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Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

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[X] Sure, Ancient Luc will use Outcome Altering Subrutines (Fortune ●●): +2 Dice to INT+Technology roll; a botch manifest as a curse of like severity lasting several weeks
 
Fouredged Sword said:
Ok, so I have a question.

So if a wizard gets access to someone's gun for any length of time they can essentially cast a spell that makes it explode if someone pulls the trigger...

How is that any different than them casting an entropy curse that causes a regular gun to send the slide backwards to impale someone in the eye the moment it is fired?

Like, mage is a game of paranoia and obsessive control where you cannot trust anything you do not carefully ensure NEVER falls into the hands of your enemies.

There is a very simple solution to this problem. Stick the gun in a holster attached to the wizard who is going to use it and don't let it leave their side. Verify that the gun hasn't been messed with before handing it to the wizard.

But no alteration can make an unsupervised weapon the enemy lays hands on safe because a wizard can make a half brick in a sock into a booby trap.
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Entropy curses are hard to pull off, and use a lot of magic because they have to do the heavy lifting of making the bad thing happen, What Harry did was alter the weapons internal code to 'if trigger pulled then explode'.
 
Yog said:
Why shouldn't we? A bomb collar with a spirit that is set to explode if we try to leave the courts and is only unlockable if we solve the issue should activate CCC.

Also, should we use shintai to get one more -1 DC?
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I think we have too much power over our environment here to make it work. There is no bomb collar that can really contain us anymore than any door can bar our path.
 
Fouredged Sword said:
Yes, but it's not any harder than transmuting the inside of the firing pin into nitroglycerine.

The byword of any wizard should be paranoia.
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DF wizards can't actually do that sort of transmutation, or at least we never see them do so.

In any case without a way to make this more difficult for them we'll never get anyone to accept them in large quantities. Too much risk of a wizard tier power turning them against you.
Yog said:
Why shouldn't we? A bomb collar with a spirit that is set to explode if we try to leave the courts and is only unlockable if we solve the issue should activate CCC.

Also, should we use shintai to get one more -1 DC?
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We should use Shintai, because it's free here, but the ruling we got was no CCC because hell is our safe space.
 
DragonParadox said:
No sooner had you made the issue known to the engineers of the City of Law where the weapons were made that Logistician of the Unstopable Company himself seeks an audience with you, seeming to take personal offense that the weapons his factories provided could be so easily defeated.

That is how Harry came to stand on a steel chamber with weapons and other devices set upon a steel table, the walls covered with pipes and valves ringed with runes of power all of which flow to a rectangular cut out that leads into the observation room.

"Weird door," he mutters as he gets into the machine though the gap. A moment later it whirs to life ad though that gap flows a crude oil drawn from the hallowed well of the attending spirit. It does not spill or drip held in place by techno-sorcerous pact.
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Underlined errors are in order of reading:

than not that

cutout not cut out since the former means a hole that has been cut out while the latter means the act of cut out a hole.

and not ad

by a techno-sorcerous pact because that is how English grammar actually works. Or change it to pacts. Either way you are in an uncanny grammatical state with this one as is.

DragonParadox said:
For the next hour and a half all of you watch in silence as the lights of Harry's aura organize into ad-hoc geometries dizzying in their complexity and yet so very simple in intent, to create within their lattice a program akin to the one the devices hold, with one subtle alteration, one fatal flaw then press if home rippling though the stack.
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Rewrite the underlined part. It's in my hovercraft is full of eels territory.

DragonParadox said:
Somehow the glass and steel gaze of Anciant Luc grows even colder as he looks over the results. He whirrs: "Initiating Outcome Alterating Subrutines. Clear!" Everyone around him takes a step back including you, not being such a fool as to ignore safety warnings. A moment later he continues: "Using flaw in serialized production," he confirms your earlier thought. "Capacity to make changes without specialized tools prodigious. Instinctive understanding of High Code 5505. Programing alteration insufficient to resolve vulnerability. Searching for potential hardware blueprints. Nul Result."
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Again in the order of reading:

Ancient not Anciant

whirs not whirrs

Altering Subroutines not Alterating Subrutines.

Yog said:
Why shouldn't we? A bomb collar with a spirit that is set to explode if we try to leave the courts and is only unlockable if we solve the issue should activate CCC.

Also, should we use shintai to get one more -1 DC?
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You can't have a death threat in a place where death is not a threat but a mercy/release.
 
@DragonParadox the voted-for plan involved using the tampered-with equipment as a crown focus to find already existing methods of protection to start working from. Will the be implemented, or do we need to add this again? Or would that not work at all?
 
[X] Plan Giving our Best
-[X] Get the most powerful fortune-weaver in the city (Fortune ●●●●) in here, you will get those designs done today +4 Dice. Impact of a botch would linger and require dispelling
--[X] Use the Crown with Occult excellency boost to improve the safety / reliability of the magic cast, similar to how you improved safety of Harry's Soulgaze
-[X] Use all boosts you have access to: BSM, WHWH, assume shintai form
-[X] Use the equipment that has been tampered with to find already existing methods of protection, technological and otherwise, to use as a basis for the solution
-[X] Stunt: basalt and brass hands brush upon the keys of a digital keyboard, a light stylus is held aloft in an invisible telekinetic grip, and a voice meant to lead armies and proclaim divine decrees dictates your thoughts and makes requests of your assistants, both noospheric and embodied. For someone without a context, the scene before them would look like a council of war, and in a sense it is. But, for the first time since you ever gained it, this form of yours is assumed not to inflict violence. It feels... right, you sense, the connection to your subjects, to the world around you lending the insight required to guard against potential threats.

As always, I don't like the stunt, and if anyone can do better, please hep me. 6 base dice + 2 WHWH + 2 stunt (hopefully) + 4 fortune path dice = 14 dice. -2 DC (BSM, shintai), so I'll assume DC 7 (base DC 9). That's 6 successes on average. Hopefully that would be enough.
 
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