Just a quick question - is there any ice forming due to Mab's aura? If yes, would we be able to use that ice as a focus for the question of "what does the one who made this ice know about our exaltation?".
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Okay, fair enough. Is it even worth rolling for any of the other checks? The differential is high enough that unless we score 2 10s it probably wouldn't effect the outcome.
We have to have something in direct line of sight. I suggest ice or at least water condensate formed due to Mab's frost aura.
For all the people straight voting to accept the request to summon her later...
We should talk to our father before calling upon women of questionable morals.
We should talk to our father before calling upon women of questionable morals.
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We could phrase it better though.
"Sure we can hang out later, but I need to ask my dad first because you're kinda sketchy"
Has some unfortunate implications built in.
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@DragonParadox , I do not know if this is a legitimate question, but did these events happened in canon Dresdenverse?
Only if you snap a photo of her shoes or something, you need a thing to focus on
I created a bunch of these characters so no unless I am somehow channeling Jim Butcher.
In the Dresdenverse, Tunguska was Ebenezer killing a Dragon.
At least, that was the last description we're given in Blood Rites; Butcher might change his mind later.
So the whole idea doesnt seem likely.
None of this shit is new to the Dresdenverse anyway.
Papa Raith had a perfect defense against magic attack, which is why Ebenezer was unable to have him murdered after he killed Maggie LeFay. Nicodemus has the Noose as a perfect defense against physical harm.
In this quest, Kattrin had a perfect soak of some sort to rewind the damage we did.
Perfect defenses just have loopholes. If you know them, or luck into them, you can go around them.
In Kattrin's case, it seems a defense based around Fate doesnt really work against an Exalt outside Fate.
Or she didnt have the mojo to use it multiple times.
I would bet a ExWoD E5 Exalt would get splattered all across the arena against Mab in open combat.
And frankly, I would bet on Mab against the Ex2E elder exalt up to at least
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[X] Yes, you will call on Mab and listen to what she has to say
While it would be hilarious for Molly to pull her cellphone and try to take a selfie with the Queen of Air and Darkness, something tells me it wouldnt be appropriate
So what about stunting her footsteps/footprints then.
There's ectoplasm all over the floor, and we know precisely where she's standing/has stood.
Using the footprints or the ground location should work. Hopefully.
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[X] Yes, you will call on Mab and listen to what she has to say
-[X]After Mab leaves? Crown of Eyes to ask what Mab knows about our exaltation. Arcane focus: footprints in ectoplasm, precise location(s) where she was standing.
Unlikely, not even Uriel has a perfect defense which would allow him to tank it, let alone Mab. Jim's response to how Uriel deals with it being shot at him is essentially getting out of the way or redirecting the energies which can be considered parrying. At least from what I can understand about it.
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A perfect dodge or parry is still a perfect defence.
You don't have to soak it.
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My perspective on Mab (when I'm not screwing around) is pretty simple.
We clearly have her interest, and once you've gained that it's functionally impossible to avoid her attention unless you're willing to devote your entire life to running.
So until we're able to negotiate as something resembling an equal I'd much prefer it if she kept using the carrot rather than the stick. The way we do that is we make a point of responding positively to the carrot and pushing back against sticks. Which in this case means taking the bait and agreeing to call her up later.
And at the end of the day, of all the beings to take an interest in us we could do a lot worse than Mab. She's cruel, evil, and heartless, yes. But she's also explicitly entrusted with ensuring that Creation remains whole.
We clearly have her interest, and once you've gained that it's functionally impossible to avoid her attention unless you're willing to devote your entire life to running.
So until we're able to negotiate as something resembling an equal I'd much prefer it if she kept using the carrot rather than the stick. The way we do that is we make a point of responding positively to the carrot and pushing back against sticks. Which in this case means taking the bait and agreeing to call her up later.
And at the end of the day, of all the beings to take an interest in us we could do a lot worse than Mab. She's cruel, evil, and heartless, yes. But she's also explicitly entrusted with ensuring that Creation remains whole.
What Artemis said.
Uriel has the equivalent of a surprise negator, a perfect parry and a perfect dodge.
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Previously you wrote that
So, this means that this quest has significant divergence from original timeline already, does not it?
As an aside, we should make a point of obliterating that entire ritual space as soon as we can. Then follow up with cleaning anything informative out of the sub.
The Daedalus goons (Daed men? We need to workshop an insulting nickname for them with Dresden) are going to have access to the site, and I don't think any of us want them poking a damn neverborn.
That a simple asteroid drop could kill a capital D Dragon demonstrates that perfects are at the very least rare in Dresdenverse.
And E8/E9? Really? E5 was the highest essence level at which exalted host overthrew Primordials at their height. E7 and above are squarely in the "height of solar glory" range. Shinmaic communion and calibration, ie "edit the universal laws" charms are E7. If I recall correctly, Salinan working was E7.
No, you, in my opinion, very much overestimate Mab.
At E5 and with prep we should be able to fight her. Because yes, we are alone. But E5 exalted host acting together should be able to kick White God's teeth in and take his money. That's what they were made for.
I think it was a dragon, not a Dragon. The latter can't manifest in the real world without breaking physics, so I doubt one actually showed up.
We also know their were only five of the capital D variety. Two died ages ago, two are still alive, and one for offed by Micheal a couple decades ago. There isn't one for Ebenezer to have killed.
It diverged as soon as Molly came down off the tree.
That goes without saying.
Between Molly's sword doing aggravated damage and Lydia's ability to distort stone/earth, we should be able to clear that up in a minute or so.
If Gard cant or wont take possession of Holt's body, then the new Eldest Ankou should.
Its in his portfolio to take care of the dead.
And we dont want her body or effects falling into Daedalus Group hands.
Mathew's financial situation is about to improve very quickly I suspect.
It wasnt an asteroid drop.
The implication is that Tunguska is the visible aftermath of whatever happened, and the asteroid story is a coverup.
Key words: Exalted Host. Hundreds of Celestial Exalted, millions of Dragonbloods, tens of millions of Jadeborn and Dragon Kings and other, now extinct races. God knows how many vanilla mortals. All armed to the teeth with top tier gear, and the backing of multiple Incarna and two Primordials. I remain confident that E8ish Exalt fighting solo against a 3CDalike gets clobbered.
I dont speak for the QM, and game fidelity takes priority here. But at E5 I still expect her to splatter us in a one on one.
And this does not appear to be Creation, and the top tier entities here, while restricted, appear to wield way more power than any 3CD or Incarna. I dont think an E5 Host would do very well picking a fight with the White God or his agents.
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In the sense that I have to make up what could be going on in the background. From an IC perspective all this is stuff that could have happened IC,
[X] Write in - "You are not summoned lightly Queen, even when you permit it. I will neither refuse or commit in this moment. I will consider and seek council, then decide."
-[X]After Mab leaves? Crown of Eyes to ask what Mab knows about our exaltation. Arcane focus: footprints in ectoplasm, precise location(s) where she was standing.
I like the main vote, but still want the sub vote.
Also, we ' really' need to up Perception, and the cheapest ways are Awareness and Alertness.
-[X]After Mab leaves? Crown of Eyes to ask what Mab knows about our exaltation. Arcane focus: footprints in ectoplasm, precise location(s) where she was standing.
I like the main vote, but still want the sub vote.
Also, we ' really' need to up Perception, and the cheapest ways are Awareness and Alertness.
I know it's obvious, but it's one of those things that's so important I think it's worth explicitly mentioning anyway, so that it sticks at the front of our to-do list.
On the necromancers, I'm talking about going back into the sub to obliterate the remains of their ritual. At the very least having Dresden fill the thing with fire.
Getting their effects is a good start, but I don't think letting Daedalus study the remains of a broken god eating ritual will lead anywhere we want to go.
That is not by what you meant by shrugging off the Eye of Balor Uju. While perfect dodge and parry is viable as noted you specifically were meaning in the context of her shrugging it off by tanking it in an ealier quote before the current one here.
By most usage of the word from what I encountered tanking means taking it to the face such as how a tank soaks damage in an MMO the majority of the time for the party. Which as I noted is specifically impossible to do as attempting to tank it through magic or physical capability is not possible even for Uriel.
Does my disagreement make sense now?