Bob is sadly too secret to take out of the lab, though he can confer with Harry afterwards
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
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Bob is sadly too secret to take out of the lab, though he can confer with Harry afterwards
I agree, but when you lay it all out like that I'm tempted to start reframing all of this sort of thing as far video game achievements.
Achievement Unlocked: God's Nightlight. Make a deal with Uriel without getting smote.
Achievement Unlocked: YA Protagonist Support Group. Befriend the first and only other exalt you know about.
Achievement Unlocked: Shine Bright. Start a flashy business without immediately getting audited.
Achievement Unlocked: Babby's First Autocracy. Impulse recruit minions until you have enough to need to establish proper governance.
And so on.
I think that a high school should count as enough of a spiritual blight to allow for TLF's passives, so that should be trivial.
Yeah, but we need a way to pay him.
He is a nerd, so maybe we could get around his thing about money by paying him in crafting/research materials. As in we overbuy for whatever we're doing and tell him to take the leftovers home. Then we can just slip entirely unrelated stuff that he'd otherwise have to buy himself into his bag of parting prizes.
I'd rather just pay him in cash directly for the work he does, but playing stupid games to get him to at least take something is better than taking advantage of his self destructive habits.
[X] Fetch Harry for a second opinion
Yeah, but we had to shove it down his throat, and part of the reason that worked was that Molly is increasingly registering as someone capable of taking care of herself.
The Jade Dogs are destitute, helping them would probably stomp all over his hero complex buttons.
If we were asking for curiosity's sake we'd have an easier time, but we're in part asking him to help make sure an unregulated magical anomaly won't screw up a homeless commune containing at least one baby.
If Harry had any more of a complex about this sort of thing "martyr" would glow on his forehead like a caste mark just hearing about the job.
… Though now that I say that it occurs to me that Harry also has a bit of a thing about ghouls. Might want to warn them to find something else to do while he's around.
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Not really most people in highschool aren't actually feeling despair.
Yzarc
The Spark of Madness
Exam days disagree with you.
fictionfan
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Eh, most of them pass and plenty are feeling hopeful.
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I wonder if there are any Whampires who can feed on boredom? It would probably be hard to get much from any single person, but there are so many opportunities for mass-feeding in modern day life. School, work, DMV, ER waiting rooms, etc. Hell, even lines for rides at amusement parks might work.
fictionfan
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There aren't any currently, but Molly would be in a better position then most to be able to make one.
This has already been a very exciting arc. I think that we are going to manage more then 30 XP this time. Might even hit 40.
*Cross fingers on having enough to make obtaining The key and Kingdom charm right there and then*
This would be a thematic time for it. Perhaps not the most dramatic, but gaining a proper spirit empire after Molly takes her first real steps as a ruler would be fitting.
It'd also be really funny since that conversation about her being a queen without a court happened relatively recently.
It'd also be really funny since that conversation about her being a queen without a court happened relatively recently.
[X] Fetch Harry for a second opinion
-[X] Stunt: Walking once more into Harry's dimly lit apartment, the traditional bag of fast food in one hand (chicken sandwiches and waffle fries this time, for variety) with a cardboard tray holding a trio of strawberry shakes in the other, you can't help but wonder if the wizard himself might not benefit from inspecting the magical oddity you discovered in the Last Station. "So, how many candles do you go through in a month, Harry? Could I perhaps interest you in a more...eco-friendly alternative?"
-[X] Stunt: Walking once more into Harry's dimly lit apartment, the traditional bag of fast food in one hand (chicken sandwiches and waffle fries this time, for variety) with a cardboard tray holding a trio of strawberry shakes in the other, you can't help but wonder if the wizard himself might not benefit from inspecting the magical oddity you discovered in the Last Station. "So, how many candles do you go through in a month, Harry? Could I perhaps interest you in a more...eco-friendly alternative?"
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
[X] Fetch Harry for a second opinion
-[X] Stunt: Walking once more into Harry's dimly lit apartment, the traditional bag of fast food in one hand (chicken sandwiches and waffle fries this time, for variety) with a cardboard tray holding a trio of strawberry shakes in the other, you can't help but wonder if the wizard himself might not benefit from inspecting the magical oddity you discovered in the Last Station. "So, how many candles do you go through in a month, Harry? Could I perhaps interest you in a more...eco-friendly alternative?"
-[X] Stunt: Walking once more into Harry's dimly lit apartment, the traditional bag of fast food in one hand (chicken sandwiches and waffle fries this time, for variety) with a cardboard tray holding a trio of strawberry shakes in the other, you can't help but wonder if the wizard himself might not benefit from inspecting the magical oddity you discovered in the Last Station. "So, how many candles do you go through in a month, Harry? Could I perhaps interest you in a more...eco-friendly alternative?"
[X] Fetch Harry for a second opinion
-[X] Stunt: Walking once more into Harry's dimly lit apartment, the traditional bag of fast food in one hand (chicken sandwiches and waffle fries this time, for variety) with a cardboard tray holding a trio of strawberry shakes in the other, you can't help but wonder if the wizard himself might not benefit from inspecting the magical oddity you discovered in the Last Station. "So, how many candles do you go through in a month, Harry? Could I perhaps interest you in a more...eco-friendly alternative?"
-[X] Stunt: Walking once more into Harry's dimly lit apartment, the traditional bag of fast food in one hand (chicken sandwiches and waffle fries this time, for variety) with a cardboard tray holding a trio of strawberry shakes in the other, you can't help but wonder if the wizard himself might not benefit from inspecting the magical oddity you discovered in the Last Station. "So, how many candles do you go through in a month, Harry? Could I perhaps interest you in a more...eco-friendly alternative?"
[X] Fetch Harry for a second opinion
-[X] Occult (to work together with Harry on solving the issue( and Empathy (to get Harry to accept payment) excellencies
-[x] Insist on paying him. This isn't save the world stuff. It's help Molly with her project stuff.
-[X] [STUNT] Walking once more into Harry's dimly lit apartment, the traditional bag of fast food in one hand (chicken sandwiches and waffle fries this time, for variety) with a cardboard tray holding a trio of strawberry shakes in the other, you prepare a list of arguments to convince Harry that his time is valuable: "So, I actually have an exciting non-threatening magical problem that I want to consult with you on, for a change. Will you take cash, or am I writing a second book of eldrich lore for you? I have some ideas on what you might be interested in"
-[X] Occult (to work together with Harry on solving the issue( and Empathy (to get Harry to accept payment) excellencies
-[x] Insist on paying him. This isn't save the world stuff. It's help Molly with her project stuff.
-[X] [STUNT] Walking once more into Harry's dimly lit apartment, the traditional bag of fast food in one hand (chicken sandwiches and waffle fries this time, for variety) with a cardboard tray holding a trio of strawberry shakes in the other, you prepare a list of arguments to convince Harry that his time is valuable: "So, I actually have an exciting non-threatening magical problem that I want to consult with you on, for a change. Will you take cash, or am I writing a second book of eldrich lore for you? I have some ideas on what you might be interested in"
This doesn't work, not really. Harry doesn't live on top of a leyline. Mouse is probably enough of a spirit to create the necessary effect when moving near one, but Harry's apartment isn't a Dragon's nest.
NGL If we go for auto-essence, I am more excited for Lydia. She really. Really needs more essence, and DP mentioned that her essence would probably scale with us.
COMMENTARY
Thats gone well so far.
Molly's going to wake up one morning and realize she's turned into her parents, just with colored hair and more piercings
If we fix up the electricity it'll act as a beacon in the dark, and aid to recruitment among everyone in the local population that prefers light to darkness. With any luck, between that and the early chills of late fall/oncoming winter as a motivator we should have an idea of how many people we have to care for through the winter by early November, and can make plans accordingly.
Because I doubt we only have to deal with 18 people when all's said and done.
Note that we dont actually need to kill it, just to be able to drive it off.
Permadeath would be nice, but not mandatory.
MMP we do need before the end of the year, but I dont think we can afford for it to show in the spending budget before November.
Cash.
Oh you mean how to get him to take the money? Guilt trip, obviously. Dude has an almost stereotypically Catholic sense of guilt.
Find a relevant spot and target it for maximum damage.
Wait till after the lottery, put two or three million in an investment portfolio/trust fund that does 4% returns a year(stock market average 7-8% for the last fifty years), then dump it on him as thanks for anything from Arctis Tor to Splattercon to taking the coin for Hank, and make it clear that it would be a lot easier to get Murphy to take a similar bequest for Arctis Tor if he does.
Or call it advance payment for CPD SI consults for the next five years. Guilt trip him.
Then do the same thing to Murphy.
Similarly, when we have enough free cash to actually look into getting him to retire the Beetle by replacing it with an enchanted car or two? Guilt trip him by claiming its an upgrade for Mouse's sake. Or that its from the entire Carpenter family.
Or that its a testbed for seeing how long electronics under magic can survive around a wizard.
Dont press for minor things; always offer, but if he wont take it, dont press.
Save the pressure for paying him with large amounts of money or other types of value at a time.
To be fair to him, it only really becomes a thing after Camp Kaboom, when some ghouls kill a pair of Warden teenagers in 2007.
Which hasnt happened yet. And it never reaches the oppobrium with which he regards most Reds.
Right now its about the same level of caution with which he treats most types of supernaturals who have tried to kill him.
Should be fine.
While I dont have a problem with Lydia or any other future party member getting autoEssence pegged to Molly's?
I dont really think auto Essence is a good idea for Molly in this quest.
Worst case I'd rather earn discounts to raising Essence than have it pegged to our lifetime XP earned.
I begrudge the loss of control to Molly's progression, and we're earning enough XP per arc that we're not exactly being XP starved.
My opinion.
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Goldfish
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The idea isn't to sell him on using the same proto-enchantment we discovered in Last Station, but rather the potential for an easy, low maintenance method of converting magic to electricity. That could be the first step to making magic more tech friendly.
It'd help a lot, but I think we should at some point start sketching out a long term buff/passive heavy build for her.
Something that lets her get as much as she can from each mote rather than trying to overcome the terrestrial pool size issue directly.
Her excellency is good for this sort of thing for a terrestrial, and she is pretty wealthy. Going full Batman with potions and enchanted gadgets made with inhuman skill would probably be more effective in the long run.
Not sure how far that'll go, but it's a place to start I suppose. Dresden may have his levers, but he'd have died years ago if he wasn't capable of noticing and responding to that sort of maneuvering.
I'd rather pay him, really. He'll get this knowledge anyway.
Long-term planning is difficult, because we don't actually know what we'll have to settle with. There have been ideas of trying to ascend her to celestial-grade, for example. Also, if she is allowed Jade essence storage, her terrestrial essence pool quickly and sharply becomes significantly less of a problem.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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We can still pay him, but maybe we shouldn't open with that? Let's hook him using his magical nerdery, then spring money on him afterward.
The jade storage has potential but requires looking into something that we have no IC idea about, so it could be tricky.
A celestial upgrade, assuming it's possible, would probably be a really long term thing with an epic quest or two attached.
A high efficiency build would make her more capable of achieving the things needed to get the workarounds, and still benefit from an enhanced pool later.