The iron weakness was because it was the purest expression of the Elemental Pole of Earth, I think. San the pole it would not be a thing.
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
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Huh, actually, wonder if in this crossover, the Fey aren't so much the universe's natural immune system, as they are "naturalized" Raksha that are now defending the world from their kin that still despise existence instead of embracing it. Or something along those lines, at least, for how the courts actually started. Just throwing speculation at the wall, here.
I would think a Raksha would be calcified out of existence if they were in the physical world, with how rigid the laws of physics are.
Maybe. Iron still has some mojo going for it, and the Rakasha is almost certainly as reduced as the world at large. Still, good point.
Not many votes on this one.
[X] What did you see at Soul's Rest? (If cogent will provide a detailed vision)
[X] What did you see at Soul's Rest? (If cogent will provide a detailed vision)
I'm running a new Exalted Warhammer Quest if anyone is interested.
Don't worry I'll keep up with this one as well, this is to replace Age of Ice and Blood which does not have a lot of interested voters these days.
Don't worry I'll keep up with this one as well, this is to replace Age of Ice and Blood which does not have a lot of interested voters these days.
Vote closed.
Maybe it hasn't come up in thread because it's an obvious pick, but I think summoning is probably the most important sorcery path for us. Barring homebrew charms it'd be the easiest way to whistle up assistance from our hell. Assistance which we can use to fill in for the paths we lack.
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Arc 3 Post 13: Answers in Absence
Answers in Absence
25st of July 2006 A.D.
"What did you see at Soul's Rest?" you ask into the ether. Obedient to your will an image forms in the mind's eye and the silent wind bears words to your ear.
An vision of a party on a lake, a bunch of people having fun, Green Day's Holiday blaring out of speakers and probably more beer in evidence than is entirely fair or legal to be drinking before driving a boat. Soul's Rest looms black on the bank, a colonial era behemoth in s sea of neatly packed suburbs. You might have thought it abandoned except for the tinny lights peering out of the windows at the upper floors. Fred hardly pays it any mind and no more than a shiver of unease passes at the back of his neck. This party is lit. There's a lot more people waiting on the shore than he's used to and most of the newcomers seem single and ready to mingle as well or at least so he hopes.
Lost 1 Essence -> now at 11/12
"Da.. darn!" you sort of half-curse before explaining what little you had seen. "He didn't see anything, he barely noticed the place. I think I may have asked the wrong question."
Dad looks at you sympathetically. "That is still one more thing than I could have found out on my own and now we know what it was not. The poor man did not see anything particularly wrong. Perhaps they were concerned at what others might see on the today or tomorrow. The next stage should have been about now."
"Orr..." Lydia interjects. "Someone else noticed something off and the Pathfinders did not want to kill that guy because it would have drawn too much attention. Like if he had gone home and told his girlfriend 'there is Cthulhu in the lake' and then he had a stroke out of the blue she might have thought to look into that Cthulhu thing on the occult side of town, something could have leaked. but if it it some other guy that died and got the whole thing canceled..."
"Then it's still a dead end.. maybe we can look at who filed that complaint. It's probably the Pathfinders guy in the inside..." You check, it does not take Clippy long. "The director of Soul's Rest. Yeah I think that counts as guy on the inside. Doctor Markus Niemi, that is who we have to pay a visit to, maybe skip the pleasantries." You crack your knuckles for emphasis
For his part dad nods, but he looks distracted by something. "You said the party on the shore seemed more lively than it should have been? Maybe you were closer than you knew this morning. Perhaps the noise, people mingling and having fun was distracting those within somehow. I may not know much of sorcery, but I have been the distraction enough times to know just how dangerous it can be."
"Wait a second... dreams,, they are doing something with the dreams of sleepers and that thing. It's not in the water, or a least not just in the water, it is in a part of the Spirit World that can be accessed in dreams so what happens if they wake up unexpectedly...?" That does not sound quite right.
You reach out with mind, with will with Essence towards the strange word you had found in the depths of the vision, raksha. They would not be distracted by mere noise and tumult they who could see music and hear the sundering of hearts and souls, but the emanations of so many passions: ambition, desire mirth and joy. "That would be really distracting wouldn't it?"
Lost 1 Essence -> now at 10/12
It is only after you say it that you realize that you had spoken aloud. "I think they are trying to... modulate the emotions of the people at the home for some purpose and the race was getting in the way. That would explain the dreamless sleep, it resets the state of mind so you can get someone to feel the same thing over and over again without any hardening or... fracturing, at least if one nightmare is not enough to do the latter."
What do you do next?
[] Have that talk with Doctor Niemi
[] Try for the infiltration pretending to be the family of a Finnish American senior
[] Write in
OOC: Welp, that was not a set of rolls I was expecting
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[X] Have that talk with Doctor Niemi
I really want to say I called it, but I didn't. Or at least not argued enough for my choice. Anyway, play to our strength. That being being able to make hardened supernatural monsters piss themselves and declare their undying loyalty to us at our mere sight. Ie intimidation. The doctor is either a mortal, or a creature of darkness. So, visit him and talk to him.
@DragonParadox does Doctor Niemi live onsite, or does he have an apartment in town? I am thinking about having Clippy call him and tell him that there was a pipe bursting in his apartment complex and he should hurry to come home. Or something like that.
I really want to say I called it, but I didn't. Or at least not argued enough for my choice. Anyway, play to our strength. That being being able to make hardened supernatural monsters piss themselves and declare their undying loyalty to us at our mere sight. Ie intimidation. The doctor is either a mortal, or a creature of darkness. So, visit him and talk to him.
@DragonParadox does Doctor Niemi live onsite, or does he have an apartment in town? I am thinking about having Clippy call him and tell him that there was a pipe bursting in his apartment complex and he should hurry to come home. Or something like that.
Summoning paths suffer somewhat from forced specializations; there are like five types of supernaturals, and every type needs its own path.
Within the bounds of the paths tho, olde goode "roll 20 sux where system expects you get 5 max" still allows us to summon minor gods. Not so minor gods, even.
But just getting our own demons from our own demon realm to this reality is already good utility.
He lives onsite.
Not yet.
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Alternative theory; despite being puppets of murderous monsters from beyond the bounds of reality, the Pathfinders also take a hard stance against driving (or boating) while impaired.