Beam Klaves

[Joseph]

Right, meaning you can come back for that armor later and sell it.  Greek warfare had a strong "looting" component to it, which is part of what made it so profitable and, to them, glorious.  Why destroy what you can use yourself or sell, or even equip your mortal lackeys with?  Back in my day, we knew the value of a suit of chain mail.

Ugh...  My Greek classes pretty much consisted of the Illiad.  A solid third of it is probably records of people's deathblows, which invaribly lands somewhere near the nipple, which seems to be the standard of reference for determining where the blow landed.  Along with with the newly deceased being stripped, dragged off to be stripped, or for the more famous...  A brawl with a tug-of-war to decide if the body will be stripped or reclaimed by his compatriots.

I agree, it was an excellent read!

 

[Rokan]

I still think Menelaos should of gotten more mention.

 

[Persell]

Re: Beam-klaves rock

I don't know... they seem alright for what they do... which is slaughter everyone in their path who isn't packing artifact weapons + armour... it's useful for slaughtering extras and other mortal followers of other exalts.

Normal Daiklaives achieve this just fine.  Beam Klaves are slightly harder to defend against through non-Artifact means... but most individuals wearing non-Artifact equipment will die easily enough to an Artifact user anyway.

 Also note that the cost is relatively low... if this was used in creation and you had a pack of godblooded or essence awakened human followers with some skill at melee... you could have a small pack of followers capable of decimating those pesky mortal troops that you see following dragonblooded about.

Yes, but you could just about as easily achieve the same effect with normal Daiklaives, and substantially cheaper and more easily!

I find your lack of faith disturbing.....


:twisted:


Seriously though, while it is useful for decimating those exalts with mortal weapons and armor (yay) and obviously all mortals and extras (next splat book: Extra: The Deadening), part of the real fun of beam klaives is that they can be useful in pure destruction. You can burn through doors, walls, tubes, anything that stands in your way. Huzzah.


Mind you I was more impressed with Excessively Righteous Blossom's daiklaive. Gave me interesting ideas.

 

[Persell]

I really liked the charm of the crossbow that unfold from the arm and then has the repeating magazine attached. And yeah that Daiklave/ Crossbow that he has is awesome.

 

[Coyotekin]

This gives me a great preview as to what to expect in the book. It is being sent from Amazon along with Blood and Bone, or whatever it is called.

 

[The Scorp]

Re: Beam-klaves rock

I find your lack of faith disturbing.....


:twisted:


Seriously though, while it is useful for decimating those exalts with mortal weapons and armor (yay) and obviously all mortals and extras (next splat book: Extra: The Deadening), part of the real fun of beam klaives is that they can be useful in pure destruction. You can burn through doors, walls, tubes, anything that stands in your way. Huzzah.


Mind you I was more impressed with Excessively Righteous Blossom's daiklaive. Gave me interesting ideas.

Plus they are easy to conceil without the use of a charm and if used in Creation, theyare unheard of so no one would think its a weapon even if seen.


You could make a daiklave that does the same thing in terms of how it destroys armor and weapons and such, but then....why not just get the beam klave?

 

[Andrew02]

Re: Beam-klaves rock

You could make a daiklave that does the same thing in terms of how it destroys armor and weapons and such, but then....why not just get the beam klave?

Because a solid mass of one of the Five Magical Material is more accessible to the characters I prefer to play, and when I imagine my characters utilizing artifact weapons, the solid mass of the daiklaive is preferable and more satisfying than the beam klave.


With a Grand Daiklaive, you don't hide it. And when someone messed with you, it's more a mood of, "oh, you gone done it now, son - you're gonna be wishing for your daddy's belt behind the woodshed when I'm done with you."


With a beam klave . . . it's more like, "oh, look. Look. I'm such a sneaky little bitch! Thought I was unarmed, didn't you? But oh no! I'm a sneaky little bitch with my hidden DILDO that happens to be able to sprout a beam!"

 

[The Scorp]

Re: Beam-klaves rock

Because a solid mass of one of the Five Magical Material is more accessible to the characters I prefer to play, and when I imagine my characters utilizing artifact weapons, the solid mass of the daiklaive is preferable and more satisfying than the beam klave.


With a Grand Daiklaive, you don't hide it. And when someone messed with you, it's more a mood of, "oh, you gone done it now, son - you're gonna be wishing for your daddy's belt behind the woodshed when I'm done with you."


With a beam klave . . . it's more like, "oh, look. Look. I'm such a sneaky little bitch! Thought I was unarmed, didn't you? But oh no! I'm a sneaky little bitch with my hidden DILDO that happens to be able to sprout a beam!"

Hahah


Well that, of course, comes down to what kind of char youre playing.  


Also, Im pretty sure that the sneaky little bitch with the dildo would fare a whole lot better than Macho Man Randy Solar with the G.Daiklave in certain places...like the Realm.  Unless you have that charm, you stick out like a sore thumb.  And that Dildo holding sneaky little bitch would just watch as a score of DBed jump the Solar holding that beacon you call a G. Daiklave. sipping on the latest cocktail with the cute umbrella.


I can see where a Beam Klave could have its place in Exalted, and its usefulness that accompanies it deserves its 4 pt artifact rating.


Describing stunts with it would be fun too.

 

[Andrew02]

Re: Beam-klaves rock

Also' date=' Im pretty sure that the sneaky little bitch with the dildo would fare a whole lot better than Macho Man Randy Solar with the G.Daiklave in certain places...like the Realm.  [/quote']
Probably, because Mr. Magical Golden Dildo would probably have more social charms to help fill out that jedi wet dream getting enacted, while Macho Man Golden Penis Enhancer is probably a hack and slash moron without even a dot or two in any social abilities.

sipping on the latest cocktail with the cute umbrella.

They'd be the fruitiest cocktails ever.

I can see where a Beam Klave could have its place in Exalted, and its usefulness that accompanies it deserves its 4 pt artifact rating.
Describing stunts with it would be fun too.

I am not disagreeing with either of those points.

 

[Joseph]

Re: Beam-klaves rock

You could make a daiklave that does the same thing in terms of how it destroys armor and weapons and such' date=' but then....why not just get the beam klave?[/quote']
I don't know, why would you not take a suit of armor with the STATISTICS of Superheavy Plate that had a large neon sign perpetually and unavoidably floating above it that said disparaging things about you, your lineage, and your sexual prowress just as happily as you'd take the suit of Superheavy Plate?  It's not like the sign is going to give you away any more than the huge, golden armor is going to.


The answer, clearly, is that if you think something looks silly, stupid, or out of place, it doesn't matter what it DOES.

 

[memesis]

Fall of Eden (a modern-day Exalted sequel campaign) will be featuring beam-klaves, and let me tell you why.  Those that don't care know where to find Page-Down on their keyboards.


To maintain a "magical reality" feeling on modern Earth, I'm relying on the legends of Earth.  Everything from ancient Egyptian civilization (founded by a lost and repentant Abyssal Exalted - look at the obsession with the Sun and with death) to Star Wars' mythic resonance will play a part.  The homage to Star Wars is in this case deliberate, as the manifestations of Autochthonian super-science find their way into the modern world through the motifs mankind devised.


Nobody is going to come out and SAY "hey, lightsabers from Star Wars" - that would ruin what I hope to achieve, and thankfully I have some fairly mature and thoughtful players.  But everyone should KNOW it.

 

[Flagg]

To maintain a "magical reality" feeling on modern Earth, I'm relying on the legends of Earth.

In the post-apocalyptic setting of DeadLands, John Wayne is a saint. Praying to him can actually work, too.


-S

 

[Joseph]

Those that don't care know where to find Page-Down on their keyboards.

I hit page down on my keyboard as soon as this showed up at the bottom of my window, but rather than skipping me past your post, it put it right in the middle of the screen.


Why would you trick me like that?  Perhaps more importantly, why do you hate freedom?

 

[memesis]

To maintain a "magical reality" feeling on modern Earth, I'm relying on the legends of Earth.

In the post-apocalyptic setting of DeadLands, John Wayne is a saint. Praying to him can actually work, too.


-S

FoE includes the Chaos Frontier, a better-defined boundary of the Wyld.  Behind it you can find the mythic versions of cities and places - cross the Frontier from "real" Earth while on the Western side of the American continent, and you may end up in a romanticized, Wyld-spawned, version of the Old West.  However, I know jack about the Deadlands, and this is also off-topic for beam klaves..

 

[Flagg]

FoE?


-S

 

[Andrew02]

FoE?
-S

Fall of Eden. The acronym for his game, which he mentioned is called Fall of Eden a few posts up.


It's really all I read before I skimmed.

 

[Heaven's Thunder Hammer]

Are you sure about that now? I mean, I find it sad that you'd think of Jakk Bey being a negative factor when he was a cool cat.

All it means is you need to step up your game, Haku. Jakk Bey's shoes aren't going to fill themselves, and you are the only one who can do it. You're like the Last Starfighter, Haku. The Last fucking Starfighter.


A little piece of Jakk Bey resides in all of us, Haku. It is always there, motivating us towards fabulousness and real life experiences that defy the cold dictums of logic and reason. It motivates us higher and faster to do those crazy things, because that is how Jakk Bey rolled. He was a rebel who redefined life and acknowledged the craziness of the real world with a morality as contradictory as it was brilliant and eye-opening. That man, if he was one, was very nearly like one of Nietzche's overmen- he lived outside conventional notionso f right and wrong, defining himself as he went along and always expressing a terrible anger at any sort of Asian culture being appropriated because of his birth in Okinawa gave him a special ownership of all things Asiatic. Jakk Bey was a true man of the Orient, always riding the Orient Express of life to true peace.


Cool cat? Perhaps. He was more like an elegantly sliced muffin I once ate in a greasy spoon diner in Quebec where a beligerant man blew smoke in my face despite being seated not three inches away from a 'no smoking' sign. It was in the heart of what I thought was a red light district, as the diner stood out prominently along with the hostel I was staying at amongst the porn theaters and strip joints. Thankfully it was morning I was not accosted by francophone hookers, pimps, or drug dealers. For a sixth grade trip, it was a strange and bizarre time indeed. But I ate that muffin to the extreme, Haku, because that is how my crew and I roll. I pimped it with some grape jelly from a small, personal sized plastic container that one gets at fast food restaurants.

Andrew02, this was the funniest thing I've read in a week. That was an awesome write up!


As for the whole beam klaive thing... I'm gonna have to order this Autochthon book now, as i've been wanting to for a while!

 

[Joseph]

How did I get into that quotation series?  I never said that.

 

[Andrew02]

I know. That is bizarre . . . maybe Still can crack the whip and get the code monkeys to get some better quoting code.

 

[Flagg]

I know. That is bizarre . . . maybe Still can crack the whip and get the code monkeys to get some better quoting code.

In this case, I think it was poster error, not a forum glitch.


-S

 

[Andrew02]

That thing cyl was talking about brought to mind the weapon of Sol Badguy from Guilty Gear X. I've never played the game, but I've seen others do so and they seem fairly similar.

In this case, I think it was poster error, not a forum glitch.


-S

You can still crack the whip, right? Put those code monkeys in their place.

 

[Flagg]

Yes, but a code monkey is like a delicate orchid. You need to treat them delicately and use the proper fertilizer or they will wither.


-S

 

[Heaven's Thunder Hammer]

How did I get into that quotation series?  I never said that.

I edited my post. Sorry about that, I'm not sure how it got in there either. I think I might have thought about quoting something from you as well Joseph and the code got left in my post by accident.


Btw:


Having finally gotten the Autochthonian book, and having had my PC's awaken Autochthon already (but not fix him) I've gotten this new story idea....


It involves 5 Alchemicals of Different Castes approaching the PC's in heavy dark brown cloaks while they're having a council session on one of their Castles. The Alchemicals pull their hoods back, revealing themselves for who they are, and saying to the PC's, "Autochthon has sent us to test you again."


Then, the special cylindrical objects drop into their hands from their robes, and they all light up their beam klaives.... Oh man!


(I have definately watch SW EPIII a few too many times. That scene  has branded itself in my brain.)

 

[Flagg]

See?! This is why beam klaves are stupid.


-S

 

[Andrew02]

Oh, I see.


Seriously, this is one of those, "if thine eye offends thee, pluck it out" moments.