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Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

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BronzeTongue said:
I want to know more before stepping into the place, both for safety and because it'd be really annoying if there's something we could handle before heading in that'd make it easier to exploit.

That said, why are we running these guys down now? We can just use their social media as foci to get what they know or to ask more targeted questions about the well. That way we don't need to screw around as much before getting to the good part.
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Keep in mind this is AD 2007, most people do not have a social media account yet and of those who do there is nowhere near as much engagement.
 
Degorium said:
Unless you are literally trying to make a particle collider. If any part of the design you are trying to create has component designs that are accessible you can make it using craft the idea that you need to have the dots of technology or computer are for a completely novel or direct in system designs iterating and creating a platform using craft is literally what craft is supposed to do.

Using craft to iterate on an engine design is literally what you are supposed to do. Using craft to iterate on Modern kind of cludge exoskeleton design is literally what you're supposed to do. You could maybe not design a circuit board or a microprocessor from scratch but there's the thing you really don't have to and crafts can help you if you don't need to do that.
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Not really. Exalts can cheat by ignoring training lockouts, but it's not just an accessibility thing.

Different skills mean different things, and have consequences on how characters perform tasks.

A mechanics/enchanting exalt could make a freaky stealth jet, but it'll be of the clockwork and magic variety instead of say an F-35 looking thing. An exalt with high tech skills would be doing the opposite.

It's the difference between brawl, melee, and firearms. Just because you can fight with all of them and there may be crossover in some places doesn't mean high melee is the same as high brawl.

This is relevant in cases like @Yog is proposing, because if someone comes to Molly with an exotic ray gun or super computer she'll have no idea how it works. The magic half changes the equation, but acting like we can just show up and act as a peer immediately with no investment in the relevant skills.


Yog said:
She can make and design prodigies, and mechanical things with craft:mechanics, I think. And prodigies are "near mortal" version of exalted craft, mortal principles taken to extreme excess. I am fairly sure that our guys can get something out of reverse engineering prodigies.
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Yeah, I was more speaking to the idea of being able to do it for just anything.

I brought up Talen because they seem like something the FCF should have in spades and something Molly could still help with. We can't actually craft them, but the spirit they'd be working with are Molly's and the end result is more magic than tech.

Making novel or cheaper Talens would be a good place where she could provide input on the design around parameters set by people specializing in the production end of things.
 
Think that we could put wicked city cyber spirits into Talens for Amethyst hand agents to use? Basically outsource our taking over the Internet ideas to them.

I do actually wonder how our Cyber devils manage organization and pecking order among themselves. Obviously Clippy is near the top because he gets orders directly from Molly, but I have to imagine that the introduction of IRIS caused a lot of confusion for awhile.
 
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Speaking of crafting, I would like to see Molly build more things for herself, possibly an armor upgrade or two, or perhaps a car upgrade like she did for Odin's troop transports? Or something at least.
She sword and boards enough that an upgrade to her shield could nice, though for defense I'd personally like to see her make herself a crown or warhelm for the thematic synergies with her world soul possible there.
For something more exotic? Maybe she could build a body for her cyber devils to act as her familiar within using mechanics and the help of some of her cybernetics masters?
A cloak that forms into wings would be an awesome splendor to build out of that dead dragon vampire, but I'm not sure she actually needs a flight power? Especially because Three of her war party can't fly… maybe some proper armor for Mouse could be fun.

Idk, just random morning thoughts

Edit: actually, empowering Mouse into a proper exalted level divine temple dog might be really really helpful for Chicago as a whole, though I'm not sure that Molly could manage it without awakening a city god first so he would have a realm to guard, which might make that idea a mute point.
 
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Sesparra said:
A cloak that forms into wings would be an awesome splendor to build out of that dead dragon vampire, but I'm not sure she actually needs a flight power?
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Molly can fly yeah and her method is better than wings which can be attacked and cumbersome indoors. Next turn we should use an AP just for crafting Harry needs new armor before the Denarians attack and Lash could use a ring of Faith to carry more charge etc.
 
BoredMan said:
Molly can fly yeah and her method is better than wings which can be attacked and cumbersome indoors. Next turn we should use an AP just for crafting Harry needs new armor before the Denarians attack and Lash could use a ring of Faith to carry more charge etc.
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Ah, okay I honestly couldn't remember if she could or not, but yes, armor for our favorite idiot male is probably a wise decision, what with his broken coat and all, plus we really haven't made much use of those workshop elves as of yet, and it seems appropriate somehow.
Is that a thing we can build for Tiffany? Faith/essence batteries would be really useful for other projects if so.
 
OK, looks like we are going to go meet with Karl.
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Arc 12 Post 12: Enhanced Performance
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    23st of January 2007 A.D.

    Alas Flick does not have a disguise that can stand up to scrutiny in the clear light of day so you pick up a room at a hotel. Lydia suggests the Buckminster, she had apparently lived there almost three months, including her thirteenth birthday. Not even you talk fast enough to explain heavy augmentations in a well lit and well appointed hotel lobby, so it's off to find one that's... not that.

    What you settle on in the end is the Greystone Motel, which is neither grey, nor made of stone, you guess that it is a motel though, from the general bustle of mostly young mostly broke people college age or younger milling around even at this late hour. You might not know the girl with the bubblegum pink hair and the rhinestone nose ring, or the guy wearing sunglasses in doors at night, but you know them. God only knows that the bored guy barely glancing up from his magazine to hand you your keys thought you were into, but a room is acquired.

    If you had to guess what piece of earthly technology would most surprise and intrigue Flick that would have been the TV or the phone maybe, devices that while serving familiar purposes are entirely missing any arcane component, you would not have guessed 'mechanical keys'. Locks with tumblers are apparently one of those things that Sanctuary never invented at alongside uggs and Reality TV.

    Seeing as this is the closest low-cost establishment to campus and knowing a bit about how college parties tend to go on and off campus you decide to ask around, see if anyone heard about Karl. At first your inquiries are met with confused silence, but as you approach a group of guys casually eyeing the three of you and none-too-quietly wondering about your relative ages, you get the other kind of silence, sprinkled with suspicion and too-quick-denials.

    Taking an educated guess from the nature of his major you ask if Karl's 'fun at parties'.

    "No... nothing like that..." the guy you had been talking to backpedals so fast he could be cycling the reverse-Tour de France. "He's a good guy."

    "Oh for fucks' sake," it's the girl with pink hair from earlier slamming a door open to shout into the corridor, I Don't Feel Like Dancin' blaring in the room behind her. "New girls what do you want?"

    "To find Karl Bennet," you shout back, knowing that any sentence longer than that risked getting lost in the music.

    She looks at the three of you then at the guys you had been interrogating and says. "He doesn't do party drugs, he does sports drugs, weird ones so unless you're into competitive Bob Sledding you are shit out of luck."

    "Cheryl!" the guy glares at him.

    She just rolls her eyes before glancing at Lydia. "What, do you think the feds are hiring middle schoolers to narc on us now?"

    Your friend looks down at herself, as though to assure herself that she does not look fourteen, but Olivia looks like she is on the ball there so you strike up a conversation with Cheryl. That as it turns out is a good metaphor for her, being the kind of girl who would burn her acquaintances either accidentally or on purpose.

    In the process of mingling, lauging fixing one of the speakers and making some snacks, not literally by magic, but darn close you catch up on Karl news. Not only do you get the guy's number and his address, but also find out that he is not even a very good supplier of dubious pills. Nothing occult in sight, or you guess hearing, nothing to connect him to the Well other than having previously stayed in the building that seems to be at the epicenter of the weirdness on the Harvard campus and yet the Crown does not lie, you know that like you know your own name.

    Lost 2 Essence -> Now at 12/15 (Empathy and Crafting Excellencies)

    What do you do?

    [] Just show up at his door
    -[] Write in in what guise

    [] Call him
    -[] Write in under what pretense

    [] Write in

    OOC: You have a lead on what this guy is into, question is what do you do with it.
     
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    mingling, lauging[,] fixing one of the speakers and making some snaks, not literaly by magic
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    his adress, but alsofind out
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    Let's pull up at his door, like Mab just showed up at Dresden's office. He'll probably be just as clueless as Dresden, but like Mab I bet we could intimidate him to spilling the beans.
     
    If we call him we'll probably have to show up at his house anyways. Let's just go there now and scare the fuck out of him.
     
    Some of my time at work I just spend pondering Five Courts culture, like, do they even have the concept of 'Ships'?. The tribes in the forests may have some river and lake-fishing boats, but the only real large body's of liquid are in the wastes, and that's not water. With the constant storms, trying to build seafaring ships is a non-starter, submarines MAY work if it wasn't for all the strange and deadly beings that would live in oceans of liquid oxygen.
    So instead of spaceships, they will build space trains ._.
     
    [x]Show up in his room.
    -[x]ATP to make everyone ignore you. Even him until you start talking.
    -[x]NWS then start hammering him for information from there.

    The high pressure approach.
     
    DragonParadox said:
    Not even you talk fast enough to explain heavy augmentations in a well lit and well appointed hotel lobby, so it's off to find one that's... not that.
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    If Molly and Lydia added some obviously costume grade stuff in the same style we could probably pretend to be going to a con for stuff like this. Flick would just look like she's in great cosplay for something the observer hasn't heard of.

    If you didn't know what Halo was seeing picture perfect master chief and some guys B grade grunt costumes probably wouldn't make you leap to assuming that it was laundry day at DARPA and their power armor was the only clean thing they had left to wear.

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    also find out that he is not even a very good supplier of dubious pills.
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    That sounds like the perfect arrangement for a minor alchemist. You don't want to get too successful or draw too many idiots looking for steroids because the attention drawn towards your magically delicious drugs could be very dangerous.

    Selling weird substances is just enough to get your name out there and potentially pull in customers with more expensive needs.
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    Some of my time at work I just spend pondering Five Courts culture, like, do they even have the concept of 'Ships'?. The tribes in the forests may have some river and lake-fishing boats, but the only real large body's of liquid are in the wastes, and that's not water. With the constant storms, trying to build seafaring ships is a non-starter, submarines MAY work if it wasn't for all the strange and deadly beings that would live in oceans of liquid oxygen.
    So instead of spaceships, they will build space trains ._.
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    Don't they have guys who tame building sized dinosaurs, or was that just an idea we threw around prior to getting the charm? For labor of various kinds before the cities industrialized.

    Seems like a sleigh drawn by Godzilla would be close enough for government work.
     
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