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Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

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DragonParadox said:
One thing you guys might want to consider is how Molly will interact with her siblings once she gets home. I mean she does have super-powers on the one hand... on the other hand they are hell superpowers.
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Well, since we have super hell frost at the tip of our fingers, making physical contact and other extremities rather difficult, there's always Mind Hand Manipulation. Sure it won't be the same, but a Telekinesis hug is a hug nonetheless.
 
I mean, this is the kind of Flaw that can probably be bought off, unlike some of them. Since it boils down to "Unfamiliarity with using your powers" in this case I suspect.
 
zxzx24 said:
I am not so sure of that, but well see.
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The flaw does specify that Molly drains heat with a touch as if she was an equal mass of ice. If we take that literally then the unnatural cold shouldn't propagate differently than regular cold, so we can habitually have her dress up in insulating layers and slow the heat loss rate she induces.

It's not ideal, but it could be enough for a hug.

For a more magical solution, we could make use of this at some point:

most inCandesCent Blessing oF the Fire dragon
This spell can only be cast within the Spirit World. The sorcerer ventures to a place evocative of fire, such as a foundry or the site of a recent wildfire, speaks the long-forgotten name of the elemental dragon-ruler of flames, and calls the power of elemental fire to inhabit a mundane item.
System: Spend 5 Essence and make an extended Intelligence + Occult roll against difficulty 8. Once the player accumulates ten successes, the item is enchant- ed. This spell enchants a perfectly mundane, non-mag- ical item with one of two possible blessings. The first makes the object completely immune to fire – but not, notably, the character carrying or wearing the enchant- ed item. The second possible blessing allows the item's
user to spend 1 Willpower to cause the object to be- come hot for the rest of the scene. This can make it easy to stay warm in cold climates. Heated weapons glow red-hot, increasing their damage by +1.
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Get some full body long johns and apply the heating enchantment to them. It's implied that it gets hot enough to keep you warm without being burned unless it's on a weapon, so Molly could do stuff like give a hug without freezing somebody.

Really opera gloves with that effect would probably be more useful, since needing to touch things without freezing them will probably come up more often.
 
zxzx24 said:
  1. Molly Carpenter refers to her siblings as Jawas
From the wiki

Daniel is the boss kid now, but he isn't as good as you. He yells lots more.— HOPE TO MOLLY[1]​

@DragonParadox What's your plan for characterizing half a dozen children? They dont appear to have had much screen time.
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I will take what is in there and expand it in a way that makes sense for people raised by Molly and Charity. I think one of the most triky things for you guys is going to be the fact that the are at different levels of awareness of 'what goes bump in the night' since you do not tell your seven year old 'monsters are real and they run much of the world in secret'. Trouble is you are a bit of a walking masquerade breech that way especially if your anima should flare around them. Michael and Charity have some adjustments to make and not just in the 'Molly has magic' sense directly.
 
I honestly hope we never have to spend 4 essence in the house. Except in training maybe.

That would imply things going very badly, rather than casual charm use.

@Valkhir I tend to agree, but Michael and Charity have been doing this their entire lives. I am inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt. Also we have some crazy mystical defenses apparently. A threshold?

Artemis1992 said:
It's a tie.

One more person for distracting mom from the magical topic please?
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I dont think this vote is very high stakes. Are you worried Charity will freak out if we talk to Dresden?
 
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zxzx24 said:
I tend to agree, but Michael and Charity have been doing this their entire lives. I am inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt. Also we have some crazy mystical defenses apparently. A threshold?
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They do have that, on their house.

So if the children ever go anywhere else, no protection. Hopefully they got at least the basics like crosses and prayer against Black Court etc. They don't need everything because ...what can a kid do even with all the knowledge, but self-defense level.
 
Valkhir said:
They do have that, on their house.

So if the children ever go anywhere else, no protection. Hopefully they got at least the basics like crosses and prayer against Black Court etc. They don't need everything because ...what can a kid do even with all the knowledge, but self-defense level.
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As children? Even that much they wont likely be able to use.

On top of giving them secrets that might draw attention.

Same thing if we stuck "invisible" guardian spirits around them.

Chances are high someone would notice, and question why these particular children have such creatures following them.

The Fu dog mouse was s good call because hes subtle in a lot of ways. Barely a drop of magic in him, and not odd to see around the house or around kids.
 
Valkhir said:
They do have that, on their house.

So if the children ever go anywhere else, no protection. Hopefully they got at least the basics like crosses and prayer against Black Court etc. They don't need everything because ...what can a kid do even with all the knowledge, but self-defense level.
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The Carpenter family is quite literally guarded by Angels for dad's long service as a Knight of the Cross.

This propably doesn't extend too far (after all someone got Molly), but generally if someone tries to mess with the kids they should be protected.
And if they try something at the home itself it's smiting-time.
 
Valkhir said:
Sounds pretty unsafe to be honest.
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I mean so is telling them the truth, just in a different way, For one it is really scary so scary in fact that most of humanity in this world refuses to believe it, even then they see something funky like a troll kidnapping children right in front of them they go 'that was a guy in a mask'. Like a lot of Urban Fantasy this world also has a weirdness filter only it is not metaphysical like I don't know the Delirium from Werewolf the Apocalypse it is for the most part self-imposed on the part of mortals. Now imagine you dropped all that on a kid before they are out of primary school, it would be really isolating and ironically in a way that would make them less safe from casual supernatural predation since they would not have normal reactions to witnessing strange things
 
DragonParadox said:
I mean so is telling them the truth, just in a different way, For one it is really scary so scary in fact that most of humanity in this world refuses to believe it, even then they see something funky like a troll kidnapping children right in front of them they go 'that was a guy in a mask'. Like a lot of Urban Fantasy this world also has a weirdness filter only it is not metaphysical like I don't know the Delirium from Werewolf the Apocalypse it is for the most part self-imposed on the part of mortals. Now imagine you dropped all that on a kid before they are out of primary school, it would be really isolating and ironically in a way that would make them less safe from casual supernatural predation since they would not have normal reactions to witnessing strange things
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Not a lot of great options unless you can afford to bring so much force to bear you essentially flip the table like the white god did by stationing a squad or angels.
 
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