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Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

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DragonParadox said:
She is in sight, not ten paces from where you killed the fetch, still out cold though.
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Thats good, what I get for not reading I suppose.

BronzeTongue said:
Well for one you can say not all demons as much as you want, this particular one was picked as an exemplar of hell by one of a few different asshole primordial titans. He probably didn't get that position collecting stamps.

But point taken, we can't talk specifics about his personality yet since he hasn't done much. Evil vizier wasn't the best way to describe what I meant.

Solars never needed anything like essence!clippy to use their abilities; the demonic guide isn't really necessary and the primordials aren't the type to go out of their way for the sake of curtesy.

It seems to me that the guides are supposed to be a hook into demonic politics and an implicitly trusted source of information biased in their favor. The point being to manipulate the exalt into sticking with their camp without triggering charms or active resistance.

I'm not going to advocate for pointless paranoia, but being dependent on us isn't the same as taking our every interest as his own. Or for that matter having the same perspective on what our interests actually are.

Hence the evil vizier comparison; he can't take the throne, but influencing "royal" policy to suit him is impossible to divorce from doing his actual job.

It's something to keep an eye out for now that we have him.
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Acknowledged, and I bet your right about the biased perspective advisor thing. Extremely helpful to said mortal or not. The Yozi can be subtle when it suits them.

If were going to be interacting with a lot of creatures of darkness I think nuance will be important.

That being said.

[X] We need to wake up mom and get out of here, now. I'll explain later (Charisma+Leadership)
-[X] If they don't have an escape plan use Crown of Eyes to figure out how to get out of here.


I was told by a friend that good stunts make use of Intimacies. Lets see if we can convince Dresden were a poor girl in need of assistance, and include our mother here as well.

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How is this for a stunt by the way? Its not terribly extra, but stunt's dont necessarily need to be to be effective.

It also very much describes the action were taking :(

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I... didn't like my stunt. I'm keeping it here for posterity though.

-[ ] Stunt: Molly runs over to her mothers side, and begins checking what has happened to her, she then looks up at Dresden and asks him to help them out of here.
 
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Dheer said:
Also oh nuts, did we just do what Harry did with the Summer Flames hitting Winter's fountain but worse?! :o
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Unlikely. Summer is the absolute antithesis of winter. We might have done as much damage as Harry did in canon but it wouldn't have been such a personal slap in the face.

Jack vile Ripper said:
Right, Cracked Shell Circumvention allows us to reduce the difficulty of all escaping action by 3 and Without Honor, Without Hope gives us an additional +2 Bonus Dice as long as we're in Mab's palace.

Are there any portals out of this place? I read that Harry and Charity were teleported to this place by an outside factor, how can we reach said teleportation gateway?

Edit: Basically, I need context from those that have read Dresden Files. What are the things here that can get us out of here.
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In canon Harry got rescued by the Summer Lady and Knight being big damn heroes, but that was only possible because Harry was blasting Summer Fire to act as a signal and the Winter Lady was running interference on the oncoming Winter horde. I don't know if Harry's used his fire yet, and Molly wouldn't know enough to ask.

DragonParadox said:
The moment shatters like a mirror black as you breathe in for the first time since the power had come to you, you breathe in the dark for it holds no terrors for you anymore and the killing cold of Arctis Tor and you make it yours.
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I'm pretty sure that this run-on was deliberate, but it really would be better to break the sentence up a bit.

DragonParadox said:
A weapon. I need a weapon, you think, looking around for some jagged shard of ice.
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The rest of the chapter uses italics for thoughts, so this should match. Also added a period for the punch.

DragonParadox said:
"What have you done?" It sounds afraid... you enjoy that perhaps a little more than you aught, but you will feel guilty about that later.
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DragonParadox said:
Still, the thing is fast and dreadfully old, all the stronger here in the place of its power. It's not that you don't see the kick, but that it had turned you around in a twisted parody of a dance until the only way you could get out of the way would be right into Harry. and you do not want to risk hurting him by canon-balling right into him as he's trying to find his feet, especially not burning with the power of... Power, you do not know what else to call it.
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So when the Scarecrow manage to grab Molly and turn her. Also it might better to say that it had maneuvered her so that she was too close to Harry to dodge. As it is, this fight feels a tad clunky.

DragonParadox said:
You're already running at the Scarecrow, the Fetch, as it raises its misshapen pumpkin head at you, eyes burning with false flame. That's all the opening Harry needs as he raises his hand and blasts it in the chest with a burst of soundless force. Only a step, but... that is more than you need.
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Some awkward word choices for the fight scene got rearranged and shortened.

I'm not sure what the etiquette is for corrections, but I don't think that this is stepping over any lines.

I'll write up some actions later.
 
flotter said:
only possible because Harry was blasting Summer Fire to act as a signal
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I'd forgotten about that bit. Did he need to target something specific, or just use it in a place it definitely didn't belong to send up the proverbial flare?

We can't really tell exactly what's been going on, but it looks like he has used it since arriving, so the canon plan may still be hurtling down the tracks at us.

DragonParadox said:
Flame roars out of the rune-carved stick in Harry's hand, golden bright like the summer morning
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This is your demon talking so take it with a grain of salt but Usum thinks that the reason why you are not swimming in winter fey is because the Exaltation scared the daylights out of them. To anything with mystical senses, especially ones that are attuned to the place that would have felt big.
 
DragonParadox said:
Of course the only source for that good news is Molly's instinctive understanding of what her new Power does and all the occult knowledge said power dumped into her brain. I'm sure Dresden will trust it right? :V
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I can't say I'm thinking about this correctly but from what I understand but doesn't having 5 dots in abilities like occult and melee make you better in those than any mortal? Can you explain what each amount of dots is in comparison to a mortal?
 
CorruptedKing said:
I can't say I'm thinking about this correctly but from what I understand but doesn't having 5 dots in abilities like occult and melee make you better in those than any mortal? Can you explain what each amount of dots is in comparison to a mortal?
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5 dots is the upper end of mortal skill, like one of the best in the field among all humans.

The right Charms can push you further of course and at high Essence you can just take more dots, up to your essence-rating and become better than humanly possible without any Charms.
 
CorruptedKing said:
I can't say I'm thinking about this correctly but from what I understand but doesn't having 5 dots in abilities like occult and melee make you better in those than any mortal? Can you explain what each amount of dots is in comparison to a mortal?
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Er... yes and no, it means you have a lot of information shoved in your head and between you and your head-sharing demon you can come up with some really in insightful notions on the occult, but you have no outside resources, which most skilled wizards do and what you do know comes from the exaltation which has been on ice a long time. When you know something you know it to a superlative extent, but you might find gaps in your knowledge in places others consider fundamental.
 
DragonParadox said:
Er... yes and no, it means you have a lot of information shoved in your head and between you and your head-sharing demon you can come up with some really in insightful notions on the occult, but you have no outside resources, which most skilled wizards do and what you do know comes from the exaltation which has been on ice a long time. When you know something you know it to a superlative extent, but you might find gaps in your knowledge in places others consider fundamental.
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Even a truly vast sum of knowledge wont cover everything.
 
Yzarc said:
To clarify, difficulty means the target number above which the roll is considered a sux? As in if we roll 9 dice (Will power) and 3 are 7+ only those 3 are considered sux?

Or do we need to roll 7 sux to hit a difficulty?
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You need to roll at least one 7+ when rolling your willpower, in this case 9d10, but 1s count against successes, so if you roll 1, 1, 8, 9, 5, 6, 4, 4 that is still a failure. if you somehow have one or more 1s and no successes that is a botch and you think you are stuck in the nightmare
 
DragonParadox said:
You need to roll at least one 7+ when rolling your willpower, in this case 9d10, but 1s count against successes, so if you roll 1, 1, 8, 9, 5, 6, 4, 4 that is still a failure. if you somehow have one or more 1s and no successes that is a botch and you think you are stuck in the nightmare
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Ah. Thanks. I always mix up Target Number and Difficulty.
 
DragonParadox said:
You need to roll at least one 7+ when rolling your willpower, in this case 9d10, but 1s count against successes, so if you roll 1, 1, 8, 9, 5, 6, 4, 4 that is still a failure. if you somehow have one or more 1s and no successes that is a botch and you think you are stuck in the nightmare
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Does 10s count as two succeses in Willpower roll to fight off Nightmares?
 
Wait looking back at that last chapter, did Molly shred the elder Fetch with normal combat rolls and one use of GSNF?

I didn't expect her to be able to beat it like a drum as she was before nuking it without invoking keys to kingdom on her combat skill.
 
BronzeTongue said:
Wait looking back at that last chapter, did Molly shred the elder Fetch with normal combat rolls and one use of GSNF?

I didn't expect her to be able to beat it like a drum as she was before nuking it without invoking keys to kingdom on her combat skill.
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9 Dice pool of Dexterity 4 and Melee 5, man. It's some powerful drugs.
 
BronzeTongue said:
Wait looking back at that last chapter, did Molly shred the elder Fetch with normal combat rolls and one use of GSNF?

I didn't expect her to be able to beat it like a drum as she was before nuking it without invoking keys to kingdom on her combat skill.
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You were getting boosts from being in the heart of winter and from being imprisoned, it was your jailer. On top of that fey do not have that many wounds to blow though compared to say an equivalent Black Count Vampire or something.
 
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DragonParadox said:
You were getting boosts from being in the heart of winter and from being imprisoned, it was your jailer and fey do not have that many wounds to blow though.
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In WoD mechanics, nobody got that many Health Levels in the first place.

Everyone's best bet is that whatever Health Level penalty you are suffering can be wrapped back from Bashing into Lethal to Aggravated (that's how Vampires do it, they can't die even if you fill their Health Track with Lethal penalties).

Exalts are special in this case, where they can buy Ox-Body Technique to double their Health tracks wholesale.
 
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