- Location
- Germany
Why two?
There was only Sanya there.
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
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There was only Sanya there.
- Pronouns
- She/Her
One of the two. I explicitly said one of the two. Because one of the three Swords is currently inactive, so there are only two Knights currently available? And neither of them would be sent that far out of the way on a mission unless it was really important, since that's literally half of the available force projection for countering Denarian schemes and the like.
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Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
The relationship aren't always romantic and in fact often aren't. It's very possible to be bash brothers or sisters. Or to have a Kirk and Spock relationship.
It's just when you are supernaturally good at working together you tend to work together.
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It can be Enkidu–Gilgamesh relationship, the bond of friendship, rather then love.
Many Lunars, like Luna themselves find such labels as 'boy' and 'girl' quaint, not saying such a Lunar is about to show up, just pointing out how the bond used to work in the old days. It's not just the physical shapes, being a fluid ever-changing seducer is part of the power the wonder and the terror of Luna's Exalted.
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- washington
Oh yeah but we are playing Molly and I'd assume if we found a lunar they'd probably be a modern person. Given if they're fine with fender fluidity or straight up are a trans man with new powers then yeah sure I doubt Molly would care. Given I don't think Molly would find much attraction in the female bits. Well unless it was like appearance 6 and above cause like at a certain point last 5 gender does not matter with those stats.
Here:
This is directly what an apparatus gadget is supposed to do:
Since having resources 4 or even 5 is not really story-defining for us (because we are not playing Lunar of the Wall Street), we can expect our diamond synthesizer to work fairly reliably.
The distinction is not really meaningful. Just saying. Motonic science is science and magitechnology is technology.
Geriatric research sadly doesn't provide linear gains, as far as we know. 120 for an average lifespan is Star Trek Federation levels of advancements. Incidentally, this is wrong. The average lifespan is 85 years, but for each Resource dot beyond 2 you can increase it (170 years for Resources 3, 240 for 4, 480 for 5):
Personal computers vs. terminals is a design choice which can be argued at length. In some ways we have better stuff, since it's more focused on mortals, in others, it's better in the First Age. Incidentally, I AM is almost fully replicable as Emanation 5. Here are its canon stats (Exalted 2E - Dreams of the First Age - Book 1 (Lands of Creation) [revised] page 24):
We can't make it's quite as good from the get go (mainly, we don't have enough points for abilities), but we can get close if certain liberties are allowed during Arcana creation, like taking "every attribute starts at 1" (which gives 3 points total) and shifting them all to stamina, and not spending any points on tetriary attributes, but rather putting them all in secondary or primary attributes. And also if we use training charm(s) to improve him later.
I quoted this before, but here, again, is how alchemical exalted were made in E2:
Boiled down, these are requirements for making an alchemical:
We are making something very much like this. Yes, not exactly, but it certainly rhymes. We are going to take clay and likely whatever magical materials are available in the Courts, and fashion a body out of it. We'll likely pack it full of supporting technologies to give it superhuman feats - our courts have advanced prosthetics and cybernetics, which we are likely to repurpose for this. Thats's "perform a complex ritual that joins enormous quantities of the magical materials with exactingly machined parts, rare
clays and precisely brewed chemical concoctions to produce a crude approximation of a human form" part with caveats that there's nothing crude about the form. Then we will be connecting Lash's spirit to the body. It would likely need a vessel / brain analog. Making it in a form of a gem might work. That's "a flawless diamond soulgem is attached to the figure's brow". Finally, we will be animating the body with essence from a Dragon Nest. There's likely going to be prayer and purification / transformation of essence in the process. We are not Autochton, but we are a sleeping Primordial.
It's also quite possible that we'll be involving artisans from the Courts as helpers - they have experience in creating autonomous drones and bodies for machine spirits, we could use them. Given the ritualistic significance of the number 5, and how each city specializes in different things, there are likely to be 5 helpers / delegations of mortals. There's probably 1 in a million chance that they'll have dormant sodalite genes even:
Boilnig down - my point is that if DragonParadox wanted, the whole thing could easily link to alchemical creation. We are not making an alchemical, obviously, but we are making something very damn similar. Similar enough that, if our exaltation has experience with them from first age, some resonances might occur.
Only assuming they knew what it had. But yeah, I think "perfectly smooth hemisphere of pale stone" is just an altar symbolizing the moon.
Lunar bond, from what I understand, is not necessarily love. In long term MIchael getting one as a retired-from-knighthood package might be the ideal option (for the good guys). That's very unlikely to happen, though. Among our associates... Lash could be a fit, I guess. Not sure who else.
OK, looks like we are not letting them play with the toys, but we are taking all of them.
Arc 10 Post 10: Expert Oppinions
Expert Oppinions
3rd of December 2006 A.D.
On a more in depth consideration, about the depth of the balefire burns on the target mannequins for the demonstration come to think of it, you decide that handing these guns to a pair of teenagers who have never held one is not a good idea, even if the guns to come with a copilot. So you box them up to take home.
Gained Arsenal ●●●
You are a serious collector of military hardware, not only of small arms, but also body armor, grenades and medical supplies. Wouldn't raise eyebrows in some parts of the country... if only it weren't all alien tech.
Thus you spend the rest of the Academy's working program getting Olivia and Daniel set up to take some courses, explaining customs and expectations back and forth as well as demonstrations of Olivia's powers which get some thoughtful looks from a handful of the teachers, especially a black-scaled gurvel veteran named Twice Unbound Emerald Claws, a former Syndic-Corp assault team leader for Integrated Entertainment.
"If given sufficient protection from passive mental assaults you could be a terror upon any battle ground. Choose your sitelines correctly and any magician seeking to pin you down must put themselves in range of your weapon. Learn to stalk your targets and the threat of your attention might be worth more than the flash of your flux-gun."
Sneaking a look over at Olivia you find her looking daunted. "I never much liked Westerns as a kid," she tries to make a joke out of it.
"You don't have to..." you start, but she shakes her head.
"No, this is part of what I asked for, not just to protect myself but the others as well. Fear... fear is something I can use. it's better if they are afraid and don't start shit after all, the vampires, the fairies, whatever else is out there. I'd rather work with the police, Special Investigation you called them, than be the lone gunman though. Feels like they could use the help."
As you explain the conversation to Twice Unbound Emerald Claw the old warrior tilts his head bemusedly. "Of course you should seek a team to watch your back and place all action in right-harmony with the law. Why would that be in question?"
Even though you do your best to explain the veil between the mundane and the supernatural on Earth you do not think the point gets across, not even as much as it had with the Council. They are used to thinking in terms of high level politics, factions and layered conflicts that might produce counterintuitive results, but for the academy staff the idea that there might be a conceptual difference between a flux-gun and one that works on common chemical accelerates, one that it would be worth a wide spanning conspiracy over, is utterly alien.
One copper haired woman blinks slowly, accompanied by the sound of a camera shuttering from her third augment eye and shakes her head. "Now I understand why the preconditions for traveling Beyond are so stringent Majesty. We are talking about a full technological lock-down"
She pauses to think and by now you know that look. On the one hand you are a living god, on the other hand you are over here being chummy with these obvious young folk so maybe you did not think this though.
"Permission to speak freely," you somehow manage to deliver Picard's famous line without giggling.
"It seems unlikely that such an embargo would last for any great length of time, weapons, kit, bodies, all of these are potential vectors of contamination and ones which are far more amenable to study than the purely arcane works of 'wizards'," she uses the English word rather than try to parse out a translation.
You open your mouth to reply that magic has only been growing more obscure since the Enlightenment with those places and those people for which the curtain is drawn back having an interest in the status quo and then you remember something from the files read on the way here. The woman in front of you Still Blossom Among Black Thorns is herself over twelve hundred years Earth Standard. Were she born to the same world as you she would have been alive when Charlemagne was crowned. Her idea of 'a great length of time' is definitely not the same as yours.
"Perhaps that is so, but it is no reason for haste when the Powers that Be have not even shown their hand."
Speaking of Charlemagne or his descendants in particular Daniel is nowhere near as enthusiastic about Silver Needle as Olivia, not only does he not have her affinity for mental veils, but given his training in close quarters fighting, both armed and unarmed standing off four hundred feet with a riffle isn't the best use of his talents.
But it would make him safer, the small voice in your head that sounds suspiciously like Mom points out.
What do you sugest for Daniel?
[] Learning the Fivefold Howling Style in the City of Law, it is grueling training and not without its dangers, but far less so than what he planned going out and getting into fights with monsters
[] More Swordmanship training for now. You do have a certain prize sword he could use if he does well enough
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OOC: No rolls for this one, Daniel was never going to become a snipper when he has no firearms skill but does have Brawl and Melee 2.
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Reminder of what we know about the Fivefold Howling Style.
@DragonParadox do we know if it is purely a brawl style or can weapons be used with it?
It can be used with weapons as well. Brawl or Melee
He should be under the protection of the Wheel in our lands so it wont kill him atleast... well permanantly. And considering he can use melee with the style I would consider giving him Silence to use with it when ready. Unless we are planning to use it ourselves?
[X] Learning the Fivefold Howling Style in the City of Law, it is grueling training and not without its dangers, but far less so than what he planned going out and getting into fights with monsters
- [X] You do have a certain prize sword he could use if he does well enough.
[X] Learning the Fivefold Howling Style in the City of Law, it is grueling training and not without its dangers, but far less so than what he planned going out and getting into fights with monsters
- [X] You do have a certain prize sword he could use if he does well enough.
[X] Learning the Fivefold Howling Style in the City of Law, it is grueling training and not without its dangers, but far less so than what he planned going out and getting into fights with monsters
If he dies here he would be under the Wheel, but keep in mind the resurrection is not instant and he would henceforth be a Creature of Darkness
- Location
- Germany
Can he use that without usable Chi of his own?
[X] Learning the Fivefold Howling Style in the City of Law, it is grueling training and not without its dangers, but far less so than what he planned going out and getting into fights with monsters
-[X] You and he will talk to mom and dad about this first.
--[X] If they veto this, then more Swordmanship training for now.
-[X] Occult, Melee, and/or Empathy excellencies as appropriate to explain dangers in detail without unduly panicking anyone
-[X] You do have a certain prize sword he could use if he does well enough.
So, I think this is a comprehensive enough plan.
-[X] You and he will talk to mom and dad about this first.
--[X] If they veto this, then more Swordmanship training for now.
-[X] Occult, Melee, and/or Empathy excellencies as appropriate to explain dangers in detail without unduly panicking anyone
-[X] You do have a certain prize sword he could use if he does well enough.
So, I think this is a comprehensive enough plan.
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Not any of the active effects, but it still does STR+2 Aggravated damage, that is not something most supernatural predators want to deal with.
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[X] Learning the Fivefold Howling Style in the City of Law, it is grueling training and not without its dangers, but far less so than what he planned going out and getting into fights with monsters
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
Daniel is Molly's little brother, but her time is limited and she has people who can do the training now, lots and lots of people. Obligating her to spend the kind time necessary to actually train someone to use a melee weapon is effectively setting our AP on fire and flushing the ashes down the toilet.
[X] Learning the Fivefold Howling Style in the City of Law, it is grueling training and not without its dangers, but far less so than what he planned going out and getting into fights with monsters
I knew this would be controversial. Ok, removed.
- Location
- Right Where I Am
[X] Learning the Fivefold Howling Style in the City of Law, it is grueling training and not without its dangers, but far less so than what he planned going out and getting into fights with monsters
-[X] You and he will talk to mom and dad about this first.
--[X] If they veto this, then more Swordmanship training for now.
-[X] Occult, Melee, and/or Empathy excellencies as appropriate to explain dangers in detail without unduly panicking anyone
-[X] You do have a certain prize sword he could use if he does well enough.
Works for me, and includes the important part of involving Mom and Dad.
-[X] You and he will talk to mom and dad about this first.
--[X] If they veto this, then more Swordmanship training for now.
-[X] Occult, Melee, and/or Empathy excellencies as appropriate to explain dangers in detail without unduly panicking anyone
-[X] You do have a certain prize sword he could use if he does well enough.
Works for me, and includes the important part of involving Mom and Dad.
- Location
- portugal
[X] Learning the Fivefold Howling Style in the City of Law, it is grueling training and not without its dangers, but far less so than what he planned going out and getting into fights with monsters
- [X] You do have a certain prize sword he could use if he does well enough.
- [X] You do have a certain prize sword he could use if he does well enough.
- Location
- Germany
So, for the Style he definitly would have to awaken his Chi, like a Shi.
Isn't that a matter of years?
We can skip that because of the Essence-generatir nailed to our soul, he has no such advantage.
Isn't that a matter of years?
We can skip that because of the Essence-generatir nailed to our soul, he has no such advantage.