I'm not really following what's going on in the scene. One moment, Casey Wakeman is on a stage, giving a speech to a crowd. Then Solon is...doing what? Talking to him? Hacking into a PA system? I can't really tell.
And Solon's rant kinda feels...non-sequitur? Maybe it's just me. I can't really tell what's going on. ^^'
You're not the only one, but that's fine. It just means our characters will react with similar degrees of total confusion to the ranting idealist
And yes, incoming Sidereals. I will be most amused if they're coming because the Weave told them Jones was going to shoot the Speaker...
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So, anyone wanna guess hazard a guess as to where this is going?
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I'm just saying, but if it goes anywhere violent, Ideal Sword MIGHT start murdering random civilians. He wasn't known as a good guy in First Age. Being emotionless tends to do that kind of thing
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I'm just saying, but if it goes anywhere violent, Ideal Sword MIGHT start murdering random civilians. He wasn't known as a good guy in First Age. Being emotionless tends to do that kind of thing
If you do do that, I should note, you'd need to come up with a pretty good reason why the rest of us (with a half-decent of support from at least three Sidereals, plus whatever other Exalts might happen to crawl out of the woodwork) shouldn't drop what we'd been doing before and focus exclusively on bringing down the glowing madman with a chainsaw-axe.
"I'm one of the PCs" is not on the list of acceptable answers BTW.
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Yeah, Henry would immediately attempt to kill you. He's an assassin, but that doesn't mean he's any fonder than the next guy of mad axe murderers butchering civilians.
I'm also trying to work out the thought process that leads from 'violence is happening over there' to 'clearly, I should start murdering civilians'.
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Yeah. If you start killing civilians at the drop of a hat, you're not going to be part of Serena's Circle. Preventing this sort of thing is her entire goal.
Mainly because, for him, this whole thing looks pretty much like an Yozi cult. You got the weird leader that everyone else is staring at, and he is saying stuff in an alien language and (probably?) doing dramatic hand movements, everyone is yelling in the same alien language
If someone was invisible and assassinate the leader of what seemed like a cult, considering he was used mostly as a weapon by the Deliberative, his first reactin would probably be "Priority Target Assassinated, start eliminating secondary targets"
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Mainly because, for him, this whole thing looks pretty much like an Yozi cult. You got the weird leader that everyone else is staring at, and he is saying stuff in an alien language and (probably?) doing dramatic hand movements, everyone is yelling in the same alien language
If someone was invisible and assassinate the leader of what seemed like a cult, considering he was used mostly as a weapon by the Deliberative, his first reactin would probably be "Priority Target Assassinated, start eliminating secondary targets"
... So, in other words, your character is so brain-meltingly stupid that he can't tell the difference between a cult where the crowd is on the speaker's side, and a speech where the crowd is a barely controlled riot fully against the speaker?
There's a difference between making an incorrect assumption about what's going on and looking for an excuse to act like Jason Voorhees.
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... So, in other words, your character is so brain-meltingly stupid that he can't tell the difference between a cult where the crowd is on the speaker's side, and a speech where the crowd is a barely controlled riot fully against the speaker?
There's a difference between making an incorrect assumption about what's going on and looking for an excuse to act like Jason Voorhees.
Not stupid, but he has no way of knowing WHY the crowd is acting whichever way it is. The only thing he can know is that they're in flames. They can be angry at speaker, or they just might be euphoric for whatever is coming.
And most importantly. You're patronizing me. Don't
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Not stupid, but he has no way of knowing WHY the crowd is acting whichever way it is. The only thing he can know is that they're in flames. They can be angry at speaker, or they just might be euphoric for whatever is coming.
And most importantly. You're patronizing me. Don't
Look, I was just trying to talk you out of doing something that will put all of us in conflict with you; I'll admit that my methods may not have been the best in the world, but I'm only doing it to try and get us to work together instead of turning this whole game into a PK-fest.
But you know what, if you're truly this committed to Sparkle Motion, I won't try to talk you out of it anymore. But I will roll Join Battle when the time comes.
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Not stupid, but he has no way of knowing WHY the crowd is acting whichever way it is. The only thing he can know is that they're in flames. They can be angry at speaker, or they just might be euphoric for whatever is coming.
Yyyyy...
You know, there is a really, really big difference between Yozi cult and angry/heated group of people. Personally I believe you character COULD take the first as a second... but only if he would have one dot in every mental attribute :-P :-P :-P
Even, if the festival is "alien" to West culture and even if for someone new the festival would look like crowd brawling on the street, it is only first impression, because people looks really happy!
There is practically no way to misunderstand the two things!
Eh, the man has legitimate reason, now that he's explained it. It's unlikely to go over well with the rest of the team, but it does make a kind of sense. And he's not good with recognizing emotions, since he has few of his own.
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That all said, you people make WAY too much of a big deal out of slaughtering everyone...
Uh... not really? First, the most obvious mechanical reason: my character and Kaworu's are both Compassion 3, while sun_tsu's is Compassion 5; we'd have to suppress Compassion to not act.
Secondly, and sadly, Realpolitik. This is a speech being given about the imprisonment of Dragon-Blooded by mortals for only the reason of "they're dangerous". And that's more likely than not from their anima flux and not from any actual actions of their charms. Justyn, Serena, and Solon are also probably all smart enough to realize that if a Solar starts massacring people, that "We don't know what these things are and we're scared of them!" fear might change into perfectly legitimate "Jegus! These people are gaining superpowers, we need to control them before one of them turns into Magneto!" fear and we get an Exalted Registration Act going on. Your character might not know what's going on (given the language barrier and the cryogenic stasis, that's understandable), or the potential political ramifications, but we sure do (for a given value of understanding; I'd imagine Serena has her finger on the pulse better than any of the rest of us put together). So sorry to say, it's not merely that you're killing mortals that's the problem; it's that a Solar is killing mortals, and that means that the mortals with all the power will think that we might just do that too.
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Henry is also going to equate a Solar killing people with unfortunate consequences for other Exalted. It's the main reason why he's still only debating killing the Speaker, even though he's been listening to the man go on about the actions taken against Exalted. He's trying to work out whether his death would work out as a net positive or not.
That said, I can see why Ideal Sword would do that. And I can also see why we'd pretty much all be required to intervene. Then again, this all becomes academic if our ST doesn't reappear...
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Then again, this all becomes academic if our ST doesn't reappear...
I've seen him on, and he responded to a PM yesterday, so it's not like he's totally vanished... just not dealing with much in this game...
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Sorry for the delay, it's been a busy week at work. I should be able to post more frequently from now on though.
For the IC thread, I should clarify that you'll need to make Awareness rolls to pick anything specific out of the crowd, like the two new individuals who just entered the throng.
...OK. I'd originally written in the IC thread that she didn't notice them. Then I saw we were supposed to roll for it, got three successes, so I edited the post to say she DID notice them. Is 3 successes enough, actually, or should I go back and edit again? ^^'
For the record, I won't pull an ST fiat if someone decides to get a case of Whitman fever. Canon Solars have done worse, after all. But a few things: First, I would appreciate it if big actions are discussed in the OOC, so there's no surprises for other party members. Second, this is a different setting. There's a lot more opportunities for information to be spread. The rise of smartphones, portable cameras, youtube, everything along that line makes it very, very easy to spread public info. It would most likely take a information specialist Exalt with a very wide power base to fully control Exalt-Mortal PR. So a lot of the stuff from the First or Second Age would be very difficult to get away with as a Solar if you don't play your cards right.
And yes, a time displaced First Age Solar would probably make some odd decisions. At the same time, even first age Solars understood good Exalt-Mortal interactions. It's totally plausible that a relatively new exalt like Conceptual Ideal Sword would want to gather more information before deciding to go all out on a crowd of unarmed people. That said, I can't see anything wrong with going full anima banner and artifact weapon... it'd make the scene more interesting after all.
Mal: Define interesting.
Wash: Oh god oh god we're all going to die?
That sort of interesting, I take it?
(Also, I find myself idly turning over ideas for how a mortal army would fight Exalted. And it's mostly coming down to air strikes and snipers. Lots of both. Alternately, artillery that is sighted on the big glowing fellow by satellite imagery.)
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"Not trusting me might be the smartest decision you made since getting off of your horse."
At low essence level's, and even moving up a bit, I'd imagine the biggest enemy would be information and mobility. A modern army can track and move with small forces a lot easier than a Second Age one. The pressure of a continuous attack even with mortal weapons could wear down even Solars. Then again, that's assuming the Exalted fight alone, and that's a terrible assumption to make.
Also I imagine a Solar circle with high DV and plenty of perfect defenses would force a conventional army to start leveling the area with explosives, depending on the area located. Oh, and yes, I will work nuclear weapons into the game, but no, I won't deploy them willy-nilly. There are various reasons both in game and out of game, but mainly it wouldn't be fun if the game turned into "The Cold War but with shinier leaders" for the first part of the game until you got flying fortresses. Thinking of how a nuclear device would interact with elements of Creation has been fun though.
Also: Maugan, no, no, no! :-P No snippers, no armies, just atomic bomb! It will change Solars' Exaltation into chimerae in a matter of seconds :-P The only efficient way.
EDIT: Rarkasha was first, booo ;-)
EDIT2: Wait, I have two "1", so I have 1 success, right...?
Eh, a Solar could probably be fought on an infantry level as well. Coordinated assaults with military assault rifles and/or sub machine guns. Perfect defenses are nice, but really only against individual attacks. And even the best DV will drop to a coordinated assault rifle volley (especially with flurries worked in).
Of course, since these are likely to be used against us, I should probably stop giving the ST hints on how to murder us all.
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"Not trusting me might be the smartest decision you made since getting off of your horse."
Also: Maugan, no, no, no! :-P No snippers, no armies, just atomic bomb! It will change Solars' Exaltation into chimerae in a matter of seconds :-P The only efficient way.
EDIT: Rarkasha was first, booo ;-)
EDIT2: Wait, I have two "1", so I have 1 success, right...?
1s don't cancel successes in Exalted. You got 3
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