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Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

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[X] Leave it be for now, it will not do anyone any good to open the letter unbidden.
-[X] After school, when things are hopefully somewhat more calm and there are fewer jawas around, try to find time to speak with Charity about the letter and her past, of which we know so little. If we have learned anything in the past few days, it is that ignorance can lead to disaster.
 
[X] Leave it be, it will not do anyone any good to open that

I'm curious, but do we really have the bandwidth for this right now?

Either it doesn't contain anything relevant, in which case we've pointlessly violated Charity's privacy, or it does and we've got to figure out how to deal with whatever secret it holds while juggling everything else.

It's kept for this long, it can keep for a little longer. At very least until we get a handle on the white council situation.
 
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[X] Leave it be, it will not do anyone any good to open that

I'm curious, but do we really have the bandwidth for this right now?

Either it doesn't contain anything relevant, in which case we've pointlessly violated Charity's privacy, or it does and we've got to figure out how to deal with whatever secret it holds while juggling everything else.

It's kept for this long, it can keep for a little longer. At very least until we get a handle on the white council situation.
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Yeah, that makes sense. Maybe we can bring up the letter later, when things are a bit less tense.

[X] Leave it be, it will not do anyone any good to open that
 
[X] Leave it be for now, it will not do anyone any good to open the letter unbidden.
-[X] After school, when things are hopefully somewhat more calm and there are fewer jawas around, try to find time to speak with Charity about the letter and her past, of which we know so little. If we have learned anything in the past few days, it is that ignorance can lead to disaster.
 
Personally I just don't want to vote for the character development of violating her mother's privacy just because of curiosity and because she can while she's already in a stressed relationship with her mother.
 
[X] Leave it be for now, it will not do anyone any good to open the letter unbidden.
-[X] After school, when things are hopefully somewhat more calm and there are fewer jawas around, try to find time to speak with Charity about the letter and her past, of which we know so little. If we have learned anything in the past few days, it is that ignorance can lead to disaster.
 
[X] Leave it be for now, it will not do anyone any good to open the letter unbidden.
-[X] After school, when things are hopefully somewhat more calm and there are fewer jawas around, try to find time to speak with Charity about the letter and her past, of which we know so little. If we have learned anything in the past few days, it is that ignorance can lead to disaster.
 
[X] Leave it be, it will not do anyone any good to open that

When the waters no longer ripple, then we can talk.
 
[X] Leave it be for now, it will not do anyone any good to open the letter unbidden.
-[X] After school, when things are hopefully somewhat more calm and there are fewer jawas around, try to find time to speak with Charity about the letter and her past, of which we know so little. If we have learned anything in the past few days, it is that ignorance can lead to disaster.

There are clearly manipulations going on for better or worse, from above or beside. There is too much damn luck tied to our finding that damn thing right this second and not at any other point in our history or future. That doesn't mean we don't read it. But don't do it in a rush in a delicate moment. Radioactive fallout right fucking now wouldn't help us out.

Get through one day of school, take it seriously at least for everyone else's sake and so we have more leeway when things go to hell again, then see from there.
 
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[X] Leave it be, it will not do anyone any good to open that

We're totally going to bring it up later though.
 
[X] Leave it be for now, it will not do anyone any good to open the letter unbidden.
-[X] After school, when things are hopefully somewhat more calm and there are fewer jawas around, try to find time to speak with Charity about the letter and her past, of which we know so little. If we have learned anything in the past few days, it is that ignorance can lead to disaster.
 
[X] Leave it be, it will not do anyone any good to open that

Let's not jump off the slippery "I am Empress of all I survey" slope too fast. It'll come soon enough.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Jul 12, 2022 at 2:13 AM, finished with 28 posts and 19 votes.
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We need to sit down with mom and have a rather lengthy discussion about magic. Not in the sense of our trying to convince her to let us go active practitioner but just... more in the sense that we are now dealing with what is effectively a disability. As things are we are going to have to keep every living thing at more than arm's length because we'll cause both a masquerade breach and frostbite and we can't even go near plantlife with a clear conscience. We'll have to be careful in even how we pick up a mug of hot chocolate lest it crack in our hands and, well, mom doesn't need to worry about our spending time with boys. Holy hell, does she ever not.

She has the opinion that magic sucks? We might not necessarily agree with that as something that applies to all magic but, yeah, we both can nod our respective heads that this sucks like the gaping vacuum of space.
 
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Arc 0 Post 23: Wagon and Castle
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    6th of July 2006 A.D.

    You think about it for a moment, not just taking it of course, but maybe you could talk to mom about it. Distantly you can hear Hank crying in the kitchen, probably about not wanting to drink his milk again because he does not have the right cereal to go with it. Nope, mom does not have the time for this. Especially not after all the trouble I made, you think guiltily.

    A few moments later you find the gloves, motorcycle gloves you think Daniel had worn them for Halloween three or four years ago, but they fit you just fine and the dark leather goes well with the black well everything you are wearing. You get into the Beige Wagon turn the key and flip off the air conditioning you will likely never need again. The little Toyota Echo your dad had gotten you when you passed Driver's Ed was nice and you are grateful and all, but you would really like it if your parents let you paint it a less boring color than the one it had come with. Gift horses and dental check-ups Molly, you remind yourself, briefly confusing Usum. Not everyone gets a car when they are sixteen.

    In fact the only reason you got this one was your dad helping out a guy who owned a dealership in Des Moines with something nasty. You do not know what it was, but you do know it had been 'off the clock' and nothing to do with what Dad had been sent to Iowa to do because mom had been upset over the risks he had taken. The guy had insisted in giving dad a good deal on a car to drive home with hence Beige Wagon. She was really cute and the number of jawas who fit inside was strictly limited so you only had to drop off Alicia at Saint Vincent along the way.


    "Don't punch anyone I wouldn't punch Leech," you call as you roll in front of the school.

    "So like most of the school?" she snickers. "You know the Sisters still talk about you like you the boogieman or something, the sorts of things you used to do to your uniform not to mention those magazines you brought to school."

    "There's a reason I go to public school now and it isn't for the cafeteria food let me tell you," you roll your eyes. "Four years in there and you'll get sick of it too."

    "Did you actually smoke on school grounds?" she asks, lowering her voice her voice such that you could probably hear it further.

    "No." After a moment you add. "I may have been the lookout for some girls who did. Pro tip, its a thankless job and they will sell you out to the principal when, not if they get caught."

    "Right I'll keep that in mind if any of my friends take up smoking," she giggles at the thought.

    It's more likely she thinks. If there is one thing going to Saint Vincent had taught you it's that whoever had thought single gender education was more virtuous or somehow less distracting to the students had clearly never met a teenager in their lives, or possibly another human being. The bigger the list of rules is the less likely any of them are to be followed. There is a reason you think that even God stopped at Ten Commandments.

    After ducking down a few side-streets and getting yelled at by some asshole who really needed to be at his destination thirty seconds earlier and to heck with road safety you make it to school fifteen minutes earlier than usual on account of the whole 'waking with the sun' thing.

    Lakeview High was one of those late nineteenth century red brick buildings with the pretensions of being a lot older and grander, like whoever paid for it had seen an postcard from an Ivy League College once and said 'make it look like that with the funny towers.' What invading army it would need crenelations to guard against is anyone's guess


    "There are all manner of powers loose in the city, surely guarding the bright souls of the young from them is worth some considerations," Usum whispers in your thoughts, an uncomfortably reasonable reminder.

    The moment you get out of the car you realize this might have been a mistake as the bustling crowd of students making their way part around you wide-eyed and muttering.

    What if anything do you tell your friends about your absence and how you have changed?

    [] Nothing, they are safer not knowing

    [] Talk about the attack at Splattercon!!! that was in the news right? (Charisma+Subterfuge)
    -[] Write in stunt optional

    [] Hint at the truth, see if they bite, ignorance certainly did not protect you (Charisma+Empathy)
    -[] Write in stunt optional

    [] Write

    OOC Between dropping in appearance due to the spooky factor and the aura of frost you had to roll straight appearance on your one die not to draw any looks as these are kids who see you every weekday. If you had perform you could have rolled that plus appearance and sort of acted out 'I'm normal' but you do not. On the plus side it's not a botch.
     
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    Eeeeeh, no success is better than a botch. It's bad, but not 'your very presence fills the air with fear and terror' Nosferatu-level of bad.
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    Time to use that Charisma 3 + Subterfuge 3 baby! They'll try and cope with it, justifying it as some 'gas leak' or something.

    Edit: @DragonParadox, a moment please. If we try and use something like this:

    [] Look at them carefully, narrow your eyes and say, "The hells you're looking at? Move." (Charisma+Intimidation)

    Is this valid? Not gonna use it actually, just to see if this is something we can do.
     
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