On the matter of using human parts in enchanting, it can be done, but generally to get much use out of them you have to either look for someone who fits the task within a very narrow degree, or someone very magical like a Senior Council grade wizard, an actual saint etc... Also if you do not want adverse effects it is best the person be willing.
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
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Two amendments I'd like to make to my previous comments
1)Back in Storm Front, Victor Sells made a bunch of scorpions into autonomous kill drones that grow in size when activated.
Its never explained what he did precisely; whether it was enchantment or spirit binding Im not sure.
Its something we havent seen since in the setting.
2)Similarly, in Fool Moon the FBI Hexenwulfen had belts of transformation that had spirits bound to them.
The belts were made of wolfskin, I think.
Again, hasnt been seen since.
It really isnt.
And like I said, Alchemy, not Enchanting.
Anyway, the QM has ruled.
Oh yeah.
VOTE
[X] [Warehouse] Buy
[X] [Greene] Go to his house to use the Crown on the murder scene and talk to his wife
Molly can use the old school newspaper/news blog trick if she thinks its necessary.
Or just her personal knowledge that he was one of the officers in charge of the Splattercon investigation, and she does have a legitimate interest there; she lost a friend.
Given the diamonds as an example, improvements from raw dice stacking are going to come overwhelmingly excellent super-precise adjustments to the structure of the material.
Arguably, you could compare it to brute-forcing our way into Alchemy the same way as we brute-forced our way into Constructive Principles charm. If we were to sux hard enough, we'll prolly get a discount on Alchemy, even.
Anyway, the specific benefits from all that are useful but narrow; we can't make a mail that makes us more agile by magic of carbon nanotubes, we could only make a better mail.
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Victor Sells was a weird early edition case, he does stuff that seems totally at odds with the rest of the setting at times.
That said, in this particular case I don't see the need for a conflict. If he enchanted them then he probably went through the process everyone else does and used ritual symbolism to ease the process of making the effect possible.
Theoretically,
assuming no friction and a perfectly spherical wizard in a vacuum, someone could enchant a rock to turn you into a wolf or a terrier to turn into a giant scorpion. It's just the equivalent of trying to do civic engineering while only doing the math in your head.
Even as simple a tool as an abacus is a significant improvement, to say nothing of getting the magical version of CAD software via more involved symbolic processes.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
Doesn't need to be environmental protection. Just protection. That is what the charm says.
Wheresoever there is neither hope nor respite, there the Infernal marks herself at home.
System: The Infernal needs never make a Survival roll to remain safe, comfortable, and fed in hostile, barren environments such as deserts, tundra, or areas of urban blight. The difficulty to feed and protect others in such environments is reduced by three (minimum of 3). By
spending 1 Essence, she becomes completely immune to environmental damage for the rest of the scene.
System: The Infernal needs never make a Survival roll to remain safe, comfortable, and fed in hostile, barren environments such as deserts, tundra, or areas of urban blight. The difficulty to feed and protect others in such environments is reduced by three (minimum of 3). By
spending 1 Essence, she becomes completely immune to environmental damage for the rest of the scene.
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Vote closed.
Arc 5 Post 13: Forge and Forgery
Forge and Forgery
5th of September 2006 A.D.
The manila folder is oddly light in your hands, Chicago Synthetics LLC written in almost aggressively plain text on the front. An admittedly silly part of you wonders what would have happened if Thomas has written the whole thing in Comic Sands? The Secretary of State's Department of Business Services had probably seen stranger Articles of Organization. Illinois is according to Thomas a very business friendly state, not as much as Texas but then what state is? Of course low fees and light paperwork are as much of a lure for cranks as legitimate businesses so the people at Business Services had been polite, professional... and very skeptical of Chicago Synthetics' stated goal of experimental diamond creation using 'constructive harmonics'.
Thankfully you're good at producing scientific-sounding jargon. It is just a pity you could not be there to see him deliver it, but in the end it just made more sensenot to associate Molly Carpenter with the company at this point. As the only person able to make the whole thing work you are going to have to get involved eventually, but it would be best to do so under an alias, one that is not seventeen.
One of the few requirements for a CEO is that they be at least eighteen and while an underage employee would not be wholly out of the question it would raise eyebrows.Sso while Thomas handled the regulatory details you had gone looking around the neighborhood for a source of scrap. Thankfully you or rather the generically named 'Jane Smith' in a rented van did not have to go very far before finding the equally generically named American Scrap Metal Services. Really that 'Metal' in the middle saved them from an unfortunate anagram.
***
8th of September 2006 A.D.
Night after night ferry the cheapest scrap you can buy into your new warehouse, mostly ferrous scrap and heavy duty plastic, but also, glass and most fittingly of all... brass.
Six steel cylinders almost as tall at the room folded in the middle like cybernetic accordions stand on either side of the room glaring down at the enteral walkway out of dark glass eyes, each of them connected with scaled steel tubes like the coils of of antediluvian serpents to a hexagonal 'smart pillar' in the middle of the room, which is to say it has just about enough processing power to fit one of Clippy's kin inside to run the screens on the attached consoles. Said screens are currently displaying what you can only describe as competitive snake crossed with PAC-MAN involving more gore than you had ever seen rendered in pixel art, though more importantly 'La Forge' as the intelligence had chosen to be called could display nonsense reports from the 'diamond forges'. However much you might like to claim that the name is only a play on his supposed purpose truth be told the consoles themselves would not look entirely out of place onboard the Enterprise D other than being made out of matte black steel.
"I draw the line at leather chairs though, that would be silly," you proclaim as more to yourself than to either the demonic presence coiled 'round your soul, or the one who had just discovered retro-gaming'. Pretend employees don't need comfy seats. Plains steel will do ... well OK and some plastic coverings, you are not a barbarian.
Of course just as you are talking, mostly, to yourself Thomas walks in to tell you than he had gotten the LLC Operating Agreement and the Certificate of Good Standing done and with that you are in the clear until next year when you have to file the... unsurprisingly named Annual Report
"So, what does all this do?" he motions at the flashing screens, the slowly compressing and depressing dummy forges, the lights you'd finally given in and installed on the third day because of how distracting it was to work in the dark
"Props," you shrug.
"Right..." Thomas does not sigh, he's too professional for that. "I think we might need security cameras sooner rather than later."
"Sure, sure," you say absently glancing at your phone. "Say is it raining already?"
"Starting to. Why do you need...?"
"I'm better at stuff in the rain, or when I'm wet really. What did you think all the motor oil was for?"
"I could not begin to fathom," he snarks back.
***
Detective Greene's home... or you guess now his widow's home is a single story ranch style affair that seemed to have gone for lawn space over floor space. The gnomes, flamingos and the little pond are all there, but even though it is a little after five PM the windows are all dark and... is that a curtain moving? One of the windows at the front of the house is wide open, but there is no sound from inside, no sign that anyone is at home.
Essence at 8/12
What do you do?
[] Get in sight of the murder site, ask the question and get out
[] Knock on the door, see if anyone answers
[] Try to look inside
[] Write in
OOC:The plot thickens.
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fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
I feel like we just failed a perception check.
- Location
- Earth
Whatever we do, we should probably activate ATB with willpower (to stave off the essence flare)
You are in no danger of that, all your essence spent was in the last scene.
- Location
- Earth
We only get three before it flares. With the 4th it flares.
1 for Crown
Perhaps 1 more for an occult roll or something else to make the deductive leap
With ATB we are capped already.
Without it we can still try to charm whoever is home.
[X] Knock on the door, see if anyone answers
-[X] Activate All Things Betray using WIllpower.
@DragonParadox is the stunt from the last vote still valid, or do I need to redo it?
-[X] Activate All Things Betray using WIllpower.
@DragonParadox is the stunt from the last vote still valid, or do I need to redo it?
By default it is still valid, but you guys can change it.
Base Exalted flare their anima banner when they spend 3 Essence or more.
I assumed that our Anima Control Merit is >4.
Yeah, we want to check that, what are they going to do? Arrest us? That would only makes us stronger.
[X] Knock on the door, see if anyone answers
-[X] Activate All Things Betray using WIllpower.
- Location
- Earth
I only know exalted from this quest, so I can only go by our Character Sheet:
Which reads to me that our anima is restrained until <condition> is met. Condition being 4 Essence spent.
Aka 3 Essence = barely restrained.
4 = blaring Anima banner.
with the merit.
4 essense is just a minor glow and the cast mark lightening up.
COMMENTARY
-She's still using motor oil? Apparently she's a masochist.
Lots of other fluids she could use.
From water to antifreeze.
-Called it on the security situation.
We should probably hook up the security cameras to La Forge with some activateable floodlights, maybe a siren, and some offsite data storage.
-The murder site is at the back of the house.
We're at the front. Open front window at 5pm on a Friday(8 Sept 2006) seems unlikely; Ms Green's an FBI agent, and Federal leave for bereavement is no more than 13 days. So she shouldnt be home.
Someone is brazenly burgling the place, or she took a sick day and she is home.
Knock/ring the bell, then look through the window.
Some very good rolls here.
Including what I think is the highest HMP roll I've ever seen.
The <SPOILEREd> roll puts me in the mood to aggress.
@DragonParadox
QUESTION
1)Are there any visible security cameras outside the house or in the house door?
2) Does the house have a garage? Are there any cars parked outside?
3) Can Clippy check the DMV records to see what cars the Greenes drove? And is Ms/Agent Greene's car here?
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- No cameras in sight
- It does have a garage
- She can but it will take a bit of time to find it, she still needs to open the proper pages
To my understanding, that was more along the lines of
Up to 4 Essence is fine.
More than 4 Essence you start doing a Super Saiyan lightshow.
Could also have gotten home early (do federal agents have standard 8 to 5 work day or is it less rigid?). But yeah, it looks like someone is at her home that shouldn't be. Possibly lying in wait to kill her (on the off chance that Greene wasn't used blind, and might have told her something).
VOTE
[X]Plan Nosey Parker
-[X] Activate All Things Betray: 1 WP
-[X] Knock on the door. If noone answers, try to look inside through the open window. Then try the door to see if its unlocked, using a handkerchief or paper towel.
-[X]Remember to check the murder site and asking the question before leaving
-[X]STUNT: You stare at the open window for a moment, its openness at variance with -you check-every other house on the street that you can see. "Clippy" you murmur "Take a look at the DMV records for the Greenes, and find out what they drive.". With that you step out of the car, taking a couple sheets off the paper towel roll you keep in the front passenger seat. And as you walk up to the front door, you focus, and the world assumes c l a r i t y.
RATIONALE
Activating All Things Betray gives us -3DC to Perception rolls, and adds Perception to our Initiative rolls if we have to join battle.
According to the Sensory Acuity Prana fluff from the Solar charmset(pg 97, ExWoD), a -3 DC reduction in Perception rolls is good enough to, and I quote: <<<She can hear a person's heartbeat from rooms away, read a sheet of paper by letting her fingers trail across the ink on it, and count the hairs on a fly's legs from across a room.>>>
-3DC to Perception + Alertness rolls of 4(Per 2 + Alertness 0 + Stunt 2)
-3DC to Perception + Occult rolls of 7(Per 2 + Occult 5 + Stunt 2)
Awareness already benefits from Usum's -2DC, so thats a net -5DC to Perception + Awareness rolls of 4 (Per 2 + Awareness 0 + Stunt 2).
Basically, if anything magic is going on in our vicinity, we should pick it up just fine.
And even with our dicepool of Per + Alertness 2 + Stunt, we should have a good chance of picking up on even purely mundane signs in our vicinity.
[X]Plan Nosey Parker
-[X] Activate All Things Betray: 1 WP
-[X] Knock on the door. If noone answers, try to look inside through the open window. Then try the door to see if its unlocked, using a handkerchief or paper towel.
-[X]Remember to check the murder site and asking the question before leaving
-[X]STUNT: You stare at the open window for a moment, its openness at variance with -you check-every other house on the street that you can see. "Clippy" you murmur "Take a look at the DMV records for the Greenes, and find out what they drive.". With that you step out of the car, taking a couple sheets off the paper towel roll you keep in the front passenger seat. And as you walk up to the front door, you focus, and the world assumes c l a r i t y.
RATIONALE
Activating All Things Betray gives us -3DC to Perception rolls, and adds Perception to our Initiative rolls if we have to join battle.
According to the Sensory Acuity Prana fluff from the Solar charmset(pg 97, ExWoD), a -3 DC reduction in Perception rolls is good enough to, and I quote: <<<She can hear a person's heartbeat from rooms away, read a sheet of paper by letting her fingers trail across the ink on it, and count the hairs on a fly's legs from across a room.>>>
-3DC to Perception + Alertness rolls of 4(Per 2 + Alertness 0 + Stunt 2)
-3DC to Perception + Occult rolls of 7(Per 2 + Occult 5 + Stunt 2)
Awareness already benefits from Usum's -2DC, so thats a net -5DC to Perception + Awareness rolls of 4 (Per 2 + Awareness 0 + Stunt 2).
Basically, if anything magic is going on in our vicinity, we should pick it up just fine.
And even with our dicepool of Per + Alertness 2 + Stunt, we should have a good chance of picking up on even purely mundane signs in our vicinity.
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Or she's dead.
Or is possibly being murdered right now, which is why Im pushing for going in right now.
I get the impression its a little time sensitive.