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

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veekie said:
The disguise doesn't prevent you from acting OOC and exposing yourself.
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I was thinking more along the lines of Tattletale seeing us and realizing that she can only get one piece of information out of us and that we literally have no past, although now that I think about it the charm probably fills in details we leave blank. On a different note could we confuse Coil or other Precogs we encounter by creating an identity that will do the exact opposite of what we are planning on doing. Also does our power affect Postcogs for example our disguise includes the phrase he killed "Colonel Mustard" will the event (and possibly Colonel Mustard) appear in everyone's attempts to scry us, because if so we are going to prank the Simurgh so hard once we are sure she won't retaliate by destroying a city.
 
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[X] Talk to the...let's just call it "demon" in your head about whether or not it has any idea what your powers actually are
--Shape-shifting would really help with the whole being nine feet tall thing and you've always wanted to fly, but failing that you would at least like to know what you can do the next time you're in a fight
--After we have a better handle on our powers we can figure out whether we should join the Wards or possibly New Wave if it turns out we can't find a way to hide our identity or change back
-[X]Stunt:
"You said the transformations weren't common?" You think at Joyous Uncertainty.

<"Yes. That does not mean you should be looking for the first Neomah equivalent you can find to get rid of them.">

"Why shouldn't I?"

<"Isn't it obvious? A Neomah's art requires work. Especially if you're pushing things by making yourself the canvas! This isn't just getting a stomach bottle bug to patch you up for some alcoholic beverages. As interesting as photographs are, they are not a suitable model for this kind of art. Unless I've misread you terribly, you want more than art.">

"I just... I don't want dad to see me like this."

"You okay Ma'am? Do you want me to get my sister?" Glory Girl interrupts your inner argument.

<"Why anybody would want joints with such limited range of motion I have no idea"> Joyous Uncertainty thinks on the edge of your thoughts.

Art. Imitation of reality. Copy of a copy. He may have a point. That doesn't mean you don't want to be completely unrecognizable. But... do you really need Panacea for that?

Glory Girl looks like she's about to ask you again but you manage to speak up first. It takes everything you are to say this.

"She probably has more important things to worry about."

You feel a surge of approval in your direction.

<"Well done. Glad to know you won't reduce yourself to that kind of faker.">

"I can't exactly hide my identity though. I don't know what I want to do now, but maybe we could talk again sometime?"

"You know. If you can get away from Armsmaster without him getting you into the Protectorate... why not? Wait a minute... why would you..."

Oh no. For a brief instant you have a fight or flight response that you presume was her aura flaring up. But it passes as quickly as it starts when Glory Girl signs an autograph and grabs a sheet from a Paramedic's notepad.

"Of course you're going to have to explain how a shocked case 53 seems to know so much about Earth Bet already." She says before leaving you with her number.

Can we pass ourselves off as a Case53? They'd have to assume since we don't know about Case53s but up to know we(unknowingly) recited the part to perfectinon (saying we don't remember and that we woke up looking like this...
Cause it would allow us to take advantage of the mechanism to give case53s new ID, while we can rejoin our old life using the Loom snarling charm...
We would have to wait to call Danny, but after a week, a few hours won't make my difference...
If people want to this could allow us to join the protectorate instead of the wards if we can pass us off as adults.
The only ones who would know different are coil and Lisa given that they are involved with the moving of the chrysalid.
 
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The ship of anonymity probably sailed when you guys took to the roof and didn't run away.

Unless you write in 'and then i took Adorjan charms and ran the fuck way' as a option of course. Even that probably won't last long once they search for possible triggers to the fashionable radiative green sun demon heroine princess (if you don't do charms mind control shenanigans again, which competent thinkers might see through).
 
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[X] Past-curfew check-in
--You really should try to get ahold of a phone and call Dad. He's surely worried sick, since you didn't come home from school today.
 
[X] Past-curfew check-in
--You really should try to get ahold of a phone and call Dad. He's surely worried sick, since you didn't come home from school today
Voting for this, because not letting Danny know we are ok would just be cruel.
So, which Yozi did we go with in the end? Cecelyne won with one vote, but there was some discussion that Cece wouldn't be a good choice? So do we roll with Cece or may that still be subject to change?
 
Some people showed willingness to change vote - at least i believe it was a change. I think whatever the QM feels more able and prepared to write is fine with me (and I voted adorjan anyway).
 
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We'putting the decision off, and probably by the next vote, each charmset should have a summary in the vote itself to avoid a repeat
 
Psuedo Nym said:
A question for the thread, if we use Loom Snarling Deception to become Drunky McDrunklson who's backstory consists solely of the phrase "He's always drunk" how long would it take Precogs or other Thinkers to notice something was wrong. On a more practical note could we send coded messages to Precogs or other Thinkers using Loom Snarling Deception
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Several might assume we were under a Stranger effect based on their basic deduction skills. Their powers, however, would insist Drunky McDrunkerson was always drunk.
 
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Kelenas said:
Is there any chance you could use a different colour for your "GM voice" and whatnot? I'm using the dark background version of SV, and it makes reading stuff like the voting options, or what the Coadjutor says an utter pain.
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I can brighten the shades a bit, if it helps.

Are these colors better?

Also: this is the single closest vote we've had yet. It's 1 vote away from being a 3-way tie.
 
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veekie said:
We'putting the decision off, and probably by the next vote, each charmset should have a summary in the vote itself to avoid a repeat
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The vote is being put off until I get to the appropriate point in the story for Joyous Uncertainty and Taylor to have a more detailed tête-à-tête about the Yozis.
 
[X] Past-curfew check-in
--You really should try to get ahold of a phone and call Dad. He's surely worried sick, since you didn't come home from school today.
 
Thief of Words said:
The vote is being put off until I get to the appropriate point in the story for Joyous Uncertainty and Taylor to have a more detailed tête-à-tête about the Yozis.
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Think you can include a short blurb on each charmset and what they mean for this quest first?

Including homebrew ones, if approved.
Alternatively, allow a non voting period to discuss and promote each Yozi option. Pretty big if you want anyone not of the Five to have a chance.
 
[X] Past-curfew check-in
--You really should try to get ahold of a phone and call Dad. He's surely worried sick, since you didn't come home from school today.
-[x] Stunt: Taylor sighed. Explaining the situation to Glory Girl had gotten her rather enraged, and it had taken some fast talking to keep her from tracking down the Trio and tearing them apart. Now, time to face the music. Taylor picked up the hospital phone, and typed her home number. Her father answered after only a single ring. "Dad, I'm okay." she said as soon as she could get a word in edgewise. "I'm at the hospital. I'm... I'm not hurt. I ran into Glory Girl, and she said Panacea would check me to see if everything's okay." She winced at his reaction. "I said I wasn't hurt, but... something happened to me... "
 
thamuzz said:
Point of clarification: Revlid's rewrite of the entire SWLIHN charmtree or just (Yozi) World-Shaping Cosmogony?
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The rewrite. So both.
I'm going to be working in bits of the canonical charmset into it and making a few alterations. I'll post those up as they become relevant (first example is a modification to Mind Hand Manipulation: only two purchases, E3 required for the second purchase, which allows telekinetic attacks and clinches. Still toying with the balance on the attack stats, as the core version of the charm is outright brokenly nasty, but the Revlid version is far too weak to be E4.)
 
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FunkyEntropy said:
So that leaves Facing the Music and ET Phone Home. Most Taylor quests that I've seen nowadays seem to gravitate towards the Protectorate/Wards. Calling Danny has more branches, with us later joining the Protectorate/Wards (in which case the option is just plain old player indecisiveness) or some variant of going solo and/or teaming up with New Wave/Undersiders. There's always the possibility of going the social Exalt route with Danny (which would be fucking fantastic because I don't think anyone's done that before) where we fulfill our Urge via Jobs Jobs Jobs and Infrastructure, really push the Dock Workers angle, but that's...probably not going to happen.
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Okay, been thinking about what a SWLIHN + Isidoros character might looks like, and one of the concepts I've got would work perfectly with this:
From SWLIHN , take
- Every Last Detail (lets us plan instead of sleeping, improves planning rolls)
- Just As Planned (lets us regain Willpower by pulling off plans)
- Pattern Protecting Prana (lets us protect our organization)
- Unfaltering Management Style (lets us complete macro projects quickly, so long as we don't change course)
- Unshattered Tongue Perfection (Lets you share languages)
- Final Ultimatum Shintai (Become a massively powerful C&C element for a group you are a part of/allows you to improve teamwork)
These turn you into a terrifyingly effective organizer/manager

From Isidoros (Revlid's version):
- Indomitable Hedonism Drive (lets us use our desires (special form of intimacy, takes form of action+target) as our Motivation for stunts. Need to complete at least 3 desires a day to regain Willpower from rest)
- Arousing Indelicate Passions (lets us share/inflict our desires with/on others)
- Raw Whimsey Indulgence (lets us change the targets of our desires)
- Pleasure is Buisiness (lets us find a target for a desire that will help us advance our short term goals) (potential synergy with Just As Planned. JAP regains willpower for completing steps, PIB costs willpower, but PIB can help prevent us from gaining limit when a step is failed)
- Toil by Proxy (lets us spin off a black hole clone to accomplish our desires, regains willpower when that desire has been satisfied)
These turn you into a terrifyingly effective headonist. Now, if you take, say, organizing people, rebuilding things and motivating people as desires, you become an awesome motivational speaker/getter of stuff done.

I also have an idea for a Heretical charm building off of Mind-Hand Manipulation and Black Vitality Rubble Rousing (end of a chain that lets you smash stuff, absorb the stuff you smashed for extra health levels, then explode those health levels for motes and blowing stuff up) that would allow you to use the extra health levels as crafting materials/autosux on crafting rolls with Mind-Hand Manipulation. Maybe have a second purchase allow you to use the extra health levels for autosux when using World-Shaping Cosmogony. Smash the world to remake it in your image sort of thing.

Admittedly, you're probably right about this not being the way this quest will go. Still was a fun exercise.
 
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Alright. I'm off to go eat breakfast and read other people's fanfiction for a couple of hours.

Voting will close when I return.
 
[X] Time to face the music.
--Go over to where Brandish and Armsmaster are still caught up in discussion. You're not sure you're ready for the Wards, but...well, it wasn't exactly as though you had other options, either.
 
[X] Past-curfew check-in
--You really should try to get ahold of a phone and call Dad. He's surely worried sick, since you didn't come home from school today.
 
[X] Time to face the music.
--Go over to where Brandish and Armsmaster are still caught up in discussion. You're not sure you're ready for the Wards, but...well, it wasn't exactly as though you had other options, either.
 
Revlid MHM is like that because of the anti-variance deletion beam. Which is the attack charm of the set- and anyway, you can attack with essence 3. You just need to grab stuff to hit people with, instead of using pure tk.
Or taking the utility engine and making your tk fodder with that.
 
xenondestroyer said:
Revlid MHM is like that because of the anti-variance deletion beam. Which is the attack charm of the set- and anyway, you can attack with essence 3. You just need to grab stuff to hit people with, instead of using pure tk.
Or taking the utility engine and making your tk fodder with that.
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I'm aware. But tacking on another repurchase for a sub-par melee option is just excessive inefficient. And that doesn't fit her themes.

In other news:

Voting is now closed and tallied.

The winning option is:
[X] Past-curfew check-in
--You really should try to get ahold of a phone and call Dad. He's surely worried sick, since you didn't come home from school today.
with 10 votes to the next-nearest option's 9.
 
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The repurchase is more for getting tk at all- without it you only get the workshop tools, but can't move things. That it afterwards gets you an attack option at no further cost, is a happy side effect, no? :p
 
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