Slade
2011-03-08, 07:49 PM
Well gang, Slade here, and time once again for rousing tales of Solar
(and Lunar and Terrestrial) awesomeness and daring do.
For those of you with long memories, the circle is from my last game are back, and now the end times of Exalted are upon us.
I will post a recap of the characters and all the awesomeness we were involved in when I have a real keyboard in front of me (currently on an android phone) as a reminder to myself and my players (since almost a year has past since last time).
The story begins in the ruins of the first age city of Virtue, torn from the Wyld and formed by Mozhan (my character first age incarnation) using Wyld cauldron technology with help from his circle mates.
The city is well over 400 miles in diameter, and house several military installations and Factory Cathedrals, and living quarters for 300 million (mostly Wyld shaped) inhabitants. It did not fare well during the usurpation. In the 2500 years since, the factory cathedrals Have lost power, the surrounding desert has encroached (thanks to Cecelyene and some Infernals, more on that later) and city's former glory has vanished.
Our party began with a full circle + 1 extra Eclipse. While adventuring in the Scavenger Lands, we discovered a Sidereal and with a bunch of plot exposition later, we wound up in Virtue, discovered the state of disrepair, and encountered a bunch of Infernals that had caused several desecration effects that lead to all the dang sand in the area (on top of having no maintenance done for the last 1500 years).
One massive fight scene later, we have several dead Infernals, and a lot of purifying to do. Turns out the Infernals where about to desecrate the main cathedral to the Unconquered Sun, which really rustled Erdrick's jimmys to no end.
Later, the party began to work to free and unify the Scavenger Lands against the Scarlet Empire. Working with Lookshy (where we picked up our Twilight) we were set at our target: Greyfalls.
After a serious comedy of errors (including my first limit break, and a dead abyssal) we were able to set up Greyfalls as an independent nation after kicking out the rabid general and most of the Immaculate Monks (some of which were deemed heretical by their fellows).
To cement our little allied kingdom, our Twilight began to work on a Factory Cathedral to show the newly established kingdom our good intentions. With that little chore out of the way, we began to educate the masses in proper Cathedral repair and maintenance which required us to establish a system of higher education. Which was really boring for the most of us. Oh, and at some point, Greyfalls decided to join the Confederation of Rivers, effectively becoming Lookshy's rival.
Much later, we returned to Lookshy, having taken care of Greyfalls from (effectively) being a threat. Next, the Lookshy inner council next asked us to deal with the Bull of the North. Which we did, by getting the heavy metal viking piss drunk with his circle and convincing them to head northwest, away from Lookshy (and their might have been some social combat involved somewhere, but honestly, we were too drunk to remember).
We head back to Lookshy, and so far the council is impressed. Two of their biggest threats to Lookshy National Security were taken care of, but they wanted us to deal with two more; Ma-ha-Suchi and Thorns/ Mask of Winters.
But first, we attended to some of the infrastructure of Lookshy; first, we rebuilt the Lookshy Factory Cathedral that was in the underground area, then we built an Atelier Manse outside near that solar aspected Demesne they had in the area (long story on that one, *wink*)
It was then that we took off to deal with Ma-ha-Suchi.was a bigger threat at the time, so we took our leave to deal with Ma-ha-Suchi. In the mean time, our Twilight took it upon himself to build a new skyship, Heaven's Vengeance. Packing serious heat, we then flew to meet Ma-Ha-Suchi.
After that little adventure, we went to our hiding spot, and with serious 2nd circle demon help and breaking solar circle sorcery we turn a valley into a skyship dry-dock and manufacturing center. We don't tell anyone about it, and return to Lookshy all the returning heroes.
And at some point in all this, we gain control of the 5 metal shrike. Which is cool, because now we can say "We need 5 Metal Shrike power, now!" and do the cool "Summon the Megazord" pose.
So, with our skyship manufacture in place, our hidden weapon on hand, and with Lookshy on our side, we make plans to invade Thorns. Except those plans are complete lie. We lie out our *ss about it, and that way MoW gets ahold of false plans that call for us attacking 2 weeks later then we actually do.
So, we take our skyships that where built in the lost valley and lead the attack all metal like. We have heavy infantry, assault ships, and the works. MoW realizes that he has already lost Thorns, and retreats to Juggernaut, where he has the quasi-undead behemoth attack the city.
Our response? Say it with me:
(but first, play this as you say it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0KOfTV1dbc ))
"We need 5 Metal Shrike Power now!"
While our Dawn Caste engaged Mask of Winters head on inside the guts of (as a distraction) we had the 5MS fly in and obliterate Juggernaut. In HALF.
(If that scene playing out in your head doesn't make you smile, you have no soul.) We also freed MoW abyssals in the fight.
So, in light of this recent victory, Lookshy send people down, pissed that we jumped the gun, but terrified that we have our own navy. SKY navy. So, we give them the town (which was the plan all along) and let it become the Southern boarder of the Confederation of Rivers, and our twilight (with some serious wyld shaping awesomeness; don't ask me how) turned Thorns into a sky ship naval base for Lookshy's perusal. MoW abyssals all turned on him (and he vanished into the underworld) and now work for the Confederation of Rivers in some fashion (will post who is what in the Confederation of Rivers later).
Seeing that Lookshy is now a superpower on par with the Realm, the Solars decided that it was time to depart, and head south, back to Virtue. And this is where the game begins, 6 months down the line.
(and Lunar and Terrestrial) awesomeness and daring do.
For those of you with long memories, the circle is from my last game are back, and now the end times of Exalted are upon us.
I will post a recap of the characters and all the awesomeness we were involved in when I have a real keyboard in front of me (currently on an android phone) as a reminder to myself and my players (since almost a year has past since last time).
The story begins in the ruins of the first age city of Virtue, torn from the Wyld and formed by Mozhan (my character first age incarnation) using Wyld cauldron technology with help from his circle mates.
The city is well over 400 miles in diameter, and house several military installations and Factory Cathedrals, and living quarters for 300 million (mostly Wyld shaped) inhabitants. It did not fare well during the usurpation. In the 2500 years since, the factory cathedrals Have lost power, the surrounding desert has encroached (thanks to Cecelyene and some Infernals, more on that later) and city's former glory has vanished.
Our party began with a full circle + 1 extra Eclipse. While adventuring in the Scavenger Lands, we discovered a Sidereal and with a bunch of plot exposition later, we wound up in Virtue, discovered the state of disrepair, and encountered a bunch of Infernals that had caused several desecration effects that lead to all the dang sand in the area (on top of having no maintenance done for the last 1500 years).
One massive fight scene later, we have several dead Infernals, and a lot of purifying to do. Turns out the Infernals where about to desecrate the main cathedral to the Unconquered Sun, which really rustled Erdrick's jimmys to no end.
Later, the party began to work to free and unify the Scavenger Lands against the Scarlet Empire. Working with Lookshy (where we picked up our Twilight) we were set at our target: Greyfalls.
After a serious comedy of errors (including my first limit break, and a dead abyssal) we were able to set up Greyfalls as an independent nation after kicking out the rabid general and most of the Immaculate Monks (some of which were deemed heretical by their fellows).
To cement our little allied kingdom, our Twilight began to work on a Factory Cathedral to show the newly established kingdom our good intentions. With that little chore out of the way, we began to educate the masses in proper Cathedral repair and maintenance which required us to establish a system of higher education. Which was really boring for the most of us. Oh, and at some point, Greyfalls decided to join the Confederation of Rivers, effectively becoming Lookshy's rival.
Much later, we returned to Lookshy, having taken care of Greyfalls from (effectively) being a threat. Next, the Lookshy inner council next asked us to deal with the Bull of the North. Which we did, by getting the heavy metal viking piss drunk with his circle and convincing them to head northwest, away from Lookshy (and their might have been some social combat involved somewhere, but honestly, we were too drunk to remember).
We head back to Lookshy, and so far the council is impressed. Two of their biggest threats to Lookshy National Security were taken care of, but they wanted us to deal with two more; Ma-ha-Suchi and Thorns/ Mask of Winters.
But first, we attended to some of the infrastructure of Lookshy; first, we rebuilt the Lookshy Factory Cathedral that was in the underground area, then we built an Atelier Manse outside near that solar aspected Demesne they had in the area (long story on that one, *wink*)
It was then that we took off to deal with Ma-ha-Suchi.was a bigger threat at the time, so we took our leave to deal with Ma-ha-Suchi. In the mean time, our Twilight took it upon himself to build a new skyship, Heaven's Vengeance. Packing serious heat, we then flew to meet Ma-Ha-Suchi.
After that little adventure, we went to our hiding spot, and with serious 2nd circle demon help and breaking solar circle sorcery we turn a valley into a skyship dry-dock and manufacturing center. We don't tell anyone about it, and return to Lookshy all the returning heroes.
And at some point in all this, we gain control of the 5 metal shrike. Which is cool, because now we can say "We need 5 Metal Shrike power, now!" and do the cool "Summon the Megazord" pose.
So, with our skyship manufacture in place, our hidden weapon on hand, and with Lookshy on our side, we make plans to invade Thorns. Except those plans are complete lie. We lie out our *ss about it, and that way MoW gets ahold of false plans that call for us attacking 2 weeks later then we actually do.
So, we take our skyships that where built in the lost valley and lead the attack all metal like. We have heavy infantry, assault ships, and the works. MoW realizes that he has already lost Thorns, and retreats to Juggernaut, where he has the quasi-undead behemoth attack the city.
Our response? Say it with me:
(but first, play this as you say it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0KOfTV1dbc ))
"We need 5 Metal Shrike Power now!"
While our Dawn Caste engaged Mask of Winters head on inside the guts of (as a distraction) we had the 5MS fly in and obliterate Juggernaut. In HALF.
(If that scene playing out in your head doesn't make you smile, you have no soul.) We also freed MoW abyssals in the fight.
So, in light of this recent victory, Lookshy send people down, pissed that we jumped the gun, but terrified that we have our own navy. SKY navy. So, we give them the town (which was the plan all along) and let it become the Southern boarder of the Confederation of Rivers, and our twilight (with some serious wyld shaping awesomeness; don't ask me how) turned Thorns into a sky ship naval base for Lookshy's perusal. MoW abyssals all turned on him (and he vanished into the underworld) and now work for the Confederation of Rivers in some fashion (will post who is what in the Confederation of Rivers later).
Seeing that Lookshy is now a superpower on par with the Realm, the Solars decided that it was time to depart, and head south, back to Virtue. And this is where the game begins, 6 months down the line.