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Feet of Clay [Nobilis]

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Sonata said:
I'm feeling lost. Could you post our character sheet so far?
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Rosalia Armille, the Power of Candles
Aspect 0 (5/5 MP)
Domain 2 (5/5 MP)
Persona 1 (5/5 MP)
Treasure 3 (5/5 MP)

Bonds and Afflictions:
Bond (5): I will heal this broken world.
Bond (3): Nobody gets to read my diary.
Bond (1): I have worshippers I care about.
Bond (1): Help! Girls are too cute!
Bond (1): I have a crush on Lily Avis.
Affliction (3): I can never rest in the same place twice.

Unallocated Bond points: 2

Properties of Candles:
... carry light into darkness. (1)
... burn with hope. (2)
... are romantic. (1)
... are for wishing on. (1)
... are the wind's playthings. (2)

Anchors:
Wondrous Anchor: Diary
Core Power: Protects secrets.
Bond: Nobody gets to read my diary. (3)

Mundane Anchor: Worshippers
Core Power: Guard lost things.
Bond: I have worshippers I care about. (1)

Mundane Anchor: Silver Necklace
Core Power: Is found.
Bond: I will heal this broken world. (5)

Gifts:
The Graceful Way:
You move perfectly and fluidly. The world is undisturbed by your motion. It's difficult to notice you - not because you're hard to see, but because you simply seem to be part of the scenery. You know how to honor the small things, and how to treat the world with care. (Aspect 3 Gift of Skill: Staying Small, Automatic, Local, Broad: 4CP)

Patternsense:
You know the way the world should be. You can't help but notice the lost and broken things that crowd around you. (Domain 0, many Estates; Automatic, Local, all uses of The Sight; 2 CP)

Unblemished Guise:
You can appear to be merely mortal, even to Powers. (Lesser Creation of Illusion, Automatic, Personal, One Trick: 1CP)

Mortal Skills and Passions:
Cool: 3 (with Aspect)
Shine: 1 (with Persona)
Passion: Hedge Witchery (1)
Skill: Staying Small (2)
Skill: Unfocussed Brilliance (2)
Skill: Target Shooting (0)
Skill: Planning (-1)
Skill: Dealing With People (-2)

Destiny & Projects:

Personal Destiny:
Unallocated Personal Destiny: 2
Struggle: How can I love Lily Avis when I barely even know her?
Struggle: How do I approach Lily Avis?
Struggle: How can I love Lily Avis when love is illegal?
Struggle: How do I feel about being in the service of one of the Fallen?
Change: How could a girl like me, who doesn't do anything right, be a goddess?

Active Projects:
Project: "I want to find people who understand me."
Progress: 0/15 Destiny, 0/2 Circles

Project: "I want to help people."
Progress: 0/15 Destiny, 0/2 Circles

Project: "I want to figure out who I am."
Progress: 3/15 Destiny, 0/3 Circles
Victory: [Undefined as of yet.]

Project: "I want to understand the Excrucians."
Progress: 0/15 Destiny, 0/4 Circles
 
[X] The higher world is no less broken than the lower... but now, I have a chance to do something about it.

If we're rewriting Struggles, then "How can I love Lily Avis when love is illegal?" and/or "How do I feel about being in the service of one of the Fallen?" might become "If love is wrong, then I don't want to be right."

(How do I feel about serving a Fallen? Proud. In a world like this, I'd resent being under anyone who didn't rebel.)
 
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Ch. 2 Prologue
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    • When shall we rejoin Rosalia?
    [ ][Scenario] When she first saw her Chancel.
    [ ][Scenario] When she first met an Excrucian.

    What will be at stake?
    [ ][Project] I want to find people who understand me.
    [ ][Project] I want to figure out who I am.
    [ ][Project] I want to understand the Excrucians.
    [ ][Project] I want to help people.
    Adhoc vote count started by Evenstar on Dec 26, 2017 at 5:58 PM, finished with 9 posts and 7 votes.
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    • [X][Scenario] When she first met an Excrucian.

    But rather than doing the obvious thing, let's make this interesting:
    [X][Project] I want to find people who understand me.
     
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    Sonata said:
    [X][Time] When she first met an Excrucian. [/Time] (I can't make this tag go away, but I can at least put it somewhere other than at the end of the post where it might mess up the vote count.)

    But rather than doing the obvious thing, let's make this interesting:
    [X][Project] I want to find people who understand me.
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    Whoops, apparently that is an existing BBcode tag. Fixed.
    Adhoc vote count started by Evenstar on Dec 29, 2017 at 10:56 PM, finished with 9 posts and 7 votes.
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    [X][Scenario] When she first saw her Chancel.
    [X][Project] I want to help people.
     
    [X][Scenario] When she first met an Excrucian.
    [X][Project] I want to help people.

    Hello, I'm new here. I've only heard of Nobilis before vaguely, but this sounds like a real treat! I's also nice to be able to get in on a quest early for once.
     
    Chapter 2: Prologue
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    • In the time before the Riders,
    before the fallen-star ones,
    the ones who broke the Lie,
    the walkers in the Not:

    In the time before the Riders,
    before the Seal shattered,
    when the world was whole:

    In the time before the Riders,
    Hell was all our own.

    — The Thought-Record of Lily Avis
     
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    • Chapter 2: The Starfallen
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    • Rosalia is sitting at a bus stop when she sees the woman.

    Her dark hair strains against its tight-curled bun. Her breath comes harder than it should: though her back is ramrod-straight, Rosalia can sense the weakness in her, the way her body's flame is guttering. She rises, fingertips reaching for her power -

    The woman turns. Rosalia looks into black eyes, filled with falling stars.

    "Excrucian!", she squeaks, stumbling back and sitting down hard on the bench. The homeless man sharing it with her grumbles in his sleep, and she looks down at him guiltily.

    The woman nods measuredly. "Power."

    Rosalia sits stiffy.

    The woman stands with her pale arms crossed over her suit-jacket.

    Rosalia watches as a star slips beneath the edge of her eyelid, and is extinguished.

    She coughs, and offers a hand.

    "Astra Nepthys."

    [ ] Shake her hand.
    [ ] "Rosalia Armille."
    [ ] Say nothing.​
    [ ] Don't shake her hand.
    [ ] "I didn't expect one of the enemies of the world to be so cordial."
    [ ] "Why are you here?"
    [ ] "I have a duty."
    [ ] Say nothing.​
     
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    • [X] Shake her hand.
    -[X] "Rosalia Armille."

    Before i commit to my vote, is there a chance that this Excrucian could do something to horrible to Rosalia by shaking her hand?

    Plague or curses spread by touch?
     
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    [X] Shake her hand.
    -[X] "Rosalia Armille."

    Yeah, we're not exactly the standoffish type. Or the cautious type.
     
    [X] Shake her hand.
    -[X] "Rosalia Armille."

    (She is being polite and so we should do the same! Especially after being startled earlier, and almost helping earlier than that.)
     
    Rosalia pauses, then cautiously takes the woman's hand. The Excrucian's hand.
    It's warm and firm, with deep lines in the palm.

    She looks up into those falling-star eyes, and manages: "Rosalia. Um, Rosalia Armille."

    Astra smiles. It's kind and deep, though it doesn't show her teeth. "Thank you. Am I the first from Outside you've met, then?"

    "Yes. I wasn't - expecting you to be so. Normal. Or so - hurting. My Familia didn't tell me much about Excrucians, just that they were the enemy. It doesn't seem right to just not care simply because we're on the opposite side, though, so..."

    Rosalia bites her lip. "May I try to heal you?"

    Astra laughs bitterly. "What I've got is beyond you, girl. I'm dying of reality. There's too much of it. Every body I make here has too much reality in it, it makes more, in the wrong ways, I can't control it, and it dies. Badly."

    She coughs again: blood stains her hand. She wipes it onto her sleeve, leaving an ugly rust-red stain.

    "I don't see why you're all so attached to a place with things like this in it."

    Rosalia bites the inside of her cheek. "I don't like them any more than anyone else, but... it's not right to just reject them. They get to exist. They have that right."

    "As long as you don't have to deal with them, you mean?"

    Rosalia's eyes snap up, and she meets Astra's empty gaze levelly. "If you think that, you don't know anything about me or about Creation."

    Astra shrugs. "And yet you're not sick or wounded or naked or hungry or anything really fundamentally bad. You say hurt deserves to exist, but you're avoiding it..."

    Rosalia's teeth shift against each other in her mouth.

    [ ] Deck Astra in the face.
    [ ] Tell her that not all suffering is obvious.
    [ ] Ask her why she's here in Reality if she thinks it's so terrible.
    [ ] Ask her how she's trying to help.
    [ ] Ask her more about why she's dying.
    [ ] Ask her why she's here at a run-down dingy bus stop at 4 AM.
     
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