Or I could have added it in because I'm feeling kind and wanted to give you guys a way out.
Yeah, more and more it looks that way.
Face it, bros, the situation is too insane. We've been sitting here for hours and still didn't come up with a single rational theory, instead throwing "A will get us killed! No, B!" back and forth. I don't see enough clues to go on.
A is crazy and insane because it employs the means of supernatural offense against a person who we do not know is connected to the supernatural at all. He did not exhibit any of the behavior that Lady Mi did - all we have going for this theory is his stunt with the swords, and that could be explained away with some forbidden technique that drove him mad in the first place. He fights like a man, he bleeds like a man, he has earthly desires like a man, he has a name he earned his fame with - nothing here indicates that he is any more inhuman than, say, Yang Xue, who was just a head attached to a boulder in the initial draft of the plot. The ability to fight on when a normal man would be dead thrice over is a staple of Wuxia genre, and this man might just have taken it to the XTREME.
I don't really doubt our ability to form a plan, close our distance and do the deed. What troubles me is that it does not have a follow-up. It reads 'welp, if it does not work, we'll think of something, since he will be so surprised' - and that's it. And I am pretty sure - was sure since the beginning - that the kiss itself won't do anything to him. I banked on removing his mask, on confusing and surprising him - on anything but what is stated to be the main attraction of the choice which is the kiss that is meant to dispose of the 'demon'. Ignoring what is written and fantasizing about other potential outcomes that
might happen is never a mark of a good plan.
But I am not too quick to jump to the B camp, either, not when the only argument going for it is "it's WQS, our legendary skill, it will totes work because legendaries exist to steamroll everything". It talks about mimicking, but what exactly is it that we want to mimic? His sword-absorbing technique (if it's that), allowing the swords to pierce our body and laughing the damage off? No thank you, he bleeds just like any other man, so what happens to us when WQS expires is up to debate. His dualwielding skills with two of the Great Swords? With what, our single Yuchang blade that is designed for a different style of combat altogether? His swords juggling skills? Again, with what? All the swords in the courtyard are now piercing his body, so we have nothing to work with. All of the techniques he displayed are not particularly useful to us in one way or the other. Add to that that he can eat lethal hits like it's nothing, and you've got a nightmare of a fight on your hands.
The choise seem to recognize that the swords are not going to cut it (pardon the bad pun), and that you will resort to unarmed techniques if all goes to hell, which raises a question of why go with WQS in the first place.
Still, this choice has us put up a fight instead of LOLOLOLing our way through. Even though I know the intention of A voters is not to do this in the most hilarious way possible, A is pretty far from actual martial arts, and we were warned not to play around.
I don't have a clue of what to do here, and I don't want to pretend that I do. In light of this, I will graciously accept the way out that is offered and withdraw from the fight until we can find out more. I would be highly unfortunate if the LP was to end there due to yet another unwise decision - and I can't call a decision wise if it does not have at least a somewhat plausible argument backing it. No one came up with it so far.
D.