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Glorious Shotgun Princess (ME/Exalted) Thread #2

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Endymion said:
Actually what I find funnier is the one being from the scene before who is currently not being mentioned....where's Kamilla?
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Clearly, she's sneaking around picking up all the dead bodies in the area.

So flies, mosquitos, some dead rabbits and rats, and all the butchered meat in the Dragonbloodeds' storage room.

Mnemon: "Hey! That was going to be my lunch!"
 
Destrark said:
am I missing something? whered Auto go?
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He was looking for his valet. Terribly rude, moving the parking lot while he was gone!
GreggHL said:
Hours stretched, leading the quarian, the pile of gods, and the body dragging wind out of the grasslands. They pass the first trees as the moon lazily drags across the sky. Of course, that small part of Kal which remembers this place somehow knows it's not a moon. It is, in fact, a battle station.
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But is it fully armed and operational?
GreggHL said:
"Kal'Reegar vas Rayya nar Idenna. Quarian Migrant Fleet Marines. Chosen of Journeys."

Green eyes roll. "Wonderful," she mutters, reaching into her robes as she walks towards him, "Did they let you out of Yu Shan early or are you some poor Ronin who exalted in the middle of nowhere?"

Kal cocks an eyebrow. "You know, you're second person who-" The rest of the statement is cut off by the knife digging into his cheek and the blood filling the grooves in it. "The heck was that for?"

A second metal plate closes over the knife. "Precautions." A snort and a grumble. She walks to the tome, walks to the table. Flat heeled shoes click over the stone tiles. "Quarian. Never heard of that kind of demon. May have to simply cart the both of you back to the Isle."
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...you know, since Mnemon is, apparently, accepting the fact that Kal is a Siddie as fact, one has to wonder why she isn't a bit perturbed that a 'demon' has an Exaltation, something that has, heterofore, not only never been recorded outside of a Human, but is structured so it CANT be?
Chapter 3:
And Then Autochthon did Something With No Foresight
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And with this title, I come, through a convoluted train of thoughts, to the conclusion that Kal'Reegar vas Rayya nar Idenna must be voiced by Richard Dean Anderson.
Because this can only end in him saying one thing to poor Autobot.
"Oh, fer cryin' out loud!"
 
Changed it actually;

A second metal plate closes over the knife. "Precautions." A snort and a grumble. She walks to the tome, walks to the table. Flat heeled shoes click over the stone tiles. "Quarian. Never heard of that nation. Even if you are a Sidereal, you don't appear purely human." A click of the tongue. "May have to simply cart the both of you back to the Isle."
 
Gregg: Ahh, that makes much more sense now.
Although it does remove the alternatives of Memnon being either Coolest Hand Luke or totally freaking out inside. Or both!

Alasnuyo: Very true. But they're still for varying defintions of human, not demons.
...well, unless they're demon-blooded, anyway!
 
Talon88.1 said:
World of Darkness for example: Krogan + Garou = teleporting, even faster healing, shapeshifting, magical, even angrier Krogan.
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Just an FYI, first edition Age of Sorrows (Exalted) was the past of the old World of Darkness.
 
Essex said:
Actually, according to the Exalted Forum FAQ (http://exalted.shaolinpunk.net/faq.html), that isn't entirely true. The old WoD is what may have eventually resulted if the Usurpation hadn't happened:

"The prophecy which prompted the Sidereal Exalted to orchestrate the overthrow of the First Age Solars predicted a future very similar to the World of Darkness if the Sidereals did nothing. Since they did not in fact do nothing, it is currently unknown whether or not the AoS will eventually become the WoD, especially since Sidereals seem incapable of predicting things having to do with Malfeas or the Underworld."
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*shrug* The first edition core book back cover blurb starts with "Before there was a World of Darkness, there was an age of savage adventure." It doesn't leave a lot of room for interpretation.
 
"Yes! HELLO! HELLO!"

Floating atop the highest mountain he could find, Autochthon greets the dawn with yells, orders, and swears. Floating above the peak, he bellows at the top of his mechanical lungs at the passing sun. Louder and louder with every roar.

"Hello! It's me! We need to talk!"

There is no response. No indication he is heard, or even acknowledged.

"Get down here you perfect bastard! You have some explaining to do!"
 
GreggHL said:
"Yes! HELLO! HELLO!"

Floating atop the highest mountain he could find, Autochthon greets the dawn with yells, orders, and swears. Floating above the peak, he bellows at the top of his mechanical lungs at the passing sun. Louder and louder with every roar.

"Hello! It's me! We need to talk!"

There is no response. No indication he is heard, or even acknowledged.

"Get down here you perfect bastard! You have some explaining to do!"
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I need to stop reading Gregg's posts while drinking water. It's all over my screen.
 
Maes said:
At some point, Auto's going to crash / yank the plug on the Games of Divinity to try and get his attention, won't he?
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I sincerely doubt it. Autochthon as a Primordial would have been hard-pressed to shut off the Games, they were a collective work by the combined Primordial Host. Autochthon as a god can no more shut them off than he can switch off the sun.

And that's not an invitation to start going "well, if he got onboard the Daystar" (which he'd be similarly powerless to affect), it's just a metaphor.

Now, trying to barge into the Jade Pleasure Dome by force in a giant crystal warstrider and getting himself (and Kal) dogpiled by fifty-odd Celestial Lions? That's another question entirely. :p
 
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    • Sunlight starts peaking in the window. He is guessing...three? Four hours since they were captured, at least, which have been spent with him and Wuffles watching the woman pour over a steady stream of books carried in by armored men. Glancing at Wuffles, Kal sees them shrug, and turns back to the table.

    "Excuse me, can I-"

    "No," Mnemon raises a finger. "Quiet." Kal purses his lips. Works his jaw. "If you are thinking of speaking, do not. You will only distract me."

    Kal closes his eyes, breathing deep. Wuffles extends their petals, glancing from the quarian to the woman as the door closes upon the last soldier leaving. Sitting at the table, the white skinned Not-Commander Shepard continues pouring over the books, eyes narrowed as she mouths the words.

    "We offer clarification of-" A white finger is extended. Wuffles' words die on their lips. Speaker. Processor. Either way, the Geth resolves to stay quiet.

    The room is quiet, save for the faint whir of the petals, and the crackle of old paper turning. Names are whispered by the white woman, eyes like coals on the books. Muttering under her breath as her nose crinkles and nostrils flair. "...had to work so hard to learn about the Sidereals," she mutters, tapping gold embroidered fingers on the table.

    Eyes level on Wuffles. "And I still don't know just what you are," she says.

    Petals extend. The eyes shifts to her. "We are Geth."

    Green eyes narrow like emerald slits, even as she seizes a black and silver lined quill and places it on a blank scroll. Folding her arms, she leans back and purses her lips. "Clarify," she says, and the quill writes the words on its own.

    "Geth are a consensus of virtual intelligences that have become artificial intelligences. We were created by the quarians two hundred and ninety eight years ago." The quill scribbles this down, moving on its own. "According to Autochthon, we are best understood as a race of Least Gods which have upgraded themselves to Animating Intelligences."

    The eyes go wide. "What?" She blinks, rubs the bridge of her nose. "According to who?"

    The iris widens, and the petals flatten against the head. She pushes out of the chair, stomping over to him and grabbing him by the chin. "We were informed of our equivalent status by Autochthon." The iris narrows. "He has been traveling with us."

    Her eyes narrow. And next to them, Kal's closed eyes twitch. Something he has been thinking about, training, practicing, finally comes to the fore. Something wells, deep within. Something he needed, something he wanted. Limbs become harder. Sinews become stronger. He mouths the words and it becomes effortless, even as the name whispers in his ears; Burn Life.

    The manacles stretch, crack, and break as he yanks them from the wall. Cracked and broken chains drop around him, flying around him as he pulls with his arms and legs. Momentum carries; he hits the ground with his shoulder and rolls to his feet- quick, effortless- facing the copy of Tali's Captain as she turns to him.

    Mouth open, hands clenched into fists, Kal narrows his eyes to the marble-skinned woman. "Lady, get your hands off my-"

    He forgets the rest. Marble, as it turns out, is hard. Even harder when at speed. Something Kal realizes when Mnemon strides over to him and delivers an open-hand slap across his face that sends him to the floor.

    She appraises him with her eyes as he climbs to his feet. Taller than her by half a head, eyes wide, rubbing his jaw. "Did." He feels his cheek. Relatively certain that loosened some teeth. "Did you just slap me?"

    The left hand swings, ringing out with the sound of stone meeting face, and Kal is once more on the ground.

    "Yes." She smiles. "Yes, I did."

    Hand over his jaw, he stumbles to his feet. "I...keelah Lady, if you would give us a minute to explain, and if you stopped slapping me-"

    "Guards." She narrows her eyes. "Deal with him."

    He glances from side to side. Hands curl into fists. Mentally he begins clicking the switches for charms, for power, to bring to the upcoming fight. Then he figures out it was a ruse. Well, figures it out after Mnemon walked over slapped him again.
     
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    • And I should remind people, that from the perspective of the vast majority of mortals, that your equally screwed vs a Celestial or a DB.
     
    Daedwartin said:
    and Javik just entered the room...part of why he exalted was he managed to defeat the emperor of his own empire who was a Solar.
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    Heroic mortal, possibly enlightened, with an exaltation-in-a-can at his hip, multiple attributes and abilities at 5 in all likelyhood, and weapons that outperform some artifacts is about as far from normal as you get. Not to mention that Javik had already done quite a bit of exaltation-worthy shit. The odds that he wouldn't have exalted by the time he killed Athame if there had been any available before he broke the trap strike me as very low.
     
    pheonix89 said:
    And I should remind people, that from the perspective of the vast majority of mortals, that your equally screwed vs a Celestial or a DB.
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    And from the perspective of many Celestials, you're just as screwed if the DB who's in front of you is Mnemon.

    Especially if you say she is only a dragonblooded.
     
    GreggHL said:
    And from the perspective of many Celestials, you're just as screwed if the DB who's in front of you is Mnemon.

    Especially if you say she is only a dragonblooded.
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    Never say "you and what army?" to Mnemon, as matriarch of one of the largest Dynastic Houses and leader of the most organised, most cohesive, and closest-linked-to-the-Immaculate-Order House.
     
    Honestly, Mnemon is one of the handful of Dragon Blooded out there who gets to play at the Celestial Level before you even throw out her massive pile of descendents, superlative sorcery, and virtually unlimited wealth.

    The only thing stopping her from Being the new Empress is because nobody else would tolerate her being in power--she played the political game Too Well, and everyone fears what would happen to them and their interests if she took power. Even though she's pretty much the only Dragon Blooded candidate who putting them on the throne Won't horribly backfire.

    (The Roseblack is the only other individual who's considered a serious candidate--and that's only because she's a charismatic young dragon blooded who's good at military, and seen as being easily manipulated by those who don't want Mnemon in power. Other prospects are either too old (Cainan), too weird (Ledaal Kes), or have no political backing to let them survive being in power (Just about everyone else))
     
    Forgetful said:
    "Hi there, do you have a moment to talk about our friend and benefactor, the Ebon Dragon?"
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    " The suitor of my mother?" She knows about the plans for Eby to marry marriage and at least during E1 she heavily suspected the identity of the bride during Aspectbook earth if I remember right which was well when we got the first hints about the plan and it was not anounced from all streets of malfeas
     
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