Extremely tasty, but unfortunately the oils of hell are well known to be high in trans fats.
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
- Start date
- Crossover Fantasy
Considering what Molly's key charms are I suppose we're lucky they aren't (somehow) transuranic fats.
Donuts get stale in a few days, cookies can last months.
We can make a batch of cookies once a month, or donuts right before we will give them.
But back to the fact that we are serving superhumanly good food in an abandoned space under the streets of Chicago...
If this becomes a regular thing we could become the Culinary version of Banksy.
If this becomes a regular thing we could become the Culinary version of Banksy.
Yzarc
The Spark of Madness
This is 6/5 as 1s do not subtract sux.1s
I know, that is why you won the argument.
COMMENTARY
-Goddammit Charity, stop being so bloody terrifying. Lol.
Im halfway expecting her to Exalt as a Zenith or Lunar out of sheer willpower just to keep an eye on Molly.
Momdar OP, please nerf.
-Something worth noting is that while Charity has seen Molly fight? She hasnt actually seen Molly do anything else.
Not social/diplomacy, and especially not Craft. She knows intellectually that Molly can make stuff, and has seen some of the results, but has never actually seen it happen. Never seen Tool Constructs work.
Watching her daughter make stuff is quite a new experience. Same with seeing Lydia wield non-combat magic.
And she has solid brass ovaries for taking the appearance of Porter so well.
-How sweet.
Rider and Wagon going to bat for their boss.
Whether loyalty or just self-interest, its still nice to see the immigrants exercise relatively benign initiative.
-Called it.
We are going to need a van going forward, probably. A 2007 model year Chevrolet Express cargo van is around 30k new, and we'd be able to slap a cyberdevil in it. Or we're gonna be hiring UHauls on a regular basis, and that can be unreliable.
-I see Marcone's organization has adopted a strict policy of "be polite to the spooky teenager and stay out of her way".
I suspect he's probably passed a name and description of her around his organization, much as he did for Dresden.
I do wonder what Marcone's people thought to see two teenagers, one adult woman and a dog move several hundred kilos worth of supplies through their warehouse. And the adult woman carrying a warhammer.
Very strange procession we must make.
-Going to note that we have 3 women and a dog here.
It is now narratively inevitable that several vampires will show up, in time to get threatened by Charity's hammer
-8/12 Essence.
Thats why I try to be pessimistic when projecting our Essence expenditure.
-Charity rolling legendary social against her daughter. As one does.
At this point it would be more surprising if she didnt.
-Cooking roll is off. If I understand the math corrrctly?
Dexterity 4 + Crafting 3 + (-2 Non-Specialty penalty) + Excellency 7 + Stunt 2 = 14 dice
Bottle of water over head for -1 DC, and another -3DC from TLF for a cumulative total of -4DC.
Doesnt really matter for this episode though.
Which is actually a pretty good idea.
Especially since I fully expect that we're going to see Little Folk/pixies show up for a meal sooner or later.
They seldom miss an opportunity for free food.
I wonder what legendary pizza would be able to get pixies to do.
"Did that teenage girl just fire a pizza in a massive bronze blast furnace with a mouth shaped like a demon screaming in endless agony?"COMMENTARY
-Goddammit Charity, stop being so bloody terrifying. Lol.
Im halfway expecting her to Exalt as a Zenith or Lunar out of sheer willpower just to keep an eye on Molly.
Momdar OP, please nerf.
-Something worth noting is that while Charity has seen Molly fight? She hasnt actually seen Molly do anything else.
Not social/diplomacy, and especially not Craft. She knows intellectually that Molly can make stuff, and has seen some of the results, but has never actually seen it happen. Never seen Tool Constructs work.
Watching her daughter make stuff is quite a new experience. Same with seeing Lydia wield non-combat magic.
And she has solid brass ovaries for taking the appearance of Porter so well.
-How sweet.
Rider and Wagon going to bat for their boss.
Whether loyalty or just self-interest, its still nice to see the immigrants exercise relatively benign initiative.
-Called it.
We are going to need a van going forward, probably. A 2007 model year Chevrolet Express cargo van is around 30k new, and we'd be able to slap a cyberdevil in it. Or we're gonna be hiring UHauls on a regular basis, and that can be unreliable.
-I see Marcone's organization has adopted a strict policy of "be polite to the spooky teenager and stay out of her way".
I suspect he's probably passed a name and description of her around his organization, much as he did for Dresden.
I do wonder what Marcone's people thought to see two teenagers, one adult woman and a dog move several hundred kilos worth of supplies through their warehouse. And the adult woman carrying a warhammer.
Very strange procession we must make.
-Going to note that we have 3 women and a dog here.
It is now narratively inevitable that several vampires will show up, in time to get threatened by Charity's hammer
-8/12 Essence.
Thats why I try to be pessimistic when projecting our Essence expenditure.
-Charity rolling legendary social against her daughter. As one does.
At this point it would be more surprising if she didnt.
-Cooking roll is off. If I understand the math corrrctly?
Dexterity 4 + Crafting 3 + (-2 Non-Specialty penalty) + Excellency 7 + Stunt 2 = 14 dice
Bottle of water over head for -1 DC, and another -3DC from TLF for a cumulative total of -4DC.
Doesnt really matter for this episode though.
Which is actually a pretty good idea.
Especially since I fully expect that we're going to see Little Folk/pixies show up for a meal sooner or later.
They seldom miss an opportunity for free food.
I wonder what legendary pizza would be able to get pixies to do.
"Yes, and it's the best damned pizza I ever had. This is Chicago. You never want to see what the kitchen of a restaurant looks like, not if you still want to stomach their food."
EDIT - and also Best Dog is here. Any bad manners are going to be met with a mighty "BORK!" and all offending individuals will thus be chastised. We have a guardian who cannot be bribed with anything short of table scraps.
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- Location
- Hive City Ares, Armageddon, Segmentum Solar
[X] Yog
VOTE
[X] Offer them a meal, you can make your offer while they are eating, the hunger at least a little dulled by the act
RATIONALE
Offering food, and it being accepted, reduces the risk of violence.
This is the supernatural world, and they operate on a modified form of historical human customs, where host-guest etiquette carries some weight. As does the enticement of getting a repeat meal in the future.
Molly has Etiquette 4, she should grok some of this instinctively.
And DPoE gives her an edge.
[X] Offer them a meal, you can make your offer while they are eating, the hunger at least a little dulled by the act
RATIONALE
Offering food, and it being accepted, reduces the risk of violence.
This is the supernatural world, and they operate on a modified form of historical human customs, where host-guest etiquette carries some weight. As does the enticement of getting a repeat meal in the future.
Molly has Etiquette 4, she should grok some of this instinctively.
And DPoE gives her an edge.
No good Exalted story went without an "Exalt makes supernaturally good food" scene. Ever.
Charity doing good job here, not just rolling sux on talking with her daughter but like, not letting her bad experiences control her and stuff.
This is the first time we'll see that sort of difficulty reduction, but, hopefully, not the last.
Charity doing good job here, not just rolling sux on talking with her daughter but like, not letting her bad experiences control her and stuff.
TLF + Primacy Mantle = -5 difficulty. BSM prolly not going to be active unless we directly stunt it.
This is the first time we'll see that sort of difficulty reduction, but, hopefully, not the last.
Trivia:
Apparently, according to the events at Camp Kaboom, all ghouls speak ancient Sumerian as well as whatever language in their local area. Which points at their origins probably being somewhere in ancient Mesopotamia. Just like how White Court vampires speak ancient Etruscan in formal occasions, which is probably suggests THEIR origins are in ancient Italy.
Apparently, according to the events at Camp Kaboom, all ghouls speak ancient Sumerian as well as whatever language in their local area. Which points at their origins probably being somewhere in ancient Mesopotamia. Just like how White Court vampires speak ancient Etruscan in formal occasions, which is probably suggests THEIR origins are in ancient Italy.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
Unfortunately 9 ghouls is enough that we likely can't actually afford to hold back and be merciful when fighting them. 6 or less we could likely manage, but if we hold back with 9 one of us seems likely to get hurt.
[X] Offer them a meal, you can make your offer while they are eating, the hunger at least a little dulled by the act
[X] Offer them a meal, you can make your offer while they are eating, the hunger at least a little dulled by the act
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
No matter how much we beat their social they have the option of spending a willpower to ignore it and join battle.
Which is part of why I wanted to have our anima banner up. To make it even more clear that they stand no chance fighting.
Edit: Actually Porter is awake. I don't think that they would attack with a dragon behind us even if there were a hundred of them.
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Yes, but our mother and Mouse are also here. Our mother is 100% doing this as a religious obligation and Mouse is specifically empowered to protect this kind of thing. I fully expect anyone causing a real fuss to get the BORK of god thrown at them and to see them back right the fuck back down.
Temple dogs are extremely powerful. That power is extremely limited to being a guardian, but that is exactly what he would be doing in this case.
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9 helpers should make fixing this DragonNest up much faster. But we do really need MMP to properly feed our minions, hauling tones of food around attracts to much attention.
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fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
More importantly Porter is awake. Yes Molly has the privilege of being Merciful after all. Don't know if her teammates will though.
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Willpower spending is for strong-willed character defending their defining intimacies; randos that got no stakes in anything don't really get that opportunity at all, typically.
And "Spend Willpower, join combat instead of talky" method isn't really the first reflex for anyone upon getting hit with a bunch of social sux. "I am bad at social combat so I'll just attack for real" leans very heavily on out-of-universe mechanics.
And Ghouls are primarily driven by hunger. Now, normally they prefer human flesh and would attack people anyway, but we produced literally superhumanly good food. I believe there is a solid chance we produced a meal that smells better than we do.