We can spend a mote of essence to go x10 in combat instantly. I see no reason we can't do the same outside of combat. @DragonParadox ?
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
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BoredMan
Dinosaurs came in many flavors. Like potato chips.
If we hadn't met her we wouldn't know about the outsider in Winter's ranks.
For (Essence) combat turns. Then you drop back to normal speed.
Thats 6 seconds of 10x speed at Essence 2. Six.
Good for a quick combat sprint across two thirds of a mile or so, nothing more.
And prior to potential combat with a skin walker is not a good time to burn Essence on nonessential stuff.
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Man, also sounding like we should get some Cyberdevils into various traffic and air control infrastructure tbh.
Man, also sounding like we should get some Cyberdevils into various traffic and air control infrastructure tbh.
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I was all for meeting with her, just not today of all days. Tomorrow, for example.
It was good info, though, so I'm not going to complain unless it ends up actually ruining our plans.
BoredMan
Dinosaurs came in many flavors. Like potato chips.
We are planning on making a God Of Chicago long term. At that point putting cyberdevils into everything would probably be less invasive.
You can do it out of combat as well yes.
Since this is a pretty risky vote one way or another (and a pretty big update coming up depending on rolls) I'm going to leave this until the morning.
*suggests more discussion*
*thread has obviously made up its mind*
OK I can take a hint, vote closed.
*thread has obviously made up its mind*
OK I can take a hint, vote closed.
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Arc 7 Post 13: The Trouble with Secrets
The Trouble with Secrets
31th of October 2006 A.D.
Without even really thinking about it you shake your head. As far as you know the man on the table is a victim of the thing that calls itself Broken Seeker and even if not Lydia does not deserve to be made a vessel of murdered souls for mere convenience. " We have to get him under wards. Your place?"
For her part Lara Raith had already thrown down her napkin, the gesture oddly formal for something that will end up in a dripping puddle of blood. Must be a vampire thing... Yet even as she moves towards the door, purposeful as a ship raising anchor the other vampire in the roomn hesitates. "I have to clean this up. We open for business in two hours."
"No, you don't." The words have the kind of finality to them you've never used with someone else before, but that is fine. Thomas is not going to get killed for the sake of a hair salon, no one under your watch is going to get killed. "You are driving." Rather than stand around and argue with him you press a potion to the spy's lips, hoping that it will at least keep his broken bones from skewering his internal organs while he's carried to the car.
From his shuffling he must have looked at Lara, who as one might have guessed offers no comfort. "This is why you hire help that does not balk at seeing a little blood, or better yet let me do it when I offered."
With that the last objections melt away, all four of you mismatched in garb but for all the blood you are wearing, to a lesser or greater extend from the violence of the curse make of onto the curb as the sleek form of Black Rider's chassis pulls up, shield flat against your leg as you scan the area, then lead the way at a brisk pace. Thomas comes behind you, shoulder propping up the barely-conscious form of the watcher as Lydia and Lara bring up the rear.
All the while you stand guard, eyes, ears and senses more arcane sweeping the perfectly normal street with perfectly normal locals going about their day just a few hundred yards away, barely out of sight. Most of the tourists are families with kids, not the more rowdy crowds of costumed people that come out with the shadows of fallen evening. One curly haired boy in a spiderman costume lacking only the mask pulls on his mother's sleeve.
"Mommy, Mommy, is that blood? What are they doing to that man?"
Of course it's not blood, not real blood, his mother assures him, without even turning her head to look down the alleyway where he's pointing. Is she busy, you wonder, annoyed for some reason, or is this one more act of willful blindness, reflexive now as breathing. How many of them would Broken Seeker have to kill before the rest even started to scatter these milling crowds of the mundane? And later what would they recall, a bear maybe, a crazed axeman.
As Lara and Lydia strap the prisoner in the backseat you look right at the kin and place a finger to your lips, a warning yes, but also confirmation that he had seen something strange, something worth remembering, your own small rebellion against the laws and bargains of the one you are to hopefully meet this evening, if you do not get your face mauled by a shape-shifting cannibalistic once-god
"Thomas, floor it." Resting your shield against your knee as the car peels out, you pull out your phone with a sigh, meeting Lara's eyes in the passenger mirror."Okay, cliff notes. A..."
Lara mimics the gesture you had made to the boy, a knowing smile upon the lips behind it. "The car is not warded and our prize is likely as not still a focus of clairvoyance."
She is right, you realize with a start, the more you talk the more you reveal what you know before even speaking to the prisoner the Skinwalker was willing to kill rather than let fall into your hands, but to keep silent, to feign ignorance, you cannot ring the alarm as loudly as you intended. the Jade Dogs of course will do as you say, they are sworn to you, but would the members of Cauldron put their lives and plans on hold, rush into the protection of warded rooms once more at your say so this time without even naming the danger?
[] Give full warnings. Let it know you know and are not afraid
[] Give vague warnings, Lara has a point... and she would probably trust you more if you take her advice and show caution
OOC: As you may have guessed this is the reason I decided to do the update today anyway, the winning vote is very much IC for Molly, but you currently have Lara Raith in the car and she is not so curious about what Molly thinks attacked you that she cannot wait until you are all under wards before hearing it
Goldfish
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I would rather warn people and have nothing happen rather than not warn them and have something happen. Of course neither outcome is guaranteed, but a modicum of paranoia is to be expected.
[X] Give full warnings. Let it know you know and are not afraid
[X] Give full warnings. Let it know you know and are not afraid
Hmm.
Molly needs to figure out how to ward her car.
@DragonParadox
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To Molly's knowledge, are text messages also at risk?
Because right now, the first workaround that comes to mind is to type shit out on Molly's phone and pass it to Lydia and Lara.
Clairvoyance can include sight and there is no reason why that would not have enough fidelity to read the phone or even just your botton presses.
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That would imply that the Naagloshii has been keeping track of human developments so closely to know the array of a tastature on a phone.
And I think we are still talking about the old structure, where you would have to press 1 once for A, twice for B and so on.
What are the odds that an ancient monster bothered learning that?
Edit: I don't even know which numbers corrosponded to 3 letters and which to 4 anymore. I'd make that a hard INT-roll for anyone who isn't typing by phone regularly, even if they weren't removed from humanity.
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Most of the people dont actually have any defense against what's essentially a god of pain and terror attacking them.
The point of warning is to make them hide so as to avoid drawing attention, but if the act of warning them draws attention to them, it defeats the purpose.
As in literally the only people here who are in hardened defenses are Harry+Mouse, Michael Carpenter and Helen Beckitt.
Gard and the Jade Dogs are in moderately defended locations, with backup.
Everyone else is basically in a canvas tent, and there's a grizzly outside.
Their defense is camouflage, and vanishing into the other 3 million people in the city of Chicago proper.
Okay.
Vague warnings it is, then, at least until Molly can get this dude under wards and can make calls.
Fifteen minutes or so. Hope its enough.
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[X] Give vague warnings, Lara has a point... and she would probably trust you more if you take her advice and show caution
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We need a mind-machine interface implant, if you rule that such a thing is buildable. With inbuilt encryption methods for data transfer.
or... rather than transferring data, could we just have Clippy hop over to this hypothtical interface from the phone to get the information, and then hop back to the phone?
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If Clippy can't hop between devices, I'm thinking some tiny quantum entanglement communicators bile into the MMI and Clippy's phone or failing that, a basic tightbeam laser transmission system.
That way any observer would have to be able to read the circuits in the MMI/Clippy's phonebody, or maybe use some sort of high end conceptual "information is being communicated, and I can therefor scry it" magics, of the highest levels of bullshit.
Shagnasty did in canon.
And this one knows enough to stage a murder and dismemberment for the surveillance cameras, like when it murdered Lt Greene and cut up his body.
I think its safe to assume he's up to date.
[X] Give vague warnings, Lara has a point... and she would probably trust you more if you take her advice and show caution
Molly does not know, but it is at least not beyond the realms of magical ability that he see with that kind of fidelity.
It is, easiest to do would be with Exalted crafting, but you could do it with mortal enchanting as well.
There's a charm for that.
3 dot charm called Electric Devil Caress allows Molly to Assume Direct Control over any electronic device within Essence*5 yards. And there's a 4 dot charm called Thoughts Resound In Silence that gives telepathy.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
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[X] Give vague warnings, Lara has a point... and she would probably trust you more if you take her advice and show caution
We really need either Exalted Crafting or Enchantment 4ish.
Alternatively, we could simply buy the ancient sorcery spell Emerald Spirit Binding for 10XP and outsource that to a technological spirit. Has to wait until we have our own Hell though, because said spirit probably has access to your information, so loyalty is a necessity.
And character bloat is a risk.
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