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[Recruit] Exalted: Infernals
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The Long Way Down: Clank, Warforged FighterAdorjan ftw
Backstory
On the eve of election, she discovered that her opponent had been funneling the town's money toward something else. Confident of her victory, she slept on it. The next morning, she discovered two things: first, that she had lost the election, and second, that the money her opponent had been funneling had gone towards buying the election.
Distraught by her defeat and knowing that she could no longer reveal her opponent's corruption, she turned her anger inward. She developed the belief that men could not be trusted with power.
It was at this point she was approached by a servant of Cecelyne.
Now she is a Malefactor of Cecelyne, dedicated to using her newfound powers to create a matriarchy.
Appearance:
Sheet:
Player: AdventFalls
Concept: Faustian wish-granter
Caste: Malefactor
Motivation: Create a matriarchy.
Urge: Cecelyian- Kill or subjugate the men of Nexus.
Anima- A headless suit of demonic armor appears beside her, seemingly sucking all hope out of the room and replacing it with despair for those who oppose her.
Intimacies: Cecelye
Strength:3
Dexterity:4
Stamina: 4
Charisma: 3
Manipulation: 3
Appearance: 3
Perception: 2
Intelligence: 2
Wits: 3
Melee 3/5, War 2, Integrity 3, Performance 3 (Prayers to Cecelyne +1), Presence 3, Resistance 3, Survival 1, Lore 1, Athletics 2, Awareness 3, Dodge 3, Socialize 2
Compassion 4 | Temperance 1 | Conviction 2 | Valour 3
Backing (Cecelyne) 1, Cult 1, Influence (Demons of Cecelyne) 1, Artifact (Shattered Crystal Blade) 3/4, Unwoven Coadjutor 3, Resources 1/2
Hardened Devil Body
By Pain Reforged
Scar-Writ Saga Shield
Viridian Legend Exoskeleton
First Cecelyne Excellency X3
Transcendent Desert Creature
Verdant Emptiness Endowment
Sand Through Fingers Defense
Statsblock
Essence Pool: 16/16 Personal, 33/38 Peripheral (5 committed to Shattered Crystal Blade) ?
Willpower: 7
Health Levels: -0 -1 -1 -2 -2 -2 -2 -4 -4 Incap Dying
Hardness: 4B
Soak: 4B 4L
PDV: 6
DDV: 10
Attacks-
Shattered Crystal Blade - Speed 5 | Acc 13 | Dam 8L | Def 4 | Rate 3
Bonus Point Expenditure:
Abilities- 2
Background- 3
Virtue- 3
Your melee 3/5, what does that mean, Advent?
Edit: oh, you're differentiating between what you bought with normal points and bonus points, looks like.
I used BP to bump it to 5. I used slashes do denote I used BP on something.
Reading is for people who can't dance. And kill people with their hair at the same time.
I had a character in mind as I was reading through the charms last night, but when I refreshed this thread, he was an awful lot like Rainfall's (like, half of the charms were gonna be the same), so I'm gonna do some re-working.
No rush.
Backstory
There once was a man who worked for the Guild. He was not really a stupid man, though he did foolish things on occasion. He did as he was told, for the most part, even when it was disagreeable. But this is not his story.
There once was a man who had a family. He was not really a hateful man, though he did spiteful things on occasion. He did not resist his superiors, even when they sold his family into slavery. But this is not his story.
There once was a man who had nothing. He was not really a fearful man, though he did cowardly things on occasion. He saw a chance for vengeance, but at the last moment, he found himself incapable. But this is not his story.
There once was a man who spoke to a demon. He was not a powerful man, though he did great things on occasion. He whispered into the dark, and the dark answered him and gave him strength. This is his story.
Appearance:
Sheet:
Motivation and Urge:
Take over the Guild by any means necessary.
Urge: Ophidian
Break up the Confederation of Rivers through infighting and betrayal
EDIT: Motivation updated.
As it stands, he's a pretty-combat focused, but I feel like that fits in with the concept pretty well. Question: Can Infernals use the Charms of other Exalts? Goes without saying that I'd play with the flavor considerably.
The Long Way Down: Clank, Warforged FighterInfernals can learn any Charm from the five reclamation Yozis (as well as Kimbery, but her Charms aren't printed yet), though, which means as we progress if you want to learn, like, the "Be a City" Charm, we'll find a way to homebrew that stuff up.
I like custom charms.
The Yozis (have to) grant 100%, complete access to their entire Charmset to the Infernals to be involved in the Reclamation and have a say in what the Infernals do. Yozis can't make new Charms for themselves or for their Infernals. Infernals can make new Charms, and when they do, the Yozi whose Charm tree they made it in automatically learns it. And then that loops back up -- since they have to make any Charm they know available to their Infernals, any Charm an Infernal makes becomes available to all Infernals.
Now, there are definitely Charms that Infernals aren't really privvy to (Malfeas probably doesn't ever mention the totally righteous Performance (Dance) Charms he absolutely has), but with a little effort, they'll be able to figure it out and learn it on their own.
Edit: Which basically means that custom Charms for Infernals will be split between "Charms that already exist and aren't in the book" (like say, Being The Most Badass Dancer in Hell Charm, Being Made of Wind Charm, Being a Giant Phallus Charm) and Charms that are made up new and shiny (which still have to follow the Yozi's theme, necessarily.)
Evil peanuts.
I too missed this thread until it was too late. Would have been fun to get some actual Exalted play in. Oh well, I'll join you in the peanut gallery.
I am excited for the game.... make thy characters!
Our characters more likely than not know each other, yes? So should we develop relationships/connections to each other's characters?
Backstory
Only Walker made it back alive, and he bore the full weight of his unit's failure on his shoulders. The city's rulers needed someone to take the fall, and Walker was a perfect fit. After the briefest and showiest of show trials, he was imprisoned deep below the city. It was here that a servant of Malfeas found him, despondent over his failure, and the death of his comrades. The demon forced him to relive their agony for days, highlighting each of the ways Walker had fallen short; he forced him to watch the petty nobles that presided over his trial condemn him over and over again. When he was at his lowest, the demon offered Walker enough power to make sure that he never suffered such indignities again, and he jumped at the chance.
As he writhed in his Chrysalis, Walker's new master guided him to a brilliant truth. No rulers, no councils, no kings could possibly be better than those that had cast him down. No, only the Primordials, Creation's true lords, could guide the world. As he burst forth into Creation, his body and mind perfected, Walker's purpose was clear; to bring down the pathetic, false rulers of the world, and restore the Primordials to their rightful place.
Now, as a Slayer in the service of Malfeas, Walker wields the finest creations of his master's smiths in this purpose, and seeks to bring the light of the green sun to all.
Appearance
Sheet
Player: hotran
Concept: Unstoppable Destroyer
Caste: Slayer
Motivation: Cast down the petty rulers of Creation so that his Masters can take their rightful place.
Urge: Malfean - Leave the East in leaderless chaos.
Anima: A pack of blood-apes gleefully tearing their victims limb from limb in front of a blazing green sun.
Intimiacies: Malfeas, the Ebon dragon, any representative of Creation's authority (negative intimacy)
Strength 4
Dexterity 3
Stamina 4
Charisma 2
Manipulation 1
Appearance 4
Perception 3
Wits 4
Intelligence 2
Archery 5, Martial Arts 2, Melee 5, Thrown 1, War 4, Athletics 3, Awareness 3, Dodge 3, Presence 3, Resistance 4, Lore 1
Compassion 1 | Conviction 3 | Temperance 1 | Valor 4
Backing 1 (Malfeas), Influence 1 (Servants of Malfeas), Artifact 7 (Represents the gifts of Malfeas: 2 for Caustic Reaver Echarklave, 2 for Acid-Rime Short Powerbow, 3 for Vitriolic Reinforced Breastplate)
First Malfean Excellency
Hardened Devil Body
Insignificant Embers Intuition
Green-Sun Nimbus Flare
Kissed By Hellish Noon
Factual Determination Analysis
Wind-Born Stride
Thousand-Fold Typhoon Hand
Essence-Dissecting Stare
Counter-Conceptual Interposition
Statblock
Essence Pool: 16/16 Personal, 37/37 Peripheral
Willpower: 7/7
Health Levels: 1x-0, 2x-1, 5x-2, 2x-4, Incapacitated, Dying
Soak 4B/2L
DDV 5
Attacks -
Echarklave - Speed 5 | Acc +3 | Dam +9L | Rate 3
Short Powerbow - Speed 6 | Acc +3 | Dam +3L | Rate 3
I can't find the scrap I was tracking BP's on, but 7 definitely went to raising Essence, I believe the rest went to abilities. Again, in the more-than-likely event I screwed something up, let me know and I'll fix it.
The Long Way Down: Clank, Warforged FighterA couple things: it seems like it would be nigh-impossible to hide the fact that you're an Akuma from fellow Sidereals, so I'm guessing the Sidereal Akuma more or less abandon Yu-Shuan unless they're ridiculously powerful...?
Also, my reading seems to indicate that you are allowed to choose from your Exalted-type charms, spirit charms, and the charms of your patron Yozi, correct? So, a Sidereal Akuma of the Ebon Dragon could choose from normal Sidereal charms, spirit charms (at least, those available to demons, one would assume), and the Infernal charms of the Ebon Dragon, but not the charms of the other Infernals, correct?
Thanatos: When you become an Akuma, you get the Creature of Darkness mutation, so there's no way they won't know something's up. They'll also be aware that you're spending way too much time outside of Fate, unless you had some excuse to cover that up.
The Green Lady's managing to play Heaven and half a dozen Deathlords, so it's probably possible to fool Heaven if you're creative. Doesn't the Ebon Dragon have a Charm that lets you hide your nature...?
An Akuma can learn their native Charm set and the Charm set of their Yozi patron. They can learn Spirit Charms that the demon casting Investiture of Infernal Glory knows when he casts it, but they can't learn Spirit Charms after that unless they've got some other way to learn them (like a Fiend or Eclipse Caste does.)
Akuma get a pretty big mechanical advantage in the form of +30 bonus points, but it's counter-acted by having no Motivation, and having an unchanging Urge. With that in mind, you should come up with an Urge that'll still let you interact with the rest of the party ("Live in a tiny hut in the North until the Alchemicals show up" wouldn't leave much room for interaction!) but also that serves as the disadvantage that it should be (ie, should get in the way from time to time, not having free will is sort of the Akuma theme!)
And yeah, I'm not saying that a Sidereal Akuma wouldn't be able to get into Yu-Shuan, just that I don't imagine them doing so as a Sidereal for any significant length of time, given that there are still Sidereal who were alive during the Usurpation tooling around. I just don't see a Sidereal selling his soul, then continuing about his duties in the Celestial Bureaucracy without missing a beat and without anyone noticing; I just wanted to make sure I had the concept straight.
You'll still have some access to Heaven, though, which is probably a big reason a Yozi would want a Sidereal servant.
The Long Way Down: Clank, Warforged FighterThanatos: Do you have Glories of the Most High: Maidens? It introduces a new type of Charm for Sidereals (Astrological Charms) and has some errata.
Really, what I desperately need right now is more options for character creation.
Of course, the ED reserves the right to revoke its use at any time, but it at least allows you to fake being a Sidereal in Yu-Shan, since it changes your appearance and fate as a shaping effect, and can be explicitly used to pretend to be the person you were before your infernalization.
That's when you find someone important anc donvince them you're REALLY working for JUST THEM and pass them a whole bunch of not-quite-perfect information and have them squash any investigation into your activities.
Or just convince everyone you work for Oversight... Of course, Oversight might be a bit pissy about this, but they're going to be your biggest worry anyway, right?