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Most obviously flight.

Mega strength.

..... Probably also mega stamina.

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Hmm... are we actually disagreeing with one anohter?...

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I was more having a problem with this:


Too much baggage with the wrods 'corrupt' and 'forbidden power'.

If an Infernal looks at a poor farmer who swears loyalty to him, and then gives him Resources 5 in return, is that corruption or forbidden?...

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Isn't part of Exalted being 'saying a lot about morality by saying nothing about it'....

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There's nothing stopping an Infernal from forcing someone to swear loyalty to him with the threat of the vow, and then use variants of fealty acknowledging audience.

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That's the thing. A thing about exalted is the moral neutrality and greyness.

There's no splat that's definitely evil and definitely good. That includes Infernals. Making Infernals be the kind of shit that would fit in Infernals Chapter 1 and 2 would miss the point....

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YOU.

YOU.

I LIKE YOUR STYLE...

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So at lower levels, Infernal wish granting can give you dots of attributes and ability. At higher levels, you gain mutations and backgrounds. Wanna turn into the richest, most politically connected, most adored man in the world, with several Exalted allies? Sure! Just spend the willpower, and it'll be yours!

Which, of course, cuts things out of the story. Getting to Resources 5, or Allies 5, or Influence 5, or other kinds of high level background dots can be entire sessions in and of itself. Just sitting there, letting it get granted is a bit... anticlimatic. And then there's the...

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Dozens of different players, including you, have made plans and schemes for this match.

Those schemes turn out to be for nothing when some noob from the rural areas manage to beat up the god-blooded martial arts champion....

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Ok. I need to expand on this.

Like, literally, look at everything. Look at what people do now. Look at how utterly apathetic people are to other people's suffering. Look at Vampires. Let's pretend that they do the bare minimum. Oh, what's that? You can literally grant immortality, at the risk of losing humanity, a thirst for blood, a weakness to sunlight and fire, supernatural powers (which also include mind control), and sick durabilty? Hell yeah, count me in! There are people literally doing worse things now. Someone who sucks blood (and doesn't need to kill to do it) can be positively...

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A third of mankind backstabs the other third for power, wealth, add everything. The other third is just plain apathetic.

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Theres a whole lot of shit.

Usually I just look at stuff that interests me. I tend to sometimes miss things

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I get it.

I just use the term 'bureaucracy charms' instead of 'intelligence charms' so people will know what I'm talking about.

Like, did you really think I forgot that Alchemicals use attributes instead of abilities?...

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Who decides what to do in a patropoli or a metropoli? Who exactly is the person taht does the day to day work. I know that the Patropolis can have bureaucracy charms. But who, exactly, is the person who decided the policy in and of itself. who is the one that decides what direction the patropolis goes in? Alchemicals don't rule. If they don't, who does?

edit: Ok, now I see the Tripartite section. So they're... chosen at birth, by the luminors, in separate castes. And then they're stuck there. Forever. So they got the top of their caste by mostly merit.

Is that how the...

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I'm not sure if I've posted this here before, but I"m going to post it.

Marriage. With children. At the age of 20-21.

And then, Dragonblooded Exaltation....

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Hmm...

DB, right?

In that case, who's to say that he doesn't have his own unofficial salary? I mean, greater spirits hire smaller ones to gather quintessence. Why not hire this DB who has his own powers?...

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From whom?

Who on Earth is willing to stick their necks out for these poor fellows?

Nobody, that's who....

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Accidentally reveal yourself as a Solar....

Only to suddenly realize that everyone in the tournament is also some manner of 'Anathema'. This includes the monkey, who is a Lunar with Monkey Style, and the cleaning lady, who turns out to be an Infernalist Dragonblooded with knowledge of Black Claw....

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They had concrete, yes. Plastic, a mere myth, I believe.

Concrete yes. But they had their own issues....

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Accidentally cause a civil war, a thousand year long family feud, and an anguished (or several) declarations of love when fighting in the arena, between punches and kicks...