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On one hand, understanding Amu soul will help with the Fungus and the Charas.
On the other hand, i don't want to discover that what destroyed Creation is going to try to reach and destroy us, distrupting the current and future delicates situations.
 
Well, if "Interrogate Reality Engine" works, the data we got from the Entity might help narrow things down a bit so we get useful results sooner.
 
Dia might be able to help with interrogating the reality engine if we wait a little longer for her to show up. She does have craft:magutsuhi and craft:reality.
 
Alectai said:
Well, if "Interrogate Reality Engine" works, the data we got from the Entity might help narrow things down a bit so we get useful results sooner.
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We didn't get any data from the Entity.

"Interrogate Reality Engine" is the least useful thing we could possibly be doing right now. If we knew what had destroyed Creation, we might be able to assess the damage that it inflicted on us. If we knew what the fundamental substrate of this universe looked like, we might be able to properly check for incompatibilities. We do not. As it is, this is like trying to search a haystack for a needle that may not even be there.

This turn would be far better spent learning about what destroyed Creation or what sort of universe we're in. Barring that, we could still spend it talking with Amu, or studying Amu's soul-structure, or figuring out what the Entity actually is.

Changing my vote to the currently-tied

[X] Focus on understanding Amu's soul
-[X] With particular attention on Amu's spiritual relationship with her charas and her mystery guest.

because at least that will get something accomplished, even if it's made harder than it ought to be by our lack of understanding of the local metaphysics.
 
Going to back Long Count's thing right now, I don't have anything better at the moment, and he was the one who handled the crypto (Incidentally, did the revised Hash get you anything useful?)

[X] Focus on understanding Amu's soul
-[X] With particular attention on Amu's spiritual relationship with her charas and her mystery guest.
 
Alectai said:
Going to back Long Count's thing right now, I don't have anything better at the moment, and he was the one who handled the crypto (Incidentally, did the revised Hash get you anything useful?)
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I'd already gone through everything I could think of, and Baughn said it wasn't any of those. (Unless he meant "it still isn't any of the ones you tried" literally, in which case it's one of the Yozis' full titles, since that's the only thing I said I didn't try. But that's unlikely enough that I still haven't bothered.) (EDIT: Never mind; I've checked now. It's not.) And again, none of the MD5 lookup sites I tried had anything.

If you have any ideas of your own, there are dozens of "insert string, get MD5" sites out there.

[X] Focus on understanding Amu's soul
-[X] With particular attention on Amu's spiritual relationship with her charas and her mystery guest.
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Oh, good. In that case I'm switching back to my minority-of-one "[X] Take an up-close look at the world around you".
 
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A little question to Baughn: when will we get another chance to use the "Analyze various things" action? Because Understanding Amu's Soul is really important, but, as i already said, i don't want to discover what destroyed creation by having him/her/it attacking us in a delicate situation.
 
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Giygas said:
A little question to Baughn: when will we get another chance to use the "Analize various things" action? Because Understanding Amu's Soul is really important, but, as i already said, i don't want to discover what destroyed creation by having him/her/it attacking us in a delicate situation.
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Probably in about four hours' time. Whenever the current one ends, which depends on what you pick.
 
Baughn said:
Probably in about four hours' time. Whenever the current one ends, which depends on what you pick.
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Good. Given that We hopefully will not get attacked by something coming from creation in the next four hours, i can now chose what to vote:
[X] Focus on understanding Amu's soul
-[X] With particular attention on Amu's spiritual relationship with her charas and her mystery guest.

veekie said:
I hope that's a typo.
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[X] Focus on understanding Amu's soul
-[X] With particular attention on Amu's spiritual relationship with her charas and her mystery guest.

This one trusts in Alectai here.
 
[X] Try to piece together the events that ended Creation.

I get the feeling we will regret leaving this off for too long.
 
[X] Focus on understanding Amu's soul
-[X] With particular attention on Amu's spiritual relationship with her charas and her mystery guest

It's pretty important we understand this thing, especially now that there's a good chance that it'll turn into some sort of pseudo-exaltation.
 
Robotninja said:
But we could be fucking up with internal stuff due to lacking proper info on what ended Creation.
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Wh... G... HOW?

We are literally Two Paradigm Shifts out from anything vaguely resembling the cosmology that Creation existed in!

"IT MAY BECOME A THREAT" is never a valid response when the possibility is so fucking remote that it would take a silver bullet fired from the other side of the planet to intercept another speeding bullet fired perpindicular to your own!

Yes, it's something we should do eventually. But as a high priority endeavour like you're suggesting? Uh, no.
 
[x] Focus on understanding Amu's soul
-[x] With particular attention on Amu's spiritual relationship with her charas and her mystery guest.
 
I don't see how it's remote. We made the journey from Creation to Amala. So did a Sidereal. That's two times that Exaltations have found this needle in the haystack.

That said, we don't know in-character that there's a Sidereal around iirc, so acting on that information is Wrong.
 
Robotninja said:
Once is coincidence. Twice isn't. I strongly suspect that Amalaverse had something to do with Creation dying.
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Uh, no.

Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence. It doesn't become Enemy Action until 3.

And technically? If any other Exaltation had a chance of linking up with us that wasn't our bonded Lunar? It would have been a Sidereal (Likely of Journeys), because they could likely use the path we would eventually take as a tether, and then somehow get there first so that they'd have enough lead time to be an awesome backup/mentor/what have you for us at just the right time.

Because that's what Sidereal Exaltations do.
 
Creation is plenty able to kill itself on it's own. It had already been reduced to a tiny fraction of the size that it had been prior to the god's rebellion, had a bunch of angry somewhat insane trapped Primordials trying to mess with it, and had the Void right there slowly trying to kill everything. If something from here had destroyed Creation Lucifer would've known about it, but considering he really doesn't have any idea what we are nothing from here could've done it.

We're only going to have to worry about how Creation died if more people/exaltations from it start showing up from it or if an all consuming nothingness starts eating reality. Luckily for existence the later is highly unlikely since we lack the Great Curse.
 
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Things we know are true:
  • The fungus is the exoself with which Nyarlathotep conversed in Sunday 18 and Sunday 19.
    • Note the last line of Sunday 19 in particular, compared to the exoself's introduction in Monday 2.
  • The exoself is a created entity.
    • The exoself is capable of feats of processing power exceeding the exaltation's own, or at least surprising it greatly.
    • The exoself refers to itself as having a type, modes of operation, and a manifest.
  • The exoself was not created by Autochthon, nor any entity that was allied with Autochthon at the time of its creation.
    • (If it were, obviously, it would have accepted one of Autochthon's certificates.)
    • EDIT: This seems to have been jossed. See this post. EDIT AGAIN: Never mind, it's not jossed yet; I misread a critical part.

Things that I think are true:
  • The exoself is not a thing of the world of magatsuhi.
    • We have Nyarlathotep's own word for this. Nyarlathotep's trustworthy, right?
    • It simply doesn't act the way I would expect an SMT entity to act. Magatsuhi is fundamentally emotional, and entities of magatsuhi (usually better known as "demons") typically express emotion first and reason second (if at all). The exoself, on the other hand, is fundamentally rational, and hasn't expressed emotion yet in its reduced-capacity state.
    • Considered as a created artifact rather than a sapient entity, its fungoid, adaptive design is incompatible with anything west of Chaos; its mathematical, computational nature is incompatible with anything east of Law.
  • The exoself's creator knew some entity that was known to Autochthon.
    • It accepted certificate #6, which was probably placed in the Exaltation's authority list by Autochthon. (It may be a later insertion by the Reclamation Yozi, however, since we know e_60 used to be an Infernal Exaltation!)
    • Also, just because Autochthon knew who issued Nirguna's certificate (!), and two levels past that (!!, !!!), doesn't mean we have a clue, either as the Exaltation or as players.
  • The exoself does not see itself as being distinct from Amu.
    • This may only be due to Nyarlathotep temporarily filling in the gaps in the exoself with bits of Amu in order to have an entity to talk to.
 
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Baughn already gave a basic explanation for the end of Creation. It was something about the damage form the Primordial war and a lack of maintenance afterword, but I don't think the details had been decided on yet. I don't remember exactly, but there was a clear implication that the destruction of Creation was just a justification for the existence of the exaltation in this setting for the sake of the crossover.

It has also been stated that nothing from the exalted setting would appear in this story other than what has already been introduced. There may have been other exceptions, but I think the rest of the exaltation shards were explicitly out.
 
Silent88 said:
It has also been stated that nothing from the exalted setting would appear in this story other than what has already been introduced. There may have been other exceptions, but I think the rest of the exaltation shards were explicitly out.
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Oh, right:

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Actually, this is an opportune place for a GM ruling. Ebon dragons, etc.?

Nothing from Exalted will appear in this quest unless otherwise and explicitly noted. This means, it currently contains:
- 1 Sidereal shard, location unknown but not Amu's world.
- 1 Solar (formerly Infernal) shard, location known.
- 0 Ebon Dragons, third-circle demons, Autochthonian creations, Lunar shards, etc. etc. etc. They will not appear.
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We do still need to remember what happened for self-diagnostic purposes, eventually, but it doesn't seem to be a pressing matter.
 
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