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Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

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  • [X] Plan In the Light of the Crown
    -[X] Use the Crown on the Current scene to ask "What are the beings disturbed by the events in this scene"
    --[X] If no being that the Angel may be bound to guard against waking is being disturbed, then
    ---[X] Better to seek forgiveness than ask permission, signal the others to keep fighting, keep the curse going
    ---[X] Activate Source Code Compliance Protocol
    ---[X] STUNT: Bright is the flame of your soul atop the mountain in the center of this foul nether realm. Like thunder is your voice, the rumble of a great Beast Upon the Mountain from before Ages past, in the language spoken before Creation itself was conceived: "Hear me, oh angel, and by the flames of my Crown know this to be true - you are mistaken, for none under your charge are roused by my words. My and mine alone is the power invoked"
    --[X] If the angel is right and there is something waking up, lift the curse, and unleash the dragon:
    ---[X] Lift the curse, then attack
    ---[X]Sophia: Activate Adaptation, then teleport and attack in melee
    ---[X]Molly: Switch to counterspelling support. Excellency if necessary.
    ---[X]Others: Continue as per previous plan
    ---[X]STUNT: You stare for a moment then shake your head. "Just the curse?" you say, conferring mentally with your companions "Okay." And as you relax your will, Sophia vanishes, reappearing behind a Hollow Man body in the distance with her sword already midswing.
    [X] Abide by the judgement, trust that the angel can drive Drusus off and you can recover the souls you came looking for, though it galls you to let him continue to exist
    [X] Better to seek forgiveness than ask permission, signal the others to keep fighting, keep the curse going
    [X]Plan Unleash The Dragon
    -[X] Lift the curse, then attack
    -[X]Sophia: Activate Adaptation, then teleport and attack in melee
    -[X]Molly: Switch to counterspelling support. Excellency if necessary.
    -[X]Others: Continue as per previous plan
    -[X]STUNT: You stare for a moment then shake your head. "Just the curse?" you say, conferring mentally with your companions "Okay." And as you relax your will, Sophia vanishes, reappearing behind a Hollow Man body in the distance with her sword already midswing
    [X] Lift the curse, launch yourself at the Hollow Man, with an angel here you shouldn't have to hold the center
    [X]Plan: Go big or go home
    -[x] ask a crown question:"How does he plan to escape?"
    -[x]use the info to get the others to stop him from escaping. Then:
    -[x]Lift the curse, launch yourself at the Hollow Man, with an angel here you shouldn't have to hold the center
    [X] Plan In the Light of the Crown
    -[X] Use the Crown on the Current scene to ask "What are the beings disturbed by the events in this scene"
    --[X] If no being that the Angel may be bound to guard against waking is being disturbed, then
    ---[X] Better to seek forgiveness than ask permission, signal the others to keep fighting, keep the curse going
    ---[X] Activate Source Code Compliance Protocol
    ---[X] STUNT: Bright is the flame of your soul atop the mountain in the center of this foul nether realm. Like thunder is your voice, the rumble of a great Beast Upon the Mountain from before Ages past, in the language spoken before Creation itself was conceived: "Hear me, oh angel, and by the flames of my Crown know this to be true - you are mistaken, for none under your charge are roused by my words. My and mine alone is the power invoked"
    --[X] If there is something waking up, lift the curse, launch yourself at the Hollow Man, with an angel here you shouldn't have to hold the center
    [X] Plan: Charms Heretical
    -[X] If the umbral fetid anger of your curse draws an angel of the Lord to rebut you and possibly draws the attention of things Beyond mortal ken, then you shall craft a new one from tenacity and and Iron Winds.
    --[X] Scouring of the Iron wind - With a bone chilling Roar The Inferno scours the efforts of her Target with the iron gales of the Five Fold Court of Fate and the predatory Roar of the great Beasts that roam its deadly plains.
    --[X] Stunt: The shadows shift and recede. In its place The Winds of your hell whip and whorl. If the shadowed hatred will not do, then you will curse him with everything you've got from your resolve at saving who you came for and tenacity at stopping this Abomination from hurting anyone else. Rolling your shoulders and taking a deep breath your face to the dead stars above. You roar. A roar so unnatural and thunderous a mix between the Roar of a thousand monsters and the grinding of a million shards of steel. That the labyrinth shakes beneath your feet and the skies quake and quiver at your exhalation.
    [x] "Uriel, Uriel, Uriel."
    -[X] Lift the curse, then attack
    -[X]Sophia: Activate Adaptation, then teleport and attack in melee
    -[X]Molly: Switch to counterspelling support. Excellency if necessary.
    -[X]Others: Continue as per previous plan
    -[X]STUNT: You stare for a moment then shake your head. "Just the curse?" you say, conferring mentally with your companions "Okay." And as you relax your will, Sophia vanishes, reappearing behind a Hollow Man body in the distance with her sword already midswing
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Damn, I just realized that I wasted an opportunity tk say "be not afraid" to an actual angel and have it make sense. I am sorry, everyone, for I am truly a failure.
 
offhand are there artifacts or things to permanently increase mollys motes? Because I've seen an e4 with like 140 motes and I was curious how that works.
 
firefrog600 said:
e4 with like 140 motes and I was curious how that works.
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That would have been an exalt with Essence plethora which is a spirit charm meant for gods that is teachable to zenith who can then teach it to other exalts that inflates well Essence.
The closest we would get is a Matrix or Pariapt that would allow us to store away essence for later use in a battery or artifact configuration. I already posted an Alchemy along those lines that was approved a while back.
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Yeah, that is workable.
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Degorium said:
Soulstone (●●●●●)
Similar to Matrices and Periapts is a way for an alchemist to contain and hold the energies of the world for later use. Unfortunately things are rarely ever so simple. Similar to a matrix SoulStone cannot be charged through passive means (Enchanted waters, Node placement) nor can it be melded with functioning biomass.

The energy in raw SoulStone can be accessed through a short ritual (1 to 2 minutes) at difficulty 6 rolled with willpower dice, In comparison to a Periapts 1 round of concentration and unlike a periapt there's no way to access the held energy from a distance. Soulstone once added to a construct becomes integrated and Inseparable from said construct. Any energy contained in or added to said soulstone in the construct later will be devoted to the function of said construct; it cannot be used for any other sorcery or Magicks.

Example: An Ash wand of Hellfire infused with Soulstone containing 10 mana cast lightning bolt -3 difficulty down to seven Mana. The sorcerer realizing they are in over their head tries to cast a conveyance spell using that wand and unfortunately quickly realizes the Mana committed to the Hellfire wand only works when it's used as the Hellfire wand.

Soulstone capacity is decided by the quality. Soulstone in creation holds a base of 3 plus the number of successes x 2 in Quintessence, Mana, Essence. In high quality soulstone (5+ successes) a fist sized Mass could hold up to 20 units. A mass of raw soulstone can be divided as seen below.

Sizes - high quality / Sizes - regular
  • Pebble - 1 unit per / Pebble - 0 unit per
  • Beads - 2 units per / Beads - 1 unit per
  • Palm slab - 10 units per / Palm slab - 5 units per
  • Fist or small cube - 20 units per / Fist or small cube - 10 units per
  • Block - 30 units per / Block - 15 units per

Generally objects have a size or amount of Soulstone that they can handle without penalty or fragility for objects that fit in hand such as wands, pens, swords and guns that size is Palm slabs and below. For objects of significantly wider surface area and coverage such as body armor or large Shields that size is small cube it is really only necessary for Block to be used on really large objects such as buildings or particularly large vehicles.
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firefrog600 said:
offhand are there artifacts or things to permanently increase mollys motes? Because I've seen an e4 with like 140 motes and I was curious how that works.
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There's Jade Talismans, but they're limited to smaller use cases for us.

My assumption is that whatever you were looking at was from exalted proper or potentially v1 of ExWoD, because the version we're on specifically reduces essence pools dramatically to make exalts easier to fight.
 
firefrog600 said:
offhand are there artifacts or things to permanently increase mollys motes? Because I've seen an e4 with like 140 motes and I was curious how that works.
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ExvsWoD has far lower mote pools than Exalted proper. Jade talismans like the one Lydia is using might help. Prayer eating also helps. And Olivia, or at least Olivia once she awakens her essence might be able to store essence in potions through mana manipulation :
Sample Rituals
•• Infusion: While a spell can only store a single point
of mana, this ritual allows the sorcerer to store several
points of mana in some consumable object, usually a
potion (especially for alchemists). Each success allows the
item to store one point of mana, though the transfer is
imperfect. For each success, up to two mana can be spent,
half of which (rounded up) "leaks" and is lost, leaving the
other half (rounded down) in the consumable.
••• Shape Mana: With this ritual, the sorcerer can
make substantial changes to the flow of mana. Positive
energy can be turned toxic, curses can be turned into
blessings, and ley lines can be bent to go where the
sorcerer wants. These effects are generally permanent,
though some require regular rituals (more frequently for
bigger effects) to maintain them. The size of the effect is
determined by the number of successes. A single success
can dissipate bad luck. Three successes, however, can
bring good fortune (-1 difficulty on all commerce, better
healing at a hospital, etc.). Five or more successes can
allow truly spectacular changes, like moving ley lines,
changing what a ward defends again, etc.
Associated Spheres: Prime
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That all makes sense to me was just curious cause after being in this quest for so long my mouth dropped a little seeing their fucking mote pools lol.
 
firefrog600 said:
I was curious how that works.
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Degorium said:
SoulStone
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BronzeTongue said:
Jade Talismans
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Yog said:
mana manipulation
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As you can see there are a variety of options. For in combat time mote pool size increases Jade talismans. In combat refreshes of essence Mana manipulation infused objects that are ingested. Out of combat need to refresh the entire Essence pool Matrix or Periapt ie Soulstone.

It's part of the reason I've been advocating for Mana manipulation and Alchemy 5 for the last I don't know how many pages now but it's been more than 1000 I think.
 
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Arc 14 Post 57: Malice Miscalculated
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    • Malice Miscalculated ​

    18th of February 2007 A.D.

    The thought of disobeying an angel of the Lord is almost unthinkable, that of letting 'Drusus' flee after what he's done almost unbearable. So you do what you've done time and again before, even if it leaves you hanging by a single mote of power... you ask a question: "What's being disturbed by my use of power."

    [NULL]

    Never your life have you been so glad to hear the ring of strident nothing in your mind's ear. Turning at once to the messenger you proclaim: "Hear me, oh angel, and by the flames of my Crown know this to be true - you are mistaken, for none under your charge are roused by my words. My and mine alone is the power invoked."

    Lost 1 Essence -> Now a 1/18

    A time of firsts is this. Never before had you spoken of your crown so openly where others might hear.Never before had another been able to follow with eyes detached the incandescent thread of intellectuals to its end there to find not what she had thought, feared maybe, though the thought of an angel fearing something sends a chill down you spine.

    ["Not For Present Time/Subject to Change. He Remembers as He is Remembered. Time is given. Use it wisely/sparingly."]

    Thanks for nothing, you do not say it, but it's there, the sense of outrage, anger at having to contend with her when the monster was loose, then you realize that the Labyrinth beyond the reach of your power is suddenly impossibly still, fractals means to crumble into eternal ruin, dying but never dead now made straight as an arrow, those lost are being directed to the hither as fast as their will can carry them.

    As the angel floats upwards, her company of the damned swirling in her wake. the battle now has six more combatants and they are not on your enemy's side. They come crowned in fire, be it crowns of wreaths or cowboy hats, they come bearing weapons, some staffs, some swords, one of them a Colt revolver, they come with tears in their eyes and rage on their hearts.

    All would have fallen but for your rescue, but now they are here for an angel had smoothed the way and now they are hungry for vengeance or maybe redemption for sins not yet indulged, only imagined.

    An imbalance righted, an attempt to manipulate repaid. Now it's your turn to laugh, though you'll save that for when he's dead.

    Thus the gun sings, and though the mutilated incarnation catches the bullet in a rubbery inhuman arm, that moment of distraction is all a trio of other Wardens need to cast a net of gold... numbers into the ether. Whatever the weaponized math is made of the Drusus seems to be allergic to it the figure dies, leaving four more of them, still under the curse of malice, not facing eight wizards not two.

    Incarnation Destroyed (Four Remaining)

    One of the twisted figures snaps its fingers, it it even has those and an object flies out from the depths of the Labyrinth, a real physical object that had to have been purposefully been brought here.

    "Behold, the fruits of ruin," the hollow one laughs revealing it to be a pressurized metal tube now careening towards the nearest of the returned wizards. Shaw... the laboratory, the fungus.

    What do you do?

    [] Try to alter the environment around you to hamper the fungus from growing, letting go of the curse

    [] Let the wizards handle it, as long as their magic does not directly touch the stuff they should be fine

    [] Write in

    OOC: Welp that backfired on old Drusus, he still wants you to let go of the curse though for obvious arete related reasons.
     
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    • Yog said:
    ExvsWoD has far lower mote pools than Exalted proper. Jade talismans like the one Lydia is using might help. Prayer eating also helps. And Olivia, or at least Olivia once she awakens her essence might be able to store essence in potions through mana manipulation :
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    Technically we could try some mad science using IDU and Hellweaving now that we know how it works for us.

    A contractor who spends 2 points of demon chi feeds us 1 mote of essence with no relevant range limit, and I'm pretty sure we can use that charm on animals. Rather than designing a build to be particularly good at some task we could try making what's effectively essence livestock*.

    Focus the build on having and recovering as much demon chi as possible, then give them a limited number of outlets simple enough for say a smart cow to be trained to use on command. At 1 mote a pop we could make a bunch of them pretty quickly and leave them to be trained by our people. Then it would just be a matter of arranging a way to signal them and we could gulp down a bunch of motes way faster than prayer eating could provide.

    Prayer eating could probably provide more when given a day or more to work, but if we need a refill in a hurry we don't have time to wait for an hour long ritual**.


    * If this is starting to sound familiar, just remember that not making them sapient puts us miles ahead of the primordials. :V

    ** I still think we should get it to be clear. There are benefits for working with our people and getting lots of motes for major workings, among other things. I just think it's more of a strategic tool in comparison with drinking the tainted life force of demonic cows.
     
    Yep, he tried a gambit, and now his situation is even worse off because an Angel does not appreciate being called in on false pretenses and has a lot of ways to make their Displeasure known without breaking any rules.
     
    DragonParadox said:
    A time of firsts is this. Never before had you spoken of your crown so openly where others might hear, where an enemy will hear.
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    Ah shit. We know Outsiders can communicate instantaneously. No matter the cost, they're gonna spread this info. They knew already that Molly could spot them regardless of how well they hid in the Fae Courts or the White Council, but now they know Molly's Crown is broad enough to ask about the Ebony Dragon.

    Even if we murder this guy, the genie's out of the bottle. We should purchase Night Swallows Secrets asap to slow the spread of this info.
     
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    TheGrape said:
    We know Outsiders can communicate instanteously.
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    We don't actually know that. He's also the one who was acting as the relay of information and his magic is literally so crippled he can't pull an object out of his own place of power at the moment so even if they could instantly communicate the one who is actually doing the communicating is currently being fucked up.

    If he gets away then the genie is assuredly off the bottle because there are still remaining warlocks that he can communicate to, but if he dies here there's not insignificant chance the only ones who knows are heaven which already knew, Dresden who already knew and Ebenezer has no context for what the hell the crown is so he doesn't know yet he might have ideas but he doesn't know yet.
     
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    TheGrape said:
    Ah shit. We know Outsiders can communicate instantaneously. No matter the cost, they're gonna spread this info. They knew already that Molly could spot them regardless of how well they hid in the Fae Courts or the White Council, but now they know Molly's Crown is broad enough to ask about the Ebony Dragon.

    Even if we murder this guy, the genie's out of the bottle. We should purchase Night Swallows Secrets asap to slow the spread of this info.
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    Couldn't by the flames of my Crown be taken metaphorically to those not in the know since Molly is a Queen?
     
    Yeah, since SSC seems to be modified to be a maintained effect, I think we definitely should be keeping him suppresssed. Four Arete 2 warlocks against a team of six Wardens, Blackstuff, Merlin, Harry, Lydia and Sophia? No contest. Even with the plague. I'll note that Drusus seems to be burning his last ditch resort stockpile of shinies on this. We might get him cornered, and we should be
    DragonParadox said:
    Time of firsts is this. Never before had you spoken of your crown so openly where others might hear, where an enemy will hear.
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    Technically, this was to be a double meaning. To the angel, who should know about the Crown anyway, saying "I used the Crown of Eyes". To anyone without said knowledge this was intended to sound "by my authority and honor, by the weight of the thing I bear, and the flame I have inherited". Anyway, hopefully we'll be able to kill Hollow man here.

    Anyway, what are Lydia, Ebeneezer, Merlin are doing?
     
    TheGrape said:
    Ah shit. We know Outsiders can communicate instantaneously. No matter the cost, they're gonna spread this info. They knew already that Molly could spot them regardless of how well they hid in the Fae Courts or the White Council, but now they know Molly's Crown is broad enough to ask about the Ebony Dragon.

    Even if we murder this guy, the genie's out of the bottle. We should purchase Night Swallows Secrets asap to slow the spread of this info.
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    It was bound to happen eventually, and honestly? Knowing what they face might take some of the heat off of the Archive and the Venatori
     
    Yog said:
    Technically, this was to be a double meaning. To the angel, who should know about the Crown anyway, saying "I used the Crown of Eyes". To anyone without said knowledge this was intended to sound "by my authority and honor, by the weight of the thing I bear, and the flame I have inherited". Anyway, hopefully we'll be able to kill Hollow man here.
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    That is exactly how I read it. People need to keep in mind that without crucial context not everything is so clear cut. There's multiple ways to perceive that exchange especially since Angels are known to have intelluctus of their own. Molly is a Queen with a literal crown as well as a Crown.
     
    BoredMan said:
    Couldn't by the flames of my Crown be taken metaphorically to those not in the know since Molly is a Queen?
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    That was kinda how I intended this. Two meanings for two groups of beings. To the angel, who I presumed knowing about the crown (Because Warden of Ebon Dragon should damn well know about Infernals and how they work at least a bit), this was "I used the Crown". To those without context, a "By my honor and the authority I bear, know that I do not lie".

    Also, to be fair, Hollow Man already knew we were able to scry him. That's how the whole thing started - he felt us looking.
     
    BoredMan said:
    That is exactly how I read it. People need to keep in mind that without crucial context not everything is so clear cut. There's multiple ways to perceive that exchange especially since Angels are known to have intelluctus of their own. Molly is a Queen with a literal crown as well as a Crown.
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    I mean if we can't get exactly what enemies mean when their being cryptic fucks neither should they against us. Lets be clear without context this is cryptic as fuck.
     
    Yog said:
    Yeah, since SSC seems to be modified to be a maintained effect, I think we definitely should be keeping him suppresssed. Four Arete 2 warlocks against a team of six Wardens, Blackstuff, Merlin, Harry, Lydia and Sophia? No contest. Even with the plague. I'll note that Drusus seems to be burning his last ditch resort stockpile of shinies on this. We might get him cornered, and we should be

    Technically, this was to be a double meaning. To the angel, who should know about the Crown anyway, saying "I used the Crown of Eyes". To anyone without said knowledge this was intended to sound "by my authority and honor, by the weight of the thing I bear, and the flame I have inherited". Anyway, hopefully we'll be able to kill Hollow man here.

    Anyway, what are Lydia, Ebeneezer, Merlin are doing?
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    You were speaking Primordial at the time so as not to be misunderstood

    The wizards with you have not moved yet and are in position to try to do something about the canister, though how able they would be to manipulate the thing without setting it off will be down to the dice.

    Unless you tell her otherwise Lydia is planning to try to convince some of the ancient Wan Kuei specters that angel brought with her to help, they might not be entirely sane, but they obviously want release (which she hopefully can give) and they still have power.

    Anyway, good night guys, see you in the morning. Sorry for how late this was but I was away from my laptop for most of the day.
     
    Well, as expected, someone made a mistake and overreacted. Personally, I think keeping a guy with arete 10 in arete 2 is the most important thing. Rolling arete 10 can turn the battlefield inside out on its own. I'd rather not deal with that, please.

    Welcome to the stage where we understand the approximate power level of angels in this quest.
     
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