Alchemical Solutions [Worm/Exalted] Thread 9: Icon’s Idiosyncrasies Incite Irritating Inquisition
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Don't forget the main vote.sun tzu said:
Yes, and yes. Gromweld still has yet to look at the four I posted.Overmind said:
Peanuckle said:
[X] Essence Reservoir-to-Heart: Provide counsel for a member of your caravan, getting to know them better as a mortal as well as evaluating them for Alchemical potential.
- [X] Stunt: Talk to Dennis, find out how he's doing, and what he thinks of things so far. Get his support in covering up for any Clarity induced social mistakes, and see about enlisting his assistance in keeping Aisha sufficiently motivated and amused, especially after their mutual Glenn sessions. The last personal conversation you've had with him involved a prank involving being surrounded by a swarm of bugs, after all, things could stand to be on a more positive note.
[x] Free Action: get over our PTSD. (Wits/Willpower + Integrity, Conviction channel)
- [x] Yeah, Behemoth was scary. Yeah, people died, including our friends. But cowering in fear, having panic attacks? That's letting them win. That's letting our friends down. We can't let that happen, can't let them win. We are better than this. We are Exalted. We are a divine instrument of the Great Maker Autochthon. We stand tall, where others would falter, against the darkness and the forces that seek the destruction of humanity.
[X] 4 XP - Craft ●●●●○
Edit: Vote Changed.
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Yeah IMO joining the wards was totally worth it just for getting Vista as our bestie/little sister,.Peanuckle said:
Just to clarify what I meant by being the most mentally resilient person alive, we have Willpower 10, Integrity 4, and Conviction 4.
For Willpower, having anything 6+ means you can qualify as Heroic. Will of Iron is at Willpower 9, we're beyond that, being as mentally determined and stable as it is physically possible for us to be. Looking through the books, examples of people with Willpower 10 are Chejop Kejak, Mnemon, and the Scarlet Empress. Most other Exalts are below that, with even well experienced and capable ones usually not having Willpower above 8.
For Integrity and Conviction, they both are related with being able to withstand hardship and keep control of your mental faculties even in adverse conditions. A 1 in a stat is a person with basic training. A 3 in a stat is an expert. A 4 is the top of the field, and a 5 is a legendary person. We have 4 in both the two other relevant stats to mental stability.
It kinda strains belief that she'd have a freakout that big in public with all this in mind.
For Willpower, having anything 6+ means you can qualify as Heroic. Will of Iron is at Willpower 9, we're beyond that, being as mentally determined and stable as it is physically possible for us to be. Looking through the books, examples of people with Willpower 10 are Chejop Kejak, Mnemon, and the Scarlet Empress. Most other Exalts are below that, with even well experienced and capable ones usually not having Willpower above 8.
For Integrity and Conviction, they both are related with being able to withstand hardship and keep control of your mental faculties even in adverse conditions. A 1 in a stat is a person with basic training. A 3 in a stat is an expert. A 4 is the top of the field, and a 5 is a legendary person. We have 4 in both the two other relevant stats to mental stability.
It kinda strains belief that she'd have a freakout that big in public with all this in mind.
GiftOfLove
From the Heart
[X] Write-In: An Amusing Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum?
-[X] Surprise Carnival!: A traveling circus was moving through the area, when they broke down due to their haste to escape Behemoth's wrath. Seeing an opportunity, they set up shop! Go to the circus with the Wards; ride the rides, pet the animals, see the sights, play the games!
-[X] Surprise Carnival!: A traveling circus was moving through the area, when they broke down due to their haste to escape Behemoth's wrath. Seeing an opportunity, they set up shop! Go to the circus with the Wards; ride the rides, pet the animals, see the sights, play the games!
Another suspicion of mine. From 5.4:
Taylor should not have been dumb enough to constantly flick SoPA on and off, given her suspicions of it. I'm not happy with Taylor's apparent cuddling of the idiot ball, given this.
FunkyEntropy
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General PSA:
Please don't vote for Integrity (PTSD). It's a terrible specialty. Like, so incredibly dumb. Remember a while back how I spent far too much time talking about how a proper specialty is at once broad in scope yet narrow in focus? Yeah, this one fails that test spectacularly. It is far, far too specific to be anything more than a waste of XP.
If it was, say, Integrity (Mental Trauma) or something, then sure, maybe that might be a valid specialty. I still wouldn't suggest we spend the XP on it because Taylor failing an integrity roll is going to be hilariously rare anyway, but at least it wouldn't be the unnecessarily specific waste of XP that it is currently.
Please don't vote for Integrity (PTSD). It's a terrible specialty. Like, so incredibly dumb. Remember a while back how I spent far too much time talking about how a proper specialty is at once broad in scope yet narrow in focus? Yeah, this one fails that test spectacularly. It is far, far too specific to be anything more than a waste of XP.
If it was, say, Integrity (Mental Trauma) or something, then sure, maybe that might be a valid specialty. I still wouldn't suggest we spend the XP on it because Taylor failing an integrity roll is going to be hilariously rare anyway, but at least it wouldn't be the unnecessarily specific waste of XP that it is currently.
Fine then, changed mine to Craft.FunkyEntropy said:
We have a Dodge MDV of 8 (Willpower + Integrity + Essence)/2, which is neigh impossible for any regular circumstance to overcome, and if it was an actual roll, we should have rolled 17 dice, which means it's incredibly unlikely we get anything below a legendary success.Jinnt said:
There's a reason I'm skeptical here.
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That's cause we had ZERO willpower besides it'll only add one dice and probably be useless when we get over our PTSD (hopefully after some scheduled therapy).Jinnt said:
FunkyEntropy
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Jinnt said:
What Cytokinesis said. Even if we were using one of our Mental attributes instead of willpower (so treating it as a mental variant of a standard Endure Hardship Stam + Resist roll), our lowest pool would be 8 dice before stunts.[1] And seeing as how PTSD is completely mundane, unlike some of the really fun things that can happen in Creation like people getting infected by literal spirits of hysteria, I wouldn't put the Difficulty as being more than 2. We would have to roll terribly in order to fail that.Cytokinesis said:
[1]Which should be a 2-die stunt before motivation resonance, so, hey, free WP. Because having flashbacks about fighting an Endbringer should strengthen our resolve, not weaken it. We are Exalted - suffering PTSD from fighting world-destroying entities is for mortals and is thus completely beneath us.
No.Slamu said:
Indeed.Jinnt said:
Admittedly here what happened was a bit worse than your average world destroying abomination killing or devouring people. Basically from Taylor's perspective several hundred people she was literally touching we're incinerated in agony with nothing she could do about it. She more or less felt and heard every single part of their horrible deaths instead of the normal just watching and hearing of the tragedy that exalted heroes normally deal with.
On an unrelated note are our intimacies ever going to stabilize? We have so many four dot ones, which doesn't seem quite normal to me. I know Taylor's lost a lot and is basically attaching herself to everyone around, but I could've sworn that four dot intimacies were basically bonds on the level of close spouses or powerful parent child bonds, which aren't ever easy to form, game mechanics or no.
On an unrelated note are our intimacies ever going to stabilize? We have so many four dot ones, which doesn't seem quite normal to me. I know Taylor's lost a lot and is basically attaching herself to everyone around, but I could've sworn that four dot intimacies were basically bonds on the level of close spouses or powerful parent child bonds, which aren't ever easy to form, game mechanics or no.
FunkyEntropy
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Which, for an Exalt, was Tuesday.Zefferen said:
:: headdesk ::
It's like people don't get that exalted shards are titan-slaying superweapons. They have limit (clarity) tracks for a reason - to protect against the mind-shattering horrors that they were designed to face.
PTSD?
Bitch, please. Exalts were designed to survive in environments with incredibly nasty memetic hazards. For example, just hearing the actual name of She Who Lives in Her Name turns you into a mindless drone. Your shard helps you resist this effect, and in return for shrugging off this unwanted mental influence (after spending WP) you'd gain a point of limit. In comparison to this, PTSD is a joke.
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
Clarity!Taylor is addicted to SoPA. Every stunt said keep SoPA off, but Taylor kept turning it back on.Slamu said:
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
The problem isn't us constantly turning it off, it's Taylor turning it back on constantly even though all the stunts except one said keep off, rather than turn off.spudman said:
.IronSun.
I don't descriminate, I hate all of you equally.
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Which kind of sucks. We put 'turn off SOPA' in all our stunts to guarantee it would get turned off if any one of the topics we voted for made the cut. The intent was never to strobe the damn thing.spudman said:
Easier way to interpret it. Taylor has a painkiller addiction. It's just for emotional pain.
[X] Essence Reservoir-to-Heart: Provide counsel for a member of your caravan, getting to know them better as a mortal as well as evaluating them for Alchemical potential.
- [X] Stunt: Talk to Dennis, find out how he's doing, and what he thinks of things so far. Get his support in covering up for any Clarity induced social mistakes, and see about enlisting his assistance in keeping Aisha sufficiently motivated and amused, especially after their mutual Glenn sessions. The last personal conversation you've had with him involved a prank involving being surrounded by a swarm of bugs, after all, things could stand to be on a more positive note.
[X] 4 XP - Craft ●●●●○
I'll expand the XP vote if we got enough omake power to even pay for Craft. As for my choice of conversation partner, Dennis so far seems to be taking our Clarity induced speech the best of them all, and he's managed to defuse a lot of the screwups. Might as well get his active cooperation, and give Aisha one more reason to stay in the Wards aside from our personal influence. Also I want to see what the two of them might be able to get up to.
[X] Essence Reservoir-to-Heart: Provide counsel for a member of your caravan, getting to know them better as a mortal as well as evaluating them for Alchemical potential.
- [X] Stunt: Talk to Dennis, find out how he's doing, and what he thinks of things so far. Get his support in covering up for any Clarity induced social mistakes, and see about enlisting his assistance in keeping Aisha sufficiently motivated and amused, especially after their mutual Glenn sessions. The last personal conversation you've had with him involved a prank involving being surrounded by a swarm of bugs, after all, things could stand to be on a more positive note.
[X] 4 XP - Craft ●●●●○
I'll expand the XP vote if we got enough omake power to even pay for Craft. As for my choice of conversation partner, Dennis so far seems to be taking our Clarity induced speech the best of them all, and he's managed to defuse a lot of the screwups. Might as well get his active cooperation, and give Aisha one more reason to stay in the Wards aside from our personal influence. Also I want to see what the two of them might be able to get up to.
Hopefully, we get at least a couple of XP out of the roll checks I posted a few pages back.veekie said:
FunkyEntropy
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Yeah, but see, that way lies Gromm deliberately misconstruing player intent. That's bad, since all it does is shove the idiot ball into the characters hands and pisses off the players.1986ctcel said:
Hmm. Your bringing this up has gotten me to thinking, what caused us to gain clarity? It can't be SoPA, because if SoPA causes us to gain a point of clarity every time we activate we'd have gained several points this update.John At Dawn said:
Which means that we had to have suppressed Valor,Compassion or Conviction. And I don't remember seeing that happening in this update, so I'm completely baffled as to where we gained the dot of clarity.