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Have various powerful spectators offer you lodgings and feasts when you win.
Have same fickle benefactors kick you out when you lose.
Talk to the bookies about who's bet how much on your success, and your failure.
Check the betting odds to see who is favored to win.
Observe the shadow-tournament regarding theological implications of style dominance, and their associated matrices and indirect comparisons being argued by scholars of martials arts lore.

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I could see an urban Survival specialty getting some use tailing people, or enhancing a disguise as a stableboy, or just finding your way around town....

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I can't remember the book, but if we're talking about Realm/Anathema team-ups, wasn't it implied that Mnemon was considering allying (in her duplicitous way, so long as they're useful) with an Abyssal?

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The example of Ten Winds in Keychain of Creation is both humorous and more of a 'meeting of equals' example of a Dragon-Blooded lending their services to Celestials.

On the question of what to offer, Ten Winds gets to see if the Anathema are truly as capable of horrors as the Immaculate Philosophy asserts. On the 'squad goals' front, Ten Winds' inclusion to the party is posited as finding the best for the job. I think the author believed 'best' meant 'most story potential' which he jokes about by rejecting other less-thought-out characters in the opening comics....

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Battery of a Thousand Years (Orichalcum Tool, 2) - encased in orichalcum, a small amount of nuclear waste powers a betavoltic current that can power devices with a steady flow of electric charge longer than empires of old took to rise and fall. In addition to powering small devices far from reliable power grids, the wishmetal casing can turn the electricity into motes to power devices that require a the use of a hearthstone. Simply holding the stone in one's personal effects respires an additional two motes of Essence per hour while it powers no other device, but the current is too small and...

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Is this what you were thinking of? The Exalted Census?

http://exalted.xi.co.nz/wiki/Characters/ExaltedCensus

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Great to meet you!

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I just drop the pretense and write Exalted fanfiction!

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Can't! *clap* Wait! *clap* For the Sho! Gun! Ate! *clap clap clap*