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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 (DB), an old friend. Abyssals are targeting the city for conquest, Lintha pirates have infiltrated it with spies and agents, and half the island is controlled by paranoid Lunars. Fun times.
You're trying to recruit some pirates to your cause. You already scored one: Rubel Sareni, captain of the Bloodshark. Others... don't seem to be as anxious to serve you. Besides, you're wondering if this little matter of "I don't have food to feed them with or money to pay them with or a plan for them to follow" might be a problem...

>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

>>30751924
>>React quickly, block the blade, then roundhouse kick him.

>>30751924
>>Strike at his blade, aim to shatter it

>>30752098
>Duck under the table, roll under his legs and get behind him, then grapple him

Submission holds ahoy! He can be big, but the joints wont move if we get him right. And once he is in a hold we can talk it out if he still wants it.since we have not swung at him, tehnicaly.

>>30751924
forgot the proper link here>>30752388


So regarding pirates, they dont seem to have that much supernatural powr meaning they are rather vulnerable to wyld bullshit, aside from perhaps a fe godblooded captains. are we going to use a asembled fleet to try and split our allied forcs and go for a pincer movement, one from the shores and one from inland?

Considering Tia suggested it and since she ought to be a good and experienced warrior they should have some value in campaign , right?

>>30751924
>Strike at his blade, aim to shatter it

Also, Iron Kettle Body!

Rolled 3

>>30752861
Forgot the dice. Also, after activating Iron Kettle Body let' switch on Solar Hero Style.

Rolled 7

Rollin'.

Rolled 10

Rolling.

Rolled 9

Slow thread is slow.

>>30753347
It's nearly 5 AM, and I'm PST. You're damn right it's slow.

Rolled 5

>>30753447

I've always assumed that EF is European based on his starting times.

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Phys + Dawn: 3 7 10 9 = 4 successes

[Iron Kettle Body. Essence 1/5]

As Yagate brings down his blade against your head, you bring your fist up, smashing it into his massive cleaver.

[1 damage. 4/5 HP]

Pain explodes from your fingers as a spray of blood and steel splinters erupts into your field of view.

A shard from the beastman's blade has sunken into your hand by a centimeter or so, between the second and third finger. The rest of the weapon has exploded into shards, leaving just a piece of it still sticking out of the handle.

You shiver from the shock, as blood splatters everywhere and your hand goes numb with pain. You try and grasp the edge of the table to keep yourself from losing your balance.

"Huh. Whore's tough." You hear him growl, looking at the stump of his blade. The right side of his face is full of metal shards embedded in it, some deeply, and he's losing blood, but he doesn't seem to realize it, or maybe he just doesn't feel pain: he brings what's left of his weapon up, aiming at giving you a second blow, basically a stab with a sharp, jagged, broken shard of metal. His eyes are bloodshot, and he seems to have gone completely crazy with bloodlust.

>Snap it off, leave him unarmed
>Evade it, hook him in the gabber
>Block his arm, bring him in a submission hold
>Grab the table, slam it in his face
>Other?

Rolled 9

>>30753522
>Evade it, hook him in the gabber
Fight-o!

Rolled 8

>>30753522
>Block his arm, bring him in a submission hold

>>30753522
>Evade it, hook him in the gabber
Don't kill him (yet) we need to fuck him to death.
You make a threat, you gotta follow through.
Bonus points: we fuck him to death with his own dick/sword.

Rolled 9

>>30753522
>Evade it, hook him in the gabber
It will be really embarassing if we lose to this guy

Rolled 5

>>30753522
>Evade it, hook him in the gabber
U wot etc

Rolled 2

>>30753522
>Grab the table, slam it in his face

O...ouch! Solar Hero Style go! Also try to remove the shard from the hand if we get an opening. This bastard is insane.

Rolled 5

>>30753522
>Evade it, hook him in the gabber
After this, I'm thinking submission hold, followed by interrogation and fucking him tobdeath.

Rolled 1

>>30753622
don't forget we need to make a Craft(Teeth of our enemies) roll once we're done.

Rolled 1

>>30753783
I'm sure Tia can help us, she has experience crafting trophies from her defeated enemies

I just would like to say that shattering his weapon was foolish when we could have put that kind of blow into shattering his elbow or knee. Try not to get killed like a punk, guys

Rolled 4

>>30753522
>Evade it, strike his knee

Rolled 7

>>30753882

Think of it as training for the Adamant Skin Technique. I agree with you even I was one the guys voting for the choice. I didn't think the guy would be this crazy.

>>30753882
Trying not to cripple a potential subordinate.

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Phys + Dawn: 9 8 9 5 2 = 3 successes

You duck below the second blow, trying to ignore the pain in your hand, and the sharp bit of steel flies over your head, cutting the air with a horrifying noise.

Just as Yagate prepares to slice again, you curl up like a coiled snake, and slam your unwounded hand, balled up in a fist, straight on his chin in a lightning-fast hook.

You're fairly sure you could have battered down a brick wall with it, and you did see a couple of jagged, triangular teeth flying, but Yagate just stumbles a bit, off-balance, before regaining his footing.

He grins a bloody smile at you, his impressive files of fangs missing a few bits here and there, and in response lunges at you, tossing the broken sword aside, now clearly just intent on biting your arms off.

Instead, he just impales himself on Tia's long, slender Moonsilver Daiklave, as she swoops down in vulture form between you and him, and re-transforms to human as she lands, blade point-first into the beastman.

The sword has run him all the way through near the stomach, to the side of the body, and dark blood immediately bubbles up and drips from the wound.

The pirate loses his momentum, and as your Lunar Mate twists the blade in his wound, stumbles and falls, and gets literally nailed to the ground as the tip of the blade is thrusted through the wooden boards of the floor with a wet *thud* sound.

"No one hurts my wife and lives." She states. "But I'll leave her the honor. She did make you a promise after all."

"...You..." The shark-man drools blood from his mouth as he talks. "...You have no idea what you're doing... my father is one of the Three Rivers, the Anathema who rule northern Tianna island... He'll avenge you..."

Tia gives you a puzzled look. She's clearly as surprised as you are from his statement.

>Interrogate him (his father)
>Interrogate him (Lintha)
>Torture him
>Kill him
>Let him go
>Ask Tia for advice
>Scold Tia for interfering
>Leave him to Tia
>Ask to his crew

>>30753882

We ought to have to go with ducking under the table and then grappling him. As far as I am concerned, that was character concept for you - a wrestler. (not that I like it personally, being invincible tank sounds better to me)

Anyways:

>>30753522
>Evade it, hook him in the gabber

Rolled 4

>>30753447
No shit. I am at gmt+2. 1400 here. At work on the phone
>>30753522
Why are we stupid and pary a daikglaive mundane expy swung by a beastman of a mountain with our bare hand?

Oh well we are about to be without essence at the captain council we want to force.

Graple him into submission avoidi g the shiv with a nice body shift and half spin while grabing the wrist then the soder and plant a leg behind his knee to force him to kneel

>>30754021
He's not a potential subordinate, dude.

He's a motherfucker who needs to bee made an example of. If we let him live after promising to kill him and him chopping into our hand, we will cease to have any semblance of authority.

This is not the time for mercy.

Rolled 7

>>30754029
>Iterrogate him (his father)
Why didn't you say so in the first place.

Rolled 5

>>30754029
>Iterrogate him (his father)

I'm afraid we have a treachery in our ranks.

>>30754029
Oh shit, Zaan is his dad? I've got no clue what to do now. Crippling indecision, ho!

>>30754029
>Interrogate him (his father)
"Oh? You're Zaan's kid then? I wonder if I should drag you to my next meeting with him."
>Interrogate him (Lintha)
"So just how did you fall in with such a bad crowd? I mean, Lintha? Really?"

Rolled 3

>>30754070
Forgot to roll.

>>30754029
>Interrogate him (his father)
>Interrogate him (Lintha)
Both!

Rolled 4

>>30754029
Laugh. Laugh like a mad man.

Little fool cant you see who we are? You have muscle but your parent left you with little brain did he. If you know your father you should know who the fuck nailed you to the floor and prevented me from moping the whole whorehouse of dirt with you. Swear your allegiance to me and you may help out your father who unlike you is not a stupid brute but quite a intriguing prezence. Fool child.

>>30754042
>Why are we stupid and pary a daikglaive mundane expy swung by a beastman of a mountain with our bare hand?
...you mean a sword? Because we have Iron Kettle Body on, and we figured it let us parry lethal attacks. Either it doesn't, or we failed.

>Oh well we are about to be without essence at the captain council we want to force.
There is no 'captain council.' This bar scene was the closest we found to one. This isn't Nassau and these pirates hate each other even more than they hate everyone else.

>Graple him into submission avoidi g the shiv with a nice body shift and half spin while grabing the wrist then the soder and plant a leg behind his knee to force him to kneel
Too late.

>>30754070
>"So just how did you fall in with such a bad crowd? I mean, Lintha? Really?"
...why do you think he's affiliated with the Lintha? Us accusing him of that last session is what made him flip his lid and attack us.

>"Oh? You're Zaan's kid then? I wonder if I should drag you to my next meeting with him."
...what the fuck does that add to this?

Rolled 5

>>30754029
>Scold Tia for interfering

I hadn't intended to kill him, we need to find a way to stabilize him first.

I was thinking that we could put him away behind bars until we get the Husband Seducing Demon Dance, perhaps until after we get the bureaucracy charm, and turn him into an ally. That way we would not even have to interrogate him, he would just tell as all he needed to know on his own.

Also, this might potentially explain his Lintha connection. His father is not really one of the Three Rivers, instead the Lintha has brainwashed him into thinking they were. Poor guy.

>>30754138
Hahaha no that's hilariously impractical.

>>30754029
>Interrogate him (his father)
If his father really is one of the Three Rivers, we can't afford to simply kill him.

>Let him go
If he's telling the truth. If not, coup de grace.

>>30754126
>...why do you think he's affiliated with the Lintha? Us accusing him of that last session is what made him flip his lid and attack us.
Because Maka is mildly retarded, especially when botching.

>>30754126
Calling his bluff. He's trying to use his father's name as protection so we claim to be a peer of his father (which we sort of are), one that can punish or kill him without much ore than a reprimand. Basically, I'm letting him know that we might concede to the whole "don't kill me or else!" begging/argument, but it's more that we want to watch his dad punish him than us showing mercy.

>>30754138
>I hadn't intended to kill him, we need to find a way to stabilize him first.
We're incompetent at Medicine and will lose enormous face if we stabilize him after speaking up those big threats.

>I was thinking that we could put him away behind bars until we get the Husband Seducing Demon Dance, perhaps until after we get the bureaucracy charm, and turn him into an ally. That way we would not even have to interrogate him, he would just tell as all he needed to know on his own.
Put him behind bars where? And why would we ever want this quick-triggered fool as an ally?

>Also, this might potentially explain his Lintha connection. His father is not really one of the Three Rivers, instead the Lintha has brainwashed him into thinking they were. Poor guy.
What Lintha connection? We accused him of having one without any reason.

>>30754138
If we scold Tia, and I really don't think we need to do more than admonish her, we do it in private later. Not in front of the recruits.

Rolled 6

>>30754029
Zaan. Right? You swung first son of three rivers, intending to kill me. And if you are the son of three rivers you will sail with me to fight yyour fathers enemies too, for they are mine as well. Choose your next words carefuly crothspwan for one three rivers is in this room. And Anathema is disrespectful. Shall i tell your father you called him that?

Rolled 3

>>30754146

It is not really. Now that we won, we can afford to show compassion. There is no need to give into hate here. We would gain absolutely nothing from killing him here.

Besides, I think his crewmates are scared enough of us as it is so we have enough cred to do whatever we want.

Rolled 8

>>30754029
>Interrogate him (his father)
>Interrogate him (Lintha)

Also, get Tia to find a medic, or yell at his crew for one, we were going to rough him up, but pulling steel (moonsilver in this case) is counterproductive.

A show of magnanimity might help convert these pirates.

Also have some words with Tia later in private.

>>30754211
>A show of magnanimity might help convert these pirates.
Or cause them to lose any semblance of respect for us after we swore we would kill these guy and then pussy out of it.

Not everyone is redeemable and mercy isn't always the best choice.

Rolled 1

>>30754164

We are not incompetent at medicine at all, but if you are worried about saving face we should make him submit to us first. Give him his last chance, how about that?

Keep in mind, why exactly we have fought today. Because negotiation broke down and to investigate the Lintha connection. If we let him die then all of that just went to waste.

Rolled 8

>>30754211
Telling her she was awesome with the entrance. But to anyone in the know she showed she is a lunar and us a solar. Nothing bad in this situation since the crew we have is already blabing it. This in private of course. We could ask her if she knows him or about him, now. That should be after asking him about his father.
Also medical aid for the lumox

>>30754211
>show of magnaminity
Probably not a good idea to make these guys think you're soft. They'll either fuck off to a different ship or try cheating us at every chance.

>>30754260
>If we let him die then all of that just went to waste.
No, it secures us as someone to be respected and feared. It shows you can't disrespect us, that we WILL kill you if we promise it, and that attacking us is a fool's game.

If we save his life - especially without making him submit and beg before us - we will lose any chance of being actually respected by these pirates.

Rolled 7

>>30754250
>Or cause them to lose any semblance of respect for us after we swore we would kill these guy and then pussy out of it.

We did not vow a blood feud against him and we are divinely charismatic. We can do whatever we want.

>>30754299
>We did not vow a blood feud against him and we are divinely charismatic.
We vowed that we would fuck him to death if he didn't cool his shit.

He proceeded to try to murder us and mangled our hand in the process.

So yeah, if we let him live, we're not only going to be pussying out, we're going to LOOK like we're pussying out - which is, frankly, far more important - in front of these criminals and murderers we had been trying to recruit.

The ONLY way I can see this working out in our favor is if we made him beg to live, then openly and cruelly declare that we own him now.

Rolled 1

>>30754280
>especially without making him submit and beg before us

Fine, I am okay with trying to do that first. Let's break his will.

Changing my vote to:

>Talking To The Heart for him to submit to us

>>30754299
That depends on our rolls. You might also want to reread EF's last quest post from last thread, the one where we basically goaded him into this fight. It reads like we pretty much want to make an example of killing him in front of his crew, so I'm going to need you to find a really elegant way to walk that back if you want to convince me not killing his is the way to go.

Rolled 7

>>30754280
Well if we make him submit and kiss our feet and say this was in good fun since he did not try to kill us but ... scare off some bugs away from our glorious presence etc. Greatjon in GoT treatment. We are good enough with words to make it ok. Its our greatest strength. Plus we want a conection to the lunars or lintha. Possible conection.

>>30754299
>We did not vow a blood feud against him and we are divinely charismatic.
This was the statement that goaded him into the fight:
>"And point five." You conclude. "Because you're not really indispensable and I can always get rid of you and replace you with someone that isn't about to make a huge fucking mistake right now."
Do you understand how enormously problematic it is to have declared that loudly, have him attack us, and then not kill him? That would destroy any chance of us getting taken seriously.

Rolled 9

>>30754350
Elegant wordsmithing is the bread and butter of a priest
Look at our social and zenith score

Rolled 6

>>30754350

Easy, threaten his crew submit to us right now while he is bleeding on the ground stuck to a daiklave. Reveal our solar mark. Then we show mercy while they are trembling in fear.

>>30754376
Which counts for exactly shit when /tg/ does dumb shit with it.

Rolled 4

>>30754370
We can pull that off easily if he submits. Possibly letting on that Tis is a big part of three riverd

Rolled 6

>>30754385
Tru but we have a fe choice posts for that if we fo not back down on his unconditional conscripton

>>30754370
Eh, I say we snap his arm, point out how easy his neck would have gone, and say we're willing to give him one last chance because we're friends with his dad. (yes, 'friends' is a bit of an exaggeration, but he doesn't need to know that and neither does anybody in port)

Rolled 4

>>30754370
>Because you're not really indispensable and I can always get rid of you and replace you with someone that isn't about to make a huge fucking mistake right now.

Yeah, and we've definitely proven that point already. Anybody looking to go against us will think twice in the future.

>That would destroy any chance of us getting taken seriously.

Activate either Talking to the Heart of Majestic Radiance Presence and break those fuckers. Make them mean that we mean business. Being divinely charismatic means that we do whatever we want. We are not fettered to follow the flow of ordinary mortals.

Rolled 9

>>30754414
Considering our diplay of strength and social score we should be able to pull it of without charms. I want the last esence for one more captain. At least. We need alot of ships ant this island to make all thi worth it

Rolled 5

>>30754444
And the next day some gold via piracy most likely to secure pay for the crews. With many ships we should easli capturevia tag team two or three ships.

Sorry for the many typos but on a phoneits hard

"Zaan?" You ask him. "Your father is Zaan?"

"Might as well be. He has a lot of kids, but I don't know all of them." Tia says with a shrug.

"He... HE IS!" Yagate growls. "And he'll have your head on a silver platter unless you let me go right now!"

"Do you think it's likely this punk might be telling the truth?" You wonder, pulling the shard of steel from your hand. The pain becomes more intense, as does the bleeding, but you clench your teeth and focus. The blood loss slowly subsides, thought the pain doesn't, not right away at least.

"Might be." She doesn't seem to worry about it. "I doubt Zaan cares much about this idiot. He leaves most of his kids to fend for themselves.

As you chatter pleasantly with Tia, you see Yagate's face growing increasingly distressed as he realizes that you both know Zaan already.

Tia turns to him. "Oh, by the way, I'm one of the Three Rivers." She mentions, with a vicious, saw-toothed grin. His eyes grow to the size of dinner plates as she wrenches her daiklave from out of his body. He screams.

"Tell me about your father." You ask him, unfazed. He stammers and hesitates, but says nothing. "...What about the Lintha?" You add, but he shakes his head. "I... I don't... have anything to do with them."

>Let him bleed out
>Call for a medic
>Leave him to Tia
>Kill him
>Other?

>>30754471
>And the next day some gold via piracy most likely to secure pay for the crews. With many ships we should easli capturevia tag team two or three ships.
What makes you think there are necessarily going to be any enemy ships to raid in the area? Pirates have SEVERELY stunted all ship trade in the area already. And we do NOT want to raid a ship that might have been going to or from Tianna.

We're here to end the pirate problem and score sailors, not make the situation even worse.

Rolled 3

>>30754493
>Other?
"Grovel and beg. If you beg me to let you live, I might try to save you. But if you don't show me that you know your place, then you die right here, right now, drowning on your own blood."

>>30754493
>Other?
Pledge fealty to us, and he can live. We shouldn't lose face with that, right?

Rolled 5

>>30754493
>Other?
he either swears loyalty to us or we let Tia have her fun

Rolled 9

>>30754493
>call for a medic
You really need to work on that temper

Rolled 7

>>30754493
>Medic
I gave you a choice earlier. Join or die.
Answer.
So?
Get a medic. I cant have a captain bleed out if he is mine, either as pet or for interrogation. Very intense interogation under me and my wife. We are very inventive with both pleasure and pain Zaana crotchspawn, if you speak the truth.

Rolled 2

>>30754568
>Get a medic. I cant have a captain bleed out if he is mine, either as pet or for interrogation. Very intense interogation under me and my wife. We are very inventive with both pleasure and pain Zaana crotchspawn, if you speak the truth.
That was literally painfully uncharismatic to read.

Rolled 8

>>30754568
yeah, no

Rolled 10

>>30754577
Sorry. Dont have time to think them all over while doing my job

Would love someone else joining in at attempting to craft apropriate responces

Rolled 1

>>30754493
>I gave you a choice earlier. Join or die.

Rolled 10

>>30754493
>Call for a medic

I still maintain that the previous threats were mostly trash talking, now that he's bleeding out on the ground, i'd say we've proven our point.

Rolled 3

>>30754508
We kind of need some coin for wages else they might not going on campaign with us if they come back from war witout money to buy food, whores, rum and cigars.
I am thinking either pirates that do not join they hate or the locsl lintga outpost. Sell of the slaves and captives that do or can not join. The raksha are not gona leave much loot i suspect.

Rolled 10

>>30754690
>Might not like
Thus jumping or leaving ships leaving uswithout manpower. Witout husband seducing to mindfuck them we kinda need some pay

Rolled 9

>>30754690
>I am thinking either pirates that do not join they hate or the locsl lintga outpost. Sell of the slaves and captives that do or can not join.
I don't understand what you're trying to say here.

>The raksha are not gona leave much loot i suspect.
You're probably not right. The Noble, especially, will have plenty of swank shit that - because it's properly Shaped for Creation - will actually be permanent. Selling whatever weapons the Raksha Nobles have alone should pay for these men for years - maybe even pay for a full refit of their ships.

The only think more profitable than killing Raksha lords and ladies is killing well-equipped Realm death squads.

Anybody that survives will be a well-paid man indeed.

Rolled 5

>>30754747
>Anybody that survives will be a well-paid man indeed.
Which reminds me, these men are going to suffer a LOT of casualties. We don't have Tiger-Warrior Training Technique yet, so these guys are pretty fucked - not that we even have enough weeks of downtime to use it on them.

I have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA why we're recruiting mortal pirates right now instead of trying to secure additional alliances with the island's gods/spirits using Dancing Smoke's alliance with us as leverage.

Rolled 1

>>30754747
Pirates we cant rach in time or have the time to convince. The nearby lintha demonshark base. We reduce piracy in the area with one swoop. Sell of slaaves and captives that wont join or are lintha mindfucked in tianna to som sea slave transport. No other pirates lefft snd we and tianna have the only fleet plus this island town for ourselves.

If the raksha leave loot all the better if we can keep our navy from too many losses.

Rolled 8

>>30754775

It was along the way. Not counting today, we still have two more days to recruit. We have to finish things up on the island today.

Rolled 4

>>30754775
Warm bodies and cannon fodder, also to solve Tianna's pirate problem. And we still have one more day to recruit.

>>30754775
Because we didn't plan in advance, a problem /tg/ has with quest.

Rolled 4

>>30754775
I dont really want them in heavy fighting but as transport to pincer the raksha from the sea with some three rivers warriors and a lunar as payload. On the shore combat suport perhaps. The volcano god should offset the split.

Rolled 1

>>30754796
No, yesterday was day one, today is day two. We need to spend tomorrow making sure we get back to Tianna, because the morning of the day after that is the start of the assault. We're going to have to travel all day tomorrow just to get back to Tianna in time, considering how long it took us to cross the island on Tia.

We've pissed away two whole days trying to get a couple ships of mundane pirates to throw against the Raksha instead of recruiting actually-capable gods using our Sun-granted Zenith powers and an existing alliance with the most powerful goddess on the island as leverage.

We are literally just powerwanking over some cannon fodder mortals right now.

Rolled 2

>>30754820
>pincer the raksha from the sea
That would be relevant if this was a setting with cannons. Unfortunately, we have zero artillery on these ships, meaning they're useless unless our crews actually disembark.

Rolled 3

>>30754825
the cannon fodder mortals are irrelevant
it's the ships and the heroic mortal/godblooded captains we want

You raise your eyes to meet the terrified gaze of his crew. "You can have your captain back for now. Get a medic. Have him bandaged. I still have business with him."

Everyone, EVERYONE, nods nervously and forcefully in your direction.

"He stays here, of course." Tia points out. "Don't even THINK of running away." She spins the blade, cleaning it from his blood by spraying it on the ground.

The crew slowly tries their best to patch up the wounds and drag the enormous beastman aside.

You sigh, looking at your mangled hand and the blood everywhere. Diplomacy with pirates sure is rough.

Tia walks up to you. "...I'm going to kill him." She informs you.

"Nor now." You try and calm her down. "He still might be useful."

"Do you really think he will join you after what happened? He's a mad dog that needs to be put down. You can't trust him. I don't trust him. Didn't you say it yourself, that you can replace him?"

"...I was just trying to intimidate him. Some trash talk." Your hand REALLY hurts. "Unfortunately, I DO need experienced captains if I want to matter in the West."

"I'll help you find some that aren't bloody maniacs." She says. With her wedding dress covered in blood like she is now, she's the one who looks more like a bloody maniac.

>Persuade Tia to keep him alive for now
>Tell Tia she can get rid of him

Combined with

>Ask her to stay with you
>Tell her you best split up and recruit people independently
>Ask her to go get Mikahil

Rolled 1

>>30754854
>ships and the heroic mortal/godblooded captains
The ships aren't relevant because they don't have artillery of any kind and the first god-blooded captain we've found is bleeding to death in front of us - and will certainly take more than a single day to heal from his wounds.

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>>30754840
Enough arrows will kill Raksha though. They're actually the most reliable way to kill any supernaturals as a mortal in this setting

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>>30754825
I hope tia is a experienced warrior so there should be some worthwhile application of a navy she has in mind against the raksha. I hope.
On the trip bsck ob dhip it should be faster and we might get a few more minor gods

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>>30754493
>Call for a medic
After giving him a second chance to join us

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>>30754863
>Persuade Tia to keep him alive for now
"We're going to Kill Fey. We *Need* bloody maniacs."

>Tell her you best split up and recruit people independently
"We'll get more this way, and you can vet the ones you recruit to your satisfaction."

>>30754825

Yeah, you are right. I was totally going 'whee pirates' as soon as I got the choice, but it should not take us whole day by air, so we should at least get a few more god allies before the day of the assault.

If we get Tireless Hero's Soul we would not have to sleep either, so that should get us extra time.

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>>30754863
Tell Tia that she can't kill him now, it'll be better if he dies 'heroically' fighting Raksha
>Ask her to stay with you,
and give her a quick peck on the lips for saving us like that

>>30754863
>Persuade Tia to keep him alive for now
>Tell her you best split up and recruit people independently

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>>30754863
>Tell Tia she can get rid of him
>Ask her to go get Mikahil

Need some advise, a different perspective.

>>30754825
If the day goes well, we'll have a whole fleet of ships and crew and a port away from Tianna. It's not just 'powerwanking'.

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>>30754863
>Persuade Tia to keep him alive for now
Just on the off-chance that Zaan actually gives a shit about him, we can't afford to kill him until an alliance is secure.

>Ask her to stay with you

Here's what we need to do, people. We need to sail out into the ocean and get some kind of spirit or spirits out there to help us. If we can convince a weather/wave god to help us hammer/drown the Raksha with lightning, wind, and briny water, that would be of HUGE help. It would also give us an actual reason to have recruited a pirate crew - we need a ship to take us out to sea to do this after all, right?

So, what do you guys say? Cut our losses instead of spending tons of time trying to get one or two extra pirate ships? Try to recruit some more gods out at sea?

I think that's the best course of action.

It's a risk, but I think it's a better use of our time than trying to recruit more pirates.

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>>30754863
Either as our captain or as a information he will serve. Either as a link to Zaan or some intel on lintha. If neither are forthcoming to our satisfaction he dies.
Also you are a bloody murder maniac too, but my murder maniac so i thrudt you on him, but i belive we can milk some use out of him a bit. If not he is yours.

>>30754863
>Tell Tia she can get rid of him
>Ask her to stay with you
She seems to have a much better handle on how to do this than we do. I don't trust our ability to do this alone after that display. If she thinks she can help, we should let her.

>>30754863
>>Persuade Tia to keep him alive for now

Combined with

>>Tell her you best split up and recruit people independently
>>Ask her to go get Mikahil

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>>30754942
aren't the ocean gods absurdly powerful jealous women?

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>>30754933
>If the day goes well, we'll have a whole fleet of ships and crew and a port away from Tianna. It's not just 'powerwanking'.
No, we won't. This is a tiny port village that a small handful of pirate ships visit, all of whom hate each other. There's no 'fleet' to be had, let alone had by us.

Just because you want something doesn't mean it's even there to be taken in the first place.

The only pirate 'fleet' in the area is the Lintha one in the opposite direction of where we are.

>>30754863
>>Persuade Tia to keep him alive for now

>>Tell her you best split up and recruit people independently

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>>30754942
I think the local sea gods are storm mothers, the woman hating, bad ass, malevolent deities. If we want an alliance with them, it's gonna be Mikahil who'll be taking point there.

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>>30754948
what does this even mean?

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>>30754942
>Water/sea god
So much this. And tia as our bodyguarrd in case of smbus since we are low on essence. If we are here on pirate hunt might as well get another decent god on our team

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>>30754863
>Tell Tia she can get rid of him
and have her stay with us. We need to go to the other major captain, he probably has someone who would make a good captain

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>>30754958
That's the Storm Mothers. We should definitely avoid those. The ocean gods, though, really like pretty women, because the Storm Mothers cause them to see so few of them. If we could get one of them on our side - well, just imagine. It's an island - a well-aimed tsunami could sort out a lot of our problems.

>>30754979
No, those are the storm/weather goddesses. And they're present throughout the entire West. The best we can hope for with them is that they just ignore us instead of trying to Jealous Girlfriend us to the bottom of the sea.

Ocean gods, on the other hand, would be super useful.

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>>30754959
That they hate each other is irrelevant since we're just press ganging them or making them privateers, as long as they stop raiding Tianna's merchant ships it will be a day well spent.

And any more than 3 ships is a fleet. Though yes, you're making a good point about better things we can do with our time, though if we want to impress Talon, showing up with a whole bunch of pirates seems to be a good way of doing it.

>>30754863
>Persuade Tia to keep him alive for now
>Ask her to go get Mikahil

Let's cut our losses and search for gods with Mikahil. I do not know much about gods in Exalted so I tend to mentally shove that option aside.

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>>30754996
Oceangod get.

Perhaps one or two more ships do we can haul a batalion on sea and have mortal arrow suport for our ocean god.

Once it is known a solar is hunting pirates with join or die they might run away leaving us with few ships to assault the lintha

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>>30755018
I think Talon is deceptive in his motivations. He's a Changing Moon, which is the Social caste of Lunars. I think he respects cunning, alliances, and charisma a lot more than brute force, despite being a big dude.

Which is why he was the one dealing with the quarry in the first place - he was trying to fix a political faux pas.

I think he'll appreciate alliances with gods a lot more than a bunch of scared, bullied murderers we press-ganged.

>>30754863
>Tell Tia to put him down
Seriously, he's unusably crazy.
>Ask her to stay with you
We have one essence left and our scene long soak charm just shut down. We're vulnerable as fuck out here right now.

Fucking kill him or let Tia do it.

She is right

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>>30755044
>I do not know much about gods in Exalted so I tend to mentally shove that option aside.
Gods are basically animistic spirits, like the Kami of Shinto, the spirits of North American Indians, and the Celestial Bureaucracy of Chinese Folk Religion.

Everything has a god. Some of those gods - like the god of a specific sea shell, for example - are so tiny and insignificant they don't even have thoughts and self-awareness. Others are so big and badass they're as remote and non-responsive as those of most fantasy settings - the Unconquered Sun, for example.

Most, however, are in between. They're gods of specific mountains or rivers. Gods of a city. Storm gods working for the Weather Bureau in Heaven. And so forth.

Tianna already has a strong alliance with their City God - which is incredibly useful, powerful, and important for a city to have. We made a nascent alliance with Dancing Smoke - that's another great one, since she's the goddess of the main volcanic mountain on the island.

As a Zenith, we're automatically a high priest of the Sun, who is the boss of all the other gods. That makes us extremely well-equipped to issue official prayers, negotiate directly, and manage cults and festivals of godly allies. The only other caste that even comes close is Eclipse Caste, and that's because they have diplomatic immunity in the spiritual realms and can magically seal any promise or oath.

As luck would have it, we currently have an Eclipse helping our Zenith.

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>>30755068
Agree.
>>30755061
Hmh. True. Have not seen it like this as i was thinking of having a multifunctional actionplan that is good at fucking lintha and starting our mortal following too.

Still some mortals that are somewhat skilled and can act as ablative armor might come in handy as well as a naval option. But yeah, seagod get asap

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>>30754863
>>Tell Tia she can get rid of him
>Combined with
>>Ask her to stay with you

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>>30755124
To additionally clarify, in most other settings, Exalted's 'gods' would just be called 'spirits.' Aside from the head bosses of Heaven, the gods of Exalted are not even on the level of the Greek Pantheon. They're barely on the level of most exalts.

For example, the world's dominant organized religion is the Immaculate Faith. What they do is officially regulate who gets worshipped on what day to make sure gods have a regular salary without starving to death. When a god steps out of line, they send a martial arts monk to kick their ass until they get back to work.

The dominant faith in Creation is literally a negotiating union for managing godly labor agreements.

That should put some things in perspective.

>As luck would have it we currently have an eclipse helping our zenith.
Where is he then? I thought we let him run to his thing on Coral?

Rolled 4

So, I think the general consensus is to sail out and try to broker an agreement with some kind of ocean god to help us hammer the Raksha with waves while Dancing Smoke hammers them with magma or some shit.

Is that accurate?

>>30755124
>can magically seal any promise or oath.

Actually, I had completely forgotten Mikahil can do that. That is just what we need right now to resolve this situation with Yagate, far better to bind him than to kill him. I really wish we got HSDD instead MRP.

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>>30755173
I think we should talk to other pirate

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>>30755157
>The dominant faith in Creation is literally a negotiating union for managing godly labor agreements.
"I'm sorry, but you're going to have to go through my union rep for me to accept that prayer."

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>>30755185
See my picture's file name.

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>>30755173
there's that other major pirate captain we should talk to first, then yes

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>>30755100
Leaning on get it over with him if he doesnot repent now or speaks something to show something we can use.
>>30755124
I was somewhat focused on doing some nascent empire or church building preparation with getting some useful mortals we can use to augment tianna against the lintha if they sirvive but the godtalk seems more and more atraktive for raksha situation and augmenting our allies against the linta by comanding and controling the waters they will sail in. A trap for them when they come to sink tianna and our naval buildup leaving their local base open for invasiion and raids

>>30755173

Yeah, but let's first talk with the other captain in port if he is still there. And get Mikahil to bind an oath between us and Yagate so we can put this behind us for the time being. When the Raksha thing is done with we can simply HSDD him into obeying us for our inevitable assault on the Lintha.

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>>30755209
Dealing with gods is an extremely powerful choice for a Zenith/Eclipse. Specifically, a Zenith's best course of action - generally speaking - is to secure alliances with gods by offering them roles in an organized religion with the Zenith as a high priest (gods love Zeniths organizing prayer because they're so damn good at it). Zeniths are also at their best when organizing their own personal cult.

So, for example, you know that festival we're going to throw for Dancing Smoke? We're going to have a Social + Zenith + Majestic Radiant Presence of 10 for that particular oiled-up nude-dancing prayer to her. That's like sending someone a bottle of good wine, a suitcase full of unmarked bills, and a big kiss on the cheek for good measure, not the mention the ego-inflation.

We've also said she might have some role to play in our home city which means, to her, that we might be scoring her an official and permanent place of worship and power tied directly to the cult of a fucking God-queen of the sun.

Aside from that, all gods are essence-users with useful charms. Not always useful for battle, sure, but even a field god can give your homeland good crops.

So, yeah. We should be getting godly allies and cronies. Mortals too, of course - we still need cannon fodder, a cult, subjects to benevolently protect, and so forth. But as far as powerful allies and profitable alliances, gods are the way to go.

>>30755265
kill Yagate, bind the first mate

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>>30755265
>>30755180
Sounds good to me. Deal with the last captain in port, then sail out to try to secure friendship with an ocean god.

The ocean god will be insanely useful for when we finally take down the Lintha too.

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>>30755173
One more ship perhaps too and this town , but yeah god. We have sharkboy ship put the xo in conand in our name. He shoould be ok with it after tia vets him. Then we take the other free ship in port board it into submission withou charms and tia and mikhail as sypport and sail out to get ocean god. The retur to take over the town and go to azure lake to join up.
Now that we started on pirates we should somewhat get it done right on sone level

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>>30754863
>Persuade Tia to keep him alive for now
I think that a humbled captain we keep around as an example is more useful than a dead man soon forgotten.

>Ask her to stay with you
We're going to need her protection. We're starting to run seriously low on Essence now.

(Votes are about 50/50)

"...Tia?" You ask her after considering the situation after a bit.

"Yes?" She asks.

"...I'm thinking you might be right about this Yagate guy being crazy and dangerous. But I can't just kill him at this point."

"Why not?" She wonders, clearly not understanding.

"Because, for once, I just said I need him alive. I can't just go back on that." You explain.

She nods.

"Also... As crazy as he is, I need him. He can captain a ship, and he has the loyalty of his crew. Also... he's a god-blooded. He's going to be useful against the Fae."

"Not if he stabs your back while you're busy against them." She points out. "Besides, I don't think he's going to heal fast enough to be useful against the Fae."

"He could be useful in the long-term?" You wonder. "...Nah." You answer yourself. "He's clearly a bloodthirsty pirate. I don't think He can be reformed into something less... harmful to society."

"I'm sure there are better pirates around here." She grins, and nods to herself like she just had an idea. She puts a hand on your shoulder. "...Leave him to me. I'll handle him. You focus on the other pirates. Get some smart ones. I'll handle the stupid ones."

"...What's your idea?" You ask her, but she just widens her grin. She has way more teeth, than a normal human should, and you're sure that they were a lot less a moment before. "Just trust me."

>Let Tia do her thing and say that you trust her.
>Tell her to just let it go. You'll take care of Yagate.
>Ask her to explain her plan in detail before you approve it or refuse it.

Combined with

>Handle Yagate's crew
>Look for Captain Iohannes Quint
>Find Mikahil yourself
>Return to Rubel Sareni's ship, the Bloodshark
>Go and find whoever's in charge of this village
>Go out, draw a crowd and make a proclamation (what?)
>Try and contact local gods
>Try and contact more pirate captains
>Other?

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>>30755282
>>30755288
Yep, finish up in port first, then head out to sea on our shiny (nah) new fleet...well new ship at least, the Bloodshark should be fine for now.

>>30755294
>Let Tia do her thing and say that you trust her.
>Try and contact local gods
This whole pirate thing is largely a bust, let's have our Zenith do what Zenith do best. Grab Mikahil first if necessary and if he's willing to come.

>>30755294
>Let Tia do her thing and say that you trust her.
give her a kiss on the cheek and wish her luck, as well
>Look for Captain Iohannes Quint
then
>Try and contact local gods

Rolled 5

>>30755294
Trust+Quint

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>>30755294
>Ask her to explain her plan in detail before you approve it or refuse it.
If we take actions from a place of ignorance, we might blunder into each other and mess each other up. A husband and wife should always be completely open with each other to guarantee they act as one.

>Try and contact local gods
That will honestly probably be the most useful choice. My backup vote is to look for the final captain, if I get outvoted on this one.

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>>30755267
Pirates a yown a god queen of the sun and cult of the sun with two permanent god poditions of fire and water. Heh , we are starting to get a plan shaped up that sounds ratger nice.

Rolled 9

>>30755294
>>Let Tia do her thing and say that you trust her.
>>Look for Captain Iohannes Quint
Then:
>Try and contact local gods

Rolled 4

>>30755326
Okay, for real dude, I don't care if you're on your phone, you need to go back and correct spelling errors. It took me way too long to figure out what you were trying to say.

>>30755294

>>Ask her to explain her plan in detail before you approve it or refuse it.
"I trust you with this Tia, but I've had some issues with bad communication in the past."

Combined with

>>Try and contact local gods
Two pirate crews and and two gods shouldn't be bad for three days of work.

Rolled 10

>>30755294
>Let Tia do her thing and say that you trust her.

>Find Mikahil yourself

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>>30755318
Wife and wife.

>>30755294
>Let Tia do her thing and say that you trust her.
Oh, boy. I wonder what Tia is going to do to him. Any ideas?

>Look for Captain Iohannes Quint
Let's get this show on the road.

>>30755294
>Let Tia do her thing and say that you trust her.
I love her brand of crazy!
>Find Mikahil yourself
We have one essence left and are going to need to make social influence rolls. Let's grab the freaking specialist before we lose the ability to activate our soak charm.

>>30755294
>>Let Tia do her thing and say that you trust her.
>>Look for Captain Iohannes Quint
Then:
>Try and contact local gods

Rolled 8

>>30755294
Trust Tia, Find Quint, Find Gods

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>>30755351
Tia is gender/sex-fluid. She can be a husband if that's what she wants.

>>30755373
But wife and wife is cuter. Who cares what they do in bed.

>>30755373
She seems to see husband and wife more as a rank and duty thing than as a gender thing.

If she's the one doing the providing and protecting, she's the husband.

Being the husband may also involve being on top every night.

>>30755294
>Let Tia do her thing and say that you trust her.
>Try and contact local gods

Rolled 4

>>30755352
Ship crew first. They have no captain as of now.

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>>30755392
See:
>>30755397

It's not about what they do in bed, it's about Tia being inherent gender-fluid - including gender role fluid - and she seems to want to take a husband role. There's nothing wrong with that.

>>30755397
nah, I think it's literally because she wants us to be husband and wife. She said us being husband can be arranged, so it doesn't matter who's who. She's just been stuck in a really weird world, probably hunted down by the Realm just because she got something extra thrown on her soul. All she wants is one piece of a normal life

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>>30755397
>>30755430
She is happy with us as husband too. There is a reason she takes on a female form as a rule

>>30755294
>Let Tia do her thing and say that you trust her.
>Handle Yagate's crew
If we win them over, there'll be less to be upset over whatever Tia does to Yagate

>>30755450
>implying homosexuality isn't normal in creation

>>30755430
Huh, I thought protecting and providing were rolls that generally fell to women in exalted, hence her body guarding us in female form.

>>30755430
>and she seems to want to take a husband role.
Sure there's nothing wrong with that, but there's no particular sign that she was personally very interested in being the husband - as far as I remember she was more than eager to give Maka the title for example. It's always come up as 'husband and wife' as a social construct, rather than her personally having any investment in the role, from what I remember.

>>30755474
I'm pretty sure sexual dimorphism exists among mortals. It's just totally irrelevant once you reach heroic mortal or exalted tier.

>>30755470
not a heterosexual relationship. She wants a traditional marriage, I think

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>>30755487
Right, but Maka doesn't seem to want to be a husband, which makes that role go to Tia.

>>30755520
Actually, I just think she wants kids and is trying to get us thinking along those lines. The actual structure of the marriage doesn't seem all that important to her.

clearly we need to talk with Tia tonight about what exactly she wants in this relationship, besides being together

"...Alright, Tia. I'll trust you." You reply.

She gives you a quick kiss. "Thank you. Maka."

She pulls back, hesitates, and then gives you another one, longer than the first.

Then she pulls back, hesitates, and- "Uh, Tia."

"Right, right. Business first." She turns and leaves, jumping out of the (closed) window of the establishment.

You take a deep breath. Time to get things done on your part, too.

You sit down to a moment and re-evaluate your situation. Bit by bit, around you, the whorehouse comes back to normal life as the patrons and employees return after the panic.

Everyone now gives you a wide berth, which doesn't contribute to a relaxing atmosphere, but gives you time to think.

You were mostly working for the idea of gathering followers for long-term plans. That's why pirates and seamen.

But there are two problems with this approach, as Mikahil tried to point out. The first is that, well, you don't really have anything to offer to them. You don't have vast riches or... any logical reason they should follow you except for promises, or threats, or your rather revealing attire. And in the long-term, people need to eat and drink and sleep and have comforts and a place to call home. You can't provide that right now. You wonder how you'll do that to
Sareni's crew as well. You'll have to figure out something.

The second problem is that the day after tomorrow you're going to attack a Fair Folk nation and you're not sure how much pirates can help with that. Maybe, until this problem has been taken care of, you should focus on gaining supernatural allies.

And since nothing of this place makes you think there might be some Exalted around (and you guess by now they'd have revealed themselves: you DID cause quite some commotion), you're probably going to have more success in working with the local spirits.

(Mental + Twilight = 2 5 9 1 = 1 success)

You have to admit you're not sure how to proceed. You consider your options:

>Try and contact a local sea god (or a nature god)
>Try and contact a local god of sailing (or a humanity god)
>Try and contact a court of water elementals
>Try and contact the souls of the dead at sea
>Try and contact someone else (who?)

>>30755667
Either a court of water elementals or a sea god.

>>30755667
>Try to contact a local sea god.

Not the Storm Mothers.

>>30755667
>>Try and contact the souls of the dead at sea

Less hard to rally than a sea god and they'll probably be pissed as hell against the Lintha already.

>>30755667
Water elemental

>>30755667
>Try and contact a local god of sailing (or a humanity god)

>>30755693
>more pissed against the Lintha
Which is why we should save them for action against the Lintha rather than throwing them at the Fae.

So why do the people in the Exalted setting seem to hate the Exalted themselves? As I understand it they should be looking up to them like divine acolytes or something, unless I'm mistaken about how religion works in the setting.

>>30755693
I don't want to try to rely on ghostly allies with Abyssals about.

>>30755719
Because since the shogunate they were taught by the dragon blooded exalted that Solar and Lunar exalts were horrible

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>>30755667
>Try and contact a court of water elementals

Our best shot for now, sea and sail gods can wait till tomorrow. We need to have Mikahil back us up on this.

>>30755719
>>30755739
Which isn't entirely unwarranted, since the Solar Exalted did do a lot of horrible things in the First Age because of the Great Curse laid on them by the Primordials in their defeat (which no-one canonically knows about).

>>30755739
So do others get a free pass?

>>30755719
Same reason people are scared of superpowered people in some superheroes settings. They're so powerful that normal people can feel threatened and defenseless when in their presence. Imagine being the only one who has a modern-day tank in a medieval setting.

>>30755765
No-one really knows much about the others.

Abyssals are new, Sidereals make a point of not being found out in the first place, and Infernals are the boogeymen in the closets.

Rolled 3

>>30755719
They used to.

Back in the day, Solars were the god-kings of Creation (after killing the fuck out of the Titans who came before the gods and created the world). The Lunars were their lovers and right-hand dudes, and the Dragon-blooded were their generals and cronies.

But the Solars went mad with power - as people are prone to do - so the Dragon-blooded murdered the shit out of them, chased the Lunars into the Wyld, and started a religion that (despite being largely beneficial and useful) said that Solar/Lunar exalts were demons who stole magic from the Sun/Moon and each people's souls to use their bodies at meat puppets. That's why people tend to call us 'anathema.'

That's why Amata was scared and trying to make sure we were still Maka, for example.

>>30755765
Nobody knows Sidereals exist and the Dragon-blooded were the ones who started the lie in the first place. Abyssals and Infernals are just corrupted Solars and, as such, are covered by all of those same rules. Not that most people should even know Abyssals and Infernals exist - Solars just started coming back a few years ago.

>>30755765
>Dragon blooded are the ruling class so it's fine
>alchemical are stuck in Elsewhere being 8 seal and in a dying autobot
>Sideral are pretty much happy of concealing their existence
>Abyssal are too new to be largely known about
>Infernal are about the same as Abyssal but even rarer

>>30755667
>Try and contact a court of water elementals

Rolled 4

>>30755667
>Try and contact a court of water elementals
See, guys, that's why we need a cult. Resources and stuff for free.
I guess we'll have to raid some realm ships or attack one of their outposts for money

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>>30755883
>See, guys, that's why we need a cult. Resources and stuff for free.
A cult also helps as a bargaining chip with gods. 'I'll have a massive celebration for you led by myself personally to let you reap the full benefits of my cult' is a big fucking deal.

Hell, if we beat back the fae and secure an alliance between the Three Rivers and Tianna leading a small army of water elementals and the island's biggest goddess, we might even get that cult.

We've got to earn it before we can cultivate it, though.

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>>30755883
Or we could claim that island next to Tianna and three river, build a trade post/city and get free taxes.

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>>30755965
We don't have the business savvy or administrative talent for that. Nor any infrastructure-building stuff. That's Mind/Eclipse and Mind/Twilight, respectively.

We're much better off being the leader of an organized faith - that's Social/Zenith.

>>30755965
...why would ships stop on a recently-built port without any infrastructure yet and with nothing to offer that can't be offered by Tianna, a huge, well-developed city just a few hours away?

>>30755998
Because it's neutral ground.
A) Three River doesn't want Tianna people on their territory
B) We can offer an alternative to Lintha infested water

Rolled 6

>>30755998
Is Azure Lake that single hex of water off towards the fae territory?

Rolled 6

>>30756037
The QM just called your plan fucking stupid. Which it is. Have the good sense to drop it.

>>30756059
The QM asked me what a newly built trading post could bring, it isn't the same.

>>30756102
You are completely missing the tone.

By asking with that phrasing he is indicating that the answer to the question will be "nothing".

Rolled 10

>>30756102
No, that was a leading question. The QM was saying 'ships won't stop at a recently-built port without any infrastructure and nothing to offer that can't be offered by Tianna, a huge, well-developed city just a few hours away.'

An important part of that is that Tianna is just a few hours away. That location isn't in a convenient place for anything, and we don't have any advantages to personally offer for the purposes of business administration or infrastructure construction.

>>30756139
We offer them a new market, the Three River tribes which wouldn't be accessible otherwise. There's plenty of use for a city with less regulation than Tianna.

Rolled 10

>>30756163
Not that close to Tianna nor with a TOTAL LACK OF INFRASTRUCTURE. You're pointing at a piece of wilderness just a couple hours from a major port city and saying 'Well, shit, this is a great place for a port city to instantly be! That's totally a niche that isn't filled yet!'

>>30756163
You do realize that we are in the process of opening up the three rivers tribe to Tianna? Now, if the answer was "We found a Jade/gold/iron deposit and want to ship it out" then you might have a point, though it wouldn't be a quarter the size of Tianna.

>>30756215

Does iron and gold even exist in Exalted?

>>30756252
Pretty sure Iron exists. Mortals need something to stab you with.

>>30756252

Exalted != Runequest

>>30756194
>>30756215
Because Tianna totally allow pirates to settle in and sell their loot. As for infrastructure we're mostly dealing with small ships accommodating them isn't the biggest project.

(Social + Zenith = 4 3 4 7 1 6 6 = 1 success)

You have to admit you're really a bit out of your depth when it comes to gods and spirits. You know some basic stuff, but there's much that's a complete riddle to you.

But you think you can handle some water spirits. There should be some in any large body of water, right? You don't know anything about the spirit of the island, Amata asked you to leave the city god alone (and you're far from the city anyway), and you doubt this village has any deity of note.

And what you heard about sea gods is mostly colored by your perception of Storm Mothers, and you're not sure you want to tangle with them. Yet.

You head out of the whorehouse and into the street. It's about noon, and the midday sun is scalding hot. Most of the village's inhabitants are probably indoor, because the roads are empty.

You walk up to the docks, wondering how you could try and contact a local court of water spirits.

Standing on the edge of the water for a few minutes, you clear your mind and breathe slowly and deeply. It's probably best to not think too much about it, and act by instinct. You remove your tabard, leave it on the wooden walkway of the pier, and dive underwater.

You take a long swim, entirely underwater, leaving the island behind you and letting your castemark glow and light the dark bottom of the sea.

You surface, finding yourself a few kilometers offshore, in the middle of the sea, dragged by the currents perhaps. if there are elementals here, they don't seem interested in talking to you. You'll probably have to use your powers to get them to come out of the sea.

>[Talking to the Heart] Try and conjure the local Elemental Court.
>Save your Essence, give up and swim back to shore
>Other?

If trying to conjure them:
>Perform in their honor
>Demand their attention
>Make promises
>Offer yourself seductively
>Threaten them
>Propose a deal

>>30756040
It is.

>>30756252
Yes. Orichalcum is made of magically refined gold and iron/steel is great against the fae. Most of the setting features bronze, though.

>>30756330
>Save your Essence, give up and swim back to shore

Rolled 10

>Save essence.
>Perform in their honor a swimmimg dance. Think dolphins snd coordinsted artistic swiming teams but done like figure skating now solo dolphi or orka swimming style

Rolled 8

>>30756330
>Save the Essence, give up and swim back to shore
I wonderif we'll meet any sharks on the way back?

Rolled 8

>>30756330
>Attempt to conjure without TttH.
>>Perform in their honor

Time to water dance.

Rolled 2

>>30756330
>[Talking to the Heart] Try and conjure the local Elemental Court.
>Offer yourself seductively
Ocean/water gods/spirits love bitches because of how much the Storm Mothers drive them away. They would be super on board for some flirting alliance, especially if they might get a good lay with a hot broad out of it.

>>30756330
>Save your Essence, give up and swim back to shore

Spending three whole points on the crew of Bloodshark is really killing us right now. Could we meditate and regain a single point of essence and then try this again with Talking to the Heart?

Rolled 3

>>30756330
>[Talking to the Heart] Try and conjure the local Elemental Court.

>Offer yourself seductively

Dressed for the occasion, so might as well.

Rolled 8

>>30756330
>[Talking to the Heart] Try and conjure the local Elemental Court.
Offer yourself seductively
time to fuck some water spirits

>>30756453
We're not dressed tho-

Oh. Right then.

Rolled 7

>>30756330
>[Talking to the Heart] Try and conjure the local Elemental Court.
>Offer yourself seductively

Rolled 9

>>30756330
>[Talking to the Heart] Try and conjure the local Elemental Court.

>>30756393
>>30756398
>>30756409
>>30756463


Damn these rolls are good, but we seriously have to consider taking a break after we are done with this to regain essence.

How much time do we have to rest to regain one point EF?

Rolled 1

>>30756431
>>30756453
We are not a cheap bitchwhore. We are the glorious priest of the unconqued sun. We fuck because we want and say it when we might want it
We arw however not in a temple whore to be sold off. Our presence , integrity and reputation are too hogj or valuable foe that precedent to be set

>>30756446
Said so then. You probably too, but people wantwd too SMASH.

>>30756330
>Offer yourself seductively
This might help us specifically get an ocean god.

It might also conjure up an angry storm mother, though.

Rolled 6

>>30756453
>>30756463
>>30756500
Ū>>30756550
>>30756533
Lets save our essence for a god. We have good rolls and can use it later if we have to.
Do not overcomitt please. Not like on the bloodshark

>>30756533
A few hours of actual rest (as in, actually resting, not doing other stuff). A full night of good rest lets you recover all Essence.

Barring that, several hours of activity (but without spending Essence).

Rolled 10

>>30756330
>[Talking to the Heart] Try and conjure the local Elemental Court.
>Offer yourself seductively
Banging an Ocean Father could be INSANELY useful to us, and a truly worthy lay for someone of our stature.

...let's not actually go all the way with any normal elementals, though.

Rolled 8

>>30756604
an elemental court would make for extremely powerful allies, potentially stronger and definitely more versatile than a single god

Rolled 2

>>30756330
>Save essence
>Perform seductively and artistic

Rolled 9

>>30756628
We can still use TttH later once we see what we summon. And we might need our last Essence point at a later time.

Rolled 2

>Save essence.
This is a summoning. We may need it later in the negociation.
>Awesome and Alluring Performance

>>30756605
shouldn't we have gotten one essence back from the time we talked to the first pirate crew to the time we punched in sharkboys face then?

>>30756738
Don't think so. Regaining motes can take a lot of time. Then again I don't think it's been established whether it's four hours or eight with EF's system.

(Social + Zenith = 10 8 8 2 3 8 7 = 6 successes)

You decide to entice and attract these elementals, suffusing your body with glowing Essence and letting your castemark glow. You dive deep underwater, where the light of the midday sun barely manages to reach and the lights and shadows of the surface waves play tricks on your bronzed skin.

You feel underwater flows of water touching you, caressing you in response. They dance with you, flowing with your movements, invisible but felt as subtle shifts in pressure. Underwater rivers of colder and hotter water brush all over you, playing with your hair waving in the ocean after your movements. It feels like you're being gently caressed and accompanied by countless, delicate hands all over your body. A horde of gentle lovers in silken gloves.

The current kisses you, and air is exchanged into your mouth, bringing relief to your burning lungs. They want you to stay underwater. They want more, and you have no problem to give it to them.

Slowly, bit by bit, your dance drifts to the bottom, where you hit a point where your senses are so overwhelmed by the sensations all over your body that you have trouble understanding if you're still underwater or in open air. The ocean feels welcoming now, like it's your natural element. Or, more likely, like the ocean itself, satisfied by your performance, is making your stay down here comfortable.

You are gently made to sit on a seaweed-covered rock on the sandy bottom of the sea. The currents take shape and form around you, forming a crowd. Figures of sleek, young men and women, made from colorful flows of water under water, vast poofy masses of ever-flowing hair losing themselves into the sea.

(cont.)

(going to AFK briefly, continuing this in a hour or so.)

>>30756787

Resting at night lets us regen five points for eight ours, which comes to one point for two hours of rest. Given these rolls we should have the elementals well under hands after which spending two or even four hours to rest would be much recommended just so we can defend ourselves is something jumps out. Without motes we are as strong as a mortal. After that we can decide what to do.

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Rolled 10

>>30756849
>>30756869
Spectacular. With that roll, an invitation to fight by our side and visit our court - just as we visited theirs - should work quite well.

>>30756849
>(Social + Zenith = 10 8 8 2 3 8 7 = 6 successes)
Well, we're good at dancing, that's for sure.
Do you guys think we could somehow make money with that without hurting our pride?

>>30757336
What pride?

>>30757340
Good point.
Without Tia killing our customers because she thinks it's degrading and not worth of a glorious solar Godqueen

>>30757352
Please, Tia would be out drumming up an audience, cheering us from the front row (possibly drooling) or passionately attending to us (on stage) between numbers.

>>30757403
And picking out who in the crowd to seduce into our harem.

>>30757336
>>30757403
>>30757433
so, do you think Tianna has a big enough population for that to be worth it?

We could also try to just do a little dance at our cult, and collect a membership fee.
People join to watch us, they stay because glorious solar bullshit

>>30757336
Maybe if we dance for only Gods or other Exalted.

Or use dance as a form of prayer..

Or maybe sell ourselves off as the "Goddess of Dance"

>>30757403
Depends on the crowd, while she probably wouldn't complain at a royal event, she'd be less happy if it was commoners I'd think. She DOES have standards.

>>30757479
the Dancing Queen, mayhaps?

Rolled 1

>>30757479
>Or use dance as a form of prayer..
We already have been. We danced for the Sun, we offered Dancing Smoke a dance, we're dancing for the Ocean Court... Dancing is, like, our main method of prayer.

>>30757505
We're a bit older than seventeen, methinks.

Rolled 1

>>30757340
>>30757403
>>30757352
Philistines and heathens. Our dances re invitations to and prayer. People are supposed to join in and convert. We will make money by making holy dancing classes, societies and tournaments. There are few spectators for soon enough they join in too. We teach and educate.
We enlighten and uplift through holy dance and song

>>30757608
...dance-fight kung fu?

Rolled 2

So, we offer our service as a dancing priest to temples in exchange for money?

>>30757739
Hang on, I think I saw that in Scrolls of the Monk

>>30757479
Martial Arts technically count as 'Dance'. It's why Siderials are so bullshit; because when the stars were set into the sky, they were laid down as 'dancing' across the night sky. Which carries over to Siderial bullshithax martial arts.

So, uh, I don't think casting ourself as THE Goddess of Dance will work. A specific kind of dance, maybe. Overarching, that's going to be hard. Not impossible, the list of the truly impossible is very short, but beyond our current means for a long time.

Rolled 4

Should we pick up another MA style once we've mastered Solar Hero Style?
Maybe Wood Dragon for healing, spirit punching and impersonating DBs?
or maybe laughing wounds?

"We apologize for not welcoming you earlier, Princess of the Earth." A chorus of mixed male and female voices sings in your ear. "We were afraid. But we see now that you are not our enemy, but our friend."

You gently stroke the shapeless mass of water spirits flowing around you. "I understand."

"Is there any service you require of us, Exalted?"

"The day after tomorrow, I will join the Three Rivers in battle against the fey who hold dominion over the island's swamplands. I am seeking allies for his endeavors, for they are a threat and a foe to all of Creation." You explain.

"They are." The mass of sea-elementals churn over you. "If you require our assistance, we shall offer it to you, if you will allow us to claim one-fifth of their land as spoils of our own, or if you will grace us with your presence and your touch like so, in the future, for one full day and night."

>Refuse
>Counteroffer (what?)
>Agree to give them the land they are asking for
>Agree to spend one full day and night pleasing them
>Agree to grant them both

Rolled 2

>>30757977
Why do i have the feeling that this is too easy?

>Agree to spend one full day and night pleasing them

Rolled 3

>>30757977
>Agree to spend one full day and night pleasing them
That went well

>>30757977
tell them we will need to ask Amata and the Three Rivers about giving them the land, but we'll try for both
>Agree to grant them both

Rolled 6

>>30757977
>>Agree to grant them both

It's not really like Amanta or the any of the Three Rivers will have any room to complain.

>>30758047

Actually I'm having doubts if fucking our way into Godhood is a good idea.

On the other hand, Exaltedfag writes tastefully and with "godly" spark.

Rolled 9

>>30758060
forgot to roll

>>30757977
>Agree to grant them both
one for their assistance, and one for their friendship.

Is there any benefit to granting them both instead of just one?

>>30757977
>Agree to the full night and day
>set the date relative to Fae's defeat
The day after our task is done or the day after that.

>>30757977
>Agree to spend one full day and night pleasing them
This whole exalted business sure is easy as long as you're good in bed.

Rolled 10

>>30758087
whoops, turned off dice