Cthulhu_Wakes
Black Sun in a White World
I'm hard pressed at the moment, I really am, to come up with something new and exciting for Exalted. I really want to run something that is somewhat local and yet epic in its own way (though most things in Exalted turn out this way). I was thinking of an old idea from the Book of Three Circles when they talked about Lvl 5 artifacts. A great device which siphons out the essence of all local manses and enslaves the entire population of a region.
Obviously something from the First Age of Solar design, but to what purpose? I'm thinking of using the old "mad king" scenario of a Solar before the Usurpation. Perhaps his old manse reverts back online after milliennia of silence. In that it activates an artifact inside of it, locked away for generations, his Golden Crown, to which he used to distil his own Exalted spark and essence into a small and mutable enough form in which to store it in a artifact of power (I see it akin to distilling a spell).
That was my first idea to run with, the other, probably something that was akin to one of my favorite games of all time, Myth, made by Bungie a long time ago. I loved the world and the journal entries and all of that. I would love to take a piece of Creation and make it that land, under siege by a Deathlord and his most powerful Abyssals and who knows what else, but I need to prep them.
It's just very hard to come up with anything new. Maybe I'm just thinking too hard or not enough. Just really frustrated and I would love to run, but I can't think of what. Hell, if any of these ideas sound good I'd run with them. What does anyone think?
Obviously something from the First Age of Solar design, but to what purpose? I'm thinking of using the old "mad king" scenario of a Solar before the Usurpation. Perhaps his old manse reverts back online after milliennia of silence. In that it activates an artifact inside of it, locked away for generations, his Golden Crown, to which he used to distil his own Exalted spark and essence into a small and mutable enough form in which to store it in a artifact of power (I see it akin to distilling a spell).
That was my first idea to run with, the other, probably something that was akin to one of my favorite games of all time, Myth, made by Bungie a long time ago. I loved the world and the journal entries and all of that. I would love to take a piece of Creation and make it that land, under siege by a Deathlord and his most powerful Abyssals and who knows what else, but I need to prep them.
It's just very hard to come up with anything new. Maybe I'm just thinking too hard or not enough. Just really frustrated and I would love to run, but I can't think of what. Hell, if any of these ideas sound good I'd run with them. What does anyone think?