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The Last Daughter -- Dragon-Blooded Sorcery School Quest

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Unfortunately there's not a [Violently sobbing] react, so I just had to go with a heart. Incredibly moving and tragic development. This was a great interlude.
 
[X] Hard Lessons
[X] The Serpent Thief

I quite agree Nalri endangering everyone isn't something we can or should let slide, but it's something we can address after graduation, it seems to me. She'll probably think she's gotten away with it by then, anyway.

Boy, I'm glad someone's being nice to Peony right now. Ouch, ouch, ouch.
 
[X] Hard Lessons
[X] The Serpent Thief

Really don't give a shit about Nalri when we could be hanging out with Sola or Diamond instead.

Besides, I really want to improve our relationship with Sola.
 
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Gazetteer said:
[X] Hard Lessons
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I'm just not really invested in a grievance against Nalri, which I recognize may well come back to bite us in the ass down the line. Still, I just don't see Ambraea as all that worried about revenging herself upon incidental antagonists. Maia probably already has that covered. I just hope L'nessa doesn't end up in trouble because she does and has to do it without us.

I somehow completely forgot that transition might complicate things between Deizil and Keric and it amuses me greatly that the complication seems to be "Keric is actively horny for him now instead of just scaroused by the attentions of a dominant woman". It's also very funny to watch a Deizil comfortable in his own skin have almost exactly the same attitude but with advantage on his skill checks so he can actually pull it off now (...admittedly, as seen through Keric's eyes).
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Then she follows after Peony, moving at a brisk walk. This isn't a manhunt, after all; she just wants to be there when the poor kid finally collapses.
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Of course a Chosen of Endings would be a persistence predator.
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Hopefully, Peony somehow manages to arrange something for her mother despite that. What's the point of being an enforcer of celestial bureaucracy if you don't abuse your station for personal benefits?
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I was going to make a flippant joke about it but then it occurs to me that, no, in fact it's a genuinely solid example: for all the failings that Heaven and the Sidereals as a group have, I don't expect them to needlessly make things worse for newly exalted members, so if we think of Peony as Anakin, it makes perfect sense that part of the paperwork around her onboarding would include an astrological working to ensure her mother gets freed and maybe retires into a happy marriage with a comfortable farmer, or similar, and then tell Peony that. (Any subsequent kidnapping by Dune People is just an example of the limitations of Fate in practice.)
 
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Do the Sidereal have some form of opposition or natural enemy within the context of the lore? A metaphysical agent against the natural order of heaven as it were?
 
Randino Treviani said:
Do the Sidereal have some form of opposition or natural enemy within the context of the lore? A metaphysical agent against the natural order of heaven as it were?
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Sidereals have a lot of different supernatural forces that they have to work in opposition to. Their job, if they choose to work for the Bureau of Destiny (most do; the Bureau makes it worth their while, and it is profoundly isolating to cut yourself off from most of the people in the world who can remember who you are), is to make sure that Destiny proceeds as planned and to like... deal with threats to Creation as needed when those two things intersect. Powerful magical beings have much more of a capacity to disrupt destiny than mortals do. Ghosts, demons, fair folk, behemoths, shit like that.

In terms of the Exalted, Lunars have been waging centuries long forever war against the successor states of the Dragon-Blooded Shogunate, and the Sidereals who back them. Bronze Faction Sidereals have also been helping Dragon-Blooded kill Lunars and the few remaining Solars for just as long. "Killed by Lunar" is the largest cause of death among Sidereals. Abyssals and Infernals are Exalt types that are typically very bad for Sidereal agendas in general, but they don't exist yet in our timeline for a couple more years.

Getimians are the closest to a spy vs spy evil opposite, in that they're like, weird paradox people formed out of unrealised destinies, who are created in the moment of their Exaltation, but who remember an alternate timeline where they existed and did great and heroic things. So unlike a Sidereal, who is real and who everyone simply forgot, a Getimian just like... gets dropped into a slightly-wrong world where they might meet people who they remember, but none of their memories actually happened so everyone is different and has no idea who they are. They have weird powers that fuck with fate and destiny, and a bunch of them are actively working against heaven.

Sidereals have much better odds of living a long life than a lot of young Exalts, though. Heaven's support and training is a lot, and they have abilities that let them move through the world really well. They can live for thousands of years, if nothing kills them early.
 
[x] The Serpent Thief
Just feeling kinda tired of politics. Of course, expecting "adventure through ruins at the behest of spirits" to be apolitical is hilariously naive, but yet, I can dream...
 
Aunty Shi Ping said:
[x] The Serpent Thief
Just feeling kinda tired of politics. Of course, expecting "adventure through ruins at the behest of spirits" to be apolitical is hilariously naive, but yet, I can dream...
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It's literally spirit court politics. Some former rival of DCP has robbed his court and he wants us to make an example of them, because it would be Gauche to do it himself. All of the available actions are political infact.
 
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