One x One Return of the Scarlet Empress 2.5 - OOC Thread

[Sherwood]

Your character is using the Established Exalt template from Dreams of the First Age, starting out at Essence 4.

Starting out you have 27 Charms to pick, along with one complete Celestial Martial Art for free.

You get for Attributes 9 / 7 / 6 to allocate to your stats.

For your Abilities, you get 13 dots to allocate to your Auspicious and Favored Abilities, and after that, an additional 30 dots to place where you wish.

20 dots in backgrounds.

14 dots in Colleges, with half of the points to go to the ones associated with your Maiden.

Finally, you have 20 Bonus Points that can be used.

Any questions?

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[a311243549]

Do you allow Sidereals with Graces to learn Fair Folk charms?

 

[a311243549]

For Backgrounds, do you use regular versions, or those from DotFA?

 

[Sherwood]

I don't like 2e's Fair Folk Charms, so I am going to say no to that.

 

[Sherwood]

For Backgrounds, do you use regular versions, or those from DotFA?

You are in the 300+ year old range, so you can pick Backgrounds from any book.

 

[a311243549]

I don't like 2e's Fair Folk Charms, so I am going to say no to that.

2.5e did majorly fix them... Understood :MadoThumbsUp:

 

[a311243549]

You are in the 300+ year old range, so you can pick Backgrounds from any book.

Does that include things like Panoply and Arsenal?

 

[Sherwood]

Within reason.

 

[a311243549]

Does the capstone of Dreaming Pearl Courtesan style still risk vanishment after prolonged use, if the user is already initiated into the Blossom of the Perfected Lotus?

 

[a311243549]

And is my character joining these two, or are they separate campaigns? One x One - Return of the Scarlet Empress - OOC ?

 

[a311243549]

How many starting Virtue dots? 7 like in the original, or 5 like in Errata?

 

[Sherwood]

Does the capstone of Dreaming Pearl Courtesan style still risk vanishment after prolonged use, if the user is already initiated into the Blossom of the Perfected Lotus?

Yes it does.

And is my character joining these two, or are they separate campaigns? One x One - Return of the Scarlet Empress - OOC ?

Separate games. You are in a 2.5e game and that other one is a 3e one.

How many starting Virtue dots? 7 like in the original, or 5 like in Errata?

Go with 7.

 

[a311243549]

Yes it does.

Separate games. You are in a 2.5e game and that other one is a 3e one.

Go with 7.

Sounds good. I'll be making a Twilight-y Sidereal (Sorcery, Craft charms, etc) with an emphasis on Virtues, and some dubiously-sanctioned past dealings with demons and fae.

 

[a311243549]

Do the action-multiplying effects from the capstone of Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Style stack with the effects of Draw Forth Every Shard from Obsidian Shards of Infinity? Neither of them are technically extra-action charms, but they do have similar effects.

 

[Sherwood]

Do the action-multiplying effects from the capstone of Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Style stack with the effects of Draw Forth Every Shard from Obsidian Shards of Infinity? Neither of them are technically extra-action charms, but they do have similar effects.

I will say that it will depend on what Form Charm you have active as to which one you can use, so you can't use them both at once.

 

[a311243549]

I will say that it will depend on what Form Charm you have active as to which one you can use, so you can't use them both at once.

Wait, they can't be active at the same time at all? They're not Form-type, though.

 

[Sherwood]

Wait, they can't be active at the same time at all? They're not Form-type, though.

Let me read over them again and see. I'll have to wait until I'm home; I'm at work right now.

 

[a311243549]

Mostly-complete character sheet. I still need to fill in the Motivation, Intimacy, Artifact/Hearthstone details, a few more College dots, some more Specialties and expand the bio.

Chosen of Secrets

Essence 7 (19/19, 67/67), Willpower 5 (5/5)

• Virtues: Compassion 5, Conviction 5, Temperance 5, Valor 5
• Attributes: Strength 1, Dexterity 7, Stamina 2, Charisma 2, Manipulation 2, Appearance 5, Intelligence 5, Wits 2, Perception 5
• Abilities: Craft (Fire) 2, Craft (Air) 2, Craft (Fate) 1, Craft (Magitech) 7, Lore 7 (Geomancy +1), Occult 7 (Geomancy +1), Martial Arts 7, Dodge 7, Awareness 3
• Backgrounds: Manse 6, Salary 3, Panoply 3, Allies 3 (Mara, Defining Soul of Erembour, 7th Soul of the Ebon Dragon), Wyld Artifacts 5
• Flaws: Dark Secret (3, Infernalist leanings), Diminished Sense (4, Touch), Sickly (3, Slowed healing)

Regular Sidereal Charms

• Craft: Elemental Vision, World-Shaping Artistic Vision, Destiny-Knitting Entanglement, Predestined Delivery Shaping, Excellent Implementation of Objectives, Mending Warped Designs, Implicit Construction Methodology
• Dodge: Absence, Duck Fate
• Occult: Terrestrial Sorcery Initiation, Celestial Sorcery Initiation

General Charms

• Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Style (Free): Demure Carp Feint, Pearlescent Filigree Defense, Lethal Paper Fan Attack, Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Form, Flurry of August Leaves Concentration, Resplendent Sash Grapple Technique, Vindictive Concubine’s Pillow Book Understanding, Fragrant Petal Fascination Kata, Seven Storms Escape Prana, Invoking the Chimera’s Coils
• Throne Shadow Style: Lotus Eye Tactics, The Lotus Blossoms (Sidereal Extension)

Sidereal Martial Arts

• Sapphire Veil of Passion: Yellow Dragon Flight, Black Dragon Coils
• Border of Kaleidoscopic Logic: Last Heart Enclosure, Birth of the Perfect Ego Juggernaut, Impersonal Personal Denature Sting, Kaleidoscopic Disrecognition Atemi, Words are Not Enough Infliction, Two Score Mirror Glance, Freeing the Father from the Child, Border of Kaleidoscopic Logic Form, Reliant Soul Infiltration, Without Assumption, Beauty is in the Eye, Meditative Battlefield Escalation

Spells

• Terrestrial:
• Celestial: Raise the Puissant Sanctum

Colleges: Rising Smoke 4, Mask 5, Sorcerer 2, [three additional dots]

Artifacts: [To complete. Includes a homebrew artifact of some sort that allows virtues to be temporarily buffed, sorta like Unsightly Rigor Approach, and a Treasure based on the Vault of Woven Dreams.]

Hearthstones: [20 dots, up to two 5-dot Hearthstones]

Brief Biography

[Name Pending] was born just over three hundred years ago in Coral. A sickly girl from a poor family in a patriarchal society, she knew from a young age that she had no future worth contemplating. At the age of 16, she ran away from home to join the Tya, hoping for something better than the world she knew. She never got there. The ship she showed away in encountered a Lintha raid and [Name Pending] was taken as a slave. Three years later a would-be-sorcerer and her current master, was consumed by the demon he had beckoned forth into Creation. Seeing her chance, [Name Pending] threw herself at Mara's feet, begging to be taught the ways of power so that she would never fear subjugation again.

Six years later, the day after Mara sent her out on her first solo mission, she received the Fateful Exaltation, at once losing much of the power she had been initiated into by her dark patron, and attracting the attentions of the Five-Score Fellowship. Over the course of her training, she grew disgusted by the manipulators who had directly created the world she was forced to grow up in, who only now sought to provide her and her alone with all that she had fought and sold and suffered and killed and served for in the past quarter-century. Nevertheless, she was no saboteur: though she was grateful to her former patron for giving her a chance to rise out of the gutter, [Name Withheld] still recognized that a world ruled by Mara's masters would be a terrible place. Nevertheless, she reasoned, it's not as though they couldn't still find reason to collaborate at times... though obviously her Sidereal superiors didn't need to know this, suspicious and paranoid as they were.

Long a Gold Faction supporter, [Name Pending] currently vacillates between the Gold and Silver Factions, after having had extensive interactions with Silver Pact members in various guises after a half-century spent exploring the Eastern Middlemarches in-between assignments.

 

[keeperofkore]

Does that mean you are not allowing fey artifacts?

 

[keeperofkore]

Also do we get the free dots from celestial training in abilities?

 

[keeperofkore]

Tines of Morning Sunlight
Chosen of Serenity
Motivation: Bring about a bold new era free of blight
Intimacies: Cult of the illuminated (hope), Solar exalted (affection), Bronze faction (behind the times), Fair folk (hatred), Martial arts (enamored),
Essence 6 (22/22, 57/43 commit 14 16/16), Willpower 10 (10/10)

• Virtues: Compassion 4, Conviction 5, Temperance 1, Valor 1
• Attributes: Strength 1, Dexterity 6, Stamina 2, Charisma 6, Manipulation 1, Appearance 5, Intelligence 3, Wits 4, Perception 3
• Abilities: Craft (Fate) 1, Lore 6 , Occult 6, Martial Arts 6 (through others +3), Dodge 6, Awareness 6, Performance 6 (the greater good +3), Presence 6, Linguists 1, Socialize 1, Athletics 3, Bureaucracy 2, Stealth 6, Medicine 2, Ride 1
• Backgrounds: Backing (Gold faction) 4, wealth 5, Manse 4, Arsenal 4, panoply 4, Allies 3 (CotI solar)
• Flaws: Sickly 6, Diminished sense touch 4

Regular Sidereal Charms

General Charms

• Throne Shadow Style: All charms

Sidereal Martial Arts

• Prismatic Arrangement of Creation: all charms (16)
• Obsidian shards of infinity: All Charms (11)

Colleges: Sword 6, Musician 6, Ewer 2


Artifacts: Perfected Kata Bracers(8), Skin Mount Amulets x3 (1*3), sorcery capturing chords (many first and second tier), Infinite resplendence amulet (5, starmetal and moonsilver), aegis inset amulets (-2)

Resplendent Destinies
Sword
Musician
Ewer

Hearthstones: Twice striking lightning prism 4, Kata sculpting gem 2, gemstone of enslaved passions 2

Brief Biography
Born in great forks and quickly passed to heaven Tines has grown up in the care and opulence of the beaure of destiny since she was an infant. Raised by their sifu Ayn Singh Tines studied martial arts religiously in addition to their general serenities training and was shown the horrors of the first age and the need to overthrow the solars at every turn. After coming into their own and departing their prior sifu with a promise to surpass her someday Tines has joined the gold faction with the return of the solars as they see few scenarios where the bronze can truly do what they wish and honestly solars work better for their aims. Tines dream is a better world than any that have come before, a proper utopia this time of peace, equality, and contentment and for this they are willing to do just about anything. A long standing personal trainer of solar chosen Tines does not hide what they are from their closest students believing that any misdirection at this stage could spell catastrophe later and as such those who work as Tines fingers do so knowing what they are.

 

[a311243549]

Mostly-complete character sheet. I still need to fill in the Motivation, Intimacy, Artifact/Hearthstone details, a few more College dots, some more Specialties and expand the bio.

Chosen of Secrets

[Snip]

Gonna swap out sorcery for the First and Fateful Craft Excellencies, and put my last three College dots into The Guardians. Might also swap out my Gold Faction leanings for focus on the Jadeborn.

 

[a311243549]

Would you say that Mountain Folk count as being Inside Fate?

 

[keeperofkore]

I don't know how chaos seers would work if they didn't

 

[a311243549]

Oops, forgot that Backgrounds above 3 normally cost double and can only be purchased with BP.

I still need to fill in the Motivation, Intimacy, Artifact/Hearthstone details, and current Destinies.

[Name Pending], Chosen of Endings

Essence 7 (19/19, 67/67), Willpower 5 (5/5)

• Virtues: Compassion 5, Conviction 5, Temperance 5, Valor 5
• Attributes: Strength 1, Dexterity 7, Stamina 2, Charisma 2, Manipulation 2, Appearance 5, Intelligence 5, Wits 2, Perception 5
• Abilities: Craft (Fire) 2, Craft (Air) 2, Craft (Fate) 1, Craft (Magitech) 7, Lore 7 (Geomancy +1), Occult 7 (Geomancy +1), Martial Arts 7, Dodge 7, Awareness 3, Presence 1, Performance 5, Ride 1, Stealth 1, Integrity 3, Linguistics 1 (Old Realm)
• Backgrounds: Connections 3 (Cult of the Restored Primordials), Connections 2 (Dijak Conclave), Jadeborn Manse 3, Jadeborn Artifacts 3, Salary 3, Panoply 3, Allies 3 (Mara, Defining Soul of Erembour, 7th Soul of the Ebon Dragon)
• Flaws: Dark Secret (3, Infernalist leanings), Diminished Sense (4, Touch), Sickly (3, Slowed healing)
• Colleges: Guardians 3, Sorcerer 2, Crow 5, Rising Smoke 4

Charms

• Inherent Sidereal Charms
  
  • Craft (9): First Craft Excellency, Fateful Craft Excellency, Elemental Vision, World-Shaping Artistic Vision, Destiny-Knitting Entanglement, Predestined Delivery Shaping, Excellent Implementation of Objectives, Mending Warped Designs, Implicit Construction Methodology
  • Dodge (2): Absence, Duck Fate
• Celestial Martial Arts
  
  • Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Style (Free): Demure Carp Feint, Pearlescent Filigree Defense, Lethal Paper Fan Attack, Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Form, Flurry of August Leaves Concentration, Resplendent Sash Grapple Technique, Vindictive Concubine’s Pillow Book Understanding, Fragrant Petal Fascination Kata, Seven Storms Escape Prana, Invoking the Chimera’s Coils
  • Throne Shadow Style (2): Lotus Eye Tactics, The Lotus Blossoms (Sidereal Extension)
• Sidereal Martial Arts
  
  • Sapphire Veil of Passion (2): Yellow Dragon Flight, Black Dragon Coils
  • Border of Kaleidoscopic Logic (12): Last Heart Enclosure, Birth of the Perfect Ego Juggernaut, Impersonal Personal Denature Sting, Kaleidoscopic Disrecognition Atemi, Words are Not Enough Infliction, Two Score Mirror Glance, Freeing the Father from the Child, Border of Kaleidoscopic Logic Form, Reliant Soul Infiltration, Without Assumption, Beauty is in the Eye, Meditative Battlefield Escalation

Possessions:

• Resplendent Destinies
  • The Gull
  • The Quiver
  • The Shield
  • The Spear
  • The Key
  • The Treasure Trove
  • The Rising Smoke
• Artifacts: [6 dots Jadeborn, as well as her own Panoply]
  • [To complete. Includes a homebrew artifact of some sort that allows virtues to be temporarily buffed, sorta like Unsightly Rigor Approach, and something based on the Vault of Woven Dreams.]
• Hearthstones: [6 dots]

Biography

[Name Pending] was born just over three hundred years ago in Coral. A sickly girl from a poor family in a patriarchal society, she knew from a young age that she had no future worth contemplating. At the age of 16, she ran away from home to join the Tya, hoping for something better than the world she knew. She never got there. The ship she showed away in encountered a Lintha raid and [Name Pending] was taken as a slave. Three years later a would-be-sorcerer and her current master, was consumed by the demon he had beckoned forth into Creation. Seeing her chance, [Name Pending] threw herself at Mara's feet, begging to be taught the ways of power so that she would never fear subjugation again.

Six years later, the day after Mara sent her out on her first solo mission, she received the Fateful Exaltation, at once losing much of the power she had been initiated into by her dark patron, and attracting the attentions of the Five-Score Fellowship. Over the course of her training, she grew disgusted by the manipulators who had directly created the world she was forced to grow up in, who only now sought to provide her and her alone with all that she had fought and sold and suffered and killed and served for in the past quarter-century. Nevertheless, she was no saboteur: though she was grateful to her former patron for giving her a chance to rise out of the gutter, [Name Withheld] still recognized that a world ruled by Mara's masters would be a terrible place. Nevertheless, she reasoned, it's not as though they couldn't still find reason to collaborate at times... though obviously her Sidereal superiors didn't need to know this, suspicious and paranoid as they were.

[Name Pending] has the dubious distinction of being the founder and sole member of the Jade Faction. In her view, the Exalted of every stripe have demonstrated routinely over the course of Creation's history that whatever their individual skills and majesty, none of them are fit for leadership of Creation. The Jadeborn, by contrast, have maintained their arcane empire for millennia without causing the sort of devastation the Exalted routinely unleashed, and have successfully maintained continuity of society and culture even in their reduced state, through the Great Geas, the Great Contagion, and the Balorian Crusade. Most of all, compared to how the Dragon Blooded interact with their serfs, even the Unenlightened of the Mountain Folk are treated fantastically well.

In her identity as an agent of heaven, she maintains ties to the Conclave of Dijak, a large and prosperous Jadeborn city-state to the South. Over the past century, she's been engaged in a long-term project at their behest, seeking to use geomancy and fate manipulation to increase the fraction of Enlightened who are unearthed, and serving as Sifu and instructor to some of the brightest Enlightened. Furthermore, making use of her somewhat speckled background, she functions as the tentative go-between for the small Cult of the Restored Primordials – a tolerated heresy within the Jadeborn orthodoxy, one which recognizes that the Yozis as they stand are evil yet seeks a way to restore them to their pre-defiled state – and Malfeas, for the rare occasions that the former needs access to some resource or information from the latter.