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But, like in a normal fight they'd of splattered a senior council or even senior council members right?
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Typo!
That looks like a nice and useful charmset so far.
I wonder which of them she already has.
He could fight necromancers up to about senior council level. None of the current senior council are necromancers so he would likely lose against them.
Powerful. Not bullshit powerful, they softcap a fair bit earlier than that.
That said, the charmset is mostly Dragonblooded charmports, it should be fine. I guess that -2 difficulty social adjuster gave off a certain impression, on the first glance.
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As a note I was talking about the actual Ankou not his Exigent daughter with this charm set.
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uhhhh the god is seriously less powerful than eldest gruff?
Once-god a long time ago against one of the most powerful enforcers of Summer and power is not linear, the Eldest Gruff would not be the best to send against a skilled necromancer
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It's mostly adapted Dragonblood, some weakened version of Abyssal Charms, some unique ones.
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I mean their still an agent of summer and would likely rough up most necromancers just from sheer power. Also you know summer has fire.
Still think your underselling a what should be one of mabs strongest agents.
Very low. Her father made contingency plans.
This.
Legal emancipation in Illnois is possible at 16 years of age; it just takes a couple months to legally process the paperwork.
If her father already made arrangements in the event of his death or disappearance, they're probably comprehensive.
There will probably be a need to file a police report about her dad's disappearance for a legal filing to move ahead.
And if someone wants to screw with her, they might choose to open a potential homicide investigation and poke into the particulars. Which is why its a good idea not to have pissed off Mab.
She might need somewhere safe to stay until the legal paperwork is done
Depending on the lawyer her father hired, it might be the estate he acquired, or he may have made other arrangements.
Or the Carpenters might offer her a place.
ATTRIBUTE/ABILITY
Tech 2: 2XP
Athletics 2: 2XP
Medicine 1: 3XP
Etiquette 4: 3XP
Perception 3: 8XP
CHARMS
Naked Wicked Souls: 3XP
Technology Excellency: 4XP
Boiling Sea Mastery: 4XP
OxBody 2: 3XP
Mercy in Servitude: 4XP
Rendered Villain Dispersal: 4XP
Transcendent Lord of Flies: 4XP
Freedom Lets Go: 4XP (always pair with Simmering Sinner Resentment)
Simmering Sinner Resentment: 4XP
Windborn Stride: 8XP
Hellscry Chakra: 8XP
SPELLS
Sapphire Circle Banishment: 10XP
Emerald Circle Binding: 10XP
Calling The Calibration Gate: 10XP
OTHER
Nightmare: ??
Touch of Frost: 5XP
Sorcery Path Summoning 2: 7XP
Sorcery Path Fortune 3: 13XP
Sorcery Path Healing 3: 13XP
What Yog said.
I will also point out we literally just finished the previous fight in an indoor arena where the floor was rapidly flooding up to waist height. Contact poisons in the water, uneven ground....there's lots of reasons not to want to touch the ground.
We did that in Shintai mode, with our Dexterity doubled from 4 to 8.
I suspect we're not going to be able to match that in normal mode.
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Ankou is a specialized tool.I mean their still an agent of summer and would likely rough up most necromancers just from sheer power. Also you know summer has fire.
Still think your underselling a what should be one of mabs strongest agents.
He nearly managed alone what the entire Senior Council was later needed for.
So... I think the charmset is a very clear proof that Lydia is not a typical demigod at all, and Kemmler was the greatest mortal necromancer to live. Possibly including his colleagues in the first age for allowing her and her future kin to exist. This action alone might well absolve most of his sins.
Why? Because Lydia gets perfect effects. A fair number of them even. Moreover, Lydia gets perfect mental defences. She can't be forced to betray intimacies, meaning that she's at least strongly resistant, if not immune to Nemesis. The Winter Lady doesn't get that. If typical demigods got that, there'd be many more of them around.
Lydia is a proper free willed exalt. Not a celestial tier, but in the world of mortals and monsters, she is a hero out of legend.
We'll need to make her a proper panoply. Also find her a temple dog puppy of her own. Also a raven, a pale horse and a rat. I wonder if we could locate a sun crow egg?
Why? Because Lydia gets perfect effects. A fair number of them even. Moreover, Lydia gets perfect mental defences. She can't be forced to betray intimacies, meaning that she's at least strongly resistant, if not immune to Nemesis. The Winter Lady doesn't get that. If typical demigods got that, there'd be many more of them around.
Lydia is a proper free willed exalt. Not a celestial tier, but in the world of mortals and monsters, she is a hero out of legend.
We'll need to make her a proper panoply. Also find her a temple dog puppy of her own. Also a raven, a pale horse and a rat. I wonder if we could locate a sun crow egg?
Yeah, I wasn't looking at that part of the convo at that moment.
Anyway, the charmset is broadly consistent with ExWoD's terrestrials, but there is a couple of things I'd like to know the background logic of. Why excellences allow +10 dice, when Dragonblooded are limited at +5?
Isn't Relentless Huntress is a much, given that equivalent Dragonblooded charm provides those benefits only when Exalt in question does essentially absolutely nothing?
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still pretty low ball for whats basically a god.
The quest to bring Big Fluff into consistent relevance continues.
1)I would expect them to be able to hack databases for existing proprietary designs and the like, and to help with our own design work on a narrative level. I do not expect them to perform independent design
2)Actual issues with creating identities to interface with the post-911 financial system. And it defeats the purpose of having an invisible, unknown group of professional hackers with no identity trail. The juice is not worth the squeeze.
3)Sounds like a Rule Zero violation.
TBF, within ExWoD paradigm, powerful Mages are allowed to fuck with Exaltations, it is just difficult.
Tearing out a terrestrial Exaltation out of Dragonblood, giving it a mild adjustment and then slapping it on someone else is theoretically possible, even if it is far more likely to explode in Mage's face.
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Mostly because the WP-based Excellency was an example under Exigents.
It's pretty variable and gets weaker quickly when she has to spend WP.
It only works while following someone, not in the actual fight, or in preparations around the hunt.
It's mostly there so no ghost can just get away using its greater mobility.
And Exigents have variable power levels; book provides several Exigent excellencies, and this excellency is on the stronger side.
Lydia's one was supposed to be terrestrial. I am not sure that her WP economy is demanding enough to prevent her from just having celestial excellency most of the time.
Current wording would allow her to keep it on for years, as long as she broadly acts to pursue someone. If this is supposed to be a mostly immediate here-and-now sort of pursuit, the wording maybe needs adjustment.
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This doesn't seem right for her to be able to inherit from her father given her father's backstory.
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Okay.
It was meant for the physical duration of the Hunt.
In all other cases she has to spend Essence per scene.
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Firslty, I'd like to acknowledge that we seem to be coming to the utility of HMP and its best use from two very different perspectives. You seem (correct me if I am wrong), to consider them to be of best use for on-screen actions. Hacking the FBI, getting us information, spying on our enemy to relay intel to us, helping us spot something. I regard them to be most useful in setting background. Making a firm for Molly to generate passive profit and social standing from. Designing stuff for her to streamline and lower costs of crafting. Administrating ParaNet. Etc. You also seem to intend them to be mostly a combat (where combat is defined broadly as hostilities against adversarial agents) asset. I consider them to be of best use for utilitarian purposes, with combat being second.
Now, in regards to the specific points and suggestions I brought up:
1) No hacking needed. A lot, and I mean, a lot of design and development is boring and not very creative. "go through the list of all steals known to man, collate the table of their properties, select the best one for use in this design, given the required parameters. Go through all the patents in the world, select the most appropriate one given the required parameters, start iterating from there. Go over all published scientific papers on material properties of bronzes, collate all the data into one big table, interpolate to find the best theoretical bronze for this application. Browse all the resistor catalogues in the world, check their actual availability on the market, select the best one based on price-time of deilvery - performance triangle". A ton of work where it comes to making something, be it a scalpel to operate on someting with acid blood, smart glasses with HUD, or a combat railgun would be checking tons of catalogs, collating data, talking with sells representatives and making compromises based on delivery schedules and component costs.
Now, with exalted BS, we can bypass most of this, turning sand and scrap into high tech transistors and the line. However, that takes effort, represented in essence spend and successes rolled. Our craft charms can explicitly be used to upgrade something. Thus, it makes perfect sense to based our designs on mundane high end designs, and upgrade those.
2) This presupposes that they operate mostly in USA, or are legally based in USA. This also presupposes that the ones we use for generating artistic stuff would be the same ones we use for hacking, or associated with them.
3) Why? It's spending effort and essence on establishing what's essentially a one or two dot background in having a firm working for you generating you money.
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