Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

He can have her heart, I want her bling:

Abound the ancient vampire's wrists tainted gold burns with hellish light, greed and spite and blood in anger spilled as your control begins to splinter in the face of sinew, muscle and alien strength

Gold meets brass in a shower of green flame, once, twice and where the brass slips past the guard the flesh below heals as fast as it is burned.
She has something at her hands that allows her to parry a sword without obvious penalties.
Might have more magic.

That sounds useful for any of our more brawl-focused minions.
 
I mean, would attacking him now be breaking the deal? It would be very fey of us, but I thought the deal was just to help him kill this one vamp. She is dead. Deal fulfilled. If we fight now that's an entirely separate thing no?

[x] You are still pretty fresh, screw deals, you could kill more than one old monster today

We were always planning to kill him, and this thing needs to die even more then the countess did.
 
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@DragonParadox
Just wondering, did it take good backround-rolls for Seeker to get Arianna here, in this plane, relativly unprepared?
I'm glad it all worked out, but I would have imagined an old vampire would be harder to catch with her guard down
 
@DragonParadox
Just wondering, did it take good backround-rolls for Seeker to get Arianna here, in this plane, relativly unprepared?
I'm glad it all worked out, but I would have imagined an old vampire would be harder to catch with her guard down

It took middling rolls back when he proposed this.

The thing is this is a very good place to hide from wizards which is her main concern right now, they do not fly for the most part, certainly not fast enough to catch up with a plane, no one but the Blackstaff can blow up the plane with magic without breaking the Laws since there are humans on board. This is a bad place to hide from a Skinwalker and an infernal helper, but most places are that
 
[] Shout at him that you are supposed to split the loot, he'll probably get a kick out of that (Charisma+Empathy Base DC 6)

So she wasn't lying about that bit after all after all/More worthy to die by your sword that I assumed Magnificent Sun Who Knows no rival, you and Usum think at the same time
The thoughts could use some italics, not a big deal tho. Also, after all is repeated twice.
Something interesting here. Arianna has apparently fed on a god, but she's much younger than the Red Court, which suggests the Red King kept the pantheon he defeated around afterwards for his favoured to sip from.
Arianna predates the arrival of the Europeans. We don't know how much older than that she is. All we know is that the Red King created her personally, together with the rest of the Lords of Outer Night. So chances are she's been around for a while.

Not that you're necessarily wrong, though. They totally could have a god chained up in the basement that they nibble on every now and then. That being said, it could indeed be one of the gods of the defeated pantheon, or it could be a.. fresher capture or kill.
 
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from a Skinwalker and an infernal helper, but most places are that
From an Infernal and a skinwalker helper, thank you very much. :p
So what is your plan for when he lobs a chunk of Ariana at us?
Fair enough. I'll think on it a bit more.
Maybe something like

[X] A deal's a deal, even with a monster, let him eat
-[X] While he's eating, target any vampires that are trying to get at civilians; if they're running away, instead focus on getting the civilians to safety.
 
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[X] A deal's a deal, even with a monster, let him eat
-[X] While he's eating, target any vampires that are trying to get at civilians; if they're running away, instead focus on getting the civilians to safety.
 
Godsblood. About in keeping with the lore from the RPG.
Betting the gods are still alive, but freeing them is probably going to require overthrowing the Red Court. And may not be a good thing in and of itself; being victimized by the Reds is no guarantee that you are a good person in and of itself.

Hmm.
Molly invoking the King and Kingdom signature is supposed to provide a -1 difficulty buff to actions taken
So with BSM providing -1DC and the KaK providing -1DC, the difficulty of this entire fight shouldnt have been higher than 7.

Huh. I didnt think Molly got to multi-attack without multi-attack charms.
*shrug* If so, we probably want to take another look at Rage Recast: Extra Limbs in the next couple turns, in order to get rid of the dice penalty for taking extra actions in the same turn.

I assume we just add Arianna's body to Molly's collection of study materials.
We still have the Will of Kakuri buried under multiple feet of stone in Chicago; adding the body of a Red Court duchess will probably broaden Molly's Occult database of supernatural predators.

And IC, it will probably provide narrative justification for curing/fixing/converting Red Court dhampirs, as well as for devising Molly's own fomor charm. Maybe even justification to get discounts on buying Medicine or Craft or Science.

Besides that, spend five minutes looting the plane to bare metal with Tool Constructs, then sanitize it and have it land on a highway near the airport with the scene showing signs of a cartel hijacking and all the passengers dead or missing.
Then grab prisoners and move them to Hell.

Then either return directly to Last Station, or back to point of departure and make a beeline for the Lerma River and go home
With any luck we'll make it in time for breakfast.
Maybe even school.


[X] Shout at him that you are supposed to split the loot, he'll probably get a kick out of that (Charisma+Empathy Base DC 6)
-[X] Leave the head, would you? I might need a new mantlepiece

At the very least we want the head as a focus. And I am not sure we want BS to get Arianna's powers, including whatever divinity she had.
He might eat the heart for completionists sake, or to try to gross Molly out. He's not going to eat the body; he doesnt need to.
When Shagnasty killed Kirby in canon, he gained the power from doing so despite all he did being tearing out his throat, then leaving.

Are you sure you want him to upgrade his divinity?
He already did that when he killed her.
The rest is just ceremony and misdirection. Like I said, when Shagnasty killed Kirby the werewolf in canon, he didnt take a bite of anything, but got the magical benefits anyway.
 
Maybe we should kill a vampire to top up on Essence before ganking him? Unless we think he's gonna book it now that he's got what he came for
 
[X] Shout at him that you are supposed to split the loot, he'll probably get a kick out of that (Charisma+Empathy Base DC 6)
-[X] Stunt: Over the sound of rushing air and rampaging monsters, you shout, "Enjoy your meal! Maybe leave her head for me? I'm not quite finished with Ms. Ortega." There is no time to watch for Broken Seeker's response, however, as another maddened creature leaps at you, toward its death.
 
Godsblood. About in keeping with the lore from the RPG.
Betting the gods are still alive, but freeing them is probably going to require overthrowing the Red Court. And may not be a good thing in and of itself; being victimized by the Reds is no guarantee that you are a good person in and of itself.

Hmm.
Molly invoking the King and Kingdom signature is supposed to provide a -1 difficulty buff to actions taken
So with BSM providing -1DC and the KaK providing -1DC, the difficulty of this entire fight shouldnt have been higher than 7.

Huh. I didnt think Molly got to multi-attack without multi-attack charms.
*shrug* If so, we probably want to take another look at Rage Recast: Extra Limbs in the next couple turns, in order to get rid of the dice penalty for taking extra actions in the same turn.

You can multi-attack, you just have to take the increasing DC hits and lost dice and even if you start at DC 4 (BSM KaK) three attacks one dash and one parry later you are at DC 9
 
His little eating is not going to work if we murder is meat her.
He killed her. He's already eaten her magic.
Thats how it worked in Turn Coat. We wouldnt get to retroactively change that even if we wanted to.

Maybe we should kill a vampire to top up on Essence before ganking him? Unless we think he's gonna book it now that he's got what he came for
Dont break your deals or your word.
Dont get a reputation for breaking your deals or your word.
It will cost you in the long run a lot more than you will want to pay.

And dont choose to fight a naagloshii when you are down to less than half your Essence pool and have an entire plane of prisoners and stuff to loot.
 
You can multi-attack, you just have to take the increasing DC hits and lost dice and even if you start at DC 4 (BSM KaK) three attacks one dash and one parry later you are at DC 9
Okay.
We need Rage Recast: Extra Limbs(2 dots) then.
And probably Running To Forever(1 dot) to make movement a reflexive action.

He still has to consume some part of his victims, even if it is just licking the blood of his claws and its more satisfying and complete if he does is properly.
QUESTION
So is he just eating the heart?
Or are you saying he's going to try to literally eat the whole body?
 
Okay.
We need Rage Recast: Extra Limbs(2 dots) then.
And probably Running To Forever(1 dot) to make movement a reflexive action.


QUESTION
So is he just eating the heart?
Or are you saying he's going to try to literally eat the whole body?

He is eating her heart, eating the whole body would be inconvenient in the middle of a battle. There are still 4 vampires worth fighting here and a pack of lesser ones.
 
He is eating her heart, eating the whole body would be inconvenient in the middle of a battle. There are still 4 vampires worth fighting here and a pack of lesser ones.
Okay. Cool.
He can have the heart, we can loot the body and that of her minions after the battle is finished; there's *checks* three elders still alive. And it provides justification to claim everything else


VOTE
[X] A deal's a deal, even with a monster, let him eat


Keep your word.
Besides, as the QM has clarified, he just needs to lick his claws anyway to finish claiming her power.
Even if we wanted to, we cant change that.
 
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