Isn't Sanya the one Knight with a penchant for Kalashnikovs?
He can only make one attack per turn... but you do make a fair point, let's see if he can get a shot off before it gets away.
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
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- Crossover Fantasy
He can only make one attack per turn... but you do make a fair point, let's see if he can get a shot off before it gets away.
Kemayo
A Certain Cheerful Tone Of Voice
- Location
- Missouri
Given everything, could have been Broken Seeker using some of that new divinity we let him nom upon...
A quick reminder to myself: Luna clawing her way back out of Obivion is not necessarily a good thing for humanity. In fact, it's rather a terrifying thing right up there with "Cthulhu woke up".
Because a shapeshifting wizard ranting about a moon rising amidst a wild and savage ritual points my in Luna's direction.
Because a shapeshifting wizard ranting about a moon rising amidst a wild and savage ritual points my in Luna's direction.
Luna more so, I think. I mean, Outer Gates would be far better defended with her around, so that's a plus, I guess... But a quick reminder of what she is and how she was designed:
Shooting has been edited in, almost enough to get the masked one down, but not quite since bullets unlike the sword do not automatically turn off regeneration.
Black Spiral Dancer Theurge.
Elder Black Spiral Dancer Theurge with the Gift Thousand Forms or an equivalent.
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Nope.
Think World of Darkness, not Exalted. Specifically Werewolf the Apocalypse.
There's an offchance this is another naagloshii, but in Russia? Unlikely.
And naagloshii dont do liver spots any more than Lunars do.
I'd say Black Spiral Dancer or Nephandus
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Never said he was a lunar. Merely that the "moon rises" might refer to Luna clawing her way out of oblivion. Which isn't necessary a good thing.
BoredMan
Dinosaurs came in many flavors. Like potato chips.
Didn't we use the Crown and see something reguarding the moon a long time ago?
BoredMan
Dinosaurs came in many flavors. Like potato chips.
Found the Moon thing from before. We had used one of Broken Seerer's slaves as a focus to ask about BS plans for the next 24 hours. Before getting the vision of Molly's friends in the van we got this weird thing.
Actually I think that should say "beastman"?
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-Noting that we have gravtech at a consumer level in the Brass Courts.
Keeping that in mind when we build that transport.
-I thought we were here to investigate training options?
When did it turn into a shopping trip for weapons? And for people who have no training using any of that stuff?
Has Daniel even talked to his parents before plotting bringing weapons into a house with 3 children under 10?
Maybe not.
Names often already mean things; Uriel means Light of God, for example. Lasciel is as far as I know, a completely fictional name, but it almost certainly has a meaning in the Dresdenverse.
The QM has options, from a standard four part name like Harry and Molly, to a True Name like Mage Hermetics use.
We'll see. After all, its not like Lydia's name is out of the ordinary.
Eh.
Getting blasted in the face with Insight into the Fae Courts in Summer Knight didnt do it. Getting repeatedly mugged by Outsiders didnt do it. Literally walking into a Darkhallow didnt do it. Having a Shadow live in his head didnt do it.
Im not really buying exposure to our brand of crazy resulting in special knowledge like some infectious cognitohazard.
Might work. Might not.
We'll see.
We cheat, because we dont have to worry about power requirements, we dont botch Craft rolls, we dont have to worry about safety.
A machine for someone else to operate has none of those assurances, and
The juice is not worth the squeeze.
Especially since the Brass Courts provide so many avenues for funding.
We just need some bridge funding into next year, and the lottery win to act as financial camoflage for where our subsequent moneys will be coming from.
High First Age had teleportation gateways between major cities called the Gates of Auspicious Passage.
They were Artifact NA, and each required a network of manses to power
GATES OF AUSPICIOUS PASSAGE (ARTIFACT N/A)
Repair:Special (see below)
The minds of the Celestial Exalted were very adept at bypassing the challenges presented by Creation's vast distances. Probably the most astonishing facet of the High First Age infrastructure was the powerful transportation system called gates of auspicious passage, which allowed an Exalt to enter the gate portal in one city and exit the gate portal a few steps later in a different city after passing the intervening distance Elsewhere. Every large city had at least one gate of auspicious passage, and passing from Meru to Denandsor or Hollow to Sperimin was no more difficult than walking five yards. In most cities, the gates were solely for use by the Celestial Exalted, as even a single passage required an incredible amount of Essence. A single Exalted luminary and her entourage might literally require 1,000 motes. Depending on how many manses (or other Essence sources) powered the gates, the time between uses could be anywhere between hours and weeks. Terrestrial Exalted were sometimes allowed to use gates of auspicious passage if their Celestial overseers needed to transfer troops from one city to another in a short period of time. On special occasions, as an exceptionally high honor, mortal scholars and heroes were allowed to use the gates as well, but this practice was never common.
Gates of auspicious passage were not merely stationary artifacts, they were the result of a complicated system of artifacts and, therefore, wholly a product of the First Age's extensive sorcerous infrastructure. In the fallen Second Age, all that remains of these portals—and only in a handful of cities—are decorative metal gates and very short (but highly ornamented) passageways that lead directly into a wall covered with periapts, complex glyphs and jade tiles inscribed with sutras to the Maiden of Journeys.
The gates of auspicious passage were among the first major infrastructural losses after the Usurpation. Even min-ute changes in the system's calibration caused significant problems. Not even the most accomplished Sidereal lore masters and savants were able to fathom the arcane principles that allowed the gates to function, and when important Sho-gunate officials began disappearing in transit (or emerging horribly changed from their passage), the system was shut down entirely. The gates themselves were often removed or built over in many cities, to remove yet one more reminder of the Shogunate's technological plummet.
The gates were left standing in many cities, and consider-ing their centuries of abandonment, they are in surprisingly good condition, especially in those places where the gates were preserved by being built over or hidden. Restoring the system that made gates of auspicious passage possible would require an Exalt to restore vast portions of the First Age infrastructure not just in one city, but in the cities at both ends of the passage he's attempting to restore. Given the unknown nature of Elsewhere, it's also possible that the paths between gates might have changed or healed shut in the intervening centuries.Certain spirits—city fathers, gods of technology or even the Maiden of Journeys herself—might be willing and able to provide suggestions to Exalts who have curried their favor, but even with assistance, the task is a daunting one.
With assistance from an appropriate spirit or god, the task requires 100 successes on an extended (Intelligence + Lore) roll
for each end of the connection. This is a dramatic action, and one roll can be made for each week of solid research and work on reactivating the portal. In the absence of divine assistance or tutoring from some entity who understands the system (a savant surviving from the First Age, for example), the number of necessary successes is doubled (to a total of 400 to reactivate both ends of a connection). The Savant Background can be used to enhance this roll
Repair:Special (see below)
The minds of the Celestial Exalted were very adept at bypassing the challenges presented by Creation's vast distances. Probably the most astonishing facet of the High First Age infrastructure was the powerful transportation system called gates of auspicious passage, which allowed an Exalt to enter the gate portal in one city and exit the gate portal a few steps later in a different city after passing the intervening distance Elsewhere. Every large city had at least one gate of auspicious passage, and passing from Meru to Denandsor or Hollow to Sperimin was no more difficult than walking five yards. In most cities, the gates were solely for use by the Celestial Exalted, as even a single passage required an incredible amount of Essence. A single Exalted luminary and her entourage might literally require 1,000 motes. Depending on how many manses (or other Essence sources) powered the gates, the time between uses could be anywhere between hours and weeks. Terrestrial Exalted were sometimes allowed to use gates of auspicious passage if their Celestial overseers needed to transfer troops from one city to another in a short period of time. On special occasions, as an exceptionally high honor, mortal scholars and heroes were allowed to use the gates as well, but this practice was never common.
Gates of auspicious passage were not merely stationary artifacts, they were the result of a complicated system of artifacts and, therefore, wholly a product of the First Age's extensive sorcerous infrastructure. In the fallen Second Age, all that remains of these portals—and only in a handful of cities—are decorative metal gates and very short (but highly ornamented) passageways that lead directly into a wall covered with periapts, complex glyphs and jade tiles inscribed with sutras to the Maiden of Journeys.
The gates of auspicious passage were among the first major infrastructural losses after the Usurpation. Even min-ute changes in the system's calibration caused significant problems. Not even the most accomplished Sidereal lore masters and savants were able to fathom the arcane principles that allowed the gates to function, and when important Sho-gunate officials began disappearing in transit (or emerging horribly changed from their passage), the system was shut down entirely. The gates themselves were often removed or built over in many cities, to remove yet one more reminder of the Shogunate's technological plummet.
The gates were left standing in many cities, and consider-ing their centuries of abandonment, they are in surprisingly good condition, especially in those places where the gates were preserved by being built over or hidden. Restoring the system that made gates of auspicious passage possible would require an Exalt to restore vast portions of the First Age infrastructure not just in one city, but in the cities at both ends of the passage he's attempting to restore. Given the unknown nature of Elsewhere, it's also possible that the paths between gates might have changed or healed shut in the intervening centuries.Certain spirits—city fathers, gods of technology or even the Maiden of Journeys herself—might be willing and able to provide suggestions to Exalts who have curried their favor, but even with assistance, the task is a daunting one.
With assistance from an appropriate spirit or god, the task requires 100 successes on an extended (Intelligence + Lore) roll
for each end of the connection. This is a dramatic action, and one roll can be made for each week of solid research and work on reactivating the portal. In the absence of divine assistance or tutoring from some entity who understands the system (a savant surviving from the First Age, for example), the number of necessary successes is doubled (to a total of 400 to reactivate both ends of a connection). The Savant Background can be used to enhance this roll
And Solar-specific magic artifice at that; the Solars went away, and noone could even do maintenance.
They had better healthcare because of widespread magic and magical stuff.
IIRC, mortal lifespans normally topped out around a hundred and twenty, which isnt more than 50% higher than some of the best averages in modern life.
The highest end stuff that was available to Celestial Exalts was spectacular, but the general societal baseline wasnt really any better than what you'd see in middle-class Western societies.
And was sometimes worse; for instance, no personal computers, just a single massive AI with multiple terminals across the setting.
I cant speak for Exalted 3, but this only bears superficial resemblance to how it worked in Exalted 2.
And absolutely no resemblance to how Alchemicals happened in ExWoD.
This is more mythological than that.
What you should be thinking of is the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea, or for a more modern take on this, one of the origin myths of Wonder Woman as being sculpted out of clay.
It doesnt help with the judgement calls.
It wont tell you that you need to worry about overpenetration, local firearms laws, and a thousand and other things.
Thats like handing a modern Airbus to a random passenger with Drive/Flight 0 and expecting that autopilot will carry the laoad.
Supernatural predators often appear to have better base stats than mortals; she needs every dot of Dex she can get.I agree that a hit to Dexterity is a significant drawback, but Olivia probably has a higher than average Dexterity attribute. She's been training as a dancer (ballerina, IIRC?) for most of her life, so there's a good chance she's probably a 3 or 4.
EDIT: Ninja'd by DP
Like I said, Dex affects everything from who goes first in combat to a significant chunk of movement speed to balance to getting up after falling. You're still eating that malus.
Thats why training to learn how to manage that sort of thing is an issue.
Think of it this way: Would you give someone plate armor to wear into combat with no training?
And to be clear, well-fitted plate armor is amazingly maneuverable; you can jump, roll and do calisthenics in it.
But you dont want to be doing it without training.
The date is 3st December, when it should be 3rd December
Counterfeiting. You are not passing off fake $20 bills, but seven and eight digit amounts of cash at a time
That shit draws attention, and hordes of investigators; Uncle Sam doesnt like it when you fuck with their money.
You can literally destabilize economies that way.
Chasing counterfeiters is literally all the US Secret Service does when they arent guarding the President.
Thats why they're under the US Treasury.
Killfuck Soulshitter is a boring archetype.
And players generally dont like it, and react with surprise, when the GM lets them do so, and the rest of the setting reacts to them as they would to a sociopath. After all, the backstory to Infernals in canon ExWoD was that everyone else got together to shank the shit out of them and bury their shards in Yomi Wan.
Read the update again.
Molly wasnt thinking practicality IC when she called for a surrender.
COMMENTARY
Near the Norway border? Monoc is based in Oslo.
Interesting they chose to do this so close to Odin's stomping grounds.
This town is in the Arctic. Wonder what ritual requires being that far north.
I do find it interesting that there's a Fallen thats got aspirations towards grand arson
It does speak to how hard the powers of the Fallen are locked down by the White God if a Denarian cant refine their own weapons grade uranium in a cave.
Didnt know lichens grew in the Arctic. TIL something new.
Glowing rocks are often bad juju.
But I cant think of what this is in reference to, other than one of the old Lovecraft story The Color Out of Space, which has a glowing meteorite fall out of space and the color is somehow alive and malignant.
The dude got away with something immaterial.
We might need to come here in the future.
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- Location
- washington
so offhand any reason for the angelbody action we didn't uh ask for support from any of the best engineers or mages or anything of our realm? Cause we've gotta have at least some who can contribute if only to add a cybergun or something. Like I know they can't do a lot of things we can but our hells gotta have a few artifacts here and there that people have made and some of said crafters alive right?
- Location
- Who knows?
Oh shiittt. Well time for a sword meet up? Wondering if Molly can talk with Esperacchius too.
BoredMan
Dinosaurs came in many flavors. Like potato chips.
Lets wait till Lash has a body then they can all meet. Lash would be his new niece lol.
Also I just remembered we didn't ask Arianna's head how she knew about the Shadow in Dresden's head.
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fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
Fallen Luminous Ascending
Inheritor of the Age that was Not
Luminous
Ascending
Star
Heavens
Light
Across
Sea and
Heaven
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- Location
- Right Where I Am
No. No, no, and no. Mere mortals deal with something as plebian and mundane as a 3rd of December. We're exalted. That means we get the fancy calendar, and get days like the 3st of December. It's what we deserve. Just ask Usum.
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- She/Her
One possibility for what the rock could be…
Is it containing an Exaltation, like how the tree in Arctus Tor held our Exaltation before it was released? We were told that there are more out there.
Probably Lunar if so from the symbology, possibly even our Lunar mate from a mixture of destiny and narrative convenience.
At the very least, an Exaltation certainly sounds like the sort of thing that nobody could stop.
Is it containing an Exaltation, like how the tree in Arctus Tor held our Exaltation before it was released? We were told that there are more out there.
Probably Lunar if so from the symbology, possibly even our Lunar mate from a mixture of destiny and narrative convenience.
At the very least, an Exaltation certainly sounds like the sort of thing that nobody could stop.
In my opinion?
If it contained an Exaltation, I suspect that the runner would have been a LOT more willing to stand and fight.
Or at least to send all the goons dancing to fight in his stead.
I dont really take any of the ranting about unstoppability seriously.
Villains always say shit like that.
slenderman1942
Jungle Tyrant
- Location
- Home
hmm, its not a crane, but another bird with a broken wing. not digging that symbolism
- Location
- washington
whatever stone your all talking about makes me wonder about artifacts just abound in the world. You know since we can't use ammorachius to ask questions about God or angels we could ask where any arthurian artifacts are or books and items made by merlin or something right?
- Location
- washington
Actually you know hades vault seems to somewhat run on the rules if your worthy to get there your worthy to take stuff. You think that'd apply to us or would us being us mean hades can fight us on it or something?
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- She/Her
Actually, expanding on this:
Lunars in ExvWOD exalt from people who are currently trying to survive a potentially lethal ordeal. Not win or triumph, just survive. That murder dance might be a crude attempt to try and draw the Exaltation out with a worthy host from someone who doesn't fully understand it.
And we know whatever that ritual and rock were, they were something big enough to be worth sending one of the two active Knights out to the middle of nowhere inside the arctic circle to find. Knights don't get missions that take them that far out unless it's important.
- Location
- Australia
While I'm not quite yet convinced this is an attempted Exaltation summoning, Lunar or otherwise - regardless, its a good reminder while we still have first mover advantage, its only a matter of time before other Exalts either arise or reactive, especially if those in the supernatural community put two and two together about how it has been the source of our seismically exponential growth.
I wonder if our Lunar mate's exaltation could be found at the depths of the Spire, perhaps if it pierces beneath Sanctuary into the realms beyond and in-between, just as Lunar's guarded the Wyld edges bordering creation, awaiting a certain Warden to arrive...
I wonder if our Lunar mate's exaltation could be found at the depths of the Spire, perhaps if it pierces beneath Sanctuary into the realms beyond and in-between, just as Lunar's guarded the Wyld edges bordering creation, awaiting a certain Warden to arrive...
- Location
- washington
It would also be kinda weird if they were a girl because a lesbian Molly is not. It doesn't feel like one of those things we can just change about her.