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Spirit of an Age (Exalted)

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Liberalism respires 5 motes per turn in combat, and 5 motes per hour when not in combat. When doing something particularly calming or refreshing, like sleeping or meditating or reading quietly, he regains 10 motes per hour.

Liberalism can gain willpower in a number of ways. A good night's rest will give 1wp, which cannot go above Liberalism's permanent willpower rating. Undergoing significant hardship or sacrifice to uphold a major or defining intimacy will also give a 1wp, which can exceed the rating. Achieving major story goals will have me award some wp, and it can also be gained through particularly good stunts.
 
[X] Head to the farmer's home.
-[X] Listen in and try to pick up the language.

The city or fields are more likely to have other spirits who may notice us and take action on it
 
Recommended Listening: On the Border, by Al Stewart

In the village where I grew up nothing seems the same;
Still, you never see the change from day to day-
No one notices the customs slip away...

Late last night the rain was knocking on my window;
I moved across the darkened room and in the lampglow
I thought I saw, down in the street, the spirit of the century-
Telling us that we're all standing- on the border!

In the islands where I grew up, nothing seems the same;
It's just the patterns that remain, an empty shell-
But there's a strangeness in the air you feel too well...​
 
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[X] Head to the unharvested patch.

So just how big ARE we anyways? Human sized? And do we count as a Lesser Elemental Dragon? Because autochthonian elementals (or rather, elementals of Autochthon's elements) can become Dragons as well.
 
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  • [X] Head to the unharvested patch.
    [X] Head to the farmer's home.
    -[X] Listen in and try to pick up the language.
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Language barrier - 03
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    • Your eye, for lack of a better term, is drawn to the unharvested patch. What would cause a farmer to leave a patch of his farm unharvested. It looks like it hasn't been harvested for years, and only occasionally tended to.

    You approach it. Curiosity compelling you to attempt to solve this mystery, you approach the patch.

    As you near, a man steps out from the vegetation. He appears to be a farmer in rude health, and is looking directly at you. Even though you're invisible right now.

    "[Well met stranger. What brings you to my field? Or are you just passing through on the way to Nexus]"

    You don't understand what the man says, but it's definitely not the same language as the other farmer was speaking.

    [] Fly away
    [] Attempt to communicate with this farmer. He seems more positively inclined.
    -[] Specifics?
    [] Ignore this farmer and stalk the other farmer who can't see you.
    [] Write in?
     
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    • [X] Attempt to communicate with this farmer. He seems more positively inclined.
    -[X] Try and ask about the patch. Where did he come from in there? Was he doing something?
     
    We can buy all Bureaucracy charms? Both Absysal and Solar or any other type?

    I thought the Solar charms were good, but there are some really nice Sidereal charms. Also Dragon blood. Many of these charms stack with each other. If we were to learn all the gum up the works effects we could bring down basically any organization.
     
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    Should we take a Bureaucracy to be to act like a native? Think there are a few to allow you to quickly figure out how things work no matter where you go.
     
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    • [x] Fly Away

    Right, you nod to yourself. This isn't going to work. So thinking, you take wing, and climb towards your room.

    The trip takes a while, since you're only able to fly about as fast as a human can move on the ground. And not like Usain Bolt either. Still, it gives you time to think.

    You went off half cocked. You had no plan and no knowledge of the area. What you need to do is make a plan and stick to it. You see a number of options:

    First, you can go to the city attempt to learn the language by total immersion. This could probably be done either while visible to people or not.

    Second, you could find someone and try to convince them to teach you their language.

    Third, you could stalk somebody while invisible and try to pick up the language that way. Although apparently you won't actually be invisible to some people.

    You could also abandon language for trying to do experiments about the world you're in, since it is very clearly not earth. But that won't let you interact with people.


    [] Go to the city and try for total immersion. While material.
    [] Go to the city and try for total immersion. While immaterial.
    [] Try to find somebody to teach you how to speak the language.
    -[] Farmer?
    -[] Someone in the City?
    -[] Someone else entirely?
    [] Stalk someone invisibly to learn the language
    [] Go do experiments to learn about the world instead.
    [] Something else?
     
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    • I can't think of any experiments we can do right now with the information we have.
     
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    Could learn something about basic local physics, try to figure out if this is in fact a round world versus flat, taco-shaped or whatever, things like that.
     
    [X] Go to the city and try for total immersion. While immaterial.
    Time for LEARNING. And after that...
     
    [X] Go to the city and try for total immersion. While immaterial.
    Time for LEARNING. And after that...
     
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    • [X] Go to the city and try for total immersion. While immaterial.

    You fly down into the city, remaining in your invisible and incorporeal state. By instinct, you angle towards what seems to be a major marketplace. It bustles with activity, a healthy commerce being enacted.

    You land in the middle of an opening, and almost immediately people start streaming through you, the bustle of the city enveloping. If feels like home.

    Immediately you move to a stall to see a vendor hawking his wares. Looks like he's selling flutes. You get the gist, and from them begin the effort to piece the language used together.

    You stay like this for about an hour when something happens. A commotion picks up in a nearby stall, and you see that the vendor is yelling a single word repeatedly at a young man who is running away with one of the vendor's apples.

    So that's the word for thief.

    [] Stop the thief.
    -[] By materializing and pouncing on him
    -[] Some other way (Write in)
    [] Ignore it, you need to learn the language
    [] Follow the thief
    [] Something else? (Write in)

    OOC: Due to the importance of Maritime Commerce to capitalism, I've increased liberalism's rating in Sail.
     
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    • So what at the market was selling for the most? Anything we can make?
     
    [] Ignore it, you need to learn the language

    I don't know what we would get out of stopping or following the thief. Dematerialize and rematerialize is expensive.

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    Actually if we follow the thief we might be able to get enough leverage on him to make him deadicated language tutor.
    [X] Follow the thief
     
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