[Nightmares of the Second Age] The Daily Scribe

[Esbilon]

YES! Someone who can teach me Verdant Emptiness Endowment

 

[Sherwood]

@Sherwood, I would really like to have the following questions answered.
1) How willing are the faeries to cooperate with us? Ideally, they can supply almost unlimited amounts of foot soldiers which with solar leadership would be a truly terrifying force. Less ideally, the large force of fair folk can keep him and his troops busy while Storm leads the dragon kings in devastating surgical strikes against the most critical parts of FW's forces.


2) Is it possible to include the Wyld in our defenses of the Tower. Rose has all the awesome Wyldshaping charms and can do some pretty horrifying things to an invading army that passes through a wyld zone she's had tome to play with.

1) The Fae are hesitant to throw in with you until they have some kind of assurance that you'll be the winning side. If the do, they want to know if the 'new Deliberative' will go on a purge of the Fae the same way it used to in the past.


2) There are not any Wyld areas in the city. There are still functioning artifacts that keep it away from the city.

 

[Esbilon]

Rose will not be shy with the use of Essence when dealing with the faeries, both to display their power and to sway them. She can also assure them that the returned solars have no intention to purge faeries who are not actively a threat to Creation.

 

[Arynne]

If Rose is sincere, she might consider including Skadi in this project...if only for dramatic potential.


Skadi is the granddaughter of a faerie noble (I'm thinking the child-eating witch Eillith from the Turrets of the Ice Blossom?) and tried in the First Age to hammer out some kind of accord between raksha and Exalted -- unsuccessfully, as neither side would acknowledge the other had any rights they were bound to respect.


Still, she grew up in a freehold and has a better understanding than most humans of how the raksha operate.

 

[Esbilon]

Rose is very sincere and would be delighted to not be alone with the project

 

[Lord-Leafar]

...know each other than over a fine meal, prepared by some of the best chefs in the East?"

This takes on a completely different (and ominous) meaning given that we're surrounded by cannibal tribes and savage lizard beasts.

 

[Esbilon]

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing at first


Also, it seems our good friend Bane does not like having his mind swayed. Do I get a few motes back from the stunt?

 

[Sherwood]

I keep on forgetting to do that. Two dice stunt.

 

[Esbilon]

Woo! Actually, given how uninformative he's being, I'd like to make that last question into another presence-based attack if that's OK with you.

 

[Sherwood]

Go ahead. And this time, I'll remember to add your bonuses! Add two more dice.

 

[Esbilon]

bam! He's bleeding willpower, has absurd mdv or spills the beans

 

[MaHaSuchi's700]

bam! He's bleeding willpower, has absurd mdv or spills the beans

Remember that without UMI, you can't force him to spend willpower to resist your social attacks more than once. Social attacks after the first one are useless unless you're applying UMI effects.

 

[Esbilon]

Ah, right. Damn. Forgot that part. Well, if he didn't use WP, but a charm or high MDV, it still works,

 

[MrSerious]

1) The Fae are hesitant to throw in with you until they have some kind of assurance that you'll be the winning side. If the do, they want to know if the 'new Deliberative' will go on a purge of the Fae the same way it used to in the past.

In a word yes. Personally speaking

 

[Esbilon]

In a word yes. Personally speaking

Exactly. "Personally," as in "not on behalf of the New Solar Deliberative"

 

[Lord-Leafar]

Those are tricky words, specially if an Eclipse oath is involved.

 

[Esbilon]

Indeed they are. It's a good thing Rose has had more than a century to perfect those words then, isn't it?

 

[Lord-Leafar]

Also, if we clean the city of any Raksha before the deliberative is re-formed, we wouldn't be breaking any oath wouldn't we?

 

[Esbilon]

That depends on how they were phrased, but I can't make Oaths on behalf of the Deliberative in any case. Plus, Rose actually wants an equitable peace between Creation and the Fair Folk.

 

[MaHaSuchi's700]

That depends on how they were phrased, but I can't make Oaths on behalf of the Deliberative in any case. Plus, Rose actually wants an equitable peace between Creation and the Fair Folk.

Good luck with that one. It'll never happen so long as the Unshaped have anything to do with it.

 

[Esbilon]

That's what they said about the Primordial War and the Usurpation

 

[Arynne]

Skadi has similar goals. It's really not just, this habit of expanding Creation and gobbling up raksha territory. It's that habit of the Exalted, more than anything else, that causes the Fair Folk to see them as dangerous enemies.

 

[Lord-Leafar]

Considering that no Exalt has expanded Creation in any good measure in a long time, while the Fae have expanded the Wyld repeatedly since the Solar's disappearance, particularly during the Great Contagion, I would be inclined to say we are about even.

 

[Esbilon]

And when was a peace settlement last about being equal?

 

[Lord-Leafar]

Being even really shouldn't make any influence on reaching a treaty, nor that was my intention with my comment, I merely stated that as much as the Fae might fear the Exalts of old for their Wyld shaping powers, the common mortal in creation should be equally scared, or outright terrified of Raksha and everything they stand for, both sides can argue about being right on their actions, but let's not forget there are victims on both sides, if not more on Creation's side.