Anything Interesting?

[Cthulhu_Wakes]

Anything interesting of late happen to any of your gaming groups? Any cool events or bits of role-playing that stand out in your heads? In my game I'm running right now, one of my players has fallen for a Night caste who fell in with them. She got very, very sick with pneumonia whilst in the far North (A Solar, sick? Go on! No really! ) Anywho, she had fallen sick and was quite sure to die, buuuuuuuut our player asked the groups patron to help her. He being an Essence 5 Solar, my PC thought it would work. So he leaves the room and comes back, shes basically in a coma and he says he has to wait until Calibration to heal her.


PC is weary of it, but has to agree. So it finally comes and the whole city is in an uproar of celebration, debauchery, lewdness and misconduct (city is of my own making ^^;;;; . So they leave to his citadel and they are closed off on his balcony. Nicolas (the groups Patron) summons a demon...of the Third Circle variety. My PC notices something, he's getting flashes of the summoner's anima, it's turning green and cobalt. You can guess where this goes next, the patron is a Infernal Solar. Which I'm going to laugh with glee when the others find out. They always criticize him cause they only think he's like 50, when he's actually 500.


He drops hints all over the place without thinking that he is older. But they're either very dense or ignore it x.x I hate to say it about my players but they haven't noticed. So back to what I was talking about. The Night caste swears away her soul to get better and to be with my player's character, Garren. Then the demon's master shows itself, the Ebon Dragon. He reshapes her over the course of several weeks and Garren is made to watch. When they reappear it's been a mere mintue since the summoning began.


Then he was oathed by an Eclipse in the Infernal's pocket, to never speak or make any mention of what transpired. That goes for in and out of character. So that was an interesting moment for him and for the game.


Anyone have anything like that? Just a cool or plot twisting moment, past or present?

 

[Haku1]

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Man... that just takes the cake...  :shock:


And here I thought the patron that I had for my last batch of players was nasty. A fair folk 'ally' on loan turning out to be a rather old zenith apparantly enslaved by a fair folk noble...


dum dum dum....


Who would be revealed as a Solar whose been alive since the Primordial War.  :twisted:


Ah well...

 

[Cthulhu_Wakes]

Muahahahaha, I like it. That's some good stuff there . Yeah, I can't wait to see their faces when it's revealed. 'Cause they're already humbled by this guy. It'll be good stuff.


By the way, your icon is teh awesome. ^^;;;;

 

[Haku1]

Muahahahaha, I like it. That's some good stuff there . Yeah, I can't wait to see their faces when it's revealed. 'Cause they're already humbled by this guy. It'll be good stuff.
By the way, your icon is teh awesome. ^^;;;;

Thanks... it should be noted that the patron wasn't the zenith... but the 'fair folk noble'...


My idea was to scare the sunlight out of the players... as the Zenith 'ally' was a good clean essence 6 and was going... no, no... don't do it... she'd smack you down as you are....


And the players were thinking... yeah... but she's ONLY a fae noble...  :twisted:


There was also the worry that the 'patron' was only helping them to draw them deeper into her grasp and than taking them in hand like the Zenith and make them serve her...


There was also a nice little egg that they managed to steal/trade that contained what was apparantly a First Age Solar imprisoned for crimes against the Deliberate.


Said Solar as far as they can tell... had the name of Brigid...  


The Twilight of the circle believes he can free her with Adamant circle countermagic...


Alas, that was where the game ended for reasons that I won't go into...

 

[Cthulhu_Wakes]

Aww. *sad face* just when it was getting to the uber awesome point ; . ;


*sigh* A great many of my games have finished as such. I just either can't or won't complete them...or I get a new game idea ^^;;;;

 

[Haku1]

Tell me about it... and it was my decision to end it on an OOC level due to... the players... simply not showing up on time if at all...


Althou, the logs can be found here -


http://members.fortunecity.com/re21/exalted/

 

[uteck]

On a unplanned trip to the Underworld, the Lunars decided to visit the local Deathlord.  Yes, they just wanted to pop in and say 'Hi', and expected to leave again.  My Eclipse said this was a stupid and suicidal idea and went to a bar to drink with the other Solar.  My character does not drink often, and this should have emphisied how serious he was in not going.  Well, the Lunars went anyway, and the Deathlord was puzzled by their appearance at the gate, but let them in.  When questioned about what they wanted, one Lunar said the Deathlord should 'quite posturing' and discuses things politely.  She soon found the Deathlord had a very tight hold on her spine with her fist that was just shoved through her chest.  It a took a bit more squeezing before the Lunar apologized.  The other Lunar just watched, and irritated the Deathlord more by saying he was just "seeing the sights".


  Being a Deathlord, she was a bit lonely and decided to try make the first Lunar a pet, she has spunk after all.  After she was released and told she had free access to the Deathlords lands.  The Lunar found that she was being called "The Consort" and then discovered the Soulsteel ring on her spin.  She returned to the Deathlord and asked to have the ring removed, that angered the Deathlord who said that she had to kill 5 Abyssals of other Lords (the names of which are in a encoded book) in 50 years.  The Lunar then 'negotiated' the bargain up to 7 Abyssals and having the ring removed immediately.


  Then she had the idea to find a new consort for the Deathlord in the form of another Lunar she knew.  But she decided that this time she would ask a few people first before she did this.  Unfortunately that allowed some spies to report back the Deathlord and that pissed her off more, so now when the Lunar returns with the Heartsblood of the Abyysals she kills, she can only do so every 6 years on the 3rd day of Calibration or be killed on sight.  And the Deathlord took the other Lunar to corrupt anyway.

 

[Asahi]

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a Solar whose been alive since the Primordial War.  :twisted:


Ah well...

I've got a NPC in the DB game i run that kinda looks out for my players. He's a Night Caste Solar that was around before the  Primordial War that has survived living in the Wyld since just about the time of the Rebellion. He's the reason that Mask of Winters hasn't stomped on my party as they used to be buddies back in the day. He's knocking on for about Essence 15 so i use him very very rarely and usualy only for plot development rather than letting him get involved in any scraps my group get into.

 

[Haku1]

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a Solar whose been alive since the Primordial War.  :twisted:


Ah well...

I've got a NPC in the DB game i run that kinda looks out for my players. He's a Night Caste Solar that was around before the  Primordial War that has survived living in the Wyld since just about the time of the Rebellion. He's the reason that Mask of Winters hasn't stomped on my party as they used to be buddies back in the day. He's knocking on for about Essence 15 so i use him very very rarely and usualy only for plot development rather than letting him get involved in any scraps my group get into.

You don't need to have an essence of 15 to be scary... even a plain essence 10 solar is more then enough to give the bejeasus fear to most beings... simply because of the power of his charms.


I mean heck, the elicpse I had was at essence 7 (due to the way she reincarnates with a solar circle spell that allows her full memories, charms and costs only 2 dots of perm essence per casting) and she was bad ass beyond bad ass.


She had a variant of the Wyld shaping technique that works in creation, a solar variant of Investiture of Infernal Glory and Endowment... I won't go into what happens when she gets pissed off at armies or dragonblooded wyld hunts or even other celestial exalted...


She's older than everything that's not truly immortal and she knows it.

 

[Flagg]

My favorite scene ever to come out of an Exalted game is as follows:


A Dragon-Blooded PC, Peleps Tazokai, was sailing with his fleet along the western shores of the Southern Threshold, when they inadvertantly angered a powerful sea god, Churns-the-Waves. After whipping up an enourmous storm that smashed the entire fleet, the god appeared to the survivors, now marooned along a desolate coast, and demanded that if they were ever to be allowed to leave the place alive, he would require the sacrifice of 100 men in his name.


In no position to argue, and thinking of the overall welfare of his men, Tazokai accepted the deal. He assembled the men, and gave an extremely awesome IC speech (plus a very decent Cha+Performance result) which inspired 100 of the men to willingly die to ensure the survival of their brethren.


Once goodbyes were said, and messages to loved ones left, the 100 men marched solemnly into the waves and were swept away.


It was a pretty heavy session.


-S

 

[Cthulhu_Wakes]

*whistles* Wow, we have some pretty heavy stuff going on right now too. A DB high school game more or less and its not that childish, its actually the best game I've ever played in. Our ST is the best I've ever played with. He's an awesome storyteller, we have some dark moments for our characters and we're all only 14! It's an amazing game.

 

[Flagg]

As a player, I had a fun "holy crap!" moment recently.


We were in Rathess, atop a step pyramid, upon which was advancing a horde of goblins that GREATLY out-matched us in terms of combat.


My Dawn Caste, Prince Thalo, decided that since there was little chance of surviving toe-to-toe, he had little to lose in doing something completely reckless and hoping for the best.


All projectiles depleted, he waited for the leader of the goblins, the biggest and meanest of the bunch, to reach a point just a dozen or so steps down from the top of the pyramid. At this point, he leaped at him, sending them both tumbling down the long stair.


The idea was that while his sword might not be able to put a dent in the goblin's armor, a 100-yard bounce down stone steps would do the job nicely. The only problem was that if he fell to the bottom along with the goblin, he'd be just as dead.


At this point, he used an action that I had in reserve to grab desperately for some kind of purchase to halt his tumble. The ST ruled that it would take 4 successes on a Dex+Athletics roll, all or nothing.


I spent a point of Willpower for the auto-success, closed my eyes, and rolled the dice. I got 3 successes: exactly enough to save me from certain death.


The goblin hit the pavement at the bottom of the pyramid in a broken, squishy pile. Leaderless, the remaining weaker goblins were little trouble to defeat. My character was left exhilarated, knowing that he had just barely cheated death to attain victory, and he got that Willpower point back because of his Thrillseeker nature.


Moements like that are always gratifying - and rare - because the dice aren't always so forgiving.


-S

 

[Cthulhu_Wakes]

Awesome stuff that. Recently, my character, a Zenith named Pillar, had a duel with a deathknight that was pretty epic. It was a brutally matched fight. We were well matched though my character was wearing him down pretty quickly, two solid hits with a goremaul will do that kinda thing ^^;;;


But anyway, we were fighting in the middle of this border fort in the Hundred Kingdoms. All of my men were fighting off shamblers and the few nemessaries that were there. All was going well for them and I was fighting it out with the Abyssal with about twenty ghosts all around us. So I lept at the deathknight, anima igniting, and screamed for his death. I barreled into him, smashing the wall behind us and killing half the ghosts, but like a good villian. He got away. He threw a crypt bolt at me and I got hit into the wall some feet behind us.


He was gone when I got up, the entire area fo the fort we fought it was decimated, craters, gouts of stone upturned and so on. It was truly an epic moment...especially since I limit broke into Berserk Anger ^^;;;