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Alchemical Solutions [Worm/Exalted] Thread 9: Icon’s Idiosyncrasies Incite Irritating Inquisition

Hmm. Instead of spending time sight-seeing or chatting with Dennis, why don't we spend the time doing what's been suggested and everyone seems to agree needs to be done sooner rather than later: meditate on our charms/issues.
Esbilon said:
Rolling temporary Willpower is to the best of my knowledge entirely unprecedented in Exalted rules, but I see why you're using it as a mechanic for being on the end of one's ropes.
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This. There can be modifiers (a PTSD trigger sounds like an internal penalty to me), but it should be against our WP stat.

AFAIK, temporary WP isn't an actual stat, per se, just a resource pool.
 
FunkyEntropy said:
Hmm. Instead of spending time sight-seeing or chatting with Dennis, why don't we spend the time doing what's been suggested and everyone seems to agree needs to be done sooner rather than later: meditate on our charms/issues.
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It's 1 am where I live, so I need to go to sleep. I have work, so I can't think up a good write vote+stunt right now. Will check in the morning.
 
landcollector said:
It's 1 am where I live, so I need to go to sleep. I have work, so I can't think up a good write vote+stunt right now. Will check in the morning.
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Same here. If somebody comes up with a good write up while I'm asleep I'll switch.
 
Esbilon said:
Rolling temporary Willpower is to the best of my knowledge entirely unprecedented in Exalted rules, but I see why you're using it as a mechanic for being on the end of one's ropes.
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Temporary Willpower is a large part of the OWoD ruleset, which is what Earth-Bet runs on. This (temporary) mechanic is supposed to represent the unsettled hodge-podge that is Taylor's soul right now, which felt logical and relatively balanced when I ran the numbers for it. Once Taylor has her head/soul on straight, we'll be using a system more in-line with Core Exalted for dealing with mental trauma/derangements.
 
charysa said:
I'm not sure it's a good idea to meditate in the car though. For one thing there's always the chance we get interrupted by Aisha or rough terrain. For another thing, the last time we meditated, we got stuck in the state for the most of a day and unleashed our anima - we have no idea if we might trigger that again and it's not a good idea for that to happen on a moving car.
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First thing to meditate on would be to see if we can not subject our friends to the fear effect.
 
landcollector said:
Just talked to Gromweld, he said to go ahead and post the roll checks. This and the next three of my posts are going to be loooooooooooong.
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landcollector said:
Number 2!
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landcollector said:
Number 3! This and the next one were tough for me.
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landcollector said:
Number 4! Last one. I hope I did at least half-way decent on these.
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Great job on each of these! I will note, however, that I rolled Virtues (Temperance, mainly) FAR fewer times than you suspected I did - the Virtues are more guides for me, with actual rolls for them only really coming up when it's a critical choice. In addition, if you have at least seven dice in a pool then I generally don't roll it for small challenges that only require one success. While I will err on the side of giving you the largest dice pool when multiple abilities are applicable, it also means that your higher-rated abilities will 'flavor' the methods in which Taylor acts automatically.

Again, great work! One XP for each roll check! +4 XP!
 
Overmind said:
Grom, do we get XP for being a new day?
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Yes - though it's more 'XP for Intervals/Accomplishments' than 'new day'.

[Edit: ...which makes me realize that I've been carrying over the Fight XP Gains instead of reverting back to the usual amounts. Whoops. Correcting this - we have more XP now from all the 5.X updates.]
 
I've got an Omake idea I've been trying to beat into shape since the end of the Endbringer attack. If I can actually get it written down and like it I'll post it sometime tomorrow.
 
Esbilon said:
Why are we taking Bureaucracy? We seem to be on rather good terms with the PRT, and we're not trying to govern anything here.


Might I suggest raising Conviction instead? Unless that was covered in the same debate which caused such condemnation to be rained down on Compassion.
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As you suspected we've had this debate before, and it's more or less been decided that we really do not want any of our virtues going up anymore. In a game of exalted you'd normally completely control your character, but here virtues determine Taylor's personality and the little actions that we don't control. Increasing conviction to five would make Taylor even more focused on her goals than she already is, and is pretty much nuts by Wormverse standards. I suspect she'd have serious issues doing anything not to do with work, which is bad for her relations with everyone else. We can also never lower it since apparently exalts can't ever lower it baring a Rakasha eating their virtues.
 
I have to say guys, I'm really not comfortable with the "I AM EXALTED" self pep-talk bluster. We may be Exalted now, but Taylor (as far as I can tell) is still mentally human, and PTSD is a big deal. What we need right now is some honest-to-god therapy. Plus I'm afraid of what might happen if we try to bluster our way through it and fail.


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Esbilon said:
I still don't see why we'd get Bureaucracy, though. Medicine for first aid or Resistance for enduring all the hardship we're subjected to seem like more worthy causes.
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Because if we master the black arts of Bureaucracy, then we will have to endure a lot less hardship.
 
Esbilon said:
I'm not sure that's true. Getting our superiors on our good side, like we're doing with Glenn, seems like a much more efficient path to that end.
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And the way to get on Glenn's good side is to get shit done without his support propping us up. Beurocracy helps us work within a system to meet our own goals. This could conceivably help us with anything from avoiding as much red tape as possible to procuring Crafting materials faster to improving our Support (PRT) background more easily to getting the best possible price for any goods we manufacture and sell. Getting points in it helps us negate the disadvantages to working with the PRT and maximixe the advantages and possibly even exploiting the hell out of any bureaucratic loopholes we might stumble across.
 
Again guys, can we talk about the I AM EXALTED option before going through with it? It just seems like a bad idea to me.
 
Esbilon said:
1) We are Exalted, pretending otherwise will do more harm than good.
2) Channeling Conviction on the roll will reduce our Clarity and actually make us more human
3) It may actually help with a clear and present problem.
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And you're absolutely confident that this will actually work and not somehow bite us in the ass?

Because I'm seriously wary about fucking around with mental trauma, regardless of what superpowers we may have.
 
[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 ●●●●○
[X] 4 XP - Bureaucracy ●●○○○

Updating vote with increased XP amounts.

Also I'm against trying to clench away mental trauma without a charm, while on a road trip with others who are similarly traumatized and would not take well to screwing it up. That's what meditation on base in a quiet room is for.
 
Guys, guys, guys. Grom's been dropping hints the size of the Imperial Mountain - we need to meditate on our Charms, and we need to do it yesterday. We've got a write-in, and that's exactly what we need.


[X] Write-In: An Amusing Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum?
- [X] Stunt: You've been getting burned too often by poor understanding of your own Charms, and it's making you ineffective. This stops now. You tell the others you're taking a nap, close your eyes, absolutely do not turn SoPA on, and meditate. It's high time to figure yourself out.

[X] Free Action: get over our PTSD. (Wits/Willpower + Integrity, Conviction channel)
- [X] Stunt: 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 - Bureaucracy ●●○○○
[X] 4 XP - Craft ●●●●○
[X] 4 XP - Medicine ●○○○○
 
[X] 4 XP - Craft ●●●●○
[X] 4 XP - Bureaucracy ●●○○○
[X] 4 XP - Medicine ●○○○○
 
[X] Write-In: An Amusing Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum?
- [X] Stunt: You've been getting burned too often by poor understanding of your own Charms, and it's making you ineffective. This stops now. You tell the others you're taking a nap, close your eyes, absolutely do not turn SoPA on, and meditate. It's high time to figure yourself out.

[X] Free Action: get over our PTSD. (Wits/Willpower + Integrity, Conviction channel)
- [X] Stunt: 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 ●●●●○
[X] 4 XP - Bureaucracy ●●○○○
[X] 4 XP - Medicine ●○○○○
 
Well, we haven't actually gone to sleep yet. Grom, can we meditate overnight?
 
[X] Write-In: An Amusing Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum?
- [X] Stunt: You've been getting burned too often by poor understanding of your own Charms, and it's making you ineffective. This stops now. You tell the others you're taking a nap, close your eyes, absolutely do not turn SoPA on, and meditate. It's high time to figure yourself out.

As of writing this post we have 13 xp
[X] 4 XP - Craft ●●●●○
[X] 4 XP - Bureaucracy ●●○○○
[X] 4 XP - Performance ●○○○○
 
[X] Write-In: An Amusing Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum?
- [X] Stunt: You've been getting burned too often by poor understanding of your own Charms, and it's making you ineffective. This stops now. You tell the others you're taking a nap, close your eyes, absolutely do not turn SoPA on, and meditate. It's high time to figure yourself out.

[X] Free Action: get over our PTSD. (Wits/Willpower + Integrity, Conviction channel)
- [X] Stunt: 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 ●●●●○
[X] 4 XP - Bureaucracy ●●○○○
[X] 4 XP - Medicine ●○○○○
 
[x] Write-In: An Amusing Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum?
- [x] Stunt: You've been getting burned too often by poor understanding of your own Charms, and it's making you ineffective. This stops now. You tell the others you're taking a nap, close your eyes, absolutely do not turn SoPA on, and meditate. It's high time to figure yourself out.

[x] Free Action: get over our PTSD. (Wits/Willpower + Integrity, Conviction channel)
- [x] Stunt: 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 ●●●●○
[x] 4 XP - Bureaucracy ●●○○○
[x] 4 XP - Medicine ●○○○○
 
Guys, having the Essence Reservoir-to-Heart with Dennis might be a bit awkward, considering we're in different cars.
 
[x] Write-In: An Amusing Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum?
- [x] Stunt: You've been getting burned too often by poor understanding of your own Charms, and it's making you ineffective. This stops now. You tell the others you're taking a nap, close your eyes, absolutely do not turn SoPA on, and meditate. It's high time to figure yourself out.

[x] 4 XP - Craft ●●●●○
[x] 4 XP - Bureaucracy ●●○○○
[x] 4 XP - Medicine ●○○○○
 
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