Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

[jk] "I'm starting an endangered supernatural species dating service. Evidence suggests there could be a lonely dragon in these parts. I might be able to introduce them to a potential life partner."
Can we actually? I'm fairly sure Porter is not looking to date, and while Lara would be down for such a partnership because Power (capital P), I don't think we would want her. Who do we have that's available? I don't think our mom will understand one of our clones dating a dragon.

Getting a bit ahead of myself, I think we should introduce ourselves as Margret of the line of Charlemagne, Empress of the Fivefold Courts, and maybe as an Exalted. We don't want to directly mention Michael the Dragonslayer to a village of dragonborn, but we do want to reference our good blood. Calling ourselves Exalted is a maybe, and a risk. On one hand, they might recognize the term. On another, they might consider jailing our peers an ancestral duty. In general, a lot would depend on how aware of the supernatural they are. They might be almost completely ignorant, surviving by dint of hiding in the remote corner of the world and basically having zero contact with anyone, or they might be fully aware, with spies in White Council (because st this point, who doesnhave a spy in White Council?) and long-standing fae pacts.

Personally, I expect something close to the first option, but we'll see.
 
[X] Because these waters have suddenly become of interest to many powers, some with whom you might be familiar with, others with whom no one should be
-[X] And if it is gold you seek, well, I may be open to investing

I Think starting a dating service would be hilarious, plus Molly dating a dragon is just, amazingly ironic given her father, and it might help somewhat with the "building a new dragon child out of the corpse of the one her father killed" thing.
 
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[X] Because these waters have suddenly become of interest to many powers, some with whom you might be familiar with, others with whom no one should be
-[X] And if it is gold you seek, well, I may be open to investing
 
[X] Because these waters have suddenly become of interest to many powers, some with whom you might be familiar with, others with whom no one should be
-[X] And if it is gold you seek, well, I may be open to investing
 
Granted, dating a dragon would freak her mum out a looooot, so that might be part of why I want this so much?
 
[X] Because these waters have suddenly become of interest to many powers, some with whom you might be familiar with, others with whom no one should be
-[X] And if it is gold you seek, well, I may be open to investing
 
I'm brainstorming questions that we might ask the Crown regarding dragonblood bloodlines.

How do they relate to the likes of the treasure being used offshore to sustain them?
How do they relate to the likes of the treasure being safeguarded by the temple in Vegas?
How does realizing the potential in these bloodlines work?
For what purpose were they brought into being?
How exactly are they being sustained by the treasure offshore?

I'm worried that it feels a bit too shaped by out of character knowledge.
 
Dragons and gender are interesting in Exalted. As beings of the elements they borrow some of the qualities of said elements so Mela at least the Immaculate dragon of water was 'beyond such petty concepts as gender'
Shapeshifters should mostly be like that, inherently, if you really think about it…
Regardless, Molly with a dragon lover sounds amazing
 
Eh not really even the Primordials understood, and had the concept of sex.

For gods/elementals they could choose to carry a child if they where with a male, impregnate a human women, or carry the child themselves. But they still had their own sex, no matter their options for kids being larger then mortals.
 
Exalted 1st Edition Core Pg.22 said:
CAUSES OF EXALTATION
The powers of an Exalted frequently manifest after a period of stress — severe injury, terrible illness, terror. The trigger events vary greatly from Exalted to Exalted. At his hour of greatest need, it is as if the character is given the strength to triumph and endure. Some Celestials also manifest when they are exposed to a large amount of magic or when a great deal of Essence is moved or channeled near them. Finally, some seem to manifest due to vast exposure to their element — many Solars are Exalted during a period of overexposure to sunlight for example.
Exalted 2nd Edition: Scroll of Heroes Pg.157 said:
If a heroic mortal demonstrates immense capacity for heroism in the wake of an upheaval of Essence and a disturbance in the Loom (namely, a mortal caught in the wake of existing Exalts), he might well be gifted by Celestial Exaltation despite lacking the Destiny Background entirely.
Exalted VS World of Darkness Pg.78 said:
The returned Solars promise to crash into the World of Darkness like runaway trains. Chosen from the ranks of those aware of the supernatural world - often as its victims – most of the newly resurgent Solars know little of the night people, or the complex societies, pacts, and power balances they maintain. What they are likely to know is that they saw a vampire attack their sister at the club, and now they can outrun and outfight that vampire.
A little bit more on the exaltation front. Which yet again does not require active manipulation to help tilt the scales in favor of a specific candidate both first and second edition agree and I'm sure if I dug deep enough I could probably get something from third as well not to mention exalted versus World Darkness the very source that we're using for this Quest also has its own selection criteria that helps narrow the field of who can be picked to begin with.
 
Arc 15 Post 15: Where Waters Meet New
Where Waters Meet

26st of February 2007 A.D.

"Because these waters have suddenly become of interest to many powers, some with whom you might be familiar with, others with whom no one should be and if it's 'gold' you seek I'm open to investing."

"That's not..." Kristin looks around at the family with two kids and a small dog that may or may not be technically allowed in here, at the little old lady snapping pictures of the commemorative plaques that mark milestones in commercial fishing, that looks like a foreign school group about to walk in and shakes her head. "We really shouldn't talk about this here. Ancestors, I shouldn't have talked about this at all. Guess it's a bit late. How do you feel about spas?"

Self-conscious, you answer mentally. Maybe it's just that you didn't go as often as to the beech or the pool, but you've always found the crowding uncomfortable and felt people's eyes on the back of your neck more, but aloud you just answer: "Is that an invitation to meet with you later or with someone else?"

Her voice drops to a whisper... mostly joking you'd judge. "Assuming grandmother doesn't lock me in the basement for talking to charming strangers about things that should stay in the family I think I'll be able to come along."

"I do hope you get to see the light of day such as it still is," you motion to the sky which had already taken on the hue of evening though the sun had barely deigned to dip above the horizon. "In the interests of keeping you out of basements..." you give her a note with your name as well as your dad's name and a short formal note. It does feel a touch odd to be falling back on the the forms of modern letter writing, but you don't really know what all this is and what little you do understand is so out of date it's from before there were dates.

By the time you get to the Blue Lagoon, so named for the silica that forms a soft white mud along the bottom of the pool the sun had already dipped below the horizon, leaving the moon and stars to watch over a meeting with what you judge is a rather chastised Kristin and lady in a one piece bathing suit and what you can only call flip flops with flame decals who looks fifty and feels older in the same way as the heat shimmering off the water. But they do not come along. There is a third woman there whom you never met in your life, but recognize from the watchful stillness, from the way people seem to flow around her.

"Good afternoon," you politely greet one of Odin's Valkyries. Monoc Securities had found you after all.

"Ms Carpenter, I'd say I'm surprised to see you in this part of the world, but you have made something of a habit of showing up where events are about to precipitate, regardless of distance."

"I do hope this isn't the case here," Kristin's grandmother who introduces herself as Ragnhildur and looks on expectantly through the haze. Not being a wizard you are pretty sure she can't see though your glamor, but you have no doubt she's already leanred quite a bit from Odin's people if she's friendly enough to bring one along.

What do you reply?

[] Hopefully trouble hasn't followed me so far, but there's certainly the wrong kind of interest afoot (Explain Anti-Bob's interest in Odin't actions especially the Kingfisher's purpose)

[] No trouble, I just followed the ley-line and my own curiosity, it is uncommon to see works of magic so deeply entwined with those of modern engineering (Try to flatter them)

[] Write in


OOC: Enjoy.
 
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So, they were already in contact with Odin. I amguessing he'll start featuring dragonblooded mercenaries soon.

[X] Hopefully trouble hasn't followed me so far, but there's certainly the wrong kind of interest afoot (Explain Anti-Bob's interest in Odin't actions especially the Kingfisher's purpose)

We pretty much have to do this with what we already disclosed.
 
[X] Hopefully trouble hasn't followed me so far, but there's certainly the wrong kind of interest afoot (Explain Anti-Bob's interest in Odin't actions especially the Kingfisher's purpose)
 
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