[Exalted, ?] Most High

I did notice that, but I felt it was good enough to be worthy. My ambivalence towards GKS probably helps with that.

Yeah, GKS is broken but I'm not going to run it RAW and its cooldown is really bad. Still, wiping an enemy city off the map (or at least forcing the commitment of dozens of Exalts) is pretty nice.

Ordering the Constellations is insanely good, yes. Since it's Simple, though, you can't really use it in Clashes (unless you are the one that gets Clashed!)
 
...still getting five when I tried calculating stress, but clearly I'm just impossible. Alrighty then, lets do this.


[X] Negotiations
-[X] Try to turn them from Hell's service. Extremely difficult in all likelihood, but the Princess of Lies is at your side to help!

[X] The King Stands Alone.

[X] Arch-Predictionist
-[X] Naval
-[X] Academy
[X] Medical Balm
[X] Studying With Moon
 
I don't know if Odyssial would be interested in releasing the Yozis, no matter how 'fixed' they might be. These are still the Primordial Titans that he fought and bled to defeat; I'm fine with negotiation, but we shouldn't make promises that we can't or won't keep.

Odyssial was going to remake Creation itself. Reforging the Yozis through soul-surgery and directing Infernals to develop Charms to render them something that can co-exist with humanity is trivial in comparison. I mean worse come to worse he can just force their Fetich-souls to be rendered into a auxiliary brain ala Autobot, and then spend some time training them to not be stupid. Ought to be viable ten years down the line or so, aka too long for us to care. He didn't even Neverborn Lethos, instead twisting it into the Lethe and intimidating it into assisting his reincarnation gambit; imagine how useful, say, She Who Lives in Her Name might be when it comes time to start reforging Creation into a more just and harmonious setting.

Also, uh, hmm, was Heartlessness 11 where Odyssial won, but his attempt at reordering Creation just produced the OWoD? Because that'd make a lot of sense...
 
What does "Each option below adds 1 Stress" mean then? I thought it was:

One Free action: Arch-Predictionist
+1 Stress from Naval description
+1 Stress from Academy description
+1 Stress for another action: Medicinal Balm
+1 Stress from Medicinal Balm description
+1 Stress for another action: Studying with Moon

for a total of 5.
It's actually

One Free action: Studying with Moon
+1 Stress from Naval prediction
+1 Stress from Academy prediction
+1 Stress for another action: Medicinal Balm
+1 Stress from Medicinal Balm description
 
It's actually

One Free action: Studying with Moon
+1 Stress from Naval prediction
+1 Stress from Academy prediction
+1 Stress for another action: Medicinal Balm
+1 Stress from Medicinal Balm description
Yeah, the set up just weirded me out - for example, what if we had taken just one prediction action as our vote here (suboptimal, but hypothetically). We would gain one stress. If we had take one prediction action and studying with moon? One stress.

But hey, fine. Its not like I want it to be 5 instead of 4.
 
[X] Negotiations
-[X] Try to turn them from Hell's service. Extremely difficult in all likelihood, but the Princess of Lies is at your side to help!
[X] Arch-Predictionist
-[X] Naval

-[X] Academy
[X] Medical Balm
[X] Studying With Moon
 
How much damage would we have hit Polemgaos for if we had OtC? Because it seems like Overkill: The Charm.

It mostly exists so that you can kill Ahlat and other characters with infinite soak effects. Infinite soak helps nothing against Immortal Blade Triumphant + Damage Multiplication! Well, I mean, you can probably beat Ahlat just by Clashing him over and over again until he crashes even with Aegis of Invincible Authority, but this way you can kill him in one turn instead, just like everyone else!
 
[X] The King Stands Alone
[X] Negotiations
-[X] Try to turn them from Hell's service. Extremely difficult in all likelihood, but the Princess of Lies is at your side to help!
[X] Arch-Predictionist
-[X] Naval
-[X] Academy
[X] Medical Balm
[X] Studying With Moon

Well I'm convinced.
 
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Odyssial was going to remake Creation itself. Reforging the Yozis through soul-surgery and directing Infernals to develop Charms to render them something that can co-exist with humanity is trivial in comparison. I mean worse come to worse he can just force their Fetich-souls to be rendered into a auxiliary brain ala Autobot, and then spend some time training them to not be stupid. Ought to be viable ten years down the line or so, aka too long for us to care. He didn't even Neverborn Lethos, instead twisting it into the Lethe and intimidating it into assisting his reincarnation gambit; imagine how useful, say, She Who Lives in Her Name might be when it comes time to start reforging Creation into a more just and harmonious setting.

Also, uh, hmm, was Heartlessness 11 where Odyssial won, but his attempt at reordering Creation just produced the OWoD? Because that'd make a lot of sense...

Odyssial wouldn't create as shit a world as the OWoD! He wouldn't remake the world until he was good and ready! Else he would have done it before, instead of waiting...

The OWoD is a world of decline. Odyssial's world might have issues in other ways, if he were Heartlessness 11, but it wouldn't be so disorganized and meaningless as that.

Yeah, the set up just weirded me out - for example, what if we had taken just one prediction action as our vote here (suboptimal, but hypothetically). We would gain one stress. If we had take one prediction action and studying with moon? One stress.

But hey, fine. Its not like I want it to be 5 instead of 4.

That's correct, the structure imposes a floor stress (1) if you take a Prediction action.
 
People, if you're assuming you can pick every option and then just safely Limit Break out in the threshold somewhere...

Please don't throw yourselves on Rihaku's mercy like that.
 
Odyssial was going to remake Creation itself. Reforging the Yozis through soul-surgery and directing Infernals to develop Charms to render them something that can co-exist with humanity is trivial in comparison. I mean worse come to worse he can just force their Fetich-souls to be rendered into a auxiliary brain ala Autobot, and then spend some time training them to not be stupid. Ought to be viable ten years down the line or so, aka too long for us to care. He didn't even Neverborn Lethos, instead twisting it into the Lethe and intimidating it into assisting his reincarnation gambit; imagine how useful, say, She Who Lives in Her Name might be when it comes time to start reforging Creation into a more just and harmonious setting.
I thought the implication was that Lethos was one of the Neverborn, since what remains of it resides in the underworld? Anyway, I could buy him doing that if Coldness had won, but we opted for Fury instead. The Yozis are objects of hatred to him, not candidates for rehabilitation; he hardly would've needed the aid of She Who Lives in Her Name to forge an orderly Creation. Regardless of their utility, it would've have been a matter of vengeance to him, of the monsters that tormented humanity not deserving a place in his golden forever.
 
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People, if you're assuming you can pick every option and then just safely Limit Break out in the threshold somewhere...

Please don't throw yourselves on Rihaku's mercy like that.

But Limit Breaks are entertaining!

DO YOU NOT WANT TO BE ENTERTAINED

I'm surprised the House Prediction isn't getting more love. It's really, really good. You make House Sesus have to like you because you're too good to turn down, and also indebt them to you while strengthening their hand! It's actually much broader impact than the Academy option, except it doesn't directly help Zao stay alive...

By the way, taking Academy in no way guarantees that Zao will live.
 
I'm surprised the House Prediction isn't getting more love. It's really, really good. You make House Sesus have to like you because you're too good to turn down, and also indebt them to you while strengthening their hand! It's actually much broader impact than the Academy option, except it doesn't directly help Zao stay alive...
I think it's because we've basically spurned them at every turn, so the option doesn't feel in-character regardless of its utility. It would have a lot more traction if House Sesus had won, or was at least still on the table; given recent events, are we still on track for the Satrapy?
 
[X] Negotiations
-[X] Try to turn them from Hell's service. Extremely difficult in all likelihood, but the Princess of Lies is at your side to help!
[X] Arch-Predictionist
-[X] Naval

-[X] House
[X] Medical Balm
 
I think it's because we've basically spurned them at every turn, so the option doesn't feel in-character regardless of its utility. It would have a lot more traction if House Sesus had won, or was at least still on the table; given recent events, are we still on track for the Satrapy?

I dunno, are you? It depends on whether you're willing to take a "problem" satrapy.
 
[X] The King Stands Alone.
[X] Negotiations
-[X] Try to turn them from Hell's service. Extremely difficult in all likelihood, but the Princess of Lies is at your side to help!
[X] Arch-Predictionist
-[X] Naval
-[X] Academy

[X] Medical Balm
[X] Studying With Moon

I still have yet to see a limit break in an exalted quest, so I'm totally down.
 
[X] The King Stands Alone.
[X] Negotiations
-[X] Try to turn them from Hell's service. Extremely difficult in all likelihood, but the Princess of Lies is at your side to help!
[X] Arch-Predictionist
-[X] Naval
-[X] Academy

[X] Medical Balm
[X] Studying With Moon

I still have yet to see a limit break in an exalted quest, so I'm totally down.

...Really? Then you should pick House as well - after all, why not?

Depends on whether or not we can solve it with our sword, I guess.

But you have Prophet of Seventeen Cycles! You are not limited to your sword any longer! Also you are really good at tests now, due to the speedbump pre-req charms. Truth-Rendering Gaze actually is quite useful, though.
 
So, the infernal has memory of Odyssial's hissatsu ougi, but isn't shitting herself in fear...

Is the difference of Ulyssian and Odyssial's prowess really that far that Ulyssian performing his special move didn't even cause the fear its original form would have instilled to anyone who may have seen it, or is the memory of the first age was just that much obfuscated?
 
So, the infernal has memory of Odyssial's hissatsu ougi, but isn't shitting herself in fear...

Is the difference of Ulyssian and Odyssial's prowess really that far that Ulyssian performing his special move didn't even cause the fear its original form would have instilled to anyone who may have seen it, or is the memory of the first age was just that much obfuscated?

Huh? Which special move are you referring to? Odyssial was like E7 at the end of the Primordial War, so other Exalts would mostly remember his prowess at the E7+ level in the five thousand years after. So basically... the answer is yes, I guess. The difference is just that large, and it's not really E7+ Odyssial's special move.

Stress doesn't map precisely to Limit, so even if we hit 9, Limit Break might still be a ways off. On the one hand, that's good, because no Limit Break. On the other... the chances are low that disaster glorious entertainment will strike while we're away in the Threshold on business.

You guys should be careful who you're around when you Limit Break though I mean, yes, no need to be worried about Limit, DO YOU NOT WANT TO BE ENTERTAINED? AND GET FREE WILLPOWER?

Willpower~

You guys can also write in Prophet of Seventeen Cycles actions, you know! You just need a justifiable source for an authoritative / definitive treatise to study on the matter, but it doesn't have to be completely directly related - see the canonical example of interdicting Mnemon's advance in the field by studying the weather.
 
Stress doesn't map precisely to Limit, so even if we hit 9, Limit Break might still be a ways off. On the one hand, that's good, because no Limit Break. On the other... the chances are low that disaster glorious entertainment will strike while we're away in the Threshold on business.
On Stress, and maybe how to lower it... Didn't Rihaku say that we could maybe get (at max) -1 Stress with epic enough omakes? Could you possibly write an omake about studying with Moon? I think you have the better grasp on characterization and the flow of writing, and I was planning to myself focus on getting started with that Resolute Flame Quest.
Putting your anima in your sword is a Solar charm, not a Odyssial charm.
Putting your sword into your anima, however, is an Odyssial Charm. But to be fair, they haven't seen that.
 
Putting your anima in your sword is a Solar charm, not a Odyssial charm.

I think he may be referring to Annihilating Stroke, which is one of Ambition's Evocations and thus would be unique to him.

On Stress, and maybe how to lower it... Didn't Rihaku say that we could maybe get (at max) -1 Stress with epic enough omakes? Could you possibly write an omake about studying with Moon? I think you have the better grasp on characterization and the flow of writing, and I was planning to myself focus on getting started with that Resolute Flame Quest.

Putting your sword into your anima, however, is an Odyssial Charm. But to be fair, they haven't seen that.

You can indeed reduce stress with Omakes. Or increase it, if you don't want to be boring!
 
I was under the impression that Uly's killing blow was a unique technique that he developed (rediscovered?), much like the one Flame tried to copy to kill Moon
 
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