[ SECRET POST #302 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #302 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

How're everyone's NaNos going so far? (:

Secrets Left to Post: 10 pages, 216 secrets from Secret Submission Post #043.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, [ 1 2 ] not!secrets, [ 1 2 3 4 ] not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Sunday, November 4th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: 23 OP

[andy-longwood.livejournal.com]

XD best roll ever. My Eclipse caste hasn't done anything quite that epic yet, but our Dawn Caste DID use one of his iron boots to smite a Fair Folk once. A bureaucracy roll? Seriously? That is absolutely the best thing ever. =D

Re: 23 OP

[anima-mecanique.livejournal.com]

Yup. My character was adjudicating a contest of strength to get a couple of raksha out of our hair -- the raksha would make his best strike, and one of my character's party members would make his best strike, and the winner would yield.

Party member rears back, hits the raksha, rolls very poorly. The raksha smiles and tells the party member to prepare himself.

At this point my character jumps in and whips out the old Bureaucracy Excellency to point out to the raksha that the terms of the contest required that the two strikes be compared fairly. Thus, both participants had to hit the same target -- and the target had already been determined as the Raksha himself.

Ten successes later, the raksha nods, takes out his heart grace, and breaks it, obliterating himself from existence. Technically the raksha won the contest, I guess, but hey, it solved our problem.

I think my favorite thing about Exalted is that it makes 'useless' abilities like Ride and Bureaucracy actually really damn cool to play, as well as allowing you to kick people in the face with your mighty golden boot of destruction. It's like a cornucopia of awesome -- something for everyone! Viable character concepts all around! :D

Re: 23 OP

[andy-longwood.livejournal.com]

Man, I wish my Eclipse could do that to the fairy that's following us around. =/ Having a Fair Folk in the house is doing nothing for his ultimate goal of keeping work and family separate (and therefore not entangled in Anathema business). Technically he's got the fairy Oathbound not to hurt them, but you never know, it could be dumb enough to risk epic botches. And an iron boot to the face.

Absolute best thing about Eclipses, though? Ability to learn any charm ever. Eat that, Twilights.

I think the most epic thing I've had my Eclipse do is stop a small war by casting Wild Revelry on both sides and guilting the fight out of them. Our Dawn Caste haaaaated me that day. =D

Re: 23 OP

[anima-mecanique.livejournal.com]

Hahah, yeah, having a friend with iron boots (or a big goddamn hammer, in my character's case) is a real plus. My character has a family to worry about too (a son, anyway) -- it's surprising how few RPG characters actually do.

Since the gods and elementals book came out I've been thinking of picking up some spirit charms...the powergamer in me vaguely wants to take Principle of Motion and make my mild-mannered bureaucrat an absolute human Cuisinart in battle, but something tells me that wouldn't be right for a fairly peaceable character...:3

Re: 23 OP

[andy-longwood.livejournal.com]

None of the rest of our party does. One of our Dawn castes DID have a daughter, but she got stolen by fairies pre-game. Woe. My character has five sisters, and the youngest two are the reincarnations of his past life's daughter and son, which is why he sat out our party's last adventure into the Shadowland. Having something more to live for than yourself doesn't go well with a Twilight caste who thinks that the best way to face his fears and therefore learn sorcery is to have his Circle go and piss on a Death Lord's lawn.

Human cuisinarts are fun, but yeah, they don't go well with being a peacenik. That's why Mantis Style is nice! But not very effective against an army of War Ghosts.

Re: 23 OP

[anima-mecanique.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm doing Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Style. Grapple counterattacks with your clothes = annoy people until they stop hitting you. Still not very effective against ghosts, but that's when you start picking up Sidereal bureaucracy. Terminal Sanction is only 2 charms deep! Of course, that's assuming you can FIND one of the crafty little buggers.

Twilights are crazy. Never seen one who wasn't. XD All that sorcery, I suspect. You give a guy the power to level a city and it just goes straight to his head...

Five sisters is quite a family...I can imagine how that would be a hell of a responsibility. Since Exalting and getting chased off the Blessed Isle, my character just has his son, but he's taken on a couple of orphans (only one of which turned out to be secretly evil).

Whee, it's exciting finding Exalted fans. Exalted is one of the few games where hearing about random strangers' characters is great, because something about the game inspires interesting characters.

Re: 23 OP

[andy-longwood.livejournal.com]

XD That sounds like the best counterattack ever. It sounds like something our magician uses in Iron Kingdoms to get stunt points.

Not to mention a circle of superhuman buddies to trick into doing your bidding. And the power to absorb all that damage. I swear, the creators of Exalted were just tired of their mages getting geeked.

It's only the youngest two who require a lot of attention. The other three are old enough to manage themselves, and the second-oldest is stacked in fighting enough to take out a Dragonblooded in a semi-fair fight prior to exaltation. (I actually play her in the OTHER Exalted game that my friend is running. She's gone off to look for her brother. Hooray potential game crossovers? Where I will be talking to myself a lot? Heh.)

Doesn't it? I try not to be one of those fans who corners people to blabber about their character, but when it comes to Exalted, getting cornered is kind of fun.

. . . I can type that, I'm too tired to know better right now.

Anyway, yes, totally great to find another Exalted fan. =D

Re: 23 OP

[anima-mecanique.livejournal.com]

Dreaming Pearl Courtesan is my favorite MA in the book. It's got serious style, plus you turn into a dragon in the pinnacle charm. How cool is that? Also quite useful for talky-type characters, since if you're jumped by ninjas or something while you're doing your calligraphy or something you can defend yourself with your pen. Or your handpainted heirloom paper fan. Or, if you're the poetic sort, with the treaty you were writing up and they're currently breaking.

It's also super-girly, which is sort of funny because I keep making male characters who use it. I mean, the first charm is called 'Demure Carp Feint'.

I've never played a mortal in an Exalted game...might be fun XD We've joked about game crossovers but never actually done them. It would be hilarious if we did, because I don't think most of my characters would really get along *L*. Also I think my otter-totem Lunar pirate with the ever-full Moonsilver sake jug might be a bad influence on...well, nearly everyone.