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I can only think of one reason why nobody wants to be a billionaire that I agree with
Billionaires are kinda cringe ngl
Billionaires are kinda cringe ngl
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
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- Crossover Fantasy
It allows you to make constructs, magic items and what are basically living spells. As it is 5 dot and not a favored charm that is 4*5 = 20 XP.
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- Probably at sea
Just to jump on this, the age of the item isn't important - the complexity of the technology is. A modern revolver would be better than an old one for the reasons you said, but an old revolver is still better than a new semiautomatic because there's fewer moving parts for the magic to screw up.
Also, where are you getting that Wardens use automatic pistols and rifles? Prior to Luccio's bodyjacking they used her anti-magic swords; after that they use whatever, but mostly foci like Harry's. There is one Texan Warden who uses a gun, but even that is a lever-action rifle IIRC.
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Ah we're not getting it anytime soon then
The mortals with large dice pools, and/or luck are the ones making money on the market, but luck runs out, if they don't cash out, they pretty much will lose it later on. And for the several million others with small to mid level dice pools, in the market are the ones losing money to them. Over time it is those that have the large dice pools that win in the market. With 12 dice Molly is either better then any mortal, or just shy of the top 10 in ability.
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Let's just write a practical guide to sorcery/ancient sorcery when we know enough and live off of the royalties
OK so I actually looked into this. To give some numbers for the stock market. Someone like Warren Buffett or George Soros, the people who are really good and probably more than a bit lucky consistently make about 20% yearly profit over a span of decades, which is about twice what he market makes when taking that same period downturns and all. That is what the mortal height of day trading over a long enough period looks like. The people who made 12000% because they invested in Amazon in the late 90s or something, well first of all you are probably just Jeff Bassos and maybe one or two others and second of all when they try to diversify probably end up losing money by just the law of averages.
The really astronomical numbers for stock profits are not about skill as people like Buffet and Soros show who have actually diversified portfolios they are about being lucky... or since we are talking about magic seeing the future.
That only works with essence though. Molly has so far not met another person who uses it, though granted it has been less that 24 hours.
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If there is one group of beings that use Essence, I expect it to be one of three groups, other Exalts excepted.
Angels, Gods and Outsiders. One or any combination of the three
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For some reason this confused me and I only just realised that you mean like how Howl used his heart.
To add to the above about the stock though the 20% is when dealing with tens of billions of client's money. The smaller the numbers you are working with the easier it is to hit bigger percentages without the very things you are doing to make a profit destroying the opportunity you found.
As best I can describe it since the way to make a profit as a day trader is to diversify the more money you have the more good picks you have to make to keep up your margins because if you just put your ten billion in the Hot New Tech of the day that stock is going to go up sharply, other shareholders are going to see it and they are going to sell leaving you at a lower share price than you bought at.
I have to say research into the stock market was not where I was expecting this quest to go, but that is fine. I like these sorts of surprises in quests
As best I can describe it since the way to make a profit as a day trader is to diversify the more money you have the more good picks you have to make to keep up your margins because if you just put your ten billion in the Hot New Tech of the day that stock is going to go up sharply, other shareholders are going to see it and they are going to sell leaving you at a lower share price than you bought at.
I have to say research into the stock market was not where I was expecting this quest to go, but that is fine. I like these sorts of surprises in quests
Jack vile Ripper
The swellest guy in Creation.
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*chat discussing about the possibility of cheesing the Stock Market to become a billionaire in two years tops*
*meanwhile, I'm sitting on top of the uber-combat god Sidereal build that could plaster even the greatest of Exalts like unruly children*
Ah, Exalted. Thou brings the best in people...
*meanwhile, I'm sitting on top of the uber-combat god Sidereal build that could plaster even the greatest of Exalts like unruly children*
Ah, Exalted. Thou brings the best in people...
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Unfortunately we are working with an infernal exalted, one of the weaker exalted with regards to bureaucracy shenanigans. So we can't just buy a single charm, and win at money forever.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
Seems like the easiest and fastest way to make money, and to do it without investing finite resources (XP!) into a niche field, would be to learn one of those Charms y'all have mentioned that are useful for other stuff, like healing or granting minor wishes, then find a wealthy person in need of medical services beyond those offered by current medical science.
Steve Jobs has pancreatic cancer in 2006, plus he's one of those really smart dumbasses who ignores legit treatment in favor of "alternative medicine". What's more alternative than magic?
Is curing someone's cancer within reach of our potential powers?
Steve Jobs has pancreatic cancer in 2006, plus he's one of those really smart dumbasses who ignores legit treatment in favor of "alternative medicine". What's more alternative than magic?
Is curing someone's cancer within reach of our potential powers?
ExWoD Sidereals have some fun things.
Like carrying around a bag full of disconnected vampire hearts you can slurp for Essence at any time by using the Citrine Pox disease that lets you pop out organs and limbs from someone without hurting them and drinking them using Charcoal March.
ExWoD Sid Martial Arts incentivize diversification and synergy instead of building deep in styles.
Jack vile Ripper
The swellest guy in Creation.
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Verdant Emptiness Endownent explicitly says that its able to heal one Flaw that the target has suffered. So that works.
There's one other method. Mercy in Servitude, but that is only applicable to Bakemono/Fomori, a type of evil spirit that we could definitely create. But it's going to take two Charms to do it (Bakemono changing Charms aren't cheap). It's also a 'put the cart before the horses' type of situation'.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
Verdant Emptiness Endowment sounds like a useful Charm to know going from how often y'all have mentioned it and the breadth of changes it can accomplish.
Jack vile Ripper
The swellest guy in Creation.
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Well, it's quite literally THE faustian deal Charm that wicked spirits used to lure those unsuspecting to do their bidding. That and the fact that it's a 5-Dot Charm quite warrants the flexibility.
Just... don't wish for more than 3 Wishes. Otherwise, you'll become a Fomori/Bakemono.
I mean it is literally the 'you are a hell genie' charm. It grants wishes and while there is a cap on their scope and you can only do one per year per person it is still out and out reality warping.
Of all charms Verdant Emptiness Endowment Is the single most useful one we could get.
Actually I have a question, DP.
I noticed that there is a section in the pdf, the Dark Ages version that has some different Charms.
This makes sense because Lanka would be different IC, but the Wicked City just has some different Charm effects that are actually pretty good and isnt metaphysically different enough.
Question is, can we buy A Theft For All Labors (good signature and variant of the Craft Charm), and A Home for Liars, at some point?
I noticed that there is a section in the pdf, the Dark Ages version that has some different Charms.
This makes sense because Lanka would be different IC, but the Wicked City just has some different Charm effects that are actually pretty good and isnt metaphysically different enough.
Question is, can we buy A Theft For All Labors (good signature and variant of the Craft Charm), and A Home for Liars, at some point?
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Are you saying that capitalists aren't evil spirits?
Modus_Tollens
SCREAMING AT THE APOCALYPSE
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- ALSO SCREAMING.
Though I remember mortals having limited success learning how to use essence if they are willing to make themselves miserable doing it. That may not be half as effective in this rarefied atmosphere even beyond the whole 'make themselves miserable doing it' part. Its not all that helpful for a self help book.
For wealth... we don't need that much. Not unless we decide to give Marcone competition. We need something to lubricate all the chaos we are dealing with, and which Harry is dealing with, but beyond that its mostly something to help us survive if we need to take our bug-out-bag and run. Maybe getting our own damn apartment ten seconds after graduation to reduce familial friction, if the worst doesn't happen. We won't want to be tied up with a time sink like an actual job when that time comes.
Fairly modest. We could literally etsy our way into that, if it came down to it, even without breaking out any real tricks. There are options aplenty.
Evil spirits at least have to obey their own strictures. Capitalists are not so easily warded against.
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- Brazil
Its concept is good, but I still prefer the idea of Hell of Paradise, or as I like to think of it in my head, Paradise Lost.
Because for me, it invokes both Molly's Christian roots and the idea that she really doesn't want to hurt anyone, thus making her personal world the best it can be, just not taking into account, because of the normal human mindset that she still has. has, which in the long run (after several millennia) is as bad as any other hell. After all, what human considers the logical consequences of creating it after 10,000, 100,000, 1,000,000 years?
If I have that option at the time of the concert vote, I will vote for it.
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- Czech Republic
The issue for me is that I doubt that we will get it after the 10 000 years. So we will just end up with in my opinion pretty boring leisure world for the duration of the quest.