... I would like to hear more.
Is there a link? Or even online?
Because that sounds very interesting.
What did the empire look like in the end?
My online presence before SV was very limited so there is sadly no link, but it was a solo game focusing on a newly decanted Alchemical agent, that had to work as agent of a state
without any head to rule that state. The Empress had just disappeared, the Royal Ministry of Censorship was doing it's best to keep news of her disappearance hidden, Anathema were appearing everywhere, the Realm was overextended in every direction and it felt like everything was falling apart.
At the start of the game, she was deployed to a Tengese coastal village, mainly to investigate a lack of taxes coming through; she quickly got the taxes to flow once more, but noticed that it seemed way too easy and that the village had quite a lack of actual Lintha attacks, which was rather weird, given it's place as a coastal village. So she started snooping around, which came to a conclusion when someone stabbed her in the gut with a poisoned knife and threw her in the ocean, since she uhm, had a basic poison negator and environmental Charms, the result was that she floated around awkwardly until she could get back up and she employed a different disguise. She soon realized that the place was basically Exalted!Innsmouth including the whole 'try and summon something massively powerful', in this case the Cthulhu stand-ibn being a Soul of Kimbery, whose release condition the Cult were trying to engineer. She got evidence of her findings and the end of the first arc was after her combat refit where she led a raid on the place and battled the Second Circle that had orchestrated it all, in the depths of the city.
I had um, also just read
@EarthScorpion's Aeon Natum Engel (and was reading Aeon Entelechy Evangelion) at the time, so this means that the entire next arc (after an arc of investigating the Lintha's involvement in the affair) was basically Operation CATO, including a trio of Hellstriders (but made with Autochthonian spirits, because I adore Hellstriders so much) rising from the sea and Genesis-crafted totally-not-Replica-Forces-guys assassinating the defense forces of Bluehaven and finally being involved in a high-lethality strike mission against Exalted!Mot, which I had as a First Age autonomous superweapon that had been supposed to run off Solar Essence but had been fucked by the Contagion and know was doing fine with Abyssal Essence instead (which meant that it could run forever inside a Shadowland, and since it ran off the assumption that the Solar Deliberative had never fallen, after all that was impossible, it was trying to turn all Creation into a Shadowland so that it could safeguard the Deliberative forever and since the Deliberative couldn't fall it had to turn all Creation into a Shadowland so that it could safeguard the Deliberative forever and since the Deliberative couldn't fall...). The Lintha had basically found it and activated it in a desperate attempt to protect Bluehaven without understanding what they had activated, and Mot promptly started murdering on both sides until they managed to stop it at the cost of most of their forces and it exploded and left most of Bluehaven a Shadowland.
The entire next arc was focused on rebuilding Bluehaven and establishing an effective perimeter containment around the Shadowland. They built up some camps that would become cities on the coastline of Bluehaven, established the place as a Satrapy and our Alchemcial protagonist intentionally gathered as much Clarity as possible to distance herself from humanity, since she had
seen some shit now and had the most horrible PTSD ever. This arc was much more low-key and ended when one of the Dragon-Blooded convinced her that she was needed as a human being and not as a cold machine.
And I would really like to write more, but um, law school is calling.
