Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

Jesus Christ, that's way more than what can just "fall off the back of a truck" That's an entire crate of anti-tank weapons just evaporating, even disregarding the regular firearms and grenades which would be eyebrow raising in themselves. It's not even obsolete, that's the standard anti-tank infantry weapon in use by the US Army.

Getting that would have required a significant amount of focused effort. One or two, I can buy. "Enough that I can shoot ten into an offensive attack and still have enough to ruin the day of any attacker". Not so much, not without having Help in High Places.
The government is not at all hardened against magical mind control, unfortunately. Or even "mundane" bureaucratic screw ups.


Try not to think about the amount of nuclear weapons that could be floating out there in the wild.

In a leviathan the tempest book a leviathan simply swims up to a nuclear sub, cracks it in half and swims away with the stockpiled weapons.

More relevantly. In world of darkness I belief many state senators and ranking military personnel are vampires.
 
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The government is not at all hardened against magical mind control, unfortunately. Or even "mundane" bureaucratic screw ups.


Try not to think about the amount of nuclear weapons that could be floating out there in the wild.

In a leviathan the tempest book a leviathan simply swims up to a nuclear sub, cracks it in half and swims away with the stockpiled weapons.

Presumably, the fact the Masquerade hasn't fallen yet suggests that there's no way to just Brute Force strategic weapons like that, if only because the powers invested in maintaining it are actively paying attention to that shit.
 
In any case Molly now suspect that Tommy and company were not suborned as a source of cheap muscle (that was a secondary aspect), but as people who knew where the weapons were and what you should be stealing to enact her plans (since there is no indication she has any kind of military training) so that she could enhance their operations to get a lot more out of it in preparation for this endgame.
 
Presumably, the fact the Masquerade hasn't fallen yet suggests that there's no way to just Brute Force strategic weapons like that, if only because the powers invested in maintaining it are actively paying attention to that shit.
I wonder if the winter court has an equivalent of US strategic command. Particularly a division in charge of overseeing nuclear weapons.
 
In any case Molly now suspect that Tommy and company were not suborned as a source of cheap muscle (that was a secondary aspect), but as people who knew where the weapons were and what you should be stealing to enact her plans (since there is no indication she has any kind of military training) so that she could enhance their operations to get a lot more out of it in preparation for this endgame.

So, basically, Sandra got whispered into her ear that Tommy and his gang had access to enough hardware to fight a full out modern military assault through some measure, and then just slipped in to steal it with mind control is the theory?

Still raises questions as to how Tommy had that kind of hardware, but it's less nightmare fuel inducing than "Sandra just whistled and bombs fell out of the sky ready to serve"
 
At this point we should maybe go Shikai and just run directly towards Sandra creating the an environmental effect to draw as much attention as possible.

Also no matter how things shake out in the the end we are going to need to buy Night Shallows Secrets if we don't want to get constant trouble after this from being on every watch list and maybe having to fight off being arrested. Or just having the Masquerade break. Also NSS is just great for letting us act freely without having to worry about the Masquerade.
 
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So, basically, Sandra got whispered into her ear that Tommy and his gang had access to enough hardware to fight a full out modern military assault through some measure, and then just slipped in to steal it with mind control is the theory?

Still raises questions as to how Tommy had that kind of hardware, but it's less nightmare fuel inducing than "Sandra just whistled and bombs fell out of the sky ready to serve"

Not quite, she knew they had suppliers and would know where you could get more if someone with an affinity for veils and mind magic were to take an interest (herself). Being able to loot things does not help if you do not know what to loot, or who you need to enthrall to make sure the numbers add up long enough. Someone like Tommy who does not want to end up in prison for the next half century has to take small amounts and be very careful, but if you are trying to raise your dread god over most of the Southwestern US... well you care less about Uncle Sam.
 
Are people still worried about VEE fate warping being noticeable to other supernatural power. because i think is the moment to say fuck it and spam that shit to start acquiring the resoruces and rankings and connections. because if nukes aren't secure thats a nightmare scenario
 
Still raises questions as to how Tommy had that kind of hardware
The U.S. gov in this reality is truly fucked if mafia can get their hands on anti tank weapons without anyone knowing where they went.

At this point we should maybe go Shikai and just run directly towards Sandra creating the an environmental effect to draw as much attention as possible.
Noting that we don't have guaranteed Shintai this time.
 
Not quite, she knew they had suppliers and would know where you could get more if someone with an affinity for veils and mind magic were to take an interest (herself). Being able to loot things does not help if you do not know what to loot, or who you need to enthrall to make sure the numbers add up long enough. Someone like Tommy who does not want to end up in prison for the next half century has to take small amounts and be very careful, but if you are trying to raise your dread god over most of the Southwestern US... well you care less about Uncle Sam.

Mm, good to know.

At least that probably rules out her having a fucking Davy Crockett in her pocket as a "Fuck everyone!" contingency.
 
I'll vote for pretty much anything that doesn't involve us leaving all our troops somewhere else while we attack the tunnels like the last vote did.
 
Yeah, whatever we do, we should take care to not look like we've relocated, but lay a trap for her assets while we strike with the majority of our forces.
 
Rocket launchers doesn't help if a diviner locates where you going to be and cloaked cyborgs come and kill you. Especially with harry throwing out techbane to shut down the launchers.

We need to Bring in diviners in general right now.
 
Our chances are better if we activate under ideal conditions (wet cold, etc) rather then chance trying to use it on the battlefield.
I'm just saying we are already at 7 motes and people want to rush it so if Shintai doesn't pop off we'll face the Dragon with even less since I doubt people are going to vote to stop and charge.
 
@DragonParadox : Does this huge amount of military stuff that is likely going to lead to loads of high ranking officials going to jail count as a big enough secret?
 
Molly skimmed through the public information and the additional annotations that IRIS had added in regards to her upcoming meeting.

Targaryen Holding was the conglomerate parent company of the slew of companies that had taken the business world by storm last year. Now the company is a major player in a myriad of fields like pharmaceuticals, technology and software, security services and one of the best think tanks in the world.

The owners of the holding companies are easy to find for anyone with a search engine, a group of young, brilliant and charismatic entrepreneurs that had come out of nowhere with multiple breakthroughs and unlike every story of silicon valley success, they had stayed together as they built up their corporations.

Each of them is a billionaire and it hadn't been easy to schedule a meeting even with her resources but the bureaucrats and Humint agents from her world-soul had made admirable effort and now she was heading to an appointment in an upscale restaurant in a New York skyscraper. It was the most trendy place right now. It had been a subtle flex on her part to choose that as the place of their meeting. Especially since it was without a previous booking, some prince or the other had given up his table to her.

Molly didn't like such grandstanding and political plays per se, but the profiling done by her intel groups had been clear that this Viserys guy loved extravagance. She got to dress in a nice dress and bring her friends to a place with nice food, so it wasn't a total drag.

Her agents had dug deep into the paper trail of this group of wunder kids and they had found dead ends, misdirections and false trails and after hundreds of hours of investigative work they had concluded that most of the public story was bullshit. A concoction of cliches and tropes playing on the audience's preconceptions to form this image of just another entrepreneurs like Zuckerburg and Bezos.

The truth was strange, the birth certificates and graduations records were fabricated, cleverly crafted forgeries inserted into the system that are only detectable with thaumlogical forensics. The funding of the company was directed through a dozen shell companies that are legitimate business in their own right but the actual sources for the capital hasn't been detected, divinations had revealed some gold to be part of the transaction.

A reverse engineering attempt at their smartphone had shown arcane principles in its construction. Incredibly advanced arrays that could turn the phone into a spell casting foci and something like a repeater for ritual magic. It had raised concern for magical malfeasance but a more in depth array showed it was not possible to use it for a repeater unless you were of a sufficient magical weight. This was a ritual array to spread the influence of a god.

That had been a tense day at the Last station but Molly's crown had shown that there was no malevolent intention behind the designs but that had been the inflection point that had made him making this meeting a priority for her.

Her car pulls into the parking lot and she taps black riders and says "Behave."

She and her friends walked up to the exclusive elevator and they got in there as the elevator took them straight to the top.

"Does anyone have any last minute revelations, I know you have been observing them all in your own ways so did anyone find anything?" She asks the group.

Harry just shakes her head, his divinations have been running into a blank wall and multiple attempts to sidestep the defenses have failed to gain all but the most peripheral knowledge.

"I found some ghosts observing them from afar, the 'physical' eyes weren't affected by their defenses but their own buildings and plants were warded very tight. It has been slow going, they practice at least some operational security. They have a no business talk rule in their commute." Lydia says with a displeased look on her face.

"I talked to some sources I have in the industries they are in and they appear to be on the Up and Up. Their employees are well treated surprisingly so in those fields, their pharmaceuticals are pretty safe despite the expedited testing and release and their political actions have generally had a positive impact on the world. They somehow got the republicans to care about climate change as a part of their party agenda. No nefarious activity that I heard about but strangely I haven't been able to talk to any of their employees, they always spook whenever I approach them or send someone to approach them." TIffany explains and she looks intrigued by the challenge.

"I talked to Daenerys, she was a nice girl. She has some interest in theology and I just ran into her in the seminary. She does seem unusually mature for her but some teenagers can be like that so I can't be too judgmental." Michal shrugs and says, the people around give him an exasperated look but they don't say anything. The lord works in mysterious ways.

"Well its time to meet them now. Its our floor." She says as the elevator stops at the top floor.

They step out and face their next challenge as defenders of reality.



Omake about Viserys and the crew getting sent to this world, First part for now but I intend to continue it.
Ah, this brings back pleasant memories. Thanks for sharing it with us, dude. I'm looking forward to reading more.

Maximum Dragonocity, engage! 🤓
 
Okay, Sandra is clearly pretty good at not leaving us any good options.

Attacking now will be painful, defending here will allow her to continue her work uninterrupted, bringing the end of the world (okay, of a large part of the continent) uncomfortably close.

The lesson to learn is that we should have bought Sinner Boiling Stare and cooked her yesterday, but that's not a helpful lesson right now.
 
How much damage would a LAW even do?
Presumably a fuckton, but potentially enough to OHK even Molly through soak? Definitely enough to OHK Harry or Tiffany, though I would expect Shintai!Molly with max soak to be able to tank one at least.
 
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