[Nightmares of the Second Age] The Daily Scribe

Yeah, I'm also thinking of a prayer charm that plays on the Zenith's nature as a Priest-King and acts like a weaker version of Summon Elemental.
 
Hymn to the Sun

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(adapted from an eighteenth-century translation of the Orphic Hymns)

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O Sun Unconquered, whose eternal eye


With matchless sight illumines all the sky.


Native, unwearied in diffusing light,


And to all eyes the object of delight:


Lord of the Seasons, beaming light from far,


Sonorous, dancing in thy four-yoked car.


With thy right hand the source of morning light,


And with thy left the father of the night,


Agile and vigorous, venerable Sun,


Fiery and bright around the heavens you run,


Foe to the wicked, but the good heart’s guide,


O’er all our steps propitious you preside.


With various-sounding golden chords ‘tis thine


To fill the world with harmony divine.


Father of ages, guide of prosperous deeds,


The world’s commander, borne by lucid steeds.


Immortal King, harp-playing, bearing light,


Source of existence, pure and fiery bright.


Bearer of fruit, almighty lord of years,


Agile and warm, whom every power reveres.


Bright eye, that round the world incessant flies,


Destined with fulgent rays to set and rise;


Dispensing justice, lover of its stream,


The world’s great master, and o’er all supreme.


Faithful defender, and the eye of right,


Of steeds the ruler, and of life the light:


With sounding whip your fiery steeds you guide,


When in the glittering car of day you ride,


Propitious on our daily labors shine,


And bless thy suppliants with a life divine.
 
Since I've gotten no IC response, let me say it here. Rose's intent is to fly to the Stalkers, hit them with Husband-Seducing Demon Dance and bam! Dragon King Followers. With luck one or two of them will even be good for a little talking about the area. If no one protests, I'll do so in a few hours.
 
Probably for the best, anyway. Depending on how high the skiff is, I would also have to activate Adamant Skin Technique to avoid the fall damage. That's 15+ motes I'm spending on one attack.
 
Mmm, I don't know if this is a good time to talk about using Unnatural Mental Influence on the party...
 
You are a squishy social wizard, I am a borderline unkillable Solar Boxer.


Do the math. ;)
 
Tiger could kill Rose if he wanted to. Sure. No problem. I expect almost anyone in the party could (possibly excluding our honoured terrestrial friend), but that's not the point since beating the crap out of people in response to them giving a little speech, singing a song or dancing a dance is hardly a socially accepted response.
 
True, but I am aggressively opposed to any and all inter-party mindbending, and my characters have a habit of reflecting this in a more literal manner.
 
My point is that "mindbending" isn't a well-defined term. Mechanically, intimacies are built over a series of scenes with successful social attacks.


In the present case (as I mentioned in the IC thread), Rose is using a performance-based social attack. That means that unless PCs make an active effort to resist (nice one Arynne :) ), they too are affected. Now, I have no intention of abusing this, but unless you throw a shitload of WP at it or we house rule the issue away, the net result is that every character is very likely to end up with an intimacy towards Rose.


Why that would make anyone want to break her spine is beyond me.
 
Just to be clear, the UMI that you're doing now is perfectly acceptable because it's a side-effect of the charm, not something that you deliberately chose to inflict upon myself or the party. It's the intentional use of inter-pary UMI that I get twitchy over.
 
Mmmm, I'll have to work quickly then ;)


Or just make do with NMI. That stuff's pretty powerful anyway.
 
Well. Strictly speaking, Sacrosant Soul Retribution is a Shaping attack, so one quick use of Integrity Protecting Prana and it does nothing. Of course, my budget was too limited to afford said charm :(
 
Tiger is a very strong believer in one's own strength, so he'll be happy to teach anyone who wants anti-UMI training.
 
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