Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

DragonParadox · 2025-03-11T17:17:41-0400

BronzeTongue said:
Do you mean she only does this when she had her excellency up, or do they essentially work like key abilities?

They work like key abilities or the caste abilities of the Abyssals and Dragonblooded.

Artemis1992 · 2025-03-11T17:22:39-0400

Yog said:
It's bashing yes, but I am not sure that's as much of a downside. Even assuming it has stamina 10, that's 10 soak dice against at minimum 9 damage dice, and at maximum something like 26 damage dice. On the other hand, at least as I understand it, hunter's bolt rolls 5 agg damage dice, which is fixed, and doesn't benefit from an attack roll spillover (unless I am badly misunderstanding, in which case, sorry). Assuming the denarian has no magical enchantments that allow them to soak agg, that's still not a lot of damage against something that almost certainly has bonus health levels.

I thunk Hunter's Bolt has 5 base damage and you add additional successes over 1, like you would for a gun?

Sorry if that's not how ranged weapons work, I haven't looked it up in a while?

BronzeTongue · 2025-03-11T17:25:53-0400

DragonParadox said:
They work like key abilities or the caste abilities of the Abyssals and Dragonblooded.

Okay, makes sense. That's how I thought they worked previously but I thought your comment about exchanges was relative to regular key abilities.

DragonParadox · 2025-03-11T17:27:12-0400

Artemis1992 said:
I thunk Hunter's Bolt has 5 base damage and you add additional successes over 1, like you would for a gun?

Sorry if that's not how ranged weapons work, I haven't looked it up in a while?

That is how it works yeah, it has a damage rating of 5 which means it adds 5 to the bonus successes from accuracy. After all Lydia can hit someone in the eye with it as easily as she can with a gun.

TheGrape · 2025-03-11T17:32:34-0400

Hold up.

Primary weapon is throwing hands.

Needs to power up to gain more strength and durability.

Can throw energy blasts.

Is... is Lydia a Super Saiyan?!

DragonParadox · 2025-03-11T17:34:44-0400

TheGrape said:
Hold up.

Primary weapon is throwing hands.

Needs to power up to gain more strength and durability.

Can throw energy blasts.

Is... is Lydia a Super Saiyan?!

All Exalted are a bit Super-Sayan, just a smidge.

Yog · 2025-03-11T17:37:24-0400

BronzeTongue said:
This guy won a shape shifting contest with a god damned Naagoloshi.

Doesn't he have a type advantage against those?

Artemis1992 said:
I thunk Hunter's Bolt has 5 base damage and you add additional successes over 1, like you would for a gun?

Sorry if that's not how ranged weapons work, I haven't looked it up in a while?

Well, it seems I was very wrong:

DragonParadox said:
That is how it works yeah, it has a damage rating of 5 which means it adds 5 to the bonus successes from accuracy. After all Lydia can hit someone in the eye with it as easily as she can with a gun.

[X] Offensively, she's only melting a little after all, shoot it in the eyes
-[X] Activate Aggravated damage mode of Hunter's Bolt

Yeah, in this case, definitely going with Hunter's bolt. Point blank 14+ agg damage dice is something that might just one-shot the denarian.

Ivar · 2025-03-11T17:37:47-0400

[X] Offensively, she's only melting a little after all, shoot it in the eyes
-[X] Activate Aggravated damage mode of Hunter's Bolt

Goldfish · 2025-03-11T17:42:06-0400

@Yog, @Ivar, you've got a bad bracket in the second line of your votes.

[X] Offensively, she's only melting a little after all, shoot it in the eyes
-[X] Activate Aggravated damage mode of Hunter's Bolt

Yog · 2025-03-11T17:50:45-0400

Goldfish said:
@Yog, @Ivar, you've got a bad bracket in the second line of your votes.

Thanks, corrected. Anyone can come up with a stunt?

Also... Do you guys think Lydia should go through with her threat? This one, I mean:

DragonParadox said:
"I will make a tomb for thine wretched Coin from thine fleshless ribs!"

She is capable of doing this with Command the Dead.

DragonParadox · 2025-03-11T17:53:44-0400

Yog said:
She is capable of doing this with Command the Dead.

She is not really thinking of the metaphysics at the moment, that is a threat to kill the Denarian equivalent to it threatening to rip out her heart.

DragonParadox · 2025-03-11T17:54:30-0400

Anyway Good night guys, see you tomorrow with Molly and co fighting and likely a talk with a very bloody Abyssal.

Goldfish · 2025-03-11T18:02:37-0400

Yog said:
Anyone can come up with a stunt?

fictionfan · 2025-03-11T18:14:41-0400

Does Lydia have any of her dogs with her?

Yog · 2025-03-11T18:20:10-0400

I have to wonder what these denarians are thinking. Molly is an E4 celestial exalt who spent on average ~1/3 of all her exp on combat charms. You don't casually taunt an E4 celestial exalt with a serious dedication to combat. Like, Uriel knows what exalted are. Do denarians have amnesia? Was this classified information they were not privy to before their fall? Is the denarian host this stupid? I can imagine their Fallen frantically screaming into their ear about "you do not taunt the exalted until you mote tapped them!" or something like this. Frankly, I expected a bit more caution.

Goldfish · 2025-03-11T18:25:49-0400

Yog said:
I have to wonder what these denarians are thinking. Molly is an E4 celestial exalt who spent on average ~1/3 of all her exp on combat charms. You don't casually taunt an E4 celestial exalt with a serious dedication to combat. Like, Uriel knows what exalted are. Do denarians have amnesia? Was this classified information they were not privy to before their fall? Is the denarian host this stupid? I can imagine their Fallen frantically screaming into their ear about "you do not taunt the exalted until you mote tapped them!" or something like this. Frankly, I expected a bit more caution.

It's unlikely, but Uriel may only know because God told him about them once they became relevant in this new Age.

Yog · 2025-03-11T18:38:30-0400

Goldfish said:
It's unlikely, but Uriel may only know because God told him about them once they became relevant in this new Age.

Can't be - Uriel was the one to setup the release of Molly's exaltation in the first place. And Thorned Namshiel allegedly knew at least three Infernals. And then there's the Solar Pharaoh which should have happened within denarian lifetimes. I understand that denarians are tortured supremely arrogant demons. But come on! What, did no one before Molly purchase a spirit killer or something?

BronzeTongue · 2025-03-11T18:53:39-0400

Yog said:
Doesn't he have a type advantage against those?

No he very specifically doesn't. Shagnasty calls him out for not being a proper medicine man, able to use blessed magic to exploit his oaths against him. To which LtW replies "I'm not going to banish you, I'm going to kick your ass up between your ears". Which he then does, by just being better.

Edit:

Yog said:
I have to wonder what these denarians are thinking. Molly is an E4 celestial exalt who spent on average ~1/3 of all her exp on combat charms. You don't casually taunt an E4 celestial exalt with a serious dedication to combat. Like, Uriel knows what exalted are. Do denarians have amnesia? Was this classified information they were not privy to before their fall? Is the denarian host this stupid? I can imagine their Fallen frantically screaming into their ear about "you do not taunt the exalted until you mote tapped them!" or something like this. Frankly, I expected a bit more caution.

The Fallen may not really value this host that high and generally trust that they're immune to personal consequences.

It's entirely possible they also have some more tricks ready and view needing to train a new hairless ape as worth keeping us here long enough to catch as many exalts as possible in them.

He almost blew away Azhi in round one, and it would surprise me if the goal here is to finish him off at minimum.

F0lkL0re · 2025-03-11T22:30:58-0400

[X] Offensively, she's only melting a little after all, shoot it in the eyes
-[X] Activate Aggravated damage mode of Hunter's Bolt

Degorium · 2025-03-11T22:44:44-0400

[X] Offensively, she's only melting a little after all, shoot it in the eyes
-[X] Activate Marble Flesh Investment (Willpower roll)
-[X] Activate Aggravated damage mode of Hunter's Bolt

Her Soak is 13 5 from stam 5 from Impervious Skin of Stone Meditation 3 Steel skin just one last enhancement

DragonParadox said:
Marble Flesh: With a thought you can harden your flesh to living stone, potentially shrugging off even the more grievous of wounds. Make a willpower roll (Difficulty 6). If you succeed you gain +4 Soak against all damage for a scene

Anaja · 2025-03-11T23:10:01-0400

[X] Offensively, she's only melting a little after all, shoot it in the eyes
-[X] Activate Aggravated damage mode of Hunter's Bolt

Anaja · 2025-03-11T23:10:33-0400

Adhoc vote count started by Anaja on Mar 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM, finished with 41 posts and 6 votes.

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[X] Offensively, she's only melting a little after all, shoot it in the eyes
-[X] Activate Aggravated damage mode of Hunter's Bolt
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[X] Offensively, she's only melting a little after all, shoot it in the eyes
-[X] Activate Marble Flesh Investment (Willpower roll)
-[X] Activate Aggravated damage mode of Hunter's Bolt
- Degorium

BoredMan · 2025-03-12T00:07:54-0400

If it's just a roll, literally no reason not to.

[X] Offensively, she's only melting a little after all, shoot it in the eyes
-[X] Activate Marble Flesh Investment (Willpower roll)
-[X] Activate Aggravated damage mode of Hunter's Bolt

Odysseus2099 · 2025-03-12T00:38:25-0400

[X] Offensively, she's only melting a little after all, shoot it in the eyes
-[X] Activate Marble Flesh Investment (Willpower roll)
-[X] Activate Aggravated damage mode of Hunter's Bolt

Ratato · 2025-03-12T00:38:56-0400

[X] Offensively, she's only melting a little after all, shoot it in the eyes
-[X] Activate Marble Flesh Investment (Willpower roll)
-[X] Activate Aggravated damage mode of Hunter's Bolt

Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

Dark Reaper

Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination

Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination

Please sir, may I have some Meows?

Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination

Officially not an Inquisitor

It seems there was some brain damage after all