Sorry, I didn't mean that we'd make a celestial tier exaltation. I meant that a god of Chicago should be able to empower a celestial tier exigent or otherwise produce a chosen powerful enough to work at our level.
True. There are a lot of stretch goals in this, a lot of stuff we could add to make it grander.
Chicago has notorious corruption already, a little hell essence probably wouldn't hurt.
I'd be interested in seeing how much flexibility we have with implementation. We made a least god, but those entities aren't the most common anymore. Dresden Files does love its mantles though.
The other option here, discounting the other stuff in this post, would be the incarnate god joining our circle directly.
Murphy or, much as I hate to say it, Marcone would be the perfect and most logical choices as a chosen of Chicago.
If the god could choose I'd bet on Marcone, but screw that. I don't want a gang war with him yet, but I'd rather bite the bullet and kill him than see him exalt or take up a mantle of any serious power.
So, to be clear, the options are:
Mana manipulation. Six dots outright creates a temporary dragon next.
This is a day ending in -ay for a Solaroid... As Harry will learn.
I'm just worried about it potentially interacting in deeply unfortunate ways with Demonreach. Such as by temporarily draining the leylines dry during the actual creation process or the prison and its prisoners affecting the god's nature
I really like this idea, in no small part because we'd basically end up consulting Dresden on something that sounds like the sort of plot Harry would spend an entire book foiling, but there might be some issues here.
That's probably not a concern. One of the things that Dresden learns when binding himself to it was that the dark ley line he thought was passing through it was actually cast off power from the prisoners. If we drain it we'd basically just be giving Demonreach's mystical sewer system a deep cleaning.
donno if that's a good idea. Chicago is one fucked up place. XD
I find it funny the we haven't even considered trying to do that ourselves. I guess because just driving it away feels like a fail state.
5) Create a city godSomewhere in Molly's soul scape Usum has an office for official business, which contains a notebook of our various subconscious desires.
So far this contains gems such as:
1) Murdering a millennia old diabolic warlock
2) Following up on fashion tips from a Fallen Angel
3) Becoming a glorious hell-star crowned with rings of brass and mouths of volcanic stone in part to mock pretenders to the throne of the hells
And finally
4) Feeding Pixies motes of essence until something cool happens.
The first three reaffirm that she was an excellent choice for an infernal; the last one he probably writes off as her inner first age solar shining through.
Are you going to use Holden's crafting stuff, or just use it as a barrier to entry/adjuster for doing high level exalted reality bullying?
I'm less concerned about invasion than smuggling and infiltration, but I agree bigger is better here. Mechanics aside; the gravitas of a hell world blows everything else out of the water and the charm is supposed to be a kingdom, not an uplift package.
The issuewith mantle crafting, as opposed to raising exigents, is that manntles are by definition, limiting. They are focusing and amplifying devices. You can act more strongly than normally, but only in certain ways. Exaltations are the opposite, increasing the range of what's possible for a host. If exigents are possible, they would be superior to mantles in a lot of ways, at least in my opinion.
