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>(If that's alright with you, this seems like a good moment to start planning for some timeskip, so we can move on to your operation against the Lintha (or... Well, who knows if something will happen first?). Alternatively, we can keep playing day after day, if you prefer.)

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>Who are we?
Maka, an exiled noble recently Exalted as a Zenith-caste Solar. She's in the western city of Tianna as a guest of queen Amata, an old friend. Abyssals are targeting the city for conquest, Lintha pirates have infiltrated it with spies and agents, and the Realm is probably planning to get rid of you. Enjoy.

>Solar? Zenith? I don't know Exalted...
This quest is as newbie-friendly as possible, and I want it to work as a newbie's intro to Exalted. If you have ANY question, ask in thread. For the setting, google "1d4chan exalted".

>Archive?
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=zenith

>System?
Dicepool-like system. When performing an action, everyone rolls 1d10 when posting. the first X rolls are considered, where X is equal to attribute + ability. Yes, this means that the more people are posting, the stronger Maka is, up to a limit of her attribute + ability.

>XP?
Attributes cost [current score x5] xp. Abilities cost [current score x3] xp, except Zenith costing [(current score x3) -1]. Charms cost 10 xp, except for Zenith-based charms (related to charisma and physical/mental fortitude) which cost 8 xp. At the end of every "session" (thread) you will be presented with a list of possible acquisitions.

>Twitter?
@exaltedfag

Also damn it, messed up the images. Here's the sheet.

Rolled 7

>>31797605
A short time skip sounds good, something long enough to get our mend trained and the groundwork for our projects started and off the ground.

I'd like to take 3 weeks to train our men, 4 at most, with Regis and Millian's training taking place a day or two a week in that time, like if we give our men a break day from training we train Regis and Millian instead.

I've got to run some errands now but I'll trust my fellow anons on sorting out the other details of the timeskip and our plans.

>>31797550
Alright, so.
Have Tia bring her tribe.
Gather farmer families, mostly from Tianna, by giving them land. These are the people that will feed themselves, and other when they come. We need them since we can not afford the time and money to importing food. They will also provide some workforce for building. Also, where there is food and simple work, simple men will come. Others can oversee their imigration.
Meanwhile we train our troops. Drill them hard. Work them to the bone. They should be fine soldiers in a month.

>>31797880
What would be the tribe's role here in your scenario?

>>31797917
They do what they do best. Hunt and gather mostly for now. You can't just put them in a city, we do not have a city anyways. So they camp close to the city(demesne right now) and go out to hunt and gather. Those that are not out hunting provide workforce for the manse.

>>31797880
We'll want to discuss this with Mikahil, when's the best time to start moving people, what to start with that kind of thing, he's the one that is designing the city, he might already have an idea about what to do, but i think we can move Tia's barbarians fairly early, they don't have to settle in a city, but having people living on the land will help develop that new god faster

>>31798019
Once some people are here, we should hold a prayer. Just before we leave for fight is a good time. There will be tribesmen, migrants and soldiers. Should get a new god going for us.

>>31797550
>as for workforce you have three potential sources for now: immigration from Tianna city, Freeport (but you'll have to make it happen), and the Black Fangs
I'm not sure how Amata will feel about us just stealing people from us, but we might want to start with Freeport, without the pirates their local economy is suppose to be draining and that is kinda our fault for taking them

>>31797550
>the Black Fangs
Who is this again?

>>31798071
It's literally a few words after it. Tia's tribe.

>>31797848
>I'd like to take 3 weeks to train our men, 4 at most,
Yeah, we should definitely start training our troops, hopefully we can train up the sailors and Tianna's army, but we should probably put priorities on who were gonna take to fight the Lintha

Rolled 9

>>31797880
>>31797971
>>31798019
>>31798032
>>31798057
>>31798071
>>31798130
>>31798156

TURN

YOUR

FUCKING

DICE

ON

.

Rolled 2

>>31798289
Oh yeah
Dice

>>31798289
How about fuck you, pally.

Rolled 5

>>31798305
you cunts not turning your dice on has fucked us over before and yet you've still not learned, ffs EF has said he wants everyone rolling with their posts because he does not know when we need dice or not so shut up and roll your fucking dice

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>>31798322

Rolled 3

We still haven't named our manse now that i think about it
Some people threw out Sol's Benevolence the last few threads, but it didn't really seem that popular

>>31798342
'cuz it's kind of shit. The manse is the city which was confirmed for Pearl?

Am I missing something?

Rolled 2

>>31798360
No, EF asked us for a separate name for the manse specifically after we had named the city
I do think we can come up with something better than that though

>>31798382
Oh. I didn't see that in the archives, then.

>>31798382
Well, you don't HAVE to name it, but if you don't, someone else will.

Rolled 5

>>31798399
>Tia names it Maka's Glorious Sex Palace

Rolled 7

>>31798410
I fail to see the problem
> the locals will just refer to it as the sex palace no matter what.

Rolled 4

>>31798399
I've no idea what to name this manse, we should ask Pyre Sparks for tips, she probably knows something about UCS that would give us ideas

>>31798630
"Unconquered Boner Casino"

Rolled 7

Timeskip sounds ok.

Since it's still pretty early i'll leave the thread going for a bit more to collect ideas, plans and other input before progressing it.

Rolled 8

>>31798630
She'll probably name it something related to flowers.

Can you imagine her reaction when we tell her we're building a temple city to UCS?

>>31798737
Iron Lotus Memorial Hospital for Injured Athletes and Exalts.

Rolled 9

We should spend some time during the timeskip to socialize wuth our new minions and our fellow solars.
Visit Talon to see how he's doing and when he'll be ready to attack.
Hold at least one prayer at the Sun Cult

Rolled 8

>>31798778
Yeah this is a good idea

Rolled 5

>>31798778
>Visit Talon to see how he's doing
yeah we should do that

good ideas anon

Rolled 6

>>31798778
>our fellow solars.
And try to get into their pants

Rolled 4

>>31797550
We should get Mikahil's opinion on things, but we'll probably want to start with farmers to start preparing the land before we start moving people in large numbers

>>31798778
>Hold at least one prayer at the Sun Cult
We should make sure people are doing all 4 prayers, most people in this age have stopped doing the midnight one
>>31798825
>And try to get into their pants
of course

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>>31798778
>Hold at least one prayer at the Sun Cult
We should try and make this a fairly regular thing, if we do it enough we might be able to raise our cult rating

>>31798888
>Maka hosts a weekly variety show that includes a half hour prayer to big man

I'd watch the Maka & Friends Weekly Variety Show.

>>31798927
>Maka & Friends Variety Show
aka >Exalted Quest

>>31798936
It's a self-narrated, satirized version of Exalted Quest presented as a viewer-driven create your own choice adventure where the audience votes in on what fictional-Maka & Friends should do.

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>>31798927
>>31798936

We also have to get Valeriana to design the laugh track and make it indestructible.

>>31798966
But every vote would just end in 'fuck' winning.

>>31799006
That's just being Authentic!

>>31799006
Just like the real quest.

There'd probably be a VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED before the porno happens.

>>31799002
Magnificent.

Rolled 8

>>31797550

Well. I think the Millian's training can wait. We should focus on all our training on our troops. We can throw Regis into the training regime when we teach dawn 3 or start the zenith lessons.

We should also get people from Freeport to move to our city. There they can set up the farming and the fishing infrastructure that our city will need. We also need to integrate the barbarian's into our city. However that will have to be a gradual process.

They might have 1E lunar views on civilisation which are essentially BARBARIANS STRONK!"

Since Valeriana left us the plans for the Gloria. We should look to producing our own Gloria's but I don't think that's going to matter with the Lintha battle considering now long ships take to make.

The only worry is that the abyssals could attack like we start on our anti-Lintha campaign. Perhaps we can delegate Mikahil to doing that while we do other domestic things.
Although I think the Abyssals are going to go the long route and try to help get a Wyld hunt here. Because after that they can go and mop up.

>>31798778

Yea. I agree with praying with Sun Cult. They have been waiting of an Exalted to show up and not paying with them will disappoint them.

>>31797550
>Finishing Regis' training will probably take you three more days. Millian's, around five. On the other hand, properly training your fleet and men before the attack will take much longer. You'll have to work by weeks, not days.
Let's Time skip then

Rolled 10

>>31799129
>Since Valeriana left us the plans for the Gloria.
You think we could send the Gloria out to do a little shopping for us?
It might be fast enough to get past the lintha ship so we could get some Jade for our DBs

>>31799159
It won't be. the lintha ship probably counts-as artifact, which means some integral/structural speed bonuses, in addition to having charms/essence spent.

>>31799180
The lintha demon-ship is only one. It doesn't automatically intercept every boat in the water: it makes shipping more dangerous, but a fast ship can still trade. Remember, despite the lintha tianna still manages to get some trade done.

Rolled 8

>>31799180

While I mentioned in >>31799129
>The only worry is that the abyssals could attack like we start on our anti-Lintha campaign.

I think that we need to take a few exalts with us to take down the lintha ship.
One idea we can do is launch Tia via catapult into the lintha ship an in mid flight Tia turns into a Kraken.

>>31799211
I imagine word will spread pretty quickly about "that weird new ship," leading to the lintha ramraiding Maka's asshole like Tia on a bindle of coke.

That's what I'd do with a bindle of coke, anyways.

Rolled 5

>>31799211
I think it's worth the risk of getting us some Jade, it's not liek we can't build more ships eventually, and it did just arrive, the lintha probably don't even know about it, actually now that i think about it, do the Lintha only fuck up Tianna's ships or do they also go attack other islands?

Rolled 3

I don't think we can afford enough jade to be worth it.

>>31799224
We should use this to lure Lintha into Tianna's home waters. Then Flow can stop them, and the rest of the fleet will surround them. Or Tia will turn into a Kraken and get the ship on land. I'd like to capture it mostly intact.

>>31799256
And then...what, with it, exactly?

>>31799266
Leave to Valeriana for reverse engineering? Use it to get close to Lintha base without alerting them? Remake it into something less scary and give it to Tianna as a flagship for their navy?

Are you really, honestly asking what to do with a magical ship?

Rolled 9

>>31799256

>I'd like to capture it mostly intact.
No. You do not want to capture Lintha ships.

However the rest of your plan is sound, I am just worried about the Gloria getting caught before the other ships can close the trap.

Rolled 10

>>31799289
it's not just some Artifact ship, it's an actually living lintha as a boat, we can't do any of that

>>31799289
It's literally(? - possibly metaphorically, this is a thing yozis can do) a demon in a boat.

There's not really...you know. Any engineering in it.

It's more warhams 40k daemonengine than it is, well, any other non-possessed object.

Generally what >>31799299 suggests.

Rolled 6

>>31799254
Not us personally, but it doesn't seem like Tianna would have much trouble buying Jade, or at least it's only been the lintha ship preventing them from trying, plus if we send Mikahil we could get a deal on purchases and with any Sail charms he knows he might be able to avoid the ship completely

Rolled 3

>>31799318
Could Tianna make enough Artifacts before we attack the Lintha?

>>31799361
Tianna doesn't have any magical materials

>>31799375
Well...as per oadenol's codex, you don't actually technically need THE magical materials, as in capital M-agical capital-Materials.

You just need "exotic," materials which I'm sure Tianna/Amata/etc could roundup, plus whatever Silk can make out of gossamer.

Just requires some applied creativity.

Rolled 6

>>31799375
I think he means if the Gloria goes to buy some magical materials
I'm not sure though, it would depend on what EF changed about crafting mechanics

Rolled 3

>>31799375
I meant if we get the Jade.
This whole plan to send the ship on a dangerous mission to get some MM seems too risky for too little gain

Any chance we could have Mikhail ferret out some kind of first age loophole allowing a condemed prisoner to be judged by a different god?
If so we could spread the information in wavecrest and sour thier relationship with the volcano deities while simultaneously increasing Dancing Smoke's cult and authority. Could be a big help for when we need to carve a chunk out of wavecrest.
Assuming the celestial bureaucracy has some odd convenient law for that.

Rolled 6

>>31799408
It'll be fine if we send Mikahil probably
He's made it to the island safely at least three times

>>31799423
Legal eagle is an under-appreciated Eclipse specialty, so I'm in favor of having Mickey research ten thousand years of common/precedent law with the sole purpose to dick over/annoy other nations.

It's like a tiny, fictional UN.

Rolled 1

I think think that, as soon as our pirates are ask trained up, our primary goal should be figuring out where to find Black Atoll. None of our other ideas mean shit if we can't late the damn place, and Lintha are too loyal to get the information beaten out of them.

So, what's the plan for FINDING Black Atoll?

Rolled 5

I know we talked about, buying Soc 4 and SRB next, but since it looks like we're going to time skip to fighting lintha what do you think about buy a new combat charm instead of soc 4?

Rolled 1

>>31799441

Oh yea. We do need a plan for finding the place.

Rolled 9

>>31799449
Exactly. All of these plans we're throwing around are fucking worthless if we don't know how to find the damn place. Doing anything other than figuring out how to locate it is stupid as hell.

Rolled 7

>>31799441
If we damage the lintha ship but don't destroy it, it might lead us back to Black Atoll

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>>31799448
Soc 4 would improve our backgrounds, which I'm hoping would mean we trip over an artifact of some kind, like a smashfist or armor like pic related

Rolled 9

>>31799467
They fight to the death. Try again.

Rolled 7

>>31799473
It improves our SOCIAL backgrounds, like Allies, Followers, Cult, and so forth. It doesn't do shit for backgrounds of other types, like having Artifacts.

Rolled 2

>>31799473
Still don't like that armor
I do want some high-heeled God Kicker Boots though

Rolled 8

>>31799448

I still think we should still get soc 4. Since we are making a social character our greatest strength is our social backgrounds stuff

>>31799473

I wonder if we can get GLORIOUS!
SOLAR!
PLATE!
In his system.

>>31799483
Really? I must have remembered wrong. I'm still for upping it, unless we can somehow get to Night 4 and buy the charm that lets us walk on water, but that would take much more experience than we have, and could justify getting in a time skip

Rolled 6

>>31799489
High-heeled boots and arm-length gloves are definitely the style we should have for our artifact boots/weapons.

>>31799441
> strand ourselves on a lifeboat in a popular shipping lane with our hair died and skin lightened
> if regular pirates show up, new crew
> if lintha show up stranded and helpless so grateful they saved us
> horror when actually lintha
> our family won't stand for this
> who is our family, why we are related to the royalty of tianna! We are engaged to a noble in wavecrest and were on our way to be married.
> they take us to the atoll for ransom
> we can probably convince them not to rape us
> infallible messenger or locate maka charm (tia could do it)
> the fleet attacks the atoll while ww wreak havoc inside.

Rolled 1

>>31799509
>and could justify getting in a time skip
Hmmm. Do we get timeskip experience?

>>31799448
Hm, i'd say we rush for Soc 4 before combat. But Heaven Thunder Hammer is going to DO WORK on ships.

Back then we drop kicked a guy through the deck. With HTH i'm thinking of drop kicking a lintha through the keel as well.

Rolled 8

>>31799508
He mentioned us being able to get Glorious Solar Saber fairly early on, i imagine GSG is on the table too

Rolled 9

>>31799519
>they take us to the atoll for ransom
That's where you fucked up. Lintha don't ransom. They mutilate, rape, and then chuck us overboard. The only way we're preventing that, by your retarded plan, would be to fight the entire ship of dudes - which we would lose, since they're largely essence-users and demons.

Rolled 10

>>31799531
>i imagine GSG is on the table too
>spending MORE essence on ANOTHER soak charm
That's fucking retarded.

Rolled 8

>>31799473
that can be our jewelry anon, not our armor, our armor goes over the top of that

Rolled 1

>>31799542
He's suggesting it as magitech forcefield projecting armor - which, yes, is a REALLY stupid idea. It works better as body jewelry.

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>4 hours and not one update
:S

>>31799542
Then what's the point?

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>>31799473
Not a big fan of that. Would rather get a Silken Robe version of the tabard.

>>31799573
I like the tabbard too, I'm just trying to add a little variety

Rolled 8

>>31799586
I don't mind more variety, but that armor is to absurd, I mean Maka should be lewd while still leaving something to the imagination

>>31799627
To be fair, we wouldn't be flashing our vagina every time we kicked someone in the armor like we do in the tabbard

>>31799533
1 chill
2 dude its not like the lintha is ONLY composed of super god-slayers who floss thier teeth with neverborn toenails and shave with the wire thin hair of She Who Lives In Her Name.
And its not like thier going to send thier strongest and toughest to prey on the relatively poor shipping lanes around tianna. Yes they have a demon ship yes they are evil as hell, but they are also interested in making money, improving thier standing in the organization, and they CAN be defeated. If that weren't true there would be no point

Rolled 8

>>31799663
Right, but we don't have the martial skill to beat an entire ship of them solo, and they DON'T do ransom - period - they cut bits off and then pressgang the castrated men while chucking the ladies off the ship as a sacrifice to that fucked up shark goddess. The plan is bad because they won't take us in the first place, and even if they did, we would have to fight an entire ship of them to keep from getting mutilated, raped, and thrown overboard.

Rolled 8

>>31799548
to look bitching and I'm sure we could enchant them with stuff, I dunno how armor and pasties work in exalted

Rolled 2

>>31799697
>enchant
That's not how magic item creation works in Exalted. They're magic from the get-go, forged into the very design, and pasties that provide an armor bonus would be magitech. That would mean they would require Essence to activate and would need maintenance after every battle.

Your body jewelry is cool, but it's a really bad idea for armor in Exalted.

>>31799682
Well in that case... fuck it
Why dont we make big news about how we are going to purchase an ass ton of jade.
Stow all three solars, tia, any other capable fighters in the trade ship.
Lintha spies inform the lintha who set upon the ship
Surprise.
Murder everyone and search the ship for charts.

>>31799713
They don't have to be magitech. In fact, everything points to magic pasties etc. being more like the solid state, simplistic artifacts that don't need repair.

>>31799441
Rajan tried failed but still finding Black Atoll before, maybe Tianna has some info about it that we don't know about

Rolled 8

>>31799724
That is a MUCH better idea than trying to get ourselves taken captive. It's still pretty shaky as far as plans go, but it could at least hypothetically work. Now, the question is, how would we get the information to them without them knowing it's a trap?

Subtle is not our specialty.

Rolled 2

>>31799713
>Your body jewelry is cool, but it's a really bad idea for armor in Exalted.
hence why I said to the anon who originally proposed it they'd work better as body jewelry and we can have separate armor

>>31799724
A good plan in theory it just hinges on the lintha not being suspicious of a highly publicized trade ship carrying a large cargo of jade and other precision instruments for magitek weaponry having zero escorts.

Also the ship itself being "highly publicized".

They might suspect a trap and just blast the ship out of the water. They're evil after all, not stupid.

Rolled 10

>>31799746
...what the fuck are you talking about? Yes they do. In order for them to project a force field, they need to be magitech, and if they don't project a force field, they can't provide an armor bonus, because Exalted isn't that nonsensical.

Rolled 10

So do we have a plan yet or is this thread just a complete waste of time?

>>31799746
Or, its gossamer forged as an artifact, i don't got to explain shit

Rolled 3

>>31799762
The closest we have to a plan is 'train up our pirates while Mikahil plants rumors of a big jade shipment trying to sneak its way into Tianna. Trojan Horse them when they try to capture the ship.'

>>31799759
You seem weirdly angry about something. Anyway, I'm not going to bother to argue especially since I like the tabard thing better, but I'm sure you can find some precedent, if nothing else, just hearthstone sockets socketed with protective stones, I guess.

Rolled 7

>>31799766
>gossamer forged as an artifact
That's also not how that works. Gossamer is one of the materials specifically ineligible to be an artifact, and gossamer armor still has the same amount of skin-coverage, even if it's no longer made of the same materials, as mortal armor. If it projects a field of force to protect the body, it's magitech and requires essence to activate and periodic repairs. If it doesn't, it's body jewelry. That's all there is to say.

>>31799756
Exactly we AREN'T subtle. Barge into the seediest dock bar flashing everything as we kick the door in. Demand sailors only the most daring will do ABSOLUTE secrecy.
And if the lintha don't bite... then we can trade for some jade

Rolled 10

>>31799786
We would need a hearthstone that provides some kind of armor bonus - which we don't have - and then they would just function as a Hearthstone Amulet/Bracers, which is - you guessed it - magical jewelry.

>>31799790
Or it could be a perfectly transparent micro thin body suit with pasties thats as strong as steel.

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>>31799814
>perfectly transparent micro thin body suit
The closest thing to a material that does that in Exalted is Adamant. If you find us a supply of Adamant, bring your idea back up then.

>>31799795
.....But our complete lack of subtlety is going to send a red flag up regarding any potential jade deal. I mean if it's a ridiculous unsubtle person attempting to plant a subtle rumor then that's gonna be unbelievable to the lintha.

Unless we're doing some ridiculous multi layered deception.

We throw up as many red flags as possible to get the lintha to bite because fuck SOMETHING is going down and they wont let Tianna pose a threat to their operations in the region.

The ship we send? Empty. Maybe propelled by our water court allies......AND CREWED BY PHANTASMS FROM THAT CHARM WE CAN PURCHASE.

While they waste time fucking with that empty ship we bring in a REAL shipment of jade and instruments so Irene can really equip our nascent fleet. Then we can go toe to toe with the Lintha and win.

>>31799814
Or we could just not get them at all

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>>31799831
That's a really shitty version of the plan. Like, seriously, that's super bad. Just let Mikahil handle the rumors.

>>31799401
Crafting is a bit faster than by the book, depending on help and the artifact in question. Small thing can take one week. Large, epic artifacts, years or decades or centuries.

>>31799423
In the first age there weren't any human sacrifices in volcanoes. It's a thing that the volcano gods came up with in the second ate, when they were sure that they could get away with it.
They are all in flagrant violation of heaven's laws, but... everyone is.

>>31799522
No.

>>31799851
Seriously we have allies better suited to this shit than we are, let's asked them to start digging up information while we do our thing

Rolled 8

>>31799861
>No.
that defeats any incentive we have to not play this out day by day

Rolled 9

>>31799874
>that defeats any incentive we have to not play this out day by day
Except boredom. If we don't do shit, we're just going to get a day per post, no experience at the end of the thread, and people leaving because they're so fucking bored. Stop being a minmaxing shitheel.

>>31799831
Well if we get flow involved why not just build four twenty foot long steel harpoons and drag the entire demon ship bleeding to the bottom of the ocean?
Then keep the entire crew as flows sex toy until they die, drown, or start talking.

>>31799851
>>31799863

That was the overall point I was originally getting at before I went off on that tangent.

We aren't suited to deception and rumor mongerin'.

>>31799888

Amata told us earlier that the demon ships can corrupt and pollute the seas they travel as a stick to threaten sea gods that are hostile. Flow getting that direct with them would mean the end of our friendly water court via polluted demon ocean.

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>>31799888
except then the Lintha would pollute the ocean and fuck our friends in the water up...

they ain't going to be lifting a watery finger to help us until we take that ship out

So, let's see:
-gather Tia's tribe, visit Freeport and incentivize immigration to the future city.
-drill the crews for 3 weeks.
-Mikahil handles the details of city-building.
-organize a prayer (Valeriana says that if you hold it on the demesne it will actually help in her job of turning it to a Solar one).
-visit Talon.
This is stuff you all seem to agree on.

The discussion is on trying to lure the Lintha with a trap vs. Scouting the sea to find the Black Atoll. Let's vote on that.

Also any other questions or proposals.

Rolled 10

>>31799996
>lure the Lintha with a trap
That's my vote. Get Mikahil to do the actual baiting.

Rolled 2

>>31799996
>lure the Lintha with a trap
Well if we're going to try and sink the lintha ship we might as well go with this one
>-organize a prayer (Valeriana says that if you hold it on the demesne it will actually help in her job of turning it to a Solar one).
Then let's do that

>>31799996
Talk with Swallow.
Have a chat with Tianna's city god.

Lure vs Scouting.
Lure. And ask the merchants if they know anything.

Rolled 5

>>31799996
We also want to do general socializing with our people, unless that was obviously included
>lure the Lintha with a trap vs. Scouting the sea to find the Black Atoll
Just to be clear would we be doing this after we train our dudes?

Also, by now it's no longer mere curiosity but actual social combat strategy, with the way you're playing Maka, so this becomes a relevant question: who do you sleep/try to sleep with in this time? (And/or if you have other social objectives)

>>31800050
Yes, unless you decide you have other plans.

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>>31800051
I'm against sleeping with anyone unless we absolutely have to, I think we're good at social stuff enough to not actually need to sleep with everyone

>>31800051
I was hoping to bed our new circle mates at some point

As for bedding people to accomplish an objective, the downside of timeskip is we don't know when/where that will be effective, or useful

Rolled 10

>>31800051
If we can bed Vale and Running Swallow that would be great, Mikahil too but I think he has a wife and I don't want to NTR her

>>31800122
Speaking of Mikahil, what was that cat and horse on the boat with him?

Rolled 8

>>31800051
I want to minimize sleeping with any men until we confirm that we're pregnant with Tia's baby or confirm that we're on maiden tea. Can you confirm one way or the other right now?

Rolled 10

>>31800051
I do want to sleep with Pyre Sparks but I want that to be onscreen, so like get closer to her but don't sleep with her just yet

Rolled 8

>>31800131
Familiar and mount. Eclipses are amazing horsemen.

Rolled 4

>>31800051
Circle mates, our new party members, as well as our standing obligations (Royal Family, Tia, and Silk) should be bedded as time allows
also >>31800141

>>31800131
The cat was a cheetah and apparently some sort of trained pet, the horse is his horse.

>>31800135
Maiden tea is really common and easily accessible, so yes.

Rolled 7

>>31800157
>Maiden tea is really common and easily accessible, so yes.
Okay, so we're not currently pregnant? Because we were banging Tia without maiden tea or protection for quite a while before we got back to Tianna. Just making sure.

>>31800051
I say stay the course as far as bedmates goes. If one of our circlemates or followers approaches us, maybe. But some of our followers give off odd vibes and both of our circlemates seem distracted or unavailable.

Rolled 5

>>31800051
I'm with >>31800073

we should only take to bed those we care about or those we must

>>31800051
I don't mind the general lewdery of Exalted, but this just turns it into a chore. Not even politicized or commodified, just straight-up chore.

Rolled 5

>>31800051
Seconding >>31800148 & >>31800141

>>31800163
You're probably not - unless Tia managed to bang you so hard that no amount of Tea would suffice, which is something that you think about only HALF-jokingly.

Rolled 6

>>31800175
I couldn't agree more. All of this lewd is getting really meh. I'm incredibly desensitized because of how blase it's all become.

Rolled 6

>>31800051
EVERYONE
But seriously, we should at least try our circlemates, if it doesn't work, no big deal
if it does, then we go after EVERYONE

Rolled 4

>>31800175
yep...

I said as much during the big orgy after smokes festival, but the lewds have lost their meaning and impact over time and just going "oh yeah, you also slept with X, Y & Z during this timeskip" diminishes it even further

I'm all in favor of spending sexytimes with our loved ones, but it shouldn't be a chore or a fucking footnote

>>31800199
To be honest, this seems more like "who do you want to manipulate sexually" than "who do you want to sleep with".
Because its harder to set someone up for betrayal when they broke your hips last night.

Rolled 5

>>31800141
Speaking of Pyre Sparks we should see if we can learn anything about UCS from her, technically Maka is a priestess of his but I doubt she knows as much as an actual trained and studied priestess

Rolled 2

>>31800051
I'm for sleeping with anyone we can talk into doing it.

Rolled 3

>>31800278
that kind of attitude caused the festival orgy fuckup and would be oddly our of character with Maka's character development in the aftermath of that

>>31800223
It's what i meant, yes. It's a form of social combat and influence and Maka has been using it a lot, so i was wondering how you wanted to handle that. "Take a break" is a perfecly legitimate answer.

Rolled 4

>>31800296
Then my answer is 'just with loved ones for now.'

>>31800051
Definitely for not sleeping with anyone yet.

Rolled 10

>>31800296
yeah going to have to go with taking a break and >>31800304

Rolled 5

>>31800296
Ah, in that case I'm all for taking a break, let's stick with the people we love for now
But I still think we should get closer to Pyre Sparks because she's cute and to learn about UCS because Maka loves him

Rolled 3

>>31800289
I was one of the people who was okay with the orgy. I don't see what the big deal is

Rolled 3

We really should take over Freeport and remaining pirates there people

If we are set on fucking up lintha WE NEED
SAILORS, AS MANY AS WE CAN AFFORD.


THUS WE NEED TO TAKE OVER THE REMAINING PIRATES THAT HAVE ARE NOT OF A MIND TO LEAVE FREEPORT WITH THE WHOLE LARGE EXALTED PRESENCE ON THE ISLAND AND TIANNAS STRENGTHENING.

IF WE DO NOT MOVE ON THIS THEY WILL LEAVE AND WE WILL BE ONLY WITH TE REMAINING SAILORS. WE NEED MORE SAILORS. THUS LETS TAKE OVER THE PIRATES.

Rolled 8

>>31800319
>because Maka loves him
I still want to have the UCS's incarnablooded baby.

Rolled 5

>>31800329
>remaining pirates there
There are none. We got all the pirates. Freeport is a small-as-fuck town. EF already lampshaded that Freeport is currently a doomed town because we took all of their pirates.

Rolled 1

>>31800320
well you should at least recognise that that event changed the character and defined them in certain aspects, and your opinion of what is fine is no longer in character

Rolled 10

>>31800341
Then I vote against it, hoping she has another character shift back towards what I want. And if it doesn't happen, well I won't be HAPPY, but I'll accept it

Rolled 3

>>31800376
Jesus christ your petty.

It already happened, and you can't vote against it, so deal with it and accept it already.

>>31800341
Noone is saying that maka needs to spend eighteen hours daily pressganging groups of twenty at a time into her pleasure seraglio. In fact aside from the incident maka has kept to a fairly small group. For an exalt.

Rolled 3

>>31800420
I meant in future "Do you want to sleep with this person/people" votes, I will always be voting yes to sleeping with the max number,, and I said that if things didn't go my way, well, fine, it's just a quest on the internet

Rolled 1

>>31800426
wasn't saying that at all, maybe you should try following the conversation before replying

Rolled 8

>>31800445
So now you're just outright ignoring whats in character and what is not for Maka?

Please, just give me your opinions without escalating to arguments. As usual, we'll decide with votes.

Rolled 10

>>31800051
Circle mates. We'll need their loyalty once more Solars turn up so.

Rolled 8

>>31800482
Sleep only with loved ones and have Mikahil bait the Lintha. For fuck's sake, can we just continue already?

Rolled 3

>>31800482
Yeah I think at this point we're all pretty much agreed, let's stick with loved ones and move on

Rolled 4

>>31800520
Calm down, you don't need to take it out on EF, especially since the "Sleep only with loved ones" is far from unanimous

>>31800482
Sleep only with loved ones and bait the lintha. If we actually managed to find the atoll what would we then do? We cant tackle the atoll just yet we need to take care of the local lintha ship/s so we can import the materials we need to properly arm our navy with essence weapons and the like.

More jade will also be invaluable for Irene and Valeriana to make some useful gadgets for our new nation.

So, after getting organized for about a day or so of discussion and coordination with your circlemates and friends in Silk's tower, you put together your plan of action.

If nothing problematic happens, the plan for the Manse, the first construction materials and the prospection team should all be ready in a week, two at best.
Valeriana will have to stay here, of course, and you agree that it would be better if Mikahil did, too, to handle all of thpse little organizational details that obviously Valeriana has no head for.
On top of that, when you mention your cult in Tianna, the Twilight mentions that blessing the Demesne in a grand prayer to the Sun would actually be a big help in transforming it to a Solar aspect.
You'll have to talk to Pyre Spark about that.
For now, your first stop should be Freeport. Without its pirate crews supporting the city's livelyhood with their raids and spending, they don't have much future. You, on the other hand, have something to offer them.

>talk with whoever's in charge
>show up in the streets and talk directly to the people
>spread rumors and word-of-mouth

Combined with:
>how will you persuade them to move to Pearl?

Rolled 5

>>31800482
Loved ones + Circle

Rolled 7

>>31800051
- Loved ones
- Circle mates
- Zareen
- Pyre Spark

>>31800551
>far from unanimous
one or two votes against more that 10 does not make "far from unanimous"

>>31800650
>Visit the tavern and what merchants are around, talk to them.

Anyone still trading will likely see the best traffic for rumors to spread, and they're more likely to ensure that whoever thinks they're in charge looks for us.

And the people at the tavern likely will remember us

Rolled 9

>>31800650
>show up in the streets and talk directly to the people

>mention the safety offered by the manse and the presence of multiple Exalted and Tianna's army.
>unclaimed, fertile land is rare in the west, they can have a (small) farm
>It will grow into a big port city in the future, the sooner they move there the more they can profit

Let't avoid mentioning that they'll starve in freeport because no pirates will come, because we caused that and they could blame us.

Rolled 6

>>31800650
>talk with whoever's in charge
>show up in the streets and talk directly to the people
If we can convince boss man he can help convince everyone else
>how will you persuade them to move to Pearl?
Incentives, our new city will give them a better standard of living, people will be cared for and protected

Rolled 3

>>31800714
>unclaimed, fertile land is rare in the west, they can have a (small) farm
They probably won't care about that too much, Freeport was mostly a port town ,if anything they would have more experienced fisherman than farmers

Rolled 9

>>31800677
For loved ones only
>>31800165
>>31800169
>>31800304
>>31800315
>>31800319
For expanding by at least one
>>31800108
>>31800122
>>31800141
>>31800148
>>31800193
>>31800278
>>31800654
>>31800677
I may have missed a couple, I was skimming
>>31800650
>talk with whoever's in charge
>show up in the streets and talk directly to the people

>Sleep with them
That was a joke. Maybe

>>31800650
>Talk to whoevers in charge
Never did find out.
>We can promise them a better life, a safer life. Schools for thier children and jobs for anyone who can work. Food, shelter, trade, education, and work. We aren't saying it will be easy, but we are saying it will be better.

Rolled 6

>>31800650

>show up in the streets and talk directly to the people
>how will you persuade them to move to Pearl?
Talk about an opportunity to move to a new land, where the land is fertile, where they and their families will be safe and there is a whole wealth of opportunities for everyone.

Essentially the standard promises of wealth, security and stability.

We should use MRP and IPS.

Rolled 1

>>31800724
>Incentives, our new city will give them a better standard of living, people will be cared for and protected
What's stopping them from waiting until the city is actually built before they move?

>>31800788
Food, money, income, security?

Rolled 4

>>31800788
Their local economy is gonna start taking a dive without the pirates to raid, depending on how long it's been since we've taken the pirates they might already be feeling it

Rolled 1

>>31800742
And we have a Water Court that will help with any fishing.

>>31800775
IPS will be the correct charm in this instance.

IPS and TttH will get our message across excellently if EF will let us get away with using TttH to perfectly explain our deal.

Rolled 10

>>31800842
Yeah we should totally bring that up too, we have the local water court on our side and we convinced them to stop drowning sailors after they sleep with them

Rolled 4

>>31800842
Yeah, we should bring up the water spirits

Rolled 8

>>31800894
>who likes sleeping with nymphs and not dying?
>you're welcome

Rolled 2

>>31800051
Talk Tia into developing a sex change charm and then we can play Maka like Rance with a supersex charm. Which is actually normal Rance now that I think about it.

We'll call it...Wife Seducing Demon Rape!

Make it happen!

Rolled 9

>>31800650
Before the timeskip, I would like to investigate the Underworld first.

Rolled 5

>>31800915
The men will like it but their wives won't.

Rolled 7

>>31800964
>investigate the Underworld
HOLY JESUS YES.

I can't believe I forgot about that. We NEED to spend a night in the Underworld. Bring along someone with Occult - Amata or Pyre Flame should work - and Tia as a bodyguard. We've been ignoring the Underworld this whole time - we NEED to see what Tianna's Underworld looks like.

Rolled 1

>>31800975

Don't we need to find a shadowland, say in it until it turns night in order to get to Underworld Tianna?

EF hasn't mentioned anything about a shadowland near us.

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You hit the streets of Freeport and for a bit consider actually going to have a word with the major or whoever's in charge of the place.
...but as soon as you show up, a large crowd starts following you and gathering about you. You're not exacltly inconspicuous, and word of you and your deeds has probably gotten round.

You turn to the crowd and clear your throat.

[IPS]

Social + Zenith + IPS = 5 7 9 6 3 9 6 1 4 1 = 3 successes.

The result is not exactly enthusiastic, but you definitely manage to get the idea in their minds. The first signs of poverty and depression are already showing up in this village, which wasn't really prosperous before anyway. You'll have to see how this plays out.

After doing some more persuasion around, you briefly return to the site to inform Valeriana and Mikahil, and then travel to Tianna with Amata on the Gloria, while Tia rounds up the Black Fangs.

Your ship are all repaired, and, with a bit of convincing, you manage to get Irene to surrender a few of her pieces of essence artillery for fleet use (much to Rajan's relief) and to train some men in their use.

You prepare to spend time drilling your men alongside the dragon-blooded admiral. You spend some more time with Pyre Spark as well, informing her of your plans around the new city of Pearl. Of course, her reaction is enthusiastic.
She wants to immediately move there, and move the entire cult, and it's hard to get her to calm down. But still, her support will be very helpful.

(Cont.)

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Pyre consequently parades you to her cult, which meets in a small but cozy building repurposed as a temple in downtown Tianna (which seems to be her house as well, or, at least, she sleeps and eats here).

You inform her of your intention to bless the site of the future manse with her and her cult, and she starts organizing the whole thing on her own. She is incredibly hyped.

Meanwhile, you put Rubeni, Quint and Alexei and their crews through the grinder. The question of what to do with the Gloria is also mentioned.

>Give it to Quint and promote someone to captain of his old ship.
>Give it to Rubeni and promote someone to captain of his old ship.
>Give it to Alexei and promote someone to captain of his old ship.
>Give it to Rajan as his flagship.
>Put Mikahil in charge of it.
>(other?)

>>31801374

The Gloria? Isn't it a trade ship, not a warship?

Rolled 5

>>31801374

>Put Mikahil in charge of it.
Yea, I think Mikahil would be best suited for captaining the Gloria

Rolled 10

>>31801374
>>Give it to Rajan as his flagship.
>>Put Mikahil in charge of it.
One of these two things.

>>31801399
It's an Age of Sail in an age of Triremes. It's whatever the fuck we want it to be.

>>31801399
It can be repurposed. Ships of the age of sail like the Gloria can easily act as either.

Rolled 1

>>31801374
>Give it to Rajan as his flagship.
I was thinking of giving it to Mikahil but it might be better off as the the boat to our actual Admiral

>>31801374
>Put Mikahil in charge of it.
No point slinging an unfamiliar crew into it a week or so before a battle.
If its that much faster than the other ships, sling some essence weapons on it and have one of the solars blast shit.

>>31801374
>Put Mikahil in charge of it.
see >>31801420

Rolled 5

>>31801374
>Put Mikahil in charge of it.

Rolled 9

>>31801399
>>31801420
>>31801432
dice anons, dice

Rolled 2

>>31801420
I assume they would have either time to train or would just use the crew that came with the original boat, we still have about 2-3 weeks before we plan to attack the lintha

>>31801374
We should spend some time with Pyre too, she's fun to tease.

Rolled 10

>>31801218
>You spend some more time with Pyre Spark as well, informing her of your plans around the new city of Pearl. Of course, her reaction is enthusiastic.
>She wants to immediately move there, and move the entire cult, and it's hard to get her to calm down.
Pyre is super cute

Rolled 10

>>31801374
>Put Mikahil in charge of it.
Mikahil would be a good admiral for the battle with the Lintha.

Rolled 5

>>31801582
>Mikahil would be a good admiral for the battle with the Lintha.
Maybe, it would depend on how much experience he has doing actually naval combat rather than just having sail charms, we still want him there of course, but Rajan is Tianna's Admiral of the navy

>>31801533
yes she is
I hope she stays like that forever

Even if loaded with a Lightning Ballista, the Gloria still isn't designed as a warship, so you decide to leave it in Mikahil's capable hands. You spend your spare time doing some research on Tianna's Underworld, but can't find much. Tianna doesn't have very deep ties with its dead, and you don't think there are any shadowlands in the vicinities.

This, of course, means that the Abyssals' airship, if it came from the Underworld (and it probably did), must have crossed the boundary in an unknown shadowland, or via some kind of sorcery.

There is no sign of the archer who tried to kill you during the dance, and the local Immaculates are... Oddly calm. So calm that you're actually a bit worried. They're OBVIOUSLY planning something.

>continue training
>try and see what they are up to
>2 weeks is enough, return to the demesne with pyre for the prayer

>>31801728
>try and see what they are up to

Priority 1. Looks like we'll be pausing the timeskip for this.

>>31801728
>try and see what they are up to
>by entrusting someone else with it

Maka can't into subtle, let someone else deal with it

Rolled 6

>>31801755
Yeah this, let's send someone else to spy, someone that can into subtle

Rolled 7

>>31801728
>try and see what they are up to

Bring Valeriana along. She should be better at investigation than us.

Rolled 7

>>31801755
I don't think we have anyone that can properly do subtle, I mean I think we can send Tia as a small animal to spy and to tell us what she heard and to not murder everyone if they're planning shit, but honestly I'm not sure how much we can trust her with anything involving not murdering shit

Rolled 5

>>31801728
seconding >>31801755

>>31801815
The Db Dance Assassin maybe?

Rolled 9

>>31801728
>you don't think there are any shadowlands in the vicinities
Wait, what? Seriously? Not even a fucking haunted house or something? Most shadowlands aren't hex-sized fields of deathly death. They're the bedroom where someone was murdered and a spectre can sometimes be seen through the window at night.

Anything - ANYTHING - haunted should be a shadowland.

There aren't any haunted houses, haunted graveyards, or whatever else in Tianna?

Rolled 6

>>31801728

>try and see what they are up to
>Delegate it to Mikahil. He's used to sneaking around. Besides he's is supposed to be the spymaster.

Well. When the temple manse gets set up the wyld hunt coming to kill us becomes pretty much inevitable but it would be nice to get a advance warning.

Rolled 4

>>31801755
forgot my roll

Rolled 8

>>31801728
>try and see what they are up to

Rolled 1

>>31801728
>2 weeks is enough, return to the demesne with pyre for the prayer
Ask Amata to look into the db business - Mama is as subtle as a brick to the face delivered by a naked woman

Rolled 6

>>31801728
>try and see what they are up to
Leave it to someone else.

Rolled 1

>>31801846
>in the middle of a giant sacrifice
>the face of the Wyld Hunt when the UCS intervenes

I know he's addicted to the celestial Xbox but it would be fun

>>31801835
Nah, wood caste don't do stealth, that's Air caste
Mikahil might be able to do stuff, he acted as Amata's spymaster, we could ask him to look into it

Rolled 4

>>31801845

Well. I guess that Tianna is pretty much like Chiaroscuro, where miniature shadowlands form all the time but they get erased quite quickly.

Then again I suppose we where looking for a place that the Abyssals can fit an airship.

Rolled 5

>>31801855
>Maka is as subtle as a brick to the face delivered by a naked woman
That is an astoundingly accurate analogy

>>31801845
Depending on who you ask to, every single thing on the island could be "Haunted". According to many sailors you chat up in pubs, this is a particularly common quality among bottles of rum. You, however, don't manage to find a single actual shadowland on the island.
Besides, it seems unlikely that they could fly an airship out of a window of a room where someone was murdered, or out of an empty rum bottle.

>>31801755
>try and see what they are up to
>by entrusting someone else with it
If we can't then I guess Maka will have to at least try to be a little subtle

>>31801898
Hmmmm, maybe a shadow land out in the water?

Rolled 10

>>31801879
>Then again I suppose we where looking for a place that the Abyssals can fit an airship.
No, we were looking for a haunted closet somewhere so we could spend a night in the Underworld asking around the ghostly version of Tianna about stuff. Something big enough to fit ourselves through, not an entire airship. It's INCREDIBLY IRREGULAR for there to be no haunted anythings in Tianna.

>>31801898
I'm not asking for a shadowland that the airship came from. I want a shadowland we can use to visit the Underworld ourselves. So we can poke around and do some investigating. The fact that we can't find even a single room-sized shadowland confirmed ANYWHERE on the island is a huge fucking deal.

What's going on causing that total lack of shadowlands? I'd say that Creation might be bizarrely stable here, but a huge chunk of the island used to be Wyld, and some still is. What's keeping shadowlands, even tiny, short-term ones, from forming?

>>31801898
>airship flying out of an empty rum bottle
I'm still not well versed in Exalted, but...

Who says the airship has to fly out of an empty rum bottle? Couldn't it just use a portal?

Search for rumors of anyone that collects ships in bottles!

>>31801936
It's not particularly irregular. The realm has next to no shadowlands because they're very careful about that, and as part of the immaculate philosophy they should be sealed up because you don't encourage ancestor worship. Tianna has a decent Immaculate minority and quite a few essence-users, and most dead are cremated.

Rolled 1

>>31801977
It's still very irregular for there not to be at least a few around, unless the Immaculate Faith is a lot more active here than we thought - any particularly grisly murder would make the room where it happened be fairly likely to develop a very resistant shadowland. So, either the Immaculate Faith is a lot bigger here than we thought, or some other force is either preventing or shutting down even the tiny Shadowlands that are normal... Regardless, this is something we should investigate, just to know which it is.

Rolled 5

>>31802018
Watsonian reason: Tianna is preventing them from forming
Doylist reason: EF doesn't want us to go deal with shadowlands when we're busy with the Lintha

Rolled 9

>>31802060
I prefer in-character rather than metagame approaches, so I'll go with Watsonian reasoning until EF presents it in Doylist way.

Rolled 8

>>31802104
Tianna has lots of first age magitech.
My bet is on a first-age 5 dot manse burried in the center of the Island stabilizing creation.
Maybe it's a factory cathedral

Rolled 8

>>31802425
>Tianna IS, in fact, built over a tomb
>A First Age Solar tomb
>With a still-functioning Reality Engine
>Valeriana and Irene lose their collective shits

Rolled 9

>>31802425
Sure, that makes sense. Some type of anti-ghost/anti-shadowland device? Maybe it's only partially active, which is why the Abyssals are trying to conquer the island - to keep someone from using it against the Deathlords.

SOME set of situations or circumstances are preventing Shadowlands here - preventing them to a degree not normally seen off the Blessed Isle. That's something to be investigated, since we apparently can't investigate the Underworld itself.

Rolled 2

Maybe it's related to the higher than average number of demenses.
What could cause an increase in elemental Essence?

>>31802425
well something on the island has a magitech focused deathlord willing to commit his forces. considering he's a first age solar ghost with nigh on overwhelming personal power its probaly something special.
>personally hoping for maka's long lost temple/tomb with its attendant golem army and glorious transparent sexy warstrider. Or some first age outfits, either would be cool

>>31802520
>super robot army
>pretty clothes
I'd want the clothes too

>>31802520
>implying first age maka wore clothes

Rolled 3

>>31802495
Remember that for some reason they tried to take the city intact and minimize causalities. Maybe they were scared that too many murders involving underworld Essence would set the device off?

>>31802018
No, it's the way i run the setting normally. You can't make a shadowland just with one murder, unless you actually want to do that and know how - a priest of death trained in occult, murdering someone in a ritual way with an obsidian dagger and painting blasphemous glyphs and magic circles and mandalas all over the floor, walls and ceiling with the blood of the victim while chanting hymns to the nephwracks or neverborn, that sort of thing.
Otherwise, you'd need a lot of death and carelessness, or a lot of magic, to create a shadowland.
Also people tend to not want to live next to an open portal to the world of the dead. Urban shadowlands will be reported, sealed with salt, and purified with rituals and talismans until they vanish.

Of course, not all of them are noticed, so there probably are some, hidden (or maybe kept hidden), but you didn't find any of these to a cursory examination.

The one more likely to know about shadowlands in Tianna is its city god and his high priest. You could have a word with them if you want.

>>31801975
I... Was being funny about the cursed rum bottles. It wasn't serious, just a joke about sailors being drunk. Just clearing that up, i don't want to cause misunderstandings.

By the way, you have two words with Amata about the Immaculates, and she confirms: a trade ship from the Blessed Isle came to port a week ago, on a regular run, bringing a cargo of copper ingots. On the ship there were several visitors, including a monk of the Order and a few travelling companions, or so they have been described to her. All perfectly legitimate business, so her hands are tied: she can't exactly kick them out or arrest them, and that would sour relations with the Realm even faster. She tried spying on them, but the spies were almost immediately exposed.

You could recall Mikahil from the Demesne. Or handle it yourself. Or put on the job anyone else of your allies and followers. Or leave it to Amata.

>Who?

Rolled 1

>>31802570
Or the added ghosts from their conquest could set the device off.
>thousands of ghosts
>suddenly ground starts rumbling, golden light everywhere
>"UNDERWORLD ESSENCE THRESHOLD REACHED, INITIATING PURGE PROTOCOL "GOLDEN DAWN"
>GLORY TO THE SOLAR DELIBERATIVE"

>>31802543
yeah I mean sure, 20,000 imperishable essence driven killing machines with essence cannons and daiklaves would help retake Gem, but would we look AS GOOD without our old clothing?>>31802579
I say we leave it to Amata, at the very least she can probably give us a heads up if the nascent wild hunt leaves the city to kill us.

>>31802579
I say we let Amata lead and we remain present to help. We have the social fu to back up her delicious political maneuvering and it'll be a nice way to spend some time with amata solo in a capacity that isn't pure lewd.

>>31802579
>rum bottles

Oh, I know you were making a joke. But how awesome would it be to have a fleet of ships stored away as a collection of ships in bottles? Any chance of this actually being possible?

Rolled 9

>>31802520
>implying this deathlord won't be Maka's First Age predecessor
>implying they won't turn out to be a hyper-chaste monk-technician horrified their shard went to a violent, oversexed minx
Previous holders of Maka's shard aren't her previous incarnations and don't have to be anything like her. All they definitely were was Zenith.

>>31802579
>On the ship there were several visitors, including a monk of the Order and a few travelling companions, or so they have been described to her. All perfectly legitimate business, so her hands are tied
Shit shit shit
I guess we just have to trust Amata to handle it, have her keeping an eye on them and to warn us when shit starts getting real
We're going to want a strong convoy with us when we take our cult over to Pearl

Rolled 3

>>31802579
I say we at least go talk to them, let them know we're aware of them, but let Amata deal with them.

Rolled 9

>>31802579
leave it to Amata but have her people watch their activities as covertly as they can

>>31802714
>>31802711
>>31802703

Amata has already tried keeping an eye on them but that eye got spotted almost immediately.

We should offer to help but let Amata lead.

Rolled 5

>>31802579
Ah, that's super lame. No ghost stories and haunted houses from terrible and tragic deaths? That's just throwing away tons of story hooks for no good reason.

Oh well. That's the way you run it, so that's how this version of the setting works. Nevermind on going Underworld Noir, then.

>>31802674
4,000 years from now when we rule most of the West and South as a Cardinal Potentate of the Reborn Deliberative they will ask us,
>how did you learn to rule with such divine authority? Did the unconquered sun teach you of perfected one?

and we will respond.

>No. Lather more oil on the nude prayer bitches and I will tell you of the greatest ruler to ever live...

Rolled 6

>>31802579
Tell Zareen to coordinate with Amata to investigate them. Also have a word with the city god and the high priest about the shadowlands.

Rolled 9

>>31802520
>personally hoping for maka's long lost temple/tomb with its attendant golem army and glorious transparent sexy warstrider.
>Or some first age outfits, either would be cool
I want this so bad now, but I know it won't happen
>>31802579
>Amata
but let her know to ask if she needs any help from us or our allies

>>31802579
can someone give an uneducated anon some info on how bad a 'monk of the Order' and the others is?

Should we not simply go and politely introduce ourselves in public?

>>31802579
Let Amata handle it then, tell her to call us if she needs someone schmoozed over

Chill out with the shadowlands obsession. If there's nothing in tianna proper, chances are the barbarians can direct us to more than a few.

Rolled 9

>>31802810
We, as a Solar, are almost literally their Satan. The believe we are a demon who stole the power of the sun and is possessing an innocent mortal. They will not believe anything we tell them without significant persuasion

>>31802579
We should be warning Mikahil and Valeriana about a potential wyld hunt

Rolled 7

>>31802579
We and our DB will investigate, with Tia staying close as emergency backup

>>31802845
Also something to note, it's possible that the monks travelling companions are actually DragonBlood that want to kill us

>>31802810
The immaculate order really hates celestial exalts.

They really, REALLY hate celestial exalts.

According to their teachings we're walking demons named anathema that are responsible for insane depravity and anything that ever went wrong in the past. Solars are the worst of the bunch and they will be compelled to report the fact that there is a reborn solar creating a new nation in the west.

This is BAD news because if we become a big enough problem the various houses of the Realm will get their shit together and form a Wyld Hunt to kill us.

Rolled 3

>>31802810
The Immaculate Order is basically Confucist Catholicism that preaches that Solars and Lunars are literally Satan and organizes small armies of dragon-blooded to murder them before they can accrue enough power to be dangerous on a geopolitical scale.

So, yes. Using our powers in front of them would be dangerous if we weren't already completely out of that closet. New we just need to keep in mind that they're predisposed to being scared and hateful towards us.