Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

Also, @Artemis1992 is it necessary to kill them? With superhuman swords skill I'd have thought we could break their arms and possibly ribs with the flat of Molly's blade.
Lethal weapon deals lethal damage I think?

I don't particularly want to kill them, so if they land on the Incapacitated health-level (or on crippled and stop fighting), then I would not stab after them and hope that their "good healing" is enough to survive.
But I'm not willing to mess around just to be sure we don't accidentaly kill one, not with several innocent lives on the other side.
 
If we want concealable bashing damage weapons we should use our craft mechanics score to make some collapsible gauntlets/brass knuckles instead of spending exp on it.

Also, @Artemis1992 is it necessary to kill them? With superhuman swords skill I'd have thought we could break their arms and possibly ribs with the flat of Molly's blade.

I'm not really broken up about offing two guys who want to shoot us, especially since they don't seem to care about the people caught in the crossfire, but if our first night out interning for Michael ends with Molly stabbing multiple people to death our current problems with Charity might explode again.

But I'm not willing to mess around just to be sure we don't accidentaly kill one, not with several innocent lives on the other side.
Shouldnt be too much of an issue if we stay away from the agg damage and work quickly.

Fatal strokes like decapitation, slicing someone's throat, or stabbing them through the heart, stomach (messily), or spine take a lot of effort and finesse to pull off smoothly. Like fully sheathing our sword in someone's body? And then pulling it out? Eh.

Beating them down quickly should work more a less the same as disabling them without instantly killing them.

Brutally use our sword as a makeshift hammer, and smash their arms, legs, and hands to non functional smithereens.

We know we need to do enough damage to physically disable them as well. Dont wanna see any of that spooky berserker "dead man walking" shit.

They might bleed out quickly after that, but I am sure our father or the monks know first aid. Assuming they dont take their guys and run to bleed out elsewhere.

Also 911 maybe? Not terribly worried for their health and safety.
 
I think they should proportional to what they do for mortals. I mean if you have a gaping wound in your stomach as an Exalted it should be easier to heal if you stitch it up. I'll have to look up the wound times in the rules, probably in vampire since that is what I am using as a base rule book



I am going to say this much because Molly is good enough at socials now to get a read on him, there is no way on God's Green Earth Dresden does not know she is flirting with him. It has probably been obvious since the shower borrowing episode, which Molly now thinks may have been going a little too fast. Again this is not canon Molly, she has been gifted by the dark powers out of deep time with transcendent powers, the self-confidence building demon and a level of willpower few mortals can match she may have a crush but that does not mean she will try to pursue it the same way.
also you know if you don't wait a couple years in quest this quest could be checked on by mods. romance of underaged characters even if its 17 year olds seems a big no no on sv and sb. so at least the next year in character probably best to not touch that.
 
also you know if you don't wait a couple years in quest this quest could be checked on by mods. romance of underaged characters even if its 17 year olds seems a big no no on sv and sb. so at least the next year in character probably best to not touch that.
Romance is fine as long as you are not weird about it.

At least on SV, AFAIK.

Not that it's particularly relevant, until Molly gets her ice-body under control she'll have to do it like Rogue and stay on the platonic side of things anyway.
 
Romance is fine as long as you are not weird about it.

At least on SV, AFAIK.

Not that it's particularly relevant, until Molly gets her ice-body under control she'll have to do it like Rogue and stay on the platonic side of things anyway.
You say that and I even agree with you I've seen sv and sb mods get angry or snippy about it though. So best to just be safe asides I am personally all for pursuing the path of gains and forsaking the forbidden path of romance for the chad path of gains.
 
also you know if you don't wait a couple years in quest this quest could be checked on by mods. romance of underaged characters even if its 17 year olds seems a big no no on sv and sb. so at least the next year in character probably best to not touch that.

You are currently an icicle there is no reasonable way in which anything more than medieval chanson style pining can happen. I'm not going to warp the character by dropping a significant aspect of how she saw Dresden to avoid something already well avoided.
 
You are currently an icicle there is no reasonable way in which anything more than medieval chanson style pining can happen. I'm not going to warp the character by dropping a significant aspect of how she saw Dresden to avoid something already well avoided.
Nah I agree with you and think your correct I just don't wanna deal with mods is all. Just seen it happen before and am mentioning it.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Jul 25, 2022 at 1:54 AM, finished with 78 posts and 13 votes.

  • [X] Try to charge past them and attack the ones still in the van (Dexterity+Athletics; cannot use excellency)
    -[X] Within a second of the Van's doors opening you charge at the two clawed berserkers, the sign upon your brow burning in open challenge and a blade drawn from your soul in your hands. Thinking as little more than beasts right now they do not see through you ruse as you drop under the first attacker at the last moment and in a display of barely-human grace rise again with barely a stumble to continue your run towards the true target, the armed men in the van
    -[X] As soon as you reach the van use melee excellency to finish them quickly.
    [X] Fight the two charging madmen in hand to hand (Dexterity+Melee/Straight attack; may use excellency)
    -[X] Use Melee Excellency. Deliberately draw attention yourself, both the berserkers and gunmen by being the most threatening thing in the room
    [X] Try to charge past them and attack the ones still in the van (Dexterity+Athletics; cannot use excellency)
    -[X] Stunt: "Dad, berserkers" you yell as you vault the table, hell-forged brass sliding into your swordhand with a pulse of Infernal power as you sprint into the path of the attackers. With your offhand you grab the jug of lemonade, splashing it at face level towards the spirit-ridden as you attempt to slip past them towards the gunmen in the rear.
 
Been thinking about which spell to get first. And from a logistical level the Earth Blessing seems better overall compared to the Air Blessing. Air lower the dex penalty for armor by 1, Earth raise the soak value by 1. Functionally it is the same benefit, an extra soak armor dice.

The thing is the Air blessing requires making new armor to take advantage of it. While the Earth Blessing works with existing ones. While for Molly that is not an issue. Using the spells to upgrade Micheal's armor, or a second Cloak for Dresden, would need, a entirely new one for the Air blessing. While we can just upgrade existing armor with the Earth blessing.

Earth Blessing is also better from a stealth side. As going up a soak dice, with the air blessing still means wearing bigger thicker armor. While the Earth Blessing allows more concealable armor to just work better.
The only Benediction of the Dragon spell that Molly might want in the mediumterm is the Wood Dragon one, that automatically fixes whatever item its enchanted with. Put it on Dresden's car or her father's armor and it fixes itself as long as it isnt completely destroyed. Ancient Sorcery has a couple niche spells, but the really good ones werent ported over.

Right now? She's honestly going to be a lot more interested in buying Sorcery Paths.
Alchemy, Counterspelling, maybe Mana, possibly Divination and ESPECIALLY Summoning and Binding
I can think of horrifying synergies between Infernal charms and being able to summon stuff.
 
Arc 1 Post 12: Blind Fire
Blind Fire

9th of July 2006 A.D.

The mark upon your brow shines in brazen challenge as you leap over the table sending plates and cutlery flying, landing in a crouch and then a lunge sword drawn from your soul in an instant. "Beserkers!" you shout as you charge the leading man only as the claw his hand had become slashes the air you drop under the blow and half-roll past him with noting worse than a torn dress out of it.

As you rush into the van you hear the old man cursing in... German you think, but you ignore him for the man with the left with the machine gun already aimed towards you. The first slash scrapes along it and into his fingers, you hope enough to make him put it down. You hope wrong as the man howls in rage more than pain and his face begins to contort into a dreadful grimace, showing teeth filed to a point. .

Lost 1 Essence

Fuck, more beserkers! you cut and cut and cut again, careful not to take off any limbs or his head but otherwise aiming for whatever part of the man was in reach of your sword at the moment. As he falls broken on an old crate the wood splintering under his weight Usum shouts a warming,, just in time for you to turn and slash his friend on the arm with your momentum... not the arm he's holding the gun in.

Getting shot by a machine gun point blank hurts... it really fucking hurts. Bullets are flying everywhere, metal sparks off your armor, metal sinks into your flesh and splinters bone. He doesn't take his finger off the trigger until the clip is spent.

You take 3 Wounds

"Rōknuhōs!" you hear somehow though the ringing in your ears, it sounds like Brother Divsimar and it feels like magic, though not like any magic you had ever witnessed. If Harry's magic is like a freight train barreling at you this is barely a ripple in a still pond... going faster than a speeding bullet.

One of the madmen stops as though he had been slapped by a giant's hand while the other comes up against a Knight of the Cross. "Surrender!" he shouts, though getting only snarl and the slash of claws in return. Claws as it turns out make for a bad match up against steel armor and a leather jacket for really poor armor against Amoracchius.

In the chaos of the fight and getting shot you had lost track of the old man until you hear him speak again and this time it is not german, though maybe something akin to it. "Reiði éta þig!"

You can hear the rage in it, clawing at the world like a maddened beast fit to gnaw off its own limb... but it isn't aimed at you. It rushes past, a soundless scream that roots in the minds of those ill prepared for it.

Both of Marcone's goons and the young monk who had been reprimanded howl in rage and and knock over the table as the rush your rad and Brother Divsimar punching and kicking and screaming.

As though summoned by the violence a black bird, like a raven, but much too large dives into the midst of the carnage and grabs the duffel bag that had fallen in the scuffle with a mocking caw... only to get a plate smashed into its head from the last monk sending it reeling, beak over claws.

What do you do?

[] Kill the gunman, his weapon might be empty, mostly in you, but he is still likely more dangerous in hand to hand than the sorcerer
-[] Write in stunt

[] The sorcerer is the more dangerous one and clearly the leader
-[] Write in stunt

[] Write in


OOC: You could also try to rush out of the van and say deal with the dazed raven thing, but you would have to risk getting hit by the lycanthrope you are in close combat with and you are quite wounded.
 
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Getting shot by a machine gun point black hurts... it really fucking hurts. Bullets are flying everywhere, metal sparks off your armor, metal sinks into your flesh and splinters bone. He doesn't take his finger off the trigger until the clip is spent.

You take 4 Wounds (-1 to all rolls from the pain)
Getting hit on full auto by some seemingly heavy gun.
"That kinda hurts, I might wanna avoid that in the future."

More seriously, we are really low on health, even if we don't feel like it.
We gotta play careful now, especially since it doesn't look like our charges are likely to be gunned down anytime soon.
People beating each other with fists due to a rage-spell might take them out of doing something productive, but it doesn't kill anyone quickly.
 
[X] The sorcerer is the more dangerous one and clearly the leader
-[X] You are at a restaurant, take the nearest fork and introduce it to his eye while you cut off the arm of the gunman. Enough is enough!

Or...

[X] The sorcerer is the more dangerous one and clearly the leader

-[X] But that still doesn't mean you can ignore the gunman. You are at a restaurant, so use the dishes to pelt the gunman as you get closer to the sorcerer.


Also, this sort of stuff is why we made the body armor. You do not leave body armor behind.
 
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Also on the positive side, this Sorcerer here has just very clearly used Dark MagicTM.
Since messing with other people's minds is one of the big taboos.

So at least from a White Council perspective nobody would say anything if we use our Green Sun Nimbus Flare to burn him inside-out.
 
Sorcerer. Called it.
Dude's speaking Icelandic. Why an Icelander is after an Eastern artifact remains to be seen.

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[X] The sorcerer is the more dangerous one and clearly the leader

Geek the mage.
We're rolling Dex 4 + Melee 5 at a -1 die penalty.
This should be cake.
 
You are inside the van, neither he nor the gunmen came out just shot and cast from inside
The mark upon your brow shines in brazen challenge as you leap over the table sending plates and cutlery flying
You need to work on your scenery details then, as this? This is not the sort of thing you see 'inside a van'. What it looks like to me as a reader is THEY showed up in a van, but everyone else appears to be at a restaurant, with some distance between the shooter and the other people present.
 
I believe the monk's invocation is "Stop" or "Cease" in Nepali.

And the sorcerer's invocation is "Rage eat thee" in Icelandic or Old Norse.

Sorcerer. Called it.
Dude's speaking Icelandic. Why an Icelander is after an Eastern artifact remains to be seen.
Harry uses Latin for his invocations to keep them separate and focused from his day-to-day English. This guy might be from Germany or Scandinavia and using a different language to cast for the same reason.
 
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