Elfberserker
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Adjusting the vote B3>B1>A>B5
B1. Tianshan Range, near Tujue territory. The place where golden fox leaves are harvested by the masked Xueguizi. Their leader is called the Tianshan Child Elder, a secretive and mysterious little girl that is said to have lived for more than a hundred years, eternally unaging. The Xueguizi are also a sect that is said to focus strongly on yin-based inner strength techniques, and have great knowledge of neigong.Haha, this is even better than the original sales pitch for it. WIth a neiggong potential of 15, these guys are an absolute must for us to visit.At this point, his qi is a convoluted, chaotic mixture that cannot be really called yin or yang. He would have to separate them to use those techniques properly, but nothing is stopping him from learning the form and then putting his own spin on the essence, depending on the technique. But it is said that the Tianshan Child Elder is the master of internal energy research, even more so than Wang was, though most are not sure if she really exists. The trip is rather far, though.
A votes are retarded. We couldn't properly avoid detection by one Amesha with 7 Stealth then. We sure can't sneak past this many with 7 stealth now. Even if it somehow doesn't happen to get us killed by the Amesha Spenta while we violate their demand for us to leave, I still don't think this choice is going to be good for us.
“Enough, both of you!” shouts the older woman. “The Holy Maiden has the right to take a break, but it is not solely because of that. She is also protecting us by temporarily staying away from the Temple. Should Tufan want to find her, they will not do so here.”
Hmm. Good point here.There's some bad shit going on behind those doors and it sucks to just feel powerless and let it happen.
Fuck man, you're right. I really want A, but am honestly scared.I'm with you. A does sound insane - we haven't boosted our Stealth skills and we want to infiltrate this Temple to uncover what the Fire Cult are really up to and possibly stop it, and the consequences of getting caught pretty much mean certain death. Out of all the YOLOTIGER things that we have done in this LP, this would be the YOLOTIGERest. However, I am really uneasy about what's occurring in there:
This implies that whatever is going on here, it is so important to the Fire Cult that they value it even above Yunzi's freedom. They're saying, "If the Tufan capture Yunzi, that's okay, just so long as they don't find out what we're doing here." That's how crucial this thing is for them.
That being said, you're right and I might be thinking about this too irrationally. We're right outside their gates and I feel compelled to do something even if it feels risky to the point of being suicidal. There's some bad shit going on behind those doors and it sucks to just feel powerless and let it happen.
I'm just scared that it's a death sentence, man. That's the only reason I'm not going for it.Estranging the cult is a possibility. However, if they really are trying to heal Ahura, they are not going to be friendly if they succeed anyway. A chance to sabotage them might be worth it in the long run.
treave have said that by arriving here immediately we've got a chance to see something we otherwise wouldn't be able to. This implies we'll be alive to see it. However, there would be danger involved.
Gah, troll treave strikes again. Instead of a choice between Yunzi and Shun it was a choice between something and nothing.
Not exactly. Arriving here directly via the previous choice affords you an unique opportunity with A you wouldn't have gotten otherwise.
Hmm. Good point here.
“I am a pilgrim, sir,” you say. “I wanted to visit the Great Fire Temple of Gushnap, so that I may worship at the fire’s glory.”
The guard stares at you a while before saying, “Lord Vairya has ordered that worship services are temporarily closed.”
“Why is that?”
He frowns at being asked for an explanation, but does so anyway.
“Our Holy Maiden has just departed for Dukezong. She will be back in two weeks’ time, and Lord Vairya has decreed a temporary hiatus on worship,” he says curtly.
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You settle down and wait for Yunzi here. From the looks of it, Xsaora Vairya may be the one in charge here while she is gone. While she is not around, perhaps you can poke around the Fire Temple and try to understand more of their people, as well as attempt to uncover any secrets they may be hiding here.
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“Enough, both of you!” shouts the older woman. “The Holy Maiden has the right to take a break, but it is not solely because of that. She is also protecting us by temporarily staying away from the Temple. Should Tufan want to find her, they will not do so here.”
A unique opportunity to get both Cao'er and Qilin killed instead of one or the other perhaps. Since treave said meeting with Shun would have given us an incentive to visit the Fire Cult, and he was only six hours away, I am extremely hard pressed to imagine a scenario that is available with the choice we made vs. the one we didn't.
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Since treave said we won't be able to do whatever Shun had in mind for us, I guess we might as well go for working on our neigong, since it's our greatest strength in the long run.