A couple days have passed since the beast horde and the toxin the bee stung you with is gone, but you still can't exert yourself that much physically given the several wounds it and the mutated Banchian gave you. You'll need to find something to do for the next month given that you can't cultivate without injuring yourself due to the movements. You have access to the library and official's library of Lion's Ridge, among other things, and are trying to figure out what to do. You want to...
>Learn how to cook better, your roadside meals aren't cutting it.
>Read through as many as the county's records as you can in the next month. It won't be too helpful, but you figured it was a decent way to pass the time.
>You read about the basics of the way of the tea and various teas as well as other bits of random etiquette. You have no idea why Meng Hao had so many books about tea, but he let you read them, so you may as well.
>Other

>>3142801
>You read about the basics of the way of the tea and various teas as well as other bits of random etiquette. You have no idea why Meng Hao had so many books about tea, but he let you read them, so you may as well.
There were talks about promotion so this might become useful

>>3142815
>Learn how to cook better, your roadside meals aren't cutting it.
and
>Other: learn as much apothecary/alchemy/medicinal related knowledge as possible

>>3142801
>Read through as many as the county's records as you can in the next month. It won't be too helpful, but you figured it was a decent way to pass the time.
This way we'll learn where's the bandits and monsters at, to go and practice combat moves on them.

oh, probably should've left my twitter in the OP
I post updates on when I'm running there when I'm able to ahead of time. Which isn't often enough, but hey.
https://twitter.com/QmWalrus
>>3142825
You've looked around the library and found that there isn't any knowledge related to being any apothecary that you don't already know there since it's mostly records and books on things such as geography, history, and some "classic" books. There were a few medical reference books and you knew most of the content, but that's because they were very basic rather than because of your wealth of knowledge.

>>3142842
Ah, okay. Then just cooking I guess.

>>3142815
>>You read about the basics of the way of the tea and various teas as well as other bits of random etiquette. You have no idea why Meng Hao had so many books about tea, but he let you read them, so you may as well.

>>3142824
>>3142864
You read through Meng Hao's oddly large collection of books over the way of the tea and some matters of etiquette over the next month. Over this time you come to see that the man has quite the obsession for tea, drinking it with nearly every meal and in between meals once or twice a day. You're not sure whether this is an upper society thing or just a him thing. You guess it's a hobby.
As the weeks pass and you lounge around reading books in the comfortable summer sun, eventually things begin going back to normal. There were initially some people there to stay to investigate the cause of the horde, but eventually they moved further towards the village that was originally attacked instead of staying here.
After a month passes and you're able to cultivate again, Meng Hao calls you to his office. Apparently you and some of the other officials have received various offers for new jobs in return for your effort fighting against the beast horde. You're also handed a bag with slightly over 100 gold coins in it for your efforts.
You grab the note of job briefings and see a note scribbled on top of the stack. It says "You've been profiled as a talented cultivator with limited experience in government. While careful with your troops, you take a lot of risks when fighting by yourself. Depending on the job they might find that last point a good thing or a bad thing. Also, your promotion is due more to your cultivation than any contributions, they don't like keeping officials who could help protect the kingdom out here in the boonies. - Meng Hao"
The briefings describe an officer-in-training program for the army that will take around a year of training, a job as a government-employed bounty hunter, and offers to be a "minor official" in the capital or another major city. You...
>Want to enter the army's officer-in-training program for the next year.
>Want to be a government employed bounty hunter.
>Want to be a minor official in the capital.
>Other

>>3142892
>Want to be a government employed bounty hunter.

>>3142892
>Want to be a minor official in the capital.

>>3142892
Actually, can we get a basic idea of what each job entrails?

>>3142892
>How bad would be refusing a promotion?
>If we choose a bounty hunter will we have base of operation like a messenger or travel from town to town?

>>3142904
my reasoning behind this is if we want to learn to make pills we can't be moving around to different places all the time while doing it. but if all of the jobs involve staying in one place for long periods of time then I change my answer to:
>Want to be a government employed bounty hunter.

>>3142908
The descriptions are rather vague but the officer-in-training program will be a mix of training in tactics, being educated on the rules of being an officer, and whatever physical training normally comes with being in the military. It might be cut short because you'll only need the first two, you're not sure.
The government job as a bounty hunter is basically just working as a government employed bounty hunter (there are also self-employed ones) and taking on jobs which endanger the lives of the populace. You'll receive a stipend and pay depending on who you capture/kill.
Being a minor official in the capital will probably involve you doing errands for some important official in the capital. The pay will probably be better than what you have now, you'll have a chance to meet people, and you'll stay in the capital for the foreseeable future.
>>3142911
Refusing a promotion would probably set you back greatly in a government career path unless you had a good reason.
You'll be assigned a home city as a bounty hunter but have to move around to find the targets assigned to you.

>>3142926
*taking on jobs to kill people who endanger the lives of the populace
as hilarious as that description was, no, you will not be in charge of endangering commoners

>>3142892
>Want to be a government employed bounty hunter.
We already throw away option to be a minor official in the capital once no point in choosing it.

>>3142926
Sticking with bounty hunter.

You decide that you want to be a government-employed bounty hunter and tell Meng Hao this. He nods before saying "Alright, they have a list of three cities that you can head to here. There's Blue Ridge City, the provincial capital; The Million Swords Fort, a fortified city in a mountain range on the kingdom's southern border; or Metalforge City, a city with large amounts of metal reserves nearby and where two 1-star Blacksmiths live. They're all about two weeks away." You want to go to...
>Blue Ridge City
>The Million Swords Fort
>Metalforge City

>>3142948
>Blue Ridge City
Jeez slow down on the major decisions.

>>3142948
>Metalforge City

>>3142948
>>Blue Ridge City

>>3142948
>>Blue Ridge City
please make sure to give us another 20 minutes to decide and argue

>>3142964
>>3142976
>>3142979
Why are you guys choosing a place with most amount of potential eyes?
I thought that general idea is to keep it secret. Hidden from others.
You know with your secretive special technique and stuff
Why chose place where it would be hardest to acomplish?

>>3142994
We can cultivate in our living room or get a training room, I would think,
Capital of the province has a high population so closer to contracts perhaps, and more likely to have a good library.

But yeah, good point.

>>3142994
You know what they say hide in plain sight.
The reason I choose Blue Ridge City was for the contacts, information gathering, and item gathering.

In the long term, it would be best to set up instead of Metalforge who only have smiths which was my close second pick.

Besides we can always hide our strength.

>>3142994
Hiding a tree within a forest. Our main goal just seems to be get enough money and resources so we can cultivate (Food costs) not necssarily hiding it. I was the voter who suggested to act as a healer and not actually reveal our culitvation and fight. It should also be easier to level up our apocrathy skills there as well. We also need to shore up our basic fighting skills and get some battle techniques.

>>3142964
>>3142976
>>3142979
You tell Meng Hao that you'd like to be based in Blue Ridge City and he gives you a sealed letter to hand someone there and tells you that you can leave whenever you want, but that you need to be there in a month. Apparently your monthly stipend will be 20 gold coins a month. The journey should only be a couple of weeks, so you have plenty of spare time, but may as well leave now since there's not much to do here. You say your goodbyes to everyone and begin making your way up the road. You...
>Decide to make your way to Blue Ridge City as quickly as possible. Two weeks of free time in the city sounds nice.
>Stop by Shield Town on your way and see how Kang Li's doing now.
>Find some tourist spots to head to along the way and visit them. You have two extra weeks after all.
>Other

>>3143043
>Stop by Shield Town on your way and see how Kang Li's doing now.

>>3143043
>Stop by Shield Town on your way and see how Kang Li's doing now.

>>3143043
>>Stop by Shield Town on your way and see how Kang Li's doing now.

>>3143053
>>3143054
>>3143072
You decide to stop by Shield Town on your way to Blue Ridge City and see how Kang Li is doing now that his relationship with Xing Ru should be approved.
Not much happens on the way there and eventually you find yourself in Shield Town once again. From what you recall on your last time through here Shield Town is named after someone born here a few hundred years ago called "The Shield of Zhaotian Kingdom". She served the kingdom faithfully with her mighty strength until dying around a century ago.
You ask a few citizens where Xing Chun, Xing Ru's father, lives, and find out that he has a manor near the center of town. You make your way there and announce your presence to someone at the gate, saying that you're a friend of Kang Li. You're allowed in and brought to a small archery range where he's training.
Kang Li greets you, and fills you in about what has happened over the past five weeks. While Xing Chun didn't completely believe that he was the one to do most of the work in saving her, he couldn't really turn him away, and so he approved the relationship. Now Kang Li is staying at the Xing family's manor and training his archery.
Kang Li says that you'll need to get together and have a meal with him tonight, complete with drink and entertainment. You take him up on the offer and...
>Ask if you can talk to Xing Chun.
>Ask for him to show you around the town.
>Other

>>3143117
>>Ask if you can talk to Xing Chun

>>3143117
>Ask if you can talk to Xing Chun.

(Shopping yey!)

>>3143117
>Ask for him to show you around the town.

>>3143154
>>3143160
Kang Li seems surprised but says "Xing Chun? He'll probably be in his study, let me see if he'll talk with you. He doesn't always accept visitors." You follow Kang Li to a room near the back of the manor and he knocks on the door before saying "Father, you have a visitor." You then hear an angry voice saying "I told you to stop calling me that." before it sighs and says "Who is it?" Kang Li then says "It's Brother Zexian, the boy who was traveling with me when I saved Ru'er." After that you hear a loud noise followed by some fast footsteps. Kang Li barely manages to get out of the door's way before it opens.
The door opens and you see a room filled with books and a tall, gruff-looking man wearing an eyepatch. Several scars are visible on his face and neck. He looks more like a mercenary then a businessman, but you guess looks can be deceiving. He smiles at you and says "Young Master Zhu, come in, come in!" and leads you to a seat before beginning to prepare tea. You're thanked a few times for helping save his daughter, and then Xing Chun says 'Well, Young Master Zhu, it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance. What business do you have with me?" You...
>Tell him that you'd like to buy something. [State what]
>Ask if he has any connections in Blue Ridge City. You'll be staying there for the foreseeable future and could make use of it.
>Ask him why he's calling you young master.
>Other

>>3143182
>Ask if he has any connections in Blue Ridge City. You'll be staying there for the foreseeable future and could make use of it.
>Tell him that you'd like to buy something: new sword, maybe? what happened to our old one? is it still good? maybe ask him about weapons in general, what would be good for us.

>>3143182
>>Ask if he has any connections in Blue Ridge City. You'll be staying there for the foreseeable future and could make use of it.

>>3143182
Maybe we should clear misunderstanding first. I pretty sure guy thinks we are a son of a wealthy merchant. So this wont look like we tried to take advantage over him

>>3143200
Your old sword broke. Then you picked up a new one and it broke as well. They weren't particularly good swords.

>>3143200
Support

>>3143200
>>3143208
>>3143239
You ask Xing Chun whether he has any connections in Blue Ridge City, telling him that you'll be staying there for the foreseeable future. Xing Chun says that while he doesn't operate in the city, he does know several people that do business there. One of them is in charge of a construction company, one owns a forge, and another transports goods across the province. He can give you a letter of introduction if you need one.
You then ask Xing Chun whether you'd be able to buy a weapon, or more specifically a sword off of him. Xing Chun says "Well, I don't keep many weapons here, but if you provided the payment I could always send a messenger to Metalforge City to have a weapon made before having them hand it over to you in Blue Ridge City. This would probably take about... a month? You could probably get a sword made by an Apprentice Blacksmith for around 1000 to 2000 gold coins depending on the quality. I'm afraid I don't have the connections to talk to a 1-star Blacksmith, so you'd have to travel there yourself if you wanted them to forge a sword for you." You...
>Take your leave for the time being.
>Ask him why he's calling you young master.
>Provide the money for the sword. [Current funds were between 3100 and 3150 gold coins, I haven't counted exactly. State how much you want to spend on one.]
>Other

>>3143303
>>Take your leave for the time being.
we can do all that later, for now we should break through into the next level or something whilst traveling to our new base.

>>3143303
>Provide the money for the sword. [1500]
>Other: ask about teaching us fighting techniques, maybe some form of hand-to-hand, or something using our brass knuckles

>>3143303
>>Other
What kind of items do you sell?

just going to answer the questions for now since that simplifies things. I'll keep the vote for buying a sword at 1500 gold coins and the vote for leaving since they haven't really been resolved.
>>3143322
>>3143320
You ask him about what he sells and apparently he mainly deals in general goods such as food, clothes, tools, and that sort of thing. He also does a bit of real estate and is trying to develop a farming division to provide their own food and materials for clothes.
You ask about fighting techniques and he seems confused. He says "Young Master Zhu, sadly I was unable to become a Mighty Warrior despite trying in my youth. I don't really know any fighting techniques either, especially not any that would interest a talented cultivator such as yourself. I'm sure you could ask your father to invite over some old expert, or if you're trying to be self-sufficient, find some sort of training ground in Blue Ridge City." You...
>Take your leave for the time being.
>Ask him why he's calling you young master.
>Provide the money for the sword. [Current funds were between 3100 and 3150 gold coins, I haven't counted exactly. State how much you want to spend on one.]
>Other

>>3143345
>Take your leave for the time being.

>>3143345
>Ask him why he's calling you young master.
Just this then. We can the sword later.

>>3143345
>>Take your leave for the time being.

>>3143345
>Take your leave for the time being.

>>3143312
>>3143352
>>3143377
You take your leave for the time being and return to Kang Li. He insists on taking you around the town and you spend the next few hours being shown a few local restaurants and given some souvenirs such as a pound of local tea leaves and some incense the locals like.
Eventually Kang Li brings you to the town's main attraction, a statue of "The Shield of Zhaotian Kingdom". It's a 10 feet tall statue made out of painted marble, and it depicts a muscular woman carrying a red spear that's as tall as her in one hand, while wielding a tower shield in the other. There's a fountain around the statue with various bronze and silver coins littering the bottom since the locals say praying to the statue and providing an offering is good luck.
Eventually you return to the Xings' manor and begin eating a small feast of a dinner. While you're digging into the great food, Kang Li moves next to you and whispers "Brother Zexian, my father is asking if you can introduce him to your father. Would that be possible?" You're pretty sure at this point that Xing Chun thinks you're the son of a merchant or a noble or something. You reply that...
>Your father is dead. It is the truth.
>That you're just an official and that your father is both dead and not as important as Xing Chun assumes.
>That you aren't able to for the time being.
>Other

>>3143385
>That you're just an official and that your father is both dead and not as important as Xing Chun assumes.

>>3143385
>>That you're just an official and that your father is both dead and not as important as Xing Chun assumes.

>>3143385
>That you're just an official and that your father is both dead and not as important as Xing Chun assumes.

>>3143406
>>3143419
>>3143422
You tell Kang Li that you're just an official and that your father is both dead and not as important as Xing Chun assumes. He seems mildly surprised but doesn't place much importance on it and just says "I'll tell my father later, let's make merry for the time being."
You spend the next night eating, drinking a bit, and chatting with Kang Li, and leave by yourself in the morning. Now you...
>Head directly to Blue Ridge CIty.
>Look for any interesting tourist attractions to stop at along the way.
>Other

>>3143437
>Look for any interesting tourist attractions to stop at along the way.

>>3143437
>Head directly to Blue Ridge CIty.

>>3143437
>Look for any interesting tourist attractions to stop at along the way.
Might as well, right?

>>3143437
>>Head directly to Blue Ridge CIty.

I'll rng it in about 15-20 minutes if there isn't a tiebreaker vote.

>>3143437
>Look for any interesting tourist attractions to stop at along the way.

>>3143451
>>3143468
>>3143565
You decide that you'll take the scenic route and look for some interesting tourist attractions on your way to Blue Ridge City. You heard that there was an interesting town a few days down the road, although it's slightly off of the fastest route, so you head there.
Eventually you arrive at the town and aren't struck by anything odd immediately. That's when you notice that there's a set of stairs in the middle of one of the town's streets that just leads directly into the ground. Nobody seems to think it's out of place, and more than that, it seems to have q lot of foot-traffic. You decide that you may as well follow them and go down the stairs.
Down the stairs you see what appears to be a drained and renovated sewer. There are lamps placed evenly throughout the area and the place looks well taken care of. People are bustling back and forth and seem to be having fun. As you walk further into the place you see that various merchant stalls are placed around and there are advertisements about there being almost no taxes here. After asking around for a bit, you find out that this used to be an underground market in the sewers that has now been renovated and turned into a literal underground market.
You look at the swords but figure that there will be a better selection in Blue Ridge City and head on your way.
Another day down the road you come across a wandering man with a shamisen singing about a man who slew a foul beast that stole the kingdom's princess away in ancient times. He's selling lovely songs about traveler's tales of valor for 5 silver coins. You...
>Ignore him and continue on.
>Buy a song about the time you participated in the beast horde.
>Buy a song about the time you found the culprit behind Wang Xuan's destroyed shamisen.
>Buy a song about you saving the kingdom and ascending the heavens. It doesn't have to be true after all.
>Other
I would roll for encounters but I accidentally killed my encounter table when my comptuer unplugged the other day, so, uh, have this

>>3143612
>>Buy a song about the time you participated in the beast horde.

>>3143612
>>>Buy a song about the time you participated in the beast horde.

>>3143612
>>Buy a song about the time you participated in the beast horde.

>>3143630
You give the man five silver coins and he begins composing a song about your valiant showing in the beast horde.
"On a fateful summer's day, a beast horde approached a town!"
"All of the local experts and such were gathered, to protect the....uh.... town."
"The mighty Zhu Zexian was one of these, and he was sent to command 50 heads."
"These men were not very strong, and so he killed beasts in their stead."
"Zhu Zexian came across a mighty bear, a beast with two heads."
"He slew the bear by his lonesome, splattering his clothes in red."
"After that he fought a giant Banchian, a creature more seafood than any other."
"And while he defeated the creature, he lost two of his brothers."
"Finally, he defeated a terrifying bee, with a stinger like a sword."
"He suffered many injures, so many that it left his companions floored."
"And this is how Zhu Zexian began his path to become a lord."
You feel like your five silver coins were greatly wasted, and you hope you never hear this song recited again. The man hands you a sheet of paper with the lyrics and some basic instructions on how to play the instrumentation and you put it into your pocket before taking your leave.
A couple days down the road you hear about a town where cats roam about freely and decide to head there. After you arrive you see that the rumors were true and that there are in fact cats of all kinds everywhere. Food is left out for them in random places and cafes are built around eating while petting them. There's even a couple of shrines to various cats and it's said that the town's lord owns a cat that's actually a tamed savage beast. It's said to be as powerful as a Heavenly Mortal even though it's as small as a housecat. You're not sure of the veracity of the rumors, but it sounds interesting.
You continue along the road further and while you don't see any more tourist attractions, you do come across an archer and some of his friends on the road. You take a look at them and see that one man is holding a bow while the another has an apple on his head. The rest of the people are watching. It seems like the archer is going to try to shoot the apple off of the other's head. You...
>Pass by, you have no interesting in getting involved in this.
>Try to tell the archer that this is not a good idea.
>Watch the archer's show of skill.
>Other

>>3143709
>>Pass by, you have no interesting in getting involved in this.

>>3143709
>Pass by, you have no interesting in getting involved in this.

>>3143709
>>Pass by, you have no interesting in getting involved in this.

>>3143709
>>Watch the archer's show of skill.

Watch Darwin at work.

>>3143716
>>3143719
>>3143728
You pass by, this seems bad to get involved in. A short ways down the road you hear some terrified screaming from the group before and speed up your pace.
Eventually you make it to Blue Ridge City. There's 10 days before your duties as a government sanctioned bounty hunter begin. You get a meal and get settled down in a room at the official's lodgings. First you...
>Look into getting a small home for yourself. [Do you want to buy versus wanting to rent? How large does it need to be? etc.]
>Look for a sword.
>Visit Yu Zhen, the Apprentice Apothecary you met here before. Maybe you can ask him about where to get the best sword or where to rent a home, although you're not sure how helpful he'd be.
>Go to Gu Xinyi's manor and see if he's still in the city searching for whatever herb he was looking for.
>Other

>>3143741
>>Visit Yu Zhen, the Apprentice Apothecary you met here before. Maybe you can ask him about where to get the best sword or where to rent a home, although you're not sure how helpful he'd be.

>>3143741
>>Look for a sword.
Can we roll to look for a sword?

>>3143741
hahahahahahhha fucking keks
we just let someone die but they were retarded for letting their friend shoot towards them with a bow and arrow.

>>3143741
medium size making sure bedroom, kitchen, dining room and a training room.

>>3143741
>>Visit Yu Zhen, the Apprentice Apothecary you met here before. Maybe you can ask him about where to get the best sword or where to rent a home, although you're not sure how helpful he'd be.

>>3143762
I mean, you have an entire city's worth of marketplaces and forges to look around at, it shouldn't be too hard to track down an Apprentice Blacksmith or a shop that sells swords. I was just going to assume you could navigate through gossip and asking for help since it'd be a pain if I didn't, but if you guys want I can leave it up to RNG when you gather info. I don't recommend it, it sounds annoying.
Starting the update in a sec.

>>3143778
Fair. I just like a little chaos. Teehee.

>>3143756
>>3143768
You go to Yu Zhen's shop and see that it's rather busy today. All of Yu Zhen's workers are busy concocting medicinal powders and talking to customers, and you can see Yu Zhen poring over a few books in the back. After you enter you ask the same employee as before to call Yu Zhen over for you, and he does so immediately.
About a minute later you're back in Yu Zhen's room and he's making tea again. You tell him that you'll be working as a government-sanctioned bounty hunter here for the foreseeable future and he says "Really? Good luck then Apprentice Apothecary Zhu, stay safe or we'll have lost a promising talent. If anything too dangerous comes up you can come to me for a favor, I may not be particularly talented, but I am in the Qi Emission Stage after all."
The two of you chat for a bit and you talk about...
>Whether he can introduce you to an Apprentice Blacksmith to get a sword forged.
>If he has any suggestions for getting a home here.
>The happenings among the local apothecaries since you left.
>Local rumors.
>Other

>>3143798
>Suggestions for home and swords.

>>3143802
Support

You ask Yu Zhen whether he can get you in touch with an Apprentice Blacksmith to get a sword forged and he hesitantly says "Well... there are three Apprentice Blacksmiths in town who currently take requests for forging. I have one who I'm on decent terms with and I can cash in a favor from him, it's just... he's rather arrogant, so just keep that in mind when you meet him. Just give me a few pointers on pill forging when you become a 1-star Apothecary and the funds to pay for the sword and we'll be even."
After that you ask Yu Zhen where you could go about purchasing a home. Yu Zhen then suggests a few realtors who are on the up and up and some decent locations that don't have prices that are too high. You're curious why he knows so much about this and find out that his father used to be in the business. Well, it makes sense, becoming an apothecary is expensive. You should be able to get one of the smallest homes on the outskirts of town for about 50 gold or a larger one for a few hundred. Next you...
>Take your leave and do something else. [State what]
>Ask about the happenings among the local apothecaries since you left.
>Ask about any local rumors.
>Other
you guys might want to start arguing about what specs you need for a house and where it needs to be located (outskirts of town, center of the city, rural, etc.) so that I can think of a decent price quote

>>3143838
Go visit the realtors and secure some lodging.

Okay, we need rooms for Training and cultivation, a place for alchemy, and a decent kitchen.

Anything else?

>>3143838
> Other
>"Deal on the sword how about I swing back in a few days and we work out the details?"

Then

"Before I leave I see you guys are busy anything interesting happen?"


>medium size house, a bedroom, bathroom, extra room for pill making, kitchen, dining room and a training room.

>>3143866
I support all that.

How about just get a large house that has everything we are expected to need? after all our pay is quite good and we won't have many expenses after this binge.

>>3143838
Can we get a character list? It's really difficult to keep track of who's who. I'm not good with chinese names.
Also we should get a room in the outskirts with a training room and a seperate room for experimenting with apothecary. Another room for sleeping and one to receive guests.

Next update in about an hour, something came up.
>>3143901
I was planning on making a character list but didn't really have the time to do one before the session, maybe I'll just skip over a session tomorrow and start populating the pastebin with info instead. I had something to do tomorrow that would take a couple of hours anyway, so eh. Anything else you guys need besides a summary of the story so far, our inventory/holdings, the characters, and some basic info about the world?

>>3143910
That sounds fine.

>>3143910
Maybe character stats if it isn't too much works.

>>3143910
Maintaining a list of the cultivation stages we've learned about would be nice

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You tell Yu Zhen that you'll visit him again in a while to actually buy the sword and then spend the rest of your day looking at houses. You already know some good retailing agencies and figured out the specifications for the house you want, so by the end of the day you see a suitable candidate. It's a house located in a pretty nice neighborhood towards the outskirts of the town and it's relatively large. It doesn't really have a yard since it's still in the city, but the location is nice.
The first floor has a parlor, a dining room, and a kitchen, and the basement has a space for storage and rooms that you can refurnish as an apothecary's workshop and a training room. The second floor is about the half the size of the others and has a study, bedroom, and bathroom.
The house costs 800 gold pieces in total, and it will cost at least 300 gold pieces to furnish it if you include the training room and workshop. This would still be rather modest, and you could spend another 100 gold to make the furnishings look normal or 300 more gold to make it look relatively extravagant. You can also spend an extra 100 gold to improve the training facilities with weights that are heavy enough to matter for you and so forth. You feel like this room specifically could be me a money sink if you had more.
Your current funds are 3150 gold pieces and you were planning to spend roughly 1500 gold pieces on the sword. You may still be able to get a sword of a slightly lower quality from an Apprentice Blacksmith for as little as 1000 gold pieces, although you may want to meet up with him first. You...
>Purchase the house. [-800 gold]
>Don't purchase the house for the time being.
and then... (if you purchased the house)
>Furnish it as modestly as possible. [-100 gold]
>Furnish it normally. [-200 gold]
>Furnish it relatively extravagantly. [-400 gold]
As for the training room, you...
>Don't furnish it for now.
>Furnish it minimally. [-100 gold]
>Furnish it decently. [-200 gold]
When it comes around to the apothecary's workshop you decide to...
>Not furnish it for now.
>Furnish it normally. [-100 gold]

>>3144112
>Purchase the house. [-800 gold]
>Furnish it as modestly as possible. [-100 gold]
As for the training room, you...
>Furnish it decently. [-200 gold]
When it comes around to the apothecary's workshop you decide to...
>Furnish it normally. [-100 gold]

Total:1200
If we buy the sword for 1500 we have 300 spare to mess around with.

>>3144124
support

>>3144124
Support

>>3144124
450?

>>3144124
>>3144144
>>3144149
You sign the lease and purchase most of the furniture from a catalog they have. They take care of delivery and placement of the furniture that way, although there is a slight surcharge. As for equipping the apothecary's workshop, Yu Zhen helps you, and it's mostly just various types of shelves, cabinets, and counters that you have to take care of ordering. Apparently you can maintain the fire under your cauldron with a normal fire, but for actual pill forging Yu Zhen recommends a sort of special wood that remember Gu Xinyi mentioning. The amount you need before forging a pill would depend, but it would probably be sufficient for most Tier-1 pills.
You pick out the training equipment yourself. You get some heavy equipment made for cultivators around your level, such as punching bags filled with god knows what and weights that would basically make you sink in the mud. You also make sure to get decently sized sparring arena in case you get another sparring partner. There are also some training swords that won't break under your strength for sparring and other such miscellaneous things.
After a couple of days you've paid for all of your furnishings and they'll all arrive within the next week or so. Now you have 1950 gold left, most of it earmarked for a good sword. Now that you're free again you...
>See if Gu Xinyi is still in the city.
>Go to see Yu Zhen's Apprentice Blacksmith acquaintance.
>Get more info about your future job.
>Other

>>3144170
Yah you right. I messed up.

>>3144172
>Go to see Yu Zhen's Apprentice Blacksmith acquaintance.

Get that sword

>Go to see Yu Zhen's Apprentice Blacksmith acquaintance.

After that, we should see if Gu Xinyi is still in town.

>>3144172
>>Go to see Yu Zhen's Apprentice Blacksmith acquaintance.
then cultivate!

>>3144192
>>3144197
>>3144205
You go with Yu Zhen to see his acquaintance and are led to a forge near the center of the city. Your first thought upon entering is that the place is absolutely stifling, and your second is that all of the workers here appear to be surprisingly buff and tanned. Well, you guess that's what blacksmiths traditionally look like.
Yu Zhen talks to someone before heading to the back of the workshop into a smaller forge. The equipment here appears to be better, and you can see someone who looks rather handsome, but with less-defined muscles and paler skin than the rest of the blacksmiths. He appears to be in his early 20s. He turns towards Yu Zhen and says "Ah, Brother Yu, how are you? You brought a friend?"
Yu Zhen responds by saying "Brother Qian, this is Apprentice Apothecary Zhu. He's almost as talented as yourself and he could become a 1-star Apothecary before the age of 20 if things go well." The man smiles before he says "He could become a 1-star Apothecary before the age of 20? Well then, I suppose you're right to say that he's almost as talented as me. I'll become a 2-star Blacksmith and you become a 2-star Apothecary, hehe. Anyway, why'd you visit?" Yu Zhen says "Well, Brother Zhu was hoping to have you forge a weapon for him." The Apprentice Blacksmith seems to be thinking a minute before he says something about not being sure, but after Yu Zhen flatters him for some time he agrees to it.
The Apprentice Blacksmith, Qian Yang, turns to you before saying "Alright, what sort of weapon do you need. I can accept payments from 1000 gold to 2500 gold depending on the quality of the weapon you need, since the materials and time taken vary. I specialize in sabers, swords, and bows. If you want a spare weapon I can get one of my employees to make one for 100 to 300 gold." You...
>Buy a sword for X gold.
>Buy a saber for X gold.
>Buy a bow for X gold.
>Other

>>3144216
>>Buy a sword for X gold.
may as well get a bitchin' sword!
2000 gold!

>>3144229
just kidding. Make it 1500

I totally didn't forget to check how much money we have left

>>3144216
>Buy a saber for X gold.
1500

>>3144237
You know what support. A protagonist that uses sabers.

>>3144216
You know we spent 14 years worth of pay in a few days.

>>3144248
yeah it hurts quite a bit, but it means that at least we can totally ignore housing and weapons for quite some time.

>>3144237
>>3144245
You were initially planning on buying a sword, but you don't actually know enough about any weapon to be tied to one. Sabers interest you, so you may as well go for that instead. You hand 15 crisp 100 gold bills to Qian Yang and he tells you to return in a week to pick up your saber. On the way out you see some cheap sets of armor and remember that yours got rather broken in the battle against the beast horde.
>Who cares, I just won't get hit.
>Replace it with a similar make at another shop. [-15 gold]
>Replace it with a similar, but better, make. [-50 gold]
>Other
>>3144248
don't worry, now that your wage has increased to 20 per month + bounties, you'll make that money back in 12 years before taxes and bounties. ez.

>>3144263
>Replace it with a similar, but better, make.

Ya gotta spend money to make money. ;w;

>>3144270
You buy a similar set of armor to your old one, just made a bit better, and exit the forge. Your wallet may be far lighter than it was recently, and your heart a bit pained, but still, you have 400 gold coins. That's a ridiculous amount for someone like you, and something like eight times what you first came to Blue Ridge City. You have to spend money to make money, or at least that's what you've heard.
Now you go to...
>See if Gu Xinyi is still in the city.
>Get more info about your future job.
>Other
>>3144205
Also, assume that we're passively cultivating two/three times a day if not otherwise completely busy. Closed door cultivation is a thing but it's not required and not really feasible at this level. It's also more common among older cultivators who have begun to reach their limits, although young people do it as well, although it's usually for shorter periods of time.

>>3144286
>>See if Gu Xinyi is still in the city.

>>3144286
>>Get more info about your future job.

>>3144300
I'll switch.

>>3144300
>>3144312
You decide that you'll pop into the bounty hunter's lodge outside of the city first.
The bounty hunter's lodge is a nondescript stone building outside of town. It doesn't have any signage showing what it is, and if you went inside without knowing you'd assume it was an inn or a bar. The first floor has neatly arranged tables with vaguely dangerous seeming people drinking at them. A bar is seated across from the tables. Everyone's conversations are rather quiet, unlike a normal bar. You can still hear a good portion of the people talking though since you're a cultivator, although you feel like the people you can hear aren't trying to hide it. Maybe it's done to weed out the newbies.
Something that immediately stands out is a loudly singing bard with a strange instrument. The bard's instrument seems bigger than a shamisen and has six strings. Besides that you take notice of a large board that covers one wall. The board has innumerable notices pinned to it. You take a look at them and all of them appear to be bounties. Some of them have drawings, some just have descriptions, and the figures listed vary in cultivation from none to people who are in the Body Refinement Realm. You even see one weathered piece of paper that looks like its been up there for years seeking the death of a man in the Early Stages of the Qi Foundation Realm. It looks like its been there for decades and you're measuring the reward money by the amount of 0s.
Upstairs is lounge with various bar games and a group of people playing poker. Above that are some rooms that seem to be by reservation only. You can hear screaming coming out of one of them and quickly head back down the stairs. You...
>See if Gu Xinyi is still in the city.
>Ask the bartender about the specifics of being a government-sponsored bounty hunter versus most of the people here.
>Talk to someone else. [State who, what]
>Other

>>3144331
>>Ask the bartender about the specifics of being a government-sponsored bounty hunter versus most of the people here.

>>3144331
>>Ask the bartender about the specifics of being a government-sponsored bounty hunter versus most of the people here.

>>3144334
>>3144339
You ask the bartender about the specifics of being a government-sponsored bounty hunter versus the majority of bounty hunters. He seems surprised and says "Oh? You're a government-sponsored bounty hunter? Damn, they're starting them off young these days. Figured you were a newbie who was about to die from the look of you, but if the government decided you were fit for it you'll probably survive. Anyways, unlike the guys here who pick a contract they like and go after it, your job will usually be to go after contracts the government feels are especially damaging to either the people or the government at large. This generally means bandits, anybody who 'disturbed the peace' too much, or assassins. They'll decide which ones you get based off of how pressing it is and what they know of your fighting strength. They don't want to end up assigning someone too strong to one of their employees and having them die off. Any of the shadier contracts that we decide to keep up where there's a question as to whether someone is even a criminal or not you won't be allowed to take on. Besides and the stipend that there's not too much of a difference. You do win some respect by getting to wear the badge, but don't rely on it too much." Now that you know a bit more about your job you...
>See if Gu Xinyi is still in the city.
>Ask the bartender about the specifics of being a government-sponsored bounty hunter versus most of the people here.
>Ask the bard about his instrument.
>Talk to someone else. [State who, what]
>Other

>>3144343
>>See if Gu Xinyi is still in the city.

>>3144343
>See if Gu Xinyi is still in the city.

>>3144348
You go to Gu Xinyi's manor to check if he's still in the city. You approach and knock on the door of the main building. Eventually the doors open and you see his butler standing there, still giving off the same odd pressure as before. He says "Ah, apothecary Zhu? If you're here to see the master then I'm afraid you'll have to wait, he's at an luncheon right now. He'll be back soon though." You take a seat in the waiting room the butler leads you to but... he really remembered you after one visit? You guess that's a butler's job, but still.
Eventually Gu Xinyi returns and invites you to meet with him in the same room as before. He has the butler make some tea and then says "So, you've returned to Blue Ridge City. Did you come to take me up on my offer from before?" You grimly smile and say "No sir, I'm here because I got promoted. They moved me to a position as a government-sponsored bounty hunter. I'll be based here for the foreseeable future." Gu Xinyi frowns and says "Bounty hunter? No need to take a position as dangerous as that, but oh well. Make sure to visit me in the capital at some point once you have some free time, we can get you officially licensed as an Apprentice Apothecary and you can see the sights. All of the movers and shakers gather there, it's really a pleasant place."
The both of you talk for a bit longer and eventually you get down to the details of Gu Xinyi's stay. Apparently he got enough of the herb he was searching for to make a single batch of pills, but he'd like to get about triple this amount and as a result will be staying in the city for another two or three months.
He says that until he leaves the city he's willing to teach you pill forging while you're both free and that he doesn't mind it delaying his search a bit. He can't really make you a direct disciple in light of your limited availability, as that would be an insult to his other direct disciples, but he can make you a normal one. It would help your reputation and you need to learn how to forge pills, so you don't really see a downside. You...
>Accept the offer.
>Decline. [I legitimately can't think of an in character reason to do so since we're not super prideful and it benefits you, but I'd feel like i'm railroading to force the position of student onto you.]
>Other

>>3144373
>Accept the offer.
We need to treat this man well later in life.

>>3144373
>Accept the offer.

>>3144373
>>Accept the offer.

>>3144377
>>3144383
>>3144384
You accept the offer and go through a few official proceedings to set the teacher/student relationship. Gu Xinyi then essentially gives you a seal that shows that you're his disciple, which carries a fair bit of respect with it. You agree to begin learning pill forging until your job starts and the days begin to count down to your first day on the job.
>Is there anything else you need to do before you start working as a bounty hunter?

>>3144391
Hmmm, the only thing I can think of is getting some more javelins, travel gear, and basic medical items.

>>3144391
nope, just the usual cultivation and learning pill forging

You fill your javelin-carrier up with eight cheap javelins and stock back up on essentials, but besides that not much notable happens. You can feel yourself slowly drawing closer to the Qi Emission Stage after a month of cultivation and are excited for your breakthrough since then you'll be allowed to attempt to forge a Tier-0 Qi Pill. It will probably still be another couple of weeks until then though.
A couple days before you're supposed to report to work you go to Qian Yang's forge to pick up your saber. You arrive and are led to the back, where Qian Yang proudly shows you a long, sheathed saber. It's almost as long as yourself and the blade has a red sheen to it. The guard is rather minimalist in design but feels good in your grasp. You're satisfied with your purchase and go out to the woods to test it out, where you promptly cut a poor tree to ribbons. You happily note that the saber still looks perfectly fine and are glad you didn't waste 1500 gold coins.
The day you start your job you pick up a new badge and a seal. On top of that you're given your first contract. Your job is to...
>Destroy a den of bandits located outside of a village three days to the west. The exact location of their base isn't known. Their leader is supposed to have opened their meridians. The reward is 80 gold coins for their leader with an additional gold for each bandit who isn't a cultivator, and five for each cultivator.
>Hunt down an arsonist who burned down several government buildings in a nearby town. Eyewitness reports indicated that he's at the same stage as you and can gather qi. The reward is 200 gold coins.
>Kill a one-armed woman in her 20s who's said to have subverted the kingdom's laws and schemed against the royalty. The reward is 1500 gold coins and her cultivation level is only Thunderous Warrior, but it's said that she's adept in poison, sneak attacks, and stealth. She's been on the run since she was 16 and is hard to track down. You'll have an investigator slash tracker with you, but he doesn't cultivate so you'll have to protect him. He'll receive 150 gold of the reward if you succeed.
I'll skip the session tomorrow and get the pastebin set up before resuming on either the 1st or 2nd. Not sure how dead I'll be after New Years so that's why I'm not sure.

>>3144429
>Destroy a den of bandits located outside of a village three days to the west. The exact location of their base isn't known. Their leader is supposed to have opened their meridians. The reward is 80 gold coins for their leader with an additional gold for each bandit who isn't a cultivator, and five for each cultivator.

Gonna go for this one. Like, if some chick with a single arm can evade law enforcement for four years, she must have some serious bullshit.

Not even going to consider it until we get some means of dealing with poison.

>>3144429
>>Destroy a den of bandits located outside of a village three days to the west. The exact location of their base isn't known. Their leader is supposed to have opened their meridians. The reward is 80 gold coins for their leader with an additional gold for each bandit who isn't a cultivator, and five for each cultivator.
let's just safely kill some bandits and grind a bit until we get into Qi Emission stage.

>>3144436
Support.

>>3144429
Thanks for the run so far!

>>3144429
>>Destroy a den of bandits located outside of a village three days to the west. The exact location of their base isn't known. Their leader is supposed to have opened their meridians. The reward is 80 gold coins for their leader with an additional gold for each bandit who isn't a cultivator, and five for each cultivator.

>>3144429
>Destroy a den of bandits located outside of a village three days to the west. The exact location of their base isn't known. Their leader is supposed to have opened their meridians. The reward is 80 gold coins for their leader with an additional gold for each bandit who isn't a cultivator, and five for each cultivator.

>>3144429
>Destroy a den of bandits

>>3144429
>Destroy a ben of dangits located outside of a village three days to the west

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this kiwi wishes every one of you cunts a happy new year's eve.
And in 25 minutes I wish you all a new year's day and may you read many excellent fanfics.

>>3144429
>Hunt down an arsonist who burned down several government buildings in a nearby town. Eyewitness reports indicated that he's at the same stage as you and can gather qi. The reward is 200 gold coins.
I think we can do better than easy modo.

>>3144574
Happy new year you majestic kiwi!

>>3144429
>Destroy a den of bandits located outside of a village three days to the west. The exact location of their base isn't known. Their leader is supposed to have opened their meridians. The reward is 80 gold coins for their leader with an additional gold for each bandit who isn't a cultivator, and five for each cultivator.

Let's not mess with poison bitch yet.

There we go, I put everything onto the pastebin besides a reference for terms and such. That would include cities currently visited, the basics of occupations, cultivation levels, etc.
I'll put that together eventually if I don't by tonight. The next session is whenever I get up tomorrow.

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>>3144609
O-OVERDRIVE

>>3147663
As long as the arsonist isn't immortal.

I'm a beta bitch so I'm going to vote to dip my toes in
>Destroy a den of bandits located outside of a village three days to the west. The exact location of their base isn't known. Their leader is supposed to have opened their meridians. The reward is 80 gold coins for their leader with an additional gold for each bandit who isn't a cultivator, and five for each cultivator.

Your first contract is to destroy a den of bandits located outside of a village three days to the west. The exact location of their base isn't known and their leader is supposed to have opened their meridians. The reward is 80 gold coins for their leader with an additional gold coin for each bandit who isn't a cultivator, and five for each cultivator.
The group of bandits were first spotted four or five months ago when they began to raid caravans in the area. Shortly after they began to demand payment from the nearby villages and often barged into the village you'll be going to, Windshift Village, to demand free room and board while they partied. Recently things begun to escalate and their leader kidnapped a young woman from the village. She was returned alive several days later, but as a sobbing mess. This was the last straw for the villagers and they put out a petition to the government and scraped together the money to put up a contract.
You're supposed to travel to Windshift Village, find out where the bandits' base is, and then kill their leader and enough of them to make sure they don't reform. Anything you find in their base is yours to keep besides currency which you'll get 10% of. The rest will be paid as reparations to victims who have logged a complaint. Anything you don't take yourself will be resold to pay back more reparations or given to their original owners if they're known.
You head to the village by...
>Going in with your horse and cart normally, wearing your badge on your chest. It's easier to gather information this way, and it's not like the bandits can kill you.
>Buying a second draft horse (the horse from your job as an envoy is no longer yours) and having your horses pull a covered cart. You'll look like a minor merchant and maybe you can get the bandits to attack you. [-15 gold, +draft horse]
>Going in on foot with only the essentials packed. You can pretend to be a peasant and try to gather information stealthily, although you're not sure if the villagers will be willing to talk to you.
>Other

>>3148888
>>Buying a second draft horse (the horse from your job as an envoy is no longer yours) and having your horses pull a covered cart. You'll look like a minor merchant and maybe you can get the bandits to attack you. [-15 gold, +draft horse]

>>3148888
>Buying a second draft horse (the horse from your job as an envoy is no longer yours) and having your horses pull a covered cart. You'll look like a minor merchant and maybe you can get the bandits to attack you. [-15 gold, +draft horse]

>>3148888
>Buying a second draft horse (the horse from your job as an envoy is no longer yours) and having your horses pull a covered cart. You'll look like a minor merchant and maybe you can get the bandits to attack you. [-15 gold, +draft horse]
Buy a better horse though. As a bounty hunter we're likely to have need of quick travel sooner or later.

>>3148917
You can get an average riding horse for about 45 gold coins if you guys would prefer that. Just went with the draft horse because you guys bought one last time.

>>3148890
>>3148901
>>3148917
You buy a second draft horse and a nice looking sheet before filling your cart with your travelling essentials and lots of extra food and supplies to make the ruse look more convincing. Now that the cart looks nice and full you begin making your way towards the village in your nicest clothes, your badge hidden.
A few days pass and you make your way to the village without trouble. You...
>Go to the inn and mention this valuable saber you're going to sell for a massive profit, showing off your own saber. The next day you can go a few hours outside of the village and see if you get attacked. It'd be odd if the bandits didn't have a rat to tell them about these things.
>Try to gather information without standing out.
>Actively try to ask about the bandits at the inn.
>Other

>>3148950
>>Actively try to ask about the bandits at the inn.
We're in disguise as a merchant so asking about them shouldn't be a problem if we're supposedly worried about the road ahead.

>>3148958
this

>>3148950
>Actively try to ask about the bandits at the inn.

>>3148958
>>3148967
>>3148974
You go to the inn and ask about the bandits under the guise of a concerned merchant. You're then told about how bandits used to terrorize the village for a bit, but how they were recently killed by the government. You ask how recently and they tell you that it was a few weeks ago. Given that the government only told you to come here a few days ago, this doesn't add up at all. You guess that they've been given a hush order or something at this point, or at least they don't talk to merchants.
You go around the town and ask the same question at a few other places and get almost universally the same answer besides a couple of people who just tell you to be careful on the road ahead but who won't say anything else. Next you...
>Stay up for the night and see if they try to steal your things before you leave and then head out in the morning.
>Reveal your identity to the village and ask who the bandits' plants in the village are.
>Reveal your identity to one of the people who tried to warn you and ask when the bandits are next coming.
>Other

>>3148988
>>Stay up for the night and see if they try to steal your things before you leave and then head out in the morning.

>>3148988
>Reveal your identity to one of the people who tried to warn you and ask when the bandits are next coming.

>>3148988
>Stay up for the night and see if they try to steal your things before you leave and then
>Reveal your identity to one of the people who tried to warn you and ask when the bandits are next coming.

>>3148994
>>3148999
You stay stay up throughout the night, sneaking out of your inn room and keeping watch near your cart to see if the bandits try to steal your things. In the middle of the night you see a shadowy figure begin to approach your cart before it lifts the sheet and starts looking through your things. All you can really make out is that they're wearing some sort of black hood and that you can't see their face. You look around and don't see anybody else watching them, but they could just be well hidden. You...
>Wait for them to leave and follow them.
>Grab them from behind while covering their mouth and then interrogate them.
>Other

>>3149024
>>Grab them from behind while covering their mouth and then interrogate them.

>>3149024
>Wait for them to leave and follow them.

>>3149024
>Wait for them to leave and follow them.

>>3149033
>>3149046
You decide to wait for the person to leave before following them. Another five or so minutes pass as you watch them put some of your things into a burlap sack, but you have most of the gold you took with you on your person, along with your saber and badge, so it doesn't matter much. They then start leading one of your horses off as they go into the woods.
You follow after the figure from a good distance and while it isn't the easiest to navigate your way through the forest, your eyesight and hearing make up for it. Eventually after the better part of an hour the figure begins approaching a clearing in the forest. The clearing is surrounded by shoddy-looking wooden walls with torches attached to them, and you can see a few rough looking men standing guard in a bored-looking fashion. You can hear some drunk singing come from the clearing. You...
>Rush to capture the figure before the guards can see him. You need to milk him for info and you'd rather not have to get your stuff back later.
>Approach in the treetops and try to get a view of the inside of the clearing.
>Other

>>3149062
>>Rush to capture the figure before the guards can see him. You need to milk him for info and you'd rather not have to get your stuff back later.

>>3149062
>Approach in the treetops and try to get a view of the inside of the clearing.

>Approach in the treetops and try to get a view of the inside of the clearing.
I'd like to verify there aren't like 200 people there.

>>3149077
>>3149082
You approach the clearing through the treetops and try to get a better look at the inside.
Inside you see various tents and wooden buildings that look rather shoddily made. There's also a large area that has bonfires, tables, and people who you assume are bandits eating, drinking, and making merry. The camp is centered around the only building here that looks decently made, and you assume that's either where their leader lives, where the loot is held, or both. Looking over the size of the camp and how many people are up you'd guess that anywhere between 300 and 400 people live here. You're not sure if they're all bandits or if some of them have families though.
You observe the camp for a few minutes and their party seems to be winding down and the only people who intend to stay up all night appear to be the guards on the walls and a few who are patrolling around the camp. You...
>Take your leave for now.
>Grab one of the guards off of the walls and take them for interrogation.
>Try to sneak into the camp and take someone's place. [1d100]
>Charge into the camp to get rid of some of the bandits and then leave again. None of them are as strong as you so you should be able to escape at the very least. If you play this as a battle of attrition they'll have to leave or die.
>Other

>>3149092
>Look for poisonous plants to mix it with their food

>>3149092
Supporting >>3149105

>>3149105
>>3149119
They don't seem to be eating from any shared food source, although they are drinking from one. You could attempt to poison their water, but it would take you a long time to gather enough poisonous plants and process them. At that point it'd probably just be better to go back to Blue Ridge City and buy concentrated poison as there are people who specialize in this. That would probably cost quite a bit though.

>>3149124
>Grab one of the guards off of the walls and take them for interrogation.

>>3149124
Can we poison the water source with a lesser concentration? If we can give them severe diarrhea or something, it will significantly reduce their combat capability.

>>3149092
>Grab one of the guards off of the walls and take them for interrogation.

>>3149130
>>3149160
You move towards the walls and wait for an opportunity before jumping up and grabbing one of the guards from the walls. You make a bit of noise but can easily keep their mouth shut and move a safe distance from the camp before anything major happens.
You begin the interrogation by asking him if he's a bandit, which he predictably enough answers yes to. After that you show off a bit of your strength on a tree and explain that he will end up the same as the tree if he starts lying. He seems rather scared, so you guess your threat worked.
First you get him to clarify how many people are in the camp and how the buildings are laid out. There are apparently around 200 bandits and 200 of their family members living in the encampment. The boss lives in the center and most of his loot is kept in a heavily guarded room underneath his home. Under him are about 20 cultivators and most of them are Mighty Warriors. After that you get him to talk about the schedule of the guards a bit and how they visit the villages once a month to collect 'taxes'. There are, as you suspected, plants in each village to keep their mouths shut.
>Do you have any other questions.
After you're done questioning them you...
>Kill them, they're a bandit and you get 1 gold for it.
>Tell them to scram and to leave the camp with their family before it's too late.
>Other
After dealing with the bandit you...
>Go back to the encampment and cause some casualties.
>Go back to Windshift Village and leave in the morning as a merchant.
>Go back to Windshift Village and wait for the bandits, based off of what you were told they'll visit in two days with around 20 men.
>Other

>>3149145
you feasibly could but it would still take at least a day to find enough poisonous herbs to cause a visible effect

>>3149168
>Ask where the leader and his guard store their food
I suspect they are eating the best food separately from the others, which we can use to poison them.

>>3149173
They higher-ups eat the better stock of whatever they have stored besides the leader and his direct subordinates who have all of their food stored in a shack next to the leader's house. Their good alcohol is kept in the vault under his house.

>>3149168
>Other
Knock him out strip him naked and shove as much alcohol into him and all over him without killing the guy. (steal the alcohol from the camp)

>Go back to Windshift Village and leave in the morning as a merchant.

>>3149168
>>3149176
>Kill the bandit
He shouldn't have resorted to banditry

>Collect poisonous plants to poison the leader's food.

>>3149168
>>Kill them, they're a bandit and you get 1 gold for it.
>>3149168
>>Go back to the encampment and cause some casualties

RIP AND TEAR!

>>3149182
>>3149201
I'll take the majority vote here on killing the bandit and wait for another vote to break the three-way tie on what to afterwards.

>>3149168
>Kill them, they're a bandit and you get 1 gold for it.
Hide the body
>Go back to Windshift Village and wait for the bandits, based off of what you were told they'll visit in two days with around 20 men
We kill 20 then wait near the camp until they send some people to check on that 20 we kill them, then we do hit and run on that camp.

>>3149208
We'll kill maybe 40 of the small fish this way, then the leader will gather the rest and either come into the village in force, or flee. I recommend we try the poison.

What about sending a message to the capital letting them know there are 200 bandits and 1/10 are cultivators?
It's not like we are expected to wipe out a whole mini army.

We could simply sneak in and start slitting throats of those that are too drunk or to deep in their sleep.

>>3149222
We'll need to sneak around all the guards. Also a person with a slit throat gurgles pretty loudly.

So the options you guys have suggested up until now are
>Go back to Windshift Village and leave in the morning as a merchant.
>Collect poisonous plants to poison the leader's food.
>Go back to Windshift Village and wait for the bandits, based off of what you were told they'll visit in two days with around 20 men
>Go back to the encampment and cause some casualties
>Go back to the provincial capital and tell them how many bandits there are.
should I force a vote from between these and wait for more votes or let you guys discuss it for longer until there's some sort of consensus
I don't mind waiting if you guys are talking it out, I just don't want it to stall too much if nothing is happening

>>3149255
>>Collect poisonous plants to poison the leader's food.

>>3149255
>Collect poisonous plants to poison the leader's food.

>>3149168
>you feasibly could but it would still take at least a day to find enough poisonous herbs to cause a visible effect
we could do that collect enough plant to cause massive diarrhea
then do that
>Go back to Windshift Village and wait for the bandits, based off of what you were told they'll visit in two days with around 20 men
or that
>Collect poisonous plants to poison the leader's food.
Firstly poisoning his underling then him

You finish interrogating the bandit and think for a moment before deciding on what to do with him. He looks at you, stuttering something quietly about whether he can leave now, but you quickly unsheathe your saber and cut his head off. His body limply falls to the ground as his head rolls a short distance away, a shocked look left on it. At least it probably didn't hurt. You cut off an ear for the reward since a head is too much to carry before the body in a shallow grave and covering it in brush.
After that you head back to Windshift Village and pack up what's left in your cart. There's still enough food left for you to live on and even if there wasn't you know how to hunt, so that won't be problem. You will need to get your other horse and your medical supplies back when you raid the camp though. You hide the cart in the woods outside the village before searching for herbs that could be considered a poison.
It takes a lot of effort and some ingenuity, but eventually you get enough herbs together to make a concoction that will cause a variety of unpleasant effects to whoever eats it. It was a pain refining them without a mortar and pestle, but you made do. This could probably kill the average person, although you can't test it. As night falls you...
>Try to sneak into the bandit's camp. (3d100)
>Get some rest and then go to Windshift Village and wait for them to arrive the next morning.
>Other

>>3149308
>>Try to sneak into the bandit's camp. (3d100)

>>3149308
>Try to sneak into the bandit's camp. (3d100)

>>3149308
>Try to sneak into the bandit's camp. (3d100)

Rolled 2, 43, 44 = 89 (3d100)

>>3149322
>>3149332
>>3149338

>>3149344
You decide to sneak into the camp that night and start dealing with the bandits. You first get onto a tree near the walls and then aim to jump into the camp. The only problem is that you jumped a bit too far when you did this and ended up falling on a small tent belonging to one of the bandits and crushing whoever was inside. This, understandably enough, caused a loud noise, leading everyone nearby to look in your direction. You put your hand on your saber and...
>Kill some bandits, you're already there after all. It's not like they're going to forget you were here if you leave.
>Charge towards their leader's house, if you get rid of him then everything will fall apart.
>Leave now, you're not prepared for this. It'll probably be more difficult to get in later though.
>Other

>>3149358
>>Kill some bandits, you're already there after all. It's not like they're going to forget you were here if you leave.

>>3149358
>Leave now, then sneak back in while they're looking for us in the forest.

I'll rng in a bit if the tie isn't broken.

>>3149358
>>Kill some bandits, you're already there after all. It's not like they're going to forget you were here if you leave.

>>3149363
>>3149420
You decide that since you're here you should get rid of some bandits and pull out your saber. You charge towards the nearest group of bandits and swing it through the air, the light of the fire reflecting off of the almost comically long blade. Three bandits fall with a massive cut in their chests with your first slash, and the heads of two more fly through the air with your next slash. In the next minute you kill or wound about 30 bandits. It's honestly easier than when you had to deal with the waves of tigers and bears, as by comparison the skin of people is much thinner than the pelts of beasts.
As you begin your rampage you hear a lot of yelling start up among the various groups of bandits. Some of the voices are angry, some of them are scared, and the vast majority of them seem confused. After a minute you and your blade are covered in blood and quite a few injured bandits surround you. Around this point in time you see a man with a long scar across his forehead and tanned skin begin moving towards you at an extremely fast pace. Behind him are about 10 people who he's slowly leaving behind him. You guess that he's the leader and those are his officers. You...
>Kill a few more bandits and leave, that's enough for now.
>Think this is the perfect chance to end this now and charge towards him with your saber.
>Other

>>3149451
>>Think this is the perfect chance to end this now and charge towards him with your saber.
boss fight

>>3149451
>Think this is the perfect chance to end this now and charge towards him with your saber

Rolled 54, 40, 68 = 162 (3d100)

>>3149454
>>3149460
fighting rolls

>>3149473
You wait until he draws closer to you before you charge towards him, saber in hand, and he seems surprised. He quickly grabs for the sword at his waist but can't draw it in time, allowing you to create a large gash up the right side of his body. He loudly swears and yells "Stop this bastard!" as his men begin to catch up with him and move to surround you. You...
>Move to finish this guy off, he's already injured.
>Attack some of the men around you.
>Leave for now, this might get dicey if you're surrounded completely and their leader currently has a massive wound.
>Other
3 successes on that DC 40, wew lad. Guess it makes up for the 0 successes on stealth.

>>3149482
>Move to finish this guy off, he's already injured.
>Seeing as we're currently completely covered in blood, pretend we're a vengeful spirit to intimidate the bandits and gain an edge.

>>3149482
>>Move to finish this guy off, he's already injured.

Rolled 51, 39, 93 = 183 (3d100)

>>3149500
>>3149512

>>3149518
The bandits' leader is now simply staring at you as he backs away, trying to escape. You can't let him leave that easily when he's injured and charge forward, saber in hand. His eyes widen and he immediately moves his sword to block your strike. Your saber is almost at his neck when he successfully blocks it, but the force behind the blow still sends him falling to the ground. You swing again and stab him through the neck once he falls, but at the same time he grabs a knife from the ground before swinging it towards your chest. You dodge as best you can but it still leaves a decent wound in your side.
You lift yourself off the ground, before staring at the rather shocked group of bandits. They all have their weapons drawn at this point and have surrounded you. They for the most part look scared but determined. This could be a problem. It wasn't much of a problem when they were surprised and disorganized, but their sheer numbers at this point leaves the outcome uncertain now that they're all focused on taking you down. You...
>Charge back into the crowd to fight.
>Escape
>Tell them that you're their leader now that you've killed their old one and that you'll help them become the strongest group of bandits within Zhaotian Kingdom. It's not like they know you're a bounty hunter.
>Tell the crowd that you only need to kill the cultivators here and that the rest of the bandits can leave.
>Pretend to be a vengeful spirit and scare the bandits. You somehow doubt that this will work, but it's the middle of the night and they're scared shitless, so who knows. (1d100)
>Other

>>3149535
>Charge back into the crowd to fight.

>>3149535
>Pretend to be a vengeful spirit and scare the bandits. You somehow doubt that this will work, but it's the middle of the night and they're scared shitless, so who knows. (1d100)

Why not?

>>3149565
If that fails or does work jump out of the encirclement and use his speed to start killing bandits.

Can we also get a +10 to the roll for lowered morale?

>>3149535
>>Charge back into the crowd to fight.
just kill them all!

>>3149543
>>3149575
You decide the encirclement isn't a problem and grab your saber before attacking them again. Given that the surrounding villages will kill them if they find them and they won't be able to survive in the wilderness on their own, the bandits are in a kill or be killed mentality, focusing all of their strength on making sure you die. You're faced with quite a few bandits charging at you with no sense of self-preservation as the battle continues on, and your wounds begin to build up. As the numbers begin to whittle down their morale falls, and you see that some of them are running away to gather whatever they have left and make a run for it, however likely it is that they'll die after leaving here. You've been wounded several times and are now covered in various cuts and bruises. Adding to the fact that you're covered in a combination of your blood and the blood of a massive amount of bandits, your body is more or less completely red at this point.
At this point about 60 bandits are left and you see a group of ten leave the crowd and begin moving towards you. By their movements they all seem to be cultivators, although they're probably only Mighty Warriors. They're probably what's left of the upper echelons of the bandit camp. They move towards you and you counter, but by acting in combination you're forced to slowly move back to avoid suffering more wounds. You can deal with them, but you might suffer major wounds doing so. You...
>Kill them, you've committed to it at this point. It's kill or be killed.
>Move towards the leader's home, it's the sturdiest building here and you can use it as a chokepoint to fight the cultivators a couple at a time.
>Move into the forest for the time being and deal with some of the stragglers who are running before heading back into the camp.
>Leave for the night, you can come back tomorrow and deal with whoever is left here. You're not sure how much of the money will be left though.
>Other

>>3149574
I generally just alter DCs instead of adding to the roll, but in this case battle rolls aren't needed because endless mooks means a near uniform result. (although I assume you were talking about the d100 if you acted as a spoopy vengeful spirit) Or at least I think the results should generally be consistent if you're just killing mooks and being worn down, but maybe I'm a bad QM. Shrug.

>>3149614
>>Move towards the leader's home, it's the sturdiest building here and you can use it as a chokepoint to fight the cultivators a couple at a time.
Pretty sure we need to do this to avoid death lol

>>3149614
>>Move towards the leader's home, it's the sturdiest building here and you can use it as a chokepoint to fight the cultivators a couple at a time.

If we have them throw javelins while running to the tent. See if we can't pick some off.

Yah it was for the scare roll. I wish I got here sooner

>>3149614
>Move towards the leader's home, it's the sturdiest building here and you can use it as a chokepoint to fight the cultivators a couple at a time.

Rolled 73, 99, 93 = 265 (3d100)

>>3149637
>>3149645
>>3149647
rolling intensifies

>>3149655
WOOT WOOT WE FUCKING MOWED THE UCKERS DOWN!

The Dao of Chokepoints!

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>>3149655
Yes

>>3149655
You begin moving towards the center of the camp in an attempt to use the leader's home as a chokepoint. On your way there you begin throwing javelins, missing with most of them but managing to impale one of your enemies with one and maiming the arm of another. This causes them to follow further behind you and you up your speed before reaching the leader's home.
Once you're in the home you see a few normal bandits trying to rob the vault and quickly kill them before they can take off with anything. After that you move some of the furniture within the home to help make a chokepoint out of the entrance and sit down to rest before closing your eyes.
You hear movement outside and open your eyes again, staring at the door and keeping away from the walls just in case anyone has the bright idea of trying to stab you through them. You see one of the cultivators from before enter and you stab him before punching him off of your blade, causing him to fall on the man behind him. Despite this sight the cultivators keep coming forward, but you take care of another two or three before they begin running away. Emboldened, you chase after them and manage to stop them before they can escape. You cut off their ears for the bounty before...
>Checking out their leader's bedroom.
>Heading to the vault.
>Collecting the ears from corpses and the head of their leader. It's pretty gross but you need to do it to get paid.
>Killing whatever bandits are left. At this point the only ones left would probably be the ones who need to protect their families on the way out. Killing the bandits, who are generally the men of the house, may make it so that the rest of the family has trouble surviving. They may return to banditry though, so it could be for the greater good. You get paid too.
>Other

>>3149681
>>Checking out their leader's bedroom.
>>Heading to the vault.
>>Collecting the ears from corpses and the head of their leader. It's pretty gross but you need to do it to get paid.

>>3149681
So like less than 50 people?
>Other
Let Voice boom

"Those that are still alive I will let you keep your lives! If you returned to banditry I will come once more and slaughter you again. Pick up honest work or be beheaded by my blade."

Then
>Checking out their leader's bedroom.
>Head to the vault.
>Collecting the ears from corpses and the head of their leader. It's pretty gross but you need to do it to get paid.

>>3149681
>Checking out their leader's bedroom.

Meh, I don't think we should look for anymore trouble.

>>3149692
>>3149695
>>3149696
You decide to head to the leader's bedroom, but first you'll leave a bit of a warning for the bandits that are left. You can't really use qi to amplify your voice because you don't know the technique, but you can still yell very loudly. You yell "Those that are still alive may still keep their lives! If you return to banditry I will come once more and slaughter you again. Pick up honest work or be beheaded by my blade." You don't really hear a response, but it probably worked.
You head to the leader's bedroom and look around. The room is a lot more... normal than you expected. There's a comfortable bed with quite a few pillows on it, a desk with some papers and bottles of alcohol scattered across it, a table in the corner with tea brewing, and a dresser. You take a look at what's on the desk and see that the bandit was keeping a journal and a book keeping track of their funds rather meticulously. There's also a faded book that describes some basic sword techniques. It's probably not worth that much, but you can still get a pretty penny for it.Thinking about it, you should probably buy some manuals on these sorts of things yourself. You pocket the books and the most expensive looking bottle of alcohol before heading into the vault.
Inside the vault you find a large pile of gold coins and various bottles of alcohol, bolts of nice fabric, ingots of metal, spices, and various other things. You can't haul most of it yourself. There are also a few weapons that look better then what's normally sold but worse than your saber. They might be worth between 50 and 200 gold coins, but you're not an expert. You...
>Grab what you can haul with you without trouble, you're allowed to.
>Leave everything but the 10% of the gold you have a right to, it'll help out the surrounding villages and the merchants harmed when they're sold off.
>Other

>>3149730
>Grab what you can haul with you without trouble, you're allowed to.

>>3149730
>Other
I'm pretty sure they have horses and or carts since they rob merchants. We could find one and just load the stuff onto it.
If not we can at least use our house if it's still here to carry more stuff.
What do you guys think we take a look?

>>3149749
supporting

>>3149749
Sure, grab a cart or something

>>3149749
>>3149752
>>3149760
You leave the vault and head over to the stables. There are a few horses that haven't been taken or that ran away, including your own, and there's a large cart. You take the horses and cart and begin loading them up with your 10% of the gold and whatever goods you can fit in them. Sadly the horses couldn't really fit downstairs so you spend a while hauling goods up and down stairs.
Eventually you're done filling up the cart and your pack. Next you go to collect ears and the leader's head. Nobody really wanted to steal those while running away, so you're left to collect around 100 ears. You're rather grossed out by the end of this, but money is money.
You then...
>Head back to Windshift Village to tell them that the bandits are dead.
>Wash yourself off and start making your way back to Blue Ridge City, they'll figure out what happened eventually.
>Other

>>3149781
>>Head back to Windshift Village to tell them that the bandits are dead.

>>3149792
>Head back to Windshift Village to tell them that the bandits are dead.

>Then ask for a bath and then tell them to send someone to go collect the money in camp in the morning.

>>3149781
>>Head back to Windshift Village to tell them that the bandits are dead.

>>3149792
>>3149805
>>3149810
You head back to Windshift Village where a few of the residents are still awake in the inn, drinking and worrying about the next day. That's when you wander into the inn, caked in dried blood from head to toe and stare at them before saying that you took care of the bandits. They seem a mix between hesitant and ecstatic, but you just tell them that they'll know in the morning and ask if you can get a bath.
After bathing you wrap up your wounds and head to sleep for the night. In the morning you tell the townsfolk again and get a mix of thanks and doubtful but hopeful statements of "Really? They're dead?" You tell them to make sure to haul what's left back to the village for the government to collect and start making your way back to Blue Ridge City.
Several days later you're back in Blue Ridge City and you turn in your many ears and the leader's head. You see them examining the sinews of each ear for a while, as apparently a cultivator's will look different from a normal person's, and eventually you're rewarded with 237 gold coins. 80 for the leader, 55 for cultivators, and 92 for the rest. They tell you that they'll call you back for another contract in a week or two and send you on your way for the time being. That means you've made about 490 gold coins and a few hundred in goods. Now you...
>Try to find someone to sell the goods off to, you don't have the time to spend on that.
>Look around for some sort of saber tutor. You should have the money to hire someone.
>Look for another contract to take on immediately, may as well make more money in your free time.
>Other

>>3149850
*227 gold coins
immersion ruined, typo, rip

>>3149850
>Look around for some sort of saber tutor. You should have the money to hire someone.

Should prolly keep the goods. A few spare weapons never hurt.

>>3149850
>>Look around for some sort of saber tutor. You should have the money to hire someone.

You decide that you should figure out how to better handle your weapon and look around the city. After asking around you figure out that there's a placed called the Combat Hall near the center of the city where one can train and fight. People put their services up for hire there and so you could probably find a few willing and able saber users there to teach you. You could also find one of the book stores near the center of the city with an introductory saber technique. There are other capable saber users throughout the city, but there's no reason for them to teach you, so you'll have to settle with one of these two choices. You...
>Will look around for a decent introductory manual.
>Will head to the Combat Hall and see which tutors are available.
>Other
I'm gonna head out, the next session will start at either noon tomorrow (Central time) or when I wake up.

>>3149902
>Will head to the Combat Hall and see which tutors are available.

>>3149902
>>Will look around for a decent introductory manual.

>>3149902
>>Will look around for a decent introductory manual.
thanks for running OP, goddamn we are badass.

>>3149902
>Will head to the Combat Hall and see which tutors are available.
Also what happened of the demon Hunter book we found at the very beginning? Are we gonna check on it anytime or not?

>>3150219
We are already using the book. How else are we cultivating?

Also, just for fun, we killed a total of 104 people on this mission. Whew lad.

>>3149902
>Will head to the Combat Hall and see which tutors are available.
A live teacher is better than a manual

>>3150572
I always assumed it was an innate thing we could do. Nevermind then.

>>3150572
The only people that even count are the cultivators. The mortals are almost irrelevant and we are still in the first circle.

>>3150785
Nobody can cultivate innately. You need instructions, which is why manuals exist in the first place: they contain instructions for effective methods to cultivate and refined kung fu.

>>3150796
There could be some (very) rare people with blessed constitutions who can cultivate innately up to a certain point by awakening that constitution.

>>3150796
This, although you are curious how the first people figured out how to cultivate when there wasn't even a base to build off of. Who knows.
>>3150912
Also this, but you've only heard such constitutions mentioned in a couple of fairy tales.

updating in a bit, gonna eat first

>>3149907
>>3150219
>>3150639
You make your way towards the center of the city until you're eventually standing in front of a large, marble building with a massive plaque that says "Combat Hall" in front of the building. The traffic in and out is pretty heavy but can't compare to the commercial streets since there are less people interested in fighting then there are interested in buying goods. You enter, passing by several heavily armed guards who are giving off of a rather fierce qi. Given that you're not yet in the Qi Emission Stage your ability to sense qi is limited, so they must be showing their power on purpose.
After going inside you see... something quite different from what you expected. There are various employees helping guests around and people chatting over refreshments at clumps of chairs and tables. Some of them look like young lords, some like grizzled veterans, and others like commoners. There doesn't seem to be a commonality to the class of the people inside. You eventually manage to flag down an employee and they show you to a massive book that lists the tutors that are available. They're divided by category and the combat hall can contact them for tutoring sessions, and in exchange for their service they take a small fee.
You begin looking through the saber portion of the catalog and see that the majority of the tutors are listed at 3 silver an hour or 6 silver an hour. From the short notes in the catalog and from a few questions you ask the employees and people around you, these seem to be standard rates for people who are either hobbyists, used to be soldiers, or the like. They're not particularly accomplished but the rate is lower and they can teach your average person how to use a weapon. Most likely none of them are cultivators, although that doesn't matter as much as skill in any one field here.
You look through the higher priced tutors and see that they slowly scale up to about 5 gold per hour before the vast majority have notes saying "Not taking on new students.", "Background required.", "Pass your application to my servant.", or even more direct statements. One of them is priced at 50 gold per hour and just says "Don't contact me if I don't know you." You guess that they're not the most skilled people in the city, but they're the most skilled that are willing to list themselves in the catalog. You did see a few at the very front which were priced at a single copper per hour and which were just marked "Extreme saber talents only. Tryouts will be held at X date." They're probably old masters looking to pass on what they've learned to a worthy disciple or something of the like.
You're not particularly talented in the saber from what you can tell, but you do have money. Whoever you hire would probably end up teaching you for a few hours four times a week if you wanted a full-time saber teacher, or maybe only twice a week if you didn't want to place that much weight on it. You...

>>3151067
>Want to hire a normal veteran from the army, you don't know much so it should be fine. [6 silver/hour times 12 hours a week]
>Want to hire a cultivator that seems to have practiced with the saber for a while. [3 gold/hour times 12 hours a week]
>Want to hire a cultivator on par with you that has some sort of named technique. [7 gold/hour times 9 hours a week]
>Want to look into one of the higher priced tutors and see if you can use your position as Gu Xinyi's disciple to convince them to teach you.
>Want to look into tutors for some other sort of technique.
>Other

>>3151067
>>Want to hire a normal veteran from the army, you don't know much so it should be fine. [6 silver/hour times 12 hours a week]

>>3151073
>Want to hire a normal veteran from the army, you don't know much so it should be fine. [6 silver/hour times 12 hours a week]
Its not like we can't change him after one week. In that time we can make attempt at creating pills. So we have some sort of income

>>3151073
>Want to hire a cultivator on par with you that has some sort of named technique. [7 gold/hour times 9 hours a week
Fair investment considering we spent thousands on a house we barely spend any time in.

You make an appointment with someone who used to serve as a minor officer in the army and are told to come here tomorrow afternoon and to go to a certain training room. You jot down the information you're given and then head back to the lobby. Now you want to...
>See what other services the Combat Hall offers.
>Try to find someone to sell the goods you took from the bandits.
>Head over to the bounty hunters' lodge and see if there's anything interesting going on there.
>Go back to Gu Xinyi's estate so that you're better prepared to try to forge a Tier-0 pill when you make a breakthrough to the Qi Emission stage.
>Other

>>3151136
>Try to find someone to sell the goods you took from the bandits.

>>3151136
>>Try to find someone to sell the goods you took from the bandits.

>>3151136
>>Try to find someone to sell the goods you took from the bandits.

>>3151136
>Go back to Gu Xinyi's estate so that you're better prepared to try to forge a Tier-0 pill when you make a breakthrough to the Qi Emission stage.

>>3151136
>Try to find someone to sell the goods you took from the bandits.
We already have contact with blacksmith so metals and weapons we could sell to him.

>>3151149
>>3151150
>>3151161
You decide that you need to sell this cart full of random goods sitting in your living room off and thinking about how to turn them into gold coins. You could look around one of the commercial streets trying to find someone willing to take these off your hands below market price, spend a day camped out at the flea market trying to interest people in your wares (although you're not an expert in them yourself), or try to get Yu Zhen to connect you with someone. You...
>Try to find a merchant to quickly sell these off to. (1d100)
>Head to the flea market and try to sell these yourself. (1d100)
>Ask Yu Zhen to get you in touch with someone who would be interested, although you'd owe him another favor.
>Other

>>3151187
>Head to the flea market and try to sell these yourself. (1d100)
A good learning experience.
Look at the goods being sold at the market and undercut them by a small amount. If we aren't certain then we hold onto the goods for another time. We just need to get rid of some volume.

>>3151187
>Head to the flea market and try to sell these yourself. (1d100)

>>3151187
>Other
We already have contact with blacksmith so metals we could sell to him
We could keep 1 or 2 weapons and see if blacksmith is intrested in rest
Use money from weapons and metals and bolts of nice fabric to make us some nice clothes
Better alcohol and spices we could keep and store in our house, that would allow us to invite people and improve our bland cooking
If there is some art among "other things" we could keep it
Rest of things
>Head to the flea market and try to sell these yourself. (1d100)

>>3151187
>>Head to the flea market and try to sell these yourself. (1d100)

>>3151187
>Try to find a merchant to quickly sell these off to.
We're a cultivator, we don't have time to sit at the market and haggle over coppers.

Rolled 63 (1d100)

You decide to sell off the goods at the flea market, but first you swing by Qian Yang's forge to see if he's interested in buying some of the weapons and the few metal ingots you found. You ask him but he immediately dismisses the weapons since he's not going to sell anything made by someone who doesn't work at his forge, but he gives you a little over 30 gold for the metal.
After that you head to the flea market. You keep some of the alcohol and spices for your kitchen and then start trying to figure out how to price the rest of the goods.

The goods aren't exactly common and vary greatly, so your attempts to find prices for them are kind of futile. Eventually you do manage to find a ballpark for most of them though and label them before laying out the goods.
The day starts without many sales since you don't have any sort of reputation and what you're selling isn't cheap, but eventually things get moving and you end up selling about 30 gold worth of goods by the end of the day. You're not sure whether you got what they were worth since you aren't a merchant, but it's probably enough.
The next day you get up and...
>Kill some time cultivating until it's time for your saber training session.
>See what other services the Combat Hall offers.
>Head over to the bounty hunters' lodge and see if there's anything interesting going on there.
>Go back to Gu Xinyi's estate and chat for a bit.
>Other

>>3151235
>>Head over to the bounty hunters' lodge and see if there's anything interesting going on there.

>>3151235
>Go back to Gu Xinyi's estate and chat for a bit.
Those 0-level pills man

I shall return after I shower.

Back, showered and took care of some stuff, I'll use rng to break the tie if another vote doesn't break it within a bit.

>>3151235
>>Go back to Gu Xinyi's estate and chat for a bit.