Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

My personal take is that Charon is very quickly switching horses last minute. Also that he might be angling to replace Dragon without having to do any of the hard work himself.
 
My takeaway from this is that Outsiders are a metaphysical superfood.

They deliver themselves, are low volume and zero calories, and they're rich in what the Exalted body craves.

These ones are surprisingly fragile if you have the means to hurt them at all 7 wounds like a human and middling soak, they were the same kind you faced when Ebeneezer got ambushed in Arc 1, though it is probably best that you did not have the means to eat them back then. :V

Edit: Ignore that if he has taken Aggravated damage.

Wizards can heal Agg, very slowly, that is why he was able to heal off his hand being burned with a flame thrower.
 
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Before you can decide to call out a greeting to an ally unlooked for or a warning against yet another foe lurking beyond the veil the thing that had caught you or perhaps one of its fellows bridges the distance and catches you again in its embrace of jagged imposible angles
Yeah, time to make something to punish people for trying this because it's been way too effective.

Doesn't need to be a splendor either; something that boils anything physically binding you when you're trying to escape is solid prodigy territory.

… though now that I say that, do we get CCC since we're trying to move and these things are pinning us in place?
 
It's too bad an outsider summoning scheme isn't feasible for eating and resources. Too many alarm bells. Though thinking about it we could possibly eventually do what we did in aswah and start summoning demons to eat and maybe recruit.
 
Yeah, time to make something to punish people for trying this because it's been way too effective.

Doesn't need to be a splendor either; something that boils anything physically binding you when you're trying to escape is solid prodigy territory.

… though now that I say that, do we get CCC since we're trying to move and these things are pinning us in place?

Mechanically the problem is you have no Brawl and that is what one defends against a Hold with so Molly was rolling more Strength against the enemy's Strength+Brawl. The other thing you could do is go down the Shih arts until you get to the one that buffs Strength.

Edit: You did get CCC, these things were built to grapple.
 
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It's too bad an outsider summoning scheme isn't feasible for eating and resources. Too many alarm bells. Though thinking about it we could possibly eventually do what we did in aswah and start summoning demons to eat and maybe recruit.
We can't do this again man. We had this in the last quest, we got to innovate, come up with new shit.
Mechanically the problem is you have no Brawl and that is what one defends against a Hold with so Molly was rolling more Strength against the enemy's Strength+Brawl. The other thing you could do is go down the Shih arts until you get to the one that buffs Strength.

Can we simply not use our mind hand manipulation, since it can already grab foes and sub for brawl to attack. And its not an attack so it can be an extra action.
 
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Can we simply not use our mind hand manipulation, since it can already grab foes and sub for brawl to attack. And its not an attack so it can be an extra action.
We didn't spend the essence to activate it.

Did Molly even roll a single soak roll this fight or did every enemy just either ignore her or grapple her?
 
Normal body as contrasted against shintai body. What does our normal combat body look like?
The Signature upgrade is a combat charm. One thats only activated when you activate shintai to throw down with some monster.

I dont see how we can reasonably argue that a combat charm produces 3-5x(depending on Essence) naked mortal human clones in a combat scene that vanish at the end of the scene.
That is an interpretation that would make no sense in general, let alone for a 5-dot charm.
Our normal body is that of a normal mortal human. Our charms are soul organs, not mutations of the physical body. We are not an alchemical. Normal charm effect produces our normal bodies too.

And a lot of signature charms are just very badly designed. Like, really badly. They are not balanced between each other at all, some obviously such, some are obvious.
 
We can't do this again man. We had this in the last quest, we got to innovate, come up with new shit.


Can we simply not use our mind hand manipulation, since it can already grab foes and sub for brawl to attack. And its not an attack so it can be an extra action.

Sure you can, the same way you can use your sword to cut your way out, on your turn as Molly did here. Not being enveloped is a brawl roll since you cannot use MHM or 'sword to enemy' as a reaction
 
Yeah probably could've used mind hand to break out of that grapple had we included such a clause in the last vote. Edit: Nvm it's brawl based to not get caught.

Anyway does anyone know of a way to help speed up Harry healing Agg damage? If the Denarians were to attack I feel like it would be while he's still healing.
 
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@DragonParadox

Would this Charm make it impossible to stop us by grappling, if we are willing to pay its price?

UUnbbound Freedom IInffiltration iltration (•••)
The Infernal respects nothing which would inhibit her movement, laughing as she tears herself into shrieking ribbons and weaves herself back together again.System: While running flat-out, the Infernal may pass through any barrier standing in her path, so long as it isn't perfectly air-tight. She dissolves into a crimson wind and reforms on the far side of the obstacle without slowing down at all. Using this Charm inflicts one level of unsoakable bashing damage
 
@DragonParadox

Would this Charm make it impossible to stop us by grappling, if we are willing to pay its price?

UUnbbound Freedom IInffiltration iltration (•••)
The Infernal respects nothing which would inhibit her movement, laughing as she tears herself into shrieking ribbons and weaves herself back together again.System: While running flat-out, the Infernal may pass through any barrier standing in her path, so long as it isn't perfectly air-tight. She dissolves into a crimson wind and reforms on the far side of the obstacle without slowing down at all. Using this Charm inflicts one level of unsoakable bashing damage

Yes, unless the grappler has some way to keep you from running, though given that you have supernatural flight that would be quite difficult to manage.
 
@DragonParadox

Would this Charm make it impossible to stop us by grappling, if we are willing to pay its price?

UUnbbound Freedom IInffiltration iltration (•••)
The Infernal respects nothing which would inhibit her movement, laughing as she tears herself into shrieking ribbons and weaves herself back together again.System: While running flat-out, the Infernal may pass through any barrier standing in her path, so long as it isn't perfectly air-tight. She dissolves into a crimson wind and reforms on the far side of the obstacle without slowing down at all. Using this Charm inflicts one level of unsoakable bashing damage

Yes, unless the grappler has some way to keep you from running, though given that you have supernatural flight that would be quite difficult to manage.
Or we could get one of the many aura effects to kill everything that gets to close to us. Edit: Nevermind none of the aura effect can do 7 damage quickly enough to matter in this situation.

@DragonParadox : Did Molly's CCC bonus apply to attacks against enemies grappling her?
 
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My takeaway from this is that Outsiders are a metaphysical superfood.

They deliver themselves, are low volume and zero calories, and they're rich in what the Exalted body craves.
A growing primordial's gotta eat after all, and Molly is technically Malfeas' feral dumpster baby granddaughter. She can't exactly go vegan.

You ever see a toddler who hasn't quite figured out fine motor control eat a bowl of Cheerios? I like to imagine that's how Uriel sees this sort of event. A two year old who's decided her plastic army men make for a good spoon and is getting demon guts cereal everywhere in the process.
The Dragon did a big fire attack that would have killed half our allies in one shot.
We mostly soaked that one, with only 2 damage going through.

After that nobody thought that attacking Molly was a good idea anymore.

Not exactly:

Ash-grey talons lash out fast enough to blur even in your sight you had not claimed this place, it water were not still flowing though your hair, it might have caught the blade entirely, but at the last moment you twist and flick drawing a line of blood into the palm of its scaly hand. Lo the blood bursts into dirty flame orange and black and scores the chest of your armor.

Dragon takes 2 Damage -> Now at 21/23 Wounds

"Oath-breaker, is that what you would name a slave shattering his chains?" You had expected a growling voice, it could yet speak, something to match the roar, not these urbane tones and not these words, showing not even a trace of pain than it opens its mouth and all is fire, blinding choking and devouring.

The outer layers of the stone turn white hot and start to boil away, but underneath that stone is no mortal flesh, but living brass as much just as infused with your will. When the exhalation ends you are left wearing armor smoking cracked and pitted like the earth after a volcano eruption, but you find yourself unharmed
The dragon tried to gut Molly with his claws and took 2 Agg. Then he tried to melt Molly and she just took it then stabbed him again.

As far as I can see we didn't take a single point of damage that entire time. :V
 
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Victory!!! We even got Sandra alive to question (and torture). This is a good day.
 
Down to the wire, but unless there's something else that's ready to fuck everything up, I think we're in damage control mode.

Definitely want to do a vibe check right now though to see if the ritual's actually stopped right now.
 
Okay, so let's look at our tactical choices and what to do better next time.

Big Picture:
We did kill the Dragon and incapacitate Sandra, so call it a win.
Still, the only reason we didn't loose Harry or one or more of our Agents was a Deus Ex Avernum appearing here, unplanned and unexpected, so we have to do better next time.

Details Molly:
We did mostly keep the Dragon too busy to attack our people, which was vital for everyone surviving the fight.
I think Molly's actions were for the most part well-used, aside from being too vulnerable to grappling.

Possible solutions are higher Brawl, the Charm Unbound Freedom Infiltration, the Shi-Art for raising your strenght, or a Splendor to hurt people grappling us.

Details Harry:
He did well, mostly killing Outsiders, Counterspelling the Dragon when it became necessary due to Molly's aforementioned weakness to grappling.

Too squishy, get better armor. And maybe something that can heal him in emergencies.
Consider Formorisation?

Details Lydia:
Wasted in this fight.
Never reached her intended target, couldn't defend our mortal allies when it mattered, or do anything more important than murder those Outsiders who were only ever meant to tar-pit her.
Of course we didn't know for sure that Sandra was so squishy, Lash could beat her up, but in hindsight it was clearly a mistake.

Possible Solutions: Make better tactical use of her, keep her close to squishy Wizard?
Alternatively increase mobility or give her more minion-powers.

Details Lash:
Really came through this fight, she buffed us, she beat down the primary target.
He mobility and power in Combat-Form is not to be underestimated.

Additions: Train some Brawl, Firearms or Melee and give her decent equipment. That level of raw talent for violence must be utilized.

Details Hand Agents:
Great against big target, by weight of numbers and firepower.
Useless against Outsiders due to conceptual mismatch.

Solution: Get some Essence or Harry's magic in grenades or powerpacks for their guns, so they can shoot those shadowy fucks.
 
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