Howlin' at the moon (OOC thread) [Lunar Fury]

GACH!


Fixed.


Yeah I meant the first post to be just Kieroon and Eva, and Laughter jumping in wasn't a problem at all, Eva just wouldn't have been hanging out topless with the rest of the gang so I threw something in about her wandering to the rest of the group.


That ok?
 
Ok, finally back on the move. I understand that many will be busy this week with the hollidays, myself included, but post as you can. Once Cyl is back, I'll probably have a thread for him to post in covering his trip to Rathess.


And, check the xp thread. Your present is there, ready to be opened!
 
Ooh, presents! :D


Merry xmas indeed.


... You do realise how high Laughter's Soak is now? Then again, he is a Bear Totem. 30L/32B in Warform isn't too over the top, right? Though finding something that can get past a DV of 11 and actually deal enough to matter after his regeration might be tricky. Maybe if someone throws a mountain at him? Or some sort of artillery piece?


And yes, Essence 4 at last! The only question is what to start taking, Celestial Sorcery, a CMA style or crafting Charms. There's also some nice miscellaneous effects...


EDIT Sherwood, what's the Attunement cost on those amulets? Is it the normal 5m for the IRA, or do we include the 1m from the CoDCL for a total of 6m?


EDIT2 Another question. There's a Thaumaturgic ritual that allows you to sense an uncapped Demense from (Successes x 2) Miles away. Laughter will get an average of 6-7 Successes on the roll before factoring in Excellencies. If there's not a Demense within 20 Miles or so, Laughter can travel vast distances easily and there's another Ritual that lets you follow a Dragon Line. Finding a Demense would thus be a matter of inevitability, as he can follow Dragon Lines untill he gets within 20 Miles of one. The rituals are about a minute long, and Laughter can move about 100 MPH. Assuming he spent a few days looking for a Demense, he'll probably find one. If I took the Celestial Circle Spell that lets you build a Manse instanty, would you allow me to get away with doing this? Multiple times?
 
For edit 1, attunement cost is still 5m.


For edit 2, the bulk of demenses you can find will be of low power; 1 or two dot once capped. While I don't mind players comming up with something good and running with it, I will have to come up with a reasonable level to stop this at before you have a nearly endless supply of low level manses.


I'll come up with some rule to put in play.
 
That's fine. After rereading the description of the spell, it appears that it only works on Demenses up to (Essence - 2) and takes two weeks to cast. Since it won't be so immediately useful, thanks to that casting time, I'll just take a different spell.


I get a free spell when I purchase Celestial Circle Sorcery, right?
 
There's also the logistic/travel issue of time. While it's an inevitability, practicality would force a cap as well.


Hey I don't suppose we had/have time to check out that Manse that you dangled in front of us on our way to Rathess, do/did we? Because Manse-diving does sound like fun.


p.s. Working on the rest of the XP for Eva. Thoughts/suggestions so far? This is my first Lunar, really.
 
That's one of things Laughter did while he was away from the group. He's already got the Heathstone for it, though Sherwood never gave me an answer on what was in there apart from that.


And I've finalised Laughter's xp spending.


Essence 4 27xp


Hybrid Body Rearrangement 9xp


Celestial Circle Sorcery (Sapphire Circle Banishment) 10xp


Eagle-Fish Transition Prophecy 10xp


Now, shall we use EFTP to find out what will happens next? I think we shall. :twisted:


My recommendations for Eva? Irrestistable Silver Spirit is essentially the social version of RLF, so I'd look at that. You might want to think about some more Willpower or Integrity as well, or you're going to have to use White Jade Mask as a Perfect Social Parry quite a bit. Cat-Face Presentation, what with it's Unexpected effect, can be devastating. I'd start looking at some sort of Social Combo if that's the way you want to go.


New Friend Aroma is always fun, but not nessecary at this point.


Something along the lines of Creating The Wolf Attitude/Feeding the Bear Progression/Forsaking The Blood Posture/Topiary Culture Meditation, probably in a Combo with an Excellency/Cat-Face Presentation, would probably allow Eva to start messing with the Realm on a whole new level.


If you want some more combat strength, taking a Soak-enhancing Charm and/or the Healing Charms can boost your durability impressively, as could working towards that Perfect Defence. For offence, Claws Of The Silver Moon can be nasty, and Twin-Fang Technique/Octopus And Spider Barrage make for a powerful offence.


If you're after some more trickery, buying up to Wits 4 so you can take The Spider's Trap Door, essentially a very versatile Perfect Concealment effect, is a nice idea.
 
I'm either taking 'Perfect Fear Scent' or 'Creating the Wolf.' Well role-played PFS is as good as CtW and it takes less time. CtW however explicitly has a longer-lasting effect.


'Cat-Face Presentation' would be great but she'd need to be accepted into the group first. In the right setting the social attack wouldn't even have to be hidden, so 'One of the Herd' is the way to go right now, I think. The Changing Moon anima ability is great for this, I think, except for how expensive it is.


The 2nd Appearance Excellency provides more penetrating social attacks as well as defense against them. I didn't realize just how many perfect social defenses Lunars have until I went through the Social Charms again. Wow. But for one reason or another none of them quite did it for me.


The goal is to make her more socially capable in a very efficient, flexible way, as well as having a handful of particularly nasty tricks up her sleeve just in case.
 
Cat-Face Presentation is astonishingly valuable, because it takes essentially prevents most targets from defending at all. DV 0 and no way to defend with Charms is always good. Still, I haven't looked at One Of The Herd too closely, so if you can get a similar effect from that, go for it.


If versatility is what you're after, I'd say that PFS is almost certainly more versatile.


More Willpower is, again, always a good thing here.


Irrestistable Silver Spirit is another point that I'd like to emphasise, as it applies to all Social rolls and raises your Excellency cap. If that isn't versatile, I don't know what is (beyond the Excellencies themselves). :D
 
'Preening Lion Stands' will do for general social stuff for the time being; extra dice and a good general defense. 'Lady Spider's Venomous Whispers' is what I REALLY want but I'm not willing to give up 'One of the Herd'. OotH and CFP have very different effects, but without OotH either someone pokes their head up and says, "Who the hell are you?" and I can't do anything sneaky, or I use my anima ability and don't have the motes to pull off anything really good. There's also the chance that, looking like a specific individual, the ruse could be discovered. ISS is GREAT, but isn't the ace we'll need if things go poorly.


Willpower is a consideration, but if Eva's gonna be the Pack's social jammer I need to fill out her Social Charm repertoire first.


Of course I want to give her more oomph in combat, and it'd be relatively easy to do, but she's supposed to be tricksy before she's fighty. In retrospect I should've used all those free non-favored Charms at character creation on Dex. Defense Charms and RLF, and Favored Wits. (Les sigh.)
 
Social shenanigans? Buy up Appearance, get 3rd Appearance Excellency and Perfect Symmetry. Bam, you are effectively Appearance 10 for a bit, and you disregard the 'no more than +/- 3 MDV bonus for Appearance' thing. When Amina was still a Trickster, that was gonna be my go-to plan.
 
<Note to self: make sure the opponents have Social Perfect Defences and lots of Willpower.> :D
 
Oh I don't need the good social fu for Mnemon or anyone like that. I need the good social fu if things with Mnemon or whoever we're dealing with go sour. In which case I'm going to make her armies implode, followed by whatever political infrastructure I can manage. :)
 
Oh yeah, and I've got a few uses of Eagle-Fish Transition Prophecy to use. :twisted:


I should write those out. Hmm... How do you Stunt EFTP?


Sherwood, I assume you'd want me to send you those via PM?
 
Like I said in my PM, I'll have a answer to your questions soon. :evil:


Funkiller!
 
Tome said:
I should write those out. Hmm... How do you Stunt EFTP?
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Look up some shamanic ritualistic stuff. Body-paint, rattling bone-bedecked fetishes (the magical instrument, not the sexual kink), imbibing certain substances...


Also available is the meditative method - go out into Wyld, meditate, ask questions, ..., profit.
 
Laundreu said:
Tome said:
I should write those out. Hmm... How do you Stunt EFTP?
Click to expand...
Look up some shamanic ritualistic stuff. Body-paint, rattling bone-bedecked fetishes (the magical instrument, not the sexual kink), imbibing certain substances...


Also available is the meditative method - go out into Wyld, meditate, ask questions, ..., profit.
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I like the ritualistic idea. I'll have to remember that for next time.


It's amazing how easy this whole "information gathering" thing is with the right Charms/Ability/Attributes. :D
 
So, some forecasts:


Mnemon wants to get us to kill off the dissenters, then accuse us of their murders, killing two birds with one stone. I'm in favour of pulling some sort of Xanatos Gambit on her to make things go wrong for the loli-empress.


One-Tusk will make it out of Malfeas on his own, and without becoming an Akuma/Infernal.


Anyone else got anything they'd like Laughter to scry for?
 
Amina and Najya and possibly Khavad (though we might make him go build stuff instead :D ) are going adventuring in the South. Anything we should keep an eye out for?
 
:D


Intelligence (5) + Occult (5) = 10 Dice


Results for 10 dice: 5 successes [ 5 7 2 7 2 4 1 7 8 8 ] (TN: 7)


Sherwood?


I'm really loving Laughter's ever-expanding repetoire of non-combat tricks. Screw Martial Arts, he's taking more stuff like this. :D
 
I need a more exact question other than 'anything we need to watch out for' before I can give you a answer. Also remember, the broader the question the more successes needed to get a correct response.
 
Pah! This is the chance for symbology and foreshadowing, silly Sherwood!


"Three things I see in the shapes of things to come - a cup, a sword, and a green hill. These will shape the flow of the future of all Creation."


Gimme a chance to get in touch with Trowizilla and we'll give you a question for that five-success answer. :D
 
I also want to make sure I have the groups splitting up correctly. There is Najya, Amina, and Khavad going south, in the second group will be Kahak going to Rathess to hook up with the Lizard Queen, and then the third team is Laughter, Kieroon, Eva and Rory going to rub elbows with the Empress. Am I missing anyone?
 
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