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Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

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Seeing across the Gauntlet is a pretty common power for fey actually, though they have to roll against the strength of the Gauntlet and 'inside a plane' it tends to be pretty high. On the other hand no holds barred supernatural combat of the kind you guys just waged here tends to lower the Gauntlet.
 
[X] Let him have them, you can afford to be generous

I'm in an extremely good mood because of this hunt and I'd rather it not be the last. Generosity looks like it buys us nothing but... it does. Even when things aren't part of a formalized deal there is a give and take and there are invisible but inevitable tally marks keeping track of who owes what.

That is just my two cents.
 
Yog said:
[X] Try to claim them for yourself (Charisma+Intimidation opposed)
-[X] Use excellency

We can afford to be generous, but why would we? It's both a focus, and a treasure
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The bodies are at minimum prodigy fodder. If I understand the rules correctly we should be able to match either one of the functions of the bracers with each one of them. That's assuming we can't make splendors of them, which would definitely exceed mortal work.

We also want him to leave off staking a claim on the people who're still alive.

I think the optimum distribution would be to trade an item that doesn't really make him significantly more dangerous for the materials to make more of our own and uncontested claim on the people we're trying to save/use as information sources.
 
Dealing with the prisoners is going to be such a pain in the ass.

Cue "but we can just drop them off in the FCF"...

And my response to that inevitability; we'll need to offload them before the plane touches down, likely with BS within LoS or closer (thus he will able to observe with a full suite of powerful supernatural senses), make arrangements for their captivity, worry about the metaphysical link they share with their progenitors being used to find the FCF, and then actually deal with them later.

Y'all are far too happy to find shit to try to redeem it.
 
[] Let him have them, you can afford to be generous

[X] Trade him elder bodies for it (Opposed roll to decide how many)
 
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[X] Let him have them, you can afford to be generous
-[X] use the crown on them to learn where Treasures of Cuauhtémoc can be found

Let's go for BS redemption. But we should use them as a focus
 
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Goldfish said:
Dealing with the prisoners is going to be such a pain in the ass.

Cue "but we can just drop them off in the FCF"...

And my response to that inevitability; we'll need to offload them before the plane touches down, likely with BS within LoS or closer (thus he will able to observe with a full suite of powerful supernatural senses), make arrangements for their captivity, worry about the metaphysical link they share with their progenitors being used to find the FCF, and then actually deal with them later.

Y'all are far too happy to find shit to try to redeem it.
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BS being around is an issue, but I think the metaphysical link is a manageable problem.

Technically the FCF is an afterlife. Seeing the fate of a soul in detail isn't a common DF ability, the most of expect of a divination pointed that way for a majority of casters is "target is in hell, try again later". That is to say, registering as dead because they're in the afterlife.

We also have a shitload of very powerful and tricky sorcerers around. They aren't wizards, but they're still not pushovers either.

I really wouldn't want to play games with an elder spirit binder who's standing in a hell realm with full backing of its ruling lady to perform a task. Each integrated entity probably has a Rolodex full of other players who'd work with them on a project we've requested.

As far as I can see looking in on a part of Molly's world soul that she's determined to keep private from the outside should be about as hard as peeping on Emma-O's BDSM sessions.

If people can reliably do that I want to learn now so that we can begin setting up punishment games for them. I'd prefer to stop them from looking, but I'd take spitting curses and/or surprise demons at anyone looking too close if that's not viable.

DragonParadox said:
Yes if you used MiM and made the roll to actually do it that would allow you guys to deny him everything. The compromise is splitting the take, Broken Seeker can do that because he has a lot more experience with metaphysical cannibalism.
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When reading this I thought BS would be eating part of Ortega alive, then we'd be finishing her off with MiM to split the take on whatever special benefits eating her may have had. Which was why she was incapacitated instead of killed.

The chapter makes it sound like she's already dead, and we're taking the head as our share though. Was I misinterpreting what was possible here, and does that mean the head is 'only' worth half the reagent it appears to be?
 
Yog said:
[X] Let him have them, you can afford to be generous
-[X] use the crown on them to learn where Treasures of Cuauhtémoc can be found

Let's go for BS redemption. But we should use them as a focus
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In some spanish collections and museums probably.
The guy was the last Aztec Emperor before the Conquistadores plundered his stuff.
 
Goldfish said:
Dealing with the prisoners is going to be such a pain in the ass.

Cue "but we can just drop them off in the FCF"...

And my response to that inevitability; we'll need to offload them before the plane touches down, likely with BS within LoS or closer (thus he will able to observe with a full suite of powerful supernatural senses), make arrangements for their captivity, worry about the metaphysical link they share with their progenitors being used to find the FCF, and then actually deal with them later.

Y'all are far too happy to find shit to try to redeem it.
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I highly doubt he can get anything useful from seeing us let in them into our worldsoul. I doubt most gods could. Now some info sure anything that'd let him use said information I highly highly doubt it.
 
Idk how much a creature like Broken Seeker understands reciprocity, but he did just let us take prisoners and rescue civilians without any complaint. If I'm reading him right that's kind of a concession for him.

Could be him trying to make nice with us. Could be that he sees us a sort of creature that need to claim followers. Either way, I think letting him have the bracers is honorable and balances the scales since we sorry of manipulated him into this hunt...
 
DragonParadox said:
OOC: You guys might also what to start brainstorming what to do next since you have quite a bit to juggle between the humans, the prisoners and the plane itself.
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The plane itself is the trickiest but. They others it makes sense to just bring into our kingdom, but I don't think we can bring the plane.
 
DragonParadox said:
You cannot, it is too big. Also if you shove random mortals into your realm, letting them out would then come with the risk of them being interrogated about what they saw there.
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I don't think that we have any plans to keep our realm secret long term. A lot of the advantages require people to know about it.
 
DragonParadox said:
Item under Consideration: Bracers of the Last Emperor

Description: Crafted with all the skill of long dead Aztec goldsmiths with the faces of serpents and jaguars intermingled in red gold these Bracers would be counted a treasure by any museum, but the magic within them is more precious still. It is a thing born of an older age when the fire of the gods burned bright and brash reforged with blood to dark purpose

Abilities:
  • Can block any attack, even aggravated damage
  • They absorb blood from any attack the bearer has shed with an unarmed attack which remains fresh for 12 days
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They seem really useful even for Molly. Even we can't currently block any attack. The second ability is less useful, but we are likely to get red minions in the future.
 
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fictionfan said:
They seem really useful even for Molly. Even we can't currently block any attack. The second ability is less useful, but we are likely to get red minions in the future.
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We can't block worth anything though.

We Parry, Blocking is for Brawl.

And to be clear, we can block or parry a lot more than most people.
Bullets for example, or as seen in the museum, cannon shells.

Usually people can't even block swords or such without a tool for it, nevermind bullets.
 
Artemis1992 said:
We can't block worth anything though.

We Parry, Blocking is for Brawl.

And to be clear, we can block or parry a lot more than most people.
Bullets for example, or as seen in the museum, cannon shells.

Usually people can't even block swords or such without a tool for it, nevermind bullets.
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Well these allow blocking agg damage so I guess that they work on flame throwers somehow?
 
Artemis1992 said:
That would be up to @DragonParadox
I'd kinda prefer not to have them block things when it's physically impossible.

Meaning you could block a flaming sword or the Naagloshii's claws, but not an area-attack?
At some point you can only dodge, throw up a magic shield, or tank the hit.
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It is impossible to block/parry area attacks. There are ways to shield against that with magic, but it is mostly the domain of wizards.
 
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