So, which one would we need? If I understood correctly, we would need Essence-Stoking Spirit which would allow restoration of life energy that mortal qiao users use. If so, and it's the only thing that it needs to do, then it's a simple 1 dot splendor. 2 dots if we use form of hero's shadow. Definitely something to add to the list of things to make.This would work yeah, it is basically drawing and covering Essence into a form the mortal can use. Incidentally there is an application of qiao that restores the users youth at the cost of almost killing them. Among the vanishingly rare masters who can use it not many survive using it once, never mind twice. With this... well you just made an immortal Shih if you give it to one of them. A very-much-not-Faustian item to be handed by a lady with a crown of verdant eyes that burn like the flames of Yomi.
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You would need Form of the Hero's Shadow, otherwise it would attempt to shove essence into a mortal. That would not go well.
So, 2 dots then. Still doable.
Sadly, that's probably a version of
If a downgraded one, with "they awaken their chi on legendary success". And I very much don't want to make anything out of Molly's soul. Too many risks and downsides. Unless Will of Kakuri's soul could be used for the downgraded version.
Looks appropriate.
Thinking of reagents, it depends what Wan Xian were and the Wan Kuei are. If they were something like Alchemicals, low tier celestial exalted, then using them as reagents for this might work. Particularly as the Wan Kuei can 'make' people with awakened Chi, as their children naturally awaken it (along with being natural sorcerers).
Of course, if you're going down that route, it may also be worth looking at whether you can redeem the Wan Kuei back into the Wan Xian by extracting the tests to become the later from Yomi Wan and breaking the Curses on the former. Probably quite hard, as in some ways the Wan Kuei are the Abyssals to the Wan Xian's solars.
I'd thought about that, but my goal was something we could make an AoE item for so it could be used more readily by everyone in his monastery. Doesn't need to cover the whole thing, but a house sized chunk is way more practical than one thing that needs passed around.
They're casters so we can save points by cutting HS and having the abbot attune the thing.
Healing would work, but the cap at the dots of the item once a story makes it less effective at low levels.
If we got a house rule dropping the adornment only clause on essence stoking spirit that'd be nice though.
Mechanically I think it'd be more effective to give them an arcana animal built around using that life spark merit to give exalted+ healing, but I'm not sure a hug-me-Elmo!demon would be popular with Shih.
Thematically, a tree which grew knock-off Peaches of Immortality would fit.
All the transformation stuff got nerfed so I don't think that build works anymore.
[X] Reveal the plot, the way Nemesis killed her parents to make her a pawn in its plots
-[X] Use Naked Wicked Souls on her to tailor the approach
-[X] Use Naked Wicked Souls on her to tailor the approach
Vote closed.
I don't remember that? Twisted Horror was banned, but my idea for the peaches of immortality tree doesn't use that. Also it was ruled that skills can't be imbued via transformation, which you might be referring to, but that doesn't stop the build from working. It works on merits and arcana features. Rapid Healing + Unaging + Spark of Life.
It's only a 3 point splendor, even.
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I thought all of that was nixed together, but if it wasn't then I'd agree that an appropriate reward for the ongoing access they've given us to the Qiao would be that tree build directly.
Shih are supernatural, so we can have Divsimar or the abbot attune it themselves to take away the concern we'll yank it back at some point.
I mean they made an infernal even more of a soak monster, taught her the skills she used to save her friends the day the FCF were born, and will shortly give Molly the willpower recovery meditation needed to go without sleep and use her temp points more freely.
That's a lot even without the other things they're willing to teach, and we'd have none of it if they hadn't taken a leap of faith on what looks like a baby Yama Queen.
Consequences are a thing, but with that and all the other stuff they sacrifice defending people I figure they've earned a little eternal youth in a super but still fundamentally human body.
The only part I have any concerns about would be them getting targeted over it, but that transformation would jailbreak their abilities and allow their most broken elders in both senses of the term to be amazing blenders.
We probably can't afford two splendors for this but if we wanted to help on top of that prodigies are much cheaper and can be very effective.
A 4 dot prodigy could hide our aura from anything but wizard's sight. Up by 1 for mortal use, down by 1 in exchange for a chi activation fee. Reduce by 1 again with a flaw like "only works on the peach tree, and anyone who's eaten from it is automatically immune".
If you mean link to the splendor design in question - here. It's a 3 dot fascination splendor that manifests as a peach tree. It induces a permanent transformation in a person that eats its peach. The transformation grants agelessness, superhuman potential (physical and social attributes can go up to 6, mental up to 7), high starting attributes, and very increased healing (spark of life + rapid healing arcana feature).
I don't think @DragonParadox commented on the viability of this splendor (and there definitely weren't comments on the effect it would have on shih practitioners), but it seems very appropriate.
If it's allowed in principle, then yes, it seems very appropriate. Perhaps gift the tree to the order as a whole, and Divsimar gets power recharge tattoos as a bonus as our personal teacher?
Damn... We really need that target list from Archive. We need a lot of resources to do all that wonder making.
EDIT: For the tree fluff, I'll obviously remove the "need to be watered with a blood of an exalt", as this is too restrictive and makes it dependent on us.
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The Spark of Madness
I mean to the "This is banned" part.
What was banned and why? When and by whom?
Update will be a little late, the rolz room isn't working for me, I tried everything I could think of to fix it, but the lack of functionality seems to be on the site's end. Anyway I had to roll in the lobby and save a picture.
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The Spark of Madness
You may want to clear cache/history. That usually fixes the problem.
This is the start of the rule patch in question, I think. Essentially, you cannot grant learned abilities to people via transformation:
I tried using a different browser and it still didn't work, but sure I'll try
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Arc 11 Post 30: Breaking Point
Breaking Point
7th of January 2007 A.D.
Having stepped from the ether into New York City by paths known only to those familiar with the particular spiritual environs of Manhattan, a place not unlike the Labyrinth of Knossos had it been erected from mist shrouded steel girders suddenly solidifying into concrete walls, you are startled to step outside into the mild winter afternoon painted gold and by the rays of the descending sun. Colorful scarves flutter as equally fashionable beanies lie on doubtless bohemian brows. This is the West Village, metaphorically and literally off the grid, having been built along the banks of the Hudson river long before any staid commission bound streets into a grid. As Lash whispers sardonically, just don't let anyone ask how much that individuality costs. This is the kind of place where Harry's slightly battered trench coat or your father's heavy duty work boots draw more attention than Tiffany's movie star good looks. In other words not the kind of place one would expect to find an orphan, even in a tiny studio apartment.
"Midnight says she's out for a smoke," Lydia nods at the raven, fluttering down the busy street, glancing this way and that at yellow cabs and bicycles and especially at the pizza delivery place trundling along. You make a note to buy him a slice. Can ravens even eat pizza?
They can eat salt pork, of which Lydia has some on her to hand to her friend as the two of you retrace his steps to an apartment building a little out of the way where streets grow narrower and the already sparse foot-traffic almost non-existent. Someone had whitewashed the trees recently and trimmed their rustling crowns, the triumph of conservation over living history, for a time at least.
"Feel how muffled that is?" Tiffany taps Lydia on the shoulder. "Like someone put your head under water?"
Your friend makes a face. "Feels more like getting a q-tip stuck in my ear."
"That's something that happens to you often?" the erstwhile demon asks, then shakes her head. "Doesn't matter. That muffling, you're feeling... The flow of magic's stagnant here, long term that'll create a shallowing of the veil which can be good or bad depending on what moves in, but what's important here is the reason why someone would want to do this. Can to guess?"
"So nothing noticeable gets carried downstream," your friend offers instantly. "Holding a perfect circle is exhausting and costly, so whatever magic she is doing at home is going to leak and if its the truly loathsome kind everyone down to the rats in the sewer would be able to sense something is wrong."
"Whereas now?" Tiffany prompts, managing that perfect teacher's tone, proud without seeming surprised.
"The residue will collect at the bottom, that being the most magically active place, her workshop so it's not going to alert anyone.And if you didn't know this place had a magician in situ you would just pass it by as an incipient natural shallowing..."
The lesson has to stop then as Harry points up at the fire escape at woman perched atop the fire escape, her white blouse and bright red pants contrasting strongly with the dark wavy cascade of her hair... as well as with the weather. She seems wholly unconcerned with the fact that it is still January as she blows lazy streamers of blue smoke over the city.
Then you look into her eyes, you look into her soul and she is anything but unconcerned...
Lost 2 Essence -> Now at 4/15 (NWS and Excellency)
***
An iron hammer rests in her hands, the head stained red, though not with rust. Of iron is the plate beneath it upon it crushed almost-human diminutive limbs, Little Folk. From the cold blue glare in the eye of her latest victim it's easy to guess these are Winter's subjects.
"I'll ask you one more time, where is he?" Katherine does not shout, she does not even raise her voice. She speaks and moves as someone who had removed herself entirely from the horror she is perpetrating. "Where is Josh? Where did you freaks take my brother."
"I don't... know... thine.. brother..."
Crunch.
The sound of a small skull shattering, cuts off the words, then a single word from the woman with the hammer. "Liar!"
Her face swims away and is replaces by that of a boy perhaps five years younger, similar enough that you know you're looking at the presumably vanished Josh. He's alone in bed, the covers had been thrown in a rush, but he is frozen in place, an expression of terror on his face as something red drips from the ceiling slowly, ever so slowly.
"Shh... poppet, let it happen, it's the only way for you now," a voice, thin and oily whispers out of the dark.
So you watch in horror mirroring the child's own as the tainted blood scores him like acid even as the spell keeps him silent. Seconds pass like years then... a release, a Change, his features warp like clay under the sculpor's hand becoming more delicate, refined and then he starts to shrink little by little he becomes what he had Chosen, if choice that can be named, one of the little folk.
The door rattles once twice, then in the door stands Katherine, her face twisted in a rictus of anger and fear, a waking nightmare. She does not see the scene before her as it truly is.
Her brother calls her name as he takes flight.
An iron hammer swings against the wall.
Crunch.
The vision fractures, it goes black, but you can still hear her speak: "W...what killed him?"
"The wee folk took your brother away," the voice is the same that had spoken to Josh at the end. "But you can bring him back, only you can bring him back. He can bring Salvation to you and to the world. In the unclean blood of those who keep the world chained to the Wheel all can be restored."
***
You come back to yourself shivering, though certainly not from cold as the others look at you with worry in their eyes. What can I do? What can I even say?
Regained 2 Essence -> Now at 6/15 Essence (Revealed a Secret)
[] Explain to Katherine that she had been manipulated to kill her only remaining family
[] No, that is too much, just tell her about her parents
[] Write in
OOC: I know you guys said 'use what's in NWS', but given the contents I feel this is appropriate.
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Hell no that's just needlessly cruel, unless there is an important benefit to her knowing.
[X] Explain to Katherine that she had been manipulated to kill her only remaining family
Edit: frankly I feel this is best—it gives Nemesis less of a chance to try and deny it
Edit: frankly I feel this is best—it gives Nemesis less of a chance to try and deny it
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