Tell me what you can about their abilities, speculating when neccessary, unless you're completely unfamiliar with what they can do.
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Do the high risk, high reward play- move to expose them as Anathema and bring down the matchless wrath of the other tournament participants upon them. Use that to divine their hidden strengths and strategies as these Infernals are smited and you ensure that they do not survive to threaten your friend and comrade.
Rihaku
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Nilul: I can see through their disguise techniques, it's just another lie. I don't know if that's something just I can do, or any of them could with training, though. I hope they didn't hear us talking yesterday! But they should have struck by now, if they had... I can't believe you were so stupid, Uly; you even temporarily made me stupid! This is all your fault!
Dream Logic
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Didn't Nilul know? If you can be friends with an asshole then they'll certainly be a great friend.
Rihaku
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For your purposes, you can basically treat them like Solars, with a Hellish tint to their abilities. They are likely strongest in arenas that a Yozi would focus on. For example, Adorjan's hearing, or Malfeas' strength and endurance. But it's not a strict one-to-one, no more than a Solar's powers are to UCS. She could tell you about TED-derived powers in detail, but she doesn't know how similar her powers are to theirs. She thinks hers trump theirs in certain very specific ways, but are also overall weaker / less versatile?
Step-by-step, do you have a rough plan to expose them?
Rihaku
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Mm, most Yozis are assholes, but they're not very good friends. Big Red either.
Ridiculously Average Guy
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[X] Plan Team-up.
-[X] Alone you can't face two Solars, but if working with others, including a Legend? Victory becomes possible.
-[X] Tip off Cathak Polemgaos before you begin, so he is ready for the battle.
--[X] Fix the drawing so you fight the Infernal. Expose her during the battle, and then take her (and her partner) down.
-[X] Alone you can't face two Solars, but if working with others, including a Legend? Victory becomes possible.
-[X] Tip off Cathak Polemgaos before you begin, so he is ready for the battle.
--[X] Fix the drawing so you fight the Infernal. Expose her during the battle, and then take her (and her partner) down.
Rihaku
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Remember that they have a perfect disguise Charm that is at least as good as yours, to everyone but Nilul. How do you intend to actually expose them in a credible manner? There is no physical evidence that they're Infernals, and the Realm doesn't even know that Infernals exist. How do you plan to manage blow-back and the inevitable counter-accusations? What are your contingencies?
Guile
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Nilul, what are the odds that you and I arouse suspicion by leaving right now, before the tournament has even begun? Likewise, the odds of you retreating without me without drawing their attention? A falling out could be manufactured.
"Why, I think she is! Let's call in the troops."
"Hey Mnemon, does that girl look like the errant daughter of the Ebon Dragon to you?"
"Why, I think she is! Let's call in the troops."
Emerald Oracle
Chaos, yet harmony. Death, yet the Force
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Ulyssian is after all dense. There would be a loss of face from being so dense that he drove off his second from this situation, but it'd get Nilul the hell out in a fashion that would only draw attention to Ulyssian being LESS competent than he actually is.
Rihaku
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Nilul: Probably high, but it doesn't matter, Zao can protect us. I destroyed my name so they can't track me by that. As long as they haven't seen me, they may believe whatever excuse we give.
Nilul: I could, but there is the possibility that they did hear us last night and are waiting for something like that. Damn, we might have to kill them if that looks likely. But Uly, are you sure you'll be okay here without me? These socialites are vicious, they'd tear you up! We wouldn't need a falling out, I could just make up an emergency or something.
To be fair, we don't know if Mnemon's had any dealings with them. In canon, she was mostly scared?
Rihaku
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You got 17 successes on 14 dice, with Willpower expenditure. Fate-Shifting Solar Arete is pretty bonkers.
You don't know that the Infernals are necessarily making a move, they could just be wandering around Creation pursuing their agenda as they have been for the last five years.
She can just be gone, and they can make up an excuse for Ulyssian to tell people. As long as it's boring, but not too boring, he... might be able to avoid arousing too much suspicion? Or she could shapechange into a "replacement second" that looks nothing like Red, but that would also be pretty risky.
Oh, wow Odyssial managed to destroy the Godspear in his death throes?
No wonder heaven would be scared shitless of him and want to kill him before its too late. I didn't even think that one of the Unconquered Sun's panapoly could be destroyed like that.
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Leaving without warning would be suspicious, so perhaps it would be best to hide out with paranoid preparation (as Ulyssian intends anyway) and then throw the match with Polemgaos? I mean, no one's likely to blink an eye at Ulyssian being beaten by such a powerful Dragonblooded, and his own reputation won't suffer much at all from it. They could probably rig things so it is the first match.
Van Ropen
Angry, angry about elves.
Why bother throwing the match in that case?
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...Because being beaten in the first match of the fight is a good reason to leave?
Ridiculously Average Guy
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Yeah...That's probably better.
Rihaku
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Guys, you know this is a great opportunity to ask Nilul about anything you may be curious about, as long as it wouldn't take too long to explain. You don't have to ask just about Infernals. Don't expect this kind of treatment every day, even if you are now true friends!
Not in his death throes, intentionally!
They can't be, they're supposed to be super-indestructible! How did he do it? Unfortunately, you don't remember.
That is a good alternative, yes. Could be quite viable, with the proper preparations! The first issue is that you don't want to appear like you're throwing, because someone like Polemgaos would definitely be able to tell. Also, you'd be saccing your opportunity to get Essence 4, so maybe a better plan would be to win but be so badly injured that you abstain from future contests?
Not in his death throes, intentionally!
They can't be, they're supposed to be super-indestructible! How did he do it? Unfortunately, you don't remember.
That is a good alternative, yes. Could be quite viable, with the proper preparations! The first issue is that you don't want to appear like you're throwing, because someone like Polemgaos would definitely be able to tell. Also, you'd be saccing your opportunity to get Essence 4, so maybe a better plan would be to win but be so badly injured that you abstain from future contests?
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I'm heavily inclined to stay here, even if Nilul has to leave, for two main reasons:
We just spent a bunch of XP unwisely because it was necessary for immediate combat power, and that irks me enough already without the expenditure being meaningless.
Apparently this thread is interested in being a part of the Realm (no matter how hard I advocate solo adventures), and I'm pretty sure ditching this event puts a pretty big smear on Uly's rep. Now, usually such smears could be fixed with sheer fightiness, but this is where we'd go to use fightiness to fix things, so buggering off probably isn't for the best.
On the other hand, if this is an indicator that the thread finally wants to ditch the Realm I'm all for it.
We just spent a bunch of XP unwisely because it was necessary for immediate combat power, and that irks me enough already without the expenditure being meaningless.
Apparently this thread is interested in being a part of the Realm (no matter how hard I advocate solo adventures), and I'm pretty sure ditching this event puts a pretty big smear on Uly's rep. Now, usually such smears could be fixed with sheer fightiness, but this is where we'd go to use fightiness to fix things, so buggering off probably isn't for the best.
On the other hand, if this is an indicator that the thread finally wants to ditch the Realm I'm all for it.
Rihaku
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Indeed, are you guys willing to sacrifice all this tournament means just for Nilul's (probably excessively paranoid) panic? You would basically have to avoid all socializing to not give away something suspicious, though. Plan hobo is a go!
Van Ropen
Angry, angry about elves.
Against an opponent as strong as him, even winning is enough to justifying bowing out on the grounds of being to weary to continue. If we are accepting the risk of sticking around, we might as well actually accomplish what we came for.
Hey! You can't give such a great line and then botch the climax. We're going to be a Murderhobo, not just the regular kind.
Rihaku
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Weariness wouldn't cut it, unfortunately. That would be shady as fuck. You'd definitely need to get at least horribly maimed, otherwise DB Medicine can just patch you right up!
Rihaku
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No, this is a strictly non-lethal tournament, sorry. No murdering allowed, Except of Anathema!