Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
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[X] Use Rendered Villain Dispersal, fast and safe, but the more you use it the more likely someone is to guess something like this exists
-[X] Bring along a water bottle of bleach in our backpack, along with whatever other essentials we decide to carry, such as holy water and potions.
Chicago River to Des Plaine River to Mississipi River into Gulf of Mexico. Gulf of Mexico into Atlantic into Pacific.
Pacific into Rio Grande de Santiago to Lake Chapala.
Then Lake Chapala into the Lerma River system, which has branches within 50km of Mexico City, and directly into Leon
Lerma River Watershed said:
Lerma River - Wikipedia
Elapsed travel time: <30 seconds.
Be sure to bring some holy water from St Mary's in her fanny pack to activate BSM if necessary.
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- washington
[X] Use Rendered Villain Dispersal, fast and safe, but the more you use it the more likely someone is to guess something like this exists
-[X] Bring along a water bottle of bleach in our backpack, along with whatever other essentials we decide to carry, such as holy water and potions.
-[X] Bring along a water bottle of bleach in our backpack, along with whatever other essentials we decide to carry, such as holy water and potions.
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- Brazil
[X] Use Rendered Villain Dispersal, fast and safe, but the more you use it the more likely someone is to guess something like this exists
-[X] Bring along a water bottle of bleach in our backpack, along with whatever other essentials we decide to carry, such as holy water and potions.
-[X] Bring along a water bottle of bleach in our backpack, along with whatever other essentials we decide to carry, such as holy water and potions.
The practical objections are simple:
We want to minimize the amount of time we spend using Infernal powers under his scrutiny. Because he'll be looking.
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Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
And possibly mentally composing edgy poetry about how he wants to see us bathe in the freshly spilled blood of a thousand newborns. Or worse.
The less time we spend around Broken Seeker, the better.
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- washington
I wonder if this is gonna be reported as bad weather or terrorist attack. Also if we want divination to not work even worse have whoever we put in the plane drop it into a lake or river.
To be fair, I dont think he'd share any of that poetry, if nothing else because the QM wont want to write that.
And I understand why people want to read him; the character comes across very strongly in the writing.
Evil but entertaining for the readers.
But this is one of those occasions where I think Molly's priorities take primacy.
Also, there's both the issue of keeping him guessing about what she can do for as long as possible.
And a need to try and avoid the major Ways in and out of Mexico, since they are likely to be under surveillance from agents of the Reds, Whites, Winter, wizards and anyone with an interest in the current war.
There's a good chance that the cyberdevil we will HMP the plane with is going to have to make an emergency landing of the plane on a highway. Especially if there are civilians aboard.
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- washington
isn't that worse and more news catching since we're gonna slaughter the inhabitants?
The Reds will cover up any details here.
Just like they covered up the details around her late husband's estate after McCoy dropped a satellite on it.
Mexico is the center of their power after all.
Worst case, you'll see news reports about a daring midair kidnapping of the head of an NGO by drug cartels who smuggled killers onto the plane on the ground, murdered the woman's retinue midflight and jumped out of the plane with parachutes.
Think modern day DB Cooper.
Then in a couple weeks or months they'll produce a lookalike body that was decapitated or something similar.
Do remember that Mexico IRL is still the sort of place where entire busloads of students vanish into thin air as late as 2014 at the hands of colluding drug cartels and local law enforcement
Iguala mass kidnapping - Wikipedia
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yeah thats pretty obvious in retrospect just didn't think about the cover up stuff they'll handle. Makes me wonder what percentage of crime is actually supernatural bullshit. Its at least a percentage due to all the kidnappings, cults, alleyway murders, etc etc.The Reds will cover up any details here.
Just like they covered up the details around her late husband's estate after McCoy dropped a satellite on it.
Mexico is the center of their power after all.
Worst case, you'll see news reports about a daring midair kidnapping of the head of an NGO by drug cartels who smuggled killers onto the plane on the ground, murdered the woman's retinue midflight and jumped out of the plane with parachutes.
Think modern day DB Cooper.
Then in a couple weeks or months they'll produce a lookalike body that was decapitated or something similar.
Do remember that Mexico IRL is still the sort of place where entire busloads of students vanish into thin air as late as 2014 at the hands of colluding drug cartels and local law enforcement
Mexico thats suffering both drug cartels and vampires is not going to be better.Iguala mass kidnapping - Wikipedia
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[X] Use Rendered Villain Dispersal, fast and safe, but the more you use it the more likely someone is to guess something like this exists
-[X] Bring along a water bottle of bleach in our backpack, along with whatever other essentials we decide to carry, such as holy water and potions.
-[X] Bring along a water bottle of bleach in our backpack, along with whatever other essentials we decide to carry, such as holy water and potions.
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- Earth
The Reds also have gotten some of their opposition on terrorist lists.
They placed Martin of the Fellowship of Saint Giles on one, IIRC.
Oh yeah and they will do that to wizards as well when they have the chance, they are not shy about using mortal authorities when then can do so deniably.
Oh sure.
They got Martin on it, but not Susan; the most that they could pin on her was possible associate.
They have limits to what they can plausibly pull off. And they did it to people who couldnt retaliate in kind.
Trying that with Molly is....well. Going to end badly.
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also you know even if they have a picture of us we can show ourselves in chicago within twenty minutes after killing them and get an alibi. Cause there's no feasible way we could make it back in that time.
If we get CCoP, one of the actions I have planned is making Christmas gifts for everyone. I even have ideas. We definitely will be having a big Christmas celebration to make up for missing birthdays.
[X] Use Rendered Villain Dispersal, fast and safe, but the more you use it the more likely someone is to guess something like this exists
-[X] Bring along a water bottle of bleach in our backpack, along with whatever other essentials we decide to carry, such as holy water and potions.
-[X] Bring along a water bottle of bleach in our backpack, along with whatever other essentials we decide to carry, such as holy water and potions.
With this amount of successes on social engineering, this dude should be well on his way to becoming a tech billionaire in the future. I wonder if he'll remember the incident that changed his entire life? Even if for us it was Monday.
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- Germany
Eh, a trivial interaction will remain one.
A huge number of successes on a mundane roll won't change fate.
If we invested the time and effort to shape him into something, and had a lot of social rolls like that, we could make huge alterations to his life.
But sometimes a good word is just that, and if you are not currently standing at a crossroad, it won't mean much.
Yep, there is a limit on how much an interaction can do, both inherently as a function of time and as a function of intent. When she threw her excellency at him Molly did not even want that guy to be a tech billionaire, what she wanted was for him to feel better about himself, find friends and leave her alone in no particular order. The first and the third she got since it was direct interaction and he is going to make a meaningful attempt at the second, but there are no guarantees.
Night Swallows Secrets + Endless Torment Emanation is 21xp.
Molly can, on her own, make any legal proceeding vanish if she puts her mind to it.
Still work.
She needs to have a dedicated action spending time with them, not making things for them. Both for her mental health, and theirs. Christmas gifts she can go shopping in the Brass Courts one afternoon.
@DragonParadox
QUESTION
How does Seeing Is Blindness interact with Molly's AoE charms?
Because as I currently see it, comboing Seeing Is Blindness(2 dots, 6xp) with Source Code Compliance Protocol(1 dot, 4xp) would drive everyone who could hear her voice blind for the scene(+2 DC to all activities involving sight) unless she exempted them from the effect.
Ditto if she combines Seeing Is Blindness with World-Grinding Devastation, in which case they would be both blind and being eaten by demon-insects.
Seeing Is Blindness (••)
The Infernal's attacks trail inky contrails that steal the light from the eyes of her foes.
System: Reflexively spend 1 Essence. For the next (Essence rating) turns, the Infernal's attacks are stained with darkness. If such an attack strikes an opponent, whether or not it inflicts damage, the target is blinded for the rest of the scene: a cloud of liquid darkness spreads across his eyes, and he raises the difficulty of all actions depending on vision by +2.
Signature Effect: Anyone who gazes upon the Infernal while in her Shintai form must make a Willpower roll (difficulty 8) or be struck temporarily blind, as though afflicted by Seeing is Blindness. This roll needs only be made once per transformation. Attempting to target the Infernal with attacks without looking at her raises the difficulty by +1 for close-quarters attacks, +2 at range.
The Infernal's attacks trail inky contrails that steal the light from the eyes of her foes.
System: Reflexively spend 1 Essence. For the next (Essence rating) turns, the Infernal's attacks are stained with darkness. If such an attack strikes an opponent, whether or not it inflicts damage, the target is blinded for the rest of the scene: a cloud of liquid darkness spreads across his eyes, and he raises the difficulty of all actions depending on vision by +2.
Signature Effect: Anyone who gazes upon the Infernal while in her Shintai form must make a Willpower roll (difficulty 8) or be struck temporarily blind, as though afflicted by Seeing is Blindness. This roll needs only be made once per transformation. Attempting to target the Infernal with attacks without looking at her raises the difficulty by +1 for close-quarters attacks, +2 at range.
Source Code Compliance Protocol (•)
The Infernal connects herself to the underlying structure which precedes all communication, and then networks those around her into that understanding as well.
System: The Infernal's player rolls Willpower against difficulty 7. Success allows her to speak the language at the heart of all languages for a scene. Anyone who hears her words comprehends them, and finds that any attempt they make to speak in her presence comes out in the same ancient tongue. This enforced comprehension ravages the mind and body, and who hear the Infernal and respond to her suffer one level of bashing damage in the form of bleeding eyes and terrible headaches. The Infernal may spend 1 Essence to spare those she converses with this harm and the associated pain, should she feel magnanimous.
The Infernal connects herself to the underlying structure which precedes all communication, and then networks those around her into that understanding as well.
System: The Infernal's player rolls Willpower against difficulty 7. Success allows her to speak the language at the heart of all languages for a scene. Anyone who hears her words comprehends them, and finds that any attempt they make to speak in her presence comes out in the same ancient tongue. This enforced comprehension ravages the mind and body, and who hear the Infernal and respond to her suffer one level of bashing damage in the form of bleeding eyes and terrible headaches. The Infernal may spend 1 Essence to spare those she converses with this harm and the associated pain, should she feel magnanimous.
World-Grinding devastation (•••••)
The Infernal spreads her arms, breathes out her corrupted Essence, and draws the Hell of Burrowing Maggots up into the world around her. Her surroundings shiver. The world trembles with seeming desert-shimmer, a heat-haze in the corner of the eye. Then the hideous truth asserts itself: the landscape is moving, writhing, as millions of flesh-hungry maggots chew their way into reality, boiling out of every crease and corner, dripping from ceiling tiles and tree branches, wriggling up from the ground. They even come squirming through gaps in the air itself.
System: The Infernal spends a turn in concentration and spends 2 Essence. For the rest of the scene, or until the Infernal dismisses them back to Hell, everything within (Essence x 30) yards around her swarms and heaves and drips with hungry demon-maggots. Everyone she does not personally exempt from their appetite suffers one level of lethal damage per turn as the maggots swarm and chew and devour. One who seeks to avoid being devoured may do so by bowing before the Infernal and pressing his forehead to the ground: groveling in this fashion offers protection from the maggots while it continues. It also causes anyone who submits in this fashion to raise the difficulty of all ac- tions taken to hinder, oppose, attack, defame, humil- iate, or resist the Infernal by one for a year and a day.
Signature Effect: World-Grinding Devastation may be activated reflexively and only costs 1 Essence while the Infernal wears her Shintai form.
The Infernal spreads her arms, breathes out her corrupted Essence, and draws the Hell of Burrowing Maggots up into the world around her. Her surroundings shiver. The world trembles with seeming desert-shimmer, a heat-haze in the corner of the eye. Then the hideous truth asserts itself: the landscape is moving, writhing, as millions of flesh-hungry maggots chew their way into reality, boiling out of every crease and corner, dripping from ceiling tiles and tree branches, wriggling up from the ground. They even come squirming through gaps in the air itself.
System: The Infernal spends a turn in concentration and spends 2 Essence. For the rest of the scene, or until the Infernal dismisses them back to Hell, everything within (Essence x 30) yards around her swarms and heaves and drips with hungry demon-maggots. Everyone she does not personally exempt from their appetite suffers one level of lethal damage per turn as the maggots swarm and chew and devour. One who seeks to avoid being devoured may do so by bowing before the Infernal and pressing his forehead to the ground: groveling in this fashion offers protection from the maggots while it continues. It also causes anyone who submits in this fashion to raise the difficulty of all ac- tions taken to hinder, oppose, attack, defame, humil- iate, or resist the Infernal by one for a year and a day.
Signature Effect: World-Grinding Devastation may be activated reflexively and only costs 1 Essence while the Infernal wears her Shintai form.