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The Dream that is Dying (Exalted)

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[X] Water Dragon Style. Designed in emulation of Immaculate Daana'd, this style focuses on embodying water in all its forms. Practitioners flow like the tide, absorb blows like the ocean, and crush their foes with the full force of a tsunami.

Elemental powers don't get enough love in my opinion.
 
[X] Water Dragon Style. Designed in emulation of Immaculate Daana'd, this style focuses on embodying water in all its forms. Practitioners flow like the tide, absorb blows like the ocean, and crush their foes with the full force of a tsunami.
 
[X] Golden Janissary Style. Heroes have always stood against the darkness, and the monsters born within have learned to fear their burning touch. The graceful, almost dance-like motions of this spear-fighting style are as much meditative exercise as they are combat techniques
 
Storyteller said:
I haven't played exalted before and we apparently have the possibility of getting the ability to use horses as artificial weapons so please excuse me this - is that an actual power in this setting?
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It's a joke on my part. Neither Farah or Sabah have any schooling in types of demons or how to detect their presence, but Sabah was present when demons started ripping her family into pieces and is therefore kind of sensitive to similar sensory details in the future.

Also Hidden Horse Style was a non-canon joke written by a developer online and is not actually a possible acquisition in this quest. Sorry.
 
Storyteller said:
I haven't played exalted before and we apparently have the possibility of getting the ability to use horses as artificial weapons so please excuse me this - is that an actual power in this setting?
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edit - ninja'd by the qm

Hidden Horse Style is a homebrew martial art by Jenna Moran, who is a well published tabletop rpg developer with titles like Nobilis and Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine. She has also famously written material for Exalted, well received books like Games of Divinity and The Fair Folk, plus contribution credits across a whole range of things.

For this reason Hidden Horse Style has a little bit more weight on scale than a regular poster on rpg.net with a funny custom martial art style. It remains however a funny homebrew thing. That is not to say it couldn't be a thing in this Quest. Maugan Ra already included a few custom things. But I wouldn't expect it to be.
 
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Maugan Ra said:
It's a joke on my part. Neither Farah or Sabah have any schooling in types of demons or how to detect their presence, but Sabah was present when demons started ripping her family into pieces and is therefore kind of sensitive to similar sensory details in the future.

Also Hidden Horse Style was a non-canon joke written by a developer online and is not actually a possible acquisition in this quest. Sorry.
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Nice to hear but that doesn't change the part where horse knights now run rampant through my mind neighing for release! I find myself contemplating a quest from the perspective of horses!
 
[X] Golden Janissary Style. Heroes have always stood against the darkness, and the monsters born within have learned to fear their burning touch. The graceful, almost dance-like motions of this spear-fighting style are as much meditative exercise as they are combat techniques.
 
[X] Violet Bier of Sorrow Style. There is always an ending, and all things die. Demons are not exception. This style was first taught to the Sidereals by Saturn herself, and contains within its merciless katas the secret arts of the inevitable end. Even the lightest scratch from a master of this style can bring agonizing death.
 
[X] Violet Bier of Sorrow Style. There is always an ending, and all things die. Demons are not exception. This style was first taught to the Sidereals by Saturn herself, and contains within its merciless katas the secret arts of the inevitable end. Even the lightest scratch from a master of this style can bring agonizing death.
 
[X] Violet Bier of Sorrow Style. There is always an ending, and all things die. Demons are not exception. This style was first taught to the Sidereals by Saturn herself, and contains within its merciless katas the secret arts of the inevitable end. Even the lightest scratch from a master of this style can bring agonizing death.
 
[X] Violet Bier of Sorrow Style. There is always an ending, and all things die. Demons are not exception. This style was first taught to the Sidereals by Saturn herself, and contains within its merciless katas the secret arts of the inevitable end. Even the lightest scratch from a master of this style can bring agonizing death.
 
[X] Golden Janissary Style. Heroes have always stood against the darkness, and the monsters born within have learned to fear their burning touch. The graceful, almost dance-like motions of this spear-fighting style are as much meditative exercise as they are combat techniques
 
Maugan Ra said:
Also Hidden Horse Style was a non-canon joke written by a developer online and is not actually a possible acquisition in this quest. Sorry.
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infinite sadness.

[X] Water Dragon Style. Designed in emulation of Immaculate Daana'd, this style focuses on embodying water in all its forms. Practitioners flow like the tide, absorb blows like the ocean, and crush their foes with the full force of a tsunami.
 
[X] Water Dragon Style. Designed in emulation of Immaculate Daana'd, this style focuses on embodying water in all its forms. Practitioners flow like the tide, absorb blows like the ocean, and crush their foes with the full force of a tsunami.
 
[X] Violet Bier of Sorrow Style. There is always an ending, and all things die. Demons are not exception. This style was first taught to the Sidereals by Saturn herself, and contains within its merciless katas the secret arts of the inevitable end. Even the lightest scratch from a master of this style can bring agonizing death.
 
Maugan Ra said:
Also Hidden Horse Style was a non-canon joke written by a developer online and is not actually a possible acquisition in this quest. Sorry.
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Boo this man :V

To be honest I don't actually agree that it's a joke - yes, it has comic elements, but Exalted has always had comic elements, and much of what it does, acquiring horses that you could have acquired previously, wielding them as weapons, etc, is no more than what other Exalted do. Eternal Equinox Transcension is basically just "I'll beat a motherfucker with another motherfucker" but with horses, and that's just good clean fun by Exalted standards, and Sometimes Horses Approach is pretty much standard Sidereal "I could've done it already, so I retroactively did" shenanigans. It's a very Jenna Moran style, so it's full of whimsy and a touch of the absurd, but, well, Jenna Moran already developed and wrote much of the setting, so that kind of whimsy is already baked into Exalted.

A big part of why I made a push for it is basically that I like the cataphract aspect of Farah, because mounted combat isn't something that often turns up in quests or RPG's in general, or Exalted in particular, and as a consequence of that, there really aren't that many martial art styles that revolve around mounted combat. Apart from Hidden Horse Style, there's Lightning Hoof Style (which is a Terrestrial Martial Art, so nobody cares, and was published in a supplement to Scroll of the Monk, so anybody who does care turns up their nose) and... that's about it. Seriously, when I went looking for homebrew the closest I could find was Soaring Wind-Rider Style, and one of the first things that does is let you fight as if mounted while on foot. Kind of missing the point. Also, again, it's a TMA, so nobody cares, and it's incompatible with armour so insofar as it is a cavalry style, it's firmly light cavalry.

Like, Hidden Horse Style is not actually a perfect fit for what I want, it's not actually a style about being an armoured cataphract, but I'm dealing with a certain edge of "take what you can get," you know?

So, if Maugan feels they can't take it seriously... well, fair enough, there's no sense in pushing for something the QM doesn't think they can write. That's just self-defeating, and satisfies nobody. But it does leave me with nothing I'm really inclined to vote for (I guess Golden Janissary can be used while mounted, and spears are a decent fit? No, still can't get enthusiastic about the budget Solar style), so I guess I'm abstaining.
 
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Imrix said:
Boo this man :V

To be honest I don't actually agree that it's a joke - yes, it has comic elements, but Exalted has always had comic elements, and much of what it does, acquiring horses that you could have acquired previously, wielding them as weapons, etc, is no more than what other Exalted do. Eternal Equinox Transcension is basically just "I'll beat a motherfucker with another motherfucker" but with horses, and that's just good clean fun by Exalted standards, and Sometimes Horses Approach is just standard Sidereal "I could've done it already, so I retroactively did" shenanigans. It's a very Jenna Moran style, so it's full of whimsy and a touch of the absurd, but, well, Jenna Moran already developed and wrote much of the setting, so that kind of whimsy is already baked into Exalted.

A big part of why I made a push for it is basically that I like the cataphract aspect of Farah, because mounted combat isn't something that often turns up in quests or RPG's in general, or Exalted in particular, and as a consequence of that, there really aren't that many martial art styles that revolve around mounted combat. Apart from Hidden Horse Style, there's Lightning Hoof Style (which is a Terrestrial Martial Art, so nobody cares, and was published in a supplement to Scroll of the Monk, so anybody who does care turns up their nose) and... that's about it. Seriously, when I went looking for homebrew the closest I could find was Soaring Wind-Rider Style, and one of the first things that does is let you fight as if mounted while on foot. Kind of missing the point. Also, again, it's a TMA, so nobody cares. Like, Hidden Horse Style is not actually a perfect fit for what I want, it's not actually a style about being an armoured cataphract, but I'm dealing with a certain edge of "take what you can get," you know?

So, if Maugan feels they can't take it seriously... well, fair enough, there's no sense in pushing for something the QM doesn't think they can write. That's just self-defeating, and satisfies nobody. But it does leave me with nothing I'm really inclined to vote for (I guess Golden Janissary can be used while mounted, and spears are a decent fit? No, still can't get enthusiastic about the budget Solar style), so I guess I'm abstaining.
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I feel you man. Maybe Farah can work on creating Celestial Cataphract Style in the future? :)
 
I mean I can always work on outright developing a cataphract-friendly martial art style for Farah to learn (or that they can actually develop) in that case. It's relatively easy to do for a quest format like this because we don't need to worry about fiddly essence costs and such. So if you have ideas for possible charms and abilities such a style should include I'd be interested in hearing them, for future reference if nothing else.

(Also Hidden Horse Style has a charm where the martial artist reveals that they substituted themselves for the enemy's mount several rounds ago and have been flawlessly pretending to be a horse since that point. I can't write that in any kind of serious way. I just can't.)
 
[X] Water Dragon Style. Designed in emulation of Immaculate Daana'd, this style focuses on embodying water in all its forms. Practitioners flow like the tide, absorb blows like the ocean, and crush their foes with the full force of a tsunami.

Punch this ape really hard.

Ok, this leaves a few questions, first of all will Sabah somehow use our fight with the demon to slip away unnoticed by us?
And also, when will heaven find out that a sidereal exaltation has awakend and how long until the fellowship tries to reach us?
 
[X] Water Dragon Style. Designed in emulation of Immaculate Daana'd, this style focuses on embodying water in all its forms. Practitioners flow like the tide, absorb blows like the ocean, and crush their foes with the full force of a tsunami.

Always liked this style.
 
Wellhello said:
And also, when will heaven find out that a sidereal exaltation has awakend and how long until the fellowship tries to reach us?
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Depends on whether they were expecting our Exaltation or not. If our predecessor died at the end of their expected lifespan and the Fellowship knew it was coming then we could be picked up anytime in the next few days, but if their death was unexpected? We might be out here on our own for months or even years.
 
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