Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

[] That she is a friend

[] That she's your vassal

[] That by her oath to you she never had to make her First Kill
That third option is way too personal; remember what the whamps call unfledged members. She's not a Raith and the court is more open about this sort of thing, but the vampiric equivalent of discussing how one lost their virginity is not a great thing to bring up during an introduction. Especially on behalf of someone else.

Vassal is a good place to go I think, because it's a casual opener to introducing a little more of what Molly is.

[X] That she's your vassal
 
[x]She works for me and gets massively improved appetite control. It's a great recruiting benefit that spares ordinary humans predation without anybody needing to die.
 
I would actually like to show them shintai. Stage a spar against Harry and Carlos. It should be very educational. Very... visual, I guess? Molly in general is very special effects heavy. Harry might do stuff like gravity distortions, gusts of wind and cones of fire, but Molly comes clad in black stone armor equipped with a flaming sword and with a chorus of dead gods singing her praises. It should really drive home what can be hidden behind a pretty human face. Also, I don't think we ever sparred with Harry, so that should be educational.
We'd probably want to do that in the FCF since Shintai is free there* and we can find a spot to spar no one cares about getting a little damaged. We'd also get to try Lord of the Land for the first time, which could be instructive.

That might be pushing it a bit far for a first meeting though.

* Tangentially related, but since Shintai is free in the FCF is UE Shintai also free? I'm almost tempted to vote for sparring for the sake of a convenient spot to vote on our next form and signature. Probably not a great idea to use the second stage in a spar, but we could still pick the details since the upgrade affects the lower state.
 
We'd probably want to do that in the FCF since Shintai is free there* and we can find a spot to spar no one cares about getting a little damaged. We'd also get to try Lord of the Land for the first time, which could be instructive.

That might be pushing it a bit far for a first meeting though.

* Tangentially related, but since Shintai is free in the FCF is UE Shintai also free? I'm almost tempted to vote for sparring for the sake of a convenient spot to vote on our next form and signature. Probably not a great idea to use the second stage in a spar, but we could still pick the details since the upgrade affects the lower state.
I'm not sure it's a good idea for this meeting, but at some point of their training I definitely want to do something like this.
 
I'm not sure it's a good idea for this meeting, but at some point of their training I definitely want to do something like this.
I don't want to fire Shintai off in the real world like this if we can help it. Seems like sending up a signal flare for trouble. We can get most of the same point across with our remaining combat suite.
To his credit Carlos does try to slow them down, but it's not like he can bounce them out of the door with wards so it's on they charge not slowing until all sixteen flavors of cookies had been sampled and enjoyed. Maybe I did go a bit overboard there, you think momentarily. Nah it's cookies.
So were any of the cookies weird, like how we almost got that cake that changed flavors based on light levels a while back, or "just" incredibly amazing examples of familiar flavors?
 
[x] That she's your vassal
-[x]Had some very fortunate timing in picking her up.
 
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I am guessing that it wasn't even worth bothering having the baby wardens roll willpower to resist cookies.
 
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As an aside, it's interesting that Carlos was allowed to take the kiddies on this field trip alone. From the perspective of the older wizards this is basically letting a ten year old take toddlers to see a talking alligator. Sure it's a very eloquent alligator and they're banking on it to play security for summer camp this year, but still.

I also have a question about a bit of cheese. Technically the Alphas are linear sorcerers and we were able to teach them how to learn gifts from spirits as mortal okay magic.

Can we theoretically do the same with mages to some extent? Getting to use stuff from two major splats at once is bullshit, but if they're very limited without specializing in shapeshifting magic or something it could maybe work.

Fire is the most common element among evokers in the DF, so Master of Fire would be very useful for not suffering the consequences of their actions to name one example.

Plus it'd make a really funny report to the council.
"We took the sprogs to see the local weird demon thing. She made them cookies and set up guest lecture on fire safety that included instructions on being less flammable. Tentatively considered a positive result."


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This is already known to the WC though. We haven't hidden it. The WC also knows that we took in ghouls. So the kids would figure it out in due time anyway.
Carlos was even there when we discussed this exact point with the senior members of the council delegation. He probably prepped them a little in terms of what they'd see here, but that's not the same as getting motive straight from the source.
 
I don't want to fire Shintai off in the real world like this if we can help it. Seems like sending up a signal flare for trouble. We can get most of the same point across with our remaining combat suite.

So were any of the cookies weird, like how we almost got that cake that changed flavors based on light levels a while back, or "just" incredibly amazing examples of familiar flavors?

Some were quite odd and thanks to the charms you used literally out of this world 😉

As an aside, it's interesting that Carlos was allowed to take the kiddies on this field trip alone. From the perspective of the older wizards this is basically letting a ten year old take toddlers to see a talking alligator. Sure it's a very eloquent alligator and they're banking on it to play security for summer camp this year, but still.

I also have a question about a bit of cheese. Technically the Alphas are linear sorcerers and we were able to teach them how to learn gifts from spirits as mortal okay magic.

Can we theoretically do the same with mages to some extent? Getting to use stuff from two major splats at once is bullshit, but if they're very limited without specializing in shapeshifting magic or something it could maybe work.

Fire is the most common element among evokers in the DF, so Master of Fire would be very useful for not suffering the consequences of their actions to name one example.

Plus it'd make a really funny report to the council.
"We took the sprogs to see the local weird demon thing. She made them cookies and set up guest lecture on fire safety that included instructions on being less flammable. Tentatively considered a positive result."


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You could teach them spirit magic yeah, though you'd have to get them some kind of rote that gets them closer to the spirits somehow first shapeshifting is the easiest, thought learning how to speak to trees or bond to tech spirits could also work. Basically they need a shamanic initiation.
 
You could teach them spirit magic yeah, though you'd have to get them some kind of rote that gets them closer to the spirits somehow first shapeshifting is the easiest, thought learning how to speak to trees or bond to tech spirits could also work. Basically they need a shamanic initiation.
Is that something we could get a Sutra to teach them or would we need to do more setup?

Depending on the available synergies this seems like a good way to make them much scarier than they should be at this stage in their lives, which they're going to need.

If using magic foci allowed them to apply Apecraft's Blessings to at least some of their other magic it'd probably be worth it regardless of what other powers they get. It's even fitting for us to be the ones to introduce that cheat because the requirements for learning it are really unusual ones for anyone with the skill to try to consider. Our much livelier tech spirits however, make the research more attractive.
 
Is that something we could get a Sutra to teach them or would we need to do more setup?

Depending on the available synergies this seems like a good way to make them much scarier than they should be at this stage in their lives, which they're going to need.

If using magic foci allowed them to apply Apecraft's Blessings to at least some of their other magic it'd probably be worth it regardless of what other powers they get. It's even fitting for us to be the ones to introduce that cheat because the requirements for learning it are really unusual ones for anyone with the skill to try to consider. Our much livelier tech spirits however, make the research more attractive.

You would need to get a SUTRA to teach an experienced wizard who could then teach it to them.
 
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