TheLastOne
Person of impeccable tastes (for destruction)
Invent a charm - Solar's aren't following a set path, they're blazing their own way towards perfection.Golden Lark said:
Memoirs of a Human Flashlight [Exalted/Worm]
- Thread starter Golden Lark
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logiccosmic
the Prince of Word Crimes
- Location
- the Hague, formerly
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- He/Him
Plot > Crunch.Golden Lark said:
Golden Lark
The First Fiction User
B-b-but all those people on the internet got so mad when I neglected crunch!
TheLastOne
Person of impeccable tastes (for destruction)
That's why you invent your own charm and post it. Everyone will ooh and ahh it.Golden Lark said:B-b-but all those people on the internet got so mad when I neglected crunch!
The Sandman
So Zetta Slowpoke
- Location
- Wherever I am, which isn't where I'm not
Just say that the "Creature of Darkness" thing got repurposed into something that's actually useful in a world where the UCS flat-out doesn't exist and thus neither does his personal shit-list.Golden Lark said:
If that changes in the future, then the standard Holy effects will come back.
Malbutorius
C'est le bien qui fait mal
Mission accomplished.Golden Lark said:
So, just a thought. So far Taylor demonstrated Mover 1-2 (acrobatics, wall running), Brute 1-2 (strength enhancement, stamina enhancement, etc), Shaker 2-3 (bleaching aura), Breaker/Striker 2-4 (energy shield should probably count as this), Master 1-3 (the thing that had Glenn on his knees), thinker 3. She has gone through physical testing. What are the chances they'll put her through mental ones? Super-training speed will be noticed for sure.
If they test her for Tinker (give her a laboratory, a case with all the (safe-ish) materials from periodic table, and tell her to go wild), what would the results likely be? Maybe she'll produce magical materials?
If they test her for Tinker (give her a laboratory, a case with all the (safe-ish) materials from periodic table, and tell her to go wild), what would the results likely be? Maybe she'll produce magical materials?
Undead-Spaceman
Skeleton Supreme
- Location
- Somewhere in Orbit
I'm not sure a sun bleaching aura would count as a Shaker 2-3 and IIRC, shields are a Shaker thing but Glory Girl has a personal force field and is a brute/mover so who knows?Yog said:
Golden Lark
The First Fiction User
Craft is an XP black hole. As I started earlier, magical materials are nigh impossible to make. Orichalcum is the only one she'd have ANY chance of getting all the necessary conditions for, and even then, she'd need to arrange the conditions to craft the magic mirrors she'd need to smelt orichalcum.
No, she's not pulling magical materials out of her butt just yet.
Now, she always wanted to be a tinker. She'll give it the college try, but believe me you, the same total time-effort spent in Craft without access to MM, in a world with modern industrial capacity? Is absolutely not an obvious positive return on investment.
Even CNNT at first isn't really vital, because a factory can be used to rapidly make stuff while she goes and does something only she can do, etc. Efficient distribution of resources.
If we really want to be particular about her power scaling, her dots of Essence going up only grow her raw output. Her perspective, her true potential, her out-of-context nature? That manifests as she gets dots of Occult. She needs the knowledge, base framework, AND the infrastructure to even begin abusing Solar Craft on Earth Bet, and she's currently 0 for 3. As she is now she can't really match the output of a robot or a tinker of a given specialty.
No, she's not pulling magical materials out of her butt just yet.
Now, she always wanted to be a tinker. She'll give it the college try, but believe me you, the same total time-effort spent in Craft without access to MM, in a world with modern industrial capacity? Is absolutely not an obvious positive return on investment.
Even CNNT at first isn't really vital, because a factory can be used to rapidly make stuff while she goes and does something only she can do, etc. Efficient distribution of resources.
If we really want to be particular about her power scaling, her dots of Essence going up only grow her raw output. Her perspective, her true potential, her out-of-context nature? That manifests as she gets dots of Occult. She needs the knowledge, base framework, AND the infrastructure to even begin abusing Solar Craft on Earth Bet, and she's currently 0 for 3. As she is now she can't really match the output of a robot or a tinker of a given specialty.
I think what happened in that scene could just be played off as her pulling out a maxed presence excellency and getting very high rolls.
True. Realistically, I expect her to be called trump 2-3 relatively soon and for that rating to steadily increase.DeAnno said:
Wall running cannot, as I'm relatively sure it's a little outside of human range. Uber is a normal human who is proficient (as in, Grandmaster level) in anything he tries after a short time. Really, he would be better as a rogue polymath / author / painter, etc.Arkeus said:
Arkeus
Crazy cat guy
- Location
- France
Wall-running is within human range for a tiny bit, and 'Human Range' in exalted is wider than in real life. Humans there can do stuff that would make Olympics the work of crippled children.Yog said:
Also, i said 'a variance'. And seriously, Uber doesn't have 5 in all attributes/abilities. At most he has 2s in most and 3s in a couple.
TheLastOne
Person of impeccable tastes (for destruction)
Which is called out in series. People find it kind of sad that Uber sticks with Leet.
Undead-Spaceman
Skeleton Supreme
- Location
- Somewhere in Orbit
I think their are some parkour-ist out there that might disagree with you.Yog said:
You know, this may actually be a problem. The moment anyone who knew Taylor prior to the exaltation sees her, they'll know that she changed. Emma, Sophia and Madison aren't that much of a problem because they are detained for now (and Emma's father will likely have her sign non-disclosure agreement in exchange for lenience), but basically anyone from her old school is likely to be able to guess that she triggered.acb said:
In-game Craft really is an XP Black Hole, yes, though in the story this doesn't necessarily mean much, since it comes down to her studying.Golden Lark said:
Don't underestimate it, though; even without MMs, a high Craft plus Intelligence plus Excellency means she could easily go the Dragon route and design technological advanced, mass-producable equipment for other heroes and PRT forces.
Question - Solars get reduced training time, right? Does it translate to schoolwork (i.e. learning the whole year's worth of math in one week or something) and do they glow while doing so? Because right now, with Taylor being classified as thinker 3 already and exhibiting the tell-tale glow while doing the heavy thinking, keeping her identity secret in a competitive environment where the goal is to study and advance might not be feasible.Shyft said:
Which actually may be good, as she may get fans that way.
I think it was her probationary status (i.e. her being on probation), her not being a very good student and her violent tendencies - i.e. the risk of her doing something bad in Arcadia was likely deemed unacceptable.Shyft said:
How would she do it? She has a tinker as a teammate (Kid Win) and as a local leader (Armsmaster). Could she do anything in her interaction with them?Shyft said:
That would actually justify Alexandria dropping in to help Taylor with hand-to-hand and perhaps some tactical training, wouldn't it?darthdavid said:
Also, I wonder. Wards are obligated to go to school. But what about thinkers? I mean, Taylor now could easily test out in about a month. Would she be allowed to? She'd be very bored in school otherwise.
You can have friends outside school, and she could go to a university. I mean, there's bored, and then there's "bypassed this level in days, is doing absolutely nothing going insane with boredom for the rest of the year". It disrupts class and isn't a productive use of her time.gideon020 said:
Actually, one-person Singularity is exactly what Solars are. They essentially bootstrapped themselves from swords and platemail on horses, to laserguns and powered armor on anti-gravity ships, in their own basements. Skipping over such trivial in-between steps like the Renessaince or the Industrial Revolution entirely.Shyft said:
It's the entire reason the Age of Sorrows is as it is; a regression to the medieval technology that was available before the Solars, because Creation as a whole never went through all the intermediary steps; even at the height of the First Age, Creation was an agrarian society.
Taylor has an advantage in that she lives in an industrialized society and as such knows about the importance of disseminating technology and knowledge, but I'd expect her to have the same problem as Tinkers to at least some degree.
Of course, it's quite likely that the entire point is moot because Lark might not go down the route of Taylor mainly working as a Tinker, since her standing in front of a classroom and teaching various engineers and scientists about how to make a nanofabber likely wouldn't make for an interesting story.
Something that makes all that talk about training time interesting is that as soon as Taylor increased her Knowledge about scholary work enough she gets acess to a charm that let her rapidly train up others to her skill level. ie raising stuff in a week so that she can train someone that never went to school to a a Doctorate level in Physic in a month.
And she can also train them up in more exotic stuff like Bravery making her the best boot camp leader ever, compasion or even appereance " of course I can show you how to look as good as I do if you follow my training regime Missy."
And she can also train them up in more exotic stuff like Bravery making her the best boot camp leader ever, compasion or even appereance " of course I can show you how to look as good as I do if you follow my training regime Missy."
