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[Exalted, ?] Most High

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Xsi said:
SMA's were all nearly mechanically broken, or required a ton of give/take from the storyteller. The first edition trio (PAoC, CMoS, and CPoC) are the most user friendly, and even then some things require talking to the boss before even attempting to learn them (not to mention essence and mote costs (especially mote costs w/o the Sidereal elder sutras).

The CMA styles are weaker, that's a function of the tier system (SMA>CMA>TMA), but there are some very strong CMA's (water or wood dragon, or I personally really like Crane for flavor) from a mechanics standpoint that I would take over learning something incredibly flavorful/cool like Obsidian Shards of Infinity, because so much of that can be nixed by a story teller (what counts as a reflective surface? is it still reflective in the dark? for the capstone - what's an appropriate moment? etc).

Sorry that's fairly offtopic and stuff but.. idk something I needed to get off my chest, or whatever.
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I did mean to address this - there were examples of balanced SMAs from later on in the Edition, especially in Glories and such. Star-Crown of Morning will be a balanced SMA, but it's still SMA-tier.

Orm Embar said:
With the way Evocations work, I imagine most of our Solar Experience is going to be going towards Ambition at first. Getting an early start climbing the Evocation tree, as it were. Artifact armor is nice, but we need experience to get the most out of it. Not that the passive defenses wouldn't be useful...

Eh, the duels would be distracting, just like Nilul herself. Beating on fools is suboptimal for training purposes.
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But she's so endearingly distracting! Also, you would benefit from Artifact Armor's stats.

For a certain value of endearing...

Usernames said:
He lose to an higher power.

Solar Odyssial and Nilul parties is too much.
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Are you... a Nilul shipper?
 
[X] MAXIMUM Revelry

At first, these seemed like two mutually exclusive choices. To party and socialize, or train and waifu wait. But these constraints were made to be broken. If one pushes oneself to the very limit, if one consumes enough drink that it turns to poison in your veins, if one eats to the point where your limbs are leaden, if you celebrate until your body itself begins to betray you...

Is that not a form of training in of itself? Endurance, the triumph of the mind over the weakness of the flesh. How better to test this than to engage in a series of mental contests whilst simultaneously testing the strength of our physical form through consummate and perfect excess?

For Odyssial, is this not the height of revelry and celebration? To try your body and mind to their very limits, all without your enemies knowing you are training in the first place, thinking you to be foolishly succumbing to the vices they have laid before you? To turn even their own activities of leisure into a contest where you do not merely surpass them, but crush them utterly and humiliate them in front of their peers and allies through mental or physical contests they foolishly initiate in their own hubris?

By the time the final day arrives, he shall be the only one left standing, allowing him to wait beside Moon for her to awaken. The perfect plan.

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No, but I'd totally read an update where Odyssial decides to treat partying as another competition he needs to master for his infiltration of Dragon Blooded politics, prompting him to take it to terrifying heights.
 
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[X] MAXIMUM Revelry

Shut up, I'm a weak, easily-swayed-by-awesome person. I am sure this joke has been made before, but yes - we will be Most High, and Most Drunk, and Most...
 
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[X] Raw Power - Before his Exaltation finishes 'settling,' he will eke out every last bit of performance he can. He will enter a moving meditation of training such as this world has not seen since Odyssial last strode the earth! Also, he will check up on Moon! Training AND Moon, how can this option lose!? [+80,000 XP, you may train up to 240,000 XP worth of Titles in 3 days]

Obviously.
 
Gaudy Guise said:
[X] MAXIMUM Revelry

At first, these seemed like two mutually exclusive choices. To party and socialize, or train and waifu wait. But these constraints were made to be broken. If one pushes oneself to the very limit, if one consumes enough drink that it turns to poison in your veins, if one eats to the point where your limbs are leaden, if you celebrate until your body itself begins to betray you...

Is that not a form of training in of itself? Endurance, the triumph of the mind over the weakness of the flesh. How better to test this than to engage in a series of mental contests whilst simultaneously testing the strength of our physical form through consummate and perfect excess?

For Odyssial, is this not the height of revelry and celebration? To try your body and mind to their very limits, all without your enemies knowing you are training in the first place, thinking you to be foolishly succumbing to the vices they have laid before you? To turn even their own activities of leisure into a contest where you do not merely surpass them, but crush them utterly and humiliate them in front of their peers and allies through mental or physical contests they foolishly initiate in their own hubris?

By the time the final day arrives, he shall be the only one left standing, allowing him to wait beside Moon for her to awaken. The perfect plan.

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No, but I'd totally read an update where Odyssial decides to treat partying as another competition he needs to master for his infiltration of Dragon Blooded politics, prompting him to take it to terrifying heights.
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I suppose there are some things you could train, but it would be normal training time and thus you would not gain the advantages of the hyperefficient training in Raw Power.

Gaudy Guise said:
Niluly* is the one true pairing. It's also anathematically pleasing.

*A term coined by myself, just now. I'm accepting royalities.
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A multiship without Lea. Aggressive.

kinglugia said:
No. Only when I checked the threadmarks do I know that there is a new update.
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You can also check the Story-Only thread on SB!

Usernames said:
Odyssial vs Zao in a drinking competition.

Who will be victorious?
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How is that a question!?
 
Rihaku said:
Do you guys get an alert when I threadmark something?
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I get alerts whenever you reply to the thread, but none specifically when you mark a post.

Anyway, it is kind of frivolous and out of character to squander this opportunity on parties. While our Sesus relatives will continue to exist for the forseeable future, our newly Exalted essence patterns will soon settle, making this opportunity for training truly invaluable. Also, it's a beautiful gesture on our part, to be there for Moon when she wakes up. As Ulyssian himself says, she would do it for him. Possibly has in the past, considering the aftermath of our Accursed adventures. How can we do any less?
 
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Orm Embar said:
Anyway, it is kind of frivolous and out of character to squander this opportunity on parties.
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We were just Social Attacked by Nilul. We must obey. Obey the Ebon Empress, Embar.
While our Sesus relatives will continue to exist for the forseeable future,
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Yeah, back in whatever city House Sesus resides in. Do you know how unoptimized a trip back there would be?! This time, they came to us!
 
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Rihaku said:
I suppose there are some things you could train, but it would be normal training time and thus you would not gain the advantages of the hyperefficient training in Raw Power.

A multiship without Lea. Aggressive.
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Damn. I suppose it comes down to whether turning the party into hell for anyone who catches our ire is worth losing out on that sweet hyper optimized training time. A pickle.

You cannot show fear to a Lunar. They can smell it.

Guile said:
... Shit, that's good. It's better than Sauly. Saely? Saely.
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Apparently anathematically is a real word.

Clearly this is an omen! A sign heralding the coming victory of the one true pairing.
 
Gaudy Guise said:
Damn. I suppose it comes down to whether turning the party into hell for anyone who catches our ire is worth losing out on that sweet hyper optimized training time. A pickle.

You cannot show fear to a Lunar. They can smell it.



Apparently anathematically is a real word.

Clearly this is an omen! A sign heralding the coming victory of the one true pairing.
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Moon, MOVE over. There's a new ship in the port!
 
Guile said:
We were just Social Attacked by Nilul. We must obey. Obey the Ebon Empress, Embar.
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Ulyssian favors Integrity! Her foul tricks will find no purchase in our psyche; our mind is a fortress!
Guile said:
Yeah, back in whatever city House Sesus resides in. Do you know how unoptimized a trip back there would be?! Right now, they came to us!
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And we chose Power & Security! If we go, in all likelihood we won't develop lasting connections, we'll just wind up in a bunch of honor duels. Sure, we might get some armor, but don't you see... that's just them shoving stuff at us to get us out the door!
 
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Orm Embar said:
I get alerts whenever you reply to the thread, but none specifically when you mark a post.

Anyway, it is kind of frivolous and out of character to squander this opportunity on parties. While our Sesus relatives will continue to exist for the forseeable future, our newly Exalted essence patterns will soon settle, making this opportunity for training truly invaluable. Also, it's a beautiful gesture on our part, to be there for Moon when she wakes up. As Ulyssian himself says, she would do it for him. Possibly has in the past, considering the aftermath of our Accursed adventures. How can we do any less?
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Well, you probably don't take as long to wake up, because you would not survive what she just went through. But it is very much the thought that counts, and finding a way!

Guile said:
... Shit, that's good. It's better than Sauly. Saely? Saely.
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Saerly.

Guile said:
We were just Social Attacked by Nilul. We must obey. Obey the Ebon Empress, Embar.
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She would probably be just the Scarlet Empress II: Cthonic Bugaloo

Gaudy Guise said:
Damn. I suppose it comes down to whether turning the party into hell for anyone who catches our ire is worth losing out on that sweet hyper optimized training time. A pickle.

You cannot show fear to a Lunar. They can smell it.
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That wouldn't save you! That wouldn't save you at all!
 
Usernames said:
Too late. Moon Ship is sinking.
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It has the Canon.

Dark Lord Bob said:
[X] Raw Power - Before his Exaltation finishes 'settling,' he will eke out every last bit of performance he can. He will enter a moving meditation of training such as this world has not seen since Odyssial last strode the earth! Also, he will check up on Moon! Training AND Moon, how can this option lose!? [+80,000 XP, you may train up to 240,000 XP worth of Titles in 3 days]

Obviously.
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Obviously? I think it's actually losing right now, despite my numerous warnings about XP. Can we get a preliminary vote count?
 
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