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A post to hold the character sheets! I may also use this thread to post summaries of each session as they take place IRL.

Character Sheet - Iodannus (Nave14)

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Name: Iodannus

Motivation: Run the Guild.

Attributes

Physical	Mental	Social
Strength ●●	Perception ●●	Charisma ●
Dexterity ●●●●	Intelligence ●●●●●	Manipulation ●●●●●
Stamina ●●●	Wits ●●	Appearance ●●●

Abilities

Favored	Combat	Social	Mental	Sneaky	Practical
Bureaucracy ●●●●	Archery ●	Integrity ●●	Craft	Athletics ●	---
	Martial Arts	Performance ●●	Investigation ●●	Awareness ●	Linguistics ●●●
	Melee ●●●	Presence ●●●	Lore ●	Dodge ●	Ride
	Thrown	Resistance ●	Medicine	Larceny ●	Sail
	War	Survival	Occult	Stealth ●	Socialize ●●●

Specialties: Bureaucracy (Trade +●), Melee (Fencing +●), Socialize (Political Manipulation +●●)
Languages Known: Seatongue, Low Realm, Rivertongue, Flametongue
Backgrounds

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Resources ●●●●● (Yarr harr, and associated activities, including slave labor, as well as front organizations, only some worked through the Guild.)
Contacts ● (Local Guild Merchant, 1 die for minor contacts)
Influence ● (Local Guild)
Destiny ●●● (Collective Destiny - Avenge the death of Gratis and reorganize the Wavecrest Archipelago.)

Artifacts and Equipment

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Exceptional Saber (Rapier) (Speed 4, Accuracy +2, Damage +2L, Defense +2, Rate 3, Piercing)
Exceptional Flame Piece (Speed 5, Accuracy +2, Damage 8L, Rate 2, Range 10)
Exceptional Chain Shirt (+2B/+4L soak, -0 mobility, 0 fatigue)

Join Combat: 3

Attacks:
Punch – Speed 5, Accuracy +1, Damage +2B, Defense +2, Rate 3
Kick – Speed 5, Accuracy +0, Damage +5B, Defense -2, Rate 2
Clinch – Speed 5, Accuracy +0, Damage Special, Defense 0, Rate 1
Saber – Speed 4, Accuracy +2, Damage +2L, Defense +2, Rate 3, Piercing
Flame Piece – Speed 5, Accuracy +2, Damage 8L, Rate 2*, Range 10

*Miscellaneous action to reload.

Defenses:
Dodge DV 3
Parry DV 5

Soak: 5B/5L (Armor +2B/+4L)
Hardness: 0B/0L

Health:
-0 [ ]
-1 [ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ]
-4 [ ]
-X [ ]
Dying [ ]

Social Defenses:
Dodge MDV 5
Parry MDV 5 (Presence)/5 (Performance)/5 (Investigation)

Virtues
Compassion ● [ ]
Conviction ●●●● [X][X][ ][ ]
Temperance ●● [ ][ ]
Valor ●● [ ][ ]

Intimacies
Compassion – Dingane (Friends)
Conviction – Profit (Desire), The Guild (Respect)
Temperance –
Valor –

Willpower: 7/7

Essence:
Permanent: ●
Personal:
Peripheral:
Commitments:

Flaws

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1 XP from group Wanted
3 XP from Sterile

Merits

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Silver Tongue - +2 on Manipulation-based rolls based of deception.

XP 87/87 spent, 0 remain

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12 XP on Resources 3->5
12 XP on Appearance 1->3
11 XP on Willpower 5->7
12 XP on Stamina 1->3
9 XP on Destiny 0->3
9 XP on Silver Tongue
4 XP on Strength 1->2
3 XP on Archery 0->1
3 XP on Athletics 0->1

Character Sheet - Gratis

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Name: Kefentse Dingane / Gratis

Motivation: Freedom to those with the will to take it.

Attributes

Physical	Mental	Social
Strength ●●	Perception ●●	Charisma ●●●●●
Dexterity ●●●●●	Intelligence ●●	Manipulation ●
Stamina ●●●	Wits ●●	Appearance ●●●

Abilities

Favored	Combat	Social	Mental	Sneaky	Practical
Martial Arts ●●●●●	Archery	Integrity ●●●	Craft	Athletics ●●	Bureaucracy
	---	Performance	Investigation	Awareness ●●●●	Linguistics ●
	Melee	Presence ●●●●	Lore	Dodge	Ride
	Thrown	Resistance ●●●	Medicine	Larceny	Sail ●●●
	War ●●●●	Survival ●●●	Occult	Stealth ●	Socialize

Specialties: Martial Arts (First Pulse Style +●●●), Presence (Pirate King +●)
Languages Known: Flametongue, Seatongue
Backgrounds

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Ally ● (Enemy)
Influence ● (Followers)
Followers ●● (20 highly competent, loyal pirates)
Henchmen ●●●● (10 super-competent, super-loyal pirates)
Command ●●●● (500 competent pirates)
Destiny ●●● (Collective destiny - Shatter the government of the Wavecrest Archipelago.)

Artifacts and Equipment

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Exceptional Fighting Gauntlets (Speed 5, Accuracy +1, Damage +6B, Defense +3, Rate 2)
Axe Boots (Speed 5, Accuracy +0, Damage +5L, Defense -2, Rate 2)
Exceptional Breastplate (+2B/+4L soak, -0 mobility, 0 fatigue)

Join Combat: 6

Attacks:
Punch – Speed 5, Accuracy +1, Damage +2B, Defense +2, Rate 3
Kick – Speed 5, Accuracy +0, Damage +5B, Defense -2, Rate 2
Clinch – Speed 5, Accuracy +0, Damage Special, Defense 0, Rate 1
Exceptional Fighting Gauntlets - Speed 5, Accuracy +1, Damage +6B, Defense +3, Rate 2
Axe Boots - Speed 5, Accuracy +0, Damage +5L, Defense -2, Rate 2

Defenses:
Dodge DV 3
Parry DV 6/8 (First Pulse Fighting Gauntlets)

Soak: 5B/5L (Armor +2B/+4L)
Hardness: 0B/0L

Health:
-0 [ ]
-1 [ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ]
-4 [ ]
-X [ ]
Dying [ ]

Social Defenses:
Dodge MDV 5
Parry MDV 4 (Presence)/5 (Pirate King Presence)/2 (Performance)/2 (Investigation)

Virtues
Compassion ●● [ ][ ]
Conviction ●●● [ ][ ][ ]
Temperance ●● [ ][ ]
Valor ●●●● [ ][ ][ ][ ]

Intimacies
Compassion – Iodannus (Friends), Yoko Tessa (Kismesis)
Conviction – Dark Secret (Must conceal), Command (Intolerance)
Temperance –
Valor –

Willpower: 6/6

Essence:
Permanent: ●
Personal:
Peripheral:
Commitments:

Flaws

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1 XP from group Wanted
6 XP from Dark Secret 2
3 XP from Enemy 1
9 XP from Code of Honor 3
6 XP from Severe Freedom Obsession

Merits

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Signature Style (Hotblooded Speeches) - +1 die to any stunted actions in line with the Signature Style.

XP 91/96 spent, 5 remain

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12 XP on Martial Arts 3->5
9 XP on Command 3->4
9 XP on Destiny 0->3
4 XP on Strength 2
6 XP on Awareness 4
5 XP on Willpower 5->6
2 XP on Compassion 1->2
2 XP on Temperance 1->2
12 XP on Appearance 1->3
6 XP on Sail 1->3
15 XP on Henchmen 0->4
3 XP on Allies 0->1
6 XP on Signature Style (Hotblooded Speeches)

Character Sheet - Atlas

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Name: Peleps Atlas

Motivation: Punish House Peleps.

Attributes

Physical	Mental	Social
Strength ●	Perception ●●	Charisma ●●●
Dexterity ●●●●	Intelligence ●●●●●	Manipulation ●●●
Stamina ●●	Wits ●●	Appearance ●●●●

Abilities

Favored	Combat	Social	Mental	Sneaky	Practical
Occult ●●●●●	Archery ●●●	Integrity ●●●●	Craft	Athletics	Bureaucracy
	Martial Arts	Performance ●●	Investigation ●●●	Awareness ●	Linguistics ●●
	Melee	Presence ●●	Lore ●●●●	Dodge ●●	Ride
	Thrown	Resistance ●	Medicine	Larceny ●	Sail ●
	War	Survival	---	Stealth	Socialize ●●

Specialties: Presence (Spirits +●), Archery (Essence Attacks +●●), Dodge (Ships +●)
Languages Known: High Realm, Seatongue, Old Realm
Backgrounds

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Artifact ●●● (Broken Fire Lance; No spearhead or spear-charging systems, but the remaining systems only constitute Repair 1. Attunement 2m to power from own essence pool. For a 2m cost, fires an archery-based Fire Streamer with Speed 5, Accuracy +2, Damage 10L, Rate 2, Range 150. For a 5m cost, fires an archery-based Fire Fan against up to three targets within three yards of each other with one attack roll, with Speed 5, Accuracy +5, Damage 7L, Rate 1, Range 100.)
Artifact ● (Small Yasal Crystal, in the shape of an opium pipe.)
Henchman ● (Nurse Balnshik - Physician, caretaker, and sailor.)
Destiny ●●● (Collective Destiny - Betray the Wavecrest Archipelago back into the Realm, and take up his place as prodigal son returned humble.)

Artifacts and Equipment

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Exceptional Buff Jacket (+4B/+3L Soak, -0 mobility, 1 fatigue)

Join Combat: 4

Attacks:
Punch – Speed 5, Accuracy +1, Damage +2B, Defense +2, Rate 3
Kick – Speed 5, Accuracy +0, Damage +5B, Defense -2, Rate 2
Clinch – Speed 5, Accuracy +0, Damage Special, Defense 0, Rate 1
Fire Streamer (2m cost) - Speed 5, Accuracy +2, Damage 10L, Rate 2, Range 150
Fire Fan (5m cost, three targets) - Speed 5, Accuracy +5, Damage 7L, Rate 1, Range 100

Defenses:
Dodge DV 3/4 on Ships
Parry DV 3

Soak: 6B/4L (Armor +4B/+3L
Hardness: 0B/0L

Health:
-0 [ ]
-1 [ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ]
-4 [ ]
-X [ ]
Dying [ ]

Social Defenses:
Dodge MDV 5
Parry MDV 3 (Presence)/3 (Performance)/3 (Investigation)

Virtues
Compassion ●●● [ ][ ][ ]
Conviction ●● [ ][ ]
Temperance ●● [ ][ ]
Valor ●● [ ][ ]

Intimacies
Compassion – Peleps Trisha (Familial Love)
Conviction –
Temperance –
Valor –

Willpower: 5/5

Essence:
Permanent: ●
Personal: 8/10
Peripheral:
Commitments: 2m (Fire Lance)

Fire Lance Battery: 20/20

Flaws

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1 XP from group Wanted
9 XP on Vice (Opiates)
6 XP on Enemy (Necromancer Pirate)

Merits

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Awakened Essence (4) - Gain a personal essence pool of (Essence x10), of which one third may be used in any given scene. By spending 1wp, the entire pool may be used during a scene.
Enchanting Features (2) - +2 dice on any social roll to seduce someone who could become sexually attracted to the character, increase the maximum benefit of having a higher Appearance than the target by one for seduction, and reduce the actual penalties of having a lower appearance than the target by one for seduction.

XP 76/83 spent, 7 remain

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4 XP on Charisma 1->2
4 XP on Stamina 1->2
7 XP on Occult 4->5
2 XP on Linguistics 1->2
2 XP on Dodge 1->2
2 XP on Socialize 1->2
2 XP on Presence 1->2
9 XP on Destiny 0->3
24 XP on Master Degree of Elemental Summoning
2 XP on Procedures (Ghost-striking, Deathsight)
12 XP on Awakened Essence (4)
6 XP on Enchanting Looks (2)

Character Sheet - Wyndham

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Name: Silver Wyndham
Caste:
Anima:

Motivation: Punish House Peleps
Backstory
Personality
Appearance
Attributes

Physical	Mental	Social
Strength ●	Perception ●●●●	Charisma ●●●●●
Dexterity ●●●	Intelligence ●●	Manipulation ●●●
Stamina ●●●●	Wits ●●	Appearance ●●

Abilities

Favored	Combat	Social	Mental	Sneaky	Practical
Integrity ●●●●●	Archery	---	Craft	Athletics ●●	Bureaucracy
	Martial Arts	Performance ●●●●	Investigation	Awareness ●●	Linguistics ●●
	Melee	Presence ●	Lore	Dodge ●●●	Ride
	Thrown ●●●	Resistance	Medicine	Larceny ●●	Sail
	War	Survival	Occult ●●●	Stealth ●●	Socialize ●●

Specialties: Performance (Curses +●●●), Larceny (Conceal Weapons +●)
Crafts Known:
Languages Known: Low Realm, Old Realm, Seatongue
Backgrounds

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Destiny ●●● (Joint Destiny)
Familiar ●● (Large, intelligent bat)

Artifacts and Equipment

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2 Exceptional War Boomerangs (Speed 5, Accuracy +1, Damage +4L, Rate 2, Range 40)
Fine Chakrams (Speed 4, Accuracy +0, Damage +1L, Rate 3, Range 40)
Exceptional Chain Shirt (+4L/+2B, Mobility -0, Fatigue 0)

Join Combat: 4

Attacks:
Punch – Speed 5, Accuracy +1, Damage +2B, Defense +2, Rate 3
Kick – Speed 5, Accuracy +0, Damage +5B, Defense -2, Rate 2
Clinch – Speed 5, Accuracy +0, Damage Special, Defense 0, Rate 1
Exceptional War Boomerang - Speed 5, Accuracy +1, Damage +4L, Rate 2, Range 40
Fine Chakram - Speed 4, Accuracy +0, Damage +1L, Rate 3, Range 40

Defenses:
Dodge DV 3
Parry DV 2 (punch)

Soak: 6B/4L (Armor +2B/+4L)
Hardness: 0B/0L

Health:
-0 [ ]
-1 [ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ]
-4 [ ]
-X [ ]
Dying [ ]

Social Defenses:
Dodge MDV 7
Parry MDV 3 (Presence)/4 (Performance)/7 (Curse Performance)/2 (Investigation)

Virtues
Compassion ●● [ ][ ]
Conviction ●●●●● [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]
Temperance ●● [ ][ ]
Valor ●●● [ ][ ][ ]

Intimacies
Compassion –
Conviction –
Temperance –
Valor –

Willpower: 8/8

Essence:
Permanent: ●
Personal:
Peripheral:
Commitments:

Flaws

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3 XP from Nightmares 1

Merits

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Priest 1 (+1 success on prayer rolls)

XP 66/71 spent, 5 remain

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(I don’t have time for this right now, it’s right ~aetherialDawn)

Creation-Ruling Mandate - The Blacksea Scourge

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Name: The Blacksea Scourge Pirates

Policy
=Motivation: Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free! (Alternative reading: Sail free from the law.)
=Intimacies
==Imperial Navy (Hatred)
==Plunder (Love)

Structure
=Triumvirate Pirate-lords have the authority to take Leadership Actions.

Assets
=Size ●●●●
=Competence ●● (Sailing, Fighting, and Tracking by Sea)
=Influence ●●
=Wealth ●●●
=Reach ●●●●
=Maximum Capital: 15

=Special Assets:
==Free Port Town Vapaas - Rating ●●● Town
==The Fairweather Friend - Rating ● Merchant Ship

Subsidiaries
Name: The Black Dahlia (Tessa's Revenge is identical, save a Competence of only 2, and the Captain has co-authority with Gratis; Iodannus cannot issue orders to the Captain of the Tessa's Revenge.)

Policy
=Motivation: Sail the waters of Wavecrest with Gratis.
=Intimacies: Imperial Navy (Hatred), Plunder (Love), Freedom (Dedication), Gratis (Loyalty)

Structure
=Gratis has the authority to take Leadership Actions. Iodannus can take actions in his name.

Assets
=Size ●●
=Competence ●●● (Sailing, Fighting, and Tracking by Sea)
=Influence ●●
=Wealth ●●
=Reach ●
=Maximum Capital: 10

=Special Assets:
==None

Relevant Houserules (Sorted!)

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Character Sheets, including Experience Costs
=Willpower costs (Rating) XP to raise.
=Virtues cost (Rating x2) XP to raise.
=Each BP at character creation is replaced by 3 XP, including BP gained from flaws. (This appears to have resulted in characters with fewer weak spots than normal and Willpower 10 not being an automatic choice, with little change in overall power level.)

Mechanical Systems
=Simple combat between large numbers of extras will be resolved by opposed rolls using a variant of the Creation-Ruling Mandate system. The flow of battle will be 'checked' every 10 ticks by rolling (Charisma/Intelligence + War) against a difficulty of (Enemy Size+Competence)-(Own Competence) - with unled groups of Extras rolling (Competence) dice. (Yes, you can have a leader who reduces the competence of his troops, should he be ill-suited to battle tactics.)
=Sea battles will likely be handled by a more nuanced variant of the CRM system than extra-on-extra combat is handled with. (This is on my to-do list.)
=Craft is a single ability, with one free type of craft with the first dot. Further crafts cost 2 specialties each for mortals, or 1 specialty for Exalted.
=Backgrounds cannot be gained in play due to XP, nor can XP be spent to 'reinforce' them against loss. They can only be gained by actually gaining them (generally by devoting downtime to such pursuits, with appropriate die rolls.) Backgrounds can be attacked in the same manner - applying both to players AND to NPCs.

Specific Rulings
=Light opium smoking imposes a -1 internal penalty on all actions, but the smoker can ignore one die of their total wound penalties.
=The cannons from Scroll of Kings are silly, but currently still canon. They may be retroactively replaced by something less silly in the future. (This is on my to-do list.)

Wound Complication Rules (Now complete)

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Mortals are squishy, frail beings! Wounds can cause five main complications: Bleeding, Infection, Disabling Wounds, Knockdown, and Stunning.
Exalted are extremely resistant to bleeding and infection, completely immune to disabling wounds, and vulnerable normally to knockdown and stunning.

Bleeding
=Lethal (or Aggravated!) damage causes bleeding. As long as a character suffers from bleeding, they take a level of unsoakable lethal damage every (Stamina) minutes.
=Stanching a single wound's bleeding is a (Wits+Medicine) Speed 5/DV -1 miscellaneous action, at a difficulty of the number of lethal/aggravated health levels lost to the wound.
=Strenuous activity - combat, most things involving athletics, and the like - will re-open stanched wounds for mortals.

Infection
=Infection is a risk in any drawn-out battle, as wounds become exposed to disease. It is Virulence 3, Untreated Morbidity 1 (rising by 1 each day), and the Treated Morbidity is the same as Untreated, but medical attention halts the rise in difficulty. The Difficulty to Treat is equal to the current Morbidity.
=If sterilized with alcohol within an hour, the Virulence drops to 2. If cauterized within an hour (one unsoakable bashing damage) then no check against Virulence need be made.
=On a botch, or when the Morbidity of infection exceeds the character's (Stamina+Resistance), the character spends the next (Stamina) days dying at a -4 wound penalty from agonizing fever.
=Treatment is a daily (Intelligence+Medicine) roll against the current Morbidity. Success keeps the Morbidity from rising higher.
=Once the character beats the Morbidity, the infection ceases, but wound penalties DO penalize rolls against infection.
=While actively infected, a character suffers a constant -2 internal penalty to all non-reflexive actions from fever and discomfort.

Disabling Wounds
=Mortals who suffer 4+ levels of lethal or aggravated damage from a single attack suffer a disabling wound with an equal number of levels. This manifests as 'phantom damage' - no matter how many health levels the character heals, they always suffer wound penalties as if they were missing that many health levels.
=Repairing a disabling wound requires an (Intelligence+Medicine) roll with a difficulty equal to the number of levels in a wound, and takes two hours per level. This surgery inflicts a number of unsoakable lethal health levels equal to the original wound, which can be infected but heal normally.

Knockdown
=Anyone who suffers more raw damage dice than their (Stamina+Resistance) is hurled to the ground unless they succeed on a reflexive (Dexterity/Stamina)+(Resistance/Athletics) roll of difficulty 2. Rising from Prone requires a miscellaneous action.
=Deliberately tackling someone prompts a knockdown check from BOTH parties, and stuns the target even if they succeed on the roll.
=Sweeping with a staff, chain, whip, or kick (or similar weapons) reduces the accuracy of the attack by -2, but if it hits it inflicts a knockdown check even if it does no damage.

Stunning
=Characters who suffer more actual levels of damage than their Stamina must check for Stunning, rolling (Stamina+Resistance) at a difficulty of (Damage Inflicted-Stamina) with failure inflicting a -2 penalty on all non-reflexive actions until the attacker's next action.

Quote Board

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"I don't know, I don't smoke opium!" - aetherialDawn
"I don't see how 'kill everybody' is all that ambiguous." - Nave14