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Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

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Fouredged Sword said:
This is a party full of social adept supernatual monsters. While we throw a LOT of dice around that's a LOT of people who have significant dice pools trying to spy on literally everyone here.

Is there something about this intel that is instantly actionable? What advantage does telling her right this minute do for us?
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It adds another name to the kill list and it's generally better to get all your killing done at the same time.
 
DragonParadox said:
[] Send her a message, you have her number and Cthulhu probably does not read texts. Hopefully she's not one of those people who does not check her phone at parties
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Do you think that Lara would trust us if we just made it an ambiguous message like "You are going to want to add Vittorio Malvora to the list".

Or would she need more explanation?
 
DragonParadox said:
His master's work.

Ashraaah's work

The word, passes into your mind like a worm crawling through silt and you know that were you merely a mortal wizard so too would it seek to pass out of mind without a trace in memory. But you did not overhear it on the night air, not did you read it in some pilfered scroll or upon a screen left carelessly open... open for the careless. You took it and what you take you keep. Meaning you draw from it as one might drill an oil well down to hell.

Not-Man, Once-Man, Husk. All that was of him in the Image of God is Not and in the place of God, something else, a hunger, a need, a Howling.
All at once the world snaps back into focus, all the sights and sounds of nocturnal gathering spinning around and round in a haze of of blind gaiety, knowing not for the servant, the puppet of darkness that walks among them, for you do not think the Ashraaah is capable of keeping servants that its influence does not devour.
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Okay, from WoD, which need not be canon here:

An Ashraaah is a high-end Nephandi who managed to create his own equivalent of a horizon-realm in what is either a very dark part of the Deep Umbra, or something Outside, like in this cosmology.

In WoD they might not be banished from the world, but might have willingly made a place where they can exist in their full power, without the Consensus dragging them down, similar to how Archmages who are not insane and evil often do it.

In this setting though, you can't switch between Out and In nearly as easily as in Mage, so once-people who carve out a Kingdom in the Outside are both likely to be worse news in terms of real power, and less bad, in that their ability to act in Creation is likely very limited, unless called or invoked by stupid mortals.
 
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DragonParadox said:
[] Try to pass on what you saw to Lara (Charisma+Subterfuge)
-[] Use Excellency (optional)
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Well, would you look at that, right after we obtained the information we needed, without any need for the use of lots of motes, might I add, we have a good reason to try and use some essence again, one that we could not use if we had gone with Uju's plan and used all our motes before flaring our anima, how unexpected /s.
 
Nyarky said:
Well, would you look at that, right after we obtained the information we needed, without any need for the use of lots of motes, might I add, we have a good reason to try and use some essence again, one that we could not use if we had gone with Uju's plan and used all our motes before flaring our anima, how unexpected /s.
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To be fair you would also know different things. Not all ways of gathering information are equivalent and not all answers are the same.
 
Molly (speaking loudly enough for the entire room to hear): "Hey, Lara, did you know your cousin Vito has an Outsiders's arm about elbow deep up his ass like the worst Muppet that ever muppeted?"
 
[X] Send her a message, you have her number and Cthulhu probably does not read texts. Hopefully she's not one of those people who does not check her phone at parties

Since Lara herself used messaging last time she wanted it to be unnoticed, we might as well follow her example.
She will know the spies in her own court better than we do.
 
[X] Send her a message, you have her number and Cthulhu probably does not read texts. Hopefully she's not one of those people who does not check her phone at parties
-[x]Stunt "Vito Died some time ago. Something else is using his face."
 
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fictionfan said:
[X] Send her a message, you have her number and Cthulhu probably does not read texts. Hopefully she's not one of those people who does not check her phone at parties
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They knew the Archive exists. So esoteric means of detecting signals and reading their embedded message is certainly a possibility. More, they infiltrated Lara's court. One of them was Justine, a current trusted confidante of hers, and could probably bug her number with ease.

I think it's safe to assume that Cthulhu, or at least its cult dependents, could probably read her texts.
 
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I'm waiting for one of these gribblies to try to properly diplomance us and ours. Not even possess, just attack us through conveying information that fucks up out ability and will to fight. They are smart enough that they should be able to start making us second guess ourselves even when we shouldn't.
 
Fun fact, now that DP has mentioned Nephandi, I have found the spell that Vito here is most likely under:

M20 Book of the Fallen, p.151
Shroud the Soul (• Mind, •• Prime, or both; possibly with •••• Prime instead)
One of the first and most vital spells a Nephandus learns involves cloaking her aura so as to conceal the true nature of her psyche, emotions, and soul. Traditionally, this involves bathing in the blood of slaughtered innocents, although modern technology and alternate approaches to the Arts have introduced innovations like intense meditations that cleanse the aura, exposure to mysterious rays, Quintessential "baths" of cleaner life force, and the favor of minor demons or spirits who agree to conceal the truth behind that life-force façade.
System: In its most basic form, this trick employs Mind 1 mental discipline to block the Fallen One's "true colors" from her aura. Each success on the caster's Arete roll removes one success from the Perception + Awareness roll of any character who's trying to discern that Nephandic aura. A more demanding version reattunes the caster's aura toward a more innocuous color. The same systems apply to this version of the spell.
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Just as guessed, a bit of Mind, possibly with Prime.
 
[X] Send her a message, you have her number and Cthulhu probably does not read texts. Hopefully she's not one of those people who does not check her phone at parties
 
Artemis1992 said:
Fun fact, now that DP has mentioned Nephandi, I have found the spell that Vito here is most likely under:

M20 Book of the Fallen, p.151

Just as guessed, a bit of Mind, possibly with Prime.
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Yep... sadly for him it does not do anything when someone tries to read his everything, because everything-reading magics are not as common as aura reading ones in this age of the world, the roll Molly made was to see how much she would comprehend of the answer. On a fail you would just have gotten the word 'Ashraaah' to go on and so on.
 
[X] Send her a message, you have her number and Cthulhu probably does not read texts. Hopefully she's not one of those people who does not check her phone at parties
-[x]Stunt "Vito Died some time ago. Something else is using his face."
 
LightLan said:
Has he actually died?

It looks rather willing to me, perhaps some mind control, but not death.
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In the update Molly thinks that a creature like the Outsider behind Vitto can't really keep people's mind intact once the contact is close enough?
DragonParadox said:
knowing not for the servant, the puppet of darkness that walks among them, for you do not think the Ashraaah is capable of keeping servants that its influence does not devour.
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