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A, G, P Probably never going to be a master of stealth, what with our size and all, so we should work on awareness and maintaining our composure under pressure. Hell, that's probably why Haimi keeps looking at us with killing intent. Shes training us to keep our cool when something is trying to kill us. Kristopher fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Apr 21, 2022 |
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Nakulian Year 6239, Descending Stars Claw Evo - 1 in 30 chance!!!: 1d30 7 - A, Claw Armed wins, with 29 votes You were never going to be like Haimi, and you knew it. Just watching how she fought told you that much - there was little raw strength used in the woman's fighting style. Her graceful bloody destruction of her enemies came from precision and speed - and while you were perhaps faster than average due to your Father's influence, you were nowhere near the woman's. Besides, you had already armed yourself in a variety of ways - your fists were only one of your threats. And so you adapted your claws to supplement your fighting style of force and destruction, rather than trying to emulate the ways of 'proper' claw usage. Haimi never said a word about it, even as you used the claws to simply add blades to the end of your fists, without a single change in form to account for their serrated natures, or the curvature of the blade. They were just like your boots - blades to be added to your already practiced movements of destruction. ------------ Tracking Evo Vote: 1d31 31 - H, trackless tracker wins with 6 votes You were never going to be the stealthiest person in the room, not with your build. You were already taller than your Father, and amongst the ten tallest people in the entire Embrace - the second tallest girl indeed. Your muscles weren't as monstrous as your strength, but you were still noticeably muscular compared to some of the embrace's more lithe gymnastic powerhouses - such as your mentor or Haimi. Though you still weren't as bulky as the Guardians who had been training their strength for years with their more forceful armaments, such as Rohan. So you worked even harder at it as you trained with Haimi. Every movement had to be quieter - had to be quicker, had to be more subdued and less obvious. You had to make less noise, and attract less attention. The lessons you took on being a good tracker were easy to adapt to all sorts of moments you'd need to be quieter - whether you were tracking or avoiding being tracked. Haimi was still far better than you ever dreamed of being, but as you hunted you could feel the difference, as you could feel the Farbeasts surprise at your appearance. Drill Lesson Votes: 1d31 8 - M, study with Rama wins Really surprised by how few people trusted Rama here. Poor ghost guy. "I have to study it too." You were arguing with Rama as you sat in your much delayed class, the elder Khatri man in front of you seeming quite a bit better mood wise than you'd ever seen him. "What if something happens to you?" You were adept at fearing the worst - less so at expecting anything good to happen. Sometimes you wondered if Rama counted as a good thing - mostly because you knew your Steward was a bit temperamental, and well... you weren't expecting her to be happy at your soul mixing with another or whatever the possession was. "What could possibly happen to me here? Even the most proficient of cultivators struggled with the conduct of ghosts." Your eternal(?) companion seemed more hurt than annoyed at your decision not to trust the matters to him, "There's no way anyone here would be able to sever our bond - well, not without severing your souls bond to your body." He said it with a hint of worry even through the hurt, "I doubt even this Steward you fear so much could do anything to me, not without risking you." "I should still study it. It's part of my duties, even if I never need to use it." The second you used the word duty, the voice changed, "I suppose you should fulfil all your duties, even if there are shortcuts offered past them. That is... admirable." ---------------- Having taken a month off the drilling lessons, you came back completely and totally lost. Well not completely and totally - because you had Rama there to guide you when you stumbled, or to explain things that had already been explained before. You were bombarded with all sorts of hand signs, of callouts, of information on different formations used against different threats, about how teams are directed and the delegation of powers in emergencies - and it's all just so much. So even as you eat lunch each day, you have Rama filling you in on more details of things you just cannot memorize like he did. And you realize how suspicious it must look to many - you had spent weeks being a sponge that could answer questions those who had been there for half a year were barely comfortable with. Now you were back to struggling with all but the basics of the class and the curriculum involved. Which brought you to your second dilemma with the class: you were nowhere near ready. And yet Rama had already displayed the capability to graduate to the true drilling as soon as the tests were given. Guarav had encouraged you many times about how he cannot wait for you to join the true drilling next month, and how impressed he is that 'a Khatri' was so ready to put their full focus into learning. He seems convinced that you had been spending your nights going over the material on your own, to prove your worth. If you don't let Rama pass the test, you're sure it would be suspicious. But if you do let him pass the test, it would mean your incomplete knowledge being put onto the drilling fields, and in time the battlefield. G. Let Rama pass the test and move on to real practice H. Continue taking classes until Isha is ready to move up as well. End of month drilling knowledge check: Rama: 100+/100 Isha: 29/100 ------------- Meditation is the art of separating your mind from the physical, of distancing yourself from the limitations and truths of your body, and moving beyond. It's a skill few bother to 'master', and one you, perhaps, would never have sought out were it not for your long nights of loneliness as you sought something you could work on alone. Indeed, the nights were the perfect time to center yourself away from all the worries, drama, and politics of the embrace, to separate yourself from the expectations on you for however brief. Your world was a magical one, and you'd known that from birth - but in the past few months you had learned that it was scarcely touching the surface of what the world was once like. You still had trouble believing that long ago, humans could fight like Farbeasts without Armaments - the idea of a person being able to turn their skin to stone, or light their nails on fire, or create quills of poison from their hair was terrifying and foreign... though, perhaps, easier to believe than the idea that there were settlements known as 'cities' that held hundreds of thousands of 'mortals' like your family. Meditation was a link to that world, the spiritual side that you couldn't access usually - the bits beyond the mortal. And you had immersed yourself in many things beyond what your peers would have been capable of even had they the time and patience for the task itself. One little push and you were prepared to go deeper than ever, to reach the unknown... or to pull yourself back, and ground yourself with what you knew was safer. You had fleeting visions of what could be - your Steward praising you as you grew stronger with it than any before you. Yourself and Rama overlaid as one, working together to protect your home from threats that even Guardians would balk at. Your Mother's praises as your mastery of healing transcended her own, the power coming naturally to you as it flowed without burning through your body. Yourself in Rama's memories, fighting the great battles he participated in, studying under the great tutors he remembered learning from. Your sight, bolstered and enhanced so that you could truly see more. And yourself, drawing in a breath of essence instead of air. There were many choices A. Second Step To Oneness (Talent) - Unlocked by Armed Oneness - Doubles Armed Oneness bonus to compatibility to 2% per meditation rank. Allows communication with Armament Stewards at high compatibility when meditating, instead of only while sleeping. (Brings to 90% compatibility with Signet) B. Two Souls, One Person (Talent) - Unlocked by Rama's Soul - Your spirits have found more peace with each other in the days of meditation, the barriers where one begins and the other ends blurring, and you may more freely access each other's memories as if they were your own, so long as they are not intentionally hidden away. Upgrades Rama's Hammer, Unconquerable Rama, and Master of the Battlefield. Provides ??? C. Spirit Pathway Savant (Talent) - You have a stronger mastery than most when it comes to the pathways of your body, allowing you to more easily alter the flow of energy within. Doubles meditation XP bonus to Spiritual Skills (and Armament Techniques). Slightly reduces strain of armament techniques on pathways. D. Spiritual World-Dreamer (Talent) - Special - Your experience with entering your Steward's spiritual world, as well as your brief slips into Rama's spiritual world has extended to allow you entry when you wish it, so long as you sleep or meditate deeply and have access to the realm in question (such as by being attuned to an armament). E. Spiritual Sight Seer (Talent) - Unlocked by Essence Sight - As your mastery of your spiritual sense of 'self' grows, so does your ability to master your special spiritual sight that had allowed you to see the essence of things. Your Essence Sight skill is now capped by the higher of your Meditation or Enhanced Awareness skills. (Current Cap: 10) F. Essence Regulating Breath (Specialty, Extreme) - Unlocked by Mastery of Self - Following Rama's hesitant advice and the teachings of Jo Kul, you have slowly begun to recreate the breathing techniques used by Rama to draw in raw essence and cultivate it. Chances to practice this technique are few and far between, as the Embrace itself is seemingly bereft of pure Essence in quantity to sustain it. Special: Cannot exceed Mastery of Self in ranks. Important Note: Due to vote to wait until you've talked to the Steward before trying any more ways to get a Dantian, any options to use ERB will be on hold until Apex Sun. Though... -------------------- Days had flown into months recently - much of your schedule was decided for you, between hunting and drilling. Only two days a week and the nights were yours to choose what to do with, and those days often felt short. Your time with your friend Jute had been even further between than before, as she shut herself into studies on all manner of skill cerebral at the demand of her Armament, and you were pushed to the physical work of a Guardian years earlier than originally planned, due to your prodigious might. And yet it was calm - with Dawa and Aarav not quite 'friends' with you but no longer seeing you as an enemy, and Aditi more than willing to just keep her distance from you, there was not much for you to feel threatened by. You knew Guarav and your Father still fought often, and that their family still sought to remove your Father's power - and that of the High Priest supported by your family in your Uncle's wake... but it was not really your problem, was it? You had never tried to involve yourself in that fight, beyond responses to provocations - and your Mother had always said that unity in the Embrace would be ideal. Darpan and Mala's plans to strengthen the Embrace still lay ahead - but you weren't sure how much you wanted to help them as you learned more about what they were trying to do from Rama - indirectly, of course. It was one of the few topics that no matter when you thought of it, Rama seemed to hear no word of. But his talks on the danger of forcing cultivation without proper training, without proper preparation and knowledge... it had definitely made you more concerned about the plan and if you still wanted to follow through. Though you wondered if you had a choice, seeing as Mala had already spent so much time in your brain, while you agreed with them and let them toy with it. Either way he needed you with your Armament - be it now, or further in the future. You still wanted to become a Cultivator, but you had decided firmly to wait until you could talk to the Steward on the matter. You doubted she would be happy to see Rama, but she wanted you to be strong - and she was the most knowledgeable person you knew, honestly. You had suspicions she may have once been a cultivator even, turned into a ring by Nakul... like how he killed those ghosts whose memories you had touched. Though that was only a theory you had no proof for. All of the immediate plotlines you have involved yourself in are either on pause or have ended. I don't mind continuing the monthly pace, but I figured I'd offer a few choices of timeskip stuff. How XP will be handled during timeskip will be figured out next update if one wins. I. No timeskip, continue as is and find a plot for yourself (or don't.) J. Small timeskip - until Apex Sun, when you can restart the cultivation plotline. K. Large timeskip - one year, until just before Isha's 13th birthday. Sorry for the long wait everyone. I am now gainfully employed again, moved into a new (more stable) place to live, and have a laptop that works for writing. Hopefully this means more updates more often! Skill Gains Meditation +299xp, raising and capping at Rank 10, unlocking second evolution.
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GBJ Might as well let Rama take the test to avoid looking suspicious, but we can at least watch instead of tuning out completely. Glad to see this back and glad things are working out for you Kitty. Ripley fucked around with this message at 12:15 on May 14, 2022 |
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Hey, congrats on the improvement to your personal situation  Delighted to see this return.GBJ I don't see the point in combining H and B - either we're willing to bind ourselves closer to Rama and trust in his abilities or we aren't. What's the point in seeking closer integration if we aren't planning to use the advantages it gives us?
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Maugrim posted:Hey, congrats on the improvement to your personal situation
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GAJ I'm tempted by Cultivation Breathing but I feel like our best source of essence right now is in food.
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Welcome back and congrats on things settling down! GBJ As long as his soul is there to guide us, he will be there to alert us to the signals.
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Nakulian Year 6239, Descending Stars Meditation Evolution Vote: 1d34 20 - B wins with 11 votes. As you slip into your meditation night after night, you slowly find Rama attempting to do so as well. The teenage boy seems to struggle to center himself as you do, but slowly you manage to coach him through the ghostly emotions that keep him ever on edge. Together you assuage the rage for long enough that he may let go - and you leave behind the temporal concerns of revenge or protection. You enter into the peaceful moments of the spirit. That is when strange things begin to happen, as the two souls within your body meditate as one - as you slip into each other's thoughts without intention, as your past becomes something you can see of each other. It reminds you of when you first touched him in his revenant form, and were flooded by the memories of being him, but less intense - and less directed. And you can feel your own as well, flowing forth to mix into the great sea of your souls. You see memories of his nurse maid washing his body in his youth, her kindly old smile unconcerned even as you flippantly informed her that you didn't need a bath, despite being covered in dirt. You see memories where you stand amongst the closest things to peers of your age - the children of your Father's vassals gathered to play with you, your brother sitting on the sidelines with only a single raven eyed boy as his company, as the rest of you begin to play a more physical game than he enjoyed. You see memories of those same children, now older as you drill them as their commander before your first battle. You have to imagine this is what it feels like when an ingredient is mixed to create medicine - you can feel your own memories fragmenting and mixing in to Rama's, you can feel this sense of dilution but also this strengthening as your souls stop running against each other and begin to meld into something more. It's not a complete combination, and as you both awake you 'both' still exist, but you can feel more from him than before. Where before you felt his annoyance and heard what he told you, now you could feel what he was thinking about as he talked to you. "The barriers between us are breaking down." Even as he says it cryptically without explanation, you can see what he means - you can see the lessons on the soul, and the sanctity of them he had from his teachers so long ago. About the mutability - and the limitations of it. And of how tales of ancestors becoming one with their descendants were not always fabrications or stories. You could even hear him cursing himself for ignoring his lessons in favor of sports and combat, "Still separate but... not. Like two bodies of waters meeting and mixing, after the land between collapsed." "Are we still... us?" You had to ask the first question that came to your mind - you felt out of place in your own body for a moment, after feeling yourself in Rama's for the short(?) time you lived as him. You could still feel his thoughts and mind in your head, the pride above all prides, the belief in a greatness of self. You felt good as the self confidence flooded you - but you also felt angry, as the ghostly rage you only felt inside of your stomach before now was in the front of your head. Containable. Separate... but not nearly as separate. "For now. Though your question is not correct. We will always be us, but if this mixing continues... we may no longer each be ourselves." Even his lecture felt more real, as if you could feel his own thoughts on the matter as you did it - the fear of losing self, the fear of the unknown, the confusion as he wracked his long memory for anything of the sort. "If two oceans separated by a grand mountain," and you could picture oceans and mountains as he said the words, as if you always knew what they were - despite having never seen either one in your life, "suddenly lost that barrier, and the mountain came down... if their water began to trickle into each other, would they still be two oceans? Or would they be..." You answered it for him before he needed to say it, you could feel the answer in his head, "Something different and new. It wont be me or you who exists if this continues, will it?" You already knew the answer, and you didn't even need to wait for it. It was too late to distance yourselves regardless - and in a way, it just asked questions neither of you were suited to answer. You were both too young to sit and consider the implications of the continuation of life and memory, that was something for an Elder to ponder, something the great Scholars of old could decipher. No, the question of what life was and what it meant for memories to continue in a new manner was not something either of you had time or patience to spend eons arguing back and forth on. But what you did have time for was exploring the changes - you already felt like the hammer was so much simpler than anyone had ever told you. As if it naturally fit into your hand and was right from the moment it did - and you knew it was because of Rama's influence. But it was more than that now - you had put time and effort into distinguishing your fighting style from Rama's with the weapon. You had a strength of body that even he seemed in awe of for your youth, mortality, and the state of your body's 'cultivation' - and you had perfected it in a style that used the most powerful blows possible to break through any threat. And yet now as you held the hammer, you could feel the way Rama would hold it, you could feel the way to ensure your blows carried through - the way to fight to destroy armies, not enemies. To end wars, not battles. You couldn't keep up with everything that your body wanted to do with the hammer - but the basics were easy, as you combined your style and his into one. A seamless combination of brutal powerful blows and wide sweeping destruction sprung through your head, as the two of you easily adapted the simpler parts of your martial arts into one. Your body and mind may never have trained themselves in the way Rama had, but your soul held his memories of training and the remnants flooded through much more fully now. You could feel that as you improved, you would be able to integrate more of his style, more of his capability into your own. You felt more than just stronger for it - you felt smarter. All the drilling lessons that Rama absorbed near instantly and you required constant review on flew through your mind in instants, as you now understood everything he did. You didn't quite have full access to Rama's memories - you could see everything he had seen since combining with you in perfect clarity... but not everything was as easy and natural to access as that. Much like your own memory, when looking back things became more fuzzy and difficult - specific concepts and what people said were near impossible for you to see clearly... but the vistas, the sights that you had assumed he lied about? They lay quite clear still in the memories. The great city he called home, that stretched for so many miles around the palace he lived in in the center of it that you could not see the end. The thousands of people who walked the streets, so numerous they were impossible to count, as the festival lanterns were held. ----------------- As mentioned above, this talent makes the vote on who passes what test invalid. Nakulian Year 6239, Descending Stars "As always, this test will be given to all five of you. Kanti, I will know if you intentionally sabotage your chances of passing, be it to reduce the embarrassment of young Mutti here, or to remain with your twin longer. I will not tolerate it from my disciple," Guarav was smiling despite the dry way he spoke to the class on the second to last day of the month, and the topic he was broaching with Kanti. You could see Kanti sheepishly rubbing the back of his head, and Avha fuming. The boy had been in the class for almost a year now, and Kanti was already doing better than him... but so were you, and Guarav's eyes turned to you, "And I expect great things from you, daughter of Khatri. You showed impressive progress over these three months. I rarely have students who go out of their way to self study, when they could instead be using their swords." "[SIZE=1]It's not fair, she's not only huge and strong, but now she's a genius too?[/SIZE]" You could hear Rati whispering to her twin as the papers were passed out - but she wasn't glaring at you at least. The jealousy at least seemed smaller than before you had spent time hunting together - though you weren't sure you'd call the trio friends like you would Jute. "[SIZE=1]Shh. My Mentor's given me enough scoldings about you distracting me here. I'm sure her Dad's just helping her study over dinner or something though.[/SIZE]" Despite his protestation of not wanting to gossip, Kanti seems happy to say his fair share after telling his sister not to reply. With the inscribed piece of farbeast hide in front of you, and the ink well and ready for you to begin to answer the questions... you really had no issues left to hold you back. A glance down the test showed you dozens of trick questions and situations that seemed like ones Guarav had explicitly used as examples of one matter, but were actually examples of another. And others that were the examples he had used during the class. And yet with the two of you working together, it was nothing more difficult than fighting Jute would be. Even the few times one of you did slip up or miss something, the other was there to provide the right answer or call back to the teaching that provided the right answer. It was basically cheating for either of you. Rama may have missed one or two questions but still passed on his own, but with you both sharing his knowledge with your own time to think it through? The result was only natural as you finished far ahead of time, Guarav pouring over a tome of his own as you returned it to him. You were the first to finish, but he didn't glare at you or question it - not before he looked at your parchment at least. "Hmm... hmm... hrrrmm..." He nodded to you after a few moments of looking it over, "I trust you understand you still have nearly two hours left to finish this, and believe yourself finished. But I shall not question the decision, with what I have seen thus far." He motions you away, and you move to where you usually sat, crossing your legs on the floor as you did so. Closing your eyes and waiting, even as you felt all eyes on you. ----------- "With all five of you finished, I would normally say that you will return tomorrow to learn of how poorly you did this time. And four of you will." You could feel his gaze shift to you as he continued speaking, "The Bladelord's daughter, Isha Khatri, has shown remarkable dedication to the art of the battlefield and fighting together. Not only did she finish my classes within only three months of beginning, but she has shown perfection in this final test of her ability. You should each feel great jealousy knowing that the most recent to join our class will be the first to proceed to join the drills." He seemed quite proud of you, even as everyone else turned at his words and you could feel a bit more of the jealousy you had fought against being pointed at you before. But at the same time you felt proud, even if it was Rama's help that got you that far. It would be easy to dismiss it as 'just Rama', but if it wasn't for you, you would never have met Rama. If it wasn't for your focus and dedication to an art only your Uncle seemed to value, you'd never have been able to learn like this with Rama. You deserved the prideful smile on your lips, "Thank you, Senior Koshy." -------------- Nakulian Year 6239, Ascending Moon to Ascending Sun This is just a question of how we want to handle our 4 month timeskip. I have a few choices here for the mechanical (and story interlude) effects of the short timeskip we will be doing. I'll probably post a mechanic only update tomorrow night with whatever wins this vote. A. Monthly Scheduling - Like it says, this is using the same scheduling mechanics we currently do. You will vote on one major day action and one night action separately for each of the 4 months. This will keep your xp gain consistent to how it has been so far, and ensure everything has a chance to win still. B. Ranked Choice Scheduling - I will provide a list of all of your skills you can raise, and you will pick your top three to get attention. I will pool everyones top 3, and work my way down when providing XP. This method can vary on how far down the list I will go - for example, if numbers 1-8 in the top 10 are all rank 9, number 9 may get xp. If numbers 1-3 are all rank 3-4 extreme skills, rank 3 may not even hit 10. C. Theme Scheduling - Rather than voting for each individual action, you will pick a theme for the timeskip. Examples may be as broad as 'Getting Better At Fighting' or as narrow as 'Spending Time With Jute'. This will give you XP spread into relevant skills, but what skills count as relevant wont always be obvious. This is the only way you may acquire a 'new' skill during the timeskip. D. Retroactive Scheduling- The most expedient choice - the timeskip will be a giant blank and we will immediately move to meeting with the Steward in Apex Sun. You will receive a certain amount of timeskip 'tokens' to represent things you did during the timeskip. Certain options will allow you to 'pay' those tokens to retroactively say you had trained something relevant to a current situation. 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Nakulian Year 6239, Ascending Moon to Ascending Sun Timeskip Method Vote: 1d26 18 - C wins with 11 of 26 votes With Theme Scheduling as our winner, I'll be opening up votes to a variety of themes. Feel free to provide your own suggestions if one calls out to you that I did not think of. A. Foundation Building - Your Mentor, Jo Kul, and even the devious Mala have all talked about the value of having a high quality foundation to build upon. By spending time on improving the foundation of your training, your tower will be sturdier for the trials to come... even if it's not the flashiest of things to improve. Focuses on skills that provide a long term benefit that are not immediately impressive. B. Family Bonding Time - Your family rarely has time to all come together as one, especially now that your time is split between hunting and drilling as well. By refocusing your efforts you can find a variety of ways to spend time with them without distracting them from their own duties, and hopefully without slacking on yours. Focuses on maximizing time spent with your parents, improving at anything they can teach you, but with little time left for things they cannot teach. C. Signet Steward Studies - You don't know exactly what the Signet likes or dislikes, but you're fairly sure she wont be fond of Rama's bonding with your body, or mixing into your soul. Hopefully by focusing a few months effort on just the things she has seemed to approve of before, she will be at least a little less angry at you. D. Jute Training Hour - Your friend will be beginning to join hunts at the start of Ascending Stars next year, when she turns thirteen. You want to make sure she is ready, and dedicate a lot of your time to training her for combat situations, as well as working to be able to work alongside her in the future hopefully. E. Jute Friendship Study Hour - Or you could just be friends with her, rather than worrying about if she will be safe in the future. She is a well of knowledge - praised as nearly as much of a mental prodigy as you are a physical one. Spend time with her studying, but also spend time with her as a friend socializing. F. Ease Mama's Worries - Your Mother is the tireless healer of the entire Embrace, often run to the point of collapse in the name of keeping your home in peace. And yet she still had the time and energy to raise you as your Father went out oft for countless dangerous battles. Prioritizing the things she would like you to might at least ease the burden on her mind, of what may happen to her not-so-little girl. G. Make Papa Proud - You know quite clearly that your Father worries about your presence on the battlefield - but you can show him that you weren't wrong to volunteer for it. Rama may have never been told his father was proud of him, but you needn't live through that same situation. Prioritizing that which he would approve of will help not only him, but the Embrace. H. Hunt Master Isha - Following your lessons at the hands of Haimi, you've realized how indispensable being good at Hunting really is. Not only does it provide all of the meat your people eat - which you as a Guardian rely on to keep getting strong - but it is the only way your people can thin the hordes that will surely one day fall upon the Embrace in pitched battle. And perhaps secrets lay hidden beyond the Embrace, where few Guardians dare travel? I. Rama's Soul Teaching - Practicing the skills closest to Rama would mean a great strengthening of your martial might in short order, and might ease his worries over rarely being in control. With your grand hammer in hand, you will shake the battlefields come the season of Void - you know it. J. Jeevika's Combat Class - Your Mentor isn't picky on how you fight - she just wants you to survive those fights. By dedicating time to her, you know you'd improve in all your combat skills greatly - and do so under the watchful eye of one of the people you like most in the Embrace. Even if you do expect to be thrown around a lot. K. Trio Training Time - Avha, Kanti, and Rati were each at least a year older than you - but they were the next closest things you had to friends besides Jute. And they were also already preparing to join the battlefields, just like you were. Spending time with them could both reduce the tensions between them and you over your recent successes, and help you work better alongside them - while maybe making friends along the way. L. Left Hand of the High Priest - While the new High Priest, Tushar, is nowhere near as great as your Uncle was - he still has been quite kind to you. You have experience assisting your Uncle before - in matters of teaching the young, in matters of preparing for ceremonies such as the Armament testing, and in matters pertaining to the mapping of the outer Embrace. Spending some time assisting him might help you make new connections, and would certainly force you into more social situations. M. Full-Fledged Doctor - Medicine is more than just knowing what ails someone - in the Embrace, there is no separation between herbalist, alchemist, and doctor. All three of them exist in one capacity in the Hospital, where the most patient and caring individuals study multiple disciplines to be able to save one more life. N. Treasure Hunter - The Embrace is a literal treasure trove, and you've only scratched the surface of the locked doorways no one else seems capable of opening. With ten more in the areas you'd already explored waiting to be opened, maybe now was the time to get to work on them. 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There's so many fun choices here and yet I keep coming back to A. I kind of want the exciting fun skill building to happen on screen, so it makes sense for the timeskip to cover improving less immediately gratifying but super important stuff. And foundation in cultivation novels is super important, dictating how far you can ultimately progress.
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B Family time!
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A just makes sense as the sorta thing that would happen during a timeskip.
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B I'm figuring after some of the difficulties we've gone through, and us having everyone except our famous Dad as a teacher for the last yeast, we can do with some mending fences there.
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