- Pronouns
- She/Her
Yeah, which means mastering the Healing Sorcerous Path is still better for us than anything in our native toolkit, so I stand by my statement that that's our best option to fill that need.
[X] uju32
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
- Start date
- Crossover Fantasy
[X] uju32
If we vanish Kattrin Holt and save Old Man Mathews, there's a good chance that car gets sold by him.
He has a newly awakened wizard in the family, possibly two; he'll need the money.
Good catch.
Doesnt really change anything though.
The normal Infernal healing strat was demons, IIRC.
Summon a stomach bottle bug/sesseljae, stuff it inside the patient and it fixes him. Several options I can see:
-The Healing Sorcery Path or the Healing Psychic Path
-Alchemy to craft Healing potions
-Enchantment to make healing talismans
-Grab the CCP charm and make a healing artifact/several healing artifacts, or a healing golem; a cybernetic sesseljae might be in theme.
1)Molly is not a wizard, is not intimately familiar with Dresden's personal paradigm, and has no reason to undercut him.
If Harry wants hairs he'll ask for them.
2)Moving people around is not unnecessary.
Doing our best to consolidate our squishies in one place where the bulk of our staybehind forces can watch over them prevents unpleasant suprises like Kattrin trying to take a hostage. Again.
Unless you think we should take Cindy and an injured Michael into combat.
Just tint your windows a little.
Straightforward, cheap and legal.
Dunno if we will need her onsite. There's an argument to be made that she would be more vulnerable, not less, to a ritual aimed at a member of her bloodline. We'll see what Dresden thinks.
Kattrin's entirely capable of making her own undead; she's a necromancer after all.
And she's not likely to delegate elements of her personal security to someone working under duress; thats as dumb as attempting to get a Tinker to work for you under duress in Worm.
Lets not borrow trouble yet.
We dont know how events have progressed so far, and as Dresden demonstrated, your can ruleslawyer the necromancy law.
- Location
- washington
There's also word of Jim there are levels of corruption and stuff people can come back from. The white council is just a lot less lenient for good reason and measuring that stuff isn't easy.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
The wish Charm can also grant combat-relevant regeneration, right?
- Location
- Germany
She's not a real Wizard though.
She's a minor goddess/psychopomp who pulled some rituals to gain additional powers.
That does not mean she has the flexible toolset of a mortal Wizard.
If she can make Zombies at all, then propably only by ritual, not as a quick spell.
1) Molly did very basic research into magic when her talent developed and has Occult 5. She will know about arcane links. You are trying to plan tightly enough to remove the chances
2) They're probably safer with Mouse in Harry's basement rather than driving across town. You're the one who want to move people around.
Pattern Reassertion Touch was the way to go.
- Location
- Germany
I don't think so.
There's no backround or for humans available Merit that grants combat-speed regeneration. This is an example for a very powerful health-related Merit that still doesn't do that:
The only merit I know of that does something similar is the merit that makes you a Dhampyr.
Exalted lose most of the Dhampyr abilities, including spending Chi to heal damage, but a non-Exalted would still have them (and Dhampyrs can learn sorcery).
The Nephilim merit also allows you to buy regeneration enhancements, I think. VEE doesn't stretch that far here though.
Last edited:
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
I could have sworn that someone pasted a Merit the Charm could grant which bestowed rapid regeneration on the recipient. It's been a while, though, so maybe I'm remembering it incorrectly.
- Location
- Germany
The Nephilim trait was mentioned before and DP ruled that one as too much for VEE.
Maybe that's what you were remembering?
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
That's probably it.
The Spark of Life Merit you shared is still pretty good, even if it's not quite combat regen. Would make for a great ability to bestow upon an ally who could serve as a healer.
I would expect so.
She's not a wizard, she's a necromancer.
Wizards are multidisciplinary experts. All wizards can do necromancy if they want, but not necessarily all necromancers can be wizards. Kravos was a necromancer just fine with lower levels of power.
Necromancers can eat spirits for power.
Thats how the Corpsetaker powered herself back up in Ghost Story.
Holt has been kicking around for a thousand years. More than twice the lifespan of most elder wizards.
Thats a longass time to pick up a lot of tricks.
I would put money on her being able to raise ghosts and zombies at least as fast as any of the Heirs of Kemmler.
1)She hasnt even read Elementary Magic yet. She knows most of the theory because Occult 5, which is not the same thing as how individual wizards do their thing. You cant convince me that someone who didnt even know the Laws of Magic were a thing, and rewarded mind magic with decapitation, had done any sort of serious research.
2)And meantime we leave Charity and the Carpenter family in the wind.
When Kattrin has already demonstrated a willingness to take hostages.
Thats a hard no.
Not to mention the sketchiness of leaving a kidnapped teenager in a bachelor's apartment thats almost certainly under occasional surveillance by law enforcement. A lot more legal cover in a large household with plenty of kids.
3)I dont remember that Charm.
That is a very broadbased Merit that does several different things.Personal healing AND healing others.
If fovused down to personal healing only, you're going to expect it to be a lot more powerful.
I dont have a comprehensive list of V20/M20/W20 merits though.
Are tinted forward windows also legal? I know that they are illegal in Russia - you can tint side and back windows, but not the forward ones.
Actually, wait, and this is probably me just forgetting due to tiredness, but do we know that she's a necromancer? A seer, a valkyrie, and a time manipulator, yes. But is a she a necromancer?
Yes. 35% tint, whatever that means.
Almost as important is getting her car a color-shifting paintjob, so that the Beige Wagon can change its look if necessary.
She sacrificed three of her sisters for power.
I think its safe to assume she is a necromancer, under the whole "exploitation of the unwilling dead" clause.
Plus, someone had to have bound that ghost in Cindy's cell, and we havent seen any minor necromancers about yet.
Last edited:
That's not much. That means that 65% of light has to pass through the window. Basically, if you put a light source on one side, then it can't be more than 35% darker on the other side of the window. That is something that won't hide the lack of the driver.
The first part is not directly necromancy at all - sacrifice for power could be a lot of things, including summoning and bargaining with outsiders. The second part is indirect evidence, though, yes.
1) Elementary Magic isn't necessary here. Arcane Links are something that exists in Exalted, they're part of sorcery. Molly's ancient Occult 5 should cover the subject.
2) They're less in the wind than they would be travelling across the city.
3) That shouldn't be a problem. Dresden is a licensed PI.
The only regeneration merit I can find is a seven dot one that only Changelings can take that allows them to heal one level of damage per hour of rest, or per half hour in a freehold.
Arcane links were used in a lot of fiction back in the day, even on Gilligan's Island, so it's possible Molly knows about it, even if she has the details wrong.
And before you ask, it was an episode involving a witch doctor and dolls used to curse people.
I have looked and not found a merit that grants combat regen, under 7 dot. Their is a merit to let a person soak lethal, and another that grants accelerated healing, IE heal lethal in days not week, but not combat regen.
Inauspicious Benediction of Endeavor, would honestly be a better buff for Michael. Your a lot harder if your running around with +2 success added to every roll, from soak to true faith uses.
Inauspicious Benediction of Endeavor, would honestly be a better buff for Michael. Your a lot harder if your running around with +2 success added to every roll, from soak to true faith uses.
If we want to buff Michael, Enchantment is the way to go.
Enchantment should be left to Dresden and/or Molly personal Cabal.
Inauspicious Benediction of Endeavor, is added successes to every roll a person does. And importantly we can use it buff Molly, and all her family.
[X] Alratan
Is this a homebrew charm? I can't find it in the ExvsWoD revised book.
Power armor, and magical amulets are the way to go. And possibly also tiny mechanical demonic robot spiders to stich wounds and do field medicine.
OctarineShrike
Avatar of Mandos
It's a Cecelyne organizational charm from the Ink Monkeys collection that wasn't part of Ex vs Wod Revised.
View: https://youtu.be/YtN33mvNrqc
Looks like it is. Both from the tinting itself and the mirror effect.
Enough to introduce enough strategic ambiguity to pass unnoticed in a moving car.
If you dont see anyone, you're going to assume you missed them, or they bent to pick up something.
Those all fall under the exploitation of the unwilling (human)dead clause.
At a minimum.
1)Again, leave it to the actual expert in this area.
2)No that is not true.
We would literally be following them back to the Carpenter home. Which we'd have to do anyway if we're taking Lydia with us, because the only source of armor she can borrow is in the Carpenter home.
3)A PI license does not give you any privileges about suspicion.
Dresden is/was a suspect in a murder case with the FBI looking to blackmail him, and a malicious ghost setting him up.
He literally just got out of central holding. It behooves us not to make things easy for them.
We havent secured Grandfather Mathews, and there's a nonzero chance the dude dies with Dresden in the area, at which point his life could get significantly more complicated.
Not to mention she's young enough to be tricked or intimidated into opening Dresden's wards.
There are a lot of ways leaving the mans grandkid in Dresden's home turns out really bad.
You sure?
I remember Panopticon Quest, and I think Life effects for combat healing were a thing.
Possible? Yes.
Sure enough that she would be importuning people for samples of hair and blood without first checking with Dresden?
I dont think so.
This. Gear not blessings. Gear he can drop if necessary.
I'd rather not risk conflict with whatever blessings and magic effects the White God's agents have running on him.
Last edited:
Molly can be an incredibly capable Enchanter vastly, vastly better at it than any non-Exalted, between Tool Transcending Constructs and her
Excellency.
It's a big force multiplier for her and her allies. It's something she should invest in.
Both are Enchantment in ExWoD.
QUOTE="uju32, post: 25369597, member: 2845"]
Those all fall under the exploitation of the unwilling (human)dead clause.
At a minimum.
[/QUOTE]
Necromancy isn't just exploiting the unwilling dead. It's a specific alternative source and type of supernatural power that people can use that's different to the energy of life that wizards and minor talents generally use.
1) With Occult 5 Molly is enough of an expert to suggest it, as Arcane Links we're standard occult practice in the 1st Age
2) That would take an enormous amount of time, possibly hours, that we almost certainly don't have.
3) Mouse can supervise Cindy, and the same risks apply to the Carpenter house, given Molly is on the Feds' radar as well.
Life effects are the result of rotes (spells), Wonders, and special advantages that constructed creatures and non-human entities could come with. Humans couldn't get them.
They're not merits.
Last edited: