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Just finished reading through Kerisgame. Sasi's name seemed a bit familiar, so I went and took a look at something.

Tell me, has Louise made it to Malfeas yet? :p

On a different Kerisgame-related subject, I wonder if Sasi will end up sacrificing her apparent decision to run from her pre-Exaltation past for Adamant-Circle Sorcery. It does seem like an interesting possibility that might be in character (although I suppose there's probably information in the bits of game prior to An Teng that might shed more light one way or the other).

Kind of wondering what the story is with Keris' adopted children back in Malfeas. Seems like something Keris might want to check up on soon.

Also surprised that Deveh could pull off what he's doing in that village and the surrounding area without setting off any alarms in Yu Shan. Or would it need to be a larger area to be noticeable?

Looking forward to the first time Keris is able to take Sasi into her soul-realm.

Also looking forward to the first time Salina comes out to play due to a Past Life roll.
 
The Sandman said:
Just finished reading through Kerisgame. Sasi's name seemed a bit familiar, so I went and took a look at something.

Tell me, has Louise made it to Malfeas yet? :p
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Heh. The Kerisgame characters actually came first there - I believe ES just stole a couple of the Infernals for an AGSItV interlude.
On a different Kerisgame-related subject, I wonder if Sasi will end up sacrificing her apparent decision to run from her pre-Exaltation past for Adamant-Circle Sorcery. It does seem like an interesting possibility that might be in character (although I suppose there's probably information in the bits of game prior to An Teng that might shed more light one way or the other).
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The best Adamant Sorcery Sacrifice I can see Sasi making as it stands is her compulsive need for control or the phobias that drive it. Unfortunately, that's what's driving her desire to have that level of Sorcery, so she'll go nowhere fast on that score. I know OOC what happened in Sasi's past, but she's never given any real hints towards it in the game thus far.
Kind of wondering what the story is with Keris' adopted children back in Malfeas. Seems like something Keris might want to check up on soon.
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Calibration is coming up. And I have been making plans for what Piu, Yelm and Shan have spent the last season or so doing.
Also surprised that Deveh could pull off what he's doing in that village and the surrounding area without setting off any alarms in Yu Shan. Or would it need to be a larger area to be noticeable?
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Nope. It's not triggering Fate at all. After all, he's not geomantically terraforming anything into Yozi-landscapes like Keris did in Matasque. He's just making a lot of magically-backed social attacks and policies on everyone. There's no mechanical difference between this and a Solar-led nation where Socialise and Performance Charms have seen fairly heavy use and everyone follows the will of their god-king.
Looking forward to the first time Keris is able to take Sasi into her soul-realm.
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Never going to happen unless Keris gets Adorjani dream-invasion Charmtech. Rule One of Devil-Domains is "anything that exposes your irreplaceable Coadjutor background to someone with spirit-killing Charms is a bad effect and should not happen".
Also looking forward to the first time Salina comes out to play due to a Past Life roll.
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Oh, me too. Me too. :D

(Though I rather doubt it will be as funny and wacky as suggested.)
 
My personal thoughts are that Salina would be horrified at channeling the powers of the Yozis- my read on her is that her hate for hierarchy is due to hating She Who Lives In Her Name, not the other way around.

...does Sasi have any SWLIHN Charms?
 
horngeek said:
My personal thoughts are that Salina would be horrified at channeling the powers of the Yozis- my read on her is that her hate for hierarchy is due to hating She Who Lives In Her Name, not the other way around.

...does Sasi have any SWLIHN Charms?
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Quiiiiiiiiite a few.

To put it another way, if Keris is Adorjan-primary, Kimbery-and-Metagaos-secondary, then Sasi is basically an equitable blend of Cece, SWLIHN and TED.
 
She has at least Factual Determination Analysis, touching and manipulating things with invisible mind-hands, ripping knowledge out of people's heads with PSYCHIC PROBES, transmuting and reshaping things with invisible mind-hands, and possibly protecting herself from Shaping and scourging away mutations with PERFECT CRYSTALLINE ORDER.
 
I was going to say "Adorjani dream invasion Charmtech? Was it really necessary making Adorjan even more lethal???", but then i realized that Canonically she have access to them.

Anti sleep draughts are one of the most bought things in Creation, right? At least by the sorcerers summoning Her demons.
 
Giygas said:
I was going to say "Adorjani dream invasion Charmtech? Was it really necessary making Adorjan even more lethal???", but then i realized that Canonically she have access to them.

Anti sleep draughts are one of the most bought things in Creation, right? At least by the sorcerers summoning Her demons.
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No, not really. I mean, sure Adorjan can reach into Creation via dreams, but there are multiple accounts of Second Circle Demons (and not just Makarios) doing that. Hell, that's how most demon cults get their start canonically, and how those demons talk to their followers from Malfeas. Its not a terribly unique power. In fact its a baseline Essence 1 Spirit charm. This is basic, basic stuff virtually every god, demon, and elemental can do if it fits their themes.

But regarding Adorjan more generally, why would it bother? Its obviously not a casual thing. In fact, the only account is the guy who killed Adorjan's prior Fetich, and that's more an outgrowth of Adorjan's themes of obsession, teaching and letting go. So unless you manage to personally attract Adorjan's attention somehow (which unless you do something truly momentous, you will not) Adorjan is a non-threat in Creation (unless Sidereals let it out to kill things).

This is something generally you need to understand about the Yozi: they do not matter in Creation at large. That is the whole bloody point of them being chained in Malfeas. In Malfeas, they very much do matter (more as terrain then people), but in Creation a 1CD matters more and will have considerably more impact (mostly because of Sorcerers calling them all the time). That's the reason Infernals exist: to give the Demon Realm actors that can freely operate in Creation, which they wouldn't need if they could make a meaningful impact on their own.
 
Kylar said:
This is something generally you need to understand about the Yozi: they do not matter in Creation at large.
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I know that the Yozi doesn't matter in creation: my post was part joke, and part being worried about Adorjan getting "interested" in someone summoning her third circles.

Which is a thing you can usually do only one time of the year, and only one by one. Still pretty dangerous, though.
 
Adorjani dream invasion would probably come off Tragic Love Amusement and possibly Bound by Blood-Red Strings - it's part of the "yandere stalker" Charmtree which goes "I love you and I'm better at helping you and teaching you and hurting you!" and "I can find you anywhere you go; anywhere" and "I can reach you while you're sleeping, don't you love me too?" and so on and so forth.
 
Giygas said:
I know that the Yozi doesn't matter in creation: my post was part joke, and part being worried about Adorjan getting "interested" in someone summoning her third circles.

Which is a thing you can usually do only one time of the year, and only one by one. Still pretty dangerous, though.
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Sorry, I've seen stuff like that posted as a non-jest to often.

That said, I suspect anytime you summon a Third Circle you draw the attention of... basically everyone in a position of power. Not only because its a sure sign you've hit a level of power that has literally been unseen for over a thousand years, and you just pulled a major power player out of Malfeas to serve you (drawing all of that beings allies, rivals and acquaintances attention) for again, the first time in over a thousand years, but you basically just called an armed nuclear warhead to your service. And how literal I am being with the nuclear comment depends on the demon. Nevermind you just basically drew every single Third Circle Demons attention as potential threat or opportunity, and likely the Yozi as well just for the unusualness of the situation.

May you draw the attention of powerful people indeed. Have fun!

(It didn't quite click for me just how much political power you obtain just by reaching the Adamant Circle till now. Even in the FA I doubt there were more then 20 or so, and in the fallen times of the Second Age, your basically a rogue nuclear armed state. You'd have a lot of powerful people entering your orbit in short order to make sure you can help them, you aren't a threat to them or to eliminate the threat, just based on the potential of what you could do, never mind what you are actually capable of.)
 
And remember, you can still enslaved them for a task ignoring the year and day restriction, A eternity in which you are enslaved until someone destroys the factory cathedral is a long time for one of them.
 
Technically you don't remove the Third Circle from Malfeas. Third Circles are capable of collocating. If you summon Ligier, he is both in your parlour and glowing down with his infinite beneficence on everything in Malfeas at the same time.

That said, yes, all Yozi and many demons can invade the dreams of people in Creation. This is a deliberate 'flaw' in the prison, one of the pressure release valves the Incarna and Exalted crafted out of the surrender oaths. It, like all other such cracks, is a trap cunningly laid by the Incarna.

Well, unless you think the Sea of Mind is a serious threat to Creation.
 
Aaron Peori said:
Technically you don't remove the Third Circle from Malfeas. Third Circles are capable of collocating. If you summon Ligier, he is both in your parlour and glowing down with his infinite beneficence on everything in Malfeas at the same time.

That said, yes, all Yozi and many demons can invade the dreams of people in Creation. This is a deliberate 'flaw' in the prison, one of the pressure release valves the Incarna and Exalted crafted out of the surrender oaths. It, like all other such cracks, is a trap cunningly laid by the Incarna.

Well, unless you think the Sea of Mind is a serious threat to Creation.
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Right I somehow had my mind on Jacint in that regard who is after all a abomination in this matter.
 
Speaking of Keris and Sasi and so on; voila! Kerisgame part 26! In which Keris for once does unambiguously good work in clearing out a load of horrible undead war machines from a shadowland (and leaving the nice undead people mostly alone), hopefully doesn't do permanent damage to her Cherub Shrine which I've only just realised how much I depend on, and finds a few more leads that I suspect are - sigh - going to eventually end with Haneyl proudly wearing a slightly oversized Seven Lotus Crown.

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