I will become God-Harem King of the World! [Highschool DxD/Exalted] (CLOSED)

Hey Alex you might want to remove the BP from the sheet. And update it.

 

I believe we can scatter what's left of them with a Presence check for intimidation. Since we're obviously supernatural and seemingly invincible, they have to make a valor check at difficulty 5 to not either run or be incapacitated with fear at this point.

[X] You weren't so sure about it before, but now you have proof that these lowlifes are no match for you. Your grin turns faintly predatory as your enemy's morale falters; one of them begins taking steps back, edging towards the open end of the alleyway. In the back of your head you recognize that this is one of those infinitesimally rare opportunities for you to say something really cool...

(...but I can't think of any sufficiently-cool lines.)

He's likeable and awesome to start with, he just needs to dial back the enthusiasm a little and stop acting like a drooling fanboy whenever a pair of tits appears in his line of sight. Getting laid would probably help with that.

 

Actually, I'm not sure I'm very eager to fight 6 guys unlikely to touch us with a dicepool that will still take forever to get them down.

We don't seem to have spent our BP yet, but if we bought Presence up to 5, Appearance up to 4 and Alex allows us to use the opening of the momentary shock for a social attack in spite of this being real combat, we'd probably stand very decent odds of intimidating them into running away.
I have a very hard time seeing these guys have mor than a MDV of 2 and with our Excellency and applying our Specialty we'd have 15 dice plus a Stunt to throw at them.
Odds are very good that they'd have to spend at least 3 Willpower to resist and given that they honestly should have much more than 4 total, and mortals have few ways to regain it, they should not be willing to do so at all.

And ninja'd.

 

[X] You weren't so sure about it before, but now you have proof that these guys are no match for you. Your grin turns faintly predatory as your enemy's morale falters; one of them begins taking steps back, edging towards the open end of the alleyway. You step forward closing the distance between you and the thugs. "I think it's time to bring this dance to an end. Now make a choice, will it end with your retreat? Or your defeat?" You raise your firsts before you like a boxer, making it obvious that if they hesitate, you'll choose for them.

 

The BP aren't spent yet. Like I said you will have soon the occasion to spend them.

 

In that case the intimidation attempt might actually get a bit hard.
At most we'll have 9 dice to throw at them and they'll have an MDV of about 2 + Appearance, Virtue, Intimacy or Motivation modifiers.
I mean, odds are still pretty good we'll get through their DV at least, but if they have Virtue, Intimacy or Motivation modifiers in play, it's not very likely we'll force them to spend more than a single point of Willpower, which they very well might be willing to, if they seriously have a Virtue, Intimacy or Motivation in play.
That said, it still has a decent enough chance to succeed and I am more willing to do this than bother fighting through them all.

[X] You weren't so sure about it before, but now you have proof that these lowlifes are no match for you. Your grin turns faintly predatory as your enemy's morale falters; one of them begins taking steps back, edging towards the open end of the alleyway. In the back of your head you recognize that this is one of those infinitesimally rare opportunities for you to say something really cool...
"You know, until now I was too busy making sure the lady was safe to really bother with you. But, obviously, that has changed and if you really want to keep going..." As you crack your knuckles intimidatingly golden light envelopin you seems to momentarily intensify, "I am willing to let you try."

Tried my hand at adding the speech. not sure how much I like it.

 

[X]Attack with your fists.
[X]With the Lady safe you feel emboldened to Great Justice! And intimidating these fools so much they never lay a hand on a woman in anger again.
"A man that lays a hand on a woman in anger is no man at all! Wretched Sinners let me show you your Place." You Leap hitting the wall befor rebounding elbow leading with force of a rocket , the glare of your aura and the force of your presence denying all response. You land and duck under the suprpised strike of your next opponent coiling into a ball and exploding into a gut punch the whole of your body behind you closed straight fist. You step into it and around back to a wall and ready to move.

 

Hmm...

Oh! Wait a sec!

[X] You weren't so sure about it before, but now you have proof that these lowlifes are no match for you. Your grin turns faintly predatory as your enemy's morale falters; one of them begins taking steps back, edging towards the open end of the alleyway. In the back of your head you recognize that this is one of those infinitesimally rare opportunities for you to say something really cool...

And you've got the perfect line to use!

"Say. You know that knife, if I was a normal person you have to know that could have killed me, right? So that means you intentionally tried to kill me, right?"

You put your best game face on, doing your best to appear murderous and bloodthirsty. The punks look like they're about to shit themselves. You clench one fist, and the sound of your knuckles crackling echoes like firecrackers down the alleyway.

"That means whatever happens to you now... YOU CAN'T COMPLAIN, RIGHT?!"

You take one giant step forward as if to charge. The punks scream like a flock of terrified schoolgirls and stampede for the safety of the street.

 

[X] Smuthunter's plan

 

[X] Smuthunter's plan

 

Very sorry. I was on mobile at the time, so I just skimmed through the posts.

Credit where its due, I'm agreeing with your plan once more:

[X] Smuthunter's plan

 

This is mostly up to GM ruling anyway but I don't think that solar charms work quite like that aesthetics wise. Solar charms are supposed to be aspects of immense skill and ability, they don't do the things they do because they have magic that lets them do it they are just that badass.

Literally turning his skin to iron doesn't really fit that paradigm. In practice it would be more along the lines of him bracing himself and being just that badass that he is as tough as iron.

A literal transformation into iron is more a infernal, or earth aspect terrestrial type of thing.

 

It depends. You can have lots of different thematics for things like that, and while actually having steel skin probably isn't one of the most common, it isn't out of question.

While solar charms do come from being just that badass, they are still actively supernatural abilities. And Iron Skin Concentration (Which is what I assume we used), carries the Obvious Tag. Which means it is blatantly supernatural.

Maybe it could have been done by having glowing sunlight run out of his cast mark and form a skin tight forcefield. Maybe he simply burns with the fire of the sun, becoming more real then the knife so it is unable to effect him. Maybe he sheds off the top layer of his skin, taking most of the force with it. (Though that's more a lunar version..) You can fluff that kind of thing a lot of ways. But having your skin become as iron for a brief moment is definitely within the realm of possibilities.

 

Not really? From my understanding Solars are about being perfect at everything humans can do. In this case humans can tense there muscles to reduce the damage of a blow, so Solars do it perfectly reducing it to zero. As for the Obvious tag, it's pretty obvious that a knife shouldn't just bounce off someone, right?

[X] Smuthunter's plan

 

Eh...

You certainly can Stunt your defenses as you tensing your muscles so hard that a mere knife cannot pierce them, or you can stunt it as a barrier of Solar Essence blocking the attack, or yes, your skin becoming steel under your Essence's influence.

As for the Obvious tag, straight from the Core book, pg 183:

 

It seems to me that exalted has the most advanced in-universe meta game.

 

Oh! Hora.
Aww...but I wanna blast them off...wait...
*reads Smuthunter's plan*
Hmm...let's see...
[X] You weren't so sure about it before, but now you have proof that these lowlifes are no match for you. Your grin turns faintly predatory as your enemy's morale falters; one of them begins taking steps back, edging towards the open end of the alleyway. In the back of your head you recognize that this is one of those infinitesimally rare opportunities for you to say something really cool...

And you've got the perfect line to use!

"Say. You know that knife, if I was a normal person you have to know that could have killed me, right? So that means you intentionally tried to kill me, right?"

You put your best game face on, doing your best to appear murderous and bloodthirsty. The punks look like they're about to shit themselves. You clench one fist, and the sound of your knuckles crackling echoes like firecrackers down the alleyway.

"That means whatever happens to you now... YOU CAN'T COMPLAIN, RIGHT?!"

You know what they say about cornered dogs and all~
-[X] If the punks, in their fear, decided to attack you in desperation, well then, it would be up to you to teach them a lesson they would never forget! Dodging under one of the punks' desperate stab, you grabbed his overextended arm and disarmed him of his knife, breaking it in the process, before kneeing him in the solar plexus. As he moaned in pain, you twirled him around, and with a mighty heave, threw him back at his comrades. In their yells of confusion and pain, you tensed your muscles, mentally activating that iron skin trick, before rushing at them, as though you were the bowling ball and them the pins.

 

[X] Smuthunter's plan

 

SOCIAL!... *Clears Throat* Right, sorry.

Anyway social and resistance? Resistance is for soaking all types of damage or only certain kinds, that's one of the few things I haven't been able to pick up yet. A tank that could talk anyone down could work pretty well, especially with our high compassion, Limit, and all of the beautiful women we could end up in a fight with.

 

Resistance does not directly effect your soak (That's stamina), but it is what you use to determine, for example, for trying to do long distance running, poison resistance, plague resistance, not breaking to torture, surviving in hostile environments (Not the 'find food' part of survival, but the 'do you freeze to death in the arctic' part of it), ability to survive without food or water, ability to hold your breath, sleep deprivation..

Basically Resistance doesn't directly effect combat ability, but it does effect a lot of other side things that often will directly effect your ability to fight back instead of falling over as a poisoned starving wretch with a full body sunburn. As well, it's also the ability you need if you want to wear heavy armor all the time without taking fatigue penalties.

Edit : Though Resistance charms do often effect your defenses with important things such as 'Immunity to Everything Technique' which makes you flat out immune to pretty much any poison or sickness thing ever, and 'Body-Mending Meditation' which can increase your healing rate by a factor of 10 or can be used to stack with actual medical treatment and other healing charms, whichever would be faster. It also has the soak and hardness defense charm trees, as well as the 'I summon armor out of raw magic energy' charm.

 

ATTRIBUTES!!!!!

Charisma and Manipulation. Attributes take forever to raise through training so use the bonus points to improve our really weak attributes. We are kind of okay in our physical and mental stats but our social attributes suck... a lot! And since we want to be the harem king we need to focus on those for a bit.


[X] Charisma & Appearance

 

Yah.. Skills are easier to raise then stats. Or at least are faster to raise.

 

I can't help but think that if we raise Appearance, people's reactions at school would be funny.

 

[X] Pipeman

 

I just realized I need a victory dance gif.

Issei would get a lot more mileage out of Charisma unless we're going to specialize in being manipulative and Lelouch-like in our personal interactions. That opens up higher chances of success with things like getting Gaspar to come out of his shell or convincing the former RDEs to bail out of the Boosted Gear so we can make Crimson Queen Mode. Not that we necessarily will, but those options will be more open to us if we're acting and rolling like a shonen hero. Manipulation might be better for getting more girls into the harem since human girls are going to need some convincing, but Rias and the rest don't have any particular biases against polygamy so we can get the canon harem together just with charisma checks.

Canonically Issei starts being considered really attractive by the girls at school starting around book 5 when he comes back from Tanin's training with a shitload of muscle growth. Doing that overnight instead of over summer vacation is likely to raise some eyebrows, but I can't think of anyone we would need to hide that from; Kuoh is mostly just full of potential allies, Raynare aside.

 

I have to agree with Charisma and Socialize.

 

Socialize? Do you mean social attributes? Because Socialize will help our ability to interact with large numbers of people ranging from parties all the way up to societies, which might be necessary later but probably not in the immediate future.

I dunno if we're voting but I'm going to go ahead and say

[X] Charisma & Appearance

 

[X] Pipeman