I'm struggling to find the meaning, but all I can find is that Noh really likes Origami?

Let me reread and think for a bit.

1. With the right inks made from the ground up substance of the thing he is copying, he can make a bird that flies and sings, a manse that forms paper hearthstones, or even something that can pass as a human being.
A. Oi Dono makes forgeries.

2. Alas, whatever he makes is still paper, and so is ruined by water, though he knows of special varnishes made from demon-blood that slow the process - though he claims they ruin the aesthetic beauty and so tries to avoid their use whenever possible. Naturally, he also hates fire in all its forms, for it destroys his work easily.
B. They are well made, but fundamentally weak in fatal ways. He also won't naturally make things sturdy, which seems appropriate for a soul of the Ebon Dragon.

3. Oi Dono can crawl forth from Malfeas when something or someone beautiful is destroyed to great mourning, leaving only a fragment. He will arrive in his cart, offering to make a replacement - for a price.
C. I can see how an Indulgent Soul can be a merchant. It feels right, in some ways.

Rereading Noh's Writeup, you can see how she really hates rulers and being ruled. She also has 10,000 forms.

Oi Dono is a Merchant who lives like a pauper.
Oi Dono is a Craftsman who makes forgeries of and from real things.
Oi Dono has practical reasons for hating fire (light).


Can you give us a hint?
You actually seem to have sussed out all the meanings I was reading into it. To expand though, he not only makes forgeries, he makes fragile imitations of the real thing from the real thing, gratifying Noh's understanding that all seemings are false and all men are defined by their flimsy masks.

He uses these fakeries to tear down the wealth and power of those who indulge themselves, gratifying Noh's rebellious and contrary nature.

That's just me thinking out loud, though.
 
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They didn't have much choice. The Dragon-Bloods recently manage to corrupt and subvert the city god of Gloam, and he used his power over the city to curse the PCs and both separate them and force them to arrive in specific points regardless of where they walked.

Well, more like corrupted and subverted a deity in a different direction if the setting's gods are any indication.
 
They didn't have much choice. The Dragon-Bloods recently manage to corrupt and subvert the city god of Gloam, and he used his power over the city to curse the PCs and both separate them and force them to arrive in specific points regardless of where they walked.
If they weren't holding hands like sane people do the moment people start disappearing then they deserve whatever horrible fate befell them. :V
 
Oi Dono, the Paper Folder
Demon of the Second Circle
Indulgent Soul of Noh


The Paper Folder himself has the seeming of an old wizened man of the West, with a beard so long he must wrap it around his waist eleven times to avoid it trailing on the ground. Each of his hands have nine fingers, and he drives a wagon pulled by goats filled with his paper-making supplies when he must travel. He dresses simply, eats only plain rice and unflavoured vegetables, and drinks only the water he uses to boil his food. Lavish things offend him personally and ostentatious wealth prompts him to make paper creatures to tear it down. When he walks Creation, birds lay eggs with too-thin shells and dropped quills always point towards the Pole of Wood.

Oi Dono has seventeen shops within the Demon City, three upon the slopes of Qaf, one owned in the Nighthammer district of Nexus (which is almost always closed), and one which was destroyed long ago by Isidoros. All of these are but reflections of his true workshop, however, which sits upon the black moon of Malfeas and which has only ever seen the Contrary One as a client.

In these places, Oi Dono makes marvels from paper. With the right inks made from the ground up substance of the thing he is copying, he can make a bird that flies and sings, a manse that forms paper hearthstones, or even something that can pass as a human being. Alas, whatever he makes is still paper, and so is ruined by water, though he knows of special varnishes made from demon-blood that slow the process - though he claims they ruin the aesthetic beauty and so tries to avoid their use whenever possible. Naturally, he also hates fire in all its forms, for it destroys his work easily.

Sorcerers call upon the Paper Folder for his demonic mastery of origami. His paper dolls can replace the king of a nation or produce an assassin who will never talk under torture, while one of his giant paper birds might convey someone across nations. He is a craftsman, and even when bound he must be paid a fair price for his work, though he will take many strange things in payment to be sold in the markets of his cousin Marikos. He gains Limit when forced to witness extravagant or wasteful lavishness. Oi Dono can crawl forth from Malfeas when something or someone beautiful is destroyed to great mourning, leaving only a fragment. He will arrive in his cart, offering to make a replacement - for a price.
Could he make some Giant Tigers to serve a Tiger Warrior empire? they'd be pretty useful for covering military weaknesses.
 
(she's probably going to try Soul Projection Method, but right now she's completely out of Essence and fighting for dear life against a spirit the Wood Aspect was using as backup)
That fight is still ongoing

The session is now running on nine hours and a half

Somehow the fight with the spirit mook the DB was using as back up ended up one of the most emotional moments in the whole game???
 
  1. Bugger @EarthScorpion to write me something.
    1. Presumably something that isn't literally six pages of waifus.
      1. Okay, the waifus were hilarious, I admit it you terrible fuck.


The joys of dialect. :V

Okay, so Gloam has these "corrupted" Dragon-Bloods who are touched by the Thing Below. It makes them hunger for the Essence of the living and grants them unique powers.

White Raven, the Twilight's girlfriend, is one such corrupted Dragon-Blood. She has managed to keep her corruption in check and feeds on scraps of Essence by carefully managing her diet and the geomancy of her home, but it's an open secret that eventually the group must either find a way to free her from the corruption or kill her, because the Thing Below can affect her mind and turn her against them.

Velvet Shroud Akina, the group's Eclipse, is an exorcist. She has been honing her ability to banish evil spirits and magical infections from others in hope that she can rip the corruption out of a Dragon-Blood. She has so far met success on weaker corrupted beings, but it is known that the infection is more potent in Exalts than in mortals.

As part of the ongoing ploy by the antagonists to separate the circle and destroy them individually, Velvet has been lured into the Old Temple, where she has met Cathak Raehion, an affable and apologetic Wood Aspect who is very much corrupted and has resigned himself to being a monster who feeds on souls. He and Velvet had a polite discussion, and Velvet explained that she was going to try and free him from the curse, and he expressed that he regretfully couldn't allow her to do that. They fought.

Velvet used Burning Exorcism Technique on him. It purged - violently - all the power he had absorbed from his vampiric practice. It almost incapacitated him.

But it did not cure the corruption. He was still tainted, she had just suppressed the symptoms. The darkness was still in him. And having all his stolen Essence ripped from him, the hunger overtook him and he tried again to kill Velvet.

And so Velvet choked him into unconsciousness, crying at the realization that if her Burning Exorcism Technique was not enough she might indeed have to kill White Raven.

(she's probably going to try Soul Projection Method, but right now she's completely out of Essence and fighting for dear life against a spirit the Wood Aspect was using as backup)

See, with the phrasing you used of 'choked her through her tears' I was expecting some kind of sidereal bullshit where she literally reached her arms through the teardrops to grab at the DB's neck.
 
The joys of dialect. :V



See, with the phrasing you used of 'choked her through her tears' I was expecting some kind of sidereal bullshit where she literally reached her arms through the teardrops to grab at the DB's neck.
i was thinking a water aspect or a water spirit manipulating the fluid from someone's tears to go down the nasal system and into the lungs.
 
You'll have an easier time if you tear the system up by the roots. Many of the Charmset's problems are basically inevitable once you accept the basic premises of the system. To write a genuinely good Craft Charmset, you need new assumptions.

When I rewrote Craft, I intended to change less than I did. But this isn't the kind of system that can be fixed by tweaking; once you start changing things, you'll find yourself needing to change more things.

In other words, forget what Chaos-Resistance Preparation says. You'll probably end up rewriting it completely anyway.
I strongly disagree. For all the incessant criticism it receives, my in-play experience with the Craft system has been quite positive. It's a little weird to get your head around at first, but once you get the hang of it flows quite well and really helps integrate the wonder working into the game. It's by no means perfect, but it's far from the crazy nightmare that I initially assumed it would be.

The Solar Craft charm set is more problematic. It's incredibly overwhelming at first, though it does have a lot stronger design logic than you might assume at a glance. On the whole, it feels like a bit too much of a rough draft. At the very least it should come with a map and a guide. It's rather dry to read—unless you actually understand how the pieces fit together—then it's terrifying.

Beyond all that, Chaos-Resistance Preparation doesn't even directly interact with the Craft system. :V
 
Okay, talking about 3e, what would be the 'minimal competent combat investment charms'? Was trying to make mainly-social with combat as side-specialization, then kinda run it against Quick Bandits, and... uh, not a good result. Probably just shitty dice + some wrong calculation, though, but I want to know how people actually experienced with 3e does it.
 
It occurred to me that you can basically pull "It was only a Doombot" using Fair Folk Behemoths.
So has anyone tried to write up comic book charaters as Raksha?
 
Okay, talking about 3e, what would be the 'minimal competent combat investment charms'? Was trying to make mainly-social with combat as side-specialization, then kinda run it against Quick Bandits, and... uh, not a good result. Probably just shitty dice + some wrong calculation, though, but I want to know how people actually experienced with 3e does it.
Generally, if you have back up, an excellency with maxed out stats is enough. 5m Excellency per round will do it if you are pure support. If not, max out melee get the penalty cancelers, a light artifact weapon and the Excellent strike charm and a couple more in that tree. Should be enough to handle basic enemies on your own.
 
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