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Glorious Shotgun Princess (ME/Exalted) Thread #2

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"Your Emperor is dieing on that throne of his, Leaving you alone as those from the Warp break into the living world as everything else eats their way into your fat and struggling until you all are dead and forgotten. And no, I'm something greater."
 
Wragnaroq said:
She'd probably put an end to the great 'Mako vs. Hammerhead' debate by combining them.

Imagine it. The near-invulnerability of the Mako, combined with the mobility of the Hammerhead.

Let's call it the 'Great White'.
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No. It will be named the Wobbegong. Because there is nothing more humiliating than being killed by a super-tank named after the Carpet Shark.
 
"Nothing?"

Jane catches the punch with her palm. Behind her, grass blows out, stripping the soil. "You think I've done nothing?" She catches the other punch. The caste mark glows on her forehead, in time with the prothean's. "You sanctimonious fuck!"

Her forehead slams against his. Ground spiderwebs. The wrecked tank hops. Swinging, their fits slam into each other, but they do not move. "I killed their vanguard! I warned the Council!" Her fist slams into his sword, cracking it and tearing gouges into the ground. "Your warning was fucking gibberish!"

The fist slams into her chest. The shoulder plates of her armor fly off. The chestplate compresses and cracks. She is sent flying backwards, into and through the wrecked tank, rolling to a stop in the freshly made trench.

The tank rises, held up by one hand by the prothean, golden eyes glowing slits. Jane struggles to her knees, struggles to her feet, before the wreck bounces off her and lays her onto her back. The golden sword is held to her throat and she sees the caste mark glowing like a sun upon his brow.

"I have seen your memories," the prothean growls, "I have seen how you have squandered this damnable power! And I have seen that if you are the best hope for this Cycle, then the Reapers have already won!"

He brings the blade high. Sunlight flashes across the edge as he roars, and-

And then the ground shakes. The ground cracks and Javik stumbles back, just as the pistol retracts into Vessae's elbow. Her eyes level on the prothean Solar, walking from the self made crater and between him and Shepard.

"Father," she says, "That's enough."
 
Valiran said:
Alright Gregg, how is Javik the father of Vessae? Alchemicals don't have parents, and I was under the impression that a mortal soul had to go through several lifetimes of heroism before it qualified for use in creating one. Doesn't reincarnation wipe memories of the previous life, or is that just in Creation?
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:3
 
Gamerex27 said:
Alright, Javik has officially moved into douchebag territory.

I mean, if he had seen Shepard's memories, he would have seen that she only Exalted a year ago. An Exalt would only get strong enough to take on a Reaper after decades-at least- of training. Also, there's the whole thing about The Great Maker taking an active role in the war, the multiple other Exalts which were absent during Javik's cycle, and other advantages.

Even is Javik is Limit Breaking right now, and he clearly isn't in his right state of mind, you'd think he would have noticed those things.

Granted, he is a RAEG machine at the moment, so this can be excused.
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And this does not in any way make him different than canon :3
 
Javik stands up. His eyes narrow, and slowly the caste mark fades and his fists unclench. The sword vanishes from his hand as Vessae walks over, helping Shepard stand. She is correct, he muses. She is right, he thinks. This is enough. Once more, his rage has consumed him- and this time it was not directed at his enemies, but at one he must make into an ally.

Because she is right. She has done more in this Cycle than he has. She has warned their leaders. She has destroyed one of the seventeen Vanguards. She is the best hope this cycle has of survival- of victory. He has seen all this and more.

But what he did not see what the other human. So it is surprise that hits Javik, this time.

Surprise, and earth, as James Vega grabs the prothean from behind and drives him head first into the ground with a masterfully executed German Supplex.

"Aw yeah!" Hands up, fingers pointing out, the armored human stands above the unconscious exalt and whoops. "That's right! That's right! Go all glowy and shit and I will still drive yo ass into the ground!"

One foot on the unconscious Javik, one fist pumped into the air and backlit by the sun, James slowly becomes aware of the two women watching him. But very slowly.

"Come here all glowy and shit and you still get your ass kicked by marines! Your boys better all duck! Cause I'm about to turn left an I don't want to smack you with my dick!"

Looking up, he sees Vessae and Shepard staring at him. Taking his foot off Javik, he salutes. "Ma'am. Should I cuff him?"
 
...Javik? Pay more attention to your surprise negators. You got them for a reason.
 
trivialrealities said:
Not sure what's more worrying: the prospect that Javik doesn't have a surprise negator, that he somehow got mote-tapped, that Javik didn't consider Vega's attack threatening enough to use his surprise negator or that Vega can somehow bypass surprise negators.

I forget, are surprise negators generally perfect effects? Could a hypothetical offensive Charm trump them?
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There's a litany of reasons why James just was able to suplex Javik. Many of them are spoilers.
 
trivialrealities said:
I forget, are surprise negators generally perfect effects? Could a hypothetical offensive Charm trump them?
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The text of a surprise negator is usually a variant of 'if you have to roll to notice immediate mortal danger, this Charm activates,' so it's not quite a perfect effect. Trumping it is hard however, although it's quite possible Javik had just used a Charm that wasn't Combo-Basic or Combo-OK.

But then, Gregg said whatever made it possible for James to surprise Javik like that was a spoiler, so it's probably not something simple like that.
 
Well, he's definitely not an Exalt or a god-blooded.
 
TempusCorvus said:
Is there a reason that the last bit of that line is bolded? Is it just for emphasis, or is it something more?
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It's because he's screaming it at the top of his lungs. In front of his commanding officer and the communist cyborg kung fu robot daughter of the prothean dawn-caste warlord he just suplexed.



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James isn't subtle.
 
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