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It wouldn't surprise me if it was White Court propaganda in Dresden Files.
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
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- Crossover Fantasy
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- Germany
They have propably higher standards.
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- He/Him/His
Wouldn't they want it to be at least competently done in that case?
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- Earth
A younger generations vanity project gone horribly right?
I will remind you guys that the White Court controls the porn industry, artistic merit in their propaganda is clearly something they can do without. Say what you will about Twilight it is better than all those pizza deliverymen, plumbers, repairmen etc... not getting paid time and again while failing to learn from it. 
- Location
- Brazil
Considering its worldwide popularity and the fact that it has made many teenagers dream of having a relationship with a supernatural predator and think it's okay. I think, especially for White Cort, which has the most similarities, it was a great success.
If they weren't the ones who helped the author make the series, they certainly rewarded her with a lot of money.
We have the super coffee potion, we don't need the charm, and I will vote against getting it, no matter what.
… This might actually not be a bad idea for a narrow slice of the vampire population, if for a different reason than Rosie gave.
A really fresh face still learning how to hunt, particularly one without older vamps to learn from, is probably going to screw something up while they get used to things.
People are already unlikely to believe the truth if they get spotted, but at horror movie event the credibility of any panicked reports that sound like a vampire attack will be at an all time low.
People are more likely to think they're witnessing some hard core larpers or someone way too committed to a bit than anything else. At worst they might think the fledgling is a regular crazy person, which is sort of a risk anywhere.
Not sure it'd be worth the trouble to hunt one down, but if there was one nearby already it's be convenient target for a vampire aware that they're in need of training wheels.
In fairness to Isabella, this might not just be brown-nosing.
Firstly for White Court reasons; they're always playing games with each other and everyone else, people/situations being more than they seem is normal for someone used to their culture.
Independent of any hidden elements, Rosie is also the student of someone who at minimum could credibly pass herself off as a big league jade or outright arch devil to an elder white vamp hitman. For all she knows Rosie will end up with a magical tradition that leverages her thimble full of magic power in just the right way to do some hair raising nonsense.
Which is only sort of wrong. Dream magic had its limits, and pretty much all of the nasty stuff is black magic, but in its area it can do some unpleasant things that most people aren't well prepared to deal with.
Also worth noting that as close as they are whamps are inhuman enough that the wardens themselves are willing to try killing them with magic. Isabella has any many protections under the Laws as the T-Rex skeleton Harry reanimated for the Darkhallow fight.
If Rosie was good enough to say curse her to relive her most traumatic memories/a variety pack of simulated brutal death/some elaborate gaslighting exercise designed to make it as hard as possible to determine if she's actually awake* every night for a month there'd be no metaphysical consequences for doing it.
So why not be polite?
* Or some mix of the three. A dream sorcerer who's either psychotic or upset enough to make a project of it could really mess someone up.
How many cycles of random traumatic memory replay-> modified death ending -> fake wake up sequence followed by looping back the the start would it take to make someone snap? I'm guessing not many.
Or they could just send you a Flowers for Algernon style dream, with a dash of alzheimer's for flavor. Making you dream your way through temporarily forgetting your entire life and skill set one bit at a time would be pretty upsetting. Especially if they build the rest of it to throw the loss in your face.
In the past we've been able to tack limited crafting actions to some efforts, like the health potions for exorcising that Fomor.
Is this action one you'd let us do that for? Having basic healing on hand, and maybe some of those buff potions we've never had a chance to try, would make for a nice buffer if this action gets spicy.
I like the idea of that, it sounds really appropriate as an infernal blessing. On one level a dream of a power that isn't and can't be fully real, and on the other a tangible act of creation that sort of makes it happen anyway. That plus granting power through the application of minions to do the work for you make it feel like something infernals should have a dedicated charm for instead of 4 variants of fomori crafting.
That said, actually doing it would take the easy fix for Rosie's derangement off the table for a year, which could take a lot of thread time to reach. So we should probably come up with an alternative for that if we burn Rosie's first wish on this.
Yes, alchemy does not take that long, not when we are talking low dots.
Yeah, that sounds like a very interesting idea. We'd probably want to train her up to at least 3 dots in her path first, though.
On the subject of Rosie's talent - would oneiromancy apply to gossamer crafting? I mean, it would kinda make sense for it to do so. Right now Rosie can do lucid dreaming, and that's basically it, right? And if she was a Law-breaker, invade dreams of others (it's a shame that doing so, probably even with consent, is a Law violation, because dream DMing an RPG session sounds like a great pastime and a training method). And maybe some remote viewing / seer techniques? It seems reasonable that dream manipulation would somewhat apply to raksha and raksha-derived stuff. Oneiromancy really is a finicky path.
Also, people, we need more votes!
To be fair, they usually also don't do the work. Not paying them is reasonable.I will remind you guys that the White Court controls the porn industry, artistic merit in their propaganda is clearly something they can do without. Say what you will about Twilight it is better than all those pizza deliverymen, plumbers, repairmen etc... not getting paid time and again while failing to learn from it.
We should ask Sasuke! I'm sure he'd be real enthusiastic!
Well, the plumbers do plumb some plumbing, the repairmen do wrench some things, it's the pizza delivery men that are the problem, they only deliver sausages.
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Please sir, may I have some Meows?
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- Tempe, AZ
The easy treatment for the derangement is IDU which will make MIS apply to her as well as giving other powers.
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- Germany
MiS only protects her from derangements caused by her CoD nature, not normal issues she has.
False Spring would propablyhelp though?
The derangement is caused by a lingering mortal magic effect. Spending an AP to modify our Ancient Sorcery exorcism into a more general dispel would probably be the way to get rid of it.
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I don't think so.
Trauma caused by magic can't be healed by a dispel, just as wounds from conjured flames can't be.
If this were the intended and ongoing effect, maybe. But it isn't, it's very explicitly mental damage caused by someone who had little idea of what she was doing messing with a fragile human brain.
1) Her dealer knew. Her then-friends knew. She ran with a shady crowd.crowd. Molly was arrested for drug possession and sentenced to community service.
I mean, her baby daddy is Molly's ex because they fucked each other when they were too stoned for an ounce of rational thought.
She wasnt subtle or restrained about her drugbuse.
As for rehab? No idea, wasnt mentioned in the book.
Worth remembering that not everyone feels obliged to send you to rehab. Or even believe that it work's
2)Bad area.
If you go back to read the characterization of the building, it's hinted as being in a bad part of town, with chain link fencing and desperate/miserable people. Which is why it's a Place of Desolation.
Nowhere you would willingly put someone you care about. And not a place that many Cauldron members feel comfortable around day to day.
Buy it as a safe house and renovate in the future?
Sure.
But I wouldn't put Rosie there.
COMMENTARY
When we talk about Molly's friend circle, we always seem to forget Alice/Alicia Becton, who was the third member of the group that included Rosie and Ken who got attacked by Fetches in Proven Guilty. She kinda needs help too.
Still gonna need to warn Rosie about Sandra.
It isn't.
In the short story Bombshells, Molly uses weaponized memories as her primary blaster weapon against a Fomor Sorcerer. The Nightmare ate Dresdens magic in his dreams during Grave Peril, weakening him. And there's also the issue with how often many of us daydream; studies suggest up to 40%+.
Put a trained oneiromancy adept in the field and they are far from harmless.
Neither her dealer, nor her friends are parts of senior Wilsons' social circles most likely.
Oh, I missed that. Yeah, it seems like this could actually be a good career opportunity for her. Or at least a very fun hobby.