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Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

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DragonParadox said:
Matthew rolled his shoulders uncomfortably not just the the fact his sweater was starting to get a little tight around them or at the sudden heat of the church nave coming in out of the chill snowy Chicago winter that left his face looking like a moist tomato right where Jackie could see him. How lame was he, sneaking looks at a pretty girl in Church? Cool kids met girls at the mall or the creepy magic bookshop or the dojo. OK so maybe his standards were not entirely reasonable, the boy admitted, but it is not like Mrs Evens let her daughter out that much outside of school church service and various church related activities. This year she would co caroling though and he had managed to work up the courage to sign up. Please don't let Mrs Evens supervise, please don't let Mrs Evens supervise, he prayed, hoping that God as heartfelt as any fourteen year old could.
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you're missing a part of the sentence there

DragonParadox said:
"Christmas is not, however, about resolutions, and Christian life is not a matter of willing to do something. It is about being given something, about receiving new life. Leo says Christ is the source of life for the Christian people. The biggest hindrance to growth in Christian life is to go it alone and to depend only on ourselves. It is as members of God's people, not as solitary individuals, that we grow in faith and love. For the fellowship of the Church is a vehicle of God's grace. The Christian people, no less than Christ, are a gift. We learn by example, from the lives of those who have gone before, the saints of old and the good and holy men and women who are in our midst today. Without the witness of others, with the example of parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, neighbors and friends, we would be far less prepared to embark on the new beginning Christmas offers."
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without not with

Yog said:
And then she manifests a wizard's gift, or turns out to be a summer court fae changeling, or whatever.

[X] Agree, it is Christmas and all
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OK if we are going to meme this like that: Jackie is either a vanilla mortal or a prototype Genehunter. :V
 
Idea for Gurvel based on Anklog Dragon-Kings with thanks to @Artemis1992
  • +1 Strenght and Stamina, can go up to 6
  • One additional Bruised (-0) Health Level
  • 3 Inherent Armor, stacks with external armor (The armor can soak lethal and aggravated, Stamina only soaks Bashing as normal
  • Greatly reduced effects of radiation (mostly narrative, actually soaks with full stamina if some Werewolf-power uses radiation as a weapon)
  • Inherent Str+2 Lethal damage with Claw or Bite
  • -1 Dex for using tools that require fine manipulation and manual dexterity, be it a pen, a scalpel or a lockpick. Additional to that -1 Dex penalty for using any tools or weapons not specifically made for Gurvel
Path of Fire
This is halfway between a Martial Art, Sorcery and a racial trait, in that only Gurvel can learn it (for the cost of a Sorcery-Path) but almost every Gurvel has the inherent talent to learn it.
Another being with a particular affinity for fire-based magic might try to learn it with a Gurvel-Tutor and double XP-Costs.

• FLASHING AGILITY
The fire burning within the Gurvel lends him speed and reflexes beyond the suggestions of his bulky frame.
Spend a WP to add the Dots in the Path of Fire to Initiative and Athletics for one scene

•• FIERY PROWESS
In a flash of internal fire the Gurvel moves with great grace and precision for a single moment.
Spend a WP to add the Dots in the Path of Fire to a single Dex-based roll.

••• BOLT OF FIRE
Externalizing the fire within, the Gurvel spits out a bolt of fire to set his foes ablaze. Gurvel that have mastered this power, can also create lesser flames for mundane tasks, such as lighting a campfire or heating a cup of tea.
Spend a WP and roll Dex+Athletics to attack with a small fireball. The attack has a range of 60 yards and a base-damage of 4 Aggravated or Lethal (depending on the target's vulnerability to fire) damage. By spending additionally a point of Yang Chi (if his Chi is awakened for Martial Arts) the target is set on fire and takes 3 levels further damage per round if it doesn't put out the flames

What do you guys think? Personally I think it works out very nicely thematically and balances well with the greater combat prowess being paid with in the sheer obviousness of 'radioactive dragonman'.
 
DragonParadox said:
What do you guys think? Personally I think it works out very nicely thematically and balances well with the greater combat prowess being paid with in the sheer obviousness of 'radioactive dragonman'.
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Looks pretty good to me, especially since it's a species thing and they still have access to all the other mechanisms a baseline mortal has to get power.

A question though; since the effects of the abilities are set by how far you've bought along the tree, can they still buy the last 2 dots as additional dice without powers of their own or are they capped at 3 for their buffs?
 
BronzeTongue said:
Looks pretty good to me, especially since it's a species thing and they still have access to all the other mechanisms a baseline mortal has to get power.

A question though; since the effects of the abilities are set by how far you've bought along the tree, can they still buy the last 2 dots as additional dice without powers of their own or are they capped at 3 for their buffs?
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No one has ever made it past 3, it is theorized by some that 4 and 5 exist and have abilities, but much like the highest levels of Sanctuary Martial Arts they have yet to be reached
 
I'm still uncomfortable with the idea of risking our people, but the idea of Gurvel with the red city enforcer package acting as a cyber-Godzilla brute squad is pretty amazing.

10 angry dragon-men armed with lightning blasters popping red fledglings like grapes would be a sight to see.

DragonParadox said:
No one has ever made it past 3, it is theorized by some that 4 and 5 exist and have abilities, but much like the highest levels of Sanctuary Martial Arts they have yet to be reached
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Culturally it makes sense they would guess at things like this, but its still kind of funny that the holy number of their faith is essentially mechanically supported by the system.
 
DragonParadox said:
No one has ever made it past 3, it is theorized by some that 4 and 5 exist and have abilities, but much like the highest levels of Sanctuary Martial Arts they have yet to be reached
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Can VEE give them dots in the Path of Fire? Because 2 dots is exactly what we can give without inducing mind-altering effects.

Also, what would the rating of a prodigy that allows a person to record their dreams onto a physical media (in some sort of editable format) be? Because it occurs to me that Rosie could have a huge future in movie industry. Hell, we add some science babble about deep sleep recording and induced deep hypnosis collective imagination, add some high tech trappings to the whole thing, and we could go legit and go take over Hollywood with this. Rosie would need Oneiromancy 5 for it to fully work, and she would probably also need to go to college for movie making, but this could work. Hell, college is not even needed. Add in a professional director, and you essentially have a fully editable environment with perfect replays, and unlimited photo-realistic CGI budget. Plus no need for makeup, stars always being in their prime, no injuries, etc... Fairly sure that "Dreamworks Effects" (name pending) would be making billions of dollars in Hollywood, and Rosie would qualify for Cult 5.

We even have a studio already. So, file for "dream synergizing technology" patents, and this could work. And it's something Rosie is likely to be interested in.
 
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Yog said:
Can VEE give them dots in the Path of Fire? Because 2 dots is exactly what we can give without inducing mind-altering effects.

Also, what would the rating of a prodigy that allows a person to record their dreams onto a physical media (in some sort of editable format) be? Because it occurs to me that Rosie could have a huge future in movie industry. Hell, we add some science babble about deep sleep recording and induced deep hypnosis collective imagination, add some high tech trappings to the whole thing, and we could go legit and go take over Hollywood with this. Rosie would need Oneiromancy 5 for it to fully work, and she would probably also need to go to college for movie making, but this could work. Hell, college is not even needed. Add in a professional director, and you essentially have a fully editable environment with perfect replays, and unlimited photo-realistic CGI budget. Plus no need for makeup, stars always being in their prime, no injuries, etc... Fairly sure that "Dreamworks Effects" (name pending) would be making billions of dollars in Hollywood, and Rosie would qualify for Cult 5.

We even have a studio already. So, file for "dream synergizing technology" patents, and this could work.
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  1. VEE cannot give magic path points so no, but you guys could work with them to try to figure out what the next step might be
  2. That sounds more like an Apparatus if you want it to interact with technology, it is more like a time machine than a flying broom
 
Yog said:
Can VEE give them dots in the Path of Fire? Because 2 dots is exactly what we can give without inducing mind-altering effects.
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I don't even know if 3 uses even would do mind altering effects. Our people are creatures of darkness loyal to us already so no changes there.
 
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DragonParadox said:
That sounds more like an Apparatus if you want it to interact with technology, it is more like a time machine than a flying broom
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Yeah, ok, fair. I thought that technological flair would be merely a disguise, but you are right. It's an edge case, really, something that bridges the gap between a Path Sorcery effect (Rosie's oneiromancy) and technology (a recording). So, a piece of technomagical equipment that wouldn't be out of place in the Courts. One of the first examples of motonic science, even. Anyway, how hard would such a thing be to make?
 
fictionfan said:
I don't even know if 3 uses even would do mind alternative effects. Our people are creatures of darkness loyal to us already so no changes there.
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It does:

verdant emptiness endoWment (•••••)
Even the damned pray, and the Infernal may choose to answer these prayers. When the Infernal hears another being express a wish to be something they currently are not (stronger, smarter, more beau- tiful, more wealthy, and so forth), she may reach out with her Essence to grant the stated wish, even if the wish was not uttered in serious expectation of fulfill-
ment. There is, of course, a price.
System: Upon hearing an uttered wish, the Infernal
may spend 5 Essence to grant it. The world conspires to bring about the Infernal's blessing as soon as possible, usually within the same scene. The beneficiary knows only that the hand of fortune is upon them, and they may accept or reject it. Rejection costs a point of Will- power. Sensing the sinister price attached to the gift re- quires a Perception + Awareness roll against difficulty 8.
The Infernal can grant any of the following: a dot of an Attribute; a dot of an Ability; a dot of a Background; a Merit; or she can remove a Flaw. No character can have more than one wish granted in the course of a year.
There are two hidden prices to the Infernal's gift.
First: At any point after granting a wish, the In- fernal may approach the beneficiary and ask them to perform one task on her behalf. The task may be as involved or lengthy as the Infernal desires, so long as it isn't impossible or utterly suicidal, and so long as it has some defined end-point within a year and a day. If the beneficiary refuses or shirks the Infernal's task, he is ripped from the world and cast into the Hell of Bur-
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rowing Maggots... and he is instinctively aware of the wages of disobedience, once the task has been spoken. Second: After accepting three gifts from the Infer- nal, the beneficiary becomes a creature of darkness, instinctively loyal to the Infernal, who reduces the dif-
ficulty of all social rolls against the character by three.
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Even if they're already loyal they don't have the enforced difficulty reducer.
Yog said:
Yeah, ok, fair. I thought that technological flair would be merely a disguise, but you are right. It's an edge case, really, something that bridges the gap between a Path Sorcery effect (Rosie's oneiromancy) and technology (a recording). So, a piece of technomagical equipment that wouldn't be out of place in the Courts. One of the first examples of motonic science, even. Anyway, how hard would such a thing be to make?
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This might be going about things backwards.

We have technology spirits, who can presumably already take their memories and produce things from them. Dream sorcery also by default allows group dreams past a certain point.

It seems like it'd be easier to find some way to include a sutra in a standard dream experience then have them do the video editing than to make a device to extract dreams.

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Yog said:
Yeah, ok, fair. I thought that technological flair would be merely a disguise, but you are right. It's an edge case, really, something that bridges the gap between a Path Sorcery effect (Rosie's oneiromancy) and technology (a recording). So, a piece of technomagical equipment that wouldn't be out of place in the Courts. One of the first examples of motonic science, even. Anyway, how hard would such a thing be to make?
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It could be occult if we recorded the dreams in Xiania style jade slips.

But the easiest solution would be to just give her a five court implant able to interface with her brain and watch her dreams. Seems like something that is sold commercially. We have a lot of evidence that brain implants are done regularly in the courts.
 
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Yog said:
Plus no need for makeup, stars always being in their prime, no injuries, etc... Fairly sure that "Dreamworks Effects" (name pending) would be making billions of dollars in Hollywood, and Rosie would qualify for Cult 5.
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I'd suspect it'd need a large amount of training to Rosie if she wanted to output good movies. Having it all be a dream running on her brain, I'd think every aspect of the production would be coming from her skill levels -- she's essentially being the director, actor, set designer, choreographer, cg artist, lighting grip, etc. She could be prepped for those things before the dream, but she'd still have to remember and handle all of it herself, and simultaneously at that. (Raw dreams do seem to get by a lot on your brain being in a jumble when they happen. Many people have anecdotes about waking up just enough to write down some stroke of genius that hit them in a dream, and in the morning finding that they've written something like "rotate electric plugs for cheese!!!")

Then things like reusing actor likenesses would run up against all the controversies that AI-recreations are hitting in the present day...
 
Kemayo said:
I'd suspect it'd need a large amount of training to Rosie if she wanted to output good movies. Having it all be a dream running on her brain, I'd think every aspect of the production would be coming from her skill levels -- she's essentially being the director, actor, set designer, choreographer, cg artist, lighting grip, etc. She could be prepped for those things before the dream, but she'd still have to remember and handle all of it herself, and simultaneously at that. (Raw dreams do seem to get by a lot on your brain being in a jumble when they happen. Many people have anecdotes about waking up just enough to write down some stroke of genius that hit them in a dream, and in the morning finding that they've written something like "rotate electric plugs for cheese!!!")

Then things like reusing actor likenesses would run up against all the controversies that AI-recreations are hitting in the present day...
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This probably depends. If Rosie is conjuring the dream wholecloth, then yes. If she's doing a shared dreaming with actual actors and a director, then I think their imagination dice would also play a role.
BronzeTongue said:
This might be going about things backwards.

We have technology spirits, who can presumably already take their memories and produce things from them. Dream sorcery also by default allows group dreams past a certain point.

It seems like it'd be easier to find some way to include a sutra in a standard dream experience then have them do the video editing than to make a device to extract dreams.

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fictionfan said:
It could be occult if we recorded the dreams in Xiania style jade slips.

But the easiest solution would be to just give her a five court implant able to interface with her brain and watch her dreams. Seems like something that is sold commercially. We have a lot of evidence that brain implants are done regularly in the courts.
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Yeah, that probably works too. Still, the point is that Rosie's gifts lend themselves super well to entertainment industry.
 
Modus_Tollens said:
[X] Agree, it is Christmas and all

Family is important but damn if we aren't stretching ourself thin.
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However family is one of those duties that just can't be delegated to others. Maybe if we had the clone charm.

Edit: Or maybe we can the mission profile is that they want to be chaparoned, but not too closely.
 
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