I just realized something: the penalty from "What Is and What Should Never Be" happens only in Creation. Being in Malfeas, Lelouch shouldn't have noticed the drop in perception.
If you are okay I can leave the Charm as it is, and then provide you with the Wyld Jem so that even in Creation Lelouch is protected.
Well, that's a bit of trouble. What's his reasoning for getting Dual Gaze Paradox then? Maybe he noticed it before the trip, discussed it with Seyrun, and then decided he needed the fix?
Also, does Wyld-Spreading Gem make other beings treat the area around the user as the Wyld (meaning there's Wyld mutations and whatnot going on) or is it just that the user is able to use powers that involve Shaping as if he was in a Wyld Zone?
Well, I used the word 'may' in there to imply that the Infernal can choose whether or not to add those successes. Though adding the Sea keyword makes some sense.
The Sea That Marched Against The Flame wrath against those who have betrayed her is vast, but greater still is her kindness towards her children. The Infernal pays ten motes and one willpower, then touches a Beloved character. As long as the motes remain committed, the Infernal becomes aware of any rolls the Beloved character makes and can choose to add (Infernal's Essence) automatic successes to them. The Beloved character must be within one mile of a Sea (as defined by the Sea keyword) for this charm to work. If a Beloved character targeted by this charm loses her Beloved status, the charm automatically ends.
Well, that's a bit of trouble. What's his reasoning for getting Dual Gaze Paradox then? Maybe he noticed it before the trip, discussed it with Seyrun, and then decided he needed the fix?
Obviously for the "pierce magical disguises" part. What with beings like Lunars and whatnot running around.
Wait. What count as magical disguise?
Also, does Wyld-Spreading Gem make other beings treat the area around the user as the Wyld (meaning there's Wyld mutations and whatnot going on) or is it just that the user is able to use powers that involve Shaping as if he was in a Wyld Zone?
Presumably anything that involves motes or essence, beyond what's required for matter to still be a thing? Basically, anything that the Imperfection of Oramus would count as magic?
Ok, I can see that. Maybe Lelouch having the thought "You know, I just walked in to see Clovis like it was nothing. What if others try to do it to me? What if a bird in a tree watching me is a Lunary?" and getting really paranoid, so grabbing the first solution that comes along.
I don't think Lunar shapeshifting would, but maybe change it to "see through magical disguises and transformations".
Alternatively, maybe make it into Oramus's form of Essence sight. It's not like SWLiHN would be the only Yozi who would have that type of Charm, after all. So, since DGP wouldn't be offsetting the drawback from What Is and What Should Never Be, it needs greater justification for it's negative aspects since you're not replacing one drawback with another. So basically it would look like this:
Dual Gaze Paradox
The Dragon Beyond The World sees both Creation and the Impossible at once, his paradoxical and vast being allowing him to suffer no ill effect from gazing at the Beyond. Upon purchasing this Charm the Infernal expands her sight to gaze upon What Is and What Cannot Be without distractions. This Charm grants the benefits of All-Encompassing Sorcerer's Sight (see Exalted, p. 222) as well as allowing her to reflexively roll (Perception + Awareness), plus (Essence) successes, to allow her dual vision to pierce through magical disguises and transformations.
However, by opening her sight to the Beyond the warlock also opens a portal for others to see Is Not, her eyes shining with a kaleidoscope of impossible colors. The effect is only Obvious when one looks the Infernal directly in the eyes. Doing so ensnares the watcher, making it difficult to look away. The affected character builds an Intimacy of obsession toward the Infernal upon first making direct eye contact unless they reflexively spend one Willpower to avert their gaze, in which case they become immune to the effect for the rest of the scene. Characters who have conflicting Intimacies that would interfere with this process find those feelings weakened. For one full day afterwards, any Intimacy built or attacked can't be lessened or rebuilt, respectively. After a day, the Intimacies may be affected normally. If the Infernal spends Willpower to not cause the effect of Beautiful In My Way on a given character, it also applies to the effect of this Charm.
At Essence 5 the call of the Beyond becomes too strong to be resisted: the Charm becomes Obvious to all characters who see the warlock's eyes, the effects ensnaring them as surely as those making direct eye contact, requiring one less scene to build the Intimacy of Obsession. The Infernal cannot spend Willpower to suppress the effects of this Charm anymore.
Thoughts? Unlike All-Encompassing Sorcerer's Sight and Essence-Dissecting Stare, this is always on and provides a defined method for seeing through disguises and transformations (unlike the vague version those get of it maybe warranting a bonus depending on circumstances), but due to that you get the drawback of the obsession causing eyes that have an Obvious effect when looking directly into them (and eventually all the time). I think this fits with Oramus's themes. He's more in tune with the Wyld than the other Primordials, so him being able to readily see through the petty disguises of the Raksha would be something he'd need.
Ok, that works, I think. Just so I'm clear on that, does leaving a Bordermarch for even a moment and being firmly in Creation and then going back reset the timer?
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i was rewatching Code Geass when i got to the Hotel episode and this thing:
show up and it got wreck pretty quick
and i remember that some people say that this thing design suck since it mobility is practically 0 thank to the giant Railgun
but can you guy actually make use of this hunk of chunk ?
It got wrecked going against the Lancelot. Pretty much everything gets wrecked going up against the Lancelot, except the Guren Mk-II. It's great for holding a choke point against normal Knightmares, and the Black Knights also use it later on during the Black Rebellion to bust through a section of collapsed wall.
The Raikou is a useless pile of shit emblematic of how the JLF still barely understands the new paradigms of combat.
The whole point of Knightmares is that they are absurdly mobile strike forces carrying okay sized weapons that don't get slowed down by much and theoretically can adapt to changing circumstances. This thing is going to be fairly slow normally, immobile when firing, and doesn't pack any durability to make up for it. It's a pile of crap.
There is basically no point to using the thing that would have been equally or better accomplished by just mounting the damn coilgun on a tracked and armored platform. As it stands it can't even be used for flak and is questionable at distant bombardment, so you need a relatively clear and flat LOS to whatever it's shooting, making it a joke to take out.
It's a deathtrap and I would have parted it out for scrap.
The Raikou is a useless pile of shit emblematic of how the JLF still barely understands the new paradigms of combat.
The whole point of Knightmares is that they are absurdly mobile strike forces carrying okay sized weapons that don't get slowed down by much and theoretically can adapt to changing circumstances. This thing is going to be fairly slow normally, immobile when firing, and doesn't pack any durability to make up for it. It's a pile of crap.
There is basically no point to using the thing that would have been equally or better accomplished by just mounting the damn coilgun on a tracked and armored platform. As it stands it can't even be used for flak and is questionable at distant bombardment, so you need a relatively clear and flat LOS to whatever it's shooting, making it a joke to take out.
It's a deathtrap and I would have parted it out for scrap.
I think this isn't quite a fair assessment. Lelouch would not have bothered deploying it during the Black Rebellion if it was as bad as you're making it out to be.
It needs to be taken into account are that the Raiko is largely a single purpose weapon - it's a siege weapon meant to hold a chokepoint like the one you've described (which are readily available in urban combat) or to provide firepower to break through something while it's supported by Knightmares. As far as it being better on a tracked vehicle, I can't say with certainty if that's true or not, but given that standard rules of engineering frequently don't apply in anime it's not necessarily all that relevant. Maybe it can turn faster than a tracked vehicle can?
The real important thing to consider is that it's first deployment was actually quite successful against the Sutherlands used against it - it killed three in one shot inside a rather wide tunnel. As such it proved its worth against Fifth Generation Knightmares as a defensive emplacement. The Lancelot wouldn't have been able to break through either if it didn't have energy shields, which were likely a known factor when the thing was being designed and built. In the second deployment it again lasted in an active battlefield until the Lancelot showed up (this time with flight capabilities, and even so the Raikou still did manage to get off a shot directly at the Lancelot [rendered useless due to Suzaku cutting the round with his sword of all things], so again I presume it may have a fast turn speed to aim shots) which indicates it managed to survive whatever other things the enemy had used up till then.
I think it would be most accurate to say that Seventh Generation technology is what made it rather useless. It became obsolete because Britannia advanced their own battlefield technology first, with energy shields, extremely enhanced mobility over prior frames, and flight on top of that completely negating its advantages.
The Raikou operated well in its deployment because the Brittanians had to go down a straight path into its firing arc. They were shooting fish in a barrel, there.
If you could miniaturize it a little more, you might make a long-range anti-material artillery piece out of it and mount it on a single specialized frame that could move.
The Raikou operated well in its deployment because the Brittanians had to go down a straight path into its firing arc. They were shooting fish in a barrel, there.
If you could miniaturize it a little more, you might make a long-range anti-material artillery piece out of it and mount it on a single specialized frame that could move.
I think this isn't quite a fair assessment. Lelouch would not have bothered deploying it during the Black Rebellion if it was as bad as you're making it out to be.
It needs to be taken into account are that the Raiko is largely a single purpose weapon - it's a siege weapon meant to hold a chokepoint like the one you've described (which are readily available in urban combat) or to provide firepower to break through something while it's supported by Knightmares. As far as it being better on a tracked vehicle, I can't say with certainty if that's true or not, but given that standard rules of engineering frequently don't apply in anime it's not necessarily all that relevant. Maybe it can turn faster than a tracked vehicle can?
The real important thing to consider is that it's first deployment was actually quite successful against the Sutherlands used against it - it killed three in one shot inside a rather wide tunnel. As such it proved its worth against Fifth Generation Knightmares as a defensive emplacement. The Lancelot wouldn't have been able to break through either if it didn't have energy shields, which were likely a known factor when the thing was being designed and built. In the second deployment it again lasted in an active battlefield until the Lancelot showed up (this time with flight capabilities, and even so the Raikou still did manage to get off a shot directly at the Lancelot [rendered useless due to Suzaku cutting the round with his sword of all things], so again I presume it may have a fast turn speed to aim shots) which indicates it managed to survive whatever other things the enemy had used up till then.
I think it would be most accurate to say that Seventh Generation technology is what made it rather useless. It became obsolete because Britannia advanced their own battlefield technology first, with energy shields, extremely enhanced mobility over prior frames, and flight on top of that completely negating its advantages.
Lelouch deployed literally everything, it's an all out attack. If they had any 3rd gen frames they'd probably have deployed those. It's not like you really have anything better to do with a couple mediocre pilots if you ran out of other frames and if one's already built it probably actually wasn't worth the effort to take it apart to get 4 good frames back. I don't think that just because it was on the field is a particular endorsement of its talents.
It's an overspecialized pile of crap. The only chokepoints it can hold are literally covered tunnels. Anything else it should die to either aircraft bombing, incoming missiles, enemy artillery fire, or being flanked by practically anything. Hell, I'd give fair odds that *mortar fire* could have taken one out, Knightmare armor in general isn't particularly impressive.
It was only 'successful' because as noted Knightmare armor isn't particularly good, so the canister round it fired was actually well-suited to taking them out. Knightmares also don't carry weapons capable of shooting back at it at that range, sure, but as Peanuckle noted they're fish in a barrel and practically anything else would have done the job there.
There's no useful information on what it did in the second battle until it got on screen. For all we know and what I'd argue, it was probably babied until it was able to take its one shot, then blown up about as expected. It was certainly actually early enough in the battle. If the Lancelot didn't get it, any number of other things could've and if they didn't, it's only because the Britannians would have been having enough problems elsewhere to just not get around to it. I mean, if the Gawain wasn't demonstrating comprehensive air superiority the Brittanian bombers would have ruined it. The other Black Knight Knightmares moved on way ahead of it using their Slash Harkens so it's not like there was even anything for it to shoot at anyway because it can't keep up for shit.
The only good thing I can say about the Raikou is "well, at least it's not the Equus".
One success on everything.(actually 1.5 on average). A solar would need to commit 9 motes to apply a similar buff on themselves that would apply to one ability only.
I just thought about something. In canon CG, the Gawain was a test bed for a lot of next gen knightmare technologies and also had the Druid system to find/interact with Thought Elevators and connect to C's World. Once Rakshata gets a hold of it and turns it into the proper vehicle of a Prince of Hell, could we maybe see it gain the ability to generate Wyld Zones?. Thematically it makes sense in what the Druid system is supposed to do, and the Druid system being connected with the Wyld would fit the names to say the least. Maybe I'm just grasping at straws here, but I really want to see endgame Gawain with a 7 sided Energy Wing system generating a Wyld Zone and casually warping reality if only for the sheer WTF factor for Lelouch's opponent.
I don't see why an essence-empowered Gawain would create Wyld Zones. Though Elevators, if anything, ought to be Creation-reinforcing structures. Perhaps they are simply gates to the part of Yu-Shan where the Collective Unconscious is housed?
However, Wyld-generating weaponry can probably be created on its own.
Madrid. 2:00 AM.
A lone man stays in his office, reading report after report.
Where? Where did the bastard go?
That was the question that Diego de Villar, chief of the military police has been asking to himself all the week. Where had Andres Granado go?
He had disappeared without a trace from his Villa, where he was under arrest, despite the heavy vigilance.
He must have bribed someone, he thought. It annoyed him - he had personally chosen all the guards based on their loyalty - but it was the only explanation. Everybody has a price and Granados always was an expert exploiting human greed.
He had spent years working in the case. Since Al-Aiun. Working to prove that the disaster was caused by Granados's mismanagement, and his embezzlement of the war funds. It wasn't easy, of course. He had too many friends, too much influence in the republic's government. Enough to be considered a presidential candidate. He had needed to find the original, not cooked books, to convince the few officers brave enough to declare against him. And when finally it all worked, it has been to satisfying, to see his downfall.
But now it seemed like he had disappeared from the face of the Earth. Not a single camera had spotted him. No witnesses. Nothing. In the worst case, it was possible that he had managed to escape the country, and that he was now selling EU military secrets to Britannia.
He started the next report. The possessions found in Granado's house. Seventeen sports cars. Twenty five million Euros in cash. Three-hundred and fifteen pieces of jewelry (the man had three mistresses). A private zoo. Etc. Etc. The strangest piece of all, a human sized golden Ovoid. Foolproof evidence of his rampant corruption and lack of morals. But not a single clue of where he could be now.
"Are you looking for me, old friend?"
Santiago looked up, startled, and, sure enough, the general was right there in the door. Except he was thirty years younger, and there was something wrong about him.
"What the hell?" He started, just before someone - a shadowy figure who just appeared behind him somehow - grappled him, closing his mouth.
"I bet you really want to know what I was up to, right? Well, a new friend taught me some of his tricks. Let me show you one."
And then, he was covered in shadows and began to mutate, until the terrified Diego was looking at a perfect clone of himself.
"Neat, huh? I think I will enjoy your life."
And then everything was blackness.
Name: General Andres Granados de Seral.
Age: 63 (Looks around thirty)
(People that knew him personally can recognize him, but most people don't)
Motivation: Recover his fortune and prestige.
Urge: Gain political control of Spain. Benthic.
Caste: Fiend
Patron Yozi: Ebbie the friendly dragon.
Favored Yozi: Ta'akozoka
Charms:
First Ebon Dragon Excellency. Shadow spite curse.
Loom snarling deception. Eldritch Secrets Mastery. Witness to Darkness. Selfishness Is Power. Cracked Cell Circumvention. Bloodless murk evasion.
First Ta'akozoka Excellency, Ta'akozoka Mythos exultant
Miser and Merchant Awareness. Verdant Iris Envy. Gilded Aegis Uncaring. Loyalty money can buy.
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Andres Granados is a Great Man. A military genius. The fated leader that will lead Spain back to it's old glory and take back the empire from the clutches of Britannia.
That's what he believes, at least. In truth, his military record is quite lackluster, with not a single major victory and quite some embarrassing defeats (In large part due to his habit to use the war funds for his own use), including the disaster of Al-Aiun. He is, however, as good at lying to others as he is at lying to himself. Even before his Exaltation, his capacity to deflect blame and steal the merits of others was nearly supernal, and, before his arrest, he was one of the more popular politicians in the republic and a potential Presidential candidate.
For now, he will keep to play as the chief of police. Not forever (He can't impersonate him perfectly), but for some time, that he will use to destroy his political rivals, recover his hidden cash reserves and blackmail materials, and enter in contact with his old friends and allies. In time he plans to come back to the political arena with a new identity, using his real (Now young looking) appearance.
All our infernals were too sympathetic, so i made a completely unlikable one (Charisma 5 notwithstanding)
@Broken25 - What's the man's apparent age now? At 63, he would definitely have been made younger by his Infernal Exaltation?
EDIT: From the Infernals manual...
"The first level of change is mostly cosmetic. The Exaltation clears up scars, blemishes, modest asymmetry and other subtler imperfections in the Infernal's appearance. It straightens his limbs, rids him of disease and restores him to the prime of youthful vigor regardless of how old he is. The Green Sun Prince rises from his cocoon a more pristine and beautiful specimen than he ever could have been in the life he leaves behind."
It wouldn't necessarily make him a teenager, I think, but an older character would at least go back to late twenties (like Rakshata's age) or early thirties.
The mention of personal funds makes me wonder: Would it be a good idea to start a "Reclamation Fund" for new and hard-on-their-luck Infernals to draw resources from for a limited time? We could have older Infernals tithe to it and those who borrow have to repay eventually, but the goal is to make the the transition from "failed hero" to "effective agent" faster. Having an untraceable account can help. It would also reaffirm that we deserve our leadership position since we take care of the others.
Obviously this is for a bit later when we have enough cash to throw around, but Hell-trade, legitimate business and looting Britannia should all be very profitable.
Not a bad idea. Especially considering the natural perspective of the Yozis tends away from the socialistic, so the idea would pretty much have to come from us.
Hmm. There are probably a few Charms out there that could be pretty profitable, aren't there?
The mention of personal funds makes me wonder: Would it be a good idea to start a "Reclamation Fund" for new and hard-on-their-luck Infernals to draw resources from for a limited time? We could have older Infernals tithe to it and those who borrow have to repay eventually, but the goal is to make the the transition from "failed hero" to "effective agent" faster. Having an untraceable account can help. It would also reaffirm that we deserve our leadership position since we take care of the others.
Obviously this is for a bit later when we have enough cash to throw around, but Hell-trade, legitimate business and looting Britannia should all be very profitable.
Probably a good idea in the long run, though at the moment we need to focus on getting Japan under our control. Once we've got the wealth of a nation it shouldn't be too hard.
It's not as long term as you're thinking - if we haven't liberated Japan within a year we're doing something very wrong. It probably won't even take that long, and most of the next generations of Infernals won't Exalt within that time. Remember that taking control of Japan is the cornerstone of our strategy for world conquest. It needs to happen within a reasonable timeframe for us to be able to halt Britannia's advance.
Also remember that each and every Infernal is getting a base level of resources from Hell and has support from their local Yozi cult.
