General Exalted Discussion Thread IX: Errata is Combo-Ok!

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(Stirs in his slumber)

Let me tell you the tale of Andy and Bob. Both were perfectly ordinary commoners, created by accident when two nobles argued about who would get the last piece of toast. As it was Creation-born toast, this was no laughing matter, and Andy was spawned in order to charge blindly into the fray, making lots of noise and a distraction for his creating noble to grab the tasty, tasty baked bread.

Bob was there too, and charged alongside Andy, shortly before the conflict became a nigh infinitely recursive battle of time travel, reality wipes, and chocolate. Benefitting from an extremely brief spurt of independence, or irrelevance such that neither of the Raksha who created them cared what they might become, the two wandered off into a temporarily empty waypoint.

Bob, being a martial type and endowed with phenomenal essence, took his fairly resilient Sword Grace and loyally shoved it into Andy, using an orifice that was not meant for that purpose. The blessed silence that ensued was almost worth having a newly Heroic master, blindly loyal to him and possessing negligible powers.

Before second (or first) thoughts could hit, Bob then became an Unshaped, promptly forgetting any affection or interest he might have had for Andy.

Still, That Which Had Been Bob was there, so Andy, taking advantage of his own enhanced state, sought to quest without (the opposite of within) the expanse of Bob-dom, seeking a place where Bob might not be and the infinite power that could be gained there.

He failed. He succeeded. He had nachos with mice and opera.

After many scenes of Andy's questing and stunting, Bob's Emanations (and Bob too) had gained so many experience points, they decided to do four things. First, they created a mortal magnet, attracting some fifty tasty Creation-born souls, out of the thousands that a good Retinue or Followers might have provided. Then, they tore off a bit of Bob's omnipresence, compacting it into a marvelous Chancel. Next, they munched upon the mortal souls, rising to the absolute highest Essence possible in the realms poisoned by Creation.

Finally, Bob's Emanations spread Bob into the Chancel, and had a nap.

Andy poked one of them with a stick, and whined until Bob agreed that he'd also be in a realm full of Mad Science. In fact, Andy was realy intent on finding the non-existent third member of this tale, Casey, who had been locked away beyond the Eight Divinities Seal for no good reason. Besides consorting with Malfeas, but who wouldn't?

So one of Bob's Emanations, trying to get some rest, immediately jumped into a trans-universal gate to Autochton's Core, kicked out Andy and the para-temporal Chancel, and left. Bob was there too, of course.

Further adventures led to Casey and Andy reuniting, whereupon they promptly killed each other to celebrate. Many times.


Mechanics

Commoner (non-Heroic) Raksha.
Retinue 4
13 bonus points.

Retinue 4 gives a Heroic Warrior as a servant, who has Essence 3, The Gateway to Sundraprisha and Harmonious Primordial Spirit. It also grants lots of tasty mortal servants.

The Warrior grants the main Raksha its Sword Grace, so the Raksha is elevated to being a Heroic Commoner, and thus has Heart 2 (from 1), as an Instant (non-dispellable) effect.

The Warrior uses The Gateway to Sundraprisha, becoming an Unshaped. The Raksha, being a Heroic Commoner, can peform Shaping combat, and therefore quest against the Unshaped.

The newly formed Unshaped and its Emanations gain unlimited xp in a very short time, thanks to the questing.

Using Soul Digestion Catalysis, the Emanations reduce the training time to raise their Essence to 0. Until reaching Essence 10 and whatever Charms they want.

The newly Essence 10, Heart 4 Emanations pick up Style 5 however they like (Style Improving Spirit is 12 xp, which, compared to infinity, is not much).

Done!

(Goes back to sleep)