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Glorious Shotgun Princess (ME/Exalted) Thread #2

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loserthree said:
Was -- Was that irony?

I don't know how long it's been since I could tell.
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When you go from a codex entry about trekkie space pansexuals to economics, you have nerded it up even for that conversation.
 
Asari love Star Trek.

Turians love anything by Heinlein. Also, they are big fans of the intermittent Battlestar Galactica revivals, especially of Adama.

Quarians see Asimov-based vids as horror stories. Additionally, they like Firefly and Farscape.

Hanar love Battlefield Earth and the Star Wars Prequels.

Elcor enjoy any and all star wars-related media.

Volus like anything to do with Metal Gear. Anything.

Vorcha don't give a shit.

Krogan are big fans of victorian dramas.
 
Just out of curiosity, what is the word for a D'aaawww accompanied by hysterical screaming?
 
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    • The Reaper lays, broken upon the battlefield. Parts of its collapsed hull emit black smoke. All but one of its many red eyes are silent and dim, several burst and leaking blue, glowing liquid on the grass. It struggles to one long, spiked leg. And then it collapses, the metal groaning in time with the Reaper's own.

    Focused Expedient Seeker has fallen. As Jane Shepard approaches it, however, she cannot shake the feeling that it is not yet dead.

    "Pria." A barely audible click in her armor. "Give me a status report."

    Silence, from her overly critical godly companion. Almost as if in response, almost as if baiting her, a section of Seeker's hull opens, to reveal a doorway just big enough for her.

    No, scratch that. It's definitely baiting her. "I'm going to guess that if I want to kill it, the...core? It's inside there."

    She turns to find her crew assembled in front of her. Normally, the prospect of walking inside a Reaper, into possible, more than likely death, would be something that would give most people pause. She sees none of that hesitation on them. Instead, she just extends a hand, and catches the rifle that Vega tosses to her.

    "Saddle up. We have no idea what's in there. Three man squads and cover each other's backs." She checks the thermal clip, rolling her neck. "Let's kill a Reaper."

    She walks in, silent, taking the lead. Even before this, even before all...this...this is what she did. Lead from the front. Acted as the tip of the spear, the blade of the sword. She went in first, hoping on her barriers and her training to save her if it were a trap. And this is no different. Into an abyss, with what she brings with her the only defense she has.

    For a brief moment, as the darkness overtakes them, the flesh of the Reaper becoming something...else...she sees something. She feels warmth on her face, feels exhilaration not her own. Feels relief, and triumph at the same time, standing on a massive, grand platform before...something. Something she has no words to describe.

    A great roiling mass before her, before the others. It shrinks, it shudders. It begins to coalesce into something. Something smaller. Something they can comprehend, put into words. Before two feet lower themselves upon the stage before them, and he stands as equal, extending four arms to their cheers.

    And Jane steps forward, into something wondrous. Something massive. Something far, far bigger than the Reaper on the outside.

    By entire measures of magnitude. What should be six hundred meters instead disappears into the horizon. What should be a simple interior of a ship becomes a great factory of infinite arms. Equally infinite assembly lines curve and spiral into the vanishing point, where liquid shapes are pounded and poured into drone form.

    The uncountable machines filled every space and step. Working and churning in perfect step. But the noise was nothing. But silence. Which cracked their faceplates. But then they realized that the noise was absolute, deafening to the point where they could not hear it. Save for

    The tone

    Of violins.

    "Welcome," Pria says, despite the noise, somehow, "To the Infinite Factory. We shouldn't be here."
     
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    • Oh good, an infinite mook maker. Those are so useful for powerleveling. :p
     
    Forgetful said:
    Hey, Pria, forgot to tell Shepard about indoctrination?
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    Technically, between the multiple Exalts, the possible blightborn, the incredibly strong willed biotic, and James Vega, this is not a real problem.
     
    Current candidates for the Scarlet Empress:

    Jenny Shepard
    Hannah Shepard
    Commander Shepard
    James Vega
    Wuffles


    Hypothesis: The Scarlet Empress is Voltron.
     
    GreggHL said:
    Current candidates for the Scarlet Empress:

    Jenny Shepard
    Hannah Shepard
    Commander Shepard
    James Vega
    Wuffles


    Hypothesis: The Scarlet Empress is Voltron.
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    Well, there are 5 different kinds of dragon-blood. Wullfes is Air Aspect, Jenny is Earth Aspect, Shepard would have been Fire Aspect, Hannah is Water Aspect, and therefor Vega must be wood aspect. They all then joint together to use the neat teamwork charms dragonblood have.
     
    deadman2020 said:
    I thought Exalts couldn't get indoced.
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    Stories that involve 'and then the Solar was forced to do horrible things against their will' usually end badly for whomever is forcing them to do horrible things against their will, but there is nothing that says they can't be forced to do those things.

    It's just really difficult.
     
    Synapse said:
    Some control effects have clauses that do not work on exalted, like She's mindfuck. Which has been stated as much superior to indoctrination. I do not expect exalts needing to defend against indoctrination in any form, just by being exalts.
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    Er, SWLIHN's passive mind-fuck that happens from hearing her name, anyway. The most of the charm-based ones work fine, IIRC, although exalts can defend agaist them much more easily. But yes, agreed on exalt's lolnoping indoctrination.
     
    Forgetful said:
    Yes.

    .....how the fuck does that work?

    No I don't understand-I thought that when Solars become super, they're super all the time! Like...like SUPERMAN!

    Are you telling me these powers only work when they're focusing on using it?
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    Solars have very few allways on Charms. Most of the time, they have to pay to activate their awesome magic, and if they can't, they get sucker punched by Wood Aspect Dragonblood.
     
    Sucal said:
    Hes nowhere near as bad as some of the first age exalted. One of them successfully completed a project that gave every mortal potential access to army destroying sorcery. She then complained that wasn't enough, and was planning on extending the project until every human had the potential to casually learn and wield city or even country destroying magic. Side effects of the projects she did complete could have resulted in the complete dissolution of creation in a torrent of fate glitches, numerous paradoxes such as having the same person alive in three different places in dead in five more, etc etc etc.

    Another Solar decided that life was getting too boring, and almost unleashed the Yozi onto creation once more.
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    ... Wow..... Well that throws the First Age Solars into perspective.

    And now my Infernal with past life 4 must spend the rest of her life making sure that Solars never regain power.
     
    Athame was nasty but frankly, creating an entire slave species so you can have some sex toys for you alone is pretty underachieving in the dickery department for Solar Exalts of the First Age.
     
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