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I'll try and think quieter next time. Focusing on this for about 2 weeks seems to have transferred knowledge of it to you via osmosis. We share just enough wavelength that it ruined the surprise :(
Or there are fae touched in Australia. I did have trouble sleeping, like a fever dream. But I awoke refreshed; maybe it was an accidental mindlink. *shrug*
I hope it's a mindlink. If it turns out my super power is predicting the immediate future of the pony thread I'll be annoyed I didn't, say, get the ability to transform into an adorable pony instead.

Like Pluto. Poor pluto! You're still a planet, in my heart.
Pluto is the name of the God of the Underworld and Wealth. By reclassifying it as not a planet, both the powers of the Dead and of Money are being weakened. Que financial crisis and drastic decrease in the number of ghosts. The entire thing was set up by communist exorcists.

Yay, Applejack! She goes great with some Rarity. Or a dash of Rainbow! But then, everything goes great with a dash of Rainbow, or so they say.
Every colour can be found in a rain-bowwwwww...

Or he wasn't too proud to hire a scribe.
Or narrate to a passerby.

Pretty sure they averted it. The Sidereals had a choice for three outcomes; the one the universe was heading for was WoD. But then they changed it.

So while the past of the World of Darkness may be Exalted, the future of Exalted isn't the Wordless of Darkness.
I don't think the Vision of Death was the World of Darkness. It's certainly not the nWoD, which has an objective creation myth(s). oWoD with consensus metaphysics, WHO KNOWS?

Aye, she was all sorts of anger-y. Also angry. And she kept chasing me with it saying "Look at it! LOOK AT IT!" until I beat her away with a nerf sword.
I dodged the Pinkestia bullet like a baaaaad hangover.

Ferraris are bad bulldozers? Action movies lied to me?!
XD
aye, I know. When I talk about the mechanics, I'm only referring to what I would have read up to character generation, and a little beyond. For example, that having a 1 compassion and a 5 compassion would be a flaw no matter which you picked? Beautiful. There is no 'I win' button there. There is a Character, a person, who makes mistakes. Who will be conflicted. And even if it never comes up mechanically, i find it nice to have those scales on paper.
In my theoretical magical well-made Exalted system, the virtues are the core mechanic instead of an optional add on.

In fact, one time one of the developers said "Fighting a sentient, evil planet-sized city is a little bit outside the scope of the system". At first, I laughed. And then I stopped. And then I realised that a sentient, evil planet-sized city is one of the primary antagonists of the setting and if the system doesn't support fighting that guy then the system is borked. Likewise the mass combat system balanced around professional armies of mortals fighting professional armies of mortals. In Exalted, a war without supernatural craziness is the exception.

Further in, the dice pool mechanic always seemed nice to me. The only downside is that, after so many sessions, two characters who started out differently (a military marksman and a college professor, say) would end up with the same firearms skill eventually. Without emphasis, specialization, or the like, the marksman has nowhere to graduate to if that's his thing. Theoretically, racial charms (or whatever you call them in other games) could fix this, but then the school teacher whines that he can't be as good as the natural-born, specially trained sniper...

Keep in mind though, I've never played world of darkness. I made a character for Werewolf: the Appocalypse (oWoD right?) that ne'er came through. So I don't have a feel for anything, only book learnin'.
I don't understand this? Sure, the Twilight putting 5 dots into Archery will be as good at Archery as the 5 dot Dawn caste sniper, but Charms fundamentally change that dynamic. Specialisation is really infinite within each area.

In terms of the WoD, skills are so expensive so a 0-Firearms professor will take 45 XP (9 sessions) to become as good at sniping as the elite military sniper, during which time he's not practising magic or anything else. Seems reasonably prohibitive.

More to the point though, are the mechanics. The glamour wears away, and the guy who still thinks yellowbelt punching kata 3 is where it's at stays at yellowbelt. The guy who realizes all the kata are the same punch, and who 'masters' the basics climbs the ranks. Breathing. Presence. Control. Awareness. Poise. Everything else are just trappings to keep us rebellious youth interested long enough to get hooked.
Exactly. The difference between bending your knee and keeping it straight is the difference between a master and a newbie.

I am a big believer of might makes right, but also the obligation of the strong towards the less strong. How could I not be? My county has an obscure, loop-hole filled right about having weapons for the sole purpose of repelling any future British invasions. *
Might makes right? Well there's a philosophy I can't get behind Heck, my MA school's creed is:

To build true confidence
Through honesty in mind
Courage in heart
And strength in body
To keep true friendship with one another
And build a strong and happy community
Never fight to achieve selfish gains
Or to prove might is right.

My particular brand of sarcasm, preferred manner of dress, method of walking, and facial expressions have led me to be labeled "House". In a conversation three weeks ago, it came up. Then we had a 'who's who?' and decided Braz would be the girl from the first few seasons. And I said "you better not marry Thanqol" and just the two of us laughed while everypony else was confused. It was good times.

Because, Y'know, you're Australian.
My favourite Dr. Chase moment was the reveal that he's trained in the traditional arts of Australian Hypnotism. I took an elective in that in primary school.

I can tell when you're trollin' by the lack of punctuation XD
In order to overcome communication barriers on the internet, I developed the secret technique of sarcastic lower case. Any text lacking punctuation and capitalisation is sarcastic.

This technique can destroy minds.

Ah C'mon. You could be movie!phantom. Wear a skull ring and a gunbelt. Nopony saw anything else when watching that movie anyway.
Mask: You watched that movie? Owch.

Nah, hate!love would be kismesitude, wouldn't it? An anti-proposal would be an impermanent promise to avoid each other indefinitely.

And... Wasn't mask the one who was initially being hit on? I don't know how whoever is being engaged now got in there, but I'm pretty sure Mask is the default Thanqomponent, and would be the operative target.
Sounds like a really boring anti-marriage?

Charger: I believe I was offered "to get in on this".
Mask: I was just making reference to the mask being a barrier in most propositions.

Putting more thought into it, I see her with a mullet. That is, long in back, anime in front. Largish silver tuft, with a single bronze lock in the middle.

But that sounds dumb, and your picture is better. Though I do find silver mane/bronze streak less discongruent1.
Hm, I'll give that a try next time I draw her!

lessee. In person, unless I slip into a burr-brogue mix (which happens surprisingly often considering I'm native to Gallophornia) my inflection slips and I slur a bit. And online, I have the time to formulate my thoughts, which should prevent stream-of-consciousness but it doesn't seem to.
Charger's awkwardness stems from needing to explain things that don't need to be explained, which increases embarrassment which also increases word complexity, which sort of spirals in on itself until the romance has put it's hat back on and caught the bus.

You can see Blueblood with a marefriend?
Yes. The dynamic would have to be right, but it could happen and could rock.


Thanks everypony (/gryphon/hippogrif/person/robot/mutant/undead/etc.). It's good to know I was missed. Even better, glad to know that (thread speed aside!) my posts weren't too cumbersome

(OH NO THREE PAGES BEHIND OH CELESTIA WHY)[/color]
Your posts regularly make me laugh but I don't always comment on each time.