Huh. I thought there were only 10,000 Dragon-Blooded in the entire Creation - which is huge - and the Blessed Isle were their seat of power where they rule the mortals and involve themselves in politics. Wouldn't they have better things to do than shake down travellers who might or might not be rich? Then again, they might have fallen out of favor in their family or something.
I did a post on this not long ago. The short is: There are the 10,000 Dynasts of the realm (who actually turn out to be 20,000, but they never updated the name) plus 10-20k more terrestrials officially accounted for somewhere in the world (several thousand in lookshy), and with a little bookkeeping and official numbers we come up with a conservative estimate of 2-400,000 lost eggs who are... somewhere?
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On a side note, I still think they're Green Sun Princes, scouting the Circle who killed their Blood Ape.
On the other side of the secret tunnel? After several weeks of travel? That's assuming that they knew about the tunnel, and correctly guessed that that whatever killed the blood ape also knew about the tunnel, and that they knew which road they would follow after exiting it.
Sure, it's not impossible, especially in a setting like this, but it still doesn't seem that likely. I'd rather guess that they're just random mooks and that the challenge for our exalts lies in not giving up their cover while dealing with them.
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I think he did the only morally acceptable thing by killing everyone.
On the other side of the secret tunnel? After several weeks of travel? That's assuming that they knew about the tunnel, and correctly guessed that that whatever killed the blood ape also knew about the tunnel, and that they knew which road they would follow after exiting it.
Or that they were already on the Isle, having used the tunnel to get there, and left the apes behind with some kind of ward (not sure how possible this is) so they'd know if anyone followed them.
On the other side of the secret tunnel? After several weeks of travel? That's assuming that they knew about the tunnel, and correctly guessed that that whatever killed the blood ape also knew about the tunnel, and that they knew which road they would follow after exiting it.
...Dude?
That kind of convoluted thinking is what Acts of Villany are for.
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It's not normal, of course, and what's actually happening in Comet Kicker's brain is that she's using regular murder as therapy for worse murder. There's a breakdown in the works and all it needs is one good, hard kick.
Plus, it's worse if large numbers gather together. And when they took the 3 prophecies, every Sidereal in existence was in the same place.
Yeah. That turned out well.
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It's not normal, of course, and what's actually happening in Comet Kicker's brain is that she's using regular murder as therapy for worse murder. There's a breakdown in the works and all it needs is one good, hard kick.
Very true. One would argue that the Usurptation worked very well. It's just the goal of the plan itself was flawed.
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Very true. One would argue that the Usurptation worked very well. It's just the goal of the plan itself was flawed.
Well, I dunno about that one. One could make a case that the execution was rather botched (making the Mask go "boom" and mass casualties and myriad errors and such) - and given how psycho the Solars were getting, the goal doesn't look all that bad from where I'm standing...
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I'd think taking truly massive casualties should be expected if you're trying to kill 300+ high essence Celestial Exalts with 100 Celestial Exalts and a extremely large number of terrestrial exalts. And, yes, the plan had other problems in execution, but overall it went very well.
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I did a post on this not long ago. The short is: There are the 10,000 Dynasts of the realm (who actually turn out to be 20,000, but they never updated the name) plus 10-20k more terrestrials officially accounted for somewhere in the world (several thousand in lookshy), and with a little bookkeeping and official numbers we come up with a conservative estimate of 2-400,000 lost eggs who are... somewhere?
Indeed. It should be noted that in old China, 10,000 usually translated to "a bloody lot, don't bother counting higher, there's just too many." So I think the "10,000 Dragons" is more of a name than actual data.
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Very true. One would argue that the Usurptation worked very well. It's just the goal of the plan itself was flawed.
Sidereals always get that. I personally think they should be cut some slack. They had a lousy position, and they took optimized choice; the best balance between quality of the outcome and probability of success. It wasn't a bad idea. It was a bad problem.
True, they could have been less arrogant, and investigated what sources of error there might be, but that's the curse for ya.
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Hence, the goal of the plan was flawed, and largely due to the curse.
Which is what I said.
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So, are they still unaware of the Great Curse or not?
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Horngeek: Sure
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So is it the great curse or laziness that lead to the Sidereals not being curious why everything went to pot?
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Solars do horrible things. Lunars are horrible things. And Sidereals make horrible decisions.
There's a double entendre here regarding Solar Bonds somewhere, but I'm too sleepy to parse it properly.
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