Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
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- Crossover Fantasy
The issue is Lydia is planning to flare her anima and be "loud" in general. If there are supernatural students in the building, they are going to feel that. And while we can almost certainly handle anything they can throw at us (unless Listens-to-Wind is going to school here to renew his medical certification right now, at which point the situation becomes more political than combat-centered).
And President's office is probably more magically significant. @DragonParadox would doing the seance from the office of Harvard President confer any bonuses due to significance of the room, as opposed to just doing it in the Massachusets Hall?
Please at least add calling Harry for the warlock's dossier. We need foci badly.
Not for this, Lydia just wants to talk to ghosts. For that she needs an old building and some privacy.
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- Location
- Tempe, AZ
I guess there is no interest in getting started on our take over then.
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Magical significance only really matters if we do a full ritual, which this really isn't. I also doubt that it has relevance to the dead in particular too. Just not worth drawing attention to ourselves.
As to it being loud; the first instinct of minor players isn't going to be to run towards something like this, it's to hide. Unless we announced what we're doing to the entire community, which we don't want to do because it'll potentially get us competition for the main prize, involving one spooky adjacent student won't help.
I also think this would be a suboptimal way to introduce ourselves if we want to mess with the school later. I want a more controlled approach tailored to getting its leadership under our thumb instead of a wild encounter that gives a mixed impression and time for the guy to dig before we have him.
Fair enough to the profile thing though.
[X] Plan Quiet Visit
-[X] Call Harry and request Johann of Cleves casefile, if he can get a copy without too much hassle or attention (remind him that he has a camera in his mobile phone).
-[X] Take a moment to brush up your disguises; a handful of students minding their own business.
-[X] Walk in like we've been there a thousand times before and find a secluded room to lock up for the ritual.
-[X] Look up the floor plan online beforehand to help navigate quickly.
BoredMan
Dinosaurs came in many flavors. Like potato chips.
Yeah I think y'all are way overthinking it. It's a college not some high security place people who shouldn't be there go in and out all the time without issue.
Also if we are to introduce ourselves later I'd rather not lie about who Olivia and Lydia are now. That'll just make it much more difficult later.
[X] Plan Quiet Visit
-[X] Call Harry and request Johann of Cleves casefile, if he can get a copy without too much hassle or attention (remind him that he has a camera in his mobile phone).
-[X] Take a moment to brush up your disguises; a handful of students minding their own business.
-[X] Walk in like we've been there a thousand times before and find a secluded room to lock up for the ritual.
-[X] Look up the floor plan online beforehand to help navigate quickly.
Also if we are to introduce ourselves later I'd rather not lie about who Olivia and Lydia are now. That'll just make it much more difficult later.
[X] Plan Quiet Visit
-[X] Call Harry and request Johann of Cleves casefile, if he can get a copy without too much hassle or attention (remind him that he has a camera in his mobile phone).
-[X] Take a moment to brush up your disguises; a handful of students minding their own business.
-[X] Walk in like we've been there a thousand times before and find a secluded room to lock up for the ritual.
-[X] Look up the floor plan online beforehand to help navigate quickly.
- Location
- Germany
[X] Plan Quiet Visit
-[X] Call Harry and request Johann of Cleves casefile, if he can get a copy without too much hassle or attention (remind him that he has a camera in his mobile phone).
-[X] Take a moment to brush up your disguises; a handful of students minding their own business.
-[X] Walk in like we've been there a thousand times before and find a secluded room to lock up for the ritual.
-[X] Look up the floor plan online beforehand to help navigate quickly.
-[X] Call Harry and request Johann of Cleves casefile, if he can get a copy without too much hassle or attention (remind him that he has a camera in his mobile phone).
-[X] Take a moment to brush up your disguises; a handful of students minding their own business.
-[X] Walk in like we've been there a thousand times before and find a secluded room to lock up for the ritual.
-[X] Look up the floor plan online beforehand to help navigate quickly.
Ok then.
Change of plans. No need to show ourselves (too much).
[X] Plan Massachusets Hall
-[X] Call Harry and request Johann of Cleves casefile, if he can get a copy without too much hassle or attention (remind him that he has a camera in his mobile phone).
-[X] Using the mailing address, or a photo of the Massachusets Hall as a foci for the Crown, check the supernatural status of current residents (i.e. get a list of names and states, like "whampire", "wizard", "minor talent", "demigod", "mortal", etc).
--[X] If there's someone among students who is a supernatural being, go to them and request use of their dorm room for the seance. Preference goes to creatures of darkness
--[X[ Else, disguise as students, walk in like we've been there a thousand times before and find a secluded room to lock up for the ritual.
---[X] Subterfuge excellency
---[X] Look up the floor plan online beforehand to help navigate quickly.
--[X] If he's not in the office already, sneak in and do the seance
--[X] Occult Excellency for the seance
Essentially I agree with Quiet Visit, but am taking precautions in case there's a whampire student.
Votes are close.
Is your sentence missing a *not* before the *see a need*? The rest of it really feels like that.
Because frankly, if that's what you're saying, I agree, we really should stop trying to get every single details everytime we encounter a new thing, at this point it's no wonder we get arc fatigue every. single. arc. We never decide to act when we can. As a result, even the easiest thing drags on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on....
[x] You have enough information time to head to the other side.
Let's move on, seriously, we know more than enough.
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I get the feeling, and this probably is the last step in the investigation, but I really don't want to screw this up. Not in the sense of "Molly and others will die" or anything. More in the sense of "we'll break this thing, or play into enemy's hands". This is a quasi-universe made by an insane mage with centuries of experience for purposes that eluded Odin (or at least he didn't tell us about them). We only learned these facts in the last one or two updates.
We also learned that it is extremely likely (almost certain IMO) that nobody but its creator knows anything about it, so investigation is pointless....
Hell, someone pointed out that Odin was wrong about it! Odin! The all knowing guy!
I pointed that out, yes. Which is why currently the investigation (to me) is about two things:
1) Finding our what happens to those who don't pass the test of the realm, and, most importantly, whether they still can be saved
2) Getting foci to ask questions. Specifically "where are the design documents" (or "how it was made"), "what was the goal" (ie "who benefits from the realm being completed"), and "why wasn't it finished" (ie "was Odin interrupt the only reason it was left unfinished").
Like, if he bargained for the knowledge and power with Lucifer or something, and the realm gets completed, Lucifer might come trying to collect, or might capitalize on the realm being finished.
Vote Closed
Arc 12 Interlude 4: Riddle of Steel
Riddle of Steel
23st of January 2007 A.D.
"Harry listen, can you send me over the file for that warlock who showed up in Boston... no he's not back... no I don't need you to come over... just the file is fine, thanks..."
Lydia Rhys was still not entirely sure what her friend Molly was planning to do about Harry Dresden. It seemed pretty clear to her that he was more interested in Tiffany the Un-Fallen, that name was a mouthful but it felt like the most respectful way to talk about her, and that a more antique arrangement would be taken poorly. She was just excited to be inside a college and not just any college, Harvard. Her father had spoken about her going there before he had to... go away.
A cool presence passed over, like phantom snowflakes upon her brow, wordless sorrow. Words were a difficult thing to thread betwixt this realm and that distant hidden place. Would the Well bring her closer she wondered. If it was proving ground, a spirit quest tethered in place as though someone had managed to tether Elder Unicorn in place maybe...
Unexpected hopes, like unexpected fears just got in the way.
As she snapped out of her woolgathering the girl noticed Molly looking at her phone with a frown that was less bewilderment or the uncanny focus of revelation and more frustration.
"Well good news, I found Nora Long, she is in the building I thought we might do a seance at, Massachusets Hall..."
"Well that is a good thing though isn't it?" Olivia asked, a little wearily, her voice dropping.
"She found something weird," Lydia offered her sage advice. Like her Molly did not deal well with the unexpected and just like her she sometimes had to seek the counsel within her own mind.
"How can someone be a steel scion of faerie? Iron is poisonous to faeries!" The words burst out, then a pause, a tip of the head. "Oh that makes sense, the fey are stories. I guess there would be stories about technology as well, steel would be the transformative power of industry. That is actually weird in another way... remember that place we fought the Akuma? That used to be a big steel mill, emphasis on 'used to', spirits born of the first wild flames of industrialization should have faded if not perished. It's not like either of the courts would be supportive of a narrative so perilously close to feromancy the scion might be a lot older than she looks, pretending to be just another college kid for potentially creepy reasons."
"Or maybe we are just looking at more of the Well's influence, not all seeds sprout on their own after all and yet spring waters from the depths might yet bring them out." Lydia very carefully did not look at Olivia as she said this. The paralels were in some ways obvious and yet they were not flattering. Lydia had nothing against Olivia, but she hadn't earned the great power she'd been gifted, nor did she entirely seem to grasp just how much it would cost if she ever decided to part from Molly. The flayling fury of an ice storm was not meant to live in the veins of those that walked on two legs.
Olivia herself had been thinking of other matters though. "Wait didn't you look over all the students' names when you found Karl?"
Another search and confirmation, no Nora Long, one Nora Jackson registered. They had managed to find a fey scion of a heritage that should not exist this century on this continent with something to hide... all without moving from the spot where they had been huddled around the street corner.
Lydia was very glad Molly and was on their side.
How do you approach your second target?
[] Direct approach
-[] Write in stunt (Optional)
[] Stake out
-[] Write in plan (Optional)
[] Write in
OOC: Update would not work properly with the background rolls from Molly's PoV so I made it an interlude, hope you guys don't mind.
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- Pronouns
- She/Her
Flaying, I think.
Well, I guess we have a new population to target. How did it go? Ah, yes:
I am actually a bit surprised that none have found a way to Last Station yet.
[X] Same approach as with Karl
-[X] NWS from stealth first, then direct approach with either empathy, etiquette or intimidation excellency depending on results
That's better, but I don't see why getting a student involved is a good idea. One person won't make a difference to the local community's reaction if there is an immediate one. All it does is make them a target for any follow up.
… this next bit is unrelated, but once we have a firm hand on the situation so that competition can't steal the well from us we should pop in to have a chat with the whamps.
Revealing we're moving into the territory on some level is giving up an advantage they might exploit, but if we show up and say the diplomatic version of "I'm recruiting for the Ordo, not telling you who or how far along they are though because I don't want to and you can't make me. I just want to give you a gentle reminder that if you lay an unkind hand on a member, even in ignorance, I will kill everyone involved. Safe hunting"
It should make it safer to be a talent around here for a bit, because the whamps will be left out to dry by their court for breaking Lara's word and they aren't aware of the situation one phone call home will make it clear.
- Location
- Canada
parallels
Massachusetts
Okay, Lydia, calm down girl. Glad you at least had the Wisdom Stats to not tell Molly to get Harry a harem aloud.
Lydia knows what's up. Secrets really aren't, when Molly wants to know. Something that would've Dresden at least a couple chapters, a visit to Bob, or maybe now just asking Lash/Tiffany, got done with one question and a little web surfing.
The sheer speed and reliability of Molly's intel-gathering is unrivaled, and that's without considering how she can get way more dangerous secrets with marginally more effort.
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She was thinking more wife and mistress, but yeah she understands present social norms fine, Lydia just does not presently value them. It is not for any supernatural reason mind, but just because she was raised jet setting around the world with the only constant in her life being her older than dirt father.