Exalted!

Wait, wasn't all that ancient Siddie did was put the "King Of Weapons" title up for grabs?

The "jade cage among the stars" is interesting, and not anything I noticed the first readthrough. Thought the Jade Prison was still dropped in the ocean.

I could be a symbol. Or, you know, lying sid lying.

"Among the stars" is probably a metaphor.

And yes, Thulio may have not really killed him because yandere, but because it was Usurpation and I Did What I Had to Do.

Sending all the contesters on the new guy, though... That does seem yandereish - remember that he was described as in love with both the old guy and his power. So now Thulio is testing to see if the new guy is good enough.

edited 25th Apr '14 9:20:33 PM by Adannor

CLEARLY THIS MEANS THAT THE GUNSTAR AUTOCHTHONIA SHARD IS CANON

...*still thinks its some Siddie setting up Let's You and Him Fight*

You know, the Naraku Gambit

Because, honestly, this sounds like Mercuryday for Creation.

Hey, you know how, by RAW, Lunars get stuck in their true forms once they use so much peripheral essence? And how chimerae only count Deadly Beastman Transformation as a true form?

What happens to a chimera who never took that knack?

edited 29th Apr '14 6:58:19 AM by Elfive

They stop existing in a swarm of angry pattern spiders.

As funny as that would be, I think the Wyld assimilation puts them outside the spider's juristiction. Could be wrong though.

Actually speaking of chimera, does anyone know how the "Alchemical Chimeras" mentioned in the modern shard are supposed to work? Are they just a way of including voidtech or what?

I'm inclined to assume that they work like voidtech, but you're supposed to bolt on a few Chimera knacks and similar effects to get the "protean cyber-predator" thing working.

Tainted Husk-Sculpting Apparatus submodule seems like a good place to stick that sort of thing.

I've always wanted to play an Abyssals with a blatant disregard for his own health and a love for grim puns.

"My fellows, it seems that things have gotten-" He holds up the bleeding stump of his wrist, "-out of hand."

The Abyssal fights an elder Fire Aspect, and it's at the point where he is on fire.

"Look, I know things got heated."

The Abyssal tells the circle his story, starting with him getting a little crazy on this guy and ending with that guy decapitating him.

"I just know I wouldn't be here today if I hadn't lost my head."

On the hunt for a man in the South, he chops down the front door to a saloon with his grimcleaver.

"Oh, don't mind me, everybody, I just want to axe you a question."

I think getting decapitated would make you too dead to take the deal, but I'd be willing to ignore that just for the pun.

It must be creepy to be there when an Abyssal exalts, especially if you were the one that killed them. This mortal goes down like they usually do, but then suddenly starts glowing black and gets back up before going to town on you.

"Did you know you don't instantly die when your head is cut off? It's not like other deaths, where the pain or massive trauma of it knocks you from alive to dead. No, decapitation is rather short on the pain really, the trauma is normally a focused edge.

"I laid there, looking at my body, my blood spurting stump of a neck, and was confused for all of a second. The next second after horror. The third second, and I'm pretty that was going to be my last one, that second was filled with the whispers of things that Shouldn't Be, and the promises of the deathless kings that serve them.

"You should've seen the looks on their faces when my body got up. I wish I did, but my head was facing the wrong way. It wasn't till I picked back up and put me back on did I really appreciate the horror they had. Something tied my neck back together, some black tendrils of essence sewing it back up.

"I grabbed that asshole's ax from him and... well, he didn't get back up."

Awesome.

Tangentially related note: Do you reckon the demon that becomes an Infernal's Unwoven Coadjutor considers the gig a promotion or not?

The demon gets a seat on the ride of a hell's rockstar. That's a rather big improvement over the gutters of Malfeas.

edited 1st May '14 6:31:08 AM by Adannor

@GOA: I always find myself playing characters that are, on their own, fairly unimagiinative; the gruff veteran soldier turned merc, stoic man of few words, and so on, but the group (the players at least) I play with is big on silliness, so said character inevitably ends up playing Straight Man and/or Only Sane Man to the group, and often ends up The Comically Serious.

Re: Infernals: It's interesting to note that the demon bound to a Infernal Exaltation is one that, if it were a mortal human, would have been worthy of a Solar Exaltation.

Is this an arbitrary decision by the Yozi to reward those demons with a bit of ambition, a design to make sure the voice whispering in your Prince's ear is one with a lot of backbone, or is it a necessary part as only such a demon as that is capable of being merged with a Solar Exaltation.

Really? Where does it mention that?

Now I want to do an Abyssal campaign where the players originally killed each other, then a Death Lord made each of them the offer and joins them in a group, just to see what happens.

Eye and Seven Despairs, perhaps? He got that thing with obsessively trolling his deathknight.

He usually does it to troll the closest facsimiles of his old Circle he can find, though, not because he likes trolling deathknights.

But if he can incorporate crossdressing into the plan somehow, I think it might amuse him.

edited 2nd May '14 12:21:13 AM by rikalous

Seven really only has two loves in life: Revenge upon his former Circle mates, whether by proxy or not, and pretending to be a woman.

Random thought: You can potentially explan the lack of Lunar half-castes in the second age by having them be potentially suceptible to chimerism, which since they can't be tattooed is a big discouragement to siring them in the first place.

Do you think that this idea causes more problems than it solves or not?