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Hey future idea seeing how the sword of hope reacts to the hope plague would be cool.
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
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fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
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If the wielder of the Hope sword had offered to come I don't think that we could have refused. However since he hasn't shown up already I think that we can assume that this isn't really it's thing. I don't think that the sword of Hope usually gets involved in bloody revolutions. Then again what do I know? Maybe it was all over the place in France 1789.
In this universe there was likely super natural involvement of some kind. Maybe the Nobles were all Vampires? Or one of the other sorts of nasty.
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I was more thinking having them in the same room whenever we first see Sanya.
Possibly, but not a given. I don't think we lose anything by trying, and I think one prisoner is a good focus for another of the same hell, and there are plenty of prisoners. Plus, we are in the same general location, so it should also work as a focus.
It costs us and her nothing to reapply the boosts.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
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Well she does have a chance for a botch which is more likely with All is Poison.
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fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
I had hoped that this might be that day. Unfortunately
You do collateral damage in the Wicked city and it hits back. Not that I don't think that we can beat Wrecker Spirits, but they are likely to come at a rate of more than 1 per round.
BoredMan
Maintaining the Agenda is our top priority
I think the Arctic Ambush counts. Then again we did have allies around.
Arc 12 Post 71: To Wager Against Perdition
To Wager Against Perdition
28th of January 2007 A.D.
In the end, reluctantly, you tamp down on the sense of limitless potential in your veins. The reason for the raid is very much limited, a play in two acts and that is how you'll play it, one after the other. Tiffany works her magic, at least where she can, power over flesh and understanding of the human form.
Molly; Lydia and Tiffany gain DEX 10
East of the 'Screw', as you had come to think of the tower you find yourselves in is s web-work of cables that threads in the direction of Perdition's Edge, prone to unpredictable surges and haunted by half-feral automata that barely recognize any network override more than they do a bullet to the motherboard... so of course that is the direction you take, racing through patches of light and shadow as fast as inhumanly possible. Speed is your friend now, speed and surprise.
Along the way you see electric wraiths dancing at the edge of vision, drinking in the screams of those bound to the lightning rods, metal millipedes that seem to have been put together from discarded cans and loose vertebra crawling along the wires, cybernetic imps, like sea-monkeys wired into shells of steel and glass, but none of them see you. Like death and darkness silently you pass through the mid-levels, two miles, maybe three if distance means the same thing here as it does in more earthly spheres until the wires of this post industrial canopy give way to great pillars of stone, still bearing carvings predatory and cruel, now subjected into brutalist watch-powers that would not have been out of place putting light and bullets on people trying to flee over the iron curtain. Here and now it is the the outer perimeter of Perdition's Edge.
Timing for a gap in the sweep of the light you and Lydia both thread the needs, Nergui simply jumps the gap then... The hiss of a drone passing overhead along algorithmically determined patterns almost turns its guns on Lash. She only just manages to twist wing over wing ducking back in the cover of the wire canopy.
Come on, come on, you think, peering over the wall from the other side. A fight on the outer perimeter would meant the blast doors would come down inside and that you can't afford. The data you do have was vague on how many of those there are other than 'as many as it takes to isolate high energy experiments with Rift Essence'.
More drones are coming, their sirens mixing with din of the city to raise the stakes from hopelessness to terror.
The metal plate under your fingers is pliable as silly putty... and so indeed are the guardians of this place. Without a sound you rip it loose and hurl it like a Frisbee between drones three and four —not questioning how you know the designations of this particular swarm, you just do— the metal plate flies. For just a moment the drones re-calibrate into a defense formation leaving just a gap mesured in slivers of seconds for Tiffany to make the dash though the field of fire.
Cursing in a melange of French and some kind of ancient Mesopotamian tongue that no one else would think to use your friend arrives looking a good bit more avian than just the wings., having altered herself on the fly to be less detectable to their sensors. Obviously 'reducing sensor cross-section' isn't in line with the well-being of organic beings. She looks paler than Nergui.
The sound of rhythmic chanting echoes from the courtyard below, hurrahs as passed though a synthesizer until all the passion had been leached from them, leaving only empty decibels. Not as powerful as the demons of Iron and Violence you had faced in the Arctic, but they don't have to be, seeing as there are more than fifty of them just in the courtyard, not counting the sensor and repair drones crawling all over the place.
"At least they aren't specifically built to spot intruders," you sub-vocalive. The father in you can get without a fight the smoother this will go, though you have no illusions about being able to make it all the way through. Maybe if I had just gone alone...
"If you had come alone Majesty I trust that you would have been subtle as shadow in moonlight and yet should crude chance have somehow played you false it is better to have allies," Usum answers the unspoken thought.
Which Objective do you go for first?
[] Seed the Hope Plague up in the Stacks (Low chance of an aerial encounter, middling chance of an encounter in the corridors of the fortress; guaranteed lower level encounter)
[] Free Joe Magarac (Middling chance of a lower level encounter, low chance of an encounter in the corridors; high chance of an aerial encounter)
OOC: Sorry this took so long guys, I missed the part about increasing dex initially which means I had to redo some of the rolls. At least I caught it before I posted.
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*Lash has all the time she needs to use Manipulate Flesh, she can just keep doing it until it works*
Molly, Lydia, Tiffany, Nergui vs Local Cyber Imps, Drone... matches Tiffany
Time for Molly to use some of those bullshit DC moddifiers vs Drone (s) not to get fooled
*Lash has all the time she needs to use Manipulate Flesh, she can just keep doing it until it works*
Molly, Lydia, Tiffany, Nergui vs Local Cyber Imps, Drone... matches Tiffany
Time for Molly to use some of those bullshit DC moddifiers vs Drone (s) not to get fooled
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I do not want to have to drag Joe Magarac around while we seed the Hope Plague. Let's do that first.
[X] Seed the Hope Plague up in the Stacks (Low chance of an aerial encounter, middling chance of an encounter in the corridors of the fortress; guaranteed lower level encounter)
[X] Seed the Hope Plague up in the Stacks (Low chance of an aerial encounter, middling chance of an encounter in the corridors of the fortress; guaranteed lower level encounter)
Just to be clear the lower level encounters are the most dangerous, that is where the experimental subjects are kept.
[X] Seed the Hope Plague up in the Stacks (Low chance of an aerial encounter, middling chance of an encounter in the corridors of the fortress; guaranteed lower level encounter)
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
[x] Seed the Hope Plague up in the Stacks (Low chance of an aerial encounter, middling chance of an encounter in the corridors of the fortress; guaranteed lower level encounter)
The whole point of this thing was to make a distraction. I don't know why it's treated as an extra objective.
The whole point of this thing was to make a distraction. I don't know why it's treated as an extra objective.
Because now that you are here through a confluence of where you arrived and how you choose to move (no scouting and trusting surprise) that order does risk a rather dangerous encounter and Molly knows enough about the complex to guess that. The median encounter (no 10 successes for finding the way) would have landed you some place farther away meaning scouting would have been mandatory and the plague would have been a way to ensure that you did not have an army land on you.
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[X] Seed the Hope Plague up in the Stacks
paler than
Thanks for updating!
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Thanks for updating!
I mean, that's just an even better reason not to take the prisoner with us there and finish up this part first....
[X] Seed the Hope Plague up in the Stacks (Low chance of an aerial encounter, middling chance of an encounter in the corridors of the fortress; guaranteed lower level encounter)
No one says you cannot just smash the prisoner out of Yomi as soon as you have him (say by sending Lydia with him ) and then do the wholesome plague spreading. Not saying you should do it like this mind, just giving your guys options.
