Remove ads

Spirit of an Age (Exalted)

Reader mode
[X] I have a place already
[X] Join Battle
-[X] Shock and awe. Tackle the one who was speaking at maximum speed, then open fire on the other two.
 
[x] Tackle one of them then unload shotguns into him.
-[ ] Loudly hum "Le Marseillaise"

I would do more, but I would prefer to take one out and let the monk deal with the other two.

edit: I would be willing to change the song.
 
Last edited:
[X] Lodgings would be useful
[X] Join Battle
-[X] The traditional means of countering plague is to kill it with fire. Use the flamethrower to scourge them. Focus fire on the one the monks aren't fighting
 
veekie said:
[X] Lodgings would be useful
[X] Join Battle
-[X] The traditional means of countering plague is to kill it with fire. Use the flamethrower to scourge them. Focus fire on the one the monks aren't fighting
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

This sounds like a good plan. We probably don't want to get into melee considering Liberalism has no dots in either brawl or melee.
 
I suspect we're about to have an object lesson in why superior military technology is such a big deal. Exalted is full of bullshit, but modern firearns are a fundamental paradigm shift in warfare - I'm pretty confident in us punching above our expected "weight", at least until our enemies have a better grasp on how our technology works.

@Aranfan , how much ammunition do we have for our weapons? Are we likely to need the reloading charm sooner rather than later?
 
[X] Lodgings would be useful
[X] Join Battle
-[X] The traditional means of countering plague is to kill it with fire. Use the flamethrower to scourge them. Focus fire on the one the monks aren't fighting.
 
[X] Join Battle
-[X] The traditional means of countering plague is to kill it with fire. Use the flamethrower to scourge them. Focusfire on the one the monks aren't fighting.
 
[X] Lodgings would be useful
[X] Join Battle
-[X] The traditional means of countering plague is to kill it with fire. Use theflamethrower to scourge them. Focus fire on the one the monks aren't fighting.
 
If we learn the bomb could we turn immateral and blow up every immateral spirit in a large area without hurting anything else?
 
[X] Lodgings would be useful
[X] Join Battle
-[X] The traditional means of countering plague is to kill it with fire. Use theflamethrower to scourge them. Focus fire on the one the monks aren't fighting.
 
[X] Lodgings would be useful
[X] Join Battle
-[X] The traditional means of countering plague is to kill it with fire. Use theflamethrower to scourge them. Focus fire on the one the monks aren't fighting
 
fictionfan said:
If we learn the bomb could we turn immateral and blow up every immateral spirit in a large area without hurting anything else?
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Aranfan said:
Nukes are not precision implements.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
fictionfan said:
So we can hurt material stuff when immateral with the bomb?
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Alternatively, we might blow up spirits we don't want to kill. I don't really know anything about this setting, but it sounds like "spirits" are fairly common and a fairly integral part of the way the cosmos works. Killing all the spirits in a ten mile radius might well have very far-reaching consequences, in that case.
 
Simon_Jester said:
Alternatively, we might blow up spirits we don't want to kill. I don't really know anything about this setting, but it sounds like "spirits" are fairly common and a fairly integral part of the way the cosmos works. Killing all the spirits in a ten mile radius might well have very far-reaching consequences, in that case.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Pretty much every blade of grass and grain of sand has a spirit, if not really a sentient one.

So yeah, it'd show up on some paperwork if we used it unwisely.


Oh and yeah, this quest idea is friggin great.
 
Deathbybunnies said:
I suspect we're about to have an object lesson in why superior military technology is such a big deal. Exalted is full of bullshit, but modern firearns are a fundamental paradigm shift in warfare - I'm pretty confident in us punching above our expected "weight", at least until our enemies have a better grasp on how our technology works.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Modern small arms are only gamechangers in terms of training time. Artillery, emplacement machine guns, and explosives are the things that really changed the face of the battlefield.

Do you want to lob explosives where your allies might be in the blast zone?
 
Remove ads
Starting Out 3
  • Threadmarks
    • Even as you ready your flamethrower, which is where a normal creature would have a mouth because you are a dragon, one of the disease spirits rushes you. You fall back slightly, giving ground in face of it's charge. It's claw scraps your hide, but you feel nothing. Then, you exhale.

    A line of flame lights up the air, a vertical column of fire. Anything touched by it would surely catch. Which is why it is infuriating that the spirit danced around the jet of fire. That's not how it works you little shit.

    Even as you reorient, your foe is not idle. He once again rakes a transformed claw hand against your armor, and it once again does nothing. This time however, instead of blasting willy nilly, you focus on your foe, making sure you have him in your sight before firing.

    There!

    WOOSH

    "Du Hurensohn!"

    You stumble slightly. The disease spirit has decided to try pushing you, since sharp things didn't seem to work.

    WOOSH

    Things you earn are so much sweeter than things gotten for free aren't they? Yes they are. You can't help but be pleased by the sight of the spirit frantically trying to put itself out. Only slightly less satisfying is the sight of Niktar's fist meeting it's face. The spirit goes sprawling, before Niktar smashes it's head into the ground.

    Then you look towards River and see the fight is over. Niktar is nodding, presumably at your performance, but who knows. Also, both River and Niktar are glowing. Why are they glowing?

    [] "Why are you glowing?"
    [] Stay silent and research it yourself once you know how to read.

    OOC: In the future, does the thread want the fight to be rolled out in the thread, or hidden like it was here? Also, please critique the fight.
     
  • Threadmarks
    • Aranfan said:
    OOC: In the future, does the thread want the fight to be rolled out in the thread, or hidden like it was here? Also, please critique the fight.
    Click to expand...
    Click to shrink...
    My personal preference is for the rolls to be included in invisitext between line breaks, so that people who want to see them can do so, and people who'd rather not have them breaking the flow of the update can just not reveal them.

    Or do you literally mean where you roll the die? Either's fine with me, though I suppose in-thread has the advantage of transparency if anyone really believes you'd mess with the rolls.

    [X] "Why are you glowing?"
    I don't think admitting ignorance is likely to backfire here - they already think we're naive, and it's unlikely to be something they can take advantage of us with.
     
    Aranfan said:
    Modern small arms are only gamechangers in terms of training time.
    Click to expand...
    Click to shrink...
    If by "modern" you mean "18th century," yes.

    Breech-loading rifles did as much to change the face of warfare as machine guns and exploding-shell artillery, though. They'd have done more to change things by themselves, too, if the revolution in military affairs they represented had had time to proceed to completion before the equally-revolutionary heavy weapons innovations of the 1880s and 1890s.
     
    Reader mode
    You must login or register to reply here.
    Remove ads
    Back
    Top