Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
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- Crossover Fantasy
Modus_Tollens
SCREAMING AT THE APOCALYPSE
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In regard to the Last Station... I just had the image of Mister Grinch tiptoeing into one of the main halls, dinner table lain out, and just having shittons of ghouls who are increasingly laid back about their natural states along with terror and despair-channeling white court just turn their chairs around and staring. And staring. And staring. Even before he realizes that the wall behind him has a toothy grin.
And Mister Grinch, with a single gulp, politely takes as seat and is a good boy for the rest of the night.
Today is damn fucking well going to be merry or else skins are going to be used as war banners.
And Mister Grinch, with a single gulp, politely takes as seat and is a good boy for the rest of the night.
Today is damn fucking well going to be merry or else skins are going to be used as war banners.
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- Right Where I Am
[X] Swing by the Last Station for the feast
-[X] Invite Harry and Lash along.
Let's give Lash a pleasant first Christmas with some goodwill and togetherness. Harry also always has a bit of that longing to belong and connect in him, from orphan to outcast, and a Christmas feast at Last Station is, more than anything, a place for the outcasts we care for to find some belonging and connection.
-[X] Invite Harry and Lash along.
Let's give Lash a pleasant first Christmas with some goodwill and togetherness. Harry also always has a bit of that longing to belong and connect in him, from orphan to outcast, and a Christmas feast at Last Station is, more than anything, a place for the outcasts we care for to find some belonging and connection.
Perhaps it is.
However, our interests and responsibilities in Chicago extend way beyond Last Station, and a lot of the people we have assumed responsibility for dont live there either.
The social links provide early warning of shenanigans going on in the area. Which allows us to be proactive.
If you remember the events of White Night, the Cauldron murders had been going on for weeks if not months before Harry heard about them. They never threatened his warded home, and yet were a threat all the same.
Same as, in this AU, the Chinatown murders that went on for a while before we heard of it, and Broken Seeker's goons lurking.
We really need to establish the social links to get early warning of that sort of thing.
Last we checked, they were different options:
We voted for option 1 then.
We havent implemented option 2.
COMMENTARY
Wow.
5 sux on 19 dice? The dice dont appear to like Mrs Evens very much, do they?
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The ghouls would probably object to such a waste of long pork rinds.
Well either that or they really do not want her to like Molly too much.
This is where we talk about it, how to prevent what happened with Will of Kakuri from ever happening again.
I agree on general principle, but we have invited enough trouble (Red Court, Denarians, probably Black Court, Outsiders, and likely whatever we anger in Vegas) that making a fortress out of Last Station, so it would be legitimately too costly to assail is important, I feel. We need a stronghold, I feel, and need it before retaliatory strike arrives.
Santa knows better than to mess with these wards.
More seriously you are not a needy child, that is strictly speaking who the legend is about, it is not everyone who gets supernatural gifts. For that matter it is not even that everyone who would qualify who gets one.
Must admit, I am a bit curious. What is Lydia doing this Christmas? Dunno if her family even celebrated it tbh. But I would have expected Daniel to invite her if she is just alone.
She celebrates Yule as the longest night, the shortest day in the company of the dead, specifically all the sane dead of Chicago who are both willing and able to take an invitation. She thought about inviting some members of Cauldron, but she is not entirely sure how that many ghosts in a constrained space would play with relatively weak mortal magicians. Maybe next year
BoredMan
Maintaining the Agenda is our top priority
I was moreso talking about the multiple children in the house. Good to have that cleared up though. If the Santa thing was prevalent the masquerade wouldn't work at all.
Yeah actual gifts from Santa happen to kids who either do not question their luck or who not many people believe anyway.
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They may or may not also be more inclined to be secretive about/hide their presents, such as if they fear them being stolen/confiscated, thrown away, or damaged/broken.
[X] Swing by the Last Station for the feast
Thinking about it, we owe our people some of our time. If possible some infernal super cooking would be nice too. Unnaturally filling and perfectly cooked turkeys by the flock, mash potatoes by the drum, and pies of even the weirdest flavors. The works.
Let Lashtorment bond with Harry over the holidays in peace.
Thinking about it, we owe our people some of our time. If possible some infernal super cooking would be nice too. Unnaturally filling and perfectly cooked turkeys by the flock, mash potatoes by the drum, and pies of even the weirdest flavors. The works.
Let Lash
Modus_Tollens
SCREAMING AT THE APOCALYPSE
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- ALSO SCREAMING.
Evil Bob: "Sure.... suuuuure this isn't necromancy."She celebrates Yule as the longest night, the shortest day in the company of the dead, specifically all the sane dead of Chicago who are both willing and able to take an invitation. She thought about inviting some members of Cauldron, but she is not entirely sure how that many ghosts in a constrained space would play with relatively weak mortal magicians. Maybe next yearonce she has assembled her court of the dead.
Heinrich Kemmler: "I have wasted my life."
I'm sure he occasionally breaks through the wall of one dude or another riding the Krampus and, you know, goes about beating them to death with a lump of anthracite before... er... leaving it deposited up their stocking.Santa knows better than to mess with these wards.
More seriously you are not a needy child, that is strictly speaking who the legend is about, it is not everyone who gets supernatural gifts. For that matter it is not even that everyone who would qualify who gets one.
Did we ever figure out a proper wholesaler to source from? I remember we ran some math and found that any reasonable number of ghouls still wouldn't eat enough to raise an eyebrow or put much of a dent in our diamond manufacturing returns.
God, I want to have our minions start a restaurant in this setting with private dining options and the chance to order an entire, magnificently cooked cow as the main course for your table.
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His mistake was not being born with a license to mess with the dead, or simply becoming the an afterlife where his will is by default natural law.
I do remember the quote.
Do note, however that Porter simply says that a train means that he cant be driven/warded off like The Will did. And that it would be very difficult to chain him; not impossible, but difficult
It doesnt mean he cant be beaten.
Thanks for the citation anyway.
AP hell is a thing as always.
Nevertheless, I feel strongly that overfocusing on one item leaves us open elsewhere. None of the other people we worry about even have a physical guard present.
We have spent the last six months, with 8 Actions or so building up Last Station. Thats been at a cost to other things and aspects.
Understandable, but that has limits.
You are proposing two Last Station actions in this coming turn:
- Porter Train
- Investigating the NeverNever side.
I dont think we can afford both this turn.
One or the other.
Point of correction:Santa knows better than to mess with these wards.
More seriously you are not a needy child, that is strictly speaking who the legend is about, it is not everyone who gets supernatural gifts. For that matter it is not even that everyone who would qualify who gets one.
Its canon that Santa Claus was allowed past those wards. So was Mab. And Winter Lady Molly. The wards and the guards dont stop those who come without hostility to the inhabitants. I quote:
Google Drive link
View: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pxLeRAWNPc86lY-h6cO75YbpkE8ShjHZ/view
Thats the free 2018 short story Christmas Eve on Jim Butcher's website, which was set post-Battle Grounds, where we see visits by Mab, Molly and Kris Kringle, in a pretty clear homage to the whole Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
And Kringle actually brings Harry a gift: his father's old coffee mug. So yeah, not just children.
That said, I do recall it being canon that while Kringle doesnt deliver to all the children in the world, he still makes it to tens of thousands of homes every year. And that he's a master of time and space magics according to Winter Lady Molly in the other free Christmas short story The Good People
Wayback Machine link because website link is down:
The interesting thing there, for our purposes, is the unintentional symmetry between the Pacts of a Demon and the amplifiers that are bound to both Molly and Kringle.
Hmmm....
@DragonParadox
While Im speculating?
Here's a throwaway idea for Lash, assuming she has Flesh 3 or better.
Or was looking to drop points/expand into Lore of the Beast.
Dogs are known for their unconditional love and loyalties.
So buy some dogs that love you. Uplift them to sapience using Flesh 3, then offer them all Pacts.
A pack of loyal sapient doggies is gonna be a Faith drip if you can pull it off.
Modus_Tollens
SCREAMING AT THE APOCALYPSE
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- ALSO SCREAMING.
Pre-battle snacks. You don't want to go to battle with an empty stomach.
The dude is absolutely going to be filing for a travel visa at some point. He gives zero shits about anything besides the secrets of life and death and, whoop, nobody else has a naturally two way afterlife running these days.His mistake was not being born with a license to mess with the dead, or simply becoming the an afterlife where his will is by default natural law.
I'd say 'fuck that guy' except, yeah, we pretty much went on a first date with Broken Seeker. We're gauging whether somebody needs to be stabbed in the face with a soul erasing blade on a minute-by-minute basis and fuck if I know what happens when that asshole comes knocking. He has at least a 10% chance of not being face stabbed... immediately.
Even complete soul destruction wouldn't convince me he was gone, though. The man probably has copies. Copies that he passed out like party favors.
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Kemmler wanted slaves not subjects, but yes he has in many ways wasted his life... and his unlife
Hmm I had not considered uplift, on the one hand it is workable in the long run, on the other she is in a bit of a bind, needing faith to work the major transformations that would give her that faith regeneration.
Modus_Tollens
SCREAMING AT THE APOCALYPSE
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- ALSO SCREAMING.
Little distinction, sometimes. A man might willingly follow another to the point they would kill or die upon their master's word, given without explanation, and do so grinning. Bound by belief, perceived necessity, playing upon and cultivating ravenous desire, a thousand other reasons. Chains are the tool of the lazy and unimaginative.
Not really.
Demon evocations up to <Lore>3 are free to use; only <Lore> 4-5 cost Faith.
In this case, Flesh 3:
So she can adopt an animal then use Flesh 3 to boost their Intelligence, Pact with them, and she has a thrall that she can also buff later on. Probably dog, because dogs are both on the smart side for domestic animals, and more predictably loyal through thick and thin, and much less capricious. But other animals are also options.
That was Erata'd to be scene long so it cannot be used for uplift.