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Zao would be pissed if Ulyssian let himself get injured in such a critical spot. He should have picked somewhere less important, that way he wouldn't be bedridden and unable to train! I suppose he could pick up Wound-Healing Meditation, but then he'd be spending XP to save it.

Savonarola said:
[X] Prove It.

I wanted to get the sword anyway, so doing that and rewiring Ivory's brain sounds good to me.
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It's not really rewiring her brain, just breaking through the SMA placed on her with incontrovertible proof.
 
Pipeman said:
Do decision points using payable with Solar XP even exist or is that more or less solely for Evocations, MA, Sorcery and stats?
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This one's only payable with Normal XP because it involves you actually flash-buying a Title. Miscellaneous XP points, like the 150k for Ivory or the 350k for Perfect Reincarnation, use XP in general at the normal ratio. 6 : 4.
 
Rihaku said:
This one's only payable with Normal XP because it involves you actually flash-buying a Title. Miscellaneous XP points, like the 150k for Ivory or the 350k for Perfect Reincarnation, use XP in general at the normal ratio. 6 : 4.
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And will ones that use purely Solar XP but don't involve the acquisition of Evocations, MA, etc be a thing?
 
Guys, switch to persuade! I'm pretty sure we can persuade her with the write-in's.

Also, thematically speaking, whipping out the sword mid-battle would be hilarious.
Usernames said:
Odyssial is bullshit!

I pity anyone who was Odyssial son or daughter (Lea must have used her social ability and attributes to convince Ody on this.) It's be asian father on crack.
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"Hey dad, I killed a Second Circle Daeva today!"

"Aw, how cute, it reminds me of when I first Exalted after holding one of for the entirety of the First Night."

"...Fuck you dad."

"What? What it something I said?"
 
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Anyway, I'm in favor of Persuade if one of the stunts means it has good odds (and channel WP, for what that's worth) and I guess I'll go with Prove It rather than just walk away. We'd wind up flash-buying something given the scarcity of training time and at least this has a discount and is very narratively appropriate.
 
Rihaku said:
Oh. That is much more lopsided than I thought. I really think you guys are underestimating the massive XP differential between Accept and Prove, though. There's only so many XP-intensive choices you can make in rapid succession, especially if you do want to leave something over for personal power as well!
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I think getting the sword and related charms makes the xp cost worth it. We are already very dangerous in combat and getting the sword pushes that even further in addition to allowing us to spend solar xp on what amounts to Solar level charms when there is little else we can spend it on at the moment.

While picking up Terrestrial circle sorcery may be worth it once we have some downtime that isn't likely to happen very soon.

As for all the write ins you did say that good write ins for convincing her also boost the prove it options and most of them appeared after that statement so I suspect they may be intended for both options.
 
I can't manage to decide myself for a vote option, because I'm not sure what course of action would Be more damaging to Ivory : dealing with this abruptly but definitively now, or letting her come to terms with it with time.
 
I just wish that we could have had the Sword be with Ivory. We would have had our undeniable proof and would have acess to another of Odyssial's artifacts in the Anima.
 
Aloysius said:
I can't manage to decide myself for a vote option, because I'm not sure what course of action would Be more damaging to Ivory : dealing with this abruptly but definitively now, or letting her come to terms with it with time.
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That assumes she will "come to terms with" being Pearl later, and I'm far from sure that would actually happen. I am not okay with her believing Pearl to have been a monster, in any case. And yeah I guess the XP cost is worthwhile for the chance to stick it to the Bronze Faction by unraveling all their painstaking brainwashing with a single dramatic gesture. We'd probably wind up flash-buying something else later anyway.

[X] Prove It

At least unless Rihaku clarifies whether or not our odds with Attempt to Persuade are sufficiently good.
 
How many Legions total does the Realm have, does anyone know? And of those, how many are sworn personally to a Great House instead of the Empress?
 
A quick survey of the Internet indicates that there aren't any more straight-up imperial legions anymore. Apparently when the Empress went AWOL the various Great Houses decided defund the government and slice it up like a pie. The various legions are now all sworn or supported by different houses. The best number for how MANY Legions I've found is somewhere in the area of 30 in total, though apparently that number has varied considerably according to the wishes of the Empress.

Given the backstory has been somewhat dramatically altered from Canon though, those already vague guidelines can probably be ignored or altered as you wish @Rihaku
 
Cavalier said:
We'd probably wind up flash-buying something else later anyway.
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I said the same myself earlier, but it's probably noteworthy that for the time being this will leave us with "only" ~150k Normal XP and around ~260k Solar XP, meaning we'll only have ~250k "Raw" XP available to spend on decision points unrelated to titles for the near future.
Given that the next combat encounter requiring a flash-buy of Blademaster is probably not going to happen in the very next update and we likely have to deal with our family next which very well might require XP for an optimal conclusion, keeping our stores full, getting +150k XP now and flashbuying Blademaster only when it's needed has a greater chance of allowing us to recoup enough XP to do everything we want, than spending 245k XP on Blademaster now and hoping we recoup that purchase before the XP is needed elsewhere.

That said, as far as I see it a non-brainwashed Ivory qualifies as something I very much want, so Accept It already fails in that regard anyways.
 
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Pipeman said:
I said so myself earlier, but it's probably notworthy that for the time being this will leave us with "only" ~150k Normal XP and around ~260k Solar XP, meaning we'll only have ~250k "Raw" XP available to spend on decision points unrelated to titles for the near future.

Given that the next combat encounter requiring a flash-buy of Blademaster is probably not going to happen in the very next update and we likely have to deal with our family next which very well might require XP for an optimal conclusion, keeping our stores full, getting +150k XP now and flashbuying Blademaster only when it's needed has a greater chance of allowing us to recoup enough XP to do everything we wan, than spending 245k XP on Blademaster now and hoping we recoup that purchase before the XP is needed elsewhere.
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Sounds like we've got a lot of incentives for getting XP by doing stuff and making fanworks then.

Emerald Oracle said:
A quick survey of the Internet indicates that there aren't any more straight-up imperial legions anymore. Apparently when the Empress went AWOL the various Great Houses decided defund the government and slice it up like a pie. The various legions are now all sworn or supported by different houses. The best number for how MANY Legions I've found is somewhere in the area of 30 in total, though apparently that number has varied considerably according to the wishes of the Empress.

Given the backstory has been somewhat dramatically altered from Canon though, those already vague guidelines can probably be ignored or altered as you wish @Rihaku
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The situation's probably drastically changed for 3E anyway. The Realm is supposed to be much stronger than it was presented in 2E, even in its death-throes of civil war and likely fragmentation into successor states.
 
Emerald Oracle said:
A quick survey of the Internet indicates that there aren't any more straight-up imperial legions anymore. Apparently when the Empress went AWOL the various Great Houses decided defund the government and slice it up like a pie. The various legions are now all sworn or supported by different houses. The best number for how MANY Legions I've found is somewhere in the area of 30 in total, though apparently that number has varied considerably according to the wishes of the Empress.

Given the backstory has been somewhat dramatically altered from Canon though, those already vague guidelines can probably be ignored or altered as you wish @Rihaku
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Only 30? Hm. Each Legion is 5,000 men plus auxiliaries, so we're talking a core fighting force of maybe 150,000 within the Legion structure. That seems awfully thin for an area the size of Creation!

The Realm is fucked.
 
Rihaku said:
Only 30? Hm. Each Legion is 5,000 men plus auxiliaries, so we're talking a core fighting force of maybe 150,000 within the Legion structure. That seems awfully thin for an area the size of Creation!

The Realm is fucked.
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Not as long as Ulyssian still lives.

Man. Zao must be desperate and have lost all hope until This minimaxing dynast mortal appear out fo nowhere and pass into the academy. What a miracle.

Zao: The Realm is fucked. There maybe 50 years at best, less than 20 at worse. I'm too weak to do what must be done. There no fucking hope left.
Ulyssian: Sup. I'm a mortal and i'm in the academy.
Zao: You will be left behind before the year is over due to being a mortal. Quit now. (What a lucky find! Got to use reverse psychology to force him into a situation to exalted as a solar.)
Ulyssian: Fuck you, I master two classes while the rest learn one.
Zao: Good luck (Please don't die. Exalted! EXALTED!)
 
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