Archetypes of Exalted (2.5)

[Viatos]

An-Teng is my favorite place in all of Creation, so that would be fantastic.


Also, OOC, no majesties please. Viatos works fine!

 

[KG-Motte]

xD I was hoping for that place, notice how I emphasized the advantages(also plenty of very deadly critters around there to get samples from...). And just practicing for later!

 

[HumanPlus]

So so far the candidates for my Lunar's Abyssal mate is Myllinnia and TheBetrayerOfHope. If one can be chosen it could be awesome because i really wanna start fleshing my character out some more.


If he's gonna be the mate of an Abyssal i'll have to do so in a fitting manner, those black exaltations are known to be a bit demanding after all. I really like Myllinnia's character so far though.

 

[Sunder]

Well betrayer defaulted by having not posted again, so Myllinnia is our Abyssal, which means Thief is our Sidereal. I'll go ask for and begin setting up our sandbox, as people talk to each other.


@tr4ansience (and thebetrayerofhope if he comes back) and Millershipper are our Dragonblooded, who can choose amongst themselves if they're in cahoots at the start or not.


We have no Alchemical at present, which isn't the worst thing, but if someone wants it, it's open.

 

[Captain Hesperus]

The ST is invited to enter the ST section to make their forum requests!


Captain Hesperus

 

[Millershipper]

I'm good either way. DBs do tend to work better in groups, though. When do you think you'll have the forum up and char gen rules out?

 

[Gonzo]

So are the slots filled already?

 

[Viatos]

So are the slots filled already?

There is one Alchemical and three Dragonblooded slots open.

 

[Myllinnia]

We have no Alchemical at present, which isn't the worst thing, but if someone wants it, it's open.

Yep 1 Alchie slot, and... 4 or less DBs?

 

[Gonzo]

Mmm, I'd always wanted to play a DB outcaste. But I've never got the chance before to play an alchemical... this could be a hard choice...

 

[Sunder]

Our sandbox will go live in approximately two days. I'm about to hop on a plane and most of my preparation is done, but I want to make sure everything is crisp and clean before you are all set loose.


So, yes. Alchemical and Dragonblooded slots are open, take your time deciding. While I want there to be at least one of everything, having a slightly larger group of Dragonblooded is less messy than opening up Autocthonia, so my feelings on each cancel each other out.

 

[Captain Hesperus]

Exalted is a world conceived of and shaped by entities of unimaginable will and power, and the Exalted themselves have plenty of both. Each brand of Exalt has their own unique flavor, which, perhaps it is possible to distill to a core concept, the real essence (hah) of their kind. With these things in mind, welcome to Archetypes of Exalted.
This game has a set number of slots, with a very small amount of wiggle room. They are as follows. The names associated are people who staked claims in the interest check thread, and if they show to reaffirm them, they will likely keep them.


One Solar (Goddamnbatman), and their bonded Lunar (Lord-Leafar)


One Infernal (Viatos), and their bonded Lunar (KG-Motte)


One Abyssal , and their bonded Lunar (ThatSmellyGoblin)


One Alchemical (Ajax Oblige)


One Sidereal


One to five Dragonblooded.


For all slots, those already open, those called, and those defaulted on, please post a concise conceptual framework for the character you would play. You will be expected only to have access to and be familiar with the Exalted system, and the reference materials of your chosen variety of Exalt.


Important notes!


First, this game will use “downtime” freely. This means that you will have time to complete your projects, be they crafting, recruitment, training, and so on.


Following the above point, characters which have the ability or drive to acquire infrastructural support will do well, because they'll actually be able to take full advantage of those resources.


I will be using the crafting rules essentially as they stand in the books. As with mutations, and most else. Custom Charms, manses, hearthstones, artifacts, and so on, are all still permitted, and in fact, encouraged.


Lunars and their mates are required to, you know, talk to each other out of character and come to some comfortable place where they like the dynamic and established history if any between their characters. If the Lunar doesn't want to have their Solar dropping control Charms on them, that's perfectly within their rights, and I expect that to be respected. Conversely, they may find it a fun storytelling device. That's fine too. The main thing is, the players of bonded characters should establish a friendly relationship with each other, so that they can deal maturely and comfortably with their characters, complement each other, so on.


There will be some quirks of character creation to promote a rough equality in starting power. As such, you won't be able to begin putting numbers to your character until after (if) we are given a little box to play in. This should not stop you from working on your character, because across the board, while I will not mandate it, I expect characters who have been Exalted for more than two years, if Solar/Abyssal/Infernal, and more than five years if one of the others. Again, this is not required, but is simply convenient and I feel more interesting than being just past the cusp of Exaltation.


Backgrounds acquired through play, meaning resources you talked your way into having, stole, or fabricated, do not cost experience points. Essentially, if you take the time and effort to gain something, I won't then make you pay for it. Thus, experience points will typically be spent on attributes, Charms, and the like. If you want a background, and don't want to spend the time to acquire it, it will have to be purchased as usual. This should not be seen as a punishment, but simply, the cost of “expedited shipping,” so to speak.


Feel free to ask questions.


Others who expressed interest, who I'm tagging to let know this thread is up: Myllinnia, navar, bablioteca, tr4nsience, Scandinavian, Midboss, Arynne.

This game is now live and may be found here: http://www.rpdom.com/forums/archetypes-of-exalted.6466/


Players are invited to submit their character sheet, and if the ST would be so kind as to edit the first post of this thread I would be very grateful.


Enjoy!!


Captain Hesperus

 

[Sunder]

With some slight shuffling, there's room for someone to take the Lunar slot and be paired to Viatos's Infernal. There had been a lot of interest in the Lunar slots, so if one of you wants to take it, head over to the subforum and stake a claim in the open discussion thread!

 

[webkilla]

Here's my bid for the Alchemical slot - assuming that its not taken:


Note:


Yes, this is a bit of a Nova-ripoff, but I couldn't really think of that many other excuses to have an alchy in Creation without knowing more about the game its specific setting - like how on earth an alchemical in creation is to get new charms and whatnot... since there wont be any vat complexes there to begin with. Basically I reserve the right to retcon this guy's backstory if there'll be any easy access back to autobot-land, because that would change everything - or at least quite a lot of the circumstances around him coming to creation, as well as what he'd be entering into creation loaded with.

• Personal Info
• Appearance
• Overall Personality
• Backstory
• Charms and other stat info

• 
  
  
  Name: Emitter of Solution's Lighter (Solvent for short)
  
  
  Age: 5 days (no really...)
  
  
  Caste: Orichalcum (Alchemical)
  
  
  Concept: Gordon Freeman, the robot
  
  
  Motivation: Either find a way home or construct a new vat complex if need be to facilitate repairs and replacements (Will be changed to a grander one once this basic one is completed...)
  
  
  Intimacies: Xexas (Loyalty), The Five Magnificent Sodalities of Penultimate Truth and
  
  
  Intransigent Gospel (Respect), The Prolific Scholars of the Furnace Transcendent (Reverence), Robuster (Kinship), Creatures of the void (Furious hatred), Autochton (Faith)
  
  
  Gender: Male (well, he's a robot...)
• 
  
  
  Like all Orichalcum champions, Solvent has a clammy skin of clay that shines like gold. He is by no means particularly beautiful on that account, indeed many a populat in Xexas enjoyed that aesthetically he was a peer to the average worker. His hair is a seemingly solid lump of bronze cast that looks like a normal populat haircut, even his beard is bronze.
  
  
  Basically he looks like Gordon Freeman with golden skin and bronze hair (which will slowly oxidize and turn green unless regularly polished...)
  
  
  
• 
  
  
  When Solvent was made the priority was to create a brilliant problem solver. This was exactly what the patropolis of Xexas got. This also meant that visual aesthetics was not a priority, so while Orichalcum champions are often known throughout the Octet as quite inspirational and great orators, then... Solvent, well... he's smart, he's really smart. He's just not nearly that much of a chatter-box. He prefers to get things done, get them done efficiently, and get them done well - for why else do anything?
  
  
  Solvent equally thinks about how to solve problems - he was made for this express purpose - and he likes to think deeply. (That he was lost in thought when he accidentally entered the unknown blight zone and got lost is something he will not willingly tell anyone)
  
  
  When he communicates he does so through makeshift means of expression due to his current lack of functioning vocal cords, typically writing quite quickly using his omnitool implant to print or imprint text on any available surface.
  
  
  Slow to anger, Solvent prefers civil solutions to things - and through his discovery of a strange but quite interesting martial art - he hopes to be able to express this point of view via this oddly pleasing passive-aggressive form of defensive combat.
  
  
  This reluctance to be aggressive can also been in Solvent's behavior when it comes to pursuiving personal rewards and accolades for his work. He does not seek glory or demand rewards - his work is both his reward and duty...
  
  
  
• 
  
  
  So there's this orichalcum caste Alchemical from the patropolis of Xexas, the vertical city that hangs on the roof of the elemental pole of smoke - at the bottom of the Great Maker. His name is Emitter of Solution's Lighter, or Solvent to his friends, colleagues and task-masters, for his habit slipping away from trouble and making things run smooth where things get rusty. He was among the first of the champions the city created, meant to help solve the issue of expanding the city beyond its toxic boundaries, into the (relatively) safer pole of metal so close to it.
  
  
  As such one of the first things Solvent did was to dive headfirst into fixing the sitaution, so he flew off loaded up with crafting and mobility charms to easily access and work on the problem at hand - which sadly led to a fateful encounter with a previously unknown and uncharted blight zone that had completely eroded the Great Maker's reality...plunging Solvent straight into Elsewhere without any immediate way back home.
  
  
  Stuck Elsewhere, with even his plasma-jet charms for zero-G maneuvers useless due to Elsewhere's lack of any true space/time correlation, Solvent waited... and after an indeterminate but likely very long amount of time Solvent heard a strange echo through the nothing he floated in. To his surprise Solvent was able to approach this strange portal in Elsewhere which led him to an unknown location with strange mineral and organic artifacts, including strange brown vertical columns that split into many smaller wire-like antenna from which what looked like thin light-collectors protruded. Truly, this was a strange place - samples surely had to be taken for later study.
  
  
  Then the malfunctioning and quite ruined first age manse he'd appeared in blew up quite hard, Solvent barely managing to escape - his vocal cords were damaged by flying mineral shrapnel, silencing him.
  
  
  And so Solvent, the lost Alchemical, flew into creation with but his charms and his trusty Orichalcum crowbar-klaive 'Robuster' (Artifact Hooksword). His first order of business: Find means to either return home OR set up a temporary vats complex to refit himself with a more appropriate charm loadout, as this strange new world is clearly dangerous and prone to explosions, so a more balanced charm-loadout is clearly needed.
  
  
  One thing that Solvent did find was a strange if not dilapidated shrine wrought of a clearly sedimentary cryptocrystaline mineral, where he found several scrolls that detail a form of martial arts that he found most pleasing in its solemn aesthetics - thus Solvent learned of the art of meditative discussion, but without a Perfected Lotus Matrix, he can't internalize this new wisdom. This annoys him greatly.
  
  
  There's probably someone who wants those scrolls back, but Solvent wouldn't know of that.
  
  
  Basically he's Gordon Freeman, the robot, with a crowbar and perhaps later crowbar-fu... plus he has a goody bag full of fun toys he had on him when he translated into Elsewhere and subsequently creation.
  
  
  
• 
  
  
  Willpower 10
  
  
  Temperance 5
  
  
  Essence 4
  
  
  He was built powerful to begin with - goes a bit beyond usual chargen allowances, but until he gets a local vat complex up and running he's pretty much boned - so I think its a fair trade-off
  
  
  Mute (...until fixed - he could probably do it on himself, but he has more important things to do)
  
  
  Strength 5 (caste)
  
  
  Dex 3
  
  
  Sta 4 (fav)
  
  
  Per 3 (fav)
  
  
  Int 5 (caste)
  
  
  Wits 2 (fav)
  
  
  social stats all 2
  
  
  Savant 3
  
  
  Eidolon 3
  
  
  Class 3 (not applicable in Creation)
  
  
  Artifact 4
  
  
  Clarity:
  
  
  Charms
  
  
  2nd Intelligence Augmentation
  
  
  6th Intelligence Augmentation (Craft)
  
  
  Omnitool Implant
  
  
  Creator Fugue Construction Engines
  
  
  Personal Gravity Manipulation Apparatus
  
  
  Parabolic Leap Overcharger Device
  
  
  Plasma Thruster Assembly
  
  
  Essence:
  
  
  personal: 24
  
  
  Periph:60
  
  
  Health: [0][-1x2][-2x6][-4][inc]
  
  
  Artifacts: (Yes he has a lot of toys... he's from Autochtonia, I wonder how long he gets to keep them...)
  
  
  Essence pulse cannon (not named) 2
  
  
  Orichalcum Hookklaive (Robuster, the crowbar-klaive) 1
  
  
  Arc Protector (Originally to shield against lightning flashes, now the sun...) 1
  
  
  Precision Goggles 2
  
  
  Flaw Scanner 1
  
  
  Foglamp Crystal 1 (Will run out of power in one season)
  
  
  Scrying Apparatus 2 (Will run out of power in one season)
  
  
  Crawlspace Creeping Unit 1
  
  
  Autolabe 1 (Useless outside of Autochtonia)
  
  
  

This is one layout of the character - if the setting of the game is after the breach of the eight seals I'll rewrite the character to fit that, in which case he'll be a scout sent forth into creation, probably from Xexas again.

 

[Viatos]

Alchemical slot is taken (the reshuffling mentioned above); there's a Lunar slot open and several Dragonblooded slots as well.

 

[Red Shadow Claws]

If this is still open, I'd like to take a stab at a Lunar or Dragon-Blooded

 

[Sunder]

There are slots for both available, please head on over to our subforum to see the creation rules and meet up with your Bonded exalt or fellow Dragonblooded.

 

[Red Shadow Claws]

Name/Title: Silent Snowflake


Age: 24


Aspect: Air


Concept: Odd Immaculate Monk


Motivation: Become the best Chosen of Mela


Gender: Male


Born to a minor offshoot of House Mnemon, He was celebrated by his patrician parents when he Exalted, but it was the end of his contact with them. Showing a unique talent for martial arts, and a keen mind, he was sent to the Immaculate Order. For a while, he was miserable there, as he knew no one, but soon he began to perceive a greater destiny for himself. Unlike many of his peers, he possessed an almost unparalleled strength of blood. He soon began to suspect that his father wasn't his real father, but that was beside the point. Mela chose him as a champion, and he would devote himself to becoming the best representative of her that he can become. He threw himself into his teachings, and while he was never the charismatic sort, he was steadfast friend to those he liked. That earned him many points with certain people, and that helped pave roads for him. Recently, he was asked to trek to Varang, to meet up with the Seventeenth legion. Why he was sent there, he wasn't told, only that it would become clear once he got there.

 

[hellrazoromega]

Is there still an opening for an Alchemical? If so I'd love to throw my hat in the ring.