Koa, the Librarian
Demon of the First Circle
Progeny of the Maiden of Shade and Knowledge

In Malfeas, the Demon City, lies is a large library of colored glass sitting atop a castle of brass and blood-stained lead. it is the Heartless Library, and Within it lie all the books that will never be written. Not those that once were, but have been destroyed or lost or forgotten, nor those that will, one day, eventually be written, for those things are bound by Fate and under the watchful eye of Yu Shan: the Heartless Library holds only those book that have never been and will never be. Most of them appear as utterly meaningless and incomprehensible, but it is mere lack of context: each of them holds true wisdom.
The lesser demons known as Koa scour the endless corridors of the Heartless Library at the whim of their mistress. They resemble female humans with a skin of paper, on which characters and letters from every alphabet, penned in perfect calligraphy, travel, like leaves floating on the calm surface of a lake. Their eyes and mouths are hollow, showing their insides: inky blackness.
Sorcerors summon Koa only if they own a library or something akin to one, because without one to care for the Koa will slowly lose herself and become insane. But their mistress cares little about losing one or two of them, and, as long as there are books, they care little about being summoned from Malfeas and being pressed into servitude.
Koa have a sixth sense that allows them to navigate any filing system with perfect accuracy, but are difficult to care for. They feed on stories, knowledge and information: someone (possibly the summoner) must talk to them, from time to time, about some scholarly topic or narrating poetry or tales. The Koa substantiates the received information in a leather-bound tome that slowly forms inside their hollow bodies. When the tome is ready, they rip themselves open and offer it to their summoner.

The Koa can also truly eat knowledge - as she hears something, she can remove it from the memory of the speaker and keep it only for herself. He can do this at her whim to mortals, but only to willing Exalts. A summoner who wishes to summon a Koa, either mortal or Exalted, can, instead of having her serve him for a year and a day, bind her to himself and a library for eternity (or until the Koa is slain) by agreeing to lose something from his memory forever. Because of this, sometimes Koa are summoned by those who wish to forget their past, or hide secrets or forbidden knowledge.
The eaten knowledge reforms in a tome with a polished brass cover, and, unlike the leatherbound tomes that the Koa creates from simply listening to others, she will treasure it as her most precious thing, like a children of the love between her and her summoner. For, eternally bound together, she will love her, and the more she eats her mind and knowledge, the more she loves her.

MOTIVATION: Usually lies in serving one particular library or one particular summoner, and usually changes into love for a summoner after eating a part of his knowledge... and a desire for more

ATTRIBUTES: Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 4, Charisma 3, Manipulation 3, Appearance 3, Perception 4, Intelligence 4, Wits 3

VIRTUES: Compassion 3, Conviction 3, Temperance 3, Valor 2

ABILITIES: Martial Arts 2, Thrown 2, Integrity 4, Performance 2, Presence 2, Resistance 3, Craft (wood) 2, Investigation 5 (Library Research +3), Lore 4, Occult 4, Athletics 2, Awareness 2, Dodge 3, Bureaucracy 4, Linguistics 5.

BACKGROUNDS: None.

SPIRIT CHARMS:
Essence Plethora x2
First Excellency of Investigation
Divine Investigation Subordination
Hurry Home (returns her to her library)
Measure the Wind
Memory Mirror
Chrysalis of Preservation (the tomes she creates are immune to age and conventional damage)
Creation of Perfection (creates a physical book out of an abstract concept)
Mind-knife sacrament (variant: eats a victim's memories and knowledge)

JOIN BATTLE: 5

ATTACKS:
Punch: Speed 5, Accuracy 6, Damage 2B, Defense 7, Rate 3
Kick: Speed 5, Accuracy 5, Damage 5B, Defense 3, Rate 2
Clinch: Speed 6, Accuracy 5, Damage 2B, Defense -, Rate 1
Improvised Thrown Weapon: Speed 5, Accuracy 5, Damage 5B, Rate 2, Range 10

SOAK: 2L/4B

HEALTH LEVELS: -0/-0/-0/-0/-0/-0/-0/-0/-0/Incap

DODGE DV: 3
WILLPOWER: 6
ESSENCE: 3
ESSENCE POOL: 90
COST TO MATERIALIZE: 45

OTHER NOTES: Koa regenerate damage very quickly, due to their almost insubstantial paper bodies. Every tick of combat, they regenerate one non-aggravated health level. When a Koa rips herself apart to retrieve a book from within her own body, treat this as an attack that automatically inflicts 5 unsoakable health levels of damage. A Koa will almost never abandon her library (except under the direst circumstances).

Is that a canon demon or did you write that up yourself?

Pretty cool... i can see myself using these at some point

in b4 400 sages for little girl demon pictures

>>1755339
Made it up myself. I'm also statting up their mistress, the second circle demon The Maiden of Shade and Knowledge, and her own third circle demon, Remilia, the Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil, one of the souls of Adjoran, the Silent Wind.

Other Second Circle Demons are going to be Izayoi, the Sixteen Day Moon, and Beautiful Scarlet Bell. And of course Flandre as another Third Circle Demon.

Yeah, my players don't know Touhou, so I can rip it for names, ideas and themes. Even if it's what you'd call a side-quest (the "main plot" is about abyssals and deathlords and forgotten civilizations and doomsday devices that might actually be preferable to a regular apocalypse), I love making up stuff and I love demons in Exalted, so I might actually be posting moar later.

>>1755371

Have Marisa steal their precious things.

Love the concept.

/steal

Just too bad my pc's would kill ti so fast. Damn gm tendency to induce paranoia in my players. I can't help ti if it amuses me to see them quake in fear at the description of a beautiful flower.

>>1755374
It's ALMOST going to happen. There's a NPC called Leedal Marisa who is a "treasure hunter" (a.k.a. tomb robber) for the Heptagram. She doesn't give shit about the Immaculate Doctrine and might become a useful ally for the circle.

As for their precious thing, the Abyssals already stole them. And by "precious thing", I mean "a Soulbreaker Orb"

>>1755377

Be my guest. That's why I post stuff. Well, that and because this board needs moar Exalted loev.

Also, your players are doing it wrong. I've seen gaming groups play Exalted like it were Paranoia, WHFRP, or D&D (starting as lvl1 adventurers), and it's horrible. I hope you'll manage to make them snap out of it.

>>1755393

Important Question: Is Marisa gay for Alice, or Reimu?

(Or Patchy if you're one of THOSE people)

>>1755393

Oh no it's entirely my fault. I tend to describe my villains more then they actually are. It literally took some ST shennanigans to get them to crawl inside a half dead primordial who represented the pruest aspect of "consumption" and finish it off.

>>1755393
I was browsing rapidsearch and someone uploaded the 2e Core yesterday, but I guess I missed the thread. =(

>>1755409

It was nothing special. one moron trying to say all high powered games, including exalted, are just ways of players playing out power fantasies and are therefore worthless, and that everyone should play GRITTY REALISM games.

Everyone else in the thread was giving exalted all the love and care it deserves.

>>1755400
Everyone is gay for Marisa.

>>1755414

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Foem5yG_WYo
Everybody except the Hot Pockets Guy

>>1755400
D, all of the above.

>>1755400

I choose E, which is Sakuya
'Cause of Marisa's dialouge in EoSD.

>>1755413
Ah, ok thanks. We keep getting those every once in a while for some reason. That guy was a moron.

I wonder why it's so hard to grasp that Exalted is about the CHARACTERS playing out their power fantasies and after a long string of heroics finding out they are officially Worse Than Hitler(tm).

Well, and swords bigger than swords have any right to be, ofcourse...

>>1755574

Daiklaves are awesome. in a recent campaign, i had a character who couldn't use bladed weapons, so my ST took pity on me and gave me a Daihammer. i was smacking people over the horizon in no time.

>>1755670
Spoiler: The proper name is "goremaul".

Anyway.

The Maiden of Shade and Knowledge
Demon of the Second Circle
(The Wisdom Soul of the Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil)

The Maiden of Shade and Knowledge lives in the Heartless Library, the tall, cylindrical building of seven-colored glass that rises from the dark shape of the Mansion of Blood, a sturdy, brutal, bladed building of rough brass and lead, stained by seven different types of blood, sitting at the crossway of seven roads, lying where Malfeas, Kimberry and Cecelyne meet. It is the fortress of two of the souls of Adjoran, the Silent Wind, and those that reside within are the only beings in all the demon world which can live in silence without fear of having their life taken by the Yozi.
The Heartless Library is boundless, and contains every book that has never existed and will never exist. Its mistress looks much like a young human girl, sickly and pale, weak, diseased, her bloody eyes two pale purple flames that flicker like dying candles. Her skin is a poor, colorless thing, and her long purple hair is almost grayish in hue. Despite this, she has the beauty of a fragile flower. She wears pallid, silken dresses, woven out of the flesh of the Neomah that Adjoran, the soul of her soul, slays with her silence. Around her orbit slowly five bound jade tomes, one for each color, hovering in mid-air and each softly singing the song of its element.
Thanks to the Library, the Maiden has the knowledge of everything that will never be, and this means that, with due reasoning, she might infer knowledge of everything that actually is. However, the process of learning something from its negation is long and tiresome, and this explains her consumed appearance and her existence as a recluse in her Library.
For the Maiden pursues nothing more than knowledge. She knows that it would take her more than eternity to discover everything that is, but she does it nonetheless, because it is her nature.

She dislikes being summoned, because this robs her of her time, and she hates every place that is not her library and wouldn't mind seeing the entire universe save for the Mansion of Blood destroyed, but it is nothing more than an idle thought: she has neither the power nor the will to waste time, strength and resources in something that tiresome.
However, if the summoner offers her books and tomes of knowledge from Creation, she might serve him willingly, if only for a short time. If he is merely mortal, or a mortal in some way or another displeases her, she will drag him screaming back to the Heartless Library, where the Koa, her librarian-servants, will rip him to shreds, and make a bookshelf out of his bones and books out of his mind, bound in the leather of his skin and written with his blood.
Summoning her is difficult, because her Third Circle Demon mistress, Remilia, has eaten and destroyed her True Name. She can however be called by summoning a Koa, surrendering to her the will and the ritual to summon the Maiden (thereby forgetting both that you wanted to summon her, and how to summon her), and then, after the Koa has shaped the stolen knowledge into a brass-bound book, banish her back to her mistress, which will appear after exactly 49 seconds in front of the summoner with the book in her hands, restoring the lost knowledge to him.

After being summoned, she will bind herself to a room, and refuse to abandon it. The room will slowly become an access to the Heartless Library, and beings from Creation wandering too far into the Maiden's realm might well find themselves lost, or, worse even, they might discover that they have passed from the Heartless Library to the Mansion of Blood in Malfeas. Furthermore, she has no mercy for any that dare steal even a single book from her library, save for only one person. Only one individual exists at a time in Creation who can steal books from the Library without incurring in her wrath, and the Maiden loves him secretly.
The Maiden knows Sorcery and holds power over the elements of Creation: She can open one of her five books of jade, and let her knowledge pour around her and reshape reality. However, during one week, for five days out of seven she can control only one element at a time. On the sixth day, she cannot open not even one of her jade books. But on the seventh day, all five elements are hers to command. Many summon her to use her powers or learn spells of Sorcery from her, or to ask for her counsel. But she counsels, and nothing more, because she loathes and despises physical work and activity of any kind.
She knows every single spell of the Terrestrial Circle, but only one of the Celestial and one of the Solar circle, and she has never used them and no one save herself knows what kind of spells they are, or even if and how she can cast them at all (for the Solar circle is commonly held as reserved to the Chosen of the Unconquered Sun and no one else).
Once the terms of her summoning and binding have expired, she will return to the Mansion of Blood, and the room disappears with her, along with everything in it, as if it never existed. Only then Heaven does notice the gaping hole in Destiny that she has made.

MOTIVATION: Acquire all the knowledge in the universe

ATTRIBUTES: Strength 3, Dexterity 4, Stamina 1, Charisma 4, Manipulation 4, Appearance 5, Perception 5, Intelligence 7, Wits 4

VIRTUES: Compassion 2, Conviction 5, Temperance 5, Valor 4

ABILITIES: Integrity 5, Presence 4 (Intimidating Aura +2), Craft (all) 7, Investigation 7 (Library Research +3), Lore 7, Medicine 7, Occult 7 (Sorcery +3), Awareness 2, Dodge 4, Bureaucracy 4, Linguistics 7 (Old Realm +3).

BACKGROUNDS: Artifact N/A (tomes of knowledge and power), Followers 5 (legion of Koa)

SPIRIT CHARMS: Any charm that would make sense for her to know and use.

JOIN BATTLE: 6

ATTACKS:
Elemental Bolt Attack*: Speed 5, Accuracy 20, Damage 16L + elemental effect, rate 1, range 140
Elemental Burst Technique*: Speed 5, Accuracy 20, Damage 8L + elemental effect in a radius of 7 meters, rate 1, range 140
*(Those attacks work as the Dragon-blooded charms, but have no Essence cost. The Maiden of Shade and Knowledge can use an element only if she can open the corresponding book. If it's the day in which she can open all her books, then she can fire two attacks together as a single action with a single attack roll once every two actions, and she can fire all five together once per scene by spending 1 WP. They do not cont as charm usage.)

SOAK: 10L/11B (clothes of silken Neomah flesh, 10L/10B)

HEALTH LEVELS: -0/-1/-1/-1/-1/-1/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-4/Incap

DODGE DV: 8
WILLPOWER: 10 + 5 additional termporary Willpower points.
ESSENCE: 7
ESSENCE POOL: 150
COST TO MATERIALIZE: 75

OTHER NOTES: The Maiden of Shade and Knowledge knows and can cast every Terrestrial Circle Sorcery spell in existence, plus, probably, every Terrestrial Circle Sorcery spell NOT in existence. She also knows a single celestial and a single Solar spell. What spell, and whether she can cast them or not, is left to the Storyteller's choice.

>>1755692
>Only one individual exists at a time in Creation who can steal books from the Library without incurring in her wrath, and the Maiden loves him secretly.

How adorable.

You know, I've often thought that the whole Gensyoko, Danamaku thing seemed like one great big application of the pinnacle charm of the BORDER OF KALEIDOSCOPIC LOGIC FORM siddy MA.
With the specifications that all combatants taking part are transformed into supernatural loli equivalents and must combat each other via highly complicated sets of bullet patterns.
Except who ever casted it has underestimated whoever Reimu is.
BADLY.

>>1755718
Yes, it's intended as a TOUHOU HIJACK LOL, but it can also be a nice plot hook.

>>1755735
Probably REIMU is the one who casted it.

>>1755744

But don't we know who it was who created Gensyko from the fluff? I mean, the charm only alters how combat works, not changes individual circumstances.

I reckon there's only one person who could be behind all that, and it's not Reimu.

>>1755752
The fluff for the Touhou games says that humans put up the barrier that separates Touhou from the rest of the world, but who the heck cares. We're talking Exalted here!

>>1755753
Was going to write her up as either a Yozi or a really huge Third Circle Demon someday (although she COULD be a ridiculously powerful god, or possibly Luna herself just doing shit for the lulz.)

I love demons in Exalted because they're not "ZOMG EEEEEEEVIL BABY-EATING PEOPLE WITH HORNS AND RED SKIN" like in most other fantasy games... they're just utterly alien and incomprehensible. Plus, it's fun to stat them because they're all unique and you can make up stuff with incredible freedom.

>>1755772
Regarding the origins of Gensokyo: I did something a long long damn time ago that explored just how Gensokyo came to be, and Yukari's origin. It's fucking huge and only in text format though, but if you're interested...

>>1755772
>The fluff for the Touhou games says that humans put up the barrier that separates Touhou from the rest of the world
No, not at all. The barrier was set up by a group of 'Youkai sages' including Yukari to create a sanctuary for Youkai who were finding it increasingly difficult to live with humans. That's why the percentage of youkai to humans is so high, and why the human villages consist mostly of descendants of youkai hunters.

I think this one is usually posted right about now.

>>1755772
Yukari as a ridiculously powerful god.

DO IT.

>>1755795

Well, I suppose all of this is a discussion for another day. Although I do find it somewhat interesting that the martial art style that could create Gensokyo as it's pinnacle charm happens to sound like a Tohou game in an of itself.

I'd try to help, but I don;t really know Touhou fluff well enough, and the Touhou wiki is down at the moment.

I might try stat up Wriggle Nightbug though. Not sure whether I want to base her on her IN performance, or the havoc she got up to in that one doujin of her.

>>1755843
Yukari for Role Playing Games, made easy:

A: Do anything.
B (optional): Explain how A was done using manipulation of borders.

>>1755855
>explain

Yukari Yakumo explains herself to no one.

>>1755861
Aye, it's mostly included as a countermeasure to the occasional "Can she DO that?!" from players.

>>1755855
>A) Do anything
>B) Sleep

Fixed

>>1755868
>A) Cause tentacle rape to happen
>B) Sleep

Fixed.

>>1755868
That's more like her Code of Behaviour or something - the version with optional explanation was system-independent rules/stats.

>>1755852

Hey, just what IS wriggle? Is she some kind of fae, or something closer to a firefly themed lunar?

>>1755934
Wriggle is a bug.

>>1755951

... so, lunar?

>>1755934
As far as Touhou is concerned, I believe she's a 'unique' type Youkai, much like Yukari, Yuka or Rumia - she has dominion over a certain something, and is the only one of her kind.

>>1755960
If Wriggle is the patron of bugs and Yuka is the patron of flowers, will there be cross-pollenation occurring?

>>1755960

So, stat her up as a kind of god or elemental, but without the usual god or elemental abilities (no materialize for instance.) then?

>>1755968
¯\(°_o)/¯

>>1755968
My ranking, from more to least appropriate:
1) Elemental (wood)
2) Lesser goddess of insects
3) Dragon-Blooded (wood-aspected)
4) Lunar Exalted (changing moon) with a firefly totem.

She just isn't... main-character-heroine-ish to be an Exalted, IMHO. I'd limit exaltation to Reimu (Zenith), Marisa (Night), maybe Sakuya (Infernal Exalted) and Youmu (Dusk-caste Abyssal. Yuyuko is clearly a Deathlord.)

>>1755843

*Flips open his Compass of Celestian Directions III: Yu Shan*

Ahem. As requested.


YUkari Yakumo, Countless Purple Clouds, Celestial Daimyo of Borders and Gaps.
Goddess of the Fifth Rank

Residing in a deceptively small and rural-looking palace in Yu Shan called Mayohiga, sitting square in the middle of a large forest park in the Lunargent Ecological Protectorate district. A park that most would ever suspect belonging in its entirety to the owner of the unassuming villetta at its centre.
Countless Purple Clouds is the goddess of borders, gaps, separation, distance, difference and distinctions, a subtle but ridiculously vast and important portfolio. Much like her own sphere of influence, she might appear unassuming to the casual onlooker: no vast, lavish palace of gold and marble, no legion of servant gods at her beck and call, no incredibly showy and expensive dresses or other trappings of power that usually gods of the Fifth Rank enjoy: she lives alone with a servant and her servant's servant and seems satisfied with what most high-ranking gods would call a humble life. Despite this, she is almost stupidly powerful, and some gossip in Heaven says that she might have even been an Incarna once, only to step down from her position before the Primordial War. Whether this rumor is true or not, she is respected and feared by everyone who knows her.
Interestingly enough, she is one of the very few rank five gods without any cult. She is virtually unknown in Creation and no one really prays to her consciously, but the power she receives from the association with the abstract concept of border is more than enough.

Countless Purple Clouds is a member of the Bureau of Abstract Matters and Celestial Concerns, she... well, she doesn't actually DO anything there. She avoids work like the plague, and does not participate in the endless backstabbing, bribery, betrayal and jockeying for position that characterizes the Bureau. While she is somewhat friends with Ryzala, Lady of Bureaucracy and Paperwork, and with Lytek, the Daimyo of Exaltation, she simply does not concern herself with their ambitions.
Her boss, technically, is Taru-Han, the Lady of Souls and chief of the Department of Abstract Matters, but she has given up on Countless Purple Clouds long ago. All that Countless Purple Clouds seems interested to do is, in no particular order of importance, eating, drinking, sleeping, stirring up trouble both in Creation and in Heaven, and playing the Games of Divinity without any seriousness.

What most gods (and a fair number of Sidereal Exalted) don't know is that she is also a very high-ranking member of the Violet Bier of Sorrows and a close friend and supporter of Wayang and Saturn herself. More then once she has helped the Bureau of Destiny out, although almost always on a whim or out of boredom and often causing about as much trouble as she solved (only someplace else). She is also infamous for sending young Sidereals on fool's errands across Yu Shan and Creation, and is a sympathizer of the Golden Faction just because she thinks it's fun.

MOTIVATION: Countless Purple Clouds is a fickle goddess but one without great aims or objectives. Her Motivation lies mostly in living a relaxed and leisurely life, working as little as possible ("none at all" would be just fine) and having as much fun as she can (possibly at the expense of others)

ATTRIBUTES: Strength 8, Dexterity 9, Stamina 8, Charisma 8, Manipulation 10, Appearance 8, Perception 9, Intelligence 9, Wits 7

VIRTUES: Compassion 4, Conviction 5, Temperance 5, Valor 5

ABILITIES: Athletics 5, Awareness 7, Bureaucracy 5, Craft (Wood) 4, Craft (Fire) 3, Craft (Earth) 3, Dodge 9, Integrity 9, Investigation 4, Larceny 8 (Dressing up other people +1), Linguistics 8, Lore 8, Martial Arts 4, Medicine 3, Melee 6 (Umbrella +3), Occult 8, Performance 5, Presence 7 (Creepy smile +2), Resistance 7 (Alcohol +2), Sail 3, Socialize 8 (Just as planned +3), Stealth 6 (I've been here all along +2), Survival 5, War 8 (Ridiculously complex plans +1).

BACKGROUNDS: Allies N/A (Few but very powerful gods, including Saturn), Backing 5 (Division of Endings), Contacts 2, Salary 5, Celestial Manse 5

SPIRIT CHARMS: All of them, plus many, many, many others.

JOIN BATTLE: 14

ATTACKS:
Umbrella: speed 5, accuracy 20, damage 27B piercing, defense 17, Rate 2


SOAK: 16L/20B (Godly clothes, 12L/12B)

HEALTH LEVELS: -0/-1/-1/-1/-1/-1/-1/-1/-1/-1/-1/-1/-1/-1/-1/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-
2/-2/-2/-4/Incap

DODGE DV: 14
WILLPOWER: 10 + 15 additional termporary Willpower points.
ESSENCE: 9
ESSENCE POOL: 200
COST TO MATERIALIZE: 95

OTHER NOTES: Countless Purple Clouds' power of manipulating borders, both matierial and conceptual, make her incredibly powerful and versatile, almost omnipotent and probably one of the greatest powers in Yu Shan short of the Incarna and a scant few other rank five gods. However, her laziness and easygoing personality mean that it is extremely difficult to get her involved, or even interested, in anything. Her favourite uses for her powers are: opening portals that instantly connect two very distant places, creating a pocket dimension in Elsewhere where she can hide things or sleep peacefully, and creating seals that prevent movement and communication.


...there. I'm not going to stat up other stuff for today, and I won't be here tomorrow. If the thread's gonna stay alive until Monday, I might write other stuff.

In the depths of an ancient forest in the east, on the borders of the middlemarch, lives a very strange firefly, called in hushed and fearful tones by the few mortals that live there as "the monarch of the insects".
This creature is called Wriggle Nightbug.
Wriggle came to being when the local swarms of insects (including several large hives of giant insect, their size increased by wyld exposure) began to undertake an activity that for an insect, passed for prayer. These prayers had nowhere to go however, as their chitchinous worship was too alien to be recognized by Yu-Shuan.
So seemingly at random, this worship empowered a single Firefly to be their god, and the insects of creation obey her without question.
Despite being originally an insect, Wriggle Nightbug has the form of a somewhat androgynous female (a fact that must NEVER be said to her face), the only insectile tells she possesses are a pair of insect-like antennae protruding just above her hairline and pair of wings that on first inspection appear to be a dark blue and red cloak.
Her human appearance appears to be the result of some sort of genetic group memory from the insects who formed her of the primordial who created insects.

More often than not she is content to simply live a life of no responsibilities using her command over insects to make them perform for her varied amusements.
Sometimes she also attacks lost travellers out of no real malice, but rather a sense of spoilt mischievousness that has never been tempered with denial.
Though she is considered the god of the insects of the east, the truth is all of her power solely stems from the worship of mortal insects, and although their number is almost limitless, the amount of power the prayers of each insect grants her is basically next to nothing.
As a result her power is severely lacking, and even Exalted could brush her off like (ironically enough) an insect.
Another weakness is that her demesne is her own mortal body, and should it be destroyed, then she herself would killed.

Stats to follow in a few minutes.
Would have done it sooner, but I had to watch the FA cup final.

MOTIVATION: Wriggle Nightbug, God of the insects has no real agenda, and wishes solely to be obeyed and pursue all of her child like whims without obstacle.

ATTRIBUTES: Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 3, Charisma 2, Manipulation 3, Appearance 2, Perception 4, Intelligence 3, Wits 2 Awareness 3

VIRTUES: Compassion 2, Conviction 3, Temperance 1, Valor 3

ABILITIES: Thrown: 3, War: 2 (specialty: Large Armies) Performance: 3 (Specialty: Choreography) Awareness: 3, Dodge: 3, Larceny: 2 Linguistics: 2 (Language of all insects, Forest-Tongue) Ride: 4 (specialty: Insects)

BACKGROUNDS: Cult: 3 or less (if wriggle moves into an area with less insects, or at least two of the major giant insect hives in her current location are destroyed, this background will reduce at the storyteller discretion) Followers: 5 (all insects of varying sizes and types within a 30 mile area, will be reduced if she moves to an area with less insect life) Famous: 2,

SPIRIT CHARMS: 1st and 2nd excellencies in Dodge, Ride, Thrown and Awareness. Intrusion Sensing Awareness, Affinity (insect) Control (this effect only applies to mortal insects only.) Ride (her own mortal body only, is always on and costs no essence.) Triple Distance Attack Technique, Cascade of Cutting Terror, Spirit Weapons, Commanding the Ideal Celestial Army

JOIN BATTLE: 5

ATTACKS:

SOAK: 3B/2L Vestements of Holy Silk 8B/3L

HEALTH LEVELS: -0/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-3/-3/-3/Incap

DODGE DV: 9
WILLPOWER: 6
ESSENCE: 3
ESSENCE POOL: 60
COST TO MATERIALIZE: 0 (Nor does she need to.)

Wriggles domain is her own body, and she may move freely as her whims take her. It is unlikely however that she will ever leave the forest.
If defeated either in battle or to obtain her desires, she will use her war charms and amass a massive insect army to pursue those who have slighted her. How she handles the experience of new cultures and locations is up to the ST’s disgression.

>>1756947

Nice, I like her. A really "alien" and "different" god. Just a couple (of couple) of questions:

1) Exalted never used a "-3" health level. Is this on purpose to make her more alien and unique, together with her other amusing weirdnesses (using Solar charms, her particular version of the Ride charm, etc)?

2) You forgot to say how many points she has in each specialty (such as "War: 2 (specialty: Large Armies +3)"

3) needs SERIOUSLY higher appearance because cutebug is cute.

4) you forgot the Attacks.

moar.

Also, stat me please.

>>1757285
One, who the fuck are you, and two, this is a touhouxalted thread right now. You want to derail it in a somethingelsexalted thread, you write your own fluff and crunch.

Oh gee, another little girl stuffed into roleplayan. What a shock.

>>1755855
Hehe

Well fuck, I don't even play Exalted, and I'm quite impressed at what's here. Bravo, everyone, bravo. There's one thing I have to ask about Exalted though. I inquired about the mechanics and combat system of Exalted in my usual IRC group (which contains several Exaltedfags), and from what I gathered, it's much much easier to break Exalted with powergamed builds compared to D&D because some of the charms are undeniably overpowered and broken. Stuff like invincible kaiju Lunars. As much as I love powergaming, it kind of worries me that Exalted might not be very balanced.

How true is this claim that Exalted is not very balanced when it comes to powergaming?

>>1757494

I know it can be broken, but you really don't need to bother. In Exalted, you are powerful. there is really no need to try and find loopholes to break the game. Powerful combo's are okay, just don't be a dick with it basically.

>>1757504

The point of powergaming isn't to make you powerful, it's to make you more powerful than you're supposed to be, but on a mechanical scale. I was just asking about the mechanical balance of Exalted because my group was essentially saying that without generously hellbanning stuff from the (few) splatbooks, things can get out of hand even quicker than in D&D, and that Exalted is a game where things really ARE more balanced using only the core book.

>>1757547

I've only run with the core book. someone managed to get a 30+ melee dice pool just from that, which everyone thought was pretty awesome, but it didn't break the game. no matter what you do, there's a way stop it, no matter how powerful you are, someone can better you. Thats the nature of exalted.

>>1757494
>>1757547
If you want to learn Exalted, I suggest not looking at it from your normal powergaming viewpoint. You're just going to be frustrated at how easy Exalted is broken.

>1) Exalted never used a "-3" health level. Is this on purpose to make her more alien and unique, together with her other amusing weirdnesses (using Solar charms, her particular version of the Ride charm, etc)?

No, that was me not knowing what the hell I was doing and giving her a mish-mash of different charms from the Roll of Divinity and the Core book.
Besides I kinda needed those thrown charms in order to help replicate the Danmaku.

>2) You forgot to say how many points she has in each specialty (such as "War: 2 (specialty: Large Armies +3)"

Oh. Oops. Yeah, I kinda misinterpreted how that worked.

>3) needs SERIOUSLY higher appearance because cutebug is cute.

Yeah, but she's not cute on a DIVINE level or anything, 3 is about as cute a mortal creatures normally get.

>4) you forgot the Attacks.

Oops again.

I'll get to work on these, see if I can fix them up.

>>1757649

Fixed. Ish

MOTIVATION: Wriggle Nightbug, God of the insects has no real agenda, and wishes solely to be obeyed and pursue all of her child like whims without obstacle.

ATTRIBUTES: Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 3, Charisma 2, Manipulation 3, Appearance 4, Perception 4, Intelligence 3, Wits 2 Awareness 3

VIRTUES: Compassion 2, Conviction 3, Temperance 1, Valor 3

ABILITIES: Thrown: 4, War: 2 (specialty: Large Armies +3) Performance: 0 (Specialty: Choreography +2) Awareness: 3, Dodge: 3, Larceny: 2 Linguistics: 2 (Language of all insects, Forest-Tongue) Ride: 1 (specialty: Insects +3)

BACKGROUNDS: Cult: 3 or less (if wriggle moves into an area with less insects, or at least two of the major giant insect hives in her current location are destroyed, this background will reduce at the storyteller discretion) Followers: 5 (all insects of varying sizes and types within a 30 mile area, will be reduced if she moves to an area with less insect life) Famous: 2,

SPIRIT CHARMS: 1st and 2nd excellencies in Dodge, Ride, Thrown and Awareness. Intrusion Sensing Awareness, Affinity (insect) Control (this effect only applies to mortal insects only.) Ride (her own mortal body only, is always on and costs no essence.) Triple Distance Attack Technique, Cascade of Cutting Terror, Spirit Weapons, Commanding the Ideal Celestial Army, Terrestial Magic, Death of Obsidian Butterflies

JOIN BATTLE: 5

ATTACKS:
Last Word: Unseasonable Butterfly Storm: speed 4, accuracy 7, damage 3L, defense 5, Rate 3 Range:60 Cost: 10m Reduce targets DV to 0. Double number of successes.

Spectral Firefly: 4, accuracy 7, damage 3L, defense 5, Rate 3 Range:20 Cost: 2m

SOAK: 3B/2L Vestements of Holy Silk 8B/3L

HEALTH LEVELS: -0/-0/-1/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/Incap

DODGE DV: 9
WILLPOWER: 6
ESSENCE: 3
ESSENCE POOL: 60
COST TO MATERIALIZE: 0 (Nor does she need to.)

>>1757594
>Yeah, but she's not cute on a DIVINE level or anything, 3 is about as cute a mortal creatures normally get.

I understand what you were thinking, it's just that she's one of my favorite Touhou characters...

>>1757494

It's easy to powergame and optimize builds and everything in Exalted because the system is built with the basic premise that "you shouldn't, really."
You still CAN. it's easier than most other games because the game designers made the system thinking "let's make something that lets characters be awesome", not "let's make something that players won't be able to powergame".

On the other side, rules are a bit more flexible than in D&D, so while it's easier to powergame, even a heavily powergamed and optimized character probably won't be "hax", simply because there are so many things that are "hax" in their own way and within the rules that it's impossible to make something that wins everything.

So... >>1757594 is right. You shouldn't really look at Exalted from the powergaming perspective, not because "ZOMG POWERGAMING IS WRONG" (because the Stormwind Fallacy teaches us that it isn't true), but because IMHO powergaming in Exalted is neither fun nor rewarding nor effective enough (while it is, for example, in D&D). In short, I don't think you'd like it.

I've copied everything to my hard drive from this thread, should anyone need it in the future.

I might then go on to think about how I can turn the Eyes of Death Perception into a Sidereal Martial Art.

I'd hit Countless Purple Clouds like the fist of the North Star.

>>1758654

In Yu Shan, Countless Purple Clouds hits YOU.

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You're just starting your Touhou pic collections now, eh?

Exalted: Yeah, it's kinda like that.

>>1759131

Discworld Touhou: Take It Easy?

I am posting in this thread for purely personal reasons.

Bump. Any possibility of doing Remilia stats, guys?

>>1759911
I'd do Remilia, if you know what I mean.

>>1759932

You are not subtle enough, grasshopper.

>>1759257
Just curious, are you the same person who used to post in the DD forums?

And bump for interest