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Hell is Other People (Exalted/World of Darkness)

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ManusDomini said:
You always wanted to be something. You always expected to be something. Through your entire life, success has graced you. No, you have taken success and made it what it is; rightfully yours. But tonight, you tried too much, and this time you bit more than you could bear and in response your failure perforated your lungs, broke both your arms and a shoulder, fucked up your throat, tore off a leg and left you with the garbage to cry out your sorrows like the failure you are.
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#millennialmood

i mean this is pretty on track, except usually the "get your legs ripped off and beaten to death with 'em" is more metaphorical.

ManusDomini said:
Choose fighting for the God's empty throne. Choose the Ten Thousand Hells. Choose the Yama Kings. Choose the Throne of Want. Choose desire and raw passion. Choose ascension. Choose an eternity of ambition. Choose hellish enlightenment. Choose the Wheel of Ages. Choose the quailing earth. Choose the trembling heavens. Choose the keys to the kingdom. Choose the Sixth Age.

Choose Royalty.

Choose Exaltation.
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Man I don't even have anything to say to this, the revised rewrite was immensely compelling just, like, that hook of "the end is coming, you can feel it. This world will come crumbling down. You're standing at the edge and you can't go back so what do you do as this new world dawns". It scratches all kinds of itches I didn't even know I had and I love it to bits really. And I'm super thrilled to see Manus leveraging it to full effect.

[X] Playing Mindless Games: You are a popular girl, you've always been so. Your life has been one long search for excellence. You were head cheerleader, most popular girl and queen bitch par excellence in high school, and when you reached the law school that you knew lay in your destiny, little changed. Little miss perfect's royal entourage of fawning admirers never shrank, nor did the hilarity you found in playing them off against each other. Oh, what joy.

I like this a lot. Just that idea that the PC was easily, effortlessly, the top of the social food chain and then just, like, abruptly found herself at the bottom of the more literal food chain. And I like the potential for the clash of just...going from being the biggest fish in the smallish pond to getting a glimpse of the nightmares behind the world and realizing how fake and shallow so much of it has been. It's a seed with a lot of potential to go in positive or negative directions and generate tons of conflict. And I'm a huge sucker for "I need to use these skills that I honed in a sorta low-stakes environment in this life-or-death situation". Where the PC has to leverage every inch of her social expertise to stay afloat in this fresh new hell.
 
[X] Reading Useless Texts: You are an inquisitive girl, you've always been so. You spent your time researching everything you could about everything. Your mind would make leaps of logic and shifts of association and you would forget to sleep in the mad fervor of your interests. You would never truly master your interests, but it is not most girls who learn to speak conversational Turkish in a few weeks of feverish obsession. Your parents were sure that university would ensure your eventual success. So were you.


Why yes, I realize I'm pissing against the wind here. I dunno, I just like this one better than the others.
 
Deadly Snark said:
I got some Incubus(KSB version) vibes from this Ravanna. Anyone else?
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You should expect to see more Kill Six Billion Demons inspiration. It's one of my favourite comics in a long time.

MooGoesCow21 said:
Probably a bad Idea the Technocracy is any Exalteds worst nightmare and this could be NWOD
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Nah, I'd have gone with a radically different tone for nWoD, this is cWoD through and through, although I'm not sure how many aspects of it I will use without modification. Currently you should assume that Vampire is definitely canon and there might be evil financier-wizards with technomagic and robotic pawns, but I'm not sure how much of the full on Technocracy you'll see.
 
[X] Playing Mindless Games: You are a popular girl, you've always been so. Your life has been one long search for excellence. You were head cheerleader, most popular girl and queen bitch par excellence in high school, and when you reached the law school that you knew lay in your destiny, little changed. Little miss perfect's royal entourage of fawning admirers never shrank, nor did the hilarity you found in playing them off against each other. Oh, what joy.

Changed my mind, I want to be a Mean Girl.
 
[X] Playing Mindless Games: You are a popular girl, you've always been so. Your life has been one long search for excellence. You were head cheerleader, most popular girl and queen bitch par excellence in high school, and when you reached the law school that you knew lay in your destiny, little changed. Little miss perfect's royal entourage of fawning admirers never shrank, nor did the hilarity you found in playing them off against each other. Oh, what joy.

Going for this, I hope we can get to the "wish granting for a price' charm.
 
So, for people who haven't been following it, Holden decided to be a crazy person and release a fan-book called Exalted vs World of Darkness. It is to the surprise of everyone that it is actually really good. The first book covered the general setting, how the Exalted got to where they are now, what happened to the Dragonblooded, and how everyone is likely to react to these literal fucking demigods stomping around with the all the subtly of a hand grenade.

This is relevant because Manus quoted the Companion for it when they advertised this thread in the General Exalted Thread.

It's Old World of Darkness the Exalts are invading rather than the New World. Now with that said, our GM is fairly likely to mess around with stuff so probably don't any books as gospel.
 
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EarthScorpion said:
[X] Playing Mindless Games: You are a popular girl, you've always been so. Your life has been one long search for excellence. You were head cheerleader, most popular girl and queen bitch par excellence in high school, and when you reached the law school that you knew lay in your destiny, little changed. Little miss perfect's royal entourage of fawning admirers never shrank, nor did the hilarity you found in playing them off against each other. Oh, what joy.

Queen bitch? No no no, no queen bitch here. A queen bitch lacks ambition.

This is a demon empress bitch who rises from this sullied alley. She's not merely catty. She's tigrish.
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Penelope would be proud. Like, on a frozen mountain a severed eyeball has cried a single tear that froze before it hit the ground and it does not understand why.

ManusDomini said:
Nah, I'd have gone with a radically different tone for nWoD, this is cWoD through and through, although I'm not sure how many aspects of it I will use without modification. Currently you should assume that Vampire is definitely canon and there might be evil financier-wizards with technomagic and robotic pawns, but I'm not sure how much of the full on Technocracy you'll see.
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Clearly, I should make my votes all in-character as a Technocrat amusing themselves via trolling while posting from a O' Tooleys.
 
[X] Playing Mindless Games: You are a popular girl, you've always been so. Your life has been one long search for excellence. You were head cheerleader, most popular girl and queen bitch par excellence in high school, and when you reached the law school that you knew lay in your destiny, little changed. Little miss perfect's royal entourage of fawning admirers never shrank, nor did the hilarity you found in playing them off against each other. Oh, what joy.
 
I maintain that having blood on your knuckles is the highest art known to man. I want to get so beat to shit that we look like a Die Hard protagonist or the Punisher then scream our fury to the heavens and throw a motorcycle at someone. That is my dream.
 
[X] Fighting Pointless Battles: You are a violent girl, you've always been so. You spent your time humiliating the chaff of McDojos and catching glimpses of violent enlightenment in the clarity of fist bones breaking and things giving way to the strength of your body. Your mother once told you to get a boyfriend and you laughed, you were sure that no boy in high school would date you and university sure didn't help either. People didn't fight you, you broke people. Well, until tonight. Haha.
 
[X] Mistrusting Close Friends: You are not a trusting girl, you never were. You spent your days lying and cheating, never exactly on the side of the law. In high school, people knew came to you to get access to things they shouldn't get their hands on. Now? Well now everyone comes to you to get access to things they shouldn't have their hands on. You're not some back-alley dealer, you know people, many people, and you know how to get everything. It's just a matter of whom to ask.

Yeah, it's not going to win, but so what? You almost never see an MC who's a Scourge/Day/Night caste.
 
[X] Playing Mindless Games: You are a popular girl, you've always been so. Your life has been one long search for excellence. You were head cheerleader, most popular girl and queen bitch par excellence in high school, and when you reached the law school that you knew lay in your destiny, little changed. Little miss perfect's royal entourage of fawning admirers never shrank, nor did the hilarity you found in playing them off against each other. Oh, what joy.

Nothing could go wrong with Demon Empress Penelope

Except for all the NWO overtime needed to clean that shit up

But you know, fuck 'em, they're underworked and oversexed
 
[X] Fighting Pointless Battles: You are a violent girl, you've always been so. You spent your time humiliating the chaff of McDojos and catching glimpses of violent enlightenment in the clarity of fist bones breaking and things giving way to the strength of your body. Your mother once told you to get a boyfriend and you laughed, you were sure that no boy in high school would date you and university sure didn't help either. People didn't fight you, you broke people. Well, until tonight. Haha.

I just want to see great amounts of violence.
 
So I know WoD is all about being sneaky and playing the political game and ruling from the shadows but screw that!

We are the Demon King of the sixth age! We will pull the vampires from their towers and burn them with our hateful light! We will cast down the financier-wizards who rule with an invisible hand! We will break the Forsaken like dogs! We will reach heaven through violence!

Anyway so yeah, let's vote for pointless battles and become a true demon king
 
[X] Reading Useless Texts: You are an inquisitive girl, you've always been so. You spent your time researching everything you could about everything. Your mind would make leaps of logic and shifts of association and you would forget to sleep in the mad fervor of your interests. You would never truly master your interests, but it is not most girls who learn to speak conversational Turkish in a few weeks of feverish obsession. Your parents were sure that university would ensure your eventual success. So were you.

I know it won't win, but it's the principle of it all dammit!
 
[X] Playing Mindless Games: You are a popular girl, you've always been so. Your life has been one long search for excellence. You were head cheerleader, most popular girl and queen bitch par excellence in high school, and when you reached the law school that you knew lay in your destiny, little changed. Little miss perfect's royal entourage of fawning admirers never shrank, nor did the hilarity you found in playing them off against each other. Oh, what joy.

Not my first pick, but is actually likely to win.
 
[X] Playing Mindless Games: You are a popular girl, you've always been so. Your life has been one long search for excellence. You were head cheerleader, most popular girl and queen bitch par excellence in high school, and when you reached the law school that you knew lay in your destiny, little changed. Little miss perfect's royal entourage of fawning admirers never shrank, nor did the hilarity you found in playing them off against each other. Oh, what joy.
 
[X] Playing Mindless Games: You are a popular girl, you've always been so. Your life has been one long search for excellence. You were head cheerleader, most popular girl and queen bitch par excellence in high school, and when you reached the law school that you knew lay in your destiny, little changed. Little miss perfect's royal entourage of fawning admirers never shrank, nor did the hilarity you found in playing them off against each other. Oh, what joy.

I have been convinced.
 
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