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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
Hipsters? Exalted? I'm in on it.
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
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Lix Lorn
(Also, you're MEANT to use Courier New. Get with the program. xD)
Yeth, mithtreth...
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
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Kris Strife
Fixed that for you. :smallbiggrin:
Since when is Lix an aspect of Alarra?
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
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Lix Lorn
Have I mentioned how much I adore you? I'll be the Adorjan to your Malfeas.
YOU'RE going to [soft, caressing whisper that shivers your spine] love me
But...SWLIHN and Malfeas are the OTP! Blasphemer!
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
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Lix Lorn
...darn other people in both threads. :smallbiggrin:
You think that's bad, wait till you see the product of somepony asking me to annoy them, and being in both the pony and Dominic Deegan threads. :smallamused:
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Lix Lorn
I tried to start an MLP exalted gasme ages ago. I TRIED TO DO CROSSOVERS BEFORE THEY WERE COOL.
I would have joined had Leo been made, and if I had time to keep up with the games I'm in. :smallredface:
Sorry Tavar and everyone else, tomorrows my last final!
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Rockphed
Since when is Lix an aspect of Alarra?
Oh, one of the fanons out of pony thread is that pony skin is made out of a gummy like substance, most of their body is filled with marshmallow, with a hard candy skull and dense cotton candy brain. Their core however is made of pudding. :smallbiggrin:
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
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Urpriest
But...SWLIHN and Malfeas are the OTP! Blasphemer!
Ebon Dragon and Szorenzy.... :smallwink:
And then there's Gaia and Cythera.
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
The OTP is tsundere Kimberry/Adorjan.
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
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Urpriest
But...SWLIHN and Malfeas are the OTP! Blasphemer!
To be fair, Malfeas makes it with all the fine ladies. Even as they flay his souls alive.
It's just how a boss does.
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
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Xefas
To be fair, Malfeas makes it with all the fine ladies. Even as they flay his souls alive.
It's just how a boss does.
Don't forget the part where they all live within him.
Except Qaf, that bastard.
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
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AThousandWords
Don't forget the part where they all live within him.
Except Qaf, that bastard.
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Technically, Cecelyne is all around him, but not actually inside him.
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
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Kris Strife
Oh, Tavar, I'd like to point out that the Bright Slap can even knock the Emo out of Shinji. :smallamused:
Something could knock the emo out of Shinji? :smalleek:
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Xefas
I just have the one gif (which was originally a ripped video game sprite that I just modified with SHINTAI!). But, I mean, all the real shintai involve you slapping something and hulking out anyway.
Huh. I could have sworn you posted a Scott Pilgrim Black Mirror Shintai gif. But that must have been someone else.
Oh wait, it was you. It just wasn't relevant to the Shintai. Or was it... :smallamused:
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Tavar
Why does this ring a bell? I know, it's only the name that's the same. But still, it's funny for a moment, neh?
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Originally Posted by
Urpriest
But...SWLIHN and Malfeas are the OTP! Blasphemer!
I feel this is more of a crazy crush of ShWLIHN's part. Poor girl. Everyone rejecting her.
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Turalisj
Ebon Dragon and Szorenzy.... :smallwink:
And then there's Gaia and Cythera.
Cecylene/Szoreny forever! They're both silver colored for a reason, after all.
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AThousandWords
The OTP is tsundere Kimberry/Adorjan
But that is one great idea. Too great not to happen. Even if they both love EVERYONE to death. Literally. Particularly that one Solar.
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
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Recaiden
Something could knock the emo out of Shinji? :smalleek:
Bright Slaps are to manning up what Sonic Rainbooms are to getting cutie marks. :smallbiggrin:
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
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Recaiden
Odd, that. And, it did get a chuckle out of me. Wonder if the inspiration was the REM song as well.
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Recaiden
But that is one great idea. Too great not to happen. Even if they both love EVERYONE to death. Literally. Particularly that one Solar.
Oh? Is there a story behind that one solar? If so, do tell. I love Exalted Stories.
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Kris Strife
Bright Slaps are to manning up what Sonic Rainbooms are to getting cutie marks. :smallbiggrin:
Maybe I'm just too new school, but I prefer the Simon, Clench your Teeth method.
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
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Recaiden
Huh. I could have sworn you posted a Scott Pilgrim Black Mirror Shintai gif. But that must have been someone else.
Oh wait, it was
you. It just wasn't relevant to the Shintai. Or was it... :smallamused:
The Ebon Dragon is the only one whose charms it would be in theme for to have extra motes spent on a purely cosmetic face attached his fireball that smirks at you douchily while it lights you on fire.
http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/a...ireball-1-.gif
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
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But that is one great idea. Too great not to happen. Even if they both love EVERYONE to death. Literally. Particularly that one Solar.
That poor poor lucky bastard. Death by Snoo Snoo.
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
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Kris Strife
Bright Slaps are to manning up what Sonic Rainbooms are to getting cutie marks. :smallbiggrin:
You tell this to someone who has never seen MLP. It reveals nothing.
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Tavar
Oh? Is there a story behind that one solar? If so, do tell. I love Exalted Stories.
Actually, the only story is that, upon further examination, Recaiden is mixing up characters and doesn't know what he's saying. :smalltongue: One was the untyped exalt who is the father of the Four winds, and the other is a (probably) completely different person who I vaguely remember from something about Kimbery. Nope. That was Kashta anyway. I blame the fact that the archetypal Scourge is a pirate. Even if that doesn't make sense.
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Turalisj
That poor poor lucky bastard. Death by Snoo Snoo.
It's only 6 Aggravated Damage per action directly to you mind. You can take it!
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Xefas
:cool:
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
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Tavar
Nah, Clench Your Teeth just works for short term depression. Bright Slaps are emoectomies. :smallamused:
Clench Your Teeth would be a prerequisite charm for Bright Slap.
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Recaiden
You tell this to someone who has never seen MLP. It reveals nothing.
And yet you knew exactly what I was talking about. :smallamused:
I did also link the Bright Slap, where two hits makes Amuro go from whiny little punk to "I'm a man" in about a minutes time. :smallbiggrin:
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
Okay, I'm totally making that charm now. I'll put it up sometime tomorrow.
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
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Tavar
Okay, I'm totally making that charm now. I'll put it up sometime tomorrow.
Be sure to give it some kind of bonus against Abyssals. :smallbiggrin:
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
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Recaiden
Something could knock the emo out of Shinji? :smalleek:
It is not that hard. Shinji is not actually that emo - just a kid with a passive personality in a series that delights in crushing him every time it looks like it looks like something in his life might be going up or he starts beng happy. Dude has absurd amounts of Resonance, it seems.
Difference is that in Super Robot Wars, he was not, in fact, completely surrounded by manipulative *****. And Bright reminded this to him with a slap and a speech as is his style.
Not too much after, Shinji was playing the same field as the rest of your guys - who, for the record, in that game include people like Kouji Kabuto (the pilot of Mazinger) or Ryoma from Getter. Shinji is, more or less, a Simon who never had a Kamina that believed in him.
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
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Drascin
It is not that hard. Shinji is not actually that emo - just a kid with a passive personality in a series that delights in crushing him every time it looks like it looks like something in his life might be going up or he starts beng happy.
I'd say Shinji is pretty emo even before terrible stuff starts happening to him in the series.
He lives in a post near-apocalyptic world. And has food, clean water, shelter, clothing, entertainment, creative outlets, education, his full physical and cognitive health, and people who care about him. Oh yeah, that's a pretty terrible lot he's got going. Even in the real world, a significant portion of Earth's population doesn't have these things.
And yet, he complains about everything.
"Bluh bluh, stop making me save the world."
"Bluh bluh, there's too many breasts everywhere."
"Bluh bluh, my dad doesn't love me."
Yeah, cry me a river, Shinji. Your pain amused me.
...until it horrified me, that is.
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
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Xefas
Bluh bluh, there's too many breasts everywhere.
Were I the kind of guy that would quote things out of context, this would definitely be sigged.
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
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Drascin
It is not that hard. Shinji is not actually that emo - just a kid with a passive personality in a series that delights in crushing him every time it looks like it looks like something in his life might be going up or he starts beng happy. Dude has absurd amounts of Resonance, it seems.
Difference is that in Super Robot Wars, he was not, in fact, completely surrounded by manipulative *****. And Bright reminded this to him with a slap and a speech as is his style.
Not too much after, Shinji was playing the same field as the rest of your guys - who, for the record, in that game include people like Kouji Kabuto (the pilot of Mazinger) or Ryoma from Getter. Shinji is, more or less, a Simon who never had a Kamina that believed in him.
Yea if Kamina suddenly popped in at the beginning of NGE and saw Shinji he'd start going "Hey, you look kinda like Simoun, and you sorta act like him to. I'm Kamina, I have a cool glasses, cool cloak and a cool sword, I once had a cool Ganmen, but I sorta died in it, but its cool, I got better."
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
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Lord Raziere
Yea if Kamina suddenly popped in at the beginning of NGE and saw Shinji he'd start going "Hey, you look kinda like Simoun, and you sorta act like him to. I'm Kamina, I have a cool glasses, cool cloak and a cool sword, I once had a cool Ganmen, but I sorta died in it, but its cool, I got better."
Or if he suddenly found a case full of warhammer 40k figures and rules....
Which raises the question of, what would happen if he found exalted stuff instead? :smallwink:
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
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Turalisj
Or if he suddenly found a case full of warhammer 40k figures and rules....
Which raises the question of, what would happen if he found exalted stuff instead? :smallwink:
"For Sol! Come my two Lunar Mates, let us kill the Yozis!"
Asuka and Rei: "Yes Dawn Caste Shinji! Kaworu the Ebon Dragon shall not win!"
"Be on the lookout for the Chosen of Secrets, he forever plots!"
"Yea, yea we know, watch out for your father..."
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
The names are placeholders. As are the prerequisites and stuff. But, how you you think these look?
The Bright Slap:
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Cost: 10m, 1wp; Mins: Presence 5, Essence 4; Type: Reflexive (Step 1)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious, Merged(Martial Arts, Performance), Mirror(You are the End of the World)
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: You Can Be More (Thunder Breaks the Clouds)
A king broke no whining, and even his gentlest rebuke holds great power. This is not such a rebuke. In a thoroughly humiliating fashion, the Lawgiver shows exactly how the subject is failing to live up to their potential. But this is not to destroy them. No, the King is saddened by this loss, and wishes for the subject to rise up to the occasion. If he exceeds the subjects MDV, then he shatters any negative natural or unnatural mental influences. This effect is so powerful, it even protects the character in the future; any attempt to give the character such mental influences, especially ones of despair, are rendered extremely difficult. The target is rendered immune to such natural influences, and if targeted by unnatural mental influence he may force a roll-off between the Solar's essence at the time this charm was used and that of his assailant by spending 1 willpower. If the Solar wins, the effect is negated. If the opponent wins, he is still subject to the effect. If the Solar botches, this benefit ceases altogether. In addition, the target immediately begins training to change their motivation to something that would qualify them as a heroic mortal, if applicable. Finally, they subject gains an intimacy of some form of respect towards their King.
If the character using this charm qualifies with Performance as well, then the charm also extends in a way to everyone within distance. If the target of the charm rises up to the occasion, then everyone receives an intimacy of respect towards the subject. If instead, the character ignores the Kings call, then they are instilled with an intimacy of disappointment and disgust as the subject simply wastes himself. For the above to work the Solar must beat their MDV.
Due to the interaction of their closely related essences, this charm has an additional effect on any Abyssal or Infernal it is used on. The King allows no one to claim a kin's soul. It cannot remove the Resonance or Torment tracks, but it is able to mitigate them somewhat. Once per story, when this charm targets such a character, it can remove 1 resonance or torment from their track. Doing so makes the charm obvious, as the unholy essences are purged from the other with solar fire.
If presence is used, this charm must effect a social attack. If Martial arts was used to qualify for this charm, then it can only be used with physical attacks that hit.
You are the End of the World
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Cost: 10m, 1wp; Mins: Presence 5, Essence 4; Type: Reflexive (Step 1)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious, Mirror(Bright Slap), Merged(Martial Arts)
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Broken Heart Triumph
Some Abyssals have learned a powerful truth from the dead titans they serve. They are herald of the end, true, but they are not the cause. No, the End of all things is inevitable, because everyone's actions aid it. This charm supplements a social or physical attack, and reveals this horrid truth to the recipient. That, far from preserving and defending the world, his very presence dooms it. This truth shreds any positive mental influences the subject holds, as he realizes his entire life has been a lie. This effect is so powerful, it even protects the character in the future; any attempt to give the character such mental influences, especially ones of hope, are rendered extremely difficult. The target is rendered immune such to natural influences, and if targeted by unnatural mental influence he may force a roll-off between the Abyssal's essence at the time this charm was used and that of his assailant by spending 1 willpower. If the Abyssal wins, the effect is negated. If the opponent wins, he is still subject to the effect. If the Abyssal botches, this benefit ceases altogether.
For Heroic mortals, this charm makes them lose their heroic motivation and all benefits of being a heroic mortal.
If targeting a being with a limit track, this charm adds one limit to the track, or an additional limit if it is resisted as an unnatural mental influence. If the being would then go into Limit break, the Abyssal's words become even more damning. The Deathknight gains +(essence) successes on any social roll against the opponent for the duration of the Limit break, and even afterword all social effects are considered undodgeable. This effect is considered an ongoing unnatural mental influence.
Grit Your Teeth
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Cost: 10m, 1wp; Mins: Charisma 5, Essence 4; Type: Reflexive (Step 10)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: ????
Some question why the Lunars did not try and help their mates out of the maddness that gripped them in the High First Age. In truth, they did, but there is only so much they could do against the Death Curse of the Neverborn. Using this charm on a successful physical or social attack allows the Lunar to strip mental influences, either natural or not, from the character(s) effected. If used on a character the user has a positive intimacy towards, the character also reduces his limit or similar track by 1, though any character can only benefit from this effect once per year.
If used on a character undergoing limit break, this charm has a different effect altogether. This charm causes the character to immediately snap out of limit break, but at a cost. They avoid the effects for 1 scene, and during this time they can spend 1 willpower to avoid Unnatural Mental Influences instead of gaining limit to do so. After the scene is up, or the next time they gain limit, they revert back into Limit break(though do not gain the limit), but the duration of the limit break is doubled. If this charm is used again, the duration it lasts is doubled again, and so on till the new Limit break's duration elapses.
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
1) Might I recommend going over it again and fixing the errors? For instance, it's supposed to be "botches," not "Blotches," and "despair" instead of "dispair."
2) You might want to use slightly-clearer language on some of the parts, like in Grit Your Teeth.
3) For a once per story effect, removing one Limit is kinda weaksauce. After all, if an Abyssal's trying to redeem himself, he may well accrue a hundred points of Resonance in a story. Maybe bump it up to (Essence) Resonance/Limit? :smallconfused:
4) Last but not least, it doesn't actually "slap the emo" out of someone. Yes, it removes negative natural/unnatural mental influences (which is, again, ill-defined), and makes it hard for others to instill them in the subject, but the subject himself is free to build whatever sort of feelings he wants afterward.
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
Gah. Okay, I think I got most of the spelling errors, but I guess there could be more out there.
What exactly did you want from Grit Your Teeth?
You're right about not really getting rid of the Emo, though. Perhaps... add an emotion tag, and make it give the target an emotion effect of hope, or defiance?
As for the limit thing, well, I wasn't sure how much they should really be able to effect the limit track. After all, the one solar charm that I know of that removes limit only does one per story, and it has some exacting limitations on when it can be used.
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
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Lord Raziere
Yea if Kamina suddenly popped in at the beginning of NGE and saw Shinji he'd start going "Hey, you look kinda like Simoun, and you sorta act like him to. I'm Kamina, I have a cool glasses, cool cloak and a cool sword, I once had a cool Ganmen, but I sorta died in it, but its cool, I got better."
spoilerz plz. I'm only on Episode 4. :smallfrown:
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Re: General Exalted Discussion VI: Ascendancy Mantle of the Playground
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Tavar
Gah. Okay, I think I got most of the spelling errors, but I guess there could be more out there.
There was also the "effected" that was probably supposed to be "affected" in Grit Your Teeth.
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Tavar
What exactly did you want from Grit Your Teeth?
Well, actually, the whole "mental influence" thing. Here's the thing about mental influence. Natural mental influence is pretty much limited to either compelling someone to act in a fashion for a scene, or eroding/building Intimacies. As such, can you use Grit Your Teeth to stop a person from fetching lemonade for another person? Was that its intention? :smallconfused:
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Tavar
You're right about not really getting rid of the Emo, though. Perhaps... add an emotion tag, and make it give the target an emotion effect of hope, or defiance?
Not sure, nor am I sure if it should do that. After all, there's already a Charm for that one, under Performance.
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Tavar
As for the limit thing, well, I wasn't sure how much they should really be able to effect the limit track. After all, the one solar charm that I know of that removes limit only does one per story, and it has some exacting limitations on when it can be used.
True, true. Still, the ability to remove one Limit/Resonance from an Infernal or Abyssal is pretty meaningless; for the Green Sun Princes, they have their own way of getting rid of big gobs of Limit, and removing one Resonance from an Abyssal in a story is not going to tip any major scales.