit dilapidated and dangerous.

You have a good look around. It is a bit more tarnished in places than before.

>Roll 1d100 best of three for perception
>DCs 60 and 90 respectively for the other 2 key items
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Rolled 58 (1d100)

>>3736966
>>
Rolled 29 (1d100)

>>3736966
>>
Do feel free to roll again if no-one else rolls in the next 5 minutes.
>>
Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>3736966
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>>3737008
>70
>One DC met!

You decide to look for information, namely stuff which could help with the egg. You find yourself in a small room filled with broken or empty electronics. You activate your Lightning Element, the multicoloured blaze surrounding you with an iridescence you can feel in the air. You let it run along the computers, searching for anything that will accept it, not just conduct it. Maybe thanks to its low power, you find something very small. You deactivate your Lightning, and find a small, organic looking chip. You are not sure what it is. Jessica would know more. You take it anyway, it could contain anything.

You spend some time looking around for anything else, you see nothing. Not even something like the research bay the Moon-Slimes set up had anything you could see or hear.

You leave the place to be destroyed, confident it is completely empty to no-one but an enthusiastic architect, who is examining the curves and materials inside for inspiration.

You come back to your room, time for the next thing.

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 64th day (Travelling day!)

You wake up early; make sure you have packed all of your stuff for the flight home. You really need something bigger, this is getting cumbersome.

You are sent to a separate landing site, you are alone, only the Jewel-less pilot is there to take you home with her Bird-Ship. She says that because the weight is less, she can make it for the evening, as less weight is less fuel burnt, so she can go faster.

You sit down, there is space to train now that you are the only one, perhaps you can cultivate. Maybe find an area to make a call, do some scrolls. In any case, you need to plan, plan for Song Chad-Pah, plan for Jiang, Jessica, the King. Try and figure out why the people treated those below them so badly. You find a private area to sit down out of ear and eye shot of the pilot before take off, so you can do whatever you want here. Probably don't want to damage the plane, so no skills or sword moves. Trying something small with an Element would be fine you think.

Player Choice for the morning
>Cultivate is BLOCKED until HE reaches maximum, just so you don't loose out on some Heavenly Energy later on
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Complete 18 Zun Stage Scrolls
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train a Stat (Anything but HE, you have no source left)
>Read a book (Which?
>Call someone (Who?)
>Manners Practice in privacy
>Try an Element
>Other? (Write-in)
>>
>>3737028
>Manners Practice in privacy
>>
>>3737028
>Train Endurance
We gt the Jiang Fight inc
>>
>>3737028
>Train Endurance
>>
>>3737028
>Manners Practice in privacy
>>
>Like a few more points will help you
>Train Endurance

With the fight against Jiang coming up. You don't want to die, you need to get tougher.

>Roll 1d100+20 for END gains, +20 for Desperation. Best of three
>>
>>3737040
Sorry man you missed the 20 minute mark
>>
Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>3737042
oh we gonna get creamed, am mostlye hoping to ma out or physical satas before taking the medicine so we don lose out on bonus points
>>
Rolled 95 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>3737042
>>
If no-one else rolls again in the next 5 minutes, please roll again. I thought we had some more players, but they seem to have disappeared.
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Rolled 99 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>3737042
>>
>>3737067
>99
>119

>END is now 130 (Max)

Player Choice for the afternoon (You will be arriving home to the Palace after this. I may have to go to work straight after the next update.)
>Cultivate is BLOCKED until HE reaches maximum, just so you don't loose out on some Heavenly Energy later on
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Complete 18 Zun Stage Scrolls
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train a Stat (Anything but HE, you have no source left)
>Read a book (Which?
>Call someone (Who?)
>Manners Practice in privacy
>Try an Element
>Other? (Write-in)
>>
>>3737073
>Manners Practice in privacy
>>
>>3737073
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>>
>>3737073
>>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>>
>Heavenly Energy Control Practice
>I don't have to leave for 30 minutes, so roll away!

>Roll 1d100+60 best of three.
>>
Rolled 79 + 60 (1d100 + 60)

>>3737096
>>
Rolled 17 (1d100)

>>3737096
>>
I have to go to work now, a bit sooner than expected. I'll be back to run for 19:45 pm BST. Thank you all for playing!

Feel free to roll again if no-one else rolls after 5 minutes after this post.
>>
Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>3737122
>>
Rolled 57 + 60 (1d100 + 60)

>>3737096
>>
>139
>Heavenly Energy Control increases by 6
>Extensive Heavenly Energy Control 29/500
>Cultivation pool increases by 1645

When you are just about to land, the pilot calls you over.

"You need to know that as soon as we land, the 4th Princess will meet you, I needed to hurry. She has a plan to make sure *Wheeze* that Jiang doesn't kill you. I don't know much, but if you stay with her you will have protection."

You can see from her red and sweaty face that this flight was challenging and exhausting for her. You know that Jiang promised to beat you up, but she can't be serious about actually doing permanent damage right?

You land as quietly as possible, the Green Jade platform striking as ever. You see Jessica Dershwa standing nearby, red and black hair fluttering in the wind from the plane.

You get out of the Bird to meet her. She is holding her face down, you can see her standing in an odd posture.

"So, is Jiang serious about killing me?"

"She is angry that you haven't called her often. I didn't get a call from you. Anything I need to know before you do anything else? You did fight some of those monsters from the Moon. I want to know, everything. When you're done. I need to train you, then awaken you into a Heavenly Jewel Master before you fight her. If you do not come with me. Either Jiang or-. Nothing. Just tell me something, anything."

>Roll 1d100 for perception on Jessica Dershwa's condition, best of three

Player Choice
>Write-in for what to tell her on what you saw on the trip +questions for her concerning the last 2 weeks here. 30 minutes
>>
Rolled 19 (1d100)

>>3737515
Lets turn in the moon parts. Tell her about the commander, and what we've learned from their R&D. But not their methods. We don't want her getting ideas.
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Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>3737515
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Rolled 71 (1d100)

>>3737515
>Heres an egg and a biochip I managed to nab from a moon ship, you should be able to use them in your research, also they all seem to be resistant to lighting so you might want to find a way around that
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Rolled 97 (1d100)

>>3737515
>Give her that moon stuff
>Inform her of the moon commander, what we've learned from R&D, and how strong we've become including the fact that one of our skills gained a star.
>Ask how she and the other sisters have been doing, how the Beastlands spy business went, and how the Lord Dershwa is handling things.
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>>3737538
+1
>>
Rolled 81 (1d200)

>79
>Partial Success

You take a good look at her, you can see she is pale. She isn't steady. You can see that her posture was to try and hide a bottle of those pills in her left hand. You will need to talk to her about this later.

"I have some things for you."

"Give."

You hand her the Moon-Egg and the data-chip.

"I think one is an egg for one of the Moon-Slimes. Ah right. The aliens look like liquid metal, and appear to be able to change their form. They are resistant to Lightning, but weak to Water. I have no idea what the chip is."

"Right. Next?"

"What were the people I was staying with called again?"

"Sunrisers, in our language."

"Well, they did some research into the Saint Element, I-I have learnt how to make Holy Power in small amounts, I can double the stats of people, and my self, including my Heavenly Energy. I also performed some miracles. I have revived a total of 30 people."

"Huh. Can you revive-can you do that to yourself?"

"Not yet, but give me some bodies, and I can work on evolving the Skill."

"Pardon?"

You see her lift her head, her incredulous expression staring at you with crazed eyes, sunken in. Green and Black eyes judging you.

"You know that my Jewels are special right? Well it turns out one of my Stored Skills, Double Lightning Shot, became a 2 Star Skill, doubling in power, and Resurrect now costs half of what it did initially."

"Anything that could help with defeating Jiang is good, I guess. Just when this is all over. I want to have a good look at that...phenomenon. Please."

You see her wobble a bit, you think now's the time to ask.

"Hey are you Okay? You don't look-"

1/2
>>
"SHUT UP! I DON'T NEED ANYONE ELSE TELLING ME ALRIGHT. JUST SHUT UP AND LEAVE IT ALONE!"

Right. Crazy. You need to do something about that later. Her voice echoes around the crystal walls, reverberating. She calms down a bit. Face drooping again.

"Anything else. I mean, anything important?"

"How are Fei and the King dealing with the Beast Country spies?"

"Ask them, if you want to know. I've just- been working, that's it. I haven't been doing anything else. Jiang's really determined to beat you. Shan-Bai is still in a coma, Fei has been dealing with the Spies. Sun-Di has been cultivating. Shian has been personally interviewing the Saint Element monster, a beast has her own fucking room, what next. Father has been "training", or something, go see him yourself. I have been working on the medicine for the Heavenly Jeeewellll. Medicine, that sounds good right now...sounds, really good."

You see her start to break down, her body dropping as she tries to empty the bottle to her face. You can see her pupils shrink, her very thin arms shaking, breathing rapid. You promised her that you would stop her from doing this. You try and hold her hand to stop her. Buffing your Strength. You are looking around for something to swap the bottle with using Dimensional Swap, but can't see anything at the moment. The Palace is kept spotless after all.

>Roll 1d240 best of three for a Strength check whilst buffed.

Rolled 1d200 for her Strength to take the medicine. She is severely weakened, so her original Strength of 820 has fallen a lot.
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Rolled 45 (1d240)

>>3737603
oh boy, good thing we trained up strength a bit
>>
Rolled 76 (1d240)

>>3737603
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>>3737630
wrong dice, we rolling a 1d240
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>>3737630
1d240 buddy, not 1d100
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Rolled 125 (1d240)

>>3737603
>>
Rolled 99 (1d240)

>>3737603
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>>3737635
>125 vs her 81
Success!

You stop her arm and hand from moving closer. You then look around for a stone or something to swap it, it needs to be of a similar size.

In response, Jessica tries to punch you repeatedly, but it has no effect.

"LET ME GO! LET ME GO! I WANT TO BE NORMAL! LET! Let!. Please! Please just let me be sane! Please." Her voice gets quieter and quieter, her very receptive brain realising what has happened.

This is bad. You realise you could swap with the medium sized diamond in your bag. You use your other hand to take it out and swap them with the medicine. You let her go and she tries to swallow one massive diamond.

"Hurk! What the hell?!"

You now hold the medicine in your hand. You could destroy it and attempt to knock her out, she has not summoned her Jewels yet. You could try using the Saint Element again to calm her down. You need to incapacitate her, or destroy the medicine. She is not listening to reason.

>Dimensional Swap Cost Down 7/20, auto filled as it is the highest thing so far

Player Choice
>Try to use the Saint Element to partially purify her, and make her sleep, then head to the Elemental research department for safe keeping
>Punch her and try to knock her out
>Try to use the Lightning Element to paralyse her
>Call for help and stall for time
>Destroy the medicine, then run
>Heal her with the Life Element
>RUN
>Write-in. a persuasion roll for her to calm down is not available.

I will run a bit longer. I want to continue. This is great fun. Voting time is 20 minutes as usual.
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>>3737673
>Saint purification option
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>>3737673
>Try to use the Saint Element to partially purify her, and make her sleep, then head to the Elemental research department for safe keeping
>>
>>3737673
>Try to use the Saint Element to partially purify her, and make her sleep, then head to the Elemental research department for safe keeping
>>
>>3737673
>>Try to use the Saint Element to partially purify her, and make her sleep, then head to the Elemental research department for safe keeping
>>
>Roll a 1d100 best of three for success.
>DC 75
>>
Rolled 36 (1d100)

>>3737691
>>
Rolled 30 (1d100)

>>3737691
>>
Rolled 51 (1d100)

>>3737691
>>
Rolled 51 (1d100)

>51
Failure!

Your Saint Element worked last time, so you try it again. However, as the energy reaches closer. You see it bend away, almost in fear of her insanity.

"The fuck was that! You want to fucking purify me?! I'm not evil! Just give me the medication you bastard!"

You see her summon her Jewels, this is bad. If you destroy them now, she could kill you in anger. You need some help, some other way. Running is always an option. Using the maximum efficiency, you could run faster than she could ever run. You know how much Heavenly Energy you can buff up. You know you could possibly run. You want to help her.

Rolling 1d100 for stuff
DC 50

Player Choice
>Call for help and stall for time
>Heal her with the Life Element
>RUN with maximum efficiency
>Write-in
>>
>>3737724
>Heal with the Life element
>>
>>3737724
>Heal her with the Life Element
>>
>Heal her with the Life Element
>Revitalise has been used

>Auto-success

Player Choice for evolution, 1 point to spend
>Rank up 0/40
>Cost Down 0/20
>Healing up 1/20
>Evolve Special 0/20


In a flash, you try and heal her another way. Flooding her body with Life energy itself. You see her grab her head and stop shaking. You see her breathing start slowing down. You think it worked! You put the medicine in your pocket, and move closer to her.

Jessica doesn't notice it, but you do. A sudden change in something about the colour and place of things, like when you hear the bells...wait, did time just stop? You ignore it for now.

"You good?"

You see her start to cry. Crouching down on the ground. Maybe her increased Endurance is helping slightly.

"No..I'm sorry. I just. I want-"

You see her crumble to the floor. Her body stops tensing up, she doesn't fall asleep. However. Some of the exhaustion that was plaguing her is gone.

"I think I need sleep. No more work for today. Thanks for that. You kept your promise. Bye for now..."

You see her fall asleep. As that happens, your pilot rushes over.

"What the hell was that?! Is the Princess Okay?"

"Yes. Could you please let me deal with this. I am taking her to the Elemental Research department. You are dismissed. Thank you for your efforts thus far."

"R-right. Thank you Sir!" She leaves to her quarters. Maybe you should ask for some more prototype medicine, she is diligent and can follow orders. She deserves some Jewels and power of her own.

You pick up Jessica, and tread carefully to the Elemental Research department. You put her to bed. You have some time before she will wake up. Time for some training you think. You need some way to calm down after all that.

Player Choice for the evening, in the Elemental Research department
>Ask about some more prototype medicine
>Ask about the Heavenly Jewel Master Medicine
>Go see Dr Zhang-Xi-Tze
>Train a Stat using the facilities here by asking around for them (Which? No restrictions here.)
>Cultivate is BLOCKED until HE is maxed
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Complete 18 Zun Stage Scrolls
>Mutation of Life practice
>Manners Practice
>Read a book (Which?
>Call someone (Who?)
>Try an Element
>Other? (Write-in)

I need some sleep. Thank you all for playing! The quest will resume at 14:00 pm BST tomorrow. There should be no interruptions. Goodnight!
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>>3737783
>>Evolve Special 0/20
if we up this enough we might be able to cure chronic illneses
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>>3737783
>Evolve Special
>Train Agility
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>>3737787
Also can you choose something for the evening as well?
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>>3737783
>Evolve Special
>Train Agility
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>Evolve Special 1/20
>Train Agility.

With Wind being an important Element in increasing speed. You want to increase it. You ask around for where the training area is. Someone from the Space Force comes up to you. You have never met them before.

"Zou? I was wondering when you'd get back, follow me please."

You are lead to a large room. It is late in the evening, so it is relatively empty. The walls are made from Green Jade and Black Jade. Two horses coiling around each other in a display of jousting.

You go to the track, and are told to put on an Amethyst band, which will help calibrate the specs of your training. You know that you could run forever if you had enough food now.

>Roll 1d100+100 best of three for AGI training.
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Rolled 31 (1d100)

>>3739283
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>>3739313
If you could roll a 2d100 please if no-one else rolls, it would be appreciated.
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Rolled 72, 5 = 77 (2d100)

>>3739283
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>>3739324
>72
>Considering you appear to be the only player, do you want to stop now and return for 16:00 pm when someone else might show up?

>172
>AGI increased by 8

You can feel your legs working, but they don't hurt or burn. It's an odd feeling, but you know you are getting faster.

>AGI is now 128

>Event before sleeping.

You decide to stop, and go and check on Jessica, she is not asleep. You find her in her office. Not doing very much. You knock on the door.

"Hello?"

"Ah? Oh. I-sit down here please."

She grabs another chair.

"I am so very sorry. I haven't found anything to replace the medication yet. However, on to more important matters. By staying here, or at least near to me. I can keep Jiang from finding out you are here. If you want to fight her now. That's fine, but, I really want you to become a Heavenly Jewel Master first. It makes me look good. It means you might have a chance at beating Jiang. All this stuff. Again, it's your choice. make it now. The medicine can only work on someone with the healing abilities of the Saint Element, other test subjects...didn't make it."

Player Choice
>Delay the Heavenly Jewel Master medicine for now, and sleep for the fight against Jiang tomorrow morning
>Go for it now.

>This vote could be open till 16:00 pm BST depending on whether you want to continue alone or not.
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>>3739333
>Go for it now
we might lose out on some physical points depending on what jewels we get but this is really our only hope to winning the ifght without relying on absurd crits
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>>3739333
also thats trips
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>>3739333
>Go for it now.
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>>3739333
>Go for it now.
Let's do this.
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>Trips of truth
>You get to ask me, the QM, one question about the quest, be it lore, character secrets. Spoilers on demand. Voting for this will last 20 minutes.
>Write-in for question.

>Go for it now.

"I want to try now."

"Alright! Follow me!"

She stands up in excitement. You know she likes doing this, but, she may be a bit too enthusiastic, considering the rest perished, you should deal with that after this.

You are lead to a very specialised room, filled with Rainbow Moonstone ornaments, and analytical equipment.

"Now then. Use your Saint Element to heal your spiritual anatomy as you ingest, no need to cultivate. The medicine's effects are based on your Level of Heavenly Energy, which should be 8?"

"Yeah."

"Right, so you will still end up with 2 Elemental Jewels, instead of breaking through to the 9th and loosing it immediately. You can stay the same cultivation. Please sit down on the chair, the medicine is a partial injection, then some crystallised Heavenly Energy of the Water Element to flush out any impurities."

You sit down. Jessica brings over an IV bag, with a glowing liquid in it. You activate your Saint Element, preparing to use Greater Restoration, then moving it around through your meridians so there is a consistent area of Saint Element. You are ready.

Jessica inserts the IV bag prongs into your abdomen, then, using her Light Element, uncovers your spiritual anatomy, and moves the needle into your Dantian. You feel the energy burn through your body. You can barely make it with some preparations for the continual pain you will be feeling for a while.

>Roll 1d120 best of three for the number of Physical Jewels you will have, the DCs are much harsher than the ones for Elemental awakening. After this, we will choose which Physical Jewels you would like.
>DC 100 or less for 1
>DC 105 for 2
>DC 110 for 3
>DC 115 for 4
>DC 118 for 5
>DC 120 for 6 maximum Mutated Hexagonal Physical Jewels
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Rolled 90 (1d120)

>>3739357
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Rolled 95 (1d120)

>>3739357
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One last try! You can do it!
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Rolled 36 (1d120)

>>3739357
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Rolled 119 (1d120)

>>3739372
Oh, and rolling if nobody else does
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welp looks like we only get 1 atribute jewel. now we have to decide, am guessing its gonna be a debate between Str and Sta
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>>3739377
Too late! I'm very sorry, but...

>95! Average!
>1 Physical Stat Jewel to choose from!


Player Choice, choose 1
>Icy Jade – Boosts Strength
>Waxy Jade – Boosts Flexibility
>Yellow Jade – Boosts Endurance
>Dragon-stone Jade – Boosts Agility
>Red Jade – Boosts Coordination
>Black Jade – Boosts Stamina

>Also, the 333 vote for the QM question has not had any suggestions, so leaving the time for that open for another 15 minutes.
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>>3739390
>>Icy Jade – Boosts Strength
>>Around how long do we have to find a permanent cure for Jessicas condition before the medicine stops being useful?
would boost our rapier attack, we will need to invest into defensive skills, i have a thought to train up kinetic barrier to activate automatically if we would be taken down by an attack
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>>3739390
>Strength 120 (130 Max)
Agility 120 (130 Max)
Endurance 130 (130 Max)
Flexibility 105 (130 Max)
Coordination 110 (130 Max)
Stamina 110 (130 Max)
Heavenly Energy 496 (500 Max)

With this in mind, we should go for:
Red Jade – Boosts Coordination
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also our Strength is 125 not 120, pastebin is out of date on some physical stats
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>>3739409
I will be using this opportunity to change all the stats to be in line with a machanics aspect. This means that all un-boosted physical stats will be 160 after this awakening, with both HE and the boosted physical stat being 700.

>>3739404
What's the rational?
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>>3739404
we dont really use coordination much, i think its mostly meant to be used for dodging? but we never really do that
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>>3739416
That an even-looking statline satisfies my OCD.
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>>3739426
but all the stats are getting fixed up after we take the medicine anyways to an even value...
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>>3739430
That... is true.
I'll just switch to Icy Jade before I humiliate myself further.
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>>3739422
To note. If you choose COORD, Shian will be willing to teach you how she uses her COORD, it makes you able to grab and hold the opponent with one hand, effectively paralysing them, allowing for a free attack.

Recap

Strength=Pure Damage, complimentary to all Physical attacks, even Skills, complimentary with no Element
Agility=RUN, complimentary with Wind
Endurance= Able to negate damage taken, even if it is lower than a strength roll, complimentary with Earth.
Flexibility, Dodging , complimentary with Water
Coordination, mentioned above, dodging and grabbing, complimentary with no Element
Stamina, HP, complimentary with Fire Element, as Jiang will show in her fight with you, Consolidated Equipment is fun.
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>>3739440
im still leaning to strength, with the special evolution chet we can set defense skills as contingencies like we setting up the contingency resurrection, and aside from skill spamming swording is out go to attack method, also works with my wish to get a 6 element mixed blade skill
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>>3739444
...fuck
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>>3739444
>Trips of death.
>It doesn't count here. Jessica has been healed by you, you are in a secure area. The Reaper's Scythe....well, that can always come later.
Perhaps during your fight...or...anywhere really. I will be saving this. Thank you very much!

>QM's question
It depends on what you do, you know that your Saint Element can work to heal her, if you get to the 4th Jewel as a Heavenly Jewel Master, you can start treatment to help her, eventually curing her, you can also let the Elemental Research department put your Saint Element and Holy Power through the wringer, and do more research. If you do nothing? A month at best. Then she will kill herself from despair that she will both never be normal and nice without an unnatural aid, and because she thinks she will never find out the secrets of the universe. If you let her die, you will be rid of someone willing to kill for progress.

>Icy Jade Jewels.

Writing, you now have the same Jewels as both the King and Sun-Di.
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Rolled 3347664 (1d4068583)

>Correction, due to your extra 100 HE from the 7777, your HE is actually.950!

>Icy Jade Jewels

You can feel your body burning up. Death is coming! You power up your Saint Element, making sure your meridians and Dantian and the chamber are fine.

After a while. Everything starts slowing down, you can feel pure strength filling your body! You open your eyes, the pain lessening. You see around your right wrist, 2 Icy Jade Jewels! You feel that your Dantian has expanded to even taller heights! The 2 Jewels on your left are still there, your body is in a fine condition. You've done it!

Status
Strength 700 (700 Max)
Agility 160 (160 Max)
Endurance 160 (160 Max)
Flexibility 160 (160 Max)
Coordination 160 (160 Max)
Stamina 160 (160 Max)
Heavenly Energy 950 (950 Max)

>Heavenly Jewels have a 2.5 times multiplier, whilst normal Jewels have a 2 times multiplier

Jessica comes over to have a look.

"Are you alive?"

"Yes, definitely alive."

"Strength huh. Dammit. That could be bad..."

"Why?"

"Well, firstly, apart from Sun-Di, you will eventually be able to over power us! I don't think I like the idea of that...Jiang might though...hmmm. I personally wanted you to awaken Water. Ah about that. Take this."

She stuffs a small Sapphire down your throat. You feel it remove some impurities from the medicine.

"Why?"

"Well you have Water and Wind. You don't need to run. Water counters fire, and it is complimentary with Flexibility. Shan-Bai, before...that, was part of the military, which is why she became a higher cultivation than Sun-Di."

"What about you?"

"I'm smart, it helps a lot, you should learn from me. Anyway, get a sword, and attack
me when I have set up my Consolidated Equipment up in stage 3."

"GLITTERING ARMOUR! STAGE 1!"

You see her 10 Yellow Jade Jewels form around her like a skin similar to Shians, coloured purple. Then the 10 Opals sink in at cruical points, making lenses to attack with.

"STAGE 2!"

You see the crystal armour shift into revealing all her skin apart from her torso, where a massive 10 metre long purple crystal Cannon forms, the 10 Opals slotting in at the back, with one trigger on the top of the cannon.

"STAGE 3! BARRIER SET, FINAL FORM!"

You see the crystal shift again, forming a normal purple crystal suit of armour around her, but with slots connected to all around the body, similar to the 1st stage, but this time the Opals form a Circular Barrier made of Light, the Opals moving around the armour changing to make the Barrier smaller and denser.

"And Done! Attack me now please. I won't take any damage at all."

You summon your Rapier.

>Roll 1d1030 best of three to attack with the Rapier.

Player Choice, you have 1 point.
>Rank 2/40
>Cost down 0/20
>Damage Up 4/20
>Evolve Special 0/20

Rolling 1d4068583, (Not sure how high the dice go, but this is what my calculations provided) for END, this is giving you a glimpse of what will be possible down the line, remember that Light is not complimentary for END, Earth is.
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Rolled 611 (1d1030)

>>3739498
>Damage
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Rolled 31 (1d1030)

>>3739498
>Damage Up 4/20
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Rolled 540 (1d1030)

>>3739498
putting another roll incase we missing anons
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Rolled 232 (1d1030)

>>3739498
>Damage Up 4/20
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>>3739555
another trips
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>First 333, first 555
>555, you will meet the closest thing to God in this universe, he will give you some tips, and a small gift. This will happen after the fight.

>>3739508
>611
>Sadly no crit, but they will become harder and harder to come by, no loss.

You slash the Rapier towards the Light Barrier.

*Clunk*

Nothing.

"Well, you feeling good? Any symptoms?"

"Just a bit in despair really. I think I'll go to bed. Do I need to pay you anything?"

"No, just don't get your hopes up for tomorrow, and complete those Consolidated Equipment Scrolls as fast as you can, you have 2 unused Jewels for Consolidated Equipment, and with this awakening. Shao-Bao can finally start some prep work on it. She has been itching to see your progress."

"Got it Night."

You head back to your room, too tired to make any calls, like to the Guard, or Song, or anyone really.

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 65th day!

You wake up to a slamming.

"Zou!"

Jiang rushes at you, hugging you with all the force she can muster, landing on the bead, it kinda hurts, but you are glad to see her.

"Fight! Fight! Fight! I've missed you so much!"

You might want some time to prepare, like calling Fei or Jessica for some information on her Consolidated Equipment set. You take a closer look at her, she is much more toned, not muscly, not thin, but toned and growing up.

Player Choice
>Fight her now
>Defer it till later, and search for some clues on how to fight her.
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>>3739570
>Missed you too
>defer till evening and try to break through to the third jewel
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>>3739579
Progress to next Level: 13254/20000

You can't, the next Jewel is at Level 12. Every 4 Levels for a Jewel now.
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>>3739596
oh right, forgot in that case i guess we fight her now, even if we get more info it would prob piss her off even more and that is a bad idea
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>>3739570
>Defer till Evening
>"Missed you, too."
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Rolled 1 (1d2)

Rolling 1d2 for Choice

1=Fight
2=Defer
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>My hardened martial artist heart is melting. I need a fight to get me back in the game.
>FIGHT

"Missed you, too."

She looks up at you, smiling, she could be the happiest girl in the world right now. She doesn't get off you.

"When are we gonna fight?"

Right. You made her into a battle maniac.

"Now, or, when I have the chance to get dressed."

"Oh! Right! How was the trip?"

"I'll tel you later. I-I need to think more on it, but Jessica would know more, I told her some stuff, she's smart enough to handle it."

"Am I not smart then?"

"Battle smart, much more important. I think you should prepare yourself for a rainstorm."

You see her eyes light up.

"Lemme get ready!"

The two of you get in your best stuff, and make your way to a special duelling room.

"Let me show you our differences right now!"

You see her summon her 2 pairs of Jewels, the 2 Black Jade Jewels change shape and colour, one forms into a staff, with a small tube at the top, like a gun, the other forms into her right arm, it looks like white crystal, with organic looking vessels shaped in, you swear you see small spines dig into her skin.

You summon your 2 Heavenly Jewels, but hide your Icy Jade for now. Time to roll.

>You have 950 HE, you can width stand 2300 HE, using buffing, you can double any stat with buffing, but only once, due to constraints on the soul, you can also boost.

Player Choice
>Skill(Which? You can't swap her Consolidated Equipment off.)
>Attack with Rapier
>Dodge with FLX or COORD
>RUN with max efficiency
>Endure

Last update until 18:30 pm, I need to eat some tea. Thanks for playing!
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>>3739667
>use rotational lightning barrage (spam double lightning 10 times with independent rotation)
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>>3739667
Can we get a description of the area? Is there anything around we can use with Swap? (Her or Us?)
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>>3739690
+1. Let's hit her a little hard to test her.
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>>3739690
This
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>>3739695

Well, the only thing that is people sized would be the lights in the ceiling, which are made of Glass. Otherwise you are standing on flat ground, stone. There isn't much. You are also in combat, so you wouldn't be able to see anything clearly other than Jiang and what she is wearing, which is her Consolidated Equipment, and her clothes. You could try breaking the stone into pieces, and swapping her clothes off I guess, but that would leave you wide open for her attack.
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Rolled 13609 (1d27980)

>>3739690
>Rotational Double Lightning Gatling!

>Rolling 1d27980 for Sacrificial Heavenly Explosion! Her Consolidated Equipment is giving her a large increase to this one attack.
>If you loose, you will not die, just fall unconscious
>After this Jiang will have 1 STA.

You see her Consolidated Equipment glow red, and green, as you see a green energy fill the arm, and run into the staff, then a red and gold energy forms at the tip. You can feel the power from here. It's probably around the 8th Jewel, for an Elemental Jewel Master. This is the power of a Heavenly Jewel Master. You can see her getting weaker by the minute, she is powering up her Skill with her own Stamina! Is this what Consolidated Equipment can do?

Well, lets not use up any Heavenly Energy shall we?

>Roll 20d100 best of three.
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>>3739782
*lose, not loose, sorry.
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Rolled 80, 43, 52, 97, 17, 40, 12, 52, 65, 89, 68, 25, 58, 42, 52, 14, 4, 29, 82, 42 = 963 (20d100)

>>3739782
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Rolled 53, 53, 43, 22, 94, 27, 52, 24, 97, 60, 41, 96, 87, 100, 9, 66, 46, 49, 98, 28 = 1145 (20d100)

>>3739782
holy shit, had we known about thsi we prob would have goen with teh heavenly slash fully charged frmt eh get go
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>>3739794
Pardon?
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Rolled 89, 90, 80, 64, 31, 46, 43, 55, 69, 57, 76, 52, 48, 34, 59, 13, 30, 29, 7, 73 = 1045 (20d100)

>>3739782
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>>3739803
my spelling is god awful cause am typing while laying down, I was saying that if we had bothered to gather information we probably would have used a fully charged Heavenly Slash as an opener in hopes of mitigating more of this attack. But I voted not to gather info so am just experiencing mild regret. Also I now really want to get to Zun Master so we can get our Consolidated Equipment Set
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>>3739806
Good to hear. A fully buffed Maxed Heavenly Slash would be, with a Stamina check with a max dc. 1d19000, with 950 HE buffed twice, damaging your Dantian in the process. You were always going to be with the worse odds.

>>3739794
>1145

You see her point the gun end of the staff at you. You shoot of your Lightning a bit quicker, however, it misses entirely.

"Never. Run. Away. Again!"

Flashing bright red and gold, an absolutely massive Heavenly Explosion flies straight into you! Blinding and deafening you

>You have run out of STA
>You have fallen unconscious!
>STA is restored after a long sleep
>It is now the evening.

You wake up in a hospital, attached to some very complicated medical equipment made with Green Jade. You see Jiang's head and torso laying on your stomach, asleep. You check the clock and it is now the afternoon. You have to admit, all that training payed off in the end. You're proud of her, and proud of yourself for getting her there.

You try and wake her up, patting her head.

"Hi, I'm awake."

"Hue? Zou!"

For the second time this day, she hugs you again, this time it really hurts, you can see her face is tired, her body is straining in places, that move put a huge toll on her body; she hasn't healed properly.

"Zou! I'm sorry! I'm also not sorry! Are you Okay?"

"Forget me, you aren't looking too good. Let me heal you."

>You have used Revitalise! You have 920 HE.
Player Choice (1)
>Rank up 0/40
>Cost Down 0/20
>Healing up 1/20
>Evolve Special 1/20

You pour the green energy into her, her skin doesn't change colour, but you see some improvement in her strength.

"Hey, well done back there, you beat another Mid Level Shi Stage Heavenly Jewel Master with on of the 4 Great Elements all on your own back there."

"Huh? Aren't you Elemental?"

You summon your 2 Pure Icy Jade Jewels.

"Jessica made use of my Saint Element. I think I can now live a bit longer too, so happy days."

"R-right! That's good! Do-Do you want to do anything to celebrate? I had some cake made to brag about my win, but, I didn't really feel up to eating it. You don't have much appetite when on the verge of death apparently."

You think back to all the things you saw whilst on your trip, all the pain, the power of the invaders, no, this awakening was nothing special, the King probably plans for it with every new cycle. This is only the beginning. No time for having fun, not yet, You have to train, get stronger. Finish becoming a Zun Stage Consolidated Equipment Master.

"I appreciate the thought, but I am close to breaking through again, so, I might have to hold off some cake for now."

"So soon? It must be the effect of the medicine Jessica gave you....you looked so serious for a second then, what happened on the trip, really?"

She gets off you, sits down in a chair, and settles for holding your right hand.

Player Choice (2)
>Write-in for what to tell Jiang about your trip, the things you saw, did, experienced. 30 minutes.
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>>3739860
*You check the clock, and it is the evening.

Sorry, wasn't thinking.
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>>3739860
*Paid, Payed is a thing to do with sealing, sorry, it didn't show up as red, so I saw nothing wrong.
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>>3739860
>I fought a couple moon monsters and even defeated a commander. Visited the ship the moon people used to invade, but I spent most of my time resurrecting jewel masters and with the research groups. The jewel masters there, they don't see non cultivators as human, they just see them as cattle. Near the end I found out that they were killing regular people for me to resurrect as part of their research, and the regular soldiers that died during combat, they just burnt them and got rid of the ashes, didn't even send the bodies back to the families cause it was too much work. The Empress has built a society where everyone is just a tool to those above them, it's horrible.
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>>3739860
> "Nothing much. Murdered Alien Commanders, got Alien Eggs, brought people back to life, witnessed the moral quandary of a society obsessed with personal power, and also learned how to run away faster."
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>>3739860
>Evolve Special
>>3739880
Supporting
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Rolled 93 (1d100)

A hah! I just found out how to use that 444! It leads into something else perfectly!

Rolling 1d100 for stuff.
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>93, welp, that's happening then. Expect a call from Song Chad-Pah soon
>Evolve Special 2/20

"Well, the first week was Okay, I was reviving people, as you do, but also helping out with the war effort. I don't know how their ranking works, but I killed something called a Moon-Commander, the aliens landed in a massive pod, they were resistant to Lightning. Anyway. The next week..was not great. Of all the people I revived, none of them were normal people. I didn't get an answer until the second week. The Jewel Masters there, they don't see normal people as human, they just see them as things. Near the end I found out that they were killing regular people for me to resurrect as part of their research, and the regular soldiers that died during combat, they just burnt the people who joined the army and died in combat and got rid of the ashes, didn't even send the bodies back to the families cause it was too much work. The Queen has built a society where everyone is just a tool to those above them, it's horrible. I don't really know what to do about it all. Considering I helped them revive people they were probably going to kill again anyway."

Jiang stays silent, she's not sure how to respond, it seems. Then she opens her mouth.

"Well, it may be due to the Element Her Highness has. The Divine Element allows you to control the actions and thoughts of those around you, those weaker or the same strength. So she became used to people being like tools. It's why I didn't want you to go....Father takes the view that everyone has potential, all they need is time and guidance. He used to think like Her Highness apparently, that the weak were useless, but when I was born, he grew out of it, he couldn't stand to think of his own daughter as useless, so he changed, ever since people have had more opportunity to grow. Some of the old folks resent him, but are thankful everything is changing."

"So, I can't do anything?"

"Only if she dies, will the attitude of her country change."

"Dammit."

"You know, you grew up in an orphanage right? Someday, I want to go see it, see the people who made you who you are. Was there anyone like a mother?"

"Yeah, the Mama, she's the most resilient woman I know, looking after 50 kids of all different backgrounds. She's a bit old, but with my Life and Saint Elements, I can help a bit with that."

"Hehe, I think I'll ask Jessica for all the details on the Moon-people. Just so you know, the King wants to see you tomorrow for a debriefing, in the afternoon, so you have some time to relax. I think I'm going to sleep a bit more. Night!"

She lets go of your hand, and walks off. You have the evening to do stuff, and tomorrow morning, what to do.

1/2, fuck I hate this character limit
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>HE has been restored

Player Choice for the evening
>Cultivate
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Complete all 50 Zun Stage Scrolls, with buffing to HE.
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Perhaps the Guards, to learn Heavenly Whip a bit more.)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who? Fei? Shara? Sun-Di? Long Dershwa?)
>Other? (Write-in)

2/2
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>>3740018
>Cultivate
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>>3740018
>>Complete all 50 Zun Stage Scrolls, with buffing to HE.
if we get this done faster then we can get our godly set
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Rolled 2 (1d2)

Rolling 1d2 for Choice in chronological order.
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>50 Zun Stage Scrolls

You have yet to do this. Time to get it done, you have enough Heavenly Energy with the Saint Element to do this in one shot.

>Roll 50d100 middle of three. I will tally up the bonuses to give you Extensive Literacy, working your way to becoming a Zun Stage Consolidated Equipment Master.
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Rolled 49, 97, 56, 38, 84, 21, 19, 52, 36, 17, 73, 27, 54, 99, 91, 63, 61, 83, 12, 100, 13, 5, 1, 75, 63 = 1289 (25d100)

>>3740092
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Rolled 94, 47, 42, 29, 65, 85, 5, 90, 11, 60, 77, 100, 60, 30, 99, 63, 45, 16, 15, 22, 65, 65, 55, 28, 37 = 1305 (25d100)

>>3740092
the amount of training wwe can do now with our HE pool is great
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Rolled 36, 53, 89, 91, 75, 5, 5, 41, 46, 76, 35, 26, 95, 28, 91, 19, 11, 58, 51, 95, 50, 36, 36, 57, 70 = 1275 (25d100)

>>3740092
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Rolled 42, 37, 31, 66, 3, 85, 48, 34, 95, 20, 48, 89, 24, 22, 53, 6, 61, 94, 65, 89, 80, 84, 77, 12, 99 = 1364 (25d100)

>>3740092

looks like 25 is the dice limit for 4ch, so 2 instances of 25 d100 bo3?
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Rolled 58, 44, 81, 29, 30, 18, 24, 48, 19, 45, 94, 14, 1, 33, 7, 41, 21, 71, 82, 72, 3, 49, 67, 97, 36 = 1084 (25d100)

>>3740092
and another 25d100
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>>3740108
Yep. With that in mind. I will be changing future rolls above 25d to include a 25d200. Not with this one though, another round!
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Rolled 78, 54, 79, 38, 68, 82, 35, 12, 68, 70, 86, 34, 5, 32, 97, 91, 34, 68, 48, 58, 83, 60, 29, 96, 79 = 1484 (25d100)

>>3740103
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>>3740118
looks like we got the 6 so is the end result going to be the best 2 out fo the 6 25d100?
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>>3740126
No, I am taking
>>3740103
>>3740104
>>3740105
Then finding the middle of 3 for each dice, then totting up the total bonus at the end. I am them repeating the same process for
>>3740108
>>3740117
>>3740121

This could take a small while, please have patience.
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>>3740142
chill, numbers galore ahead
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>Literacy increases by 133!
>Extensive Literacy 168/500, if asked, you could make a Zun Stage Scroll with a roll of 67! You are not a Zun Stage Consolidated Equipment Master by a long shot.

>You have run out of time!
>Sleep
>Start of the 68th day

You wake up to nothing. You have a free morning to do whatever the hell you want, time to use it to work hard!

Player Choice for the morning (You will get a call this evening)
>Cultivate
>Read the Guard's book for some Heavenly Energy Control practice
>Go see Shao-Bao for more Scrolls, you can do 95 in one go at the moment, I will change the rules for the bonuses when we get to it, because that was exhausting.
>Mutation of Life practice
>Train Sword Technique
>Read a book (Perhaps the Guards, to learn Heavenly Whip a bit more.)
>Call someone (Who?)
>Explore (Where?)
>Manners Practice
>Try an Element
>Train a Skill (Which?)
>Go see someone (Who? Fei? Shara? Sun-Di? Long Dershwa?)
>Other? (Write-in)


I need some sleep. Thank you all for playing! Congratulations on awakening as a Heavenly Jewel Master! The quest will begin again with a new thread tomorrow at 14:00 pm BST. I will archive this one as thread 4 tomorrow as well. Goodnight!
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>>3740216
>Go see Fei, not for training jsut to see how shes been and for an update on the spy thing
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>>3740216
>>3740225
Supporting
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>>3740216
>Go see someone (Who? Fei? Shara? Sun-Di? Long Dershwa?)

We could go check on Shara.
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>Go see Fei Dershwa

Archiving this thread now.
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NEW THREAD LINK! NEW THREAD LINK!

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/3708232
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>>3741956
Ignore that. Wrong thread, links to this one.
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>>3741957
link?
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NEW THREAD LINK! NEW THREAD LINK! (Actually this time.)

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