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 Dr. Bender
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First, thanks for the great feedback! 
| DaWrecka wrote on Sat, 24 March 2012 22:11 | (part 4)
Oof. She shrugs off a Blazing Solar Bolt surprisingly-well, considering how it's Holy and all.
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She used Wounds Mean Nothing, Resistance PD.
| DaWrecka wrote on Sat, 24 March 2012 22:11 | "Mask of Whispers"? Okay, human error, let it slide.
Banko? Who is Banko? Okay, another error... but dammit, now I can't shut up my inner pedant.
...and here comes "fire caste". 'scuse me, I need to stab my inner pedant until he shuts up.
Bonzo survived the birth... Well, that's not a terribly-difficult roll. Then again, a mortal wouldn't have too much in the way of dots... Oh, shut up Mechanics Joe, and let me read.
Forty-eight hours? Dammit Inner Pedant, shut the fuck up for five minutes.
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First two are slips of the finger (I used to have another character named Banko). Not sure about 'fire caste'. Sarro's been attending Bonzo, she's got a high medicine score and medicine charms. Not sure about the 48 hours.
| DaWrecka wrote on Sat, 24 March 2012 22:11 | Okay, so we know Tetsu has Seven Shadow Evasion... Giant stone boot to shoulder = pain, so clearly the Charm he used wasn't Adamant Skin Technique... what possessed him to use a soak-enhancer instead of a perfect dodge? Well, I suppose the perfect dodge isn't as dramatic as taking the hit with minimal damage. But shit, I stunted a perfect parry for three dice a few days ago.
Okay, maybe he does have Adamant Skin Technique after all. Oh, I don't know any more. (Tangential thought: I still wanna know where the crap Heroes Never Die has gone in 2.5)
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Tetsu hasn't really been taught the basics of Exalted-level combat, he's still feeling out what works and what doesn't.
| DaWrecka wrote on Sat, 24 March 2012 22:11 | Hang on, if Delani is a Water Aspect, why can't she just breathe water?
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I couldn't find a charm or caste ability that lets them do that. Maybe I'm blind.
| DaWrecka wrote on Sat, 24 March 2012 22:11 | ...huh, okay, I have no idea what charm Solars have that lets them appear to be dozens of shadows. Not as part of an attack, at least.
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I believe that's Ogren stunting a charm-enhanced flurry.
| DaWrecka wrote on Sat, 24 March 2012 22:11 | And mortal goddess Tetsu flees showing power that she'd probably have needed years, perhaps decades, of training to have mustered. I guess this Luna has her own version of Grace Dawns Eternal.
...Okay, 'mortal' doesn't fit one of the Chosen. I admit that.
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Luna does indeed. Of course, she can't grant Solar charms but there's plenty else she can do.
| DaWrecka wrote on Sat, 24 March 2012 22:11 | ...a child Lawgiver? She must've had one hell of an Exaltation.
Twelve years old, huh. Yeah, that had to be one hell of an Exaltation. What the hell does a 12-year-old have that the Unconquered Sun would want?
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It was indeed and that's not really how Solar Exaltation works. Child Solars are very, very, rare but not unheard of by cannon.
| DaWrecka wrote on Sat, 24 March 2012 22:11 | And the Dragonbloods aren't happy about their new station. Hmm, surprised they're not shouting "ANATHEMA!" and trying to gut Feather, if their changes are purely-physical as they seem to be.
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Feather's pretending to be a goddess here. It'll be further explained later.
| DaWrecka wrote on Sat, 24 March 2012 22:11 | ...Kano is a goddess now? The crap happened there?
Very interesting conversation, but I still wanna know what in the name of holy balls happened for her to become the goddess of vanity.
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Tetsu's emasculation was both a physical and spiritual punishment rendered by Luna working through her. Sanejin's power and station was left 'loose' and saught out a new host on its own, Kano being the closest prospective recipient.
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| Re: Fate and the Iron Tiger Part 5 [message #56018 is a reply to message #54386 ] |
Tue, 27 March 2012 02:37 |
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IIRC the water aspect anima ability lets them breath underwater.
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| Re: Fate and the Iron Tiger Part 5 [message #56031 is a reply to message #56013 ] |
Tue, 27 March 2012 11:49 |
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| Dr. Bender wrote on Tue, 27 March 2012 04:20 | First, thanks for the great feedback!
| DaWrecka wrote on Sat, 24 March 2012 22:11 | (part 4)
Oof. She shrugs off a Blazing Solar Bolt surprisingly-well, considering how it's Holy and all.
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She used Wounds Mean Nothing, Resistance PD.
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Ahh, right. Makes sense now. Perfect soak trumps Holy.
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| DaWrecka wrote on Sat, 24 March 2012 22:11 | "Mask of Whispers"? Okay, human error, let it slide.
Banko? Who is Banko? Okay, another error... but dammit, now I can't shut up my inner pedant.
...and here comes "fire caste". 'scuse me, I need to stab my inner pedant until he shuts up.
Bonzo survived the birth... Well, that's not a terribly-difficult roll. Then again, a mortal wouldn't have too much in the way of dots... Oh, shut up Mechanics Joe, and let me read.
Forty-eight hours? Dammit Inner Pedant, shut the fuck up for five minutes.
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First two are slips of the finger (I used to have another character named Banko).
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I can accept that. Everyone makes mistakes now and then, part of human nature. Sadly, my inner pedant cares not for such petty trivialities.
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Not sure about 'fire caste'.
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Dragonbloods are Aspects, rather than Castes. Air Aspect, Water Aspect, and so on.
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Sarro's been attending Bonzo, she's got a high medicine score and medicine charms. Not sure about the 48 hours.
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From what I understand, Creation's days are 25 hours long. So unless 48 hours was what was REALLY meant - as in, two hours shy of two days - it should've been 50 hours.
Again, my inner pedant cares not for the forgiveable follies of man.
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| DaWrecka wrote on Sat, 24 March 2012 22:11 | Okay, so we know Tetsu has Seven Shadow Evasion... Giant stone boot to shoulder = pain, so clearly the Charm he used wasn't Adamant Skin Technique... what possessed him to use a soak-enhancer instead of a perfect dodge? Well, I suppose the perfect dodge isn't as dramatic as taking the hit with minimal damage. But shit, I stunted a perfect parry for three dice a few days ago.
Okay, maybe he does have Adamant Skin Technique after all. Oh, I don't know any more. (Tangential thought: I still wanna know where the crap Heroes Never Die has gone in 2.5)
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Tetsu hasn't really been taught the basics of Exalted-level combat, he's still feeling out what works and what doesn't.
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I always thought there was an instinctual level to Exalted combat... If you had a reflexive charm, then you could just use it *snap* like that, just on pure instinct. But it also makes sense that you still need a degree of education.
Still wanna know what happened to Heroes Never Die, though.
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| DaWrecka wrote on Sat, 24 March 2012 22:11 | Hang on, if Delani is a Water Aspect, why can't she just breathe water?
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I couldn't find a charm or caste ability that lets them do that. Maybe I'm blind.
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It's their anima pow... oh, wait, ninja'd.
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| DaWrecka wrote on Sat, 24 March 2012 22:11 | ...huh, okay, I have no idea what charm Solars have that lets them appear to be dozens of shadows. Not as part of an attack, at least.
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I believe that's Ogren stunting a charm-enhanced flurry.
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I like.
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| DaWrecka wrote on Sat, 24 March 2012 22:11 | And mortal goddess Tetsu flees showing power that she'd probably have needed years, perhaps decades, of training to have mustered. I guess this Luna has her own version of Grace Dawns Eternal.
...Okay, 'mortal' doesn't fit one of the Chosen. I admit that.
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Luna does indeed. Of course, she can't grant Solar charms but there's plenty else she can do.
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And of course, you're not going to tell us precisely what. 
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| DaWrecka wrote on Sat, 24 March 2012 22:11 | ...a child Lawgiver? She must've had one hell of an Exaltation.
Twelve years old, huh. Yeah, that had to be one hell of an Exaltation. What the hell does a 12-year-old have that the Unconquered Sun would want?
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It was indeed and that's not really how Solar Exaltation works. Child Solars are very, very, rare but not unheard of by cannon.
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I know they're not unheard of, but from what I understand, Solar Exaltation happens in a moment of heroism - when the character chooses to face what should be impossible odds in the name of something greater than herself.
Although I suppose there's no reason a child couldn't do that, I suspect the sort of child who could would be very, very special. Whether that specialness is a good thing for Creation, well...
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| DaWrecka wrote on Sat, 24 March 2012 22:11 | And the Dragonbloods aren't happy about their new station. Hmm, surprised they're not shouting "ANATHEMA!" and trying to gut Feather, if their changes are purely-physical as they seem to be.
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Feather's pretending to be a goddess here. It'll be further explained later.
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Feather is using God Ways? Oh no, they're all munchkins!
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| DaWrecka wrote on Sat, 24 March 2012 22:11 | ...Kano is a goddess now? The crap happened there?
Very interesting conversation, but I still wanna know what in the name of holy balls happened for her to become the goddess of vanity.
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Tetsu's
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Presumably you meant Sanejin here. On a tangential note, how do you pronounce that?
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emasculation was both a physical and spiritual punishment rendered by Luna working through her. Sanejin's power and station was left 'loose' and saught out a new host on its own, Kano being the closest prospective recipient.
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Kano being a god-blood gave him - err, her - a bit of a leg-up on that ladder, I presume.
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| Re: Fate and the Iron Tiger Part 5 [message #56053 is a reply to message #56031 ] |
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| DaWrecka wrote on Tue, 27 March 2012 11:49 | | Dr. Bender wrote on Tue, 27 March 2012 04:20 |
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| DaWrecka wrote on Tue, 27 March 2012 11:49 | Dragonbloods are Aspects, rather than Castes. Air Aspect, Water Aspect, and so on.
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Ah, yes, whoops.
| DaWrecka wrote on Tue, 27 March 2012 11:49 | From what I understand, Creation's days are 25 hours long. So unless 48 hours was what was REALLY meant - as in, two hours shy of two days - it should've been 50 hours.
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Ah, you know, totally forgot about that.
| DaWrecka wrote on Sat, 24 March 2012 22:11 |
And of course, you're not going to tell us precisely what.
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Luna has an all-encompassing version of every godly charm as well as knowing every Emerald and Sapphire Circle spell. This means she can endow merits, mutations, dots, charms... basically whatever she feels like, permanently.
I gave an example in the comments of one of the parts giving Appearance as an example of what she could do. So, start by raising App up to 5, then add the merit that expands the max to 6 and raise it to 6. Then throw on the Lunar charm that does the same thing and raise it to 7. Then the Lunar charm that grants attribute specialties and take 3 app specialties. Then add the 4pt Enchanting features merit...
Honestly, I haven't statted out everything Luna's done, just looked at the highlights and decided what she hasn't done. One thing I haven't done, for example, is all-encompassing shapechange.
| DaWrecka wrote on Sat, 24 March 2012 22:11 |
Presumably you meant Sanejin here. On a tangential note, how do you pronounce that?
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Technically I meant 'The emasulation that Tetsu inflicted on Sanejin' but yes, the other way's shorter. How do you pronounce Tetsu or Sanejin? TE-tsu, SA-ne-JIN.
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| Re: Fate and the Iron Tiger Part 5 [message #56077 is a reply to message #56053 ] |
Wed, 28 March 2012 15:49 |
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| Dr. Bender wrote on Wed, 28 March 2012 03:04 |
Luna has an all-encompassing version of every godly charm as well as knowing every Emerald and Sapphire Circle spell. This means she can endow merits, mutations, dots, charms... basically whatever she feels like, permanently.
I gave an example in the comments of one of the parts giving Appearance as an example of what she could do. So, start by raising App up to 5, then add the merit that expands the max to 6 and raise it to 6. Then throw on the Lunar charm that does the same thing and raise it to 7. Then the Lunar charm that grants attribute specialties and take 3 app specialties. Then add the 4pt Enchanting features merit...
Honestly, I haven't statted out everything Luna's done, just looked at the highlights and decided what she hasn't done. One thing I haven't done, for example, is all-encompassing shapechange.
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Jeez. That's a hell of an experience debt for Luna to put on poor Tetsu! She hasn't even had chance to earn XP for the fun stuff!
Jesus loves you. Then again, so does Barney.
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| Re: Fate and the Iron Tiger Part 5 [message #56078 is a reply to message #56077 ] |
Wed, 28 March 2012 18:10 |
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| DaWrecka wrote on Wed, 28 March 2012 15:49 | | Dr. Bender wrote on Wed, 28 March 2012 03:04 |
Luna has an all-encompassing version of every godly charm as well as knowing every Emerald and Sapphire Circle spell. This means she can endow merits, mutations, dots, charms... basically whatever she feels like, permanently.
I gave an example in the comments of one of the parts giving Appearance as an example of what she could do. So, start by raising App up to 5, then add the merit that expands the max to 6 and raise it to 6. Then throw on the Lunar charm that does the same thing and raise it to 7. Then the Lunar charm that grants attribute specialties and take 3 app specialties. Then add the 4pt Enchanting features merit...
Honestly, I haven't statted out everything Luna's done, just looked at the highlights and decided what she hasn't done. One thing I haven't done, for example, is all-encompassing shapechange.
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Jeez. That's a hell of an experience debt for Luna to put on poor Tetsu! She hasn't even had chance to earn XP for the fun stuff!
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Yeah, I'm playing a litttttttttle fast and loose with that. I mean, the story's broken, along with the acts, into 3 major confrontations with tiered levels of 3 bad guys, so really you're looking at 3 adventures set in the same location.
So s/he is gaining XP steadily along with story rewards. But then all of that is going to XP debt from training. First it's Ullah teaching Abyssal Hero Style, then Luna. Of course it helps that I heavily optimized Tetsu to begin with.
In the end, though, I'm not rigidly following the game mechanics. What works for an RPG doesn't work in a book, etc, etc.
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| Re: Fate and the Iron Tiger Part 5 [message #56103 is a reply to message #56078 ] |
Thu, 29 March 2012 13:07 |
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I know, I'm being facetious in the name of humour.
Jesus loves you. Then again, so does Barney.
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| Re: Fate and the Iron Tiger Part 5 [message #56111 is a reply to message #54386 ] |
Thu, 29 March 2012 19:09 |
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I figured out the other character that Tetsu reminded me of, at least while male: Marv. So that's Marv and Sanjuro, one a hero in a sad crapsack world, the other a good antihero is a not very nice world but nicer then Sin City.
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| Re: Fate and the Iron Tiger Part 5 [message #56157 is a reply to message #56078 ] |
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| Dr. Bender wrote on Thu, 29 March 2012 00:10 |
So s/he is gaining XP steadily along with story rewards. But then all of that is going to XP debt from training.
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You know that only half your XP goes to repay your XP debt, right?
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| Re: Fate and the Iron Tiger Part 5 [message #56158 is a reply to message #56013 ] |
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| DaWrecka wrote on Sat, 24 March 2012 22:11 | Okay, so we know Tetsu has Seven Shadow Evasion... Giant stone boot to shoulder = pain, so clearly the Charm he used wasn't Adamant Skin Technique... what possessed him to use a soak-enhancer instead of a perfect dodge?
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For a 2/7 filter, which is the best defense by far. Maybe he failed his Iron Skin Concentration check?
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