- Location
- Wörms, the half continent
Yes. I mean, it's obvious what to do.
Anyone read Dune?
*laughs*
Anyone read Dune?
*laughs*
So is the Great Curse traceable?
Like if I wrote in a journal everyday would I be able to notice when my morality begins rapidly deteriorating?
Or is there a perception filter on it preventing the Exalt from realizing that they are going insane?
So is the Great Curse traceable?
Like if I wrote in a journal everyday would I be able to notice when my morality begins rapidly deteriorating?
Or is there a perception filter on it preventing the Exalt from realizing that they are going insane?
I would probably take the Exaltation regardless.
If it turns out that I can't figure out some way to mitigate it I'll set a death date for myself.
Righto. This is sounding worse and worse all the time.The way the curse works is this:
You have a general commitment to a certain type of action (being a good person, accomplishing a goal, being true to yourself or being brave) and a more specific 'trigger' related to that (for instance if your general perception of yourself is "I am a nice person" you might trigger when you see people, say, abusing children). Whenever you are forced to go against your broad self image or your specific trigger you build up invisible stress. The trigger builds up more than going against your general self perception but both work (you also build up if you resist mind control... but not an issue here unless you try to mind whammy yourself).
At a certain point which you can't predict if you build up enough stress you will snap, either going insanely into your perceived self image or abandoning it entirely. The effects can be brief or long (days long). The effect, by the way, feels wonderful. Like, the best experience you've ever felt wonderful. It also makes you stronger and more able to use your magic.
The trick is that the more responsibility you have the easier it is for you to trigger. Imagine if your trigger condition was "Whenever I am unable to prevent a child from dying due to neglect or abuse." Now...
Go type "Child neglect" into google. (Do not do this, you will be sad.)
Understand that, if you don't do something about every single hit that comes up you will trigger. Again and again. You will be forced to act, to do something because if you try to ignore it you will constantly trigger and build up stress and snap and cycle over and over and over again.
In the modern world, resisting Limit Break will be next to impossible. You will either constantly be working to prevent your trigger condition from occurring, or constantly ignoring it, or constantly triggering. From the outside, you will appear as either obsessed or ruthless or just plane insane.
And then add in the fact that you are immortal, and this will be happening constantly. Forever. With no respite.
If you take this deal you won't go mad. You already are mad. Your choice is whether to embrace it or fight it.
I'll point out that its not realy as bad as Aaron Peori describes: You wont aquire Limit just from knowing about Child Neglect in some other place in the world, it would happen more if you witnessed it for yourself in some form.
Great Curse as written in 2E sucked. I particularly despise the 'you are autodoomed to become Super Hitler in some way' thing. It's supposed to be the great personal flaws of ancient heroes, not 'lolfucked if you live long enough'. Exalted is about being an epic figure of legend, not playing hero until whoops bad guy.
Fuck yeah. I want to become immortal.
Borrow an idea from Frederik Pohl. Use gravitational time dilation as a trap for an Exalted. If time's passage around the Exalted can be slowed down sufficiently, then they can't decide to escape yet (IE, ever from an outside perspective) and they technically haven't died, so their Shard won't leave and find someone else's soul to attach itself to. As an advantage, this is another motive to have a decent space program before you go insane, seeing as we're fortunately lacking in nearby black holes.
Besides the fact that it wouldn't work, who the hell would do it when the Exalted goes mad?
I shamefully agree that if I acquire an Exaltation in the modern world, I would have only one goal in mind; becoming the God-Emperor of Mankind with all my GLORIOUS SOLAR BULLSHIT. To both, unite and help humanity flourish, and just become the damned God-Emperor of Mankind.After reading this thread it seems that Exalted SV posters wouldn't need the Great Curse to turn into megalomaniac god-kings, we'd manage that just fine on our own.
And your plan fails there.The Curse CAN be cured, you know. Here's a step-by-step:
- Get lost in a place of desolation, thereby allowing access to Cecelyne via sympathetic resonance.
And your plan fails there.
Because Earth is separated from Creation by the Well of Udr, which is a whole 'nother can of worms.
- Find a Deathlord, get put in a Monstrance of Celestial Portion.
- Accept conversion into an Abyssal Exalted. This act strips the Great Curse from your Exaltation, and it may not be re-applied by any means at any time.
Technically her restriction is that she cannot pass through Cecelyne.
Let's be honest, the simple fact that the whole world bureaucracy would run spotlessly, at the maximum possible efficiency, and with corruption being literally impossible, while people do follow the laws, would save countless lives and make the world a completely different place. That's just the beginning, and wouldn't even need my attention.
/人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\?Yes, it would make the world a completely different place.
This place.
Can i be a first age exalted with no memory but only mine?Let's say you perform some spontaneous act of impossible heroism, and in doing so fulfil the parameters to be bonded with a theoretical 'super' Solar Exaltation Shard, which combines the strengths of all of the various castes. ROB intercepts it before you do, however, and gives you a choice. There is the 'blue pill' choice where you refuse the Exaltation, in which case ROB will prevent it from bonding with you, and you live a normal life; or the 'red pill' choice where you accept it, and become something more than human; you will be utterly beyond mortals, mightier, immortal, a hero fit for legends... at a great cost.
You will gain the means to do more good than any before you: cure ails, resolve all strife, spur technological and societal advancement to heights undreamt of. For you are Exalted, for whom 'impossible' does not apply. More than that, you are Solar, the greatest of them all.
Should you take the Exaltation, you will fall from grace eventually; it may not be in a century, or even multiple centuries, but you will become a monster and a tyrant beyond any other. The Great Curse shall consume you, as it had with all of the Solars. To quote:
So, do you do it? Knowing that when - not if - you become that monster and pervert everything you have built up, that there will be no one and nothing that can stop you then, would you accept?
NOTE: This is just you. No other Exalts.
>Allow yourself to be converted into a being whose entire purpose is to destroy all of reality and which causes entire areas to be scoured lifeless/into shadowlands simply by existing to prevent yourself from turning into a monster that will rule the world with an iron fist.The Curse CAN be cured, you know. Here's a step-by-step:
*Alternatively, find a way to persuade Malfeas to revoke the Curse himself.
- Get lost in a place of desolation, thereby allowing access to Cecelyne via sympathetic resonance.
- Hike the 5 day trip to Malfeas, then 5 more days to reach Creation.*
- Find the nearest shadowland, use to enter Underworld.**
- Find a Deathlord, get put in a Monstrance of Celestial Portion.
- Accept conversion into an Abyssal Exalted. This act strips the Great Curse from your Exaltation, and it may not be re-applied by any means at any time.
- Redeem into a Solar again, either the hard way or by reverse-engineering a Monstrance.
- Go back to Malfeas, use Cecelyne to return home.
**Alternatively, find a way into Yu-Shan, and persuade Lytek to let you use the Divine Apparatae of Periapt Surgery to attempt to remove the Curse yourself. Lytek himself can't, but doing things that gods are incapable of is why the Exalted exist in the first place.