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*shrug* They've been around for awhile. Even if it is, grampa clause kicks in at this point.
 
Accelerator said:
Cool. Then that mean that my idea of a first circle demon that acts as a drop pod isn't so out there.
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Drop pod from where? As in, where's it being dropped from? Also, why does it need to be a drop pod? They use them in 40k to gt past AA fire, which is less of a problem in Malfeas and barely one at all in Creation.
 
QafianSage said:
Drop pod from where? As in, where's it being dropped from? Also, why does it need to be a drop pod? They use them in 40k to gt past AA fire, which is less of a problem in Malfeas and barely one at all in Creation.
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Playing devil's advocate, a drop pod would still be useful for targeted deployment of reinforcements mid-battle, since you don't have to worry about fighting your way through the military forces between you and the destination.
 
GardenerBriareus said:
Playing devil's advocate, a drop pod would still be useful for targeted deployment of reinforcements mid-battle, since you don't have to worry about fighting your way through the military forces between you and the destination.
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Even then, you'd still need to drop it from somewhere. Perhaps it grows balloons on its top side, floats over the battle, then jettison the balloons? I mean, if we're talking about something like Enali using them that's a different matter, but...
 
GardenerBriareus said:
Playing devil's advocate, a drop pod would still be useful for targeted deployment of reinforcements mid-battle, since you don't have to worry about fighting your way through the military forces between you and the destination.
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Better yet.

Why sneak your way into a fortress when you can just crash your way inside?

QafianSage said:
Even then, you'd still need to drop it from somewhere. Perhaps it grows balloons on its top side, floats over the battle, then jettison the balloons? I mean, if we're talking about something like Enali using them that's a different matter, but...
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Why not just use a custom portal charm to teleport a dozen miles above them?

Then use more charms to charge towards the earth like a meteor strike...
 
QafianSage said:
Even then, you'd still need to drop it from somewhere. Perhaps it grows balloons on its top side, floats over the battle, then jettison the balloons? I mean, if we're talking about something like Enali using them that's a different matter, but...
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Actually, my first thought would be something like a giant armored insect with four grasshopper legs (so it acts as a drop pod by just hopping a mile in the air and then crash-landing) and a huge, bulbous, chitinous growth on its central body that can be converted into a troop storage area via carving, boring, and otherwise applying stonecutting & engineering concepts to its meaty flesh.

Presumably, a major part of the craftsmanship involves cauterizing enough of the interior to slow down the rate at which the chitin regrows to try and close up the pocket you've carved out, but not so much that it doesn't still dump shitloads of pus and plasma and other gooey fluids into the compartment - because its bodily fluids act as a shock absorber, keeping the troops you load inside from being killed by the force of impact when it lands.

Of course, you can't load much more than 3-5 people into one of these things, both due to size constraints of the FCD itself and the fact that overloading it just means you end up with a giant armored grasshopper horror full of dead people bumbling around the battlefield.
 
... oops?

I was thinking of some kind of beetle. With rockets in the back. You know that compartment it has on its body, to store its vulnerable wings?

Yeah, put your troops inside that.
 
Faraway-R said:
Yeah, they have that. The only requirement is they need to be in the air to use it. Wonderful, and very flashy, escape ride.

Back in the extension of the book that describes Wyld locations, there's a story of a guy with winged armor (Artifact 4) that was caught in a location with ever-rising winds and literally died. His body is still floating 1 mile in the air. After some pondering I figured that summoning Agatae to first portal to the body, then to portal back, is going to be the most likely way to retrieve it without consequences.
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Which book? 2E or 3E?
Do you have a page number?
 
Imrix said:
Bright Shattered Ice
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I have so many issues with BSI. She's a horrible person, poorly written, poorly conceived, terrible representation of a 1st Age Twilight that just makes the 'Surprise! Sorcerer Supreme Salina is a Zenith' sting all the worse. The way she's written is just terrible and invites you to think of get as not just horrible but kinda incompetent and inept.

Uhg, I just hate her so much.
 
Accelerator said:
Better yet.

Why sneak your way into a fortress when you can just crash your way inside?
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Landscape Travel—An agata uses this Charm to carry up to two armored men while it flies; it can fly unencumbered without the Charm
Portal—An agata in flight can open a portal from its current location to another aerial location that it can see up to 30 miles away

Agata themselves are not stellar warriors. While it is conceivable that you could have an agata deliver troops inside a fortress, you're going to have to deiver them into the airspace above the fortress that they have line of sight to, which means any guards will have line of sight to them before they portal in, and then they'll have to drop off both the soldiers they carry in a plaza somewhere. You're going to need a ton of wasps to take a fortress.
 
EarthScorpion said:
Penzmadarka, the Coin Fetches
Demon of the First Circle
Progeny of the Custodian Abstract

A penzmadarka is no larger than a man's hand, and takes the form of a songbird with brazen feathers and a head of an aged woman. In Hell, they flock around the door-mouths of their maker Quv and pick forgotten treasures from his door-mouths. Their music is ugly to the ear and yet alluring, and while they sing men ignore things that are unpleasing to the eye and see only beauty. This tarnishes their hearts, coating them in a thin sheath of verdigris and from this verdigris is born greed.

Such men gather their wealth together and sit by it day and night, watching and endlessly recounting it. This pleases the coin fetch, for when the greed-wracked man falls asleep the demon swoops in. Despite their diminutive size, their hunger is immense and pains them constantly and a single penzmadarka can consume tens of times its volume in wealth in a single feast.

From such avaricious gluttony the coin fetches lay priceless eggs, made from precious materials and encrusted with hellish gems. These eggs are so beautiful as to break the mortal heart, and many who own one become ascetics, suffering exquisite agony from the knowledge that nothing else they own is as beautiful as this. However, not all hearts are so soft and many eggs are smashed open and the metals and jewels sold for base wealth. The penzmadarkae do not care about the destruction of their eggs, however, and they will gladly feast on their shattered remnants.

Summoning: (Obscurity 1/3): Sorcerers know well of the coin fetches, and call on them to take wealth from others and for their eggs. Quite apart from their beautiful nature, the hellish gems that encrust them have many thaumaturgical and sorcerous purposes. It is not rare for a particularly avaricious sorcerer to walk around with a penzmadarka on their shoulder. Hunger inflicts suffering on these greedy birds, and they gain a point of Limit for each day that they do not consume things worth at least Resources 3. A coin fetch can escape Hell when a snake egg is hatched by a brooding bird, the demon breaking out of the leathery egg.
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These are Brilliant and one of my faves! Well done!
 
uju32 said:
Which book? 2E or 3E?
Do you have a page number?
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2E, I don't own any others. It's a Northern Wyld section, the place is described as the First Age location to learn flying due to local wind situation.

Specifically - Compass of Celestial Directions, Volume 2 - The Wyld - Splinters of the Wyld. That's the 40-page supplement, not the book. Page 7, right column, The Flight Zone (Manse 3). On page 8, it has this:

Though it is nearly impossible to see from the ground (with mortal eyes, at least), a Dragon-Blooded corpse flies in a repeating pattern several miles above the manse. It wears jade wings of the raptor (see The Books of Sorcery, Vol. I—Wonders of the Lost Age, p. 54). At that height, the air is so strong that nobody could ever get the body down. Few even dared try, with such an example.​

Obviously, an agata can probably open a portal to that corpse, and then open a portal to near the surface, bypassing the problems with getting back to safe, solid land.
 
Every time I see a proposal of a setting with Exalts in it where Exalted happened in the distant past/prehistory of the setting, and now the Exalts are coming back this song immediately jumps to the forefront of my mind.
 
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Calboon said:
One of the previous developers of 3e, holden shearer, did a Exalted vs world of darkness hack. On the off chance anybody is interested the link is below. It runs off of V20.

Exalted vs the World of Darkness | Holden Shearer on Patreon
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Christ how did Holden accidentally make a rules-moderate Exalted system entirely as a random throwaway that works surprisingly well

What even is this shit

I mean it's really dumb and has some cringeworthy parts but it wouldn't be oWoD without those so I'm not even going to knock him for that

This is amazing
 
MJ12 Commando said:
Christ how did Holden accidentally make a rules-moderate Exalted system entirely as a random throwaway that works surprisingly well

What even is this shit

I mean it's really dumb and has some cringeworthy parts but it wouldn't be oWoD without those so I'm not even going to knock him for that

This is amazing
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Yea I ran it on Friday for two people and had a blast.

Like its still Owod so a bit of a clunker but it lets a Abyssal buzz saw through a entire warehouse of ghouls so I consider it a success.
 
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Picture this, if you will: Elysium. All the best-dressed monsters in the city have gathered to see and be seen. There's a commotion outside the doors, and conversations stall as immortals tilt their heads and listen. The door opens and an unconscious ghoul falls through it. A wave of alarm ripples through the room, followed by anger and hunger. The figure in the doorway is human, you see. Mortal. Some of them can smell the sweat on his skin, hear his heart pounding in his chest. It's just a kid, 18, 20 tops, skinny, with a wild mop of carroty hair, standing there backlit by a street light. He's got a gym bag. The room's silent enough to hear a pin drop, certainly quiet enough that everyone hears him swallow and unzip the bag. Half of them could be across the room in a heartbeat to end this, but eternity's a long time and there are, eventually, so few surprises. He pulls off his shirt, revealing nothing very impressive, and then brings two objects out of the gym bag. The first is the saddest, shittiest mall katana you could ever imagine. The second is a rubber horse-head mask, which he pulls on before stepping out into the gallery light. The first vampire is just starting to laugh when the icon of a blazing sun erupts, shining gold through the rubber mask, and then the killing starts.




Y'know, I'm not really familiar with the old world of darkness, but this is exactly what I was expecting, and honestly? I'm kinda into it.
 
EarthScorpion said:
I'mma gonna be honest here, those demons are born of the "joke" that they lay Fabergé eggs. :p
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That's even better I friggin love Faberge Eggs, and having a Faberge egg addiction ala Bleeding Gums Murphy. It sounds vaguely familiar, I ever read the demon till now but I think I read you mention something about Faberge eggs before.

But hey this is coming from the guy who made a Demon modeled after a thousand monkeys on a type writer, and another Demon modeled after the character from Harvest Moon!
 
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