Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
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I'll be honest I did not expect the car vote to be this contested, but that makes me all the more glad I did decide to go for it. Update will be tomorrow.
Vote closed.
Roll off for the tie
Bugatti 1
Plan Polar Vortex 2
Plan Polar Vortex 2
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It wasn't a tie actually.
Polar Vortex had 7 votes to Bugatti's 6.
Nothing critical, just pointing it out.
OH, I missed that. Vortex has it then. No sense in rolling off when one of the options has more votes.
PANOPLY IDEAS: LYDIA
Quicksilver Weave
In its base form this ultra-lightweight protective suit is a skintight layer of grey-white material, with gold tracery embroidering the hems and edges. Detailed inspection with supernatural senses reveals an interlocking set of energy matrices embedded in and reinforcing the stabilized material lattices, allowing it to collapse all the way down to a bauble the size of a thumbnail, and to change shape, color and form across a dizzying spectrum of mortal fashions. An attuned user can change its appearance with a single turn diceless action
Effects:
+3 Soak
+Conveyance 3-4 speed(depending on whether its a 5 or 6 dot scale),
Focus for Conveyance Path Sorcery.
Recipe: Carbon nanotube textiles + Mentat Stone (Enchantment 1) + Primum metallum(Alchemy 3) + Ancient Sorcery: Blessing of the Water Dragon OR appropriate Faerie textile materials (Faerie spidersilk is a thing)
Requires: Exalted Crafting or Enchantment 4
Comment: Thin and light enough to wear under clothing, and capable of shifting form and appearance to be used as items of clothing if necessary. Does not convey flight or teleportation, just speed.
Conveyance Path use still requires that the wearer buy the Path normally.
Velvet Fists
A stylish pair of white silk gloves. Closer inspection reveals a recurring fractal pattern in the surface of the gloves to the limits of human visual resolution, and surprising resilience against attempts at damaging it, or the skin underneath it. A Willpower check at DC6 allows the wearer to alter their form and appearance at will to suit the occasion, from arm warmers to formal evening gloves to fingerless motorcycle gloves. In combat, they count as bucklers for the purposes of parrying attacks
Effect: See Dark Sun Shield.
Recipe: Silk + metal thread + Alchemy 3 + Ancient Sorcery: Blessing of the Water Dragon OR appropriate Faerie spidersilk
Comment: No extra damage, but its ability to shift appearance allows her to wear or carry it comfortably anywhere.
Ravenseye
Ravenseye is a shakudo-alloy(9:1 gold:copper) thumb ring, in the style of an archery thumb ring, and with an inscription in Welsh and French on the inside of the ring.
Effects: -1 DC to ranged attazck
Requires: Exalted Crafting or Enchantment 1
Comment: Benchmarked against Enchantment 1 effect(handgun/aiming device that gives -1DC to aim)
EDIT
Because I just ran across this, and it tickled me to death:
But I won't be surprised if that's how Molly is dressed for her meeting.
Quicksilver Weave
In its base form this ultra-lightweight protective suit is a skintight layer of grey-white material, with gold tracery embroidering the hems and edges. Detailed inspection with supernatural senses reveals an interlocking set of energy matrices embedded in and reinforcing the stabilized material lattices, allowing it to collapse all the way down to a bauble the size of a thumbnail, and to change shape, color and form across a dizzying spectrum of mortal fashions. An attuned user can change its appearance with a single turn diceless action
Effects:
+3 Soak
+Conveyance 3-4 speed(depending on whether its a 5 or 6 dot scale),
Focus for Conveyance Path Sorcery.
Recipe: Carbon nanotube textiles + Mentat Stone (Enchantment 1) + Primum metallum(Alchemy 3) + Ancient Sorcery: Blessing of the Water Dragon OR appropriate Faerie textile materials (Faerie spidersilk is a thing)
Requires: Exalted Crafting or Enchantment 4
Comment: Thin and light enough to wear under clothing, and capable of shifting form and appearance to be used as items of clothing if necessary. Does not convey flight or teleportation, just speed.
Conveyance Path use still requires that the wearer buy the Path normally.
Velvet Fists
A stylish pair of white silk gloves. Closer inspection reveals a recurring fractal pattern in the surface of the gloves to the limits of human visual resolution, and surprising resilience against attempts at damaging it, or the skin underneath it. A Willpower check at DC6 allows the wearer to alter their form and appearance at will to suit the occasion, from arm warmers to formal evening gloves to fingerless motorcycle gloves. In combat, they count as bucklers for the purposes of parrying attacks
Effect: See Dark Sun Shield.
Recipe: Silk + metal thread + Alchemy 3 + Ancient Sorcery: Blessing of the Water Dragon OR appropriate Faerie spidersilk
Comment: No extra damage, but its ability to shift appearance allows her to wear or carry it comfortably anywhere.
Ravenseye
Ravenseye is a shakudo-alloy(9:1 gold:copper) thumb ring, in the style of an archery thumb ring, and with an inscription in Welsh and French on the inside of the ring.
Effects: -1 DC to ranged attazck
Requires: Exalted Crafting or Enchantment 1
Comment: Benchmarked against Enchantment 1 effect(handgun/aiming device that gives -1DC to aim)
EDIT
Because I just ran across this, and it tickled me to death:
It looks a lot more like I'd expect Lydia to look than Molly, at least if you dye the hair black.
But I won't be surprised if that's how Molly is dressed for her meeting.
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- Germany
Before considering her weapons in detail, we might want to look into the Akuma's blade.
That might be reforgable into something thematically fitting for her.
Her Essence would be pretty closely Yin-aligned I think.
She's Brawl and Athletics, not Melee.
The Akuma's blade would be a poor fit for her.
She does need more Dex and Athletics.
Definitely a lot more Willpower.
And some Path magic.
What Lydia needs is a deployable portable shield / field bunker / cover, so she can bunker down, and summon allies / shoot at enemies with her free remote shot charm. And something to convert lethal to aggravated.
Immobility is death.
A defense that requires that you stand in one place and deploy it just sets you up to eat an AoE attack.
Or to be kited.
Not to mention that tactical objectives demand the ability to rapidly relocate.
Asking her to turtle as a combat strategy will just get her killed.
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I fully agree with her focus being brawl, but that doesn't mean we can't reforge the sword into some katar blades or knuckldusters.
I think that the general thematics of a Kakuri-forged weapon might be useful for her, not that she can use the sword as it is.
Oh.
I dont think it works for her; she has a 2 dot weapon charm for 6XP that gives her STR+2 Damage, in addition to a passive 1L damage drip to anyone who hits her. or 2L to anyone who grapples her. She doesn't appear to need additional damage.
And while she is an Exigent of Death, she isn't Yin-aligned anyway.
Not to mention the practical issues of hauling material weapons around. Juice doesn't seem worth the squeeze IMO.
I'd keep the blade for someone else.
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Not directly, but her themes include death and iron, which are both majorly Yin-aligned things.
I'd say if her kind of Exigent had a blurb in the Night People section of ExWoD, then a Wan Kuei drinking from her would propably get extra Yin from her Essence, as if she were an Air or Water aspected Dragonblood.
We'll see what our options are.
I'm definitly in favor of looking at the Akuma's body and equipment next turn to see what we can make from it.
I'd hate to leave it lying around for months and later discover that it was something useful we have outgrown by now, as was the case a few times with loot in ASOIAF.
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- She/Her
There is a case for Exalts having a Yin or Yang affinity based on Exalt type. Of the Solaroids, each point of absorbed essence by a vampire gives 2 points of Yang Chi from a Solar, 2 points of Yin from an Abyssal, and 1 point of each from an Infernal, but Infernal essence is tainted and makes you horribly sick. More importantly, Abyssals drinking the blood of a Kindred gain 1 point of essence for every 2 Yin Chi absorbed, but can't use Yang Chi at all. That shows that an Exalt can be meaningfully aligned with Yin or Yang to the point of potentially being able to use one and not the other.
Also, because it was brought up and this is an idea that I've been bouncing around for a while, that two-way transfer between Abyssal essence and Yin Chi at a 1:2 ratio, along with the 4 and 5 dot abilities of Qiao of the Chien/Mirror which allow you to steal the Chi from a vampire and turn it against them, gave me an idea for a potential ability of a Mirror-Style-based CMA. Suck the Chi/Mana/whatever out of our supernatural opponents and use it to fuel our essence generator for mid-battle essence regen. We'd probably use the same conversion rate as the Twilight Solar charm for giving your essence to others, using the same table. Does that sound like a good long-term idea to people?
Also, because it was brought up and this is an idea that I've been bouncing around for a while, that two-way transfer between Abyssal essence and Yin Chi at a 1:2 ratio, along with the 4 and 5 dot abilities of Qiao of the Chien/Mirror which allow you to steal the Chi from a vampire and turn it against them, gave me an idea for a potential ability of a Mirror-Style-based CMA. Suck the Chi/Mana/whatever out of our supernatural opponents and use it to fuel our essence generator for mid-battle essence regen. We'd probably use the same conversion rate as the Twilight Solar charm for giving your essence to others, using the same table. Does that sound like a good long-term idea to people?
What we really need to make full use of it and similar loot is the exalted crafting charm; this is a textbook situation for what you're supposed to use it for.
Death, not undeath.
My opinion is that there's a significant chance that a Wan Kuei who tried drinking from her would have to roll not to take damage from someone whose themes include making the restless death move on, with or without their consent.
But that's just my opinion.
Looking at the Akuma's body, certainly.
I've been looking at Molly using that as the template for designing a knockoff Blue Beetle type super-fomor template she can give to mortals if necessary. But we need the Exalted Crafting Charm, and at the moment I doubt I can justify 18xp for it.
Bunkering down under a sufficiently armored cover is a perfectly viable strategy. Certainly no less viable than engaging in melee. Get into cover, summon minions, provide covering fire with the charm we bought.use brawl and dexterity to avoid being pinned down completely when needed. Rely on murderbeast mceatface as your meatshield.
Arc 7 Post 3: A Coach for the Queen
A Coach for the Queen
29th of October 2006 A.D.
Metal parts like silk under the kiss of arcane welder's torch, black carbon sand is wrought into shape under pressure to match the cold ocean's depths, the art of small things made great: honeycomb patterns wrapped round and round, fit one inside another like the rings of a tree, all pulling together, all pushing as one. Its future bearer well in mind this is to be a saloon car, grand as she is to be silent, a queen upon any mortal road she might be set and like any queen she is to be silent, heralded only by the weight of her presence. No gouache engine roar here but the hum of shackled lighting dancing in copper wires and metals rarer still. Rare earths for a rare creation, as thrifty with its energy as it is luxurious to its passengers.
"I think this is called regenerative breaking dad, see how you use the waste energy to recharge the batteries..."
Your father, all bundled up against the cold that gives you greater purpose nods along, clearly interested in all this new green tech, but without much to add. Electrical engineering isn't really his thing, but he knows his run-flat tires, suggesting a self-sealing as opposed to the more common self supporting tires so that the car continues to run smoothly in the event of a flat tire. It is one thing after all to keep rolling when someone has just shot out the tires and quite another to go smooth.
Of titanium you craft the body, its lines elegantly etched as patterns of swirling snow yet tough enough to shed small arms fire Then there is the glass... good thing dad's around or you would be swearing at the darned glass. Getting a polymer that is both electrochromic and bullet-proof is a nightmare like trying to unicycle down the blade of a knife with shit shading on one side and brittle garbage on the other.
"Sample B looks good," Dad says as he holds up the test pane in question up to the sun to the curious looks of passersby.
"Not for f... their eyes," you barely swallow out the word 'fey', remembering that you are in public. It would look like an eight color rainbow at high noon unless the driver were intentionally lowering the accuity of their eyes to human levels and then what's the point. "Nano layers, nano layers of C with B sandwiched in between..." you mutter to yourself.
When it comes to the mirrors mundane glass no matter how finely name will not do...
Moon bright above, face ever-changing,
Reveal thy an eye of the world unflinching
Shadows bright in star-strung night
Never tarnished seeker's light
After clearing out the mercury fumes with the newly installed high power fans you call dad back in to see the mirror you made. So it does not look like much just set on the workbench like that, but this thing bounce automatic fire unlike the glass which will only take a few shots so the driver will always be able to see behind them. If you had a few weeks you could make all the out of hand sized hexagonal panes every bit as tough as this. All it would take is playing with the reflection coefficient a bit until you got something transparent enough to see through and reflective enough to magically shed damage. Alas...
It takes you a moment to realize why dad is looking at you expectantly. Getting close to six, mom will be expecting you home for dinner soon. "Maybe don't mention the mercury, it was in acceptable limits for me."
"OSHA approved was it?" dad laughs and you can tell he's just teasing you now.
"I'm not an employee," you fire back. Being able to ignore most mundane poisons is a hell of a boon when trying to speed run industrial processes you have to admit, but there is no way to say 'open flame enamel cooking' and sound safe.
***
30th of October 2006 A.D.Adding night vision to the car of the Queen of Air and Darkness is kind of redundant you have to admit, but you don't know what kind of driver Mab prefers. Maybe she likes to make humans do it for a laugh. In any case you have to do the last of the assembly in the Chicago Synthetics building at a balmy 55 degrees, but that does nothing to detract from the simple joy of your work, as it all finally comes together hinges clicking, glass panes clicking into place, engine humming on for the first times onboard computer sparking into being you are as proud as a kid on Science Fair day who knows she's going home with that blue ribbon. You can just imagine people wondering what kind of Rolls Royce this is and eventually figuring out no such model exists, a vehicular urban legend fit for the Courts of Faerie. The car weds the Old World charm of the brand with internals on the bleeding edge of science and just a hint of sorcery.
"Well dad..." you ask stepping back from the sleek and silent white coated predator of a car. "What do ya think?"
"If I had to pick out Queen Mab's car out of a lineup, that is definitely the one I would choose," he chuckles. "Great job Molly."
"Hey now, you helped too," you counter quickly.
"As your father I think that's my line young lady," he says, all mock-serious for just long enough to get the words out before a wide, proud smile shows itself. Maybe this wasn't all about Mab, you admit to yourself. It's nice to put your skills to something more mundane than diamonds and chainmail.
As though in willful contrast to the thought Clippy speaks up: "Incoming Call: Known/Surreptitiously Obtained Number. Conjuncture: Lara Raith."
Since you only know the number from hacking into another vampire's call at the auction for the car which would come to embody Black Rider you could ignore the call without giving offense. Given who else you are meeting tomorrow maybe you should, but on the other hand you are curious as to what she might want with you, or for that matter where she had gotten the number from. Thomas wouldn't just give it to her would he?
What do you do?
[] Answer the phone
-[] Pretend you do not know who it is
-[] Greet Lara by name
[] Don't answer, let it go to voicemail
OOC: Given what you rolled I'm glad I had an update to describe the car.
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For my part I've been thinking about doing it the other way around.
Get a good sniper, preferably one with magic on their side like Olivia could be, then have them setup somewhere. Park Lydia on top of them, and have the sniper start shooting.
The target would have to make a choice; stay away and eat damage dice nearly equal to getting punched in the face by an exalt, or try and take their position and literally be punched in the face by an exalt.
Yzarc
The Spark of Madness
Are the mirrors alchemically treated to be unbreakable?
[X] Answer the phone
-[X] Greet Lara by name