Exalted

[velvet raft]

"A younger solar" bro y'all are both like two in Exaltation years :P

[wise ocean]

absolutely horrible, I realize the intersection of this with Graves' take on solipsism is "the young solar is basically a pokemon"

oh. it fainted. i'll find another one

[prisma sun]

We're antagonists so we scale faster

Thats science

[wise ocean]

Evil deeds grant more XP

[prisma sun]

Bastard XP track

[velvet raft]

Pair of Essence 2 solaroids: "yo, we're the kings of myspace"

[wise ocean]

it's also very important to me that Graves actually remembers his past life as a Solar god-prince and is incredibly mad about the Usurpation for some goddamn reason

[slaps roof of abyssal] I can fit so many petty neuroses in this guy

[nova yew]

Yeah

[nova yew]

LMAO

[prisma sun]

Ash I think if your infernal and my solar met theyd be best friends in the most twisted way physically possible

Wait

My infernal your abyssal

Im full of turkeyb

[velvet raft]

Abyssal: "I'm the emo guy"
Infernal: "And I'm the wannabe thug"

Man that video came out in 2006

That joke is old enough to vote

[nova yew]

i ate a rabbit

[nova yew]

that joke is like, a year younger than me

[prisma sun]

I feel like

I am settled on Creature using a buster sword

Its either that or a comically long daiklave

https://tenor.com/view/sword-fight-gif-26411647

[wise ocean]

This creature is a tangible figure of Creation, and thus worthy of my acknowledgement. One day, I will kill him, but that is not today.

[spring lynx]

are there daiklaves that aren't comically long, that's like, their whole thing

[tulip folio]

Short Daiklaives are only comically long for a thing with short in the name

[velvet raft]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS87r0YZJb8 I have reviewed this and I don't think there's anything exceptionally horrible in this video from 2006

[prisma sun]

This Thing exists solely to provide me with a challenge. It is so quaint to be able to pretend to have a peer sometimes. I shall grant it leave to exist for now.

[velvet raft]

Just a lot of really dated humor

[prisma sun]

This is after they walk away from a duel in the middle of a town that has left the surrounding area for 5 miles destroyed

[nova yew]

god

[prisma sun]

Listen theres "oh thats funny that its one handed" and then theres "this sword straight up should not exist"

[velvet raft]

I am just imagining Ligier around Creature

[velvet raft]

And like, rolling his eyes whenever Creature isn't looking

[nova yew]

the fact that i have knife fingers almost sounds sensible at this point

[velvet raft]

Somehow he rolls them so hard it makes a noise

[prisma sun]

They hate each other so fucking much

[nova yew]

my knife fingers seem comically conservative compared to the shit exalted tend to carry around

[prisma sun]

Every meeting ends with a half hour of highly detailed threats

Said with no emotion

They are new every time

[merry arch]

I should make the pricemaster. what fucking exalt type would he be

[velvet raft]

"I'm going to chop off your arms and feed them to you." "Hm. More tea?"

[prisma sun]

God this guy is so funny

[wise ocean]

it's bad out here folks

[nova yew]

HAHAH

[prisma sun]

How did sepiroth define antagonists

[merry arch]

because he's hot and brooding 💇‍♀️💅

[velvet raft]

I kind of love Ligier for being basically glowing green Claire Stanfield

[wise ocean]

ligier is a real one

[prisma sun]

Two solpism motherfuckers each convinced the other person straight up isnt real

Sounds like the most insufferable conversation

[velvet raft]

Not necessarily in a solipsism sense but like

[merry arch]

talking past each other constantly

[nova yew]

i think imperators do this in nobilis

[wise ocean]

yeah man I'm just talking to a tulpa inside of my head for the hell of it. whenever one of them tries to kill me and actually does a good job I promote it to being real, a thing I am allowed to do

[velvet raft]

In the sense that basically no one can motivate him to do something he doesn't want to do in any way

[wise ocean]

if they fuck up trying to kill me, I un-exist them, thus proving that they weren't real to begin with

[velvet raft]

Infernals are the Green Sun Princes because Ligier voiced generalized approval for them one time

[prisma sun]

I think if I was actually making Creature for a game I would put in the effort to give him a negative tie to every Yozi

[velvet raft]

That would be very funny

[prisma sun]

Also

https://youtube.com/shorts/AoZiKFP0Frc?si=NkBWGCcLFcglk1GK

The vibe

I like to think Creature is actually in Exalted terms hyper scaling because the Yozis are just metaphorically waking up and shooting him with a gun each morning

He sucks so much they keep shaking his jar

He needs to be killed though

With hammers

And rocks

[nova yew]

❤️

me hitting Creature with rocks

[prisma sun]

Red Eyes Leddal is holding a series of meetings on if this fucker gets a kill squad dropped on him

The only reason they haven't done so is the slim chance he escapes and starts doing SMAs

[wise ocean]

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY AWFUL PEOPLE SPAWNING OUT OF THE WOODWORK - overheard in yu-shan

[nova yew]

oh right i should read the sidereal book

[prisma sun]

You're gonna love sids

[nova yew]

from what ive heard i can plausibly fulfill my angelgirl cravings

...plausibly

given the lack of angels in exalted

[prisma sun]

They are probably my favorite splat

[nova yew]

i might have to finagle

[prisma sun]

I mean likr anyone can have wings

[nova yew]

this is true!

the main important bit is that they're fucking office workers of destiny itself in heaven

which like

that part

ties the vibe together

[prisma sun]

A sid can be an agent of heaven born from a god with wings

[nova yew]

TRUE

the wings are important to me but also like, thats just a three dot merit (or was it four i forgot)

the agent of heaven thing thats what excites me

[tulip folio]

There are Airfolk!

[prisma sun]

My sid is an airy himbo who is also just a stone cold efficient killer because he sees no life greater than all of creation

[nova yew]

amazing

[nova yew]

its the servant of heaven bit thats important to me

[prisma sun]

He's a Journeys sid who wants to see all that exists in the world and then backtrack to see what changed as he did

[nova yew]

very cute

[prisma sun]

If anyone ruins that he snaps their neck

[nova yew]

very sweet- wowah

[prisma sun]

So he hates Abyssals more than anything

But all the while hes just going

[nova yew]

❤️

[prisma sun]

"Fuwaah! You servants of death are so dour~"

As he is beating you to death

No weapons straight fundamentals

[merry arch]

my sid is atransgender couch surfing divine party girl who is trying so fucking hard to get out of doing her job at every possible opportunity. she's pretty dumb too but nowhere near as dumb as BeaMu. she's just lazy

[nova yew]

omg

[prisma sun]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1358837913634472176/1358837914238324847/download20250401104136.png?ex=6929caec&is=6928796c&hm=524eddddb4058befb5d9bd410525fef2cae5a0c076ae2e528a37feb9d53b7cf4&

Drifts in Gossamer

[nova yew]

so cuuute

[wise ocean]

my sid is chair of the heavenly plenary committee on navigation and transport.
this is actually an incredibly large job, all considered.

it is also an excuse for me to make "securing freedom of navigation (by any means necessary)" jokes.

[tulip folio]

My Sid is the classic 'Wuxia Mongolian Character'. A girl from the North who's tribe was killed by the Lover Clad In Raiment of Tears. She's also profoundly Gokubrained and abuses Arcane Fate to turn up, declare herself a champion of heaven and then have nobody remember a sid turned up and told everyone they were a sid after she leaves.

[nova yew]

hhahah

[merry arch]

her best friend is a giant tortoise the size of a truck that she uplifted into being a minor god

she just like. lays on his back lazily when she needs to go places

[nova yew]

oh fuck yeah

sick as hell

goes hard

gosh okay

maybe i should read the sidereal book

make myself an angel girl

[merry arch]

yes they're very fun

[nova yew]

i can make this one transfem since i forgot to make my abyssal transgender

(Translation: her story works better when shes cis)

(she sucks so bad)

[prisma sun]

Drifts doesn't chair any convention but he has slept with 4 of the 10 most eligible maidens in Heaven

[nova yew]

thunderous applause

honestly same

im with the 4 maidens in heaven

seems like a solid boy

[wise ocean]

there are two sides to every sidereal meetup

• party sid
• I have not left my desk for 512 years sid

[prisma sun]

He eats pussy like a champ and is a fan of using Charcoal Spider March for shibari

Super canon

[nova yew]

i know what half those words mean

actually wait no 80%

i can make a guess on the remaining 20%

[tulip folio]

If you work for Serenity, these are both the same sid.

[wise ocean]

Exactly!

[prisma sun]

The really stressed Beaurucrat at the whore house is the funniest image

Population growth is DOWN we need MORE DIVORCES

[nova yew]

you know those like
circular rooms with the big circular table and the plush seats?

really stressed out guy with scrolls and parchments covering it as hes trying to make the numbers work while the staff get increasingly worried about his health

hes got three empty cups of coffee

[prisma sun]

Those are how ive described the sid offices

[nova yew]

holy shit

[tulip folio]

I've got an unfinished Sid for serenity that I went 'no, this is a bit depressing to play' over. Their job is making relationships that are not supposed to work out, not work out. So their day to day job is finding fate-significant people who's love is defying the heavens itself and crushing that happiness.

[nova yew]

oh i adore that

[tulip folio]

They are absolutely miserable over thier job. As they only get called in when things are so fate-defying they need a Sid to get directly involved. Which means it's some epic romeo and juliet thing she needs to put to the torch.

[merry arch]

i love her intimacies. not pictured, since i forgot to add it, was a major principle of "red is my favorite color"

[nova yew]

HAHHAHA

[nova yew]

omg so cute this is amazing

i love "my boss >_>"

what does that even mean

what emotion is >_>

[prisma sun]

https://tenor.com/view/soul-eater-black-star-death-the-kid-excalibur-soul-gif-16662157

[merry arch]

venus is great! but venus is also her boss and so. like. despite venus being a divine chiller like her my sid avoids her because everyone avoids their boss if they can manage it

[nova yew]

mhm mhm

[merry arch]

because venus comments on her being lazy any time she meets with her 😭

[nova yew]

HAH

[merry arch]

anyways she has another minor god friend that accompanies her everywhere that's a giant silk worm that tells her secrets and such in exchange for hits off her artifact pipe with an endless supply of hashish. and all the freshest gossip in yu shan

[nova yew]

thats how it is in heaven ig

[merry arch]

anyways she has truly some of the most terrible taste in romantic partners and it's funny. she could look at a dusk caste and say "i could fix him"

[feral cipher]

oh wait both our abyssals have Graves in their title
lmao
I mean that makes sense considering the whole. deal
but that's funny

[velvet raft]

Hm, what is the demon body of Excessively Reasonable Infernal like

[wise ocean]

I may have to start using Maw to distinguish, since mine is full Hancock Hungering Maw of the Waiting Grave

[prisma sun]

Big guy

[feral cipher]

The Grave Calls For Its Due is my bastard yeah

[velvet raft]

A set of very large weights and measures

With bells attached

A set of very large weights and measures that are bells

Or like

A giant xylophone

Being played seemingly at random by a set of orbiting planetary bodies

"I slough off my skin, my mortal body falling away to reveal my inner truth: me, but larger, and playing a xylophone."

[feral cipher]

rock that shit

[wise ocean]

infernal with diegetic polka music send tweet

[feral cipher]

That fucks honestly

hitting the waltz

[nova yew]

Serf, write that down

[feral cipher]

don't call me that

[velvet raft]

Demon body that's a completely anachronistic rock concert

[nova yew]

❤️

[feral cipher]

honestly the more you talk about your character the more i realize 'oh Graves thinks she's a fuckin idiot'

like that is probably going to be his stance regarding the other two: very useful idiots

[lament owl]

DAMN

[feral cipher]

your character literally cannot read

[lament owl]

The evil fog is coming

[feral cipher]

we all have evil fog

we're abyssals

[wise ocean]

it came free with your exaltation

even if you have the oldest exaltation known to man

[nova yew]

HAHAHAH

oh my fucking god

thats so funny

derp

youre not gonna believe this but

im looking at our character sheets

she is smarter than graves

she just acts like a fucking moron

[feral cipher]

yeah

[nova yew]

i think that makes the dynamic EVEN FUNNIER

graves due just has this little fucking asshole noble girl who keeps acting like shes his friend and won't go away

but very clearly knows when graves is faking compliments to get her to leave

shes just annoying

[feral cipher]

you talk about your fucking ghostly concubines at him and he's just sitting in his evil solid gold throne wishing anything else was happening right now

[nova yew]

presumably this is also in the middle of a meeting with the other administrators of thorn

some of which are humans

[velvet raft]

Thought: Reasonable Infernal was part of a cult dedicated to that one 2CD in the core book who turns willing people into swords

Mostly joined for social reasons + benefits

Eventually pissed off the cult leader enough that he was told to become a sword

Did Not Want To Be A Sword

[vale glen]

Abyssals are, without a doubt, extremely dramatic nutjobs.

Take Clad In Silence Comes An Ashen Dragon!

Got his head split in half, could fix it, doesn’t.

His body continuously regenerates it so he can split it in half, for, y’know, dramatic purposes.

(I love the ugly feature, so very useful)

Nobody who hasn't talked to god and realised that violence is the cause of all suffering would decide to wage a crusade against war itself, am I right?
(He would. He is.)

This shit happens when your former Solar comrade splits your head in half with a righteous axe and it ignites your mind with a twisted reflection of the dawn, burning the sunlight into your form even as a corrupt enlightenment claims your mortal form

[tulip folio]

With Internal Alchemy as a type of magic and the Realm's general chinese imperial court theming, I could see an abyssal sorcerer who killed themselves downing dangerous chemicals to become immortal.

[fierce star]

Delicious mercury...

[vale glen]

Oooh

[limpid badge]

as a comparison- Delights coworker/bestie is Golcolnda Paloma, Heavenly Maid of the Drunken Fist, Herald of the Divine Revelry is an illiterate shrine maiden who destiny-trapped herself with a desk job when her interests are Dancing, Booze, and Martial Arts

She was born in heaven as the daughter of a nereid, went to complain to the Bureau of Destiny about how bad her love life was, and realized she’d been self-sabotaging all of her relationships because The Job was waiting for her

And now she’s stuck with it

(Paloma’s jug of infinite peach liquor is a form weapon she prommies)

[prisma sun]

I love how the cycle of this chat is

"Here is a gameplay mechanic from (x)"

All of us, in a round: "My blorbo is from x"

[tulip folio]

Blorbos are important

[merry arch]

i shrimply like infodumping about blorbo from my shows

[fading cypress]

As shrimple as that

[feral cipher]

beautiful state of being

[nova yew]

holy shit i love that

[fierce star]

oh right I was told to rant about my alchemical wasn't I

[tulip folio]

Do It

[limpid badge]

You are DESTINED to be a Sidereal. Can’t escape Fate. Paloma’s previous incarnation was an asshole who set his bimbo incarnation up

[nova yew]

HAHAHAH

thats so fucking funny

i should make an absolutely stupid transgender sidereal girl ❤️

[merry arch]

yessssss

[knotty island]

H-Huh? flashbanged by the word bimbo (also self-IDs as one)

[prisma sun]

Drifts was found to be a Sid and then ended up late to his own reincarnation

[wise ocean]

there are many bimbos in exalted, surprisingly

[nova yew]

shoots up in chair as if struck with divine inspiration FORCEFEM EXALTATION-

[fierce star]

Ecstatic Iatrochemical Responder is an adamant-caste Alchemical who's past lives have been marked by regular martyrdom. The oldest one on record is The Archmage, a figure from the legends of the city's founding, a mortal sorcerer who left his cloister of scholars and spellcasters to help the refugees fleeing the Viator of Nullspace's attacks; he would die performing a working that helped shield the nascent city from gremlins before it was ever properly settled. The design of it would go on to be the basis of the city's own defensive shields (albeit of metal, not magic)
Others include a factory-worker at a water purfiication plant during a plague, who begged the city's administration and clerical workers to help since literally everyone else on his shift was sick, and they were so moved by his work-hymn that they joined in; he was found dead after the shift, but that factory still produces the purest water in the city.
The third one I've come up with was a Luminor, who had been working on ways to remotely control lights throughout the city as a way to ease the amount of climbing and fiddling her people had to do. She was with a patrol of blast-cleaners (think militarized pressure washers) when gremlins attacked the city, so she told her patrol to retreat, sealed the tunnel behind them, and started fighting. The lightning died down a day later, and all that was found of her was her soulstone, hat, and blue-jade proesthetic hand (now interred as a relic).

Responder remembers all of these very clearly--too clearly. Her soulstone wasn't reallyg iven time to 'rest' after the Luminor's death, only five years between it and her awakening. Her past lives burn brightly just behind her eyes, leaving not a lot of room for this one, but she does her best. She likes helping people, and inspiring them; she's not good with crowds, but she'll sit down one to oenw ith anyone who asks, from lumpen to tripartite.

[wise ocean]

canonical

[limpid badge]

now we cook

[nova yew]

love her

[knotty island]

Oh hi ma'am.

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[nova yew]

thank you thank you im a fucking genius

[knotty island]

Also, checking our notes, a 1-dot resources could feasibly be like, a house, right?

[fierce star]

One of her support staff is Jhon Metalbrow, a metal aspect dragonblooded and, uh. Her last mortal incarnation's boyfriend/fuckbuddy/not husband because they don't do that in most of autochton but they were basically married and that love still burns in Responder but she knows she's not that girl, and he knows she's not that girl

but they both still feel the feelings that they felt before

[nova yew]

"they forcefemmed me into becoming an angel of fate and an embodiment of the divine plan god fucking damnit" i could cook with this

[wise ocean]

Jhon Metalbrow is an incredible name

[nova yew]

holy shit

[fierce star]

(the GM is adjusting autochthonian DBs to slot itno the autochthonian elements instead of creation)

[prisma sun]

Tbh just having your previous reincarnation being a woman is a form of forcefemming

[nova yew]

tRUE

that would make sense

i need to read the book but i have plenty of ways to make the situation bizarre

[fierce star]

also :D glad people like her

[merry arch]

yeah my sid's previous incarnation was a great and dutiful detective that was laying to rest the matters of the heart. he was a very good at his job and took the work very seriously. a lot of people depended on his office and, well. Delightful Cacoethes, Maiden of Tranquility and Merriment... is none of those things! she's too lazy, she just wants to party. her coworkers fucking hate her because the last guy didn't take every opportunity to fucking shrug off his work onto them.

[fierce star]

She is very tall and likes to stick people with neat drugs if it'll help them

Her armor is dedicated to Os'ha, the divine subminister of workplace safety

[nova yew]

yippeee

cute

[fierce star]

ty :>

[tulip folio]

You can actually see RiRi in the art there, for a height comparison.

[nova yew]

adorable

[prisma sun]

For obvious reasons I have not given any of my Exalted gender dysphoria

[nova yew]

something something "big artificials"

[prisma sun]

However Korit does sometimes just go "damn this shit would be so easy if I was a woman"

[nova yew]

SHES A ROBOT-

[nova yew]

asfhgjadsgfadslj

[prisma sun]

Karen tidbit for context

The main evil Empire is matriarchal

[nova yew]

ye

oh dont worry this was one of the first things ru informed me of

[prisma sun]

Were you informed men are seen as submissive and breedable

[nova yew]

i made sure to really practice casual misandry for my abyssal

[feral cipher]

not again girl

[nova yew]

yes

[prisma sun]

Ru is doing good work then

[nova yew]

ru is doing great work yeah

absolutely instrumental to creating the most awful dynamics known to man

[nova yew]

WDYM AGAIN?

[feral cipher]

I know what you are

[nova yew]

transgender???

[merry arch]

lmfao

[feral cipher]

Anyway! Have some of the theme music for my Abyssal that i've been listening to all day to get me in the mood
https://youtu.be/2-wRTMnT6pQ?si=Q-iju80vJQdULlet
https://youtu.be/D9o_XTzYoa8?si=JU05iDSTFEJGCArF

[prisma sun]

Also power scaling my own ocs a bit

I think unfortunately Creature absolutely swags on King Hu

This is mainly due to the fact that he punts him into the next mountain range over halfway through his titles

[dense verge]

a good reason for a king hu training arc

go plunder a direction about it, get strong

[prisma sun]

King Hu would in fact plunder a direction about it

[vale glen]

I think it's a good thing, plundering, nothing goes wrong with stealing ancient artifacts, in my mind

[prisma sun]

Korit would only fight if absolutely necessary and would probably get his ass kicked if not for the fact he has a demon sword that intrigues Creature enough to only get styled on instead of killed

[fierce star]

if they didn't want to get stolen why were they able to be crowbared up

[vale glen]

Exaactly.

You get it.

[prisma sun]

King Hu taking the whole damn assortment

https://tenor.com/view/ed-lift-the-house-ed-edd-n-eddy-carry-the-house-gif-15053396

Nail it down bitch

[vale glen]

I think powerscaling my exalteds is a very funny idea because only like, two of them do fighting directly.

Clad In Silence Comes An Ashen Dragon commands a cult, an army, is a master of the white reaper style and has a flesh-scythe. He wears an iron maiden to keep his body in a constant state of regeneration, he has been decapitated before, and walked away just fine.

Osugi Kauzo is a dragonblooded lookshy tactician pretending to be a priest. He can swing a sword okay, he has a good stomach and is a fantastic poet/strategist. Clad would kick him through a mountain.

The Sage of Pallid Chrysanthemum is an abyssal who relies on Faustian bargains to convince people to play games for their souls, their kingdoms, or their lives, Clad would get frustrated, leave him alone for a while, then break his Mancala board in half.

Shotoku of Seven Silvered tongues is basically Saul Goodman, he would die so hard. He's very charming, though.

and don't even get me started on Cynis Yang, he's a doctor that man is a ragdoll

[quiet garnet]

King Hu?

[prisma sun]

King Hu: Chieftain of the Roaring Bandit Clan, Shah of Beasts, Tiger-Father, Siegebreaker, He Who Topples Mountains, Prodigal Pupil of the Monkey King, Prince of The Jungle, Scourge of Mnemnon, The Beast Who Reigns, Teeth of The Moon, The Rout, Predator of Wayward Gods, The Dread That Comes With Night, The Raider of the Canopy, The Fury That Descends From the Clouds, The River Monster, Patriarch of the Bestial-Brood, The Bane of Civilization, The Wild Inevitable, The Rampage, The Purifying Rage Against the Dead, He Who Bites The Sun From the Sky, The Menace From the Forest’s Edge, Lover of Many, The Barbarous Beast, The Yeddimbacked, The Wildking, The Roar, and many more...

Hes my lunar tiger guy

Full moon

[quiet garnet]

That's a nice list of titles, but Hu?

[prisma sun]

Yeah hes on first

[quiet garnet]

https://tenor.com/view/rush-hour-you-and-me-me-and-you-yu-mee-gif-6521388707144075848

[vale glen]

Hu's a great guy, I heard it from Shi

[nova yew]

Shi? whats her name

[vale glen]

No no, Shi, Hi's on third

[nova yew]

well whos he????

[quiet garnet]

He? Hi is deaf.

[nova yew]

Strange name but you know how they name these baseball players

Isn’t my gm so kind?

[buoyant summit]

Should I give my Moonshadow Eclipse a Zhanmadao

[prisma sun]

A hwat

[buoyant summit]

Horse-Chopping Sword

[prisma sun]

Is that not just a reaper daiklaive

Like in the core rulebook I think it has the same proportions

[buoyant summit]

I mean

Yes

aesthetically

should I give her a zhanmadao

it'd still be a reaper daiklave

she just currently has a liuyedao, a more traditionally saber-shaped dao

[coral wraith]

meanwhile, Grinning Mask:
insert flying guillotine gif here

hmm thats way too fast and flashy actually

[coral wraith]

basically Rhi, yes

[buoyant summit]

Yes I should give her the horse chopper?

[coral wraith]

yes

[prisma sun]

Why chop horses

https://youtu.be/atTm8vPfTqw?si=l2zHP7T65wSXJ1Zt

Tackle them

[buoyant summit]

lol

[nova yew]

iron chains has been coerced to act as an advisor while the Heir speaks to petitioners

she should not be allowed power over random people's lives

[buoyant summit]

amazing

[nova yew]

she is so bored

anyway ive given an infant ghost a permit to leave the city(maybe?) but not her father so they can figure that out

not my problem

[limpid badge]

hi im thinking about my infernals inner world-

A festival that never ends. A song that loops. A night that keeps repeating. How many nights has it been? When did the wine become blood? When does the singing become screaming? When do sinners cast down the righteous and revel, as dream rules over flesh?

[nova yew]

yeah

[limpid badge]

what if you had to do bloodborne with more jellyfish

and circus theming

[buoyant summit]

debating making my moonshadow a vbos enjoyer

[coral wraith]

vbos is slick

[merry arch]

yea it rules

[buoyant summit]

Oh shit but then I can't have armor

And my dodge isn't that great

[limpid badge]

Abyssal dodge pretty great

And like half of abyssal melee is Parry

[buoyant summit]

I'm sorry what fresh hell is this

1m

'no, one less success for you'

[buoyant summit]

tru but this would be going from Melee to MA

[limpid badge]

Solariod charms!

[buoyant summit]

pain

[bleak hazel]

the really bullshit one is in Melee

exact same charm except you can use it [essence] times on every attack

there's a reason my duelist Sidereal is built for efficiency, you basically just need to swing at the bastard until he runs out of motes before you can hit him

[buoyant summit]

sorry huh

I assume its Essence req is way higher

[bleak hazel]

2

[buoyant summit]

Fuck off

Wait what charm is it I may literally already have it

[bleak hazel]

I can't remember what the Abyssal one is called but it's identical to the Solar charm Hail-Shattering Practice

[wise ocean]

eye of the tempest or thereabouts, I believe

[buoyant summit]

it's actually Death Well Remembered

and its for damage instead of hit successes

[bleak hazel]

Different charm

They definitely have it for parrying in Melee

[limpid badge]

oh yes this was next on the bloody hand list

[buoyant summit]

This seems like it's a more situational version of the other charm, yeah

[bleak hazel]

it is one of the most powerful charms in the game

since any decent attack pool is generating 2-4 procs for this on average and it's retroactive

so you can just pay people 1-3 motes to fuck off rather than play the offence-defence bidding game at all

[limpid badge]

yeah it lets you look at the enemy dicepool and decide if you wanna make them miss or not

[buoyant summit]

fair nuff

[bleak hazel]

the existence of Hail-Shattering Practice is the reason I sat down and figured out the free-full-excellencies energiser bunny swordsid

[limpid badge]

can't wait til bloody hand is allowed to full excellency melee explode a guy

that'll be really funny and i prommy i will pick the best target

[buoyant summit]

oh yeah delilah since you are also playing a Swordbyssal

tho of different castes of course

Should I make Final Envoy's sword a zhanmadao (Chinese anti-cavalry horsechopper)?

xD

[bleak hazel]

bunny outfit melee Sidereal overcomes the nonsense efficiency of Melee defence by just throwing 13 sux witherings at them and forcing them to actually excellency their parry to block

[limpid badge]

idk go with what's coolest

[buoyant summit]

fair lol

[bleak hazel]

even that is only burning about 7 motes per swing to block, on average, but it's a big enough pool that you might actually hit them a few times

[limpid badge]

BH's Black Blade is a Strange Sabre (it grows a sheath like a scab, there is an eye in its pommel)

[buoyant summit]

'like a scab'

nice

[bleak hazel]

Vigil has a two-handed jian that's inlaid with starmetal

the starmetal is in the shape of a two-handed jian that's inlaid with starmetal that's in the shape.... ad infinitum

[tulip folio]

It's one of those charms that got an entire line in my STOP WITH THE DICE FUCKERY martial art charm XD

[bleak hazel]

you can trap ghosts in it and turns a given layer of the recursion a suitable spooky colour each time you do it

[bleak hazel]

was that First Pulse or the Isidoros one?

[tulip folio]

Isidoros.

Star-Shaping Gravity
Cost: 8m, 1 wp; Mins: Martial Arts 5, Essence 4
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Shaping (Fate)
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Layer-Tearing Strength
The Black Boar cannot be stopped. Even the very concept of Fate itself was forced to move, shifting aside so as not to impede his path. Drawing on a fraction of this power, the martial artist sets themselves against the immaterial and treads a path free of it.

When the martial artist makes an action or an action is made that targets the martial artist, she can invoke the immovable power of the Black Boar. Dice in that action may not be rerolled or benefit from doubling effects, nor may successes be added or subtracted after the roll is made. If the TN of those dice are adjusted, they are adjusted by one less (To TN 7, if they would be 6 or 8, to 6 if they would be 5 etc).

Essence 4 and not cheap but it basicly goes "HEY, STOP CHEATING. NO CHEATING ALLOWED."

You'll rapidly burn yourself out stopping All The Cheating the average exalt does but it lets you push through one non-cheated roll.

[limpid badge]

bloody hand has made her first melee check 🥳

[velvet raft]

How statistically reasonable!

[tulip folio]

Obviously there's a clear thematic reason why Lunars and Alchs can't use strength charms to boost Crossbows, Firewands and other 'don't use strength for damage' weapons but is there anything mechanically that would break if they could?

Mostly pondering how Alchs are disincentivised to use Crossbows, despite crossbows being the autocthonian ranged weapon.

[velvet raft]

Perception should have a whole string of mechanical weapon charms imo

And-or just have crossbows with absurd draw weights ala Arknights

[tulip folio]

Yeah, my personal thoughts is that crossbow should be an optional trait. You want to get a Stronger, Heavier Crossbow for your Strength 8 Alchemical?

Yeah, get your Personal Railgun

[velvet raft]

(For reference, during the Rainbow 6 Siege crossover event in AK, the Rainbow 6 folks have to reckon with the fact that their opponents have Anime Character Strength and are doing shit like throwing 15 kg javelins. At one point, Tachanka, basically the strongest human alive, is barely able to load a fairly typical mercenary’s crossbow.)

[tulip folio]

I find it funny that that crossover is like 90% of the characterization the operators have gotten. Like Blitz being a cultural exchange loving dork.

[velvet raft]

Give them a charm where a regular crossbow becomes a beam weapon through raw power

Something something "the alchemical draws back their crossbow with mountain-shattering force, and releases a bolt that is consumed by its own potential energy"

[velvet raft]

Interesting that there are no devil-bodies that directly relate to sorcery

[tulip folio]

That is interesting/a pity. Would be cool to see.

[velvet raft]

You could of course take a bunch of defensive/utility effects and keep using normal sorcery

Oh actually I guess there's this

Power Overwhelming, Legendary Size, Variable Form 2: I am big and small and do magic at you

[tulip folio]

I was looking at Legendary Size + Dispursed Form for the sorcerer I was looking at. As it seems just good for 'Try to Fucking Kill Me'

[velvet raft]

Dematerialized Form, maybe?

Or like Barrier Defense 2/Divided Focus 2/Power Overwhelming?

[tulip folio]

Perhaps. I might toss in some feedback about 'hey, for the Sorcery Exalt, their Special Cool Form has no Sorcery Options in the powers you can pick up by default'.

[feral cipher]

more vibe music for Grave's Due
https://youtu.be/uDqWY3kqB6c?si=OJ1dGMztSpMaNPmw
https://youtu.be/GJQpBUcKhTk?si=K04FKseOYuAEX3Q3

[velvet raft]

Wait fuck

[feral cipher]

what's up

[velvet raft]

On the one hand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVhr3fpXO80&list=RDMM&index=1

On the other hand @nova yew Jen is an Infernal

[feral cipher]

oh that's a good one

[velvet raft]

Girl literally has a devil body

[nova yew]

Holy shit-

[nova yew]

Brighter was my suggestion ❤️

[feral cipher]

nerd ass

[buoyant summit]

Boutta (hopefully) flex Lore 5 and make it so Stygia has a guild of Grave Messengers so we can hire one for the part of our party who's going out to Do Conquest

[nova yew]

Oh fuck yeah

[buoyant summit]

Notably, I am part of that detachment going out to Do Conquest

This grave messenger exists to relay messages I'm going to write with Linguistics 3

I am also the only one going on the Expedition with any Bureaucracy it seems

[nova yew]

YEAHHHHHH

FELLOW CONQUEST GIRLIE

[buoyant summit]

I mean I'm more the administrative power

I am personally an able combatant, but do not have the War skill or Command

[nova yew]

I’m currently doing administrative work in thorns

Even if you’re not on the front lines

Participating in conquest is pretty based-

[buoyant summit]

We are going to an area known as the Epochs, which I think are of the GM's creation

[nova yew]

Interesting

[buoyant summit]

They are in the south-southeast of the Underworld

Who's your Deathlord?

[nova yew]

Mask of winters

He’s our boss but we’re, administratively speaking, working under the Rightful Heir by Red Iron Rebuked

We’re peers but he’s the ruler of the city and we just help out around the place

[buoyant summit]

heh

hehehehehe

so

The Epochs were up until recently ruled by a Signatory Deathlord who's since been killed

Our Deathlord, the Black Heron, is being framed, and we are cooperating with Mask deathknights to clear her

I have brought up that it might have been Mask who killed the Signatory xD

[nova yew]

Lmao

[feral cipher]

I have my own manse so now I handle trade and legal shit that people aren't brave enough to bring to Red Iron, apparently

[next delta]

🤔 I wonder why the Wyld doesn't intrude into Hell, Autocthon or... Heaven (less sure on that one)

[lament owl]

Maybe because they have skin?

[velvet raft]

The Wyld does bug Heaven a bit, at least

See: Devil Stars

[next delta]

Oh, there are also fae in Hell. But I don't think there is like, bordermarches etc.?

[velvet raft]

But in general I sorta imagine that Creation is a buffer zone

Without trying to think too much about the geometry of that relationship

[next delta]

Is Autocthon still literally Elsewhere?

[next delta]

I guess you can get to Hell if you travel through any desert the right (or wrong) way

[buoyant summit]

I also have a Manse, but tis in Stygia

XD

[feral cipher]

Nice part about being in a shadowland is that i kinda get the best of both

[velvet raft]

I like Manses

Manses are good

More Hearthstones

More Manses

[buoyant summit]

Trying to figure out a fitting Hearthstone for a creepy mansion in a fog-blanketed garden-park that works like the Lost Woods

[velvet raft]

The best part of being a PAoC stylist is that you get to be your own Manse

Just grow some Hearthstones

[feral cipher]

I just picked up the one with a cool effect

the core book's options kinda suck ass, and the ones in the abyssal splat are much better but not many of em

there's also the ones in the artifact splat, which are also better but none of those appealed to me much except for maybe like, this

I settled on this one though

[buoyant summit]

I'm considering Stone of Resilient Bamboo

[feral cipher]

That's pretty solid!

[bleak hazel]

that's a classic one, Rival has that

good for topping up soak on a character that doesn't get armour and doesn't want to spend motes on Silken

[buoyant summit]

What sucks is

I have a greater manse

and idk if my gm is cool with me taking a less than greater Hearthstone

[velvet raft]

That and Stone of the Revolutionary Dog are the common standbys for standard hearthstones. For Greater ones, Arms of the Chosen has some excellent Solar Hearthstones for any character that you could quite reasonably repurpose as Abyssal

Gem of Crushing Might is another very strong Greater one for combat characters

[buoyant summit]

Her manse is more Wood-attuned most likely and tbh I need the Soak

With this I have only 8

[velvet raft]

Incomparable Wellness is of course a stupid wood thing that makes you never die

But yeah, Resilient Bamboo good

Anyway there's no such thing as enough Hearthstones

[feral cipher]

I can apparently fit like 4 into my artifact

I kinda just gotta hope whenever I kill people (killing people) and stealing their money that cool hearthstones are loot

because god there's really no other stones I give a shit about in the books

sorry to kill Ru with that expectation

[next delta]

The number of slots on artifacts always seemed a bit odd to me. It's seems like a lot of demesnes/manses to fully kit out an exalted. And I would have expected those to be rarer than artifacts

[velvet raft]

That’s why you gotta be a Sid with PAoC XD

My absolute favorite Hearthstone is the Key of Mastery, because More Control Spells

[velvet raft]

Hmmmmm Flying Guillotine Infernal

[velvet raft]

Karen you can't just ask if people are alive

That's rude

[nova yew]

I am built to commit at least one microaggression per line of dialogue

[chilly sluice]

this is the Dynast way

[buoyant summit]

Being Circle Coordinator is fun lmao

[limpid badge]

this was to hit the sidereal she just met in the stomach for being Rude To Her

very funny

[velvet raft]

I would say, "I can't believe you would brutalize a poor civil servant" but over in tabletop-discussion I compared Abyssals to corporate lawyers earlier

So that makes a lot of sense, really

[nova yew]

We are currently brutalizing civil servants

We out here being evil

[limpid badge]

to be fair- Grinning Mask Deserves It

they’re so annoyinggg

[velvet raft]

Says the corporate attorney :P

Like we all know that the Mask of Winters is Walt Disney

[feral cipher]

Technically i'm on the side of the civil servant

[velvet raft]

Thorns is Disney World

[feral cipher]

but yeah I got a trade dispute over some guy who is totally smuggling people out of Thorns

and was being real smug about it

[velvet raft]

Smuggling people out of Thorns smh my head

It's the happiest place on earth!

[limpid badge]

bloody hand literally works for Walker In Darkness

[velvet raft]

https://tenor.com/bV5AB.gif

[limpid badge]

she’s not a corpo she’s just a merc

[nova yew]

Oh right yeah

[velvet raft]

Oh I think I was conflating all these Abyssal games

[nova yew]

Then you said “hey bring five of your men to iron chains so she can enslave their souls”

[feral cipher]

Grave's Due doesn't give a shit about people leaving Thorns, but he doesn't want to just handwave this because then Red Iron Rebuke will get annoyed
And also he's really petty towards somebody who's being smug like that

[velvet raft]

Walker In Darkness is more like Nestle, it's true

[limpid badge]

BH is an Abyssal in a mixed game @dense verge is running

[velvet raft]

Aha

[dense verge]

made my Walker In Darkness scottish and speak in iambic pentameter (which is much easier in a pbp format, gives time to think)

though he has not made an appearance yet

the circle is still stumbling around in the nexus undercity

[feral cipher]

So, yeah, since, as Graves put it, 27 living people have 'gone missing', and the dead are worth three times as much as the living
He owes me 5 souls that he has to personally choose

[velvet raft]

(I actually remember very little about Walker In Darkness)

[feral cipher]

which i will then have killed by the other abyssal and their ghosts bound to my service

[dense verge]

"what if loid warframe was also slayer guilty gear" is my take on his appearance (he also has those amber eyes from his desc.)

[limpid badge]

ive been picturing SLAYER the whole time teaching Bloody Hand swordplay

[chilly sluice]

Walker honestly and truly just believes in the Chivalry of Death, big warrior priest type guy, likes taking to the field personally

[nova yew]

It’s so fucking funny

I love being the punishment

[chilly sluice]

used to be weird about Abyssal castes, but they don't emphasize that anymore in 3e

[velvet raft]

His
most personal enmity is against the Mask of Winters,
whose pragmatic approach to death’s chivalry offends
the Walker as a hollow mockery of devotion. As both
Deathlords have concentrated their dominions in the
Scavenger Lands, they’ve had many interactions over
the centuries, giving this ideological disagreement
time to blossom into spiteful hatred.

Hm, maybe not Nestle

[chilly sluice]

the best part about him is that he is just actually having too much fun enforcing the Chivalry to actually want the world to end
and might even lowkey sabotage plans that look like they might be too successful

[limpid badge]

https://youtu.be/knwfwNy47V8?si=30CcWdp40UVxerOI

[velvet raft]

Black Heron shaking her head

[chilly sluice]

oh and Walker is also yet another Deathlord who has the Green Lady among his staff

[dense verge]

More or less, The Walker In The Darkness is a Deathlord who has wandered Creation since ages past, offering the services of his Company Of Martial Sinners to those willing to pay the price. He leads his band of undead and undead-adjacent mercenaries with the highest zeal, and is a faithful adherent of Death's Chivalry, and a honest hypocrite. Despite his piety to the Neverborn, and his spreading of the grimmest fates to those fool enough to take his bargains, he does not truly wish to "win". He evermore wants there to be more heroes to beguile, follies to inflict upon the living, and so forth. He is happy, and has found his place as a strange dread knight. It is his hope that he may impart this same appreciation of existence to his deathknights, though not outright saying it, but rather guiding them to their own fulfillments in un-life. Or, if they should choose to end it all, then so be it.

He also has a cool three-headed hellhound named Duke Lu and has a shadowland following him whereever he goes in the distance, the Ebonspire, which may be a place in a dead dream world.

[prisma sun]

King Hu gonna eat that dog

[velvet raft]

Six heads, King Hu will have to eat the dog faster than it can eat him

[dense verge]

oh more heads than i remembered

[velvet raft]

Yeah, I'm looking at the entry now

[prisma sun]

King Hu will grow as many limbs as is required to eat this dog

[dense verge]

since the deathlords have been kind of on the down-low for most of their history (thanks MASK for blowing everyone's cover), i'm having Walker be the inspiration of the Creation equivalent of "Devil on the crossroads" offering you a tempting but damning pact since he loves doing that

[velvet raft]

hmmmmmmm

okay y'all remember the meme where one character is talking, and then the other character interrupts them by saying something extraordinarily stereotypically gen z, and the first character just sort of gives them a withering look

[chilly sluice]

FAFL would do that, yeah

[velvet raft]

That is how I am imagining Falafel and their Abyssals

[chilly sluice]

seething with barely restrained anger is I think FAFL's default state of being anyway

[wise ocean]

introducing FAFL to Ebon Dragon

[dense verge]

@limpid badge

[limpid badge]

Mr Wint and Mr Kidd….

[dense verge]

These Men Are Your Co-Workers

[prisma sun]

Waking Smith has only survived not being obliterated by Fafl by dint of barely ever being home

[limpid badge]

One of them very literally bc BH is Avaricious

[velvet raft]

... fuck this gives me a good idea for a character

whose basic motive is "make Falafel laugh"

And has no illusions about the immensity of that task

Including "yeah I probably have to free them from the Neverborn to do this"

[feral cipher]

the asshole took this way too in-stride and that pissed my character off

So now i'm trapping him in an Eclipse pact that will completely kill his smuggling operation

[nova yew]

YESSSSS

do not piss off death’s lawgivers

Because the real law of death is “fuck you I do what I want”

[feral cipher]

so true

[velvet raft]

The real law of death is beans

Ask Pythagoras

[coral wraith]

its true Grinning Mask has deliberately been egging people on the whole time

and Got Got in doing so

[feral cipher]

this guy hasn't even read the core book smh

got his ass

[buoyant summit]

Hey I'm not a corporate lawyer; I'm a PR company CEO

XD

[bleak hazel]

close enough, you're Abyssal Ed Zitron

[buoyant summit]

Who tf is that

[bleak hazel]

econ writer guy who does good longform posts on how AI is dumb and also other stuff closer to my specialty

but is also technically a PR CEO

(the company, as far as I can tell, is just him)

[velvet raft]

I'll rephrase: abyssals are corporate fixers

This can include lawyers, among others

[lament owl]

Damn this chivalry of death shit hard

[buoyant summit]

I am surprised that you don't appear to be insulting them xD

[bleak hazel]

I like his work

and also Abyssals

[buoyant summit]

fair lol

speaking of economics I think literally every Bureau charm, my Presence charm, and most of my Socialize charms are gonna apply to this roll

So far only my Presence charm even costs motes

Alluring Eloquence Method also does actually

[coral wraith]

Misc enjoys a suitably edgy lad

[nova yew]

Got his ass

[velvet raft]

Wait how are you putting charms from other abilities on a roll? Do you just have a bunch that specifically allow for that?

[buoyant summit]

Yep

[velvet raft]

Slick

[buoyant summit]

Elegant Tyrant Majesty just adds three dice to influence rolls with abilities other than Stealth

[velvet raft]

Aye

It's a nice one

[buoyant summit]

Alluring Eloquence staples an Instill roll onto a bargain

Imprecation can potentially factor in if this is a Socialize bargain

Wicked Bargain also just

Adds (Bureau) dice to a bargain

and Subtle Functionary Ways will let me leverage an Honest demeanor as if it were a Minor Intimacy

I should go into mercantile ventures...

Cuz holy shit apparently I'd be good at that

[feral cipher]

Just influence rolls in general actually, i'm pretty sure!

[buoyant summit]

Nope, bargain roll with Presence or Socialize

[feral cipher]

Mhm mhm

I think i'm thinking of a later bureau charm

[buoyant summit]

oh and also reroll 6s

[feral cipher]

But yeah i'm also dabbling in that charm tree - it's not like, anything showstopping but it has some real fun social force-amplifying tricks

[buoyant summit]

Nicenice

[lament owl]

Had to solve a social situation with my Melee smh smh

[merry arch]

this is the illiterate melee way

[buoyant summit]

Literate Melee Moment

[tulip folio]

I know it's the nature of Solars to go 'Only I may do the thing' but I do kinda wish as the Exalts of Autocthon, king of craftsmen, Alchs could manage N/A artifact creation.

[lament owl]

To be fair!
it was pretty clever how I solved it with melee I think

its just

I did in fact need to escalate the situation

[merry arch]

look, if you show me something that i can't read im taking that as a personal slight and escalating

/j

[velvet raft]

Let them do it exclusively with their own magical material

WAIT

Okay thought

Give Alchemicals a charm tree that lets them create an artifact as part of their own body, that grows with them

If they reach essence 6 and become an elder, the artifact becomes N/A

And if they get turned into a city they can separate it from themselves

And also it outlasts their death even if they don't

[velvet raft]

Alexander cutting the Gordian Knot moment

[lament owl]

Real

[limpid badge]

hi everyone im enjoying my blorbo. bloody hand is so pretty. i can make her prettier. i can make her worse. my beloved creature.

[velvet raft]

The Prettiest

[limpid badge]

she will only get prettier thanks to ghost-estrogen.

[nova yew]

oh a ghost just insulted me and the heir in the middle of court

oh man

oh man she fucked up

[velvet raft]

Why do Sids get better every time I look at their charm list

"I can travel to Malfeas by committing a crime"

[nova yew]

LMAO

thats so fucking funny

[limpid badge]

by admitting to crime

[velvet raft]

"Well you see, Malfeas is where criminals go, therefore by confessing to a crime I can go to Malfeas"

[nova yew]

i am stabbing an old woman :))

[limpid badge]

yaaay abyssals

[prisma sun]

https://tenor.com/view/you-violated-the-law-your-stolen-goods-are-now-forfeit-law-gif-19856084

[spring lynx]

nonono, read that again: you can go to malfeas without needing to confess

[limpid badge]

you can Just Show Up to Hell Prison (Allow For Shipping)

[velvet raft]

Oh true

[spring lynx]

you rock up to a priest and say "send my ass to hell" and then it's the desert for you

[velvet raft]

You can teleport to heaven by confessing to any priest

And you can teleport to hell by just shrugging

Or, well, teleport to Cecelyne

[spring lynx]

actually it doesn't say you have to cross cecelyne, it just says you're still restricted by the five-day rule

wait, no, i can't read

...you know, since it takes five days no matter how fast you travel, can you just take one step per day and still get there

[velvet raft]

I think it has to be five days of travel?

But yeah, you can dawdle

@nova yew This is a Dodge charm

[nova yew]

That’s so fucking funny???

I love sidereals

[nova yew]

great news we have decided her fate

she is to be turned into soulsteel

do not disrespect the heir like that :3

[merry arch]

what fun!

[nova yew]

:3

god i love being an awful fucking evil villain

[buoyant summit]

I just realized my Abyssal is a fucking dark academia character

[nova yew]

hehheeh

[limpid badge]

its soooo fun

the two people poking at BH's nerves are now Not Going To Do That and Afraid Of That Respectively

and without a single mote spent! just. 13 dice of hitting you hard.

[nova yew]

YEAH

it's so gooood

[buoyant summit]

Bargaining Moment

The target number is 3 btw

<XD

This is to get a flock of grave messengers to become her war pigeons btw

[nova yew]

Ooo

[velvet raft]

All of this talk of loyalist Abyssals inspired me to rework the Exalted version of Red Evening Sky's moment of exaltation:

Despite the normally placid nature of her work, in the weeks before she was Chosen, Red Evening Sky found herself at the center of a series of surreal encounters with vandals, graverobbers, and ghosts. When one of death's lawgivers visited in secret to persuade a gathering of the living and dead to turn against the city, Red Evening Sky covertly sabotaged him, humiliating him from the shadows with a set of fabricated bad omens and patriotic metaphors for Sijan's history and culture. The Maiden of Endings found her even as the Deathknight stormed away in disgust.

[limpid badge]

ohooo

very good

[velvet raft]

Originally it was just "she beat up some graverobbers" but I realized that was boring and I was thinking about the bit about how Walker In Darkness is trying to make inroads in Sijan

[chilly sluice]

damn, Abyssals don't get an equivalent of Titan Straightening Method
which is probably very good, because it's busted
but still

[velvet raft]

It is kind of amusing how many of the Deathlords seem like they could be basically benign (or at least not apocalyptic) if not for the Neverborn forcing an endgame on them.

[velvet raft]

Really in putting her back together I feel like I stumbled on a surprisingly solid setup for an E1 sid who can do a bunch of different stuff https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l2c9yjweb9VNlRg8n8VyyDhRQYqWaoc_rswcj7i9yxU/edit?usp=sharing

[nova yew]

love her

[knotty island]

You know, I'm kinda glad Exalted is a dice pool game. We kinda prefer it that way.

[prisma sun]

I need to find art for the Drowner of Saints

I don't wanna use Count Noctulis

but I feel like he's the best option I have atm

[nova yew]

what splat is drowner of saints?

[prisma sun]

Abyssal

[nova yew]

gotcha
hmmmmmm

[prisma sun]

He's the admiral of the Silver Prince

[nova yew]

whats the concept in like
a sentence

oh okay

thats actually pretty good

[nova yew]

yeah no thats really solid lmao

[tulip folio]

...and a friend of mine just described Autocthon's various supertech as 'What if the Red Alert Soviets got treated as the good guys by the games'.

[velvet raft]

Hm, what are folks' favorite Celestial Circle Control Spells?

[fierce star]

Magma kraken

[velvet raft]

Makes sense

[next delta]

It became a bit of a running joke in my Essence game of the sorcerer trying to use that to solve any given problem

[bleak hazel]

Travel Without Distance remains relentlessly practical

although my favourites at E3 are all in Necromancy

Hundred Shade Breath, Jackal, Forest of Ivory Razors

control effect on thousand-corpse goliaths is unremarkable but the spell itself is great fun

[velvet raft]

I was building Red Evening Sky up to each essence-increase threshold for shits and giggles, so I was thinking about it

Really, looking over Brawl, it doesn't have a lot of Versatile charms

A few of the early ones and then the big defensive line

[buoyant summit]

Fuck is a nephwrack I have to Diplomacy At One

[prisma sun]

Uhhhhh

Evil ghost

[buoyant summit]

I'm told they're insane and just serve esoteric interpretations of Neverborn will?

[prisma sun]

https://i.imgur.com/H9WydCO.png

2nd highest tier of ghost

[tulip folio]

They're basicly 'what happens when a ghost gets Whispers'.

[buoyant summit]

So is Death's Chivalry something they give a fuck about at all?

[prisma sun]

Maybe

they're insane

and might just hate you on principle

[buoyant summit]

...f*ck

[prisma sun]

I'm also reading their stats which I will not show but I will say in general terms you should just beat it up I big prommy it'll be funny

[buoyant summit]

I

Do not trust that

!

[prisma sun]

You besmirch me

[wise ocean]

no you should definitely just sucker punch a nephwrack

[feral cipher]

it'd be hilarious

[prisma sun]

[buoyant summit]

You are both not helping their case! You are both known scamps!

[chilly sluice]

they're like Essence 3

[buoyant summit]

XD

[prisma sun]

We are the Whispers listen to us

[feral cipher]

I would never lie

[prisma sun]

the Neverborn want you to stick your finger in that nephwrack's mouth

[wise ocean]

Hey, it's me. The Neverborn. You should punch a priest.

Just wind up on that guy.

[prisma sun]

Do the DK Neutral B

[lunar magnet]

malicious whispering saying to strike the nephwrack just do it hit it hit it it's good hit it

[mighty rover]

(the DK stands for Dragon Kings)

[prisma sun]

DONKEY KONG

[nova yew]

theyre the big ones yeah

[prisma sun]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1174409002776535130/1444333688065359933/Kristoff.png?ex=692cfcd1&is=692bab51&hm=b2cf2de0f7be5640fcf6e9bb2fecc9519458b175d9f816c6eeec1e8f6a21fd21&=&format=webp&quality=lossless

this is the only guy I have seen that MIGHT work for the Drowner

[nova yew]

Ooo

[prisma sun]

I do kinda like thhe idea of his Goremaul

just being a fucking big anchor

[nova yew]

Yeah that’s kinda dope

[prisma sun]

how actual question

how the fuck do I get the party away from an abyssal trying to kill them

I didn't think of that

[wise ocean]

run very fast

[prisma sun]

boats

[wise ocean]

boat may be problematic if the abyssal has sail charms

running always works

[prisma sun]

they on boats and the abyssal is an admiral

so he definitely has sail charms

[fierce star]

oh they fucked

[prisma sun]

yea

they will have an even fight due aforementioned

mecha boy

but even he's going to get homerunned off the boat

[wise ocean]

https://tenor.com/view/skeletoncrazy-gif-12619534970173952101

[buoyant summit]

We writin' Threatening Letters now bois

I do really enjoy my character's name

Final Envoy

Her Final Envoy

'last chance, fucker'

[nova yew]

Uh oh

[nova yew]

YES

oh that’s so good

[buoyant summit]

lmao thx

[buoyant summit]

11 successes btw

[nova yew]

nice

[buoyant summit]

And it was both an influence and instill roll

Alluring Eloquence is fucking broken

I fucking love Moonshadow

[nova yew]

hell yeah

[limpid badge]

smashing my head into a wall trying to name an sma so I can start working on it

[buoyant summit]

What is the concept?

I Am Good At Naming Things

[limpid badge]

“Freedom is the strongest force in the universe”, “Cartoon Physics”, and “Joyful Combat”

The best I have is
“Azure Innocence of the Unburdened”

the actual theme is Y’all See Gear 5

[prisma sun]

Breeze in Empty Space
Cloud Hopping Reticulation

[buoyant summit]

Limitless Imagifer of Exertive Thrills

[limpid badge]

It’s a Sidereal Martial Art, don’t it gotta have a color?

[prisma sun]

Does it?

Is Charcoal a color

[tulip folio]

Most of them do.

[tulip folio]

Yeah, Charcoal is a colour of grey

[prisma sun]

Pearlescent then

Pearlescent Cloud Hopping Style

[tulip folio]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AIBgU41XmOoG64RyeaLlbXiS8dLyohKjfCUdnbpIFjk/edit?usp=sharing I did a SMA at one point and a chunk of it was 'finding a fitting colour'. XD

[prisma sun]

Or Incandescent Cosmic Breeze

I was actually wondering how you could tie it to the sun

[limpid badge]

Ohhh

[prisma sun]

But I realized you could have it be founded on the eve of the victory of the divine revolution

[limpid badge]

That’s a thought

[prisma sun]

As a sid watched Sol take flight to the sky unburdened for the first time in his life

Incandescent Dance of the Boundless

[limpid badge]

I do think that's a good place for it to start

But I was gonna try around with making it one of Venus' styles

[prisma sun]

Venus fucked Sol the day of the victory and the sid in the cuck chair went

https://tenor.com/view/yakuza-kiryuu-thats-rad-rad-reaction-gif-16557438

[tulip folio]

I spent like 5 minutes going through 'shades of green' and finding a good sounding one. XD

[limpid badge]

that's fair ikiiii

[buoyant summit]

Exalted has turned sending and reading letters into an engaging part of my character's gameplan

wtf I love this?

[limpid badge]

yah!!!

social combat!!!

[buoyant summit]

I mean it's not even social combat it's 'social interaction at distance'

I am learning his intimacies by writing and reading letters

[limpid badge]

but it is social combat

its just the Strategic Level Social Combat

(lie, that's bureaucracy)

[buoyant summit]

lol

My Bureaucracy actually primarily assists in personal bargaining

Cuz it just

applies to bargain rolls that don't use it xD

My main workhorse charm is Wicked Bargain

[nova yew]

exalted kinda rules

[limpid badge]

exalted kinda rules a lot

[nova yew]

the social and combat system look really cool

like
okay
usually storyteller systems (im given to understand) arent great at combat

but i am genuinely excited to see how the combat system actually works

same with the social system

which we already saw a bit of in our game when one of our circlemates was...responding to a...rebellious demonstration of free speech in our fair city

[tulip folio]

My hot take: normally storyteller systems aren't much good at social either 😛

So exalted is already getting an edge there

[nova yew]

this is true but i ommitted it

for brevity

the social system for exalted is really fun because intimacies let me map out exactly what the fuck is wrong with me

and how other people can exploit that or how i can use it to defend against exploitation

[limpid badge]

yes!!!

its really really fun

i kind of miss virtues but not terribly overmuch

[buoyant summit]

The intimacy I discovered using a linguistics charm was 'power (thirst)' btw

So I have a general exploit-negative-intimacy-based gameplan

[velvet raft]

IIRC when I first suggested the concept one suggestion involved incorporating the devil fruit into the name

Vermillion Drupe of Freedom or something?

I miss virtues as a setting concept but not as a mechanical one, if that makes sense

I'm happy to have them be gone from the rules, but I think they did have a place in the structure of the setting, at least from a Solar perspective

[limpid badge]

i did get offered a name Azure Absolution of Restraint

which i kind of really like

[velvet raft]

Hm. I can't recall, is there a particular shade of green associated with Infernals/the Green Sun/Ligier?

Not for your thing

Unrelated

[prisma sun]

Dont think so

Though i imagine a sicklier one

[limpid badge]

i always used Viridenscent for them

[prisma sun]

Also

Before bed thought

I think Ligier knows that Creature is gonna try and kill him one day and is looking forward to it

I mean like its easy for him to know

Since Creature says it openly

And holds parade saying how much he is going to kill him

[limpid badge]

i feel as though creature would bully my dear Layabout Prince

[prisma sun]

Layabout is an abyssal right

Or another infernal

[limpid badge]

Another Infernal

hedonistic cult leader that assumes because it suffered enough to draw the Yozi's sympathy, nothing it will ever do will justify the pain of its mortal existence

(giant awful jellyfish that lays eggs/eyes in people's brains as they induldge)

[prisma sun]

Oh yes then 100%

For one Creature immediately hates any organism that might be a peer

For two he hates squid and does not know enough about marine biology to differentiate a jellyfish and a squid

[limpid badge]

oh nyo

my little fuckimg clown is in danger

[prisma sun]

I think Creature on some level realizes its pointless to kill other infernals

Since nothing he can do can be worse than being in hell with the yozis

But he will just like

Exalted version of kick over sandcastles

For no reason and no prompting

[limpid badge]

layabout voice: what are you talking about. the party never stops and the music always plays and people do worse than hell to each other in creation anyway...

[prisma sun]

"That's interesting. Prana of the World Cleaving Slash on your promenade."

[limpid badge]

layabout: mYFUCKING CIRCUS

fucked up that creature does clear it even in its devil-body bc again. it is a giant awful nightmare jellyfish that uses Curses and Illusions to bedevil so it can escape.

[prisma sun]

I need to read about making a devil body

Part of me wants to go dragon demonic but anothee wants to make him an armored fishb

Since he is the carp trying to be the dragon

[nova yew]

Blows up pancakes with mind type of exchange

[bleak hazel]

Playing with ideas for Rival's artifact weapon and trying to figure out the proper balancing of an evocation that basically goes "for the purposes of combat and only combat, I am the same size as everybody" so you can run around punching giants and so forth

Probably annoyingly high essence because "grapple legendary size" is at E3

unless I make it a one-action 1/scene thing so you can crash the tyrant lizard, contest the devil body grapple or target the the impossible to hit cat but can't just ignore them, that might be reasonable lower down

[velvet raft]

... oh, verdigris

Verdigris would be the word

[prisma sun]

I feel like this doesnt counter legendary size so much as counters like

Specifically the snake demon

Where you become a miles long wall

[velvet raft]

Verdigris Hands of Majesty

Majesty? Mastery? Rulership? Royalty?

[bleak hazel]

it handles Sibri, Legendary Size, Tiny Creature and maybe devil body landscape but not sure, I think

I'll have to play around with various resets

[velvet raft]

A Devil Body can have the hilarious ability to reflexively shift between Tiny and Legendary size

[prisma sun]

Does it technically make you as big as malfeas

[limpid badge]

the awful little murder-clown and her chief soul (shadowmonster ringmaster) would like their circus not exploded because they have a religion to build here!! about having a good time!!! (and sacrificing yourself for the Layabout Prince)

[velvet raft]

Verdigris Grasp of Royalty?

(Pondering a Ligier-themed SMA)

[nova yew]

child of the ash type beat

[velvet raft]

Jen is such an Infernal that I gave her a glowing green visual theme

[nova yew]

that one was given to you by jonny sims actually sorry

that ones jon's fault

the green motifs

[velvet raft]

Was it? I thought I came up with that on my own

Wait was it a thing in TMA that I was completely unaware of that I happened to chance upon

[nova yew]

oh no yeah the eye has green motifs

big green moment

[velvet raft]

Okay see

I didn't know that

[nova yew]

this one is convergent evolution maybe

thats hilarious

[velvet raft]

You never told me that

[nova yew]

i didnt???

thats so fucking funny

[velvet raft]

No

[nova yew]

convergent evolution

[velvet raft]

See now I'm imagining the Chambers as significantly more green than I had been

Not full emerald city, but

[bleak hazel]

You stay exactly the same size, but if Malfeas had mechanical widgets that work when he's bigger than you then yes

[nova yew]

oh perhaps perhaps

[velvet raft]

Anyway!

[bleak hazel]

May also work as a PAOC secret technique on the Manse branch

[velvet raft]

If I wanted to get really cutesy I could call it Copper Flame of Royalty

Or Brass Flame of Royalty

[bleak hazel]

"I embody the essence of all things, which is enough raw mass to punch this T-rex"

[velvet raft]

Since copper

[limpid badge]

The Lotus Feasting Hall Welcomes You.```
thinkin about The Layabout Prince's inner world (awesome party that turns into bloodborne the longer you stay)

[coral wraith]

why not both? have the 1/scene thing exist lower, then have a higher ess repurchase

[tulip folio]

I mean, that seems fine. There are existing 1/scene 'fuck off I can smash the legendary size guy into orbit' in evocations.

Those Super Strong Gauntlets have them as one of the options along with 'any other hercules bullshit I can justify'

[velvet raft]

Hot take: this is the logic employed in the Spice Girls Movie and I am here for it.

Unrelated: can Knuckle-Cracking Stance be used in conjunction with charms that create threaten rolls using specified dice pools? For instance, would it enable using Sword-Tongue Intensity or Baleful Slaughter Omen with Strength instead of Charisma?

[prisma sun]

It's a permanent charm that can be amplified to any other charm

[buoyant summit]

I am workshopping my Moonshadow's sword

It's gonna fuck around with intimacies during combat

[nova yew]

oh nice- OOO

intimacies moment

i should fuck around with intimacies

since i have psychic communication

[prisma sun]

I realized if I was making Creature an npc I would give him a falafel style supernova charm

Two Paths Slash: Obedience or Death

Big huge slash up to extreme range that anyone can ignore the effects of by assuming an immediate Defining tie of "Supreme Creature of All Creation (Zealous loyalty)"

[velvet raft]

Hm, is there a stupid way to take advantage of this?

[prisma sun]

Marry a plague god

Dont use protection in a Wu-jian whorehouse

[bleak hazel]

infect yourself with some incredibly low level disease and then use it entirely to skip the 1hl cost on Burn Life every fight

[velvet raft]

I suppose the obvious way is yeah, some low-power supernatural disease

[bleak hazel]

as soon as disease reaches Major intensity just burn it out and re-inoculate

doesn't even have to be supernatural

this is a little bit cheesy

[velvet raft]

Aye but if it's supernatural you can just let it sit there forever

"This is my pet illness his name is charles"

[bleak hazel]

yeah but then it's sitting there forever at defining and having any disease that bad lets the GM hit you with autofumbles

so you want to be only a bit plagued

find something with low morbidity and a really long interval

[velvet raft]

Is there any reason you can't keep it at its minimum level?

[fierce star]

misc: infected wounds?

morbidity 1, interval 1 week

[bleak hazel]

exalted are immune, you'd need a magical form

[fierce star]

mmm, but you'd have to get it from a rat practicioner

[bleak hazel]

syphilis meta?

[prisma sun]

Listen man just kiss your plague wife before a fight

[bleak hazel]

"hang on I got in a fight, need to reset my syphilis"

leaves for Yu-Shan

[fierce star]

yeah I think syphilis is the call here