Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
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[X] Try to draw out more clues without admitting ignorance (DC 8 Charisma+Subterfuge roll)
-[X] Stunt: "Ah, that business. I suppose it wasn't exactly being subtle was it? The local nightlife would have to pick up eventually. " Molly says with a casual air.
--[X] " Anyone interesting getting stirred up over it? " She says with a glance to the elder vampire.
-[X] Stunt: "Ah, that business. I suppose it wasn't exactly being subtle was it? The local nightlife would have to pick up eventually. " Molly says with a casual air.
--[X] " Anyone interesting getting stirred up over it? " She says with a glance to the elder vampire.
OK, looks like Molly is going to play it cool.
Man, I really do feel like we should've made our Shintai a giant golden buddha, just to see the elder's reaction.
He also either thinks that we have really high dharma, or just flattering us by calling us a Bodhisattva.
He also either thinks that we have really high dharma, or just flattering us by calling us a Bodhisattva.
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Winning Vote
Arc 5 Post 19: Bending Steel
Bending Steel
8th of September 2006 A.D.
Usum is always willing to offer a word of advice about vampires and other darkling beings, usually about how well they would do in your service, but you just don't feel comfortable winging it under that knowing gaze. Thus you let the silence linger, half-hoping that he would try again, but over the next twenty minutes as the newly embodied cyber-spirit wipes away the incriminating data he does not say another word. Instead he picks up one of those office toys from the desk and pulls off one of the steel balls only to let it slide along the floor until it hits the bookscase opposite the door
"Ah..." he pulls it aside with unearthly strength that belies his withered form before tapping on the wall, once, twice until it returns a hollow sound. There behind the opening in the drywall is a safe. Should you conjure tools to help? you wonder, worried that it might reveal too much, but it takes the merest touch of the dial before he is spinning it confidently into a combination and snaps open the door. "I think these should be wiped off as well. Really one should not keep a secondary cashes next to the primary source, but for all their potential cleverness mortals are never cautious enough."
Inside there are indeed memory sticks as well as a plastic bag containing fifteen hundred dollars cash, a gun and some fake IDs all of which Sitha takes out gingerly with gloved hands. She has obviously never done something like this, and is just as obviously excited about it.
"Thank you Isabela."
That is how you find out two important things, firstly that the name of the girl with a nice taste in jeans is not Sitha, which means something like 'virgin' referring to her Hunger and secondly that you are in the presence of a vampire named Bela. The whole Twilight craze must be rough on her. Forcing down a giggle that would disqualify you from vampire elderhood... elderness you deal with the memory sticks and then return them to the safe, only to notice the girl starting to take the money.
"Return that." You can hear the sigh in the elder's voice.
"But..." the girl starts. "She's an enemy of the Court right? Why not take it?"
Personally you're just relieved she says enemy not 'food', but the elder takes this for a teaching moment. "The disappearance of the blackmail material will have far greater psychological impact if nothing else is absent."
She just nods, not entirely convinced, not willing to argue either, instead she turns to you. "So when's my hunger going to come back?"
There is is. How to explain that it will never come back as it had been as long as she serves you without raising the old one's hackles?
[] Explain that it is a gift of sublime charity, one you have given to her that she may show virtue in turn, to keep the boon she must merely partake of charity under your direction
[] Be honest as far as it goes, as long as she obeys you
-[] Explain who you are
-[] Lie to fit their preconceptions
[] Write in
OOC: This is really short but I need an answer on this question from you guys before the vampires leave since they are obviously not going to go on their merry way without asking about taming the Hunger.
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...technically speaking that is well possible. But it's mostly widespread in CoD (nWoD). There is only 1 obscure spell in Dreamspeaker book (shaman mages) and that's used for healing.
But in CoD? yeah, you can summon internal demons with Mind+Spirit and it's very well known among mages.
OctarineShrike
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Trial Balloon quote to set their minds at ease: "Mortals understand much about good management when they are not drunk on power and I am perfectly willing to act accordingly. "
The goal of this is to convince them we are a Thrawn type boss: I want them alive but if that's not possible I'll understand, etc.
The goal of this is to convince them we are a Thrawn type boss: I want them alive but if that's not possible I'll understand, etc.
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@DragonParadox when Isabela's service lapses, what does Molly think will happen to her? As in ... will she immediately be back on the "your Hunger is going to eat you alive" timer or is that already dealt with.
For that matter, will the interrupt mid-blooding mean she's weird for a White Court afterwards?
For that matter, will the interrupt mid-blooding mean she's weird for a White Court afterwards?
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[X] Explain that it is a gift of sublime charity, one you have given to her that she may show virtue in turn, to keep the boon she must merely partake of charity under your direction
-[X] Should she make use the gifts her hunger grants her, she would not lose control, but would need to replenish the energy expended
-[X] Get her e-mail address, and give her a burner e-mail to contact you in exchange
-[X] STUNT: "Never, should you but follow my directions. The gift I bestowed upon you is one of charity, of mercy. For as long as do charitable works under my direction, you shall need not fear the loss of control and the beast within, only needing to eat to replenish the energy lost in using your gifts". You fish our Clippy from your pocket, moving it in such a way to make sure that the faces of the vampires are caught in their lenses: "Now, what e-mail and phone number can I use to contact you later? I feel we should have this discussion once you have time to process"
Probably something like this. Set up a later meeting with Isabela, ideally one without her uncle / whatever supervising.
-[X] Should she make use the gifts her hunger grants her, she would not lose control, but would need to replenish the energy expended
-[X] Get her e-mail address, and give her a burner e-mail to contact you in exchange
-[X] STUNT: "Never, should you but follow my directions. The gift I bestowed upon you is one of charity, of mercy. For as long as do charitable works under my direction, you shall need not fear the loss of control and the beast within, only needing to eat to replenish the energy lost in using your gifts". You fish our Clippy from your pocket, moving it in such a way to make sure that the faces of the vampires are caught in their lenses: "Now, what e-mail and phone number can I use to contact you later? I feel we should have this discussion once you have time to process"
Probably something like this. Set up a later meeting with Isabela, ideally one without her uncle / whatever supervising.
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OctarineShrike
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Molly did not make a comment about Isabella's name.
My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.
My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.
Goldfish
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I think we need to give her a task she can start working on in the meantime, to insure she technically remains in our service and keeps MIS active. Maybe something simple like researching how charities function, what local charities are already doing, or even brainstorming one she could create and operate in our stead?
She is right back to 'eat someone or die' as she does not have the control a White Court Vampire who already ate someone has. Basically you need to run the engine all the way to get to some kind of equilibrium. One of the few ways to get around that is to feed from someone you can drain a human's worth of life without killing them.
[] In my service you have been blessed, by my light. So long as you walk with me the affliction of your lesser existence cannot touch you.
Perhaps this.
Perhaps this.
VOTE
[X] Be honest as far as it goes, as long as she obeys you
-[X] Explain who you are
Misinformation gets people killed.
We paused her Hunger, we didnt destroy it. Being very clear about the limits is how you prevent the kid vamping out in the middle of a crowd somewhere because she was a dumb teenager doing dumb teenager things.
[X] Be honest as far as it goes, as long as she obeys you
-[X] Explain who you are
Misinformation gets people killed.
We paused her Hunger, we didnt destroy it. Being very clear about the limits is how you prevent the kid vamping out in the middle of a crowd somewhere because she was a dumb teenager doing dumb teenager things.
@DragonParadox
QUESTION
Can she feed a little at a time to achieve the full tank necessary?
Or train with her relative?
- She can take a little bit now while the hunger is tamed, but that is by definition not training anymore than sitting on a stopped motorcycle is learning how to drive one
- What she can do is let is loose on a vampire and once it has fed to capacity she would get some control of it, basically the same place she was before triggering MIS.
Sure, I took it from the @DragonParadox post. Sure, I'll correct it.
Good idea. Not sure I like the idea of outsourcing the charity creation to a brainwashed teen, though.
So, to be clear, she can't feed a little bit at a time while under effects of MiS until her tank is full and she regains natural control?