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That's single-target though.
Starting with a cloud to thin the crowd would valid anyway.
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Starting with a cloud to thin the crowd would valid anyway.
Did we ever use that holy oil we had Micheal get for us?
Even if we knew for a fact not sending him would result it J dying a horrible death, which we don't, we should still have sent someone else with Harry.
Well this is going to be fun. Sure the sword evens the odds, but Micheal still needs to spend time to make the effort to leverage it.
Even if we knew for a fact not sending him would result it J dying a horrible death, which we don't, we should still have sent someone else with Harry.
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I'm pretty happy about the chosen division.
If the Akuma had decided to attack the group on the other side of the Wall, then Michael would have been the only one who could stand up to him.
I wouldn't want to have send Harry to his death.
At the end of the day he is after Molly and her exaltation, not fighting a Knight of the Cross.
It must have some area of effect as the Yin Nihilus can come into contact with Shen that the creator is unaware of. It's a field projected around the vampire that hurts anyone that it comes into contact with, not something you cast on someone's
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And he might have succeeded in getting our Exaltation... or at least in killing us, since they don't know the requirements for a host or that it's impossible to control a new Exalt with chains of slavery or control made before Exalting, if they had gone after us when we were still a fresh baby Exalt. This would have probably been enough for the Molly at the start of the quest, but they made the classic blunder of giving the new Exalt too much time to build up before going after her, and now we're just going to own them.
Seriously, the people of the Age of Wonders would never have made the rookie mistake of waiting several months after a new Solaroid Exalts before going after them. It's a good thing nobody realized that in the modern day until it was too late.
Seriously, the people of the Age of Wonders would never have made the rookie mistake of waiting several months after a new Solaroid Exalts before going after them. It's a good thing nobody realized that in the modern day until it was too late.
I think it's more likely that the will of Kakuri represents something closer to the higher end of average for its kind in this setting.
Sending a pipsqueak doesn't make sense, and straight WoD power levels don't fit the context of the DF. The thousand hells being able to throw around things head and shoulders above the naagoloshi messes with the politics too much and warps the starting point of the story.
Remember that Winter beat Kakuri's ass and took Emma-O's lunch money before we even started; that's how his super weapon ended up spending ages gathering dust on Mab's shelf. A conflict that happened in the spirit world where neither had to deal with the gauntlet or any special rules for the mortal world.
Our expectations should be adjusted to reflect that.
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It's a pretty badly-written power that leaves most of the actual effect, besides the damage, up to interpretation.
Could be a permanent mantle, or might be discharged after hitting one target.
I would go with the weaker interpretation, because that is a shitload of direct, aggravated damage.
It doesn't discharge, as the text implies it can hit multiple targets as it uses the plural for those it can hit.
The fact that it can be activated as part of activating Yin Mantle makes it sound like a persistent power as well.
So far it's done nothing that a non-elder Wan Kuei couldn't do, but I wouldn't be confident that's all it can do.
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[X] Plan Tree
-[X] Ask the Einherjer to cover you and Lydja.
-[X] Transform into your Shintai.
-[X] Activate Melee Excellency
-[X] STUNT: "Behold then, the tree grown from in fertile soil. Shintai" you declare, as the winter's chill engulfs the area around you, and the shadows flicker, as if afraid of what's to come.
-[X] Ask the Einherjer to cover you and Lydja.
-[X] Transform into your Shintai.
-[X] Activate Melee Excellency
-[X] STUNT: "Behold then, the tree grown from in fertile soil. Shintai" you declare, as the winter's chill engulfs the area around you, and the shadows flicker, as if afraid of what's to come.
I'm not saying it doesn't have more tricks, just that the expectations for jades and Akuma should be shifted to fit the setting we're in.
It seems like the Akuma are unusually poorly written anyway, so a little homebrew was probably always going to be a requirement.
Jades should probably be in line with the power levels of the other courts, not hyper gods pulling from the most poorly designed splat books available across years of games.
The thousand hells and their Akuma should be treated as the relatively minor power that they are.
DF entities past the bite sized mortal scale draw power matching their responsibility. Kakuri is one fraction of a defunct afterlife. It's still strong, but the big boys draw (or drew) power from stuff like being in charge of various natural laws or keeping all of reality safe from ravenous lovecraftian monsters.
As far as I can see they aren't and shouldn't be that important in the grand scheme of things, which should be reflected in their material capabilities.
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I generally agree, but stolen power is power too.
The other Vampire Courts have no higher function at all, but they are still powerful.
The Reds have imprisoned gods to draw power from.
And the Blacks are propably the individually strongest Dresdenpires and we have no idea why. In this quest it propably has something to do with the influence of a Neverborn, which precedes all other laws, but in DF we know nothing.
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We really shouldn't have paid for so much backup. It was always going to come down to this.
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This is a situation I would rather overpay a bit on and have too much help rather than bring too little firepower to the table and regret it later.
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[X] Plan Tree
-[X] Ask the Einherjer to cover you and Lydja.
-[X] Transform into your Shintai.
-[X] Activate Melee Excellency
-[X] STUNT: "Behold then, the tree grown from in fertile soil. Shintai" you declare, as the winter's chill engulfs the area around you, and the shadows flicker, as if afraid of what's to come.
-[X] Ask the Einherjer to cover you and Lydja.
-[X] Transform into your Shintai.
-[X] Activate Melee Excellency
-[X] STUNT: "Behold then, the tree grown from in fertile soil. Shintai" you declare, as the winter's chill engulfs the area around you, and the shadows flicker, as if afraid of what's to come.
Catching up. Commentary later.
In a Dragons Nest they require no food, no drink, dont fall sick and dont waste away. Thats immortality.
Not to mention that kueijin also have caps on how much Yin chi they can spend per turn at a time.
Its powerful, and would absolutely shred mortal groups, but its not as powerful as you are suggesting against an Exalt rolling around with 17 aggravated Soak.
And Im not seeing anything that states that its a scenelong effect either.
Quite the opposite; it says wave, not field, implying transcience
Just remember most of the people here arent Catholic or as opportunistically pragmatic as Dresden, and might not availed themselves of it.
Molly and Michael were the only two ppl capable of reliably engaging the boss akuma, and Michael had a secondary role as a breaker of hostile magic.
Plus, literally his dayjob to rescue lost sheep. Play into his thematics.
We brought Gard as backup mage for a reason.
Yes they are.
In a Dragons Nest they require no food, no drink, dont fall sick and dont waste away. Thats immortality.
Yin Nihilus damage is soaked normally by Agg soak.
Yin Nihilus ·
This power creates a deadly halo of Yin energy. Burning with black power summoned from a vampire's soul, the Yin Nihilus inflicts a searing wave of negative Chi on those against whom the vampire uses it.
System: The player spends one Yin Chi to invoke the Yin Nihilus. Anyone who comes in contact with the Yin Nihilus suffers a number of health levels of aggravated damage equal to the Kuei-jin's permanent Yin Chi level (which may be soaked only by methods that normally allow the victim to soak aggravated damage). The vampire wielding the Yin Nihilus can increase this damage by +1 health level for each additional Yin Chi spent. The Yin Nihilus affects spirits and other shen that come in contact with it, even if the Kuei-jin is unaware of them. The Yin Nihilus may complement a Yin Mantle or Eightfold Yin Mantle, provided the Kuei-jin pays the Chi costs for all powers used.
This power creates a deadly halo of Yin energy. Burning with black power summoned from a vampire's soul, the Yin Nihilus inflicts a searing wave of negative Chi on those against whom the vampire uses it.
System: The player spends one Yin Chi to invoke the Yin Nihilus. Anyone who comes in contact with the Yin Nihilus suffers a number of health levels of aggravated damage equal to the Kuei-jin's permanent Yin Chi level (which may be soaked only by methods that normally allow the victim to soak aggravated damage). The vampire wielding the Yin Nihilus can increase this damage by +1 health level for each additional Yin Chi spent. The Yin Nihilus affects spirits and other shen that come in contact with it, even if the Kuei-jin is unaware of them. The Yin Nihilus may complement a Yin Mantle or Eightfold Yin Mantle, provided the Kuei-jin pays the Chi costs for all powers used.
Its powerful, and would absolutely shred mortal groups, but its not as powerful as you are suggesting against an Exalt rolling around with 17 aggravated Soak.
And Im not seeing anything that states that its a scenelong effect either.
Quite the opposite; it says wave, not field, implying transcience
I wrote a stunt to that effect earlier. Some of it is what Molly anointed herself with to activate Boiling Sea Mastery.
Just remember most of the people here arent Catholic or as opportunistically pragmatic as Dresden, and might not availed themselves of it.
Dangling a White Council wizard out there in the NeverNever with only Einherjar backup seemed foolish.
Molly and Michael were the only two ppl capable of reliably engaging the boss akuma, and Michael had a secondary role as a breaker of hostile magic.
Plus, literally his dayjob to rescue lost sheep. Play into his thematics.
We brought Gard as backup mage for a reason.
Thats not to say he's averse to picking up a bonus.
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I expected at least some damage or disorientation to pass from perma killing the Wills Po soul. Then again it's will is not it's own so it might not show weakness until we tear it apart.
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It was just a drop of his P'o and some Yin Chi.
And it was already seperate, not like creating a Wayang does canonically weaken the user while it's active.
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I just realized something we should have thought about earlier. We just sent Harry to the Never-never which means his Fairy godmother is likely to show up soon. Oops.
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Lea should still be frozen.
And Mab needs a good reason to intervene, which him being stuck on the wrong side of the fence doesn't make up by itself.
He is not even really stuck, he could walk into some other place in the Nevernever and then go past the veil there, would not help him in this fight but he can do it.
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So the extra strength veil is focused on our side and Dresden could avoid it just by taking a step to the left on his side.
However I should recommend that Mikelle picks the spot if Dresden doesn't know the area. Who knows they might get really lucky.
The trouble is this is a place of desolation, a really desolate place of desolation, which means its conceptual neighbors on the other side are also likely to be unpleasant... you know if Harry and Michael are not already having trouble with what they already walked into which seems unlikely.
