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Through the Ages (Exalted CK2 Style Empire Builder)

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[X] Accept the woman's offer, Intrigue Actions to identify the mole will unlock, possible risk of her not being your friend.
[X] Request an explanation regarding this woman's nature, her motives, and the nature and motives of the mole.
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(If she refuses that request, that in itself is still a kind of information.)
 
*Sees all the rumors and gossip about Gentimians*
-blinks-
...When the hell did I walk into an adventurer's bar?
 
Does anyone here have the write ups of the other factions? The autobot ones are there. But not the others. Does anyone even remember what they were?
 
I've been reading through this and I'm up to Chapter 2. One thing I've seen is people act stingy but act under the assumption they must spend money and use up every action each turn.

Do we have to do that, Alectai?
 
Gunman said:
I've been reading through this and I'm up to Chapter 2. One thing I've seen is people act stingy but act under the assumption they must spend money and use up every action each turn.

Do we have to do that, Alectai?
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Yes we do have to use all our actions but chapter 3 has introduced make money options to all the sections as a stand in for do nothing.

We don't have to use all our money but waiting till later to do what we can do now is tactically unwise so we tend to do as much as we can with the money we currently have. The only way we don't spend most of it is if we have much more money than the best combination of actions for that turn.
 
mrttao said:
And why would you waste actions?
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To do something that needs doing right now but you can't afford it otherwise. Happened quite a lot in Chapter 2 because some sections had ONLY actions with prohibitive costs - so people protested about that so now we have skip/money options on each one.
 
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I know this is a liiiittle late, but I feel like commenting on this since I missed out on all of the discussion. I don't mean to beat a dead horse or start an argument, just to comment. Mind, I don't know much about Exalted.

Kelenas said:
Let me put this into perspective:
1 jade obol is 8 koku
1 koku is about the equivalent of a month's wage for a peasant, and is enough to buy enough land for a small orchard, or a new plough and team of oxens for field-work.
2000 obols are thus the equivalent of 16 000 months' worth of wages, or about 1000 years' worth (a year in Creation has 15 months) of earnings for a single peasant. Give or take half a century or so.
Under Intrigue, Neiya would waste 800 months/~50 years' worth of peasants' wage. Supposedly, for snacks. Because she apparently eats PURE COCAINE as snacks. Or something like that.
And what I find even more annoying is that, for some reason, pretty much *ALL* of our options are so utterly retardedly expensive.
@Alectai; please fix the cost of the various actions to something that isn't utterly ridiculous/SoD-breaking, and maybe re-introduce options like the above iron-weapons.
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Typically? A mercenary infantryman in medieval europe could be expected to make twice as much money as a farmer per day. Mercenaries back then were expected to pay for their own maintenance and upkeep, even food. Though it wasn't too uncommon for food to be paid by their employer.

Alectai said:
Look, I know things are expensive, a good part of this is because I want to avoid getting to a point where you have functionally infinite money.
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If things were really over-priced as Kelenas said, it might've been better to rename the currency unit to Koku. Soo something worth 1000 Obols would be 1000 Koku. Too late now, but food for thought.

Oh, and @Alectai ? Props for not making this quest (especially an Exalted quest) a complete cake-walk.

I'm up to the Parley with that Fae general. I'm surprised people didn't take into account that a population boom is bound to happen, which would've lessened the burden in the long-term.
 
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Okay, So.

Good news and bad news.

The bad news is, I'll closing Through the Ages. I enjoyed writing it, but with my momentum broken and the complexity increasing (As well as the abilities of your cast), things are going to get real complicated real fast. Couple that with the limitations that I've unintentionally created by situating your polity in the ass end of nowhere, and I'm actually pretty much out of things to do aside from give you guys ways to escalate beyond all reason.

I cannot promise returning to it in the future, but for what it's worth, thank you all for your time and participation, it really helped restore my confidence in my ability to write.

Now, the good news? I'm not finished running these Quests, I'll be opening up a new one sometime soon in a different setting, one a bit less well known, and probably better at running a Dynasty game then Exalted. Rejoice!

That being said, if anyone has any questions about what my future plans were? I'm willing to open up the notebook and respond.
 
I want to know all the things.

Did we make a good deal on the White Wall mystery exalt? How many exalts would the realm have thrown at us? If we managed to get ourselves killed without rousing the Realm's suspicion, could we have continued as Cloudrunner Dynasty Quest?
 
Aranfan said:
I want to know all the things.

Did we make a good deal on the White Wall mystery exalt? How many exalts would the realm have thrown at us? If we managed to get ourselves killed without rousing the Realm's suspicion, could we have continued as Cloudrunner Dynasty Quest?
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Riani isn't your enemy, but she would have caused quite a few problems for you, namely in that she would have engineered the assassination of the veteran Chosen of Journeys, Wanderer in Saffron by bringing him to your attention, as he was the Wyld Hunt's informant who was causing the 5% suspicion drip. The only problem is that Saffron was one of the guys sitting on a more detailed examination of your polity by the powers that be, which would have guaranteed The Knife be deployed along with the Realm's main Force.

The Knife being a Chosen of Endings who developed the Amethyst Claws of Cessation style, a combat art that seeks to emulate Saturn's way of bringing a complete End to the dark forces in Creation. He was straight up beyond you, and a fight against him with an army to monopolize the attention would have probably ended in you dying. If you somehow managed to isolate him, you might have prevailed, but it was very likely most of your Heroes would be killed in the exchange.

He was Martial 55, pretty much surpassed only by a fully combat optimized Dawn Caste with hundreds of years of combat experience. Fortunately, a flaw in his style means that he burns his lifespan far faster then he might have, and normally spends the years sleeping, except when he's needed to overcome a critical threat--like a mature Solar who was aware of the existence of the Sidereal Exalted.
 
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So basicly recruiting Riani was an terrible idea?

Well fuck.

Note to self, never, never trust an Gentimian. She was going to make it impossible for us.

Was recruiting her what made the quest impossible to continou or would that had happened anyway?
 
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I enjoyed it while it was active and I am thankful to have had this much quest to enjoy.

Thank you for your hard work.
 
Derekc2 said:
So basicly recruiting Riani was an terrible idea?

Well fuck.
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Recruiting her wasn't a bad idea, she's still on your side, it's just that she wanted Saffron's head, because he masterminded a scheme that resulted in the butchering of her family due to them being insturmental in an identified Yozi Escape Plot that had a marginally high chance of doing a great deal of harm. Saffron wasn't your enemy either, but he was stuck between a rock and a hard place, and lacked the courage to actually approach you. He would have done a really shitty job defending his actions to you out of sheer guilt of the bad shit he had to do, and given the thread's discussion, you'd have probably killed him in the Critical Choice moment. Riani would have joined you as a permanent Hero Unit, but the Knife would be brought into play.
 
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