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Infernal Conundrum: [Exalted/Worm] - Part 2: Hell is Other Exalts

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Hardened Devil-Body:

Infernal Ox-Body. Gives extra -2 and -4 health levels. Is the source of ours.

By Pain Reforged:

Cost=1hl
Duration=Scene
At cost of 1B, cease to suffer wound penalties from bashing damage. If your Incapacitated hl is reached by bashing damage, you remain conscious. Mind, this ceases to apply when the scene ends. Including the bit about not falling unconscious.

Wind-Born Stride

Add (Essence) to Dashing speed in yards. DV penalty for dashing is -0. Also, you can dash and do other things.

Sacred Kamilla's inhalation

Turn away from a corpse, breathe in, breathe in corpse. Boom. Magic breath for an amount of time which ramps up based on your Essence.

Freedom Lets Go:

Turn your back on an intimacy. Spend Essence. Your feelings toward them are gone. If desired, your memories of them as well. Where forgotten, individuals will be selectively edited out of your memories and replaced with others or a generic person-ish blur (i.e: Well, yeah, I did that...with...someone. Can't remember who it was, though. Meh. Not important.)

Loom-Snarling Deception:

Super Duper Precog-proof disguises. Any fate reading / precog / etc that reads you gets a return which is identical to a story you determine when activating the charm.

Mother Sea Mastery:

MOTHER SEA MASTERY
Cost: —; Mins: Essence 2; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
Kimbery moves upon and through herself freely,
for her nature is its own dominion. Upon learning
this Charm, the character gains the following:
• She adds (Essence) bonus successes to all Attribute
and/or Ability rolls to harvest food from liquid
or move effectively and safely via a liquid medium.
Attacks never benefit, not even to remove obstacles.
Examples of valid actions include: fishing, gathering
kelp, swimming, resisting fatigue from swimming,
holding one's breath while submerged, balancing
on a ship's deck in turbulent seas, piloting aquatic
vehicles and riding aquatic mounts.
• As an aquatic being, she ignores the -2 penalty
terrestrial beings suffer to move while submerged. Her
actions move through liquid like air, allowing her
to do seemingly impossible feats like swing sledges
and fire bows underwater.
• She may multiply her swimming speed by
her Essence rating. Obvious currents of ichor
drag her forward and trail behind (Essence x 100)
yards while using this power, adding one success
to track her for a half hour. She can accelerate
other means of personally moving via liquid (such
as walking on it).
• With Essence 3+, neither she nor any aquatic
mount she rides suffers fatigue from actions this
Charm assists.


Factual Determination Analysis said:
FACTUAL DETERMINATION ANALYSIS
Cost: 3m; Mins: Essence 1; Type: Reflexive (Step 1)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: One Scene
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Principle of Hierarchy recognizes the binary nature of existence – true or false? While this Charm is active, the warlock can recognize as such all deliberate lies presented to her. The character can also recognize the use of half-truths and deliberate omissions, though doing so does not tell her which part of the statement is true. Ignorance or genuine delusion are not detected, and the truth is not supplied alongside the detection of a lie. If this Charm is contested, add the Infernal's Essence rating in bonus successes to the roll-off.
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Invasive Exteroception Technique said:
INVASIVE EXTEROCEPTION TECHNIQUE
Cost: 5m; Mins: Essence 2; Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Factual Determination Analysis

The comprehension of She Who Lives in Her Name knows no boundaries. The Infernal's sense of touch extends (Perception x 10) yards in all directions, allowing her to make sensory rolls to acquire tactile details within that range. This special sense of touch ignores physical barriers such as walls or flesh, allowing the Infernal to be as intrusive as she likes. While these "touches" apply no actual physical pressure (and never qualify for the Touch keyword), the Infernal can apply the benefits of Keen Touch Technique (Exalted, pp. 226) to any roll, intensifying her curiosity such that its subjects experience phantom caresses. If opposed by anti-scrying magic, this special sense provokes a roll-off.

With Essence 4+, the Infernal can spend one mote to expand this Charm's range by a factor of (Essence x 2) for one tick. This applies only to sensory rolls, not abilities granted by further Charms.
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Essence-Dissecting Touch said:
ESSENCE-DISSECTING TOUCH
Cost: — ; Mins: Essence 2; Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK, Lattice
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Invasive Exteroception Technique

The meaningless static of the material is penetrated by the exacting scalpel-caress of She Who Lives in Her Name. This Charm enhances its prerequisite, providing the same benefits as the Solar Charm All-Encompassing Sorcerer's Sight (Exalted, pp. 222) within its range, allowing the Infernal to run her fingers through the delicate interplay of energy that weaves the world..

The Infernal's aesthetic preferences shift subtly while benefiting from this effect. She reduces the effective Appearance ratings of other characters by one for every point of Wyld mutations they possess, while anomalies are treated as having an effective Appearance rating of zero. Other characters continue to perceive normal Appearance ratings, even when interacting with the Infernal.

SIDEBAR: WYLD THING
For the purposes of Lattice effects, "Wyld mutations" does not solely refer to mutations inflicted by proximity to the infinite Chaos that borders Creation. It also refers to any mutations applied by anomalies, as well as any "random" mutations, undesigned and unintended – those applied by an uncapped demesne or tainted concoction or interbred bloodline would qualify, while those applied by a mutagenic manse or deliberate genesis project would not. Chaotic spitballing is abhorrent – design must be intelligent.
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Yog said:
Could someone give a link or a description as to what our charms do / mean? Not everyone has easy access to the books,
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Quick one:

General
-First She Who Lives in Her Name Excellency (x3)

Not too complicated. This supports efforts to bring order, planned actions, efforts to build/repair/preserve things.
Fairly wide spanning, like all Infernal Excellencies, but narratively largely just a dice added.
Ideal stunts include how you foresaw and predicted this particular sequence of events(as per stunts, bullshitting this is fairly simple unless it's a complete wut moment you couldn't have anticipated even under the most obsessive overplanning).

Malfeas
-Hardened Devil Body

More health levels. Can take more hit before death, though they still hurt and hinder.

-By Pain Reforged

Temporarily ignore the consequences of nonlethal damage. You keep going until you actually start bleeding out.
Awesome part: You don't go down to tazers and clubs until they actually risk killing you.
Not so awesome part: Because you don't go down to nonlethal, efforts to capture you ALWAYS risk killing you barring containment foam.


She Who Lives in Her Name
-Factual Determination Analysis

For one scene, automatically recognize lies, half truths and deliberate omissions. It only works if they intentionally do so though, someone misinformed or simply absent minded can escape this.
Fairly cheap at 3 motes.

-Invasive Exteroception Technique

Extended sense of touch. You know what everything feels like as if you were touching it, and bypassing physical barriers, though we don't automatically pay full attention to everything we feel. You can also increase the detail level with focus, but this will make your subject experience being carassed invisibly.
With the duration, we can sustain it indefinitely.

Very useful, and mechanically no reason to ever turn it off once you get over the TMI.

-Essence-Dissecting Touch

Complicated, depending on how parahuman powers translate to essence, but generally speaking, you get high resolution magical analysis on everything in the scan radius.
Wyld mutations look extra ugly, but again, not sure how that translates

Adorjan
-Wind-Born Stride

Go MUCH fster when running. Terrain and injuries don't slow running.

-Sacred Kamilla's Inhalation

Corpse disposal technique. You basically disintegrate corpses for an essence topup, leaving only their belongings. It also lets you breath safely regardless of environmental conditions for each corpse inhaled.

-Freedom Lets Go

Cut ties with someone. Turn away from them, feel nothing from them, and if you choose, remember nothing of them(though any memories that include them and other stuff just replace them with some stand in or the like).\
You also recover a compassion channel the first time you use it each scene.

It's not as fun without the next charm though. Tragic Love Amusement lets you fall in love immediately, and channel Compassion to add successess, while also boosting stunt ratings by one whenever teaching, hurting, or showing love towards the target.

The Ebon Dragon
-Loom-Snarling Deception

Disguise. Very important, because an Infernal is normally Outside Fate(and thus cannot be predicted by precog, but highly noticable, this creates a fake destiny attached).

It's perfect for hiding our mutations and pretending to be Taylor Hebert. Or any bipedal humanoid.


Kimbery
-Mother Sea Mastery

Super swimming powers, pretty much. Also good at finding food at sea

Heretical
-Swallowing the Scorpion

Independence from the Yozis. The previous bearer of this exaltation is a devil-tiger, and has set their exaltation to go hunt out hosts on their own without returning to Malfeas.

Going back to Malfeas would be a very bad idea
 
[X] Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.
--Adorjan Favored

Changing my vote, due to the way things are going. I should get that nettally program, probably. :V
 
Twei said:
[X] Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.
--Adorjan Favored

Changing my vote, due to the way things are going. I should get that nettally program, probably. :V
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Currently psycho sand bitch and psycho wind hippy are winning. They're both tied up at 4.
 
Neither bandwagon is insurmountable, and there's already one vote for this Yozi. Going for a new write-in.

[x] The most important part of growing up is learning to make your own decisions and live life according to what you desire, regardless of what others say and think.
--Isidoros Favored
 
[X] Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.
--Adorjan Favored

Murder buddha wind is best wind
 
[] All life must feed, and All is feed for life. Let none stand in your way for the endless feast that is Existence; the World is your succulent oyster.
--Metagaos Favored

Made a more flavorful (hah) write-in for Metagaos. Though it seems no one likes him. :(
 
[X] To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.
--Cecelyne Favored
 
Malfeas hates himself, but gets to be a good dancer.

We already have the best TED charm (if it works on the smurf, coil, dinah and contessa) so fuck him.
 
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[X]To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

I know almost nothing about the yozi except for malfeas and TED, but this sounds cool.
 
Olgol2 said:
[X]To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

I know almost nothing about the yozi except for malfeas and TED, but this sounds cool.
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You get stuff like this if you go for Cecelyne.

Sand powers. Improved ability to survive in places of desolation. Improved ability to bully those with lower essence ratings then you, at the cost of being more vulnerable to being bullied by those with higher essence ratings then you. Powers to facilitate cults worshipping you like limited wish granting and the ability to give people food in the form of making pits of magical locusts.
 
[x] Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.

I know literally nothing of Exalted, but based on the above post I really don't like Cecelyne, especially for Taylor. Reminds me too much of Sophia, and Taylor's whole thing is beating the odds and hitting over her weightclass.
 
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[X] Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.
--Adorjan Favored
 
Pinniped said:
I know literally nothing of Exalted, but based on the above post I really don't like Cecelyne, especially for Taylor. Reminds me too much of Sophia, and Taylor's whole thing is beating the odds and hitting over her weightclass.
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The author already mentioned far back that Cece-aligned is what Shadowstalker would probably be if she was a infernal exalted. I think most people are just voting based on the sugarcoated descriptions.

On another matter, who else thinks the previous life holder of the exaltation ordered our coadjutor to take it into the well of udr before suicide as final fuck you to our 'masters' (we can probably infodump the real story if we choose that merit)?
Hopefully they don't realize what happened and/or can't consciously influence us anymore as we take up new charms and/or send minions to follow. Or the Dowager which is supposed to hang out there...
Although turning the shoat of the mire sounds cool. But she's a abyssal so i don't even know.
 
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[X] To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

Cecelyne seems a pretty good fit, all told.
 
SCO said:
The author already mentioned far back that Cece-aligned is what Shadowstalker would probably be if she was a infernal exalted. I think most people are just voting based on the sugarcoated descriptions.

On another matter, who else thinks the previous life holder of the exaltation ordered our coadjutor to take it into the well of udr before suicide as final fuck you to our 'masters' (we can probably infodump the real story if we choose that merit)?
Hopefully they don't realize what happened and/or can't consciously influence us anymore as we take up new charms and/or send minions to follow. Or the Dowager which is supposed to hang out there...
Although turning the shoat of the mire sounds cool. But she's a abyssal so i don't even know.
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You'll find out. Eventually. Probably.
 
Aethelius said:
Yandere murder hoboing Taylor is best axe crazy Taylor
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Tragic Love amusement doesn't actually give us violent inclinations towards anybody. The charms we need to be concerned with are the one that gives us such hypersensitive hearing we prefer silence and the one that lets us recover essence and gain physical nourishment from killing at the cost of our ability to have any compassion for non essence users.
 
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Isn't the superhearing / enjoy the silence charm the reason almost all the areas of the brass city are covered in windchimes and bells? the hope being that wind-stabby lady and her kids will basically decide to go elsewhere?

So at the lowest depths of that mmindset Demons (other demons i guess at that point) even some genuine badasses, hang the local equivalent to a horseshoe over the doorway to keep you out.

That does sound like fun...

On the mindset thing. While it's one thing to argue on the mindsets we can attribute to canon Taylor / Skitter / weaver etc. It's more interesting to discuss ideas which, at this shit-heal moment, could be attractive to Taylor... Not what a somewhat together version would develop, but what she can be tempted towards.

The idea of the world having a right order, a natural system, and perversions of it can be blamed for all her bullshit (bullying in a monitored place, docks were in shit before the graveyard incident, Moms dead because she was on a phone in the car) whether you lean it to natural order (Cecylyne i think?) or Malfeas is a question of story, but Taylor the fresh victim would be so happy to be given a reason things are what they are, and a target.

My idea of full on law of the desert is a bit different to Sophia's version; because no one survives a desert alone. It's a wild hateful world?, yes. you need to be tough and sometimes more brutal than what you face? yes. The strong can just do what they want? No, because that fucks up their own chances, a mad dog dies of starvation. Sophia would be disgusting to this kind of ideal because she builds or preserves nothing, just slumming with trash to feel big. and Emma is just a yapping Jackal, no strength just social nothings that don't really matter in the end. Taylor of this mindset would in it's depths be closer to a mix of Danny and Coil, the city needs to be better, this is what will make it better. Now move down any path between the two, no matter how hideous because it is what survival actually entails...
 
And people call me edgy in other places in this site. Just because Taylor has a demon grafted on herself there is not much reason to encourage it and choose the maximally effective way to use Taylor's insecurities to put her in the deep end.

Also that 'the strong can't do what they want' is specifically against what Cecelyne believes, you better hope the hypocrisy is larger than the contradiction and it wouldn't last long anyway, like all chaotic systems.

SWLIHN exalt with Cecelyne favored Yozi that believes in order by strength until when she doesn't like it; sounds like a recipe to end up with a megalomaniac narcissist that goes into deep denial when she loses.
 
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