Theo Anders and the Black Exaltation[Worm/Exalted][Hiatus]

Intimacies are persons, places, ideas, things that Theo is invested in. You get to choose 2. Theo can hold negative intimacies as well. So its not just things Theo likes, it can be things he hates. You can indicate if your preference to something is a positive or negative relationship, unless the descriptor I put is negative/positive. Like Theo doesn't like Dean, that's established. Aster, on the other hand, is Theo loved sister.

Theo can gain up to Compassion + Willpower intimacies. (8 at this time) Whichever I feel is lowest on Theo's give a shit-o-meter gets cut after a rest period.

[] Max/Kaiser (Father)
[] Gwen/Rune (Crush)
[] Empire 88 (Organization)
[] Brockton Bay (Hometown)
[] Kayden/Purity (Mother figure)
[] Aster (Cutest baby sister)
[] Dean Stansfield (Pompous douche-y windbag)
[] Victoria Dallon (Kind of a bitch)
[] Sex (Women)
[] Nazism (Ideology)
[] Mr. & Mrs. Schmidt aka Fog and Night (Liked, if a bit weird)
[] Herren Clan (Maternal Family)
[] Herren Clan Women; Rune, Othala, Fenja, Menja (Totally bangable)
[] PRT/Protectorate ENE (Organization)
[] Merchants (Filth)

You get to rank 4 of them. 1-4. 1 gets 4 votes and 4 gets one vote like before. The two options that get the most votes will be Theo's starting intimacies.

 

[X] Aster (Cutest baby sister)
-[X] 1

[X] Brockton Bay (Hometown)
-[X]4
-[X]Negitive

[X] Sex (Women)
-[X]2
-[X]Positive

[X] Herren Clan Women
-[X]3
-[X] Positive

Skitzyfrenic do you mean like this?(I barely know anything about exalted)

 

[X] Aster (Cutest baby sister)
-[X] 1

[X] Max/Kaiser (Father)
-[X] 2
-[X] Positive

[X] Sex (Women)
-[X] 3
-[X] Positive

[X] Merchants (Filth)
-[X] 4
-[X] Negative/Hated.

 

It's just a voting format. That's fine though. This vote will be closed later tonight.

 

[X] Aster (Cutest baby sister)
-[X] 1
-[X]Positive

[X] Max/Kaiser (Father)
-[X]4
-[X]Negative

I will be a bit surprise if there is not even a little negatively there after almost killing him.

[X] Brockton Bay (Hometown)
-[X]2
-[X]Negative

[X] Sex (Women)
-[X]3
-[X] Positive

Do not want to be limited to just E88 women.

 

[X] Aster (Cutest baby sister)
-[X] 1
-[X]Positive

[X] Herren Clan Women; Rune, Othala, Fenja, Menja (Totally bangable)
-[X] 2
-[X] Positive

[X] Sex (Women)
-[X] 3
-[X]Positive

[X] Nazism (Ideology)
-[X]3
-[X]Negative

 

[X] Aster (Cutest baby sister)
-[X] 1
-[X]Positive

[X] Sex (Women)
-[X] 2
-[X]Positive

[X] Nazism (Ideology)
-[X]3
-[X]Negative

[X] Kayden/Purity (Mother figure)
-[X] 4
-[X]Positive

Why all the hate toward BB? It's just a city that needs to be cleaned up a bit.

Edit: So I went back and reread a few pages. Found this:

Wait, so we are actually going to do this whole "Kill everything and everyone in our home universe" thing? How hard is Redemption anyway?

 

[X] Aster (Cutest baby sister)
-[X] 1
-[X] Positive

[X] Herren Clan Women; Rune, Othala, Fenja, Menja (Totally bangable)
-[X] 2
-[X] Positive

[X] Nazism (Ideology)
-[X] 3
-[X] Negative

[X] Brockton Bay (Hometown)
-[X] 4
-[X] Positive

 

[X] Aster (Cutest baby sister)
-[X] 1
-[X]Positive
[X] Herren Clan Women; Rune, Othala, Fenja, Menja (Totally bangable)
-[X] 2
-[X] Positive
[X] Sex (Women)
-[X] 3
-[X]Positive
[X] Brockton Bay (Hometown)
-[X]4
-[X]Negative

 

I seem to be the only one that wants to see Theo have a good relationship with his pop, especially since we're playing a villain technically.

 

[X] Aster (Cutest baby sister)
-[X] 1
-[X]Positive
[X] Kayden/Purity (Mother figure)
-[X] 2
-[X]Positive
[X] Herren Clan Women; Rune, Othala, Fenja, Menja (Totally bangable)
-[X] 3
-[X] Positive
[X] Max/Kaiser (Father)
-[X] 4
-[X] Positive

Aster is no contest, but Kayden is probably second. Also because of Aster.

Though do agree that Kaiser probably went up in the rankings a bit after the whole near death thing where we find out he really did care for Theo. Though that's kind of countered by the whole being killed by him in the first place. So tentative positive intimacy.

 

Theo's bad relationship with his dad has nothing to do with his goals, and everything to do with how his dad treated him over the course of his life.

 

Yes but the man obviously cares in some way or else he wouldn't have called Othalla...I think it was him that called her.

 

I'm a little disappointed that plan Bii won, if only because it is excessively combat heavy. Firefly(Twilight!Taylor) broke Lung's balls with only 3 combat charms. Granted, they were specifically picked to counter Lung(soak ignoring crippling attacks make Brutes cry). Then again, The Dark Prince would slaughter her, as she has an unfortunate tendency to neglect her combat fundamentals. Instead she prefers to just sneak attack people by punching through reinforced concrete walls and feign invulnerability by blocking bullets with her forehead.

I'm sure she'll eventually get that Martial Arts Excellency. Someday. But probably not soon.

There is, however, one little problem with Bii's plan that I didn't notice because I didn't actually look in the spoilers:

What. No, seriously. This is terrible.

Theo's ultimate weapon, the manifestation of the light darkness of his soul, has the exact same stats as a completely mundane pointy stick. A very well-made pointy stick, but a pointy stick nonetheless. We could buy dozens of them. The problem is that accuracy is strictly superior to damage on a one for one basis, so you should never put any points in the latter.

A more reasonable distribution would be (Accuracy +6; Damage +0L; Defense +4) or (Accuracy +4; Damage +0L; Defense +6). This still isn't that good, mind. Even with the weapon nerfs in the errata, a sword + shield can give (Accuracy +4; Damage +8L/2; Defense +6). Compare to Twilight!Taylor, who, with two charms of investment, punches barehanded for (Accuracy +9; Damage +5L; Defense +4).

If you actually want damage, consider the stats of a Soulsteel Grand Daiklaive: (Accuracy +4; Damage +12L/4; Defense +0) This has the same accuracy + defense, and twice as much damage. Also, it's piercing, has reach, and has a high minimum damage. Then there is the Grand Goremaul, which trades one point of defense for 4 dice of damage: (Accuracy +4; Damage +16L/5; Defense -1).

So if you want to use the charm as written, we should rework the distribution. Or we could just copy the stats for an artifact Soulsteel weapon, which is what they did in the errata.

 

I just pulled it from Bii's plan. He did list that description. People didn't mention it. Figured that everyone was cool with it.

 

Vote Closed!

So I didn't math the obvious winners/losers.

[] Max/Kaiser (Father)= 3+1(n)+1
[] Gwen/Rune (Crush)=
[] Empire 88 (Organization)=
[] Brockton Bay (Hometown)= 1(n)+3(n)+1+1(n)
[] Kayden/Purity (Mother figure)= 1+3
[] Aster (Cutest baby sister) = 4+4+4+4+4+4+4+4 = Win
[] Dean Stansfield (Pompous douche-y windbag)=
[] Victoria Dallon (Kind of a bitch)=
[] Sex (Women)= 3+2+2+2+3+2 =14
[] Nazism (Ideology)= 1(n)+2(n)+2(n)
[] Mr. & Mrs. Schmidt aka Fog and Night (Liked, if a bit weird)=
[] Herren Clan (Maternal Family)=
[] Herren Clan Women; Rune, Othala, Fenja, Menja (Totally bangable)= 2+3+3+3+2 = 13
[] PRT/Protectorate ENE (Organization)=
[] Merchants (Filth)= 1

Theo has the following intimacies:
Aster (Cutest Little Sister) and Sex (Women)

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If the current dark hard lightsaber is unacceptable to enough people, I will be offering a chance for the description to change (as well as its stat line) when Theo first pops the charms and goes 'holy fuck! This is awesome! Vrrrrooommmmm! Tssssss'

Snip incoming in a bit.

 

I made sure to bold that in the charm description on the character sheet. It can be repurchased, and Theo gains new darksabers.

 

The description is great. It's just the stats I don't like. I had forgotten the how weak the pre errata version of charm is. I mean, the whole reason I went for Strength 3 was to wield a Grand Shellcaster / Grand Daiklave.

At least Wood Dragon's Claw gives you 15 points to distribute and you can change the distribution every round. Maybe we could use that setup. Theo changing his weapon in mid fight would provide good description fodder for fights.

You can, but that's kind of wasteful. Besides, as written I don't think you can summon two different weapons with different stats at the same time. If you can, the obvious choice is a +10 accuracy weapon and a +10 defense weapon, which I find somewhat distasteful.

A Soulsteel Daiklave has Accuracy +5, and doesn't cost precious Wp to summon. It also drains motes, but it doesn't make mortals curl up in a ball.

Depending on how the battles are run it might not even matter. Still, it just bothers me that his super awesome sword is not better than a perfect quality spear.

It also makes me wish we had Eyes Like Daggers Glance, so we could hate people to death with but a glare. Also sweet, sweet Aggravated damage against anything.

Then let's hope that this becomes a third long-running Exalted/Worm quest. Though those have taught me that charms are precious, precious things to be horded. Well, unless this ends up closer to the madness that is a Rihaku quest. *Rolls 40+ success on Wake the Sleeper to unlock 18 free Evocations.*

 

Ooh la la~ Just checking, Skitzyfrenic, are E88 against homosexual relationship, or are they more like keeping it behind closed doors?

Edit: Just checked the char sheet, and Theo seems to lack one Charm. He has 9 instead of 10.

 

That's a bit up in the air. Basically, the E88 handles it like Islam handles homosexuality. If its behind closed doors, and there's no reason to suspect you of it, then its whatever. But you are going to get the shit beaten out of you at the very least if you're open about it. Men are persecuted harder than women.

Its disliked. Very much so. But hot lesbians are hot.

I did miss a charm. I missed infinite melee mastery. Thank you.

 

[X] Plan Bii

 

[X] Plan Bii

Just asking with a appearance so high wouldn't guys be attracted to us?

 

[X] Go interject into Max and Aaron's conversation. Ask what he intends for you in the near future.

 

[X] Plan Bii

 

OTOH, Social charms.

It's Earth Bet. If we kill everything on the planet, quality of life will only increase.

MOEP Abyssals reads as though all hopes of Redemption are just that, hopes, but the Scroll of Errata gives a lot of detail about how to play it: