I.... wait.... Can we ask what the angel we should take with us? Is that really an option? Because I think you might be joking here but I can't actually tell.
Heroes, Great and Mighty (Exalted x World of Darkness)
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Joking, mostly. The angel was built almost exclusively for the purpose of murdering spirits. It has enough social grace and occult knowledge downloaded to avoid trouble where it doesn't need it. Beyond that, it's pretty much useless.
- Location
- florida
So grabbing it by the ankles and swinging it around like a greatsword would be acceptable as long as we focus on destroying spirits.
Good to know.
Really we should have asked this thing what the god machine is doing in the city. If it actually knows what the rest of the infrastructure does...
I don't see why it would. It knows what it's for and should do, and that's all it needs to know.
If it served some remotely complex or significant purpose, then I could see how it could justifiably know any number of things, but the fact it's for killing makes all that a bust. You don't need much knowledge to kill things, especially when it's contained entirely to one specific thing.
If it served some remotely complex or significant purpose, then I could see how it could justifiably know any number of things, but the fact it's for killing makes all that a bust. You don't need much knowledge to kill things, especially when it's contained entirely to one specific thing.
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- Tarn-Vedra
[X] Take whatever looks interesting.
Just caught up on this. I like it.
Hope I'm not metagaming here, but an angel, being a servant of the God Machine, would know a lot about occult stuff, right? Can we flare our anima and ask it what we are?
If we're paralleling Exalted and WoD, chances are high that the God-Machine is Autocthon, and one of his spirits should be willing to help.
Hope I'm not metagaming here, but an angel, being a servant of the God Machine, would know a lot about occult stuff, right? Can we flare our anima and ask it what we are?
If we're paralleling Exalted and WoD, chances are high that the God-Machine is Autocthon, and one of his spirits should be willing to help.
Welcome! Glad you're enjoying it!
Asking the angel about yourself has been brought up before, but I had to veto it because it wasn't really contextually appropriate. You're effectively grilling a random stranger that you just met about who you are.
Story Post 22
[x] Take whatever looks interesting.
"I'd like to get a copy of these once Valkyrie is finished archiving them." Malcom said, handing a sheaf of papers that he had collected to Naomi. There was no rhyme or reason to the papers he had chosen, several of them contained notes on theories that had been revised later or discarded as dead ends. Despite this, Malcom felt like he might be able to salvage something from them, or at the very least learn that this path to arcane knowledge was closed off to him as well as the mages.
Naomi took the papers and looked them over, eyes flickering across the diagrams and notes scribbled in the margins. "Why these?" She asked, looking up at him.
"They seemed interesting, so I thought I'd see if I could do anything with them." He said.
Naomi looked like she wanted to say something, but cut herself off before nodding. "I'll inform my superiors of your request." She said finally.
"Thanks." Malcom said. "Are we going carry the rest of these out for someone to pick up?"
Naomi shook her head. "No, once we secure the location I'll call this in and a Valkyrie security team will take over the operations in this area." She said.
With that, they set about dismantling the arcane traps and security wards that the Seers had put in place. The first step was making sure that their efforts didn't draw the attention of whatever mage put them in place, which Naomi managed by severing the arcane connections linking them to their maker in such a way that the links would still appear to be functional until more closely inspected.
"The trick is to not give them a reason to look." Naomi explained as she severed another link. To Malcom's second sight, the broken connection looked like two ends of a string trailing in the wind. It still existed, but one end was no longer truly connected to the other. "You should know that mages are very good at uncovering information, but only if it catches their attention." She said as she had him help her dismantle a trap that wasn't connected to the larger network. "If they don't have a reason to look, they never will, and you can work right under their noses without them ever realizing it."
"So I'm basically screwed, then." Malcom said with a grunt as he pushed aside a broken down vending machine that was hiding a focus point for another trap. "Everyone knows who I am already." The angel, Abigail, the shadows in the park, the figure on the roof opposite his apartment building. It felt like he was the center of attention for the entire occult side of Boston.
"Well, you did make your entrance rather spectacularly." Naomi said as she examined the wall that was hidden behind the vending machine. "But if nothing has come of it yet, I suspect that nothing will unless you start provoking people."
"Joining Valkyrie doesn't count as a provocation?"
"Not yet, but it will if you get caught." Naomi said. "I would strongly recommend you move to a new location. We have several safe-houses set up in Boston that you could live in if you like."
Truth be told Malcom had been thinking of getting a new place. His apartment wasn't really set up for two people, and with Maggie living with him he wanted to take every precaution to make sure that she was safe. A Valkyrie unit next door was good, but a location that was completely unknown to everyone else would help put him at ease.
"Thanks, that would be really useful." He said. It might be a little hard on Maggie, moving so soon after she started to live with him, but in the long run it would be good for her to have her own room, and not a workspace that had been covered in to a living space.
"Happy to help." Naomi said with a small smile. They soon finished dismantling the mystic protections and made their way up out of the lower section of the abandoned mall and back towards the entrance as Naomi called in a security team.
As expected the angel completely ignored them and their activities, only speaking when engaged directly, which proved unhelpful as it didn't know anything useful beyond what they had already learned. Even asking it how it knew of them was fruitless, only answering that they were included on a list of "high profile individuals" that had been installed in it's memory.
"I'm not surprised." Naomi said as they exited the mall. "Angels only know what they're programmed to know, and often times they aren't given a reason for why they're given a particular set of data."
"It's weird." Malcom said, he was feeling annoyed at the lack of answers he had gotten from the angel. "Why go through the effort of telling it who we are if you aren't going to tell it why?"
Naomi shrugged. "Do you tell your calculator why you want to perform an equation?" She asked. "Or do you simply punch in the numbers and expect a result? That's how the God-Machine views it's angels. They're tools."
"Still annoying." He huffed.
"Indeed." She said, giving him a sympathetic look. "But not as annoying as things are about to get."
Malcom glanced at her, curious what she was talking about when a voice bellowed out from across the street.
"Watanabe! What the hell is going on?" The commander whom Naomi had been arguing with when Malcom had first arrived stormed up to them, fury etched across his face. "I let you in my operation and not a fucking hour later I get a call from command telling me I'm to report back to HQ. What happened down there?"
Naomi's calm expression vanished, replaced by a blank mask of cool indifference. Malcom still had his second sight up, and he could see through it that she had cast a spell on herself to mute her emotions.
"I'm sorry commander, but if command did not see fit to brief you on the situation, then it would be remiss of me to do so in their place." She said, every word spoken with perfect clarity.
"I don't give a fuck what you think Watanabe, I didn't spend two weeks sitting on my ass as a glorified mall cop to get reassigned without an answer."
[] Let Naomi handle this.
[] Back Naomi up.
"I'd like to get a copy of these once Valkyrie is finished archiving them." Malcom said, handing a sheaf of papers that he had collected to Naomi. There was no rhyme or reason to the papers he had chosen, several of them contained notes on theories that had been revised later or discarded as dead ends. Despite this, Malcom felt like he might be able to salvage something from them, or at the very least learn that this path to arcane knowledge was closed off to him as well as the mages.
Naomi took the papers and looked them over, eyes flickering across the diagrams and notes scribbled in the margins. "Why these?" She asked, looking up at him.
"They seemed interesting, so I thought I'd see if I could do anything with them." He said.
Naomi looked like she wanted to say something, but cut herself off before nodding. "I'll inform my superiors of your request." She said finally.
"Thanks." Malcom said. "Are we going carry the rest of these out for someone to pick up?"
Naomi shook her head. "No, once we secure the location I'll call this in and a Valkyrie security team will take over the operations in this area." She said.
With that, they set about dismantling the arcane traps and security wards that the Seers had put in place. The first step was making sure that their efforts didn't draw the attention of whatever mage put them in place, which Naomi managed by severing the arcane connections linking them to their maker in such a way that the links would still appear to be functional until more closely inspected.
"The trick is to not give them a reason to look." Naomi explained as she severed another link. To Malcom's second sight, the broken connection looked like two ends of a string trailing in the wind. It still existed, but one end was no longer truly connected to the other. "You should know that mages are very good at uncovering information, but only if it catches their attention." She said as she had him help her dismantle a trap that wasn't connected to the larger network. "If they don't have a reason to look, they never will, and you can work right under their noses without them ever realizing it."
"So I'm basically screwed, then." Malcom said with a grunt as he pushed aside a broken down vending machine that was hiding a focus point for another trap. "Everyone knows who I am already." The angel, Abigail, the shadows in the park, the figure on the roof opposite his apartment building. It felt like he was the center of attention for the entire occult side of Boston.
"Well, you did make your entrance rather spectacularly." Naomi said as she examined the wall that was hidden behind the vending machine. "But if nothing has come of it yet, I suspect that nothing will unless you start provoking people."
"Joining Valkyrie doesn't count as a provocation?"
"Not yet, but it will if you get caught." Naomi said. "I would strongly recommend you move to a new location. We have several safe-houses set up in Boston that you could live in if you like."
Truth be told Malcom had been thinking of getting a new place. His apartment wasn't really set up for two people, and with Maggie living with him he wanted to take every precaution to make sure that she was safe. A Valkyrie unit next door was good, but a location that was completely unknown to everyone else would help put him at ease.
"Thanks, that would be really useful." He said. It might be a little hard on Maggie, moving so soon after she started to live with him, but in the long run it would be good for her to have her own room, and not a workspace that had been covered in to a living space.
"Happy to help." Naomi said with a small smile. They soon finished dismantling the mystic protections and made their way up out of the lower section of the abandoned mall and back towards the entrance as Naomi called in a security team.
As expected the angel completely ignored them and their activities, only speaking when engaged directly, which proved unhelpful as it didn't know anything useful beyond what they had already learned. Even asking it how it knew of them was fruitless, only answering that they were included on a list of "high profile individuals" that had been installed in it's memory.
"I'm not surprised." Naomi said as they exited the mall. "Angels only know what they're programmed to know, and often times they aren't given a reason for why they're given a particular set of data."
"It's weird." Malcom said, he was feeling annoyed at the lack of answers he had gotten from the angel. "Why go through the effort of telling it who we are if you aren't going to tell it why?"
Naomi shrugged. "Do you tell your calculator why you want to perform an equation?" She asked. "Or do you simply punch in the numbers and expect a result? That's how the God-Machine views it's angels. They're tools."
"Still annoying." He huffed.
"Indeed." She said, giving him a sympathetic look. "But not as annoying as things are about to get."
Malcom glanced at her, curious what she was talking about when a voice bellowed out from across the street.
"Watanabe! What the hell is going on?" The commander whom Naomi had been arguing with when Malcom had first arrived stormed up to them, fury etched across his face. "I let you in my operation and not a fucking hour later I get a call from command telling me I'm to report back to HQ. What happened down there?"
Naomi's calm expression vanished, replaced by a blank mask of cool indifference. Malcom still had his second sight up, and he could see through it that she had cast a spell on herself to mute her emotions.
"I'm sorry commander, but if command did not see fit to brief you on the situation, then it would be remiss of me to do so in their place." She said, every word spoken with perfect clarity.
"I don't give a fuck what you think Watanabe, I didn't spend two weeks sitting on my ass as a glorified mall cop to get reassigned without an answer."
[] Let Naomi handle this.
[] Back Naomi up.
[X] Let Naomi handle this.
MiracleGrow
Miracles for only $19.99 [They/Them]
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- DOOR STUCK DOOR STUCK PLEASE I BEG U
[X] Back Naomi up.
[X] Let Naomi handle this.
Naomi has this under control. No need to push this guy who is, quite frankly, extremely unprofessional. I mean, has this guy not had to guard something before without being told what it is? He does know that "need to know" is a thing right? If your bosses tell you to report then report, don't go harassing the investigators.
I'm really hoping this man is an outlier in the Valkyrie organization, because if he isn't I'm going to get really worried.
Naomi has this under control. No need to push this guy who is, quite frankly, extremely unprofessional. I mean, has this guy not had to guard something before without being told what it is? He does know that "need to know" is a thing right? If your bosses tell you to report then report, don't go harassing the investigators.
I'm really hoping this man is an outlier in the Valkyrie organization, because if he isn't I'm going to get really worried.
LordOfPears12
Cat girl headpatter
- Location
- Land of pizza,pasta and lasagna.
[X] Back Naomi up
Let's defend our waifu. Time to get on our 'supossedly' superior shitlist.
What's Naomi rank is she a top agent?
Let's defend our waifu. Time to get on our 'supossedly' superior shitlist.
What's Naomi rank is she a top agent?
dragon
Ancalagon the Black
- Location
- The Skies of Arda
A question of priorities, loyalty or social status.
Also of character, valor or temperance.
It would be ideal if we could back up naomi, while calming this guy down, but that might be having our cake and eating it too.
I don't think either one is the wrong choice, but if we're currying favor with someone then I know naomi is a higher priority to me then this guy.
For several reasons, from her awakened abilities, to her being marcus' partner and having more trust between them can only be a good thing when they walk into a bad situation.
Also of character, valor or temperance.
It would be ideal if we could back up naomi, while calming this guy down, but that might be having our cake and eating it too.
I don't think either one is the wrong choice, but if we're currying favor with someone then I know naomi is a higher priority to me then this guy.
For several reasons, from her awakened abilities, to her being marcus' partner and having more trust between them can only be a good thing when they walk into a bad situation.
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LinkOnScepter
The One who Strangles Concepts to death
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- Interwebs
[X] Let Naomi handle this.
If only cause it is true. We can swing at this guy if he swings at us.
If only cause it is true. We can swing at this guy if he swings at us.
- Location
- Tarn-Vedra
[X] Let Naomi handle this.