A small, crazy fanfic by me. (Some NSFW.)

[ShadowDragon8685]

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Perhaps the system overloaded when the Jade Prison was shattered; with a fake world consisting of several million or even billion people, several of them probably qualified for Exaltations immediately.


Of course, they're then stuck with the question of do they try to go back into their Matrix, where their Charms still work but where there's an effectively endless supply of system corrections agents trying to purge the bad data, or venture out into an alien and deprived (not to mention depraved) world.


Do they try to bring the outside Creation to their world? Or bring their world to the outside Creation? Do they decide to go back into the system and lord it up there?

So in other words, he's an overreacting spaz? See also: my signature.

Yeah, he's an overreacting spaz, I don't blame 'im for it, but he's being a spaz.


THough I don't get what you mean by checking your signature... paranoia is a way of life for you/him? I dunno. Meh.

My signature is an example of me being an overreacting spaz.

 

[Persell]

On the subject of the OpenRPG game, I'm definitely in if I can make it.

It just can't be sunday, because I run a Star Wars game on Sunday.

Pretty much any day is good for me, as long as it's in the later afternoon. Saturday would be nice, though.

Any day is fine for me (though weekdays are better than weekends), but my schedule is more limited when it comes to time... unless it's possible to split up the session over the course of the day, I can only be on for more than an hour or so if it starts at around 7 or 11:30 P.M. EST.


Don't worry about me, though. I doubt you'll have trouble finding enough interest in the game, and I'd rather just try to fit in everyone else's schedule than have anyone twist theirs to fit mine.

 

[Andoriol]

Perhaps the system overloaded when the Jade Prison was shattered; with a fake world consisting of several million or even billion people, several of them probably qualified for Exaltations immediately.


Of course, they're then stuck with the question of do they try to go back into their Matrix, where their Charms still work but where there's an effectively endless supply of system corrections agents trying to purge the bad data, or venture out into an alien and deprived (not to mention depraved) world.


Do they try to bring the outside Creation to their world? Or bring their world to the outside Creation? Do they decide to go back into the system and lord it up there?

Hm... entirely possible... though the latter questions are more something to be answered in the game/story itself rather than by the storyteller(s)... though I'm hazy on the rules/background stuff on Infernals, so I don't know whether or not some people could Exalt as those in this scenario (I was trying to get something that'd cover both Solar and Infernal auto-exaltations for both you and Aasharu, but... meh, limited knowledge).


Though if the concept we're going for is the person behind the character getting dumped into Creation and quickly forced to Exalt... going back into the system is pretty much just Exalted Modern or whatever you'd call it... there might be failsafes to keep people from getting put back into the system, especially if it's already near capacity.

Yeah, he's an overreacting spaz, I don't blame 'im for it, but he's being a spaz.
THough I don't get what you mean by checking your signature... paranoia is a way of life for you/him? I dunno. Meh.

My signature is an example of me being an overreacting spaz.

Psh, that's just justifiable (if slightly overdone) paranoia once you actually piss off the Sidereals as a whole. If you haven't, well, yeah, then it's being an overreacting spaz xD

 

[Andoriol]

It just can't be sunday, because I run a Star Wars game on Sunday.

Pretty much any day is good for me, as long as it's in the later afternoon. Saturday would be nice, though.

Any day is fine for me (though weekdays are better than weekends), but my schedule is more limited when it comes to time... unless it's possible to split up the session over the course of the day, I can only be on for more than an hour or so if it starts at around 7 or 11:30 P.M. EST.


Don't worry about me, though. I doubt you'll have trouble finding enough interest in the game, and I'd rather just try to fit in everyone else's schedule than have anyone twist theirs to fit mine.

I lack the letters to properly represent the sound I made upon reading that, though it was something like 'Nnngggyeh-.'


It'd be nice if you could do Saturday's, I'm seconding Aasharu's vote on that one. Any reasonably good times for you on that day?


That said, there's still the issue of getting someone to be ST for the game.

 

[Persell]

Saturdays are okay. Weekends are just a little more inconvenient for me because everyone has more free time then, which ironically means I have less, since others have a way of using their free time to demand mine... it isn't much of a problem, though.


But, I'm afraid there isn't a whole lot I can do about my schedule, whatever day we run the game. Well, I could, but... that would require getting up earlier and adjusting my schedule in general. Which I should be doing anyway, but I doubt any of you want to wait for that...


What time would be best for all of you?

 

[Andoriol]

Saturdays are okay. Weekends are just a little more inconvenient for me because everyone has more free time then, which ironically means I have less, since others have a way of using their free time to demand mine... it isn't much of a problem, though.
But, I'm afraid there isn't a whole lot I can do about my schedule, whatever day we run the game. Well, I could, but... that would require getting up earlier and adjusting my schedule in general. Which I should be doing anyway, but I doubt any of you want to wait for that...


What time would be best for all of you?

Saturday, between 7 a.m and 12 p.m. EST in my case.

 

[Aasharu]

That seems a decent enough time.


Also, I would be willing to storytell, although I'd probably drift more towards the original idea, of normal people from this world being sucked over to Creation and Exalted. I even thought up an idea for handling metagaming knowledge. Everyone gets a lore specialty of (Read the Books +3), and if you ever can't remember a specific piece of information that you have the book for, you have to make a lore check. If you succeed, you get to pause the game to go grab the book in question, and look for the information you need. You would also not be allowed to obtain any other lore specialties. After all, you are not native to Creation, and thus, don't know anything about Creation that you can't find out from the books.


One of the advantages of having me storytell is that I have a proven aptitude for coming up with creative and engaging stories. I also have a lot of time to do so - my job consists of me driving empty trucks from point A to point B, then grabbing a full truck at point B and driving it back to point A. I thus have a lot of time on my hands to think up things, which I do. Constantly. A disadvantage, however, would be the fact that I've never had a chance to play Exalted before, so despite me owning almost all the books, and having a very firm grasp of the setting, I have a far weaker grasp of the mechanics. This would lead to the story to focus more on story and role play, then on combat, at least at first.

 

[Persell]

I'm afraid that time is pretty much impossible for me, but... as I've said, I don't mind dropping out for the convenience of others.

 

[ShadowDragon8685]

That seems a decent enough time.
Also, I would be willing to storytell, although I'd probably drift more towards the original idea, of normal people from this world being sucked over to Creation and Exalted. I even thought up an idea for handling metagaming knowledge. Everyone gets a lore specialty of (Read the Books +3), and if you ever can't remember a specific piece of information that you have the book for, you have to make a lore check. If you succeed, you get to pause the game to go grab the book in question, and look for the information you need. You would also not be allowed to obtain any other lore specialties. After all, you are not native to Creation, and thus, don't know anything about Creation that you can't find out from the books.


One of the advantages of having me storytell is that I have a proven aptitude for coming up with creative and engaging stories. I also have a lot of time to do so - my job consists of me driving empty trucks from point A to point B, then grabbing a full truck at point B and driving it back to point A. I thus have a lot of time on my hands to think up things, which I do. Constantly. A disadvantage, however, would be the fact that I've never had a chance to play Exalted before, so despite me owning almost all the books, and having a very firm grasp of the setting, I have a far weaker grasp of the mechanics. This would lead to the story to focus more on story and role play, then on combat, at least at first.

An important part of running (or playing) a game is being sure that you'll have that time-slot free on a regular basis, every week/whatever the interval for play is. If you can meet that, that would be awesome.


I like "Read the Books +3". Nothing quite like making gaming out of metagaming.

 

[Aasharu]

I have Saturdays off for the foreseeable future, and if I were to schedule this game in, then it would insure I would continue to have Saturdays off.


And yes, I thought of that Lore idea while I was driving around, which just goes to prove my point.


Edit: Also, if I am picked to story tell, then I would restrict the Exalt types to Solar, Abyssal, or Infernal. Depending on which type of Exalt you choose to play, we'd work on exactly why you exalted as you did, and how you managed to get to Creation in the first place.

 

[Andoriol]

That seems a decent enough time.
Also, I would be willing to storytell, although I'd probably drift more towards the original idea, of normal people from this world being sucked over to Creation and Exalted. I even thought up an idea for handling metagaming knowledge. Everyone gets a lore specialty of (Read the Books +3), and if you ever can't remember a specific piece of information that you have the book for, you have to make a lore check. If you succeed, you get to pause the game to go grab the book in question, and look for the information you need. You would also not be allowed to obtain any other lore specialties. After all, you are not native to Creation, and thus, don't know anything about Creation that you can't find out from the books.


One of the advantages of having me storytell is that I have a proven aptitude for coming up with creative and engaging stories. I also have a lot of time to do so - my job consists of me driving empty trucks from point A to point B, then grabbing a full truck at point B and driving it back to point A. I thus have a lot of time on my hands to think up things, which I do. Constantly. A disadvantage, however, would be the fact that I've never had a chance to play Exalted before, so despite me owning almost all the books, and having a very firm grasp of the setting, I have a far weaker grasp of the mechanics. This would lead to the story to focus more on story and role play, then on combat, at least at first.

I definitely like the lore concept, though I'm curious how you'd take normal people from our world and throw them into Exalted without ripping off ShadowDragon's story


If that's what you want to go for and ShadowDragon doesn't mind, I'm all for it, I just didn't want to rip off his story to his face.


Gah, I'm sorry the time doesn't work for you Phoenix_Kensai, many apologies, I just picked the broadest time slot I knew I'd have without it being on sunday *cue sweatdrop*

 

[Persell]

It's okay, really; I am in a couple of other games. No games that show any sign of going anywhere in the near future, mind you, which is why I was interested in joining another, but games nonetheless.


While I would like to join if we can work something out, it's perfectly fine if we can't. Just let me know how the game works out.

 

[Aasharu]

Well, I actually have a rather in depth idea, but without spoiling too much of it, it would involve an elder Forbidden God, and his subtle and terrible machinations.

 

[Andoriol]

Well, I actually have a rather in depth idea, but without spoiling too much of it, it would involve an elder Forbidden God, and his subtle and terrible machinations.

Ooh, I actually didn't consider that. Yay potential epic-ness.


Ah, should we make another thread for this if we're actually going to do it? This thread's supposed to be for ShadowDragon's (quite good) peice of fiction, not a potential game

 

[Aasharu]

I was actually just thinking that. I'll make a thread in the Threshold.

 

[ShadowDragon8685]

I was actually just thinking that. I'll make a thread in the Threshold.

Link?

 

[Andoriol]

I was actually just thinking that. I'll make a thread in the Threshold.

Link?

Ta-frakkin'-da!


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[ShadowDragon8685]

Andoriol poked me into writing moar.


I know I said I didn't figure this bit would have actual, factual sex in it. I was wrong.


You ever write something and it goes somewhere you don't expect it to? I do that all the time. Yes, even when writing for mydelf, I can surprise me.


Here it is, on the Freedom Stone's Transcendant Smutforging Practice forum. You'll have to sign up. It's worth it; for one thing, Melissa Uran posts pron there every now and then. Yes, that M. Uran. I just wish she didn't take it down a few months after she posted it. (Does anybody have like, a big archive of her smut? I'd 'ppreciate it.)

 

[Persell]

You'll have to sign up. It's worth it; for one thing, Melissa Uran posts pron there every now and then. Yes, that M. Uran.

...I feel ashamed to admit it, but I have absolutely no idea who that is. I still have much to learn, I suppose...


But I do definitely know what it's like to have your characters surprise you. I'm pretty grateful for that, myself, since it typically means I can be lazy and not plan much in advance...

 

[Persell]

So, an entire valley full of Fae-Blooded people? Sounds like a good opportunity on learning how to channel Essence properly. Who knows, maybe he might even be able to learn the basics of a Terrestrial Martial Art, though he might not want to go and waste XP on the actual charms.


One thing he'd definitely want to do, though, is see if they can forge his Graces and then forge said Graces into full-blown Fair Folk Artifacts for him. Having a Fae steed and some magic armor (or, perhaps, an amulet that gives the full benefits of, say, Ashigaru Armor) would probably make things a lot easier for him, and you're probably fully capable of specifying a suitably min-maxed Adjuration oath and Glamour Sorcery spell.


EDIT: Come to think of it, if he plays his cards right, he could utterly change the face of Creation forever by ushering in a new First Age built on a new and ground-level industrialisation of magic by mortals. How? Glamour sorcery, and self-replicating robothobgoblin swarms. Producing 1-Dot Artifacts with Glamour Sorcery is stupendously easy once you get going (just forge a hobgoblin's Ring Grace), and higher-dot artifacts just need you to have created multiple lower-level Artifacts as components. Set the ball in motion, and once your glamour-artifacts and the instructions on how to use them get to a major port city, even if you get killed by the inevitable ensuing Wyld Hunt, the Third Age of Enlightened Mortals will still be ushered in.


Also, M'yena shouldn't put herself down like that. Fair Folk charms are tremendously useful in a support role, even if it takes a lot of effort and rules-twisting to get a Fair Folk Noble who can stand up to a Celestial Exalt in a fight.

 

[ShadowDragon8685]

Heh. One of these people's quirks is that they don't really use much in the way of magic. That's one of the ways they avoid notice - they're content to live their lives in their valley and not draw the attention of anybody. Though they probably could teach him a few things.


But still, even if they could be more, Nathan's not thinking that way. He's thinking of the fact that they're all supernaturally light, seemingly frail people, who seem horrendously naieve by even his standards, and he wants to protect them, to keep them away from all danger; which means not taking them into danger.

 

[Persell]

Heh. One of these people's quirks is that they don't really use much in the way of magic. That's one of the ways they avoid notice - they're content to live their lives in their valley and not draw the attention of anybody. Though they probably could teach him a few things.

True. I figured it was probably because they were probably had their culture created as some Raksha's harem or plaything-society.

But still, even if they could be more, Nathan's not thinking that way. He's thinking of the fact that they're all supernaturally light, seemingly frail people, who seem horrendously naieve by even his standards, and he wants to protect them, to keep them away from all danger; which means not taking them into danger.

He'd probably change his mind if he saw one using, say, World-Devouring Warlord Style (one of the groups of Fair Folk charms highly useful in a support role, as well as visually impressive).

 

[Persell]

But still, even if they could be more, Nathan's not thinking that way. He's thinking of the fact that they're all supernaturally light, seemingly frail people, who seem horrendously naieve by even his standards, and he wants to protect them, to keep them away from all danger; which means not taking them into danger.

I sincerely hope this leads to a viciously ironic plot wist.

 

[Persell]

Come to think of it, I can think of another couple of reasons why they might not have already revolutionised Creation's economic system. Number one being that because Gossamer items are rare, they can command a very fine price for them, so if they used industrialised Von Neumann Fair Folk swarms, they'd stand to lose a lot of their income because the price for their goods would drop like a rock, and thus leading to one of the higher-Conviction elders leading him aside to give him the standard talk they'd have for high-Compassion youngsters who propose something similar.


Alternatively, they might not distinguish between the Fair Folk and the spirits of Creation, and worship both as gods. Using magic to create and enslave uncountable numbers of them would thereby be blasphemy of the highest order, and Nathan would likely get run out of town in short order.


Also, seeing how the allies and enemies of the Solar whose body Nathan was tossed into would react to Nathan would be interesting. He almost definitely has both; he was a Solar after all, and the Fair Folk just erased his mind and gave him a new one, possibly as part of a stunt involving Behemoth-Forging Meditation. It's not like the Fair Folk can create a Solar out of Wyld stuff or control an Exaltation shard, but they could definitely mess with the mind of a Solar that lacks Integrity Protecting Prana.

 

[ShadowDragon8685]

Or, yanno... Not knowing much about Fae Folk, he wouldn't think to suggest it?