[Exalted, ?] Most High

There is positively no circumstance in which Totality ends well for anybody except Odyssial.

Period, Zero. All of that Greatness Grinding will be working against us.

I will literally fight to the E-Death on this point.

Unless you guys deliberately let him out, I really don't know if he'll emerge more than two or three times in this entire campaign. You would have to throw yourself into suicidal situations on a near-perpetual basis.
 
[X] Essentially As Planned

Totality is everything I was dreading about reincarnation. The "oh no" button that solves problems while creating more down the line. It's a tired trope, past life/inner demon wanting to get out. Just ughhh.

Since we are where we are, I don't know why we wouldn't go for the best bet (even with the hefty XP cost).
 
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What, no one wants Totality? How can you call yourselves powergamers! I thought you guys were interested in seeing Odyssial unleashed upon the Second Age! Well now you can, and nearly in full! All the schemes, all the traitors - all their armies and sorceries and plots within plots will turn to ash in the wind, in the face of the End of Stories himself.

Tremble, Creation.

Tremble, traitor stars and traitor dragons, who dared usurp your Strategos.

For the hour of reckoning is come.

And the price of your hubris is blood.
...Yeah, but then the quest becomes a game of 'How on earth do we stop Odyssial from taking over completely?'

While the external conflicts become easy to deal with, the internal ones become nearly insurmountable.
 
What, no one wants Totality? How can you call yourselves powergamers! I thought you guys were interested in seeing Odyssial unleashed upon the Second Age! Well now you can, and nearly in full! All the schemes, all the traitors - all their armies and sorceries and plots within plots will turn to ash in the wind, in the face of the End of Stories himself.

Tremble, Creation.

Tremble, traitor stars and traitor dragons, who dared usurp your Strategos.

For the hour of reckoning is come.

And the price of your hubris is blood.
Your right!! Changing vote to this for maximum carnage.

[X] Totality
[X] Kill Flame
 
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Also, I have seen the 'evil split personality' thing so many times that I'm really tired of it. And, well, even the generic split personality thing is boring.

Seriously, it's extremely overdone.
 
...Yeah, but then the quest becomes a game of 'How on earth do we stop Odyssial from taking over completely?'

While the external conflicts become easy to deal with, the internal ones become nearly insurmountable.
There is no inner conflict. Odyssial doesn't 'fight' Ulyssian. He's just a different way Ulyssian sometimes is. It's like Past Lives.
 
[X]Totality.

Because watching everyone, from the Fae to the first Age Lunars, to the Yozi to the Deathlords shit themself in terror would be awesome.

Think about it.
 
Hm, I think you guys are seriously underestimating the XP cost of Essentially As Planned. That is almost half your XP, and you haven't really been gaining it at a substantial rate. While you will receive some power for free at the start, you will lose a lot of flexibility down the line.
 
Unless you guys deliberately let him out, I really don't know if he'll emerge more than two or three times in this entire campaign. You would have to throw yourself into suicidal situations on a near-perpetual basis.

"Throw ourselves into Suicidal Situations".

Except, you know, this denies us all of the useful assets we acquired throughout the Prelude, except at the largess of Odyssial (Who is not interested in being subservient), and that he is so overwhelming that even a mote of his being would be likely to crush Ulyssian's spirit without mercy.

That, and we don't need to "Throw ourselves into suicidal situations", they'll Happen by dint of "You exist, and bear Odyssial's Exaltation"

There is no inner conflict. Odyssial doesn't 'fight' Ulyssian. He's just a different way Ulyssian sometimes is. It's like Past Lives.


Bullshit and you know it, he doesn't need to "Fight" Ulyssian because it'll be a Stomp, once he has enough influence, he'll just straight up mindbreak and take over, by word of Rihaku.

It's gaining an "I Win" button and a modest influx of experience, but gives us nothing to survive our present situation except diving into the Odyssial Button, and once we've started that chain, he's got a toehold, and when he has enough influence, he wins, full stop, we won't even be able to slow him down for nearly a hundred years.
 
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Hm, I think you guys are seriously underestimating the XP cost of Essentially As Planned. That is almost half your XP, and you haven't really been gaining it at a substantial rate. While you will receive some power for free at the start, you will lose a lot of flexibility down the line.

It's also a year up on training? That's a significant amount of time, especially for a Solar.
 
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