[Extreme] Exalted: Infernals; The God Damned South

[The Great Triangle]

Not too long ago, the Gods committed a great betrayal.  Lashing out against their proper masters, the gods used their own energy source, a barely sentient slave race, as a WMD delivery system, creating vast leigons, and overthrowing the creators of the universe; the primordials.  Some of the saints who created the world, and loved it dearly, were murdered, bringing death into the cosmos, and the threat of oblivion.  Even worse, the remianing spirits of creation were tortured and bound, forced to become Malfeas, the sprawling chaos of hell.

Now, the south is an inhospitible reigon of burning sands and sun baked stone, filled with canyons and ravines, massive trade caravans, and truly massive meccas of trade.  The people there are really the salt of the earth, harsh superstitious, brutal, they're exactly what the people of creation were meant to be. 

Now, the gods deserve to be taught a lesson.  All creation needs to be brought in line with the mess that the ungrateful incarnae made, so that it can be healed back to its proper state,  brought back to the ownership of its proper masters.

For this, you, the green sun princes, were born. 


So basically, I'd like to run an infernals campaign set in the south.  Characters will be Infernals, akuma with extra bonus points based on exaltation.

Terrestrial Akuma: 25 bonus points
Sidereal Akuma: 15 bonus points  (must be ronin)
Lunar Akuma:     10 bonus points
Solar Akuma:     no bonus points
Infernals:          2 extra charms, and 4 free background dots that can be used only to purchase infernal artifacts.

Characters may also take mutations for additional bonus points, but no points for the creature of darkness mutation.

EDIT: And just to be clear, Akuma do not receive the demonic inheritance 5 merit, although they do receive the demonic patron 5 merit, which effectively acts as 5 floating background dots that apply only to the direct service of their infernal overlord.  All assignments of those background dots require a trip to malfeas to "check in" with your parent yozi, and if the Yozi becomes unsatisfied with your use of his or her resources she may send a team of first circle demons to give her assets to more worthy servants.

[Karma]

I know a sum total of jack about Exalted. Does that make this insurmountable for me?

[Muse]

Morning Triangle. 

Sounds intresting.  Can you clarify a few things for us? 

For example: 

What would your posting rate be? 

Exactly how often will erotic content come into play?  Will you ever initiate it, or will it be up to us?  And do we need to keep it amongst ourselves, or could we use it in twisted ways to further the plot? 

If we have ally charecters, how do you want the roll playing of them handled? 

*  *  *

Karmatrik, Exalted is the coolest game ever, and I'd love to offer you some help.  Infernals an Akuma are certainly an odd place to start, though. 

[The Great Triangle]

I'd post once every other day or so, and I'd probobly post a bit faster during combat scenes.  As for erotic content, I give the game an extreme rating because I fully expect the PCs to be rather violent in their actions, torturing and living out their twisted obsessions.  It is possible that you'll twist the world to be as bad as you are.  This is a good thing.  It means the return of the yozis will come sooner.

As for allies, submit a concept, then stat them up if you've got time, although I might request the right to stat them myself.  They'll only be allowed to help for a number of scenes equal to their dot rating before going back to whence they came, unless you have more modest allies like heroic mortals.  Extras and other retainers can be kept at your side freely, and used like any other peice of equipment.

I know a sum total of jack about Exalted. Does that make this insurmountable for me?

Not particularly, infernals are actually pretty simple because you don't need to learn much about different types of excellencies.

[Pumpkin Seeds]

I still have some to read, but I'll throw my bonnet in the ring.

[Doomsday]

I'd be interested in learning more about Exalted as well. Doing a little brainstorming, I know about 0 things about the system.

[The Great Triangle]

Since there are a few people just doing their research, let me explain exalted.  *giggles and cracks knuckles*

The immaculates will tell you that the world is a continuous cycle of reincarnations, with the most enlightened souls going on to become monks, and later the dragon blooded themselves, the Gods appointed rulers of the world.

This is all bullshit.

The Solars will tell you that they are the divine heroes of a better age come to restore the world and make it a better place.

This is an even bigger sack of bull excrement.

The world is the creation of its rightful owners; the primordials.  It is a complex essence weave which allows certain aspects of its matrix to manipulate the flows of essence which make up the whole.  When immortal, these beings are called Gods.  When mortal, these beings are called the exalted.  Now you, the Infernals and those exalted who have seen the light, are the true heroes.  Your task is to reverse the unjust rulership of the Gods, and bring hell to creation, so that all creation might be reborn into a glorious third age, in which the injustice of oblivion shall be swept away, and the fair folk shall drown in their own fairy piss as they scream in shock of a constantly expanding creation.

Sure, to get there you'll have to do some damage.  Some people might even think you're warped and perverted.  But you'll one day teach them the truth.  Now lets meet your rightful overlords, the five demon lords active in the reclamation conspiracy to retake creation, the five most dynamic, powerful, amazing beings you will ever meet in any universe.

Malfeas is the king of hell, he was the most powerful being in all existance before he was put into chains and brough low.  They killed most of his soul, and twisted his insides inside out.  He didn't like that.  Now he's the demon city, the capital of Malfeas, the realm of demons, and he's damned filled with rage.  He grants his indestructability to his followers.  Hell, Malfeans are pretty much impossible to kill without some seriously heavy artillery!  Malfeas is arrogant, cruel , and excessive.  He loves obvious force, the chance to show off and takes sadistic joy when enemies and allies look upon him in awe and terror. He is vast and full of hate, filled with indiscriminate callousness and a love of the collateral damage he inflicts on the innocent.  The Demon City is resilient and strong enough to lift the world or crush it underfoot.  The green fires raging in his heart blight the very Essence of everything they touch, marking the world with his wrathful glory.  He holds authority over all things wise enough to bow before the world’s creators.  He's also a hell of a good musician. 


Cecylene Was the divine messenger in the great age of the primordials.  In her doom, she was annhialated completely, becoming the outward slopes of hell, the endless wasteland one passes through on the way to Malfeas.  Within the desolation of Cecylene, one finds holiness, and enlightenment.  Cecylene is the true goddess worthy of worship, and her word must be spread to the poor mortals of creation at any cost.  She is patient and deliberate. She holds back, amassing resources until she can overwhelm her opposition.  Her law places the strong over the weak, celebrating arbitrary and capricious hypocrisy.  She demands reverence from allies and enemies alike and works terrifying and wondrous miracles to expand her worship.  She is deeply insightful into the desires and failures of others and owns those whose wishes she fulfills.  She borders everything and eternity, so everyone comes to her in time. Her heart overflows with desolation, turning all around her to literal or metaphorical wasteland.  When her patience runs out or her plans reach ruition, her rage is sudden and shocking.


She Who Lives in Her Name:  Before the betrayal of the insidious mass of the Gods, there lived a transcendant creator, who abhored chaos.  In the begining was the name, and that name gave form to creation, building the virtues that today make up the soul of all self aware beings.  With a hatred of chaos, and a love of order, the creator instilled creation with the simple and elegant order that the Gods take for granted.  Yet in her doom, she who lives in her name was distilled into a form of perfect order; an infinitely complex array of formless flames bound eternally within perfect spheres of imperishable crystal.  Now she seeks followers to restore her idealized hierarchy upon a creation craving structure.  The Principle of Hierarchy is methodical and meticulous. She analyzes every variable and chooses the most efficient and orderly method by which to achieve victory. Her utilitarianism is absolute and consistent as clockwork. She is as brilliant as she is alien, cold and unfeeling. Her violence is dispassionate and perversely pure, unmotivated by sadism and yet capable of systematically disassembling every obstacle in her path without the slightest remorse. She builds and improves structures of all kinds and abhors chaos, randomness and free will in all its forms. She finds excessive effort wasteful and prefers to apply the minimum exertion necessary to attain the desired outcome.  Her directives are fascist and totalitarian, but ruthlessly fair. She has no moral restraint against deception, nor any attachment to honesty, but her nature must choose the most expedient method even when it is not the solution that best matches her talents. She demands perfection, especially from herself.


Adorjan:  The being once known as Adrian was a flighty being, creating beautiful, complex creations, only to destroy them in a fit of rage when she grew bored.  When the primordials created the games of creation, however, Adrian found her passion in existance.  She devoted herself more slavishly than any other primordial to the games, advancing them, making them better, raging viciously at any creature who took the controls from her.  And so, when the primordial war came, she fought with a fanatic zeal unmatched by any other being in all creation, destroying vast worlds to defeat those who wanted to take her toys away.  As her fury in battle earned her the nickname "the river of all torments" she drove herself into a rage, barely needing the gods to harrow her into a mad engine of destruction, as she filled endless bloody realms of torment with the sound of her laughter.  The Silent Wind is restless, always in motion and never satisfied.  She expresses the inevitability that bad things happen regardless of who you are or how many backup plans you have.  She is catastrophe and calamity, the unconsidered variable that shreds the best-laid plans of Yozi and Exalt alike.  She kills because it is her nature to hurt everything she touches, not because she revels in suffering.  More than any of her siblings, Adorjan is insane and encompasses contradictions.  Adorjan scours her enemies, breaking them to enlighten them, even if the lesson proves fatal.  Her actions display vicious whimsy, especially towards the complacent and comfortable. She loves purposeful chaos that exposes the flaws in systems and lays out the proud, but abhors chaos the sake of chaos as much as She abhors stasis.  She is a balancing force of wickedness against the excesses of the righteous.  Her depredations inspire heroes to reach their full potential through the crucible of tragedy, invariably ruining their lives in the process. Greatness is the worst curse her touch imparts.  She inflicts more pain on those she loves than those she hates.  No one expects her.  She refuses to be understood and torments those who try.


The Ebon Dragon:  The Ebon Dragon is a selfish creature.  Possibly the most proud being in all of creation.  Before the primordial war, he was but a weak servant of the true creators of the universe, but such was his pride that he surrendered to the Gods first among the primordials, and immediately set to work on the task of freeing himself.  The ebon dragon has made overtures to neverborn, fair folk, unshaped rakasha lords, solar exalted in the pits of despair, lunar exalted, nihilistic Gods, deathlords, and even particularly powerful dragon lords.  Ultimately, the Ebon Dragon was the founder of the reclaimation conspiracy, the one who discovered how to take control of solar essences, the one who seduced the first beings into the ranks of the akuma.  The Shadow of All Things is Other, not wholly of the world nor fully alien to its precepts like the Neverborn.  He is self-indulgent and without conscience
but can be trusted to act with enlightened self-interest at all times, making him the most dependable and trustworthy of the Yozis so long as those dealing with him don’t forget his nature.  He corrupts and seduces others away from virtue and honor because these concepts are poisonous to him, rather than because he wants to enlighten or enslave. He genuinely believes the universe should be darkened until it approaches his unholy perfection, but his warped magnanimity hides a deeper and greater hatred of all light—literal or metaphoric.  The Ebon Dragon is hollow, assembling his semblance of identity from lies, copied mannerisms and observed vices, constantly recreating himself in the image of whatever offends and frightens his adversaries the most.  Moreover, he is The Nemesis, finding greater joy in thwarting the dreams of others than advancing his own agenda.  Whereas the Silent Wind brings agonizing freedom to others, the Ebon Dragon can’t abide his own restraint, whether by prison walls or social mores.  And he's engaged.  He won't say to who, and nobody remembers him planning to do this, but he just spirited his bride away from the mortal realm.  Of course, people have a good idea.  She wears a lot of read and she's got a bunch of suprises in store for her descendants.


Those are the Gods an infernal worships and acts as the messenger of.  If you're an Akuma, you were another type of exalted who saw the light and chose to follow one of the Yozis, getting great power in the bargain.  If you're an infernal, a true Green Sun Prince, then one of the Yozis decided to follow you, and saw you fail to acheive your destiny.  This sort of pain is vital for the infernal exaltation.  You're given a generous offer to be twisted and mutilated, into a perfect simalcrum of the yozis.  And when you get the chance for that kind of power, you'd best take it.

Here's a documentary of how this sort of thing works!  (although in cartoon form, with a few less all consuming machine wombs, and maybe your results will vary a little bit)

[Rhapsody]

Interest here.  I don't know if it'll play through though; I have a fairly full schedule (as well as two Infernal games I participate in tabletop), so I'm not trying to overload myself. :)

I'll keep checking back and see what the interest level is like.

[Elohim]

I think I'll be playing a malefactor...  (IE a Cecylne associated green sun prince)  Will mostly focus on cult control, and demon summoning...

[Mnemaxa]

Oh Great Triangular One!

Would it be possible to play as a Fair Folk ally/retainer/tool/weapon/subversive-influence for one of the Green Sun Princes or the like? 

I'm capable of playing an Infernal....but to be honest, the creative challenges and traits of the Fair Folk appeal and suit me better.

"Corruption is growth - of a kind - and it is far better to grow in some manner than it is to stagnate in unchanging, mindless drudgery; with no hope of salvation or chance to return to the effervescent realities of the Wyld, this reality will surely become a grey, unbearable place with no life nor vaunted truth to support it."

[The Great Triangle]

For Mnemexia:

Fair Folk Noble Akuma: 15 bonus points.


*grins*  Have fun with that one.  Oh hell no you cannot become unshaped, but you've actually got an insanely ridiculously overpowered excellency married to the worst essence pool EVER.  And I'm ruling that fair folk can't install biomagitech or helltech grafts unless they permenently fix their forms.  Consider investing in an airship or sorcery so you can return to the wyld and reshape yourself every so often.

[Jefepato]

Depending on the size of the game, I might be interested in playing a Lunar akuma.

[Mnemaxa]

For Mnemexia:

Fair Folk Noble Akuma: 15 bonus points.


*grins*  Have fun with that one.  Oh hell no you cannot become unshaped, but you've actually got an insanely ridiculously overpowered excellency married to the worst essence pool EVER.  And I'm ruling that fair folk can't install biomagitech or helltech grafts unless they permenently fix their forms.  Consider investing in an airship or sorcery so you can return to the wyld and reshape yourself every so often.

I have no problem with those situations.  And I don't blame you for the 'no unshaped' clarification. ^_~  I will definitely have fun with it, promise.

The next question is, does anyone want such an ally/retainer/tool/weapon/subversive-influence?

[Rhapsody]

I'd want to go Fiend, likely.  Someone who so utterly failed at negotiating the terms of a peace treaty that Exaltation didn't even really pause that long.

[Mnemaxa]

Depending on the size of the game, I might be interested in playing a Lunar akuma.

Oh goodie, someone for me to hate utterly! ^_^

Actually, I'm not fond of interparty strife, so I'll keep it to needles and barbs only.  (That and those damn anti-shaping tats....)

[Pumpkin Seeds]

I'm giving some thought to making a Terrestial Akuma with a martial arts focus.

[The Great Triangle]

Actually, Akuma can hate each other all they like, they're physically incapable of attacking each other except to have sadomasochistic sex.  (it goes well with destroying the world.)

;D


(Mr. ST gets to pull the "no free will" card at least a FEW times this chronicle.)

[Mnemaxa]

(Mr. ST gets to pull the "no free will" card at least a FEW times this chronicle.)

Oh, I love being an ST's plaything...especially if other people don't know about it. ^,,,,,,,,,,,,,,^

[Rhapsody]

(Mr. ST gets to pull the "no free will" card at least a FEW times this chronicle.)

I see your No Free Will card and raise you one Free-Willed Green Sun Prince, sir.

[Krule]

I find this one somewhat interesting, might consider a slayer or a scourge, I think..

[Mnemaxa]

Now filter the idea of 'no free will' through madness and craft the demands through the medium of a faerie tale.....the results, while still evidencing a lack of free will, are not necessarily what is expected.

[Elohim]

I would suggest being an AKUMA of she who lives in her name Mnemaxa...  it'll let you wyld shape in creation eventually...   which will be one of your weaknesses.

[Rhapsody]

She Who Lives In Her Name is more calcifying, like the oWoD Weaver, than anything else. She absolutely abhors chaos.   I don't know if a Fair Folk would really survive under her patronage.

[Mnemaxa]

I'm studying that now; though an Akuma Fair Folk of She Who Lives in Her Name might be a little sedate. :P

Strangely, the way this character is shaping up, she might serve the interests of Cecylene just as well. 

It's all about the story you see....and the glory and despair that comes from playing our parts in it.  The story progress so and thus, the lines which have been written must be spoken, our parts played.  But in the end, the story remains the same....except, of course, where it changes the reader.

[Elohim]

True name:   Prophettess of Thrice Damned Gifts
False name:  Vizier of Blessed Bounty         
Concept:     Street preacher gone goddess   
Caste:       Malefactor     
Motivation:  Bring the south into the sweet embrace of her worship
Urge:        divert prayers from the celestial beaucracy
XP:         
Limit:       

Attributes:
Strength     2                 
Dexterity    3           
Stamina      2           

Charisma      4           
Manipulation  4         
Appearance    3           

Perception    2           
Intelligence  3           
Wits          4         

Abilities:
Slayer   
      Archery             
     *Martial Arts  3   
      Melee             
      Thrown
     *War             3   

Malfactor
     *Integrity       3
     *Performance     4
     *Presence        3
     *Resistance      2   
     *Survival        1

Defiler 
     Craft   
    *Investigation     1
     Lore             
     Medicine         
    *Occult            3     

Scourge   
     Athletics       
     Awareness         1 
     Dodge             3                       
     Larceny
     Stealth         

Fiend
    *Bureaucracy        1
     Linguistics        1
     Ride           
     Sail             
     Socialize           

* Favored or Caste

Backgrounds  (15 bonus points spent)
Followers    3
(DB)Henchman 5 (2 fire, 1 earth, 1 water, 1 air,  1 wood )
Cult         5 (First two free)
Aresnal      5
Backing      1 (Free)
influence    1 (free)
Ally         5 (Solar (twilight) Sidereal Akuma,  Fallen Immaculate monk (Wood), Dynast (Air),  Akuma (Water))
Command      3


Virtues:
Compassion:   2               
Conviction:   3           
Temperance:   2           
Valor         2           

Willpower:    6               

Essence            3 (7)                 
Personal Motes       
Peripheral Motes   
Committed Motes       

Health levels
-0
-1
-2
-4
I 

Intimacies (Max ): 

Charms:
First Cecylne excellency
First cecylne excellency
First Cecylne excellency
Hellscy chakra
Demonic Primacy of essence
Transcendent desert creature
Penitents like scattered sand
Sand through fingers defence
Soul sieve transmuation
holy land infliction
Demonic Primacy of essence
Locust mana plague
Spawning pit santification (Only food source in the area)


Combos:


Merits:

Flaws:
Aura of power
Walking Blaspemy

[Mnemaxa]

Remember, while Darkness looks overpowered, all her charms are easily resisted by most Exalted, and EVERYONE knows that her powers don't work on people carrying cold iron against their flesh.  The instant she's revealed to be one of the Fair Folk, 95% of her advantages vanish.

True name:   Darkness Born of Burning Night
Current name:  Crystal Words like Falling Knives
Concept:     Hidden power behind the throne
Caste:       Ornamental Entertainer shadowed by Artisan Worker
Motivation:  To watch the whole of Creation destroyed by the machinations of those who live in it.
Philosophy: The Hungry Wolves (Conviction)
XP:
Lure:  To play the dedicated martyr. (Compassion)

Attributes
Strength        3
Dexterity        5
Stamina         5

Charisma        6
Manipulation   7
Appearance    6

Perception     5
Intelligence    5
Wits             6

Abilities
Diplomat   
Linguist              1
**Occult            2
Ride
Socialize             3
Thrown

Entertainer
*Investigation    2
Larceny             1
*Medicine          3
**Perform          5
Stealth              2

Warrior
Archery
Martial Arts        1
Melee
Presence           2
War

Worker
Bureaucracy
*Craft (Glamour)  4
Integrity
*Lore                 2
*Resistance        2

Casteless
Athletics
**Awareness      3
Dodge                2
Sail
Survival

** Favored
*   Caste

Backgrounds  (16 Bonus Points Spent)
Artifacts  2  (Pauper's Mask 1 [Grace], Shaping Armor Amulet 1, Hundred Color Shaping Lens 2)
Birth        5  (Gains Bonus Charms)
Freehold   3  (Co-ruler of Freehold with 2 dots, may petition for Cyst holding, carries 2 pennants, allowed in most freeholds)
Gossamer 5  (Starts story with 20 Gossamer; may make any number of Resource 5 purchases)
Style       5   (Stunt Pool = 7; 1/scene auto recover 2 dice for pool;  Regains all stunt dice when entering Bedlam; may use 2 Wyld Stunts per day while in creation – glamour resist = Integ+ess vrs. Ability used)

Virtues
Compassion:       4
Conviction:         3
Temperance:      3
Valor                 3
Willpower:          6
Channels = 2 x Virtue

Graces – Capitals = Major and feeding Grace, Italics=Ascendant feeding grace
CUP:                4   Oneiromancy Spell, the Pauper's Mask [Art. 1] (Owned by Xxxxxxxx)
Staff:               2   Banner of Velvet Agony (Elsewhere)
RING:               3   Gorget of Blissful Peace (Elsewhere)
Sword:             2   Stylus of Ash and Mud (Elsewhere)
Heart:              3   Crystal of the Violet Eye (Elsewhere)
Channel = 2 x Grace; Health =Virtue + Grace

Essence                  3
Personal Essence     26
Committed Motes      4
Gossamer               20

Health levels
1 -0 
2 -1 
2 -2 
2 -4 
1 I

Intimacies(Max 4)
Prophetess of Thrice Damned Gifts
Xxxxxxxxxxx

Charms
­­>Assumption of Dreams and Passion * Emotion: Allure (+1 auto success to all Performance rolls)
First Cup Excellency
Assume a Person's Heart*+ (Taint Creationborn: 10m+1wp+1g:Share active power, Created keeps it  for 1 day. Addictive. Glamour resist= stam+ess vrs. charisma)
Heart Cutting Style* + (5m = appears as perfect beauty, ignore cap of MDV for social roles versus target due to higher appearance. Glamour resist = wits+ess vrs. appearance)
Dissonance of Principles* + (1-6m=internal pen. of same value on all social combat roll made by others for 1 day. Negate = 1wp, 1 scene. Glamour ressit= inv+ess vrs. manipulation)
One Thousand Tiny Hooks Tech.* + (3m=manip+perf vrs. Dodge MDV.  Suxx = all social attacks vrs. That target become undodgeable. Glamour resist= inv + ess vrs. perform)
Soul Carving Art
Gossamer Forging Art
Bastion of the Unassailable Grace : Heart* (Immune to all non-magical harm from any source. Charms/Innate Abillities = +3 resist/DV. Does not include iron.)
>Ravishing the Created Form
>Banquet of Crumbs
>Essence Forging Art
>Awakened Dream Manufacture
>Forging the Heart Grace (Does not work for Creationborn)
>Forging the Cup Grace
>Forging the Staff Grace
>Forging the Ring Grace
>Forging the Sword Grace
>Gaping Virtue Mouth #
>Ecstatic Reproduction Style #

> = Bonus Charm
* = Linked to current Assumption
+ = Grants an Innate Ability usable currently.
# = Cannot be used, though the charm is known, due to lack of Essence, Grace, or XP.
Combos

Merits

Flaws

Bonus Point Expenditure
15 base
Backgrounds +1 = 1
Essence +1 = 5
Virtues +3 (Comp, Conv, Valor ea +1) = 9
Infernal Oath-born:  15 bonus points
Background +3  = 3
Background over 3 +6 = 12

Equipment notes:
The sheer volume of mundane equipment that Darkness has access to is staggering.  Her wealth in Creationborn terms is nearly limitless.  That said it has very specific limits on exceptional equipment – one item of superior equipment per dot of Gossamer (not including those provided by other backgrounds).  Unless specifically detailed, all equipment and gifts offered by Darkness are of mundane material and non-exceptional quality, though they can be exceedingly expensive or valuable.  Darkness can make any number of Resource 5 purchases, though too many may attract attention.  Pennants negate the effects of Calcification while she possesses them in Creation's Bounds.  Exceptional equipment is marked with an *.

Shaping Weapons 'Bought' using gossamer points as effective resource limitation (Goss-1, -2 if Exceptional, -3 if Perfect)
*Perfect Figment  (Cup)
*Perfect Courtesan's Caul (Staff/Shaping Armor - can serve as armor in Creation)
Soak                      Mobility   Fatigue   Cost      Tags
+3L/+3B   (+3sh)          0      0           4g      Attune 2
*Exceptional Nirishkyra Mask (Sword)
World Egg (Ring)

Artifacts
Shaping Armor Amulet  1  (Works as armor in Creation; this is usually worn and takes the form of a glittering rainbow hued crystal)
Soak               Mobility     Fatigue   Cost      Tags
+6L/+4B   (+4sh)      0      0      1Art      Attune 2
tic Spell: Pauper's Mask 1 (Cup Grace)
Int+Beura, each suxx -1 dot in resources.  Target with wits+ess higher than wielder's beaua cannot be affected (glamour)
Hundred Color Shaping Lens 2 (In creation, it can be used to fire ess or goss bolts – 3 motes or 1 goss, aimed by Per+Awareness)
Speed   Accuracy   Damage
6           +2          10B (Piercing)

Tools/Weapons
Pennant: Navel Gemstone
Pennant: Ring of Cut Crystal
*Perfect Buff Jacket
Soak      Mobility   Fatigue   Cost      Tags
+5L/+8B      -1          -1          4          -
*Perfect Gossamer Tiger Claws (uses Martial arts instead of Melee, and may use Martial arts to block lethal attacks)
Speed   Accuracy   Damage   Defense   Rate      Min   Cost   Tag
5           +3           5L           +1           3           Str1       4      M
Clinch
Speed   Accuracy   Damage   Defense   Rate      Min   Cost   Tag
6           +0              +0B            +0      1      Str1   -   CNP
Kick
Speed   Accuracy   Damage   Defense   Rate      Min           Cost   Tag
5               +0            +3B            -2        2      Str1Dex2   -   N
Punch
Speed   Accuracy   Damage   Defense   Rate      Min   Cost   Tag
5           +1             +0B              +2      3      Str1   -   N

[Karma]

With a move coming up, I'm not prepared to learn a whole new system right now... I'll have to back out, at least for the time being.

[Mnemaxa]

With a move coming up, I'm not prepared to learn a whole new system right now... I'll have to back out, at least for the time being.

We'll keep a place warm for you though. 

[Krule]

Ok, here we go.. one slayer into the breach... she's actually quite deadly, as you look over her, I'm sure you'll agree...  I started her with some of Cecelyne's charms, and plan to pick up some more, but I plan to pick up a lot more of SHLIHN's so I figured best to chose her as her favored Yozi, even though I havn't picked up any of them yet. 

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Name: Xalvia, the Viridian Dancer
Concept: Dancer / Martial Artist
Caste: Slayer
Motivation: Raise up a city in creation who give their allegiance to the rightful king of creation, Malfeas
Urge: Ophidian Urge – Seduce as many people of ether sex whenever she can

Attributes

Strength      @@      
Dexterity   @@@@@   
Stamina      @@@@      

Charisma   @@
Manipulation   @@               
Appearance   @@@@@    

Perception   @@
Intelligence   @@@
Wits      @@

XP:

Appearance

An incredibly attractive woman, with pale ivory skin, and long flowing translucent hair that reaches to her ankles, gorgeous purple eyes, her body is hairless save for her head, and she moves with an impossible grace, her hands are covering a rather lovely brass tattoo pattern with a hint of green that reaches to her brass colored fingernails.  She wears an intricate necklace that appears to be made of brass around her neck, she always appears immaculately groomed and she wears no clothing in a rejection of the various clothing taboos of creation, though she quite often does wear jewelry of various kinds.   

Physically, she’s incredibly agile and very tough, and almost impossibly beautiful… and when entering battle, she surrounds herself in gleaming skin tight brass armor created by Viridian Legend Exoskeleton. 

Personality

Delighting in battle, conflict, dance and in all forms of sexual activity, Xalvia, is as likely to slay as she is to seduce, though she usually doesn’t mix the two.  The Demon that carried the shard to her was a Neomah, and some measure of her personality is affected by that.   The Urge to seduce is not strictly sexual, seducing others to worship of the Yozi’s, or abandonment of their principles, morals or cultural taboos is another manner in which she follows her urge. 

She believes that the first step in obtaining freedom for Malfeas, is to create a tribe who follows him as the rightful lord of creation, then to forge that tribe into a army, a city, and a nation.  She thinks that mixing their blood with demons and raising many as demon blooded is one way to encourage this grow.

She has little in the way of compassion, though she did before she spent which made her ideal in some ways for the choice that was given to her, the offer of power and glory in exchange for service to the rightful ruler of Creation, Malfeas.  Her conviction is somewhat lacking too, though that has improved sense she was chosen for exaltation.  She’s not quite as unsure of her as she was, her commitment to the cause is somewhat less then it could be, sense she’s often unsure of herself, or her cause.  But, she does have considerable courage and self-control, which are valuable to her master.

She hates rigid societies, ones that reject change and growth, as it was that rigidity that caused her to be cast out of the Coral Archipelago, where she grew up.   Because of this, she generally chooses sacrifices for the Thing Infernal from among such individuals.

She absolutely adores Ligier, and he’s the only one in existence that she would actually be willing to wed, indeed, on some level she hopes to seduce him into just that.. but she’ll settle for having him as teacher and mentor.. something she doesn’t have yet either.

Sense her unwoven coadjutor was shaped from a neomah, she is constantly in a state of low grade arousal, regardless of what she’s doing...

History

She was originally a dancer and martial artist, her former teacher taught her both, and she was very skilled, but the land she was part of had a very rigid view of women learning the skills of a warrior.  While her teacher was broadminded enough to get past them, especially for such a talented and capable young woman, they trained in secret.   However, a jealous rival discovered exposed them, her mentor was executed, and she was cast out, told to join the Tyra, or become outcaste. 

Furious she rejected them all, and left, though uncertain what she was going to do with herself.. and in this moment when the Neomah demon carrying the shard of her exaltation.. and she was ripe for the plucking, as one might say.  The discussion lasted for a little while, and then she agreed to give her allegiance to Malfeas.. after all, what had the gods of ever done for her?

And then she entered Chrysalis, to become reshaped into the creature she is now… 


Abilities [2 freebies]

Slayer

*Archery   @
*Martial Arts   @@@@@
*Melee      @@@
*Thrown   @
*War      @

Scourge

*Athletics   @      
Awareness   @
*Dodge       @
Larceny   
Stealth      @

Malefactor

Integrity    @
*Performance   @@@      Specialty: Dance + 2
Presence      @
Resistance   @      
Survival      @

Defiler

*Craft (Vitriol)   @
Investigation   
Lore      @
Medicine   
Occult      @

Fiend

Bureaucracy   @
Linguistics   @@@   [Sea-Tongue*, Fire-Tongue, Old Realm, Body Language (As per Neomah)]
Ride
Sail      
*Socialize   @   

Backgrounds [5 Freebies] (+ 4 Artifact Dots)

Artifact             @@@
-   Implanted Vitriolic Retractable Orichalcum Razor Claws
-   Speed   Accuracy   Damage   Defense   Rate   Attune   
-       5            + 5            +5L        + 3           4          6
-   This artifact was implanted in Viridian Dancer’s hands, when she was chosen, during her chrysalis.  The Neomah who came to her brought this artifact with her at her master’s command, and it became implanted into Xalvia at that time.
-   These claws are fully retractable, and appear to be nothing more then an ordinary, if lovely tattoo on her hands when retracted.  When extended however, she has a pair of rather dangerous looking brass-green metallic claws that cover her entire hand, and gives her full ability to attack and parry lethal damage without a second thought.  They are permanently implanted however, meaning that the committed motes are permanently committed as well.   
-   Parry DV: 7
Artifact – Chaomorphic Simbiote       @@@@@
-   16 Mutation Points
-   Abomination – Wings (Bat-like) [6]
-   Blight – Gills [4]
-   Affliction – Chameleon  [2]
-   Pox - Elemental Adaptation – Fire [1]
-   Pox - Elemental Adaptation – Air [1]
-   Pox - Elemental Adaptation – Water [1]
-   Pox - Elemental Adaptation – Wood [1]
-   Designed by Ligier, and given to her upon arriving in Malfeas, this artifact allows her to shift and alter her physical makeup to suit the situation, and to allow her to adapt to nearly any environment.
-   At will, with a commitment of 12 motes a pair of bat-like wings spot from her back (same color as her skin), granting her the ability to take to the air, moving freely though the air
-   She can also, with a commitment of 8 motes, breath water like air, becoming fully amphibious
-   For a commitment of 4 motes, her skin shifts like a chameleons, to match her environment making her more capable in matters involving stealth, surprise attacks and hunting
-   For a commitment of 2 motes, she can make herself immune to the effects of any environment in creation.  Each change causes her to look a bit different;
o   Air – Her heart and blood turn to liquid green fire, if cut her blood drips green flame, and her eyes turn to a luminous green
o   Fire – Her skin turns to dark Ebony, her eyes to deep blood red
o   Water – her skin turns to a light blue, with webbed hands and feet
o   Wood – Her skin turns to a pale green, and her hair into lovely vines, with small flowers on them.
-   The motes for any of these can be committed indefinitely; leaving her with the affects for as long as she desires, however, none of the elemental adaptations can exist together.  The others can, but there is rarely any point in her view of keeping gills and wings at the same time
Artifact            @
-   Collar of Dawn’s Cleansing Light
Backing – Malfeas       @@@
Cult – Avatar of Malfeas      @@
Influence – Malfean Demons    @
Unwoven Coadjutor       @@@   
-   Specialty: Socialize: Demon Lies + 1
-   +2 Social Bonus to all dealings with demon kind
-   Recognize Yozi Cultists (Perception + Socialize), + 2 Social Bonus to command or manipulate


Intimacies
Malfeas – Looks up to him as her rightful liege and master
Hatred - rigid unchanging societies (Paragon, The Vargian states, Coral Archipelago, etc.)
Admiration & Adoration – The Demon Sun – Ligier

[These are not quite Intimacies.. at least not yet.. some of them come from her Unwoven Coadjutor, and are not fully integrated yet.. and some of them come from interactions between her previous personality and her new exaltation, and are also yet to fully integrate, they may change some before they do.]
Delight in Battle and Conflict   
Delights in Art, Dance and Music   
To create new and unique things
Love for all forms of sexual activity (especially aggressive ones)

Willpower       @@@@@@@
Health Levels: -0, -1, -1, -2, -2, -2, -2, -2, -4, -4, Incapacitated
Soak:  7B/7L   Bashing Hardness: 4
With Viridian Legend Exoskeleton: 17B/17L   Hardness: 10B/10L

Essence      @@@   [7 Freebies]
Personal      16
Peripheral   30 (38)
Committed   8


Virtues (3 Freebies)

Compassion   @
Conviction   @@
Temperance   @@@@
Valor      @@@

Charms

Favored – Malfeas/She Who Lives in Her Name

First Malfeas Excellency x 3
By Pain Reforged
Scar-Writ Saga Shield x 2
Viridian Legend Exoskeleton
Hardened Devil Body
Nightmare Fugue Vigilance
By Agony Empowered
Transcendent Desert Creature
Sand Though Fingers Defense

Flaws

Aura of Power
Creature of Darkness

[Paladin]

TRiangle, arnt you running another exalted game? One that I'm in?

[Pumpkin Seeds]

The world is a cruel place.  Not in the sense of pain or death, because those are merely parts of existence.  No, I make reference to the crushing stink of betrayal in faith.  Lies from those meant to guide you to a greater place in existence.  Speakers of the false tongue that promise so much grand power and responsibility, only to show you a half-truth.  That is the true cruelty of this world crafted by false prophets and heretical Gods.  I once worshipped them for what they claimed, but now I know better.

So many decades ago I was a child.  Born to privilege and power amidst the corruption of the Terrestrial children, I believed in my place.  I believed so much that when Daana’d gave me the blessing of a champion, I immediately took the vows of the monastery.  To battle the wayward spirits of this land, banish the fallen Anathema and protect my very home from the horrors was my calling.  Endless days were spent in turmoil and pain.  I went without food, water, breath and rest in order to prove myself worthy.  Pleasures of the flesh were denied to me whilst my peers lavished in their palaces of fornication.  Mine was a worthy cause, a great one that demanded their respect.  So it was that I rose above them all in my dedication to the Truth told.  I became a symbol of purity and purpose. 

Immediately I placed myself among those of the Wyld Hunt.  From them I would find my true peers and reach new heights.  Joining their ranks would lift me above the rabble of even my own kind to let me shine as a beacon for the people.  We struck the people of the South, moving along their coast to weed out their faithless citizens.  Our displays of power awed the natives that still believed and cowed those heretics that did not see the way of redemption.  From the Eye we learned of an Anathema, born from the corrupt thoughts of those people.  Being closest we were sent immediately to execute this creature of the past. 

This was to be the beginning for me and an end to the lies around me, a mission of fate to open my eyes.  All those years I was lead to believe that the martial instruction of the monks was the true path to enlightenment.  My suffering was meant to release the impurities of the flesh so that I might ascend to another existence of empowerment.  Were this true then that beast would never have slaughtered us so easily.  Yet I watched as he did so, with glee on his face.  Not only did he best us so easily, but he did so with such skill that even we were in awe.  Each movement he performed was nothing short of breath taking.  I had lived my entire life believing myself to bask in the light of righteousness only to be laid low by a newborn of the ancient Gods. 

That day the greatest mistake was not mine though.  He did not kill me but instead left me to suffer with my loss.  I was left to wallow in blood drenched sands while he walked away.  I cursed him then and cursed my masters and cursed the Dragons for their blasphemy.  All of that I hold dear I offered for the chance to show that beast his mistake.  My true Master heard me then.  His servants came to me on that boiling ground.  My battered body carried back to a place I could scarcely imagine.  Pain visited on me in ways that could not be conceived by mortal minds.  Flesh torn from my body, layered a new on muscles empowered by the grotesque.  Fingernails pried from their beds, teeth ripped from my mouth so that I might be better molded.  My soul tormented by the Truth of this world and how foolish I had been.

I was made anew.  I was made better by my Master.  Given a new name that suited my purpose more than what my parents had bestowed on me.  Hungry Water of Vendetta’s Obsession became my title and my purpose became his own.  This world would never forgotten the pain it had invoked on its true creators.  That Anathema would be repaid his kindness in letting me live with my own kindness of making sure he survived everything I did to him.


Just a background for now.

[Mnemaxa]

Darkness Born of Burning Night

The Raksha called Darkness Born of Burning Night was once unshaped.  And it was not a weak unshaped.  It was not even a minor unshaped minion.  It was born a noble, and given its Heart and Sword Graces immediately upon its birth.  For one of its ilk, it is incredibly powerful in the Wyld, but that is not where it was permitted to stay. 

Darkness is an Oath Child, a raksha born of two raksha who swore an oath.  While the oath that was sworn does not hold the two exceedingly powerful nobles under its thrall, that oath does force Darkness to serve the purposes of the Yozi until they are free.  What it does not do is detail how that service is performed.  So Darkness serves the Yozi how it determines they need to be served....and to do that, it became Shaped.

Crystal Words Like Falling Knives
You wish a story of what I came to be as I am now?  What a strange story to desire. 

Once I was not as I am now.  When this was, is not for mortals to understand.  What is time?  Time is the thimble of water upon the dying man's tongue; the crust of bread in the hands of the starving woman; the trickle of milk in the mouth of the dying babe.  But is it not a greater blasphemy for the immortal to speak of time than it is for a mortal to worship a petty god with little prayers?  I looked at Creation and saw what it is that creation is.  Creation is a story.  A story must be chronicled, to be understood.  So, I watch the story through eyes which can see it, speak the words that you understand so you may learn as I have; I hear the words that so often deny, and touch the flesh of those who deny and show them what they know, in their hearts.

The taste of their understanding is the nectar of pain which is turned to resolve. 

I serve the Vizier of Blessed Bounty because she allows me to.  She is a woman of great understanding, and she sees, as I have seen, and wishes to allow others to understand.  She is not cruel; she readily gives to those who need, what they need.  It only requires that one listen, and allow themselves to be taught what they understand, but do not believe.  And it is belief that is all she asks.  How can one not believe?  The truth is easily seen.  The immortals see it.  They have experienced it, not once, but three times.  Perhaps, in another life, I saw it.  And what is it that I saw?

You are seeing it now, the dissolution of the world into folly and madness, the powerful corrupt and seeking to overthrow their betters, for their betters have failed them again.  Did not the gods do this to their masters?  Did not the servants of the gods do this to the gods?  Did not the servants of the not-gods do this to their masters?  And now they see those who are not the servants of the not-gods taking up arms, preparing to cast them down.

It is as inevitable as it always has been.  Ah, but you are crying now....let me comfort you, with my soft touch and warm body.  It is the least I may do.

What is Seen

A pale, nubile girl of just an age to be married and made full.  Her breasts are not large, but they are firm and of good shape.  Like the heart, her face is perfect in its shape.  Her hair is the dark shine of obsidian and is but gently waved and there is no finer silk, it is long enough to cover her face, yet not so long that it would be a discomfort to her lover.  Her lithe form is not strong, but the ivory of her flesh is impenetrable and no matter what harm is done by her lovers, she suffers no death.  Her eyes are rubies so dark they touch violet, garnets set ablaze, with pupils like tiny slices of the deepest shadow.  Pearls shine from between her coral lips when she smiles upon one.

She dresses in black silk as soft and as delicate as the webs of spiders, yet as impenetrable as her knowing smile.  Gems and jewelery adorn her form when she wears no clothing; the jewels shine like nothing of creation, and the living metals are so fine they cannot be named.  She wears nothing upon her feet save rings and bells, nor upon her hands save rings and bracelets.  About her neck is hung a hexagonal crystal with no center, that shimmers with the colors of the rainbow that circles the sun when the high clouds touch it; she carries a stylus of obsidian and gold, which which she scribes the tale of the Vizier for all to read one day.  It is said that she sleeps beneath a mirror hung above a bed hidden behind the throne of the Vizier, where she may watch all that occurs as she watches those whom the Vizier teaches. 

[The Great Triangle]

The characters submitted so far look pretty good.  Seems like an orgiastic conspiracy.


Alright, so here's the OOC and character sheet threads!  Hooray!

OOC: https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=35319.0

Character Sheets:  https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=35318.0

[Krule]

A question Asku.. from the looks of it.. are you playing a DB akuma?  that's what it looks like, but I could see that being a GSP as well.. a scourge most likly.. but a Fiend is also possible

[Pumpkin Seeds]

my intention was a DB Akuma.