Well, Molly is a member of their order, has interacted with them on several occasions, meaning that some of them would be willing to vouch for her. And we have empathy excellency. We should be able to roll legendary successes.
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
- Start date
- Crossover Fantasy
Getting people to take their whole families into Undertown is the domain of needing legendary successes or better. Remember how Harry presented the place to you in the prologue? And it is about on par with the boat idea, at least in the same ballpark. Now its up to you guys to judge not only what would be safer, but how hard a sell each would be.
Well, my plan should be easier. We have already remade one of their wards, and it worked out perfectly with the Bane. We are also not taking them anywhere but to the other members of the order. And they'd be participating in the rituals, so there's a measure of agency.
This looks pretty close, but not tied or anything so I'm going to leave this up for an hour or two then start writing since I have the time today.
Yeah, that's clearer. I still think it introduces some vulnerabilities though if we're asserting that the current wards aren't enough. Everyone waiting down the list is uncovered even if they're lower risk.
I prefer these sorts of deceptions because they play into people's expectations. Wearing a bomb or a lock gives away something unusual is happening. A weird circle around our working that helps us work better is all but business as usual.
Vote closed.
We should probably do some Ward raising when we have the time. Just don't have it to help everyone at the moment.
I think some integration with the Jade dogs would be good too.
We can't be everywhere at once, and mortal cops aren't typically materially capable of helping even if they do show up in time.
Being able to call for an escort for a few days, or as an emergency cab service, with even ghoul tier muscle would be a significant improvement. Especially if we arm them with some nice super mirror equipment to better soak/deal lethal damage.
Hidden studs/plates in a leather jacket and a foot long folding knife of a material that bounces rifle rounds would give their powers some spine they currently lack.
Most attacks we've seen so far have been outside of the home, so a smaller addition there might have a greater overall impact than a larger one elsewhere.
Not that we shouldn't do both, but the Ordo will likely only tolerate so much at once so the order of operations is worth considering.
Winning Vote
Arc 8 Post 16: Words Spoken, War Sounded
Words Spoken, War Sounded
10th of November 2006 A.D.
The options on offer are not great, they feel so slapdash, so desperate, it's not right that murderers and fanatics should chase good and gentle souls from hearth and home. Unbidden your mind goes back to Bane upon his unmarred threshold, one member of the Ordo Lebensis you are not worried about is Helen. With Harry's help as well as Lydia, with the order backing the whole thing up like one of their ward-raisings maybe you could do it again and again. Ways to streamline the process, to improve it come unbidden to mind, power and purpose straining to let fly. Alas, practicality is like gravity, ever present. The image of tinny studio apartments above coffee houses, sublet homes and if you remember right at least two trailers invested with something like Bane is... daunting. Maybe you could wing it eventually, no, you could do it, no doubt in your mind, but if it would be done in time you are less sure. A sanctuary done too late is no more than a shrine to failure.
"I think Undertown is our best bet, between you too, the Jade Dogs, Porter, assuming he's awake that should be a force to scare off the vampires and deal with any of their 'Ant' men." That's an insult to Ant man and I don't even like those comics.
Bones knocks on the door a few minutes later, the night black-blade cradled in hand looking as on edge as you've ever seen him. It's one thing to meet a Warden in your place, among your own allies, quite another to beard the lion in his den, you know.
So you flash him a genuinely grateful smile as you hand the sword to Harry. "I want to to tell me what this does."
"Just a wild guess here, but I think it kills people," he snarks, you assume instinctively.
Leaning back into your seat, like you don't care, using the very cogent example of Mister who had made himself at home on the couch you chuckle. "See, you're on the right track already. Will that be cash, credit or synthetic diamonds?"
He reaches out to take the weapon by the hilt at once curious and conflicted. You choose to misinterpret the conflict. "Come on Harry this isn't pro bono material, even for you."
To emphasize the point you reach out to the secrets eyes and whisper: What are the secrets of its making? As the light of your soul explodes outward, those same eyes suddenly visible to all you bear witness to the forging of sword that melds craft, love and life, cruelly drained. Where once there had been a balance of Yin and Yang, not equal but the latter reinforcing the former now there was only Yin Chi, touched by the frozen night of Kakuri, forever screaming its dirge to all the world .
"It's made of loss, mourning, the jagged edge of purposeful imperfection which cuts deeper than steel. I think... I think it is a lot more recent than it looks, a lot younger than its last bearer." Those had not been clouds in stained red with the glare of the setting sun in the hour of its forging, but coal smoke.
Lost 2 Essence (Empathy and Occult Excellencies) -> Now at 11/15
The wizard of Chicago, then with the look of one who has denied who knows how many birthdays and parties he says: "Ten thousand dollars."
"Done," you say, keeping your expression carefully neutral.
All the while Bones had not been paying much attention to the sword. "Am I hearing this right you need to convince a bunch of palm readers, ghost-botherders and talismongers to come come down to the Station. You got your work cut out fer you pretty boy ain't you?"
He's not looking at Thomas, he's looking at Harry
"What'd you call me?"
The ghoul's features shift, elongate into something at once more simian and more lupine, just for a moment a flash before returning to admittedly unshaven and sallow humanity. "It's all relative ain't it?"
***
To those who had never heard of Undertown its a hard sell, between having to take their kids out of school, take days off from work, trudge through a sewer to get there and and effectively camp with dangerous strangers, to those who had heard of Undertown it is so much worse. They know what lurks in those entombed streets and and ruined bunkers: every sort of ghost and ghoul, every nightmare half imagined starring at the ceiling at night. To be honest if it had not been for the normally shy Abby begging, cajoling and at times outright lying through her teeth about what she had seen in their future, even though her gift does not go that far.
You are just about done talking to Liz Carter, a grey haired lady from Louisiana who co-owned an old style greasy spoon to come on down and join the others when you spy atop the apartment building across the road, behind a ragged billboard the glint of metal,
For the second time in half a year you find yourself in a sniper's sights.
What do you do?
[] Just deflect the bullets, let Harry and Thomas handle this
[] Fly up and grab the asshole, there aren't that many onlookers and you are fast
[] Write in
OOC: Yes, he does seem to be aiming at Molly, not the woman you came here to pick up or either Harry or Thomas, maybe its because she looks the most witch-y.
taovkool
Forever Gone
- Location
- The Library, Department of General Works
[X] Just deflect the bullets, let Harry and Thomas handle this
-[X] Glare at the man through the scope for extra points.
Let's leave this to Harry and Thomas. No way that sniper is working alone and I want to save some Essence. Who knows, might be the skinwalker finally showed up for a boss fight.
-[X] Glare at the man through the scope for extra points.
Let's leave this to Harry and Thomas. No way that sniper is working alone and I want to save some Essence. Who knows, might be the skinwalker finally showed up for a boss fight.
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- Location
- Germany
[X] Fly up and grab the asshole, there aren't that many onlookers and you are fast
-[X] Activate Wind-born Stride with essence
He's really out of luck, can't know we've been preparing for this or similar scenarios for a while now.
-[X] Activate Wind-born Stride with essence
He's really out of luck, can't know we've been preparing for this or similar scenarios for a while now.
7 success key ablity.
Modus_Tollens
SCREAMING AT THE APOCALYPSE
- Location
- ALSO SCREAMING.
The ghouls are absolutely made out of candy.
That said... we almost have to be in the process of being baited.
That said... we almost have to be in the process of being baited.
Yzarc
The Spark of Madness
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
[X] Fly up and grab the asshole, there aren't that many onlookers and you are fast
-[X] Activate Wind-born Stride with essence
We should be fast enough that even people looking in our direction just see a blur or something that they can dismiss as a trick of the light.
Or other option with our new charm
[X]Use mind-hand manipulation to grapple the gunner from a distance. That should buy Thomas and Harry time to deal with it.
-[X] Activate Wind-born Stride with essence
We should be fast enough that even people looking in our direction just see a blur or something that they can dismiss as a trick of the light.
Or other option with our new charm
[X]Use mind-hand manipulation to grapple the gunner from a distance. That should buy Thomas and Harry time to deal with it.
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Interesting kind of like a knock off Soulsteel
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fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
We might be able to refine it into proper soul steel. Either by alchemy or Exalted Crafting.
So, let's consider the math, because that's a cool idea. Let's see:
So, we are rolling 20 dice, at DC6 (5 if we stunt wet snow maybe?). We can probably expect at least 5 successes for that, statistically 10 or so. We would then be using those successes to wrestle with the sniper. The sniper is almost certainly a whampire or a ghoul or some other superhuman. Not sure I like those odds. Might be doable, though, yes. We might want a stunt.