I know - that's the joy of it.Delusionist said:
I would recommend Emerald Angel Unfurling, purely for the aesthetics, but I don't know if there are any Shaping effects around.
A Green Sun Illuminates the Void (ZnT/Exalted)
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I would recommend Emerald Angel Unfurling, purely for the aesthetics, but I don't know if there are any Shaping effects around.
Aww, no exp?EarthScorpion said:
Also, I think everyone would like that, or Running to Forever, it would make life so much bet.....Wait a moment, what happens if you have both of them?
Hm, how would she react if it turned out the whole religion was a hoax? Alternatively, if this is set in a intact Primordial, how would she react if that means she now ranks higher than Brimir in the Divine Favor department?EarthScorpion said:
Well, up until Marela takes over her body.;7EarthScorpion said:
QFT, though the Ebon Dragon's Perfect Defense offers some tantalizing opportunities, especially if Halkeginia(?) doesn't have anything which count's as Holy for the purposes of the Ebon Dragon......EarthScorpion said:
Sorry, but what is that word and what does it mean?EarthScorpion said:Oh, Adorjan. Why are you so transyozist?
Demetrius said:The best Infernal Perfect Defence is clearly taking the Malfeas one and then getting the Hive Abomination so your entire body always counts as a place of habitation.
Does that even count, and how much did you bribe the ST.}p
Demetrius
Eating Moon: 63% Completion
I'm not sure if it counts for only mindless animals so my Malfeas-favouring Defiler used SCIENCE! (and lots of mutations) to give them sapience and had them build a tiny little city inside him so he could always use his PD.Gore17 said:
Does that even count, and how much did you bribe the ST.}p
I also tried to negotiate for an extra Cult dot stemming from the thousands of little worms' fervent prayers to their benevolent Living City but that got shot down.
Apparently the prayers instead go to the little god of my left kidney, which had been converted into the center of my bustling metropolis.
You just stack the effects. That is, you don't have to sleep, but when you choose to sleep, running is sleeping for you, so you have nightmares when you run which penalise the Conviction role to recover willpower.Gore17 said:Aww, no exp?
Also, I think everyone would like that, or Running to Forever, it would make life so much bet.....Wait a moment, what happens if you have both of them?
It's like what you get when you have Murder is Meat, Cosmic Transcendence of Compassion, and Intolerable Burning Truths (Existence is Agony). Your Compassion 5 character has to have a greater good which involves Beloved Essence users, and can do whatever the fuck they feel like to anything else.
Oh, yes. If it wasn't for Holy, the Ebon Dragon's perfect would be amazing. It's a 4m perfect dodge with a built-in flurrybreaker and cool aesthetics. It's just that relying on it gets you stabbed in the face by an Enlightened Mortal with Golden Janissary StyleQFT, though the Ebon Dragon's Perfect Defense offers some tantalizing opportunities, especially if Halkeginia(?) doesn't have anything which count's as Holy for the purposes of the Ebon Dragon......
It's amazing for trolling Alchemicals and Abyssals and other Infernals, though.
Well, she's not transhumanist, is she? She's a Yozi, so she's the one with the transYozist ability to fork herself and reintegrate the memories.Sorry, but what is that word and what does it mean?
Demetrius
Eating Moon: 63% Completion
It really hurts if you end up in an Anti-Shaping field though.EarthScorpion said:
Delusionist
Seeker of Truth
- Location
- Land of the Fruits and Nuts
True, but those are rarer than hen's teeth if you're not fighting Abyssals. Most anti-shaping effects merely prevent targeted shaping.Demetrius said:
So, instead of suferring the penalties from lack of sleep caused by not running/dashing/whatever, he is perfectly fine? I can't tell if that is a crap combo or a awesome one.EarthScorpion said:
That second one on ther other hand? Just plain scary.
Which is why the death of the Unconquered Sun in RotE was such a big part of the plan: no Holy Effects, a truly perfect Defense.Demetrius said:
Of course, the question is if Halkeginia has Anti-Shaping Abilities.
Also, is there a way to get rid of/block Anti-Shaping Abilities?
I, uh, um, I have no idea what to say to this.EarthScorpion said:Well, she's not transhumanist, is she? She's a Yozi, so she's the one with the transYozist ability to fork herself and reintegrate the memories.
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I always thought that was a bizarre and stupid decision. Shaping is defined as a special type of damage, not just a general class of effects. Thus you can no more "shut down shaping" than you can "shut down crippling".Demetrius said:
Also, I hate You Suck effects in general. They're boring play.
Void magic would seem to have that kind of magic, at least is Dispel is taken as a precedent.Gore17 said:Of course, the question is if Halkeginia has Anti-Shaping Abilities.
Also, is there a way to get rid of/block Anti-Shaping Abilities?
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Of course, the Magic in it could count as 'Sorcerous' in which case Dispel might be similar to Third Circle Counter-Magic.Aaron Peori said:
And that gives me a idea;7......(Begins laughing evilly until out of breath)
Vulpine Fury
in socks
That pun burns. But is likely true...
"Stupid head familiar.... stupid sexy Kirche..."
You know, we could so easily become even sexier than her...
"Stupid head famili--" *pause* "Tell me more."
"Stupid head familiar.... stupid sexy Kirche..."
You know, we could so easily become even sexier than her...
"Stupid head famili--" *pause* "Tell me more."
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
That's it, that's the Correct Answer, it completely fits her own self-hating nature to want to Look Pretty.Vulpine Fury said:
And it's completely appropriate that her rising Appearance just makes her look even more Rie Kugimiya Tsundere.
Fund It!
But everyone knows that it's an increase in Essence which increases bust size, not an increase in Appearance! It represents the increase in talent!Sirian said:
...
More seriously, it should be noted that, in-universe, if we are to trust Word of Saito, Louise is already very attractive. Maybe, you know, she's still 16, and naturally on the short, petite side; she's a delicate, almost Ophelian beauty, who doesn't conform to either modern demands for disproportionately large breasts without the curves elsewhere that come with it, or the more rounded ones wanted in the similar Earth-history era. And Creation is vast, and sexually diverse; you really can't generalise like that.
Heh. And the Maiden of the Mirthless Smile does canonically have a higher Appearance rating than the Lady Clad In Chains And Not Much Else, Apart From On The Cover Of Abyssals, Where She's Actually More Attractive Because She Put Some Damn Clothes On. Despite that.
And I should probably note that the physiques of the humans in AGSITV have been "realised" a bit. After all, last chapter Kirche was complaining that they were getting in the way when she was trying to run, and complaining that if she'd known she was going to be running, she'd have bound them. If Tiffania was human, she'd be having back problems (but she's not, but in return is actually a bit uncanny valley because of them).
Kirche, incidentally, is built like a barbarian princess. She takes after her ancestors quite a lot, who swept into Eastern Tristain at the head of their steppe hordes burning, pillaging, and ravaging as they clawed out an empire which became modern Germania, declaring themselves to be the new nobility. Hence, she's busty, but she's also not a frail little maiden with narrow hips and a narrow waist. Interestingly, a lot of the Germanian nobility are darker and have the same sort of different ethnicity to the Brimiric nobility (who have their own differences from the peasantry of both countries).
I refuse to confirm that Kirche gets the urge, when she looks at a monastery, to loot it, take the attractive monks to be her slaves and cutting off the heads of the unattractive ones before mounting them on spikes, and then burn the building to the ground, before riding off into the sunset on her ill-tempered pony, her new slaves marching behind her.
I will merely imply it heavily.
Not necessarily. Yes, Louise will probably fill out a bit when she gets older, but... well, people seem to find Summer Glau attractive, to name but one waif-like individual who would also probably play a Slayer if there was an Exalted film. Or possibly a Sidereal. Nah, she'd probably play a Scourge, but one with Malfeas Charms. Or possibly Adorjan...
Where was I? Basically, Appearance is a lot harder to judge than Strength, say, but Louise is meant to be the equivalent of an Appearance 3 or 4 character already.
Nope. Explicitly wrong. It explicitly didn't; it removed all scars, made her features slightly more symmetrical, made her eyes slightly wider and darker, and replaced her toenails and fingernails with brass, but it didn't affect her bust at all.
It's funnier that way, because even getting fused to a neomah won't help her. Even the control of By Rage Recast can only make them fractionally larger, and that's the same thing that can give her razor-edged butterfly-like wings made of emerald and brass.
What, you mean the Third Circle Demon who simultaneously represents Malfeas' desire to make the pain go away through self-indulgence (and which make Ligier cringe), and his desire to see the Unconquered Sun as a loli genderflipped self-indulgent whore degrading herself in pursuit of pleasure?
Yeah. Um. There's a reason that Hell has golden-lantern districts, not red-light.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Wait, is that actually in her Mutation Package? Because that's one of the best uses of the Wings Abomination I've heard to date. And if it isn't, it damn well better become as much soon!EarthScorpion said:It's funnier that way, because even getting fused to a neomah won't help her. Even the control of By Rage Recast can only make them fractionally larger, and that's the same thing that can give her razor-edged butterfly-like wings made of emerald and brass.
Far too many people are bigger on the bat or bird wings routine, and forget that insect wings look damn awesome too
Anyway, all jokeyness aside, if Louise is going to pick up any new Charms, it'll probably be best to go with Nightmare Fugue Vigilance (Because she's already got some fucked up and weird dreams) and/or Sandstrike Blast (Since it's clearly a magical effect, and would help her ego by having another clearly magical trick to throw out at will)
If she's going to pick up Abilities, she'll probably want to raise her Occult a bit (If it isn't already 4 or better), based on all the new info she's getting. Barring that, fighty abilities (Focusing primarily on whatever one the Shattered Sphere Staff uses, since she's probably already close to attuned to it). Also, she's probably going to be close to raising her Conviction up from 1 to 2, now that she's got a few successes under her belt. (Assuming that she's actually low in that regard anyway).
:Bashes a Baseball bat in the back of the head and doesn't stop until randombugger is paste:randombugger said:Fixed it for you.
*Huff**Huff* Heretic! :faints:
Well, technically at the moment, I'm hovering (hah) between them being butterfly ones, and being dragonfly ones, but, yes, she has that in her package, and they're certainly insect ones made of brass and emerald.Alectai said:Wait, is that actually in her Mutation Package? Because that's one of the best uses of the Wings Abomination I've heard to date. And if it isn't, it damn well better become as much soon!
Far too many people are bigger on the bat or bird wings routine, and forget that insect wings look damn awesome too
Too many people forget the fact that Malfeas is beautiful and alien, rather than demonic in the classic Western sense.
I may be trying to work out how she can best turn into [REDACTED] with Devil Tyrant Avatar Shintai.
Hmm... yes, I've always felt that she actually has fairly high Conviction; she certainly has the required amounts of pigheadedness when facing challenges to her Intimacies, and the way she always suppresses Compassion when it comes up against her Conviction in the way the nobility she act. It's just she has all sorts of issues and views of herself from the way her life before the summoning was, and it's her Conviction which is, ironically, getting in the way of her self-belief, because her Conviction means it's hard to wear away at them, and whether it looks like it's going to happen, Saito gets caught with another girl in a "comic" misunderstanding, or he insults her, and that undoes all the work.
In fact, I'd say her Conviction is probably 4, because it's at the stage where it's a flaw, rather than a virtue in the Aristotelian sense.
Broadly speaking, they're Turkic, yes, although they're also playing a role similar to the Mongols in China, in that the Germani dominion over Tristan (which they rename Germania) resembles the Yuan Dynasty, and the Germanian nobility retains elements of the old elemental-worshipping tribal faiths even if they've officially adopted the Brimiric faith. They basically took over the old Tristanian state, with the royal family forming a rump government in the east, in modern Tristan. Kirche herself, by Tristan standards, is poorly bred (because the "magic" blood is only something they've managed to breed in; the Germani weren't Brimirian-style mages), but makes up for it with willpower, and exactly the right kind of mentality to get good at Fire magic quickly.Sol Zagato said:
The Germani, themselves, were forced from their homeland in a mass exodus due to windstone activities destroying their ancient plains, leaving a pock-marked wasteland, and basically united the disparate tribes, hammered them into a military force quite unlike that seen in the Brimiric nations which understood fire-and-retreat, raiding, and mobility warfare, and swarmed into Tristain, getting themselves a new homeland by force of arms. The "khan of khans" then basically pulled one over everyone else, by converting to the Brimiric faith, kneeling before the pope and getting crowned by him, swearing to serve as the blade of the pope (which served the then-pope very well, because Gallia was in control of modern Romalia as a "protectorate", and he basically used that as a way to bring Romalia under papal influence) and cutting the wind from the sails of the Tristanian rump state's attempts to get a crusade declared against the infidels.
The man, simply speaking, was a tactical genius.
Incidentally, Louise's family were, historically, the border lords against Gallia; with the loss of territory, they became the new frontier against Germania, elevated from an out-of-favour family to one of the most important families who retained almost all their old lands. Louise's ancestors burned/crushed under heavy rocks/drowned by filling their lungs with water/cut to pieces with razor wind a few of Kirche's ancestors and their followers, who returned the favour through rape, burning fields, and shooting William de la Vallieré's dragon in the eye, then sending their captive home in pieces.
And then, about 175 years later, someone stole someone else's fiancé, and things got really personal.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Damnit Creed! What are you doing in ZnTland, get back to your post!EarthScorpion said:The man, simply speaking, was a tactical genius.
Looking forward to the next chapter at least--you make me increasingly eager to see where this story's going with every new installment!
Amorous Intent
Love the future
- Location
- Octavia, Venus
- Pronouns
- She/her
Go with dragonfly wings. I was seriously going to suggest them anyways. They're much more maneuverable, and they can fold down and out of the way.EarthScorpion said:
Nonsense. Everyone knows that Joss Whedon is, in fact, the Ebon Dragon. It's the only logical explanation for Alien:Resurrection. So she's an Akuma with the Urge to be typecast as a mentally-broken creepy action-girl.EarthScorpion said:
That will, on the other hand, be a while, because of;Alectai said:
a) Exams. Horribly important exams.
b) AGSITV is now at the bottom of the update priority schedule cycle, compared to AEE, whose next chapter just broke 4000 words.
Now, with that said... um, yeah. I sort of expand settings near unconsciously, layering in depth and background if I don't actively stop myself, even if I'm not actively writing a chapter. So that's why you might end up with mini-essays on the role of the Church as a stabilising influence on Halkegian politics, or on the competing efforts of the Albionese skynavy against the Gallian waternavy in exploring the western ocean, and on the Albionese colonies.
Arthur Hansen
Author of no Authority.
- Location
- Utah, behind the Zion Curtain.
Masses of dragonfly wings that sort of look like butterfly wings when not in motion?
Sorry if this wasn't clear, but what I generally mean when I say moe is 'the cute that inspires a protective urge or an urge to hug.' I'd would say that increasing that would be represented by increasing the appearance attribute. Now given that Louise is already supposed to be rather moe character (as all tsunderes seem to be), I couldn't really see her actual sexiness being increased, so this seemed to be the likeliest thing.Sirian said: