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Fiend: Thread Two, the Rethreading [Exalted/Worm]

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Endymion said:
Nah my favorite use for the third purchase of that is setting up your own Direction wide spy ring. A you in every major town, just keeping an eye on everything and everyone. Also makes great fast travel after it's set up.
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At 1m per clone that gets expensive fairly quickly compared with how not-hard it is to build a comparably sized spy ring out of, say, cultists. This gains back most of the utility if you bother learning to hear prayers through Cecy or ED Yozi-Body Unity. Remember, despite being sorcerous the charm specifically calls itself out as requiring commitment, and the repurchase that drops cost mentions nothing about changing that. (In fact, the only real reason to have a 1m cost on a charm you'd generally use in downtime is to serve as a functional limit on the number of clones you can have.)

I mean, being permanently down 30-40 motes can be pretty crippling and the charm specifically requires a commitment (albeit a tiny one after the second repurchase.) Considering the size of the direction, even a you in every small city or larger in the Scavenger Lands could be expensive enough to cramp functionality.

Personally I like to use it for a few body-doubles in charge of whatever territory I've claimed, depending on the build/whatever mutations I end up leaving the clones with/etc 4 or 5 incognito in major cities can be prudent as well.
 
It is entertaining to read, though.
I'm more amazed Damsel can fake that much acting in the omake, but hell. It is omake. Rule of fun applies here!
 
Well, the scene was quite fun. It's very logical that Fantasy's power is more psychologically wearying than anything. Also, it makes for really really nice "get out of trap" card.

So, Taylor suddenly had to maker her anima reach 11+ motes expression. Unsure why she couldn't have used DTAS instead, though if she didn't have more than one mote left in her personal pool it wouldn't have made a difference. Also, the 11+ mote expression means 'you can keep the mutations', and it also means she could make a fantastic 'Defend Other' move couple with Shadow shintai and GNSF.

...Hopefully, she doesn't yet have cold fire desolation brand. Poor Fantasy.
 
Ah, Splintered Gale Shintai. I remember someone I knew combining it with a custom Kimbery charm, so that character could impregnate females with a clone of themselves with a touch.

Male targets had it far worse.
 
Gore17 said:
Ah, Splintered Gale Shintai. I remember someone I knew combining it with a custom Kimbery charm, so that character could impregnate females with a clone of themselves with a touch.

Male targets had it far worse.
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Stop. Right. There.

Seriously, STOP. This is the kind of shit that, if even slightly expanded on, gets threads closed and people banninated.
 
Create third circle Devas at essence 8 with Path of a Thousand Whispers. Create demons at a normal play range with wyld shaping mirrors (The game neither specifically allows nor specifically forbids creating unique first circle demons aspected to you. Forbidding is probably RAI though) Turn someone into a demon. Well, you could create a demon that has the power to do so at essence 8, though that's more a player/ST level decision I believe.

Some spirit charms might let you turn someone into a demon-blooded and then help them jump the gap if you go eclipse analogue. But I can't think of any other way off-hand that does this while sticking only to canonical material. Maybe demon summoning, but that's legitimately the consequence-free solution to everything.

(Seriously Taylor's not in Creation and therefore if I remember an author comment on the subject correctly (Which admittedly would have been years ago), things aren't bound to Creation's calender and the restrictions that apply within the world. Ergo Taylor should totally just start summoning mass third circle demons to solve things for her! There's no way that could end badly.)
 
illhousen said:
I was hoping that the first work as a team would go better, but then, it's Worm, so not surprising.
So, Taylor revealed her presence in the city. Would be interesting to see the consequences of it.
I'm assuming she used Devil-Tyrant Avatar Shintai?

Fantasy seems to be pretty hax. I'm curious what she thought about TED vision.

Interlude is next? Or general chapter? Because I do think it's an appropriate place to have an interlude even if chapter isn't close to the end.
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I think Taylor used the Charm that makes an enemy blind, rather than the one inducing visions of TED. Might be misunderstanding or getting things mixed up, though.
 
Atlan said:
Stop. Right. There.

Seriously, STOP. This is the kind of shit that, if even slightly expanded on, gets threads closed and people banninated.
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*raises eyebrow* Last I checked, we could talk about Bleach and the Alien movies.

Because everything I was talking about happened in those.
 
Rask said:
I'm wondering what it take to keep Fantasy down. Maybe removing parts of her "corpse" out of range or sticking stuff into it so it can't reform?
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For normal capes or Taylor? For people without powers, it's basically stuff like Containment Foam, though would need total covering. For capes, powers like Clockblocker. At least as long as you don't want to be lethal (pretty sure Fantasy doesn't regen completelyfrom shapeshifting, she just mitigates her wounds).

For Talylor, there are lots and lots of charms, the easiest ones would be the GSNF (hatefire) upgrade Cold Fire Desolation Brand, which would make Fantasy sick and die or incapacitated.

Or, you know, get Spiteful Sea Tincture to either kill her with poison or, with the upgrade, incapacitate her.
 
If it's a projection, Demon Emperor Shintai will do QUITE nicely - that charm's AOE killzone effect can be triggered by LOOKING at the infernal. Also lets her trivially beat Siberian.
 
Gore17 said:
*raises eyebrow* Last I checked, we could talk about Bleach and the Alien movies.

Because everything I was talking about happened in those.
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Then by all means, please go ahead and discuss rape in the context of a story some more. I'll be somewhere off to the side, and I'll point and laugh as the mods ban your ass.
 
Atlan said:
Then by all means, please go ahead and discuss rape in the context of a story some more. I'll be somewhere off to the side, and I'll point and laugh as the mods ban your ass.
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Discussion has already been had - do it in proper taste, no fetishizing and you'll get off just fine. ES and Facehugger both have had discussions of the subject in their work - ES's Dishonored oneshot and Unfamiliar respectively, and neither got banned.
 
Gore17 said:
Ah, Splintered Gale Shintai. I remember someone I knew combining it with a custom Kimbery charm, so that character could impregnate females with a clone of themselves with a touch.

Male targets had it far worse.
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Revlid wrote those charms. His Kimbery charms can be rather squicky.
 
Atlan said:
Then by all means, please go ahead and discuss rape in the context of a story some more. I'll be somewhere off to the side, and I'll point and laugh as the mods ban your ass.
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I think there's been a miscommunication here. No sexual interaction was involved with the charm. At all.

What the charm did was, upon a activation, create an "essence pattern". When the user then next initiations a touch-based attack, if successful, inserts that essence pattern into them8. What happened after that depended on the targets gender: in females, it rapidly matures and erupts from the unfortunate victim fully grown, in a quick and painless death. In males, it slowly converts them into a chrysalis, in which the clone develops, a slow and painful death.

...I probably shouldn't have used the word "impregnation", should I?

*This followed all the rules of poison, incidentally. If they managed to fight it off, the charm failed.
 
Gore17 said:
I think there's been a miscommunication here. No sexual interaction was involved with the charm. At all.

What the charm did was, upon a activation, create an "essence pattern". When the user then next initiations a touch-based attack, if successful, inserts that essence pattern into them8. What happened after that depended on the targets gender: in females, it rapidly matures and erupts from the unfortunate victim fully grown, in a quick and painless death. In males, it slowly converts them into a chrysalis, in which the clone develops, a slow and painful death.

...I probably shouldn't have used the word "impregnation", should I?

*This followed all the rules of poison, incidentally. If they managed to fight it off, the charm failed.
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So its basically a Kimbery badtouch attack?
 
Gore17 said:
I think there's been a miscommunication here. No sexual interaction was involved with the charm. At all.

What the charm did was, upon a activation, create an "essence pattern". When the user then next initiations a touch-based attack, if successful, inserts that essence pattern into them8. What happened after that depended on the targets gender: in females, it rapidly matures and erupts from the unfortunate victim fully grown, in a quick and painless death. In males, it slowly converts them into a chrysalis, in which the clone develops, a slow and painful death.

...I probably shouldn't have used the word "impregnation", should I?

*This followed all the rules of poison, incidentally. If they managed to fight it off, the charm failed.
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Hmm, I remember reading something like this but in my memory it was an Argent Witch charm.
 
Salbazier said:
Hmm, I remember reading something like this but in my memory it was an Argent Witch charm.
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Yes, there exists a TAW "xenomorph chestburster" Charm which mechanically works as a disease which spawns a Genesis construct when it kills the victim - it's in Stamina. It would be entirely portable to Kimbery with basically no changes if one were so inclined.
 
Salbazier said:
Hmm, I remember reading something like this but in my memory it was an Argent Witch charm.
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Bride's Liar Flush, a disease that TAW charms can inflict. It's pretty similar in concept.

Edit:Ninja'd by the charm's author.
 
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