Vote-y McClosed lets see how this turns out. 
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
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Bro I been reading then werewolf gifts and they are way more impressive and versatile than I expected. Like legit mini exalted. they can do things like shut down all tech in a fairly large area, change deeply held beliefs of people in a conversation and then do things like stealing something and the target not even remembering they ever owned it. its crazy strong, they should not be loosing that hard to people they are losing to. and these are low level power.
crazy strong I pretty sure if given the equivalent amount of exp I could build one that can out perform lydia generally and out play even us in its own specialized fields. and they can do fairly strong things sociologically as well via effecting spirits and totems its pretty good.
crazy strong I pretty sure if given the equivalent amount of exp I could build one that can out perform lydia generally and out play even us in its own specialized fields. and they can do fairly strong things sociologically as well via effecting spirits and totems its pretty good.
Arc 11 Post 61: Cutting Through Confussion
Cutting Through Confussion
12th of January 2007 A.D.
Kicking off from the ground you twist in mid-air sword already in hand and bring it down in a brilliant deadly arc, the air screaming as it parts. The vampire, himself moving at inhuman speeds has just enough time to register it and raise his right arm in some attempt at protection. "Ah shi..." Soul-brass passes through the arm and keeps going, through withered flesh and dry bone with a...
Snap
Alas you are not the only one to move as the electrum spear in the statue's hand becomes light and as light it moves slamming into your shoulder from behind and then a again from the side.
Snap
As the others shout a warning or in Harry's case a spell of warding come too late you realize was definitely something important, a rib maybe. Two more stabs like that would... not... be... healthy. "I'm on your side asshole! See!"
You take 9 Damage -> Now at 6/15 Wounds
Lost 1 Essence -> Now at 7/15
Hunger more than mortal uncoils in your stomach like a serpent and with an angry hiss it, you inhale the murk that had settled in place of a long departed soul and for a moment it seems like it's going to go down smooth. Then something pulls at it, formless, lightless, fetid as the bottom of a mass grave for nameless slaves uncounted: "That one is mine-only-forever!"
Yet your hand is still the stronger, anger, purpose, pain where you had not felt it in a long time pull and twist grind and nul. Distantly you hear Cobler one last time: "Well ain't that just my luck."
You regain 2 Essence -> Now at 9/15
"You are not what we had thought," the lion-headed woman speaks, the shade of Sekmet. "Less and more than we had thought. A tainted sun, as Ra Who Was but Not"
"But not-not!" An oddly musical tone echoes from the depths of the statue. [Double-Denial Para-Conceptual-Positioning/Lotus of Poisoned Life/Restoration of Nul coordinate positioning: Impossible. Probability of Data Loss due to Baseline Signal/Creation Function Interference: Approaching Unity. Primary Function Nearing Fracture/Terminal Loss]
Straightening up thankfully without spraying blood all over the place you are not as surprised as you should have been to hear that Language, but you are very surprised to see Adkin not react to that at all.
"My apologies that you should bear witness to such an abomination in our halls. Behold vengeance giving way to council, Sekmet to Wadjet. Let us then clean the blood from the stone and the anger that our foes have kindled from our hearts. Twice you have aided us and we will not forget." So it is, the bloody leonine figure melds into a figure that while certainly still feminine lacks the lithe lines of a savage warrior ready to pounce... also her head splits in two stretching and then fanning out, cobra heads
[Primary Function Nearing Fracture/Terminal Loss] you hear again from the statue's chest, though this time you look at Lash and get a small nod, she hears it too.
For her part Lydia does not seem to be paying much attention, her eyes axed on the pile of ash now almost floating in the tide of bovine blood. "That almost got away... I think?" You appreciate that she did not say something like 'eat its soul', but her choice of words is still alarmingly vague to the nearly stunned celebrants who had moments ago been leaning in a distressed, but still healthy cow. "I'm not sure what can do that to a vampire, but I'm guessing it was unwelcome."
"Most unwelcome, though it reclaimed that which was of its own making," comes the reply then again, with emphasis: [Event Horizon Asymptotic to Astro-Temporal Alignment. Primary Function Nearing Fracture/Terminal Loss]
Taking a deep breath, and a gulp of thinning essence you try to make some sense of what this thing is saying. There seems to be two things happening that it is reacting, one a loss of function that is getting more and more likely and the there is some kind of alignment which is 'desirable' or at least which is part of its ordered function which is getting closer, but cannot get there, hence asymptotic.
Lost 1 Essence -> Now at 8/15
The shards that used to be the third rib on the left throb painfully.
What do you do?
[] Try to answer back...
-[] Affirm your ownership of this thing by virtue to speaking its language
-[] Ask for a status report
[] Tell the others that it is subvocalizing in a way human ears can't catch
[] Try to ask the spirit what on earth is going on
[] Write in
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Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
So, the guy's got Deathlord level immortality, wonderful.
EDIT: Note for those not big on Exalted, it means you can't permakill him because a Greater Power that's beyond your reach has the majority of his soul and will respawn him freely if he ever die. In theory, there's a penalty involved. In practice, that's mostly academic since players aren't privy to that kind of thing and it doesn't really matter if his life really sucks if he only appears again before you shortly afterwards stronger and hating you more.
In theory, yeah, this was an opposed roll. In practice, a DC 7 roll where 1s subtract that we rolled 9 dice for by default vs Literally Him Working Almost Completely Blind was DC 9 and 15 dice is not a roll we can win, even disregarding the fact he rolled like a god at the end there. If he could make that roll completely blind fairly reliably, he's never going to lose when he's actually prepared for that kind of move, considering he can probably double that dice pool and reduce the DC down to 6-7 or so.
So yeah, Black Court apparently are invincible cockroaches that are immune to death, good to know.
EDIT: Note for those not big on Exalted, it means you can't permakill him because a Greater Power that's beyond your reach has the majority of his soul and will respawn him freely if he ever die. In theory, there's a penalty involved. In practice, that's mostly academic since players aren't privy to that kind of thing and it doesn't really matter if his life really sucks if he only appears again before you shortly afterwards stronger and hating you more.
In theory, yeah, this was an opposed roll. In practice, a DC 7 roll where 1s subtract that we rolled 9 dice for by default vs Literally Him Working Almost Completely Blind was DC 9 and 15 dice is not a roll we can win, even disregarding the fact he rolled like a god at the end there. If he could make that roll completely blind fairly reliably, he's never going to lose when he's actually prepared for that kind of move, considering he can probably double that dice pool and reduce the DC down to 6-7 or so.
So yeah, Black Court apparently are invincible cockroaches that are immune to death, good to know.
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- She/Her
Ow. Is that lethal wounds at least?
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
Admittedly more damage than I expected but we still aren't in the penalty zone.
Rolls
MiM with 2 die stunt and 1 die wound penalty vs Elder using the Path of the Sepulchre (DC 9 for it since it is acting blind)
Supernatural Senses: Lydia, Lash
What's it saying
That is Agg, you just got stabbed by conceptual holy sunlight.
MiM with 2 die stunt and 1 die wound penalty vs Elder using the Path of the Sepulchre (DC 9 for it since it is acting blind)
Supernatural Senses: Lydia, Lash
What's it saying
That is Agg, you just got stabbed by conceptual holy sunlight.
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fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
Okay that is actually a problem. We don't heal that in bleach. I didn't expect anything but the vampire to damage us. We might have to call this off.
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Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
He has a ridiculously OP antediluvian level elder apparently playing soul overwatch for him, and when Molly tried to permakill him, they did an opposed roll and stole his soul back before it could be digested.
I'm pretty sure "15 dice completely blind with zero prep at extreme range and with no idea they need to do this" is antediluvian level at least. The fact it was still DC9 in light of that instead of DC10 is telling. Virtually Impossible tasks are supposed to be DC10, DC9 is 'Merely' Extremely Difficult.
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- Location
- Germany
Not quite.
Pretty sure someone else stole that soul-remnant, this wasn't Nate's inherent immortality.
that doesnt make any sense, if it was that easy nothing of the primordials would die, they would just revive their fetch souls
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Uh, Primordials don't die in the sense we know though. Losing their Fetich just forces them to be reborn (Usually at a power loss, fair is fair). If the Primordial itself is killed, they just collapse into an invincible singularity rather than stop existing, and while they hypothetically have no agency, that doesn't stop them from respawning the Deathlords or other faithful servants beyond Spirit Annihilation.
It's probably Drakul or the thing that helped Dracula to create Blampires. So, it's possible that it will be a contested roll in case of every Blampire.
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yes that is what i said, if it was so easy to avoid permakilling charms then they would just revive their fetch souls instead of changing, why would they ever do that
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Because the Fetich defines their ability to interact with the outside world, if it dies, they don't have the agency to yoink it to safety afterwards.
Hypothetically, they can very much save their Fetich from annihilation. In practice, by the time they need to do so, they've already collapsed into a non-interactive vortex. Using this cheat requires the "Master" to be separate from, with full control of, but not beholden to the Subject.
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but they still evidently do that, like you mentioned revive things while dead
The thing did not so much resist your ghost killing charm as dodge it, something you could not do with a primordial soul-piece since those are simply too massive, you cannot put a mountain on a rubber band.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Yes, Neverborn very much can use this cheat freely, and so can apparently the Black Court bigwigs. Ordinarily Primordials can't because they're dependent on their Fetich to maintain their self-definition, and if it gets obliterated, they pass out at the same time--so there's no time to yoink them to safety.
Using the cheat requires you to have the subject to be connected to you--but that you aren't dependent on them. Primordials are dependent on their Fetiches, Neverborn (And Black Court Ancients), are not dependent on their slaves, so they can do this.
Transition to our kingdom, get healing potions and magical healing? Maybe that'll help? But yeah, it's definitely a lot of damage for not much of a gain. I didn't expect that anyone short of beings with perfect defenses would be able to contest a spirit killing technique. I mean, the same thing was used to kill the Neverborn in the first place.
Fairly sure that was direct Neverborn intervention by the [Perfected Principle of Consumption].
Or all Black Court vampires are so connected to Neverborn, that it just directly intervenes on their part. Still, it's strange, I mean, Fetich deaths were a thing.
Anyway, the vote
[X] Exalted maintenance
-[X] Tell the others that it is subvolalizing in a way human ears can't catch
-[X] Ask someone else to secure the late Cobbler's effects, especially his gun(s), because Crown foci.
-[X] Use your crown on the either Clippy's recording of the statue speaking, or the scene to ask "what are the techniques for restoring / repairing / healing the thing speaking in [Old language]"
--[X] Use Occult or Craft Excellency (whichever is more appropriate) for better comprehension
--[X] Activate All Things Betray for -3DC to Perception rolls: 1wp
-[X] Ask for a staus report speaking its language
--[X] If possible, initiate immediately available repairs
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i guess but it just basically makes the primordial loss a skill issue
- Location
- Germany
I doubt it.
A neverborn would either not roll at all or have 20+ dice.
I'd bet on some ancient monster, like Dracula or his Drakul-made peers.
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