Imrix
Periodically Malevolent QM
It totally should be, though.
Ebeli Quest: How to Manage your Plot Devices and Save Creation
Finagle007
[Verified Great Old One]
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Except that, while it may be enough to TAKE Vodak down (IF you can manage to keep burning it with sunlight), it's not enough to KEEP it down. Vodak revives in 100 years from anything short of:
- The Cincture activating while Vodak is in range, or
- Vodak being hurled directly into the Mouth of the Void.
Carrnage
Human
- Location
- New Zealand
Why if vodak can be perfectly rebuilt unless killed in a very specific way. is there only one of them? is there a trigger within the neverborn that notices if Vodak has been killed and rebuilds him? if so couldn't you simply spoof the vodak signal so that the neverborn husk never registers he died and makes a new one.
Lealope
Not yet invincible
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Woop-dee-shit, who cares? A hundred years to grow and develop while Vodak is stuck in a tomb-universe that's conveniently close to the Oblivion, even if you accept that (which you shouldn't because it is almost as dumb as the Solar anima not being sunlight). It's not as though he's going to become any less of a little chump bitch in a hundred years of not existing.
Finagle007
[Verified Great Old One]
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Vodak is a unique entity. You might as well ask why there is only one Erembour, or one Ignis Divine, or one Abhorrence of Life.
Carrnage
Human
- Location
- New Zealand
O any of those have a mechanism for being perfectly replaced when completely destroyed down to the last mote?
Finagle007
[Verified Great Old One]
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
If Erembour is killed via spirit-killer magic, the Ebon Dragon can replace her by growing a new Third Circle via Ebon Dragon Pantheon Unfurling, but it won't be Erembour.
If Ignis Divine is killed via spirit-killer magic, he can be replaced by the Sidereal Astrological Charm The King Is Dead. The new Sun will have all of the old one's power, but not their memories.
It is currently unknown if Abhorrence of Life can be destroyed - it's a Neverborn. If it can be destroyed, it could conceivably be replaced if someone somehow learned the Cosmic Principle Charm of the Primordial it used to be, then got killed via Primordial-killer magic.
Vodak is a hekatonkhire that came into existence the first time a Primordial died. If that Primordial were to be recreated via the above process, then killed, a new Vodak could be created, though it would be far weaker than the original, who has had eons to grow more powerful.
It would make significantly more sense if the Vodak that popped out 100 years later was also a new one, created due to the Neverborn's accumulated trauma and obsession over their deaths, and therefore lacked the accumulated simulacra or other forms of growth.
Since the Vodak is in fact the same Vodak, it pretty much breaks one of the few rules of Exalted by being brought back from the dead.
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Finagle007
[Verified Great Old One]
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- He/Him/His
It doesn't get brought back. Depleting Vodak's Health Levels merely renders it Quiescent for a century, at which point it re-emerges in the Labyrinth. Vodak has infinite Stamina and therefore infinite Dying HLs; it can ONLY be killed by throwing it into Oblivion (which destroys everything that isn't as indestructible as a Celestial Exaltation) or by using the Cincture to make the abomination's prison too real for it to exist.*
*Yes, the Sun's Godspear of All-Searing Noon does infinite damage if his Valor is not suppressed. But the Sun doesn't have a fragment of Oblivion powering his spirit-killer Charms like the Exalted do, and he doesn't just lend out the Godspear willy-nilly.
GreggHL
Engaging hilarity engine/air intake
- Location
- Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Obviously we need to give the Sun a fragment of Oblivion.
Autochthon should get right on that.
- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
I see no way in which this could go horribly wrong. Proceed.
Graypairofsocks
What is Grammar?
- Location
- earth
Giant Head Attack
GreggHL
Engaging hilarity engine/air intake
- Location
- Daejeon, Republic of Korea
So sorry. Been very busy, especially since I got a new computer and now need to find a Windows version of Anathema.
[X]Hold it off until Shell's sisters can get here.
Sorcerer!
Was that Ligier? Yes, it was. The bond between summoner ad summoned could extend even to this realm, assuming it wasn't now incorporated with Creation.
Yes, Ligier? What is the situation with Vodak?
It is quite amusing! The heckatonchire is a resilient foe, but I have devised strategies with the Mistress of Gethamane on its eventual demise. I sense you are in Autochthonia?
...yes. I may have misused the Eye of Autochthon. I turned its master into a waterfowl, summoned a crystal dragon, and summoned a behemoth made out of Ruvelia's Warden Soul.
Ha ha! Of course, Zeruel would be overjoyed to be reunited with his mistress! For behind that bloodthirsty gaze is the soul of a poet!
You glance at the shoulder mounted shadow demon with the expressionless, deaths head face. You shrug.
As it is, Sorcerer, I merely wished to inform you of my progress. I am off to repair the Reality Engines.
And the connection ends. Reality engines? Maybe you should visit Gethamane when this is done.
"It is inside me! IT IS INSIDE ME! AND IT TELLS ME TO MAKE YOU MY MEAT PUPPET!"
But first you want to deal with the Apostate Colossus. And you don't see a couple hundred blood apes, so that means you were transported here without your retinue. "Fuck."
(Join Battle: 9 dice, 5 successes)
Sky grabs you and the two of you flicker, disappearing from where you were and hence not getting hit by the immense soulsteel drill that carves into the brass. The yellow eyes of the Colossus flicker and its shoulder fins open, two blazing lances of essence lights carving the world around you.
Sky deflects the beam heading to the two of you off the flat of his blade, sending the crimson light into the sky and carving into the metal. The brass ceiling of the world glows, deflected essence from the Apostate's beam carving a river of molten brass and steams roaring perilously close to you.
"Shell!" you yell, "Tell your sisters to hurry up!"
"I WILL KILL YOUR DEATH!"
Ray leaps off of a high perch, grabbing onto the horn of the colossus. She holds on, flipping around it and slamming her heels into the immense forehead, as the colossus charges towards the two of you with murderous (what else) intent.
Sky flickers and you both appear next to Ruvelia, the colossus slamming into a rusted cliffside.
"So," Ruvelia says, "You have found my other-self's former Warden Soul. I should prepare to teach my charms to your Eclipse caste."
You nod. "Sounds good."
Ruvelia smiles, and turns to the hovering black mass. "My defender. Engage the Colossus. But take care, for he may possess the power to kill the immortal."
The recessed eyes of the Warden Soul glow, and with a single bound he grows- to immense size, to immense weight, to immense power. A Behemoth- much like the fabled behemoths of old, like the fabled army slayer rumored to patrol the grounds of Opal Spire.
The tentacles of the former Demon wrap around the limbs of the colossus. Black binds its wrists and ankles, and it grows to overshadow the immense, corrupted Alchemical.
"Holy shit," you whisper.
The skull face mask of the behemoth hovers over the colossus's own immense gaze, and the eyes flicker. Ray kicks off, taking the hint, and the blast of crimson light does not incinerate her as it bores into the soulsteel of the Colossus, shaking the ground beneath you, blasting rust from the floors.
"Keep it bound!" Sky yells, bringing back his sword, "Ruvelia, can you order him?"
"Zeruel, keep the creature bound," she says, hands folded at her waist, "The Dawn will destroy it."
Black wraps around the apostate, over and over again. Black rope like ebon spidersilk, it holds the injured apostate fast, holds it tight around it as Sky charges at it.
He leaps, the light flickering off of Sky Splitter's blade. He brings it forward, swings it as the anima flares, a great blade surrounding him as he drives the holy sword deep into the corrupted machine-
And then the legs and arms fall off the immense, body sized head. It drops to the ground, out of Zeruel's grip as the behemoth makes an inquisitve growl, and lands.
On a proportional neck.
"Ah," Autochthon says, "An optical cloak!"
And then the rest of it rises out of the brass and rust, where it had apparently been waiting. Standing its full length, full height, which you estimate to be around, oh, a hundred meters, it roars with madness and rage.
[ ]Run.
[ ]RUN.
[ ]FUCKING RUN.
[ ]Write in.
Sorcerer!
Was that Ligier? Yes, it was. The bond between summoner ad summoned could extend even to this realm, assuming it wasn't now incorporated with Creation.
Yes, Ligier? What is the situation with Vodak?
It is quite amusing! The heckatonchire is a resilient foe, but I have devised strategies with the Mistress of Gethamane on its eventual demise. I sense you are in Autochthonia?
...yes. I may have misused the Eye of Autochthon. I turned its master into a waterfowl, summoned a crystal dragon, and summoned a behemoth made out of Ruvelia's Warden Soul.
Ha ha! Of course, Zeruel would be overjoyed to be reunited with his mistress! For behind that bloodthirsty gaze is the soul of a poet!
You glance at the shoulder mounted shadow demon with the expressionless, deaths head face. You shrug.
As it is, Sorcerer, I merely wished to inform you of my progress. I am off to repair the Reality Engines.
And the connection ends. Reality engines? Maybe you should visit Gethamane when this is done.
"It is inside me! IT IS INSIDE ME! AND IT TELLS ME TO MAKE YOU MY MEAT PUPPET!"
But first you want to deal with the Apostate Colossus. And you don't see a couple hundred blood apes, so that means you were transported here without your retinue. "Fuck."
(Join Battle: 9 dice, 5 successes)
Sky grabs you and the two of you flicker, disappearing from where you were and hence not getting hit by the immense soulsteel drill that carves into the brass. The yellow eyes of the Colossus flicker and its shoulder fins open, two blazing lances of essence lights carving the world around you.
Sky deflects the beam heading to the two of you off the flat of his blade, sending the crimson light into the sky and carving into the metal. The brass ceiling of the world glows, deflected essence from the Apostate's beam carving a river of molten brass and steams roaring perilously close to you.
"Shell!" you yell, "Tell your sisters to hurry up!"
"I WILL KILL YOUR DEATH!"
Ray leaps off of a high perch, grabbing onto the horn of the colossus. She holds on, flipping around it and slamming her heels into the immense forehead, as the colossus charges towards the two of you with murderous (what else) intent.
Sky flickers and you both appear next to Ruvelia, the colossus slamming into a rusted cliffside.
"So," Ruvelia says, "You have found my other-self's former Warden Soul. I should prepare to teach my charms to your Eclipse caste."
You nod. "Sounds good."
Ruvelia smiles, and turns to the hovering black mass. "My defender. Engage the Colossus. But take care, for he may possess the power to kill the immortal."
The recessed eyes of the Warden Soul glow, and with a single bound he grows- to immense size, to immense weight, to immense power. A Behemoth- much like the fabled behemoths of old, like the fabled army slayer rumored to patrol the grounds of Opal Spire.
The tentacles of the former Demon wrap around the limbs of the colossus. Black binds its wrists and ankles, and it grows to overshadow the immense, corrupted Alchemical.
"Holy shit," you whisper.
The skull face mask of the behemoth hovers over the colossus's own immense gaze, and the eyes flicker. Ray kicks off, taking the hint, and the blast of crimson light does not incinerate her as it bores into the soulsteel of the Colossus, shaking the ground beneath you, blasting rust from the floors.
"Keep it bound!" Sky yells, bringing back his sword, "Ruvelia, can you order him?"
"Zeruel, keep the creature bound," she says, hands folded at her waist, "The Dawn will destroy it."
Black wraps around the apostate, over and over again. Black rope like ebon spidersilk, it holds the injured apostate fast, holds it tight around it as Sky charges at it.
He leaps, the light flickering off of Sky Splitter's blade. He brings it forward, swings it as the anima flares, a great blade surrounding him as he drives the holy sword deep into the corrupted machine-
And then the legs and arms fall off the immense, body sized head. It drops to the ground, out of Zeruel's grip as the behemoth makes an inquisitve growl, and lands.
On a proportional neck.
"Ah," Autochthon says, "An optical cloak!"
And then the rest of it rises out of the brass and rust, where it had apparently been waiting. Standing its full length, full height, which you estimate to be around, oh, a hundred meters, it roars with madness and rage.
[ ]Run.
[ ]RUN.
[ ]FUCKING RUN.
[ ]Write in.
[X]Run.
[X]RUN.
[X]FUCKING RUN.
[X]All of the above.
[X]RUN.
[X]FUCKING RUN.
[X]All of the above.
- Location
- in the trash
[X] JOESTAR FAMILY SECRET TECHNIQUE
Have you considered Anathema?
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA
I mean, on the one hand a 2CD should be enough to punch even an experienced Alchemical's shit right in 1v1, and when you add on two Solars, an Alchemical, and one of Theion's fetiches, that should be enough to take what I'm assuming is an Apostate Patropolis.
Unfortunately, I don't know enough about Alchemicals. From what I remember, they're supposed to be Terrestrial-tier in most things, but Lunar-tier in whatever their current Charm loadout specializes in - which again, sounds like it should be pretty screwed fighting a combat-focused Demon of the Second Circle backed up by multiple Solars, an Unquestionable, and a Dawn-specced Alchemical.
The issue is that I don't know whether Apostates can break that rule of thumb, whether it still having functional Charm modules means there's cultists or other Apostates around to maintain it, etc.
I'll reread the last few updates (BOY this has been gone for a while) to see if we have reinforcements inbound, then make my decision accordingly.
EDIT: On further consideration, I'm sitting on my vote for the moment. I don't know enough about what this thing could be capable of or how the situation might evolve to make an informed decision.
Unfortunately, I don't know enough about Alchemicals. From what I remember, they're supposed to be Terrestrial-tier in most things, but Lunar-tier in whatever their current Charm loadout specializes in - which again, sounds like it should be pretty screwed fighting a combat-focused Demon of the Second Circle backed up by multiple Solars, an Unquestionable, and a Dawn-specced Alchemical.
The issue is that I don't know whether Apostates can break that rule of thumb, whether it still having functional Charm modules means there's cultists or other Apostates around to maintain it, etc.
I'll reread the last few updates (BOY this has been gone for a while) to see if we have reinforcements inbound, then make my decision accordingly.
EDIT: On further consideration, I'm sitting on my vote for the moment. I don't know enough about what this thing could be capable of or how the situation might evolve to make an informed decision.
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