But it's a tournament! For people who aren't good at ⚔️🏹 yet! Like 😈! And also people who aren't good with 🐎🛡️🗡️! Have you jousted before??? Are you good at that too???
🐎 are not sharp! I don't know why you're like this! But fine, 🚫🐎. Not that that was ever a risk, it's ✨🐎 now or nothing. I didn't think you'd want to be in a ⚔️ tournament either, but clearly this was a 👻 mistake.
Jousted? Just 🐎🛡️🗡️? I could actually be in that tournament, I gave up 🗡️ before I did any mounted fighting. Though maybe we shouldn't rule out me being a prodigy.
I want to be in a tournament where other people are bad at ⚔️... because then I'll win because I have the best ⚔️ shifus~ 💖 😈🤭
It's not just 🐎🛡️🗡️! You don't use the 🗡️ on the 🐎! You have to ride the 🐎 and hold a 🛡️ and use a very long pole to knock the other person off their 🐎! You have to hit the 🛡️, and there's a loud crash! And the pole breaks! And once someone is knocked off, *then* it's time for ⚔️! It's a very exciting and noble sport!
I suppose this 👻 must bow to your superior 🐎 wisdom, they don't do any of that to me. Sharp 🐎, but only for 😈.
The goal is for you to be able to win sometimes even if they aren't bad, but this 👻 shifu thanks you anyway. And why is that 🤭? It's very truthful. Lan Zhan would approve of the truthfulness.
A very exciting and noble sport for 😈 to 👀, what with how sharp everything is. What happens if both people get knocked off? Still just ⚔️? How does the first part factor in if you win the ⚔️ but got knocked off? This seems complicated.
😈s are very small and get trampled easily! Maybe they don't do that with 👻⛰️s!
🤭 is because it *is* truthful! And I know having the best ⚔️ shifus is an unfair advantage, but maybe I want to win once in a while! And not because you let me win (which a 👻 and ☁️ wouldn't do anyway), but because someone is just as good or bad as me. You're all just too good at ⚔️! 👿🥺
🐎🛡️🗡️ is good for 😈👀 *because* of all the sharpness! ✅👀🚫✋! I think it's supposed to be best of three passes each with 🐎 and then with ⚔️. I don't actually know what happens if they tie... I've never been to 🐎🛡️🗡️ before. I think that usually just doesn't happen? Getting knocked off a horse a bunch of times would make it hard to ⚔️ well, I think. Maybe that's why it's important to do the 🐎 first instead of just ⚔️?
Maybe best to keep 😈 away from any 🐎🛡️🗡️ then. Just to be sure. But it's fine for 👻⛰️.
Don't make those little faces, or at least not where ☁️ can see. You should get to win at ⚔️ though, that seems very fair and reasonable. More fair and reasonable than being surrounded by the best at ⚔️ from my generation plus one very well trained 🤏☁️. Who would have imagined that. Clearly you have to get good at ⚔️, it's your destiny.
This still sounds very complicated and more than a little undignified despite all the nobility. Can you imagine ☁️ getting knocked off a 🐎? Just wouldn't work, like the lake thing. Might work on a 👻⛰️ at least once though. I haven't decided if that's good or bad to 👀. You know, for a disciple.
Which faces??? 😈🤭? 👿🥺? I think a 👻 cares more about the faces I make than a ☁️ does... But I'm glad a 👻 also cares about being reasonable! I do have to get good at ⚔️! At least until I'm better than 🤏☁️, and then I get to be the senior one. ✅🤏☁️, ❌🤏👿!
The dignified part comes with staying on the 🐎! You don't get that for free. Isn't that kinda the point of a competition? You're either good or you're embarrassing~ 😈🤭 Do I get to vote? Because I say it's good for a disciple's cultivation to see if her shifus can stay on a 🐎... ✅😈👀! ✅😈✨!
Well a 👻 objects to the first one maybe but I know a ☁️ objects to the second one the most. But he should probably get used to it. ✅🤏👿.
Staying on a 🐎 is plenty of dignity, but getting hit with poles seems like it would negate that. Not that you should be doubting your ☁️ shifu in the first place, very rude. But now I also want to 👀. Good for 👻✨. And if I get knocked off, just know that it's strategic and take notes.
❌🤏👿! I'm going to give you all of my 👿🥺 faces then! 👿🥺👿🥺👿🥺👿🥺👿🥺👿🥺
I'm already taking a lot of notes! Like how a 👻 also wants to see a ☁️ fall off a 🐎... I think I've changed my mind. If ☁️ falls off a 🐎, I'll just feel bad. You're right, it's like the 🌊; it just wouldn't be possible, and I don't want it to be. We have to keep ☁️ away from the 🐎 at all costs.
That's so many faces, but I can handle this. Probably by assigning chores...
That's not the note to take! Why are disciples today you know what. I can't follow through, I would have loved to see the old Lan shifu get knocked off a horse a little bit. Like a small 🐎. Maybe a donkey. But you shouldn't, for many reasons.
I will not be keeping ☁️ away from 🐎, you need to have more faith. You said he's basically a paladin, right? So it seems like he has to be good at it.
No, I don't know! What are disciples today? Is it wrong for me to be worried about it? Maybe ☁️ is very good at horses, and I have a lot of faith in that! It's the 🐎s that are the problem, not me.
What if he gets hurt? I wasn't thinking about it before, but sometimes people get really hurt if they're not good at 🐎🛡️🗡️. I don't want to be responsible for that. I don't want to be responsible for you getting hurt either, so maybe we should all just 👀 the 🐎🛡️🗡️ and not be on the 🐎s ourselves. No 🐎 strategies, just 👀 and snacks.
Well I also changed my mind, disciples today aren't any particular type of way, 🤫. Maybe some disciples current or previous want to 👀 things, and some don't, and that's just how it goes.
And I don't know if it's wrong for you to be worried about it! I was busy thinking about the indignity, I didn't get time to question the safety. Lan Zhan would probably say it isn't wrong though regardless. Commendable, even. "Don't take unnecessary risks" sounds like a rule. Not wanting to be responsible for people getting hurt, too. ☁️👍 for those probably. Though I don't think you'd be responsible, all you did was talk about it. Anyway, won't they have counted for that? It's specifically for people who aren't very good. Maybe they give you some 🐎 strategies for free.
...Which disciples want to 👀 things? If I'm the kind that doesn't, then who is the other kind? Is it you? Did a 🤏👻 want to 👀 things?
"Don't take unnecessary risks" does sound like a rule. Maybe I've heard it before... or maybe something like it. A 👻 should know all the rules, right? From writing them so many times?
I don't see how I wouldn't be responsible, though. ☁️ also said not to encourage dangerous things, and wasn't that encouraging?? ...But if they've thought about the safety part here, then maybe it'll be okay. 👿🤔😕😕😕 ...I'm only 64% certain that they've thought about it, though. They give us dangerous things to do all the time, don't they? I think they have a bad idea of what dangerous means here. Their 🐎 strategies might just be "Don't fall off".
Maybe a 🤏👻 would not have said no to 👀 some things. IF they were really funny. Maybe this explains some things about how I am being treated in my old age.
A 👻 does know all the rules, but a 👿 doesn't, and as long as that's true anything can sound like a rule.
These specific percents are so scary. Why does the sand cultivator calculate things like a trusted wartime advisor to a general. 64% seems pretty good though. I'd take it. And that's why you wouldn't be responsible.
...I don't see how a 🤏👻 is any different from a 👻 now. Besides, I think a 👻 is treated really well! Lots of snacks and at least 6 different roofs to lay on. Is there anything else a 👻 needs??
...When you say it like that, I feel like I need to check with ☁️ about what the ☁️ rules actually are. "You can say anything and no one will know" is definitely a 👻 rule.
Maybe I am a trusted wartime advisor! You can be the general. So it's my job and responsibility to inform you that 64% is not a high enough percent. Don't take that. We need more information about how rigorous the safety measures are.
Ghosts are trusted! You already have that! Just not about rules that they've made up in the past. Maybe you're the one doing the bullying. Am I not allowed to bully a little? At all? 👿🥺
Fine, maybe I will ask ☁️ for more rules then. Maybe I'll learn the rules that you didn't! We can compare notes. 📜✅❌ Then I'll make up some more that you two can compare. We'll have ☁️ rules, 👻 rules, and 😈 rules~
😈🤝👻! No 🛡️🐎🗡️ without further reconnaissance. I can agree to that. We can go 👀 and if the safety is bad, then there's at least still snacks~
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Date: 2022-08-12 02:27 am (UTC)⚔️! 🏹! 🐎🛡️🗡️!!!
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Date: 2022-08-12 02:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-08-12 02:48 am (UTC)But it's a tournament! For people who aren't good at ⚔️🏹 yet! Like 😈! And also people who aren't good with 🐎🛡️🗡️! Have you jousted before??? Are you good at that too???
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Date: 2022-08-12 03:12 am (UTC)Jousted? Just 🐎🛡️🗡️? I could actually be in that tournament, I gave up 🗡️ before I did any mounted fighting. Though maybe we shouldn't rule out me being a prodigy.
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Date: 2022-08-12 03:55 am (UTC)I want to be in a tournament where other people are bad at ⚔️... because then I'll win because I have the best ⚔️ shifus~ 💖 😈🤭
It's not just 🐎🛡️🗡️! You don't use the 🗡️ on the 🐎! You have to ride the 🐎 and hold a 🛡️ and use a very long pole to knock the other person off their 🐎! You have to hit the 🛡️, and there's a loud crash! And the pole breaks! And once someone is knocked off, *then* it's time for ⚔️! It's a very exciting and noble sport!
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Date: 2022-08-16 01:33 am (UTC)The goal is for you to be able to win sometimes even if they aren't bad, but this 👻 shifu thanks you anyway. And why is that 🤭? It's very truthful. Lan Zhan would approve of the truthfulness.
A very exciting and noble sport for 😈 to 👀, what with how sharp everything is. What happens if both people get knocked off? Still just ⚔️? How does the first part factor in if you win the ⚔️ but got knocked off? This seems complicated.
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Date: 2022-08-16 05:55 pm (UTC)🤭 is because it *is* truthful! And I know having the best ⚔️ shifus is an unfair advantage, but maybe I want to win once in a while! And not because you let me win (which a 👻 and ☁️ wouldn't do anyway), but because someone is just as good or bad as me. You're all just too good at ⚔️! 👿🥺
🐎🛡️🗡️ is good for 😈👀 *because* of all the sharpness! ✅👀🚫✋! I think it's supposed to be best of three passes each with 🐎 and then with ⚔️. I don't actually know what happens if they tie... I've never been to 🐎🛡️🗡️ before. I think that usually just doesn't happen? Getting knocked off a horse a bunch of times would make it hard to ⚔️ well, I think. Maybe that's why it's important to do the 🐎 first instead of just ⚔️?
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Date: 2022-08-24 10:56 pm (UTC)Don't make those little faces, or at least not where ☁️ can see. You should get to win at ⚔️ though, that seems very fair and reasonable. More fair and reasonable than being surrounded by the best at ⚔️ from my generation plus one very well trained 🤏☁️. Who would have imagined that. Clearly you have to get good at ⚔️, it's your destiny.
This still sounds very complicated and more than a little undignified despite all the nobility. Can you imagine ☁️ getting knocked off a 🐎? Just wouldn't work, like the lake thing. Might work on a 👻⛰️ at least once though. I haven't decided if that's good or bad to 👀. You know, for a disciple.
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Date: 2022-08-24 11:46 pm (UTC)The dignified part comes with staying on the 🐎! You don't get that for free. Isn't that kinda the point of a competition? You're either good or you're embarrassing~ 😈🤭 Do I get to vote? Because I say it's good for a disciple's cultivation to see if her shifus can stay on a 🐎... ✅😈👀! ✅😈✨!
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Date: 2022-08-25 01:37 am (UTC)Staying on a 🐎 is plenty of dignity, but getting hit with poles seems like it would negate that. Not that you should be doubting your ☁️ shifu in the first place, very rude. But now I also want to 👀. Good for 👻✨. And if I get knocked off, just know that it's strategic and take notes.
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Date: 2022-08-25 06:48 pm (UTC)I'm already taking a lot of notes! Like how a 👻 also wants to see a ☁️ fall off a 🐎... I think I've changed my mind. If ☁️ falls off a 🐎, I'll just feel bad. You're right, it's like the 🌊; it just wouldn't be possible, and I don't want it to be. We have to keep ☁️ away from the 🐎 at all costs.
👻s are fine, though. They have strategies! 😈🤭
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Date: 2022-08-26 04:54 pm (UTC)That's not the note to take! Why are disciples today you know what. I can't follow through, I would have loved to see the old Lan shifu get knocked off a horse a little bit. Like a small 🐎. Maybe a donkey. But you shouldn't, for many reasons.
I will not be keeping ☁️ away from 🐎, you need to have more faith. You said he's basically a paladin, right? So it seems like he has to be good at it.
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Date: 2022-08-26 09:33 pm (UTC)No, I don't know! What are disciples today? Is it wrong for me to be worried about it? Maybe ☁️ is very good at horses, and I have a lot of faith in that! It's the 🐎s that are the problem, not me.
What if he gets hurt? I wasn't thinking about it before, but sometimes people get really hurt if they're not good at 🐎🛡️🗡️. I don't want to be responsible for that. I don't want to be responsible for you getting hurt either, so maybe we should all just 👀 the 🐎🛡️🗡️ and not be on the 🐎s ourselves. No 🐎 strategies, just 👀 and snacks.
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Date: 2022-08-27 03:08 am (UTC)And I don't know if it's wrong for you to be worried about it! I was busy thinking about the indignity, I didn't get time to question the safety. Lan Zhan would probably say it isn't wrong though regardless. Commendable, even. "Don't take unnecessary risks" sounds like a rule. Not wanting to be responsible for people getting hurt, too. ☁️👍 for those probably. Though I don't think you'd be responsible, all you did was talk about it. Anyway, won't they have counted for that? It's specifically for people who aren't very good. Maybe they give you some 🐎 strategies for free.
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Date: 2022-08-27 04:24 am (UTC)"Don't take unnecessary risks" does sound like a rule. Maybe I've heard it before... or maybe something like it. A 👻 should know all the rules, right? From writing them so many times?
I don't see how I wouldn't be responsible, though. ☁️ also said not to encourage dangerous things, and wasn't that encouraging?? ...But if they've thought about the safety part here, then maybe it'll be okay. 👿🤔😕😕😕 ...I'm only 64% certain that they've thought about it, though. They give us dangerous things to do all the time, don't they? I think they have a bad idea of what dangerous means here. Their 🐎 strategies might just be "Don't fall off".
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Date: 2022-08-27 05:41 pm (UTC)A 👻 does know all the rules, but a 👿 doesn't, and as long as that's true anything can sound like a rule.
These specific percents are so scary. Why does the sand cultivator calculate things like a trusted wartime advisor to a general. 64% seems pretty good though. I'd take it. And that's why you wouldn't be responsible.
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Date: 2022-08-27 06:41 pm (UTC)...When you say it like that, I feel like I need to check with ☁️ about what the ☁️ rules actually are. "You can say anything and no one will know" is definitely a 👻 rule.
Maybe I am a trusted wartime advisor! You can be the general. So it's my job and responsibility to inform you that 64% is not a high enough percent. Don't take that. We need more information about how rigorous the safety measures are.
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Date: 2022-08-27 07:58 pm (UTC)It definitely is! I can't just tell you all the rules, that's ☁️'s job. He would be bored.
I don't dare, I don't dare. But I will accept this advisement, and will not 🛡️🐎🗡️ without further reconnaissance.
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Date: 2022-08-28 12:18 am (UTC)Fine, maybe I will ask ☁️ for more rules then. Maybe I'll learn the rules that you didn't! We can compare notes. 📜✅❌ Then I'll make up some more that you two can compare. We'll have ☁️ rules, 👻 rules, and 😈 rules~
😈🤝👻! No 🛡️🐎🗡️ without further reconnaissance. I can agree to that. We can go 👀 and if the safety is bad, then there's at least still snacks~