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Aleph said:
you can probably achieve an effect by whatever means you're given; that's part of what roleplay is about. "Okay, I want to get the mayor of this large town on the northeastern coast of the Inner Sea out of power and I have an elemental pact with a tribe of turtlemen in a nearby lake, a daiklave that lets me heal individual plants by stabbing them with it, a god-blooded monkey-familiar and Resources 3 from my thriving imitation furnace-rhino-horn business. How do I do it?".
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My first question is, how much collateral damage are you willing to take to get rid of this mayor?

If there's not much limitations except for the end goal of merely getting him thrown out of power. I would use three points of attack.

1.Since this is a coastal town, I'm assuming that the majority of the population make their living by fishing. Thus you invoke your pact with the turtlemen in the lake. Whether by direct intervention or negotiation with the aquatic residents on the coastline using the turtlemen tribe as a go between, you have the fishing industry wrecked by sabotage (Net cutting, school scaring, and befouling the haul.) and you have it disguised as divine displeasure. With their food and income source depleted, discontent spreads into the town.

2. The second part is to hinder the mayor from actually taking any action to remedy the situation. First get your hands on some sort of living plant that you concoct into a potent drug. Any mental altering or decision impairing compound would be the best. You don't want any of your actions considered to be foul play by the townspeople. Using your monkey, you have the mayor dosed with the drugs at undetectable instances throughout your campaign against him or her. As an additional facet to this plan, plant the drugs into his home and offices in places where the mayor wouldn't look but a dedicated investigator would spot. With your daiklave, you'll have a near infinite supply of materials for this discrediting attempt.

3. Finally the last facet of your plan is heavily dependant on circumstances. The point being if you have actual authentic furnace rhino horns and if the town market has a demand for them. With the economic difficulty created by part one. You enter into the picture as a merchant trying to sell your wares of real furnace rhino horns, but you also need a location to store them. You have money change hands to the mayor. Then when nobody notices, you have somebody, perhaps your monkey, swap out the real horns for your imitation ones. Then when trying to sell your horns and getting called out on the fact that they're fake, go right around and blame the mayor's lackluster security. Call for an investigation and lol and behold, a sordid revelation of an irresponsible mayor who's embezzling and robbing everybody to pay for their drug habit.

Then the townspeople run the mayor out on a rail.

There you go.
 
Aleph said:
"Okay, I want to get the mayor of this large town on the northeastern coast of the Inner Sea out of power and I have an elemental pact with a tribe of turtlemen in a nearby lake, a daiklave that lets me heal individual plants by stabbing them with it, a god-blooded monkey-familiar and Resources 3 from my thriving imitation furnace-rhino-horn business. How do I do it?"
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Tackle the fucker into a lake and scream "WIIIITNESSS MEEEEEE!" while your turtleman-ninjas cover your daring escape over the rooftops after having spent multiple hours arguingdebating with the Storyteller whether stabbing a dead tree will cause it to grow again, and thus creating a bridge over the town while your monkey is disguised as you somewhere else to make it seem like you are over there instead.

You used your Resources 3 to buy ninja headbands for the turtlemen of course.
 
Dif said:
By promoting the view that "ignorance is the norm, true magic is rare and mysterious"
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I think that this is the sticking point for most people. It's too much Mage to really be Exalted.

EarthScorpion said:
get a new constellation inserted into the sky of Creation
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This is really evocative and has got to be a major part of Creation's astrology.

EarthScorpion said:
Do note that Kerisgame considers "powered armour" to be generally a Shogunate thing, because the Shogunate is 1930s fascist-anime visuals as fuck and that means lots of people were walking around looking like they were straight out of Jin-roh. Complete with the glowing eyes.
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Is Wolfenstein an acceptable substitute?
 
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On a side note, @EarthScorpion

*activates Typo-Noticing Prana*

For the Charm Fouth-Soul Devil Domain:

No entity or object may exit or enter it, save by methods described in this or later expansion Charms; this is resolved as if it was a defence again any effect which would contest this.
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I imagine the intended wording here "...this is resolves as if it was a perfect defence against any effect which would contest this."?
 
Aleph said:
"Okay, I want to get the mayor of this large town on the northeastern coast of the Inner Sea out of power and I have an elemental pact with a tribe of turtlemen in a nearby lake, a daiklave that lets me heal individual plants by stabbing them with it, a god-blooded monkey-familiar and Resources 3 from my thriving imitation furnace-rhino-horn business. How do I do it?"
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Can the Daiklave that heals individual plants make a tree from a sapling/piece of tinder/other piece of wood? If yes, are the turtlemen partial to being launched in the air? If no, is the monkey/yourself/any of the turtlemen any good at using and creating a catapult? If yes, throw the shit out of warrior turtlemen at the mayor's house: i dare for him to be alive after being pounded into ground meat by a group of turtles.
 
horngeek said:
On a side note, @EarthScorpion

*activates Typo-Noticing Prana*

For the Charm Fouth-Soul Devil Domain:



I imagine the intended wording here "...this is resolves as if it was a perfect defence against any effect which would contest this."?
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Perfect defense isn't really a system term. What is said is that it is a defense and that there is no way around it. Thus, even if something was trying to get around it it would run into unmoveable object unstoppable force.
 
Bursting Eagerness Soul said:
Is Wolfenstein an acceptable substitute?
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Yes, but only if suitably Orientalised.

For example, your Ubersoldatten should look like giant Samurai rather than evoking Greek statues.

horngeek said:
I imagine the intended wording here "...this is resolves as if it was a perfect defence against any effect which would contest this."?
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Nope. I said "nothing can get in", and that statement is there to mean when it comes up against "I can get in anywhere", UFIO resolves in its favour.

Bursting Eagerness Soul said:
This is realky evocative and has got to be a major part of Creation's astrology.
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That is exactly what it is there for. Mythology and fantasy are full of people being elevated to new constellations and the gods making new constellations to commemorate one thing or another.

Therefore that should exist in Exalted, tribes should be able to look into the sky and see a new constellation and conclude that the gods have made a new constellation to celebrate their victories/mourn their dead leaders/instruct them to go to war, and the real reason should be something bureaucratic and Sidereal.
 
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Aleph said:
t. "Okay, I want to get the mayor of this large town on the northeastern coast of the Inner Sea out of power and I have an elemental pact with a tribe of turtlemen in a nearby lake, a daiklave that lets me heal individual plants by stabbing them with it, a god-blooded monkey-familiar and Resources 3 from my thriving imitation furnace-rhino-horn business. How do I do it?"

If anyone actually comes up with a plan there, I will likebomb the shit out of them.
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Oh thats easy.

Have him caught in In flagrante delicto doing obscene things with one or more of your turtlemen and/or god-blooded monkey familar, then bribe/threaten multiple witnesses of good character to say its been a regular occurrence and he had been embezzling funds or threatening people to keep it hushed up.

(You never said it had to be a good plan!)
 
Aleph said:
"Okay, I want to get the mayor of this large town on the northeastern coast of the Inner Sea out of power and I have an elemental pact with a tribe of turtlemen in a nearby lake, a daiklave that lets me heal individual plants by stabbing them with it, a god-blooded monkey-familiar and Resources 3 from my thriving imitation furnace-rhino-horn business. How do I do it?"

If anyone actually comes up with a plan there, I will likebomb the shit out of them.
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Have the monkey attune the Daiklave, Then wait until he is asleep then cause a distraction by having the turtlemen raid your storage. While you are defending your stuff, the monkey drops a mushroom with deadly spores in the mattress, using the Daiklave to cut the hole in some inconspicuous place, then stabs the mushroom and runs to a predetermined meeting point.
 
A question what was the name of the First Age Solar who was insane even by the Solar standards.

The one that was octopus like, that made her Lunar mate into a chimera.
 
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Anyway, i am working in one thing and i came upon an interesting scenario.

What happens if you force* the Po of a first age Solar to reincarnate in a human? (Whithout pasing through lethe, of course).

*(Say, using 3th circle Necromancy).
 
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