Over a Mug of Ale [For A Better Age]

I'm going to assume we still need to do training times for our purchases, So let's hope we can flash our way through the next couple of days holding the darn monsters at the gates ;)


Jorik's going to focus on those Bureaucracy charms get the city working again.


I also took a charm from Glories Most High: Unconquered Sun. I hope that's cool.
 
Right, I've spent all my XP. Not too big a surprise that a lot of it went on Charms from the Dawn Solution...


Thing is, now I've got Dawn King's Strife, having the First War and First Melee Excellencies is a little obsolete. Any chance I can retcon one of those into a Second Excellency?
 
Wuffy said:
I'm going to assume we still need to do training times for our purchases, So let's hope we can flash our way through the next couple of days holding the darn monsters at the gates ;)
Jorik's going to focus on those Bureaucracy charms get the city working again.


I also took a charm from Glories Most High: Unconquered Sun. I hope that's cool.
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For this specific instance, I am going to wave the training time requirements. We have been playing months without spending any experience due to the nature of the adventure I am running, and I think it is time you guys get a few new toys to play with.


Using Glories Most High is also fine with me.

MorkaisChosen said:
Right, I've spent all my XP. Not too big a surprise that a lot of it went on Charms from the Dawn Solution...
Thing is, now I've got Dawn King's Strife, having the First War and First Melee Excellencies is a little obsolete. Any chance I can retcon one of those into a Second Excellency?
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I’ll allow it. As long as everyone doesn’t get too crazy with reengineering their characters (especially considering we are technically just starting with the characters) I have little issue with some minor tweaks as long as I am asked ahead of time.
 
I've given Calypso a custom charm that acts as a sort of Infernal equivalent to Wonder-Forging Genius. Three purchases available, however, and the first, rather than reducing limits on what you can build, lets you use the higher of Intelligence, Perception, or Dexterity to build instead of the lower.


Also, a custom enhancement to Experimental Acceleration Mastery that increases the speed increase from (Essence) to (Essence x 3).


Both of these were given the okay a while ago, but if our illustrious ST's mind has changed, I doubt they'll come up for a while in terms of being used so there's time to disagree if someone has an objection..
 
I find it amusing that Calypso is complaining about her denomic appearance when she's running around with a dinosaur :wink:
 
Working on a post. Delayed by family drama and work.


Updated my sheet with exp spending, though. I'm surprised I didn't go the E4 to Infinite MA Mastery route, but there I didn't.


Also cooked up a custom Solar Hero Charm. Got approval for it, but I'm also curious on what takes you guys have.
 
Sherwood said:
I find it amusing that Calypso is complaining about her denomic appearance when she's running around with a dinosaur :wink:
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Tableface, you've been rude in every scene the characters have shared, as well as in the OOC thread. Stop it.
 
Mia, Anoke's mocked Calypso more or less every scene she's been in. He also made her, a pacifist, commit murder. He beat up a man in the streets just to get a point across. He's clearly willing to sacrifice others in the name of his great ideals.


Anoke's a dick. He's also immensely arrogant. Expect him to be rude, especially if you don't fall into line and listen to him (not saying you should, I'm saying what the consequences would be).


If his rudeness bothers you, you and Tableface can always talk it out, of course, but that's more a thing one does in private and I'd recommend you take it to a PM.


Personally, I agree that Anoke's an abrasive character, but abrasive characters are a fact of life just as much as abrasive people. If it's making the game less fun for you, that needs to be rectified, but rather than have Tableface change his character, why not play up Four Foot in response? Have him keep a snide remark on hand for Anoke, or spread dirty names about him, or put a few spiders in the rafters hanging above Anoke's mouth as he sleeps at night.


Turn it into a rivalry, have fun with it organically. That's just my recommendation, though.
 
As Axelgear said, I encourage you to get in touch with Tablesface and try and work something fun out. Anoke is clearly an arrogant, abrasive, jerk with little tolerance with anything that interferes with his plans. But I agree with Axelgear that there are plenty of ways for how Four Feet could deal with Anoke that can be entertaining to both players. It might even be possible that some of the characters might want to talk to Anoke about him being a jerk to everyone around him, and how it is unhelpful to everyone’s cause (and perhaps not treat them like a punch of chess pieces, openly anyways), or Anoke might convince them to his way of thinking. It’s a matter of how things turn out organically, and how the player’s cooperatively want things to turn out.


Some players might be annoyed by Four Foot’s habit of constantly finding himself in the possession of objects that don’t belong to him, so keep that in mind. Not everyone actions are going to rub everyone the right way, especially when the stakes are high in a game like this. Plus Exalted is all about Illiadic like heroes doing epic things despite, or even because, of their sometimes tragic faults. The Greek and Trojan camps were not exactly always happy fun times between their members.


From the start I expected some philosophy differences in how each character will want to run their empire, and individual instances and events might morph how things turn out, such as how Bjarn reacted to things in the throne room and Four Foot freeing Walks, and how that interfered with Anoke’s plans to take over the city outright instead of having to deal with a semi-puppet in Walks. But I expect you guy to, in general, work together.


I personally hate drama and having to do damage control. So I’m hoping you guys can work out minor problems among yourselves without me having to step in.


I’m going to be posting today. Had a rough couple of days so I didn’t really get an opportunity to really post.
 
Archivist


I'm here, sorry been a bit busy, and just trying to find a way to put my thoughts into a legible order for that information Jorik is soaking in.


Should have an answer up in a couple hours, hopefully.
 
Wuffy said:
Archivist
I'm here, sorry been a bit busy, and just trying to find a way to put my thoughts into a legible order for that information Jorik is soaking in.


Should have an answer up in a couple hours, hopefully.
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That’s fine. I was just a bit worried that you were no longer with us for whatever reason. But I know how the whole busy thing goes, so it is fine. I have problems if people just post a quick post here if there is going to be a few days where they can’t post just so we all know.
 
Sorry to hear that you will no longer be with us. Thank you for telling us you are no longer playing. I wish you the best in your future endeavors.
 
It would seem we have lost a couple of players along the line in this game, so there are a couple of questions I would like to ask everyone.


First is what to do with the PCs who are now missing their players. With Flicking Glass we have effectively written her off. We can effectively do the same with Four Foot. We could have him go scout out the Varajtul positions, and then just never return. Or just disappears completely. We could also have someone here possibly play him for the rest of the current story. Really I’m game for any number of ways to handle this.


Next is the subject of player recruitment, I’m willing to consider the option of bringing on board another player or two to replace our losses. The PC could either be a Solar or Lunar, and would have the same amount of experience as the rest of the PCs in the game. In addition to all the other rules for character creation you guys followed.


It would be easy enough for a new Exalted to come into Icehold even during this adventure. They could either have Exalted just now or recently, came into the city through the port, got ran in by the Varajtul, etc. Or we can opt to include the new player after the current adventure.


I’m thinking I would first consider other players you guys recommend who would want to play in FABA. Otherwise I can just post a recruitment post, and see who turns up.


So I would like to hear your guys opinions on these matters.


I’m also hoping to update the dramatis personas here soon, and if anyone would like to help with that I would be greatly appreciative.
 
I have no objections to opening up the board to new players. :)
 
I've always been of the mind at leaving the fates of vanishing characters ambiguous, allowing for the player's potential return or for its use as a future plot device. Alternately, there's always the comedy answer: "Hey, has anyone seen Flickering Glass?" and then never mention her again.


As for recruitment, I'm up for whatever. I know magnificentmomo expressed some interest in joining a while back. Not sure if he's still interested, though.


I feel like I should type something about what just happened, but there's nothing that Axelgear and Archivist haven't already said.
 
Well, this isn't entirely hip, but what can you do?


I'm cool with new players arriving, though I've got no ideas for who might want to play.


On the subject of out-writing: leaving it mysterious is best, I think.


EDIT: Sorry about the lack of reply to the latest post in the thread, I've hit a bit of a wall and I'm not sure what to say to it.
 
Just so you know, Asyk is not normally this mean. He's just trying to work with broken tools in an effort to make a masterpiece.
 
I like leaving it mysterious. Four Foot going off and simply not returning could be interesting, and could even be a plot hook, as we find the world's tiniest shadowland where the Varajtul's ancestors cross over and whisper secrets to their progeny gifted to them by darker forces.


Or not.


Anywho, I may know someone who cooould be interested. If they're not, I am happy to send out feelers and see what pops out.
 
Looks like we will be letting Four Foot go quietly then. Seems for the best.


If Tableface would like to contact magnificentmomo and Axelgear the same, we can see how that works out, and base on what we do after that.
 
The whole business with proposing a arriage to Bjarn's rather amusing... I'm going to keep my mouth shut on details for now to avoid accidental metagaming (not that I'd expect anyone to do that, but in my own experience, it can be difficult to act as if you didn't know something), but there's a method I have in mind that'd probably work for persuading him...
 
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