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One on day like any other, a PM popped up on her discord page, with a link to a server called simply "Daoist Discord", from a user called...
She did a double take.
A user called "Fox of the Slyvan Spirit Lake"?
That was a bit out there.
She yawned softly, and clicked through the invite.
Might as well see if it's any good - a half-decent RP group is so hard to find these days...
It was still so... awkward to just go and ask questions, to have everything reset to the place where she's starting this all out - like she's in school again, like the rest of her life might just be a dream and it's... scary.
Her hands tremble, then pause - it's... still in control, somehow, even with that extra edge of panic in there.
She wanders down to the kitchen to grab a bun to thaw.
Hum. Might as well ask about the differences in terms of food for cultivators? Not sure if I should expect to change anything, and it's probably worth seeing if there's anything standard to take care of.
Oh hey!
A fellow daoist inquiring about food? It must be my birthday!
Nutrition with physiology of a cultivator is... weird? Even with incoporeal qi and having to rely on blood (not actual blood, the sorta spiritual stamina thing related to it) to catalyze proper techniques, there's a lot of flexibility in terms of what you can get out of what you eat. Generally, it's good to go for the standard things that people tell you to eat, though there's a lot more flexibility for cultivators to eat large quantities of meat or go vegetarian or something like that. There's a lot more that you can do with the right techniques - the simplest stuff just helps directly with cultivation, but there's much more interesting options if you pursue the path dedicatedly, even without going into cooking monsters or anything like that.
Also, feel free to indulge your cravings! It shouldn't really meaningfully impede your progress even if you splurge a lot because the process of purification is basically incidental and there's a few minor reasons why it can technically help through training your body to get rid of contaminants well, though there's also a bit of a balance with not having that impede your ability to preform at your best to get the highest strand counts, and drink lots and lots of water - sports drinks are ok, but are increasingly less desirable as you get further along, and teas and such are actually solid too!
Oh and there's actually some basic immortal meals that basically anyone can prepare and have! Spirit Green and Black Teas you can just make like normal tea (though Respledent Solar Soldier's Yang Sunfire Qi flames have just a lovely muskiness to them, and any food can be radically improved if treated with the right specialist techniques).
I hope I can figure out something soon for getting some sort of delivery system more practically set up - non-perishable immortal food of higher qualities is a good bit harder to make but it can make a huge difference to cultivation when mixed properly with everything else that helps.
Oh yeah - like, there's some stuff that only the seniors can really help with, but our lovely maid 's been really helpful in getting the overall quality of foundation and speed of cultivation to the sorta thing that isn't nesscarily lot worse then w/ clans or such - 's a cool alt. model, even though there's limits for how much you can do w/out just the sheer network and number of resources that you get there - hate to say it but like a lot o this only works 'cause of some fortitious encounters or weird angle that isn't nearly as available as you might expect.
@Mindful Master Maid
Must you describe it as 'musky'~?
I really appreciate what everyone here can offer, it's just... not ideal for a lot of people. There's some options for going for a clan here, too, but loose cultivation is something that I think we can make a real option.
But of course!
It's my duty both as an oath-sworn soul and an uprising immortal chef to never compromise on the accuracy of my ratings of foods!
Would you be inclined to tell someone lies about spearmanship, RSS?
For what I recommend as someone without Mindful Master Maid's expertise, purely on a practical level...
Do whatever feels comfortable and affirming - there's a personal conception of myself as an athlete that makes it interesting and often... 'worthwhile' to try to eat healthily and try to refine an edge for the time I have left while my body really uses that at all, short of spiritual effects, so I keep to a schedule religiously, with a lot of fruit and chicken and such you see in the higher calorie requirement options, and I fit in Mindful Master Maid's meals whenever I can for the advantage it gives.
I suppose that I follow that - shopping in the mortal world is something... quite enjoyable. The smells are lovely, and the sheer variety makes me thankful for all of the progress we've made civilizationally, and the sheer range of products means that it can be worth it to just wander there with a few alchemical analysis techniques active - there's a variety of simple things that you can accomplish, and there's only so much that my photographic eyes can help with something that exotic.
Yeah - suprisingly decent chunk of clans don't even have bloody first level chef, even - 't's apparently 'beneath them' - been a help to even me even though she's just at third stage - 't's good to see us getting the benefits from that and...
Oh the fox is here!
Hey-o Senior!
How to put this...
Let's go for something minimal.
Something like that, Senior.
Please don't worry, Moonsilver - the technique is tested as safe, if not in the way that would be the most ideal, and I'm happy to spend the time to check-up on you and drop by a little gift for you!
@Transcendant Tourmaline Trapmaster
Mind casting lots for her? Please don't worry about costs - I'm happy to reimburse you for any costs you incur.
But of course, Slyvie!
She darted over to a book shelf, grabbing a handful of volumes, a finger flitting open a cosmos bag as a thick cloud of obsidian-black ink spilled out, the fog drifting into the air as a line spilled out to create a formation circle, thick spiritual energy laden in the ink imprinting on the stone.
She cast the books into the air - the binding unfurling once more to let the pages spill out, flitting papers drifting up in to the air.
May I read from the Book of Changes to see the branching paths, may the heavens reveal the truth, may the earth yield its secrets, may the links of karma reflect the future.
The pages drank in the ink, reaching the zenith as they transformed, then falling to the floor, drifting down like the leaves of cherry blossoms to the floor.
Blood - a tiny burst of sword qi bit into her hand, dripping into the circle - Breath - She breathed, a rush of power flowing into it as it nearly reached the floor - Bile - the ink darkened in some places, the pages seemingly withering away - Bindings - the circle surged with light as the result was decided, her powering sojourning through the sea of time -
And thus, the die was cast, the lots were laid, the choice was made, and the heavens answered her plea.
She laughed and grin as she read the pattern of broken lines, the images of her transtemporal gaze playing out in her mind's eye as she saw the result selected from the possibilities.
Syncreticism was a finnicky art at the best of times, especially for a fortune teller, but this was the good shit that made the whole thing worth, above and beyond the lil accuracy bonuses that improvements can give you.
Check a few things more out, record the results in detail with the awesome cam on her flashy lil phone, 'nd ooh spirit lake water scrying pool 's gonna be great for this so let's run that and...
There we go.
Omens good - Heaven and Fire - to the mass of embers to reach up to the sky, to burn brightly, together. Heh, it's bloody the thirteenth trigram of all things 'nd that's a great value for occult optimization in the modern western sys, and it's a good balance with the unbounded radiance - a numeral of the night and bindings. Less directly, the whole things smells like heaven-defying luck and a windfall of positive karma for us for a good while to come, 'nd have even checked her stuff out with your lovely scrying pool - thanks again for that, Five Tails - was easy enough to check that the wards here are all good and there doesn't seem to be any trickery or whatever on her side - no ghost qi, abnormal contaminants in her mind, exotic alchemical bits, or any other evidence that she's been tampered with as a way to get through the wards - though have to ask, were you a meditator or somethin' like that before you got the cultivation technique? Your mental energy is honestly a lil wow for someone hasn't spent more then a day of her life cultivating.
Blink.
She'd always...
It was hard to express.
Focus, dismiss the thoughts of the possible intrusion and the risks of the things that she mentioned, recite from memory, reform, reframe, speak unafraid and fludily -
Not as much as you sound like you expect, Senior? I've dabbled in semi-regular meditation - on the scale of half an hour or two on every other day for a few months, sometimes, but I've always really prized clarity of thought and instinctively experimented with doing things like quieting my inner voice and... dealing with trauma and nasty memories and even just sort of...
Tilting my head and focusing in a way that works to solve what is in front of me, even if it isn't quite the normal version of me or some such thing?
It's all just sort of come together to make me work better, I've found.
Ooh cool.
In theory it's possible to train that shit beforehand, just really really impractical to do it at the ages that get the best results for foundation building, and is mostly practical to just train to ~standard safety for body tempering liquid and getting the best base to safely work out. 'll be interesting to see how that goes.
Oh!
I think that's the reason why people weren't able to cultivate the technique as a foundation establishment method - I've managed to complete the technique's progression, and I think Tourmaline picked it up to more or less completion herself? But between how difficult it is to get people try a new method and the failures we've had, well...
@Moonsilver, I'll have to check up on you soon! Seeing the details of how it works out for you will be useful for my research, so I'm happy to help you out and give you a gift besides.
For now...
Feel free to hang around here, and I think @Rabid Ruby Smelting Savant will end up coming around and helping you start out!
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