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Pretzel_Boy

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I have been playing in a short game with a group of Solars. My character, a Night Caste has recently been put down to incapacitated. We are coming up to the climactic end battle, and I really need to find a way for my character to be able to get up and continue fighting.


Our Storyteller has given us free reign with experience due to it being the last fight of the game, and I have 7 xp available to use. We can also buy backgrounds for 3xp per dot if we have good justification for it.


I don't have too much knowledge of Ghosts and Spirits, but I have heard that some have charms that can heal people.


Is there anyone who can help me out with the charm names, and hopefully a good (preferably an excellent) justification for gaining a sudden Ally with one of those charms so I can get to the final battle?
 
As an ST I could think of at least half a dozen different ways to get you into the fight, but Healing in the Age of Sorrows doesn't come all that easily--at least not for anything other than a Lunar.  To pull something off like that...it would have a cost. And as an ST I would be more than happy to introduce a grand new plot complication...but then again, I believe in giving the players what they want, good and hard.


Beware of what you wish for, you just might get it.


If you're looking for 7XP to get you up, hale and whole....you might want to consider what strings might be attached--because if your ST is any good at all, there will be enough to keep things "interesting" for you for a while.


Your character might be better off not being in the thick of things...
 
seeing as you're given a little time to aquire said junk... Does the character already have Body-Mending Meditation? IF not, get it. If so, get the next charm up! If you don't have the required medicine of 2 then I'm not suprized the character is knocked out. But there is a way, I take it you don't have a good enough healer in the group? I would recomend asking your ST if there could be a way of meeting another Solar (twilight probably) Who atleast has the basic healing-your-buddy charm. Or maybe you have a Lunar Mate from the first age who also happens to know Mother's Touch, or someone who happens to grow the plant from the CB: Twilight that has green seeds and red seeds... I can't remember it for the life of me... But those green seeds when consumed heal 5 health levels no matter what kind of damage. Or hell, since you have the exp, buy the artifact rating required. You could have gotten those ruddy seeds from some joe-shmoe (Jack and the Bean-stalk like) and since they don't grow into anything, you were playing around with them, and accidently swollowed one... thinking you're bound to die now, you magically heal up instead..


Of course I'm not a ST, and all of these ideas are not very good for last ditch efforts because most would have taken quite some time. But just throwing out some ideas.
 
Well, anything happening would have to be a fairly instantaneous effect, at least in getting hold of the healing required.


So artifacts are out, and as my character is unconscious, and I only have 7xp (maybe 8 as one of the charms I put into a combo recently was a minimum ability 2, not 1, so I couldn't afford it at the time). If I do have 8xp, I could just buy an "Ox-Body", although that would only have me up at -2's with only 2 or 3 health levels left.


So if anyone can give me an idea of a spirit ally with "Touch of Grace", and a way to obtain it suddenly (doesn't matter the consequences afterwards, we have one session left before we switch games), that would be great, as I would really like to finish playing my character out to the end, whatever that may be.


Heck, a spirit or ghost with charms to give me essence and/or willpower back would be awesome as well, so if anyone can help with that too, I would be grateful.
 
I think you should talk to your Storyteller about this. If you're unconscious, any new traits you buy with XP are going to need the ST's ok anyway. Any advice we give you can be simply vetoed if your ST doesn't like it, so it's probably more productive to go straight to them. You have some good suggestions and you certainly seem to know what you want.


Just talk to your ST and explain that you don't want your character to miss the final showdown. If they're reasonable they'll probably also want the Night to be involved.


As far as suggestions for how you can "suddenly get" an ally or a charm or whatever, just do what my group does: pretend you had it all along, but didn't use it or tell anyone about it (works best if ally is a Sidereal).
 
Agreed... or else... it's a favor you have owed to you, and a spirit is finally paying it off... ie... "touch of grace".


Or a spirit could like to have a solar in his favor, and so speak to you in your dreams, dicking for a deal... you know, one thing leads to another...
 
Speak to your ST and work out a method that will allow your character back into the foray, and will help to  develop the plot, even if it means the death of your character.  Just so long as the story is made greater by the outcome.


~FC.
 
Well, everything went well, I was able to get back up and help in the final battle (could only provide a distraction anyway, but every bit helps). Thanks for the advice everyone.


We had that much fun we ended up creating a blooper reel for the "series".
 
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