Monk Sect Info

 

Overview:

After earning 20 levels in a martial arts guild (Warrior Monks or the "secret assassination guild") you can join a sect that will provide additional skills, bonuses, and will modify your martial arts attacks. Right now there are three sects to choose from, each of which provide different bonuses and quests. While you can switch between sects, the reputation/skills you earn from them is not shared and you can only make the switch once a week.

Learning Sect Powers:

Important Point: While sect powers are improved as your character gains EXP, they do not actually cost any real EXP. This is nice for newbies as they are essentially "free". That being said, you need to actively work at saving the bonus EXP through meditation, and high level players have it easier since they are probably earning more EXP than newer players. 

Learning New Sect Powers: Sect powers will be revealed to you as you train them up, but you can't use them until they are fully cultivated. When you use the comment "monk sect skills" you will get a printout like:

+----------------------=( The Sect of Scarlet Lotus )=-----------------------+
|                                                                            |
| Sensei Shozai thinks you should complete your training with the Warrior    |
| Brotherhood. Shozai says that the lack of commitment to the brotherhood    |
| is the main reason why you cannot ever reach your full potential. Be that  |
| as it may, Shozai thinks that your combat skills are on satisfactory       |
| level. Shozai is content that you have worked hard with the Warrior        |
| Brotherhood so doesn't need to teach you elementary concepts. Shozai       |
| thinks that now that you understand the mantra of introspection you        |
| should learn about cultivation and figure out how cultivation and          |
| introspection may help you unlock your second mantra, which is the mantra  |
| of body flows.                                                             |
|                                                                            |
| Way of Meditation:                                                         |
| ------------------                                                         |
|                                                                            |
| Mantra of Introspection (introspection)                 1 %   (Active)     |
|                                                                            |
| Learned, but needs practice:                                               |
| ----------------------------                                               |
|                                                                            |
| Mantra of Body Flows (body flows)                     (Cultivated)         |
|                                                                            |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Anything under "Learned, but need  practice" needs to be cultivated before you can start to use and further improve it. You can only select one power to cultivate at a time, and if you use "monk sect info <skill>" you can see how much EXP you need to cultivate for it to be active.

Cultivating EXP into powers: Mantras are special bonuses that you can gain when your character meditates. One mantra in particular, "introspection", allows to you to cultivate additional skills to improve them. Basically as you earn EXP, your character saves up a copy of the EXP for cultivation. If your character dies, all of this "cultivation EXP" is lost, regardless of how you resurrect your character. But when you meditate with the mantra of introspection enabled, some of that cultivated EXP is applied to improve the skill you are currently cultivating. The amount of EXP that is saved with each mediation depends on how highly you have the Mantra of Introspection trained up.

While there is no way to directly check if you have cultivation EXP saved up, you can tell you cultivated all of it when you perform a meditation and you do not see a message saying:

  •  "Your self-reflection is making you wiser and more enlightened"

To activate introspection: monk sect mantra introspection

To select a power to cultivate: monk sect cultivate <power>

To see current progress of cultivation: monk sect progress

  • You will see an ASCII art of a monk meditating. If you have colors turned on in your terminal, the part of the picture that is white (starts from the head) is your progress. It initially starts off *very* slow for how much EXP you cultivate per meditation. It will speed up as you improve your trained percentage of Mantra of Introspection.

To see current progress of all skills: monk sect skills

Advancing Powers Via Use: As you use sect skills you will occasionally get an automatic skill advancement.

Meditation:

  • You learn more about the Way of Meditation. You improve in Mantra of Introspection

    • Scarlet Lotus Sect:

    Open to: Monks, Tigers

    Description:

    +----------------------------=( Scarlet Lotus )=-----------------------------+
    | The Pauper Sect of Scarlet Lotus accepts members from both the Warrior     |
    | Brotherhood and the Brotherhood of the Black Tiger. The practitioners of   |
    | Hon Chi Do are regarded to be universally good at many aspects of martial  |
    | arts with few real weaknesses. The spiritual side of Hon Chi Do includes   |
    | a variety of mantras and a good selection of focus techniques. Masters of  |
    | Hon Chi Do are considered to be experts of powerful combat techniques and  |
    | they learn to incorporate these techniques with their combat style.        |
    | Because of their supreme dedication to primary styles, they know only      |
    | basic supporting styles. Because of their generalist nature, they also     |
    | don't learn as many meridian rhythms as some other sects.                  |
    |                                                                            |
    | Accepts members of: The Warrior Brotherhood and The Brotherhood of the     |
    | Black Tiger                                                                |
    | Sensei:             Shozai                                                 |
    | School / Style:     Hon Chi Do (mixed style)                               |
    | Specialists in:     Primary Styles and Combat Techniques                   |
    | Adept in:           Way of Fire and Way of Meditation                      |
    | Weak in:            Way of Epicenters and Supporting Styles                |
    +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Trainer Location: Rilynt'tar Sewers

    • Go to the public works building in Rilynt'tar (North-East of City)
    • In the public works building there are some ugly rubber suits. Grab one and put it on
      • If you don't you'll take damage from the next part
    • In the staff room you can "turn valve" to open a pipe. Then "enter pipe"
    • You can wait in the pipe for a minute or two and eventually the sewage will push you though.
      • You can speed things up by repeatedly typing "forward"
    • There's two exits to the sewers. One opens up to the basement of the slum apartments. The other will take you into the outerworld. You can also use the outerworld entrance to enter the sewers to speed things up if you want.

    Initiation Tasks:

    • Find Shozai the Paupers Prince in the Rilynt'tar Sewers and talk to him
      • He wanders around but he generally stays around the central part of the sewers.
      • In the dialogue you will have a chance to ask him about "alms" and then "donation". He will then tell you how much gold you need to donate to start the initiation process. The amount he charges is based on your Character Level with more advanced players required to pay more.
      • Exit the conversation with Shozai, and then give him the money he asked for. Once you give him enough he will say "That is fair".
      • Next type the command "monk sect choose scarlet lotus"
      • Talk to Shozai again. He will have a different set of conversations for you to walk through.
        • If you ask about "mantras" he will tell you to learn a special one you need to travel the world and to start at the Monk monastery. 
    • Go to the monk monastery in the middle of the lake in Lucetium. Go to the joining/training room and meditate.
      • You will get a message telling you to go to the biggest waterfall in Lucetium, in the middle of a jungle and meditate there.

    • Once you meditate in the middle of the waterfall you will be given another task to meditate on a volcano near a place called Jungle Cave in Furnachia.
      • You are also granted the temporary skill "mountaineering" which will let you climb mountains if you have a rope. This skill won't expire until the next boot at least. It may actually stick around until you complete the next task but I haven't tested that.
      • You can buy a rope from the Tool shop in Lorenchia for 2 gold before you head to Furnachia. You can also pick up a "pick" at the weapon store which can help as well
    • Travel to the Jungle Cave in Furnachia. Your target is the volcano 'v' east of it.
      • To get past the mountain "use mountaineering at <direction>" to move one tile. Aka "use mountaineering at s"
      • You can speed things up by starting from the river to the south of the volcano so you only need to climb a few mountain tiles.
      • Once on the 'v', use meditation and you will receive a vision to visit the Tinmen Monestary in Desolathya.
    • Compared to the last two, the tinmen monastery is a pretty easy spot to reach.
      • Enter into the first room and use meditation.
      • You will learn the manta of introspection
    • Set your mantra using the command "monk sect mantra introspection"
    • Now return to Shozai the Paupers Prince in the Rilynt'tar Sewers
      • Talk to Shozai and ask him about body flows. He will then teach you the basics for them
      • You can now increase your proficiency in body flows using introspection.
      • To focus on body flows use the command "monk sect cultivate body flows"

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