He also doesn't give one of his three holy superweapons to idiots. The wielders can and do make mistakes, which have consequences on them, but they also generally do a good job of turning the tables.
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
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This thing did not quite feel like the tentacle monsters you fought in the Red Court ambush, it was more weighty like it has its own name and story and it also felt more than a little fey at first before you pealed back the skeins of memory. The Red Court allies did not feel the least bit fey, more like a jumble of fractures being manipulated from a place behind reality.
… was that thing an actual outer god? Did this just turn into Call of Cthulhu?
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Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
I'm not sure what this sentence is trying to say, DP.
So, there are probably Outsiders or their rough equivalent involved in this mess. I guess maybe the Dreamless Sleep stuff was Pathways' attempt to circumvent the Gates in some manner (or the normally required summoning for scary shit that still exists somewhere inside the universe), to open a route for something to get into the sleeping people using the drug. This makes it even more important that we get a look at some of the survivors to see what, if anything, has been growing inside them for the past half century.
[X] Find out who participated in the Dreamless Sleep study, then have Clippy track down the locations of those who survived up to this point.
-[X] We'll focus on those still living in the Cleveland area, especially any who just happen to be residents of Soul's Rest.
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We really need something to make bleach soaks more portable. Getting a mote or two back while driving around would be nice.
Well, no, you can't actually kill Cthulhu in that game. Raksha, meanwhile, got statblocks.
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Uh oh.
Well, we know why we're here, now. Outer god plots and the foiling thereof are definitely the kind of thing Knights do. And sending the Knight with Exalted backup certainly isn't overkill if this goes wrong.
Bright side: Exalted have been fighting Raksha basically forever, and more importantly winning, and we have ways of doing a ton of aggravated damage on command. We can handle this, even if I would rather have Sapphire Circle Exorcism for this mission to help with the victims.
Well, we know why we're here, now. Outer god plots and the foiling thereof are definitely the kind of thing Knights do. And sending the Knight with Exalted backup certainly isn't overkill if this goes wrong.
Bright side: Exalted have been fighting Raksha basically forever, and more importantly winning, and we have ways of doing a ton of aggravated damage on command. We can handle this, even if I would rather have Sapphire Circle Exorcism for this mission to help with the victims.
Well yeah, Raksha scale from basically LOTR Orcs right up to Creation Ending Walking Apocalypse, it's gonna be a while until we'll be ready to fist fight the second coming of Prince Balor.
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- Germany
That's why we have a sword, Lydia is better at fistfighting.
Molly is certainly smashing out those Occult rolls
Interesting to see what looks like a raksha as part of Finnish mythology.
This looks like Oblivion War stuff. Very good odds are we are about to run into an analogue of the Stygian Sisterhood running this entire operation.
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Supernatural secret unlocked this scene. +2 Essence.
We should be back up to 10/12
True, fixed
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- Germany
If this is a real Raksha it's propably not finnish, exept in so far that that is its latest story to play out.
These things have been around forever, since long before time, causality or any order in existance.
These things have been around forever, since long before time, causality or any order in existance.
It's kind of hilariously bullshit how well she's doing. A senior council member with max occult, int, and a relevant specialty could do the same, but they'd be rolling less dice than she is.
What I'm curious about is how the Rakasha ended up like this. Sure they're formless monsters from beyond time, but they also had conflicting motives.
Creation Rakasha wouldn't have the commitment to play Cthulhu all the time as I understand it. At least a few would get distracted and spend an age playing other roles.
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This might be new form, 50 years are nothing.
Alternativly it might have some metaphysical reason.
Like fear being one of the strongest emotions and thus the one best suited to maintain an emotion-starved Raksha in this thin and fallen world.
No, thats Iku-Turso.
Finnish sea monster, bound at the bottom of the ocean by a Finnish demigod and hero in the Kalevala.
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Iku-Turso - Wikipedia
Interesting that he might be Raksha here.
It has interesting implications about the origins of this reality. Of course, he might not be native, just an immigrant.
Im going to go out on a limb and wager that everyone involved in this thing is of Finnish ancestry.
Edvard Nieminen is a Finnish name. Betting that they are descended from the original Finnish demigod that locked the beastie away. And someone is trying to use them to free the monster from the bottom of the sea.
Oblivion War stuff.
There's a 1-dot charm for that. 4XP.
This would be a good time to have some dots in Past Lives to have a better idea of what we're against.
Probably not worth it, especially for an infernal.
I prefer the exaltation exactly as it is; a spiritual organ with no lingering elements of previous owners to infect Molly's mind.
In this version, just grants extra dots once a session(or was it a story)?