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Essence of the Age (Exalted Quest)

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[X] Train the Candidates in the ways of Investigation: The Greycloaks were as much about counterintelligence as they were a special forces unit, ensuring these skills are shored up will make them all the better at identifying Threats before they can get out of hand. (Strengthens the Greycloak Candidates by adding Investigation to their Primary Pool)
 
[X] Train the Candidates in Conquering their Fear: While those like you who could overwhelm the spirit of the uninitiated were rare--you were not unique, and regardless, teaching your candidates to overcome their fear was a boon in any circumstance. (Strengthens the Greycloak Candidates by adding "Resisting Fear" To their Primary Pool)

Making the Greycloaks fight their fear is super thematic, and it means they can fight around Arbi even when her Anima is unleashed.
 
[X] Train the Candidates in Conquering their Fear: While those like you who could overwhelm the spirit of the uninitiated were rare--you were not unique, and regardless, teaching your candidates to overcome their fear was a boon in any circumstance. (Strengthens the Greycloak Candidates by adding "Resisting Fear" To their Primary Pool)

Stab fear in the eye and you unlock the ability to do a lot of wacky shenanigans, I reckon.
 
[x] Train the Candidates in Conquering their Fear: While those like you who could overwhelm the spirit of the uninitiated were rare--you were not unique, and regardless, teaching your candidates to overcome their fear was a boon in any circumstance. (Strengthens the Greycloak Candidates by adding "Resisting Fear" To their Primary Pool)
Derpmind said:
Making the Greycloaks fight their fear is super thematic, and it means they can fight around Arbi even when her Anima is unleashed.
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Pretty much. It would be kinda annoying to have supporters Iron Law has to hold back to cooperate with.
 
[X] Train the Candidates in the ways of Investigation

Investigation is the way forward. We can win combats ourselves, but to some extent counterintelligence is a numbers game.

It's a tossup between that and fear, though.

Randino Treviani said:
[x] Train the Candidates in Conquering their Fear: While those like you who could overwhelm the spirit of the uninitiated were rare--you were not unique, and regardless, teaching your candidates to overcome their fear was a boon in any circumstance. (Strengthens the Greycloak Candidates by adding "Resisting Fear" To their Primary Pool)

Pretty much. It would be kinda annoying to have supporters Iron Law has to hold back to cooperate with.
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That's simply not the case.

Dark Presence: You automatically Intimidate Trivial Targets without a roll, you gain (+ Essence) Successes at intimidating or instilling Fear into non-Trivial Targets. This Effect is Passive
Shroud of Fear: Anyone who targets you in Close Combat must roll Integrity against Difficulty 3 at Step 1 before any other effect is applied. On failure, the attacker must change targets or abort. This is an Active Anima Effect, and triggers at 2 Anima
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Unless we're targeting them, they won't get affected by our intimidation. This isn't an aura that targets allies, unless we want it to do so.
 
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[x] Train the Candidates in the ways of Investigation: The Greycloaks were as much about counterintelligence as they were a special forces unit, ensuring these skills are shored up will make them all the better at identifying Threats before they can get out of hand. (Strengthens the Greycloak Candidates by adding Investigation to their Primary Pool)
 
[x] Train the Candidates in the ways of Investigation: The Greycloaks were as much about counterintelligence as they were a special forces unit, ensuring these skills are shored up will make them all the better at identifying Threats before they can get out of hand. (Strengthens the Greycloak Candidates by adding Investigation to their Primary Pool)
 
[X] Train the Candidates in the ways of Investigation: The Greycloaks were as much about counterintelligence as they were a special forces unit, ensuring these skills are shored up will make them all the better at identifying Threats before they can get out of hand. (Strengthens the Greycloak Candidates by adding Investigation to their Primary Pool)
 
[X] Train the Candidates in Conquering their Fear: While those like you who could overwhelm the spirit of the uninitiated were rare--you were not unique, and regardless, teaching your candidates to overcome their fear was a boon in any circumstance. (Strengthens the Greycloak Candidates by adding "Resisting Fear" To their Primary Pool)
 
AlphaDelta said:
That's simply not the case.

Unless we're targeting them, they won't get affected by our intimidation. This isn't an aura that targets allies, unless we want it to do so.
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Maybe I'm missing something due to not knowing Exalted rules, but nothing here says Arbi chooses targets? From the updates, it seems like she just turns it on or off.
 
AlphaDelta said:
That's simply not the case.
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Really?
Alectai said:
"You're going to do the spooky thing to them, aren't you?" Bryn asks you after you lay out your plan. "Are you trying to make me look like some evil queen?"
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Then why does Bryn know what it feels like? Seems likely that while Iron Law can probably focus to amplify the effect, there's probably an area of effect background dread that effects her general surroundings.
 
[X] Train the Candidates in the ways of Investigation: The Greycloaks were as much about counterintelligence as they were a special forces unit, ensuring these skills are shored up will make them all the better at identifying Threats before they can get out of hand. (Strengthens the Greycloak Candidates by adding Investigation to their Primary Pool)

Graycloaks - We Never Sleep
 
Randino Treviani said:
Really?

Then why does Bryn know what it feels like? Seems likely that while Iron Law can probably focus to amplify the effect, there's probably an area of effect background dread that effects her general surroundings.
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Derpmind said:
Maybe I'm missing something due to not knowing Exalted rules, but nothing here says Arbi chooses targets? From the updates, it seems like she just turns it on or off.
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That might've been a house rule, now that I think of it.

Objection retracted, since it's been way too long since I've looked at the rulebook.
 
Box Lunch said:
the great part about Sidereals is
I can answer your question, or assume you're playing along
and both would be true
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Now I'm even more confused 😅

[X] Train the Candidates in the ways of Battle:Arbiter attempts to drill her students in new ways of battle, capable of contesting elites. This would ensure they could better handle getting into trouble without becoming liabilities (Strengthens the Greycloak Candidates by adding a Single Combat to their Primary Pool)
 
[X] Train the Candidates in Conquering their Fear: While those like you who could overwhelm the spirit of the uninitiated were rare--you were not unique, and regardless, teaching your candidates to overcome their fear was a boon in any circumstance. (Strengthens the Greycloak Candidates by adding "Resisting Fear" To their Primary Pool)
 
[X] Train the Candidates in the ways of Investigation: The Greycloaks were as much about counterintelligence as they were a special forces unit, ensuring these skills are shored up will make them all the better at identifying Threats before they can get out of hand. (Strengthens the Greycloak Candidates by adding Investigation to their Primary Pool)
 
[X] Train the Candidates in Conquering their Fear: While those like you who could overwhelm the spirit of the uninitiated were rare--you were not unique, and regardless, teaching your candidates to overcome their fear was a boon in any circumstance. (Strengthens the Greycloak Candidates by adding "Resisting Fear" To their Primary Pool)
 
[X] Train the Candidates in the ways of Investigation: The Greycloaks were as much about counterintelligence as they were a special forces unit, ensuring these skills are shored up will make them all the better at identifying Threats before they can get out of hand. (Strengthens the Greycloak Candidates by adding Investigation to their Primary Pool)
 
[X] Train the Candidates in the ways of Investigation

Counterespionage team go!
 
[X] Train the Candidates in the ways of Investigation: The Greycloaks were as much about counterintelligence as they were a special forces unit, ensuring these skills are shored up will make them all the better at identifying Threats before they can get out of hand. (Strengthens the Greycloak Candidates by adding Investigation to their Primary Pool)
 
Gonna give this one more day for votes, posting tomorrow evening, and then we should be back on track going forward
 
12 for Investigation to 7 for Fear. Looks like a decent lead so far.
Adhoc vote count started by Derpmind on Apr 21, 2023 at 10:09 PM, finished with 24 posts and 19 votes.
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[x] Train the Candidates in Conquering their Fear: While those like you who could overwhelm the spirit of the uninitiated were rare--you were not unique, and regardless, teaching your candidates to overcome their fear was a boon in any circumstance. (Strengthens the Greycloak Candidates by adding "Resisting Fear" To their Primary Pool)

Our Enemy are a bunch of Solars who are totally down to use terror tactics, and iirc one explicitly did (Heart-Eater). This is a priority.
 
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