[X] Plan hitting the books
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
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Easy solution: Kill Maeve before Mab, that way, we only assasinate one queen, the other's a Lady.
The reason I included a video of this particular thing was because I did think the journalists tooting nuclear disasters where the reasons for him thinking that. But to combat misinformation you do need to spread the correct information.
As a french, thus someone where most of the electricity is generated by nuclear power plants, I can at least confirm that none of use glow at night, and more seriously, that our risk of cancer is about the same as the rest of the world.
And I still hear people complain about nuclear and how they don't want the very secure, actually visitable to get more informations, not chosen to be here randomly, waste disposal *next to them* (read, actually kilometers away from the nearest habitation).
[X] Plan hitting the books
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I'm certain this has been brought up before, but are the super-coffee and healing potions Molly can make something that can be taught to others?
(I'm guessing that Bob is a secret from all the While Council folk? If not I wonder if he would be able to teach someone in that group how to make them (and that person to be able to teach a few others)/)
(I'm guessing that Bob is a secret from all the While Council folk? If not I wonder if he would be able to teach someone in that group how to make them (and that person to be able to teach a few others)/)
Arc 6 Interlude 5: Flights of Fancy, Twists of Reason
Flights of Fancy, Twists of Reason
22th of October 2006 A.D.
Human physicality existed on levels great and small. No one would ever confuse the beating of one's heart with the words upon their tongue, nor yet the twitch of tired muscle with the willful movements of the dance. So too was it with spirits of knowledge, such as the one which now rested upon a shelf, under the earth, in a warden's keeping not quite a prisoner, a halfway treasure almost a friend. Only for the being that called itself Bob it was the existence of the mind that was many layered, one part which was usually nearest the top, like the sunlit shallows of the ocean reflected the nature of its bearer, as he had been when he'd picked up his present vessel an truth be told in no small measure how he was at the moment.
The Flame and the Flower, the Silver Devil, Engaged and Intrigued, Red Hot Martian Hunters... Bob enjoyed these titled and more much in the same way a mortal might find satisfaction in a half understood treatise of philosophy, they were glimpses into a world that he could never truly experience only witness from afar in what the ever fecund directness of American English called Window Shopping. But that wasn't all that all that was to him, oh not by far...
When Harry had just been starting out as a detective in Chicago one of the first orders he had given his skull bound assistant was not to ramble, his thoughts tended to wander if he let them like wind over the mountain side, currents that had not stirred in decades, centuries, not because he had been hiding them, but because no master since Unnameable had need of them, inclinations that kept his gaze fixed on Margaret Katherine Amanda Carpenter by more than aesthetic considerations. Not that the aesthetics were not great, Bob had not even noticed the chill of her being which had put off mortals so and might never have noticed it if Harry had not talked about her getting a better grip of her powers.
Something about that conversation where Harry himself had mostly been fishing for reassurance about her being 'better able to stand up to Mab' had made something click for Bob, less like pieces fitting together and more like the gears of a clock starting to turn after a long while when no one even cared what the hour was. She was not getting better at using magic because she was not even using magic, at least not anymore than a man who threw a punch used the power of carbohydrates fats and proteins...
That was right, or at least it was more right than wrong, Bob thought, his eyes shinning in the dark of the laboratory like forgotten pilot lights. It was starving, barely able to move, hardly able to impinge its own reality upon the world, but like a man near parched to death after his first cup of water it could shift a little more, speak a few more words. The real question now was if there was enough out there to sate it? Was all the world a desert through it could only crawl... or was it more like the beach and all Molly Carpenter had to to was drag herself to the nearest lemonade stand before she could stand up and all the world should shake beneath her tread.
Damn, she'd look good in a swim suit.
Hearing his boss pacing a hole in the carpet above Bob could not help but think that Harry Dresden was once again worrying about the wrong thing. The trap door creaked open the wizard in question stepped in. "Molly wants to talk to you about how to deal with Mab."
Bob did not share his half formed thoughts, attentive of his orders. This was gonna be fun.
OOC: Bob definitely rolled, something this turn, but since it's not your roll you would have to ask him or he'd have to tell you before you can see it.
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I mean I never said it was common I'm just thinking of one specific town I remember from some documentary whose name I can't remember lol.People are dunking on firefrog600, but I feel sensationalist reporters are more to blame because math does not get clicks, articles about "nuclear leaks" with no sense of scale get clicks.🤐 Don't be too hard on the guy repeating what he heard in the supposedly respectable news. (Be hard on journalists instead.)
Braidwood, the nuclear power plant mentioned above, had a "leak" in 1998. I'm going to go on a little tangent about this with some more concrete numbers because it's one of my pet topics where "leak" is surprisingly far from "poisoning" once you look at the specific amounts involved. Nuclear power in America is so very strictly regulated, it's almost certainly killing more people for lack of nuclear by making them live around as-yet-unreplaced fossil fuel power plants.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) of America has a very low bar for what constitutes a leak, TLDR: any measurable release of radioactive material that makes contact with outside land in an unplanned way. There is no exception for minuscule quantities or trivial concentrations.
In 1998, the Braidwood nuclear power plant leaked tritium-contaminated water measured to be 247 nano-curies per liter at its highest concentration. Written out, that's 0.000000247 curies per liter.
To give those numbers some context: 1 curie is the amount of radiation given off by 1 gram of radium. Pierre Curie taped a gram of radium to his arm during research, developed a bloody rash and radiation burn after one day, but survived after removing the radium sample.
(Aside: I will pre-emptively anti-suggest asking the GM exactly how many curies or density constitute a place of desolation.)
Going down from that highest concentration, some of the water was less radioactive to begin with, much of it was collected by digging up the leak area and disposing of the soil as radioactive waste just in case, and some more of it diluted on contact with regular water in the ground. According to a NRC report, after cleanup efforts the remaining radioactivity in a monitoring well was down to 1.7 nano-curies per liter, less than 1% of the above already-tiny value. This was onsite at the nuclear power plant; any contamination to groundwater of people living nearby would have diluted even further than that.
The practical effect of this for a human:
Suppose you were to drink exclusively from the monitoring well all your life, and have about 5 liters of that water in your body at any given time. Added up over the course of 100 years, this theoretically inflicts about 1/3000th of the radiation damage that Pierre got in his test.
And it would be even less harmful because spreading it out gives your body time to repair the damage. (It's like how 10000 raindrops over the course of a rainy season are less harmful than a 10kg object being dropped on your head in one go.) And then even less than that again because tritium has a half-life of only twelve and a half years, so it can't add up for more than twenty-five.
That's the level of safety American nuclear power plants usually operate at: even when there's an accidental leak, drinking the nano-contaminated water remaining on a leak site is still orders of magnitude away from being dangerous. Merely living nearby is not going to get you poisoned.
Like I get it's not anything reporting common I'm not against nuclear plants. We learn about the nuclear scare and it's hysteria in like middle school guys.
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Yeah, that is normal alchemy. The White Council has people who can do it, though not as many as they would like.
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Ah, that's grand then. As long as they have their own production of super coffee and healing potions that they can teach forward, I'm satisfied
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The potions are Path Magic Alchemy, all Path Magic can be taught, though not every practitioner has equal affinity with specific paths.
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For the dragon there is a literal word of Jim about killing capital D Dragons saying it's a big deal. Not in a oh you killed a dragon amazing so much as wtf you killed a dragon.
I am guessing Bob would be one of the least surprised people when Molly turns out to be a world.
And I am more and more sure that Kemmler had, in fact, found some lore from the First Age somewhere deep in the NeverNever, and that was the start of his own path to greatness.
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It might not be that great an idea for people who minus 1s, don't have exalancy or DC reduction to constantly produce super coffee. I am given to understand botches can be fairly bad for you. So most wizards that can make super coffee likely only make it when important rather than all the time.Ah, that's grand then. As long as they have their own production of super coffee and healing potions that they can teach forward, I'm satisfied
Oh yeah alchemy botches are very bad. If you are very lucky they will just poison you.
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Being honest Dresden files magic seems less prone to failure than a rpg rules would suggest. Not that it's not prone to failure you can still fuck up or be interrupted.
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I'm now thinking of the Chinese emperor who drank mercury.
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I think that the botch rule include the possibility of outside interference. Maybe you botch because a cat came in and distracted you or the like. The reason someone botches is just flavor text.
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Yeah that's fair does make people's lives more inconvenient on a hilarious level though.
Yep Alchemy is super hard for most everybody not exalted.
Standard DC 8 on average for most people means you need 4 dice to get one success. 8 dice to get 2 successes. When the max is 10 dice for the absolute best in the world stuff is hard.
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Doesn't make much sense in this combined setting. But if I'm being honest I don't care much about alchemy on a personal level so fuck dem wizards.
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And if you are planning on making and drinking a potion every week you want quite a bit better then on average you succeed the roll.
Keep in mind there are ways to get more dice and lower DCs, they are just not as readily available as Exalted (especially Infernal ) charms.
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There is likely a dragon nest somewhere in Europe that has been attuned to alchemy with a state of the art alchemical workshop built on it.
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Offhand does anyone want to buy true faith some day for Molly? Like I'm not sure I do it might give some flavor way later for developing something who knows.
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We likely should get that Charm for making ourselves and others immune to harm from liquids if we plan on really diving into potions. Ugh 8 xp.