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Ebeli Quest: How to Manage your Plot Devices and Save Creation

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GardenerBriareus said:
[X] Kick his ass in the name of House Ebeli.
-[X] And listen to Ray's idea. Then maybe follow it.


He was a Dragonblood then, he's made of quartz now - that makes me think he's became some bastardized behemothic approximation of what a "Crystal Aspect" Terrestrial Exalt would look like when the Eye's unbound Mythos engulfed him. Anyone have any idea which Aspect he was originally? It'd be academically intriguing to see which element of Creation it mapped to the Pole of Crystal.
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Manosque Viridian indicates he was a Wood Caste. Maybe he can seduce Autochthon as well. Possibly in a competition with V'Neef.
 
Hm.

Adamant Circle sorcery, yes... or perhaps, if cut down and streamlined for its purpose, perhaps God Machine tier Design Weaving?

Because the People of Adamant would almost certainly be capable of that tier of Autochthonian Sorcery. And that means that we could make it contagious: cast a spell on one set of five, teach them the streamlined spell, tell the new person to find another set of five and repeat the process; thus one becomes two, two becomes four, and within a mere twenty times (training time) months we've covered the whole species.
 
[X] Kick his ass in the name of House Ebeli.
-[X] And listen to Ray's idea. Then maybe follow it.
 
linkhyrule5 said:
Hm.

Adamant Circle sorcery, yes... or perhaps, if cut down and streamlined for its purpose, perhaps God Machine tier Design Weaving?

Because the People of Adamant would almost certainly be capable of that tier of Autochthonian Sorcery. And that means that we could make it contagious: cast a spell on one set of five, teach them the streamlined spell, tell the new person to find another set of five and repeat the process; thus one becomes two, two becomes four, and within a mere twenty times (training time) months we've covered the whole species.
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Wouldn't that require all the Jabeborn be in Autochthonia? Also, we'd end up with an army of People of Adamant who all know Sorcery. Not sure that's a good thing.
 
PhoenixFTW said:
Wouldn't that require all the Jabeborn be in Autochthonia? Also, we'd end up with an army of People of Adamant who all know Sorcery. Not sure that's a good thing.
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Enh. Sorcery is the least of our concerns - the People of Adamant were to some extent competitors even to the Exalted, limited more by their inability to quickly reproduce than their raw power. If we're committed to fixing them, to addressing that injustice, then we're going to have to deal with "400,000 abused super-DBs" one way or another as it is; Sorcery won't really make that appreciably more problematic.

And I'm pretty sure the Design overrides the Loom, in fact, so I don't think there's a problem there, though it's been a while since I've read that book.
 
linkhyrule5 said:
Hm.

Adamant Circle sorcery, yes... or perhaps, if cut down and streamlined for its purpose, perhaps God Machine tier Design Weaving?

Because the People of Adamant would almost certainly be capable of that tier of Autochthonian Sorcery. And that means that we could make it contagious: cast a spell on one set of five, teach them the streamlined spell, tell the new person to find another set of five and repeat the process; thus one becomes two, two becomes four, and within a mere twenty times (training time) months we've covered the whole species.
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Ah yes, the Form Voltron Weaving Protocol.

Four workers or warriors grunting unintelligibly, and an Artisan announcing that they shall form the head.
 
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In the Name of House Ebeli!
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    • [X]Kick his butt in the name of House Ebeli.
    -[X]Listen to Ray's idea and maybe do it


    You     turn to Ray. "Okay. Idea?"

    "Sifu's taught me new tricks since we spent a hundred years in the Primal Forge," Ray says, "Plus side: It will make you amazing for about...eh...ten minutes?" Your circle sister shrugs. "Minus side, if we can't break the effect- and I think I can, 'cause it will need more Sidereal Martial arts and I know the stuff- you will be kind of insane."

    You laugh, softly.

    "Airship has left that dock."

    "Point. Do it?"

    Manosque Viridian- holy crap it really is Manosque Viridian- continues proclaiming his excellence. "Do it."

    Ray whispers, softly, slowly,

    "Four maidens walked through a door and there was all they ever wanted."

    Her finger brushes against the back of your neck. In that moment, you feel it. The certainty. The clarity. The glory and certainty that destiny itself now gives you aid. The weight of the world comes down upon you and you hold it firmly upon your shoulders. What is this, you ask?

    What have you become?

    (Int+Occult, 12 dice, +10 successes, 15 successes)

    You see-

    You see the unfurling Perfected Lotus before you. In that moment does the very blossom open for you, and upon your tongue does a single petal drop. Its taste, its texture, tells you everything-
    ​
    Sidereal Martial Art
    Border of Kaleidoscopic Logic Style
    Birth of the Perfected Ego Juggernaut
    ​
    Whatever that means. So you raise your staff and you declare to the fellow grandchild of the Scarlet Empress;

    "Proclaim all you want, Scion of the Dead House! I, scion of your successor, will kick your hard crystal buttcheeks in the name of House Ebeli!"

    (Charisma+Presence, 9 dice +10 autosuccesses, 14 successes)

    The quartz figure stares at you. Color fills in the crystal figurine. Emerald, green. Ah, yes. Viridian. You narrow your eyes with a smirk.

    Yes, you see. Not exactly a dragonblooded! But, as he is not dead, he still retains that spark without being entirely human. Ish. Instead, you can safely pronounce him as an Autochthonian Dragonblooded!

    And you are a Solar Exalted, so whatever!

    "An insignificant, self-righteous scion of the False Empress? I will show you true power!"

    Viridian raises a hand. Song Keeper screams, Sky grunts, and Ray yelps. Autochthon simply watches, but you stand tall and triumphant as the entire tower reshapes itself via the power of the Eye of Autochthon. Up becomes down, Inside becomes Outside.

    The world around you becomes the White of Elsewhere, but you stamp your foot down and cast the Chaos Repelling Pattern around yourself before you leap and swing your staff at the quartz man.

    (Dex+Melee, 20 dice +10 successes, 20 successes)

    It strikes and smashes into Viridian's face. The crystal warps around the head of your staff, like flesh. You manage to knock his helmet clean off and send him sprawling back, and he rights himself- still flying, but he extends a hand.

    Something screams, tearing through the world above you. From on high. Like the top of the tower.

    You kick back, swing back your staff, and stand on bits of falling crystal. An object- a sphere- drops from the sky and into Viridian's hand.

    Manosque Viridian holds the Eye of Autochthon. The Eye rotates, in the hands of its master.

    "Pitiful, usurping spawn of the false empress, I will erase you from-"

    You move. Move faster tha you ever had before, the certaintly carrying you across a bridge of falling crystal and straight to your cousin. With one deft, precise motion, you place a hand on the brass sphere.

    "Mine."

    (Int+Lore, 12 dice, +15 autosuccesses, 22 successes)

    The Eye of Autochthon rotates and fixes itself into a single brass orb which now stares at you. Viridian yells out, in disbelief, in anger. The Eye acknowledges you as its new master, and you speak-

    "As you were." The Eye spins. Quartz becomes flesh. Essence returns as it was. Manosque Viridian returns to life, and the powerful Dragonblooded scion looks at his hands, gasping. Breathing, something he has not done in many, many years. His green eyes go wide and he stands upright, and a face much like your own stares back at you.

    He thanks you by pointing his gauntlets at you and blasting you. You idly reflect it off your staff with a laugh.

    "Oh ho ho!" you say, one hand on your hip, "That tables! Have turned!"

    "For the moment only," Viridian responds, mirroring your pose, summoning from somewhere a blade and shield, "I shall have the Eye returned to me!"

    You crack your knuckles. "You and what army?"

    Then he snaps his fingers and the crystal elementals appear around him. Oh yes, he is a sorcerer. Also, that army.
    ​
    Join Battle:
    The Crimson Emperor
    Manosque Viridian
    ​
    [ ]Use the Eye.
    -[ ]To do what?

    [ ]Write in.    ​
     
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    • Oh geez. That Charm. Isn't that the one that goes away after a while, but you don't think it does, so you get lost in delusions of grandeur for eternity? I wasn't aware it even had a counter-Charm.
     
    linkhyrule5 said:
    Oh geez. That Charm. Isn't that the one that goes away after a while, but you don't think it does, so you get lost in delusions of grandeur for eternity? I wasn't aware it even had a counter-Charm.
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    Technically, as a master of Prismatic Order of Creation style, Ray can use the charm disruption charm to break it's hold over us. The counter charm is on that makes you view your life backwards and hence break the illusion, and is a part of BoKLS.
     
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    GreggHL said:
    Technically, as a master of Prismatic Arrangement of Creation style, Ray can use the charm disruption charm to break it's hold over us. The counter charm is on that makes you view your life backwards and hence break the illusion, and is a part of BoKLS.
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    Ebeli can also use Transcendent Hero's Meditation to snap herself out of it. Alternatively, a wielder of Solar Hero Style can use Thunder Breaks The Clouds to literally slap her out of it.

    Also, FTFY.
     
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