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[nalak42]

When it comes down to it also remember the components are going to be a huge factor in how an artifact is created and its subsequent evocations. Winterbreath jars and such can be recreated with fewer problems than trying to remake a specific skycutter, or goremaul.* Gorgon and Stormcaller both have specific ancient monsters forged into them, or the weapon forged around them, meaning any attempt to recreate one is going to inherently be different because either you have an entity like that to use or you don't. Of course said entity's own will, personality, and abilities would also influence the...

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Well right now the chapter we've got has been more focused on the Silver Pact itself, which was pretty much founded on the premise of destroying the organizations that spring up to take the ruler of the world spot the Solar Deliberative used to have if its not the Lunars in charge. Consequently, we've also been focusing more on the larger players of it and their stances which invariably go to towards the Realm as the most easy point of reference. Remember a Shahan-ya is a title in the Silver Pact, so Leviathan wasn't going to be a Shahan-ya to any Lunars he trained if it was before the Realm's...

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And considers herself the godparent of said infant.Face it you insult your boss by being insobordinate in front of an enemy/rival on the grounds of not liking what's being served as dinner tends to not go over well. Raksi giving Weyna the kid is a pretty good outcome considering when she decided to demonstrate possession of a bloody spine. Not to mention that kid could surprisingly do worse than having the ancient sorcerer queen/ godmonster as your god-parent.

As for the rest of her behavior, at least part of her edge is being a Gen 1 Lunar allienating her is probably something most...

[nalak42]

You mean aside from the part where failure to excercise proper decorum and visit when you go through her territory leads to someone who acts like that just to screw with people deciding to respond to someone being rude and insulting her?...

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So there's that thing in the new episode, what do you think necrotech or hellstrider? I mean the jerky motions it has at the start and the death cloud I feel scream Soulsteel necrotech warstrider to me. Like its entrance really had me thinking this was a zombie mech. On the other hand the part where it goes full on four armed rampaging monster screamed demonbeast to me as well.

Well if nothing else I look forward to using this as resources for describing warstrider combat.*


*Also sound track, but what can I say that's me.

[nalak42]

So ready for the fields of new questions that'll probably start cropping up after next week?

[nalak42]

There is also the possibility of more humanoid Horrors, not to the extent of requiring one's own supplies but it might work out to your benefit to have them even then. Heck a thing I'd had planned for a game that never happened was for my Beast to be a Doppleganger, so his "relaxed" state when prowling his own Lair would be wearing the human side's form. (This also provided the potentially fun benefit of being able to pretend the Horror was slumbering if you get the merger when no one was looking and thus able to spend the whole time pretending that you totally aren't your own Horror...

[nalak42]

So I asked a friend and he brought up two things I get and one I don't.
1) It is a seperate mechanic from the normal social systems. (I don't understand how that's a benefit, but okay.)

2)The liar doesn't get to make the roll.
This seems like a gamble benefit. As you brought up they could get fewer successes than the total, but if you don't trust the dice to not come out against you on that.

3) They don't get to use any supernatural upgrades to their lies.
Its their "natural" ability on the lie, they can't add fetishes. enchantments, or...

[nalak42]

American, its tuesday after next....

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The reading of the core implies that one's immunity to an element of the Lair trait doesn't work with just any instance of it. The chosen example was that a Beast could not squeeze through an overly cramped air duct even if they had the cramped Lair trait unless they first imposed their Lair on the area. Going with that logic, I'd say people who have standing invites into your Lair, like your Broodmates, would be protected because they are normally protected from the harmful effects of your Lair.


I presume by the context we're talking a trait that isn't shared between the...

[nalak42]

Have you considered an easily directed pawn then? Or you can go and plagiarize the Realm and find someone just competent enough to not make everything worse, but not competent enough to be able to anything with their authority. Probably best not to use Regent Fokuf though, he's probably paranoid enough about the Great Houses deciding to kill him if he becomes a problem without a more active heresy under his belt and knowing he has the attention of people who have so many better ways to end him than most DBs do. :3...

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Neo's outfit I like. As for the idea of shipping Fire and Ice Cream, nah its still clearly Chaos Emerald on that front. :3

[nalak42]

The passageway is noted to be a warped and distorted version of the nightmare the target is suffering under that's more representational. There's nothing expressly forbidding it, but if I was STing then I would say no since its meant to be a passage with nightmare and the corridor being more representational of the Beast's own connection to their Lair/ The Primordial Dream. I'd allow a check to see what information you could glean about the victim while passing through, but I wouldn't allow wandering out of the corridor into the victim's dreams proper....

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True, and I feel like if Adam had encountered Weiss first at Beacon then he probably would have gone after her instead of Blake since that would have been in the scope of his agendas and ,Cinder having a fire knife to his neck aside, he seemed pretty happy that if he wasn't where he wanted to be exactly he was at least on track for it. Blake was a target of some import to him for personal reasons when she showed up ergo he did what he did. Once they got back to Menagerie then the problem became that Blake started being a threat to his authority and direct goals followed by actually getting him...

[nalak42]

Why not give just give it some sort of stealth ability that doesn't work against magical detection methods? You know something like flawless pickpocketing technique except flipped to work on stealth checks....

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Not that sexy, you're mixing up the double 7 rule. The doubles are the ones where it makes it so every number between that and 10 is a double success. Become the Hammer's instruction to reroll sixes until you don't get anymore sixes in your results only applies to the number six not any above it. Still potentially terrifying considering this is applies to damage rolls, which has can be dangerous as heck with a good momentum pool built up....

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As far as the plague banishing thing goes, I feel like its a more invasive use of one's essence. Basically you aren't bolstering your skills or boosting the patient's body with your essence* this is forcing your essence into the patient where it rounds up the very illness infesting their cells and drags it out. If the person is particularly resilient I'd imagine the body is a bit more reluctant to allowing something to force its way in even if it does so with the intent of removing the thing it doesn't want to start with.


*You know injecting extra energy into the chakras to...

[nalak42]

Frankly I'm more curious about the hard light dust or whatever they said there were for the shields....

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None, Aquillion has been on this whole kick that Salem is actually the good guy in this scenario since they showed the gods wiping out the world. Its why he's saying the idea that she'd want to slaughter everyone else is out of nowhere when she explicitly expressed her intent to sacrifice countless humans in the hopes that it would piss the gods off enough that they might kill her. So you're just smacking your head against a wall....

[nalak42]

I think we can all agree that Salem and Oz need all the relationship therapy the world can give them. Fortunately Oz has died a lot, so they don't need to go through any messy divorce proceedings.