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Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

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firefrog600 said:
Oh thats sure its not much better than an actual human though right? Just you know hard to hit and fast and way stronger than their frame would suggest. I'm sure bullets were a threat to maeve and some well not grunts but other fae have been more durable than the lady in the past.
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This is where I remind you that Toot Toot survived the naagloshii throwing wind magic at him.
Fae are tough.

Doylistically, there would be no need to give them a weakness to cold iron if they had only the same durability as humans. They need the durability buff, especially given that a large swathe of the fae seldom if ever wear armor.
 
This talk of Fey durability, Pixies included, has me wondering about the bacon-clad Pixie we just spotted before Mab ran everyone off.

Do y'all think the Bacon Cloak was enchanted? Beyond the basic +3 Deliciousness, maybe it was made to ward off pigstickers? The irony would be heavy. Salty, too.
 
So what do we know about White Court Vampire?

Soak Bashing: Full Stamina
Soak Lethal: Full Stamina?
Soak Aggravated: Fortitude Only?

"Fuel": Bloodpool-equivalent?

"Refueling": Vampiric Drain, frist temporary WP, then Health or permanent WP?

Guns deal Lethal damage (unlike WoD Vampires)?

Can heal for "blood-equivalent".
Passive healing/regeneration?

Take aggravated damage from: Fire?, True Love (or other conceptual counter), universal agg-sources

No weakness to sunlight or limits at daytime

Can use some WoD-Disciplines.
Can Bloodbuff physical stats?

Default lower difficulty for social rolls or increase in Appearance and or other social stats?

// Lot of questionmarks here, and I guess Molly's Occult-roll could clear up most of them.
 
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Wait-

The reason Immortals like Mab and Maeve and even this portion of HWWB are killable on Halloween is because other people can take that power right?

Is Mab gonna take this piece of HWWB's power? I mean, I can't imagine any portion of it to be weak (given it had corrupted Maeve, but given it wasn't that noticeable maybe it's just a small but good corruptor?), but is that safe? Or is Mab just gonna let it dissipate?
 
XenonPrime said:
I was thinking more that it was like one of those powerful Unshaped that are also an entire landscape except it's the Fae in general.

My thinking is the rules and roles and identies of the fae took the place of the Heart grace and the other virtues were fashioned into the Courts.

Like Winter as a whole is the Ring or Sword and Summer is the Cup or such.

The fae don't have Graces because they are, in a way, a small sliver of a Grace.
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Hmmm...not sure if Unshaped metabiology works that way. But then again I'm not sure if Unshaped even have to share similar structures, so who knows? It's an interesting thought.
 
TheGrape said:
Wait-

The reason Immortals like Mab and Maeve and even this portion of HWWB are killable on Halloween is because other people can take that power right?

Is Mab gonna take this piece of HWWB's power? I mean, I can't imagine any portion of it to be weak (given it had corrupted Maeve, but given it wasn't that noticeable maybe it's just a small but good corruptor?), but is that safe? Or is Mab just gonna let it dissipate?
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It's the other way around. Halloween is the day when that which is normally immortal is made mortal therefore that is the time when mantles can change hands. You do not have to claim something just because you kill it, else Toot Toot would be the Summer Lady.
 
uju32 said:
This is where I remind you that Toot Toot survived the naagloshii throwing wind magic at him.
Fae are tough.

Doylistically, there would be no need to give them a weakness to cold iron if they had only the same durability as humans. They need the durability buff, especially given that a large swathe of the fae seldom if ever wear armor.
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in fairness to me there was a long time in between books. I was in highschool when skin games happened.
 
Artemis1992 said:
So what do we know about White Court Vampire?
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If I had to guess?
Whampires
Soak bashing with full stamina
Soak lethal with half stamina(disciplines or energy might improve this to full stamina),
Soak agg with fortitude.

Rampire
Treat lethal as bashing
Soak bashing with full stamina,
Soak agg with fortitude
Stomach vulnerability due to location of stored blood; called shot at DC8 for critical damage

Blampire
Treat lethal as bashing
Soak bashing with full stamina,
Soak agg with fortitude
Reduce damage from gunfire by half.
 
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Vote closed, been a while since I did two updates in one day but it seems pretty clear what is going to get chosen here.
Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Jun 5, 2023 at 1:43 PM, finished with 105 posts and 29 votes.
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offhand would an emu have soak cause I know in the emu wars plenty of them took like a dozen bullets with only mild problems overall? Plus being hard to hit.

I know some fae have been killed by bullets before throughout the books with probably less than a dozen bullets. :p
 
one of the incentives for immortals going out in halloween is that they can steal, kill, or nibble on other immortals powers though. So that's probably what your thinking of grapey not completely right I see where you got the thought though.
 
firefrog600 said:
offhand would an emu have soak cause I know in the emu wars plenty of them took like a dozen bullets with only mild problems overall? Plus being hard to hit.

I know some fae have been killed by bullets before throughout the books with probably less than a dozen bullets. :p
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No that is known as having alot of health levels. Now in WOD about all human shaped things have the standard 7 health levels, but animals often have more or less.

Which is why ox body is a big deal.
 
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Winning Vote
Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Jun 5, 2023 at 3:22 PM, finished with 112 posts and 30 votes.
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Arc 7 Post 26: Old Plots Unwinding
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    31th of October 2006 A.D.

    While it's certainly not nice feeling this hollow, you are more curious than hungry. What is Mab going to do? Barely giving you the time to ask the question even to yourself the Queen of Air and Darkness bridges the space between the door and where you stand in the blink of an eye, in the flash of cold moonlight and then she simply reaches out, a pale expertly manicured hand slipping into the mass of inky darkness and twisting. Something's not right, you realize at once as the thing seems to slip between her fingers and forms a cylinder around her hand, then an oval, turning turning, the speed of it writ in texture that shadow should not have.

    In the blink of an eye Usum is in your hands, thoughts of who gets to devour this thing or what it's shame might gone gone from your mind. It's turning into a spider, legs jetting out of the swollen mass of darkness. Hide in plain sight indeed... some part of you thinks almost admiring though the real concern is how to cut though that thing without slicing though the hand below. What's the consistency of Outsider Shadow Stuff?

    "Can I...?" you start. You do not get to finish. Even as the thing forms a misshapen mouth to spew God knows what at you Mab's hand erupts with it wreathed in ice, half hailstone, half falling star

    Lines of blue light race though the shadow thing, fractures that give true shape to shapelessness for just an instant..."Poor broken things, cutting with your bleeding edges," it spits its malice upon the air, though on the last word it is no more. It almost looks like she gave the thing reality poisoning.

    It suddenly feels just a little silly to be holding a sword as Winter's power lashes around you in an unseen gale, rejoicing in the fall of its foe, carving lines beautiful and strange upon the rink.

    "The sentiment is appreciated in the spirit that animates it Miss Carpenter. Some day, perhaps soon it might be the act that is likewise, but here and now things have been settled."

    "Uhm..." You glance at the Winter Lady, still in her icy prison, only now with a hole where you had shoved the steel pole through. "She should be alright, but I'd like to see how she's doing just to be sure, The only other spirit I banished was far lesser than that." A moment, two she hesitates, though eyes less sharp than yours might have missed it before commanding the ice to recede with a wave.

    Lost 1 Essence -> Now at 1/12

    A heady mix of bruise purple and dirty yellow stains her aura, confusion and defensiveness as her eyes snap to you, perhaps all the more so as not to look at her liege lady. "What... what the fuck's going on?"

    Maybe it's the fact that she sounds like she's your age as well as looking at it, maybe it's because not wanting to look people in the eye after doing something stupid is a feeling you can sympathize with, but in place of the polished response that sits on the tip of your tongue you answer with: "An Outsider the fuck happened, although the 'fuck' might be redundant when talking about them."

    "And what in a Jotun's frozen balls are you?" she presses.

    "Well from the parts you care the most about to least..." You count on your fingers. "Already paid, invested with fel powers that used to be a tree in the ice gardens of Arctis Tor, mortal enough be be getting on with, Molly Carpenter."

    The Winter Lady laughs, with you not at you, confirming the impulse to curse more in two sentences that you have in the last two months no matter how uncomfortable it still makes you. "You're the one that... huh. Consider this payment for waking me up in a way that's not a whole damn chore. You were supposed to fall afoul of the Laws, get used in some plot against Dresden. I know it would have involved you seducing him at some point 'cause that bitch Sandra came to me to ask what he's into. I told him guilt. Seeing as you're Catholic so that fits perfectly."

    "Sandra... Sandra Marling?" you ask horrified. "What does she have to do with any of this?"

    "She's in deep with Him." The screech of nails involuntarily dragging along ice leaves no doubt as to who she means "Not sure if he's in her head or not, but she was supposed to push you to break a Law and make you think it was your idea. Who'd you kill?"

    "No one," you answer automatically.

    "What?" Maeve shakes her head as though in disbelief, though she is pretty clearly exaggerating as well. "Figures they would over-complicate it instead of pushing you to boil a thug's blood in an alley. You cry on him a little, one thing leads to another..."

    "Circling back for a bit," you cut her off before she can do anymore speculating about you and Harry. "What exactly was Sandra's plan for me."

    Alas the Winter Lady rolls her eyes in a way that makes Leech look mature by comparison. "We don't do circles here unless it's a circle of poison toadstools or a circle of dancers that keep going until they die."Beneath the brashness there is pain you see, writ clear upon her aura. All those missing pieces that she had been fine with at the time are signs of just how helpless she was until an hour ago.

    Glancing back at Mab, one is reminded of two things, firstly she is a lot harder to read than her daughter and secondly that one should never underestimate a good listener.

    What do you do?

    [] Ask more questions
    -[] Write in

    [] Go home, your parents are going to have questions of their own

    [] Write in

    OOC: Probably the most friendly introduction anyone has had to Maeve in centuries, she is hardly insulted Molly at all.
     
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