1. Due to issues with external spam filters, QQ is currently unable to send any mail to Microsoft E-mail addresses. This includes any account at live.com, hotmail.com or msn.com. Signing up to the forum with one of these addresses will result in your verification E-mail never arriving. For best results, please use a different E-mail provider for your QQ address.
    Dismiss Notice
  2. For prospective new members, a word of warning: don't use common names like Dennis, Simon, or Kenny if you decide to create an account. Spammers have used them all before you and gotten those names flagged in the anti-spam databases. Your account registration will be rejected because of it.
    Dismiss Notice
  3. Since it has happened MULTIPLE times now, I want to be very clear about this. You do not get to abandon an account and create a new one. You do not get to pass an account to someone else and create a new one. If you do so anyway, you will be banned for creating sockpuppets.
    Dismiss Notice
  4. If you wish to change your username, please ask via conversation to tehelgee instead of asking via my profile. I'd like to not clutter it up with such requests.
    Dismiss Notice
  5. Due to the actions of particularly persistent spammers and trolls, we will be banning disposable email addresses from today onward.
    Dismiss Notice
  6. A note about the current Ukraine situation: Discussion of it is still prohibited as per Rule 8
    Dismiss Notice
  7. The rules regarding NSFW links have been updated. See here for details.
    Dismiss Notice
  8. The testbed for the QQ XF2 transition is now publicly available. Please see more information here.
    Dismiss Notice

Set In Stone (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Discussion in 'Questing' started by Leingod, Jul 12, 2016.

Loading...
  1. ChaosTheVoid

    ChaosTheVoid Hanging Around

    Joined:
    Jan 10, 2015
    Messages:
    267
    Likes Received:
    1,372
    Name suggestions, maybe it might inspire you?

    A Song of Earth and Lakes

    Lake Laogai Wants You

    War in Ba Sing Se

    Life and Times in the Eternal City

    The Last Bastion

    Invitation Under the Lake
     
  2. Leingod

    Leingod Immaculate Blooming Lotus

    Joined:
    Feb 14, 2015
    Messages:
    5,813
    Likes Received:
    71,207
    Thing is that I kind of doubt the entirety of this quest will be about Ba Sing Se.
     
  3. ChaosTheVoid

    ChaosTheVoid Hanging Around

    Joined:
    Jan 10, 2015
    Messages:
    267
    Likes Received:
    1,372
    I kinda suspect it sorta will. We have to contend with Lao Feng, which won't be easy and will probably do it in Ba Sing Se. After, it'll probably be the fire nation. Which we would have to do from Ba Sing Se. Anyway, here are some more titles which have nothing to do with the city.

    Upturned Soil

    Royalty Unearthed

    Riches Under Dirt

    Digging for Glory

    Kings and Conquerors

    Green Royalty

    No Stone Left Unturned
     
    Last edited: Aug 9, 2016
    Leingod likes this.
  4. Silver719

    Silver719 Fate's Plaything

    Joined:
    Jan 15, 2016
    Messages:
    727
    Likes Received:
    2,914
    Rocky Road? :p
     
    RazielofSecrets, Leingod and Epsilon like this.
  5. Epsilon

    Epsilon Know what you're doing yet?

    Joined:
    May 14, 2016
    Messages:
    117
    Likes Received:
    862
    Set in Stone.

    A Crown of Clay.
     
  6. Silver719

    Silver719 Fate's Plaything

    Joined:
    Jan 15, 2016
    Messages:
    727
    Likes Received:
    2,914
    Aha! I've got it!

    Secrets Buried Deep.
     
    Leingod likes this.
  7. Leingod

    Leingod Immaculate Blooming Lotus

    Joined:
    Feb 14, 2015
    Messages:
    5,813
    Likes Received:
    71,207
    Going with this.

    Also, going to close the votes fairly soon, so if anyone wants to get in on this, now's your last chance.
     
    RazielofSecrets and Epsilon like this.
  8. ChaosTheVoid

    ChaosTheVoid Hanging Around

    Joined:
    Jan 10, 2015
    Messages:
    267
    Likes Received:
    1,372
    If nothing changes, we get to be Royal Earth Princess Ren. :D
     
  9. Leingod

    Leingod Immaculate Blooming Lotus

    Joined:
    Feb 14, 2015
    Messages:
    5,813
    Likes Received:
    71,207
    Well, it can and has been a girl's name.
     
  10. Sinsystems

    Sinsystems Your mind is an open book to me

    Joined:
    Apr 26, 2014
    Messages:
    7,864
    Likes Received:
    17,895
    So one thing we should keep an eye out for is Mr Grand Secretary from trying to force us into an arranged marriage with him so as to give himself a legitimate claim to the throne.
     
  11. ChaosTheVoid

    ChaosTheVoid Hanging Around

    Joined:
    Jan 10, 2015
    Messages:
    267
    Likes Received:
    1,372
    Unless he seizes power openly, he can't really do that because he's officially a mid ranking bureaucrat. He's really beneath a Princess of our status.
     
    Leingod likes this.
  12. Leingod

    Leingod Immaculate Blooming Lotus

    Joined:
    Feb 14, 2015
    Messages:
    5,813
    Likes Received:
    71,207
    "Do you realize how much power I'd have to give up to become president Earth King?"
    - Lex Luthor Long Feng​

    Long Feng much prefers being the man behind the man. Everyone who matters knows who really runs things, so what would he gain out of making it official except a lot more enemies to deal with?
     
    RazielofSecrets likes this.
  13. Sinsystems

    Sinsystems Your mind is an open book to me

    Joined:
    Apr 26, 2014
    Messages:
    7,864
    Likes Received:
    17,895
    Eh true it was just a thought.
     
  14. shadowward

    shadowward Versed in the lewd.

    Joined:
    Feb 14, 2014
    Messages:
    1,348
    Likes Received:
    355
    [X] Sister
    [X] Your games sometimes got you both in trouble
    [X] Ren
     
  15. RoninSword

    RoninSword Sky God

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2015
    Messages:
    1,422
    Likes Received:
    3,172
    That's why what we should do is try and convince some Dai Li to be personally loyal to us, instead of Long Feng. The problem is that we can't ever actually know if they are really loyal to us or not.

    So, from Toph's attitude, I think we can safely assume that Earth Kingdom females are meant to be dainty and lady-like. Is this something that will really reflect on us? As Princess, pretty much the only ones who can tell us of for acting outside of a gender-role would be our brother, or mother. Everyone else who tried would be very presumptuous.


    We also don't know about the war, do we?
     
  16. Leingod

    Leingod Immaculate Blooming Lotus

    Joined:
    Feb 14, 2015
    Messages:
    5,813
    Likes Received:
    71,207
    Princess or not, many will disapprove. But there is precedent, so old men grumbling and offering advice that Kuei reign you in is as bad as it's likely to get.

    Also, Toph's situation is somewhat different, as her blindness made her parents extremely overprotective of her.

    What war? There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
     
    Last edited: Aug 9, 2016
  17. Justlurking

    Justlurking Experienced.

    Joined:
    Jul 8, 2015
    Messages:
    2,535
    Likes Received:
    4,433
    [X] Brother
    [X] Your games sometimes got you both in trouble
    [X] Ren
     
  18. RoninSword

    RoninSword Sky God

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2015
    Messages:
    1,422
    Likes Received:
    3,172
    Is there a reason that Long Feng is the only Secretariat right now? Him purposefully blocking the elevation of others using bureaucracy?
     
  19. Leingod

    Leingod Immaculate Blooming Lotus

    Joined:
    Feb 14, 2015
    Messages:
    5,813
    Likes Received:
    71,207
    The Grand Secretariat at its largest comprises 6 members, but there's no requirement that all the seats be filled so long as they do their job effectively.g The oldest is named the Senior Grand Secretary and is given a sort of "First Among Equals" kind of prestige.

    Long Feng was one of the youngest men to join the Grand Secretariat, and the most effective. Oddly enough, throughout his tenure many of his fellow Grand Secretaries have suddenly retired or resigned their posts. Thankfully though, Long Feng is so good at his job he hasn't had any need to get replacements for them.
     
    RazielofSecrets and ChaosTheVoid like this.
  20. nextive

    nextive Supreme Ham

    Joined:
    Mar 9, 2016
    Messages:
    623
    Likes Received:
    765
    [X] Brother
    [X] Your games sometimes got you both in trouble
    [X] Ren

     
  21. Biigoh

    Biigoh Primordial Tanuki Moderator

    Joined:
    Feb 19, 2013
    Messages:
    28,443
    Likes Received:
    111,709
    [X] Sister
    [X] Your games got you both in trouble often
    [X] Hong
     
  22. Schnolhamor

    Schnolhamor Getting out there.

    Joined:
    Jul 27, 2016
    Messages:
    17
    Likes Received:
    26
    [X] Brother
    [X] Your games sometimes got you both in trouble
    [X] Yun

    Why:

    Brother because being a dude will be helpful to becoming Earth King eventually. No partiarchy problems If they even exist in Avatar.

    Sometimes because being observant and patient will be very helpful to solving problems and is generally what everyone in real life strives to be.

    Yun because it reminds me of Liu Bei, a gentle name for a gentleman
     
    Last edited: Aug 12, 2016
  23. Actan

    Actan Making the rounds.

    Joined:
    Aug 26, 2015
    Messages:
    48
    Likes Received:
    52
    [X] Brother
    [X] Your games sometimes got you both in trouble
    [X] Yun
     
  24. Leingod

    Leingod Immaculate Blooming Lotus

    Joined:
    Feb 14, 2015
    Messages:
    5,813
    Likes Received:
    71,207
    Okay, I had meant to close the vote earlier, but I hadn't accounted for getting sucked into deck-building in Yu-Gi-Oh Pro, so here's the belated vote tally.

    [9] Sister
    Sinsystems redaeth khoa36 ChaosTheVoid EmpirePlayer Minion #Q Ct613hulu shadowward Biigoh
    [9] Brother

    Epsilon Kingofbooks Marthis Biofan09 Leekz01 Justlurking nextive Schnolhamor Actan
    [13] Your games sometimes got you both in trouble
    Epsilon Kingofbooks Marthis ChaosTheVoid EmpirePlayer Minion #Q Biofan09 Leekz01 shadowward Justlurking nextive
    [5] Your games got you both in trouble often Schnolhamor Actan
    Sinsystems redaeth khoa36 Ct613hulu Biigoh

    [8] Ren
    Epsilon Kingofbooks Marthis Biofan09 Leekz01 shadowward Justlurking nextive
    [5] Hong
    Sinsystems redaeth khoa36 Ct613hulu Biigoh
    [2] Yin
    ChaosTheVoid Minion #Q
    [1] Yan
    EmpirePlayer
    [2] Yun
    Schnolhamor Actan

    Which gives us the problem of how to resolve that tie over gender. We could wait until someone new votes or someone changes their votes. Alternatively, I could just be the tiebreaker, in which case I'll be choosing "boy" because over the course of this vote I got the idea of Long Feng proposing to Kuei that he marry you to the only child of the Bei Fongs for various political reasons.

    Anyone have any objections to that?
     
  25. Marthis

    Marthis Oh how wonderful!

    Joined:
    Oct 28, 2013
    Messages:
    4,117
    Likes Received:
    4,686
    You have supreme executive power. I won't complain if you chose to use it to tiebreak.

    Also, i totally dig us being Toph's fiance.
     
    RazielofSecrets likes this.
  26. Justlurking

    Justlurking Experienced.

    Joined:
    Jul 8, 2015
    Messages:
    2,535
    Likes Received:
    4,433
    Nope, because:
    Ditto.
     
    RazielofSecrets likes this.
  27. Kingofbooks

    Kingofbooks Getting sticky.

    Joined:
    Jan 22, 2016
    Messages:
    67
    Likes Received:
    16
    Same here. Toph rules!! :D
     
    RazielofSecrets likes this.
  28. Sonder

    Sonder Apostle of FLUFFY TAIL

    Joined:
    Feb 19, 2016
    Messages:
    211
    Likes Received:
    574
    [X] Brother
    [X] Your games sometimes got you both in trouble
    [X] Ren

    Tiebreaker vote!?
     
    RazielofSecrets and Epsilon like this.
  29. Justlurking

    Justlurking Experienced.

    Joined:
    Jul 8, 2015
    Messages:
    2,535
    Likes Received:
    4,433
    We're totally going to facilitate her 'Blind Bandit' career, aren't we?;)
     
  30. RoninSword

    RoninSword Sky God

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2015
    Messages:
    1,422
    Likes Received:
    3,172
    Question for people. If we get engaged to Toph, I can't imagine that we would never visit her in her home town (forget how to spell it). I would imagine that there is some sort of etiquette about how one visits for these types of things. Yes, we are a prince, versus Toph being just a noble, but we are also the male. I just think that there is more than just status in regards to who ends up visiting who. But if we leave Ba Sing Sae, we learn of the war, and Long Feng can't think that we would not report this to Kuei, and that this knowledge has been kept from us deliberately.
     
    RazielofSecrets and Justlurking like this.
Loading...