Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

The last time we captured one of them, broken seeker had a curse ready to kill them.

I bet that happens again.

I doubt we are getting another with such lucky willpower rolls as the last one.
 
The last time we captured one of them, broken seeker had a curse ready to kill them.

I bet that happens again.

I doubt we are getting another with such lucky willpower rolls as the last one.
I'm fine with that outcome. A dead spy is one less asset the Skinwalker has access to.
 
molly has zero fucking dots in stealth. If we she wants to be stealthy and I assume the shapechanger has no senses for this. Use a question on it to learn the whereabouts of all their allies and masters or something along that line. Then do some charging of essence and get a gang together you think could fight a skinwalker.
 
I'm fine with that outcome. A dead spy is one less asset the Skinwalker has access to.
But I don't want only a dead spy.

Hm..

[X] Fly out and capture it
-[X] Pay essence to activate Wind-Born stride to full power immediately
-[X] Activate MHM (Occult Excellency still active) and hold the bird; also prevent it from taking its own life by biting off its tongue and the like
-[X] Crown Question: Where has this ones master prepared lairs?
 
I'm also gonna note we've had plenty of in character time to actually find the skinwalker not criticizing. Just pointing it out that the skinwalker has been hidden from us not cause their hard to find but because we thought it either too risky at the time or were busy. Maybe its time to start dealing with that?

Edit: There is honestly very little in this world of even in the nevernever that can hide from us when we look for the right focuses.
 
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[X] Fly out and capture it
-[X] Pay essence to activate Wind-Born stride to full power immediately
-[X] Activate MHM (Occult Excellency still active) and hold the bird; also prevent it from taking its own life by biting off its tongue and the like
-[X] Crown Question: Where is the lair of this one's Master?

I like this plan. Also fixed a bit of the grammar problem.
 
[X] Fly out and capture it
-[X] Pay essence to activate Wind-Born stride to full power immediately
-[X] Activate MHM (Occult Excellency still active) and hold the bird; also prevent it from taking its own life by biting off its tongue and the like
-[X] Crown Question: Where is the lair of this one's Master?

I like this plan. Also fixed a bit of the grammar problem.
you know I know this isn't likely and cause its not a monkey paw wont fuck us over. But, skinwalker actually don't usually range away from their lairs. So anything in chicago definitely doesn't qualify. So we'd likely find the answer if it wasn't tailored to us to be somewhere a few hundred miles from here lol.
 
They aren't hiding from us, drawing them out isn't exactly a big win.

Picking big obvious fights with the whole world at once isn't a strategy, it's a temper tantrum that kills people.

They're very likely hiding important information on us that if we draw in Crown focuses we can discover.

And it's not a big obvious fight with the whole world. Marcone managed to become Freeholding Lord of Chicago without having to fight the entire world and win as is being suggested is required here.

Anything he can do, we can do vastly better.
 
They're very likely hiding important information on us that if we draw in Crown focuses we can discover.

And it's not a big obvious fight with the whole world. Marcone managed to become Freeholding Lord of Chicago without having to fight the entire world and win as is being suggested is required here.

Anything he can do, we can do vastly better.
eh we're never gonna put the dots into certain attributes where thats true.
 
We can delegate to experts from our Hell or mortals we recruit. We don't need to do everything personally. That's part of the point of being a leader.
well yeah thats not us now is it. Though I doubt anyone we pull out of our hell will be anywhere near as competent in earth politics, economics, academics, etc etc. In any time that matters in quest.
 
well yeah thats not us now is it.

Yes, it is. Marcone is head of an organisation that he uses. We'll be the head of our own organisation. That's part of what makes you powerful. We don't need to know the law if we can have a loyal supernaturally competent lawyer working for us. The ability to procure such an employee is our power.
 
[X] Fly out and capture it
-[X] Pay essence to activate Wind-Born stride to full power immediately
-[X] Activate MHM (Occult Excellency still active) and hold the bird; also prevent it from taking its own life by biting off its tongue and the like
-[X] Crown Question: Where is the lair of this one's Master?
 
There's a lesson both Molly and players need to learn:

Characters have their own agency.
They will fight their own fights, even if you don't want them to.

Like when Harry went after the Naagloshi on his own, but simply didn't find it.
Like Daniel is about to.
Like Olivia so badly wants to.

They have the right to their own life and to risk it for what they believe in.

They want to fight. For their own reasons.

To protect their families.
Because they hate feeling powerless.
Because they feel like it's their duty.

They all have their own reasons, and just because they aren't as powerful as Molly is doesn't mean they can't fight.
Or even that they shouldn't.

They know how outmatched they are. They still want to.

It's not on us to tell them: No, you're too much of a scrub and will always be.

That's telling them they are helpless and will always be so.
At the mercy of those more powerful.

It's what all the monsters out there want them to believe.
I totally agree with your sentiment. On the one hand, no one really wants to see Daniel on the frontlines of the war with the things that are compared with the Internal Exalt in firepower. On the other hand, we should commit to prevent his involvement not by denying him tools of protection, but by providing him with the safety net (Alphas, Paranet). Moreover, we shouldn't forget that the first thing that Molly did in canon when she acquired some pull – she raised preventive measures against mortal enemies next to her family house.
 
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We have zero stealth, and are a beacon of dark power characterized to mystic senses as "a miniature Darkhallow".

[X] Fly out and capture it
-[X] Pay essence to activate Wind-Born stride to full power immediately
-[X] Activate MHM (Occult Excellency still active) and hold the bird; also prevent it from taking its own life by biting off its tongue and the like
Grappling is dicey and bashing damage can't easily kill. We should just start beating Tweety with our eyes until he stops moving.

 
Repliess in a bit. But first....
But I don't want only a dead spy.
Hm..

[X] Fly out and capture it
-[X] Pay essence to activate Wind-Born stride to full power immediately
-[X] Activate MHM (Occult Excellency still active) and hold the bird; also prevent it from taking its own life by biting off its tongue and the like
-[X] Crown Question: Where has this ones master prepared lairs?
Waste of a question.
We know that they've been moving hideouts since they got here; Harry confirmed this when he went to look for the last spy's base and only found discarded matter.

Unless you're willing to storm the site immediately, they are all gonna be gone by the time we're ready.
 
Repliess in a bit. But first....

Waste of a question.
We know that they've been moving hideouts since they got here; Harry confirmed this when he went to look for the last spy's base and only found discarded matter.

Unless you're willing to storm the site immediately, they are all gonna be gone by the time we're ready.
We should be able to use that location to ask for where they went.
Just gotta go there.
 
Moving away means giving up on everything we have built in Chicago. Lydia, the Jade dogs, the order, Bob, our alliances, our mentor relationship with our father. Everything we have spent this whole quest doing, we would have to start over. That is not worth it.

Besides, the things Odin lists as negatives, I see as positives. The fact that Chicago is full of powerful entities and is the center of important events is a good thing. Plenty of things to defeat, ally with or take over. We are already on semi-friendly terms with the White Court so this being their territory isn't a problem.

Exalts thrive on adversity and tend to end up ruling any place they stay in for long enough. Why found a kingdom in the middle of nowhere when we can co-opt an existing one?

Odin is ambushing us with this offer in the hopes we will go along with it without thinking. Please don't make life altering promises to powerful entities the moment they offer it.

Glad to see I'm not the only one to think that most of what Odin tries to pass as negatives are, in fact, things we benefits from.

"I do not know, but it was something that had to be done on the grounds of the university something witch a madman would have found distasteful to do to the body of one of his worst enemies. A mystery for you perhaps."

Find a pic, ask the crown, there bait disarmed.

ou know this thing, you have seen its like before... shapechanger, poor slave of a worse master. Broken Seeker still has his eyes on you

Naagloshi spy 2: Electric Boogaloo!
 
Not to go too crazy on sizing up enemies as reagents, but it's worth noting that "master mages" are a category of entity that qualify as splendor fuel, and the dot to power scale reserves the first 2 levels for things that aren't personally notorious.

Shape shifting like this is pretty significant magically speaking, as is whatever else this guy had to be able to do in order to survive the Naagloshii's training camp. I'd bet he qualifies for a 1 dot working.

The most immediately valuable use of that is to make a jade talisman equivalent for Lydia. Not need to screw around with researching how to do it, we can make one that has infinite charge in exchange for being limited to when you satisfy your nature as an entry level project post crafting charm.

Even better, we can sync it up with her native powers in a very convenient way.

Form of Primal Nature (1 pt. Form Element)
The Splendor takes the form of something that is primitive, crude, bestial, or a beast. Items tend to be natural objects like rocks and branches, or are crudely-worked, or are decorated with beast- motifs. More often, the Splendor is literally a living animal. This Element defines the Splendor's physical form and gives it a character, and that character is aligned with the feral, primitive, and bestial. Other Elements may draw upon this fact.
While animal-form Splendors are never hostile to their owner, they do not obey that individual as a servant. Instead they will follow their normal instincts and habits, or else act according to some particular pattern of behavior established when the Splendor is designed. If the Splendor is an Adornment, it may be designed so that its blessings benefit the animal rather than the Exalt. Taking a second characteristic Form makes it possible for an Adornment to take the shape of both a beast and an item used by its owner, and to give its benefits to both of them.


Essence element for reference:
Essence-Stoking Spirit (3 pt. Root Element)
This Element can only be part of an Adornment.
The Splendor stokes the fires of the Exalt's Essence whenever she affirms her innermost self. When she regains Willpower from fulfilling her Nature, she also refills her Essence pool.


A dog is a valid shape for this thing to take, and it should basically vanish when not deployed but still maintain a continuous existence.

Which arguably means she should be able to apply her animal boosting charms to it, creating a buffed up minion she can smuggle around and that will refill her essence pool as many times as she can arrange to fulfill her nature.

It's even appropriate for the type of subject we have here, given the animal theme of a their powers.

If we could also somehow build the dog form as an emanation as well that'd be even better.

I don't know what the special advantages from the gods and monsters book are, but stacking them on top of say a 3 dot arcana that's built for murder sounds like a grand old time.

If the guy is somehow worth 2 dots it gets even better. It's just one more point, but the mystic options have lots of potential.

One easy one is this:

Ode to the Incurious (1 pt. Mystic Element)
This Element can only be part of a Fascination.
The Splendor causes anyone who falls under its sway to become utterly incurious about something defined when the Splendor is summoned. If the Splendor doesn't contain a condition under which the target may escape this blasé state of mind, or the target fails to satisfy that condition, then they escape from its influence after one day for a 1-2 dot Splendor, one week for a 3-dot Splendor, one month for a 4-dot Splendor, and one year for a 5-dot Splendor.
Set permanently to "the presence of this dog" so that she can take it anywhere without issue.

A funnier one is this:

Unthinkable Ward (1 pt. Mystic Element)
The Splendor is shrouded in a psychic ward that makes it unthinkable to even consider harming it in any way. Anyone attempting to do so must succeed at a Willpower roll against difficulty (4 + Splendor's rating) and then spend a Willpower point on each turn in which they attempt to do harm to the Splendor.


The roll isn't bad, but you still need to spend willpower to hurt it every turn you try to do so even when you succeed.

I also suspect resisting the effect using mental defenses is probably difficult, considering where it's coming from. Probably something close to perfect or bust.

Note that it says nothing about the aggressiveness of the splendor; it can do what it likes. Since some of these things will very obviously kill you just doing their normal routine it's not even that out of line.

Popping out a monster dog that you need to spend willpower to attack even while it's peeling off your face is a pretty good trick even for an exalt.
 
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