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A Vision in Bronze; A Sidereal quest

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[x] [Hari] Offer a painful truth that focuses on the positive
[x] [Info] A friendly goddess from another Division, whom you have mixed feelings about
 
Grace is such a good girl and Kejak plays the wise mentor so well when he's not being used as the Designated Final Boss-type.

[X] [Hari] Offer a painful truth that focuses on the positive

Love hurts, she said

Doesn't mean it's not important, that you shouldn't seek to retain a connection to your roots even if it won't last forever. For all that they're agents of Destiny, Sidereals are also still humans, and it's wise not to forget that, even if it can hurt like hell.
 
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[X] [Hari] Offer a painful truth that focuses on the positive
[X] [Info] A god from your own Division, whom you hate, but who holds a mutual interest with you in this matter
 
Gazetteer said:
This time when he strikes you, you land on your back in the sand. You stare up at the distant sun, blinking. The green glow of Kejak's anima falls onto you as he steps closer. "Three months, twenty-five days," you say.
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Skill issue, I've watched enough Doctor Strange movies to understand that Time is an illusion. I would've just mastered the style in two days before I started practicing it.

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"Oh, yeah," Hari says, pausing at the bottom of the ladder. "That—" she steps aside as a canine god dashes down the ladder headfirst, tossing off a friendly wave in Hari's direction as he runs down the hall. "If he slept under his desk less, he wouldn't be late so often," she mutters.
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I fucking love Sidereal office humor.

[X] [Hari] Offer a painful truth that focuses on the positive

There is always an ending, but who says this attachment has to end without it bringing some joy to Hari?

[X] [Info] A god from your own Division, whom you hate, but who holds a mutual interest with you in this matter.

A difficult decision, but I want to see the kind of person Grace would hate, especially hate working with on something important.
 
[X] [Info] Another Sidereal, whom you do not particularly like
[X] [Hari] Offer a painful truth as a cautionary tale


I would like to see more Sidereals, and as for the advice... I'm inclined towards caution, personally. That doesn't necessarily mean it's the correct choice.
 
I really enjoyed the training in this chapter

[x] [Hari] Offer a painful truth as a cautionary tale
[x] [Info] A god from your own Division, whom you hate, but who holds a mutual interest with you in this matter
 
[X] [Hari] Offer a painful truth that focuses on the positive

"I'll hang on to hope," she said, "until Time itself ends."

[X] [Info] A god from your own Division, whom you hate, but who holds a mutual interest with you in this matter

Grace has a lot of messy but friendly ties so far; I'd like to see one that's just cursed and angry.
 
[X] [Hari] Offer a painful truth as a cautionary tale

We'd be doing a poor job as our circle's Joybringer if we intentionally drew her towards heartache and sorrow, but a likewise poor job if we left her to let go of any potential of seeing what good could come.

[X] [Info] Another Sidereal, whom you do not particularly like

It would be interesting to see how 'a Sidereal she doesn't like' mixes with 'But has a vested interest in a killer Lunar attacking the Realm', given that suggests they're likely another Bronze Faction.
 
Wow. That was simply brilliant. You've excellently captured the humbling unquantifiable relativity of time and the human minds struggle to encapsulate it beyond the the linear progression. Such fractured, inevitable majesty.

Not my cup of coffee unfortunately, even if it Ironically is Grace's. :V

[x] [Hari] Offer a painful truth that focuses on the positive
[x] [Info] A friendly goddess from another Division, whom you have mixed feelings about
 
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That was one of the coolest and most hard-core martial arts training sequences I've ever seen, bar maybe Morpheus teaching Neo, the hyperbolic time chamber in Dragon Ball Z and Doctor Strange learning under the Ancient One.
 
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[x] [Hari] Offer a painful truth that focuses on the positive
[x] [Info] A god from your own Division, whom you hate, but who holds a mutual interest with you in this matter
 
Randino Treviani said:
I'd like to add Toph figuring out metal bending to the list.
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Yeah this one also, Last Airbender was incredible. Katara also learning bloodbending but that's a more horrific example and really something she can never really use (unless she figures out a way to use it for healing and events up to Korra never showed anything of the like from what I remember.)
 
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[X] [Hari] Offer a painful truth as a cautionary tale
[X] [Info] A god from your own Division, whom you hate, but who holds a mutual interest with you in this matter
 
[X] [Hari] Offer a painful truth that focuses on the positive
[X] [Info] Another Sidereal, whom you do not particularly like

That was a great training montage.
 
Randino Treviani said:
Wow. That was simply brilliant. You've excellently captured the humbling unquantifiable relativity of time and the human minds struggle to encapsulate it beyond the the linear progression. Such fractured, inevitable majesty.

Not my cup of coffee unfortunately, even if it Ironically is Grace's. :V
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ZeldaFan said:
That was one of the coolest and most hard-core martial arts training sequences I've ever seen, bar maybe Morpheus teaching Neo, the hyperbolic time chamber in Dragon Ball Z and Doctor Strange learning under the Ancient One.
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The Emerald Gyre of Aeons writeup gives a lot of flavourful little details that made it very easy to work with and draw something cool out of. Lotus Labyrinth Durance in particular felt like an extremely Kejak kind of training method, to me.

Anys Syn would also use that on a student, but she probably wouldn't ask first. I keep imagining one of her students messing up her breakfast, so she frowns, sends them into a time loop to practice making an omelette, and then gets them to make another one after they come out of it.
 
People who know this setting, are we also the bad guys here? As in our faction, I mean.

As far as I managed to figure out, we're protecting an evil (?) Empire that does some bad stuff. And we do this because not doing so will lead to more deaths. And we care about this because we have a Plan for this realm?

But most of that was from a throw away comment of an ambushed enemy combatant on his last legs, so I don't particularly trust that.
 
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People who know this setting, are we also the bad guys here? As in our faction, I mean.

As far as I managed to figure out, we're protecting an evil (?) Empire that does some bad stuff. And we do this because not doing so will lead to more deaths. And we care about this because we have a Plan for this realm?

But most of that was from a throw away comment of an ambushed enemy combatant on his last legs, so I don't particularly trust that.
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The Realm is the default antagonist of the default splat of Exalted (the Solar Exalted), but it's evil mostly in the way any historical empire is. So, uh, pretty evil, tbh. That said, being Exalted as a Solar doesn't give you any particular like - moral authority by default? As seen by the fact that the Solars we encountered at the start of the Quest were willing to blow up a wholeass city.

Grace cares about the Realm largely because she grew up there, and it's destruction would kill millions. The Bronze Faction as a whole values the status quo of the Realm for various reasons, that range from philosophical to emotional, though the summary would probably be "the Realm is the best stabilising force in Creation."
 
Varder said:
People who know this setting, are we also the bad guys here? As in our faction, I mean.

As far as I managed to figure out, we're protecting an evil (?) Empire that does some bad stuff. And we do this because not doing so will lead to more deaths. And we care about this because we have a Plan for this realm?

But most of that was from a throw away comment of an ambushed enemy combatant on his last legs, so I don't particularly trust that.
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Sort of?

Morality in Exalted is all shades of grey. There's no unambiguously correct faction, the Gold Faction Sidereals aren't necessarily the 'good guys' and the Bronze faction isn't always the 'evil' either.

That said Grace is in favor of the continuation of an imperialistic empire with all that implies. In her case she favors the Realm both because she was born there and has people who she cares about that are deeply enmeshed within it and because she believes that a tyrannical empire ruling over Creation is inevitable. So, all the massive bloodshed required to overthrow the Realm would do is just change who precisely is oppressing the rest of Creation.
 
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