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Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

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BronzeTongue said:
Well this will be a fun day for the fey.

Just imagine what's going through the heads of those minor Sidhe nobles who prodded Molly for gossip yesterday as they come to the other side of a full on Krillin "I can taste that" moment.
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Reminds me of the Phases, Elden Ring crossover, where summer fae decided to "trick" Rennala into fighting through a champion. She was alone, what could she do?! Yeah. And then fae cheering stopped and their champion suddenly found his popularity plummeting. Because Rennala called her dragon.
 
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Arc 11 Post 27: Growing Pains
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    • Growing Pains ​

    7th of January 2007 A.D.

    Surely the soul of a god of war that dwells in the depths of the sea should taste of brine or of blood, but in truth it tastes of sugar and brandy of flames swallowed whole. Like the fabled mead of poetry it seems to you that though the haze of and twisting flames upon your tongue a verse in seven parts emerges.:

    Once there were maidens three of their kind, mourning three sisters lost,
    One without name forgotten, two paying war's bitter cost.
    The first set to spin destiny's thread, the second to measure,
    The last to cut, ending lives with neither sorrow nor pleasure.
    But whence came the thread, the world's secret treasure?
    Once there were giants of earth and sea, or fire and frost
    A bargain now forgotten, a bargain now broken. Lo, they are lost     ​

    Regained 2 Essence -> Now at 11/15

    As reality reasserts itself, as much as the usual state of affairs in Avalon can be called that you assess the damage... and you do not mean the pieces gouged out of the lake shore. Fear shines bright and frantic in the eyes of the Summer fey, not the wariness you had seen among the White Court, Maeve's entourage or even Adam's gang of ghouls before they joined you. There is a shadow, uncomprehending blindness that does not wish to see. Some of them are looking at you less as a guest, a person and more as one might observe a slide of smallpox, a hateful thing out of a far darker past.

    Then Lilly drops her spear into the waiting hands of one of one of her guards and slowly, she starts to clap, sweeping her gaze over centaur and satyr, nymph and dryad with hair in bloom, daring them not follow along. The Court of Summer is many things, but a democracy is not one of them. Reluctant as they might be they pick up what she is putting down, a rumble growing through the crowd as the Queen looks on, her face a regal mask to all save you perhaps. It is there in the tilt of her chin, in the way her eyes are pinned to the movement of Lilly's hands more than her face. There is pride yes, but more than that there is sorrow, the more Lily asserts herself the more the shadow of Aurora fades, like morning mist before the noonday sun.

    Quickly turning your head from what suddenly seems like very personal sorrow you land next to the Archive and Kincaid. She seems serene, he like he's upgrading the caliber of bullet to use on you if comes to that. "Good show." He means that in both senses.

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    8th of January 2007 A.D.

    It takes you another hour, midnight come to recover the essence you had spent, not respiring the heady perfume of the Avalon's gardens as had been proposed, but rather dwelling in a humble bottle of bleach. Kincaid finds it funny, you can see it in his eyes. Still the time comes to exorcise the poison of Nemesis from the Lords and Ladies of Summer, such as have been found at least. The thought niggles at the back of your mind. Is Dad OK? Is Lydia, Harry?

    Recovered 4 Essence -> Now at 15/15

    Each one shall be brought before you, bodies bound in chains of light, expressions empty and vapid as their minds had been set wandering. Titania isn't taking any more chances. Alas asking for more time between exorcisms to recover your essence so if you are going to... consume the Knight's shards you are going to have to do it without undue use of Essence.

    "Is that safe for you?" She sounds only a little dubious after what she had seen.

    "I don't suppose you'd be willing to hold the thing down?" you ask the nine year old girl walking at your side back towards the lake-shore.

    "Yeah, from what I understand there's no space on the inside for anything to mess with me."

    "I... I can't do this for free, it involves considerable use of magic in a potentially dangerous environs. I'd say you could ask Titania to hold those things down but she is not Mab, the most she can do in her own remit is immolate them. By contrast predation is opposed to her nature. The Lady might be able to do it given that Nemesis targeted her in particular, but it will make her few friends."

    "Especially after she made them clap for me you mean?" You ask ruefully.

    "That was common courtesy." The answer isn't a 'no' you note.

    How do you deal with the Nemesis shards?

    [] Have the Archive bind them for you to consume (Costs 1 additional Splendor owed to the Ventori bringing the total up to four)

    [] Ask Lily to hold the things down (Will harm her reputation among the Summer Court)

    [] You are fast enough to do it without a binding (To defeat and be eligible to consume each shard Molly must deliver 7 Wounds to a spirit-form with a Dodge 6 Soak 3 in a single round without Excellencies or other charms)

    OOC: I was going to roll through this, but then I realized how tight your Essence budget is for this and the fact that you cannot stop to take a breather after each one
     
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    • DragonParadox said:
    [] You are fast enough to do it without a binding (To defeat and be eligible to consume each shard Molly must deliver 7 Wounds to a spirit-form with a Doge 6 Soak 3 in a single round without Excellencies or other charms)
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    Can we even guess if or how much that would matter?

    How much does loosing a little piece like this actually harm Nemesis?
    Would that be a valid Crown-Question, if we can't guess it on our existing lore?
     
    [X] Have the Archive bind them for you to consume (Costs 1 additional Splendor owed to the Ventori bringing the total up to four)

    Also, huh... Two of the maidens are dead. One of them is Jupiter, but who's the other one? And what is the connection to the Mothers and the Queens in general?
     
    [X] You are fast enough to do it without a binding (To defeat and be eligible to consume each shard Molly must deliver 7 Wounds to a spirit-form with a Dodge 6 Soak 3 in a single round without Excellencies or other charms)

    If we are not doing real damage anyway, then this is not worth the price.
    Maybe we'll get it when we are lucky, but if not, no big deal.
     
    Okay I was thinking of a stunt for the fast enough option. This is under the assumption that The Binding being mentioned is spiritual preventing it from getting away expending large amounts of magic from the archive.

    [] Stunt: "Would a large conjuration be beyond your power at this moment? "Molly asks " No though without a significant investment of my strength it will not last long." says the young girl " Great an opaque box with no way in and no way out would be grand please and thank you."
    Still freezing wet from her duel with the finished God of War she enters the final Arena two being enter one leaves.

    The hope is that with crack cell up along with boiling seamastery and without honor without hope we can hit that damage threshold but if anyone's got a refinement I'd really appreciate it.
     
    Yog said:
    [X] Have the Archive bind them for you to consume (Costs 1 additional Splendor owed to the Ventori bringing the total up to four)

    Also, huh... Two of the maidens are dead. One of them is Jupiter, but who's the other one? And what is the connection to the Mothers and the Queens in general?
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    Journey, Serenity, Secrets, Battles, and Ending.

    Of spin, weave, and cut, endings is clearly cut. Secrets and Serenity could spin. Journeys and Serenity could weave.

    If that is the case, War clearly fell in battle.
     
    DragonParadox said:
    say you could ask Titania to hold those things down but she is not Mab, the most she can do in her own remit is immolate them. By contrast predation is opposed to her nature. The Lady might be able to do it given that Nemesis targeted her in particular, but it will make her few friends."
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    At this point we may as well just ask Titania to immolate them herself then because those shards infected her people after all. We don't actually need to eat them she may be able to do something like what Mab did to the other shard.


    Honestly after this I'll be very temped to vote against trying to bring the Archive into anything at all even if its Outsider related cause this shit is ridiculous. Its the Archive's job to deal with Outsiders if the shards could cause problems for reality if left to their own devices you wouldn't think you'd have to pay her to deal with just three of them but here we are.
     
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    No, they are too weak for that, if you killed the hosts they would count, but not the shards.
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    That... seems quite strange, to be honest. Yes, it's parasitic, and it uses its type advantage a lot, but it's still something that can meaningfully resist Mab's attempts to remove it from the host's soul, significantly empower a mortal, and corrupt/bypass a mantle. I understand the reasoning of not wanting to provide us with too many reagents for crafting, but it still seems quite strange.
     
    @DragonParadox If we asked Titania to deal with the loose shards would that incure a favor even though we are purging them from her own people? When I say deal I mean kill btw.
     
    Yog said:
    That... seems quite strange, to be honest. Yes, it's parasitic, and it uses its type advantage a lot, but it's still something that can meaningfully resist Mab's attempts to remove it from the host's soul, significantly empower a mortal, and corrupt/bypass a mantle. I understand the reasoning of not wanting to provide us with too many reagents for crafting, but it still seems quite strange.
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    Yes, but that is because it is part of a greater whole, Nemesis' power is that it can leverage all of it's attention as much or as little as it wants in any one place. These shards are at the moment at their weakest because it knows it's going to lose them. When Mab was trying to remove one by main force it contested her, strengthened the shard since it knew that would take up her time and effort.

    BoredMan said:
    @DragonParadox If we asked Titania to deal with the loose shards would that incure a favor even though we are purging them from her own people? When I say deal I mean kill btw.
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    No, she will burn them for her own sake, she is just not willing to hold them down to be eaten.
     
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