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I think we should first use crown questions to get info on what we want to do. Like areas for where he's being held, where to put the plague, ways to distract mikaboshi and so on. Then recharge to full before going in.
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
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- Brazil
Could you explain that last part? I don't understand what she means here. And why you don't put a description on our disease? Or just when it is used?
That air reroll link is bad, and earth is missing.
That said, those are some nasty numbers. I know we basically asked for an artisanal magical nuke, but even by those standards this thing is scary.
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Should be 'gauche', not sure what second part means
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Well, that was 40+ successes wasn't it? By Mother Summer, an embodied shard of a Fallen Angel, a Death Exalt, and an Infernal Exalt.
... yeah, this is going in every history book.
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I don't think that any description or stat box will do this justice. Better to just watch DP go hog wild describing the effects. This plague may well be as corruptive as Nemeses in it's own way.
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He looks down at his twisted corpulent form powered by suffering, becomes horrified about what he has because and tries to better himself?
His ambition to become Demon Emperor is redoubled, as that's his greatest hope.
He finds himself endlessly fighting losing battles because he has lost the ability to give up.
It's a plague of hope and rebellion that Mother Summer just tuned to screw him over even harder and he's literally packed so full of suffering he's been drinking from his victims that his physical body is starting to bloat.
I have a suspicion that for him an infection would have very different effects than it would on anyone else. Probably in some truly horrifying ways, like his body and soul going to war with itself.
Probably want to (OOC) start considering what we want to purchase with all the XP we will have after the trip.
City Still Stands, a Perfect Defense, a Sorcery, Sandstrike Blast,
City Still Stands, a Perfect Defense, a Sorcery, Sandstrike Blast,
fictionfan
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Well let's see how this artisanal crafted nuke does. Although that is really underselling it. Molly should be able to craft up a nuke without calling in a favor. This is far more dangerous.
[X] Take the Ebon path from the underworld, Nergui knows it well
Not that hard a route if you can fly.
As for your suggestions, City Still Stands is good.
Perfect defense just have the problem of not syncing with just how much we have invested in getting huge scene length soak. We have limited essanse so we are often going to have to pick between using our soak charms or reserving essanse for perfect defense. Even the Mighty Joe Chung inventor and greatest proponent of paranoia combat agreed that Infernal soak build is very viable.
Ancient sorcery death of Obsidian Butterflies is a better AOE then Sand strike blast. It is completely ridiculous how much damage it can do. Especially if we get the Scepter charm to reduce Sorcery cost and DC.
[X] Take the Ebon path from the underworld, Nergui knows it well
Not that hard a route if you can fly.
I say that we get Endless Torment Emanation to add extra insult to injury. Also I have wanted to use that on the Red Court sense the beginning of the quest.
As for your suggestions, City Still Stands is good.
Perfect defense just have the problem of not syncing with just how much we have invested in getting huge scene length soak. We have limited essanse so we are often going to have to pick between using our soak charms or reserving essanse for perfect defense. Even the Mighty Joe Chung inventor and greatest proponent of paranoia combat agreed that Infernal soak build is very viable.
Ancient sorcery death of Obsidian Butterflies is a better AOE then Sand strike blast. It is completely ridiculous how much damage it can do. Especially if we get the Scepter charm to reduce Sorcery cost and DC.
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I don't think it's generic nice hopeful feelings. Remember how Tiffany was thinking about this and what she did to the order of elements in the ritual to specifically make it less purely constructive.
My understanding is that this is specifically hardcore rebellious hope. The kind that makes you sharpen knives and gives the courage to stick them in people who are tormenting you.
It's like Summer really, it sounds nice if you're strictly superficial in your examination but has a certain amount of unbridled madness to it.
With fey storybook magic involved I don't think it's going to be fair or even with its effects either.
I've said it before, but the Wicked City is built on hope.
The people who despair and lose hope are worthless to it, as they can't keep sprinting on their hamster wheel motivation by desperate ambition for a better life.
The whole place works because it takes the hope of the souls damned to be there and turns it into a curse rather than a blessing. They all hope and believe they can beat the system, and they're all wrong.
Making everyone there give into despair is what would starve Mikaboshi.
A hope plague would be ideal for Kakuri, but I really think it could backfire in the Wicked City in the long run, as it would make Mikaboshi's wage slaves work even harder to try to ascend the greasy pole, incapable of giving into despair and descend into the depths to be eaten and stop producing tainted chi to feed him.
The people who despair and lose hope are worthless to it, as they can't keep sprinting on their hamster wheel motivation by desperate ambition for a better life.
The whole place works because it takes the hope of the souls damned to be there and turns it into a curse rather than a blessing. They all hope and believe they can beat the system, and they're all wrong.
Making everyone there give into despair is what would starve Mikaboshi.
A hope plague would be ideal for Kakuri, but I really think it could backfire in the Wicked City in the long run, as it would make Mikaboshi's wage slaves work even harder to try to ascend the greasy pole, incapable of giving into despair and descend into the depths to be eaten and stop producing tainted chi to feed him.
The wicked City Works off of empty hope a true hope that you could stab your boss directly in the neck and then eat his corpse and take his place is poisonous to the wicked City considerably more so than the false hope of I can work and make my way up the totem pole. In the long term the hope that you can Ascend it through violence for the wicked city is death to the wicked City and it's true because you can ascend through violence in the wicked City.
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Not that kind of hope, we even brought a rebel Angel to make it that way.
Mikaboshi is powerful, but I find the insistence that he'll eat an artifact weapon tuned to hurt him and ask for seconds while he uses it to strengthen himself ridiculous.
In the Wicked City the main thing that torments you is yourself and your own ambition. That's Mikaboshi's genius, to take the worst of what capitalism does to the human spirit and make people work themselves to the bone from hollow ambition.
And rebellion is completely compatible with this. The Wicked City welcomes ascending the devilish corporate hierarchy over the decaying corpses of backstabbed superiors.
The Wicked City doesn't care how you ascend, just that what you hope for about the empty trappings of wealth and status rather than spiritually virtuous Confucian virtues like loyally serving your elders and betters while knowing your place in the fields or focusing on intellectual contemplation of the traditional classics if you're lucky enough to be born into the scholar-gentry class.
Hope for social mobility by rebelling against tradition and embracing non-traditional values is the basic sin it punishes.
I think it's like trying to literally nuke Lanka after Lanka assimilated the theme of nuclear apocalypse the last time someone tried, or trying to freeze Kakuri.
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This is really good, and I appreciate the update! Good night!
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- Canada
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Pretty sure this hope plague is gonna make Mikaboshi's slaves hope for a better tomorrow by revolting and trying to burn the Wicked City down to ash.
They're not gonna have hope that if they just do well enough for this quarter and get a good performance review, their circumstances might get better!
No, they're gonna have hope that they can succeed in killing the asshole in charge who's been making them suffer for shits and giggles. And will react accordingly.
Pretty sure this hope plague is gonna make Mikaboshi's slaves hope for a better tomorrow by revolting and trying to burn the Wicked City down to ash.
They're not gonna have hope that if they just do well enough for this quarter and get a good performance review, their circumstances might get better!
No, they're gonna have hope that they can succeed in killing the asshole in charge who's been making them suffer for shits and giggles. And will react accordingly.
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Well, it might be faster to take people into our world and travel by water, rather than taking a plane. Not sure how far a connection is, compared to how long getting the essence back will take. I think we might also risk alerting something by the waterway, but it seems much lower than the conventional paths.
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Since it hasn't come up in the thread for awhile allow me to remind about the ridiculousness of
Base difficulty 5 Perception + Occult roll. No dodge chance just soak however many successes we roll. Molly has perception 3 Occult 5 with Occult being a key skill. So right out of the box that is an average of 4 damage.
But of course there no reason not to cast wet so raise that to 4.8.
But we also have All things betray which is scene long charm reducing all Perception DC's by 3. Which mins out the DC at 3 well adding two more dice. So damage is now 7.
But we can also spend another essence on occult exilancies doubling our base dice so 12.6 damage.
But we can also get The Pentacle and the Scepter (••••) reducing the cost and DC of all ancient sorcery by 1. Which helps the other spells but for Death of Obsidian Butterflies means the damage now goes up to 14.
Of course there are other ways we can raise the damage more, but those are the most accessible and likely to be the case every time we use it.
Sandstrike blast is cheaper but uses Dexterity + Athletics. Athletics is not a key skill.
Edit: Forgot the stunt obviously we would want to do one of those as well.
The sorcerer releases her Essence and shapes it into a cascade of streaming butterflies sculpted from razor-edged obsidian. Flashing past her shoulders in a glassy torrent, they shred everything within a path roughly 30 yards wide, 10 yards high, and 100 yards
long. After this spell ends, the entire area of its effect is littered with the sharp, broken remnants of the summoned insects.
System: Spend 3 Essence and roll Perception + Occult (difficulty 5). Everyone inside the attack pattern who isn't behind solid cover must soak a number of levels of lethal damage equal to the successes rolled.
long. After this spell ends, the entire area of its effect is littered with the sharp, broken remnants of the summoned insects.
System: Spend 3 Essence and roll Perception + Occult (difficulty 5). Everyone inside the attack pattern who isn't behind solid cover must soak a number of levels of lethal damage equal to the successes rolled.
But of course there no reason not to cast wet so raise that to 4.8.
But we also have All things betray which is scene long charm reducing all Perception DC's by 3. Which mins out the DC at 3 well adding two more dice. So damage is now 7.
But we can also spend another essence on occult exilancies doubling our base dice so 12.6 damage.
But we can also get The Pentacle and the Scepter (••••) reducing the cost and DC of all ancient sorcery by 1. Which helps the other spells but for Death of Obsidian Butterflies means the damage now goes up to 14.
Of course there are other ways we can raise the damage more, but those are the most accessible and likely to be the case every time we use it.
Sandstrike blast is cheaper but uses Dexterity + Athletics. Athletics is not a key skill.
Edit: Forgot the stunt obviously we would want to do one of those as well.
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This assumes the maddened hope of Summer drives them to try moving up the ladder instead of tearing it down. The Yama Kings are powerful, but not anywhere close to perfect or unbeatable. Rebellions are an issue for them and a substantial portion of the population taking aim at the system itself is not something he can just cheerfully switch to exploiting.
We didn't build a cyberpunk corpo ambition bomb. The similarities themselves are more likely to increase the weapon's effectiveness than anything else. Starting an anarcho-communist biker gang and burning down the city's office buildings or whatever doesn't help him, it makes a mess of his infrastructure and poisons his messaging because it presents people with other options rather than leaving them trapped in a rat maze that only benefits him for them to run in.
That's the wool he's pulled over their eyes; that they have no choice but to participate with his games and live on his terms.
fictionfan
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If we take a plane the chances of Mikaboshi not blasting us out the air is zero. It is just too fitting considering what we just did to him.
