[Nightmares of the Second Age] The Daily Scribe

My power went out and I have no wireless, So my posting will be slow, sorry.


My basic plan: Show her a half assed display of troops and resources and act like we are ready to take over the east. She'll take that info back to the Mask who in turn will underestimate us.


Rose or Aurora should do this, Knowing best how to schmooze people and/or display false strengths respectively
 
Aurora will not take part in this, she will kick this envoy out of Rathess immediately if given the chance, and she won't be too happy if she finds out we're giving tours of the city to this Abyssal, even if we're just purposely misleading her. So better let someone else do his trickery.


Sherwood: Any chance we could move the meeting with the War Gods a bit sooner? Hopefully it won't take too long, and it will give Aurora something to do in the meantime that does not involve kicking this abyssal envoy down a well.
 
Sherwood said:
Examining the scroll, you see that it is finely written in silver letters, bearing the letterhead of Lytek's office. A quick scan of the letter tells you that it is a description of a Lunar Exalt named Rogosh, and the last known location to be able to find him. It is clear that he is your Lunar Bond.
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Where is he, roughly? And what information is there on him?
 
He is romping about in the Western Ocean, and apparently he is a pirate of some renown, with his own ship and crew. There is a location of his favored watering hole, and a detailed description of what he looks like now.
 
Mmm, so not an urgent matter, but something more to put on the list.


Also, I think the tour thing may be a little premature, just because no one complained, it doesn't mean everyone likes the idea. I'm not quite decided myself.
 
He is a middle aged man that has Exalted about three years ago. No, she is completely covered in leathers and Soulsteel. There is no visible skin exposed.
 
Sherwood said:
He is a middle aged man that has Exalted about three years ago. No, she is completely covered in leathers and Soulsteel. There is no visible skin exposed.
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Not to complain, but that seems more than a little weak for 3 ally dots.
 
He has a captured First Age ship, a Dragon Blood follower, and a crew of awakened beastmen and god bloods.
 
Sherwood said:
He has a captured First Age ship, a Dragon Blood follower, and a crew of awakened beastmen and god bloods.
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And that's very impressive for a new exalt, and would be a perfect ally 3 for an ordinary starting solar. But it was my understanding that the Ally background scaled based on one's own powerlevel. I know I'm coming off as power-grabbing and ungrateful, and I apologize for that (and spamming up the thread), but it's just not what I was expecting.
 
Taking that into consideration, I suppose I can tweak his age a bit. I don't want to gyp you on points that you've spent
 
Sherwood, I don't think there's any need to cover that hour of conversation IC. Rose will try getting information from her in exchange for banalities and things she could have seen on her way in and from her rooms. Of course, this is what Shadow expcets and is unlikely to be fruitful in itself. Which is why Rose is really trying to turn Shadow, or at least get an idea of how hard turning her would be, and which methods would be most effective.


*sigh* I really need Investigation charms. I don't suppose there's any chance you're 11 xp behind on the rewarding and inclined to let me spend them right now :P
 
Want me to roll for my attempts at gathering information and turning another to our cause? Or give me hints as to how they may be pursued effectively?
 
Shadow is going to be friendly enough, but she is not going to be converted to the cause of the Solars short of some serious mind-raping. She is very loyal to the Underworld, and to MoW specifically. So, unless you are going to pull out some Charms, she will verbally spar with you, but will not reveal any serious information.
 
Sherwood said:
Shadow is going to be friendly enough, but she is not going to be converted to the cause of the Solars short of some serious mind-raping. She is very loyal to the Underworld, and to MoW specifically. So, unless you are going to pull out some Charms, she will verbally spar with you, but will not reveal any serious information.
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Nah, serious brainwashing works best on Exalts if they're restrained and/or you have a friend with a very big stick standing by. Rose will work seriously to get an intimacy, though.
 
Esbilon said:
Nah, serious brainwashing works best on Exalts if they're restrained and/or you have a friend with a very big stick standing by. Rose will work seriously to get an intimacy, though.
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You called?
 
So, what are we waiting for now? The guided tour? Do we want to go with JayTee's idea and give such a tour? Rose is pretty much just going with the flow and pretending Tiger's suggestion was the plan all along.
 
I don't think the tour is a good idea to be honest, but Aurora isn't there so there's not much I can do.


Sherwood, any answer to my previous question about the war gods meeting happening earlier? >_>
 
Esbilon said:
So, what are we waiting for now? The guided tour? Do we want to go with JayTee's idea and give such a tour? Rose is pretty much just going with the flow and pretending Tiger's suggestion was the plan all along.
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I would really really like to have a chance for Rin to actually get some work done in the intervening week. There are a number of things she has ongoing that would affect the experience.


edit: unless you are talking about the abyssal's tour.. in which case nevermind :-P
 
Skadi still has a lot of stuff to do:


Keep shepherding the jungle tribes to the Promised Land


Discuss the Ma-Ha-Suchi problem with the Solars


Explore the area around Rathess, mapping places of power and Wyld Zones


Visit one of her old manses (the Tree of Ways)


Get visited upon by Father Fros--er, Master Winter, who may not be pleased that she settled somewhere so hot and humid!
 
Actually the tour is apart of a plan I outlined here:

JayTee said:
Tiger shook his head. "No, instead of simply disposing of him, why not give him what he wants? We should feed him false information and turn him in to a double agent without him even realizing it. It both serves our ends and undermines the Mask's ability to trust his agents."
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Show the Abyssal our worst troops, claim they're our best and act like we're ready to take over the East. Play up the image of a group of extremely arrogant Solars.
 
Been busy with work. I'll have updates this weekend, I promise.
 
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