Their are ways to kill Infernals but traps and ambushs are not one of them, that activates CCC AKA god mode. Indeed walking into traps is standard practice for Infernals, CCC being active makes them the strongest of the Celestial Exalted.
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
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- Crossover Fantasy
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Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
Don't see why it would have when we haven't bumped into any dragons. In DP position I would avoid taking any sort of stance on the issue until Molly learns in character. But Exalted have similar amounts of hype and dragon slaying is a fine family tradition.
- Location
- washington
You think the dragon just has a destroy the universe their in power in quest still? When the quest isn't in a multiverse like canon.
I mean... there is a Methuselah equivalent being who was OK with leading you into Hell, even though it could be convincingly argued to not be part of the job he was contracted into. But more to the point the Dragon was a Methuselah, he had disciplines at 9. The reason it might feel like you are still among rough equals is that... you are, you just keep punching up.
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[X] Mind-Hand Manipulation to carry Lash + Lydia + Lydia's Hands
Vote closed, pick up and run it is.
Yeah. Its easy to overlook, but just in this story arc alone, Molly has called on, or been involved with:
- Donnar Vadderung of Monoc Securities aka All-Father Odin
- Nergui, Jade Court ancestor and elder Bone Flower
- Summer Lady Lily, Summer Queen Titania and Mother Summer, and whatever senior Fae Last Bright Opal is
- Von Triers of the Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress
- The Vice-Chairman of the Federal Reserve
None of that counts Lydia or Lash, either.
Every single person on that list is a heavy hitter in their area of expertise, almost all of them of global prominence.
Any single one of them would be the subject of an entire Dresden Files book. All of these people have picked up the phone and answered when Molly's made a call, or in Opal's case actively sought her out.
That they do so for an 18 year old is telling about where they rate us.
There's people on that list that Harry would spend an entire case trying to talk to.
Molly just does it.
And none of them has Michael's excuse of being her father.
Arc 12 Post 69: Swift Steel Hooves
Swift Steel Hooves
28th of January 2007 A.D.
Hands in the darkness unseen you pick up Tiffany and Lydia and all of Lydia's puppets, essence wrapping around lacquered wooden frames, easy as breathing and you run. The chill breath of the underworld does not slow you but drives you on, your power in emptiness only growing. Below you can 'see' the old warrior a shadow-almost-bright against the deeper darkness of the Road, his head lowered until he almost seems to be whispering into the ear of his other self, swift as the night wind. But hunger drives them even faster, howling pain or laughter or both, Joy-in-Anguish, the word comes to you in that other tongue, the First Tongue as you see the first glimpse of light since you had passed out of the Velvet Room. It is a reflection, cold light that isn't there off a mask of tarnished silver. Once it had been a kitsune, but the ancient markings had long been worn down replaced with blacked tear streaks, a final mockery of the husk that wears it.
Lost 1 Essence -> Now at 13/15 (MHM)
More run beside it, like a wolf-pack running down prey, all wearing the ruined visages of the hengeyokai cast in silver, the worlds' guardians turned feral hunting beasts of Yomi. Some are running along the road itself, hunting Nergui, others flying high meaning to tear into the three of you or maybe dive and pin to its icy surface. Dead they are and yet the Road does not consume them.
A whicker ahead adds to the din, Nergui's Sülde-soul pushed at last beyond itself, eyes like marsh-lights glimmer and it becomes as wind through the grasses, as fast as you are on aloft and likely even faster without burning essence in flight. Swift are the hounds of hell, but not yet that swift or that many.
Spirit Horse spends 1 Willpower -> Now at 5/6 (Alacrity)
The pace slows again, from impossible to merely inhuman, the howls of the Unfaced to not return instead after an uncountable while you hear from up ahead a roaring of wind and the crash of orphan thunder for there is still no light. That you know is the Maelstrom, the ragged edge of hell that depending on one's philosophical bent is either a an immune response, like a blister in the fabric of the Spirit World or the racing edge of a wildfire that will consume all the Otherlands.
At the moment you are more interested in what comes after, the passage into Hell. Most who walk the Ebon Road find themselves in either the Wo Hua's Hell of Salt and Iron simply because one expects that a ladder would be grounded in the most solid element, as much as the realms of Yomi could be said to have such things, but the Road is not a thing which singular in time and place, where there is deepest darkness it is, just as those who feast upon the lives of the living dwell away from the light of the sun. Hence why it is often used in raids by the Yama Kings one upon another.
In the sound of the storm, faint and far off can now be heard the roar of heavy machinery, even though the ribbon of blackness does not appear to have bent or split driving ever onward into the heart of night without hope of day.
"We will likely emerge somewhere in Undertown near the fortress, wherever the 'flood lights' have failed or they have never been set to begin with, the victims of graft greed and ill-management..."
"Even in Hell," you grumble into the coms followed by a knowing laugh from Lash.
"We must find sturdier shelter as soon as we are on the other side," Nergui continues, seemingly unshaken by encountering the horrors of the Road. How many times had he ridden this way before in his long centuries you wonder since he had first escaped from Yomi? "Given the young one's Hands it would be swiftest to compel one of the ragged ilk of the Undertwon to provide for us."
"I don't know... what's going to happen to them after?" Lydia asks guiltily even as the sound of trills carving into bone grows louder and louder.
"Agony is their fate now, their fate it shall remain no matter what we make of them. Such is Yomi." The Wan Kuei's answer could not even be called callous, from his lips it is a mere statement of fact.
"I might be able just hack into the network and get us some kind of pass. Wood is an odd aesthetic to be sure, but not unheard of," you muse. that will cost your Essence
As you emerge in the Wicked City how do you find shelter to operate from?
[] Nergui uses Obligation on the nearest denizens to grant you entrance
[] Clippy tries her hand at hacking without network support (Intelligence+Computers 8 Dice at DC 8)
[] Molly uses TTC to hack in herself so as not to risk Clippy (Costs 1 Essence; Roll Intelligence+
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OOC: You may note I did change what the Unfaced are, that is because there is no vast grey underworld in Dresdenverse which means that hordes of Specters are not something that can be just assumed to be around of which the Unfaced are simply one more strange and powerful breed. These are hengeyokai who must have come to a very unpleasant end and become... what you see. If you want to know more you'd have to catch one and pry off their mask.
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Rolls
MHM
*speed is not rolled, I just calculated it for both parties and they spent the resources they had to speed up, the Unfaced are fast, but the spirit whose main quality is 'Swift like the Wind' is faster when it has to be*
What's an Unfaced?
Chi Sight again... he is basically droping you on the next block over
MHM
*speed is not rolled, I just calculated it for both parties and they spent the resources they had to speed up, the Unfaced are fast, but the spirit whose main quality is 'Swift like the Wind' is faster when it has to be*
What's an Unfaced?
Chi Sight again... he is basically droping you on the next block over
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- She/Her
dankness or darkness?
Sentence should probably be two sentences?
Anyway, I'm not really sure as to what option to go for. Well, I'm inclined to not ask Clippy to try something so risky.
It was missing a piece of sentence I thought was there, I got up and when I sat back down I assumed it was there. Fixed now. Thanks.
Actually, and checking - if Molly was only looking to get shelter for herself, she wouldn't need to roll, correct?
- Location
- Germany
Does this use of Obligation cost Chi?
Because we can regain Essence in some ways, but Nergui can't restore his Chi here, not with all the tainted Feng Shui, he'd poison himself.
Because we can regain Essence in some ways, but Nergui can't restore his Chi here, not with all the tainted Feng Shui, he'd poison himself.
Yes, but she also needs shelter for other people and six wood zombies.
No, it is Authority so it costs him a willpower to roll.
[X] Allies are here for a reason.
-[X] Molly uses TTC to hack in herself so as not to risk Clippy Use 1 Willpower.
-[X] Ask Tiffany use Lore of Flesh to increase intelligence.
-[X] Stunt: As you emerge from absolute darkness into the poisoned twilight of the Wicked City, the hand of an angel upon your shoulder fueling the already bright bonfire of your intelligence, the air before your eyes and under your hands simmers, forming holographic mandalas reminiscent of the more esoteric prayer-programming interfaces favored by the greatest engineers of your Courts.
Use Willpower instead of our Essence so we don't use our fuel so rapidly and don't get closer to popping our disguise have Tiffany increase our intelligence to increase our likelihood of success.
-[X] Molly uses TTC to hack in herself so as not to risk Clippy Use 1 Willpower.
-[X] Ask Tiffany use Lore of Flesh to increase intelligence.
-[X] Stunt: As you emerge from absolute darkness into the poisoned twilight of the Wicked City, the hand of an angel upon your shoulder fueling the already bright bonfire of your intelligence, the air before your eyes and under your hands simmers, forming holographic mandalas reminiscent of the more esoteric prayer-programming interfaces favored by the greatest engineers of your Courts.
Use Willpower instead of our Essence so we don't use our fuel so rapidly and don't get closer to popping our disguise have Tiffany increase our intelligence to increase our likelihood of success.
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@DragonParadox how are we on Willpower right now?
The power scale has otherwise been maintained so I wouldn't assume a nerf otherwise. They won't because there are more people at that power level interested and positioned to defend reality than to destroy it, so this stuff mostly matters for establishing the setting political dynamic.
Looking at the odds, we should already have less than 1% chance of failing to roll any successes, so do we need to take the time and resources for a buff?
There is no cost to getting the buff it happens really quickly it takes one roll and is resistible in combat. I don't know how long it takes but it's definitely short enough that combat usage is a possible skill of Lore of Flesh. Also someone's going to have to spend the willpower risking clippy's life for no obvious benefit and I'm sure our Methuselah level friend has other disciplines that he can use for that willpower most of our abilities are essence-based and I don't want to pop our disguise so assuring that we get this hack right is crucial. If for no reason than to make sure we're not up to our neck in enemies.
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Everyone but the horse is on full willpower.
I am guessing that the quality of the shelter would depend on the success amount. Maybe at legendary success we stumble into a genuine resistance cell or something.
EDIT: Also, no resources will be spent. Manipulate Flesh doesn't use Faith.