Finagle007
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Well, given that The Yozi Formerly Known As TED is present...
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Well, given that The Yozi Formerly Known As TED is present...
Welp. Packs up bags and moves to Mars-Alph. It`s not enough to mearly leave earth!
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Once more I found myself watching as my surroundings were stripped bare by the silent winds. Or should I say, The Silent Wind. This time, the small guest room at the PRT headquarters - with its blue-sheeted single-bed, built-in wardrobe and ensuite - had disintegrated to reveal the sheer absence of any upper floors. I was left with a view of the entire Bay, or at least what was left of it, distorted by a crimson haze. The silence was unnatural. I had already become accustomed to Sorrowful Hymn's song. Loosing her body hadn't stopped the music; Its absence was worrying.
I felt a kiss on my cheek. Surprised as I was, my mind didn't catch up with the situation until I heard a familiar faint giggling from my right.
"My lost Love." The woman with the strange teeth, who was somehow the very wind that destroyed my city, grabbed hold of my hands. "We have much longer to play now. Won't you join me?"
She dragged me along with her before I could answer. I doubted she'd accept a 'no' anyway. She skipped along backwards through the ruined building, dragging me along and never letting go of my hands. Occasionally she would spin us about in some deranged dance. Other times, she would press up against me as if we were about to Tango. It was disconcerting the way she would invade my personal space, and yet it was the closest thing to a hug I'd had in months. It was in a word, conflicting.
"Where's Sorrowful Hymn of Youthful Indiscretion?" I asked as I was swept up in her enthusiasm, and more literally her winds. My words sounded drowned out, muffled by the strong, yet soundless, swirling breeze.
"Quiet." She barked, all while maintaining her same quiet whisper. The sudden change from joy to anger and back again sent chills down my spine. "Your coadjutor was not invited. This time is for us."
I decided to stop talking, if only to avoid seeing that terrifying rage on her beautiful face once more. It was surprisingly easy to placate the madwoman, as I had no choice but to follow along in her wake as we danced through the rubble.
"I was so fond of the last you. He was so handsome and full of life. It was such a shame when he was killed." She had a wistful expression on her face as she reminisced on who I guessed was Reckless Prophet of Change. "I wanted to flense the skin from his bones myself. The dirty tease."
My face fixed in to a placid mask to avoid setting off my insane dance partner. Meanwhile, I screamed inside.
"Now, now, Dear Sister." A smarmy voice spoke up, halting Adorjan in her tracks and consequently giving me whiplash. I did not like the way her eyes narrowed. "Surely you don't want to break your new toy before she's even had a chance to make a name for herself?"
Her head whipped down and stared a little past my feet. As my eyes followed the movement, I noticed my shadow was moving in a sinuous manner. I most definitely was not.
"You!" Adorjan all but yelled. "How did you survive?"
"Survive is a generous description Dear Sister. I am but a shadow of my former self." He paused, I would have groaned if I wasn't afraid for my life. "I won't ask you to forgive the pun. You never do."
I suddenly found my hands free as Adorjan dove at my shadow. She missed.
"Tut tut. Such aggression." The voice spoke, this time from Adorjan's own shadow, which had taken to moving counter the woman's own movements. "Is that anyway to greet your brother?"
"How did you get here Ebon Dragon?" She snarled as she tried to stomp on her own shadow. I meanwhile was doing my best to remain unobtrusive to this family feud.
"Oh Adorjan. You should know better than any that I am no longer He." This time, the voice came from a patch of darkness cast by a mostly intact pillar. I could make out some serpentine aspects the leading edge of the inky blackness. "Or should I call you Adrián?"
A flurry of wind saw the pillar torn apart, but to no avail as the voice laughed from the sliver of shade provided by a collapsed girder. "No, you saw my old Fetich die, just as I heard the passing of Lilike. The Ebon Dragon died as he lived, via betrayal. Instead, I am now but a Cheerful Witness of Suffering."
Everything was silent for a moment, before it was broken by demented giggling from the terrifying, space-invading lady. I let out my own nervous giggle as the shadow joined in, even if I was missing whatever the joke was. Frankly I was in way over my head. Then as abruptly as it came, the laughter ended.
"Forgive me for thinking it just another of your ruses, Brother." She smiled once more, in that manic fashion I had first seen her wear. "A fitting end to your great plots of backstabbing and escape. But a bit of advice before I leave my darling Scourge to rest. Never return. If you do, you will join the Neverborn, as none of the others will be as accepting as I."
She turned to me and pressed herself against me once more. With one arm wrapped around my waist, she ran her fingers through my hair and whispered even quieter than usual. "Never trust a Dragon."
I shuddered as the breath tickled my ear, before she dissipated into a scarlet zephyr that joined the rest of the hurricane.
"Good advice that. Luckily, I'm not a Dragon. As such." My shadow said. Or was it Cheerful Witness of Suffering. I could practically hear it reverberating with proper noun status. It was also weird enough to be a name for one of these Yozi creatures. "Now be a good little Infernal and do try to be entertaining for me."
"Define entertaining."
"Oh, I'm sure you'll come up with something. You did mean to do something about those gangs right?"
"You want me to be a hero?" I stared down with a raised eyebrow. He, or at least his former self didn't exactly sound like a good person-place-thing... Actually he didn't sound any better now really. "With a name like yours?"
"Okay, so He Who Laughs at Misfortune is somewhat misleading. Just because I laugh at it, doesn't mean I cause it. What do you take me for, a monster?"
"Yes." It was pretty obvious after all.
"I am wounded." My shadow clutched its chest in mock pain.
"I'm sure." I rolled my eyes. "So what was that Cheerful Witness of Suffering bit if not your name? It is basically the same thing."
"Oh just a bit of an in joke between siblings. It is the name of the sub-soul that became my new Fetich. But back to your earlier question. Sure. Be a hero. Why not. I don't care as long as it is interesting."
"Wonderful." I sighed. "So you're a voyeur."
"I prefer the term proactive schadenfreude enthusiast."
"So an Internet Troll?"
"Nothing so gauche, though the Internet is a most fascinating place now that I have discovered how to observe it. There hasn't been such a pointlessly amusing pastime since the Games of Divinity."
"The what?"
"Never mind that. Your alarm is about to go off."
"How do you know that?"
"Because BEEP BEE-"
*-P BEEP BEEP*
I sat up in the unfamiliar bed and my hair lashed out at the annoying appliance. A loud crunching noise followed soon after.
*BEEEEEEEEEp*
Just what I needed this morning, awkward apologies for breaking an alarm clock.
*Edited out colour text because it was clashing with too many themes.*
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The one thing that first struck me was Adorjan threatening to permakill CWoS and turning him into a Neverborn. Neither the primordials nor Green Sun Princess possess the ability to permanently kill those possessing primordial-level immortality, so thats an utter impossibility. To quote the infernal book: "Yozi Charms can't kill their own kind past fetich death. Only the Chosen of the gods are so monstrous.".
Beyond that, one thing that I do kinda wonder is where everyone is? I mean is Adorjan still trapped in Malfeas, and yet still able to reach Taylor? Though I think she did have some dream charm (or was that ES homebrew?). I do think it should be explained why Adorjan is so interested in Taylor though? I mean she does still have 9 other GSPs, and all of them presumably far more powerfull.
Poor Taylor. You should really be doing your best to make Adorjan hate you while you still have the chance.
Also, where exactly is CWoS and his subsouls? He would arguably be the most powerfull being on the planet. Scion might give him competition, but even thats not really certain.
Beyond that, one thing that I do kinda wonder is where everyone is? I mean is Adorjan still trapped in Malfeas, and yet still able to reach Taylor? Though I think she did have some dream charm (or was that ES homebrew?). I do think it should be explained why Adorjan is so interested in Taylor though? I mean she does still have 9 other GSPs, and all of them presumably far more powerfull.
Poor Taylor. You should really be doing your best to make Adorjan hate you while you still have the chance.
Also, where exactly is CWoS and his subsouls? He would arguably be the most powerfull being on the planet. Scion might give him competition, but even thats not really certain.
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Adorjan didn't threaten the dragon with killing him by himself, just that others would do it.
I seriously doubt the Yozi would allow a Solar to GET the new guy. They are terrified of permadeath. This is especially true since the guy that betrayed them was TED, and TED is already mostly dead and gone. They might torment him to some degree simply to vent their anger, but theres a big difference between doing that, and calling a Solar/Abyssal to deal the final blow required.
Eh, maybe. Would probably depend on the author/storyteller. Personally I would argue that its simply not normally possible, since the GSP do draw their power from Primordial charms/power, and they are explicitly unable to do this.
I could perhaps see somekind of heretical charm being capable of doing it perhaps, since those draw and combine things from multiple Yozi, and could be said to transcend whats normally possible for the Yozi (GSP do have the potential to go Primordial 2.0 afterall). However I also suspect that a GSP that invented a heretical charm capable of permakilling Primordials would be a dead GSP very quickly if discovered.
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Finagle007
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Am I the only one hearing Bill Cipher's voice?
A bit overpowered but yeah, thats the basic idea. I would not necessarily even require the full devil-tiger thing. I mean TED is gone in this story, but you could for example say that Ebon Dragons Ultimate Darkness Internalization (become a creature of death connected to Oblivion. Oblivion that came into existence when the first Primordials died) + Malfeas Radiant Fury Dissolution (spirit killer charm of the Primordial that somewhat remembers death due to Ruvelias death, but was not totally reset due to Ligier) and maybe Demon-Wracking Shout (if you wanted to make it higher essence) could create a heretical GET equivalent without going full devil-tiger, which is tough to get due to E6 requirement.
Generally you could homebrew charms that were Yozi only and not heretical for most things so long as it was not too distorted from the theme, so I figure Heretical charms should be for things that seem otherwise forbidden for GSPs, but still sorta solaroid shard themed. Like for example I believe Earthscorpion has a heretical charm for summoning elementals (normally impossible for GSPs). I would also be cool with a heretical charm that somehow gave GSP ability to use sidereal MA (not that they really need it and I am sure there is one somewhere, but you get the idea). And so on.
Though this is getting a bit off-topic. My main point was that given that the Yozi are understandably pretty freaked out about the whole "I CAN DIE!?!" thing, and given that TED already underwent fetich death and is not really TED anymore, and given the improbability of finding a primordial-level spirit killer, Adorjans threat did not really seem to fit. Would actually have made more sense if Adorjan had threatened to redo the fetich death repeatedly until she got a TED-incarnation that was willing to stay away or something.
Its also worth remembering that an Adorjan GSP that has actually started embracing her teaching due to the whole near suicide thing would probably make a rather unique ward experience.
Shadow Stalker: "Why the fuck did you kill that guy! We were supposed to capture him!"
Taylor: "Can't blame me! I was hungry!"
Shadow Stalker: "Hungry? Are you insane! Shit, the others will be here in just a few moments! What are we supposed to do with the body!"
Taylor: "Chill Sophia. You should learn to let these things go. Now just relax, and let me take a deep breath."
Adorjan has charm where killing people satiates physical hunger. And another where she can inhale corpses.
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A Lot less "not change much" and more along the lines of "Not loose power".
The New TED is just as powerful as the old TED but with altered themes, personality etc. Hence less Dick Dastardly and more Affably Evil.
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Just be glad he's no longer proactive, hasn't met Jack Slash, and better yet, both aren't true at once.
What I am unsure about is how that affects GSPs?
I mean lets say the new TEDs charmset no longer has Loom-Snarling Deception (for example). Could Taylor still get it, even if the Yozi who it originates from no longer has it?
Likewise, if new TED has new charms that fit his new personality, like say voyeur-like charms to observe things remotely or thinker charms to learn everything about people the new TED is
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*Cough* Messy Divorce *cough*The one thing that first struck me was Adorjan threatening to permakill CWoS and turning him into a Neverborn. Neither the primordials nor Green Sun Princess possess the ability to permanently kill those possessing primordial-level immortality, so thats an utter impossibility. To quote the infernal book: "Yozi Charms can't kill their own kind past fetich death. Only the Chosen of the gods are so monstrous.".
Beyond that, one thing that I do kinda wonder is where everyone is? I mean is Adorjan still trapped in Malfeas, and yet still able to reach Taylor? Though I think she did have some dream charm (or was that ES homebrew?). I do think it should be explained why Adorjan is so interested in Taylor though? I mean she does still have 9 other GSPs, and all of them presumably far more powerfull.
Poor Taylor. You should really be doing your best to make Adorjan hate you while you still have the chance.
Also, where exactly is CWoS and his subsouls? He would arguably be the most powerfull being on the planet. Scion might give him competition, but even thats not really certain.
I figure as she is a Scourge, she shares some connection to Adorjan that allows communication regardless of metaphysical distance (otherwise access to charms would be iffy), this may also allow others if Adorjan feels like sharing. I am undecided whether I'll have Malfeas/Ligier visit at some point give his status as her other Patron.
As for interest, that will be elaborated. But how many of those other 9 are in a different world that has never been touched by Adorjan's gentle caress?
He Who Laughs at Misfortune and his few remaining sub-souls are around. They may even be... doing things.
Taylor will not get any TED charms.
Other things, well, you'll have to wait and see.
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Of course not. Those Charms don't exist anymore. Nor do Adrian's Charms, or those of The Lidless Eye That Sees, or He Who Bleeds The Unknown Word, or those of any other Primordial who underwent fetich death. Malfeas is the only exception, because Theion had two fetiches instead of one; Malfeas still has the Charms that would allow him to have two fetiches (A Prince For The Queen and Two Hearts As One), but is too wounded to make use of them.
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I don't think one Yozi can borrow anothers like that. Also truthfully, I am kinda hoping that the Yozi won't take over the story like that. HWLM for example should basically be extremely powerfull. As was pointed above, existence of GSP means no power loss. I dunno how many 3rd circles TED had, but lets go to absolute minimum and say 8 (sickly and dying Autochton has 8, so HWLM probably has more than twice that, but lets go with absolute minimum).
Thats still 8 Eidolon level immortal beings. Each also has 7 2nd circles, who are very powerfull beings, so thats 56 highlevel Brute/Trump/Blasters. And each of those is capable of spawning entire species of 1st circles and creating vast armies of anykind of demon they desire. And that is ofcourse ignoring whatever powerfull Jouten form(s) HWLM has. Granted I dunno how this all works, so I guess they could still be trapped in Malfeas or Creation?
However if they are here, then, if none of those subsouls carve kingdoms for themselves, it kinda makes one wonder why not? Even if HWLM overall is basically only interested in watching, he has subsouls who almost certainly arent.
Also, having Adorjan appear constantly could likely make her appearances tiresome (familiary breeds contempt), and if Ligier wants to appear, he should damn well find a way for Taylor to learn 3rd circle sorcery and get properly summoned, rather than somehow "borrow" Adorjans charms.
Ultimately, I kinda worry that if Adorjan and HWLM and even Malfeas/Ligier (somehow!??) get constantly involved too much, Taylor is basically going to end up mostly meaningless, since a total newbie exalt is insignificant in comparison to primordials and 3rd circles. And I would rather read about Taylors adventures (though thats just me.)
One would also think the Yozi would be rather distracted with events happening in Creation (TED did escape, at the very least proving that it IS possible. World is wrecked. UCQ might be dead and a new one might have taken up the job (and not be addicted to crack). The seal of 8 divinities is open and and alchemical exalted are running all over the place. Auto might even be in be awaking. Etc.
I can sorta see Adorjan occasionally paying attention to Taylor, but Malfeas&Ligier should have no business caring about some newbie GSP somewhere, when Creation basically turned upside down very recently.
My point was that they might be recorded in the GSP exaltation shards. TED is unique in that he fetich died AFTER the existence of GSPs.
Actually, nevermind. Turns out thats not the case according to the corebook atleast:
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Going by author intent expressed on the old White Wolf Forums (and hence uncheckable, because they went down years ago and weren't properly backed up), despite SWLiHN's hopes, an infernal won't protect a Yozi from death, though once a charmset has been opened to the Infernals that version of the charmset will forever be open, and an Infernal could potential become another, for instance, Ebon Dragon by taking the Ebon Dragon's version of the "I am" charm.
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The first part is right, the second wrong.
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that just made TED Op because he wouldn't backstab himself. while he isnt proactively evil most of the tine, that changes when he reaches limit break.
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Let us just say in regards to the warning, that things have gotten rather messy / interesting in Creation/Malfeas.I don't think one Yozri borrow anothers like that. Also truthfully, I am kinda hoping that the Yozi won't take over the story like that. HWLM for example should basically be extremely powerfull. As was pointed above, existence of GSP means no power loss. I dunno how many 3rd circles TED had, but lets go to absolute minimum and say 8 (sickly and dying Autochton has 8, so HWLM probably has more than twice that, but lets go with absolute minimum).
Thats still 8 Eidolon level immortal beings. Each also has 7 2nd circles, who are very powerfull beings, so thats 56 highlevel Brute/Trump/Blasters. And each of those is capable of spawning entire species of 1st circles and creating vast armies of anykind of demon they desire. And that is ofcourse ignoring whatever powerfull Jouten form(s) HWLM has. Granted I dunno how this all works, so I guess they could still be trapped in Malfeas or Creation?
However if they are here, then, if none of those subsouls carve kingdoms for themselves, it kinda makes one wonder why not? Even if HWLM overall is basically only interested in watching, he has subsouls who almost certainly arent.
Also, having Adorjan appear constantly could likely make her appearances tiresome (familiary breeds contempt), and if Ligier wants to appear, he should damn well find a way for Taylor to learn 3rd circle sorcery and get properly summoned, rather than somehow "borrow" Adorjans charms.
Ultimately, I kinda worry that if Adorjan and HWLM and even Malfeas/Ligier (somehow!??) get constantly involved too much, Taylor is basically going to end up mostly meaningless, since a total newbie exalt is insignificant in comparison to primordials and 3rd circles. And I would rather read about Taylors adventures (though thats just me.)
One would also think the Yozi would be rather distracted with events happening in Creation (TED did escape, at the very least proving that it IS possible. World is wrecked. UCQ might be dead and a new one might have taken up the job (and not be addicted to crack). The seal of 8 divinities is open and and alchemical exalted are running all over the place. Auto might even be in be awaking. Etc.
I can sorta see Adorjan occasionally paying attention to Taylor, but Malfeas&Ligier should have no business caring about some newbie GSP somewhere, when Creation basically turned upside down very recently.
My point was that they might be recorded in the GSP exaltation shards. TED is unique in that he fetich died AFTER the existence of GSPs.
Actually, nevermind. Turns out thats not the case according to the corebook atleast:
As for sub souls and empires, things will be revealed as the story progresses. There are assumptions being made that might skew one's expectations. Suffice to say that Adorjan is not going to be present physically, and won't visit every dream for the very reasons you've stated. The story will be focusing on Taylor, as while there may be powerful beings about, the world is a big and fascinating place beyond Brockton Bay..
Visiting dreams is one of adjoran's stated powers despite not getting charm tech for it. That is how her daughters were conceived.
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Taylor X Ligier OTP as stated in @Thief of Words 's quest.
Edit: To actually add something. To have Ligier actually put forth all that effort to communicate with Taylor, he's probably hoping this new world can be a way around the Surrender-Oaths. And I would guess that it's probably going to be her Urge if Ligier directs her to do so directly.
Have we actually discussed what Hymn (sorry can't remember off hand) is gonna urge Taylor to do?
Edit: To actually add something. To have Ligier actually put forth all that effort to communicate with Taylor, he's probably hoping this new world can be a way around the Surrender-Oaths. And I would guess that it's probably going to be her Urge if Ligier directs her to do so directly.
Have we actually discussed what Hymn (sorry can't remember off hand) is gonna urge Taylor to do?
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