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>Who are we?
Maka, an exiled noble Exalted as a Zenith-caste Solar. She was in the western city of Tianna as a guest of queen Amata, an old friend. Abyssals are targeting the city for conquest, Lintha pirates have infiltrated it with spies and agents, and the Realm is probably planning to get rid of you.
But things are also looking up. You have gathered a lot of allies and friends, have a powerful Manse under construction, and are unifying Tianna in a great nation under your overwhelming charisma.
You just discovered the reason everyone seems to be so interested in Tianna: an enormous magical fortress lies buried underground, a relic of the First Age with enough firepower to destroy anything...

>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=Solar%20Quest

>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

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>35382873
>>I don't want to think about it. Let's check that main essence reactor... the heart of this thing.
>>I need to think about the present.

>>35382873
>I don't want to think about it. Let's check that main essence reactor... the heart of this thing.
>I need to think about the present.
>I need to think about Tia

>>35382873
>>I don't want to think about it. Let's check that main essence reactor... the heart of this thing.
>I need to think about the present.

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>35382911
derp, forgot mah dice

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>35382873
>I don't want to think about it. Let's check that main essence reactor... the heart of this thing.
>I need to think about the past.

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>35382873
>There should be an or twelve armory aboard this ship. Lets see if there is anything left we can use.
Hoping for artifact weapons left behind in the confusion. With an exploding reactor they shouldn't have had time to strip it clean, especially the DB and mortal armories.

>>35382873
>I don't want to think about it. Let's check that main essence reactor... the heart of this thing.
>I need to think about the present.
>I need to think about the future.
>I need to think about the past.

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>35382897

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>35382873
>I need to think about the present.
>I need to think about the future.
Like UCS said, her sins aren't our sins, we aren't responsible for what she did, but we can learn from her

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>35382927
I have some trouble remembering this system

>>35382926
makes sense, supporting.

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>35382926
I'm up for this after we've checked the reactor

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>35382873
>>I need to think about the present.
>>I need to think about the future.

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>35382873
Seconding >>35382911 & >>35382926

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>>35382955
The system is "why the hell do i even bother giving you multiple choices if you people choose all of them?"

Seriously, maybe two combined choices can be worked in, but what do you expect me to do if everyone started voting like this?

>>35382873
>>35382897

Man, we thought we were hot shit in stats before the flashback.

After seeing Maka's previous iteration, we look pretty pissweak.

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>35382988
>Maka's previous iteration
Not Maka's, her Exalt's, entirely different person.

>>35382979
Improvise?

>>35382994
That's what I meant, technicalities of wording be damned.

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>35382995
He can't improvise you voting to be schizophrenic anon.

Vote sensibly or not at all.

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>35382873
Check the essence reactor, see if you can get a basic understanding of the structure for the location of major arterial passages
>>35382979
Caught up the archives after reading the first recap, always wanted to play exalted but noplayerslel. Just saying the recaps were appreciated

>>35382979
Alright, changing my vote here>>35382927 to
>Let's check that main essence reactor
>I need to think about the future

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>35382873
>I need to think about the past.
>I need to think about the present.
We can explore after we've sorted through our insanity

Glad to be back as Maka, I've missed her

You trace hesitant steps along the dark corridor, towards the pulsating heart of this enormous machine once more.

It's a vast, circular room, or better: cylindrical. The roof is so tall that it gets lost in the darkness above you, the vague, weak blinking lights lining the walls merging with one another as the distance increases.

The room is built around a machine, a pillar going through the entire room from roof to pavement. It looks delicate, complex, and powerful. Stairs and ladders and ramps crawl all the way up and down, making every corner of the pillar accessible for operators and crewmen to tend to it. The thick layer of dust over everything remonds you that they're all long gone.

The pillar is alive. You can feel it channelling a flow of power through its tubes, pipes, wires, circuits, like an enormous heart pumping blood. A weak buzzing noise fills the air, the sign of some machinery still functioning after all this time.

You're not sure how, but you realize that this thing can still fly.

It will need repairs, a crew, someone who knows what he's doing. But it can take off. It's old and most systems seem shut down or deactivated, but structural damage is minimal. at least, from what you can see.

You remember some things. Procedures. Commands. Data.

The fortress should have a guardian god. A spirit of some kind. Who knows if he's still alive, or sane.

You glance at the knobs and levers and wires covering the walls. Everything is still all set up to be...

(cont.)

A panel has been removed. A long time ago. It's still lying there, open. Inside, you see a pipe glowing a right blue. The main essence valve.

The entire machine siphons ambient Essence and pushes it through an array of conduits going all over the ship, but that's from where everything starts. It's the aorta, so to speak.

There's a lot of smaller wires and pipes and knobs and buttons there, but you focus on what you remember. the most important things.

A red wire, thick as your index finger, is plugged in a socket in the valve. Next to it, a black flip-switch is locked by a mechanical safety. Both have labels in Old Realm you can't translate, but you know what they will do.

That wire is a feedback cycle that lets the valve power itself. You unplug it, the valve stops, Essence starts building up inside the reactor. All other safety mechanisms have already been turned off. In about one hour, the reactor overloads and explodes. You have no idea of how big a crater it would make, but you guess it would be pretty big.

The switch is an emergency discharge system. You undo the safety, flip it, all the Essence gets vented out harmlessly. The reactor powers down completely With the way things are here, it would take months, maybe years for anyone to power it back up to nominal levels.

Your hands hover on the glowing essence pump...

>Leave everything like this.
>Put all safeties back on, close the panel and bolt it back shut the way it was originally.
>Unplug the feedback cycle, start Essence buildup.
>Flip the switch, vent all the Essence from the reactor.

>>35383249
>Flip the switch, vent all the Essence from the reactor.

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>35383249
>>Put all safeties back on, close the panel and bolt it back shut the way it was originally.

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>35383249
>>Put all safeties back on, close the panel and bolt it back shut the way it was originally.

>>35383249
>Put all safeties back on, close the panel and bolt it back shut the way it was originally.
No explodey please

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>35383249
>>Put all safeties back on, close the panel and bolt it back shut the way it was originally.

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>35383249
>Put all safeties back on, close the panel and bolt it back shut the way it was originally.

>>35383249

>Put all safeties back on, close the panel and bolt it back shut the way it was originally.

Don't let it show signs of tampering. We'll discuss this with Amata later.

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>35383249
>Put all safeties back on, close the panel and bolt it back shut the way it was originally.

>>35383249
>>Put all safeties back on, close the panel and bolt it back shut the way it was originally.

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>35383249
>Put all safeties back on, close the panel and bolt it back shut the way it was originally.

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>35383290
I wonder if she can even walk about the Titan with people, I wonder what kind of Oath she took

Could it have been Sidereal shenanigans?

So someone was in the Titan tampering with it?

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>35383329
It happened last thread, someone in the First Age set the Reactor to blow and not!Maka ran down to stop it

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>35383329
Happened last thread, the sidereal we met in the reactor room was setting it to blow when we stopped them.

Man the feels of that last scene hit hard

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>35383249
>>Put all safeties back on, close the panel and bolt it back shut the way it was originally.

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>35383376
It was pretty great and now we know why Tia is so crazy about us

>>35383358

Someone else did it, Not!Maka was killed by her lunar butler before she could fix things.

>>35383249
>Put all safeties back on

Venting the essence would completely solve the abyssal problem, at least for a few years. But we will want to fly this thing to recover Gem with.

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>35383393
We need to cuddle the shit out of her ASAP.

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>35383395
She didn't stop herself but she was going down there to try

>>35383395
>Venting the essence would completely solve the abyssal problem, at least for a few years. But we will want to fly this thing to recover Gem with.
Well, we'll need a few years to figure out how to extract it without messing up our island.

Your hands don't hesitate. Slowly but deliberately, you flip all the multiple redundant safety mechanisms back on.

You give one last look at the seemingly innocuous red wire, shivering at the thought that something so small could obliterate Tianna and everyone on it, before screwing the panel back on and closing everything.

The entire procedure is fairly long, and more time passes. About three hours, you guess. You work slowly to be sure of what you're doing, and take your time for every action. Better safe than sorry.

It's a never-wracking experience, but in the end you feel satisfied by knowing that you have, in a way, started repairing at least some of the damage that was done so long ago.

What next?

>I need to think about the past.
>I need to think about the present.
>I need to think about the future.
>I don't want to think about it. Let's get back to the surface.
>I don't want to think about it. There... there should be an enormous weapon on this fortress. I need to see it.
>I don't want to think about it. Let's see if I can find something I can use around here, an armory or something.

I don't think Amata planned for our Exaltation being so familiar with the Titan...

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>35383431
>I need to think about the future.Let's see if I can find something I can use around here, an armory or something.

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>35383431
>I don't want to think about it. Let's see if I can find something I can use around here, an armory or something.

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>35383431
>I don't want to think about it. Let's see if I can find something I can use around here, an armory or something.

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>35383431
>I don't want to think about it. Let's see if I can find something I can use around here, an armory or something.
We can think about all that other stuff when we've got Amata and Tia in our arms.

>>35383444
Why don't we want to think about it?

>>35383431
>think about the future

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>35383431
>>I don't want to think about it. Let's see if I can find something I can use around here, an armory or something.

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>35383431
>>I need to think about the present.
>>I don't want to think about it. Let's see if I can find something I can use around here, an armory or something.

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>35383431
Seconding >>35383437

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>35383431
>>I don't want to think about it. Let's see if I can find something I can use around here, an armory or something.
We can talk about what we saw when were back with our wives

Yay, caught the thread. Wonder how Maka will deal with knowing that Tia being crazy is the fault of her past Exaltation? Also, she needs to go rob the first age shoe store

Okay, wait, you guys don't want to think without our waifus? Its just thinking

>>35383431
>I don't want to think about it. Let's see if I can find something I can use around here, an armory or something.

Shoes? Shoes.

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>35383468
>our wives
You mean wife and husband.

>>35383480
>Wonder how Maka will deal with knowing that Tia being crazy is the fault of her past Exaltation?
In what way? Not!Maka obviouslt didn't mindfuck Not!Tia, otherwise Not!Tia wouldn't have been able to kill Not!Maka

>>35383506
I think he meant crazy another way, maybe crazy with grief

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>35383487
With love and affection

>>35383506
Maybe anon meant "crazily attached to Maka because NoT!Tia spend decades away from Not!Maka in bad terms"

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>35383487
We can think about it, but I'd rather actually discuss it with them.

>>35383480
You haven't taken into account that Tia fled from Ma Ha Suchi. If Tia is a little nutty, he's probably the reason why.

>>35383487

I think Anon is feeling pressed for time? I kinda am, though I want for Maka to think and reflect. Character development, damnit!

>>35383546
I think it might be more that Anon's want to move the plot forward after such a long hiatus.

>>35383546
I want to make sure there is nothing in the Titan that can fuck us over if left unattended.

I wonder what happened to the concubines.

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>35383546
I want to too, but it seems like everyone wants to explore the Titan first so I can at least wait until we're back with Amata to talk about it

>>35383586
Well, we DO have a war comming up. Artifact weapons and 1st Age military equipment are rather important.

You being to wander the dark corridors of the ancient fortress, carried around by little scraps of memories surfacing.

Sometimes, a door, a turn or bend in the passage, a jutting pipe, details like those cause a strange feeling of familiarity, of recollection.

On the other hand, you're not 100% sure you WANT to remember too much.

Looking around, you notice that there are some tracks in the dust. Not too recent, since most of them have a smaller layer of dust on them already. But neither too old.

It's easy enough to figure out: Amata and Irene scoured the fortress and gathered up everything they could find for the defense of Tianna.

That explains why Tianna has so many complex, essence-discharge weapons compared to their regular artifacts. A sword or a suit of armor are easier to loot and use than a fixed-emblacement Concussive Essence Cannon bolted to the ground, so those got looted a long time ago. Perhaps even at the end of the First Age?

All that was left was the stuff that was harder to move, harder to use.

Mental + Twilight = 8 7 3 7 = 4 successes

You stop and think about it. No sense in just searching randomly. Irene probably scoured this place clean, as far as she could. Is there any place she couldn't reach that you might be able to?

If the Titan's god was awake, you could ask him. But you're not seeing anything that makes you think he would answer if you called him. Besides, he would've already showed up if he were awake.

But you remember there being a high-security weapon locker specifically for Celestial Exalted. For the use of both those assigned to the Titan, and any guests who wanted to use it.

(cont.)

Question on thread 46 order of events. Past Maka's Sidereal Vizier was setting things up to take her out, but was killed by a second unidentified Sidereal. Past Lunar mate was also present and got stuck with putting Past Maka down. Essence venting from the reactor then killed everyone onboard, sending it crashing into the sea/islands below. Is that accurate, or did I miss something?

Regarding the volcano, what actually is that vent melting the rock? A flight thruster? Essence bleed vent? Essence gathering thing?

You have no idea if the security systems will recognize you as your past incanration or as a completely different person. You don't even know if they're active. But you remember there being traps and defensive systems, although the details refuse to come to your mind.

Besides, someone else might have already cleaned that up at the end of the First Age for all you know.

And in any case you're still pretty wounded and hardly in your best physical and mental shape.

You could make plans to come here later, when you're in better condition.
Or you could try now. Who knows what the future holds? You might not have another chance.

>I'll try now. Let's hope I'm lucky.
>I'll try some other time. For now, i need to stop a moment and do some thinking. [About?]
>I'll try some other time. Let's get back to the surface.
>I'll try some other time. There... there should be an enormous weapon on this fortress. I need to see it.

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>35383630
>>I'll try now. Let's hope I'm lucky.

>>35383630
>>I'll try some other time. Let's get back to the surface.

>>35383630
>I'll try some other time. Let's get back to the surface.

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>35383630
>I'll try now. Let's hope I'm lucky.

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>35383630
>I'll try now. Let's hope I'm lucky.

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>35383630
>>I'll try some other time. Let's get back to the surface.
Let's get some rest before we try we are down to 2 Health now

>>35383630
>think about the past

Might give some hints too.

>>35383630
>>I'll try now. Let's hope I'm lucky.

>>35383618
Your Lunar mate killed Sid #1.
All that Sid #2 did was bring him here. You assume he's the one who restarted the Essence pump and prevented the Titan from blowing up after your death.
You have no idea what killed everyone onboard, if anything. The essence vents are still intact, so there's no way venting essence would have hurt anyone. It's designed to be a safe procedure.
Your memories end, of course, when your previous incarnation died. You have no idea what happened afterwards.

The vent under the volcano is the main Essence bleed vent.

>>35383630
>>I'll try some other time. There... there should be an enormous weapon on this fortress. I need to see it.
Let's finish exploring

>>35383618
Then you have the mystery of why Dancing Smoke is unable to perceive all this. Not to mention Amata's involvement and the father of her son.
>>35383436
But what if Past!Maka's memories were left intact for a reason? Such as repairing the Directional Titan? If so, what the hell warrants repairing this thing?

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>35383630
>>I'll try some other time. Let's get back to the surface.

We can come back later. We know about it now.

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>35383630
>I'll try now. Let's hope I'm lucky.

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>35383630
Excited to see Maka back in action.

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>35383675
Making sure it doesn't get used by someone else, probably.

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>35383630
>>I'll try some other time. There... there should be an enormous weapon on this fortress. I need to see it.

>>35383681
As an addition to this, since we have full essence I vote for activating any charms that may be useful once we start encountering resistance, such as our soak charm

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>35383630
>I'll try now. Let's hope I'm lucky.
First age solar weaponry?
Yes.

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>35383705
Yeah if trying to get to the locker wins I vote to activate IKB

>>35383630
>>I'll try now. Let's hope I'm lucky.
>I'll try now. Let's hope I'm lucky.

>>35383705
+1 to this

>>35383665
Ah, so Lunar mate killed Sid #1. I thought Sid #2 did that just to be a dick. Thanks for the clarification

Wasn't this thread the one we needed to talk about how to spend our XPs?

>>35383735
We always do that at the end, unless we encounter a situation where a new charm would REALLY come in handy

Judging by the name Sid, I'm guessing the pronunciation of Sidereal is sid-ear-ial, not side-real?

Going back out now is a terrible idea. Not only we need to act while the memories are fresh, we probably won't have a chance to explore it again with calm; abyssals, lintha and our hutler is missing.

>>35383739
It's a real word just like Solar and Lunar, you can look up the pronunciation
sīˈdirēəl

>>35383630
>I'll try now. Let's hope I'm lucky.

>Try and hope

Rolled 8 (1d10)

Do we have enough dice?

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>35383846
I'm not bothering with dice if dice can't be bothered to stay on.

>>35383846
Probably. We could use more people voting to activate our soak charm though >>35383705

>>35383859
What does soak charm do?

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>35383891
Reduces damage we take by one for a scene

All the Charms and descriptions are here:
>>35382897

>>35383891
Whenever we take damage it reduces it be one.
We only have 2 HP out of our 5 left

it's not an easy decision. You're still wounded, after all. Who knows what you might find to bar your way.

But then, it's also true that this might be your only chance. You feel confident in the knowledge that you have your full complement of Essence, at least.

Walking down half.-remembered paths, you wander through the military section of the Titan. You go past barracks, armories, training rooms, briefing rooms. All empty and desolate.

Finally, you reach a door. A solid bronze door covered in Old Realm lettering, thick and sturdy, designed to open and slide sideways into the walls when the sensor above it confirms the identity of whoever stands in front of it.

And it's not opening, so you're either not recognized or the sensor is not working. Or did you also need to say a password? Or was the password for something else? Confused memories crowd your brain...

>Try and tamper with the sensor
>Try and remember the password
>[Ten Ox Meditation] Break the door down
>[Other?]

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>35383906
>>Try and remember the password
Let's not go breaking down things if we can, especially not high-security room doors

>>35383906
>Try and remember the password
Yeah, if an opening essence power is enough to take it out, it would have been looted long ago.

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>35383906
>[other?]
Activate Charms. Let your anima flare.

>>35383906
>Try and remember the password
Failing that
>>35383919
Flaring is also a good idea.

>>35383906
>Turn your caste mark on

If it's desigend for celestials, then it should react to a celestial's anima/caste mark

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>35383906
>>Try and remember the password

>>35383906
>Try and remember the password
If your can't try >>35383919

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>35383919
We can flare our castemark and anima without actually having to spend essence, that said we should totally try that too

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>35383906
Gonna get onto this, too:
>Try and remember the password
and then >>35383919

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>35383938
Fucking dice not staying on

Holy crap, this dice. Is this the first time Maka succeeds so well at rolling a mental check?

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>35383906
>Turn your caste mark on

>>35383916
>>35383919
>>35383934
>>35383941
5 successes on a 4 dice pool? Well then, clearly UCS sempai wants us to have some shiney new toys.

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>35383955
We rolled 5 successes when we went to go talk to the Water Court too, it's not something that happened often though

>>35383955
Those first age memories man.

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>35383906
Seconding >>35383947

Mental + Twilight = 7 7 10 8 = 5 successes

You close your eyes and try and remember the- no. This door wasn't password-activated, now you remember. The password was for something else...

You stand on your tiptoes and give a closer look at the sensor, a dull, black lens set in the wall. you clear dust off it with a finger, then, when that does nothing, start unscrewing the panel, delicately. Normally, this would sound an alarm, but it looks like the whole system is out of power, so nothing happens.

As the panel comes off, you come face to face with a mess of burnt cables, the result of a minor power surge. You start sorting them out. It takes you another good hour of trial-and-error, but you manage to reactivate the lens, and bolt the thing back together.

The black lens begins to glow with a dot of red light, and an artificial, ethereal voice says a few words in a complex-sounding, deep, musical language, rich in vowels and hissing, sharp sounds. that means nothing to you, but...

You try flaring your Anima in response, a golden glow radiating from your skin and sedding light in the dark corridor.

The voice says something else, this time a longer sentence. The door stays closed. It felt like a question...

What's the worse that could happen? "Maka." You answer.

Another line of speech from the voice, which repeats at you, in its own bizarre inflexion but recognizable to your ears, your own name. The door slides open.

You have no idea what you just did, but it apparently worked.

(cont.)

>>35384059
>You have no idea what you just did, but it apparently worked.
We should up our Twilight at some point so we can learn Old Realm.

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>35384085
Linguistics is an Eclipse ability

>>35384109
Fuck, it's been so long I forgot.
We need to increase that then

>>35384118
Ehhhh, I dunno. Most of the Eclipse-related charms and benefits seem to be of limited use to us at best, especially when we've already got an actual Eclipse Caste on hand for the things that really need that level of specialization.

We might not have much in the Mental and Eclipse departments by Exalt standards, but by human standards we're still above average. How hard can picking up a second language be?

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>35384155
2 XP and a teacher

The room beyond the door is definitely an armory. Racks of swords and spears, elegant firewands and flamepieces line the walls, with thick metal shields hanging from their upper half. All these weapons are... they don't seem to be artifacts, but they're top of the line, excellent in both quality and appearance.

There's a vast variety, including the most bizarre combinations. Helmets forged to look like dragon heads, bladed cesti, fighting chains, daggers, curved composite longbows, slender and sharp-bladed longswords, ornate short spears, suits of armor crafted in all sort of styles and painted in all sort of colors.

Almost everything here seems to belong to a "set", and you see very few unique pieces. You get the feeling that this armory was for the elite mortal retainers of the Exalted,, and the artifacts lie further inside, past a second door.

However something catches your eye before you can move on, three large wooden crates with something stamped on them in red. They look like they've never been opened. From the sixe, you'd say it's more suits of armor.

>Open a crate
>Try and open the second door
>[Other?]

>>35384171
>Try and open the second door
I'd rather not open the box, probably a dragon-blooded trap

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>35384171
>>Open a crate

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>35384171
>Open a crate
Tiger warrior gear?
>>35384182
Its mortal power armor most likley.

>Open a crate

Power armor?

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>35384171
>Open a crate

>>35384171
Pop a crate.

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>35384171
>Try and open the second door
Our personal artifacts would probably be better if they are stored here.

>>35384171
>Open a crate

>open a crate

Here's hoping it's a Bikini Power Armor.

>>35384204
I'm pretty sure those fell under our previous holder's Panoply, which she was wearing when she died.
Might be some backup gear, though, and a First-Age backup weapon would be more than enough to main now.

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>35384171
>Try and open the second door

>>35383906
>>Try and remember the password

>>35384171
>Open a crate
Cooould be a reason they were never opened, what with that red lettering. Curse my curiousity!

Even if it's for mortals, it will still be of use for the cult. I'm still fucking worried about Pyre.

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>35384171

>Open a crate

Whats in the box?

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>35384256
Forgot how to do dice. Been away from this quest too long.

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>35384262
>Worried about the Sidereal

>>35384171
>>Open a crate
Might be a First Age crowbar inside

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>35384171
>Open a crate

My first try at dice

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>35384303

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>35384308
Super good job anon

>>35384308
I don't know how to dice.

>>35384322

>>15396072

>>35384322
There are instructions right there in the sticky, you know.

>>35384286

The fact she was pretty messed up by a ghost is proof she's not one. Yet.

Rolled 10 (1d10)

Dice

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>35384171
>>Open a crate

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>35384336
I'm convinced she was faking it, or at least that she took the hit on purpose to further along some Sidereal scheme

She knew stuff about Solars regular people really shouldn't and she has spooky future visions?

Nope Sidereal shenanigans

>>35384345
Can't believe it worked

>>35384335
What does it mean by email field?

>>35384371
It used to be the email field; which doesn't exist anymore. Use the Options field.

The sticky just hasn't been updated since the change.

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>35384371
Seriously?

The option field used to be the email field until a few months ago

>>35384376
Trying again

>>35384371
The "Options" field used to be called the email field. Originally it was for just that, then they started tacking other functionality on to it and actually posting email addresses became pretty uncommon so the name was changed to reflect that.
This only happened a couple months ago, so you've pretty much declared yourself to be new as hell.

>>35384354
We used tiger warrior training on her.

TWTT doesn't work on exalts.

Pyre is not an exalt.

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>35384392
>Implying a siddy couldn't pretend to get 'stronger' as we trained her.

You crack open a crate and find, densely packed by some foam-like material, a vull suot of armor, disassembled. It seems to consist of a thick, leather-like bodyglove meant to be worn, it seems, over bare skin or minimal clothing, on top of which several jointed metallic plates are connected and linked. The helmet's faceplate includes a set of five lenses on the outside and a black glass visor on the inside.

Soft plugs cover the ears and a mouthpiece the mouth and nose, apparently to let the user breathe through the armor, insulating him or her from the world outside entirely. You can only imagine this to be an artifact that, once activated, will still let the user see and hear through the machinery built in the helmet.

The armored plates are clearly metallic, but at the same time they feel oddly soft and cloth-like to the touch, and make almost no noise as you handle them, even if you try bashing them against the wall or on each other. This armor must be a saboteur's dream.

It's not your style, but this can be useful for someone. Anything in this room can, actually. Even if they're not magical weapons, it's still an amazing supply of normal but excellent ones.

Now then. You turn to the second door. THIS ONE needs a password.

Mental + Twilight = 8 2 2 9 = 2 successes

You stare at the door for a few minutes, your anima still shining.

"Maka." You try. Hey, it worked last time.

The door replies with a brief word that didn't sound very cheerful. It stays closed.

"...Swordfish?" You scratch your head.

Same response.

>Whatever, I found enough stuff for now.
>[Ten Ox Meditation]
>Try and rewire the door
>[Other?]

>>35384379
I think I missed the + first time as phones suck

>>35384400
>Whatever, I found enough stuff for now.

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>35384400
>>Try and rewire the door

Eh, may as well

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>35384400
>Try and rewire the door

Please work.

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>35384400

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>35384400
>Try and rewire the door

>>35384400
>>Whatever, I found enough stuff for now.
Lets get the twilight to rewire the door.

>>35384400
>[Ten ox meditation]

>>35384400
>>Whatever, I found enough stuff for now.

We can come back later.

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>35384400
>>Try and rewire the door
Let's put up Iron Kettle Body too just in case

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>35384400
!Maka was slf centered as hell, right?
Do we remember her husband or childrens names? Im too lazy to check the archive.

>>35384400
>Try and rewire the door
if that doesn't work
>[Ten Ox Meditation]

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>35384400
>[Ten Ox Meditation]

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>35384400
>>Whatever, I found enough stuff for now.

Let's not push our luck

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>35384400
>>Whatever, I found enough stuff for now.
Let's take the suits and head back already

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>35384400
>[Ten Ox Meditation]+ Soak charms!
I tire of this shit!

>>35384400
>[Ten Ox Meditation]

Rolled 3 (1d10)

If we Ten Ox it let's put up our soak charm too

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>35384400
>rewire

>>35384453
Our soak charm is alright active, isn't it? I thought that was how we flared our anima.

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>35384470
It's not, we can flare our anima at will,

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>35384400
>>Whatever, I found enough stuff for now.

>>35384400
>Activate soak charm just invade we trigger a first age killbot
Then
>[Ten Ox Meditation]

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>35384400
Try and rewire the door

It worked once, it might work again. You reach up and begin to unbolt the panel behind the door sensor...

Mental + Twilight = 5 2 4 4 = 0 successes

As soon as you get the first bolt loose, a harsh, shrill alarm sounds, followed by more incomprehensible words filled with a tone of urgency.

...Oh, right. You didn't trigger the alarm before because the power was out, but now that it's back on-

A second armored steel panel descends on top of the door you were trying to open and locks down, as a further reinforcement, as two panels on either side of the door slide open, revealing two small metallic turrets, each mounting what looks like a triple-barreled, revolving gun.

[Iron Kettle Body] [Essence 4/5]

You manage to react just barely in time to feel the very uncomfortable THUD THUD THUD of a double burst of 30-cm long steel nails slamming into you.

The tips flatten and bend against your skin instead of running you all the way through and stapling you to the far wall of the room, but it still hurts like hell and throws you off balance, causing you to fall down on the floor.

Evidently believing to have killed, or at least stopped, you, the two turrets keep their nail guns pointed at you, but cease fire. The alarm keeps sounding, and you also hear the noise of machinery coming from somewhere.

Think fast.

>Run away.
>Grab (one/two/three) box(es), run away.
>Try and smash the turrets
>Try and break through the now-reinforced doors (with [Ten Ox Meditation])
>[Other]

>>35384416
>>35384420
>>35384424
>>35384430
Yeeeah, we ain't rewiring shit.

>>35384528
>[Other]
Keep, perfectly, still.

>>35384528
>Run away.
Fucking idiots.

>>35384528
>Try and break through the now-reinforced doors (with [Ten Ox Meditation])

Shoes...

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>35384528
>>Grab (one/two/three) box(es), run away.
Let's leg it!

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>35384528
>[Other?]
Try to guess the password.
Stay still

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>35384528
>>Grab (one/two/three) box(es), run away.
Let's take one, don't want to get too weighed down

>>35384564
>>35384544
This.

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>35384544
+1

Run away and live

>>35384528
>grab three boxes and run away

Never rely on mental tests again, Anon.

>>35384544
+1

>>35384544
This

>>35384602
Hey, I voted for smashing the door down, don't blame me

>>35384544
This

>>35384544
>>35384564
These, and spend a point of willpower

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>35384528
>Try and break through the now-reinforced doors (with [Ten Ox Meditation])
I WANT GOD-KICKER HIGH HEELS DAMMIT
CURRAHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>35384648
We don't have willpower in this system

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>35384653
;_;

Rolled 8 (1d10)

Dice

>>35384653
Val is making us some from Not!Maka's sword

>>35384654
Boo, we should. Tg dice a shit

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>35384653
Val is already making those, she might have finished them actually

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>35384664
I give zero fucks about a daiklave. I want god-kicker high heels.

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>35384528
>>35384544
+1

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>35384664
>>35384675
...which one is it really?

You keep perfectly still.

Perfectly.

Still.

The guns stay pointed at you. The machine noises continue for a bit: you can tell that they come from beyond the door. Maybe other lockdowns, or security measures activating. then they stop too.

The alarm just keeps going on and on and on.

...Keep.

Perfectly.

Still.

>Okay, now what?

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>35384528
Damn missed most of the thread, here have some dice while I catch up.

>>35384676
No you misunderstand, she melted down the sword to use as raw materials for God-Kicker boots

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>35384689
Break through the dooooooooor with Ten-Ox Meditation.

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>35384544
+1

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>35384688
They say the same thing anon

>>35384689
Now let's leave, take the armor too all of them if we can

>>35384689
>>Try and smash the turrets

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>35384708
Oh. Right. I need to sleep.

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>35384689
>Smash turrets

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>35384689
>Try and smash the turrets
>Activate Solar Hero Style

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>35384689
>[Ten Ox Meditation] on the door.
Turrets aren't a threat to us, so priorities.

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>35384689
>Try to smash the turrets
>Solar Hero style

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>35384689
>Meditate, search within ourselves and find the memory we need to deactivate the security

Dice

>>35384738
>>35384689
This

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>35384689
Seconding >>35384738

Now's the time to think about the past

>>35384738
*desactivate

Holly nunquam, I get really good dice this thread

>>35384676
Like we need heels to kick gods

>>35384689
Changing>>35384723
to
>>35384738

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>35384689
>>35384738
This

>>35384738
This

>>35384695
Wait, our heels are a daiklave?

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>35384689
Do
>>35384738

>>35384767
WERE a Daiklave.
Most likely the one that Not!Maka used and that one Sidereal broke.

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>35384738
+1

>>35384780
I've been wondering since last thread how it got on the top of the Titan.

>>35384780
>Our shoes were a bladed weapon

That what I call stiletto heels

>>35384788
"Buried" there by her Lunar Mate after the thing crashed into the sea?

>>35384788
SIDEREAL PLANS

>>35384788
Lunar husbando?

>>35384788

Sidereal tricks embeded into the shards, most likely.

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>35384788
Destiny?

>>35384803
Possible, that might mean her body might be buried close by.

>>35384807
Fucking Pattern Spiders!

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>35384689
I'll throw my vote in for >>35384738

But I'm betting we get nothing because our mental stats are shit and we really need more dice in that pool.

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>35384819
Don't they burn bodies to prevent ghosts?

>>35384843
Not sure if they did in the First Age, but its common place in the Age of Sorrows

>>35384843
Ghosts come to be through lack of proper funeral rites, that doesn't need to be burning.
And, if he didn't perform proper funeral rites, well.
Thats how the deathlords were made.

>>35384843
Solars usually got elaborate tombs.
>>35384872
And the solars who saved the underworld from that crazy ghost apocalypse

Mental + Twilight = 3 7 4 2 = 1 success

You try and think.

Think real hard. Think real good. How do you deactivate the security?

There were passwords. Known only to you and the security officers on board. They rotated daily.

What was the password on the last day? You don't remember. You - you don't think you ever needed to know that. This was stuff the guards took care of. You never worried about this locker. You had better things to do.

You feel rather silly. Karma has a weird way to come back and bite you in the ass, after all these years.

You're fairly sure you restored power only to this section. Now that the alarm is active, the ponly security measures active should be in the immediate vicinities. You try and remember if there's another route to the locker, but, of course, there isn't.

>Run away.
>Grab (one/two/three) box(es), run away.
>Try and smash the turrets
>Try and break through the now-reinforced doors (with [Ten Ox Meditation])
>[Other]

>>35384872
Sounds like a cautionary tale

>>35384872
Not all of them, but it is a pretty strong incentive to stick around as ghost after the war in the Underworld was over at the end of the Usurpation.

>>35384872
Oh boyyy, I wonder if the prior holder of Maka's shard is a deathlord...

>>35384879
>Try and smash the turrets
>Activate Solar Hero Style

>>35384878
Actually most of those did have proper funerals and tombs, thats how they ot the awesome artifacts that allowed them to do that. But afterwrads most of them left because they did have proper rites.

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>35384879
>>Run away.

>>35384879
>Grab all boxes and run

We still have that super weapon to check out and then have a moment of reflextion.

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>35384898
DICE!

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>35384879
>Try and smash the turrets


>>35384884
Not really, most people don't even know the deathlords exist, and practically no one knows who they are.
The ghosts and funeral rites thing has enough examples in creations daily live that they produce their own cautionary tales.

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>35384879
>>Try and smash the turrets with [Ten Ox Meditation]

If we succeed, we'll find a wall softer than the reinforced door.

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>35384879
>>Grab (three) box(es), run away.
Let's take what loot we can and come back with a full party later

>>35384879
>Try and smash the turrets
If those things remain active, we won't be able to recover the contents of the armory. We could really use that kind of gear for our followers.

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>35384879
>>Try and smash the turrets
>Solar Hero Style

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>35384879
>Try and smash the turrets

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>35384879

>Try and smash the turrets
>Activate Solar Hero Style

Is that ok to roll multiple time?

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>35384879
>>Grab (one/two/three) box(es), run away.
We can come back later.

>>35384960
It doesn't matter. Only the first six count, who rolls them isn't really relevant, even if you can get two rolls in.

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>35384879
>>Try and smash the turrets

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>35384960
Not like rolling multiple dice per post, but posting more than once is fine if you aren't samefagging

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>35384976
>Only the first six count
Well, however many rolls are called for in a given action.
Could be one, could be twenty.

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>35384879
>Try and smash the turrets
>Activate Solar Hero Style

You need to be fast. You gather your strength, focus, and infuse your limbs and muscles with Essence.

[Solar Hero Style] [Essence 3/5]

Physical + Dawn = 6 5 10 2 9 5 7 4 3 = 4 successes

Then, you strike. From your position lying down on the floor, you push yourself up with your arms and break into a rising heel kick against the closest nail gun.

[Ten Ox Meditation] [Essence 2/5]

The automated sentry doesn't have time to fire even one shot before your leg goes all the way through it.

The other sentry picks up immediately, and in the split-second between your first attack and the follow-up it scores seven hits on your chest, drawing a line towards your face. Those nails might not pierce your skin, but a hit on your throat, mouth, nose, eyes or ears could still break through...

You don't give it time: the eight hit bends flat against the palm of your hand as you reach up and grab the rotating barrels of the weapon, crushing them in a steel grip.

It's all over in a flash. Your anima burns incredibly bright, bathing the entire room in daylight. The turrets are dead.

Now, there's just the door left. It's completely locked down now... to make it through, you'd have to use ten Ox Meditation again.

>Do it
>Gather up everything you can carry and leave, for now

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>35384879
>grab box and leave

Why are some many people intent on damaging our ship?

>>35385106
>>Gather up everything you can carry and leave, for now

We've pushed our luck enough, Let's come back later when we have more health, essence and brains.

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>35385106
>Gather up everything you can carry and leave, for now
Lets go.

>>35385106
>Do it

>>35385112
It's a door and some turrets. In a titan. Insignificant in any sense. Meanwhile, first age shoes!

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>35385106
>>Gather up everything you can carry and leave, for now
Okay let's leave

>>35385106
>Gather up everything you can carry and leave, for now

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>35385106
>Do it
Well, we've come this far. May as well finish it.
Go for the wall adjacent to the doorframe. Since the reinforcement panels slide out from the sides we can be certain that the walls next to the door have an empty space in them. It should be easier to go through there.

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>35385106

>>35385106
>Sit down, relax and think about the past

Search those memories!

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>35385106
>Do it

>>35385106
>Do it

>>35385106
>Gather up everything you can carry and leave, for now
Its not going to run away, we just get Irene down here and it will get a lot easier.

>>35385106
>Gather up everything you can carry and leave, for now
Reminder, Tia can set her strength as Infinite for one act of strength, like opening a door.

>>35385106
>Do it

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>35385106
Do it.

>>35385148
I don't think that's an option. Amata needed a lot of convincing just to let us down here, and she's known us for years; there's no way she's going to let a tech-crazy Solar she's known for all of a month at most get wind of her single greatest state secret.

>>35385148
>>35385155
No we can't, we're not allowed to tell anyone about this place.

>>35385106
>>Gather up everything you can carry and leave, for now

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>35385106
>Do it

>>35385169
Irene is the princess.

>>35385169
Irene is her daughter.

But yeah, i doubt we'd have many chances at the loot.

So i'm pushing for doing it.

>>35385183
Whoops, sorry. Had a senior moment.

>>35385183
And, by Maka's own thoughts, has come down here before. Though that may be supposition.

>>35385138
They slid down from the top. The wall is still way thicker than the door.

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>35385170
I know we can't bring anyone else, but we can totally come back whenever we want, we just have to go diving into Smoke's volcano

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>35385106
>Do it
Who know's when/if we'll get another chance, don't want to come back and find that Sidereals looted the place.

>>35385203
Ah, I misread, that was the turret compartments.
That works just as well, though, since there must be at least enough space behind for them to retract into and we've already demonstrated that we can tear through that material without a serious problem.

>>35385209
I wouldn't try to circumvent Amalias wishes in this regard, so if we go back, its with her knowledge.

>>35385170
We might be able to show Tia though. I mean, we'll have to explain how we got a shitload of Artifact weapons even if we break down the door with others. Fuck, we're going to need to send in mortals to haul this shit out anyway.

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>35385106

Seconding >>35385138