Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
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Ok, sure, damn, missed that. Corrected.
EDIT: The end of the work year is seriously biting me. I apologize for this.
EDIT2: Even without Olivia, I am fairly confident in success.
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BoredMan
Maintaining the Agenda is our top priority
These plans are mostly the same since one was ripped from another. The difference is the approach on the bomb. I don't like the occult excellency being used since we don't yet know what the missing 6 warlocks are doing and I'd rather have 5 essence left than 4 along with the extra will point to deal with it.
A demon lord was summoned earlier by some warlocks and the Hollowman is still a threat so it's hard to say what else maybe down the pipeline that we need to combat. Shintai and our other charms will obviously be expiring soon. Probably right after we leave the Labyrinth.
The two Crown questions are mandatory really since we need to know of Merlin's status and what the 6 warlocks are doing right now. With the way essence and will has been spent, Namshiel especially, Molly is likely going to start taking wound penalties if we have a bunch of combat down the line. The amount of obstacles the enemy has been able to bring to bear on short notice, Blampires, demon lord, life tether, Labyrinth, is enough that I'd rather have the extra two motes than not. Otherwise I'd vote for plan "altogether now".
[X] Plan Hell Seer
Edit: Though we have Tiffany to help counter wound penalties so hopefully we can get back into contact with her sooner rather than later.
A demon lord was summoned earlier by some warlocks and the Hollowman is still a threat so it's hard to say what else maybe down the pipeline that we need to combat. Shintai and our other charms will obviously be expiring soon. Probably right after we leave the Labyrinth.
The two Crown questions are mandatory really since we need to know of Merlin's status and what the 6 warlocks are doing right now. With the way essence and will has been spent, Namshiel especially, Molly is likely going to start taking wound penalties if we have a bunch of combat down the line. The amount of obstacles the enemy has been able to bring to bear on short notice, Blampires, demon lord, life tether, Labyrinth, is enough that I'd rather have the extra two motes than not. Otherwise I'd vote for plan "altogether now".
[X] Plan Hell Seer
Edit: Though we have Tiffany to help counter wound penalties so hopefully we can get back into contact with her sooner rather than later.
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From the combat perspective I consider one less mote to be far better than tanking agg and better than having to activate anti-shaping defense.
BoredMan
Maintaining the Agenda is our top priority
The difference between the two plans is two motes not one. Neither plan calls for tanking anything unless either one fails. If your plan fails Molly won't be the only one tanking damage from what I understand. It's a bomb meant to break the veil, I'm not sure why an anti shaping defence would be needed if it does go off. We have soak and Tiffany besides, though she isn't nearby right now.
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On the essence front; why not ask Harry for more of his pool? He can do some good stuff with them, but I think say 2 successes in his roll is probably worth less than giving those motes to a solaroid.
We also need a stunt, otherwise we'll be passing up 2 dice on everything.
Something trying to pull your body apart across dimensions or drop you into hell against your will is probably a shaping effect.
We also need a stunt, otherwise we'll be passing up 2 dice on everything.
Cause the mechanism of the "explosion" is potentially a shaping effect. It's not like the thing is a forces effect or that magic all fails the same way when disrupted.
Something trying to pull your body apart across dimensions or drop you into hell against your will is probably a shaping effect.
BoredMan
Maintaining the Agenda is our top priority
Hmm.. maybe though as you said not everything fails the same way when disrupted. The text just says risk of considerable "damage". Though now that your saying it this makes me want Molly to deal with it even moreso than the others incase it does go off.
Personally I think that we should rely on the specialists available when we have them. Supposing the Merlin is clean then we have some of the best wizards on the planet here, if not this then what are they supposed to be good for?
Draining our essence pool on stuff we don't necessarily have to do ourselves harms our ability to deal with things we may actually be the only practical solution to.
BoredMan
Maintaining the Agenda is our top priority
Well, Hell Seer doesn't have Molly drain her essence/will pool, Altogether Now does have her do so but it also has Molly not handle it alone which is something else you want.
Either way I think both Crown questions are mandatory so I'm voting for one or the other.
Though I suppose we could also wait for the scene to finish before asking about the missing Warlock's whereabouts and activities as that may trigger the Urge and the scene will be ending soon.
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The vote is a tie so... An interlude from the Gatekeeper's PoV might be interesting.
I think its reasonable to argue that for disabling hostile magic devices, Molly IS the specialist.
When you are defusing a bomb, you send the EOD tech with actual gear and protective armor.
Not a bomb designer.
No wizard here can safely open the Sight to help guide their work, while Molly is rocking all sorts of boosters to perception and work.
Furthermore, its worth pointing out that dealing with the dead really isnt Molly's area of specialty.
Not all ghosts are Creatures of Darkness, and most disembodied souls are not.
Thats why you send the Exigent of Death to deal with dead people. Not the Infernal.
Ivar
Dark Reaper
- Location
- Russia Moscow
I wonder what he's doing in this whole disaster. I'm betting on the obvious, he was attacked by the Outsiders.
Sucker bet.
Most times that Outsiders have made major moves in the Dresden Files, its coincided with an upsurge of activity at the Outer Gates to force people to split their attention. It happened in Cold Days, it happened in Battle Ground.
BoredMan
Maintaining the Agenda is our top priority
It also happened during Las Vegas. It was the explanation for no Knights of the Cross being in sight that whole Arc.
Ivar
Dark Reaper
- Location
- Russia Moscow
And in this quest during Vegas. Yes, I bet on it because I'm too lazy to think about other possibilities
Time sensitive.
Im assuming Luccio's mind controller asked her to bring them for a reason, so we should probably find them ASAP.
(Outsider)Teamwork is a superpower.
Arc 14 Interlude 16: The Gate Within
The Gate Within
18th of February 2007 A.D.
Rashid hated devils, of course the devils are meant to be hated, they would be insulted if you did not hate them, but he especially hated it when then devils did the work of things that were worse. His mind passed over the thought lightly, like a ripple in a deep pond not because he did not know Them, but because he knew too much, he had Seen things unspeakable and to dwell upon them was to give them a purchase on his mind even if only a fingernail's width.
So it was with some satisfaction that he dropped the still bear-like head of the host of Magog before the vaguely throne-like chair that presently contained what seemed to be a petite teenage girl. Appearances could be deceiving.
"You misplaced your dog." Wizards who knew the distant, but kindly Rashid would have been perturbed at the coldness of his tone, but it was the Gatekeeper who spoke and it was Polonius Lartessa host of Imariel who listened.
"Oh?" the Fallen tilted her head coquettishly. "Where's the rest of him then?"
"If you meant the body when I last saw it it had been 'recycled' by He Who Walks in Garment of Rot attempting to salvage the a rite of summoning that would have used Manzanares as a vector for a parasitic plague meant to usher in a cult of its masters. The 'cure' would have been delivered by one doctor de Salva. Yes that one, I am not entirely sure what you were planning to use his talents for but you were played up to and including the death of your... instrument, he was meant to be the sacrifice."
"Sacrifice an angel?" Lartessa laughed, a sound uncanny in its perfection. "You've spent too long staring into the void old man, that is beyond Walkers, even the mightiest of them."
"The vessel." Rashid closed his eyes against the rage bubbling inside him, such as he had not felt in more than a century. A part of him, and not a small part, wanted to take this chance to kill the monster in front of him, to spare the world her malice, to bind her master to silence and stillness until he should find a much lesser host, but he could not justify it, not while... "Check your people all of them for the mark of..." The word he spoke them befouled the air between them and even made the Denarian flinch. Good.
"It may have made contingencies if the plan here failed, you may still have sleepers."
"May, is that the best your wizard's wit can do?" She tried to regain the initiative.
"Tread carefully Lartessa or it will not be Knights of any description who make your end," the wizard threatened, the silver eye burning almost white upon his face, knowing with that damnable insight that that is only given to seers that it was already too late to act in Scotland or in Paris. He could only take comfort in that fact that his sight was fractured by a bolt of green flame.
OOC: The Outsiders did not just infiltrate the good guys, though that is very little comfort to people like Rashid who have to clean up after Tessa and her posse of monsters getting used in a shell game.
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Yes, but not quite that way this time, the whole he had to patch was on Earth because someone else screwed up and he was the only one who could act in time.
Tessa in this case was played, she wanted to make a plague and she did not do her due diligence when she came upon a plague-making wizard scale talent seemingly perfect for her purposes so now she lost Maggog and she has to go over her organization with a fine toothed comb to make sure she does not have any more Old One cultists. That is the reason Rashid did not kill her on the spot (or attempt to at least).
That is not to say other Denarians could not have been working more consciously with Outsiders, but in this case it was infiltration.
The issue is that this was our initiative. This wasn't planned Outsider move. This was them responding to us finding their operation in less than two hours.
They have instant communication and they had triggers to pull.
That... might actually be good, if we start to exhaust the number of prepared disasters. But still demonstrates that the forces of evil were really overcommitted to ensuring victory - if not for us, they could have crushed WC.