General Exalted Discussion II: No Longer Mortal

[Tavar]

He also did an Autochthon charm set that he tries to keep hidden out of shame. I messaged him about it, but he says they're too awful to use. They looked okay to me, though , oh well.

Problem with being generally awesome; you tend to get high standards.

That's why I enjoy being just kinda okay.

[Jokasti]

The two aren't mutually exclusive.

At first I was like "Wouldn't it be hard to eat a Hellforged Warstrider?" But then I understood what you meant.
I would need to use that charm that lets me eat anything. Great idea!

[Xefas]

I want to have charms and a world and my own Urge and 15 third circle demons and and and

Ligier Pony and the Ebon Hatchling welcome you to the fold...

[Jokasti]

Ligier Pony and the Ebon Hatchling welcome you to the fold...

Do I want to know what that thing on her hindquarters is?

[Xefas]

Do I want to know what that thing on her hindquarters is?

Updated with more green.

And that is obviously the Mark of the Green Sun.

[The Rose Dragon]

Do I want to know what that thing on her hindquarters is?

It's her pony-mark. All ponies in My Little Ponies have them. I don't know the specific name for the marks, though, never having watched My Little Ponies ((though I hear the latest show is really good)).

[Xefas]

It's her pony-mark. All ponies in My Little Ponies have them. I don't know the specific name for the marks, though, never having watched My Little Ponies ((though I hear the latest show is really good)).

My Little Pony invented the idea of Caste Marks.

[Jokasti]

Ah. It's just... It looks... very... augh. Never mind. Ponies.
I could never watch that show. *Goes to watch Adventure Time and Ben 10*

[SurlySeraph]

I did a write-up for a 0 xp Sidereal mountain-hurler, using the Dawn errata. He's built primarily for lifting and throwing, of course, with some attention paid to Astrology so he can keep using that resplendency.

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Name: Propitious Projector of Peaks
Exalt Type and Caste: Sidereal Chosen of Journeys
Anima: A hovering yellow mountain

Lifting ability, so you don't have to wait for it:
5 Strength + 5 Athletics + 3 Specialties + 5 Virtue channel + 5 Cooperation + 2 Stunt + 2 Second Excellency +3 Eye of the First Goat +2 Jewel of Youthful Suppleness = 32, multiplied by The Mast for a final 320 Feat of Strength.

Motivation: To free Creation from the Primordials by moving large objects to more auspicious locations.

Background: Projector was born in midair, as a Solar hurled a field hospital out of a First Circle Demon's reach to save the civilians inside. He was recruited to run messages for the military as soon as he learned to walk, at first in a succession of Sidereal field headquarters and later through active battlefields. At maturity, Projector was assigned to a counter-intelligence unit and rescued tremendous amounts of valuable information from the enemy with remarkable strength and timing, heaving bookcases onto passing yeddim and hurling data crystals onto low-flying airships.
Still, it was only in the minutes after his Exaltation that Projector truly came into his own. There is no need to recount that exploit here; everyone knows how the behemoth Gozmal the Flat got its name. Projector has begun to rearrange mountain ranges across the North in defense of the world, and confidently predicts that demonic forces will retreat from this Direction by the time Gozmal's tail stops twitching. Whether leading a detachment of Sidereal mountain-hurlers or rallying a Talon of adoring Dragon-Bloods, he has become one of the most prominent Celestials in the North mere months since his Exaltation.
Several have asked Mercury if Projector was supposed to Exalt as a Solar, noting his awesomeness and virtue and tendency to shine yellow light everywhere. She always smiles and says she would never steal from the UCS, and certainly not alter Fate to deprive His Perfection of a soul that deserved a more powerful Exaltation than what she can provide. Jupiter always starts giggling around then, for some reason.

Attributes

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Physical:
Strength ●●●●●
Dexterity ●●●●●
Stamina ●

Social:
Charisma ●●●●●
Manipulation ●●
Appearance ●●

Mental
Perception ●●
Intelligence ●●
Wits ●●●

Abilities (Specializations +)

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Journeys
Resistance •••
Ride: 0
Sail: ••• (airborne mountains +●●)
Survival ••
Thrown ••••• (mountains +•••)
Favored:
Athletics ••••• (Feats of Strength +•••)
Performance ••
Martial Arts •••••
Melee ••
Other:
Awareness ••, Bureaucracy ••, Linguistics (Old Realm [native], Skytongue, Army Code) ••, Lore •••, Occult ••, Socialize •, Stealth •

Backgrounds, Artifacts and Equipment:

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Backgrounds: Manse ••, Manse •, Familiar •••, Familiar •••, Artifact ••, Artifact ••, Artifact •, Followers •

Artifacts and Equipment:
Artifacts: Dragon Tear Tiara, Hearthstone Amulet, Hearthstone Bracers
Followers: Five groupies who help him lift, selected from families with Earth Aspect lineages. (He can totally have followers, it's the First Age so Arcane Fate hasn't happened yet).
Familiars: A couple of bears with an unusually good understanding of lifting and leverage.

Manse: Goathouse, an Earth-aspected manse on the peak of a very tall mountain. Only those capable of climbing up are worthy to attend the parties there.
Stone: Eye of the First Goat

Manse: Jointhold, a Wood-aspected hunting lodge located in a pine forest.
Stone: Jewel of Youthful Suppleness

Charms

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Athletics
2nd Excellency

Martial Arts
Fluttering Cry of Warning
Empowering Justice Redirection
Crane Form

Melee
Impeding the Flow
Harmony of Blows

Occult
Mark of Exaltation

Resistance
Optimistic Security Practice
Water and Fire Treaty

Thrown
2nd Excellency
Willful Weapon Method
Life Gets Worse Approach

Virtues:
Compassion ●●●●●
Conviction ●
Temperance ●●●●●
Valor ●●

Colleges:
The Mast ●●●●●
The Ship's Wheel ●●

Intimacies:
Mercury (loyalty)
Solars (loyalty)
Pasiap (apologetic devotion)
Earth Aspect Terrestrials (reflexive lust)
Gaia (all of the above)

Willpower: ●●●●●●●●●●

Essence:
Permanent: ●●
Personal: Current 12 (Max 12)
Peripheral: Current 26 (Max 33) (7 Attuned)

Bonus Points:

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6 to raise Compassion to 5
5 to raise Willpower to 10
5 on Favored and Caste Abilities
1 on Thrown specialties
1 on Sail specialties
Total: 18/18

EDIT: The reason your eyes hurt when you look directly at the sun is because it's punching you.

This needs to be a Charm. It's also my personal canon from now on.

[tonberrian]

Just read through BWC, and, and...
ohmysol
I want Heretical Charms
givemeHereticalCharmsnow
I want to have charms and a world and my own Urge and 15 third circle demons and and and
Someone run a high essence infernals game please.

ohmygodIwanttoplayasahighessenceInfernalsobad

I want this so hard I wanted it retroactively.

Ignore the edit time stamp behind the curtain...

[Jokasti]

I did a write-up for a 0 xp Sidereal mountain-hurler, using the Dawn errata. He's built primarily for lifting and throwing, of course, with some attention paid to Astrology so he can keep using that resplendency.

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Name: Propitious Projector of Peaks
Exalt Type and Caste: Sidereal Chosen of Journeys
Anima: A hovering yellow mountain

Lifting ability, so you don't have to wait for it:
5 Strength + 5 Athletics + 3 Specialties + 5 Virtue channel + 5 Cooperation + 2 Stunt + 2 Second Excellency +3 Eye of the First Goat +2 Jewel of Youthful Suppleness = 32, multiplied by The Mast for a final 320 Feat of Strength.

Motivation: To free Creation from the Primordials by moving large objects to more auspicious locations.

Background: Projector was born in midair, as a Solar hurled a field hospital out of a First Circle Demon's reach to save the civilians inside. He was recruited to run messages for the military as soon as he learned to walk, at first in a succession of Sidereal field headquarters and later through active battlefields. At maturity, Projector was assigned to a counter-intelligence unit and rescued tremendous amounts of valuable information from the enemy with remarkable strength and timing, heaving bookcases onto passing yeddim and hurling data crystals onto low-flying airships.
Still, it was only in the minutes after his Exaltation that Projector truly came into his own. There is no need to recount that exploit here; everyone knows how the behemoth Gozmal the Flat got its name. Projector has begun to rearrange mountain ranges across the North in defense of the world, and confidently predicts that demonic forces will retreat from this Direction by the time Gozmal's tail stops twitching. Whether leading a detachment of Sidereal mountain-hurlers or rallying a Talon of adoring Dragon-Bloods, he has become one of the most prominent Celestials in the North mere months since his Exaltation.
Several have asked Mercury if Projector was supposed to Exalt as a Solar, noting his awesomeness and virtue and tendency to shine yellow light everywhere. She always smiles and says she would never steal from the UCS, and certainly not alter Fate to deprive His Perfection of a soul that deserved a more powerful Exaltation than what she can provide. Jupiter always starts giggling around then, for some reason.

Attributes

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Physical:
Strength ●●●●●
Dexterity ●●●●●
Stamina ●

Social:
Charisma ●●●●●
Manipulation ●●
Appearance ●●

Mental
Perception ●●
Intelligence ●●
Wits ●●●

Abilities (Specializations +)

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Journeys
Resistance •••
Ride: 0
Sail: •••
Survival ••
Thrown ••••• (mountains +•••)
Favored:
Athletics ••••• (Feats of Strength +•••)
Performance ••
Martial Arts •••••
Melee ••
Other:
Awareness ••, Bureaucracy ••, Linguistics (Old Realm [native], Skytongue, Army Code) ••, Lore •••, Occult ••, Socialize •, Stealth •

Backgrounds, Artifacts and Equipment:

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Backgrounds: Manse ••, Manse •, Familiar •••, Familiar •••, Artifact ••, Artifact ••, Artifact •, Followers •

Artifacts and Equipment:
Artifacts: Dragon Tear Tiara, Hearthstone Amulet, Hearthstone Bracers
Followers: Five groupies who help him lift, selected from families with Earth Aspect lineages. (He can totally have followers, it's the First Age so Arcane Fate hasn't happened yet).
Familiars: A couple of bears with an unusually good understanding of lifting and leverage.

Manse: Goathouse, an Earth-aspected manse on the peak of a very tall mountain. Only those capable of climbing up are worthy to attend the parties there.
Stone: Eye of the First Goat

Manse: Jointhold, a Wood-aspected hunting lodge located in a pine forest.
Stone: Jewel of Youthful Suppleness

Charms

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Athletics
2nd Excellency

Martial Arts
Fluttering Cry of Warning
Empowering Justice Redirection
Crane Form

Melee
Impeding the Flow
Harmony of Blows

Occult
Mark of Exaltation

Resistance
Optimistic Security Practice
Water and Fire Treaty

Thrown
2nd Excellency
Willful Weapon Method
Life Gets Worse Approach

Virtues:
Compassion ●●●●●
Conviction ●
Temperance ●●●●●
Valor ●●

Colleges:
The Mast ●●●●●
The Ship's Wheel ●●

Intimacies:
Mercury (loyalty)
Solars (loyalty)
Pasiap (apologetic devotion)
Earth Aspect Terrestrials (reflexive lust)
Gaia (all of the above)

Willpower: ●●●●●●●●

Essence:
Permanent: ●●
Personal: Current 12 (Max 12)
Peripheral: Current 26 (Max 33) (7 Attuned)

Bonus Points:

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6 to raise Compassion to 5
6 to raise Willpower to 8
5 on Favored and Caste Abilities
1 on Thrown specialties
Total: 18/18

This needs to be a Charm. It's also my personal canon from now on.

Hahahha. Oh man. I can't wait for the Sidereal fixes so I can play a serious one.

I want this so hard I wanted it retroactively.

Ignore the edit time stamp behind the curtain...

That's pretty hard, man.

[Jokasti]

What's the easiest Shintai Charm to get?

[Xefas]

What's the easiest Shintai Charm to get?

Probably Devil-Tyrant Avatar Shintai.

Soul-Sand Devil Shintai is also pretty easy, and it nets you (the worst Solar-level) perfect defense on your way there.

EDIT: Just for reference, Devil-Tyrant is Ess 3 with two prereqs (one of which is also really friggin' amazing), and Soul-Sand is Ess 4 with three prereqs (one of which is the aforementioned perfect defense).

[Sanguine]

I just had an awesome idea for a Heretical Infernal game.

The Reclamation was a success, the Yozis were freed from their prison and reclaimed what is theirs from the pitiful gods. The Unconquered Sun was not able too tear himself from the games even as the forces of Hell beat down the doors of the Jade Pleasure Dome, The Daystar doused in the acid waters of Kimbery, Luna was trapped in a prison existing purely in the mind of Oramus. and the maidens were placed in shackles forged from the tainted Starmetal of the deceased Incarnae Nox; crushing their will completely. The 150 Solar Exaltations were captured and twisted into Exaltations of the Green Sun. Those foolish enough not to back the Reclamation remained trapped in the body of their one-time king.

Everything seemed to be going the Yozis way. Until a new concept appeared among their favored servants. Heresy. These new Heretics rebelled against their masters. Even more horrifying, the Yozis couldn't defeat them out of hand. Heaven and Creation have been ravaged by War for the last 1500 years. Both sides have suffered serious casualties, though unlike the Yozis the Heretics can replenish themselves not just their souls.


I'm not sure I want to run it however, because if I run it then I can't play.

[Lix Lorn]

Reminds me of one of the worlds from Random_Person's game. Seriously, there were seven versions of creation there, I want to play in all of dem. DX

[Jokasti]

I just had an awesome idea for a Heretical Infernal game.

The Reclamation was a success, the Yozis were freed from their prison and reclaimed what is theirs from the pitiful gods. The Unconquered Sun was not able too tear himself from the games even as the forces of Hell beat down the doors of the Jade Pleasure Dome, The Daystar doused in the acid waters of Kimbery, Luna was trapped in a prison existing purely in the mind of Oramus. and the maidens were placed in shackles forged from the tainted Starmetal of the deceased Incarnae Nox; crushing their will completely. The 150 Solar Exaltations were captured and twisted into Exaltations of the Green Sun. Those foolish enough not to back the Reclamation remained trapped in the body of their one-time king.

Everything seemed to be going the Yozis way. Until a new concept appeared among their favored servants. Heresy. These new Heretics rebelled against their masters. Even more horrifying, the Yozis couldn't defeat them out of hand. Heaven and Creation have been ravaged by War for the last 1500 years. Both sides have suffered serious casualties, though unlike the Yozis the Heretics can replenish themselves not just their souls.


I'm not sure I want to run it however, because if I run it then I can't play.

waaaaaaaant

[tonberrian]

I'm not sure I want to run it however, because if I run it then I can't play.

This was my logic on STing an Alchemicals game - players get to create one dynamic, interesting character to interact through. STs get a hundred.

Granted, this game also collapsed because I stopped posting, so...

I just want to take a minute to apologize to the players of that game. I was going through a lot of issues then. Still am, really. That, of course, doesn't excuse the fact that I let you all down, especially since I was harping on some of the players for doing that very thing. The fact that I haven't done this previously is also inexcusable. Ganurath, Ellas Aramond, DCGFTW, The Blue Guard, and Drascin - if you are reading this, you should know that you deserve better than what I gave you, and I humbly ask for your forgiveness.

I also have internet cookies. They're homeade.

[Sanguine]

This was my logic on STing an Alchemicals game - players get to create one dynamic, interesting character to interact through. STs get a hundred.

Granted, this game also collapsed because I stopped posting, so...

I just want to take a minute to apologize to the players of that game. I was going through a lot of issues then. That, of course, doesn't excuse the fact that I let you all down, of course, especially since I was harping on some of the players for doing that very thing. The fact that I haven't done this previously is also inexcusable. I humbly ask for your forgiveness.

I also have internet cookies. They're homeade.

Very compelling argument. Ok, I'll run the game, I'll post a link here once I put up the Recruitment Thread.

[tonberrian]

Very compelling argument. Ok, I'll run the game, I'll post a link here once I put up the Recruitment Thread.

ohmysolyouaresoawesome

...

ohmysolIamsoawesome

[a_humble_lich]

ohmysolyouaresoawesome

...

ohmysolIamsoawesome

Did you just use an UMI Linguistics charm to get Sanguine to run a game?

[Jokasti]

Very compelling argument. Ok, I'll run the game, I'll post a link here once I put up the Recruitment Thread.

OMS
yes
*drools*

ohmysolyouaresoawesome

...

ohmysolIamsoawesome

yes

Did you just use an UMI Linguistics charm to get Sanguine to run a game?

yes

yessssss

[tonberrian]

Did you just use an UMI Linguistics charm to get Sanguine to run a game?

I don't know! If I did, I need to figure out how to do it on a resume!

[Jokasti]

Gonna go ahead and say I'm going Fiend.

[The Rose Dragon]

I'll be a Defiler. Or a Scourge. Since they are the only cool Green Sun Prince Castes.

Probably Defiler.

[TheCountAlucard]

I would play, but I still don't have BWC.

[Xefas]

Aw mans, does that mean I'd finally get to play my reasonably-benevolent Malefactor that Devil-Tigers into Old Testament God? That would make me so happy.

[The Rose Dragon]

Aw mans, does that mean I'd finally get to play my reasonably-benevolent Malefactor that Devil-Tigers into Old Testament God? That would make me so happy.

These two phrases do not go together in the same sentence.

[Primal Fury]

These two phrases do not go together in the same sentence.

Of course they do. It's called character development!

[Sanguine]

A War of Heresy

[Tavar]

Is there a background that gives you something along the lines of a Cohort granted by the leadership feat in DnD? Player in my game wants something like that, and right now I'm using the Ally background to represent it, but I was wondering if there was a better way. Not that the ally isn't as capable as a full exalt(it's a heroic mortal, most likely unenlightened), so it's not like the guys getting two full characters to play around with.