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Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

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Yog said:
1) Can the SCCP bashing damage be soaked? The rule says: "This enforced comprehension ravages the mind and body, and who hear the Infernal and respond to her suffer one level of bashing damage in the form of bleeding eyes and terrible headaches." so I am guessing not, but I want to check
2) If someone speaks enochian natively, or at least understands it, like Tiffany and the Nephilim likely do, do they still suffer damage?
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  1. Level of damage means no soak
  2. No, though it would not be perfect comprehension just like with her
 
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  • [X] Plan Let There be Light
    -[X] Reveal yourself and Tiffany
    --[X] Ignite your anima, and activate Source Code Compliance Protocol (pay 1 Essence)
    -[X] STUNT: A new, green sun, full of innumerable eyes, rises in the bleak darkness of the Underworld, as your soul unfurls, a banner of an army against the taint of the maw of oblivion. It dances, shadowless and bright, intermingling with sacred moonlight of an angel given flesh, someone new and ready to rise. Respect and determination highlighted by the fires of your soul, you speak, in words that were ancient when Death and Time were but a dream: "This Circle pays respect to your sacrifice, oh martyr, and thanks you for your warning. Let the light of our souls dispel the shadows of your doubt - know that it is bright enough to find the foes of creation even in this darkness. I am Exalted, and my companions hold no duller swords. Know, that it is not blind wrath that drives us, but a pursuit of evil, and in that we must not be swayed. Know finally, that should you desire the end of your duty - be it the final rest, or the turning of the Wheel, both are mine to grant"
    [X] Symbolism is Key
    -[X] Reveal yourself
    -[X] Activate By Rage Recast with a willpower roll
    -[X] Unfurl Anima to fullest extent.
    --[X] Stunt: An Emerald Sun blooms a corona of seemingly endless eyes pulsing and revolving and taking in any and everything. You float from the ground towards the Giant as a second set of arms one a glowing Veridian of holographic flesh with flowing shadows for skin and the other a pulsating mass of emerald flame clad in otherworldly Force giving the form solidity. " Unfortunately great warrior, agents of the great Nothing are moving, they bring with them nothing but death unending. So we must cleanse them pull them root from stem grant them the Oblivion they so desperately seek." In your four hands crimson whirls sharp flaying shredding winds hungry and roaring. " They Scurry here to conjure some foul Magic by which to attack the lands under the sun, we must prevent them from doing so."
    [X] Symbolism is Key
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    • What Writhes in Darkness ​

    Elsewhere, Time Indeterminate

    If it's a sun he wants... An alien sun green and faceted with eyes uncounted rises in the bleak darkness of the Underworld, as your soul unfurls, a banner of an army against the taint of the maw of the void. It dances, shadowless and bright, intermingling with sacred moonlight of an angel given flesh, someone new and ready to rise. Respect and determination highlighted by the fires of your soul, you speak, in words that were ancient when Death was but a dream and time newborn: "This Circle pays respect to your sacrifice, oh martyr, and thanks you for your warning. Let the light of our souls dispel the shadows of your doubt - know that it is bright enough to find the foes of creation even in this darkness. I am..." though you do not hesitate in voice your mind stops a moment upon the word, the legacy of pride and history only glimpsed, of failings only guessed. "Exalted."

    More yet you would have had to say, but you do not get the chance as the flesh of the ancient shakes and not with speech. Maggots the size of school busses erupt from his flesh, mottled slick black like tar and red with eyes of blood, but most horrid of them, hunched and writhing is that they each bear some mismatched feature of the human form, here an emancipated arm there there a face distended over a blood-engorged thorax, clumps of carefully coifed hair growing from under insecticide limbs like.

    "NO! No! What have you done? They come! Mouthless Feasters! They come! They Come!" The Nephilim screams with the tearing of his dead flesh and organs once-celestial.

    "Brood of Apep, fire shall be put upon thee and a knife shall smite you!" Lydia calls and indeed in one hand she's carrying knife with a curved blade, though it seems far too slender a thing to break the skin of the four monstrosities now rising two from the brow of the corpse-angel, one from his elbow nearest to you and two from his thigh.

    For these you know another name: Mortwights. No mindless beasts these, oh if only they were beasts.


    "Thou shalt bring No Light into the House of the Void!" One screams.

    "Thou shall offer no Succor in the House of the Blessed Wretch!" another howls, cruel mockery that fades like the wind

    "Thou shat bear no weapons in the House of Eternal Peace!" the last one proclaims, invoking some cruel authority over the living and the dead alike!

    "Did you not hear of spirits who dwell in darkness?" you call back in that. "Let go of the shadows of doubt and embrace the certainty of your own extinction!"

    Lydia Essence 4/7 (2/3 Jade Talisman)
    Molly Essence 10/18
    Tiffany is under the Effect of Impose Stricture Arcanoi: -1 Die for Each Taboo she breaks [Do not make light, do not help another, do not draw weaons]
    Duration: 1 Hour, Subjective Time or until the caster is banished/destroyed

    How do you fight the Morgrights?

    [] Focus on driving them off as fast as you can so you can keep speaking to the Nephilim

    [] You are running dangerously low on essence, both you and Lydia can regain motes by dealing Final Death to these horrors

    [] Write in

    OOC: And here we see the consequences of litterally borrowing into the darker layers of the Underworld looking for antedeluvian horrors, you managed to find the specters using proper Second Age Arcanoi.
     
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    • Welp. That was probably a mistake.

    We should probably specifically target the one that set the prohibition on offering succor first, if they flee and those strictures have to time out naturally it is going to be a huge pain.
     
    Goldfish said:
    Not freaky at all. Nope... 😶‍🌫️

    I don't see how you could have predicted these things showing up. Something bad, yeah, but these things seem particularly nasty.
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    Well, to be fair, in the hierarchy of hated things Neverborn likely have, Exalts are almost certainly at the top.

    [X] You are running dangerously low on essence, both you and Lydia can regain motes by dealing Final Death to these horrors
     
    [X] They are coming, Kill Them All
    -[X] You are running dangerously low on essence, both you and Lydia can regain motes by dealing Final Death to these horrors
    -[X] Molly
    --[X]     By Rage Recast Roll No cost
    --[X] Five Paths One Ring Red (Melee) No cost
    --[X] Melee Excellency 1 Essence
    -[X] Lydia
    --[X] Marble Skin No cost
    --[X] Dexterity Excellency 1 Essence
    --[X] Hunters Bolt No cost
    -[X] Tiffany
    --[X] Manipulate Flesh self Stamina, Dexterity (Multiple Action difficulty 7, -1 dice) No cost
    --[X] Light Flash Mortwights (Multiple Action difficulty 8, -2 dice) No cost
    ---[X] Stunt: Exploding forward just off the ground. Lesser arms of flame and Shadow gesture forward, Dark Sun shield poised with Usum raised to strike. A flash of light pulses past alongside a spear of solidified death.

    Both Lydia's and Molly's Spirit killer Grant more than one essence per kill Lydia's grants 3 Molly's grants two so just killing one opponent should be enough to start refilling their pools there's only four Spirits so just killing them should be enough Tiffany dealing bashing damage fills out their health track and makes them easier to kill.
     
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    [X] You are running dangerously low on essence, both you and Lydia can regain motes by dealing Final Death to these horrors

    Gottta love the Exalted. A bunch of pre-historical monsters show up to jump your ass? Kill 'em first 'cause you're feeling peckish.
     
    Goldfish said:
    Not freaky at all. Nope... 😶‍🌫️
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    The base Mortwight from Compass of Celestial Directions the Underworld looked pretty boring, just a stretched out bloody skeleton. Fortunately there are Arcanoi that can make the corpus of a ghost looks different and lore wise Mortwights are specters who have lost almost all of their humanity and are only kept from embracing Oblivion and thus ceasing to exist by their desire to spread that inclination to others. I felt like the picture above better encapsulates that character.
     
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