Crevice in the ice, he dropped in when he was a speck on the horizon but he could see you better because you were in the air.
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
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- Crossover Fantasy
Crevice in the ice, he dropped in when he was a speck on the horizon but he could see you better because you were in the air.
You would need to get back to some kind of civilization to get some, Molly doesn't have that on her and even she can't turn ice and rock into either.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
False Springs Beckons works for many kinds of ongoing misery.
- Location
- Earth
the inbaked only works as long as you are my loyal minion ought to be a hard sell.
Tool-Transcending Constructs of an electric blanket and to melt ice into hot water to drink?
That would work.
[X] Plan 20 minute warm adventure
-[X] Be straightforward in your intent, you are here to check up on him and his newfound cosmic power over death to make sure things don't go bad for... everyone everywhere truth be told.
--[X] Now that you are aware of them, however, you will be dealing with the fomorians too
--[X] Empathy excellency, All Things Betray, Tool Transcending Constructs with willpower
--[X][Stunt]"I am here to help and get to know you. I have made a point of getting to know all the Princes of the Earth and the best way to do that is help them with their first self appointed mission." Point back to the base. "So those Fomori?"
---[X][Stunt] "But first, let's get you at least some warmth - chosen of death or not, you have to be cold" you say, conjuring a self-heating sponge-blanket designed by the Hand to let its agents warm without being observable in infrared after dips into cold pools of liquid, and a quick-heating cup, a popular design favored by the explorers of the near Wastes of the Fivefold courts, guaranteed to turn even the coldest ice into steaming water in under one minute. The blanket you carefully hand over, making sure not to appear hostile, while the cup you dip into the snow.
Now, normally others cannot interact with TTC, obviously, but I think that if we are making a tool for warming someone up in the arctic environment, that tool has to be able to interact with its target. 2 EP and 1 WP puts us at 5/5 resource-wise. A bit expensive, but this is about first impressions. Those are important. This establishes us as magic, and it also establishes us as non-hostile, I think.
-[X] Be straightforward in your intent, you are here to check up on him and his newfound cosmic power over death to make sure things don't go bad for... everyone everywhere truth be told.
--[X] Now that you are aware of them, however, you will be dealing with the fomorians too
--[X] Empathy excellency, All Things Betray, Tool Transcending Constructs with willpower
--[X][Stunt]"I am here to help and get to know you. I have made a point of getting to know all the Princes of the Earth and the best way to do that is help them with their first self appointed mission." Point back to the base. "So those Fomori?"
---[X][Stunt] "But first, let's get you at least some warmth - chosen of death or not, you have to be cold" you say, conjuring a self-heating sponge-blanket designed by the Hand to let its agents warm without being observable in infrared after dips into cold pools of liquid, and a quick-heating cup, a popular design favored by the explorers of the near Wastes of the Fivefold courts, guaranteed to turn even the coldest ice into steaming water in under one minute. The blanket you carefully hand over, making sure not to appear hostile, while the cup you dip into the snow.
Now, normally others cannot interact with TTC, obviously, but I think that if we are making a tool for warming someone up in the arctic environment, that tool has to be able to interact with its target. 2 EP and 1 WP puts us at 5/5 resource-wise. A bit expensive, but this is about first impressions. Those are important. This establishes us as magic, and it also establishes us as non-hostile, I think.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
Might be able to stretch it all the way to tea depending on what the contaminates in the ice and earth are around here. Stretch goals for lots of successes.
[X] Plan 20 minute warm adventure less essance
-[X] Be straightforward in your intent, you are here to check up on him and his newfound cosmic power over death to make sure things don't go bad for... everyone everywhere truth be told.
--[X] Now that you are aware of them, however, you will be dealing with the fomorians too
--[X] Tool Transcending Constructs with willpower
--[X][Stunt]"I am here to help and get to know you. I have made a point of getting to know all the Princes of the Earth and the best way to do that is help them with their first self appointed mission." Point back to the base. "So those Fomori?"
---[X][Stunt] "But first, let's get you at least some warmth - chosen of death or not, you have to be cold" you say, conjuring a self-heating sponge-blanket designed by the Hand to let its agents warm without being observable in infrared after dips into cold pools of liquid, and a quick-heating cup, a popular design favored by the explorers of the near Wastes of the Fivefold courts, guaranteed to turn even the coldest ice into steaming water in under one minute. The blanket you carefully hand over, making sure not to appear hostile, while the cup you dip into the snow.
I just think that we don't need to be spending EP on social. It is very unlikely that this Abyssal is at all social speced and Molly has quite a bit of native talent plus dice from the cold.
Also @DragonParadox when we are using Tool Transcending Constructs to water him and protect him from the chill Transcendent Lord of Flies certainly applies.
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Oh yes, certainly.
BoredMan
Everyone gets a tariff now. Even the penguins. wtf
Well, our social stats are busted due to the XP we've invested into them.
[X] Plan 20 minute warm adventure less essance
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
So do rolls to convince him in accepting our help in watering him and protecting him from the cold also take advantage of Transcendent Lord of Flies?
- Location
- Estonia
[X] Plan 20 minute warm adventure less essance
Not voting for it, but technically there is value to be purposefully silly even here, depending on how much experience he has with supernatural world. As noted by Dresden, supernatural baddies usually take themselves very seriously and/or are very edgy. So we would be presenting a psychological profile completely opposite to that.
So if he really is that rational and purpose-oriented, he might have just taken it as a psychological data point about Molly, not an insult. It's just that we might also want to look like a responsible adult, not just not-evil.
Not voting for it, but technically there is value to be purposefully silly even here, depending on how much experience he has with supernatural world. As noted by Dresden, supernatural baddies usually take themselves very seriously and/or are very edgy. So we would be presenting a psychological profile completely opposite to that.
So if he really is that rational and purpose-oriented, he might have just taken it as a psychological data point about Molly, not an insult. It's just that we might also want to look like a responsible adult, not just not-evil.
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That's the kind of thing you have to do carefully and with some knowledge of the target. Humanizing herself could be helpful, but seeming like a child or like she doesn't get the severity of the situation at hand isn't.
When a red vampire tries to get you to call them the dark lord of blood they're being edgy, but a level of sobriety when talking with a dead guy about monsters who are setting up to kill or worse dozens of people is just treating the situation seriously.
I'm not against the idea in principle either, it's just a matter of framing and timing.
In my opinion this sort of humanization via silliness needs a particular setup where it only pokes fun at people who can take it with good humor or that you want to offend. The golden rule of comedy is that punching down isn't really that funny.
The application here is somewhat indirect, but someone going through serious business could easily take making light of the situation as making light of what's happened to them and the stakes it has for everyone else involved. Like a rich person making a money joke to break the tension when meeting someone at risk of losing their house.
Vote closed.
Arc 15 Post 89: Quest of a Nameless Knight
Quest of a Nameless Knight
13th of March 2007 A.D.
Will and power straining with the effort you reach again for answers, how far to push and what to stand firm, what posture would move the one before you to flight or violence. "I am here to help and get to know you. I have made a point of getting to know all the Princes of the Earth..."
Lost 1 Willpower (TTC)
No flicker of recognition in those in the one visible eye at the sound of alien syllables. You could make him understand of course, but that every instinct screams would be a mistake. So you scoop up some snow with a brass mug the framework of monocular wire embedded within it already starting to hum until the water melts at a speed just shy of flash boiling and continue: "...and the best way to do that is help them with their first self appointed mission."
"Why?" He rasps. God how you wish Lydia was here, not for her authority over the dead, but for her simple understanding of the pain they suffer.
All you can do is your best. A self-heating sponge-blanket designed by the Hand to let its agents warm without being observable in infrared is by barest definition a tool, enough for you to conjure and hand over, careful, but insistent. To the suspicious mind too much cajoling can seem a trap after all and to the proud compassion can be confused for an accusation of weakness.
"You know why." You look at him seriously. "Same reason I couldn't see you just now, same reason I'm flying."
"Power." Again one word. You wonder if that might not be to keep from shivering with the cold, he is certainly dressed in the same warm underlayer and water proof outer layer as the people back at the station, but you can't imagine his dip in the ocean helped with retaining either of those qualities.
"New power," you correct then warn frankly. "There are beings aplenty more powerful than us, but they are bound to their natures."
He laughs... and seems surprised when you ignore it, still holding out the blanket. "First, let's get you at least some warmth - chosen of death or not, you have to be cold?"
"How old are you?" From the tone the question almost seems like it had been startled out of him in place of some more cogent, maybe harsher.
For a long moment you don't answer until he finally takes the blanket in one hand the mug in the other, seemingly surprised by their head, or maybe just by the fact that are solid at all since you had made no attempt to hide the conjuring. Once the former is around his shoulders and the other raises to his lips to drink you answer honestly: "Eighteen."
It's not that you tried to get him to sputter, it is kind of funny that he did it and so the smile that curves your lips is entirely sincere, even as it was also planned, just in case he has some means to see truth from falsehood.
"So about those fomor?"
"Who are you?"
The questions come almost at the same time, but after a moment to prove you are not too eager you answer: 'Molly Carpenter. That's two personal questions you asked me so far.'
"I'm not the one who flew up and started talking."
You quirk an eyebrow, waiting as the wind picks up, the subtle hiss of ice grinding against ice as it has done for millions upon millions of years on this nameless incline.
"Twenty seven," he gives the age that was in his files, though of course not a name. "Look kid I appreciate the..."
"When you look at me is that word the first that pops into your mind, even the hundredth?" you cut in.
"No." The Chosen of the Grave admits, though he doesn't say what does. He falls silent then, for longer than any of his previous silences. "Go... fly I guess back to the station. You don't want to go where I'm going."
Oh great, trying to protect me. At least you have quite a bit of experience with that. Instead of the obvious question though you ask: "What are you doing?"
"My job, my actual job not what those... What did you call them? Fomori asses wanted me to do. I am going to get some answers and after that stop it... if I can that is."
"Stop what?"
"The Awakening." You can hear the capital letter in the word and it does not make a good hearing. He looks you over carefully for some sign of recognition, but you already decided to play this straight.
With a shake of your head that sends whirling snow-flakes caught in it from the wind aflutter you admit: "Doesn't ring any bells."
"It is what they call the day when their masters will rise and rule over the land once more. Nameless things or maybe things you shouldn't name. I got the word out at least, but maybe now I can do more. After all..." he gives an unsettling smile. "Now I'm nameless too."
Molly Essence 7/18
Molly Willpower 5/9
What do you do?
[] Offer to help, even if you don't know all the details this sounds right up your alley
[] Ask who he got the word to, a delicate subject since they are likely to be in danger from the fomori, but it should fill in the gaps in your understanding
[] Write in
OOC: Enjoy
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