[Exalted/SMT] Shard of a Broken Sun

Demonic Spoon said:
we can't actually do much to influence the story events?

Just tell her to kick ass if the talky charm is chosen.
Well... fair enough, there'd be a second vote after the exaltation, where you get more relevant options.

Some builds would work better than others for handling the current situation, and understanding what that situation is would help, but... I'll shut up now. Have fun!
 
Well, one alternative would be to pick up some social focus and pick up some War Charms to coordinate the guys who are fighting the big demon after we get them to play ball, but that might be tricky in itself.
 
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To think of it we would need something talky to unfuckup this fuckup after the fight...
 
[X] Exaltation time.
- [X] Focus on ways to fix this. A lot of people are dying.
-- [X] Bonus Points: Strengthen the weak points in her personality, as these can hurt her ability to make a difference. She needs strength of resolve and the will to exercise restraint with her exaltation.
-- [X] Forge a connection with Amu and her Charas with Inexperience-Denying Connection and Dream-Affirming Projection
-- [X] She must protect those who cannot protect themselves. Something to organize the people, to wield the power of authority and shield the weak. Presence and War charms will bring order to this chaos, and get the people moving
-- [X] She must fight, but there are many enemies and her body is frail. So she will fight at range, draw fire and evade attacks. Thrown and Dodge will serve her best
-- [X] She must be able to resist whatever spiritual contamination these creatures might project. Integrity charms will preserve her self, so she may preserve others. Occult to understand them and combat them better.

[X] Maximise it, now that you have a unique opportunity to do so.
 
Alectai said:
A Presence Excellency and an investment in that would be useful too.

But... Yeah, it looks like Secret Organization ran into a demon-cult of some kind, and we wound up fucking up a sting operation?
My quick scan of the update gave me the impression that the secret organization is the demon cult? And they're hunting down a person in a crowd so decided to go with a kill them all with demons approach. Too lazy to go thoroughly read the update.
 
We didn't fuck it up, but it sure looks that way from the outside.

Basically, one of the MiBs saw us as Amulet Heart and panicked, his demon jumped us, we hit back, this distraction caused the guy they were hunting to take advantage of it.

Strictly speaking, we didn't actively fuck it up, but a lot of people are getting hurt or killed because we distracted someone for being there.
 
pressea said:
Angry Paranoid Agency being Angry AND Paranoid? Even if we will personally kill demon in 2 seconds flat... especially if we will personally kill demon in 2 seconds flat.
 
Alectai said:
We didn't fuck it up, but it sure looks that way from the outside.

Basically, one of the MiBs saw us as Amulet Heart and panicked, his demon jumped us, we hit back, this distraction caused the guy they were hunting to take advantage of it.

Strictly speaking, we didn't actively fuck it up, but a lot of people are getting hurt or killed because we distracted someone for being there.
We didn't, but situation did got fuck up... and we are inside that situation.
 
Huh, looks like my plan is pretty vaguely defined by comparison. I thought we weren't supposed to specify charms but rather specify priorities, based on long term needs and also the immediate situation.

Presence and War to get the situation under control, the police organized and the civilians out of the way.
Dodge and Thrown so that we can fight them at range while evading hits. If the police or civilians are led, they could also benefit from our charms while we lead the unit.
Finally, Integrity because it looks like there might be some mind/soul fuckery going on, and Occult because knowledge is power, we can't formulate a strategy against these things if we don't know how they work or what they can do.
 
veekie said:
Huh, looks like my plan is pretty vaguely defined by comparison. I thought we weren't supposed to specify charms but rather specify priorities, based on long term needs and also the immediate situation.
That is correct. Or more precisely, I'll happily ignore any votes for charms, after spending some time reverse-engineering a broader vote like yours. I like yours. :)

Bonus points are the exception to that, but most of her build does not fall in that category.
 
Alectai said:
So, hypothetically speaking, Veekie's write-in is better done?
Hard to say. I think an ideal write-in would be structured like his, but with a more verbose/explicit understanding of what's going on in-story. Basically, leave less of the choice up to my hard-mode story generator. :p
 
Alectai said:
Tricky, especially since I exhausted my creative lobe writing out my last write-in.
You could do your cause far more good by figuring out what is happening with this 'random' park battle, though of course that takes research. Just saying.
 
Baughn said:
You could do your cause far more good by figuring out what is happening with this 'random' park battle, though of course that takes research. Just saying.
Well a brief search for "Chief Hotsuin" brought up the wikia page for Yamamoto Hotsuin, the leader of JP. And I'd try to help with the write-in as well but I'm not very good with words unless inspiration strikes, which is very rare itself.
 
Okay.

The "MiBs" are from JP's, and they're here on Yamato's orders. Investigating... Something.

I have no idea who "He" is though.
 
If you're going to buy the guidance charm, maybe you should actually guide Amu? Neither plan seems to have a guide Amu component.
 
I'm working on that while I'm recharging my Creative Lobe.

After my pizza arrives and is rightfully in my belly, I will come up with an updated stunt.
 
MY CREATIVE LOBE HAS RECHARGED

[X] Exaltation time.
-[X] Focus on ways to fix this. A lot of people are dying.
--[X] Amu has pure of heart, and strong of will. This is a good start, but she currently lacks the Conviction to follow through on her deeds, and the Temperance to know when Not to act. We have the ability to reinforce these to a somewhat stronger level, and should do so, as reckless usage of Power is as dangerous as the inability to use it at all.
--[X] We have spent quite some time developing the means to coincide with her Chara, and even developed a method to mimic their ability to communicate with her. This would be practical, as it would help us provide advice, in the absence of a support structure. Implement these newly developed Charms in with the initial Exaltation Surge.
--[X] Management of the situation is as potent a force as raw might alone, and the Dawn Caste is as potent at this as anything else. Some simple charms to assert command of the situation and coordinate the defence against the apparently great monster in the middle would be prudent.
--[X] Some simple investment into defence, focusing more on evasion and anti-magic would also be wise. We don't know the full scope of what the opposing forces can muster, so stick to the basics that provide a potent defence without investing too heavily in specifics.
--[X] Some simple offensive arts--she is talented at throwing objects, developing this into a legitimate battle style should be simpler then starting another art from first principles. The Joint-Wounding Technique in particular should allow a proper attack, and disable attackers to retreat if necessary
--[X] Remaining energies should be committed to basic first-aid, such as the Contagion Curing Touch to stabilize any wounded, and analysis arts, to help the host (And by extension, ourselves) get a grasp on the nature of these aggressors.

Advice Corner
"Okay... Just one moment... All right! Can you hear me? Perfect! Okay, there's not a whole lot of time to explain, and I promise to get right down to it soon, but we need to sort this problem out first. I'll get to the introductions when we're out of danger--right now, we need to get this whole situation under control and try to reduce further casualties... You Should be able to convince the... I think they're some kind of police or military force based on their uniforms? Anyway, you should be able to convince them to stop focusing on you for now, and if we can go that far, we should be able to team up with them to beat that monster that just showed up. It'd be dangerous to try helping others while it's on a rampage like that, so we need to slow it down first. If you've got anything you can throw at it? You should be able to slow it down so the professionals can deal with it.

Once that's under control, I'd suggest switching out with Su, you should have the ability to stabilize anyone who can be saved once the big monster's no longer causing trouble. If we work fast enough, we can minimize the damages!

[X]Keep Compassion High.
 
You Should be able to convince the... I think they're some kind of police or military force based on their uniforms? Anyway, you should be able to convince them to stop focusing on you for now, and if we can go that far, we should be able to team up with them to beat that monster that just showed up.
I'd just shout that we're on their side and attack the demon. We're kinda in the middle of a fight right now.
 
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