... I have to ask but is this coming fight nearly the same challenge it used to be? Like how much easier did this roll make this?
[Exalted, ?] Most High
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For evocation ideas, we already have a tree that makes Ambition stronger as a personal weapon, and a tree that makes him better multiple opponents, so maybe a third three that makes him better in group combat, giving allies buff and enemies debuff? It would go with the theme of uplifting those around him.
Parrying an attack such that some of the non-success dice the opponent rolls against us are rerolled as a separate attack on another of our opponents?
Supposed to be If they flub the attack on us they do horrific damage to one of their allies. Or is that too overpowered?
Supposed to be If they flub the attack on us they do horrific damage to one of their allies. Or is that too overpowered?
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The thing about the King of Swords is that there is only one King. A bunch of mirror images with drastically reduced capabilities does not fit the thematics of the weapon. Or of Odyssial, for that matter.
Guile
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It's still a dozen high level exalts led by a ghost of a First Age Solar. Plus three armies that had expected to be able to conquer a satrapy.
Something to buff the weapons of subordinates fighting alongside us could work, however.
A First Age Solar who is utterly terrified of us on par with the Great Curse.
The moment Ambition's edge catches the sun's light, the Abyssals flee the field and the Raksha host breaks, their story Ended. Ragmar's Lunar hordes, however, merely stand by, watching in dismay as their allies vanish like shadows dispelled by the coming dawn, and wonder what the hell they're missing. They don't have to wonder long.
Well, we are still outnumbered and fighting an uphill battle, but I'd hazard a guess that we're no longer doomed.
Who might start gibbering and wanting to hide in their corner when they see us wielding ambition. We might be able to enforce their loyalty to us and gain control over them...
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On the other hand, well, overt displays of overwhelming power are going to be a tad suspicious, given Ulyssian is already accused of being Anathema and there are some things which are just beyond the Dragonblooded.
How about this Evocation: Odyssial always finds a way. Any attempt to evade him only delays the inevitable. When an opponent uses an effect to defend against a strike with Ambition without contest (for example with Seven Shadow Evasion) then the next strike will be enhanced to hit even harder than the previous strike would have, adding X non-charm successes to the attack and damage roll.
I figured high level combatants like the Abyssals would have at least one perfect defense as a panic button, so why not use it against them?
I figured high level combatants like the Abyssals would have at least one perfect defense as a panic button, so why not use it against them?
The mouth and all the head of houses say we are blessed by the dragons. Heseish has personally said we are not anathema.... yeah.
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Uly.... FORGOT?! What mad work of the hated Sidereals is this?! The peerless mind of the Lord Strategos is beyond such things! His supernal clarity of thought and mind ensure that he forgets nothing... unless he wants to!
Also, good god those rolls. For an idea, this is the blade of the King, a martial ruler above all others, perhaps there might be a way to utilize that? War roll boons of some fashion, or perhaps something Bureaucratic, after all, Masters Study Logistics!
Hm, some of what we've done can probably be attributed to Ambition being a very powerful Artifact; Dragon-Blooded are second only to Solars where mastering weapons is concerned. It's even true; Ambition is going to be something like seventy-five percent of our combat power after this is done.
On the other hand, we really need to start planning for how to ditch our shikari minders and that totally-not-a-Sidereal adjutant.
Rihaku
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Not that much easier, though it will depend on the exact nature of the Evocations you Awaken and your enemies. Certainly you are much deadlier than you were before. To the tune of about 3-4 additional Martial Titles.
Perhaps an evocation that works like the strategos option where in if we have faced an enemy before we can start gaining bonuses against them in any future confrontations we have with them depending on how many times we have faced them? The more we figure out their quirks in combat the more we can plan ahead and make predictions on what they are going to do in the future.
Then an upgrade to that that allows us to grants bonuses to our command over allies we have worked with before the more we learn about them? Basically play up the solar overall commander roll we had back in the first age.
Then an upgrade to that that allows us to grants bonuses to our command over allies we have worked with before the more we learn about them? Basically play up the solar overall commander roll we had back in the first age.
Rihaku
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Kill them?
Ambition doesn't buff others unless given to them. Its wielder alone it exalts above all others, for a man's ambition can, ultimately, only serve one master. Or so Odyssial believed.
A Satrapy with a Realm Legion stationed there, no less! Though you could possibly take a Realm Legion now. I'm not sure.
I have addressed this earlier; the Terror of Odyssial does not de-protagonize the Exalted any more than the Great Curse did.
But are they beyond a Shogun?
Seems a bit wasteful. Can't we take a leaf out of Syn's playbook and let them die killing our enemies for us?
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Syn playbook lead to Odyssial waking the sleeping Solar dragon.
Syn playbook is just toilet paper.
Weren't there some decision points offering to go and check up at him during Uly's time at the Academy?
I'd have thought he'd at least have kept potential psychological weakspots in mind when deciding whether to follow up on that or bothered to recall stuff pretty central to why Flame hates him in the first place when he tried to kill Moon or came up in relation to the Bronze faction, though I suppose Uly had more important things to think about.
In any case, could we justify asking Pearl for a briefing on everything known about Flame, when it looks like we're going to start moving against Anys Syn and her plans directly?
Wade into battle and find out how many of the people trying to keep an eye on us survived fighting the Behemoths?
And then kill the survivors.
Deathlords are ghosts, not Exalted. Far less of a protagonist.
Rihaku
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Seems a bit complicated, compared to just killing them!
Guile
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Orrr her fear may be of the pitchfork and torch variety. Hell, maybe she somehow figured out Odyssial was back, and realized she needed to murder the entire Realm one satrapy at a time to be sure she gets him.
Rihaku
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It is not the Exaltation that makes the protagonist. It is the protagonist that earns the Exaltation. Had Odyssial never exalted, he would have become a Sorcerer, would have transformed himself into the equivalent of a Second Circle Daeva with Workings, and then used that precipice of power to transfigure himself into the equivalent of a Third Circle, and onwards...
She doesn't remember Ody, otherwise she would have been significantly more troubled during her interlude. Also, she wouldn't bother with such a plan as this - either stay away from him altogether while amassing overwhelming force, or attack with everyone she presently has in the hopes of killing him early.
So a discount primordial then?