Dice Inside the Great Maker - Characters

Sherwood · Dec 29, 2018

Normal character creation starts with Attributes of 8/6/4 with a free dot that you can allocate to your Caste or Favored Attributes. I am going with 9/7/5 with +2 dots to allocate to your Caste or Favored stats.

You will start with 30 dots in Abilities, and you can go above 3 without having to use freebie points, and you get five dots in Specialties.

Backgrounds are 12 points. You can raise them above 3 without using freebie points.

You normally start with four Dedicated and four General Charm Slots. I'm going to start you out with six and six instead. Also, you can select five Charms to have in the Vats to be able to change out your current loadout. That can give you the option for a Social build and a Combat build, depending on the situation.

As per the Errata, Willpower starts at 5, and you get six dots in Virtues.

Like I mentioned up top, everyone will start with Essence 3, and 20 Bonus Points. If you want, you can opt to dump all of them into Essence, giving you a starting value of 5 and access to the God-Machine Protocols.

Also, normally most Charms have an Installation cost of committed Essence to them. We will be waiving that cost, but you will still have to calculate Committed Essence from Artifacts.

New Keyword: HARDY
Each purchase of a Charm bearing this keyword works like a purchase of the Exalt's native version of Ox-Body Technique. This entirely replaces the Charm by that name; players lose those Charms and spend the refunded XP on Charms with the Hardy keyword.

No character may benefit from the Hardy keyword more times than their Essence score. An Essence 5 character with seven Hardy-keyworded Charms only benefits from the equivalent of five purchases of Ox-Body Technique until he raises his Essence score.

ALCHEMICALS:
Pain Suppression Nodes
Subcutaneous/Exoskeletal Armor Plating (any and all installments)
Transitory Invulnerability Engine
Essence Shield Projector
Alloyed Reinforcement of Flesh
Body-Reweaving Matrix
Bodily Integrity Field
Aegis Integration System
Enshrined Divinity Apparatus
Industrial Survival Frame (any and all installments)
Biofunction Inhibitor
Sustenance Replication Engine

Experience Totals: 8

Psychie · Dec 30, 2018

Name: Most Assurant of Three Assemblies (Ma3a)
Caste: Orichalcum

Attributes
**Str: 3
*Dex: 4
Sta: 3

**Cha: 3
*Man: 5
App: 3

*Per: 3
**Int: 5
Wits: 2

**Caste Attribute
*Favored Attribute

Abilities
Warfare
Archery: 2
Athletics: 1
Awareness: 3
Dodge: 2
Integrity: 1
Martial Arts
Melee: 3
Resistance: 1
Thrown
War

Labor
Craft
Larceny: 1
Linguistics: 1
Performance
Presence: 3
Ride
Sail: 2
Socialize: 3
Stealth: 2

Learning
Bureaucracy: 1
Investigation: 3
Lore: 2
Medicine: 2
Occult: 5

Specialties
Occult - Weaving Protocols: 3
Melee - Beamklaves: 2
Backgrounds
Artifact: 5 / 15 points of items
Assault Crossbow: 2
Beamklave: 4
Infinite Resplendence Amulet: 5
Shielding Block Core: 4
Class: 3
Familiar: 3
Savant: 4

Virtues
Willpower: 10
Compassion: 2
Conviction: 4
Temperance: 2
Valor: 2

Essence: 4
Personal: 22
Peripheral: 58 (48 - 10 Committed)

Anima Effect: By reflexively spending five motes, Shining Ones may charge their bodies with golden lightning for a scene. This energy visibly surges at the point of contact whenever they strike in close combat, while projectiles crackle with a destructive nimbus as they race toward targets. This power adds the character’s Essence to the raw damage of all attacks. It activates automatically at no cost whenever an Alchemical’s anima reaches the 11+ level of display.
First Manipulation Augmentation

Cost: — [1m]; Mins: Intelligence 4, Essence 4;
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Exemplar 1, Obvious
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
This Charm takes the form of an adamant ring implanted around the Alchemical’s soulgem, inscribed with hundreds of tiny Old Realm glyphs. When activated, the crystal rapidly spins in its socket and the runes inscribed along its rim light up in patterns consistent with the protocol being invoked. At the consummation of the casting, sparks jump from the ring into the Exalt’s soulgem before discharging with a brilliant display of power. This Charm may never be removed once installed, but it does not function for characters infected with Gremlin Syndrome.
The character may take Weave Man-Machine Protocol actions, which are identical to Shape Terrestrial Circle Sorcery actions save that they invoke a Man-Machine protocol rather than a spell. For full details on protocol weaving, see Chapter Six. This Charm cannot be placed in an Array.

Cost: 4m [1m]; Mins: Manipulation 3, Essence 2;
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK, Emotion, Internal, Social
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Any Manipulation Augmentation
A set of micro-pumps and artificial glands implanted beneath the Exalt’s skin allow her to synthesize and exude psychoactive biochemical fragrances that accentuate particular emotions. Any social attack the Alchemical makes against a target within (Appearance x 10) yards that is intended to induce a particular emotion or take advantage of the target’s emotional state by inducing appropriate behavior costs an additional Willpower to resist. Such attacks are also unnatural mental influence against mortals. Examples include inducing lust and then seducing the target, or inducing rage and inciting violence. For the base effects of instilling a feeling, see the accompanying sidebar. Characters with this Charm installed are immune to all uses of it and treat activations as Obvious to their senses while in range of the chemicals.
Alternatively, the Alchemical may use this Charm to mask her own scent entirely. Doing so causes mundane attempts to track the Alchemical via scent to automatically fail and adds bonus dice equal to the character’s Essence to the roll-off against contesting magic that depends on the Alchemical’s scent.
Submodules:
Instinctual Aversion Formula (4xp): As desired, the Alchemical may exude chemical repellents. Natural animals in range experience a subliminal unnatural Compulsion to leave the radius of effect and not return for the rest of the scene unless they pay one Willpower to remain. Such beings will not generally resist without a very good instinct-driven reason, such as to protect their offspring or mates. Mortals are less affected, suffering a one-die internal penalty to all non-reflexive actions if they don’t resist.
Biochemical Lozenge Machine (Essence 3): The Exalt can distill a specific emotion into a single gelatinous pill as an alternative to normal activation. This pill emerges from a port just below the Exalt’s stomach and retains its potency for one month. Anyone who consumes the capsule gets the benefit of the Charm as though she activated it but can only apply the one emotion. Alternatively, the Exalt can create a pill that makes the consumer vulnerable to all social attacks
using the specific emotion as though in range of the Charm for the rest of the scene. These Poison effect pills cannot be tasted or smelled by human-range senses when dissolved into beverages. Doses do not stack in either case, and both types of pills are worth Resources ••• apiece.

Cost: 10m, 1wp [1m]; Mins: Manipulation 4, Essence 2;
Type: Reflexive (Step 10)
Keywords: Obvious
Duration: Until broken
Prerequisite Charms: Any Manipulation Augmentation
This Charm constitutes a spike mounted in one of the Alchemical’s limbs, which can be extended or retracted at any time with a miscellaneous action to draw or ready a weapon. The probe may be stabbed into a victim as a stiletto (Speed 5, Accuracy +2, Damage +3L, Defense +0, Rate 3, Tags P) or inserted without damage into a willing or restrained subject (including those held in a clinch). The spike is not intended to serve as a weapon, however, but rather as an instrument of mind control.
The Charm may be invoked on Step Ten when the Exalt damages or harmlessly pierces a being of equal or lower Essence. Once inserted, the spike releases hundreds of Essence-sculpted microscopic automata that rapidly thread their way through nerve bundles to the spine and up into the brain. The Exalt immediately attempts to force his victim into a mindscape. This is resolved as a roll to control a clinch, but the Exalt uses her ([higher of Manipulation or Wits] + Presence) as the attacking dice pool, resisted by the victim’s (Wits + Integrity).
If the Exalt wins, she may deploy only the psychic equivalent of a hold action, forcing the victim into an empty mindscape marred only by his own psyche and a vague awareness of the Alchemical’s presence. Physically, a victim trapped within his own mind is considered Inactive as though held in a standard clinch. If the victim wins, he may only break the clinch, pushing the spike harmlessly out of his body. The invading automata then denature into raw Essence.
The Alchemical’s player continues to make this roll on each subsequent action until the victim breaks the psychic clinch or the Alchemical chooses to retract the spike. She may take no other actions while holding a target’s mind hostage with this Charm.

Cost: — [1m]; Mins: Manipulation 5, Essence 3;
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Illusion, Internal, Shaping, Stackable, Training
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Personality Override Spike
This Charm expands its prerequisite, allowing the Alchemical the option of either “holding” or “crushing” a victim drawn into a mindscape when in control of the psychic clinch. “Crush” attacks constitute a form of unnatural mental influence costing one Willpower to resist. Resisting this influence merely assures the integrity of the victim’s personality for a few more moments and does not end the clinch.
If the victim fails to fight off the probe’s intrusion, the Alchemical may modify his personality to be more agreeable. She may apply one of the following modifications on each “crush” action and wastes any action spent attempting an impossible change:
Intimacies: One Intimacy of the Alchemical’s choice may be added, up to his normal limit. Alternatively one Intimacy of the target’s choice is removed as an Illusion effect, and the Alchemical learns what Intimacy was erased.
Memory: The victim can be made to forget a specific contiguous period of memory covering as much as five years or all memories associated with an Intimacy the Charm has excised. The Exalt does not learn the details of the memories she deletes. This is an Illusion effect.
Virtues: Any of the victim’s Virtues may be increased or decreased by one dot. This cannot shift them above 5 or below 1.
Willpower: The victim gains or loses a dot of permanent Willpower (maximum 8, minimum 1).
When the Exalt is finished, the spike slides painlessly free. The effects are permanent as applied to mortals, who can recover lost dots of Virtues or Willpower by spending the requisite experience and a month per dot to heal their torn psyches. Essence users can pay four Willpower at any time to restore a diminished trait to its original rating instead and can pay this cost in installments. Adding Virtue or Willpower dots is a Training effect for mortals, but Essence users can choose to apply a Training effect or a one-day temporary boost when they gain a dot. Essence users can recover lost memories by seeking out reminders of them or otherwise spending scenes building an Intimacy to the memory. Once the Intimacy forms, it dissolves as the memory returns.

Cost: — [1m]; Mins: Manipulation 5, Essence 4;
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Internal, Shaping
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Identity Recalibration Signal
This Charm expands its prerequisite, adding the following options to the list of actions the Alchemical may take while crushing a victim’s mind:
Essence Drain: She may drain five motes from the victim, transferring the Essence to her own reservoirs. Stolen motes beyond her capacity to contain crackle in her anima as though she spent them from her Peripheral Essence pool.
Memory Extraction: She may read the victim’s memories, posing a question that is involuntarily answered as the target’s mind flashes vignettes of pertinent experiences. If she reads a patch of blank or magically altered memories, she also recognizes them as such but does not gain any insight into what was originally there. Note that “What memories are false?” and “Do you have gaps in your memory?” are valid questions to locate tampering, since the victim’s mind knows the answers even if it isn’t aware that it does.
Spirit Absorption: If the victim is a spirit of lesser Essence and has no motes remaining, the Alchemical may force it into a dematerialized state and implode its being through her spike and into her soul. The spirit effectively does not exist while contained in this fashion and cannot be interacted with, save that the Exalt can clinch the spirit using Personality Override Spike and successive Charms as though it were currently pierced for no activation cost. If the spirit wins control of the grapple, it merely buys itself a day in which it cannot be further molested in that fashion. Unless they are being psychically probed, captive spirits are otherwise held in stasis in the same blank mindscape the spike imposes.
One can be voluntarily released by extending the spike and spending one mote to force it out, emerging with the same traits as it entered with as modified by any additional psychic trauma inflicted upon it. There is no limit on the number of spirits that can be contained this way, but the death of the Alchemical also permanently kills all her captives.

Cost: 5m [1m]; Mins: Appearance 1, Essence 2;
Type: Simple (Speed 3)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Internal
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: None
As a complex system of artificial flesh patches and other mechanisms, this Charm betrays no outward signs of its presence. It is designed to physically conceal non-Internal Alchemical Charms, giving as many of them as desired the Internal keyword for the duration of the effect. Affected devices retract and compress under the Exalt’s skin through compartment panels, while her claylike flesh morphs and spreads to cover the area they previously occupied. As usual, Obvious Internal Charms reveals themselves for the duration of use, though only to the degree that is necessary to perform the Obvious function. To change which Charms are hidden, the Charm must be reflexively deactivated and then reactivated normally.
As a final benefit, if all of the Alchemical’s Charms have the Internal keyword (whether naturally or from use of this Charm) and she is human-sized, she may transmute her claylike flesh and blood into a perfect simulacrum of human physiology and counter-gravitically compensate for the weight of hidden Charms so that her heavy tread does not betray her nature. In toto, the changes allow her to pass as mortal. An Exalt disguised this way may even retract or modify the appearance of her soulgem as a reflexive action.

Cost: 4m [1m]; Mins: Strength 2, Essence 2;
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK, Stackable
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
This Charm is housed as a set of reinforcing components and Essence capacitors in the lower legs. When activated, the device allows the Alchemical to twist gravity’s pull in one of two ways. Each mode of the Charm must be activated separately if the two are to function concurrently. In the primary mode, the Exalt controls the orientation of “down” in relation to himself. Doing so allows the character to walk or run along any surface that would be capable of bearing his weight if it were down, including walls and ceilings. Moving the soles of his feet more than (Essence) yards from a surface results in gravity reassuming its normal properties but does not end the Charm, allowing all manner of improbable acrobatics such as somersaulting off of a wall to land on the ceiling.
In its secondary mode, the Champion gains the ability to reduce his weight to as little as 15 percent of normal. Doing so permits the Exalt to move at double his normal movement rate and jump twice as far, but it also doubles penalties due to high wind, doubles knockback distance and imposes whatever other effects the Storyteller deems appropriate for the change in weight.

Cost: 3m [2m]; Mins: Appearance 2, Essence 2;
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: None
A lattice of sand-sized crystals studded through the Exalt’s flesh gives her a slightly iridescent sheen when viewed under bright lighting. Charged with Essence, the lattice generates an optic camouflage. The Alchemical wavers like a heat mirage for a moment, then vanishes. As long as the Exalt makes no rapid or violent motion (physical attacks, Dash or Jump actions, etc.) and does not move more than one yard per tick, she remains invisible and impossible to detect via sight, regardless of acuity. Unless she speaks or otherwise gives herself away, attempts to locate her through mundane sound or smell are made with an external penalty of (higher of her Essence or Appearance). She can be detected by touch and taste normally.
Characters with superhumanly acute hearing or sense of smell ignore this camouflage and may interact with the Exalt normally, as can characters with exotic senses that do not depend at all on sight (such as heat detection and echolocation) or some form of Essence sight. Moving any faster than the permitted speed by means of personal locomotion does not end the Charm, but causes the Alchemical to appear as an Obvious rippling distortion in the air that is automatically visible. She fully vanishes again on the tick in which she next moves at an acceptable speed, though until she discreetly moves from that location, any attacks made against her by those who saw where she stopped ignore the Charm’s protection. Traveling within a vehicle or by other external means does not disrupt the camouflage this way. Extremely rapid or violent movement (such as the activation of a Plasma Thruster Assembly or the initiation of an attack) terminates the Charm.
Submodules:
Dynamic Cloaking Module (Essence 3, 1xp): Each installation of this submodule increases by one the maximum number of yards per tick the Champion can move without disrupting the camouflage. Once Dynamic Cloaking Module has been installed a sufficient number of times to cloak the Exalt’s maximum dashing speed, it is not disrupted by any movement, even much faster methods available via Charms or other effects.
Sense-Countering Upgrades (Essence 3, 4xp): With each installation of this submodule, the Alchemical may choose to immunize the Charm against being automatically bypassed by superhumanly acute hearing or smell. With both of these options integrated, a third installation covers all exotic senses and further renders the Champion as undetectable by these unusual senses as by normal vision.
Kinetic Compensator (Essence 4, 4xp): Once the Optical Shroud has been activated, reactivating it in the same scene does not count as a Charm use during each of the Alchemical’s action ticks.
Essence Veil (Essence 4): With this submodule installed, the character is as invisible to Essence sight and comparable senses while cloaked as he is to normal vision.
Maximized Ambush Processor (Essence 4): Whenever an Alchemical cloaked by this Charm makes an unexpected physical attack, he counts attack successes twice for the purposes of determining damage (or triple, if making a close-combat attack). This attack deactivates the cloak normally.

Unused:
First Dexterity Augmentation
First Strength Augmentation
Toroidal Shockwave Catalyst
Essence Irradiation Corona
Piston Driven Megaton Hammer
Chemical Fog Generator
First Stamina Augmentation
First Dexterity Augmentation
First Strength Augmentation
First Stamina Augmentation

Cost: — [1m]; Mins: Intelligence 4, Essence 4;
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Exemplar 1, Obvious
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
This Charm takes the form of an adamant ring implanted around the Alchemical’s soulgem, inscribed with hundreds of tiny Old Realm glyphs. When activated, the crystal rapidly spins in its socket and the runes inscribed along its rim light up in patterns consistent with the protocol being invoked. At the consummation of the casting, sparks jump from the ring into the Exalt’s soulgem before discharging with a brilliant display of power. This Charm may never be removed once installed, but it does not function for characters infected with Gremlin Syndrome.
The character may take Weave Man-Machine Protocol actions, which are identical to Shape Terrestrial Circle Sorcery actions save that they invoke a Man-Machine protocol rather than a spell. For full details on protocol weaving, see Chapter Six. This Charm cannot be placed in an Array.

Cost: 4m [1m]; Mins: Strength 3, Essence 2;
Type: Simple (Speed 5, DV -0)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Crippling, Knockback, Obvious
Duration: One action
Prerequisite Charms: Any Physical Attribute Augmentation
This Charm takes the form of a pair of spherical crystal capacitors mounted in the Alchemical’s shoulders. When charged with Essence, the crystals flash brightly in a color characteristic of the Exalt’s anima before emitting a thunderclap and a torus of expanding force. All objects and individuals of approximately the same or smaller size than the Alchemical within a radius of (Strength + Essence) yards blasts back to the edge of the effect. Characters blasted back suffer a three-die internal penalty to all non-reflexive actions from the stunning force of the wave until the Alchemical’s next action and drop all held weapons and items if they are extras. On top of this Crippling effect, victims without superhuman balance also fall prone automatically. The Champion is unaffected by the blast he emits.
Submodules:
Gravitational Resonator (2xp): The Champion may dispense with the Charm’s usual knockback to drop targets prone regardless of any supernatural balance. Those touched by the pulse are pulled to a prone position by exponentially increasing the force of gravity upon them for a brief moment.
Order-Asserting Pulse (Strength 4, Essence 3, 5xp): The Axiomatic energy released by the Charm is especially disruptive to creatures of the Void, increasing the duration of the Crippling penalty to two actions instead of one. Beings penalized this way also cannot rise from prone as part of a flurry and must devote their full effort to struggle to their feet. This submodule may be installed a second time at (Strength 6, Essence 4), removing the Axiomatic keyword by extending its benefits to all adversaries.
Holocaustic Fury Device (Strength 4, Essence 4): If the Alchemical pays an extra Willpower, the Charm’s energy burst is also superheated. The entire radius of effect can be spotted from 10 miles away barring obstruction and blazes as a white-hot bonfire of smoldering plasma (see Exalted, p. 131), burning victims caught in its energy once before they are hurled to the smoking edges. These flames last a minute before going out, though objects taken outside the radius immediately cease burning. Once ignited, the fire will not burn the Champion or his personal possessions until his next action, giving him a chance to escape unscathed. Hardier Alchemicals may use the burning zone as a sniper nest.
Mind-Battering Force Emitter (Charisma 4, Essence 3): The stunning shockwave does not merely assault the body, but overwhelms thought through sensory and spiritual overstimulation. All beings caught in the blast radius lose one Willpower unless they pay four motes. Although this drain is a mental effect, its cause is physical and can be fully defended against as either type of attack.

Cost: 2m; Mins: Strength 2, Essence 3;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Any Physical Attribute Augmentation
Four collapsible prongs are housed in one of the Exalt’s limbs. When activated, they rise up and arc forward, bathing his attacking limb or weapon in an unstable Essence field that explodes upon contact with an enemy. Any attack enhanced by this Charm converts one die of its post-soak damage into an automatic success and counts each 10 on the roll as two successes.
Submodules:
Optimized Trauma Upgrade (Strength 3, 3xp): A red jade coating applied to the Charm’s emitter arrays render its Essence field especially volatile. An attack enhanced by this submodule adds one die to its post-soak damage.
Field Stabilization Fins (Strength 4, 3xp): Retractable white jade fins adorn the Charm’s emitter prongs, stabilizing its Essence field. An attack enhanced by this submodule adds three dice to its raw damage.

Cost: 3m [1m]; Mins: Strength 2, Essence 2;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Any Strength Augmentation
This Charm takes the form of a soulsteel-capped piston ringed with Essence injection vents in one of the Alchemical’s limbs. Upon making a close combat attack with the selected limb, the piston may be triggered with a terrible whistling shriek of steam and an explosive bang. Successes on the supplemented attack roll are counted twice for the purpose of determining raw damage, or three times if attacking unarmed.

Cost: 1m+ [1m]; Mins: Stamina 3, Essence 2;
Type: Reflexive (Step 2)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious, Poison, Stackable
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
This bulky Charm fits snugly into the Alchemical’s torso, with an assortment of vent tubes branching out to exhaust ports in the Exalt’s skin and throat. When activated, the device churns out thick streamers of black smoke from as many of the vents as desired. The smoke billows into heavy clouds, rapidly filling a radius of (Essence) yards per mote spent. Up to a limit of (lower of Stamina or Manipulation) motes may be spent powering the Charm per action. The Stackable keyword permits the Alchemical to fill a progressively greater area with smoke by continuing to burn Essence, with smaller clouds adding their radius to the size of larger clouds with which they merge. The smoke lingers for one hour in still air, half that time in a light breeze, only (Stamina rating) minutes in a strong wind and one action in a hurricane gale. The Storyteller should extrapolate its longevity in other conditions using these guidelines.
The murky black cloud imposes vision penalties as fog (see Exalted, p. 135), which means that defensive use applies appropriate visual penalties against the incoming attack. Additionally, the caustic, choking smoke acts as a poison to anyone caught within its radius who requires air. Characters holding their breath are unaffected until they are forced to breathe it. As a mild poison, the smoke has the following traits: (1B/1 hour, 2M, —/—, -1). Like all inhaled toxins, ongoing smoke inhalation only imposes a new dose every time the previous dose wears off and the victim is still breathing it. This means that initial contact runs its course after two hours, applying damage each hour as normal. After that time, a character still breathing it faces exposure for another two hours of being affected, et cetera.
Only one gas-based submodule may be applied to any use of the Charm. Mixing gas formulae using separate activations catalyzes the joint cloud into the unmodified smoke, allowing Alchemicals to use this Charm defensively to counter the poison clouds of their enemies.
Submodules:
Tear Gas: This faintly yellowish dense smoke produces dizziness along with burning pain in the eyes and lungs. Its traits are (1B/action, 2, —/—, -3), but its damage never spills over past Incapacitated to become lethal.
Clandestine Toxin System (Manipulation 3): As an alternative to standard smoke, the Charm may release a colorless, odorless gas that is not Obvious. Although this gas does not interfere with vision and has a difficulty equal to the Alchemical’s Manipulation to notice with a standard (Perception + Awareness) roll, it is still as toxic as normal. In addition, the toxin does not take effect until characters have been exposed for the full period of one duration interval, though even momentary exposure assures that the toxin will take effect, even if the victim moves out of the gas before that time. In conjunction with other submodules such as Nerve Gas, use of the Clandestine Toxin System can result in enemies not realizing they have stumbled into a deadly atmosphere until it is too late.
Vectored Toxin Deployment (Strength 3, Essence 3): By paying two motes per (Essence rating) yards of radius and one Willpower, the Charm can gather plumes of smoke into a tight ball around the projectile of a ranged attack in Step One. Wherever the Alchemical’s projectile hits, the smoke concentrate billows out to fill its usual radius. Attacking the ground to catch many enemies in the radius is often easier than attacking one of them directly, as the Exalt needs only a single attack success to place the projectile where desired.
Nerve Gas (Essence 4): This deadly green haze has these traits: (8L/action, 4, —/—, -4).

Cost: 4m [1m]; Mins: Strength 2, Essence 2;
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK, Stackable
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
This Charm is housed as a set of reinforcing components and Essence capacitors in the lower legs. When activated, the device allows the Alchemical to twist gravity’s pull in one of two ways. Each mode of the Charm must be activated separately if the two are to function concurrently. In the primary mode, the Exalt controls the orientation of “down” in relation to himself. Doing so allows the character to walk or run along any surface that would be capable of bearing his weight if it were down, including walls and ceilings. Moving the soles of his feet more than (Essence) yards from a surface results in gravity reassuming its normal properties but does not end the Charm, allowing all manner of improbable acrobatics such as somersaulting off of a wall to land on the ceiling.
In its secondary mode, the Champion gains the ability to reduce his weight to as little as 15 percent of normal. Doing so permits the Exalt to move at double his normal movement rate and jump twice as far, but it also doubles penalties due to high wind, doubles knockback distance and imposes whatever other effects the Storyteller deems appropriate for the change in weight.

Unused:
First Manipulation Augmentation
Pheromone Regulation Systems
Personality Override Spike
Identity Recalibration Signal
Mind Ripping Probe
Optical Shroud
Integrated Artifact Transmogrifier
Cost: 10m
Target: Creature
The sorcerer makes the Sign of the Hooded Headsman. His Essence congeals into a barbed chain two feet long that spins as it arcs toward the target at 170 yards per tick (about 340 miles per hour). The sorcerer can attack anyone he can see within 500 yards. The sorcerer’s player rolls (Perception + Occult) in the Cast Sorcery action, adding the character’s Essence as automatic successes to the roll. This attack may not be parried without a stunt or Charm. If this is a surprise attack, the chain’s great speed increases the difficulty to spot it by +2. The Flying Guillotine avoids obstacles (negating cover and shield bonuses) and can even turn corners to chase a foe.
The silver weapon wraps about whatever body part it strikes and secures itself into a loop of chain with barbs along the inside. The chain spins with great speed as it tightens, inflicting horrific damage. The spell inflicts 18 levels of lethal damage, plus the successes gained on the attack roll. The chain always aims for the neck of the target. If the Flying Guillotine reduces the victim below Incapacitated, it decapitates the target. Most creatures find this instantly fatal. The chain itself seals shut the severed neck on the head, making it not so messy a trophy.
If the damage does not kill the target, the chain has wraps around a shoulder, chest or limb thrown up as part of the defense, cuts deeply, and then vanishes in a flash of silver light. The chain likewise disappears if the target dodges, parries or otherwise counters the attack. When used in war, this spell negates the normal penalty for attacking commanders and special characters, as it whips past all soldiers and fortifications on its way to its foe.

Cost: 20m
Target: Weaver
Minimum Clarity: 3
Swirling patterns of Essence coalesce into hundreds of small, polished metal spheres that whirl rapidly around the Exalt, forming a whirlwind of defensive spheres. This defensive spherical formation moves along with the weaver and can change shape to accommodate tight passages or the like. This protocol functions like armor in that it knocks aside blows aimed at the Alchemical, granting +10L/10B natural soak and +5L/5B non-stacking Hardness. Against an incoming physical attack, the metallic spheres cluster swiftly to intercept the blow, knocking it aside with the loud clanging of hundreds of metal balls slamming into their target. This impact is so powerful that every time a melee or thrown weapon that is not made of the magical materials impacts with the spheres, the Exalt’s player rolls Essence dice against the attacker’s Parry DV. If the Exalt’s player wins the roll, normal, fine and exceptional weapons shatter, while perfect weapons are immune to this effect. Arrows always shatter. Even if the weapon survives, the player of the attacking character must make a (Dexterity + [Melee or Thrown]) roll, difficulty 2, to prevent being disarmed (see Exalted, p. 158).
Characters making unarmed attacks upon the weaver suffer 10B damage dice, which is soaked normally. This protocol lasts for one scene.

Cost: 30m
Target: One conjured automaton
Minimum Clarity: 0
Upon casting this protocol, the weaver summons forth an automaton servant from the body of the Great Maker. Alchemical weavers don’t need to build or create shells for their golems—the shell rises up out of the ground upon weaving, a gift of the Machine God. The Divine Ministers themselves assign an Autochthonian elemental to animate the shell, performing the weaver’s will as if it were its own. Automata summoned by this weaving vary in their traits and appearance based upon the type of elementals bound into them, and such golems possess Charms unique to their elemental type.
Automata of this type will serve their summoner for (Essence) weeks before returning to the body of the Great Maker, and the weaver may have as many of these automata serving her at one time as she has dots of Essence.

Unless listed otherwise, all the following golems have these basic traits:
Attributes: Strength 3, Dexterity 3, Stamina 5; Charisma 1, Manipulation 1, Appearance 1; Perception 3, Intelligence 2, Wits 3
Virtues: Automaton; never fails Valor rolls, cannot make any others.
Abilities: Athletics 3, Awareness 3, Dodge 4, Integrity 5, Linguistics 1 (Native: Machine; Old Realm), Martial Arts 4, Medicine 1, Resistance 5, Stealth 1
Join Battle: 6
Attacks:
Punch: Speed 5, Accuracy 8, Damage 3B, Parry DV 5, Rate 3
Kick: Speed 5, Accuracy 7, Damage 6B, Parry DV 3, Rate 2
Clinch: Speed 6, Accuracy 7, Damage 3B, Parry DV —,
Rate 1, Tags P
Health Levels: -0/-0/-0/-0/-0/-0/-0/Destroyed
Dodge DV: 5 Willpower: 8
Essence: 2 Essence Pool: 20

Description: Moving with lumbering, mechanical strides, engine golems are crude, man-like conglomerations of clockwork pistons and gears made of blackened iron that hiss steam and clank against each other. Slow and graceless, these golems are nevertheless strong and resilient and are often called upon to serve as guardians or assistants.
Attributes: Strength 6
Abilities: Athletics (Lift +2), Medicine 3, Resistance 9
Charms:
Illness Sterilizing Procedure—For 10 motes, the Engine golem can purify a target’s body of diseases and infections by spraying her with a gout of warm (but not scalding) steam. Once the engine golem has used this instant Charm on an individual, the target’s player immediately rolls for Virulence (see Exalted, p. 350). Success indicates that the disease is cured.
Scalding Blast Attack—This crude Charm allows the engine golem to shoot a focused jet of scalding steam at an opponent. Engine golems inflict one die of lethal damage for every two motes of Essence spent, which can be soaked only with Stamina or Resistance Charms.
Attacks:
Punch: Speed 5, Accuracy 8, Damage 6B, Parry DV 5, Rate 3
Kick: Speed 5, Accuracy 7, Damage 9B, Parry DV 3, Rate 2
Clinch: Speed 6, Accuracy 7, Damage 6B, Parry DV —,
Rate 1, Tags P
Soak: 6L/9B (Metal body, 4L/4B)

Description: Transparent (although occasionally taking on the deep colors of gems) and exceedingly difficult to kill, these squat golems are made of thick and smoothly polished glass. They typically serve weavers as body servants.
Attributes: Stamina 7, Perception 2, Wits 2
Abilities: Athletics 2, Dodge 3, Presence 2, Stealth 5, Survival 2, Thrown 4
Charms:
Poison Detection Method—For three motes, a glass golem can instantly detect poison, disease and venom by touch. Any portion of the glass golem that touches such a harmful substance turns a noxious green color, making them perfect for assisting miners in detect leaks of dangerous liquids or gasses from Autochthon’s veins.
Vision-Clearing Protocol—This Charm instantly nullifies all Illusion and glamour-based effects in a four-yard radius for four motes.
Join Battle: 5
Attacks:
Thrown Shard: Speed 5, Accuracy 7, Damage 5L, Range 15,
Rate 3
Soak: 8L/9B (Crystalline Body, 5L/2B)

Description: A magnet golem is a field of magnetic energy with ferrous grit or scrap iron caught in the field giving it shape and form. Whenever items of iron or steel (including weapons and armor) come within four yards of one, those items are strongly pulled toward the golem and require a Strength roll with a difficulty equal to the weaver’s Essence to resist. Arrows and bolts containing metal are automatically added to the golem’s mass when they enter the area of effect. These automata best serve their masters as warriors and bodyguards.
Attributes: Strength 5
Abilities: Archery 5 (Levinbolt +2), Dodge 2, Presence 2 (Intimidation +2)
Charms:
Levinbolt—By spending two motes, the magnet golem can instantly create and fling small lightning bolts at the weaver’s enemies.
Shocking Aura—For five motes, the golem generates a crackling field of electricity around itself for a scene that not only adds 2L/2B to its soak, but deals one lethal health level of damage to anything that touches it. This damage ignores all metal armor not made of the magical materials.
Attacks:
Punch: Speed 5, Accuracy 8, Damage 5B, Parry DV 5, Rate 3
Kick: Speed 5, Accuracy 7, Damage 8B, Parry DV 3, Rate 2
Clinch: Speed 6, Accuracy 7, Damage 5B, Parry DV —,
Rate 1, Tags P
Levinbolt: Speed 6, Accuracy 10, Damage 5L, Range 50,
Rate 1
Dodge DV: 4
Soak: 6L/9B (Ferrous body, 4L/4B)

Description: Incredibly slick and fast, oil golems consist of clear, amber or black liquids and best serve their masters as messengers and scouts. They are occasionally summoned to lubricate the enormous factory-cathedrals of the Machine God.
Attributes: Dexterity 7, Stamina 2, Intelligence 3
Abilities: Athletics (Balance +3), Dodge 5, Melee 5 (Slashing Sword +1), Stealth 5
Charms:
Bursting Reservoir Method—For 10 motes, the golem moves or dashes at five times its normal movement rate for the remainder of the scene. The oil golem may take only Move or Dash actions and must move in the most direct manner as it can toward its goal.
Riding the Viscous Tides—This scene-length Charm allows an oil golem to become one with a body of oil. For five motes, the golem may move freely through the oil, either swimming or walking along the bottom of a reservoir, and may perform any action that it could on land, suffering no penalties to Perception rolls due to being submerged in oil. Additionally, it gains three dice to its Stealth pool and two dice to its Dodge pool while so immersed.
Attacks:
Punch: Speed 5, Accuracy 12, Damage 3B, Parry DV 7, Rate 3
Kick: Speed 5, Accuracy 11, Damage 6B, Parry DV 5, Rate 2
Clinch: Speed 6, Accuracy 11, Damage 3B, Parry DV —, Rate 1, Tags P
Slashing Sword: Speed 4, Accuracy 14, Damage 6L, Parry DV 7, Rate 3
Soak: 3L/5B (Fluid body, 2L/3B)
Dodge DV: 7

Description: Dark gray, wispy and vaguely humanoid, these airborne automata possess excellent stealth and surveillance skills. They blend into shadows easily and best serve their masters as spies.
Attributes: Strength 1, Dexterity 5, Perception 4
Abilities: Athletics 4 (Jump +2), Awareness 5, Stealth 6
Charms:
Shared Experience Technique—At a cost of six motes, a smudge golem observes and records everything it sees for one whole scene, so that it might report what it sees and hears back to its master with exact detail. If it takes any other actions besides watching, the experience being recorded ends, though
everything up until that point may be shared with its summoner.
To report its experiences, the golem must return to the Exalt, at which point the weaver inhales the golem and downloads its data internally before exhaling the golem again. The recorded sensory data transfers as a miscellaneous action, and the Chosen learns what the golem has observed.
Unerring Location of the Master—This simple Charm allows the smudge golem to locate its master instantly as a miscellaneous action that costs two motes. Merely by concentrating, it knows in what direction the weaver lies and how far away.
Join Battle: 8
Attacks:
Punch: Speed 5, Accuracy 10, Damage 1B, Parry DV 6, Rate 3
Kick: Speed 5, Accuracy 9, Damage 4B, Parry DV 4, Rate 2
Clinch: Speed 6, Accuracy 9, Damage 1B, Parry DV —, Rate 1, Tags P
Soak: 6L/9B (Insubstantial body, 4L/4B)
Dodge DV: 6

Description: Large, broad shouldered and constructed of mirror-polished steel, these man-shaped golems have featureless faces and weigh around 400 pounds. They are often called upon to serve as laborers and soldiers.
Attributes: Strength 5, Dexterity 1, Stamina 6, Manipulation 3
Abilities: Athletics 5, Martial Arts 5 (Clinch +1), Presence 3 (Intimidation +2)
Charms:
Grinding Metal Shriek—The steel golem spends eight motes and rubs its arms together to produce a shrill, earsplitting screech that shatters the morale of any foe who hears it. The players of all enemies within 50 yards of the golem must make an immediate Valor check. If they fail, their characters are unable to do anything but tremble for a number of ticks equal to the number of the successes on a reflexive (Manipulation + Presence) roll made by the Storyteller.
Immovable Object Stance—For three motes, a steel golem can stand still, turning itself into an immobile hulk and increasing its weight and density disproportionate to its size. The Storyteller makes a (Stamina + Athletics) roll; each success increases the difficulty of a (Strength + Athletics) roll made to move the golem. While in the Immovable Object Stance, the golem can take no actions, except to revert to animate form. The golem also gains Hardness equal to the number of successes on the (Stamina +Athletics) roll. While using this Charm, the golem is considered an object. A steel golem can remain in statue form indefinitely, until it chooses to spend another three motes of Essence to return to its animate form.
Attacks:
Punch: Speed 5, Accuracy 7, Damage 5B, Parry DV 4, Rate 3
Kick: Speed 5, Accuracy 6, Damage 8B, Parry DV 2, Rate 2
Clinch: Speed 6, Accuracy 7, Damage 5B, Parry DV —, Rate 1, Tags P
Soak: 10L/10B (Steel body, 7L/4B)
Dodge DV: 4

Cost: 10m
Target: Alchemical Exalt
Minimum Clarity: 4
Ejecting an installed Charm with a loud, metallic click, a flash of light and a small blast of steam, this protocol allows the weaver to instantly replace one of his installed Charms with a Charm from his panoply (bypassing the need for downtime or visiting the vats) or to extend this benefit to another willing Alchemical. When the Alchemical sockets the new Charm into place, his body pulses with sequences of incandescent lights and hums softly as the Exalt’s systems power back up.
Orichalcum Beamklave - 4
Speed: 5, Accuracy +4, Damage +6L, Defense +3, Rate 4, Attune 3
Assault Crossbow - 2
Speed: 5, Accuracy +3, Damage +8L, Rate 1, Range 250

The amulet can generate any form of outfit the wearer can imagine, however grand or humble. Changing the setting requires contact and a diceless miscellaneous action. Repairing or cleaning a worn outfit takes the same action as creating a new one.
The Amulet provides an extra success to all Resistance or Survival rolls to reduce or avoid the effects of deleterious environmental conditions, toxins or disease.
In addition, each Amulet has one material-specific feature by default, and composite designs include multiple features.
Orichalcum: These amulets create clothes as constructs of light, giving them a palette of colors and textures worthy of a Solar's glory. As an Obvious effect, such raiment gives its wearer +4 Appearance and inhibits Stealth like a 8-10 mote anima banner does. The Solar may hide this glory, but the bonus is all or nothing.
Moonsilver: The wearer gets two bonus dice to Stealth rolls and two bonus dice to assume a disguise with Larceny, as well as adding +5L/+5B protection that does not count as armor for Charms.
Starmetal: Such garments conceal numerous pockets folded into Elsewhere, providing sufficient storage space to carry up to a ton of assorted items safely out of reach of the world, provided the objects could actually fit through a pocket opening no larger than a foot across. Only the attuned wearer can reach into Elsewhere via these pockets; to others, they are merely stitched folds.

A glowing verdant cube forms this core, which is the size of a man’s thumb. When the bearer spends a point of Willpower to activate the core, it bestows its own super-dense property upon her, granting (Essence x 2) stackable Hardness and lethal and bashing soak for the rest of the scene.
Health Levels
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-1 [ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]
-4 [ ]
I [ ]

Essence: 4
Personal: 22
Peripheral: 58 (48 - 10 Committed)
Willpower: 10

Join Battle: 5
Dodge DV: 6
Parry DV: 6

Dodge MDV: 8

Weapons and Armor
Orichalcum Beamklave - Speed: 5, Accuracy +4, Damage +6L, Defense +3, Rate 4, Attune 3
Infinite Resplendence Amulet - +5L/+5B
Shielding Block Elemental Core - +8L/+8B, +8 Hardness
Total Soak: 15L/16B +8 Hardness

Clinch: Speed 6, Accuracy +0, Damage 0B, Defense +0, Rate 1
Kick: Speed 5, Accuracy +0, Damage +3B, Defense -2, Rate 2
Punch: Speed 5, Accuracy +1, Damage 0B, Defense +2, Rate 3
Caste or Favored Attribute - current rating x 3
Charm Slot (General) - 6
Charm Slot (Dedicated) - 4
Charm Slot (upgrade) - 2
Charm - 6
Martial Arts Charm - 11
Man-Machine weaving protocol - 12
God-Machine weaving protocol - 14
Essence - rating x 9
Ability - rating x 2
Virtue - rating x 3
Willpower - rating x 2
New Ability - 3
Specialty - 3

Xp Earned: 8
Xp Banked: 2
Most Assurant of Three Assemblies spends her time working in the medical center with the head scientist on the revolutionary neural network, using her own Personality Override Spike to verify how well the subjects are adapting to the installation of the new technology.

WlfSamurai · Jan 17, 2019

Relentless Laborer of Sacred Unity

Caste: Jade
Concept: Defender of the Populat
Motivation: Defend Kamak and her Populat again all threats

Attributes
*Strength - 5
*Dexterity - 5
**Stamina - 5

**Charisma - 4
Manipulation - 3
Appearance - 2

*Perception - 3
Intelligence - 3
**Wits - 4

**Caste Attribute
*Favored Attribute

Abilities
Warfare
Archery
Athletics - 3
Awareness - 3
Dodge - 5
Integrity - 3
Martial Arts
Melee - 5
Resistance - 5
Thrown
War - 2

Labor
Craft
Larceny
Linguistics
Performance
Presence - 3
Ride
Sail
Socialize
Stealth
Survival - 1

Learning
Bureaucracy
Investigation 1
Lore
Medicine
Occult

Specialties
Melee - Swords 3
Dodge - Multiple Opponents 2
Backgrounds
Allies - 1
Artifact - 5 (15 points worth)
Class - 3
Contacts - 3
Familiar - 3 (Scrapper, big combat cat automata)

Essence - 4
Personal - 20
Peripheral - 50 (46, 4 committed)

Willpower - 8
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Virtues
Compassion - 2
Conviction - 2
Temperance - 2
Valor - 3

Health Levels
-0 [ ]
-1 [ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]
-4 [ ]
I [ ]

Join Battle: 7
Dodge DV: 7 (8 vs multiple opponents)
Parry DV: 7

Dodge MDV: 8
Parry MDV: 4

Hardness: 2B/1L
Soak: 8B/4L/0A

Jade Grand Beamklave:
Spd 4, Acc +1, Dmg +17L/4, Def 7, Rate 1, Tags: 2/O/R
Artifacts
Jade Grand Beamklave - 5
Spd 4, Acc +1, Dmg +12L/4, Def 0, Rate 1, Tags: 2/O/R

Essence Capacitor - 3

Light Amplification Visor - 2

Aerial Skiff (Battle-Ready) - 5
Experience Costs
Caste or Favored Attribute - current rating x 3
Charm Slot (General) - 6
Charm Slot (Dedicated) - 4
Charm Slot (Upgrade) - 2
Charm - 6
Martial Arts Charm - 11
Man-Machine weaving protocol - 12
God-Machine weaving protocol - 14
Essence - rating x 9
Ability - rating x 2
Virtue - rating x 3
Willpower - rating x 2
New Ability - 3
Specialty - 3

XP Earned: 8
XP Banked: 5

Bonus Points Log
3 Strength 5
10 Essence 4
3 Dedicated Charm Slot
3 Dedicated Charm Slot
1 Charm
1 Charm
6 Willpower 8
3 Dexterity 5

Experience Spending Log
3 New Ability - Investigation 1
Intimacies:

Background:
Relentless Laborer of Sacred Unity was built with the purpose of speaking for and protecting Kamak’s populate. She often can be found in the depths of the manufacturing bloc inspiring her people toward maximum output and effeciency. If there is a breach or Void attack, Unity will battle it with everything she has to protect her people.
Charms
Charm Slots: 6 Dedicated, 6 General

Combat Config
FIRST STRENGTH AUGMENTATION—ESSENCE OPTIMIZED
FIRST DEXTERITY AUGMENTATION—ESSENCE OPTIMIZED
FIRST STAMINA AUGMENTATION—ESSENCE OPTIMIZED
PISTON-DRIVEN MEGATON HAMMER
UNSTOPPABLE IMPULSE ENGINE
PERSONAL GRAVITY MANIPULATION APPARATUS
GYROSCOPIC STABILITY SYSTEM
PARABOLIC LEAP OVERCHARGER DEVICE
PLASMA THRUSTER ASSEMBLY
SUBCUTANEOUS ARMOR PLATING
LIGHT-ETCHED INTERCEPTOR BARRIER
ESSENCE SHIELD PROJECTOR
ALLOYED REINFORCEMENT OF FLESH
BODY-REWEAVING MATRIX

Uninstalled
SECOND CHARISMA AUGMENTATION—ESSENCE EFFICIENT
PATRIOTISM-PROVOKING DISPLAY
PERFECTED UNION PATTERNING
UNCONDITIONAL IMPERATIVE PROGRAMMING
INDUSTRIAL CHAMPION ICON

Social Engagement Config
FIRST STRENGTH AUGMENTATION—ESSENCE OPTIMIZED
FIRST DEXTERITY AUGMENTATION—ESSENCE OPTIMIZED
FIRST STAMINA AUGMENTATION—ESSENCE OPTIMIZED
SECOND CHARISMA AUGMENTATION—ESSENCE EFFICIENT
PISTON-DRIVEN MEGATON HAMMER
PERSONAL GRAVITY MANIPULATION APPARATUS
SUBCUTANEOUS ARMOR PLATING
LIGHT-ETCHED INTERCEPTOR BARRIER
ESSENCE SHIELD PROJECTOR
ALLOYED REINFORCEMENT OF FLESH
PATRIOTISM-PROVOKING DISPLAY
PERFECTED UNION PATTERNING
UNCONDITIONAL IMPERATIVE PROGRAMMING
INDUSTRIAL CHAMPION ICON

Uninstalled
PLASMA THRUSTER ASSEMBLY
UNSTOPPABLE IMPULSE ENGINE
PARABOLIC LEAP OVERCHARGER DEVICE
GYROSCOPIC STABILITY SYSTEM
BODY-REWEAVING MATRIX

Charm Descriptions

FIRST (ATTRIBUTE) AUGMENTATION—ESSENCE OPTIMIZED
Cost: 1m per die [1m]; Mins: (Attribute) 1, Essence 1;
Type: Reflexive (Step 1 and 2)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

In moments of critical necessity, intrinsic competence can receive exponential augmentation. This Charm may be purchased once for each of the nine Attributes, allowing motes to add dice to any Attribute-based action like the First Excel-lency of the Solar Exalted (see Exalted, p. 183). This Charm and other Attribute Augmentations are Excellencies with another name. The term Excellency was not coined until after Autochthon fashioned the Alchemical blueprints, however, so Champions still use his original nomenclature.

SECOND (ATTRIBUTE) AUGMENTATION—ESSENCE EFFICIENT
Cost: 2m per success [1m]; Mins: (Attribute) 1, Essence 1;
Type: Reflexive (Step 1 and 2)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

Some circumstances demand maximized effort. Most require the steadier hand of calculated competence. This Charm may be purchased once per Attribute and adds bonus successes to a roll or directly adds to a static rating using that Attribute.

PISTON-DRIVEN MEGATON HAMMER
Cost: 3m [1m]; Mins: Strength 2, Essence 2;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Any Strength Augmentation

This Charm takes the form of a soulsteel-capped piston ringed with Essence injection vents in one of the Alchemical’s limbs. Upon making a close combat attack with the selected limb, the piston may be triggered with a terrible whistling shriek of steam and an explosive bang. Successes on the supplemented attack roll are counted twice for the purpose of determining raw damage, or three times if attacking unarmed.

UNSTOPPABLE IMPULSE ENGINE
Cost: 4m [2m]; Mins: Strength 5, Essence 4;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Piston-Driven Megaton Hammer

The bones of the Alchemical’s arm or leg are replaced with a mass driver assembly housed around its prerequisite Charm. When used to fire the piston, this Charm produces a sonic boom and tremendous venting of Essence around the attacking limb, making the attack unblockable. This Charm can enhance any close combat attack, any Thrown attack hurling a solid projectile (which also triples the attack’s range) or any solid projectile Archery attack provided by another Alchemical Charm.

PERSONAL GRAVITY MANIPULATION APPARATUS
Cost: 4m [1m]; Mins: Strength 2, Essence 2;
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK, Stackable
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None

This Charm is housed as a set of reinforcing components and Essence capacitors in the lower legs. When activated, the device allows the Alchemical to twist gravity’s pull in one of two ways. Each mode of the Charm must be activated separately if the two are to function concurrently.

This Charm is housed as a set of reinforcing components and Essence capacitors in the lower legs. When activated, the device allows the Alchemical to twist gravity’s pull in one of two ways. Each mode of the Charm must be activated separately if the two are to function concurrently.

This Charm is housed as a set of reinforcing components and Essence capacitors in the lower legs. When activated, the device allows the Alchemical to twist gravity’s pull in one of two ways. Each mode of the Charm must be activated separately if the two are to function concurrently.

GYROSCOPIC STABILITY SYSTEM
Cost: 2m; Mins: Dexterity 3, Essence 2;
Type: Reflexive (Step 2)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Internal
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Personal Gravity Manipulation Apparatus

This Charm takes the form of a complex micro-assembly of white jade and moonsilver in the Exalt’s inner ear. When activated, the Alchemical enjoys perfect balance and au-tomatically succeeds on all balance-related (Dexterity + Athletics) actions.

PARABOLIC LEAP OVERCHARGER DEVICE
Cost: 3m; Mins: Strength 3, Essence 2;
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Personal Gravity Manipulation Apparatus

Expanding the function and design of the Personal Grav-ity Manipulation Apparatus with components behind each knee, the Alchemical gains the ability to perform gravity-defying leaps, her anima erupting in brilliant contrails from the base of her feet to color the air behind her. It is identical to Monkey Leap Technique (see Exalted, p. 223), save that the character must still use a standard Jump action to leap about. If the secondary mode of this Charm’s prerequisite is active, she triples her jumping distance instead.

PLASMA THRUSTER ASSEMBLY
Cost: Varies [1m]; Mins: Strength 4, Essence 3;
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: Instant or one hour
Prerequisite Charms: Parabolic Leap Overcharger Device

The Exalt has a pair of heavily shielded nozzles mounted in the soles of his feet or in a retractable mechanism on his back. Regardless of their placement, the Charm has the same effect, propelling the Alchemical through the air at great speed on jets of glowing force. The Champion can carry up to one passenger of approximately the same size as himself, or an equivalent amount of cargo.

The Exalt can accelerate in a straight line, moving (Es-sence x 50) yards in a single burst once per action. Doing so normally costs two motes. If the Exalt uses this burst on an action tick to close the distance to an enemy and strike her with a close combat attack for added force, the cost increases to four motes and one Willpower and doubles the raw damage of that attack. In conjunction with a flurry, only the first attack may be enhanced this way. The character may also use the burst to fly a grappled enemy and slam her into a solid barrier for four motes and one Willpower, doubling the raw damage of a crush attack. As a defense, enemies can always get in a strike before the Exalt can take off, or even a flurry of attacks. Yet, each attack after the first in a flurry suffers a -2 external penalty from the Alchemical pulling away and thereby lessening the impact.

Alternatively, the Charm allows for long-distance travel, costing 10 motes per hour of flight, or five motes if the Alchemical has some version of the Wings mutation installed to help keep him aloft. The Exalt travels at (Essence x 20) miles per hour, and any fine maneuvering requires a reflexive (Dexterity + Athletics) roll with a difficulty of 1–5 as set by the Storyteller for the type of maneuver and environmental conditions. Combat or other highly distracting physical activity aborts this travel mode and deactivates the Charm.

Everyone within one yard directly behind or beneath the Alchemical when he engages any mode of this Charm suffers automatic knockdown unless the character has a Dodge DV of 5+. Launching straight up affects everyone around the launch point.

SUBCUTANEOUS ARMOR PLATING
Cost: — [1m or 0m]; Mins: Stamina 3, Essence 2;
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Stackable
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Any Stamina Augmentation

This Charm has two configurations, one of which must be selected at the time of purchase. In its Exoskeletal configura-tion, a metallic carapace is riveted onto the Alchemical’s flesh. It provides +3L/4B soak and +2L/3B Hardness per installation, and is considered armor. This exoskeleton is Obvious, and while artifact armor may always be worn over it for cumulative benefit, mundane protective gear must be specially tailored to accommodate the Exalt. In its Subcutaneous configuration, it takes the form of a fully articulated mesh of dense subdermal plates and is Internal. This mode provides +2L/3B soak and +1L/2B Hardness per installation, and is considered natural soak. Regardless of configuration, Alchemicals may harbor a number of simultaneous installations equal to their Essence and may mix-and-match armor types within this total limit. The first two cost one mote to install, but subsequent instal-lations require no commitment.

Essence 6+ Alchemicals may support heavier layers of armor and no longer require commitment for the first two installations, adding +3L/4B soak and +2L/3B Hardness per Subcutaneous installation or +4L/5B soak and +3L/4B Hardness per Exoskeletal installation.

LIGHT-ETCHED INTERCEPTOR BARRIER
Cost: 4m; Mins: Dexterity 3, Essence 2;
Type: Reflexive (Step 2)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Subcutaneous/Exoskeletal Armor Plating

This Charm’s outer appearance depends on the pre-requisite upon which it builds. When attached to external plating, it takes the form of a bulky gauntlet around one of the Alchemical’s wrists. For internal assemblies, a spiral pattern appears to have been seared into the back of the Exalt’s arm, centering on an orichalcum nodule. In either case, the Charm hums and crackles upon activation, pro-jecting a shaped potentiality field that appears as a slender wedge of radiance. When presented with an incoming hazard, this field telescopes open into a shield etched from solid light that provides a +3 DV cover bonus against all attacks without any associated fatigue or mobility penal-ties. Unexpected attacks bypass this protection. The active shield disrupts stealth like an anima banner at the eight- to 10-mote level.

ESSENCE SHIELD PROJECTOR
Cost: 5m [3m]; Mins: Stamina 4, Essence 3;
Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Any Stamina Augmentation

When charged with Essence, crystal lattices em-bedded in the Alchemical’s skin sculpt her anima into an impenetrable barrier. This luminous force field obviates stealth at the level of an eight- to 10-mote banner display.

This mobile barrier adjusts itself to the Alchemical’s movements, imposing no penalty on any of her actions. It offers an ongoing protection of 20B/15L/10A Hardness, de-flecting all but the mightiest attacks in crackling discharges of Essence. Yet, the first time an attack manages to overwhelm the barrier’s Hardness, the Charm involuntarily deactivates itself and can’t be reactivated until the Alchemical spends an hour recalibrating his lattice arrays as a diceless dramatic action. This overload occurs only if the barrier is defeated by raw damage, not if a Charm causes an attack to ignore Hard-ness or by any other such means. The attack that destroys the barrier has its damage completely absorbed.

ALLOYED REINFORCEMENT OF FLESH
Cost: —; Mins: Stamina 5, Essence 2;
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Internal, Obvious
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Any Stamina Augmentation

The Champion’s bones are plated in a magical material appropriate to his caste, with reinforcing wires and struts added to connect all of his major organs and muscle systems. The first time during a scene when the Alchemical suffers sufficient damage to reduce him to Incapacitated or below, this emergency reinforcement system makes it so that he is only reduced to (or remains at) his last -4 health level instead. As it takes time for the system to recalibrate itself after suf-fering such a violent shock, any further damage within the scene incapacitates the Exalt as normal.

BODY-REWEAVING MATRIX
Cost: 12m, 1wp [1m]; Mins: Stamina 5, Essence 3;
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK, Internal, Obvious
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Alloyed Reinforcement of Flesh

Hidden compartments scattered across the Alchemi-cal’s body hide colonies of thumbnail-sized automata shaped roughly like metallic spiders. When these bays are opened and fed a charge of Essence, the colonies awaken. Hundreds or even thousands of tiny machines swarm out across the Exalt’s body, clustering around any wounds they find. The automata work quickly and tirelessly, spinning strands of unformed Essence that congeal into new matter. Where the spiders pass, they leave flesh and Charms restored to pristine condition.

While this Charm is active, the Exalt heals two levels of bashing damage per action tick. Once all bashing damage is mended, he regenerates a level of lethal damage each action tick instead. Amputated or destroyed limbs and organs may be reconstructed with this Charm, although doing so takes an hour per Crippling effect removed and prevents standard regeneration during this time. Amputated Charms and limbs disintegrate as the Body-Reweaving Matrix replaces them. This Charm may be activated while unconscious or otherwise inactive.

PATRIOTISM-PROVOKING DISPLAY
Cost: 6m [1m]; Mins: Charisma 3, Essence 2;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Compulsion, Internal, Obvious, Social
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Any Charisma Augmentation

Luminescent artificial glands are implanted beneath the Alchemical’s skin. When this Charm is used to supplement a social attack, the glands divert a trickle of power from his anima to transform the way light and shadow play across his body, producing deep shadows and bright planes. He looks both inspiring and intimidating, like a commemorative statue or propaganda poster. Few are able to resist the dictates of such a starkly heroic figure.

This Charm can enhance any social attack intended to convince a single target to take some action to support a social group to which he or the Alchemical belongs. Resisting this influence costs two Willpower, though the attack can be natural or unnatural depending on the intended force of the Champion’s words. If the Exalt channels Conviction to aid the attack, add his rating as bonus successes rather than dice.

PERFECTED UNION PATTERNING
Cost: 5m [1m]; Mins: Charisma 3, Essence 2;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Emotion, Social, Variable
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Any Charisma or Manipulation Augmentation

Bands of the Champion’s magical material are in-jected into the skin of her face, forming hypnotic patterns reminiscent of war paint. When suffused with Essence, the patterns reinforce attempts at forging unity. This Charm may supplement any social attack based on an Attribute for which the Exalt has an installed Augmen-tation, provided he attempts to convince one or more targets to favorably regard a social group separate from but roughly equivalent to a social group to which the targets belong. The attack can use Presence if only one target is present, but it must use Performance otherwise. If using Performance, only targets who are members of an equivalent group are affected by the Charm’s power, though other witnesses could still be moved by the unmodified social attack. Those affected by the Charm feel as directed until they pay three Willpower to shake off the unnatural Emotion effect (or one Willpower if the selected social group has taken actions that directly damage their artificial reputation).

For example, the members of one work shift might be convinced to like members of a separate work shift, or citizens of one nation might become well inclined toward citizens of another nation. Non-equivalent groups are not valid targets, though. This Charm could not help convince a factory full of Populat workers to support their local Tripartite Assembly, for instance.

UNCONDITIONAL IMPERATIVE PROGRAMMING
Cost: 5m [1m]; Mins: Charisma 4, Essence 4;
Type: Reflexive (Step 1)
Keywords: Axiomatic, Combo-OK, Internal, Social, Variable
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Any Social Attribute Augmentation

A coating of red jade in the Alchemical’s throat infuses his words with Essence-driven psychological intensity, drill-ing them into the minds of listeners. Any speech-based mental influence supplemented by this Charm becomes unnatural and benefits from bonus successes rather than dice from any Valor channel applied to it. Unconditional Imperative Programming may be used only if the Exalt has an Augmentation installed for the Attribute used in the roll. Creatures of the Void treat social attacks enhanced by this Charm as undodgeable.

INDUSTRIAL CHAMPION ICON
Cost: —(4m) [1m]; Mins: Charisma 5, Essence 4;
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Axiomatic, Exemplar 1
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Unconditional Imperative Programming

A rosette pattern of the magical materials surrounds the Exalt’s soulgem, signifying her identity as an ordained Cham-pion of faith and hierarchy, elevated above the forces of chaos and entropy. As long as this Charm is installed, all social at-tacks directed against creatures of the Void cost an additional Willpower to resist (to a maximum of five Willpower). The Exalt may also spend four motes in Step Two of combat resolu-tion to perfectly dodge any mental influence that would make him act against the dictates of Clarity, whether to be more human or outright blasphemous to the Great Maker’s Design. Use of this defense does not count as a Charm activation, but the Storyteller decides whether it is applicable.

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Name: Excessively Agreeable Aren
Caste: Starmetal

Attributes
Strength: 3
*Dexterity: 7
Stamina: 2

**Charisma: 6
*Manipulation: 5
**Appearance: 3

Perception: 3
*Intelligence: 3
**Wits: 4

*Caste Attribute
**Favored Attribute

Abilities
Warfare
Archery
Athletics: 3
Awareness: 3
Dodge: 5
Integrity: 2
Martial Arts: 5
Melee
Resistance: 2
Thrown
War

Labor
Craft
Larceny: 1
Linguistics: 1
Performance: 3
Presence: 4
Ride
Sail: 2
Socialize: 4
Stealth: 2
Survival: 1

Learning
Bureaucracy: 3
Investigation: 3
Lore: 2
Medicine
Occult

Specialties
Dodge - Ranged Attacks: 3
Martial Arts - Thrown Weapons: 3
Artifact: 5 - 15 points of Items
Starmetal Gyroscopic Chakram: 3
Transformative Armor: 2
Wings of the Raptor: 4
Perfected Kata Bracers: 4
Core of the Lawgiver's Authority: 2
Contacts: 5
Familiar: 3
Followers: 2 - 20 man spy network

Virtues
Willpower: 10
Compassion: 2
Conviction: 3
Temperance: 3
Valor: 2

Essence: 4
Personal: 22
Peripheral: 58 (40 - 18 Committed)

Anima Effect: By reflexively spending five motes, a Plot Weaver can align his soul and Essence with the Design of the Great Maker. His player adds (Essence ÷ 2) to all attack, damage and Join Battle rolls for the scene. During this time, a prismatic halo of colors trails slightly ahead of the Alchemical as a sort of reverse afterimage, highlighting the auspicious movements he will take. Those who behold the halo perceive the dim hand of inevitability, but it avails them nothing. Only in painful retrospect do targets understand what they saw. It activates automatically at no cost whenever the Alchemical’s anima reaches the 11+ level of display.
Cost: 1m per die [1m]; Mins: (Attribute) 1, Essence 1;
Type: Reflexive (Step 1 and 2)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
In moments of critical necessity, intrinsic competence can receive exponential augmentation. This Charm may be purchased once for each of the nine Attributes, allowing motes to add dice to any Attribute-based action like the First Excellency of the Solar Exalted (see Exalted, p. 183). This Charm and other Attribute Augmentations are Excellencies with another name. The term Excellency was not coined until after Autochthon fashioned the Alchemical blueprints, however,
so Champions still use his original nomenclature.

Cost: — [1m, first only]; Mins: (Attribute) 1, Essence 1;
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Obvious, Stackable
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
For areas of endeavor integral to an Alchemical’s designated legend, temporary boosting via mote expenditure is too inefficient. This Charm may purchased for any of the Alchemical’s Attributes and may be installed up to (Essence ÷ 2, rounded up) times per Attribute, though the Exalt need commit Personal Essence to only the first installation. Each installation increases the maximum value that the Exalt can have for the Attribute in question and provides one additional dot of that trait. Attribute dots supplied by this Charm do not count toward the experience cost to raise the Attribute, but count as natural dots for all other purposes,
including raising the cap for other Attribute Augmentations.
The enhancements provided by this Charm are Obvious at all times; the glittering web of electromorphic filaments tracing the head of an Alchemical with boosted Intelligence are every bit as distinctive as the pneumatic musculature of an Exalt with improved Strength.

Cost: 1m per die [1m]; Mins: (Attribute) 1, Essence 1;
Type: Reflexive (Step 1 and 2)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
In moments of critical necessity, intrinsic competence can receive exponential augmentation. This Charm may be purchased once for each of the nine Attributes, allowing motes to add dice to any Attribute-based action like the First Excellency of the Solar Exalted (see Exalted, p. 183). This Charm and other Attribute Augmentations are Excellencies with another name. The term Excellency was not coined until after Autochthon fashioned the Alchemical blueprints, however,
so Champions still use his original nomenclature.

Cost: — [1m, first only]; Mins: (Attribute) 1, Essence 1;
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Obvious, Stackable
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
For areas of endeavor integral to an Alchemical’s designated legend, temporary boosting via mote expenditure is too inefficient. This Charm may purchased for any of the Alchemical’s Attributes and may be installed up to (Essence ÷ 2, rounded up) times per Attribute, though the Exalt need commit Personal Essence to only the first installation. Each installation increases the maximum value that the Exalt can have for the Attribute in question and provides one additional dot of that trait. Attribute dots supplied by this Charm do not count toward the experience cost to raise the Attribute, but count as natural dots for all other purposes,
including raising the cap for other Attribute Augmentations.
The enhancements provided by this Charm are Obvious at all times; the glittering web of electromorphic filaments tracing the head of an Alchemical with boosted Intelligence are every bit as distinctive as the pneumatic musculature of an Exalt with improved Strength.

Cost: — [2m]; Mins: Perception 2, Essence 2;
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
This Charm fits into a circular port at the base of the Alchemical’s skull, with 10 memory crystals housed in a wheel at its edges, each painstakingly cut to contain one thousand facets. The device enables the Champion to learn, invent and use martial arts Charms by physically housing an infinite capacity library of martial techniques and transcendent epiphanies. Like a Weaving Engine, this Charm may not be placed in an Array and can’t be removed.

Cost: 5m [1m]; Mins: Appearance 1, Essence 2;
Type: Simple (Speed 3)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Internal
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: None
As a complex system of artificial flesh patches and other mechanisms, this Charm betrays no outward signs of its presence. It is designed to physically conceal non-Internal Alchemical Charms, giving as many of them as desired the Internal keyword for the duration of the effect. Affected devices retract and compress under the Exalt’s skin through compartment panels, while her claylike flesh morphs and spreads to cover the area they previously occupied. As usual, Obvious Internal Charms reveals themselves for the duration of use, though only to the degree that is necessary to perform the Obvious function. To change which Charms are hidden, the Charm must be reflexively deactivated and then reactivated normally.
As a final benefit, if all of the Alchemical’s Charms have the Internal keyword (whether naturally or from use of this Charm) and she is human-sized, she may weight of hidden Charms so that her heavy tread does not betray her nature. In toto, the changes allow her to pass as mortal. An Exalt disguised this way may even retract or modify the appearance of her soulgem as a reflexive action.
Submodules:
Loom Server Migration (Essence 3, 2xp): If the Alchemical activates the Charm in Creation or another realm of existence governed by the Loom of Fate, this Axiomatic submodule can send an autonomic prayer to the pattern spiders to indicate that he, a fellow servant of Autochthon, wishes orderly integration. The machine spirits then spin tattered strands from the broken constellation of the Mask around the Champion, bringing him fully into fate with an innocuous and unremarkable destiny for as long as the Charm remains active. He returns to the Design of Autochthon upon conclusion.
[NB: This submodule will not exist until Alchemicals encounter Creation and discover the horrifying fact that their unregistered presence disrupts the local weave, indirectly (and unintentionally) strengthening the Void.]
Essence-Muting Baffles (Essence 3, 4xp): While the Charm is active, all Internal Charms the Exalt has are invisible to Essence sight and other means of supernatural detection unless they are active and Obvious. If no Charms are eligible for detection this way, the Alchemical may choose to cloak the fact that she is an Essence user, in which case she seems to have Essence 1. Toggling the Essence cloak on and off is a reflexive action, but the cloak drops automatically and can’t be maintained while her anima banner is flaring at all or is revealed by Obvious Charm use. If an opposing Charm seeks to penetrate an active Essence cloak, add the Exalt’s Appearance rating as bonus dice to the roll-off.
Deep Cover Mode (Appearance 5, Essence 4, 3xp): The Charm’s activation cost decreases to two motes.

Cost: 6m, 1wp [2m]; Mins: Appearance 3, Essence 2;
Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK, Internal, Obvious
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Integrated Artifact Transmogrifier
This Charm takes the form of hundreds of tiny wire hooks linking pistons to key points under the Exalt’s skin, as well as a bank of Essence-fueled pigment injectors. Upon activation, the Alchemical recalibrates his physical appearance as an extremely rapid disguise action, substituting Appearance for Intelligence without the need for props or prior study of the target beyond a moment’s observation. For its duration, the Charm changes the Champion’s body instead of merely hiding its true appearance, allowing instant alterations to sex (including hermaphroditic or asexual, the latter of which provides a +3 MDV bonus against all seduction-based mental influence), overall physique, build, race, voice modulation and pigmentation (including introducing inhuman hues and adding or removing tattoos and scars).
The Exalt cannot modify his new body’s final height or weight by more than 10 percent of its unmodified measurements. Virtually any body that a human being could have is fair game for the Charm, even body types that are crippled, deformed, unhealthy or otherwise damaged. Disguising oneself as a character with a lower or higher Appearance rating does not adjust the operation or effectiveness of Charms based on that Attribute, though it affects reactions normally (such as social combat modifiers). Use of this Charm’s prerequisite is still necessary to avoid having visibly implanted Charms spoil the disguise. Generally speaking, the changes wrought by the Charm result in a difficulty 1 for the disguise roll or 2 if attempting to copy a specific person.
The effectiveness of a disguise created by Husk-Sculpting Apparatus is based on the threshold generated by the roll as normal, but the Charm is imperfect. Witnesses with a (Perception + Awareness) total of 11+ or who have any superhumanly acute senses automatically recognize him as an imposter upon encountering him without need for a roll or suspicion. Although many animals have superhuman senses, few are intelligent enough or well trained enough to care about a disguise when determining how they react. The Charm is even weaker against Essence sight or comparable Charms, as witnesses with such powers
automatically perceive the Alchemical’s true form overlaid on the disguise. Of course, failure to use Integrated Artifact Transmogrifier to hide all Charms when disguised as anything other than another Alchemical also spoils the ruse. Once the Charm deactivates, the Alchemical’s body resets to its true form.
Submodules:
Self-Sculpt (3xp): The Alchemical can pay four extra Willpower when activating the Charm to disguise himself as himself, save for whatever modifications he wishes to apply. He can, for example, become himself but female or himself but skinnier, yet he cannot use that activation of the Charm to assist in impersonating someone else. As soon as the work is complete, the Charm deactivates and leaves behind the desired changes as permanent modifications to the character’s body. The original unmodified shape of the character’s body remains only as a notional concept to determine the validity of possible changes. As these changes are real, they do not alert appropriate senses that a disguise is being used, and they remain even if the Charm is uninstalled.
Identity Distortion Mirage (Appearance 4, Essence 3, 3xp): Moonsilver microtech pigmentation further refines the visual details of the Exalt’s disguise, preventing superhumanly acute vision from automatically piercing it. Mere sensory excellence is also not sufficient, so the static rating to recognize the Champion as an imposter similarly does not apply.
Vocal Modulator Field (Appearance 4, Essence 3, 5xp): A chrome rivet in the Exalt’s throat with wires threaded through his voice box allows him to mimic any types of sounds he has heard before. While the Charm is active, his vocal precision blocks superhumanly acute hearing from automatically piercing its disguise. In addition, he can speak in the voice of anyone he has heard talk, replicate animal, machine or other inhuman noises, replay an eidetic auditory memory of any scene and perform other such feats of sonic puissance. With Essence 4+, he can issue booming vocal utterances like grinding metal that can be heard for a mile
and deafen all mortals within (Appearance x 10) yards. Deafness induced this way wears off an hour after the listener last heard the sound.
Essence-Warping Anatomy (Appearance 5, Essence 4, 3xp): The Charm can no longer be automatically bypassed with Essence sight or comparable effects. It also provides three bonus dice for any roll-off against such Charms discerning its use or bypassing its function.
Biochemical Synthesizers (Appearance 5, Essence 4, 4xp): Artificial distillation micropumps provide pheromones and other natural scents, blocking superhumanly acute smell or taste from automatically piercing the disguise. The character can instead choose to exude a pungent biochemical irritant, imposing a -1 internal penalty to all mortals and natural animals with a sense of smell within (Appearance) yards as an Obvious Poison effect.
Metamorphic Physiology (Appearance 7, Essence 4, 3xp): While Husk-Sculpting Apparatus is active, the character may continue to shift his body by reflexively paying an uncommitted cost of two motes per change, causing him to morph as though he had reactivated the Charm. These changes do not actually count as a Charm activation.

Cost: 6m [1m]; Mins: Charisma 3, Essence 2;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Compulsion, Internal, Obvious, Social
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Any Charisma Augmentation
Luminescent artificial glands are implanted beneath the Alchemical’s skin. When this Charm is used to supplement a social attack, the glands divert a trickle of power from his anima to transform the way light and shadow play across his body, producing deep shadows and bright planes. He looks
both inspiring and intimidating, like a commemorative statue or propaganda poster. Few are able to resist the dictates of such a starkly heroic figure.
This Charm can enhance any social attack intended to convince a single target to take some action to support a social group to which he or the Alchemical belongs. Resisting this influence costs two Willpower, though the attack can be natural or unnatural depending on the intended force of the Champion’s words. If the Exalt channels Conviction to aid the attack, add his rating as bonus successes rather than dice.
Submodules:
Many Is One Node (Charisma 4, 4xp): The Alchemical can apply this Charm to social attacks directed at groups or all listening (using Performance) as readily as it applies to individual targets, but the activation cost increases by three motes and one Willpower.
One Is Many Node (Charisma 4, 4xp): This submodule broadens the Charm to allow favorable action directed at a specific member of a valid social unit, rather than toward the unit as a whole.

Cost: 12m, 1wp [1m]; Mins: Charisma 5, Essence 3;
Type: Simple (Speed 5 in long ticks)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious, Servitude, Social
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Any Charisma Augmentation
This Charm takes the form of a delicate half torc anchored by a rivet in the throat. The Champion makes a social attack against a single target within one yard using ([Charisma or Manipulation] + Presence), in which he extols the virtues of his Motivation. Any Virtue channel applied to this attack adds successes instead of dice. If the attack succeeds, the target’s Motivation is temporarily suppressed and replaced by the Alchemical’s own Motivation.
Immediately and at any point thereafter, the target may pay four Willpower to reassert her own values. (This cost can be paid in installments.) Alternatively, the target can change his own Motivation to accept the imposed purpose as a true change. Not only does this change not cost experience, but the sense of renewed purpose restores all spent Willpower the first time this happens in a scene. Slight changes in the wording of a Motivation are permitted where logical—such as an Alchemical with a Motivation of “Be the greatest weapons inventor in history” imposing “Help [Alchemical Name] be the greatest weapon inventor in history.”
Submodules:
Noetic Signal Booster (Essence 4): The Charm may be used at standard speaking range for a social attack. A second installation of this submodule at Essence 6 allows it to be used in conjunction with a Performance based attack, but an area effect use wears off on its own after a day, even if unresisted.
Design Respinning Upgrade (Essence 5): Any extra who permanently accepts an imposed Motivation becomes a heroic character.

Cost: 4m [1m]; Mins: Manipulation 3, Essence 2;
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK, Emotion, Internal, Social
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Any Manipulation Augmentation
A set of micro-pumps and artificial glands implanted beneath the Exalt’s skin allow her to synthesize and exude psychoactive biochemical fragrances that accentuate particular emotions. Any social attack the Alchemical makes against a target within (Appearance x 10) yards that is intended to
induce a particular emotion or take advantage of the target’s emotional state by inducing appropriate behavior costs an additional Willpower to resist. Such attacks are also unnatural mental influence against mortals. Examples include inducing lust and then seducing the target, or inducing rage and
inciting violence. For the base effects of instilling a feeling, see the accompanying sidebar. Characters with this Charm installed are immune to all uses of it and treat activations as Obvious to their senses while in range of the chemicals. Alternatively, the Alchemical may use this Charm to mask her own scent entirely. Doing so causes mundane attempts to track the Alchemical via scent to automatically fail and adds bonus dice equal to the character’s Essence to the roll-off against contesting magic that depends on the Alchemical’s scent.
Submodules:
Instinctual Aversion Formula (4xp): As desired, the Alchemical may exude chemical repellants. Natural animals in range experience a subliminal unnatural Compulsion to leave the radius of effect and not return for the rest of the scene unless they pay one Willpower to remain. Such beings
will not generally resist without a very good instinct-driven reason, such as to protect their offspring or mates. Mortals are less affected, suffering a one-die internal penalty to all non-reflexive actions if they don’t resist.
Biochemical Lozenge Machine (Essence 3): The Exalt can distill a specific emotion into a single gelatinous pill as an alternative to normal activation. This pill emerges from a port just below the Exalt’s stomach and retains its potency for one month. Anyone who consumes the capsule gets the
benefit of the Charm as though she activated it but can only apply the one emotion. Alternatively, the Exalt can create a pill that makes the consumer vulnerable to all social attacks using the specific emotion as though in range of the Charm for the rest of the scene. These Poison effect pills cannot
be tasted or smelled by human-range senses when dissolved into beverages. Doses do not stack in either case, and both types of pills are worth Resources ••• apiece.

Cost: —(2m); Mins: Manipulation 2, Essence 2;
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Illusion, Internal
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Any Social Attribute Augmentation
This Charm takes the form of a series of Essence-draining soulsteel coils linking the Exalt’s Essence reservoir and her throat, interspersed with red jade filtration baffles. While this device is installed, the Alchemical may pay an extra two-mote surcharge when invoking any Social Attribute Augmentation or Social-keyword Charm to make it non-Obvious to mortal witnesses and prevent any Essence spent on it from adding to her anima banner display. Essence users see through the illusion and recognize Obvious Charms as such. Mortals expressly cannot pay Willpower to overcome this perfect illusion. The Storyteller should allow these benefits to apply to any purely social effects from Charms that are not listed as Social.

Cost: —; Mins: Appearance 2, Essence 3;
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Obvious
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Any Social Attribute Augmentation
Orichalcum field emitter studs curve across the Alchemical’s ribs and back, wired directly to her Essence reservoir. This Charm is identical to Phantom-Conjuring Performance (see Exalted, p. 202), save that it may enhance uses of any Social Attribute Augmentation.
Submodules:
Chromatic Lies (Manipulation 3, 3xp): No stunt is necessary to use phantasms for deception purposes, but the Illusion effect has no physical substance and cannot exert any force (as normal). Witnesses presented with definitive proof that the illusions are false or who either spend one Willpower for a day or have a Dodge MDV higher than the Alchemical’s (Manipulation + Performance) recognize the phantasms as such, though they still perceive them. Those fooled act accordingly. Intrinsic Evocation System (Essence 4, 1xp): The radius of effect extends to 100 yards, and phantasms may be invoked at will without accompanying use of an Augmentation.

Unused Charms
Personal Gravity Manipulation Apparatus
The Circle Screams
Gear Catches Gear Defense
Thousand Wounds Gear Form
Flesh Rending Gear Technique
Cost: 1m per die [1m]; Mins: (Attribute) 1, Essence 1;
Type: Reflexive (Step 1 and 2)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
In moments of critical necessity, intrinsic competence can receive exponential augmentation. This Charm may be purchased once for each of the nine Attributes, allowing motes to add dice to any Attribute-based action like the First Excellency of the Solar Exalted (see Exalted, p. 183). This Charm and other Attribute Augmentations are Excellencies with another name. The term Excellency was not coined until after Autochthon fashioned the Alchemical blueprints, however,
so Champions still use his original nomenclature.

Cost: — [1m, first only]; Mins: (Attribute) 1, Essence 1;
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Obvious, Stackable
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
For areas of endeavor integral to an Alchemical’s designated legend, temporary boosting via mote expenditure is too inefficient. This Charm may purchased for any of the Alchemical’s Attributes and may be installed up to (Essence ÷ 2, rounded up) times per Attribute, though the Exalt need commit Personal Essence to only the first installation. Each installation increases the maximum value that the Exalt can have for the Attribute in question and provides one additional dot of that trait. Attribute dots supplied by this Charm do not count toward the experience cost to raise the Attribute, but count as natural dots for all other purposes,
including raising the cap for other Attribute Augmentations.
The enhancements provided by this Charm are Obvious at all times; the glittering web of electromorphic filaments tracing the head of an Alchemical with boosted Intelligence are every bit as distinctive as the pneumatic musculature of an Exalt with improved Strength.

Cost: 1m per die [1m]; Mins: (Attribute) 1, Essence 1;
Type: Reflexive (Step 1 and 2)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
In moments of critical necessity, intrinsic competence can receive exponential augmentation. This Charm may be purchased once for each of the nine Attributes, allowing motes to add dice to any Attribute-based action like the First Excellency of the Solar Exalted (see Exalted, p. 183). This Charm and other Attribute Augmentations are Excellencies with another name. The term Excellency was not coined until after Autochthon fashioned the Alchemical blueprints, however,
so Champions still use his original nomenclature.

Cost: — [1m, first only]; Mins: (Attribute) 1, Essence 1;
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Obvious, Stackable
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
For areas of endeavor integral to an Alchemical’s designated legend, temporary boosting via mote expenditure is too inefficient. This Charm may purchased for any of the Alchemical’s Attributes and may be installed up to (Essence ÷ 2, rounded up) times per Attribute, though the Exalt need commit Personal Essence to only the first installation. Each installation increases the maximum value that the Exalt can have for the Attribute in question and provides one additional dot of that trait. Attribute dots supplied by this Charm do not count toward the experience cost to raise the Attribute, but count as natural dots for all other purposes,
including raising the cap for other Attribute Augmentations.
The enhancements provided by this Charm are Obvious at all times; the glittering web of electromorphic filaments tracing the head of an Alchemical with boosted Intelligence are every bit as distinctive as the pneumatic musculature of an Exalt with improved Strength.

Cost: — [2m]; Mins: Perception 2, Essence 2;
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
This Charm fits into a circular port at the base of the Alchemical’s skull, with 10 memory crystals housed in a wheel at its edges, each painstakingly cut to contain one thousand facets. The device enables the Champion to learn, invent and use martial arts Charms by physically housing an infinite capacity library of martial techniques and transcendent epiphanies. Like a Weaving Engine, this Charm may not be placed in an Array and can’t be removed.

Cost: 5m [1m]; Mins: Appearance 1, Essence 2;
Type: Simple (Speed 3)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Internal
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: None
As a complex system of artificial flesh patches and other mechanisms, this Charm betrays no outward signs of its presence. It is designed to physically conceal non-Internal Alchemical Charms, giving as many of them as desired the Internal keyword for the duration of the effect. Affected devices retract and compress under the Exalt’s skin through compartment panels, while her claylike flesh morphs and spreads to cover the area they previously occupied. As usual, Obvious Internal Charms reveals themselves for the duration of use, though only to the degree that is necessary to perform the Obvious function. To change which Charms are hidden, the Charm must be reflexively deactivated and then reactivated normally.
As a final benefit, if all of the Alchemical’s Charms have the Internal keyword (whether naturally or from use of this Charm) and she is human-sized, she may weight of hidden Charms so that her heavy tread does not betray her nature. In toto, the changes allow her to pass as mortal. An Exalt disguised this way may even retract or modify the appearance of her soulgem as a reflexive action.
Submodules:
Loom Server Migration (Essence 3, 2xp): If the Alchemical activates the Charm in Creation or another realm of existence governed by the Loom of Fate, this Axiomatic submodule can send an autonomic prayer to the pattern spiders to indicate that he, a fellow servant of Autochthon, wishes orderly integration. The machine spirits then spin tattered strands from the broken constellation of the Mask around the Champion, bringing him fully into fate with an innocuous and unremarkable destiny for as long as the Charm remains active. He returns to the Design of Autochthon upon conclusion.
[NB: This submodule will not exist until Alchemicals encounter Creation and discover the horrifying fact that their unregistered presence disrupts the local weave, indirectly (and unintentionally) strengthening the Void.]
Essence-Muting Baffles (Essence 3, 4xp): While the Charm is active, all Internal Charms the Exalt has are invisible to Essence sight and other means of supernatural detection unless they are active and Obvious. If no Charms are eligible for detection this way, the Alchemical may choose to cloak the fact that she is an Essence user, in which case she seems to have Essence 1. Toggling the Essence cloak on and off is a reflexive action, but the cloak drops automatically and can’t be maintained while her anima banner is flaring at all or is revealed by Obvious Charm use. If an opposing Charm seeks to penetrate an active Essence cloak, add the Exalt’s Appearance rating as bonus dice to the roll-off.
Deep Cover Mode (Appearance 5, Essence 4, 3xp): The Charm’s activation cost decreases to two motes.

This strange Celestial martial art is one of the most widespread in Autochthonia. It is unusual when compared to Creation’s fighting styles in that it revolves around the mastery of an advanced magitech weapon, the gyroscopic chakram, and responds poorly to attempts to practice it with less complex tools.
Formulated over 3,000 years ago, Thousand Wounds Gear style explores the calculating certainty of law and artfully expresses the terrible agony that awaits transgressors. It is renowned for the horrific damage it inflicts, and its practitioners’ aptitude for rendering targets helpless before calmly slicing them to pieces. In riot situations, the art is deployed as a tool of shock and awe. In the Reaches, it serves to cripple powerful gremlins as a prelude to their termination.
Weapons and Armor: Attacks made with gyroscopic chakrams (see Chapter Six) are treated as unarmed for the purposes of this style’s Charms, regardless of whether they are made at close or long range. Standard chakrams and wind-fire wheels may be substituted as alternative form weapons, but forcing the style to harmonize with these primitive tools imposes a one-mote surcharge on all of its Charms. Thousand Wounds Gear Style is fully compatible with armor.

Cost: 1m; Mins: Martial Arts 2, Essence 2;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The martial artist goes from chambered stillness to blinding action in a heartbeat, unleashing a straight-arm attack with such speed that the air whistles like escaping steam in its wake. This Charm supplements an unarmed martial arts attack, adding either (Essence ÷ 2) Accuracy or (Essence) raw damage to the strike at the martial artist’s discretion.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 2;
Type: Reflexive (Step 2)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: The Circle Screams
The Exalt moves with mechanical precision, interposing either a rigid grip or the saw-toothed edge of his weapon to catch an incoming strike. The martial artist’s parry DV increases by two against an incoming attack, and if it succeeds in stopping the strike entirely, that attack’s Speed retroactively increases by one (forcing the attacker’s DV to refresh one tick later). If used barehanded, this Charm also allows the character to parry lethal and ranged attacks without a stunt.

Cost: 5m; Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 2; Type: Simple
Keywords: Form-type, Obvious
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Gear Catches Gear Defense
The martial artist assumes a posture of cold precision and industrial menace. Her every motion is carefully marshaled, wasting not even the slightest muscle twitch. All of her strength goes into her offense and defense, and nowhere else.
The martial artist may treat her gyroscopic chakram as a target shield with no mobility penalty or fatigue value. Her barehanded strikes inflict lethal damage. Additionally, all of her unarmed attacks ignore Hardness.

Cost: 4m, 1wp; Mins: Martial Arts 5, Essence 3;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Thousand Wounds Gear Form
The martial artist delivers her blows with remorseless precision. Great bladed gears erupt from her anima to momentarily solidify around an unarmed attack, radically boosting the trauma it inflicts on its unfortunate target. An unarmed attack enhanced by this Charm counts the martial artist’s Strength twice for the purpose of calculating raw damage. Additionally, its minimum damage increases by one die. This Charm may not enhance natural unarmed attacks that inflict bashing damage.

Unused Charms
Husk Sculpting Apparatus
Pheromone Regulation Systems
Unobtrusive Repartee Baffles
Radiant Iconic Array
Patriotism-Provoking Display
Motivational Vocoder
Artifact Rating: 3
Repair: 1
These chakrams appear as solid, onefoot- wide discs of a single magical material, with five holes spread across their surfaces for gripping. Widely used among the Alchemical Exalted, these fearsome weapons come to life when hurled by their attuned owners. With a small puff of steam, the internal clockwork mechanisms extend a ring of three-inch razors that spin around the edge at hundreds of revolutions per second. After having been flung at a target, the weapon banks and adjusts its path, following the target until it either strikes or misses, swooping back for another attempt on the next action if it misses as the result of a normal dodge or parry. It continues hunting the target every action, using the same dice pool to hit as it had when it was thrown, until it either strikes or botches.
On a botch, it strikes an unintended target, such as an innocent bystander or a wall, coming to a rest and remaining lodged until manually retrieved. If the chakram slices into its target or rips through it, it flies in a smooth arc back to the owner’s hand at the end of the action. If the attack fails for any other reason than the target dodging or parrying normally, including situations where the target moves out of range, the weapon also returns to the owner’s hand. Should the owner break off the attack by stretching out his hand toward the chakram as a reflexive action, the disk returns to his hand at the end of the action. When the weapon returns to its master, it accelerates, flying any distance to return, even if the owner has moved outside the maximum range of the weapon.
Gyroscopic chakrams have additional powers depending on the magical material used in their construction. They also contain a single setting for an elemental core or Essence capacitor.
Starmetal: In harmony with the very Design of the Great Maker, these auspicious and delicate razors add one to their Accuracy. Also, while they can miss, they never strike unintended targets and treat all botches on their attack rolls as simple failures. If hostile magic redirects these weapons toward new quarry, the spinning disks narrowly miss at the very last moment and return to their owner’s hand.
Gyroscopic chakrams may also be held in the hand and used as melee weapons, receiving the standard magical material bonuses. Wind-fire wheels are the non-magical equivalents of these weapons when used for melee, being modeled after gears with pentagonal finger holes. Warstridersized
versions of these weapons exist, requiring eight motes to attune them and spanning over a yard in diameter.

Transformative Armor +6L/+4B, Hardness 2L/2B, Mobility -0, Fatigue 0, Attune 4
Artifact Rating: 2
Some of the more vain Artisans wished to make certain that they were always properly dressed for any occasion. To meet this need, skilled crafters wove the first suits of transformative clothing. This clothing is made from an Essence-sensitive fabric including threads of spun jade and moonsilver. In its basic form, it resembles a finely made tunic of synthetic silk. When the wearer spends one mote, however, she can cause the fabric to shape itself to her will, expanding and contracting the weave, altering its color, texture and shape to fit her precise specifications. It can become everything from a single glove or hat to an elaborate and multi-layered suit of elaborate courtly garb. The wearer can also spend one mote to cause the garment to almost instantly clean itself and repair any damage.
This transformation is exceptionally rapid, requiring only a miscellaneous action (5, -1 DV). To either duplicate a garment she has seen before or design one of her own, the wearermust make a (Wits + Craft [Wood]) roll, with a failure indicating that the garment looks significantly different
from the desired result. This artifact can duplicate any appearance it has ever held without requiring a roll, however. An ordinary suit of this clothing
is a one-dot Artifact that can protect the wearer from heat and cold but has no value as armor.
Artisans who wish to be able to protect themselves from attack even in situations where wearing armor is not appropriate (or who insist on looking stylish even on the field of battle) often wear a two-dot version of this artifact. Such armor always provides the listed bonus, regardless of its current
form. Suits of transformative armor have all of the capabilities of a normal suit of transformative clothing. Because they are made from threads made from several magical materials, they gain no magical material bonuses.

Artifact Rating: 4
Repair: 2
While transcendent phoenix pinions are well suited to tactical flight, they require a constant influx of Essence to keep active, and their ostentatious design makes stealth nigh-impossible. Wings of the raptor represent an improvement in personal flight technology, taking the form of exquisite floor-length capes fastened at the throat with ornate clasps that hold a single hearthstone socket.
Characters must commit one mote to these wings in order to attune them, but doing so does nothing except allow the clasp to function as a hearthstone amulet. Activating the wings requires a reflexive commitment of 10 additional motes. This causes the cape to flare back and unravel as though in a sudden gale, reshaping itself into a pair of great wings like those of a bird (or bat) that stretch six yards from wingtip to wingtip. With the wings active, the wearer can fly at five times his usual running speed or hover with slow and graceful beats. Outside of combat, he can accelerate faster, soaring at speeds up to 80 miles per hour. Because the wings are considered a natural extension of the body, wearers do not need to divert actions to aerial maneuvers as with piloting a skyship. Moreover, all maneuvering rolls required by negative environmental conditions (such as flying through a hurricane or weaving through a narrow canyon) are made reflexively using a full pool of the character’s (Dexterity + Athletics + 6). Finally, the characters Dodge DV increases by three in flight owing to the artifact’s extreme maneuverability.
Wings of the raptor have additional powers depending on the magical material used in their construction.
Starmetal: These wings are particularly subtle and silent like an owl, adding a six-die bonus to Stealth rolls.

Artifact Rating: 4
Perfected kata bracers are prayer strips crafted of a single magical material and curled into bracers. The strips’ sutras are starmetal engravings, except in starmetal bracers—they use orichalcum. Attunement costs eight motes. When the character activates a Form-type Charm, the sutras inscribed on the bracers glow and lift from the artifact to engulf the character in light for a brief moment. For the rest of the scene, she gains several benefits. She adds her Essence to the accuracy, damage and defense of her unarmed attacks and of attacks made with the active Form-type Charm’s particular weapons. She may choose to inflict bashing or lethal damage at will and she may parry lethal attacks unarmed. In addition:
Starmetal eases the flow of martial Essence, reducing the cost of activating Charms of the same style by two motes (minimum 1).

Core Rating: 2
This brilliant-yellow, hexagonal crystal reduces the difficulty of all attempts to sway the opinions or beliefs of others by 2 (to a minimum of 1). It applies to both speech and writing.

A glowing verdant cube forms this core, which is the size of a man’s thumb. When the bearer spends a point of Willpower to activate the core, it bestows its own super-dense property upon her, granting (Essence x 2) stackable Hardness and lethal and bashing soak for the rest of the scene.
Health Levels
-0 [ ]
-1 [ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]
-4 [ ]
I [ ]

Essence: 4
Personal: 22
Peripheral: 58 (40 - 18 Committed)
Willpower: 8

Dodge MDV: 7

Join Battle: 7
Dodge DV: 8 (+2 vs Ranged, +3 while in Flight)
Parry DV: 6 (+2 from Perfected Kata Bracers, +1 when Form Charm is active)

Weapons and Armor
Gyroscopic Chakram: Speed 5, Accuracy +1 (+5), Damage +3L (+7L), Rate 3, Range 90, Attune 5
Transformative Armor +6L/+4B, Hardness 2L/2B, Mobility -0, Fatigue 0, Attune 4
Shielding Block Elemental Core: +8L/+8B

Total Soak: 15L/14B Hardness: 10L/10B
Caste or Favored Attribute - current rating x 3
Charm Slot (General) - 6
Charm Slot (Dedicated) - 4
Charm Slot (upgrade) - 2
Charm - 6
Martial Arts Charm - 11
Man-Machine weaving protocol - 12
God-Machine weaving protocol - 14
Essence - rating x 9
Ability - rating x 2
Virtue - rating x 3
Willpower - rating x 2
New Ability - 3
Specialty - 3

Xp Earned: 8
Xp Banked

Epiphany · Jun 10, 2019

Name: Mercurial Intelligence Alloy
Concept: Heart-sore spy specialized in infiltration and information-gathering
Exaltation: Moonsilver Caste Alchemical
Motivation: Uncover conspiracy in Kamak

Attributes
Strength: 2
Dexterity: 5
Stamina: 2

Charisma: 2
Manipulation: 5
Appearance: 5

Perception: 5
Intelligence: 3
Wits: 5

Abilities
Warfare
Archery
Athletics: 3
Awareness: 3
Dodge
Integrity: 1
Martial Arts
Melee: 3 (+3 with Whips)
Resistance: 1
Thrown
War

Labor
Craft
Larceny: 3 (+3 with Disguises)
Linguistics
Performance
Presence: 2
Ride
Sail
Socialize: 1
Survival: 1
Stealth: 5 (+2 while invisible)

Learning
Bureaucracy
Investigation: 5 (+2 when finding concealed things)
Lore: 1
Medicine
Occult: 1
Backgrounds
Artifact: 5 / 15 points of items
Class: 4 - Respected, beloved Champion (turning in her own wife was particularly excellent as an example to the Nation) (first three dots were free)
Eidolon: 1
Familiar: 5 - Sineaq

Artifacts:
Aegis-Inset Amulets (Artifact 1) (Wonders of the Lost Age pg. 71) (Subtracts 2 from committed artifact armor costs)
Dragonfly's Ranging Eye (Artifact 2) (1m) (Wonders of the Lost Age pg. 53) (View any point and direction within Essence x 20 yards at -1 to Perception, can scry through walls)
Transformative Armor/Clothing (Artifact 2) (4m) (Scroll of the Fallen Races pg. 26) (May transform or repair garment by spending 1 mote and taking a miscellaneous action with successful Wits + Craft Wood roll)
Belt of Aerial Mobility (Artifact 3) (3m) (Wonders of the Lost Age pg. 53) (Spend 3m to walk on air for the scene, take move/dash maneuvers in any direction)
Amulet of Shadow Walking (Artifact 3) (5m) (Wonders of the Lost Age pg. 53) (+2 to Stealth, +4 to Stealth if in a shadow, can dematerialize for a scene at the cost of 10 motes and 1 willpower)
Monofilament Scourges x2 (Artifact 3 for a pair) (6m) (Alchemicals pg. 210) (Three yard long whips that can grapple, inflict double damage against objects)
Moonsilver-Oil Core (Deception Engine) (1 dot Elemental Core, Alchemicals pg. 205) (substitute Manipulation for Charisma for all social attacks)

Equipment and property:
A small but spacious apartment meant for two, barely used now.

Virtues
Willpower: 8
Compassion: 2
Conviction: 2
Temperance: 4
Valor: 2

Essence: 3
Personal: 17/17
Peripheral: 47/47 (17 Committed)

General Charm Slots: 6
Dedicated Charm Slots: 7

Anima Effect: By reflexively spending five motes, a Protean may suffuse her being with the flowing grace of quicksilver. In this state, her quickened senses perceive the world moving in slow motion through a faint silver tint. In contrast, she perceives her own accelerated body moving at its normal pace. Observers note only the preternatural flexibility and deftness of the Exalt’s movements, provided they have a chance to notice anything. This power reduces by one (to a minimum of 3) the Speed of all of the Mirrorblade’s actions that have a Speed greater than 3. It activates automatically at no cost whenever the Alchemical’s anima reaches the 11+ level of display.
Second Dexterity Augmentation [1m]
Second Manipulation Augmentation [1m]
Second Perception Augmentation [1m]

Stealth and Disguise

Cost: 5m [1m]; Mins: Appearance 1, Essence 2;
Type: Simple (Speed 3)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Internal
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: None
As a complex system of artificial flesh patches and other mechanisms, this Charm betrays no outward signs of its presence. It is designed to physically conceal non-Internal Alchemical Charms, giving as many of them as desired the Internal keyword for the duration of the effect. Affected devices retract and compress under the Exalt’s skin through compartment panels, while her claylike flesh morphs and spreads to cover the area they previously occupied. As usual, Obvious Internal Charms reveals themselves for the duration of use, though only to the degree that is necessary to perform the Obvious function. To change which Charms are hidden, the Charm must be reflexively deactivated and then reactivated normally.
As a final benefit, if all of the Alchemical’s Charms have the Internal keyword (whether naturally or from use of this Charm) and she is human-sized, she may weight of hidden Charms so that her heavy tread does not betray her nature. In total, the changes allow her to pass as mortal. An Exalt disguised this way may even retract or modify the appearance of her soulgem as a reflexive action.

Cost: 6m, 1wp [2m]; Mins: Appearance 3, Essence 2;
Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK, Internal, Obvious
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Integrated Artifact Transmogrifier
This Charm takes the form of hundreds of tiny wire hooks linking pistons to key points under the Exalt’s skin, as well as a bank of Essence-fueled pigment injectors. Upon activation, the Alchemical recalibrates his physical appearance as an extremely rapid disguise action, substituting Appearance for Intelligence without the need for props or prior study of the target beyond a moment’s observation. For its duration, the Charm changes the Champion’s body instead of merely hiding its true appearance, allowing instant alterations to sex (including hermaphroditic or asexual, the latter of which provides a +3 MDV bonus against all seduction-based mental influence), overall physique, build, race, voice modulation and pigmentation (including introducing inhuman hues and adding or removing tattoos and scars).
The Exalt cannot modify his new body’s final height or weight by more than 10 percent of its unmodified measurements. Virtually any body that a human being could have is fair game for the Charm, even body types that are crippled, deformed, unhealthy or otherwise damaged. Disguising oneself as a character with a lower or higher Appearance rating does not adjust the operation or effectiveness of Charms based on that Attribute, though it affects reactions normally (such as social combat modifiers). Use of this Charm’s prerequisite is still necessary to avoid having visibly implanted Charms spoil the disguise. Generally speaking, the changes wrought by the Charm result in a difficulty 1 for the disguise roll or 2 if attempting to copy a specific person.
The effectiveness of a disguise created by Husk-Sculpting Apparatus is based on the threshold generated by the roll as normal, but the Charm is imperfect. Witnesses with a (Perception + Awareness) total of 11+ or who have any superhumanly acute senses automatically recognize him as an imposter upon encountering him without need for a roll or suspicion. Although many animals have superhuman senses, few are intelligent enough or well trained enough to care about a disguise when determining how they react. The Charm is even weaker against Essence sight or comparable Charms, as witnesses with such powers automatically perceive the Alchemical’s true form overlaid on the disguise. Of course, failure to use Integrated Artifact Transmogrifier to hide all Charms when disguised as anything other than another Alchemical also spoils the ruse. Once the Charm deactivates, the Alchemical’s body resets to its true form.

Cost: 3m [2m]; Mins: Appearance 2, Essence 2;
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: None
A lattice of sand-sized crystals studded through the Exalt’s flesh gives her a slightly iridescent sheen when viewed under bright lighting. Charged with Essence, the lattice generates an optic camouflage. The Alchemical wavers like a heatmirage for a moment, then vanishes. As long as the Exalt makes no rapid or violent motion (physical attacks, Dash or Jump actions, etc.) and does not move more than one yard per tick, she remains invisible and impossible to detect via sight, regardless of acuity. Unless she speaks or otherwise gives herself away, attempts to locate her through mundane sound or smell are made with an external penalty of (higher of her Essence or Appearance). She can be detected by touch and taste normally. Characters with superhumanly acute hearing or sense of smell ignore this camouflage and may interact with the Exalt normally, as can characters with exotic senses that do not depend at all on sight (such as heat detection and echolocation) or some form of Essence sight.
Moving any faster than the permitted speed by means of personal locomotion does not end the Charm, but causes the Alchemical to appear as an Obvious rippling distortion in the air that is automatically visible. She fully vanishes again on the tick in which she next moves at an acceptable speed, though until she discreetly moves from that location, any attacks made against her by those who saw where she stopped ignore the Charm’s protection. Traveling within a vehicle or by other external means does not disrupt the camouflage this way. Extremely rapid or violent movement (such as the activation of a Plasma Thruster Assembly or the initiation of an attack) terminates the Charm.

Analytic and Cognitive

Cost: — [2m]; Mins: Perception 3, Essence 2;
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Any Perception Augmentation
A wide array of ocular implants and enhancements have been developed over the centuries, of which the following upgrades constitute only a small sampling.
Cross-Phase Scanner (4xp): The Exalt can see immaterial beings in Autochthonia as though they were manifested, as well as perceiving them with any senses for which he has Secondary Sensory Upgrades installed. By reflexively committing three motes for a scene as an innate power, he also extends these benefits to all allies within (Essence x 20) yards. A second purchase of this submodule improves it to function in other realms of existence.
Microscopic Lens (6xp): The Alchemical’s eyes can focus on small objects and magnify them, granting two automatic successes on Perception rolls to examine details about specific objects and structures. The Storyteller should also supply appropriate magnified details when narrating sensory information.
Telescopic Lens (6xp): The Exalt gains the ability to clearly focus on objects up to a mile away, taking no penalties for doing so. This submodule does not increase the absolute effective range of ranged weapons, but it enables the Exalt to fire them accurately at targets within their upper range limits without any range penalties.
Motion-Tracking Targeting Glance (Dexterity 4): To the Alchemical’s eye, a glowing geometric symbol appears as a halo around those whom she locks onto with an Aim action in battle. This effect changes the bonus for aiming from dice to successes and cancels penalties for making called shots whenever launching a surprise attack and/or an attack benefiting from aim successes.

Cost: 4m [1m]; Mins: Perception 4, Essence 2;
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK, Social, Variable
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Secondary Sensory Upgrades
This Charm takes the form of a pair of metal nodules in front of each ear, just above the jawbone. Depending on configuration (and the prerequisite Charm selected to build upon), subdermal wires link the devices to the ears or across the cheeks to the nose. Based on design, the Champion can either hear the telltale vibrations and distortions when a scrutinized target speaks a lie or else smell the biochemical signature produced by willful deception. Alchemicals with both prerequisites installed may use either mode of detection at their discretion. This Charm is identical to Judge’s Ear Technique (see Exalted, p. 213), save that it gains no bonus to contested effect rolls.

Speed and Mobility

Cost: 2m [1m]; Mins: Dexterity 3, Essence 2;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Variable
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Any Attribute Augmentation
This Charm takes the form of a complex mechanical assembly in the Alchemical’s spine. When activated, it reduces by one the Speed of any action of Speed 4+, to a minimum of 3. This Charm may benefit any Attribute-based action for which the character has an installed Augmentation. Physical actions become highly precise and efficient, cognition occurs with the mind briefly cleansed of all distractions, and speech becomes clipped and slightly rushed as the Alchemical makes his points quickly and concisely.

Cost: 6m, 1wp; Mins: Wits 5, Essence 3; Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK, Internal, Obvious, Variable
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Dynamic Reaction Enhancement System
Relay crystals implanted throughout the Champion’s nervous system optimize her ability to perform extended, complicated tasks. While active, the Charm quickens all dramatic actions using Attributes for which the character has an Augmentation installed, dividing the time necessary to complete them by (the Alchemical’s Essence x 2). While under the effects of this Charm, the Exalt’s movements become clipped and mechanical, lacking any organic grace. This Charm cannot shorten training times, but it may be toggled on and off to shorten some parts of ongoing tasks and not others as circumstances warrant.

Cost: 3m [1m]; Mins: Dexterity 3, Essence 2;
Type: Reflexive (Step 2)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Any Dexterity Augmentation
A reactive processor wired into the Alchemical’s sensory cortex controls magnetized servos and gyroscopic swivels in her joints, deploying them in defensive configurations to protect those around the Champion. The Alchemical can activate this Charm to reflexively take a Defend Other action. He cannot do so if he is already protecting a character with Defend Other.

Cost: 2m per action, 1wp [1m]; Mins: Wits 4, Essence 3;
Type: Extra Action
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious, Variable
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Dynamic Reaction Enhancement System
A secondary nervous system is woven through the Exalt’s skin, radiating outward from his Dynamic Reaction Enhancement System. This network appears to be an array of circuit-board patterns tattooed onto the Alchemical, which glow while in use.
When activated, this Charm produces a magical flurry consisting of one full dice pool action per two motes spent, up to a maximum number of actions equal to the Alchemical’s Wits. This flurry ignores Rate and uses only the highest Speed value and DV penalty of any action within it. The flurry may be used to perform any sort of action, provided that the action uses an Attribute for which the Alchemical has an Augmentation installed.

Cost: — [1m]; Mins: Dexterity 3, Essence 2;
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Internal, Stackable
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Any Dexterity Augmentation
The Alchemical’s joints receive a special anti-friction magnetic coating, with additional installations representing more comprehensive and refined formulas. The character ignores off-hand penalties to actions. Furthermore, each installation reduces all of the character’s multiple action penalties by one die. While he may initially sustain only one installation of this Charm, Essence 3+ Champions may install this Charm a number of times equal to or less than their Dexterity or Wits (whichever is lower). Installations of the Multiple Limbs mutation (see Exalted, p. 290) function identically for Alchemicals, and count toward this Charm’s installation cap.
Join Combat: 7

Offense:
Monofilament Scourge
Clinch: Speed 6, Accuracy +2, Damage +7L/3, Defense -, Rate 1, Tags D, O, P, R
Strike: Speed 5, Accuracy + 2, Damage +7L/3, Defense -1, Rate 1, Tags: D, O, P, R

Defenses:
Dodge DV: (5+0+3)/2 = 4
Parry DV: (5+3+3-1)/2 = 5

Soak: 6B/7L/7A

Armor: 4B/6L/6A (Hardness 2L/2B)

Health:
-0 [ ]
-1 [ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]
-4 [ ]
-X [ ]
Dy [ ]

Social Defenses:
Dodge MDV (8+1+3)/2 = 6
Parry MDV (5+3)/2 = 4
Caste or Favored Attribute - current rating x 3
Charm Slot (General) - 6
Charm Slot (Dedicated) - 4
Charm Slot (upgrade) - 2
Charm - 6
Martial Arts Charm - 11
Man-Machine weaving protocol - 12
God-Machine weaving protocol - 14
Essence - rating x 9
Ability - rating x 2
Virtue - rating x 3
Willpower - rating x 2
New Ability - 3
Specialty - 3

Experience Points: 8/8
8 on submodules for Optical Enhancement

Bonus points: 17/20
3 on 1 dot of Dexterity 4-5
3 on 1 dot of Appearance 4-5
3 on 1 dot of Wits 4-5
5 on 5 points of Specialties
3 on Willpower 5-8
3 on 1 Dedicated Charm Slots
Intimacies:
Her homeland (Patriotic duty)
Never breaking cover (Professional pride)
Secrets (Irresistible fascination)
Matchmaking (Delightful hobby)
Her Familiar, Sineaq (Fond affection)
Humanity (Wistful longing)
Her wife/ex-wife Alve (Utter heartbreak and betrayal)

History

Over the ages, many souls in Kamak led to Mercurial Intelligence Alloy's creation. Fovek was a legendary factory supervisor who pioneered a new type of pressure relief valve. Elastin was a Surgeon who specialized in cold-weather injuries but heroically saved eighty seven workers contaminated with a pipe-burst toxin before succumbing herself. Her most recent life, Merek, was a double agent co-opted by Estasia, who spent his life feeding the other nation vital intelligence before turning triple agent in the end and bringing down an entire conspiracy against Kamak.

Mercurial Intelligence Alloy is no stranger to conspiracy. Wrought out of moonsilver, her most recent life formed much of the foundation for her new personality when she became alive. Tasked with infiltrating and spying on the incredibly private lives of Kamak's people, Mercurial Intelligence Alloy took to her assignment with resignation for she shared her people's aversion to intrusion from outside the home. And for the first three years of her life, she was brilliantly successful...only no one outside of the government knew of it.

Still, Mercurial Intelligence Alloy was both beautiful and demurely shy in the ways of love. Such a combination enthralled the Surgeon Avri, who sought out and at last won the heart of this young Moonsilver Alchemical. The two women wed in Kamak fashion and thrived for almost seven years, each of them finding acclaim in their chosen field. Their happiness was not to last, though, for the trail of a One Tier Movement conspiracy inevitably led Mercurial Intelligence Alloy to her own door. Discovering that Avri had used her marital status to her to mask the Populat cabal's activities, Mercurial Intelligence Alloy brought her own wife before the Regulators. The heartbroken Alchemical is said to have scarred her own marriage tattoo, breaking the binding of their vows.

That was a year ago. Since then, the young Moonsilver Caste has thrown herself back into her work with renewed vigor. At least solving mysteries gives her something to think about other than solving her own personal life. And at least work will keep her busy enough to put the loss of her wife Avri out of her mind.

Personality

Mercurial Intelligence Alloy is a controlled woman. From inception on, she has never been a passionate creature, neither moved overly much by the heart, driven to righteous rage or obsessed with accomplishment. This self-control led her to success, time and time again, as Mercurial Intelligence Alloy never broke character in one of her many guises.

Whatever she was like before or during her marriage, it's plain that the treachery of her wife Avri has deeply scarred the malleable Moonsilver Caste in ways even her protean nature can't heal. These days, she's quiet, shy and conservative, rarely speaking unless spoken to first. She's a fiercely focused infiltrator and spy, unaccustomed to working in teams but willing. Her partnership with her elemental Familiar, Sineaq, offers her a rare friendship and the two work harmoniously together to carry out their assignments. Sineaq also knew Avri and represents one of the only beings in Autochthon that Mercurial Intelligence Alloy trusts enough to talk about her profound feelings of betrayal as well as her bittersweet mixed feelings of yearnings for the beautiful Surgeon who still holds her heart.

Appearance

Mercurial Intelligence Alloy is a gleaming silvery Alchemical in her natural state, seemingly wrought out of liquid moonsilver. Closer inspection (and touch) reveals much of her surface is actually silvered clay with strips of moonsilver spiraling across skin like a subtle pattern of tattoos. She's slim for an Alchemical and most of her visible Charms blend seamlessly into the silver landscape of her skin. Golden eyes gleam in a face wrought like artwork and her long metallic hair is bound back in a traditional Kamaki braid. Only an elaborate double knot tattoo on her left temple breaks up the theme of flawless metal perfection, as it's drawn in delicate black ink...and marred by a vertical scar slashing the knots asunder.

When she's not working undercover, Mercurial Intelligence Alloy favors one of Kamak's soft black robes with hood, ironically concealing most of her silvery appearance. Complete with gloves, sturdy boots and a scarf across her mouth, only her eyes and her soulgem are bared to the world. Of course, when working undercover, her wardrobe is whatever it needs to be to blend in. The difference in how much skin she shows has led to a few Sodalities to speculate that she's ashamed of her Alchemical appearance, or perhaps feels she has something to hide, especially since she doesn't need the winter clothes to stay warm.

In manner, Mercurial Intelligence Alloy is quiet, soft-spoken and demure. She listens well and her body language shows every sign of her giving her partner her full attention. In motion, her movements are small, controlled and very precise and she's often as still as a statue when there's no need for activity. Her undercover roles are much more animated in body language so she's capable of emoting but seems to choose not to in her natural form. Mercurial Intelligence Alloy smiles little and often seems shadowed by a sadness she's never managed to escape.

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