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Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

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[X] Plan: Mote In God's Eye
-[X] Continue with the Fortress action
--[X] Lead and participate the construction of defensive fortifications and enchantments, primarily on the Courts side
--[X] Activate your whole enchantment package: Shintai (while inside the courts), WHWH, BSM, FPoR, MHM and Lord of the Land for large scale construction
--[X] Maintain Leadership, Occult, and Craft excellencies as needed
--[X] Involve enchanters from the Courts, and Olivia (for mana manipulation) to work on the project
--[X] Work with the spirit for whom it is to be a body, like the train is for Porter.
---[X] Use Proxy Servant Protocol to expand the crafting and magic dicepools of the craftsmen involved, and Source Code Compliance Protocol (with essence expenditure) to lower magical DC
—[X] Schedule a meeting with Mallko to see how he's doing and discuss splendor options
-[X] [Stunt]: Standing at the edge of the caldera, Molly examined the glowing disk of gold at its center. Reaching out, she flexed a muscle that she couldn't name and reveled in the sense of completion it gave her. Almost involuntarily an image of baby Hope, newly home and deeply fascinated by her own hands, flashed across her mind.
—[X] In the distance the Great Ring briefly flared as she shook that thought, and Usum's laughter, out of her head. In its wake a hush seemed to settle over the world like snow, a focus that could almost be felt.
—[X] The image of what she wanted to create was so strong it almost felt as if it was already real. She could see it like a cross section of the entire volcano, showing a reignited magma chamber and a twisted cordlike conduit stretching up to the caldera, vents trialing off along the way forming a pattern that only seemed random.
—[X] From above the entire volcanic creator is lit by the fire within, revealing a labyrinth of stone, gnarled paths and tunnels forming strange patterns and defensive architecture from a coincidence of nature.
—[X] At the center the portal hangs like a pupil, embedded in an iris of lava and bridged by jagged iron overhangs.
—[X] The entire mountain, from the roots to crown, is an enormous eye filled with teeth. Threaded through it like nerves the maze and lines of magma form a name in the oldest language of an entity that doesn't yet exist, each line in turn a ward against harm for the defenders.
—[X] Pushing as she never had before, Molly felt something shift. Sanctuary didn't so much change as discover that it was already something else. To all evidence save for the records and memories from yesterday the entire volcano had simply happened to form this way.

The pathway into the realm of the Empress Crowned with Eyes would be the pupil of a giant fanged eye-volcano formed into a maze fortress that is literally the name of the god built to defend it.

The technology and more advanced magic would need to be added as we go, but the stunt is just there to set the bones out to support everything else.

Thoughts?
 
BronzeTongue said:
Well to start we're talking about the facts as presented and known to these entities. The mundane FBI doesn't know we have basing rights, it doesn't know we exist. We're not a major crime syndicate with our own collection of case files, detectives, and lawyers who've working to take us down for most of the last few years.

The supernaturally aware portion of the gave us that agreement. It's not treason because the government is allowed to make these kinds of deals. You could perhaps argue that the Library doesn't have the authority to do that, but that turns into a political negotiation thing. If the government as a whole suddenly became aware it wouldn't be surprising if Congress demanded a renegotiation conducted through normal channels, but ultimately it isn't your foreign partner's job to police your government.

There's also the nature of what's being done. We aren't expanding a violent criminal empire that is already known to be so by them. First impressions are important even here.

We can't shatter the masquerade here and now. This means that the set up you're designing is already being hunted by the mundane government before its even done anything.

This will not stop, it can only get worse as more players stir the pot.

The moral evaluation isn't relevant to this, you could replace the mob with saints and it would happen the same way. Molly could be wholly insulated from being connected to this and it would still result in a conflict between the mob and the government.

This makes all of them less effective and more easily exploited by bad actors.

I do think our connection would be discovered, simply because of how everything lines up.
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You see here your point of view that the USA is an equal and very important country. That's not so.
Molly is the ruler of a country with an army above all the armies on Earth (200 million in a military city alone). Economy and industry are above the unification of the whole Earth. Maybe by an order of magnitude. From the point of view of the Sanctuary of the USA, like all countries of the world, this is Zimbabwe.
She doesn't have to start with the United States. But any country that is open to diplomacy will do. The territory in Las Vegas is not only a military base, but also an embassy.
The United States does not support us - there is Germany.. Germany is not. Great, there's Australia, China, India. Moreover, from a moral point of view, India is better. Huge population, lack of industry. Land access to 85% of the world's population.
The reason for strengthening the power projection portal is to talk on equal terms with the WORLD, not just the United States. Don't forget, Molly is primarily responsible to the Sanctuary. Not the USA.
In the same picture, undermining the United States in terms of crime is beneficial. Plus, to help people with illnesses.
From the point of view of democracy, the Sanctuary is better. We chose this as a benefit to the world. The Sanctuary should be at the head of peace policy.
This quest is not a reality. The sanctuary is simply better than all the countries in the world.
 
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BronzeTongue said:
The pathway into the realm of the Empress Crowned with Eyes would be the pupil of a giant fanged eye-volcano formed into a maze fortress that is literally the name of the god built to defend it.

The technology and more advanced magic would need to be added as we go, but the stunt is just there to set the bones out to support everything else.

Thoughts?
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It's a really good stunt for what I believe would be our first actual use of Lord of the Land within Sanctuary.

Getting some mad Mount Doom vibes from this.


[X] Plan: Mote In God's Eye

strannik said:
Moreover, from a moral point of view, India is better. Huge population, lack of industry. Land access to 85% of the world's population.
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I think you're projecting pretty hard here. The majority of the Quest takes place in America and Molly goes to an American school. To keep the Masquerade from coming down our relationship with its gov is important and when/if the Masquerade does come down our relationship with the most powerful world superpowers on the planet is going to matter a hell of a lot.

Whether or not Sanctuary is morally better wasn't relevant to that conversation.
 
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strannik said:
This quest is not a reality. The sanctuary is simply better than all the countries in the world.
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While it is true that the people of Sanctuary feel more represented by their government it should be noted that a significant part of that is because their ultimate leader is the God Queen they were all raised to worship. A significant part of the legitimacy that makes this world more democratic... is the fact that it's a theocracy in the literal sense. Not something you can export.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Dec 30, 2024 at 5:27 AM, finished with 59 posts and 7 votes.
  • [X] Plan Daedalus
    -[X] Continue with the Fortress action
    --[X] Lead and participate the construction of defensive fortifications and enchantments, primarily on the Courts side
    --[X] Activate your whole enchantment package: Shintai (while inside the courts), WHWH, BSM, FPoR, MHM and Lord of the Land for large scale construction
    --[X] Maintain Leadership, Occult, and Craft excellencies as needed
    --[X] Involve enchanters from the Courts, and Olivia (for mana manipulation) to work on the project
    --[X] Work with the spirit for whom it is to be a body, like the train is for Porter.
    --[X] Incorporate places and structures for the magic yet to be cast, including the splendors, into the structures of the defenses
    ---[X] Start thinking of what those splendors can be
    ---[X] Use Proxy Servant Protocol to expand the crafting and magic dicepools of the craftsmen involved, and Source Code Compliance Protocol (with essence expenditure) to lower magical DC
    --[X] Stunt: in your mind, gears whirl, a multidimensional fractal mosaic of interlocking details coming together in a union of magic and technology, of half-remembered flashes of ancient insight and the vision of a future yet to come. Projected into mortally comprehensible dimensions it is a body of a god, a fortress for those manning it, a logistics hub for the products moved in and out, a weapon to be aimed at invaders, a Labyrinth. It would normally take you days to even start explaining your plan to those assembled before you, brilliant as they are, called from all corners of your soul for a chance to work directly under you. But that is not needed, when they are, in effect, also part of the design, as it stretches in one more not just spatial, but temporal direction. Still, bolstered by your leadership, and equipped with the best tools possible, you speak of what you are constructing.
    [X] Plan: Mote In God's Eye
    -[X] Continue with the Fortress action
    --[X] Lead and participate the construction of defensive fortifications and enchantments, primarily on the Courts side
    --[X] Activate your whole enchantment package: Shintai (while inside the courts), WHWH, BSM, FPoR, MHM and Lord of the Land for large scale construction
    --[X] Maintain Leadership, Occult, and Craft excellencies as needed
    --[X] Involve enchanters from the Courts, and Olivia (for mana manipulation) to work on the project
    --[X] Work with the spirit for whom it is to be a body, like the train is for Porter.
    ---[X] Use Proxy Servant Protocol to expand the crafting and magic dicepools of the craftsmen involved, and Source Code Compliance Protocol (with essence expenditure) to lower magical DC
    —[X] Schedule a meeting with Mallko to see how he's doing and discuss splendor options
    -[X] [Stunt]: Standing at the edge of the caldera, Molly examined the glowing disk of gold at its center. Reaching out, she flexed a muscle that she couldn't name and reveled in the sense of completion it gave her. Almost involuntarily an image of baby Hope, newly home and deeply fascinated by her own hands, flashed across her mind.
    —[X] In the distance the Great Ring briefly flared as she shook that thought, and Usum's laughter, out of her head. In its wake a hush seemed to settle over the world like snow, a focus that could almost be felt.
    —[X] The image of what she wanted to create was so strong it almost felt as if it was already real. She could see it like a cross section of the entire volcano, showing a reignited magma chamber and a twisted cordlike conduit stretching up to the caldera, vents trialing off along the way forming a pattern that only seemed random.
    —[X] From above the entire volcanic creator is lit by the fire within, revealing a labyrinth of stone, gnarled paths and tunnels forming strange patterns and defensive architecture from a coincidence of nature.
    —[X] At the center the portal hangs like a pupil, embedded in an iris of lava and bridged by jagged iron overhangs.
    —[X] The entire mountain, from the roots to crown, is an enormous eye filled with teeth. Threaded through it like nerves the maze and lines of magma form a name in the oldest language of an entity that doesn't yet exist, each line in turn a ward against harm for the defenders.
    —[X] Pushing as she never had before, Molly felt something shift. Sanctuary didn't so much change as discover that it was already something else. To all evidence save for the records and memories from yesterday the entire volcano had simply happened to form this way.
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BoredMan said:
I think you're projecting pretty hard here. The majority of the Quest takes place in America and Molly goes to an American school. To keep the Masquerade from coming down our relationship with its gov is important and when/if the Masquerade does come down our relationship with the most powerful world superpowers on the planet is going to matter a hell of a lot.
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That's the problem. Why would she go to school? just friends.
And who was talking about removing the masquerade? If for the United States, if we are in a place where they can hit us with nuclear weapons, then we are less dangerous. When delivering medicines and industrial goods inside the country, we are a threat to the elite of the country. First of all, old money. And make no mistake, old money will not be able to enter the Sanctuary markets like in the world. They have little to offer.
In the United States, there are law enforcement agencies that are threats to the masquerade. The world's attention is focused on the United States. Any technology from the sanctuary will be threatened by the world's intelligence services. From allies, China, Russia, and ending with terrorists. Diamonds are usually. Medicines are from the USA. Lasers? This is a security risk. This is a chance of nuclear war. Countries that are far from political blocs and not developed are preferable.
Remember the Stargate TV series, how other countries reacted about the program. How the US opponents will react to the weapons. The sanctuary is not a Jaffa, it is closer to the good Goa'uld.

Dragon Paradox. Can this quest include parts of ck2 or is it guaranteed not to? For example, after the base is built. Command armies, not detachments.

[X] Plan Daedalus
 
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strannik said:
That's the problem. Why would she go to school? just friends.
And who was talking about removing the masquerade? If for the United States, if we are in a place where they can hit us with nuclear weapons, then we are less dangerous. When delivering medicines and industrial goods inside the country, we are a threat to the elite of the country. First of all, old money. And make no mistake, old money will not be able to enter the Sanctuary markets like in the world. They have little to offer.
In the United States, there are law enforcement agencies that are threats to the masquerade. The world's attention is focused on the United States. Any technology from the sanctuary will be threatened by the world's intelligence services. From allies, China, Russia, and ending with terrorists. Diamonds are usually. Medicines are from the USA. Lasers? This is a security risk. This is a chance of nuclear war. Countries that are far from political blocs and not developed are preferable.
Remember the Stargate TV series, how other countries reacted about the program. How the US opponents will react to the weapons. The sanctuary is not a Jaffa, it is closer to the good Goa'uld.
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I actually have no idea what your arguing here. What I was saying is that America is important to the Quest so we should mind our status with its government and various branches.

The entirety of our party and Circle lives in America, the player character and her family lives there, so does Porter, the Jade Dogs, Cauldron, it's where Demonreach the island containing several planet ending threats is located.
 
strannik said:
You see here your point of view that the USA is an equal and very important country. That's not so.
Molly is the ruler of a country with an army above all the armies on Earth (200 million in a military city alone). Economy and industry are above the unification of the whole Earth. Maybe by an order of magnitude. From the point of view of the Sanctuary of the USA, like all countries of the world, this is Zimbabwe.
She doesn't have to start with the United States. But any country that is open to diplomacy will do. The territory in Las Vegas is not only a military base, but also an embassy.
The United States does not support us - there is Germany.. Germany is not. Great, there's Australia, China, India. Moreover, from a moral point of view, India is better. Huge population, lack of industry. Land access to 85% of the world's population.
The reason for strengthening the power projection portal is to talk on equal terms with the WORLD, not just the United States. Don't forget, Molly is primarily responsible to the Sanctuary. Not the USA.
In the same picture, undermining the United States in terms of crime is beneficial. Plus, to help people with illnesses.
From the point of view of democracy, the Sanctuary is better. We chose this as a benefit to the world. The Sanctuary should be at the head of peace policy.
This quest is not a reality. The sanctuary is simply better than all the countries in the world.
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There are a lot of problems with this, starting with the idea that being a "better" country gives you the right to do what you please to "worse" ones. It gives you the ability to do that, but it doesn't mean you should.

Even setting that argument aside, due to a variety of factors we can't actually project force like that without causing a cascade of problems. The system that's in place is what we have to work with.
 
I'm interested to see how Morgan and Lucio are doing now. Not only were Donald's predictions underestimated regarding our strength, but we are actively building infrastructure to go out into the world and positioning ourselves to attack and replace the Reds as the dominant force in South America. Not to mention politics and how Lucio is dealing with being mind controlled.

I think we also flipped a lot of ways the Warlocks are treated and how they're tested. There will definitely be resistance to the Book, but it would be interesting to see how the protocol works against someone like young Dresden who killed in self-defense now.

It's always interesting to see the cynical political analysis of our actions. It's almost like Cain Ray's novels. While we're internally rushing around trying to do the right thing... External observers see how the Dread Empress puts the former hegemon in a coffin and clears the arena of enemies in just a year
 
Ivar said:
I'm interested to see how Morgan and Lucio are doing now. Not only were Donald's predictions underestimated regarding our strength, but we are actively building infrastructure to go out into the world and positioning ourselves to attack and replace the Reds as the dominant force in South America. Not to mention politics and how Lucio is dealing with being mind controlled.
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Odin: How do you like Boston's look, just so we won't get into each others way in Chicago?
Molly: South America looks nice this time of year.
 
LightLan said:
Odin: How do you like Boston's look, just so we won't get into each others way in Chicago?
Molly: South America looks nice this time of year.
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Well, we're about to create a god of the city. And then I think Manse. All this in Chicago. And that's while Dresden is the Warden Demonreach. We're literally becoming the dominant force in Chicago and I don't think Odin can do anything about it.
 
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Arc 15 Post 32: To Move Mountains New
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    • To Move Mountains ​

    8th of March 2007 A.D.

    In your mind, gears whirl, a multidimensional fractal mosaic of interlocking details coming together in a union of magic and technology, of half-remembered flashes of ancient insight and the vision of a future yet to come.

    Far above the Great Ring flared, waves of cascading plasma singing a song of creation.

    Projected into mortally comprehensible dimensions it is a body of a titan writ in stone and fire, the ancient magma channels below the Caldera opening up a fortress for those manning it, a logistics hub for the products moved in and out, a weapon to be aimed at invaders, a Labyrinth.

    It would have taken days to even begin explaining the plan to those assembled before you, brilliant as they are, called from all corners of your soul for a chance to work directly under their queen. But that is not needed, when they are, in effect, also part of the design, as it stretches in one more not just spatial, but temporal direction. Still, bolstered by your leadership, and equipped with the best tools possible, you speak of what you are bringing into being.

    The channels of the ancient volcano are near perfect geomantic conduits, selected for the purpose. Formed for it? A part of you wonders, still shuddering a bit at the implications yet nothing of it shows upon the face beneath the Crown, only the smile of focused intent, eyes closed as one who listens to distant melodies, Eyes open and ever-searching.

    Days pass almost unsleeping marked only by the slow turning of the moon's pale face as construction crews in pressurized suits, some with four limbs, some with eight, some with prosthetic enchancements some with burdens borne by magnetic levitation do their own part in the dance. From above the entire volcanic creator is lit by inner fire, revealing a labyrinth of stone, gnarled paths and tunnels forming strange patterns and defensive architecture from a coincidence of nature. At the center the portal hangs like a pupil, embedded in an iris of lava and bridged by jagged iron overhangs.

    Thus it takes shape to those watchers technological and organic who buzz above an enormous eye filled with teeth. Threaded through it like nerves the maze and lines of magma form a name in the oldest language of an entity that doesn't yet exist, each line in turn a ward against harm for the defenders.

    The deeper you sink into the great work the more that question keeps coming back: Am I doing this all now or is some of it work that was forever-always-done? That that there is a tense for that in the the Language is almost an answer in itself.

    For her part Olivia has not been iddle shaping the power that wells up from below into a usable state, building delicate screens of sorcerous power to befuddle and decieve any invaders, carving ward-lines deep into stone that no demon or other horror may dare tresspass this way into Sanctuary.

    What Ritual did Olivia learn over the past few days?

    [] [Mana Manipulation] ••• Core Tap: Allows the Sorcerer to directly convert mana into energy in the form of flame (2 Successes) Ionized plasma (3 successes) or gravitation (5 successes). The ward must be connected to a leyline to function. +1 Success is required for every 10 miles distance from a ley line in which it is set up. It does Caster's Mana Manipulation Rating+Rating of the Nearest Dragon's Nest in damage die/round of contact. The Caster may choose to add extra successes to damage at a rate of 1 Success/1 Die of Damage.The size of the ward is 50 ft +50 ft/extra success.

    [] [Psychic Invisibility] •••• Anchor Veil: Allows the Sorcerer to anchor an effect of similar strength to her Invisibility power to an area that hides a specific class of object: Innanimate object (1 Success); Non-Sentient living things (2 Successes); Sentient Beings (3 Successes); Sophonts (4 Successes). The size of the veil is 50 ft +50 ft/extra success

    [] [Mind Shields] ••• Expand Shield: Allows the Sorcerer to exted the protection of her mind shield to 1 willing companion/success for up to 5 hours. During this time her Mind Shield does not apply against any person she has included in the protection

    [] [Pcychoportation] •••• Skip-Gate: For the following 5 hours confers upon the Sorcerer the ability create a 'wake' of distorted space behind her when she teleports by spending 1 Mana which permits one other character to join her on by standing where she stood. Duration of each individual 'wake' is 1 Turn/2 Ritual successes. These can be chained together if the Sorcerer keeps spending extra Mana.

    OOC: Enjoy.
     
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    • Ok, so, first of all - great update. Really shows the scale of a nascent Primordial Working. I am guessing
    DragonParadox said:
    a name in the oldest language of an entity that doesn't yet exist
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    Is either Molly's Primordial name, or the name of the god / spirit we'll be making to animate / inhabit the whole thing.

    We are unlikely to see it, but the point of view of the god we rescued should be utterly hilarious. Imagine it - you are a god of a long dead people, a shadow of yourself, your divinity stolen and corrupted, as you are reduced to little more than bloodbag for the usurper monsters. Your only hope is the final release of death. Then, a mortal with a baleful flame upon her brow that probably reminds you of hells more than a little rescues you. She takes you to a realm of her own, which is, as your divine senses tell you, is not part of NeverNever. It might, in fact, be a whole separate Creation, but that is a thought to outrageous to consider even for you. As you slowly recover, she enacs a working around the tether that is you - the one connecting her realm and yours. And the working is only one or two steps removed from "Let there be Light".

    The god has to have concerns by now.

    Anyway, on the vote. First two options are strategically superior, while the latter two options are tactically superior. @DragonParadox will Olivia be able to buy the rituals not chosen here later with XP?

    I am inclined to take one of the first two options. Mana Manipulation one would be great for magitech industry setup. From energy production (plasma can probably be used as a supplementary plasma heating source for nuclear fusion), to micro or high gravity manufacturing to gravity room training. Psychic Invisibility would be great for security.
     
    Honestly, the rituals don't really help her in her role as a sniper. So maybe it will give her new tricks outside of her role. I don't really care about this vote to be honest.
     
    [X] [Psychic Invisibility] •••• Anchor Veil: Allows the Sorcerer to anchor an effect of similar strength to her Invisibility power to an area that hides a specific class of object: Innanimate object (1 Success); Non-Sentient living things (2 Successes); Sentient Beings (3 Successes); Sophonts (4 Successes). The size of the veil is 50 ft +50 ft/extra success

    [X] [Mana Manipulation] ••• Core Tap: Allows the Sorcerer to directly convert mana into energy in the form of flame (2 Successes) Ionized plasma (3 successes) or gravitation (5 successes). The ward must be connected to a leyline to function. +1 Success is required for every 10 miles distance from a ley line in which it is set up. The size of the ward is 50 ft +50 ft/extra success


    Particularly partial to the invisibility because we're trying to hide the portal and well that's a whole bit but always a fan of Mana Manipulation.
     
    Well thats an eye watering number of successes, not even counting what our guys might do themselves. I'm somewhat tempted to design bunch of creature/character blocks to use to fill in the design with even more horror.

    Just imagine if the tight confines of various bits of the labyrinth got filled with alien "spiders" with an excessive number of limbs. Spideroids the size of dogs wielding pain beams and shot guns, bear sized millipede grapplers symbiotically fused with balefire elementals so they can constantly emit lethal doses of cursed radiation, maybe some pinky nail ones that try to crawl into any opening they can before popping out countless barbed spikes to pump electricity through.

    Hallways that fill with liquid oxygen and cybernetic sea snakes. Corridors that rain lava and host nameless tentacle creatures.

    You know, the usual eldritch trauma based home security. :V

    I hope we get to see Harry inspect the place. His reaction to the volcano-eye would be amazing, as would the realization that the entire maze is spelling out the name of a god built to make the place impossible to traverse without permission.
     
    Ivar said:
    Honestly, the rituals don't really help her in her role as a sniper. So maybe it will give her new tricks outside of her role. I don't really care about this vote to be honest.
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    She seems to be acquiring a strategic, as well as tactical role, expanding beyond immediate battle. And, surprisingly enough, that role might be a priestess / large scale geomancer.
    DragonParadox said:
    Yes, they are all Sanctary Sorcerers can do. This is her learning on the job as it were.
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    In that case

    [X] [Psychic Invisibility] •••• Anchor Veil: Allows the Sorcerer to anchor an effect of similar strength to her Invisibility power to an area that hides a specific class of object: Innanimate object (1 Success); Non-Sentient living things (2 Successes); Sentient Beings (3 Successes); Sophonts (4 Successes). The size of the veil is 50 ft +50 ft/extra success

    And I'll be buying Mana Manipulation ritual with XP later.
     
    [X] [Psychic Invisibility] •••• Anchor Veil: Allows the Sorcerer to anchor an effect of similar strength to her Invisibility power to an area that hides a specific class of object: Innanimate object (1 Success); Non-Sentient living things (2 Successes); Sentient Beings (3 Successes); Sophonts (4 Successes). The size of the veil is 50 ft +50 ft/extra success
     
    DragonParadox said:
    [] [Mana Manipulation] ••• Core Tap: Allows the Sorcerer to directly convert mana into energy in the form of flame (2 Successes) Ionized plasma (3 successes) or gravitation (5 successes). The ward must be connected to a leyline to function. +1 Success is required for every 10 miles distance from a ley line in which it is set up. The size of the ward is 50 ft +50 ft/extra success
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    Is this a fixed "if X occurs blast area with Y" effect, or something more flexible? Can wards be tied together in a way that requires a perspective dispell attempt to take all of them or none?

    It'd be cool to do stuff like passively change gravity in an area warded with multiple other effects such that trying to turn any of them off causes something nasty to happen if natural gravity comes back into play.

    The simplest example being a room where the ceiling is actually an enormous metal block on hidden tracks with some other ward to stop exits or hinder the occupants. If a wizard within disrupts any of the effects then reality ensues, pasting everyone inside and blocking the way forward with a "blast door" of equal volume of the entire space.
     
    Yog said:
    We are unlikely to see it, but the point of view of the god we rescued should be utterly hilarious. Imagine it - you are a god of a long dead people, a shadow of yourself, your divinity stolen and corrupted, as you are reduced to little more than bloodbag for the usurper monsters. Your only hope is the final release of death. Then, a mortal with a baleful flame upon her brow that probably reminds you of hells more than a little rescues you. She takes you to a realm of her own, which is, as your divine senses tell you, is not part of NeverNever. It might, in fact, be a whole separate Creation, but that is a thought to outrageous to consider even for you. As you slowly recover, she enacs a working around the tether that is you - the one connecting her realm and yours. And the working is only one or two steps removed from "Let there be Light".

    The god has to have concerns by now.
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    I think it's not so scary if we consider only what we are creating, and not through what, because we are literally building a divine primal giant, like those that existed in almost all mythologies before the more recent gods.

    Our nature is that of a Divine Empress, but we are also, as everyone who sees our work will think, a Mother Goddess who has not yet had many children, but when we finish the God of Chicago and create a spirit for this labyrinth (which with the resources, size and power would be nothing short of divine), we will just be using our potential.

    The only strange thing about this situation for an ancient god is the existence of a young Mother Goddess/Father God now instead of only in the past.
     
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