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Aaron Peori said:
Does he also ask for a shrubbery and sick a vicious bunny rabbit on them? I'm sorry, there is no way any player will be able to take this encounter seriously.
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EarthScorpion said:
... shit, I didn't even think of that. I was just going for a mythological devil figure to approach scholars at crossroads and "test" them - and if he doesn't like their answers, he drags them off to hell.

Five questions it is then!
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personally what jumped to my mind was psychopomp who stuffs people into bags

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horngeek said:
Exalted and promptly got himself captured and Monstrace'd, even.
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Well, he tried to go up against a Deathlord fresh off his Exaltation. You kinda deserve what you get in that case.

Noteably Moray Darktide also Exalted as a Solar in the Bishop's territory but the Bishop left him alone because he didn't try to fight a deathlord immediately.
 
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Aaron Peori said:
Well, he tried to go up against a Deathlord fresh off his Exaltation. You kinda deserve what you get in that case.

Noteably Moray Darktide also Exalted as a Solar in the Bishop's territory but the Bishop left him alone because he didn't try to fight a deathlord immediately.
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Moray and the turned Solar (the Fallen Wolf of the Cutting Sea) are in Bodhisattva territory. Bishop's the one up north trying to end Creation with theological arguments. And Moray's working for the guy, not ignored. After the voyage where he was Exalted he went straight for the Bodhisattva and said, "Hail your Silver Princeness, I started glowing gold and heard a dude say something about bringing his light to dark places and now I can tank swords to the face. Wat do?" So now he's got some Backgrounds from the Abyssal book and the Bodhisattva keeping an eye on him to make sure he doesn't become a threat to his ghostly master.

Basically, the West's got a Solar who thinks he's an Abyssal and an Abyssal who thinks he's a Solar.
 
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Aaron Peori said:
Well, he tried to go up against a Deathlord fresh off his Exaltation. You kinda deserve what you get in that case.

Noteably Moray Darktide also Exalted as a Solar in the Bishop's territory but the Bishop left him alone because he didn't try to fight a deathlord immediately.
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Yeah. That idiot totally deserved it for having the temerity to Exalt in the heart of a Deathlord's power. Even worse, he rudely attempted to immediately escape. You just do not do that sort of thing.
 
The Laurent said:
[2] What *is* the population of Creation?
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To build on ES's answer a bit (I was doing research into this at one point) Earth's population for about the equivalent time (1400-1500s was what I used if i recall right) period tech level was around 500 mill. So my personal answer is 500 million low, 1 billion high- Creation has better medical tech then equivalent time period Earth, more surface area, and crazy agriculture stuff in places, but is also hilariously more dangerous then Earth.

I'm not sure how useful nailing down the exact population for Creation really is in general (I was running numbers on DBs if I recall right): the information is almost to large scale to use for much beyond 'eyeball scale time'.
 
Gabrial Sagan said:
A long time ago on the White Wolf Exalted forum there was a thread discussing a scenario where The Culture encountered The Exalted. Stephen Lea Shepard, one of the writers, wrote an elegant post about how Exaltation allows the people they endow with the second breath to excel at whatever they do and that they would naturally evolve charms based on whatever is around them. Meaning that any technological advantage you think you might have over The Chosen will evaporate very quickly as they take your tech and throw back at you with magic. Creation has no guns because the writers applied a very firm Fantasy Gun Control on conventional fire arms because they did not want them in the setting. You have to assume however that if guns and modern technology were introduced to Creation, The Exalted would be more than capable of duplicating foreign technology and the rules found in Shards of Exalted Dreams come into play.

So here is how I see the scenario happening.

The Realm sends through Dragon Blooded scouts and though when cornered they unleash terrible violence killing hundreds of people before being brought down by overwhelming force. The US sends a military expedition through the portal to secure the other side ala GATE. However the US forces would quickly be destroyed as hundreds, perhaps thousands of exalts descend upon them, unleashing demons and sorceries that defy scientific explanation and are taken prisoner. This crisis unites the Realm and the squabble for the Throne is put aside as Cathak Cainan is given the title of Regent to deal with the crisis instead of Fokuf (Cainan is the logical choice because of his military experience, strong political connections, and his senior age makes his likelihood of attempting to retain power after the crisis is over a problem that can take care of itself within a few decades. His biography can be found in Dragonblooded Aspect Book Fire.) Prisoners are interrogated and Dragonblooded linguists quickly master English and probably Spanish as well which makes interrogating soldiers about their hardware go much faster. The soldiers will be unable to help but give their full co-operation to their dragonblooded interrogators who wield the persuasive power of their essence. The Realm will learn everything about our world, our politics, our values, our history, and above all our weaknesses. While craftsmen work on the first prototype shellcasters (see Shards of Exalted Dreams page 144 for more details) Realm envoys pass through the portal and with perfect English announce their intentions to negotiate peaceful relations between the people of Earth and Creation. Exalted negotiators would gain incredibly lucrative deals, experts would be brought through the portal and the Realm goes through a Meiji Restoration turned up to 11. By the time the solar exalted return The Realm will be building railroads, arming their soldiers with assault rifles and their officers with shellcasters. Realm military bases will be all over America and her allies after the dragonblooded use Syria as a testbed for their new modernized military and the whole world gets to see just how terrifying the Dragonblooded are on the battlefield. Immaculate Priests will be preaching on the streets of Chicago, DC, LA, and millions of people will begin to slavishly worship the dragonblooded.

Eventually a conflict will arise, an Immaculate temple is attacked in a riot and the dragonblooded slaughter the mob, A boy in Pakistan is discovered to be an Anathema of The Blasphemous Caste (Zenith Caste solar) and the Realm demands the US military take action to assassinate the boy, anything really. Eventually the dragonblooded will force the US government to bow to their demands and once that happens America is just one more satrap of the Realm. From there it is only a short while before boys and girls from Georgia, New York, and California find themselves on the auction block being sold as slaves to the highest bidding dragonblood.

Oh.
They do respire essence in the Underworld as of 3rd Ed. They just do not do it very well because they are plagued by nightmares. Exalted respire essence anywhere they go.
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Okay.. so who wants to play in this campaign? Where the disappearance of Ms. Scarlet as some whackjob experiment at one of the schools of sorcery or in a House of the guys known for dangerous sorcery experiments makes A Gate and this ends up in the making. A little *too* fast and simple and clean so on for the whole Realm but an interesting deviation. Strong regent dealing with new superhuge and socially revolutionary satrap that while not able to directly militarily knock them out WAS ableto resist them and whose influx is enormously changing them leading to enormous social upheaval. Worse lets say Bull of the North still happens but Anathema are appearing on Earth. And the US or wherever isn't an official satrap and even with the massive MASSIVE influence of DB celebs all is not well (at the very least you run into the peion to Prince issue of the many ambassadors and layabouts getting comfy with their status in the US) And then there is the social clashes as slavery starts up and other things.

Interested? Thoughts? Experiences?
 
Darmani said:
Okay.. so who wants to play in this campaign? Where the disappearance of Ms. Scarlet as some whackjob experiment at one of the schools of sorcery or in a House of the guys known for dangerous sorcery experiments makes A Gate and this ends up in the making. A little *too* fast and simple and clean so on for the whole Realm but an interesting deviation. Strong regent dealing with new superhuge and socially revolutionary satrap that while not able to directly militarily knock them out WAS ableto resist them and whose influx is enormously changing them leading to enormous social upheaval. Worse lets say Bull of the North still happens but Anathema are appearing on Earth. And the US or wherever isn't an official satrap and even with the massive MASSIVE influence of DB celebs all is not well (at the very least you run into the peion to Prince issue of the many ambassadors and layabouts getting comfy with their status in the US) And then there is the social clashes as slavery starts up and other things.

Interested? Thoughts? Experiences?
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Terrestrial exalted in 40k.

America vs the Blessed isles (Exalted)

JSDF vs the Realm (Exalted)

A gate to japan is opened up Creation
 
uju32 said:
As long as it's not being worn by a minor, and there is nothing especially prurient?
Eh.
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Since we're apparently making a joke serious.

A Kamui is prurient in and of itself, heavily tied into the themes associated with sexuality. a transparent one will probably cross the line between meritorious examination of those topics into some obviously designed for titillation.
 
Speaking of inspirations, Shadow Warrior 2 is a pretty reasonable inspiration for any sort of Exalted Modern stuff. Lo Wang is clearly an Exalt of some sort.



I mean, he is a big dick and that's exactly what Exaltation means amirite?
 
Leetsepeak said:
I am pretty lost. The hell is a kamui?
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A Kamui is the name of the skimpy magi-alien-tech outfits the protagonists and antagonists wear in Kill La Kill. I think it literally translates to 'God Robes', but basically, it's an in-setting justification for why everyone's wearing as little as possible. KLK has this big thematic push of 'This is why fanservice is creepy.'

In other news:
Okay, designstuff up front. I lost the first version of this due to human error, so you'll get the more terse version.

HAM is an awesome 2e charm but it's actual mechanics suck and are clunky. I made it better. Flawless Tutor Disciplie is meant to let you play fast-paced adventure games. HAM is for raising nations. Templating traits off of Bonus Points is better than tracking 'One dot per week' gains.

Flawless Tutor Discipline
Cost: 5m
Minimums: Lore 3, Essence 2
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Obvious, Training
Duration: Varies
Prerequisites: None
The Solar Exalted are peerless innovators and educators. Their limits are few but concrete, and when a Lawgiver cannot do- they teach.
This Charm supplements any action that could count as Training Time, be it for Traits, Charms or Spells. Only the secrets of quickly enlightening one's Essence is beyond the Solar's insight. This Charm may explicitly supplement actions of other Abilities.
When activated, the Solar counts as a tutor for any trait, even ones they do not or cannot have- the Solar's grasp of instruction allows them to quickly and effectively help their students learn.
If the Solar does possess the trait or have accurate records on how it is performed, her instruction shortens the required training time to five hours as a Training Effect.

The Lunar Exalted have a similar Charm known as Proud Monkey Misery Instruction. When the target of that Charm erodes an intimacy rooted in pride, or gains an intimacy centered on humility, they may instantly learn a non-Essence trait as a Training Effect.

Harmonious Academic Methodology (Rewrite)
Cost: 10m
Minimums: Lore 4, Essence 3
Type: Simple (Dramatic Action)
Keywords: Obvious, Combo-OK, Region
Duration: One Season
Prerequisites: None
The Solar Exalted educate the masses, bringing enlightenment to all of Creation.
This Charm encompasses a dramatic action in which the Solar organizes a class or seminar in a Region with a rating no greater than her Permanent Essence. Motes are committed to this Charm for one season, in which she spend five hours per week instructing members of that Region. If she manages this, the magic becomes self-sustaining and no longer requires commitment.
When the instruction is over, the Solar is given a budget of 15 bonus points, which they can spend on traits like Character Creation. These traits include Intelligence, Perception, Charisma, Manipulation, any caste/favored ability, Compassion, and Temperance. The Solar may also describe Specialties for any ability they have at least one dot it. This template benefits from favored trait discounts, and the Solar cannot raise any trait higher than 4.
Once trained, the Region will add these traits to their own, and they will persist so long as the Region does. The Solar cannot train the same Region twice with the intent to stack multiple disciplines on the same subject. Training the same Region twice allows the Solar to shift their focus from one to another.
This charm has no effect on individuals except at the Storyteller's discretion.

Legendary Scholar Curriculum (Rewrite)
Cost: -
Minimums: Lore 4, Essence 4
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Procedure
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Harmonious Academic Methodology
This charm enhances its prerequisite, granting an additional 15 bonus points to spend on traits, which can now be raised to 5. Additionally, Wits, Appearance, Conviction and Valor become available for training.
Finally, Harmonious Academic Methodology gains the Procedure keyword. When the Solar successfully educates a Region, that Region gains the Procedure as a training effect. Neighboring Regions can now learn what the Solar has taught over the course of a year, if the Region holding the Procedure allows it. Common sense should be applied however- a rig of highly trained thieves would not teach simple farmers their grifting techniques without being told.

Strategy: HAM-tastic
Players and storytellers are encouraged to develop templates using Harmonious Academic Methodology and its expanders. Templates tend to be things like 'Swordsmith' or 'Research Assistant'.
Related to this, is that the Solar is not required or expected to target huge Regions. If you want a small specialist team, focus on Region 1, which is equivalent to Followers 1.
 
Well with the best of intentions he did screw over the world, so it probably counts (The opening of the Shadow Realm and then the conjunction that left the world the way it is in Shadow Warrior 2 is his (and to be fair a few other people's) fault.
 
MJ12 Commando said:
Speaking of inspirations, Shadow Warrior 2 is a pretty reasonable inspiration for any sort of Exalted Modern stuff. Lo Wang is clearly an Exalt of some sort.



I mean, he is a big dick and that's exactly what Exaltation means amirite?
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Actually, my main point of interest for giving Shadow Warrior the Exalted treatment would be the weirdass cosmology and how the gods/demons/spirits/whatever already had a certain Exalted flavor. Hoji especially, given his backstory and the very - I want to say Abyssal - themes of his backstory*. Hell, my pet theory for what the rank and file demons of the game were was that the gods of the Otherworld created them as a sort of reverse-SCD: in pursuit of perfection, they carved away all they held to be sinful or improper, populating the wastelands with their own orphaned psychoses, to be marshaled and led against enemies when needed.




* I mean, come on, listen to this and tell me you don't hear a wrathful Exalt plotting to avenge himself on the uncaring gods/demons, and fueling his plot by sacrificing the very Intimacies that brought him such pain, just to deny his former love any place in his existence.

"You made me believe I could be something else, and for that I will never forgive you."

"You choose solitude? I'll give you solitude."

"My heart splits, but there is no other way. I will always remember the day I met you, and that is why I must bury your memory. I will not be ruled by pain. I will die free."
 
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