Options have value.
The fact that we've chosen not to exercise our more valuable options isn't the fault of the charms that gave us those options.
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
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Options have value.
The fact that we've chosen not to exercise our more valuable options isn't the fault of the charms that gave us those options.
What we need is demonic primacy of essence to social to get minions. And VED to empower those minions. Throw in the tech excellency as well to bring the city infrastructure under our control.
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I definitly don't want any 20-point Charms yet.
We still have a lot of basics to catch up on.
Soak, one ranged/area option (Sandblast for precision or Erupting Fury for effect), the don't-notice-me Charm and Primacy of Essence are all good things to have soon.
We still have a lot of basics to catch up on.
Soak, one ranged/area option (Sandblast for precision or Erupting Fury for effect), the don't-notice-me Charm and Primacy of Essence are all good things to have soon.
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@DragonParadox I have a quick question on perfect defense and anti shaping charms if you don't mind.
Normally I'd assume they're completely distinct in most cases, but with the fluff vs. system rulings we've gotten in the past I'm curious if the overlap changes.
Turing into wind or shadow probably doesn't help with stuff like time locks, but counter conceptual imposition does some crazier stuff.
Is this a broad enough effect to block some varieties of shaping effect?
Normally I'd assume they're completely distinct in most cases, but with the fluff vs. system rulings we've gotten in the past I'm curious if the overlap changes.
Turing into wind or shadow probably doesn't help with stuff like time locks, but counter conceptual imposition does some crazier stuff.
Instead of trying one particular trick to neutralize an attack, the infernal forces reality to have a seizure that ends with her being safe from the attack.
Is this a broad enough effect to block some varieties of shaping effect?
RR flight plus the speed boost and limitless stamina charms would be faster, but I like the ancient sorcery spell for this because we can just declare a location and the spell figures it out for us. No need to risk getting lost in space.
1)Without HMP, we wouldnt know who Kattrin is.
Redhead who reminds you of Gard is not a name, she didnt introduce herself, Mathews did not name her, and Molly does not have the training to run searches on license plates.
We wouldnt know that she brought Mathews to Chicago, or what addresses she went to.
We wouldnt know about the Black Feast or that the Capriocorpus was involved.
We wouldnt even know where Cindy is because Molly doesnt have the time or expertise to trawl social media for Cindy's picture to act as a focus for Crown of Eyes.
Like I said, we'd be fumbling in the dark.
We'd be a lot tankier, but without the information and guidance to aim that weapon, it might as well not exist.
2) I seriously doubt that.
You would be attempting to duel Kattrin with no information on her loadout, her abilities, and with her being able to coerce Mathews for support. The first we'd know about her having time manipulation would be when she ZA WARUDO'd us on Mathews' front lawn.
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My preferred timeline remains the one where we try to convince Matthews that we can save his granddaughter and he uses a bound spirit to shake our shoulder when Kattrin tries her freeze.
Getting a picture of Cindy is trivial, as we are right at his house where lots of her things are around.
With Kattrin dead and us on the way to save Cindy, the Capricorpus would hardly be our problem, she would be hunted by the Eldest Ankou and propably have to leave town or die finally this weekend.
EIPP is a Wicked City charm. Malfeas had the shaping defense charm Purity of Madness Defense that should have a Lankan equivalent, and be much cheaper XP wise but it wasn't explicitly included in the WoD cross, so who knows if DP will let us use it.
As far as we know, Mathews doesnt know about her temporal powers.
By his own claims, he wasnt that senior when he left the Society. Hell, I doubt Gorfels knew about them, and he was middle management for decades.
We got the straight dope from a follower of Odin, who actually knows what she did and what its vulnerable to.
Its not exactly public knowledge; wizards and supernaturals try to keep their trump cards secret. Nicodemus goes to the trouble of running down and destroying Church archives every couple decades or so for precisely that reason.
So no, that wouldnt work IMO.
And I'll remind you what Intimacies do to mortal social dice rolls, as evidenced by Charity.
Mathews has a second grankid in the house, and no reason to believe Molly can beat Kattrin. He doesnt even know her name, and she has no supernatural reputation yet to provide extra dice or DC reduction on that roll.
Relying on a successful social roll against high DCs to not die to a Denarian-tier necromancer is...suboptimal.
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couple notes its every century of two that nicodemus wipes those and a fun note word of jim every single senior council members has powers/skills/abilities that the every single other senior council member doesn't know about. Some natural abilities some from other things.
Winning Vote
Arc 2 Post 29: Rolling Down South
Rolling Down South
22st of July 2006 A.D.
Use one enemy to stymie another, you can see Gard's point, you can really see Gard's point. If dad weren't here... well it's a good thing dad is here or this would be a lot tougher on your conscience to resist, especially with a literal demon weighing in on the other side with such reasonable arguments as "It's their avowed purpose it is not?" But your dad is here and even Usum does not think it would be possible to persuade him to use the FBI agents as canon fodder, so you might well end up between FBI bullets and ghoul claws which is not an enviable position to be in.
So you make the argument to Gard, well not the part where you could see yourself being persuaded to go for it, but judging by the knowing gleam in those ice blue eyes as they slip to your dad's face and then to yours you suspect she knows.
"Do you have a car we could use, just the car I mean?" you ask as much to distract her as anything. "I don't really want my car connected with... anything that might happen."
"Yes," she answers curtly before taking out her phone to to shoot off a bunch of texts.
What arrives to pick you up is not the big black sedan that had carried Gorfel off. The off-off- white pickup looks like it was new when Ronald Regan was president and the sound of its engine is somewhere between pitiable and alarming. The driver is the same though and this time he introduces himself as 'Handricks' with a slightly too tight handshake that you return with interest.
As you approach the Englewood around southside, the sound of the of the train an odd warning in the distance Hendricks surprrises you by asking Gard: "You sure you can handle this with just the three of you?"
"No, I am not sure, it's battle not a picnic." Her answering tone is too flat to even read annoyance into it and Hendricks does not say anything more about it. Is Marcone worried she'll get herself killed on his watch you wonder?
"Er..." you clear your throat a little self-consciously. "We are going to need to cut the landlines and preferably the power as well to the place before we attack. We don't want Katrina coming up behind us with reinforcements."
"No point, they'll have cell phones..." Gard starts, but you cut her off.
"I can make simple EMP devices, assuming there's a hardware store around here."
Dad is worried about that leaving evidence. He probably wasn't expecting you to rattle off a list of components to make an EMP and the way you would go about making one. It's not all making armor and forging shields. You flash him a confident grin. Time to get that little girl back and those Nazis' beaten up again.
"What else can you make?" Gard asks as she is checking her own weapon, a vicious looking double headed axe gleaming with the care that had been given it.
A new door, you think. While the vague notion of digging straight into the chamber Cindy is in had proven unworkable even inside your own head cutting up a wall should be a lot easier and while you would not call it quiet it would at least be over quickly. On the other hand you doubt that Gard had power tools fit to break though concrete on hand so if you are going to come at this from an unexpected angle you would have to reveal that you can conjure tools.
What preparations do you make for the entrance?
[] Just EMP emitters
[] Be ready to cut an unexpected entrance though the back wall of the tattoo parlor with Tool Transcending constructs
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OOC: This is a lot shorter than I had meant this to be, I did a lot of hemming and hawing over if I should just roll though with the prep work that makes sense to me, but some of this stuff uses essence and reveals abilities that you did not talk about so I did not feel comfortable making the call.
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probably good to get our dad to tell us a secret he knows for the purpose of some more essence guys? also maybe after battle since that'll be a good in between and a new scene.
Counter-Conceptual interposition is what happens when you start giving reality a stroke, that would work against time powers.
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why thats the exact reason for having it? Its not going to work more than a dozen or so times with our dad anyways though. There are so many ways to learn dark secrets reasonably we should never run out.
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That would cost us 1 Essence and Willpower.
I don't think that's worth it this fight.
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[X] Be ready to cut an unexpected entrance though the back wall of the tattoo parlor with Tool Transcending constructs
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Yeah. I think we shouldn't spend more than 2 essence between now and the first fight then no more than 3 during it, preferably 2 or less.
That way we come into the final fight with 4-5 essence.
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so not even any consideration to just ask our dad for some dark secret?
[X] Just EMP emitters
Hmm. Englewood? 94% black Englewood has a white gang tattoo parlor?
We're probably going to stand out like a sore thumb too, especially on a summer Saturday.
On the bright side, noone talks to cops, so I doubt anyone's gonna talk.
Hendricks is along? Huh. Getaway driver, I guess.
It didnt even occur to me that Molly could make an explosive breaching charge.
Or just use Tool Constructs to go through the wall.
Hell, Demon Sword probably works as well.
True Love conquers even a nosy Infernal's senses!
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With luck and Gard and dad's help we can go through the humans without spending Essence.
Particularly if we could get our hands on a flashbang.
For the ghouls we might want either melee excellence or flare Anima and set our sword on hellfire in an attempt to scare them away.