Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

He's wrong obviously. In the long run if humanity gets uplifted by us the setting is going to look very different.

This is really interesting. Exiled princess? Other Exalted? He may just be straight up lying about the later though... In any case we'd seriously be remiss to not use the Crown on this stuff later.
imma note infernals are really fucking bad at uplift compared to most exalted.
 
You see the precise moment when Harry's mental defenses waver, his expression going slack, eyes too-wide...

If we weren't here to cast SSC on him and use Shintai on the Labyrinth and the team we sent to Paris had to handle this guy and the bomb from earlier alone this would've been an absolute shit show. The man was about to jack someone else's soul on the spot and take his body just from soulgazing them.

HollowMan is scary as fuck.
 
If we weren't here to cast SSC on him and use Shintai on the Labyrinth and the team we sent to Paris had to handle this guy and the bomb from earlier alone this would've been an absolute shit show. The man was about to jack someone else's soul on the spot and take his body just from soulgazing them.

HollowMan is scary as fuck.

It should be noted that he could only pull that trick within the Labyrith and even if he succeeded it would have left Harry's soul free to act and try to take his body. It's not like that rote has no costs.
 
EDIT: He might also be trying to get us to look into the other infernals, because an act of doing so while in this place might release them. Or attract their attention.
Alternatively; it's possible he actually doesn't know, but is aware that beings of sufficient heft can notice our crown in use and potentially follow our proverbial gaze like the Angel did. Which is exploitable while we're standing under the gazes of his masters.

He probably doesn't know exactly how it works himself, and therefore how question phrasing could render the additional information relatively useless to them, but it seems uncomfortably plausible that the wrong question in this place would let the outside use us as a spy satellite.

A question asked right now to the effect of "where are the exalts Marcus was thinking of" might actually show the Outside where many of them are hidden.
imma note infernals are really fucking bad at uplift compared to most exalted.
Demon planet says hello. That and the tech specific powers make them pretty good at certain kinds of uplift compared to other solaroids, it just requires a different build than Molly has.


I wonder if we should take the ancient dead Wan Kuei back to our Hell for ressurection.
My guess is no, or at least not immediately. They're stuck in some sort of remnant Ebon Dragon quackery deeply enough that an Angel with direct access hasn't booted them to the next life yet.

Presumably there's a complication that would need addressed first to extract them without waking him up or something.

Safest bet would be to try coordinating with the Hot Topic hospice worker currently spanking the Outside and dedicating an action to researching the problem.
 
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[X] Kill him now
-[X] And Murder is Meat his soul, if he has any left.


This.
I sincerely doubt he believes us standing aside would actually make a difference at this point of time, he is extremely outnumbered.
On the other hand a last try to lay a trap would be utterly in character.
 
[X] Kill him now
-[X] And Murder is Meat his soul, if he has any left.
-[x][Stunt]"The 6th age is coming, but it isn't yours"
 
[] Keep him talking, the Merlin can contain the fungus you're sure
-[] Write in

[] Kill him now
I'm off to sleep, but, kneejerk reaction aside, should we not keep SSC up? Which should be our action per turn. Unless we are doing multiple actions? But SSC probably counts as an attack. Point being, if we kill him (and yeah, we can) we'd likely to need to drop SSC. Do we want to eat an Arete 10 death curse? We have a perfect antishaping defense though.
 
I'm off to sleep, but, kneejerk reaction aside, should we not keep SSC up? Which should be our action per turn. Unless we are doing multiple actions? But SSC probably counts as an attack. Point being, if we kill him (and yeah, we can) we'd likely to need to drop SSC. Do we want to eat an Arete 10 death curse? We have a perfect antishaping defense though.
Seems a little weird to take our curse off of him before he is naught, but ashes. I can see the dramatic reasons as well at it being required to murder is meat him. But it does feel odd.

@DragonParadox : Molly is top of the initiative order right? We don't have to let him have an action so long as we kill him proper?
 
"Keeper of the Thousandth and First Hell, I am not thine enemy," he speaks and you know the words are for you alone. "Step aside and I will tell give you word of where the others lie... the others like you."
I have no idea what anyone else is voting, not even looked at the vote options in fact, but here is my genuine and undiluted reaction:

[x] Laugh in his face and kill him.

And now that I looked at the rest:

[X] Kill him now
-[X] And Murder is Meat his soul, if he has any left.


Just do it.
 
We could have the other guys kill him. It's not like his last Iteration is any stronger than the rest, which Dresden/Eb have been doing a pretty good job of killing.

Hell, just let Lydia's commandeered Wan Kuei finish the job.
 
I'm off to sleep, but, kneejerk reaction aside, should we not keep SSC up? Which should be our action per turn. Unless we are doing multiple actions? But SSC probably counts as an attack. Point being, if we kill him (and yeah, we can) we'd likely to need to drop SSC. Do we want to eat an Arete 10 death curse? We have a perfect antishaping defense though.
I don't think it is, but we need confirmation. ExWoD refers to attack actions explicitly in charms that use them, and only refers to SSC as her action for the turn. I'd assume the lack of specificity means that it counts as an untyped activity and therefore contributes to multi action penalties.

I'd really rather kill him ourselves because it seems like an important narrative milestone we'd benefit from, but if that's too risky we could get Lydia to do it.

We need a stunt too, for maximum dice.
 
Seems a little weird to take our curse off of him before he is naught, but ashes. I can see the dramatic reasons as well at it being required to murder is meat him. But it does feel odd.

@DragonParadox : Molly is top of the initiative order right? We don't have to let him have an action so long as we kill him proper?

A Death Curse is a reflexive action at the moment of death, he does not need a turn before you to use it.
 
A Death Curse is a reflexive action at the moment of death, he does not need a turn before you to use it.
Can you clarify if SSC is a regular action which inflicts multi action penalties but can pair with an attack or an attack itself?
We could have the other guys kill him. It's not like his last Iteration is any stronger than the rest, which Dresden/Eb have been doing a pretty good job of killing.

Hell, just let Lydia's commandeered Wan Kuei finish the job.
Someone with a spirit killer should do it, just to be sure.
 
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