Feeder tendrils, the Charm says. Bite attack is used as a catch-all here.
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Feeder tendrils, the Charm says. Bite attack is used as a catch-all here.
Revlid
blob of bugs
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You can explicitly create a needle-mouth on your tail that instantly sucks up a portion of your victim's body, or the whole thing if you kill them in one go.
There are Charms for these... provided you eat someone who knows show tunes.
Sucal
The Devil’s Cut
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- Bottom of the barrel
Wouldn't you have to have a Tail first?
grommile
nasty-minded old cynic
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- NERV-Mercia
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- Traditional/Animate
Sure. Given that you're an Infernal, this seems like it would not be a significant obstacle
Revlid
blob of bugs
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- England
Three ways to deal with that.
The first is to just have a tail. You might have one naturally, you might have acquired it through coadjutor mutations, you might have been flesh-sculpted by a demon, you might have a polymorphic artifact symbiote that can give you a tail, you might fuse with a suit of power armour that comes with a tail...
The second is to learn By Rage Recast, which lets you keep up to 8 points of mutations permanently running, which can include a tail.
The third, to stay entirely within Metagaos' Charmset, is to learn this Charm:
Metagaos said:
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You also get stunt dice of course, meaning that you can get +7 dice at most with a three die stunt, a Style and it's bonus.
An example would be a Mantis Stylist gaining a higher "sword people" bonus than a professional soldier's entire dice pool.
Which is pretty fucking great.
azoicennead
Overly-Affectionate Zombie Squad
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Except, with the Style system, the professional soldier would have a style, too.
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Though it might not actually be as focused on swording as you think. Like, of all of the skills a soldier needs, close combat is certainly one of them, but I could imagine parts of a style dealing with how to scrounge up food on campaign or pack your tent, or march a whole day and not fall down, or any number of a dozen things, I suppose!
Attribute 3, Ability 2, Style 2 would be a well-trained soldier in a Threshold army - more than capable of killing an Attribute 2, Ability 1, Style 1 peasant who's been trained to hold a spear with the pointy end towards the enemy and huddle together with a lot of other soldiers. 7 dice in an Enlightenment 0 mortal is a "well-trained professional" level, since most mortals aren't going to have Attributes higher than 3, can't exceed 3 for Abilities, and only people top in their fields have 3 dots in a Style.
This is why Tiger Warriors walking around with Attribute 4, Ability 4, Style 3 are 11 dice monsters. Solars are scary, even before you get into the fact that with upgrades Solars can train Tiger Warriors into being Enlightened E2 combatants with "I'm good at fighting"-themed spirit charms who can go toe-to-toe with 1CDs and ghosts. Infernals gets demons, Abyssals get ghosts, Solars just buff mortals until they can go toe to toe with blood apes and spectres [1].
[1] Also, put the mortal in question in XP debt until they're retired, but who's counting, right?
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- Spain
My players used to tell their assasins-priests-monks that they were their chosen champions, blessed with superhuman might by the Essence of the Sun.
I found that hilarious.
(Specially since they treated them as disposable cannon fodder).
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That was factored in.
Physique 4 (And this is being reaaaally nice to the soldier, he'll probably have 2 or 3.)
Chiaroscuran Soldier Style 3 (Again, really generous, it's probably more like 2)
He'll probably have around 2 dots of Melee
There.
Oh and by the way:
Chiaroscuran Soldier Style
The soldiers of Chiaroscuro march to war in gleaming glass and wield shard-blades that cut flesh with contemptible ease. This Style is taught to aid in urban combat, maintenance of glass weaponry and arms as well as limited survival in hostile environments such as deserts and Shadowlands. It may be practiced in armor and uses polearms, swords and shields as it's form weapons.
1: +1 to foraging rolls made in Wyld Zones, Shadowlands and desert environments.
2: +1 to maintain glass weaponry and armor.
3: +1 damage with Chiaroscuro Glass.
EDIT: @Sidereal'd. Curse you @EarthScorpion.
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Speaking of Enlightenment, are there any Infernals running around in Kerisgame at Enlightenment 10? Would the Unquestionable regard such a being as a threat? I get the feeling that the coadjutors are meant to stop things like that. Though I guess anybody who gained that level of spiritual growth is probably shanked or suppressing their power.
Aleph Homebrew: Scavenging Soldier Style
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- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
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- She/Her
Scavenging Soldier Style (Melee/Survival)
Many men find their calling in baking bread or weaving wool. But some pursue careers in killing, and become mercenaries or troopers under a general's banner. This style is used in the Scavenger Lands by men of the military who spend their lives in service; following the orders of their commanding officers, marching where they are sent and killing who they are told to alongside their fellows. Few who learn this Style are enthusiastic about their work, for the glory of war wears off quickly at the sight of a battlefield. Instead, they focus on survival and the day-to-day routine of life in the army - and on the next paycheck coming their way. When used for combat, this style is compatible with armour and is generally used with the spear or short sword, though other variants exist.
1: +1 to enduring forced marches, heavy armour and other similar exertions.
2: +1 to laying hands on adequate food and shelter in the field.
3: -1 Difficulty to quickly staunch battlefield wounds.
Probably a few by now. Sasi's not far off it (if indeed she isn't there already), and she's one of the older ones. And no, you don't shank your best tools. The coadjutor limits them spiritually, and they're still subservient to the Althing - on the level of a peer, not an Unquestionable.
(That said, they absolutely do make the Unquestionable nervous. Which is why you aren't going to see said Unquestionable doing something as dumb as shanking such an Infernal, which would turn the GSPs against them en masse.)
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I bet that it's possible to write hundreds of Styles simply on the concept of "soldier".
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It is, yes. Which one you learn will depend on what kind of soldier you are and who you're learning it from. And honestly, there are probably subtle regional variants even of single Styles like Scavenging Soldier which have slightly different bonuses - so the base style description is the same, but the bonuses are focused a little more on scrounging food and looting the battlefield, for instance.
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Yep, plus of course all of the different types of troops, and of course some elite units might have their own style that focuses on, well, the specific elite knowledge/coolness that makes them an elite unit and not one of the riff-raff.
In addition to probably having a little bit of the more riff-raff styles anyways.
Of course not. Without Enlightenment 10 Infernals around, how are the Unquestionable meant to escape Hell easily without the risk of being bound by a Solar asshole?
(Not to mention the logistic problems of shanking an Enlightenment 10 being, which are considerable.)
No, a good coadjutor is meant to worm their way into their Infernals confidence and be a voice on the inside, giving them a demonic view on things - and also being a prosthetic fetich that stops a real one forming and so gives the Unquestionable control of the Urge.
And yes, an Enlightenment 10 Infernal is a potential threat. But so is any other high Enlightenment being, and the Infernal has hopefully has years of bribes and deliberate bonding from third circle patrons. Better an E10 Infernal who's on your side than an angry E10 Infernal who has a grudge about the whole "trying to kill him because he hit E10" thing.
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Dulmea has (as has been mentioned in the last Kerisgame's extras section) been doing either a very good or a very bad job at this, depending on how you look at it.
I mean. She's definitely in Keris's confidence. But instead of her keeping Keris chained down, it's more that Keris is dragging her up.
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And there will of course also be older Styles such as Shogunate Styles for fighting in powered armor and using Shogunate weaponry.
Lookshy's Gunzosha Commandos come to mind, for example.
Jade-Clad Warrior Style
A soldier of the Shogunate must be stroung, she must be fast and she must follow orders but think for herself. This Style aids with combat in powered armor as well as the maintenance and repair of it's arcane functions. It can only be practiced in powered armor, though variants repurposed to function in Second Age artifact plate exists, it has no specific form weapon requirements.
1: +1 to power armor maintenance and repair.
2: +1 to running speed in powered armor.
3: -1 difficulty on attack rolls in powered armor.
Black Veil Soldier Style
Under the command of Sijanese morticians, these elite soldiers are experts in doing battle alongsides ghosts and undead allies, they are trained in surgery and quick burial ceremonies as well as harrying tactics to soften up enemies before retreating to minimize loss and energy expenditure. This Style cannot be practiced without any Trappings of Death on one's person (See: Manual of Exalted Power - The Abyssals).
1: +1 to any hastened prayers made to Dead creatures.
2: +1 to any rolls that require practical knowledge of the weaknesses and strengths of Dead.
3: +2 speed when retreating from an enemy after having attacked it at least once.
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Not allowed more than a +1 die at the 1 or 2 dot bonuses or a +1 sux (eg -1 Diff, +1 damage, negate botches) at the 3-dot bonus level. But otherwise cool!
Aaron Peori
Rest in Peace
You do realize that people can play Exalted and not use @EarthScorpion's version of Creation verbatim? Even those who like some of his rules hacks.
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- Spain
Well, duh. Of course i know that. I don't use ES Setting.
Oh, no, it totally does. If you want to play a Brotherhood of
Things aren't as ludicrous as 2e so they have fewer vehicles (if you need to be transported somewhere quickly as a strike team, you use a sorcerer), but they're still clumping around in heavy jade armour which is as Jin-roh as fuck (and has probably been ornated-up, with lots of carven dragon motifs and covered in prayer strips and so on).
(The main change is that Lookshy has lost its Designated Good Guys aura which means they treat their helots like... well, like helots get treated, they treat the Scavenger Lands as their back garden, and the self-proclaimed remnants of the Shogunate proclaim a militarised, self-lauding version of Shogunate culture that has no space for letting demonic anathema near their lands)
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- Virginia
Doesn't this kind of imply that you could really screw over the Sidereals if you dropped a 3CD onto the roof of the sky?