I'll be posting a new CYOA likely sometime this month or the next, so have one final, relatively simple build for Ineptitude!
Worthy
Normal Mode (7 Points, 2 Seals)
Drawbacks: Impulse (Scent) +4, Paramount +2, Mosswort +1
Binding Casino: Mutilation +1 Seal, +1 Seal Initial Bonus
Total 14 Points, 4 Seals
Role: Supreme Commander
Roll 3 (-1 Points): 18, 21, 11. Choose 18 (The Gardens of Enoch)
Panoply: Feather of Favor: Comprehensive Boost (-2 Seals), Shining Armor (-9 Points)
Self: Static (-2 Points, Paramount Turbo), Exponential II (-2 Seals)
Quest: Imperialist (-2 Points)
This build combines immense initial safety with relatively high quality of life and decent scaling: no Nemesis means I don't have to optimize super-hard for adversarial conditions, and the comprehensive-boosted Shining Armor alone is pretty much sufficient for great living. Eternal is always excellent for Exalted builds and the Role's comprehensive boost more than smoothes over any complications arising from Mutilation - though the Armor alone suffices for that in the first place.
Exponential II with the comprehensive boost is about a 30x multiplier to progression speed and ultimate potential, and the utility of its uncapped Functional Set is about equivalent to that of a 3.5E Psion or Sorceror - vast, but somewhat limited compared to the more versatile Wizards or Clerics. That more or less suffices for endgame versatility in my books and I don't really want to roll for more Bindings and risk being forced into Save Slots to avoid the Procession, or suffer social Bindings that I'll need to buy Allies to alleviate, etc.
Poor Enoch and his well-laid plans will be quite discombobulated by the juggernaut that is this build Kool-Aid-manning its way through the metaphysical walls of his institution... Even Paramount is unlikely to save him given the sheer breadth and might of the boosted Armor, but at least Imperia will be able to glide nicely into her new life as an able administrator of the Deliberative regime! An Imperialist quest that recruits the quest character Imperia; was there ever a superior conjunction?
Kintsugi, Akhena, and many others forced into Attacks will likely all breathe a collective sigh of relief at Enoch's overthrow. A shame about Arthur, though. I doubt that the Strategist will be at all happy with this state of affairs, and might well incite Mr. Drake into ill-conceived rebellion against a force infinitely stronger! And heaven forbid that Conjoiner Spirit find itself opposed to the Exalt with its selfsame title, and thence experience his displeasure.
Indeed, compared to the insertion world, of greater relevance would be the Paramount-enabled Deliberative itself, though even they would struggle somewhat to seriously harm an Eternal wielder of the boosted Armor... the chief risk would be if Odyssial were present and somehow aligned against us. But it's merely Paramount, not Hero's Journey, so that's not particularly likely! With starting Essence 7 our official status in the Deliberative should be on fairly solid, if unspectacular, footing; the boosted Armor resembles a moonsilver N/A Grade Artifact (or weaponized Primordial) sufficiently to avoid too many questions.
But our island of initial stability won't stand long once we actually try to correct the Deliberative's course, which is why a boosted Exponential II is so important in the medium term! Of course we can simply learn Ordinalism in-universe, but once its existence is discovered there's little stopping the other Solars from doing the same, so by itself it represents no marginal advantage against Great Curse-tainted sociopathy. Though maybe we can bully the Neverborn into simply rescinding the thing!
