I'dun'know, that first one feels really out of place... I mean, no functional way to weaponize it? I call shenanigans
Ascensions and Transgressions: the Tales of Keris Dulmeadokht (Exalted game)
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It was made by Zana "Warps people's minds and body with nothing but art" Nara, and the original was specifically designed to look like a winged humanoid that had ripped their own face off.I'dun'know, that first one feels really out of place... I mean, no functional way to weaponize it? I call shenanigans
It may not be a physical weapon, but Zanara is almost certainly fully capable of weaponizing it through social combat and charms, even if just by leaving it in a room to creep people out.
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Look, if there was somewhere where that was going to happen, it was going to be the Spires. After all, it's a constantly rain-choked and cloudy place, lit by lightning and electricity, and where the mountains are actually Malfean buildings (ie, they're skyscrapers). And the lord of that place has instituted laizze-faire Nexan anarcho-capitalism.
It's as noir as hell (and rather more noir than Hell). Of course there's jazz.
A Silent Blade - Chapter 5
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- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
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- She/Her
Time for another Kerisgame! Delayed a bit because of Notting Hill Carnival (whooo!) A Silent Blade 5! In which Keris stages another break-in, conducts a hilarious Exalted-level theft [1] and acquires some leverage. Shiny, shiny leverage~
Mwaa ha ha haa. This will be fun. : 3
[1] Keris is, before all else, fundamentally a thief. And since she Exalted, her thefts have become correspondingly legendary. I think this actually outdoes the dragon; stealing top secret paperwork from a DB's office while the DB is in the room with her.
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Mwaa ha ha haa. This will be fun. : 3
[1] Keris is, before all else, fundamentally a thief. And since she Exalted, her thefts have become correspondingly legendary. I think this actually outdoes the dragon; stealing top secret paperwork from a DB's office while the DB is in the room with her.
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Calesco is Compassion. However, she is of the opinion that being bitchy to her siblings is entirely compatible with Compassion. Especially Rathan, who has it coming.
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I am amused by both the string of threes and the unfortunate DB clerk whose response to spilling tea all over critical documents was "Not again!"
This is actually a back-seat view of one of the significant flaws that Lookshy has. The heavy military focus means that this woman, who's wonderful with bureaucracy and in the Realm would probably be running a core part of her House's trading empire, gets put through training, hates every moment of it, and winds up as the adjunct of a field commander when she really temperamentally would be better as an administrator or a merchant.
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- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
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- She/Her
Clearly, Keris should kidnap and convert her!
(okay no that's a terrible idea that's bad in so many ways)
- Location
- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
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- She/Her
Mean!...so we get to see it next session then?
And no, of course not. Next session is Keris's renegotiations with her bitchy ex; Orange Blossom.
I'm assuming that the limit is 140 characters. And that there's some bird symbolism in there.
The Sandman
So Zetta Slowpoke
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- Wherever I am, which isn't where I'm not
Actually, given that Keris can pin the blame for the collapse of the entire Lookshyian operation in Taira on this one DB fucking up, she can probably create a situation where little miss not-Ami has a pressing need to be on the other side of Creation from Lookshy and to be there yesterday. From there, it's a simple recruitment offer.
pheonix89
Wants to be Seven Of Nine
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- North American Plaguelands
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- She/Her
That works better on people who don't think you're LITERALLY SATAN.
The Sandman
So Zetta Slowpoke
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- Wherever I am, which isn't where I'm not
Only if not-Ami finds out!
Well, finds out before she's been eased into the right mindset.
Until then, she can run with a modified version of the line of bullshit she's feeding Illana.
The Phoenixian
The Glacier Witch
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- My own little world
So recruit her while you're fighting someone she thinks is Satan.
Except an Immaculate can easily justify evil fighting evil can't they?
...Dammit, that tactic really works better on religions that don't have, like, over 600 Satans.
Bursting Eagerness Soul
Threadwalking Rating Machine
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I absolutely heard it in the same tone as "NOT MY CABBAGES!"
Doooo eeeeettttttt! Keris could use some DB-level assistance with her pirating anyway, right?
While it would be funny and useful to obtain a follower who's so skilled in administration, the only way to do that would be break down a lot of her personality and separate her forever from everyone she knows. Not only did Keris have a conversation with Haneyl about the importance of making sure the people they alter are happy, but Keris has already shown that she's not willing to take people from their families just because they'd be useful when she seeded those Realm sailors.
There's also the fact that the Dragonblooded are Heroes in their own right, and cannot be casually mind controlled into slavery.
There's also the fact that the Dragonblooded are Heroes in their own right, and cannot be casually mind controlled into slavery.
MooGoesCow21
Just Listen to me....
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- US Washington
Well unless your name is Mr Integrity Solar who is everybody's best friend
Nah, more like a telegraph, hence requiring Lookshy to have lists of military codes and abbreviations and send things like:
1KWT 3KRS ESTK IN PROGRESS STOP NO ANTHMA ENCNTRD STOP RQST NEW ORDERS STOP 1KWT 3KRS
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Yeah, about that... : 3
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- London, England
Let's be perfectly honest here.
Lookshy totally has a telegram code for "A whole circle of Anathaema just showed up and steamrolled through everything in the local area, everything is on fire and we would very much like to be leaving now"
When you operate in the Hundred Kingdoms you start preparing for these things in advance.
Lookshy totally has a telegram code for "A whole circle of Anathaema just showed up and steamrolled through everything in the local area, everything is on fire and we would very much like to be leaving now"
When you operate in the Hundred Kingdoms you start preparing for these things in advance.
"We're getting a report in from Section 5! Reading now... Zero... F... C... K.. P... C...S"
"Can you confirm? Did they just transmit a 0-FCK-PCS?"
"Can confirm!"
"An entire circle of anathema, on an apparent quest to achieve goals of Creation-wide importance? We need to get them out of there!"
So, Vali thought, what's better than a wild boar for destroying the landscape while breeding everywhere?
Oh yes. A giant demonic metal and stone eating giant boar.
Furogepsertes, the Mining Boars
Demon of the First Circle
Progeny of the Sound that Sunders
A great swine roots at the earth, leaving vast wounds in the earth. Piggish eyes burn with blue-white fire; its six legs leave burned-in hoofprints on grass and sandstone. It has diamond-tipped tusks, and its skin is covered in great reptilian scales of iron and brass and other metals that men make armour from. Sometimes it vanishes into the ground, tearing out boar-holes and devouring entire seams of ores. Earth elementals detest its presence, as do the wood elementals whose forests catch fire from the heat that radiates off the beast. And there, behind it, come twenty more; a vast hungry brood who lay waste to mountains and ruin fields in their search for the treasures of the earth.
As the marottes are to earth-moving and construction, so the furogepsertes are to mining and the pursuit of precious metals. One mining boar will work day and night to tear up and break the earth, doing the work of ten or twenty men. Within its prodigious gut its inner fires burn off slag and refine ore. Mining boars have a brutish and simple sense of humour, helped by their habitual drunkenness - for they sup upon the cheap swills of Hell and Creation alike with full relish. Where a mortal swine can sniff out truffles, a furogepsertes can smell veins of gold or silver from a mile away and will stop at nothing to dig it up and devour it - even if precious metals pass through their digestive tract untouched. When they lack such delicacies, they dig out vast open cast mines for limestone or basalt or other stones that they can sell to acquire the delicacies they wish.
The mining boars are much like the swine of Creation in how they spawn their litters. They are social demons who dote upon their offspring, and a couple who enter Creation will if left unattended produce a vast brood who will tear apart the landscape and infuriate elementals for tens of miles around. Their metal skin makes them largely immune to the bows and arrows of Creation, but the inside of their mouths are unprotected. Under their scaled skin, their flesh is surprisingly succulent and in the hell from whence they came there are breeds of demon who pit themselves against these destructive beasts for the thrill of the hunt and the feast afterwards.
Summoning: (Obscurity 2/4) Sorcerers who call on the mining boars frequently do so to ravage the landscape, if they care not about the natural harmonies and geomancy of Creation. These demons seldom resist binding if they are offered the chance to dig through new landscapes, and many demonologists note that they are an amiable breed. Such friendliness ignores the risk that an ill-educated demonologist flirts with, for if a sorcerer summons a pregnant sow or has male and female furogepsertes in close proximity then unbound newborn demons will result. Other sorcerers use them as living siege weapons, because a mining boar can undermine a wall or simply charge through a barred castle gate. Much like other base demons, the furogepsertes are naturally material, and they do not even know the Dematerialise Charm. They gain a point of Limit for each day that they are prevented from digging for delicacies, or failing that the are not permitted to drink their fill of alcohol (regardless of the quality). They can escape into Creation when a wild pig accidentally exposes a mineral vein, possessing the natural animal as it swells into its form.
Oh yes. A giant demonic metal and stone eating giant boar.
Furogepsertes, the Mining Boars
Demon of the First Circle
Progeny of the Sound that Sunders
A great swine roots at the earth, leaving vast wounds in the earth. Piggish eyes burn with blue-white fire; its six legs leave burned-in hoofprints on grass and sandstone. It has diamond-tipped tusks, and its skin is covered in great reptilian scales of iron and brass and other metals that men make armour from. Sometimes it vanishes into the ground, tearing out boar-holes and devouring entire seams of ores. Earth elementals detest its presence, as do the wood elementals whose forests catch fire from the heat that radiates off the beast. And there, behind it, come twenty more; a vast hungry brood who lay waste to mountains and ruin fields in their search for the treasures of the earth.
As the marottes are to earth-moving and construction, so the furogepsertes are to mining and the pursuit of precious metals. One mining boar will work day and night to tear up and break the earth, doing the work of ten or twenty men. Within its prodigious gut its inner fires burn off slag and refine ore. Mining boars have a brutish and simple sense of humour, helped by their habitual drunkenness - for they sup upon the cheap swills of Hell and Creation alike with full relish. Where a mortal swine can sniff out truffles, a furogepsertes can smell veins of gold or silver from a mile away and will stop at nothing to dig it up and devour it - even if precious metals pass through their digestive tract untouched. When they lack such delicacies, they dig out vast open cast mines for limestone or basalt or other stones that they can sell to acquire the delicacies they wish.
The mining boars are much like the swine of Creation in how they spawn their litters. They are social demons who dote upon their offspring, and a couple who enter Creation will if left unattended produce a vast brood who will tear apart the landscape and infuriate elementals for tens of miles around. Their metal skin makes them largely immune to the bows and arrows of Creation, but the inside of their mouths are unprotected. Under their scaled skin, their flesh is surprisingly succulent and in the hell from whence they came there are breeds of demon who pit themselves against these destructive beasts for the thrill of the hunt and the feast afterwards.
Summoning: (Obscurity 2/4) Sorcerers who call on the mining boars frequently do so to ravage the landscape, if they care not about the natural harmonies and geomancy of Creation. These demons seldom resist binding if they are offered the chance to dig through new landscapes, and many demonologists note that they are an amiable breed. Such friendliness ignores the risk that an ill-educated demonologist flirts with, for if a sorcerer summons a pregnant sow or has male and female furogepsertes in close proximity then unbound newborn demons will result. Other sorcerers use them as living siege weapons, because a mining boar can undermine a wall or simply charge through a barred castle gate. Much like other base demons, the furogepsertes are naturally material, and they do not even know the Dematerialise Charm. They gain a point of Limit for each day that they are prevented from digging for delicacies, or failing that the are not permitted to drink their fill of alcohol (regardless of the quality). They can escape into Creation when a wild pig accidentally exposes a mineral vein, possessing the natural animal as it swells into its form.