No problem! Happy to help clear things up!
Heroes, Great and Mighty (Exalted x World of Darkness)
- Thread starter JayTee
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[X] Ask about the Seers and their plans for this location (write in).
-[X] What are the Seers' known objectives?
-[X] Do they know if its equally thin throughout the building or theres more extreme spots?
-[X] What sort of things are the Seers known to be capable of? Getting jumped by a sentry would be unpleasant.
Stick to the job first, talk personal after.
-[X] What are the Seers' known objectives?
-[X] Do they know if its equally thin throughout the building or theres more extreme spots?
-[X] What sort of things are the Seers known to be capable of? Getting jumped by a sentry would be unpleasant.
Stick to the job first, talk personal after.
[X] Ask if she's alright.
- Location
- Tarn-Vedra
[X] Ask about the Seers and their plans for this location (write in).
-[X] What are the Seers' known objectives?
-[X] Do they know if its equally thin throughout the building or theres more extreme spots?
-[X] What sort of things are the Seers known to be capable of? Getting jumped by a sentry would be unpleasant.
-[X] What are the Seers' known objectives?
-[X] Do they know if its equally thin throughout the building or theres more extreme spots?
-[X] What sort of things are the Seers known to be capable of? Getting jumped by a sentry would be unpleasant.
dragon
Ancalagon the Black
- Location
- The Skies of Arda
Just found this quest and i'm enjoying it. @JayTee It gives a real underdog champion feel that I have a soft spot for. Not so much in the individual fights, where malcolm dominates, but in the sense that the world is so much bigger, and so filled with supernatural predators, which have had ages to establish themselves, that one wonders whether he can really make meaningful changes on a world wide scale even if he wins every fight. Really makes me root for him.
His current exalted OPness doesn't make everything a walk over, it just means he has a chance when things seemed hopeless to everyone else.
[X] Ask about the Seers and their plans for this location (write in).
-[X] What are the Seers' known objectives?
-[X] Do they know if its equally thin throughout the building or theres more extreme spots?
-[X] What sort of things are the Seers known to be capable of? Getting jumped by a sentry would be unpleasant.
His current exalted OPness doesn't make everything a walk over, it just means he has a chance when things seemed hopeless to everyone else.
[X] Ask about the Seers and their plans for this location (write in).
-[X] What are the Seers' known objectives?
-[X] Do they know if its equally thin throughout the building or theres more extreme spots?
-[X] What sort of things are the Seers known to be capable of? Getting jumped by a sentry would be unpleasant.
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Thank you so much! I'm very glad you're enjoying the quest so far and really appreciate the feedback!
- Location
- In my Lair, on my Hoard
[X] Ask about the Seers and their plans for this location (write in).
-[X] What are the Seers' known objectives?
-[X] Do they know if its equally thin throughout the building or theres more extreme spots?
-[X] What sort of things are the Seers known to be capable of? Getting jumped by a sentry would be unpleasant.
I'm guessing that All-Encompassing Sorcerer's Sight should be able to confirm the second question once she explains how to tell where the Gauntlet is thing, even at its base-level.
-[X] What are the Seers' known objectives?
-[X] Do they know if its equally thin throughout the building or theres more extreme spots?
-[X] What sort of things are the Seers known to be capable of? Getting jumped by a sentry would be unpleasant.
I'm guessing that All-Encompassing Sorcerer's Sight should be able to confirm the second question once she explains how to tell where the Gauntlet is thing, even at its base-level.
Bad news good news time:
Bad news is that my 60 hours a week schedule is killing my ability to focus on writing a quest update, so things will be delayed a bit longer.
Good news is that it my work schedule should go back to something saner at the end of this week, so I'm hoping to get a post written by the weekend.
Sorry for the long delays.
Bad news is that my 60 hours a week schedule is killing my ability to focus on writing a quest update, so things will be delayed a bit longer.
Good news is that it my work schedule should go back to something saner at the end of this week, so I'm hoping to get a post written by the weekend.
Sorry for the long delays.
Story Post 20
[X] Ask about the Seers and their plans for this location.
"Do we know if it's equally thin throughout the building or is it more extreme in a specific location?" Malcom asked as he checked the Task Force Valkyrie equipment he had grabbed from the trunk of his car. While it was a diverse collection of gear, the most noteworthy items included a handgun, armored vest, flashlight and radio.
"Unknown. That's part of our assignment." Naomi said. "Our objective is to get in, assess the extent of their operations here, and repot our findings to command."
"And if we find something really bad?" Malcom asked, trying to imagine the kind of nightmares a collection of mages could cook up.
"Then we either destroy it or retreat and call in support." Naomi said. "Please be quiet for a moment, I need to cast a few spells before we venture further in, and I need to concentrate."
Malcom remained silent as requested, watching in curiosity as Naomi produced several objects (all from thin air) and arranged them in a circle around herself. There was a small, transparent marble, a magnifying glass, a dictionary, and her flashlight. Malcom was at a loss for what each object had to do with her magical powers, but this was her area of expertise and her wasn't about to question it.
Naomi was about halfway through her ritual when Malcom felt a tugging sensation at the back of his head. When he shifted his attention towards the sensation, he realized that it was the result of whatever mystic force she was drawing upon as it responded to her will. Realizing this, he redoubled his focus and slowly the invisible energies made themselves apparent before his sight.
The result was... disorienting.
The world around Naomi appeared fractal, as though he was looking at a broken mirror. A dozen different versions of Naomi were all standing next to each other, mirroring each other perfectly in both appearance and movements. There was a sharp sense of definition around her as well, as though every boundary and border between skin and clothing, clothing and air, air and wall and ceiling and everything else were all thrown in to sharp relief.
Beyond Naomi, Malcom could see the invisible forces that worked their will on the mall itself. The Gauntlet was indeed painfully thin, and the environment took on a much starker, more derelict appearance. There was also a strong sense of wrongness and violation, but there was nothing specific that he could pin down.
"Are you ready?" Naomi asked, breaking him from his trance. With his attention back on her, he could see through his expanded senses that all of her spellwork was now confined to the marble she had produced, which was hovering above her hand, producing a lightless glow that threw everything within a hundred feet of it in to that same kind of hyper definition that had been centered on her earlier. Naomi herself was also lit up to his sorcerer's sight. The energies that comprised her consciousness had expanded well behind the confines of her body, enveloping not just him, but also the rooms beyond.
"Yeah, I'm good to go." Malcom said after closing his eyes to shake off the headache he was getting by looking at Naomi's application of her space distorting magics. "What should we be looking for, going in? I don't think getting jumped by a sentry would be very pleasant."
Naomi considered the question a moment. "A sentry is unlikely. By my own estimates, they have very few mages skilled in spirit magic. It's why they leave the werewolves alone for the most part, to manage the spiritual populace of Boston for them." She said.
"So no getting jumped by the angry spirit of crushed childhood dreams?" He asked as they passed by an abandoned toy store.
"No. Their spirit mages will be tasked with more specific, high priority targets." Naomi said. She then hesitated for a moment before adding. "I hope, at least."
"You hope?" Malcom asked, raising an eyebrow at the statement.
Naomi let out a sigh and nodded. "Unfortunately, yes. The Seer's ultimate objective is power and control. They're quite ruthless when it comes to perusing those goals, making their methods predictable to an extent, but it's not a predictability that you can rely on."
"Well, hopefully it will be in this case." Malcom said.
Naomi nodded her agreement, and the two of them continued on in to the depths of the mall. The journey was a slow one, with a constant need to stop and maneuver around a ward or mystic tripwire that they were alerted to by Naomi's boundary defining magics. To both their surprise, there were a few occasions Malcom had to catch Naomi before she accidentally walked through a ward that was porous enough that it didn't trigger her detection spells.
"I didn't realize you were capable of seeing Awakened Magic." Naomi said, after they had maneuvered through what was effectively a minefield of dimensional bubbles, each one primped to shunt them forcibly in to a pocket dimension where they would be held until released by the mage who set them.
"I figured out the trick to it during my studies." Malcom said. "I just sort of focus on my forehead and the world starts looking like a bad acid trip."
A subtle smile flickered across Naomi's face. "Yes, I'd imagine it would be disorienting if you're not used to it. What are you seeing now?" She asked.
They were standing at the top of a broken down escalator that lead to an underground portion of the mall that looked like it was an food court, judging by all the cheep restaurant brands that lined the walls. Examining the descent, Malcom saw that the corridors beyond the food court were oddly shrouded, even more so than the normal darkness of nighttime at an abandoned underground food court.
"Darkness and chains." He said, noting that in addition to the shadows, there appeared to be a significant number of chains, ropes and other bindings attached to the walls, floors and ceilings, all of which were taut and all of which were leading further in to the shrouded area of the mall.
"They've sealed something powerful down there." Naomi said, looking increasingly worried as Malcom described the sheer volume of bindings. "We'll have to be careful, whatever is down there is likely extremely dangerous."
They discussed plans of retreat, and Naomi canceled her detection spells in favor of enchantments that would allow them to flee more easily should it come to that. They then progressed downward, relying on Malcom's sorcerous sight to guide them through the mystic web of chains and wards.
Following the chains to their source, they eventually came to a maintenance door that had been locked with a simple padlock and a complex array of wards. It took several minutes for Naomi to find a seam in the wards big enough for her to exploit to unravel them without setting off any alarms.
When they finally made it through, they entered what looked to be an old storage area. Shelves lined the walls, bare for the most part save for spare parts or cleaning equipment that the former management had decided wasn't worth the effort to keep.
Naomi swore when she saw what was in the center of the room.
Bound by innumerable magical chains and in the center of a circle of glowing runes was a man, a man unlike anything Malcom had seen before.
He wore no clothing, and instead appeared to be made of some kind of black, jagged, crystal-metal substance, as though someone had taken a thousand pieces of obsidian and iron and welded them together in the shape of a person. The exception was the head, which was stark white in contrast to the blackness of the main body. There was no face, only a mouth. In place of the face was a vacant hole in he could see a single baleful eye looking at the two of them. The eye itself was made of glass, and shone with a harsh electronic blue light. Each of it's four arms were locked tight with manacles that were bolted to the floor, and each of it's three wings, made of metal and glass, were forcibly bound and closed.
At their entry, the figure turned it's attention to them and spoke with a voice that was vaguely male, but was heavily modulated and distorted, carrying a sharp electronic tone, as though it was talking through a partially functioning speaker.
UNIT CLARK MALCOM IDENTIFIED. UNIT WATANABE NAOMI IDENTIFIED. STATE PURPOSE AND FUNCTION.
"It's an angel." Naomi whispered.
[] Write in.
"Do we know if it's equally thin throughout the building or is it more extreme in a specific location?" Malcom asked as he checked the Task Force Valkyrie equipment he had grabbed from the trunk of his car. While it was a diverse collection of gear, the most noteworthy items included a handgun, armored vest, flashlight and radio.
"Unknown. That's part of our assignment." Naomi said. "Our objective is to get in, assess the extent of their operations here, and repot our findings to command."
"And if we find something really bad?" Malcom asked, trying to imagine the kind of nightmares a collection of mages could cook up.
"Then we either destroy it or retreat and call in support." Naomi said. "Please be quiet for a moment, I need to cast a few spells before we venture further in, and I need to concentrate."
Malcom remained silent as requested, watching in curiosity as Naomi produced several objects (all from thin air) and arranged them in a circle around herself. There was a small, transparent marble, a magnifying glass, a dictionary, and her flashlight. Malcom was at a loss for what each object had to do with her magical powers, but this was her area of expertise and her wasn't about to question it.
Naomi was about halfway through her ritual when Malcom felt a tugging sensation at the back of his head. When he shifted his attention towards the sensation, he realized that it was the result of whatever mystic force she was drawing upon as it responded to her will. Realizing this, he redoubled his focus and slowly the invisible energies made themselves apparent before his sight.
The result was... disorienting.
The world around Naomi appeared fractal, as though he was looking at a broken mirror. A dozen different versions of Naomi were all standing next to each other, mirroring each other perfectly in both appearance and movements. There was a sharp sense of definition around her as well, as though every boundary and border between skin and clothing, clothing and air, air and wall and ceiling and everything else were all thrown in to sharp relief.
Beyond Naomi, Malcom could see the invisible forces that worked their will on the mall itself. The Gauntlet was indeed painfully thin, and the environment took on a much starker, more derelict appearance. There was also a strong sense of wrongness and violation, but there was nothing specific that he could pin down.
"Are you ready?" Naomi asked, breaking him from his trance. With his attention back on her, he could see through his expanded senses that all of her spellwork was now confined to the marble she had produced, which was hovering above her hand, producing a lightless glow that threw everything within a hundred feet of it in to that same kind of hyper definition that had been centered on her earlier. Naomi herself was also lit up to his sorcerer's sight. The energies that comprised her consciousness had expanded well behind the confines of her body, enveloping not just him, but also the rooms beyond.
"Yeah, I'm good to go." Malcom said after closing his eyes to shake off the headache he was getting by looking at Naomi's application of her space distorting magics. "What should we be looking for, going in? I don't think getting jumped by a sentry would be very pleasant."
Naomi considered the question a moment. "A sentry is unlikely. By my own estimates, they have very few mages skilled in spirit magic. It's why they leave the werewolves alone for the most part, to manage the spiritual populace of Boston for them." She said.
"So no getting jumped by the angry spirit of crushed childhood dreams?" He asked as they passed by an abandoned toy store.
"No. Their spirit mages will be tasked with more specific, high priority targets." Naomi said. She then hesitated for a moment before adding. "I hope, at least."
"You hope?" Malcom asked, raising an eyebrow at the statement.
Naomi let out a sigh and nodded. "Unfortunately, yes. The Seer's ultimate objective is power and control. They're quite ruthless when it comes to perusing those goals, making their methods predictable to an extent, but it's not a predictability that you can rely on."
"Well, hopefully it will be in this case." Malcom said.
Naomi nodded her agreement, and the two of them continued on in to the depths of the mall. The journey was a slow one, with a constant need to stop and maneuver around a ward or mystic tripwire that they were alerted to by Naomi's boundary defining magics. To both their surprise, there were a few occasions Malcom had to catch Naomi before she accidentally walked through a ward that was porous enough that it didn't trigger her detection spells.
"I didn't realize you were capable of seeing Awakened Magic." Naomi said, after they had maneuvered through what was effectively a minefield of dimensional bubbles, each one primped to shunt them forcibly in to a pocket dimension where they would be held until released by the mage who set them.
"I figured out the trick to it during my studies." Malcom said. "I just sort of focus on my forehead and the world starts looking like a bad acid trip."
A subtle smile flickered across Naomi's face. "Yes, I'd imagine it would be disorienting if you're not used to it. What are you seeing now?" She asked.
They were standing at the top of a broken down escalator that lead to an underground portion of the mall that looked like it was an food court, judging by all the cheep restaurant brands that lined the walls. Examining the descent, Malcom saw that the corridors beyond the food court were oddly shrouded, even more so than the normal darkness of nighttime at an abandoned underground food court.
"Darkness and chains." He said, noting that in addition to the shadows, there appeared to be a significant number of chains, ropes and other bindings attached to the walls, floors and ceilings, all of which were taut and all of which were leading further in to the shrouded area of the mall.
"They've sealed something powerful down there." Naomi said, looking increasingly worried as Malcom described the sheer volume of bindings. "We'll have to be careful, whatever is down there is likely extremely dangerous."
They discussed plans of retreat, and Naomi canceled her detection spells in favor of enchantments that would allow them to flee more easily should it come to that. They then progressed downward, relying on Malcom's sorcerous sight to guide them through the mystic web of chains and wards.
Following the chains to their source, they eventually came to a maintenance door that had been locked with a simple padlock and a complex array of wards. It took several minutes for Naomi to find a seam in the wards big enough for her to exploit to unravel them without setting off any alarms.
When they finally made it through, they entered what looked to be an old storage area. Shelves lined the walls, bare for the most part save for spare parts or cleaning equipment that the former management had decided wasn't worth the effort to keep.
Naomi swore when she saw what was in the center of the room.
Bound by innumerable magical chains and in the center of a circle of glowing runes was a man, a man unlike anything Malcom had seen before.
He wore no clothing, and instead appeared to be made of some kind of black, jagged, crystal-metal substance, as though someone had taken a thousand pieces of obsidian and iron and welded them together in the shape of a person. The exception was the head, which was stark white in contrast to the blackness of the main body. There was no face, only a mouth. In place of the face was a vacant hole in he could see a single baleful eye looking at the two of them. The eye itself was made of glass, and shone with a harsh electronic blue light. Each of it's four arms were locked tight with manacles that were bolted to the floor, and each of it's three wings, made of metal and glass, were forcibly bound and closed.
At their entry, the figure turned it's attention to them and spoke with a voice that was vaguely male, but was heavily modulated and distorted, carrying a sharp electronic tone, as though it was talking through a partially functioning speaker.
UNIT CLARK MALCOM IDENTIFIED. UNIT WATANABE NAOMI IDENTIFIED. STATE PURPOSE AND FUNCTION.
"It's an angel." Naomi whispered.
[] Write in.
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I am SUPER eager to see how it will go with one of those!
As its not hiding is probably not one of the rogues of its kind, and still a cog in the god machine... will malcolm cause it to fall?
As its not hiding is probably not one of the rogues of its kind, and still a cog in the god machine... will malcolm cause it to fall?
dragon
Ancalagon the Black
- Location
- The Skies of Arda
I think honesty is the best policy here.
Start with how we're trying to learn what the seers who held him captive were trying to do. Get information from the machine angel on the seers. Get information from naomi on the angel and what use the seers could have for it.
If it seems trustworthy and safe, we can talk about releasing it.
I'm interested in whether the angel can tell malcolm anything about exaltation.
Start with how we're trying to learn what the seers who held him captive were trying to do. Get information from the machine angel on the seers. Get information from naomi on the angel and what use the seers could have for it.
If it seems trustworthy and safe, we can talk about releasing it.
I'm interested in whether the angel can tell malcolm anything about exaltation.
- Location
- florida
Heh, mastigos.
Really? We have some occult right? The invocation is pretty straightforward.
Yeah they are... Weirdly bias and absent against certain kinds of magic. I played a Morros seer and pretty much had free run of the underworld.
I can hear the silver ladder grinding their teeth from here.
... Well that's some fuckery right there. Bad fuckery too.
And it's vanishingly unlikely they were able to capture it without the god machine planning on them doing so.
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- Location
- florida
[X] What the heck is an angel and why is it so worrying?
-[X] Say were investigating the seers of the thrown to try and protect the people of this city.
-[X] Have you done anything to alert the seers of the throne to our presence here? Will you in the future?
-[X] Are you actually trapped here, or did the god machine just place you here for the seers to use?
-[X] Will you tell me what the god machine is trying to do in this city?
-[X] What is your original function?
-[X] Can you tell us who has been coming and going from this site? Maybe anything they left behind or had forgotten?
-[X] Do you need to return to your previous function or should we just leave you here?
There's some stuff to get started. Think carefully, angels generally don't practice or understand information security unless they are created to.
The caste mark is likely to secure either Co operation or attempts at our destruction. Exalted were created with a very specific function in mind.
-[X] Say were investigating the seers of the thrown to try and protect the people of this city.
-[X] Have you done anything to alert the seers of the throne to our presence here? Will you in the future?
-[X] Are you actually trapped here, or did the god machine just place you here for the seers to use?
-[X] Will you tell me what the god machine is trying to do in this city?
-[X] What is your original function?
-[X] Can you tell us who has been coming and going from this site? Maybe anything they left behind or had forgotten?
-[X] Do you need to return to your previous function or should we just leave you here?
There's some stuff to get started. Think carefully, angels generally don't practice or understand information security unless they are created to.
The caste mark is likely to secure either Co operation or attempts at our destruction. Exalted were created with a very specific function in mind.
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- Location
- USA
[X] What the heck is an angel and why is it so worrying?
-[X] Flare your caste mark, and say were investigating the seers of the thrown to try and protect the people of this city.
-[X] Have you done anything to alert the seers of the throne to our presence here? Will you in the future?
-[X] Are you actually trapped here, or did the god machine just place you here for the seers to use?
-[X] Will you tell me what the god machine is trying to do in this city?
-[X] What is your original function?
-[X] Can you tell us who has been coming and going from this site? Maybe anything they left behind or had forgotten?
-[X] Do you need to return to your previous function or should we just leave you here?
-[X] Can you tell me anything about the crazy glowy business on my head?
-[X] Flare your caste mark, and say were investigating the seers of the thrown to try and protect the people of this city.
-[X] Have you done anything to alert the seers of the throne to our presence here? Will you in the future?
-[X] Are you actually trapped here, or did the god machine just place you here for the seers to use?
-[X] Will you tell me what the god machine is trying to do in this city?
-[X] What is your original function?
-[X] Can you tell us who has been coming and going from this site? Maybe anything they left behind or had forgotten?
-[X] Do you need to return to your previous function or should we just leave you here?
-[X] Can you tell me anything about the crazy glowy business on my head?
LinkOnScepter
The One who Strangles Concepts to death
- Location
- Interwebs
Wasn't getting alerts for this for some reason.
[X] Ask naomi why this is so concerning and what she can tell us about the bindings.
-[x] Ask the angel about the details of it's bindings and whether the seers have a way of remotely looking in on it or of knowing when it's released.
--[x] if the answer is no, then tell it we're investigating the activities of the seers of the throne.
--[x] get the details of it's capture and what the seers have in mind for it.
-[x] ask the angel what it was doing before its capture and what it will do if it is freed, especially with regards to us
--[x] only free the angel if it will not be actively harmful to do so, kill it otherwise
[X] Ask naomi why this is so concerning and what she can tell us about the bindings.
-[x] Ask the angel about the details of it's bindings and whether the seers have a way of remotely looking in on it or of knowing when it's released.
--[x] if the answer is no, then tell it we're investigating the activities of the seers of the throne.
--[x] get the details of it's capture and what the seers have in mind for it.
-[x] ask the angel what it was doing before its capture and what it will do if it is freed, especially with regards to us
--[x] only free the angel if it will not be actively harmful to do so, kill it otherwise
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Ave Anathema
Ave Imperator
- Location
- Jacksonville Illinois
[X] What the heck is an angel and why is it so worrying?
-[X] Flare your caste mark, and say were investigating the seers of the thrown to try and protect the people of this city.
-[X] Have you done anything to alert the seers of the throne to our presence here? Will you in the future?
-[X] Are you actually trapped here, or did the god machine just place you here for the seers to use?
-[X] Will you tell me what the god machine is trying to do in this city?
-[X] What is your original function?
-[X] Can you tell us who has been coming and going from this site? Maybe anything they left behind or had forgotten?
-[X] Do you need to return to your previous function or should we just leave you here?
-[X] Can you tell me anything about the crazy glowy business on my head?
I kind of have it in my head that the god machine usurped yushan and did something to the gods erhaps this s what happened and Glorious solar bull might undo it or we learn were basically an earthbound god
-[X] Flare your caste mark, and say were investigating the seers of the thrown to try and protect the people of this city.
-[X] Have you done anything to alert the seers of the throne to our presence here? Will you in the future?
-[X] Are you actually trapped here, or did the god machine just place you here for the seers to use?
-[X] Will you tell me what the god machine is trying to do in this city?
-[X] What is your original function?
-[X] Can you tell us who has been coming and going from this site? Maybe anything they left behind or had forgotten?
-[X] Do you need to return to your previous function or should we just leave you here?
-[X] Can you tell me anything about the crazy glowy business on my head?
I kind of have it in my head that the god machine usurped yushan and did something to the gods erhaps this s what happened and Glorious solar bull might undo it or we learn were basically an earthbound god
I hate to be a debbie downer, but I'm going to have to veto the Exaltation related stuff, mostly because it's not really... contextually appropriate? I guess? Seems kinda weird to just start randomly grilling an imprisoned supernatural entity about yourself and your nature.
- Location
- florida
Yeah in hindsight that is kind of meta. If the way I wrote thing feels too... Unnatural? Idk.
S'all good, no worries!
A side note, but I'm curious about the "Funny" ratings I'm getting. I don't think I wrote something humorous, so it's throwing me for a loop.
dragon
Ancalagon the Black
- Location
- The Skies of Arda
i'm not sure if being able to identify people on sight is a standard machine god angel ability. Maybe this angel could identify anyone in the world.
Otherwise, I think it knew naomi and malcolm because talking with them is part of it's purpose here. Though asking for their function does muddy that up a bit, implying incomplete information or deception. Or just asking confirmation that things are going as forseen.
Naomi seemed shocked, which seems to me a reaction to the seers being able to capture an angel. So, they might be more formidable than previously thought if the angel didn't let itself get captured.
On the seers part, i'd say this is an attempt to gain more spiritual power in the city by using the angel to hack the machine god or cloud it's eyes in the city with an 'everything is fine' signal.
Poetic justice if it was the seers efforts that allowed the exaltation happen when the machine god wasn't previously allowing it.
Or maybe the machine god set it loose because the seers were being dangerously successful.
Edit ok, we have to do a couple things here. We don't know if those bindings just keep it in place or compromised it's will somehow, or allow the seers to use it as some kind of focus. Until we figure that out, we can't get into an indepth conversation and the first thing we should is figure out if it's safe.
So, a short side conversation with naomi on why she's worried and whether the bindings or an angel being here brings up any immediately urgent concerns.
Then, we ask the angel about it's bindings. Do they do more than hold it in place? Will the seers be aware if they're broken? Will you attack us if freed?
Then we answer it's question and ask for information on the seers.
After getting those questions answered we can then make a decision on whether to free it. We'll need naomi to tell us how task force valkyrie would want to respond, but on balance denying the seers an asset is a good thing.
[X] Ask naomi why this is so concerning and what she can tell us about the bindings.
-[x] Ask the angel about the details of it's bindings and whether the seers have a way of remotely looking in on it or of knowing when it's released.
--[x] if the answer is no, then tell it we're investigating the activities of the seers of the throne.
--[x] get the details of it's capture and what the seers have in mind for it.
-[x] ask the angel if it wants to be released.
--[x] if the angel isn't hostile, then release it.
Otherwise, I think it knew naomi and malcolm because talking with them is part of it's purpose here. Though asking for their function does muddy that up a bit, implying incomplete information or deception. Or just asking confirmation that things are going as forseen.
Naomi seemed shocked, which seems to me a reaction to the seers being able to capture an angel. So, they might be more formidable than previously thought if the angel didn't let itself get captured.
On the seers part, i'd say this is an attempt to gain more spiritual power in the city by using the angel to hack the machine god or cloud it's eyes in the city with an 'everything is fine' signal.
Poetic justice if it was the seers efforts that allowed the exaltation happen when the machine god wasn't previously allowing it.
Or maybe the machine god set it loose because the seers were being dangerously successful.
Edit ok, we have to do a couple things here. We don't know if those bindings just keep it in place or compromised it's will somehow, or allow the seers to use it as some kind of focus. Until we figure that out, we can't get into an indepth conversation and the first thing we should is figure out if it's safe.
So, a short side conversation with naomi on why she's worried and whether the bindings or an angel being here brings up any immediately urgent concerns.
Then, we ask the angel about it's bindings. Do they do more than hold it in place? Will the seers be aware if they're broken? Will you attack us if freed?
Then we answer it's question and ask for information on the seers.
After getting those questions answered we can then make a decision on whether to free it. We'll need naomi to tell us how task force valkyrie would want to respond, but on balance denying the seers an asset is a good thing.
[X] Ask naomi why this is so concerning and what she can tell us about the bindings.
-[x] Ask the angel about the details of it's bindings and whether the seers have a way of remotely looking in on it or of knowing when it's released.
--[x] if the answer is no, then tell it we're investigating the activities of the seers of the throne.
--[x] get the details of it's capture and what the seers have in mind for it.
-[x] ask the angel if it wants to be released.
--[x] if the angel isn't hostile, then release it.
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