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The Odyssial of Lunars then.
[Exalted, ?] Most High
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[X] Satrapal Posting
[X] Don't tell Saery
YYYYYYYYEEEEEEESSSSSSSS
A threesome between Moon,Lea, and Ulyssian can possibly be a thing.
And if I remember right Lea is currently fighting HMK.
[X] Don't tell Saery
YYYYYYYYEEEEEEESSSSSSSS
A threesome between Moon,Lea, and Ulyssian can possibly be a thing.
And if I remember right Lea is currently fighting HMK.
did we pick option in the odyssial's eon that gives us more than marginal resources outside the realm?
- Location
- Fabulously Rainbow Ireland
Soooo?:
Vagabond/Operative = personal combat skills
Satrapy = army/nation building skills
Admiralty = Sail and military skills
House Sesus = Social/Political skills
- Location
- Southern Virginia
[X] House Sesus
The Realm breaking out into Civil War is inevitable and will certainly speed up Creation's expiration date. The only way to avert or, more likely, mitigate that is to manipulate the political situation in the Realm. Taking control over House Sesus would certainly be a major advance in that cause. Zao seems to be maneuvering in the direction of placing his protege in power. It also offers the most opportunity to explore Dynastic society, which is something we've not done in either preceding Quest. Nor does it require Ulyssian to focus on a brand-new Ability and devote a lot of effort into graduating at the top of the naval class.
The Realm breaking out into Civil War is inevitable and will certainly speed up Creation's expiration date. The only way to avert or, more likely, mitigate that is to manipulate the political situation in the Realm. Taking control over House Sesus would certainly be a major advance in that cause. Zao seems to be maneuvering in the direction of placing his protege in power. It also offers the most opportunity to explore Dynastic society, which is something we've not done in either preceding Quest. Nor does it require Ulyssian to focus on a brand-new Ability and devote a lot of effort into graduating at the top of the naval class.
[x] Tell Saery
I'm thinking the main issue that arises from telling Saery is her reaction. While she will not reveal the secret, the issue is that someone realizes that something is up from her reactions after knowing the truth. While her social stats are much better than Moon's, as House Nellen's heir, she would also be exposed to people with greater social abilities than Moon. However, Uly did tell Moon, and both of them are not as good as Saery in hiding their reactions, especially considering their intimacies with each other. Furthermore, not telling her because we think it is too risky is a disservice to Saery. While nowhere as good as Nilul, we must not underestimate Saery. She is the heir of a great house, after all, so she must have had a lot of experience in keeping secrets, considering the culture of the realm. She did see through Uly and Moon, after all. While is incapable of reading Nllul, she is a social specced Solar Tier Exalt, so comparing to her is kinda unfair.
However, the risks that arises from Saery's position as heir also means that she would be in a better position to help us. Her house is the one that is most willing to compromise with other parties, and she can act as intermediary between her house elders and us to broker a deal. Furthermore, her sphere of influence is in different circles from Zao, thus she can keep an ear out for information and acts that could unveil Uly in circles where Zao's information network is weak in. While having more people know our secret makes it easier for someone to find out about it, it allows means that there can be more people to help cover it up.
Ignoring the purely calculative aspects of this decision, there is also the emotional aspect. Saery is the close friend of Nilul, Moon and Uly. Unlike Mountain Hero, she does not really have a strong belief in the Immaculate Faith. In fact, in her interlude, she acknowledges some part of it as propaganda. Thus, as a whole, we do not really need to worry about her having a negative reaction to the revelation. Thus, this is really a matter of whether we trust her or not. In the world of Realm politics, having people who you can truly trust and confide in is a rare thing that must be cherished. Considering that Uly is a Solar pretending to be a DB, the number of people that he can trust is very few, and I would rather that Saery be one of them
As for the other choice, I'm still deciding, but I wonder if voting Satrapy would allow us to visit Flame's sister. He did come from the Threshold, right?
I'm thinking the main issue that arises from telling Saery is her reaction. While she will not reveal the secret, the issue is that someone realizes that something is up from her reactions after knowing the truth. While her social stats are much better than Moon's, as House Nellen's heir, she would also be exposed to people with greater social abilities than Moon. However, Uly did tell Moon, and both of them are not as good as Saery in hiding their reactions, especially considering their intimacies with each other. Furthermore, not telling her because we think it is too risky is a disservice to Saery. While nowhere as good as Nilul, we must not underestimate Saery. She is the heir of a great house, after all, so she must have had a lot of experience in keeping secrets, considering the culture of the realm. She did see through Uly and Moon, after all. While is incapable of reading Nllul, she is a social specced Solar Tier Exalt, so comparing to her is kinda unfair.
However, the risks that arises from Saery's position as heir also means that she would be in a better position to help us. Her house is the one that is most willing to compromise with other parties, and she can act as intermediary between her house elders and us to broker a deal. Furthermore, her sphere of influence is in different circles from Zao, thus she can keep an ear out for information and acts that could unveil Uly in circles where Zao's information network is weak in. While having more people know our secret makes it easier for someone to find out about it, it allows means that there can be more people to help cover it up.
Ignoring the purely calculative aspects of this decision, there is also the emotional aspect. Saery is the close friend of Nilul, Moon and Uly. Unlike Mountain Hero, she does not really have a strong belief in the Immaculate Faith. In fact, in her interlude, she acknowledges some part of it as propaganda. Thus, as a whole, we do not really need to worry about her having a negative reaction to the revelation. Thus, this is really a matter of whether we trust her or not. In the world of Realm politics, having people who you can truly trust and confide in is a rare thing that must be cherished. Considering that Uly is a Solar pretending to be a DB, the number of people that he can trust is very few, and I would rather that Saery be one of them
As for the other choice, I'm still deciding, but I wonder if voting Satrapy would allow us to visit Flame's sister. He did come from the Threshold, right?
[X] House Sesus
[X] Don't Tell Saery
[X] Don't Tell Saery
Have a quote:
Rihaku said:
Having Legions helps us project our authority, prevent sabotage to the war manse network, and deal with threats that require more nuance than a nuke provides. The Sword can be wielded if we don't become the head of House Sesus, but allying with the Lunars or just up and proclaiming ourselves Emperor would probably require putting much of the Blessed Isle to the sword. Or the Sword, as it were.
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If we aren't in the Navy or leader of House Sesus then we will have more ability to do damage control and/or keep our resources anyway despite being outed than with the other options due to greater distance between the incident making it easier to kill witnesses.
Did Uly reverse pickpocket the talents onto the enforcers and let them take it out of the casino for him and take it back when they tried to reclaim the money he didn't have?
Here is my take on the options.
House Sesus:At the end of the day Uly is a grand killstick but isn't that great by exalted standards at leadership or politics. Going for house Sesus basically means playing our weaknesses against our foes strengths in order to achieve the level of power needed to leverage our strengths again. When achieved it may be the best option but I suspect it ends in us being outed and chased out of the Realm before we get that far. Also our family hates us and being the best at stabbing isn't really going to get us in charge.
Admiralty: This does give a fair amount of political power but it also puts a large demand on our time and makes it near impossible to sneak off for projects as we are stuck on boats. Also the endgame for this option basically gives us the political leverage that Zao already can claim for himself just by leaving the academy. Also we are crap at boats.
Operative: This one does have a lot of appeal but I would prefer to have a power base rather than being a complete wanderer.
Satrapy: This one is in many ways a compromise between House Sesus and Operative. It provides a far weaker version of the power granted by House Sesus but is much easier to get, maintain and won't be lost if we our outed as a Solar, while once we have it set up we can go on operative style missions elsewhere. Also it gives us a place to collect allies including Nilul, Moon, and any Celestial exalt allies we find. I bet Leanope would live a forward base for her agents near The Realm.
[X] Tell Saery
[X] Satrapal Posting
We have Fairest who is hidden somewhere that only we know but we don't remember where yet.
We have scattered caches of DB loyalists waiting for Ody's reincarnation aka Ulyssian
and we have a sane, loving Lea who also has artifacts and other resources Ody left for Ulyssian.
Lea and Fairest alone are amazing because Lea is the second strongest Lunar who is a social and seduction master while Fairest is the strongest
sidereal as She's an Elder Sid who is UnWracked.
Rihaku
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Not that dilineated, it's more the marginal options (in terms of great commitment required or great risk) that you might encounter.
Mmm, not necessarily inevitable. That fate can be headed off, even now, even with the Sidereals broken as they are.
All things are possible for he who can find a way.
But it does require more off-the-beaten-path development than, say, Operative. Or even Satrapal Posting, to a degree, since you don't even have to be a Satrapal Governor!
Though for how much longer, who can say, given how these votes are turning out!
If she's still alive, and hale.
Not necessarily - not if you're still a "Dragon-Blood."
Windlass
A Windy Lass
- Location
- Wherever the wind is blowing
[X] The Admiralty
We get mobility out of this. Can travel, address problems (man does Creation have problems), and are still associated with the Realm while avoiding social shit that Uly doesn't have the time for. Let's get at our caches.
[X] Don't Tell Saery
I just don't see a huge reason to? I mean, yay, Saery seems cool and all, but giving her the keys to knock us down no matter how far we climb up the Dynastic ladder? Naaaah. Bad move. Moon knows because she's Moon and Uly's in love with her and Nilul knows because ahahaha nooooope, not keeping secrets from Nilul. Why does Saery need to know? She's coping just fine. We want to be a Dynast, gotta keep dem secrets.
PS: Dammit, I wanted Uly in a tux! Also why did we spare Syn's puppet? Such disappoint, very sad.
We get mobility out of this. Can travel, address problems (man does Creation have problems), and are still associated with the Realm while avoiding social shit that Uly doesn't have the time for. Let's get at our caches.
[X] Don't Tell Saery
I just don't see a huge reason to? I mean, yay, Saery seems cool and all, but giving her the keys to knock us down no matter how far we climb up the Dynastic ladder? Naaaah. Bad move. Moon knows because she's Moon and Uly's in love with her and Nilul knows because ahahaha nooooope, not keeping secrets from Nilul. Why does Saery need to know? She's coping just fine. We want to be a Dynast, gotta keep dem secrets.
PS: Dammit, I wanted Uly in a tux! Also why did we spare Syn's puppet? Such disappoint, very sad.
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[X] Tell Saery
[X] Satrapal Posting
It seems that we have substantial allies and resources that we can only gather outside of the realm. While being in the realm grants greater opportunity and resources, we will be under greater scrutiny and will have to work using our weaknesses. Satrapal Posting seems to be the more optimum option.
[X] Satrapal Posting
It seems that we have substantial allies and resources that we can only gather outside of the realm. While being in the realm grants greater opportunity and resources, we will be under greater scrutiny and will have to work using our weaknesses. Satrapal Posting seems to be the more optimum option.
He didn't disguise it at all, he just carried it like he had every right to do so and dared anyone to say a word to the obviously rich and powerful dynast. 
But on our posting: There's a couple important questions to ask here: What's our time limit? And visions of bronze or visions of gold? Rather, do we have time to take the options that would take longer to build up to full capacity like acquiring a Satrapal (or establishing a new one for extra prestige)? And do we want to go for safer options with lower payoffs (save the world, but much of it gets damaged and destroyed) or the high risk high reward options (the world is already damaged enough, keep everything you can keep)?
But on our posting: There's a couple important questions to ask here: What's our time limit? And visions of bronze or visions of gold? Rather, do we have time to take the options that would take longer to build up to full capacity like acquiring a Satrapal (or establishing a new one for extra prestige
)? And do we want to go for safer options with lower payoffs (save the world, but much of it gets damaged and destroyed) or the high risk high reward options (the world is already damaged enough, keep everything you can keep)?
Van Ropen
Angry, angry about elves.
Are we free to travel with Admiralty? Seems more like we are locked into the chain of command and doing missions until we can work our way to the top, which will take some time even with Zao's influence. Operative is the way to go for snagging all the caches, with Satrapy also providing the option if we work for it.
Windlass
A Windy Lass
- Location
- Wherever the wind is blowing
Probably at least some freedom. It's a happy medium between complete liberty with no real Realm support and being able to command legions but not take a shit without spies reporting on it.
Wait what? How the hell do we regain Lea without the Realm freaking the fuck out because we just teamed up with the strongest Lunar( Our Lea will stay second place to that insane Monkey.) The woman who is a social master-
Ohh right Lea can disguise herself.
- Location
- Fabulously Rainbow Ireland
We're REALLY ill-suited for it
Windlass
A Windy Lass
- Location
- Wherever the wind is blowing
Not like we can't fix that, though.
Plus we have to spend five training slots on it. For those who don't like Limit Breaks Admiralty isn't an option you should be voting for.
Van Ropen
Angry, angry about elves.
I dunno, the freedom afforded to a ship captain doesn't seem like enough to start wandering through distant territories at will to find our stuff. We will have at least some semblance of deployment orders until we work our way up the chain of command.
Yeah - for five training actions, and a serious chunk of XP.
We have a number of months to do that training, in addition to the possibility of stress-reducing options along the way. Five is just what's necessary to pass with flying colors; we can take less.
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