EarthScorpion: If Keris gets Rounen and Cissidy as Familiars, they can pop in and out of her when they feel like it.
Aleph: Heh. I may. Hmm. Honestly, yeah, they've been with her long enough that they may have worked out a way in and out - probably not the same one Firisutu uses.
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EarthScorpion: Does Keris want to start training anything with her current XP plus the XP for this session?
Aleph: Oh yeah, hmm. I... yeah, actually, I might get a few of the non-Pantheon Zanran charms that are in-theme with what she's been doing so far - Price-of-Everything Undercurrents and Hidden Depths Temptress and Kindness Expects Repayment. So, hmm. Yeah, I'll spend 8xp to start learning PoEU.
EarthScorpion: So, hmm, how to train that in a short scene?
Aleph: Well, it's in-theme for what she
has been doing, which is why I chose it. She's been offering this court of gods things they
really want, and she's been offering things to the Hui Cha - and seeing how far she can stretch that credit in stuff like "disappearing for three weeks" - for a while now.
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EarthScorpion: And yes, the idea about the flower things is that Haneyl looked at a peronelle and... uh
EarthScorpion: took the usual Haneylian lack of subtlety
Aleph: Went "I CAN DO THAT BETTER!"
Aleph: So they're, heh, basically very Obvious power armour, which might be lower defence but which give you Physique boosts.
Aleph: Kuha is going to <3 <3 <3 them.
EarthScorpion: One of its Charms is a mobility-booster.
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Aleph: Oh, Keris. PoEU has, in one Charm purchase, made you considerably more socially dangerous, because suddenly some of your self-esteem issues are getting challenged because you can tell with
absolute certainty what your aid is worth to people.
Aleph: Which turns out to be "a hell of a lot"
EarthScorpion: : D
EarthScorpion: Heh. If Keris starts using PoEU in the bedroom, it'll do funny things with her "I am not a harlot" self-definition. But on the other hand, she realise that she means more to Sasi than perhaps even Sasi knows.
EarthScorpion: Sigh. When she gets Kindness Expects Repayment, she becomes even more dangerous - because her services are worth Resources 5, so "Provided that the gift is accepted - and in the case of a service, the service is complete - the Infernal's player rolls (Appearance + Socialise) as an undodgeable social attack, adding bonus successes equal to the gift's Resources value." she can basically go seduce powerful people, and leave them a memento or a piece of art and suddenly a lot of powerful people feel gratitude to her.
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Aleph: Hee. Keris's insistence that she's not a harlot is one of those funny little bits of self-justifying circular-logic no-true-scotsman exception-making rationalisations that most humans do.
Aleph: And which I always appreciate seeing in fictional characters instead of having everyone be Maximum Logical and Self-Aware Bleep-Bloop Robots or Angsty Melodramatic Idiots who Can't Manage Basic Communication.
EarthScorpion: I wonder what that retroactively says about what she did on the Nexan streets during cold winters. It's not like she
sold herself - she just found someone who'd take her home for the night.
Keris: "And if they gave me a present, I wouldn't rob them blind."
Sasi: "Ah, yes. A present. Certainly not payment."
Keris: "Yeah, that's right."
Sasi: "Well, that's the difference between you and me. I am one. Maybe I was one all along. My parents sold my body in an arranged marriage and..."
Keris: "Boop!"
Sasi: "What?"
Keris: "You're getting depressed and self-pitying. It's not very cute. Trust me, arranged marriages are nothing like having to choose between sleeping with a stranger and sleeping outside in -10 temperatures."
Aleph: Poor Keris.
Aleph: *hugs*
EarthScorpion: Sasi: "Sometimes it becomes a little clearer why you run from the past."
Keris: "My past is just made up of lots of unpleasant things. Since I became Exalted. It's basically just been mostly good. I mean, I have you. I have a family. And oh yes, I'm a possibly-immortal demigoddess who can run on walls and doesn't need to sleep."
Aleph: Oh, Keris. She works so
well as an initially-creepy villainess who gets tragic and sympathetic if you stop to look.
Aleph: (and who then stabs you for your trouble)
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EarthScorpion: Heh. One of the most adorable things about Haneyl is all the ways she's not
quite the perfect princess Keris wishes she had lived her life as. Her high-class accent is a sham and her real accent is the same Nexan burr as Keris. She doesn't have Sasi's air of unconscious grace - it's deliberate effort. And, of course, despite being a perfect princess she still goes hungry, because being hungry is part of life for Keris.
EarthScorpion: Poor Haneyl. By her very nature, she's noveau riche.
