Lord Ultimus
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Alchemical Solutions [Worm/Exalted] Thread 23: We Wonder Where Who Wanders When Watchers Wane
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Scify
It always starts with a lighthouse.
But also:From Steven Universe.
I am fine with Contessa being the secret shipper on deck.
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Just finished binge reading this.
The crazy, it is an exalting experience
EDIT: SEMPAI noticed me!
The crazy, it is an exalting experience
EDIT: SEMPAI noticed me!
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Not just that, but it can also get hooked on a detail and spiral out that way. See: her interlude. She has to reset her power during the Leviathan analysis since it goes off on a tangent she doesn't want.
Shouldn't that be Part 6?
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Gromweld
Learning By Mistake
While IEU gives her much more control of exactly how to most effectively phrase her Path wording (as well as the ability to juggle many different Paths at once instead of one or two), ultimately Contessa will do and say whatever her power tells her to in order to accelerate their plan to kill Scion.
Whoops. Fixed!
pantherasapiens
you were always my best friend
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So, basically, Contessa is running Path to Manipulate SV.
wingnut2292
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Closer to Path to Manipulate All Questers, of which SV is a set of.
-So it's established that Contessa was running multiple PtV instances when talking to Saki.
And still got cockblocked.
That really is a reminder of just how potent Exalts can be.
-Prayer is going to have to decide how to handle Loom after this.
Wonder how her opinions will change when she gets let into the conspiracy.
Probably make her less enthused about Alexandria though.
-Saki is going to be Fun.
This is really convenient.
Hmm.
So she's been running this since at least last night.
Twelve hours or so, since that would have been when Taylor got word of Saki going AWOL.
Looks like the physical effects haven't gotten more tiring even though IEU is more powerful now.
Or because she has a plan to kill everyone in the room?
Because seriously, Taylor being Taylor, she's probably considered it.
And stashed some party favors in TIE.
Ah, someone hasn't gotten the memo about Loom.
Emotive Esthetics really kills it when she does this.
No wonder it stopped Prayer in her tracks.
And why Contessa picked up on it so quickly; the charm was basically yelling it.
rofl:This is what happens when the person you are talking to is aware of the kind of fics you read.
And write.
Funniest Contessa sequence it has been my privilege to witness in any fic.
And Saki catches Contessa off-guard. Again.
Despite IEU-augmented PtV.
Prayer's Temperance 4 is certainly paying off bigtime for her.
And us.
Lord Grasp is best Grasp.
Dude is setting a very high bar for any other familiars to meet.
Actually a serious comment.
Part of the trouble with Cauldron is insulation from the human consequences of their decisions.
Sure, a certain amount of detachment is good, but they went way past overdoing it a long time ago.
They need to be induced to maintain human relationships outside of Cauldron. Just like Alchemicals are encouraged to.
Twei
I have a face!
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You know, this is kind of late but I don't think anyone mentioned it:
Communicating with body language alone, you say? It seems two can play at that game. Or, you know, obvious conclusions. Either or.
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Sooooo. I suppose there won't be any other kind of Exalts on this quest no?
Unless the Exaltations survived the collapse of everything that is..... Which given how bullshit they are......
Just asking.
Unless the Exaltations survived the collapse of everything that is..... Which given how bullshit they are......
Just asking.
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They did and no (maybe in the epilogue/sequel).
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Grom's said there won't be any other types of Exalts, no. But if this does get a sequel, it's entirely possible that due to there not being any Primordials left in Creation (or whatever you call the eternal void that was Creation), the Wyld'll come back, humans will re-emerge, the Exaltations will begin being dished out, the fifty Infernal Exaltations will re-establish themselves as pseudo-Primordials and create something not dissimmilar to Creation and the Exalted will develop the tech required to cross over to Earth-Bet via Elsewhere. Y'know. Possibly.
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Or if we're very lucky, a healing and awake Autobot will nab them from the Abyss before his link to it closes off. Then he can perform a little refit of his perfect superweapons (even in his death or humiliation, his peers couldn't help messing with his stuff), and issue them forth. Maybe a little more hands-on this time.
Though, remembering that there are (or were) certain protocols where a Solar could assume the mantle of the UCS if He died, I wonder options would be available to Auto. Aside from being Exaltations, they do contain the last vestiges of the Essence of the Incarnae.
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Ooh, yeah, that's a point. Also, didn't Autobot save a few Solar, Lunar and Sidereal Exaltations after he made the first batch? And probably a few blanks, if Grom's using the 3e lore with Exigents. They could be useful.
Just Sid Exaltations, since the Maidens only used 100 of them.
We're not using 3e lore here to the best of my knowledge.
Scify
It always starts with a lighthouse.
I don't think the Abyss exists anymore.
Oblivion certainly does; see Arc 2 Interlude. Alchemical Solutions [Worm/Exalted] Thread 3: Choosy Chosen Choose Cheering Choices | Page 37
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Yep, that was my first thought reading this chapter. This Contessa is funny and knows how to defuse a situation, and also how to endear herself to Saki. Which was exactly what needed to be done right now.
I wouldn't take any joke she does as genuine. If she appears comical, endearing, funny, or human, that's only because she needs to.
By the way, excellent chapter like always.
Scify
It always starts with a lighthouse.
I am well aware of that. I'm relatively certain, though, that Oblivion is not the Abyss. The impression I've gotten throughout the various threads as that Oblivion as much a concept as a place; it is a state of nonexistence. As far as I understand, the backstory for the quest is that Oblivion consumed everything in and related to Creation, and Autochthon only survived by cutting his little pocket dimension off from it.
Also something about how Oblivion only still exists because Autochthon still exists, and if he were to die/be consumed by it, it would go away, but that's a bit beyond my knowledge of Exalted lore.
wingnut2292
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Oblivion is more of... Not a force... a principal or state of the universe. It's not alive, exactly, but Oblivion is easy to anthropomorphize.
Oblivion is basicly a singullarity\black hole. That originally stood in the shadow of Creation and Yu-shan. This is wrapped by the litteral and metaphorical chains that are the Neverborn's regrets (Namely, that they can't have Creation anymore) creating a twisting writhing Labyrinth of fetters.
Oblivion creates the gravity of the Underworld: All things move closer to Oblivion, and never-ever move farther away without performing a miricle. Even Lethe serves Oblivion's goals. Reincarnation condems a soul to die again. Eventually, all souls will become ghosts - even if that process will take trillions if years. Oblivion dosen't care. Oblivion presents itself as an inevitability. Not that Oblivion is patent - Oblivion wants existance destroyed now! - but Oblivion is willing to wait if waiting results in the destruction of everything.
The differance between the Causality-verse and Oblivion is that the Causality-verse is represented by the value "0" where as Oblivion is represented by the value of the null set, litterally "(_)". It's the differance between having no value but expressing information ( "0" ) and the absence of both value and information. ( "(_)", 1+(_)=mu, because like infinity the null set is inoperable. You would have to translate/restate the problem 1+(_) -> 1+0=1 to solve the statement.)
Think of the differance between having an empty basket of apples, and having no basket of apples.
Oblivion is basicly a singullarity\black hole. That originally stood in the shadow of Creation and Yu-shan. This is wrapped by the litteral and metaphorical chains that are the Neverborn's regrets (Namely, that they can't have Creation anymore) creating a twisting writhing Labyrinth of fetters.
Oblivion creates the gravity of the Underworld: All things move closer to Oblivion, and never-ever move farther away without performing a miricle. Even Lethe serves Oblivion's goals. Reincarnation condems a soul to die again. Eventually, all souls will become ghosts - even if that process will take trillions if years. Oblivion dosen't care. Oblivion presents itself as an inevitability. Not that Oblivion is patent - Oblivion wants existance destroyed now! - but Oblivion is willing to wait if waiting results in the destruction of everything.
The differance between the Causality-verse and Oblivion is that the Causality-verse is represented by the value "0" where as Oblivion is represented by the value of the null set, litterally "(_)". It's the differance between having no value but expressing information ( "0" ) and the absence of both value and information. ( "(_)", 1+(_)=mu, because like infinity the null set is inoperable. You would have to translate/restate the problem 1+(_) -> 1+0=1 to solve the statement.)
Think of the differance between having an empty basket of apples, and having no basket of apples.
Somewhere between 5th Chaos God and existential threat to all existence.
Fifth chaos god because sheer power puts him at least at emperor level even while asleep and ailing, even though his existence would be directly antithetical to a lot of chaos shenanigans.
Existential threat because his death means everything becomes infinitely worse for everyone, even the Chaos Gods.
Especially the Chaos Gods.
Cassiemouse
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"Hail the Omnissiah! He is the God in the Machine, the Source of All Knowledge."
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Human-Necron alliance. One worpships Auto because OMNISSIAH. And the other cause the OMNISSIAH is quite capable of tearing up your soul from your failing metal body, put it on a even better metal body (Capable of feeling too!), and be cool about it
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As yet another Chaos bullshit by Imperium and as yet another thing to poke and use scrap code on by Chaos.
Eldar would be mysterious, Tyranids would think "OMNOMNOM", Tau would actually try diplomacy, Necrons...I don't know, frenemies? He is antithetical to Chaos, but alien to pure Materium too.
OTOH, he knows how to stuff souls inside immortal bodies if given materials, so Necrons might actually like him. Which will make Eldar hate him, I guess.
Oh snap, Mechanicus will think this.
Horus Heresy will be a child's play compared to potential AM vs Imperium on this issue.