With scrying and whatever other magic the wizards are going to be doing. Basically, taking the support role to empowers wizards who are on our side.
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
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BoredMan
Put your Grasses on, nothing will be Wong♪
Ah, got it.
I'm not sure that Lash is wrong though. We heard of Hellfire being used earlier by a Warlock and that usually means coin involvement. Then we have that botched demon summoning.. If the Denarians have some kind of plan attached to current events we probably want to know what that is.
BoredMan
Put your Grasses on, nothing will be Wong♪
I think we need more information first. We may end up needing to double back with team B before anything else. It depends.
[X] Use your Crown to see if Tiffany's suspicion about the Denarians is right. True Chaos might serve them, but if you can find one of them alone it might also serve you
[X] Use your Crown to see if Tiffany's suspicion about the Denarians is right. True Chaos might serve them, but if you can find one of them alone it might also serve you
How about the Wheel? Does Molly have any insight into how fresh they have to be to still qualify for a new body?
Never seen that before.
Thank you for going to the trouble of providing a citation.
I promise to get back to this later once I can get ahold of my books.
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I thought we still had All Things Betray running?
Because with that -3DC to Perception rolls, we would have gotten 10 successes or higher.
I think Im with Lash on this.
Too much brimstone about here, and it wont be the first time that multiple conspiracies have been about, or one conspiracy has used another as a smokescreen.
That would need Lore of Awakening 5 unfortunately.
And points of Faith per use. We can work on increasing her Faith via getting her a Splendor to duplicate the Hoard Background, but Awakening 5 is a long way off.
Pity. I was hoping we could end this without the casualty count of the canon Peabody incident.
Wizards are hard to replace.
You are, the base DC would have been 11, no one looking at the staff with their base human eyes would be able to deduce anything about the staff other than it being black and scary.
from the blessings of Acat to the Mayans and the Woad of the Gauls to the To Moko of Maori the world over there are legends of tattooed or painted warriors taking blows that would lay low a man in full plate and continuing to fight. This recipe is in keeping with that tradition.
Fortifying ink can be used in two ways: paint or tattoo. When used as body paint it lasts until the painted person sleeps, has fought a battle or it is washed away ( heavy rainfall, bathing, being thrown into a body of water) no clothing can be worn over it as they would rub it away. When used as a tattoo the effects last considerably longer but are not as powerful and can be detected with a difficulty 7 Awareness roll or automatically with sensory magics such as Auspex, Prime Sight or Mana detection though they can be reactivated without needing to redo them, both grant the bearer the ability to soak lethal and aggravated damage if they could not before with their stamina at difficulty 8 as well as 1 dice of soak on a successful mix.
As body paint success after the first are divided between difficulty to soak lethal, difficulty to soak aggravated and soak dice. Neither difficulty can be lower by more than three and soak dice can only go up 2 (3 total).
As a Tattoo successes past the first are divided between difficulty of lethal and Aggravated Soak neither of which can be lowered by more than 2 and Duration (1 = 3 days, 2 = 1 Week, 3 = 2 Weeks, 4 = 3 Weeks, 5 = 4 Weeks) how long it takes before the magic fades and soak dice which can only go up 1 (2 total).
They can be revitalized by either brewing another batch of fortifying ink and painting over the tattoo and leaving the ink for 3 day without it being rubbed or washed away or 5 Mana being infused into the tattoo Ala the mana background or a ritual of the Mana Manipulation Path or a form magical energy being splashed or infused into the tattoo (Quintessence, Vitae, Pathos, Essence, Gnosis, Faith,Qi) though the effects of those non-regulated infusions may have deleterious or strange effects on the bearer.
Fortifying ink can be used in two ways: paint or tattoo. When used as body paint it lasts until the painted person sleeps, has fought a battle or it is washed away ( heavy rainfall, bathing, being thrown into a body of water) no clothing can be worn over it as they would rub it away. When used as a tattoo the effects last considerably longer but are not as powerful and can be detected with a difficulty 7 Awareness roll or automatically with sensory magics such as Auspex, Prime Sight or Mana detection though they can be reactivated without needing to redo them, both grant the bearer the ability to soak lethal and aggravated damage if they could not before with their stamina at difficulty 8 as well as 1 dice of soak on a successful mix.
As body paint success after the first are divided between difficulty to soak lethal, difficulty to soak aggravated and soak dice. Neither difficulty can be lower by more than three and soak dice can only go up 2 (3 total).
As a Tattoo successes past the first are divided between difficulty of lethal and Aggravated Soak neither of which can be lowered by more than 2 and Duration (1 = 3 days, 2 = 1 Week, 3 = 2 Weeks, 4 = 3 Weeks, 5 = 4 Weeks) how long it takes before the magic fades and soak dice which can only go up 1 (2 total).
They can be revitalized by either brewing another batch of fortifying ink and painting over the tattoo and leaving the ink for 3 day without it being rubbed or washed away or 5 Mana being infused into the tattoo Ala the mana background or a ritual of the Mana Manipulation Path or a form magical energy being splashed or infused into the tattoo (Quintessence, Vitae, Pathos, Essence, Gnosis, Faith,Qi) though the effects of those non-regulated infusions may have deleterious or strange effects on the bearer.
VOTE
[X] Use your Crown to see if Tiffany's suspicion about the Denarians is right. True Chaos might serve them, but if you can find one of them alone it might also serve you
RATIONALE
First McCoy got ambushed by warlocks wielding Hellfire.
Now one of the warlocks in this conspiracy tried to summon backup from Hell.
The OG Hell, not any of the imitators.
They say first time is an accident, twice is coincidence, and third time is a pattern.
The person here with the most experience of how the Denarian Order operates is saying that we might want to run a check. I think we should listen to Tiffany, and use the Crown.
Information wins battles.
[X] Use your Crown to see if Tiffany's suspicion about the Denarians is right. True Chaos might serve them, but if you can find one of them alone it might also serve you
RATIONALE
First McCoy got ambushed by warlocks wielding Hellfire.
Now one of the warlocks in this conspiracy tried to summon backup from Hell.
The OG Hell, not any of the imitators.
They say first time is an accident, twice is coincidence, and third time is a pattern.
The person here with the most experience of how the Denarian Order operates is saying that we might want to run a check. I think we should listen to Tiffany, and use the Crown.
Information wins battles.
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fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
[X] Use your Crown to see if Tiffany's suspicion about the Denarians is right. True Chaos might serve them, but if you can find one of them alone it might also serve you
I would rather like to hold a coin for a bit just to experiment and do our worst to it. Unlikely to work, but seems worth trying.
I would rather like to hold a coin for a bit just to experiment and do our worst to it. Unlikely to work, but seems worth trying.
Good night guys, see you in the morning as we check in on Lydia and Co.
We can technically at least try to eat them from some WoG early in the tread, but we probably shouldn't try it till we hit e5. If not for the white god holding them down for us it probably wouldn't be possible at all, we shouldn't press our luck by trying it until we've got as much supernatural heft as Molly can acquire.
In absence of that, I'd like to suggest trying to farm the Fallen for Demons with something like this:
So this is a crazy idea, but how possible is it to make an evil clone machine for Fallen Angels?
I know, I know, please hold your horrified screams until the end of the show.
What I mean is that a basic function of the Denarians is to make imprints like the one which became Lash. We almost certainly can't effect the nature of an Angel of any kind, but what about a lesser copy?
Set up something that spits out a clone with the shadow in it that's been targeted with a permanent dreaming a new dream feature effect.
That would be our curse on them; an order of demons patterned after their souls that has the opportunity to possess everything they can't anymore. A image of how they could be different, better than they are right now. A vision of a version that might get to go home one day.
How to do this? It's going to be expensive unless we have our forge ready, and bends the rules a little in what I think is a thematic way:
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Taking the form of a simple wooden rosary, this fascination is built to show the way to redemption to those who believe they have none. When its owner defeats a target, killing or rendering them helpless in their current conflict, the cross draws forth an image of their soul. This shadow is in all ways identical save one; it is the part of them that regrets their greatest sins, that hesitates at the costs of their actions, that given the opportunity to do it all again would choose differently.
These shadows of doubt are not initially housed in bodies, instead sharing space suspended in the cross, but can be placed within them by a skilled hand.
This is the most viscerally upsetting and offensive thing I can think to do to them, so we should do it as much as possible. I want to see if we can mean girls a Fallen Angel till they burst into tears.
All the familiar hubris taste, half the
[X] Use your Crown to see if Tiffany's suspicion about the Denarians is right. True Chaos might serve them, but if you can find one of them alone it might also serve you
I have another idea on how to mess with the Fallen and their coins in a throughly frustrating way.
Technically the Fallen in the coins are not allowed to use their own power without a host, full stop. The Hero's Shadow form element talks about being embedded on a target, but it has modes where the physical splendor just follows the subject around.
When using that under the default mechanics you don't actually have to give it to the target, and a fascination can't be stolen or banished until it's been deactivated.
The Fallen can probably defend themselves from shaping effects to some degree, but what if we play "I'm not touching you" with them?
Moonlight form, Hero's Shadow, and a payload that targets mortals in the presence of the coin in a way that makes getting hosts hard without directly blocking the tools Heaven allows.
Like:
Or
It might be over the line of what we can get away with, but I like the idea of:
Boost the duration a bit so that the thing follows around the coin making life difficult for a long while before turning off and popping home to Molly.
Technically the Fallen in the coins are not allowed to use their own power without a host, full stop. The Hero's Shadow form element talks about being embedded on a target, but it has modes where the physical splendor just follows the subject around.
When using that under the default mechanics you don't actually have to give it to the target, and a fascination can't be stolen or banished until it's been deactivated.
The Fallen can probably defend themselves from shaping effects to some degree, but what if we play "I'm not touching you" with them?
Moonlight form, Hero's Shadow, and a payload that targets mortals in the presence of the coin in a way that makes getting hosts hard without directly blocking the tools Heaven allows.
Like:
Set to "The coin will always - always - destroy the lives of those who touch it"
Or
Set to "Do anything you have to in order to avoid touching the coin, no matter what else happens".
It might be over the line of what we can get away with, but I like the idea of:
Set to temporarily turn anyone considering touching the coin into an insubstantial spirit that physically can't pick it up. That or something that technically doesn't have the right to host a Fallen so it doesn't matter.
Boost the duration a bit so that the thing follows around the coin making life difficult for a long while before turning off and popping home to Molly.
While I wasn't able to convince others of it, I don't buy hellfire = denarians". Investment from other demonic forces is far more probable.
BoredMan
Put your Grasses on, nothing will be Wong♪
That will not tell us if they have Coins and such though.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
Under the circumstances those coins have a good chance of abandoning their current holders in hopes of less doomed prospects as we speak.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
It's like we are a green flame in a world full of gasoline.
Superman in his world of cardboard generally didn't cause chain reactions.
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Vote closed. Lets see how the others are doing shall we?
Arc 14 Interlude 4: Breath of the Unquiet
Breath of the Unquiet
18th of February 2007 A.D.
A scion of death was Lydia Rhys, but also of the deep earth, born to lightless halls under the hill. She felt the tumult and the torment of the earth and knew that it was wrong, intimately, viciously wrong. "It's not like Vegas," she called back, more to assure herself than them. When the False Dragon had tried to open tear the city asunder by the power of his broken stewardship, you could hear the laughter of his true masters, like hyenas about to fall upon a feast of fallen flesh.
"It's geomancy Great Lady," said one of the mages in robes of green, not quite used to talking to the wizards, to their eyes uncanny in form and in power. "I've never felt its like before, but one might say the same of all things of this world where the Sun shines above."
"What's so special about the sun?" Warden Dresden asked.
"It's a bit like if you looked up and saw the Philosopher's Stone just shining over all the world," she explained, or started to at least. Turning the corner the company stopped dead. About thirty feet in front of them the floor fell away into a jagged pit whose far edge was of ancient stone and black basaltic foundations. At least one set of marble stairs had already slid in.
"Think you're going to have to redecorate?" Even Warden Dresden's attempt at a joke sounded faint. If any unprotected wizards had been caught up in that they were dead, sure as sunset. Wizards for all their power were only flesh and blood.
Another tremor, more stones falling into the pit as flashlights peered within. It seemed then to Lydia that as the light traveled down something else came the other way, a black exhalation, a stillness of the...
"Warden Morgan, are any wizards buried in the Halls themselves?"
"A handful, the Council has only been headquartered here for about five hundred years. Most wizards prefer to be burned or else buried on family plots, but there were a few who were old when Headquarters were new, followers of the old pagan ways who would not lay their heads in a on earth that had been sanctified to the White God, but also didn't trust the old burial grounds that had laid untended for so long."
"Shit, fuckin' ghost Druids," someone mutters Warden Morgan snaps his head at his youngest colleague, though this time his gaze goes awry, for it's one of his own who said it, Zadok, Lydia thinks his name is.
"Worse," Lydia is in no mood to smile. "The souls are long gone, a darkness has been called to dwell in them and it loves well earthly remains of wizards, though it must be coaxed to take ones so old."
"Speak plainly girl!" the senior warden barked. Once she might have recoiled from it, but Lydia had stood in the halls of her father and called for judgement, she had descended into hell and freed those unjustly bound. Down in that pit now there a kind of little hell now festered. "Keep your wits about you, we are about to crash a soiree of the Black Court, though gods and not the kindly ones know what the power that moves them was promised to allow such a conjuring."
"'Necromancy', the magic of the Untimely Death Twisted is only partially understood lacking examples..." The War Weaver began speaking and Lydia was about to offer what comfort she could in the face of the horror that likely awaited them below, but the spirit was not done. "We are metal, never flesh, never alive, never bound to the Cycle, or to the Not-Cycle of the Beyond. We are least likely to be harmed. Let us go ahead."
"Ayup, that's a sixty foot drop, you got anything that can deal with that?" Zadock had been looking into the hole.
"Time to be the Dragon again I guess," Molly-Sophia said, her form already bright and smoking as it began to change.
The Dead would heed me, they would listen at least, Lydia thought, recalling all the times in which Molly had with words prepared a foe for their ultimate defeat.
"They are not Dead child, they never lived," the voice of her father replied, a still and secret thing at the back of her mind.
"Close enough," she countered with courage mostly unfeigned. "I just need to distract the things while someone else kills the Warlocks who called them. Thankfully I have all these warlock-slayers with me."
The first War Weaver was already climbing spider-like into the pit.
"Do not bandy words with them," the voice sounded sterner than when she had taken Tiffany's offer of power—and that worked out alright father, didn't it? she thought with some resentment— but more than that, he sounded afraid.
"Why?" She asked even as she climbed easily down, finding handholds and footholds.
"Because they will have more barbs to throw than you." The answer has the virtue of sincerity, but that did not satisfy Lydia.
"And whose fault is that then?" she snapped back.
The silent admission of fault did not warm her.
Lydia decided to...
[] Try to distract the possessed corpses, the ritually made vampires working the geomancy
[] Focus on the mortal warlocks, she could kill them far more freely than the wardens and they use their power on the Black Court things
[] Write in
OOC: Not going to lie, I was stocked when you guys decided to send Lydia down to deal with the tremors. Peabody's been a busy boy. What's worse than a fake vampire attack? A real one... of the worse vampires made from old bones that shouldn't from the Council's understanding of necromancy be able to do that. Of course the Council's understanding of necromancy is much like that of mind magic, hindered by the Laws.
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