Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
- Start date
- Crossover Fantasy
You were already talking to Lara during the last update. Or did I miss something there?
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
[X] The Brothers LeFey
-[X] Talk to Harry about what happened, see if the White Council is willing to do something about a plot aimed ultimately at them
-[X] Speak to Thomas about White Court politics and etiquette, movers and shakers within the Court we might encounter at the party, and generally how such gatherings tend to play out, both when they are peaceful and when they include bloodletting.
[X] Go in the dress you made for Lydia's graveyard party
-[X] Talk to Harry about what happened, see if the White Council is willing to do something about a plot aimed ultimately at them
-[X] Speak to Thomas about White Court politics and etiquette, movers and shakers within the Court we might encounter at the party, and generally how such gatherings tend to play out, both when they are peaceful and when they include bloodletting.
[X] Go in the dress you made for Lydia's graveyard party
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- Location
- France
@DragonParadox, it feels like a line or line break is missing in the transition between "talking to cop" and "calling ninth grader".
Ah right, should be fixed now.
Finance 0.
Politics 0.
Science 0.
Tech 2.
No Excellencies in any of them.
And to top it all off, none of them are Key abilities. We are not specced for that. Nor do we have the spare AP to give something of that nature the attention it deserves.
We are already committing ourselves OOC to being the Demon Empress of several hundred million people in our Hell/Horizon Realm.
And thats on top of our other shit.
The idea that we can willy nilly tack on megacorp industrialist on that is just hubris.
We can't and we shouldn't.
We have a fuckton of fairly massive projects on our to-do list which we are one of only a handful of people capable of undertaking them. Half-assing another major undertaking for the sake of vanity would literally be a sin.
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This is not Creation, the Solar Deliberative is not a thing, and it is unreasonable to assume you can One Weird Trick reality's defences in a way that noone here has thought of before.
We are a special snowflake, but not that special.
Bitcoin, and cryptocurrency in general is an abomination that actively made the world climate crisis worse by burning more energy than entire nation states for the sake of grifters gamblers and money launderers. Thats just a hard no from me.
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There are rules to the setting. The status quo serves a purpose.
There are reasons why its the bad guys generally trying to blow up the Masquerade or ignore it at their leisure.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
Why are y'all voting to take the sword with us? I'm not even sure why it's a default option. It makes no sense, and will look stupid in the party setting. We want to make an impression, but not this kind of impression.
Not to mention the nature of the sword itself.
Not to mention the nature of the sword itself.
- Location
- Brazil
I'm voting more to study her than anything else, as I'm afraid no one will choose the options to research the loot we gained from Kakuri. Just as it seems our network of cyberdevil spies is being pushed aside as something that might wait another turn. But I will vote in approval because your vote is good.
[X] Goldfish
[X] Look over that sword you took from the Akuma, carrying that thing around with you, even if you are not going to do it will make a statement
The point being that its a trophy.
The sword is a rare weapon/artifact only carried by the greatest of Yomi Wan's champions. Molly carrying one to a formal occasion is a humblebrag that she has met the best that the Yama Kings have sent and killed it one on one.
I think the closest comparison is Eldest Gruff going around with 3x Senior Council wizard scarves of office on his belt, signifying that he'd met and beaten/killed 3x Senior Council wizards one on one.
Or, IRL, fighter pilots marking their kills on their plane.
I personally think it makes a stronger impression to show up unarmed and still intimidate the fuck out of everyone just by existing in their general area code.
But I can see the argument being made.
- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/They
Typo, I think? Not sure why we'd go to Harry to see about the White Court.
This is super fucking funny
Heartwarming.
Showing up with the remains of a powerful enemy at your belt is a statement, a rather intimidating one.
Fixed, thanks
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- Norway
Please shut up about Bitcoin. Really not the thread for it.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
I agree, up to a certain point, but most of the impact is lost if no one present actually understands that the sword is all that remains of a powerful enemy. After all, who among Laura's guests will be able to recognize the sword as having belonged to a Greater Akuma?
Molly already has a rep for wielding a powerful sword to deadly effect. Anyone who knows that much about her but who hasn't seen her true sword in person would be much more likely to assume she's simply carrying her own sword.
It's like having to explain the punchline of a joke to someone who doesn't get it. Having to tell people why they should be scared of the ominous looking sword is just sad.
Leadership 3, and is a key ability with applicable excellency. If I was proposing "develop technology in a cave with a box of scraps and no assistants" you would be right. I am not. I am proposing "take the technologies of the more advanced society, which fully backs you and where you can work in the open, and order millions of people to devote their time to the tasks you set, and disseminate them into the less advanced society". That's an entirely different task.
Megacorp industrialist is, by necessity, a part of being Demon Empress.
What one weird trick?
[X] Go in the dress you made for Lydia's graveyard party
[X] The Brothers LeFey
-[X] Talk to Harry about what happened, see if the White Council is willing to do something about a plot aimed ultimately at them
-[X] Speak to Thomas about White Court politics and etiquette, movers and shakers within the Court we might encounter at the party, and generally how such gatherings tend to play out, both when they are peaceful and when they include bloodletting.
We already have a dress for the occasion. One meant to go with our sword. One that is exalted-grade craft. We should use it. What use do we have for mundane clothing?
That's my fault, I apologize. The idea was that one of the uses of exalted wondercrafting 5 dot charm could be to make a cryptocurrency of a sort (or, more generally, some sort of widely used program / algorithm, such as a data archiver, or an encryption protocol), that would also generate a mystic effect when used (in the example provided, strengthen reality). One of the canon examples is "a database that records sins of everyone who connects to it" or something similar, so software wonders are possible.
The thing is... resonant enough with death that even those who do not know what the Jade court is would realize it's powerful and you could always drop in conversation that it is a prize
You can't wear the same dress twice in high society.
[X] MAKE some new clothes, you need something intimidating. An emerald green spider silk dress with bronze chain accessories studded with emeralds. Make Lydia a matching dress, but white silk, blackened steel chains, and smoky diamonds.
[X] MAKE some new clothes, you need something intimidating. An emerald green spider silk dress with bronze chain accessories studded with emeralds. Make Lydia a matching dress, but white silk, blackened steel chains, and smoky diamonds.
Goldfish
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- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
And then you could start selling a service to erase someone's sin record, because everyone has some shit they don't want other people to see, even if it doesn't involve murder or similarly heinous stuff.
Like how my friend that died 10 years ago made sure to ask me to clear his computer's internet browser history while on his death bed so that his wife wouldn't stumble across it.
We really need to find the sidereal.