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Ascensions and Transgressions: the Tales of Keris Dulmeadokht (Exalted game)
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Dynamesmouse
Bzzzzzz
I think Aleph is talking about taking a bunch of people, having them worship her, and teaching them how to murderhobo in her name. It's the only thing that makes sense, really.
Aaron Peori
Rest in Peace
Isn't a pirate just a murderhobo with a vehicle?
notthepenguins
Neither Spherical Nor Frictionless
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Nah, missing the 'hobo' part when you have a place to live.
Aaron Peori
Rest in Peace
Ah, so she's upgrading to murdertourist?
Ah, the first realization that leads to Ruling.
"I'm gonna need people to carry my loot."
Not only that, but she's also gotten to "This would go a lot faster if I had people to do it for me."
Normally, it would be paired with "I need a place to put my loot" but Keris side steps this by virtue of carrying a not inconsiderable chunk of real estate around in/on her third soul.
Hunting in the North - Chapter 4
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- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
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- She/Her
The fourth chapter of Hunting in the North sees Keris struggling to get out of the Wyld (which strains her already poor navigation skills to the limit), giving the infinite expanse of Chaos a trauma flashback, and then having a not-quite-argument-but-definitely-some-tension-there with Testolagh. Calling it now; this will either end in a screaming match turning into a snogging session, or an outright fight between them getting interrupted by a horde of raksha that they have to team up and fight off together. Or possibly both.
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Possibly the most disgusting Britishism ever. Makes me think of spitting out a wad of mucus.
Revlid
blob of bugs
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- England
Appropriate. Kissing is a disgusting spit-swapping tongue-wrestling mucus-sharing co-operative activity. The British know the truth, for all displays of intimacy are already vile and perverse in our eyes, and express it through our superior linguistic qualities.
Hunting in the North - Chapter 5
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- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
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- She/Her
Speaking of which, here's another Kerisgame! In a swanky new doc, kicking things off with some character assassination and social sabotage that seems to have shifted Testolagh's opinion of her from thinly-veiled hostility to grudging respect. Also in which she shows off her demons a bit more, and Echo is overjoyed at being proven right in that bribing people with ribbons totally does work, hah!
She's going to be insufferable now, I hope you realise that.
... well, more so.
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Hunting in the North - Chapter 6
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- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
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- She/Her
Yeah, I'm still not a fan of how Charisma and Manipulation basically do the same job of "convincing people", and are only really differentiated into "convincing people by being heroic" and "convincing people by being a prick".
On a lighter note, chapter 6! In which our little Keris is all grown up and making long-term strategic plans for her pirate empire, surprises Testolagh somewhat with the casual mention that yes, she is actually a master alchemist and startlingly smart in some areas (people are frequently surprised by this for some reason), wrestles with demon-wrangling, and then gets well and truly hammered as Sasi has her baby. Or, well. Several hours after Sasi has her baby, since they're ten thousand miles away from her.
Some highlights from afterward.
On a lighter note, chapter 6! In which our little Keris is all grown up and making long-term strategic plans for her pirate empire, surprises Testolagh somewhat with the casual mention that yes, she is actually a master alchemist and startlingly smart in some areas (people are frequently surprised by this for some reason), wrestles with demon-wrangling, and then gets well and truly hammered as Sasi has her baby. Or, well. Several hours after Sasi has her baby, since they're ten thousand miles away from her.
Some highlights from afterward.
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... it's a shame they're toads, or they'd make excellent mining-moles.
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- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
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- She/Her
Adult toads can eat 1000 insects in a single day; an appreciable fraction of their body mass. Keris wanted things that would devour raksha rapidly and ravenously. She was actually rather clever in making sure they'd eat each other before starting to devour everything else in the absence of faeries (even if it does make them an utter pain to manage), because otherwise they'd devastate ecosystems whenever they got hungry.
It just... means that unless you're using them every day to feed on a fairly constant diet of raksha that you can keep coming, you're going to have to manage them quite carefully to stop them cannibalising each other.
Sucal
The Devil’s Cut
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- Bottom of the barrel
It just... means that unless you're using them every day to feed on a fairly constant diet of raksha that you can keep coming, you're going to have to manage them quite carefully to stop them cannibalising each other.
That is why you have Neomah.
Grab some of their flesh, throw in a little mole, a pinch of this and a pinch of that then revel in your newly jailbroken 'mole-toads' that theoretically have enough hybrid vigor to do the best of both worlds. Aassumingly you can train them quickly enough. And that your neomah doesn't end up taking your design back with you to Malfeas. And that there isn't some other demonic traits that you accidentally mix in by mistake. Or that the resulting beast doesn't eat you along the way, or develops a taste only for the most expensive items and leaves behind worthless garbage or...
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- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
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- She/Her
The Sandman
So Zetta Slowpoke
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- Wherever I am, which isn't where I'm not
What that sounds like to me is "drop them into Wyld zones and let them feast until you need them again, because fuck raksha."Adult toads can eat 1000 insects in a single day; an appreciable fraction of their body mass. Keris wanted things that would devour raksha rapidly and ravenously. She was actually rather clever in making sure they'd eat each other before starting to devour everything else in the absence of faeries (even if it does make them an utter pain to manage), because otherwise they'd devastate ecosystems whenever they got hungry.
It just... means that unless you're using them every day to feed on a fairly constant diet of raksha that you can keep coming, you're going to have to manage them quite carefully to stop them cannibalising each other.
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- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
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- She/Her
The problem there is that gorging themselves on raksha is how they reproduce, so this will get you a plague of ironbelly toads leaving what is in very short order an empty Wyld zone, looking for more food. Which, you know, seems like it could be an issue. Problem Alchemy, wheee!
They're basically designed to be the teodozjia of raksha - that is to say, they murder weak ones and enough of them can swamp strong ones, but they're tricky to manage and cause upkeep problems for you.
The Sandman
So Zetta Slowpoke
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That's easy enough to solve: dump them in the Bordermarches instead, and go fetch a few when you need a Wyld zone within Creation squashed.
Bonus points if you can alter them slightly so they excrete solid reality in their wake.
Hunting in the North - Chapter 7
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- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
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- She/Her
Okay then! We actually started this on Friday evening, but some computer virus shaped interruptions meant that it got put on hold until yesterday night (the split was just after Keris decided she needed more of her). So! Hunting in the North, chapter 7! In which Keris deals with the Morning After the Night Before, learns a spell, gains a freehold, shows that Exalted are Very Unfair against faerie tricks that would be extremely potent against mortal heroes and feeds Rathan enough to have him grow up to the level of being able to talk, since he's not really been getting as much screentime as a baby. Also in which we give ES's "giant monster" combat modelling system another test, which worked pretty well (though it would have worked better had Keris not cheated by being too fucking agile and able to run up vertical surfaces).
Also, hee. I'm very proud of Keris's IM being a little purple-ice marlin - or possibly a sailfish, I haven't decided which looks cooler yet and Keris is only Lore 2 and thus doesn't actually know how to distinguish between the two beyond "they're both big fast fish with spears for noses and I think the crests on their back are different maybe?" Fastest fish in the world. Sailfish have been clocked at 110km/h - 68mph. That's barely slower than Keris while she is in the water, and the slightly magical types of Creation billfish - the things that are to sailfish as siaka are to sharks and river dragons are to crocodiles and claw striders are to raptors - they may actually be faster than her on the sprint. And still more or less mundane-for-Creation animals.
Also, hee. I'm very proud of Keris's IM being a little purple-ice marlin - or possibly a sailfish, I haven't decided which looks cooler yet and Keris is only Lore 2 and thus doesn't actually know how to distinguish between the two beyond "they're both big fast fish with spears for noses and I think the crests on their back are different maybe?" Fastest fish in the world. Sailfish have been clocked at 110km/h - 68mph. That's barely slower than Keris while she is in the water, and the slightly magical types of Creation billfish - the things that are to sailfish as siaka are to sharks and river dragons are to crocodiles and claw striders are to raptors - they may actually be faster than her on the sprint. And still more or less mundane-for-Creation animals.
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Dynamesmouse
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I really like the Soul Stuff, and the domain itself.
Hunting in the North - Chapter 8
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- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
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- She/Her
HOLY SHIT WHAT THE HELL MUCH WOW. Yeah, it's Session 100 of play (though not of the published logs) this Kerisgame. In which Keris finds that Rathan is a big boy now, tricks some raksha with statements that are 100% factually true and hilariously false at the same time, decides to learn how to make Splintered Gales, fails to do so because it turns out that her "instinctive learning" paradigm does actually have some downsides when you actually want to intentionally learn how to do something you've heard about, and attends a dinner with Ligier. Which she does not fuck up. For once.
Oh, and there's also a tyrant lizard.
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Oh, and there's also a tyrant lizard.
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Alexander89
Pet the pretty kitty? Y/N
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Your heroine is up to some very interesting stuff Aleph. Is this luck, EarthScorpion being a good GM, or is Keris instinctively writing her own Mythos on the road to Devil-Tigerhood?
Haneyl hates Keris forever (or at least until she gets distracted or gets another kind of present) for not getting her a pet tyrant lizard. Quite unlike the real Third Circles, who are the models of reasonableness which is why the Green Sun and the Blood Red Moon are engaged in a giant war because she eclipsed him on one of the layers.
The moral of this story is that Keris' souls have already mastered the art of acting like Unquestionable, which is to say "declaring war on each other for incredibly petty reasons and sulking".
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So in other words she's already forgotten it since she got to have a meal with Ligier.