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Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

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BronzeTongue said:
Think we could work something playing off of the whole ring angel thing without being so direct?

Instead of eyes, we give her eight brass rings studded with mouths filled with obsidian teeth.

At the center of the ring we place a single vast eye of sickly green fire. Rather than turning to see things the eye simultaneously seems to have only one pupil but also seems to be looking in every direction at once.

Anyone looking at her would see the eye staring directly at them without ever seeming to move as they do, not matter how many people are around.
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That is a pretty cool image, but I would like to keep it practical in terms of having arms and hands.

I guess telekinetic grip for our weapon isn't impossible though.
 
Artemis1992 said:
That is a pretty cool image, but I would like to keep it practical in terms of having arms and hands.

I guess telekinetic grip for our weapon isn't impossible though.
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That'd be cool.

Just imagine:

The vast eye of fire, crowned by eight brass rings each marked with eight obsidian mouths containing eight fangs. It seems to glare, briefly sharpening the nuclear light to a point.

The rings accelerate their orbit, and on the topmost of her crowns a single mouth yawns so wide it spilts open its mount.

Unfurling along its spin, the crown goes straight and the mouths scream diabolic praises so wildly that they tear themselves apart.

Along its length the once crown is ridged with impossibly sharp teeth, dripping with nuclear venom and infernal hatred. Forming a brazen macuahuitl-blade held before an ever burning eye.

It's at this point the Eldest Gruff knew he had fucked up.
 
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Arc 0 Post 19: Magic is Like Eating Soap
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    • Magic is Like Eating Soap​

    5th of July 2006 A.D.

    "It's pretty obvious I'm different now right?" you pause, looking more towards your mother than the wizard who would actually be able to tell how you are different. You like your power and you like the answers it has already given you, you even like the prim voice of the demon in your head since you are pretty sure that unlike poor Harry your guest works for you, but you don't want things to change with your family you don't want your dad to be mad or Hope to be scared and as unfair as that might be to her you want your mom to say so, just for now,lie to you if she has to.

    "You are still you under all that," she manages, stumbling a little over the words. You'll take it, enough to carry on, to drive the point home.

    "One of those spiders got me on the leg," you point down to where your lower leg is still covered in some of the stubborn snow of the Nevernever... only it's not really snow anymore. What comes off when you shake your leg is clear gunk... 'ectoplasm' you remember Harry calling it, and a good bit of red from your blood.

    Mom gasps as she rushes over. "How did you... Why don't you say anything?"

    Inwardly you wince a little at the way you had played at her heartstrings, you knew she would do this, she always does this, even when Leech bruised her knuckles on some bully's face and she gets grounded over it. "I heal faster and don't feel pain as much."

    "About as much as the pari when they do not call on their Hunger," Usum offers helpfully though you hesitate to compare yourself to a lust spirit host.

    Wait, that is the point, the White Council do not make rules pari either. "I think I heal about as fast as Thomas does when he does not go all out."

    "Most kinds of supernatural powers have toughness as part of the package," Harry offers. "Does it feel like it has a weakness, like silver or fire?"

    "Nothing can take your health from you forever Wise Soveraign, you may be broken, but not undone by any mortal power or artifice," comes the answer from your guide. While you do not much like the implication that immortals might have some way to do it, now is not the time to worry about that. Sufficient onto the day the evils thereof and all that.

    "That might have changed how you do magic then, the sort of themes of it," Harry says,catching on to where you are going with this. He is a detective and not just a wizard after all.

    Darkness, Cold, Conviction, Sight, Poison Fire.... It does not really feel like you have a theme at all unless that theme is 'scary witch', but you nod anyway. "So I want to try to cast a spell, just something small, to see what's changed."

    Mom looks up from where she had been examining your perfectly healthy though slightly blood-caked leg, The lines around her mouth are deeper as she searches your face for... something. It looks like she finds or maybe doesn't find what she is looking for. "Just... be careful now."

    Lost 1 Essence

    Harry clears his throat professionally and asks: "What can you do?"

    "I'll just try to make myself harder to notice." The last thing you want to do now is offer a list of everything you had ever tried with magic. In hindsight you had tried to do a lot of silly-dangerous things.

    The church is loud and filled with memories and starting eyes and judgement. Part of you just wants to shoo them both away, you don't want to look foolish in front of Harry or look... sinful you guess in front of mom, even though you do not think magic is a sin she does. But that is not going to work. So you are quiet and so you are still, the books on meditation had been some of the few useful ones you had found trawling occult bookshops.

    When you look close enough light has a sound, a quiet constant harmony, no matter if it is the steady glow of fluorescence or the contained heat of an Edison Light or even the light of sun and stars.
    You look ​
    If you listen close enough the sound of everything has a feeling to it, whether its music drifting in from the street, the sound of passing cars, of children playing far away
    You listen ​
    When you stop to think about it everything glows, just not with its own light, an apple, a door-frame, a cat lounging in the sun, all of them feel the touch of light and all of them cast it back into the world
    You feel​

    And so as you had done many times before you try to coax them, to nudge them as you want them to go, like blowing soap bubbles. "I'm not here," you breathe into them...or try to at least.

    The moment you touch the magic is surges towards you...through you and falls into the place behind your heart,freezing cold and hotter than the sun. You try again and again...and again and every time it slips through your fingers and right into your soul as Usum puts it. While you grow no more adept at stopping it with every try you become convinced that there is something at the other end more than 'a whole pile of magic', a substance, an essence that is heavier, more real.

    Being the reasonable and level headed person that you are you grab for that. You can hold it just fine, it does not go back where it came from, but it just lies there, like a lump of steel or maybe uranium. No amount of whispering at it is going to make this bend this into a spell, at least not in English. You are going to need stronger older tools for this.

    How do you feel about this?

    [] Relieved, one more argument for the White Council not to try to cut off your head

    [] Saddened, as much sense as Lasciel's warning makes you would have liked to be a wizard,maybe learn from Harry in formally

    [] Perturbed, what does the Essene in your soul do? What spells could need that kind of power

    [] Write in

    OOC: So there it is,no easy access to all the flexibility of Dresenverse magic for you unfortunately. You are going to have to make do with your Demon Emperor superpowers for now. To be clear what is happening is your Exaltation is in emergency power mode since there is no Essence out there, there is however this thin denaturated soup of probability that can be used as an Essence precursor so it just slurps that down and produces by its standards a pittance of motes each day. When Molly tries to do mortal sorcery she makes a path of least resistance between the magic she is trying to shape and the cosmic pump in her soul so it just slurps it up.
     
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    • [X] Perturbed, what does the Essene in your soul do? What spells could need that kind of power

    The likes that could render Creation all and sundry.

    Keep in mind, that Adamant Circle Sorcery is used to maintain Creation's boundary and stability. We're talking about the Source Code of the universe. That sort of magic juice didn't come cheap.
     
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    DragonParadox said:
    Rolls:
    1. Molly persuade
    2. Charity resist
    3. Harry to notice what you are doing and help (not that you needed it)
    I almost did not make the Charity roll because you got 12 successes, but like it is technically possible for her to match that
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    Am I going crazy, or did Charity use 11 Willpower Dice against us?

    How the hell did she do that? One cannot even have more than 10 Dice at most in Willpower Roll.
     
    Gonna go with relieved here. Molly knows she hasn't been rendered into a sad muggle and odds are looking good that the White Council is not going to have any jurisdiction over her since she is obviously no longer a practitioner.

    [X] Relieved, one more argument for the White Council not to try to cut off your head
     
    I'm going with Perturbed because it would give us questions. It would set off an inquiry on our mind, trying to wrap up on how did this come to be, what magnitude of spellworking that require something as dense and magically Pure as Essence? And these inquiries would fuel our inquisitive nature and our Urge of the Forbidden.
     
    Jack vile Ripper said:
    Must be one bull-headed mother.

    But really, this is obscene. Not even Antediluvians have this amount of Dice against Mental Working (unless they're in a Frenzy, to which all mental working goes up and kaput) or use some Advanced Discipline.
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    Assume Charity is one stubborn mother with 8 or 9 WP naturally and you only need a small bonus.

    I'm not familiar with the system, so does acting with Intimacies give boni like that?

    Edit: And Adorjan'd, the Silent Wind can be stealthy too.
     
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    Relieved however will be our character assessment that we are not addicted to magic and we are willing to give up power to safeguard those we care about.

    It would also releive Charity that her daughter lost her magic and is ok with it.
     
    Artemis1992 said:
    I'm not familiar with the system, so does acting with Intimacies give boni like that?
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    In 2e/2.5 Exalted, going in accordance of your intimacies gives you bonus Dice to your rolls. So with WP 8, I can see how she's able to achieve 11D10 on a roll.

    But ExWoD has no such mechanics. The Chosen are the only one able to have Intimacies at all, since they breathe the old powers of will that the Exalts once imposed on the world. Maybe it's because of Dresden Verse having more magic that she could have Intimacies at all. I think that's the reasoning.
     
    [X] Relieved, one more argument for the White Council not to try to cut off your head

    Its not so dire a loss as it might otherwise be. We are not something to be ignored, not anymore nor ever again, and to be bothered that some cost had to be paid would be... the tantrum of a petulant child. Should the finest painter in the world despair that he gave up his chance to study medicine? We will stand with the best, in time, and fear is foolishness.

    Nor should we be perturbed. There is a vast well of power but the same is true for others, including wizards proper or bastard who have precisely as much as they are willing to risk and sacrifice. Power is there but reaching it will be no simple process, something of interest but not to be brooded upon too deeply.

    Whatever we are, being a Warlock is out of our hands. This simplified a magnificently complicated situation by the slightest, most ephemeral glance. Harry... we may not be a Wizard in the making but he will not be washing himself of us so easily. Not even before the next wave of interesting times come.
     
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    Yzarc said:
    Relieved however will be our character assessment that we are not addicted to magic and we are willing to give up power to safeguard those we care about.

    It would also releive Charity that her daughter lost her magic and is ok with it.
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    I mean you lost the capacity for mortal sorcery because the infernal engine in your soul deems that to be 'not magic enough'. I'm not sure if that is what she had in mind. :V

    Jack vile Ripper said:
    In 2e/2.5 Exalted, going in accordance of your intimacies gives you bonus Dice to your rolls. So with WP 8, I can see how she's able to achieve 11D10 on a roll.

    But ExWoD has no such mechanics. The Chosen are the only one able to have Intimacies at all, since they breathe the old powers of will that the Exalts once imposed on the world. Maybe it's because of Dresden Verse having more magic that she could have Intimacies at all. I think that's the reasoning.
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    If Charity 'I bashed my way into the heart of Winter with a hammer' Carpenter does not get to have intimacies and get more will from them no one does.

    So yeah everyone has intimacies.
     
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    Yzarc said:
    It would also releive Charity that her daughter lost her magic and is ok with it.
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    I will lose some respect for her if she can perform enough doublethink to classify our bullshit as something other than magic. Its like saying a railgun isn't a gun because it doesn't use gunpowder. It puts holes in things from long distances well enough and that is all that matters.
     
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