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Green Sun, Black Shadows (CG/Exalted)

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Charms in general trump 1º circle spells (Except summoning, ofc, that is supernally good). Note that Terrestrial circle spells are something that Dragon-blooded and even mortals can have, and are not balanced against Solar level charms. Thus, with a few exceptions, buying charms is just better.

About our next step, we need the spies. With a network of inmaterial demonic spies, we can safely* investigate the activities of mid-ranking Brittanian Nobles looking for illegal activities, corruption and abuse of power. Then we can target them with our Knights to build popular support.

*(I expect some of those spies to be discovered, by Brittanians with access to magic (Either Dragon-blooded or sorcerers), but that isn't a serious concern, since you can't really extract information from a binded demon.)
 
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random_npc said:
come to think of it, how exactly are knightmare frames able to outperform tanks?
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Because Sakuradite.
Krain said:
Huh, thought it was SWLIHN who had feelings for Theion, while Cecelyne didn't.
But alright.
(Wow, that sorta-civil war thing between them all must have been weird... we had Kimbery who had to be expecting special treatment from Theion for letting him finally make his entrance - which I think could also work for why that third circle soul of hers has the hots for Ligier - while Theion was more focused on SWLIHN and apparently Cecelyne, all while the conflict raged)
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Eh, Theion only had eyes for himself, he was a solipsistic narcissist.
But yeah, apparently Cecelyne eventually got over her "Oniisama is so hot" phase and switched her infatuation to Szoreny.
reality deviant said:
wasn't Evangelion bigger? and more thematically fitting?
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landcollector said:
That would also be an Artifact N/A (at least!) endeavour.
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veekie said:
You just need to install a cockpit and control system in a suitably large behemoth.
Or 2CD.
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Hellstriders are literally EVAs.
 
Sydonai said:
Because Sakuradite.

Eh, Theion only had eyes for himself, he was a solipsistic narcissist.
But yeah, apparently Cecelyne eventually got over her "Oniisama is so hot" phase and switched her infatuation to Szoreny.



Hellstriders are literally EVAs.
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*snerk* Cecelyne is a brocon little sister? Aaaaaand now I'm picturing Cecelyne picking Lelouch to be her new "Oniisama" to make Malfeas and Szoreny jealous while Nunally wonders why she has the strangest desire to shout "HANDS OFF MY ONIISAMA YOU FAT BITCH!"
 
Sydonai said:
On Earth that makes sense, but this is an Exalted crossover.
As far as Fluff is concerned Warstiders are superior to non-humanoid vehicles.
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isn't the main advantage of warstriders over equivalent artifact vehicles that the pilot can use their kung fu and charms through the strider? though that would explain why britannian loves them so much in this universe. It would also explain why no other country can compete with britannian knightmare frames, they're not actually practical if you can't find exalted to pilot them.
 
Alexander89 said:
Something like this:
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Those seem like they'd be fine for Rakshata to have. At least the second one for sure. The Infernals manual says many infernal relics follow the same form as the Creation versions, they just look more like something from Malfeas and are made of appropriate materials.

Alexander89 said:
Also, as you may know you are not a random Solar, given power but left alone in the grand scheme of things beside what he can gain for himself. You're an Infernal, you work for Hell: great things are expected from you, but in return you receive whatever help you need.

As such, it will come time when Lelouch will have the possibility of asking resources, raging from materials, weapons, manses, hearthstones, artifacts and such. He can't ask too much, since he still needs to prove himself first, but he can.
The palace within the Conventicle Malfeasant stands apart, since there is one for every Prince. That is all your whatever you do. As so are the serfs you can ask for, though you will have only a limited use for them.

In that light, I recommend you to start thinking on what you want Lelouch to equip himself, and what he needs for his rebellion and other duties Malfeas will give him. As a rule, you can't ask anything above 3 dots. You can also ask for a Spies Background, but only up to 2 dots:

Obviously I will provide example, but I feel that, as any good game, the player(s) must be free to indulge in their creativities, with canon artifacts being simply suggestions.
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Hmmm...

Ok, well, I think it would be a good idea if we could get the Mask of Zero spruced up to allow the fascination effect of Beautiful in My Way to bleed through without exposing our identity - chalcanth from an appropriate Oramus related demon should allow that, and it wouldn't be be that high dot of an artifact. I think that would be a one dot artifact, since it's only making it not block the effect rather than providing the effect itself.

For personal equipment, upgrading our Zero costume seems like it would be a good idea, though isn't necessarily a priority and we can wear other armor over our costume to get more soak anyways.

A gun, or twin guns, might be a good investment for personal scale combat. The gun we have is entirely mundane.

Spies could be good. We certainly would benefit from having information.

For other stuff, some of it we might get with whatever trade deal we make with Berengiere. I think a close alliance with Kaguya would be a good idea, lulz and romance aside. We might see about bringing her along with us to the meeting. Kaguya should be able to provide more Sakuradite than we can with just the Energy Fillers. One good we really need in greater numbers is uniforms for the Black Knights made of spider silk. All our guys being in bulletproof clothing will help a bit - if Berengiere could gather Anuhles in large numbers to start making uniforms, that would be great. Further, we might expand the Dark-Green Fangs. Use the uniform production thing as a cover, she sends some of the more promising Anuhles to be trained by the ones we've already got, and she gets access to a group of assassins to work for her within in Malfeas. That should also make Seyrun happy. Of course, another thing she wants is stolen voices, so we might capture some Britannian nobles at some point, and we can send particularly bad ones to Hell for her to take their voices as she needs to weave her cloth.

Alexander89 said:
Oh, and re-reading Modern Age I found those details:
Should I add them?
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I don't see why not.
 
random_npc said:
they're not actually practical if you can't find exalted to pilot them.
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It depends.
Are you willing to halve your soldier's lifespans and make them suffer though horrific pain and invasive surgery?
Krain said:
Eh, he was different from Malfeas in that he did value his subordinates, and could buff them up IIRC.
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Because he saw them as literal extensions of himself.
He believed himself to be omnipresent and omnipotent.
 
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Sydonai said:
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It depends.
Are you willing to halve your soldier's lifespans and make them suffer though horrific pain and invasive surgery?
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I believe that's only for power armor, actually - the attunement ability that Aegis-Inset Amulets gives a max attunement of magical armor up to five motes, with no benefits from the magical materials used in its construction.

Speaking of power armor, I bet it's possible to make some that runs on Sakuradite rather than the Essence of its user, so we might have a good alternative there for mass produced power armor.
 
I just had an interesting idea, yelow jade is the reult of unique and inpossible to replicate alquemical acidents, one of Oramus things is how he concistently makes unique things so wouldn't there be a way for us to paradoxicaly mass produce yelow jade ?
 
Zaratustra said:
I just had an interesting idea, yelow jade is the reult of unique and inpossible to replicate alquemical acidents, one of Oramus things is how he concistently makes unique things so wouldn't there be a way for us to paradoxicaly mass produce yelow jade ?
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Yellow Jade may be rare, but if it already exists then it's not really unique to make more of it. Flowers Bloom Like Madness allows for help creating a unique item. Recreating it does not allow it to be used.
 
Enjou said:
Yellow Jade may be rare, but if it already exists then it's not really unique to make more of it. Flowers Bloom Like Madness allows for help creating a unique item. Recreating it does not allow it to be used.
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What if we made a unique way of creating the stuff, one that comes at the problem completely sideways?
 
Alexander89 said:
In that light, I recommend you to start thinking on what you want Lelouch to equip himself, and what he needs for his rebellion and other duties Malfeas will give him. As a rule, you can't ask anything above 3 dots.
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The two dot version of Weapon Ward would sound good for me. Having one that protects against mundane bullets would be quite useful in a modern setting where even the Dragonblooded are rare.
 
meianmaru said:
The two dot version of Weapon Ward would sound good for me. Having one that protects against mundane bullets would be quite useful in a modern setting where even the Dragonblooded are rare.
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Hmmm, yeah, a Weapon Ward against guns would be a very useful thing in the setting.

For those not aware, a Weapon Ward is a two or four dot artifact that wards against a certain weapon type - swords, spears, daggers, arrows, or in the proposed case bullets/guns. The two dot works on mundane weapons, and the four dot one works on magical weapons as well. Using Cecelyne's authority, the ward makes it so using any weapon of a specific type suffers a -10 external penalty (meaning successes are removed, not just dice) on attack rolls and damage. Even if you have the necessary dice pool to pull off hitting your opponent, the damage will be either nothing or zero.

I'm not sure if the war would be against bullets or guns. The Infernals manual specifies an arrow ward rather than a bow ward, which I guess makes sense because multiple types of things can shoot arrows, or you could throw them, or you could try to stab someone with one. If the ward is against bullets, then someone could still use a gun as a melee weapon against us.

But anyways, while there are some people in Code Geass who use swords, martial arts, and throwing weapons the vast majority of mooks use guns. A Weapon Ward against bullets would be great. Hell, it'd even make it difficult to attack with bullets shot by Knightmares. I'm not sure if it'd work while inside a Knightmare, but if it would it'd be damn convenient there as well.

Vaalintine said:
Is anyone else seeng some parallels to Oramus in Cytherea's charms?
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Not really. There are a few similar Charms, but there's clearly a different theme overall.
 
Broken25 said:
This seems extremely unbalanced.

From where is this from, anyway?

Edit: Nevermind, i found it. Is completely broken.
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landcollector said:
Weapon Ward sounds underpriced to me.
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I think it's less broken in a setting where A) magical weapons are significantly more common and B) there is greater weapon variety. People in the regular Exalted setting use all sorts of weapons, and most combat focused Exalted are capable of using more than one type of weapon.

As a particular note, it can't defend against unarmed martial arts at all. As such, it is worthless against the dreaded spin-kick.
 
Enjou said:
I think it's less broken in a setting where A) magical weapons are significantly more common and B) there is greater weapon variety. People in the regular Exalted setting use all sorts of weapons, and most combat focused Exalted are capable of using more than one type of weapon.
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Is still broken in the original setting. A 2-dot artifact to get inmunity to arrows is insanely good. With a functional +10 to your DV you don't have to fear mortal archers ever again.
 
Broken25 said:
Is still broken in the original setting. A 2-dot artifact to get inmunity to arrows is insanely good. With a functional +10 to your DV you don't have to fear mortal archers ever again.
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Sure, but in the original setting there are a lot more Dragon-blooded who do have magical weapons, and mortal soldiers tend to be equipped with more than just bows and arrows as well.

Also, they didn't remove or change it in 2.5e Errata, so it's still a canon artifact. We might as well use it to our advantage.
 
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