Exalted Choose Your Own Adventure! [Adventure... Initiated. YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH]

[Jokasti]

So, this is my first picture story, and CYOA. Also, there is Exalted somewhere in there. So, who, what, and where should our main character be?
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[Reynard]

A hoi hoi, my boy, this is up my alley.

Exalt- Lunar!

Gender- Pah! We are a Lunar. A Lunar needs no such petty distinctions such as a sex. Male I guess, if only to lower the possibility for fanservice. :smalltongue:

Location- North. Because the Sky Vikings live there. Also Ice Weasels.

[senrath]

Lunar!
Male
North


Why yes, I am just copying Reynard's votes.

[Arcanoi]

Lunar!

Pah, we are a Lunar! A Lunar needs no such petty distinctions as gender! Female I guess, if only to increase the possibility of fanservice.

The Scavenger Lands, because ultimately, everything starts in the Scavenger Lands.

[Lucus Casius]

Lunar

Neuter by the grace of Twin Faced Hero. Female if you do not yet have essence and wits 3, if only so that we can enjoy some fanservice.

Center. Let's see how our genderless hero(ine?) survives on the Blessed Isle!

[Tackyhillbillu]

- Terrestrial
- Female (...and yes Fanservice may be involved in the pick)
- West

[Edge]

Sidereal, Male, North.

[Ganurath]

Terrestrial, Female, East.

[Poison_Fish]

A lunar who is genre savvy on gender play.

And thusly, gender is of little consequence.

Who has fun times in the Scavenger land.

[GrayWatch]

Sidereal
Male
South

[Xefas]

1) Sidereal
2) Panda Lady
3) Southeast

Mmmm...panda ladies.

[Maximum Zersk]

1) Lunar

2) Male. A very smexy male

3) North

[Reynard]

You are mostly pervets and I hate you all. :smallannoyed:

:smalltongue:

[Jokasti]

That's... a lot more votes in a lot less time than I expected. That's good though.:smallbiggrin:
I'm going to wait until tomorrow to close the voting, but for now here's the current tally:
{table=head]Exalt Type|Tally
Solar| 1
Lunar| 8
Sidereal| 4
Terrestrial| 2
Total| 15[/table]
{table=head]Gender|Tally
Male| 6
Female| 7
Other| 1
Total| 14[/table]
{table=head]Location|Tally
North| 4
South| 1
East| 1
West| 1
Center| 2
Other| 4
Total| 13[/table]
No votes for Solar yet? I'm surprised.

[Maximum Zersk]

Why choose male?

Why NOT choose male? (http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0114.html) :3

[DrakeRaids]

Lunar, female, and scavenger lands!

[Thelas]

Lunar!

Pah, we are a Lunar! A Lunar needs no such petty distinctions as gender! Female I guess, if only to increase the possibility of fanservice.


Abstaining w.r.t location.

[Xefas]

C'mon, folks, vote for panda ladies. They're cute!

[One Step Two]

Solar

Looks and Smells Like a Man, man. Specifically built for female fan-service!

Centre, because a real man begins at the heart of all things!

[Reynard]

C'mon, folks, vote for panda ladies. How can you say 'no' to that face?
http://www.ogoblin.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/exalted-djala.jpg
She's got panda spots on her tuchus (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tuchus). That's adorable.

I'll point out that that pic's a Solar, but I don't know if it'll change anything.

[Jokasti]

Solar

Looks and Smells Like a Man, man. Specifically built for female fan-service!

Centre, because a real man begins at the heart of all things!

Ladies..... (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=8933514&postcount=58)

[Xefas]

I'll point out that that pic's a Solar, but I don't know if it'll change anything.

Yes, she's a Solar, and she's awesome. So, in theory, if you made her a Sidereal, she'd be even more awesome, though significantly less powerful.

We need a Sidereal Panda Lady who specializes in grabbing people by their fate strings so they can't move and then punching them into ducks. What do you get from just a plain ol' Lunar? Super furry magical girl transformation knack go? Nah, nah, duck punching. Duck punching is where it's at.

[Jokasti]

Duck punching is a bit of an ambiguous term. It could mean:
1. Ducking while punching.
2. Punching ducks.
3. Punching something into a duck.
But yes, duck punching is indeed awesome. I think everyone would get tired of seeing PandaGirl surrounded by ducks though.

[One Step Two]

Ladies..... (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=8933514&postcount=58)

Hah, nice. I was more riffing on the Old Spide guy, but in my head I was thinking more of Kamina from Tengan Toppa Gurren Langann. Maybe I should have mentioned the burning passion? (Row Row, Fight Da Powa!)

[Fri]

Sidereal.

I kinda wanna see people punched so hard that they turn into a duck....

And make him/her a magnificent manipulative cool bastard too.

Abstain on the other two.

[Lix Lorn]

Sidereal, (Cause Manipulatives are fun)
Female, (Cause fanservice is fun)
Blessed Isle! (Cause being hunted down by the Wyld Hunt and then going Just As Planned and pwning them is fun.)

[Terraoblivion]

A female Sidereal on the Blessed Isle. Why? Because that gives maximum chance of her getting involved in politics and red tape, instead of just running around pretending to be a Solar, Lunar or other thuggish exalt in the threshold!

Also, being a celestial special agent works best in civilization and we all know that those thresholders are barbarians.

[xp194]

Don't know much about Exalted... but... Sidereal sounds fun...

And female. For Faaaaannnseeervicccee

[Domochevsky]

As i said elsewhere... Terrestrial, female (we likes us some fanservice) and the warm South, because less clothing is gud. :smallwink:

[The Dark Fiddler]

-Solar (the only one I know)
-Male (let's get some fanservice in the other direction!)
-Um, I don't remember anything about those... and I don't feel like going to check the book.... let's try whatever has the most votes.:smalltongue:

[SlyGuyMcFly]

-Lunar
-Lunar charms sneer at the concept of gender!
-South. As somebody noted, better chance at less clothes.

[Jokasti]

{table=head]Exalt Type|Tally
Solar| 2
Lunar| 10
Sidereal| 7
Terrestrial| 3
Total| 22[/table]
{table=head]Gender|Tally
Male| 7
Female| 12
Total| 19[/table]
{table=head]Location|Tally
North| 4
South| 5
Center| 4
SL| 3
Total| 16 [/table]
Updated. If you voted for something not on the list anymore, please change your vote.
Right now I'm considering a Male Lunar and a Female Sidereal, either on the Blessed Isle or in the North or South or the Scavenger Lands, with perhaps another Female Terrestrial or Solar.
I'll check the votes through one more time before I start drawing when I get home.

[Ganurath]

Terrestrial, Female, East.If DBs aren't in the running anymore, change my vote to Lunar.

[Jokasti]

What I meant was that if you voted for something no longer on the chart (such as East for a location) could you change that to something on there?
Sorry for the confusion.

[Raz_Fox]

- Lunar (because they're just cooler than everyone else)
- Female (because FANSERVICE)
- South (because more chance of HAREM HIJINKS down there. Also, less clothes)

[Tackyhillbillu]

I voted for the West, so I guess I'll change to the South.

[tonberrian]

Sidereal
Female
South

Why? FANSERVICE.

[Domochevsky]

Fanservice is the strongest! o/

[Terraoblivion]

Perhaps, but the strongest (http://53rg10.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/touhou_cirno_tomokichi.jpg) isn't fanservice!

[Jokasti]

I made these 50 px smaller, I hope they fit on the screen better (the last ones stretched it just a little, but I'm CDO about that stuff).
Ladies, Germs, and other things, I present to you, our heroes!
('s exalt types and genders!)
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Now for Castes for the Lunar and Sidereal and an Aspect for the Terrestrial.
[Preview] Yes! It fits! Mwahahahahahaha!

[Arcanoi]

-Full Moon! Your daily dose of Rawr!

-Endings, because Ending is awesome.

-Fire, because Female Fire Aspects are the stuff Fanservice is made of.

[Solarn]

-Full Moon! Your daily dose of Rawr!

-Endings, because Ending is awesome.

-Fire, because Female Fire Aspects are the stuff Fanservice is made of.
I think you're severely overstating the frequency at which female Fire Aspects burn their own clothes.

[tonberrian]

Changing Moon, Serenity, and Wood, respectively.

[Madmal]

Hmph. Shame i didn't found this earlier.

Still, i approve of the Male Lunar. I like to plan for long-term fanservice.:smallamused:

Now, in regards of Caste/Aspect:

-Water! Peleps Deled shouldn't be the first name that comes to mind when we talk about the children of Daana'd! :smallbiggrin:
-Serenity! because there's still a need for fanservice, and i believe these guys can pull it off without going over the top! :smalltongue:
-No Moon! well...i just like them better, okay?:smallannoyed:

[Lix Lorn]

I know nothing about Lunars, so... skip.
Sidereal? Mars. Gotta be mars. Action girls=win.
Terrestrial? Hmm... I like air. :)

[Jokasti]

{table=head]Caste/Aspect|Count
Full Moon| 7
No Moon| 11
Journeys| 4
Serenity| 9
Endings| 5
Air| 3
Fire| 7
Water| 4
Wood| 5
[/table]

[The Dark Fiddler]

...I don't know any of these exalt types, so I'm just gonna name things and hope they fit, alright?

-Full Moon
-Journeys
-Water

[Xefas]

- No Moon Lunar Panda Boi
- Chosen of Journeys Panda Lady
- Earth Caste whose backstory is somehow contrived to be the product of a tryst between a Terrestrial and a Djala, thus allowing them to be some sort of Outcaste Panda Lady as well.

For bonus lulz, they all ride zebras and wear cow-hide garments.

[Yuki Akuma]

No Moon, Serenity and Fire.

[Tackyhillbillu]

-No Moon (For Sorcery, and Lore!)
-Serenity (For Social Skills and Fanservice!)
-Fire (For Fighting Skills, and Fanservice!)

[DrakeRaids]

Water, Serenity, Full Moon

[Madmal]

-Fire (For Fighting Skills, and Fanservice!)

You know something? I'm still not sure why is fire the most "fanservice-ing" aspect.

[Lix Lorn]

Air can have flutters of wind, slight clothing, and can be in the air where we look up at them.
So Yeah. (giggles)

[One Step Two]

Full Moon Lunar, for shirt-tearing moon-howling action!

I think Journeys rock, but for this team, we need a Maiden of Endings! Bring on the femme fatle!

And for the Terrestrial. Fire is for Heathens, if you want true fan-service, Wood caste, because when they have a high enough breeding, flowers begin to grow in her hair! Add a Kimono for Fetish fuel! :smallwink::smallbiggrin:

[Jokasti]

Well, Fire Aspects are exceptionally passionate about what they do. Monks, warriors, lovers.
n'Updated.

[One Step Two]

That makes it interesting with a Full-Moon in the party, they can be pretty passionate too ;)

[Madmal]

Well, Fire Aspects are exceptionally passionate about what they do. Monks, warriors, lovers.
n'Updated.

And, iirc, setting themselves on fire at full anima.
And while i'd faint from the pun damage implied on this scenario, i don't find that very alluring.

Now let's consider the water caste.
i say again, water.
with "moisture" involved
and considering Water aspects favor martial arts
which are mostly used with light armor or no armor.

Do i need to make myself more clear? :tongue: i Really hope i don't.

And don't start with the "burning clothes" thing. That's just impractical. :smallamused:
And yes, i find it funny how important we seem to consider the fanservice factor on this thread. XD
EDIT: Also, Earth aspect... err... I got nothing. For shame. :smallfrown:

[One Step Two]

Earth aspect? Easy as pie.

They have all the endurance charms that make their body hard as stone, and they can enhance even the most impractical armour to become formidable. Why a white Jade Bikini? Cause it's the south, it's hot. They use their charms to turn it into plate-mail equivalent!

[Arcanoi]

And, iirc, setting themselves on fire at full anima.
And while i'd faint from the pun damage implied on this scenario, i don't find that very alluring.


And there's an Essence 2 War charm that makes it so the fire doesn't burn you if she doesn't want it to.

[Edge]

No Moon, Battles/Mars, Air.

[Reynard]

No Moon, Journeys, Outcaste Fire.

[Jokasti]

Narrowed the voting again. Tomorrow it's finalized, so get your votes in by then.

[Mewtarthio]

Full Moon / Endings / Water

[Terraoblivion]

No Moon, Journeys, Dynast Air

[senrath]

No Moon, Endings, Fire.

[Domochevsky]

You really should explain all these symbols. :smallwink:

[Yuki Akuma]

You really should explain all these symbols. :smallwink:

They're caste marks. :smalltongue:

(Except in the case of Terrestrials: they Aspect symbols and should be fairly obvious what they represent.)

[Starbuck_II]

I'm going with:
Full Moon
Ending
wood

After all, who doesn't want a little wood.

[Domochevsky]

They're caste marks. :smalltongue:

(Except in the case of Terrestrials: they Aspect symbols and should be fairly obvious what they represent.)

Uh no. Where do they start? Where do they end? What are they called? What do they do? These signs on their own say nothing. :smalltongue:

[Jokasti]

http://th00.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2010/285/6/2/exalted_cyoa_4_by_jokasti-d30mqan.png


The full silver disc represents the full moon, which is the Caste Mark of the Full Moon Lunars. The Cresent Moon represents the Changing Moon Caste, and the Black disk represents the No Moon caste.

Blue is the color of air, and the little swirls are supposed to be air swirl things- they represent the Terrestrial Aspect of Air. The red flames represent the Aspect of fire, and the green leaf is symbolic of Wood. The Water Aspect is represented by the black drop, and the Earth Aspect is shown by the whit slab at the bottom.

The scarlet sign is that of the Maiden of Battles, and the cerulean one is Serenity. Yellow is the color of Journeys, Green is secrets, and purple is Endings.

[Arcanoi]

Left to right, top to bottom, you've got

Full Moon, Air, Changing Moon, Fire, No Moon, Water, Wood, Battles, Journeys, Serenity, Secrets, and Endings.

They don't really do anything, although exalts have anima powers which interact with their caste marks.

[Yuki Akuma]

They in fact do a lot. Changing moons can craft illusions around themselves, for instance. The Lesser Signs that the different Sidereals can use are nice, and the Greater Signs are awesome. And the different anima abilities of the Terrestrial aspects can be quite useful - Water aspects can breathe underwater, for example, and Air aspects can jump hella high.

Plus, your caste or aspect dictates which abilities and charms you find easiest - although you have leeway with that in the form of favoured abilities.

(Except for Lunars, who have favoured attributes instead.)

[Sanguine]

No Moon(For Sorcery)

Serenity(For Fanservice and Avoidance Kata)

Wood (Because Anyone who thinks Fire is the Fanservice Aspect are sorely mistaken)

[Domochevsky]

Mhm, interesting... :smallsmile:

1. No moon (because Sorcery? Sounds promising)

2. Serenity seems popular. Let's go with that.

3. Fire, burning with passion! o/

[Ganurath]

No Moon, because every Lunar Caste is fanservice and Sorcery is useful.

Chosen of Serenity, because their anima goes great with my next vote and Sidereal Dodge Charms are nuts.

Wood Aspect, because they're the real fanservice Terrestrials.

[Yuki Akuma]

Sidereal Dodge Charms: because moving a city by strapping it to your belt and towing it is totally dodging.

Alternatively: I was never there. Nobody saw me. You can't prove anything.

[Arcanoi]

They in fact do a lot.

I assumed he was talking about the symbols themselves. Obviously, your caste/aspect will affect your character, but those are mechanical aspects of something your caste mark is merely a visual representation of.

[Skybound Fencer]

Full Moon for the Lunar, because burly warriors are always a welcome addition.
Chosen of Serenity for the Sidereal, because... FAAAANSERVIIIICE!
Fire Aspect for the Terrestrial, because those can get pretty fun to watch.

[Poison_Fish]

No-moon Lunar
Journey's Sid
And of course an Air Terrestrial to act as an instigator of fan-service.

[Weimann]

No Moon, Journeys, Fire.

That is all.

[The Rose Dragon]

Changing Moon, Chosen of Serenity and Fire Aspect.

Why? Fanservice, of course.

[Gaius]

- No Moon Loonar Dood
- Journeys Sidereal Chick
- Wooden Terrestrial Maiden

[Jokasti]

{table=head]Caste/Aspect|Count
Full Moon| 8
No Moon| 15
Journeys| 7
Serenity| 12
Endings| 5
Air| 4
Fire| 9
Water| 4
Wood| 8
[/table]
Closing polls later tonight. Right now it's looking like No Moon, Serenity, and Fire. But that could change.

[xp194]

Gonna go with Fire, No Moon and Serenity.

I wish I knew what those /were/

[DrakeRaids]

Change my fire vote to wood.

[Lucus Casius]

Full Moon

Serenity

Wood

[Raz_Fox]

No Moon (because smarts make for great main characters)

Serenity (because FAAANSERVICE)

Wood (because VINES AND APPETITE nature is important)

[Jokasti]

{table=head]Caste/Aspect|Count
Full Moon| 8
No Moon| 17
-|-
Journeys| 7
Serenity| 15
-|-
Fire| 14
Wood| 9
[/table]
Okay, we've knocked off Endings, Air and Water, so if you voted for one of those feel free to change it. Full Moon is pretty much out at this point, unless 4 people decide to switch from New Moon. Journeys might still be able to make it with a few Endings votes and Serenity change of hearts. The battle between Wood and Fire is close and fierce, hopefully the eight or so votes will choose a winner.

[ace1217]

No moon, serenity, fire.

[Xefas]

Well, since my vote of Earth Panda Lady was knocked off, I'll switch to Fire Panda Lady.

[Terraoblivion]

If Air is gone i'm going with Fire. I never quite worked out the Wood aspect and what it was supposed to be like.

[Lix Lorn]

Serenity, cause of Joss Whedon.
Fire because FIYAH! 8D

[Edge]

Change my former Air vote to Fire.

[Xefas]

I never quite worked out the Wood aspect and what it was supposed to be like.

Well, they're the woodsman, wisemen, and healers, and they always have close ties with nature. You might compare them to a Druid or Ranger D&D-wise.

[Terraoblivion]

Except that totally doesn't apply to either Ragara Myrrun, Sesus Nagezzer or Tepet Ejava, the three most famous Wood Aspects around.

[The Rose Dragon]

Except that totally doesn't apply to either Ragara Myrrun, Sesus Nagezzer or Tepet Ejava, the three most famous Wood Aspects around.

...Myrrun is an Earth Aspect.

Also, Aspects define personalities more than they define abilities. Since Aspect is biological, unlike Caste, which selects people of the according inclinations, an Air Aspect might not have any dots in any of his Aspect abilities.

Wood Aspects tend to be compassionate and vibrant to the point of being hedonistic and slutty.

[Terraoblivion]

Yeah, stupid me. I meant Bhagwei, the leader of the Heptagram in any case. Ragarra Bhagwei is a Wood Aspect, just like Tepet Ejava and Sesus Nagezzer and i wouldn't say any of these three have a whole lot in common. I mean i can tell what the themes of the others are. Air aspects are passionate, but in a colder, more distant and methodical way than fire aspects, they also tend to be academic and easily distracted. Earth aspects are stable, dependable and unlikely to engage in any flights of fancy, making them generally quite conservative. Fire aspects are emotional and passionate and all hero'y, kinda simple really. Water aspects are adaptive and pragmatic above all else. But what are the traits that can be said to unify Wood aspects? I've even read their aspect book and i still couldn't find a common thread.

[The Rose Dragon]

Except for Air Aspects, each Aspect maps onto a Virtue. This does not necessitate that they have many dots in those Virtues, but it is supposed to color the way they act. Wood Aspects get Compassion. As such, they are more protective of life and more emotional than other Aspects, though not as much passionate as Fire Aspects, who map onto Valor.

[Terraoblivion]

All Dragonblooded are passionate and emotional. It is part of their nature as MoEP: Dragonblooded makes a point of repeatedly. They are just passionate about different things. Air aspects about abstract ideals or their work for example, while Fire aspects are more guided by their pure virtues and immediate causes and so on. Also Wood aspects are just incoherent. Some are hedonists, some are woodsmen, some live modest lives as vintners, some are generals and so on. There's no real unifying aspect of their skill sets, personalities or typical roles they adopt in society.

[The Rose Dragon]

There's no real unifying aspect of their skill sets, personalities or typical roles they adopt in society.

Welcome to Terrestrials.

Dreams of the First Age pointedly reminds you that Aspects do not define as much as Castes. Wood Aspects are hedonists in the original sense of the word, and in a social scale. They seek to reduce pain and increase pleasure for the most. All of them go through with it in different ways, played by their Virtue distribution.

That doesn't mean they can't change, however. Just like a Fire Aspect might find tranquility, so can a Wood Aspect find apathy.

[Terraoblivion]

Well, there are consistent traits for the other aspects. Air aspects don't become grungy musicians using three chords and the truth, it doesn't go along with their focus on complexity, theory and abstraction. Earth aspects don't pioneer radical social change, though they might end up becoming a pillar of support for it. Fire aspects aren't going to sit down and ponder what the proper course of action would be for ages, they act. Water aspects don't cling to a plan or an idea long after it has become impractical to achieving their wider goals. I can't find any such consistent theme for Wood aspects. The nurturing life is sorta offhandedly mentioned a few times, but it is never really showcased by any of the sample Wood aspect characters given.

[Jokasti]

Well, I think at this point it's pretty much decided: Our heroes are:

Lunar Full Moon Caste, Male
Sidereal Chosen of Venus, Female
Terrestrial Fire Aspect, Female

I'll get started on the title page and opening comic.

[Yuki Akuma]

Well, there are consistent traits for the other aspects. Air aspects don't become grungy musicians using three chords and the truth, it doesn't go along with their focus on complexity, theory and abstraction. Earth aspects don't pioneer radical social change, though they might end up becoming a pillar of support for it. Fire aspects aren't going to sit down and ponder what the proper course of action would be for ages, they act. Water aspects don't cling to a plan or an idea long after it has become impractical to achieving their wider goals. I can't find any such consistent theme for Wood aspects. The nurturing life is sorta offhandedly mentioned a few times, but it is never really showcased by any of the sample Wood aspect characters given.

Aspects are not Castes - they're decided by your genes, not your personality.

While your Aspect will certainly colour your personality, your upbringing will definitely affect it too. Have you ever met kids who are nothing like their parents?

[Jokasti]

I really shouldve done this last round, but what Spirit Shape should the lunar have?

[The Rose Dragon]

Raptor cat. Or strix.

[One Step Two]

A bear! Oh the puns.

[Raz_Fox]

Raven. Whose verbal tic is "nevermor-"

*is shot*

[Xefas]

Turtle! Turtle spellcaster. Can you imagine a turtle spellcaster with a panda-print shell?

[One Step Two]

Actually, given the sheer number of animals we can choose, how about giving us the direction they're from Jokasti, was it east? Might narrow the field a little.

[Jokasti]

The direction I was asking for was for the location at the beinning, but they'll be flying all around Creation, so that wont matter. However, I have a couple missions planned out, and the vote winners (north and south) will be the first two locations.
So, anywhere, really is fine to pick from.

[Reynard]

Great Eeeeeagle.

[Lucus Casius]

Kangaroo

Do It

[DrakeRaids]

Kangeroo! And we must call him Jack.

[senrath]

Ice Hollow!

[One Step Two]

Rock on, Bear it remains then.

[tonberrian]

Hummingbird.

[ace1217]

Wolf. It is the obvious choice for a full moon.

[Tackyhillbillu]

Mouse!

And he shall be called Mickey!

[Gaius]

I'll also vote for Mouse.

Not for Mickey, though. Now, Benjy or Frankie, those are names!

Could also go for Falcon or something. So long as he wears a mask, commands a ship, gets some pointers from the Terrestrial in Fire Dragon Style, and gets in the habit of shouting out attacks of his own renaming.

[Jokasti]

Drink your tea, human, nothing wrong with it.
I've got good news and bad news:
Good news, the picture is done.
Bad news, it's on a computer with no Internet. When I couldn't find my USB stick anywhere, i tried putting it on my phone , but that screwed up the words and picture overall (it translated transparent as black).
gah. Ill have it up tomorrow. Sorry for the delay.

[Madmal]

I second Raptor Cat.

And i say they go North first. Lunar needs to get Essence 3 before getting Haremventures in the South. :smallwink:

That does bring the subject of Essence to the table...

[Lix Lorn]

The claw-dinosaur thing I forget the name of!

[senrath]

The claw-dinosaur thing I forget the name of!

I believe the name of the animal you are looking for is called the "Claw Strider".

[Lix Lorn]

Thanks. Thought that was it. :)

[The_Snark]

Crocodile. A lazy, grinning bastard of an animal that can have your arm off in the blink of an eye if you let him... sounds like the makings of a fun character to me.

[The Dark Fiddler]

Bear. Bear is always the right answer.

[Yuki Akuma]

Crocodile. A lazy, grinning bastard of an animal that have your arm off in the blink of an eye if you let him... sounds like the makings of a fun character to me.

I second this.

Name him Sir Crocodile. Give him a hook for a hand and power over sand... somehow.

*coughs*

He could be an Akuma...

[Terraoblivion]

No, aspect is not determined by personality, but it does influence personality to a rather large degree. Not only that, aspect carries heavy social expectations with it that makes others actively try to make you behave according to your aspect. So there are consistent personality traits that are if not universal to each aspect, then overwhelmingly common, through both the elemental power of the aspect and the social strictures encouraging you to adopt those personality traits.

Also just as importantly, that doesn't change that consistent character traits have been presented for each aspect except for Wood, both in the descriptions of the aspect itself and in the descriptions of characters of said aspect. WW has also been rather clear that they consider aspect to carry significance for who you are and not just which abilities you are the best at using. Wood is just poorly defined compared to the others, that's all.

[Yuki Akuma]

...Hm. I wonder what your personality would be like if your father was Water, your mother was Air and you ended up being Fire.

This would involve a lot of odd ancestry and a terrible Breeding, but...

[Jokasti]

I thought Sidereals determined that Aspect is not chosen by genes but by personality and such. Genes only determined how likely you were to Exalt.

[Terraoblivion]

Genes do have some effect. The child of two Water aspects is more likely to exalt as a Water aspect himself, despite being raised by his aunt who was a Fire aspect, than he would be to exalt as a Fire aspect. But it is not the sole determinant, anybody with dragonblooded ancestry, no matter how isolated, could potentially exalt as any of the aspects.

[GrayWatch]

Spirit Shape?

Welsh Corgie.

[One Step Two]

You know this line of questioning leads me to an awesome imagery of First Age Solar and Lunar sorcerers with a bunch of un-exalted Dragonblooded in a sort of habitat. Using different breeding/stimuli/nutruting trying to decide what causes them to Exalt to which caste. Then of course, as the great curse kicks in and the tests become a little more bizarre.

[Yuki Akuma]

I'm sure in the First Age the Solars could just ask the dragons or Autobot.

Or Lytek. Does he have any purview over Terrestrial Exaltations, or just Celestial ones?

(And by this I mean the process of becoming an Exalt, not the physical Essence-artifacts that cause the process in Celestials.)

[Jokasti]

Lytek is the Right Hand of Power, in charge of Celestial Exaltations. The Left Hand of Power is in charge of Terrestrial Exaltation. He hates what the dragonblooded have become, and is obsessed with genealogy, trying to make a First Age-level Terrestrial is his greatest dream now.

[Yuki Akuma]

Mkay. Who's the Left Hand? The Solars could've asked him in the First Age.

[Sanguine]

My vote for spirit shape is a Koala Bear.

[xp194]

Tiger tiger tiger.

Because enraged big cat can be very effective in times of need.

[Jokasti]

Mkay. Who's the Left Hand? The Solars could've asked him in the First Age.

I forgot his name, he's in CoCD:Yu-Shan.

[Delusion]

Bear. With five dots in familiar, which is also a bear.

And uses terestial circle sorcery to summon those air-elemental-bears.

[Jokasti]

Annnnnnnnnnnnnd, here's Chapter 1 Title Page.
http://th00.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2010/287/6/d/exalted_cyoa_5_by_jokasti-d30r7ki.png
All dressed up for a vacation in the South!
Now to work on the actual beginning thing.

[One Step Two]

Awesmome stuff, looking forward to the story :smallsmile:

[Lix Lorn]

...I didn't think one pic could be so much fanservice.
(Starts Cult for Jokasti)
You get bonus willpower!

[Raz_Fox]

>Retrieve arms from sleeves.

*is shot again*

[Jokasti]

>Retrieve arms from sleeves.

*is shot again*

KoC beat me to it ;.;
I'm afraid I won't be able to update tonight as I'm at my IRL RPG group right now... And I really wanted to do a picture a day. Hopefully I can churn out a few tomorrow.

[Jokasti]

Here's the first setup pic, probably a few more until we start >ing.
http://th07.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2010/289/0/3/exalted_cyoa_6_by_jokasti-d30wvc1.png

[Lix Lorn]

XDDD
Ah, gotta love Tic Tac Toe.
'The only way to win... is not to play.'

[Thelas]

>Use Board-Expanding Prana and move here:
{TABLE]#|A|B|C|D
1| | | |X
2|O| |X|
3| |X| |
4|O| |O|
[/TABLE]


:smalltongue:

[Yuki Akuma]

That's more of a Sidereal thing than a Solar thing, though.

One assumes The UCS knows Solar charms, not Sidereal charms...

[Arcanoi]

The question I'd like answered is how Saturn got more Os on the board than Xs...

[Jokasti]

The question I'd like answered is how Saturn got more Os on the board than Xs...

Saturn went first.

[Arcanoi]

Where I'm from, Xs always goes first :smallbiggrin:

[Mewtarthio]

One assumes The UCS knows Solar charms, not Sidereal charms...

Fine, then. He uses Perfected Ultimate God-King's Most Indisputable Preemption of the Imperfect to make this move:

{TABLE]#|A|B|C
1|O| |X|
2| |X| |
3|X| |O|
[/TABLE]

Unconquered Sun. It's right there in title.

[Jokasti]

If he was going to do it, he would flurry and place X's on every open square.
{table] ₩|A|B|C
1|O|X|X
2|X|X|X
3|O|X|O
[/table]

[Lix Lorn]

So... many... bad... rules jokes... XDDD

[DrakeRaids]

Great so far!

[Domochevsky]

And there didn't even happen anything so far! :smallbiggrin:

(protip: Make templates. Lots of them. It helps tremendously in keeping things up daily.)

[Jokasti]

I am wary to use templates for this... one of the main reasons besides a little fun is to get better at drawing.
So this one is after a long day. Finished it, computer died, redid second half as chibis, hope that's okay.
Had a BROOKLYN RAGE moment there.
http://th05.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2010/291/f/3/exalted_cyoa_7_by_jokasti-d311wgy.png

[Arcanoi]

I don't know. Perhaps some larceny charm usage is in order, just to make sure. :smallwink:

[Lix Lorn]

...those two are very cute/hot. XD

[DrakeRaids]

....Did we pick out names yet? They need names.

[Domochevsky]

Don't you worry, you still get plenty of things to draw, even when using templates. There's always tweaking necessary and special scenes to do. :smallsmile:

(Assuming you go for the MSPA-style of course. It's quite possible that you do something else entirely.)

[xp194]

Sidereal: She of the Blue Midriff Exposing Garment (Midriff? Garment? Blue?)
Terrestrial: Much Anger Burns Stuff (I don't even know)
Lunar: Help My Hood Has Fallen Over My Eyes And I Cannot See (Hood)

[Comet]

Terrestrial: Much Anger Burns Stuff (I don't even know)

You guys can choose whatever you want but I'm still going to call her Nekketsu (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HotBlooded).

[EENick]

Would it be derailing to much to ask some players a few questions about exalted? I'm very currious about a few things.

[Reynard]

Well, since there's already a thread for that, yes.

[EENick]

Fair enough.