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Trial By Fire - Exalted 2e IC Thread

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Globe would put one of us down another 10 motes. I'm gonna need those for clearing out the armies in the first couple rounds. I say we go on foot.
 
As time goes by, the group of Exalts make their way towards the oncoming forces from the Realm. It does not take long before you can see the trail dust of the troops as they hustle along after the followers of Ragnar. Once you crest the low rise between you, the Solars of the group can now see with their own eyes the host for themselves. It is as Sirocco described, with the Dragon-Blooded surrounded by the demons in the middle of the infantry and the cavalry taking up the rear.

You are separated by several hundred feet, giving you plenty of time to activate your Charms and prepare for the fight. Go ahead and declare what Charms you are turning on and give me your Join Battle rolls.
 
Darian smiles as she sees the horde in front of them. Such fools to stand before us. We will teach them a lesson of what it means to cross the Celestial Exalted. With her radiant glow coming from her Infinite Resplendence Amulet, she slowly raises up her arms to the sky. In her loudest voice, she calls out, "Warriors of the Scarlet Empire! You have come here on a fool's errand! Turn back now, or feel our wrath!"

Suddenly, Darian's body begins to grow and elongate, and a swirling light shines down upon the Exalt. Her clothes and accouterments merge with her body as her form extends to five times her normal height. Her neck grows up to four feet in length and supports a delicate and golden beaked foal’s head. Four sets of spiraling gazelle’s horns adorn her head, reshaping themselves like tendrils of smoke. Many eyes line either side of her narrow snout and continue down her back—ranging from the size of small pearls to the size of goose eggs. They alternately blaze like sapphires in the sun and blink demurely.

Gold-veined pearl scales cover the Exalt’s entire form, shining in the sunlight. Instead of arms or legs, four pairs of carp fins, each one four feet wide, stick out from Darian's new form, waving in the air as the beautiful creature now floats a few feet off of the ground.

Turning her gaze upon the gathered troops before her, she unleashes her glorious presence upon them, using her own will to inspire true fear into them.
Spending 20m on Infinite Melee Mastery, 5m on Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Form, 6m on Heart Compelling Method, 5m 1wp on Iron Kettle Body, and 15m 1wp on Invoking the Chimera's Coils.

17 dice before any Stunts to instill Fear into those in front of her. 8 successes against their MDV, requiring those that are affected to spend 2 Wp to resist the fear.

3 Successes on my Join Battle roll.

Health Levels
-0 [ ]
-1 [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] - [ ][ ][ ]
-4 [ ]
I [ ]
Dying [ ][ ]

Soak: 1L/2B - +5L/+5B from Infinite Resplendence Amulet, 8L/8B/4A from IKB, 6L/12B from ICC: 20L / 27B / 4A total

Willpower: 8 / 6

Essence: 4
Personal: 20 / 10
Peripheral: 46 (32) / 0
Committed: 14

Dodge DV: 7
Parry DV with War Fans: 8 (10)
Parry DV with Chain Daiklave: 8 (10)

Dodge MDV: 5

Join Battle: 7
 
Aredin had his blade drawn and stood at the ready as the armies approached. With a large release of essence he tapped into his former life's hard won experience and steeled himself for what could very well be a slaughter. His anima sprung to life as surrounding light seemed to dim. A shadowed falcon wreathed in a piercing white light soared into the sky. Downy quills rained down from its wings like glittering stars. His amulet reweaved his garments, now revealing its full splendor as he spoke. "I am Aredin Lentier, Celestial King of the Earth. This farce of a hunt is pathetic. Cease this practice at once or watch what meager success you've stolen slip through your grasp."

Aredin activates both infinite melee mastery and fivefold bulwark stance. For the duration of the encounter he is maintaining a defend other action targeting Darian. With the appearance bonus active, he is currently at appearance 9.
 
Amused that she is now definitely gonna be ignored, Sirocco's hawk form stretches its wings, stiffening them as she circles above.

Spending 5m on Dagger Wind Form.
 
Annika took a breath, and drew both of her short Daiklaves as she observed the approaching armies. Seeing that the other two Solars were going for flashy displays of power, she shrugged and decided to do the same, removing her Heaven's Glory Shroud and allowing her anima to form into a cloud of glowing and translucent white-gold feathers that swirled around her body as if they were caught in a small whirlwind.

She didn't say anything, feeling that Darian and Aredin had already said everything that needed to be said.
Health:
-0: 00
-1: 000
-2: 0000
-4: 0
Incapacitated
Personal Essence: 17/17
Peripheral Essence: 14/42
Annika is activating Infinite Melee Mastery for 12m 1wp, and Flow Like Blood for 5m 1wp.
 
To think that he was to be facing them head on. That he was capable of it now. In old habit, his hand yearned to grab the axe that was no longer at his side. An old habit that he cast aside. Weapons were cold and emotionless. He had long promised that he would deliver the fires of retribution with his own bare hands. The true vessel of expressing ones fury. In heated blood they would fall, and he would feel the slick of their blood and the crushing of their bones. He would feel it all. Death would not be cold for the Wyld Hunt. It would burn.

And here they were in front of him. Ragnar widened his stance and took a deep breath. Drawing the essence of the sun inward, he would feel it aching to break loose. The style of the Solar Hero. As if sensing the eagerness of Ragnar to release the swelling power, the symbols upon his bravers began to glow. Lifting themselves off of the artifact and surrounding him in a flash of light, adding its power to his.

More of his essence he drew upon, and the mark of the caste of the Dawn began shine bright on his forehead. And the more he drew, the more his anima flared. Already a large man, he was beginning to seem much larger. Not growing, but the animosity was radiating from him was. His very aura burned with a fury that was obvious to behold. Muscles bulged, and fists tightened as if the neck of the Scarlet Empress was in his grasp and he was trying to turn her spine to dust. And his eyes stared striaght towards the Dragon-blooded, the clear focus of his coming destruction.

As the white hot aura formed around him, it began to take shape, that of a giant white crocodile, with scales like plated armor and and teeth like golden swords. It burned brightly with eyes of gold, refusing to let its masters presence go unnoticed. Hovering above and behind the Solar, together with teeth bared, it would be known that they would ravage whatever they were about to get their hands on, and destroy whatever got in their way.

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Activating
Solar Hero form for 6motes

Battle Fury focus for 5motes, +1die to all combat related pools, ignore -1 to all damage penalties applied to health levels

Infinite Martial Art Mastery for 1wp14motes for 7die

Perfected Kata Bracers

Anima banner effect
Terrifying presence
Opponents without 5 valor cant look directly at Solar, ragnar gets +2dv against effected creatures.
Mortals must make Valor roll when facing the solar, failure results in fleeing in terror
 
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Once the group of Exalts begin to display their powers, the soldiers in the formation immediately raise a shout of "Anathama!" As one, the soldiers draw their weapons and ready themselves for the order to attack. They look at the small number of people standing before them and laugh. They have ten Dragon Blooded, giant hounds, demons and 150 skilled soldiers on their side. Victory is assured.

The Exalts in the formation also reach for their weapons, but instead of charging into the fight themselves, one of your foes waves a hand and orders the demons to charge forward, quickly followed by the hounds. It seems that they plan on letting you burn your Essence fighting their minions, then the Dragons will follow up and finish you off.

But then Darian unveils the pinnacle of the Dreaming Pearl Style and transforms herself into the glorious dragon-like form, with the effects of your emotion-altering Charm washing over the Dynasts like waves at a beach. Then they see the iconic displays of power from Aredin and Ragnar, and the glowing display of power from Annika.

The results of this is somewhat comical. Many of the troops on foot visibly pale at the thought of charging into battle against such powerful foes. Several of them even break ranks, drop their weapons and begin to flee in terror. The horses all go berserk and begin to buck and whinny, scattering about and some trample the slower moving foot soldiers. Even the Dragon Blooded react, but they are made of sterner stuff than to flee in the face of such a display. But they are still in danger of being flattened by the terrified horses, and they are forced to scatter, wasting valuable time that they could have used to prepare their own powers to be ready to face you.

The numbers in parenthesis behind the Demons and the mortal troops are the number of them currently in the fight.
DB 1 is a Fire Aspect in Heavy Plate and carrying a Grand Daiklave
DB 2 is a Wood Immaculate packing a Powerbow and light armor
DB 3 is a Air Immaculate with a Infinite Chakram and no armor
DB 4 is a Earth Aspect with no visible weapons or armor
DB 5 is a Fire Immaculate with medium armor and paired hook Dailkaves
DB 6 is a Earth Aspect with a Goremaul and Heavy Plate
DB 7 is a Wood Aspect with a Powerbow and Heavy Armor
DB 8 is a Air Aspect with no visible armor or weapons
DB 9 is a Fire Aspect with medium armor and a Daiklave
DB 10 is a Wood Aspect with a Wrackstaff

Most of the Dragon Blooded are distracted and have lost their actions due to getting the hell out of the way of the horses that are trying to get the hell out of the place.

EDIT. The demons are all rushing forward, and are roughly 100 feet out. The DBs and the mortal troops are about 200 feet back.
Make sure you declare your Speed when you attack.

Psychie Psychie D. Rex D. Rex Red Shadow Claws Red Shadow Claws and Rykon Rykon are all up

0 - [DB 1], [DB 2]
1 - [DB 3], [DB 4]
2 - [Demons (15)]
3 - Darian, Sirroco, Ragnar, Aredin <====
4 - Annika, DB 5, DB 6, DB 7
5 - Demons (15), DB 1, DB 2, DB 8, DB 9, DB 10
6 - Heavy Infantry (20), Light Infantry (35), Cavalry (20), DB 3, DB 4
7 -
8 -
9 -
10 -
 
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Aredin gives a low grumble before charging front and center. "These lazy pissants... Sorcerors and bows huh? Guess they'll have to go first. Let's make a path..."

If he does get into range to strike at melee please let me know which units are valid targets. (Speed is 3, since it's a dash action.)
 
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Sirocco flapped her wings, closing the distance she that she circled the Dragon-Blooded, above the two with bows. If the other Dragon-Blooded rushed forward to meet the Solars in Melee, she knew that taking out the archers would help the others, and would give her a chance to really surprise them.
 
Darian sees the swarm of demons heading towards them and looks down at them in disgust. In a powerful voice, she calls out, "You dare to call forth these filthy creatures of Malfias!?! I will deal with this rabble in short order and soon your blood will spill onto the ground this day!"

She then flows forward, her serpentine body undulating as she charges into the swarm of Blood Apes. Her four pairs of fins lash out, each one striking at one of the demons, spraying their vital fluids out into the air.
Invoking the Chimera's Coils gives me (Essence) number of attacks that can be split up into Flurries. So I am going to target eight of the fifteen Apes with one hit each.

Speed 6 on this.

Dex (5) + MA (5) + Specialty (3) + Excellency (10) + PKB (4) + Stunt (2) = 29 dice base to hit. So I roll 27 dice on four Apes, and 26 dice on the other 4. Here it comes!

1: 16 to hit / 11 base = 20A
2: 12 to hit / 7 base = 16A
3: 4 to hit. How I rolled so low, I just don't know. / clean miss
4: 13 to hit / 8 base = 17A
5: 12 to hit / 7 base = 16A
6: 21 to hit / 16 base = 25A
7: 13 to hit / 8 base = 17A
8: 14 to hit / 9 base = 18A

According to the Book, the Blood Apes have a Dodge DV of 5. Damage adds up to: 3 Invoking the Chimera's Coils + 4 PKB + 2 Str = 9
Since they are Creatures of Darkness, this is all Aggravated damage. Do I even need to roll damage?



20m on Infinite Melee Mastery, 5m on Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Form, 6m on Heart Compelling Method, 5m 1wp on Iron Kettle Body, and 15m 1wp on Invoking the Chimera's Coils.

Health Levels
-0 [ ]
-1 [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] - [ ][ ][ ]
-4 [ ]
I [ ]
Dying [ ][ ]

Soak: 1L/2B - +5L/+5B from Infinite Resplendence Amulet, 8L/8B/4A from IKB, 6L/12B from ICC: 20L / 27B / 4A total

Willpower: 8 / 6

Essence: 4
Personal: 20 / 10
Peripheral: 46 (32) / 0
Committed: 14

Dodge DV: 7
 
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The elegant, beautiful form of Darian slices through the demons like a hot knife through butter. The sheer ferocity is stunning to behold, and the troops that had not fled are now starting to second guess their decision to stay in the fight.

Aredin is moving forward, and will be in range to attack in melee next action.

Sirocco is now flying overhead the scattered Dragon Blooded position. At this moment, they do not seem to notice you.

D. Rex D. Rex is next up.

OOC Psychie Psychie with numbers like that, no, you don't need to roll damage. Holy crapcakes that is a lot of damage!

0 - [DB 1], [DB 2]
1 - [DB 3], [DB 4]
2 - [Demons (15)]
3 - [Darian], [Sirroco], Ragnar, [Aredin] <====
4 - Annika, DB 5, DB 6, DB 7
5 - Demons (8), DB 1, DB 2, DB 8, DB 9, DB 10
6 - Heavy Infantry (20), Light Infantry (35), Cavalry (20), DB 3, DB 4
7 - Aredin
8 - Sirocco
9 - Darian
10 -
 
With gritted teeth, the large man cast himself forward without fear. His mass stomping into the ground with every step, entering into a full sprint towards the Dragon blooded as if the demons and soldiers did not exist.

His the phantasmal crocodile swam in the air behind him, opening its maw up wide as they neared the approaching demons.



Dash spd3/-2dv 12yrds/tick
 
Ragnar charges forward, and is almost at the demons as they are being ripped apart by Darian.

jaydude jaydude is up with Annika

0 - [DB 1], [DB 2]
1 - [DB 3], [DB 4]
2 - [Demons (15)]
3 - [Darian], [Sirroco], [Ragnar], [Aredin]
4 - Annika, DB 5, DB 6, DB 7 <====
5 - Demons (8), DB 1, DB 2, DB 8, DB 9, DB 10
6 - Heavy Infantry (20), Light Infantry (35), Cavalry (20), DB 3, DB 4, Aredin, Ragnar, Sirocco
7 -
8 -
9 - Darian
10 -
 
"It's funny how they can complain about us supposedly being demons, and at the same time bring a load of actual demons to fight for them." commented Annika with a little grin as she watched Darian start laying into the demons, before running off after Aredin.

Dashing after Aredin (3 Speed/-2 DV, 11 yards per tick)
Health:
-0: 00
-1: 000
-2: 0000
-4: 0
Incapacitated
Personal Essence: 17/17
Peripheral Essence: 14/42
 
Dragon Bloodeds Five and Six are both running forward towards you, making a beeline to Darian.

Dragon Blood 7 raises up the Powerbow in his hand and fires two arrows at Darian. Psychie Psychie what is your Dodge DV?

The eight demons are all swarming around Darian, biting and clawing at her frantically. Parry or Dodge DV will work with these.

DB1 is going full out to close in to use his Grand Daiklave.

DB2 also targets the biggest threat so far and fires a pair of arrows at Darian. For some reason, they just don't like you.

Db8 begins to cast a spell.

DB9 and DB10 are both running forward.

Now up is Rykon Rykon , D. Rex D. Rex and Red Shadow Claws Red Shadow Claws and the Defense numbers for Psychie Psychie

0 - [DB 1], [DB 2]
1 - [DB 3], [DB 4]
2 - [Demons (15)]
3 - [Darian], [Sirroco], [Ragnar], [Aredin]
4 - [Annika], [DB 5], [DB 6], [DB 7]
5 - [Demons (8)], [DB 1[, [DB 2], [DB 8], [DB 9], [DB 10]
6 - Heavy Infantry (20), Light Infantry (35), Cavalry (20), DB 3, DB 4, Aredin, Ragnar, Sirocco <====
7 - Annika, DB5, DB6
8 - DB1, Db9, Db10
9 - Darian, DB7
10 - Demons (8), DB2, DB8 (shaping sorcery)

The numbers in parenthesis behind the Demons and the mortal troops are the number of them currently in the fight.
DB 1 is a Fire Aspect in Heavy Plate and carrying a Grand Daiklave
DB 2 is a Wood Immaculate packing a Powerbow and light armor
DB 3 is a Air Immaculate with a Infinite Chakram and no armor
DB 4 is a Earth Aspect with no visible weapons or armor
DB 5 is a Fire Immaculate with medium armor and paired hook Dailkaves
DB 6 is a Earth Aspect with a Goremaul and Heavy Plate
DB 7 is a Wood Aspect with a Powerbow and Heavy Armor
DB 8 is a Air Aspect with no visible armor or weapons
DB 9 is a Fire Aspect with medium armor and a Daiklave
DB 10 is a Wood Aspect with a Wrackstaff
 
With a screech, the hawk that is Sirocco dives towards the Dragon-Blooded casting a spell. And as she dives, her form grows larger, and takes on her War Form, a large sized humanoid, with the beak and claws of an hawk, and her arms as massive wings, and her body covered in both feathers and scales. As she closes the distance, she makes a grab attempt at the Sorcerer, seeking to prevent him from completing his spell.
 
With a screech, the hawk that is Sirocco dives towards the Dragon-Blooded casting a spell. And as she dives, her form grows larger, and takes on her War Form, a large sized humanoid, with the beak and claws of an hawk, and her arms as massive wings, and her body covered in both feathers and scales. As she closes the distance, she makes a grab attempt at the Sorcerer, seeking to prevent him from completing his spell.
You need to give me a Dex + either Brawl or Martial Arts to hit.
Darian's Dodge DV is 15. Is that sufficient to get out of the way of the attacks?
Yes, your sinuous form is able to evade all the attacks.

6 - Heavy Infantry (20), Light Infantry (35), Cavalry (20), DB 3, DB 4, Aredin, Ragnar, [Sirocco] <====
7 - Annika, DB5, DB6
8 - DB1, Db9, Db10
9 - Darian, DB7
10 - Demons (8), DB2, DB8 (shaping sorcery)
11 - Sirocco

The numbers in parenthesis behind the Demons and the mortal troops are the number of them currently in the fight.
DB 1 is a Fire Aspect in Heavy Plate and carrying a Grand Daiklave
DB 2 is a Wood Immaculate packing a Powerbow and light armor
DB 3 is a Air Immaculate with a Infinite Chakram and no armor
DB 4 is a Earth Aspect with no visible weapons or armor
DB 5 is a Fire Immaculate with medium armor and paired hook Dailkaves
DB 6 is a Earth Aspect with a Goremaul and Heavy Plate
DB 7 is a Wood Aspect with a Powerbow and Heavy Armor
DB 8 is a Air Aspect with no visible armor or weapons
DB 9 is a Fire Aspect with medium armor and a Daiklave
DB 10 is a Wood Aspect with a Wrackstaff
 
Aredin bounds between the flying corpses of blood apes and fleeing soldiers, ricocheting off of the debris with a trail of small lights drifting in his wake. The rustling of reeds, leaves, and woodland fodder was smothered in the chaos of cowering realm troops and dying slaves. His Orichalcum blade leaped from its scabbard to soak the earth in the blood of one pretentious caster in particular. Golden flashes reached across the horizon, leaving behind shredded Dragon-Puppets to spill their last moments of life upon the unassuming countryside.

Aredin moves toward the sorcerer currently attempting to cast a spell (I presume getting out of defense range of Darian) and uses his remaining three actions to attack starting with DB8.
I'll resolve these one at a time for a moment, because I don't know how long these opponents will last.

First attack: Hungry Tiger Technique+One Weapon, Two Blows+Thunderbolt Attack Prana for 7m 1w
Base pool Before stunt: 29-4 = 25
Assuming at least a 1 point stunt
Attack Successes is 15, what is my threshold?
 
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Almost forgot, Speed 4 here.

DV is 6 so... 6L base add 18L for Hungry Tiger Tiger Technique... That makes Pre-Soak 24
Post Soak will be 17, that gets doubled to 34 thanks to Thunderbolt Attack Prana. Rolled twice for One Weapon, Two Blows.

So, 25 levels of lethal boss man.
 
Aredin is able to split the mage in two, blood soaring through the air. One down.

6 - Heavy Infantry (20), Light Infantry (35), Cavalry (20), DB 3, DB 4, [Aredin], Ragnar, [Sirocco] <====
7 - Annika, DB5, DB6
8 - DB1, Db9, Db10
9 - Darian, DB7
10 - Demons (8), DB2, Aredin
11 - Sirocco

The numbers in parenthesis behind the Demons and the mortal troops are the number of them currently in the fight.
DB 1 is a Fire Aspect in Heavy Plate and carrying a Grand Daiklave
DB 2 is a Wood Immaculate packing a Powerbow and light armor
DB 3 is a Air Immaculate with a Infinite Chakram and no armor
DB 4 is a Earth Aspect with no visible weapons or armor
DB 5 is a Fire Immaculate with medium armor and paired hook Dailkaves
DB 6 is a Earth Aspect with a Goremaul and Heavy Plate
DB 7 is a Wood Aspect with a Powerbow and Heavy Armor
DB 8 is a Air Aspect with no visible armor or weapons
DB 9 is a Fire Aspect with medium armor and a Daiklave
DB 10 is a Wood Aspect with a Wrackstaff
 
Aredin turns his next attack to the Immaculate Archer (DB2).

For the sake of brevity, I'll lean on the existing stunt for this action.

Charms are the same as before, except adding Sun-Sword Concentration for an addtional 1m. This ignores Hardness from armor and adds the piercing tag.

16 Successes this time.
 

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