[Exalted] Protectors of the River Province OOC

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:00 pm

We could always RP the trip, it won't be a short one, after all.

rhoenix · Post by **rhoenix** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:43 pm

Hotfoot wrote:We could always RP the trip, it won't be a short one, after all.

That would work nicely, actually. Anyone else?

The Nomad · Post by **The Nomad** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:19 pm

I'll try to make that this weekend. What about a campfire tales interlude, on the way to your destination?

LadyTevar · Post by **LadyTevar** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:16 pm

Works for me

The Nomad · Post by **The Nomad** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 5:09 pm

Camping interlude on.

Sorry for taking so long. My studies are killing me.

The Nomad · Post by **The Nomad** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 5:51 am

Just a comment: good rp means more XP, and you have a lot of training time on your hands to spend XP by the bucketful...

LadyTevar · Post by **LadyTevar** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:50 am

I'm waiting for more people to post. I'm not going to carry the whole RP by myself, dammit.

Marcao · Post by **Marcao** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:26 pm

I am posting today. :)

LadyTevar · Post by **LadyTevar** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:44 pm

Marcao wrote:I am posting today. :)

.....
How long are the days in your world? Because it's almost the 28th in my world. Is it still the 26th in yours?

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:14 pm

He passed out early last night, it was funny to watch him claim he would get up and post. When he's on his bed, it's over.

He hasn't come back tonight either, so....

LadyTevar · Post by **LadyTevar** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:12 pm

And why haven't YOU posted? Hmmm?

Marcao · Post by **Marcao** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 10:25 am

I slept thirteen hours yesterday-today. I must have been more tired than I thought, I will crank out the posts I owe now. *nodnod* Apologies, but Hotfoot is right. When the bed gets a hold of me, it is over.

LadyTevar · Post by **LadyTevar** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:19 pm

This did come up: which spider did Teamhair kill for the Heartblood.

Well... there's only two spiders in the East: the Essence Spider that makes silk-steel, and the Burrowing spider which is a trap-door spider on steroids. Both are the side of tigers.

Teamhair wanted a large, deadly form to offset her two small sneaky ones. Nomad approved a Giant Spider... I guess he didn't think that one through.

Essence Spider : 4/5/4 phys, bite attack deals 5L + poison (4L an hour, toxicity of 3, -4 to treat)

But Liayna now has a source for raw SilkSteel to sell.

rhoenix · Post by **rhoenix** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:41 pm

Not to mention a source of very useful glue.

Which is useful for all sorts of things, really...

rhoenix · Post by **rhoenix** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:36 pm

(In reply to Tev's earlier question re: Exalted, which was something like "why is it that lunar/lunar couples and solar/solar couples seemed to have more drama than even solar/lunar pairs did?")

I don't know, honestly. I've only seen one Solar/Solar relationship, and to call it "tumultuous" would be an understatement; from what I read in "Dreams of the First Age," anyway.

Lunars, from what I read in the Lunars book, don't tend to settle down like they used to during the First Age as well, even with mates.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:44 pm

I think the excesses off high Virtue stats and the Great Curse might contribute.

Also, being god-kings in the First Age contributed.

rhoenix · Post by **rhoenix** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:47 pm

SirNitram wrote:I think the excesses off high Virtue stats and the Great Curse might contribute.

Also, being god-kings in the First Age contributed.

Yeah, those would probably explain the whole Desus & Lillith thing (as in, why she didn't dismember him in front of all his friends for what he did to her), especially after the Great Curse took hold.

But even in the stories of the "pre-great Curse," from what little I've read anyway, fell prey to the "lol god-king" problem as well, it didn't seem like there were any notable exceptions to this rule.

The Nomad · Post by **The Nomad** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:45 am

LadyTevar wrote:Nomad approved a Giant Spider... I guess he didn't think that one through.

Wait a minute, can you point me to where I approved an Essence spider? I may have given you liberty to design an arachnid predator (whether the burrowing, web-trapping or hunter kind), but I don't remember giving you a free source of silk steel.

EDIT: no matter. They are the true-breeding offspring of wood elementals and 'regular' giant spiders, and described as magical, so they fall outside the realm of basic Lunar shapeshifting (which includes only natural animals of size housecat to moose). Buy the Hearth-and-Flame Shell when you get Stamina 4 and Essence 4. Even this Knack shoudn't give access to most of the creature's magical powers, which includes the creation of silk steel. Guess I didn't need to think this through too hard, hey?

Upon reading this, I was so pissed off that for a moment I toyed with the idea of having the whole party annihilated by a rampaging behemoth or the Kukla and stop the game right here. I have other RL stuff to worry about now, and I thought that this gaming group was beyond the whole "gotcha, ST!" thing. I guess I was too naive. Even if Exalted gives the player freedom to "fill in the gaps" of description for stunting, that takes it to another level. I'm clearly disappointed.

A web-spitting or web-spinning giant spider is fine, but no Essence spider. Edit your posts accordingly.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 4:33 am

Okay.. Did not expect that level of reaction. I fully expected it to go down, but more to the tune 'Nice try.. Try again with the Hearth And Flame' and 'Luna's Hidden Face', smart guys'. Did not mean to seem that cheesy. I'll leave that to the people who combo Laughing Wounds + Gem Of Adamant Skin for invunerability, and Glorious Solar Sabre and Second Melee Excellency for infinite attacks in a flurry.

LadyTevar · Post by **LadyTevar** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:12 am

And I have changed my post as of the top of page 18.

"That's what I'm wearing now," Teamhair replied. "Orduin gifted them to me. But I was joking about the Essence spider. It was merely a Spider the size of a tiger. One day I will Hunt an Essence or Wood Spider, though."

rhoenix · Post by **rhoenix** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:14 am

Edited my post to refer to "silk" instead of "silksteel."

The Nomad · Post by **The Nomad** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:59 am

SirNitram wrote:Okay.. Did not expect that level of reaction.

I've been under a fuckload of stress and bad night's sleep lately, and logging in to find that kind of cheese going on did not improve my mood. I won't do anything rash while I'm still cooling off, but this had better not repeat itself.

I fully expected it to go down, but more to the tune 'Nice try.. Try again with the Hearth And Flame' and 'Luna's Hidden Face', smart guys'. Did not mean to seem that cheesy.

Then ask in PM or OOC thread before implementing it ingame. I would have just chuckled and said, "nice try". I'm no longer so pissed off as to stop the game right here, but I won't stand for that kind of shit going on in my game. Once I've got the time, I'll think up some guidelines to avoid any further incident. It's a shame to come to that, though.

I'll leave that to the people who combo Laughing Wounds + Gem Of Adamant Skin for invunerability, and Glorious Solar Sabre and Second Melee Excellency for infinite attacks in a flurry.

I don't know if I mentioned it, but I have absolutely no compunction about adapting or houseruling away flagrant munchkining abuse on the spot, or making up insane, world-shattering abilities abilities for my NPCs out of thin air (though if it came to that, the die would just be used to make noise behing the ST screen as musical background for a Bronze Faction SMA-wielding death squad). The rules are a mostly useful frame of reference to adhere to, but my decision as a ST is final. No rules-lawyering with me.

Note that I hate doing any of the above. Generally I want to trust my players to be reasonable and reach a consensus about house rules beforehand, but if I have to, I can be a real asshole. And the whole point of gaming - namely, fun - falls apart for both ST and player. So let us act mature in our immature bundle of fun, okay? I can't say I'll forget this little incident, but I'll try to pretend I do, and resume the game smoothly.

The Nomad · Post by **The Nomad** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:58 am

Okay, I'm back. Unless Academia Nut wants to add something (if he's still ingame), I'll proceed to the next step. I haven't finished reading the new Fair Folk book (might as well start over again, in a way) and must review the rules for Wyld-tainted lands, but I am of a mind to write an intermediary scenario involving the Fair Folk. If that's ok with you, that is.
(in the latter case, I'll expect Teamhair, as a Lunar, to know her way around Wyld tainted lands, despite her lack of Occult)

Academia Nut · Post by **Academia Nut** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:27 pm

Okay... so there's my post. Sorry for the slowness.

LadyTevar · Post by **LadyTevar** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:10 pm

Will the Fae be as 4th-Wall Conscious as the ones from Keychain?

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