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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...
"And there we go."
She ran her tongue down her pointer finger and stuck it precisely at the threshold, then placed it on a little circle in the drawing.
"That's that."
She sighed.
"And to think that I thought that going into formations meant that I could avoid the annoying medical stuff, but no."
Her foot scuffed at the chalk taijitu, partially breaking it and...
Things felt a little brighter, somehow, after a bit of greying out.
"You ran down your Yang, there - pant out a bit, let yourself get a touch ragged, 't's ok. Rebalanced the air a lil to help w/ recovery, just take your time to breathe and..."
Disappear, reappear, water.
"Drink."
D-rink shake p-pant shudder gasp faint groaning sigh.
Rest back in the circle, because it's for that.
Pause, because you have the time and you have no idea how long any analysis takes.
That was a bit much.
"I have the results for when you'd like them, by the way."
Her voice feels half-distant, easy to ignore willfully but hard to simply forget or brush off.
"Oh yeah sure."
She walks out, taking a little diversion to the side to let her blade fly out the door.
"You've cleaned out your system of it by now, I bet, and there's enough headroom to fine even if not so..."
She went to work making it again.
"So ok. Obviously, a lot of this is probably going to be at least partially meaningless to you, but it is useful for comparisons. Weapon energies are a separate thing and won't be touched upon."
She hums and strokes her hand along the kettle.
"Weird how much I kinda just wanna flash boil it, but never quite the same, and besides - that's a waste, here."
She gestures down at her ripped body.
"If you ran this test on me, and did the same level of summarization as 'm doing for you, I'd say I have a really great affinity for Yang, Fire, and Metal (plus forge and formation stuff and sub-elements too complicated to get into, with some specialist natural resonances w/ Earth, an overall solid balance between body, mind and soul cultivation w/ excellent compatibility for doing it dual. My affinity for wood, shadow, and water range from totally unusable to sorta workable. even have a decent nascent aptitude for space, oddly enough, though as Respledent Solar Soldier'd probably say, 'm enough of a genius for that sort of thing to be... a lil silly."
She snorts and points at her.
"You're... sorta more normal? Solid Wood and Yin affinities on a base of similarily great Mind and Dual cultivation affinities, though actually your elements align pretty excellently for doing balance work in the style of taoist techniques like the thin' you already have, and there's definitely firmly usable. You'll always have a bit of a struggle building your cultivation around body cultivation w/out some dramatic intervention, but your soul and mental energy are good. And for more exotic stuff..."
She snorts.
"Void, of all things - should be pretty useful, though techniques are a lil impractical early on. There;s some more... interpretative, bits, of course, but that's the basics. Ususally that sort of ting is for..."
She waves her hand vaguely.
"Builders and endurers, focused talents and trick users who go for skill-strats and pulling of 'expertise' in general, even if it translates out to an advantage elsewhere."
She nods a little.
"I guess I'm lucky I had a good compatibility with the technique - I suppose that will help quite a bit. And..."
She blushes again.
"You really ended up testing my affinity for that sort of cultivation?"
She raised her eyebrows.
She laughed hard.
"Ah... It's fun to get to play 'round with this with people who get it from the fics, and such."
She smiled relaxedly.
"It's something related to the whole synergistic characteristic you have - some people naturally have energies that sorta... work well with others, natively? It's natural to detect when playing with your energies and so on, 'nd it is useful for a lot of things when cultivating next to other people or so on, beyond just..."
"Sex."
She broke down laughing. convulsing with laughter as she let the awkwardness fade away.
The kettle started going off. and she went up to take care of it.
"Beyond all that... Don't cultivate for the rest of the day, at least to get strands - you're too unstable right now to get safe results, and you'd probably just end up wasting your time. Three strands on day 2 is great, don't worry about that. And..."
Hum plop in the sugar and milk.
"Doing the formation work for the house now, 't'll be up properly in a few minutes. It'll be..."
She sighed.
"'safe' here."
"Oh yeah."
She let her tongue lap down at one of the mugs, lapping up a bit of the still hot tea.
"Gonna be implementing features for a while, but it'll block out sensory technique of less then fourth level 'nless they figure out something clever, block out stuff like ghost spirits 'round the third level, and even trying to brute force invade into the house would take like two-or-three extraordinary meridians running to eventually get it, though someone at the peak could probably get in pretty dang quickly. Without sieging, probably not feasible for a second stage ward breaker or stealth technique user to get in without something special. It should deter most casual predation attempts, and has the standard call for help features, or will but..."
"Obviously, you don't have that safety out of here, and it is beatable, and a rush job. You can prob. get away with just staying here - happy to get stuff delivered if you need anything, but it's... limiting."
She glances back down at it, and drinks a bit from hers.
"It's ready - though the curve is a good bit more aggressive with this to the right level, you can get away with something a good bit quicker, and it keeps to something solid for quite a while, so don't be too worried about that in general."
"I understand but..."
Drink tea, focusing on getting a better hang of the essence.
"What do cultivators do all day, if you have these sorts of limitations?"
"No seriously - in a couple of ways, actually. There's a default function of the Nose Aperture that means that you autocultivate, and everything is a part of a path, just not always the one you are walking."
"Usually, a cult, sorry, 'clan' cultivator is basically just thrown in to learn everything that they can - the amount of time that you can actually spend practicing a fist technique might be only what, 4 hours a day? But you can spend the rest of your time meditating, reading up, practicing forms, sparring, sleeping, listening to lessons, eating, practicing a profession - whatever, as long as it's part of the path. It goes quickly, I find? But like... YOu don't have to do that to your life. 't's the least we can offer you."
"Yeah - though honestly I might want some help for... how to meditate properly without going for the strands and wearing out like that? Or just... get a chance to relax or..."
She ran her hand across her forearm, then sighs a little as she notices more impurities.
"Oof yeah that sucks - only-half-reember it but having a lot of baths and stuff helps, and even in as much as that stuff can still happen to me naturally sort of purify it, but well.."
She twitched her head to the side.
"'s not the most transferrable thing."
She tapped her finger against her mug.
"It'll keep. Feel free to go shower."
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