Jevran
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(Exalted 3E) A Bridge Across Creation (oc thread: all filled up)
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Aranfan
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Here is my submission:
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Once there was a maiden,
Who fell in love with the sword,
She spent her time with it,
and it loved her in turn,
Yet others would not understand,
They saw her beauty and wanted her for their own,
Her father promised her to another and kept her from her love,
So she snuck out to join her lover,
but was whisked away to heaven
Shining Topaz was born as the third daughter of a king in the River Province. Her interest in swords began as soon as she was able to crawl, for she found her way into the training grounds before she could even walk. She excelled in her studies, and was soon a match in skill to adults, even if she was unable to defeat them in a fight due to the difference in strength. By the time she reached adulthood she was peerless among mortal swordsmen, and set to be a military champion for her nation.
Then puberty hit. Her beauty was such that it completely eclipsed her talent in the minds of all around her. Three foreign princes became enamored of her, and when her father chose to marry her to one of them, the other two attacked to claim her for themselves. With war burning her nation to the ground, she eventually became fed up of being kept from the front lines, and snuck out to participate in battle and defend her people as was her duty as nobility and as a warrior.
She never did get to fight for her nation, for on that night she was recruited by heaven to take her destiny as chosen of battles. Even with the casus beli gone the war continued.
She has aligned with the Bronze Faction out of an idealistic respect for the Immaculate Philosophy imparted to her by her old mentor in the way of the sword who was an immaculate monk.
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@Jevran is free to reject her if she isn't to his taste or a good fit for the campaign.
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Once there was a maiden,
Who fell in love with the sword,
She spent her time with it,
and it loved her in turn,
Yet others would not understand,
They saw her beauty and wanted her for their own,
Her father promised her to another and kept her from her love,
So she snuck out to join her lover,
but was whisked away to heaven
Shining Topaz was born as the third daughter of a king in the River Province. Her interest in swords began as soon as she was able to crawl, for she found her way into the training grounds before she could even walk. She excelled in her studies, and was soon a match in skill to adults, even if she was unable to defeat them in a fight due to the difference in strength. By the time she reached adulthood she was peerless among mortal swordsmen, and set to be a military champion for her nation.
Then puberty hit. Her beauty was such that it completely eclipsed her talent in the minds of all around her. Three foreign princes became enamored of her, and when her father chose to marry her to one of them, the other two attacked to claim her for themselves. With war burning her nation to the ground, she eventually became fed up of being kept from the front lines, and snuck out to participate in battle and defend her people as was her duty as nobility and as a warrior.
She never did get to fight for her nation, for on that night she was recruited by heaven to take her destiny as chosen of battles. Even with the casus beli gone the war continued.
She has aligned with the Bronze Faction out of an idealistic respect for the Immaculate Philosophy imparted to her by her old mentor in the way of the sword who was an immaculate monk.
Character Sheet
Picture
@Jevran is free to reject her if she isn't to his taste or a good fit for the campaign.
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Jevran
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...There will be blood for this. Also, thought you couldn't go above 3 in an ability at chargen.
Only if you use bonus points to do so.
Edit: Also, I'm glad than I decided to go full nerd-turned-field-agent with my Get Smart references, since there are now two excellent
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Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
???
Not without spending bonus points. But you can do so by spending BP.
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Badass swordmaster is my thing damnit!
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
I converted Shining Topaz into a Sid like half a year ago. I wasn't kidding when I said I had her already built.
Also, I didn't open your link before submitting, and since your post has no backstory at all...
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
Once a week sounds way to slow. Unless we're doing IRC or something.
I cannot into IRC. I will need to be helped along into doing it.
Jevran
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It's on the first post. Basically i will post the story hooks for each of you, you will rp it and post your story here, then i will organize all the individual stories into one big story.
Yzarc
The Spark of Madness
@Jevran I have a couple of things I need to ask.
I know that I posted earlier on pulling out but that was largely because how long it is taking me to read through the docs. I have the backstory and outline for the character ready and can post it in a few hours if you are willing. It is the stats that will take time and I did not think that there would be a slot left for me as 3 people have already posted their char sheet.
I found that sticking to a handful of abilities helps a lot so I think I can get the stats up but it will not be soon.
Would this be ok?
I know that I posted earlier on pulling out but that was largely because how long it is taking me to read through the docs. I have the backstory and outline for the character ready and can post it in a few hours if you are willing. It is the stats that will take time and I did not think that there would be a slot left for me as 3 people have already posted their char sheet.
I found that sticking to a handful of abilities helps a lot so I think I can get the stats up but it will not be soon.
Would this be ok?
Jevran
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Perfectly fine.
Another thing you can do, play as someone who has to wear a resplendent destiny and stick to character. That way you will be playing a mortal and slowly bringing out the sid charms.
Yzarc
The Spark of Madness
Thanks. Getting a feel for Sidereals is going slow as they are so different from what I usually play but this really helps as does the fact that I have the core mechanics pretty much memorised.
I'll post the background soon as I just need to check the details a bit and type it all up.
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Two things defined Ojin Nolat's mortal life - honour and the sword. From the time he could walk a blade was put in his hand and from the moment he began his schooling his duties to family, liege and land were emphasised above all else. By twelve his marriage to a suitable girl - a daughter of another noble family - had been arranged and he never questioned or resisted. By fifteen he graduated from the dojo that trained him in the art of the blade and began serving his lord in the court and upon the battlefield, proving himself a capable servant and a formidable warrior. By sixteen he was married with a son, properly dedicated to the gods and ancestors as he was before him. By nineteen his wife had given him a set of twins, a boy and a girl, though birth complications cost her her life. Ojin went through the rites of mourning for the girl, barely a woman, though he did not truly love her. Oh he respected her and was thankful for the children she had given him and was... fond of her in his own way, but between them there was no spark of passion.
At twenty four he had given up all three of his children to the state-driven education apparatus that had produced him with nothing but joy in his heart. Even before they began their schooling he had seen them little, prefering to leave them with tutors and nannies while he fought battle after battle against encroaching beastmen and rival clans. It was at twenty six that a man clad in starlight and wielding a impossibly long blade made from shining steel broke him upon the battlefield and raised him up, revealed that he had a greater duty, a divine purpose. Giving him the sword with the knowledge it had belonged to an ancestor who had the same duty the man spirited him away to the dojos of the Celestial City, elevating his already prodigious skills to a razor edge and teaching him to utilize the fate-given gift of Exaltation to serve the Maidens and the Loom Of Destiny.
After completing his training Ojin emerged to a changed world. His children were grown and upon their own journeys, his name was almost forgotten in Creation and now the simple work of a swordsman wasn't enough to complete his duties. Now he had to lie with every breath, deceive, cheat and murder to ensure that the will of Heaven was carried out. Though his honour was tarnished by the deeds he was forced to perform in service to the Bureau Of Fate, Ojin carried out his duty, even when he learned that his eldest son had cast aside his honour, family and duty to become a base assassin, a murderer for hire, Ojin continued his duty. When his youngest son was killed in battle, he said a prayer and carried on. When his daughter was married off to a brute of a man he bowed his head and carried out his duty.
However, now Ojin has a secret. He has fallen in love with a courtesan in the pleasure houses of Yu-Shan - a love that consumes him so thoroughly he has compromised his duty.
There we go, some changes to the intimacies, and some backstory (mostly mashed up cliches). The identity/nature of the courtesan is left up to the whim of the GM.
*insert generic samurai picture here*
So he's a man consumed by honour and he's just now learning what it means to live for something other than family, liege and ancestors. If his love will free him or destroy him, well that's the story. In terms of his Exaltation... it didn't truly change him; it was merely an extension and elevation of what he already was. Perhaps he would have followed the exact same path on a smaller scale if he was not fated to Exalt, or perhaps he would have just died on that battlefield, his fate cut short.
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RedV
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Alright, these backstories are awesome, and I'm glad my niche of Archery + Craft + Sorcery was left so I can contribute.
So basically, he's Byakuya + kids during that awkward stage where he did actually love his then wife?
Yzarc
The Spark of Madness
Alright. Here is the back story.
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Born of House Mnemon along his twin sister, Mnemon Dan was a considered a disappointment almost from the day he was born.
Coming into the world as an unplanned spare child with green eyes and brown hair, he was a considered a failure as compared to his more talented twin sister Mnemon Cara for whom plans had been made.
His parents expended many resources on him, not out of familiar love but to keep up appearances and for the ever dwindling hope that he would one day rise up as a Dragon of the Elements.
This was never to be as it soon became apparent that he would never be blessed by the dragons. As more time passed he was pushed further and further into his sister's shadow.
He had a talent with finding out things which he should not know and thus was well acquainted with his parent's disappointment in him even from a young age.
Growing up, he had fewer and fewer friends, losing them to his twin. His talents for secrets ensured that he would always find out the truth about the fair weather friends who sought him out to get closer to his sister. Yet he was not truly lonely as his sister loved him dearly and they were inseparable.
For a time, all was good but as they grew older, it only became worse as his sister exalted, leaving him behind. When he reached the age of marriage, he found out that his future had already been charted out.
Young and hot blooded, he did not see how well his family, if distantly, took care of him, only seeing that they never showed him the attention they did to his sister. He did not see the advantages he had been given, only seeing the freedom that the Dragonblooded had. He did not see the food on his table, the clothing in his cupboards, only seeing that his family's disappointment in him.
Was it any wonder why he did not react well when his future was arranged for him? Therefore, with envy driving him, he left the Blessed island at the age of seventeen, having only strained the relations with his house, except his dear sister with whom he was close, instead choosing to take a journey and vowed that he would not return till he exalted as one of the Chosen instead of choosing to join the Immaculate Order as he originally planned to.
Thus, without the knowledge of his family, he left carrying with him only what he could confident in his ability.
His attitude lasted for a year before all the pain and suffering he witnessed, experienced and shared during his journey caught up with him. Thus in the satrapy he had his epiphany and was enlightened by it. He thought of his life and could only bitterly regret his past actions.
He laughed as he contemplated the truth behind the Solars and the Lunars that he had uncovered. He further laughed when he thought of returning as he knew very well that he could not return. His experiences had completely changed him. He was no longer that innocent and wide eyed youth that he had been. That boy had died in the satrapy and was reborn as a bitter and jaded young man.
Thus he took his second breath and was welcomed into the world by friends from another life.
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Character sheet is incoming as I will probably be making a Chosen of Secrets.
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Born of House Mnemon along his twin sister, Mnemon Dan was a considered a disappointment almost from the day he was born.
Coming into the world as an unplanned spare child with green eyes and brown hair, he was a considered a failure as compared to his more talented twin sister Mnemon Cara for whom plans had been made.
His parents expended many resources on him, not out of familiar love but to keep up appearances and for the ever dwindling hope that he would one day rise up as a Dragon of the Elements.
This was never to be as it soon became apparent that he would never be blessed by the dragons. As more time passed he was pushed further and further into his sister's shadow.
He had a talent with finding out things which he should not know and thus was well acquainted with his parent's disappointment in him even from a young age.
Growing up, he had fewer and fewer friends, losing them to his twin. His talents for secrets ensured that he would always find out the truth about the fair weather friends who sought him out to get closer to his sister. Yet he was not truly lonely as his sister loved him dearly and they were inseparable.
For a time, all was good but as they grew older, it only became worse as his sister exalted, leaving him behind. When he reached the age of marriage, he found out that his future had already been charted out.
Young and hot blooded, he did not see how well his family, if distantly, took care of him, only seeing that they never showed him the attention they did to his sister. He did not see the advantages he had been given, only seeing the freedom that the Dragonblooded had. He did not see the food on his table, the clothing in his cupboards, only seeing that his family's disappointment in him.
Was it any wonder why he did not react well when his future was arranged for him? Therefore, with envy driving him, he left the Blessed island at the age of seventeen, having only strained the relations with his house, except his dear sister with whom he was close, instead choosing to take a journey and vowed that he would not return till he exalted as one of the Chosen instead of choosing to join the Immaculate Order as he originally planned to.
Thus, without the knowledge of his family, he left carrying with him only what he could confident in his ability.
His attitude lasted for a year before all the pain and suffering he witnessed, experienced and shared during his journey caught up with him. Thus in the satrapy he had his epiphany and was enlightened by it. He thought of his life and could only bitterly regret his past actions.
He laughed as he contemplated the truth behind the Solars and the Lunars that he had uncovered. He further laughed when he thought of returning as he knew very well that he could not return. His experiences had completely changed him. He was no longer that innocent and wide eyed youth that he had been. That boy had died in the satrapy and was reborn as a bitter and jaded young man.
Thus he took his second breath and was welcomed into the world by friends from another life.
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Character sheet is incoming as I will probably be making a Chosen of Secrets.
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Is there a max amount of dice that can be thrown at any one roll? And I'm having trouble figuring out the limit for what counts as a 'success'. Most of the time it seems to be 7, but some things I've read mention setting it to difficulty? This is weird.
RedV
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Rolling 6+ on a d10 is a success. Some charms make that include 3s. All tens count as two successes.
Also, there is no max. Solars can roll upwards of 50 die at high essence with the right charms...
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