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[Exalted, ?] Most High

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inawarminister said:
Poor Lealope, she's forgotten by the player-base already.

We're not just Ulyssian-with-Solar-Exaltation, we are, too, Odyssial-that-Was. Please remember this.
We already have relationships and promises too from the First Age. Don't hang up on Moon this much, please... (I don't have problem with the vote, that Lea-imposed hearing boost is one of my aim from the start when I read it the first time)
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Eh we haven't seen her much and Moon has had three whole quests to worm her way into our hearts beside Leas from the FIRST AGE and she was a spy/assassom who used to seduce people/targets so I'm sure she and Ody were cool with this kind of stuff (given that we may have been intimate with Pearl and the Fairest), plus while we're Odyssial reborn we are ALSO Ulyssial who is pretty much head over heals for Moon (even if he's too dense to realize it). Also while I do ship Uly/Moon, a Nilul is fine too!
 
1986ctcel said:
Eh we haven't seen her much and Moon has had three whole quests to worm her way into our hearts beside Leas from the FIRST AGE and she was a spy/assassom who used to seduce people/targets so I'm sure she and Ody were cool with this kind of stuff (given that we may have been intimate with Pearl and the Fairest), plus while we're Odyssial reborn we are ALSO Ulyssial who is pretty much head over heals for Moon (even if he's too dense to realize it). Also while I do ship Uly/Moon, a Nilul is fine too!
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nilul is the new ship, forget moon. Moon is boring.
 
Vitaris said:
Shit, it's the GM! Play it cool, play it cool...

I'm probably not the best case study for this kind of thing, 'cause I found the Odyssey through TVTropes and read all of that first. Took me... maybe six-ish hours? It was in a couple of sittings, though. Then I stumbled onto this quest thread somehow (your profile, maybe?) and spent another couple hours reading that story thread and trying to catch up with the quest thread before going 'fuggit, ima sign up and play anyway.'

Immersive but not approachable would be my analysis.
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Good to know, thanks! I should give out XP for setting up a TV Tropes page for this quest, too...

inawarminister said:
Poor Lealope, she's forgotten by the player-base already.

We're not just Ulyssian-with-Solar-Exaltation, we are, too, Odyssial-that-Was. Please remember this.
We already have relationships and promises too from the First Age. Don't hang up on Moon this much, please... (I don't have problem with the vote, that Lea-imposed hearing boost is one of my aim from the start when I read it the first time)

Regardless, can someone craft a stunt to convince Nilul to run damage control for us again?
Or do you want to let her go full Dynast politics for us? The precedent though....
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The nature of those promises is somewhat different though. You don't have First Age Odyssial's full hearing / touch level, since he was like E6 at the time of that snippet and you're merely E2 - E3, but it's a very useful power nonetheless. Take care that you do not become reliant on it, though it looks like most of the thread hasn't participated in the title vote so we'll probably just have to extend it / run it later.
 
Could we maybe get 'Raw Power + Nilul impersonator' as it's own vote category, like No More Than Moderate Revelry? It's pretty unique as far as plans go.
Cavalier said:
We really need to find something we can do for Nilul lest the imbalance of favors and aid grow too lopsided or she thinks Ulyssian takes her for granted.
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Presumably she'll need someone gruesomely murdered at some point, or we can use Better Hearing to help her out in her schemes.
 
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...Nilul's not secretly (double ultra secretly that is) chosen of that evil Genie Yozi is she? That would end...poorly. or hilariously. or possibly both...
 
The issue with stand in is that our family is not likely to be reasonable. They want us to show that we are loyal to them, and regardless of how sensible and reasonable our reasons for attending the party would be, they would still feel slighted that we chose that over them. While doing so a few times is acceptable, we are currently chosen against them every time we were given a choice, which is not exactly going to inspire loyalty and trust of Uly in them.

I also disagree about personal power alone being sufficient to rule the realm. Regardless of one's personal merits, most of the Realm's institutions are nowhere near being meritocratic, instead depending on who you know, with talent being a distant second in deciding how high you go. Even for us, we are using Zao's connections to help advance our goals and gain more authority and power within the Realm. Even then, Zao is but one person and there is a limit of how much he can help us. By having more connections, especially with one of the great houses, would open up more doors and resources for us, which would be useful in the future when we go out into the field Since we chose P&S, we would be spending the vast majority of our time training, so we should chose this opportunity to develop some connections as we are liable to not be able to do so after this window passes.

While personal power can eventually give us the ability to fight entire armies of DB, doing so is quite a bad idea. Not only is that quite a long way away, doing so is basically wasting valuable resources that could have otherwise been put to better use saving Creation.
 
[X] Better Listener

Alas, my vote failed. Truly the gods conspire against me to rain down such misfortune upon my endeavors.

Anyway, I'm voting for Listener, because the main problem last time around was we were always being caught of guard or reacting to the moves of our opponents. With this, we can replicate Zao's wind derived surveillance, and then surpass it. Because that's how we roll.

However, I'm not going to lie that I find the idea of Lea offhandedly saying Ody could be a better listener prompting him to master his senses to the point it gives him a kind of local clairvoyance entirely hilarious.
 
Serous said:
The issue with stand in is that our family is not likely to be reasonable. They want us to show that we are loyal to them, and regardless of how sensible and reasonable our reasons for attending the party would be, they would still feel slighted that we chose that over them. While doing so a few times is acceptable, we are currently chosen against them every time we were given a choice, which is not exactly going to inspire loyalty and trust of Uly in them.

I also disagree about personal power alone being sufficient to rule the realm. Regardless of one's personal merits, most of the Realm's institutions are nowhere near being meritocratic, instead depending on who you know, with talent being a distant second in deciding how high you go. Even for us, we are using Zao's connections to help advance our goals and gain more authority and power within the Realm. Even then, Zao is but one person and there is a limit of how much he can help us. By having more connections, especially with one of the great houses, would open up more doors and resources for us, which would be useful in the future when we go out into the field Since we chose P&S, we would be spending the vast majority of our time training, so we should chose this opportunity to develop some connections as we are liable to not be able to do so after this window passes.

While personal power can eventually give us the ability to fight entire armies of DB, doing so is quite a bad idea. Not only is that quite a long way away, doing so is basically wasting valuable resources that could have otherwise been put to better use saving Creation.
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The vast majority of time training would be enormously inefficient later because by then our Exaltation would've fully settled in. 80k XP is most certainly not a non-trivial amount, especially since we are very much in need of XP right now, running low after purchasing Immortal Blademaster to convince Pearl. And after all the bad blood between us and the fact that Sesus is apparently rather unreasonable, I am very much doubtful that they are going to be reliable enough allies to make that opportunity cost worth it. I very much doubt that three days of social time (which we are BAD at I might add) with an unreliable house is going to advance us very far in the snakepit of Dynastic politics.
 
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Serous said:
The issue with stand in is that our family is not likely to be reasonable. They want us to show that we are loyal to them, and regardless of how sensible and reasonable our reasons for attending the party would be, they would still feel slighted that we chose that over them. While doing so a few times is acceptable, we are currently chosen against them every time we were given a choice, which is not exactly going to inspire loyalty and trust of Uly in them.
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This is only the second opportunity we've had to mend fences with them, actually. We have strategies and excuses to mitigate the fallout, to be enacted by none other than Nilul, the master manipulator herself.
Serous said:
I also disagree about personal power alone being sufficient to rule the realm. Regardless of one's personal merits, most of the Realm's institutions are nowhere near being meritocratic, instead depending on who you know, with talent being a distant second in deciding how high you go. Even for us, we are using Zao's connections to help advance our goals and gain more authority and power within the Realm. Even then, Zao is but one person and there is a limit of how much he can help us. By having more connections, especially with one of the great houses, would open up more doors and resources for us, which would be useful in the future when we go out into the field Since we chose P&S, we would be spending the vast majority of our time training, so we should chose this opportunity to develop some connections as we are liable to not be able to do so after this window passes.
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Hmm... it's a salient argument, but I think you may be slightly overestimating the benefits of the connections we'd forge here. For one, not only are we going to be spending a portion of the night dueling and gypping people out of their armor (not the friendliest of actions), but Dynasts immerse themselves in this kind of thing on a regular basis. In all likelihood, while we'll prevent further Sesus hostility, we simply don't have the social acumen to make lasting impressions that won't simply be washed away by the tide of excess.

This isn't even getting into the fact that this post-Exaltation period is immensely valuable as a training opportunity. While you may contend that personal prowess isn't sufficient to rule the Realm, we do need some level of martial affinity to survive to do any kind of ruling whatsoever.

Remember, Anys Syn is out there. Watching. Waiting. Planning. She is stronger than us by an almost unimaginable degree... but her power is waning. We must make ours rise to meet hers.
 
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Let's not belabor the House's supposed unreasonableness, when from an outside perspective this is pretty clearly on us.

We just apparently don't think that matters against the alternative. Fair enough.
 
Serous said:
The issue with stand in is that our family is not likely to be reasonable. They want us to show that we are loyal to them, and regardless of how sensible and reasonable our reasons for attending the party would be, they would still feel slighted that we chose that over them. While doing so a few times is acceptable, we are currently chosen against them every time we were given a choice, which is not exactly going to inspire loyalty and trust of Uly in them.

I also disagree about personal power alone being sufficient to rule the realm. Regardless of one's personal merits, most of the Realm's institutions are nowhere near being meritocratic, instead depending on who you know, with talent being a distant second in deciding how high you go. Even for us, we are using Zao's connections to help advance our goals and gain more authority and power within the Realm. Even then, Zao is but one person and there is a limit of how much he can help us. By having more connections, especially with one of the great houses, would open up more doors and resources for us, which would be useful in the future when we go out into the field Since we chose P&S, we would be spending the vast majority of our time training, so we should chose this opportunity to develop some connections as we are liable to not be able to do so after this window passes.

While personal power can eventually give us the ability to fight entire armies of DB, doing so is quite a bad idea. Not only is that quite a long way away, doing so is basically wasting valuable resources that could have otherwise been put to better use saving Creation.
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Well, it depends. The Imperial Legions were almost entirely meritocratic, as well as the Magistracy to some degree. Both institutions have been badly dismembered by the Deliberative, but their internal command structures are still intact. Tepet Ejava had Tepet connections, but she also rose quickly due to her high ability. However, rivals prevented her from getting a good command so she ended up heading one of the worst Legions, the Vermillion.
 
Van Ropen said:
Let's not belabor the House's supposed unreasonableness, when from an outside perspective this is pretty clearly on us.
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They are apparently unreasonable to the point where they will not accept any mitigating circumstances on our part. While I'm not unsympathetic to the view that we might have wronged them, them opposing us despite the practical benefit of our eventual cooperation is what I would call unreasonable. Rihaku even stated as such himself.
 
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