BoredMan
Maintaining the Agenda is our top priority
But it's a school day.
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
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- Crossover Fantasy
I think Charity is going to make an exception for this. Hell, depending on how this goes, we might take Michael with us.But it's a school day.
BoredMan
Maintaining the Agenda is our top priority
I have to wonder how Charity is even keeping Molly in school at this point. The family emergency excuse only works so many times before they kick you out for truancy.
Arc 14 Post 67: A Tour Most Peculiar
A Tour Most Peculiar
21st of February 2007 A.D.
"I can fix it." Four little words and one very large pledge. The moment they had come out of your mouth Harry had looked at you with something worryingly perched between despair and hope and Tiffany she had just helpfully pointed out that depending on how public you make the exorcism in question you can add the higher ups of the Fellowship of St Giles to the list of people who would would rather you'd never been born, if not the ones who would put a bullet in the back of your head if your neck if it wasn't bullet proof. The promise of getting their lives back lure all the younger Infected away where as the elders could not take it if they wanted, they'd be dust on the wind.
'Not so different when you think about it,' Tiffany hadn't even been trying to be particularly cynical by her standards and Harry still looked perturbed.
Still he hadn't even made a token attempt to keep you out of trouble, this was too important to him. So it's packing your bags again for an overnight trip. The waters of lake Eerie are cold, those of the pacific where the wash up on the verdant coast of Guatemalla are not. Susan was still in town, a sign perhaps that the vision of her looking on as Maggie had a day out with her adopted family was more accurate than one would prefer.
Essence Restored to 18/18 (Sunrise)
There a touch of absurdity in trying to be furtive while playing Last Rites to open a passage to the world that is your soul among colorful hand-woven hammocks set out to dry. Actually come to think of it this does sound a little like how thirteen year old you thought magic would shake out.
Harry is obviously worrying more about sticking out, even a casual look around relatively quiet shoreline shows a few kids, mid to late teens looking up at you as they are untangling fishing nets. "No way we're not going to stand out, so we might as well be tourists."
"Harry we are tourists, you just also need to talk to an old flame, which come to think of it is probably not that uncommon." Tiffany corrects him as she slips away to look over carved shells on, strange sponges and dried starfish. She chats up the lady behind the stall on fluent Spanish, though in your inexpert opinion she sounds odd. Doesn't 'luego' mean soon? And you can only guess 'pieza' is room by gesture and context. She eventually picks out a shell necklace that reminds you of the sunset, pink so dark it's almost purple on one side and creamy orange on the other.
"You are supposed to haggle," Harry chides half-jokingly to wich she laughs.
"Only if you want to be a bastard. Even in cultures where haggling is common people would still rather be paid more than have tourists 'immerse themselves the local culture' or whatever they are putting on brochures these days."
"Everyone's got bills to pay got it," he nods. Even though you can't read his mind —and no that wasn't a wish just in case some new power is about to uncoil— but you get the sense he's wondering about his daughter's needs and wants a stranger in strangers' home.
"I'm sure she's fine," That is not blind optimism talking, having borrowed a pair of Lydia's hounds to look after the kid and come fetch you if there's trouble while the three of you talk to Susan and any other Fellowship operatives who may be present. Your questioning only established that she is still in town and the address, not who she might be with.
Thus resolved you enter the more industrial areas of the town. Here the colors are more muted, the cars more numerous, moving in haste down roads made too narrow by rows of their fellows. Here and there you see the a canine silhouette against the entrance of an alleyway, but they keep their distance, which is more than can be said for the human watchers. The closer you get to your destination the more confident you are that you're being followed.
"Definitely one of the half bloods," Tiffany whispers as she feigns getting a rock out of her shoe. "Though that only tells us half the story. The Red Court isn't shy about employing them."
What do you do?
[] Continue on to Susan's safe house
[] Confront the watcher
[] Write in
OOC: I did my best to speed though actually getting here so as not to allow this to drag, hope it worked and did not feel jarring.
You have a clone whose job is literally 'go to school'. 'Molly' has not been absent a day this month.
- Location
- Earth
Charity did not expect this loophole when she demanded for Molly to finish school.
*Removes his plan for buying a telepathy charm if we can.*
What?
Good night guys.
BoredMan
Maintaining the Agenda is our top priority
Molly noticed them because of a roll. I don't think we have the option of ignoring them. Well no, we explicitly do but I don't think that's sensible. The spirit hounds should get us if something happens with Maggie while we're occupied.
[X] Confront the watcher
[X] Confront the watcher
As far as time-skips/scene transitions go it was handled well I think.
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It works quite well, yeah.
We should start getting souvenirs from places we go to. Maybe fridge magnets? I have an idea for a splendor that would use them.
[X] Confront the watcher
Unless they undergo exorcism in Sanctuary of course.
Speaking of Sanctuary, we should probably check at some point if Adam the Ghoul has gone to the Wheel. Depending on how acausal everything is, he might have. He was definitely under MiS when he died, he died in our direct service... It could have happened. It was more than 40 days since his death when Sanctuary was forged, which lowers the chances, but, again, depends on how causality works deep down. He might well be somewhere in the Cities or the Wilderness, or, hell, even the Labyrinth.
I hope this doesn't come out wrong, but how much more stuff are you planning to cook?
Besides, something tells me "I have an idea" are probably most terrifying four words that you can hear from an Exalt. Especially crafting/sorcerous one.
I have tons of plans. Most of them are likely to remain unrealized, even if/when we genocide Red Court and harvest their elders for resources. It's still fun to plot.
Modus_Tollens
SCREAMING AT THE APOCALYPSE
- Location
- ALSO SCREAMING.
[X] Confront the watcher
With a friendly smile. A human would put on an act in the hope of acquiring some fleeting advantage, another vampire would bluster and assert hierarchy, a higher-end fey would stand right there and yet not really be present because they are merely doing through the motions. It being beneath them.
Us? This is Molly. That is all she is, all she needs to be, and the sheer weight of her not caring should cause any sapient being to spontaneously shit out their entire skeleton. Lets go be polite, go be friendly, and say hello. Its up to them as to whether they get to meet the apocalypse walking one step behind us.
With a friendly smile. A human would put on an act in the hope of acquiring some fleeting advantage, another vampire would bluster and assert hierarchy, a higher-end fey would stand right there and yet not really be present because they are merely doing through the motions. It being beneath them.
Us? This is Molly. That is all she is, all she needs to be, and the sheer weight of her not caring should cause any sapient being to spontaneously shit out their entire skeleton. Lets go be polite, go be friendly, and say hello. Its up to them as to whether they get to meet the apocalypse walking one step behind us.
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fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
[X] Confront the watcher
It's a social roll against a lesser being of darkness. I am always up for that.
It's a social roll against a lesser being of darkness. I am always up for that.
So, as I mentioned, the idea:
3 dots Fascination
Form of Dreams and Nightmares
Lucky Money (3 pt. Root Element) (heavily modified)
Mystic Fortification (1 pt. Mystic Element): Library rating + 2
Panoply of Wonders (2 pt. Mystic Element): Library
Lucky Money (3 pt. Root Element) (heavily modified)
Mystic Fortification (1 pt. Mystic Element): Library rating + 2
Panoply of Wonders (2 pt. Mystic Element): Library
The user of the splendor sacrifices objects with mystic connections to all seven continents, and a drop of their own blood, and makes Wits + Perception roll. The splendor manifests a scene-long holographic image of a globe, on which the locations of all buried / sunk / hidden and forgotten treasures that no one is claiming are highlighted, equivalent to up to roll successes resource dots. The image can be zoomed in and out, and rotated like you would modern online map. By tapping on a treasure marker, the user can summon a brief description of the treasure in their native language.
A small brass and emerald intricately carved globe, floating on a pedestal of rune-carved obsidian. When one wishes to make use of what it offers, they need to make an offering of all that it represents to it - typically some soil from all the Earth's continents, and a drop of their own blood. Then they'll get a chance to see the bounty of the Earth.
Lucky Money is Wits + Finance roll, but the successes translate in automatically getting Resource dots through fate shenanigans. This doesn't. Instead it acts as a specialized library, providing the information (maps and descriptions) on the buried treasure. Thus I found it reasonable to do this modifications.
I wanted to experiment with Panoply of Wonders: Library, because it's potentially bonkers broken, if we specialize it on certain things. I'll do some more designs, probably, soon. @DragonParadox is the idea of the presented splendor ok? That would essentially be a plot device to get hooks to go on treasure hunting expeditions.
That is a workable splendor yeah.