>>30916356
Based waifu!

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>>30916356

Oh boi, someone is fucked

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>>30916356
>Horrified, Garnet turns to face Tia.
Kek

>>30916356
Welp.

>>30916356
>Not even for all the pleasure, all the riches of the Wyld? My servants would be your servants. In my realm you would have a treasure trove of beauty, eternally full
we already have that as price for not killing him. WHY is this asshole still making demands and offers? We could have killed him, we didn't, we own him. END OF DISCUSSION

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"...I, wait. I really didn't mean-" He tries to begin to explain himself, but he falls silent when he sees Tia's silver tattoos exploding with light as her anima blazes to full power.

The room and ship interior seems to vanish around you, replaced by ghostly silver images of trees with spiraling branches, like decoratively drawn celtic knots, standing around a still pond, a tranquil glade, shrouded in silence. Behind her, a circular shadow slowly fills, showing the phases of the waxing moon until it grows full, sending her rays all around.

Tia takes one step into the room, the wooden planks of the floor cracking under her weight. You can't help but notice she has her sword in hand.

Bit by bit, her eyes cover with a reflective layer of blue chitin. Plates of a glistening, tough-looking armored substance, colored in white and silver and green with touches of black, surface from her skin, covering her form as her dress vanishes. She gains almost a full meter in height.

...You've never seen her take on that form, and you're sure it doesn't belong to any real animal.

Her legs become longer and even more slender, and her arms sprout one long scythe-like blade each, jutting down from the wrist at a right angle, looking metallic and wickedly sharp.

"You see." She says at Garnet. "This is because Maka's soul and mine are bound to each other for all eternity."

"I... I didn't intend to-"

>Scream at Tia to spare him (might require Talking to the Heart)
>Let Tia handle it
>Scramble out of the bed, get yourself between Tia and Garnet
>Other?

I find it pretty funny that the 'seduce him' crowd, which accused the other side of samefagging, lost decisively once a samefag proof method of vote counting was used

>>30916508
...He's Fae. They like to talk and play games, both with words and with actual stakes.

>>30916536
>Let Tia handle it

>>30916536
>Let Tia handle it
It's time he understands who's the boss around here.

Rolled 6

>>30916536
>Scream at Tia to spare him (might require Talking to the Heart)

>>30916536
>Other?
>well Garnet, I suggest you give us a reason to spare you. You mentioned " all the pleasure, all the riches of the Wyld," and something about your servants being mine. That would be a good start

>>30916547
>samefag proof
That said I figure both sides had same-fagging.
>>30916536
>Let Tia handle it
I don't like Fae much.

>>30916582
works for me.

>>30916574
>who's the boss
so Tia is?

>>30916536
>Let Tia Handle it
And our Lunar Mate is a Praying Mantis...I'm going to pretend that's not foreshadowing.

>>30916547
That method wasn't samefag proof.

>>30916536
>Let Tia handle it

My dashing knight~~

Rolled 7

>>30916536
>Other?

Just quip 'Don't kill him.' The bed is pretty soft and warm and comfortable.

>>30916603
Was that ever in question?

>>30916634
Yes. Macha's the boss.

>>30916536
>Scramble out of the bed, get yourself between Tia and Garnet

"Tia!"

...

...

"STOP BREAKING MY SHIP!"

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>>30916536
>Let Tia handle it

And she wins my heart more and more with each passing moment.

Rolled 2

>>30916582
agreed. Just make sure he doesn't die.

>>30916641
She's just letting us think that. Tia knows better than to shatter /tg/'s fragile ego.

>>30916370
>Exaltedfag, really, really thanks for keeping quest totally n00b friendly. I like that I don't need to participate in metadiscussions and know setting to the core to be active since quest #1. Thanks.
You're welcome. It's one of my main objectives. I realize that Exalted is very hard to get into, but I keep seeing people asking me how to. I fully intend this quest to be a good intro, and feel free to ask setting stuff at any time.

>>30916394
>Exalt, would you mind explaining the soulfucking/seduction mechanic OOC next thread? Just want to make sure I now what's going on with that since I'm new to Exalted.
Er, "soulfucking" isn't really a mechanic, just Garnet saying that he's interested in Maka from a spiritual and not purely physical point of view.
(this is also because, while Maka is beautiful for human standards, fae are literally as beautiful as they want to be since they design their own bodies, so they are in an entirely different league from any Creation-born creature)

Also, yeah, Fae can do stuff with souls, so he probably also meant that. Kinda like... eat dreams and that.

Seduction, or rather any kind of social attack, works... just like a physical attack: you have to roll and beat the victim's defense score. of course, you have a mental defense score rather than a physical one.

Rolled 3

>>30916536
>>Scream at Tia to spare him (might require Talking to the Heart)

>>30916661
I know, right?

>>30916582
seconding this.
I don't trust Tia to hash out an optimal deal. She said the oath he made was good enough, which it clearly wasn't.
She lost my trust regarding deals with surrendering fae.

>>30916536
>Let Tia handle it
Tia, don't sink the ship, please.

>>30916582
And his graces.

>>30916714
We're on land, remember?

>>30916582
Yeah. I want to leash him properly this time

>>30916582
And his graces, for real this time

>>30916582
Oh, negotiating with him terrified. Should be fun.

>>30916582
this

>>30916734
obviously, Tia's experience with fae doesn't expand beyond killing them

>>30916752
His fear is a lie, remember?

>>30916762
but he has to act like its real.

>>30916536
>>30916582this is a good start, but he should throw in a grace or two, too

I'm not taking any chances

Rolled 2

>>30916536
Tia partially caused this mess, voting for >>30916582

>>30916787
Graces can be given in a form of an artifact, right? I'd like us to get some bitchin' artifact armor made from Raksha's soul.

Rolled 4

>>30916536
Already voted, just realized you're probably going to need a roll for this so here you go.

Rolled 6

>>30916536

Rolled 6

>>30916843
I think the only grace that could be armor is his sword grace, and we'd have to be really lucky for him to have forged his sword grace as armor

They can give us other artifacts, though

>>30916868
What kind of things can they be turned into?

I love how we got 6 successes to push him off the bed, but only 1 to keep Tia from killing him. Classic Maka.

Rolled 10

>>30916918
The dice have been really shitty today

>>30916948
Now, now, they were quite good about us pushing him off the bed. Why I'll bet that kick did a full point of damage.

Rolled 5

>>30916904
Sword Graces are usually, you know, swords, but they can be other weapons and I think stuff like armor etc.
Cup Graces can be cups and other containers, ring Graces rings, crowns etc.Staff graces Staffs, I think. No idea about Way or Hearth, and I probably forgot some.

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Social + Zenith = 6 7 2 3 2 4 6 = 1 success

"...Well, Garnet." You grin at him from beneath your blankets. "I suggest you give us a reason to spare your pitiful excuse of a life, or whatever it is you have that moves that corpse of yours anyway."

"...You could have served her." Tia mumbles, stomping her armored foot on Garnet's stomach. "You could have been her lover. It would have been fine."

You suspect Tia didn't hear you.

"I... I have no interest in her body... only... her beautiful soul..."

"PATHETIC." She slams her foot into his stomach harder. You swear you've almost seen it go all the way through. "I was wrong to trust your love, Raksha." She doesn't even bother with her usual gesture - and why would she? "Because I thought you were less greedy than this."

"...Hey. Tia. Don't kill him." You suggest. "He can still be use-"

That's about when Tia slams her daiklave through his head, nailing him to the ship's pavement.

"-ful... or not, I guess."

She pulls the blade out, then stabs it back in, into his chest.

Then pulls it back out, and back in.

And again. And again. And again, and again, and again. His body loses a strange, rainbow-colored ichor which spills all around the floor, but quickly evaporates, together with your boots and jacket.

"...I think he's dead, Tia." You try to shake her out of it, noting she's still busy stabbing the point where his body was before dissolving.

Finally, she lets go of the daiklave, and the armored chitin flows back into her body. Her beautiful white dress sprouts back on her.

Her knees give in, and she falls to the floor, crying uncontrollably.

>Scold her
>Console her
>Wait for her to regain composure
>Other?

Rolled 1

>>30917030
>Scold her
...

>>30916991
If "Way" is about movement then maybe a pair of shoes or sandles? Maybe we should ask an expert to explain grace forging...

Rolled 1

>>30917030
>Scold her

>>30917030
>Console her

Rolled 1

>>30917030
>Scold her
and THAT is why you don't trust the crazy people

>>30917030
>Console her
Let's scold her after.

>>30917030
>>Console her

>>30917049
>>30917056
>>30917064
Why are we scolding? She is GREAT.

>>30917030
>Console her
Great, we need to find clothes again.

Rolled 9

>>30917030
>Console her
"It's ok Tia, I'm here."

Rolled 6

>>30917030
>Scold her
stupid bitch, Dancing Smoke best girl

Rolled 7

>>30917030
>Scold her

>>30917030
>Console her
It's not like we didn't really expect this

Rolled 1

>>30917030
>Wait for her to regain composure

Rolled 9

>>30917030
>Console her
She needs a hug.

Rolled 9

>>30917030
>Wait for her to regain composure

>>30917077
I'm guessing they want her to either suicide or kill Maka?

Rolled 3

>>30917030
>>Scold her

>>30917030

>Console her

Hug her. We'll scold her or find out why she's so fucked up later.

Rolled 1

>>30917030
>Scold her

>>30917077
you're kidding me, right? Glossamer 3 works in creation like Wealth 5, the guy was the solution for our money problem

>>30917102
That's what it feels like to me.

Ritualistic suicide by way of Lunar. It is a HORRIBLE idea to scold Tia right now.

Rolled 8

>>30917077
Because she's killing someone we don't want dead.

>>30917030
Girls will be girl
>Console her

Rolled 4

>>30917030
>Scold her
She just killed a golden goose, but /tg/ is waifuing like crazy

>>30917030
>Scold her

>>30917107
This. Calm her down, reassure her she's safe, find out what brought this on, allay her fears and concerns, explain what she should have done instead then convince her to follow our wishes going forward.

Sucks that we lost our behemoth loot but it's good we can nip this behavior in the bud in a relatively controlled environment.

Rolled 5

>>30917030
>Scold her
She'll do it again if we don't scold her.
We'll never completely deal with this, but we can at least try and mitigate the damage her crazy does to our plans

>>30917030
>Console her
Tia is cute and in crazy love

Rolled 2

>>30917030
>Console her
We can scold her when she's done crying.

>Console her
Tia is kinda unstable at the moment, scolding her might backfire horribly.

>>30917030
>>Scold her

>>30917160
Scolding her WILL backfire horribly. You don't just do that to someone like Tia.

Rolled 7

>>30917030
>Scold her
Hypothetical question, is the strength of the solar bound tied to the exaltion, so that the next person her exaltion exalts has it super strong, too?

I'm seriously considering getting rid of her

>>30917160
I can only assume that her breakdown may be related to her Great Curse/Limit Break. Better not provoke the crazy and then deal with the meltdown.

>>30917030
>Console her
Wait with the scolding until it's actually productive.

>>30917030
>Console her
Fuck yeah Tia.

>>30917030
>Scold her
sigh. I've never wanted to slap a bitch this strongly before

>>30917030
>Console her
All these people wanting to scold her. God, that would just completely destroy Tia. ESPECIALLY with everything we've done with her up until now. Just... no.

Console the poor girl. There are LITERALLY as many Fae out there as we need if we ever want a Raksha in the future. There's only one Tia.

>>30917030
>Console her
>>30917188
They'd exalt somewhere else in creation, not have her powers, and the bond isnt necessarily love. We could end up with someone who hates us as much as Tia loves us.

>>30917030
>Scold her

>>30917226
>There's only one Tia.
thank god for that. Tianna would be burnign and all our ships would be sunk if there was more of them.

>>30917222
I feel the other way, I never wanted a character to die as much as that annoying guy, and boy did she deliver.

>>30917030
>Console her
We got her to change her mind about the husband/wife thing, we can get her to understand when she's not being sad

>>30917030
>Console her

Didn't think I'd need to vote for this, but apparently you guys are too retarded not to scold her.

>>30917030
>Scold her

>>30917030
>Console her

>>30917030
>Console her
Then
>Scold her

God damn it there went a useful pawn.

>>30917108
>Glossamer 3

Hell if we could have got the guy 4-5 we could have fixed tiannas entire money problem just with him.

>>30917030
>Scold her

>>30917236
at least they'd only ruin our plans and deny us tons of giant diamons out of malice, instead of incompetence

and the Tia fags start samefaging

>>30917253
>Letting lunar waifu think she can kill anybody she wants.
>Retarded

ahhaahahhahah. Enjoy that yandere knife.

>>30917286
>Hell if we could have got the guy 4-5 we could have fixed tiannas entire money problem just with him.
That would cause massive inflation and economic collapse unless managed carefully.

>>30917030
>Console her

>>30917030
>>Scold her

>>30917030
>Scold her
do we really want to send the message that it's okay for her to kill people whenever she feels like it?

>>30917313
you can turn Glossamer into anything, not just gold or gems. You could make Jade or food or everything else

>>30917108
Wait, did Garnet have a character sheet I don't know about?

>>30917313
Not to mention possible Sidereal interference, caused by sudden economic shift.

>>30917348
No, he's just pulling bullshit out of his ass.

"...Why did you do that?" You stand up from the bed, tossing the blankets aside, and walk towards Tia, huddled up in fetal position on the floor, crying like there's no tomorrow. "Why the hell did you do that? Do you know what you just did?"

She keeps crying, without daring to look up to you, hugging her knees. Desperately trying to voice something, but all that comes out of her mouth is a hoarse noise interrupted by violent sobbing.

"He was a fair folk! And we had him oathbound! We just needed to handle him a bit better, scare him a bit more, and he could provide us with all sorts of treasures! You messed up everything!"

"...So..." She sobs. "So money... is worth more... than my love... for you?"

>Yes
>No

>>30917348
No, I think he's just speculating. He had at least some gossamer though

>>30917354
I was pointing out how a moderate amount of Glossamer that a starting character can very easily have is literally as rich as you can be in creation

>>30917188
Are you seriously Desus in real life?

>>30917354
Phew.

>>30917367
No

>>30917367
>No

>>30917367
>No
"That does not mean that killing him was a smart idea."

>>30917380
And I'm saying that it doesn't matter at all, because we can always grab another Raksha later on, because they will ALWAYS be around.

>>30917367
>No
"Your love was never under threat from that Fae."

>>30917367
>>No

>>30917367
>No

Nice going guys.

Rolled 2

>>30917367
>No
God no.

We just need to know we can actually trust her. She needs to be reliable, rational, and so forth. I'm more upset about her flying off the handle and undermining the trust we've been building up in her than the actual act itself.

>>30917367

>No

Of course not! Damn you, /tg/!

>>30917367
Oh my god is she literally so retarded?
>No
but money means I can pay my ships and protect Tianna and retake Gem.

>>30917367
>No

Fucking... god damn you, /tg/. Way to fucking go. I swear to god.

>>30917367
And so the Lunar Mate abuse begins. Nicely played OP.

>>30917367
Of course not, we just have some fucking idiots on this thread

>>30917367
>>No
But you still should not have killed him

>No

>>30916605
Yeahhhhhh. Lil' bit awkward.

>>30917367
>No
>I'd prefer it if you didn't wreck my plans to retake my kingdom, though. You know, if it isn't too much effort to not murder someone that is no threat.

>>30917313
That's why you slowly load them with money over time instead of dropping the entire amount.

>>30917367
>No

Just tell you not to kill assets so easily and you do care for her. Preferably with a hug.

Rolled 9

>>30917030
>Console her

Nothing ever went according to plan ever since the moot started, but still Tia is far more valuable than Garnet.

My lesson from all of this is that we should spam Iron Kettle Body like crazy and use the 0 to 1 short break mechanic. Had we used it every single time we could have been at 5/5 health right now and marching deep into fae territory.

In the future, please vote to use charms every single battle. In this game, good rolls are not as good as the bad ones are bad.

I wonder how many of our crew will return alive?

Also EF, could we upgrade Iron Kettle Body to reflexively activate just before we take damage?

Rolled 7

>>30917367
>No

>>30917367
We're console and scold really mutually exclusive?

>>30917367

"No. I rejected him because of you, Tia. Every part of his offer and the whole itself was worth less than your feelings to me."

>Hug

>when she has calmed down a bit

"We could have used the money to get a really, really strong bed, though. One that might survive an hour or two of us."

>>30917440
>>30917443

>Not waifuing is idiots.

;_; why do you do this to me people? Though I don't think anybody is going to vote yes here. There just going to in general tell her to tone it down.

>>30917367
>No

Rolled 4

>>30917427
>Oh my god is she literally so retarded?
It's only a day after we told her we didn't feel the same way and that we wanted her to work her way up to us loving her.

It's a fairly reasonable concern, really.

>>30917512
It's not waifuing. It's having some fucking common sense.

An unstable Lunar who is literally mad with love just fucking killed someone who ONLY wanted your heart. You don't immediately start fucking berating her for it! You fucking don't! What kind of sociopath does that?!

>>30917367
>No
>but I'm really disappointed that you don't care what I want, at all

>>30917547
>but I'm really disappointed that you don't care what I want, at all
>and what I want is money
>so yes, that is all I care about.

>>30917367
>No

>>30917561
what we care about is protecting creation and Tianna from it's enemies, which we need resources for.

>>30917545

This. Plus it's not waifuing if it's husbando.

>>30917367
"No silly, just think you were being a bit foolish. Now come to bed."

>>30917576
Because, you know, that was the only place in all of Creation to get resources. Especially the only Raksha ever in existence.

>>30917595
I think we should give her and us time to calm down.
She's sleeping on the couch tonight

>>30917561
Don't you love how most of the write ins are just making this worse? /Tg/ just doesn't know when to cut its losses and give up the moral high ground for the sake of a friendship.

>>30917576
Yes, but do you want to tell Tia to her face that she's mostly just a resource for us to use in furthering our goals?

"Well, yes! Of course!"

She falls utterly silent. Even her sobbing stops. Even her breathing.

"I mean, You've only been annoying this far. You're uncontrollable, you do whatever you want instead of properly obeying me, and, quite frankly, I think you're crazy."

A single sob breaks the silence between sentences.

"I've quite had it enough with you. At least, with all that gossamer, I could have actually fixed things. Made weapons and magic for Tianna's defense. Wiped out the rest of the Fae. Made a kingdom for myself here in the West. Or even funds for my campaign to retake Gem. You? You're unreliable, useless, and dangerous."

Wait a moment.

"Get lost."

You tap on the glass.

It takes you a moment to realize that that's not you.

Another Maka is between you and her. You're hidden behind her. Tia can't see you. She can't hear you. Even you can't hear your own voice.

You slam your fists on the glamoured glass frenetically.

In it, you can see Garnet reflected as a pale image, smiling sweetly at you.

"I'm really sorry I have to do this." You don't hear the words, but that's what his lips say. "But to protect you, my love, I'll first have to get rid of that annoyance for you. I'm sure you understand. Soon we'll be together in my kingdom. In YOUR kingdom."

>You're right. Let her go. I can't wait, my dear.
>[Ten Ox Meditation]
>Other?

>>30917619
>[Ten Ox Meditation]

>>30917619
>[Ten Ox Meditation]

oh FUCK no

>>30917619
>[Ten Ox Meditation]
>[Ten Ox Meditation]
>[Ten Ox Meditation]
>[Ten Ox Meditation]
>[Ten Ox Meditation]

Rolled 6

>>30917619
>[Ten Ox Meditation]
Nope, let's break his face

>>30917619
>[Ten Ox Meditation]
incoming shitstorm about our perfect waifu

>>30917619
>[Ten Ox Meditation]
Meditatin' time!

>>30917545
>You fucking don't! What kind of sociopath does that?!

What type in general kills someone after the person tells her not to? Like I don't think she is going to go off or anything but she's going to be pissed because she flat out said "Don't kill this guy he is useful" and she did it anyway. Makes people feel less trustworthy.

>>30917619
>[Ten Ox Meditation]

YOUUUUUUUUUU FUUUUUUUUUUUCKER!

>>30917619
>[Ten Ox Meditation]

Oh shit, well played OP.

Rolled 2

>>30917619
>[Ten Ox Meditation]
Oh, FUCK YOU, Garnet. Tia was right after all to do what she did.

>>30917619
>[Ten Ox Meditation]
the funny thing is, this is still Tia's fault for telling us the love oath will suffice. Not that her fanclub will ever admit it

Rolled 7

>>30917619
>[Ten Ox Meditation]

>>30917619
Just wanted to say

I fucking called it.

Rolled 10

>>30917619
>[Ten Ox Meditation]
Fuck the fae
I hope we learn a lesson from this
The only thing worse than fae is the people playing this quest

>>30917619
>[Ten Ox Meditation]

You done fucked up Fae.

>>30917619
AND THIS IS WHY YOU NEVER TRUST A FAE

Rolled 8

>>30917690
>Tia was right after all to do what she did.
nope. it's 100% her fault. She's the expert on fae and didn't push for a surrender oath or his hearth, this is all on her, and she deserves every bit of pain and suffering she's going through

>>30917685
Well you gotta take other stuff into account, like say, him being a Fae. Which speaks a lot against him both in general terms, and in her specific opinion given the problem she and the rest of them have had with Fae before.

Rolled 9

>>30917718
AND THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T SETTLE FOR EXTREMELY STRANGELY WORDED AND SUPER GENERAL OATHS INSTEAD OF JUST GETTING HIS GRACE.
I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT HIS HEARTH SINCE FOREVER AND OP ALWAYS IGNORED IT.

Rolled 2

>>30917725
>every bit
Well, sure, some of it, but this is a lot more than she actually deserves. This is some soul-shattering tragedy at the moment.

>>30917725
Wasted success.

Also, where are your dice people?

Rolled 10

>>30917619
>[Ten Ox Meditation]
this was incredibly predictable. Someone swearing he'll love you doesn't make him into your underling, see Tia

Rolled 9

>>30917660
Forgot dice.

>>30917619
Don't forget. "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, Garnett!"

Rolled 7

>>30917661
Shit. Dice.

Rolled 8

>>30917791
People talked about getting his grace but no one really pushed the issue

>>30917745
Yeah a something that could have been useful. ;_; but now he done fucked up about the only way he is getting though this one alive is without his heart grace.

>>30917754
This too. God damn it people bind your fae harder then just a general oath. Tell him to give the sword and when he says some bullshit like last time tell him you'll shank him. We want a slave not a free willed abomination.

>>30917821

Fuck fae seriously. Next time we capture one, I am voting we immediately kill it unless it gives us all of its graces.

This has been NOT AS PLANNED ever since they showed up.

Physical + Dawn = 6 2 7 10 8 9 = 4 successes

[Essence: 1/5]

All of the wounds you accumulated in the battle for he last day scream in pain, your muscles flare up with ache and heat, and your heart explodes in anger.

With the first two punches, the iron plate of your gauntlets breaks into fine splinters, and the wall cracks like a shattered mirror.

All you see now is the broken reflection of Tia, standing up, turning towards the exit. her back facing you, she seems so small now...

Bits and flakes of the glass wall fly with each blow, one after another.

She is closing the door.

You're probably screaming, but no noise reaches your ear, not even the ringing bang of your repeated fists.

Then it all happens in a second. You break through, and the noise of the world kits you like a wave as you launch yourself against the closing door.

[Health: 1/5]

You smash through the wall, the door, and the space between them, and grab her wrist.

"NO!"

She turns, surprised, but you can't lose that much momentum. Together with her, you plow through the next wall, as the scream of the shattered fae dies out behind you, and land in the ship's mournfully empty cargo hold.

"...Maka...?" She can only whisper with a hoarse voice, eyes red and dull, her face streaked with tears.

"Don't go." You hold her. "Don't go."

She holds you back. "I... I'm sorry. I... I couldn't control myself. I couldn't stop. He... he wanted your soul, Maka. That's... that's something I don't want anyone else to have..."

>forgive her
>scold her
>explain that it's her fault
>apologize to her
>ask her to make up for it
>let go of her
>say nothing
>Other?

Rolled 2

>>30917889
it's not the fae's fault we're ridiculously easy to trick, it had to make at least a token attempt at weasling out of serving us

>>30917921
We need more twilight to deal with them.

Rolled 5

>>30917903
>forgive her
And then explain that we would prefer if she didn't act like such a loose cannon in the future.

Rolled 8

>>30917903
>forgive her
>apologize to her

Make way for /tg/ fucking this one up, too!

>>30917903
>say nothing

>>30917941
agreed.

Rolled 7, 7, 10 = 24

>>30917903
>>forgive her
>apologize to her

Rolled 7

>>30917903
>forgive her
>ask her to promise to control herself in the future

Rolled 7

>>30917932
>twilight
Eclipse, actually. Eclipse is for politics, oaths, and so forth.

Rolled 9

>>30917903
>apologize to her
>kill the fae

>>30917903
>Apologize and forgiven her
She was totally right about the fae.

Rolled 4

>>30917903
>Physical + Dawn = 6 2 7 10 8 9 = 4 successes
5 successes but whatever
>forgive her
>apologize to her
It's okay we're sorry for being mad

>>30917903
>forgive her

Eh he could have been useful if we were more forceful. But other then being a little pissed at first which would be fixed by the guy fucking up and trying to mess with us I don't think she would hold it against her. I'd just just tell her to try and chill out a bit.

>>30917903

>Forgive her

Just hug her. If you fa/tg/uys won't let her go, we'll explain or >scold her in the evening, later on. Now just huggings.

>>30917903
>Explain that she overreacted, and should trust you next time.

Rolled 8

>>30917903
>forgive her
>apologize to her

>>30917963
twilight is for Lore. I think we failed the lore check to find out about graces. Should have let us use them once they were mentioned IC though.

Rolled 4

>>30917903
>forgive her

Honestly, it's just in-character at this point.

>say nothing

>>30917889
Honestly it's mainly because most people really really suck at oaths. Should have forced the bastard to become our slave instead of just letting him do whatever.

Lesson learned if new fae joins get Eclipse oaths and force one of the graces out of it.

Rolled 3

>>30917971
>She was totally right about the fae.
she said we could trust him because he swore he loved us, dude

Rolled 3

>>30918039
And he did all of this out of what he called love. She didn't lie. We could trust him in that sense.

You can't trust Fae.

Rolled 3

>>30918039
She said he was being tricky but a tricky we can use

Rolled 5

>>30918062
you can if you have their hearth

Rolled 9

>>30918039
>said we could trust him
She never said that. She just refrained from killing him after he swore it and we assumed that was what she meant.

And we COULD trust him. Things only went to shit when we started promising him the one thing we knew Tia was adamant about us NOT GIVING AROUND: our soul.

Tia WAS right.

>>30918074
That or the sword. Mainly because with the sword they can't even touch you and you can tell them to kill anybody and they will be compelled to. The heart grace on the other hand is more they lose all their free will and become your puppet. Problem is almost no fae is going to give that up because who would give up their free will?

>>30918081

Now that I think about it, she might have came earlier to meet us "just in time" since she realized that with our last declaration about fae we were going to eat from the hand of this manipulative bastard. See that we as /tg/ even discussed possibility of opening ourselves, our thoughts, dreams etc. to the fucker. So when she was killing the fae she might have thought that we are charmed and aren't rational, while she didn't anticipate that the fucker will back-stab us twice.

>>30918098
>Promising souls

He more or less wanted our legend. Given how high our roll is I wanted to see if we could seduce his graces out of him but people instead flipped over. Though with Tia in the room that may have been a great idea.

Rolled 2

>>30918163
For real. The problem is our own assumptions and ignorance. Tia wasn't rational, per say, but she wasn't some backwards-headed moron.

>>30917903
>Essence 1/5
>Health 1/5
Yep, not good.

>>30918180
On the bright side it shouldn't be too hard to flip this over and given Tia's emotional state we should get more control over her though the current vote. Always useful to have a lunar around when you need one.

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Mental + Twilight = 2 5 8 7 = 2 successes

"...It's okay. It's okay. Nothing happened. That wasn't me." You gently cradle her in your arms.

"I didn't mean to... I didn't mean to..."

Her mutterings slowly become whispers, and then simple breathing, as she cries herself to sleep.

You slowly pick her up, being careful to not disturb her, and turn to the room.

No trace of Garnet, of the glass wall, or anything else. Only the hole in the wall, the smashed door, and the stab marks in the floor.

You carry her up to the bed, noting that Samiel has slept all the way through the whole ordeal, peacefully.

A bit worried for a moment, you check on him. He seems to be still alive, but his sleep seems really deep. He might have been drugged or something, to keep him from interfering.

Bastard thought about everything.

Reacting to the noises, the men from the crew arrive, alarmed. "Maka! What happened?!" Alexei leads them, armed with sword and board. You recognize the iron weapons hastily forged in Freeport.

Feeling your legs about to give, you tell him: "...have a physician check on Samiel. We're going to sleep. Stab every corner of the ship with iron."

With the face of someone who doesn't understand his orders but still trusts in their sanity, he nods. "Alright, you heard her, men! Move on!"

Meanwhile, you have barely enough strength to reach for the bed, deposit Tia, and then climb in yourself.

Thankfully, your sleep still has dreams.

[Session end]

Rolled 6

>>30918242
>Always useful to have a lunar around when you need one.
unless they start killing people

>>30918248
Thanks for running!

Rolled 7

>>30918248
Thanks for putting up with our shit EF

>>30918248

Yay! That was awesome :-3

Rolled 9

>>30917903
That he did the fucker.

Thanks for the help. In that room the Maka you saw was not me.

We are still in the wyld aren't we?

Can't rest here, sorry. Cant risk this happening again.

>>30918248
Great session today OP. thanks for running.

Rolled 2

i feel like at this point, Tia could dump a solid block of Gold in Lava because she feels like it and /tg/ would apologize for not doing it themselves

>>30918263
Even then that's typically fine. Honestly I wouldn't care if she killed anybody if it wasn't for the fact we told her not to. If we didn't I wouldn't have minded.

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XP:
2 XP (base)
1 XP (defeated a fae noble and explored the Wyld)
1 XP (defeated Garnet)
1 XP (survived Garnet's mindgames)

Rolled 3

>>30918341
EF mentioned talking he down might need Talk to the Heart, I wonder if she was under Limit Break or something

Rolled 10

>>30918366
>5XP
noice

Rolled 5

>>30918391
What's limit break?

>>30918341
It seems like, going by EF's description in the thread, she literally didn't hear what Maka said. He even hinted at using Talking to the Heart to make sure she got the message and there were only a couple of votes for it.

>>30918332

Whatever. We don't need anything, whole Creation is our vault and monies aren't a problem when we can punch gargantuan beasts from out of this world to death.

>>30918248
2 successes. Damn, should have used [Talking to the Heart]. Great game today EF.

Rolled 3

>>30918411
Exalts go completely crazy because WW thought the world isn't messed up enough and making everything better would be too easy

>>30918411
Limit Break is a particular setting mechanic (that hasn't still been introduced, but that's because the characters themselves don't know about it IC).

It's, to put it simply, an ancient curse on all Exalted which brings them to emotional excesses and eventually results in them doing stupid, counter-productive, self-destructive shit.

>>30918411

Exalts are cursed by the titans to go loco. Limit break=Now I lost it.

Temporary insanity, Bonkers, a few fries short of a happy meal. Crazy, cray cray. They eventually snap out of it though.

>>30918428
See! It's already started.

>>30918439
>2 successes. Damn, should have used [Talking to the Heart]. Great game today EF.

The 2 successes are for a medical knowledge check for wondering why Samiel slept all the way through that mess.

> emotional excesses and eventually results in them doing stupid, counter-productive, self-destructive shit.

Not that we'd see a difference if Tia had a Limit break

>>30918474
Oh lucky

>>30918454
Does Maka know what Graces are IC?

>>30918474
Whoops, never mind then. Thanks for the clarification Exalted.

>>30918498
We did ask for Garnet's heart at one point

>>30918478
I wonder what her virtue flaw is.

>>30918248
>Alexei

I like this guy a lot so far.

>>30918498
Not in the terms people believe her to. It's rare knowledge even among expert loremasters.

She knows of legends about fae giving up their swords (their literal swords, not their "sword grace") and therefore being banned from harming humans, or sometimes a particular human, or human bloodline, for a hundred years. She also knows they must keep solemnly-worded oaths, and that their "hearts" can sometimes be physical objects outside their bodies, like what you'd think of a lich phylactery, and if you own them / break them / scratch them with an iron nail and carve your name on them /throw them into the ocean, the fae will die / disappear / fall in love with you / obey your orders / obey your orders to the letter in a way that ends up killing you / reverse gravity around them / curse you and your bloodline to the seventh generation or any combination thereof.

If some players keep expecting Maka to act like she has Twilight 5, maybe they should start saving up for it.

>>30918616
Compassion, I think

>>30918622
Me too! Really hope he exalts into something useful so we can keep his (her?) snark around.

>>30918616
>MAKA I LOVE
>MAKA WE'RE MARRIED
>MAKA DON'T YOU LOVE ME?
I bet it's temperance

>>30918663
Well, with this campaign going on he'll have plenty of opportunity to.

>>30918645
> reverse gravity around them
This is such false folkloretry that I can't help but hope its true.

>>30918680
Actually..that makes perfect sense.

>>30918757
Tia seems pretty close to a high valor, Low temperance, Low-average conviction, with decent compassion.

>>30918757
Considering the amount of action we get we either have no temperance to speak of or be the god-blooded child of an actual sex god.

Rolled 1

>>30918805
...we've had sex less than every other day in this quest.

>>30918805
Maka honestly seems to me to be something like.

High valor because she likes to charge into fights. Decent compassion she isn't bleeding heart or anything but she isn't heartless. Average temperance she has fun but she doesn't feel like the type who would get drunk all the time and languish in luxury. Decently high conviction she has a habit of going though with what she is doing without really thinking.

>>30918757
Can someone explain the virtues to me?

>>30918847
And that's terrible.

Rolled 7

>>30918876
10/10.

>>30918876
Have I mentioned that I'm really glad you're running this show instead of someone else? Because I am.

Rolled 7

>>30918876
>Not even having sex once a day
Jeez, why are we playing the Exalted version of Mother Teresa?

Compassion is kindness, empathy and generosity.
Conviction is determination and willingness to do unpleasant things for a greater cause.
Temperance is the ability to hold back and not give in to temptation.
Valor is courage and pride.

>>30918956
We might be trying to keep the collateral damage down.

>>30918871
Sure thing. Exalted are driven by 4 virtues. rated from 1-5. 1 being lower then normal 2 being normal and 5 being utterly absurd. They go something like.

Compassion=Compassion for other living beings and how hard it is to kill someone. At high enough levels you have a habit of forgiving foes who you really should just kill. At low levels you could sell your mom into slavery.

Valor-How brave you are. At high levels your more likely to go off when someone challenges you or do heroic/stupid shit. At low levels your a coward.

Temperance-How much you abstain from pleasures. High levels your a fucking monk and will tend to feel bad if you over indulge in something. Low levels you pretty much jump into over indulging.

Conviction-How steeled you are on your course and how much well conviction you have in what you are doing. High levels you will keep on going and going even when you really should stop or you don't need to anymore. Low levels your pretty weak willed.

>>30918956
In all fairness, the only two days we missed out (today and hauling stone from the quarry) that I can remember it was because we were to injured to do anything more than pass out.

Rolled 1

>>30919051
Sleeping on the beach, the first night after exalting... Hell, we've only ever laid Tia every other night since meeting her, and only banged once before that.

Jesus christ guys, nice job breaking the Tia.

What the fucking fuck.

Rolled 7

>>30919083
yeah, I guess we're just not living up to the Sexpectations of the setting

>>30919213
she was broken when we got her, and we lost the recipe.

>>30919213
>breaking the Tia.

Not enough anon. Not nearly enough.

Any idea when the next session will be EF?

>>30919213
Actually, I think if we'd made the right choice we just would have noticed Garn's deception earlier. Tia would still have nearly been driven away, though we would have caught her before the second does of emotional damage from "us."

>>30919294
>Any idea when the next session will be EF?
Can't guarantee with the way my week is shaping up to be. Might try tomorrow, but I can't promise anything.

>>30919311
>Actually, I think if we'd made the right choice we just would have noticed Garn's deception earlier. Tia would still have nearly been driven away, though we would have caught her before the second does of emotional damage from "us."

True.

Also a reminder: Your charms protect your body AND MIND from reality-altering ("shaping", in exalted lingo) powers like those of the Wyld and the Fae. But Lunar tattoos only protect the physical body unless they also have a charm protecting their mind as well.

>>30919400
>Tia not having mind defending charms.

If she doesn't then I'll question how the Christ she is still alive. Unless she hasn't fought too many fae before.

>>30919311
That's fine. I don't really have an issue with Garnet playing bullshit mind games.

My problem is more with how quickly people actually voted to start chewing out Tia over, y'know, protecting her goddamn waifu.

Remember their relationship dynamic? We're playing the waifu, not the dashing hero. And I doubt anyone who voted the dumb option would have blinked an eye at murdering Garnet for trying to get our waifu's soul if we were in the Hero's role.

>>30919400
>Lunar Tattoos do not protect their minds from the Fae and the Wyld.
Huh, the more you know.

>>30919435
From what I remember she had only recently come to Three Rivers, before she had been with another Lunar

Rolled 1

>>30919439
I agree, actually. Tia's been a bit sloppy, but since her specialty is physical excellence, stumbling in social/mental stuff is understandable.

Rolled 7

>>30919482
Motherfucking Ma Ha Suchi. Mr. 'My master plan involves rape pens.'

>>30919482
Ma Ha Whatsits. Yeah, probably not too much Fae fighting.

>>30919439
>We're playing the waifu

Hahaha. No. Maka lets her get away with a lot but when you have a obsessive madness on Tia's scale. It's pretty obvious who really is in control here all it takes is a word to switch what she does. So when you really think about it Maka is kind of playing the role of a waifu I suppose? When she feels the need she'll say flat out her opinion.

>>30919482
She'd been under Ma-Ha-Suchi's thumb.

>>30919526
>Ma Ha Suchi

Oh god damn it. No wonder Tia is so screwed in the head.

>>30919526
>>30919543
>>30919569
>Ma Ha Suchi
As some one with not much exalted knowledge I assume this is some important dude?

>>30919565

>We are not playing waifu

Don't tell me what I play! Muh dashing husbando

>>30919619

Simple way to explain him. Big badass elder lunar over two thousand years old. Breeding a army out in bugfuck no where to attack the world. Not a nice guy to be around.

>>30919619
One of the 6 Lunars that has been Exalted since before the Usurpation, making him over 2,000 years old. He's also one of the worst victims of Wyld among the Lunars, his form is now permanently mutated, and his Motivation has shifted to "Destroy all civilization" because of Wyld-induced madness.

>>30919697
>>30919729
Any chance he did some weird lunar mind whammy to Tia?

>>30919565
Do you really think waifu is synonymous with submissive? If you do you're an idiot.

This is about archetypes. Imagine a hero waifus his queen. He's still taking orders, even if she's considered his waifu.

Tia fits the hero archetype because she's blunt, confronts problems directly and on her own strength, and makes every effort to be dashing and heroic to her lover. She's the proactive initiator in her relationship and her actions revolve around her desire to win her lover's favour. This does *NOT* make her the protagonist in lieu of Maka.

Maka has the waifu's role since she's far less proactive about their relationship. Instead of charging off the handle into whirlwind romance, she's communicating clearly, setting boundaries, and up until now, been a focus of purpose for Tia. This does not in any way divest her if her role as our protagonist.

Rolled 3

>>30919565
...yeah, that's the Waifu. The hero coming to their rescue, dropping everything at a word... 'Waifu' doesn't mean 'slave,' mate.

>>30919680
Though honestly I kind of view it as a mix in a way. Maka has most of the control but is pretty passive. While Tia is pretty husando and acts dashing and outgoing. But is really kind of under her in a way. Not only due to her being fucking nuts and thus easy to convince of anything but Maka being able to walk social circles around her makes it worse in a way.

It's kind of refreshing to see such a cute but kind of twisted relationship when you really start thinking on how it has worked so far.

Rolled 7

>>30919765
There's an almost 100% chance she's been nailed by tons of UMI, but if she escaped, she probably managed to shake it off.

>>30919765
He was originally one of the best Lunar socialites, so he most likely used some powers to make her not question his rape dungeons. Maybe that's why Tia is so autistic. Good thing that being a Solar psychotherapist is covered by a Zenith charm, maybe we can straighten her up with time.

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>>30919619
>>30919729

He's also a completely, obviously insane bloodthirsty monster who suffers from a horrifying case of "I used to be so beautiful but now I'm a monster, everyone must suffer for this", but masks it, even to himself, under a layer of "I'm doing the right thing for the world", and is crazy enough to believe his own lies.

Worst part? he's held in extremely high regard in lunar society as a legendary hero whose word carries an enormous amount of political weight, even though everyone knows that he's bonkers and probably one of the greatest threats on Creation.

Add to this the fact that, to my knowledge, he doesn't have a PLAN on what to do exactly once he successfully eradicates civilization and reduces humanity to maybe a million individuals scattered across a severely underpopulated Creation, living in caves and tents and the shattered ruins of once-great cities.

And Tia's backstory, how she told it, implied that she "worked for him". Then betrayed him and his secrets so "someone" and has been on the run from him ever since.

>>30919804
Shake off the control? Yes. But she sold him out to his enemies and unmade his plans.

Even without the intended effects there's still all of the aftereffects of whatever he did to her.

>>30919766
That explains it. When I think waifu I think flat character with nothing but moe. You're thinking more heroic archetypes while I'm thinking a 40 year old neckbeard in his basement yelling about how good the waifu is.

>>30919773
Doesn't feel standard waifu to me. There is too much thought in this. The power dynamics are non-linear. There actually is fights here.

Rolled 4

>>30919894
>But she sold him out to his enemies and unmade his plans.
...we're going to have goat-wolf-man ninjas jump us out of nowhere one night, aren't we?

>>30919885
>Then betrayed him and his secrets so "someone" and has been on the run from him ever since.
Now, what are the chances this "someone" was Raksi, another mad, ancient Lunar? Probably high.

>>30919926
You're basing that on the assumption that he'll ever actually leave the East.

Maybe some of his agents might have prsued her.

Rolled 5

>>30919960
>what are the chances this "someone" was Raksi
Extremely low. Raksi actively avoids Lunar society and doesn't give a flying fuck about Ma Ha Suchi. They don't even live within 1000 miles of each other.