Trials of the God-Harem King [Highschool DxD/Exalted] (CLOSED)

but he's NOT undefeatable, and thats retarded to have as his personality is completely at odds with that, this has to be something thats important to him, which basicly means it has to come down to his girls or his friends, he cares no fucks if he's top dog, if it was Ddraig or Valor Issei I could see that, but this is Compassion Issei

heres this first Excellency, and WHY I thought having it tied to his Harem, like Kimbery is tied to the Sea would be a good idea

 

[X] The strength of the Radiant Dragon is tied intimately to the well-being of his flight. If the Infernal takes an action that goes against the motivation of any character to whom he has an intimacy of love, he loses the benefits of this charm for the rest of the day.

 

Well done Smut, that's just what I was flailing about in the dark trying to find ^^ have a like

[X] The strength of the Radiant Dragon is tied intimately to the well-being of his flight. If the Infernal takes an action that goes against the motivation of any character to whom he has an intimacy of love, he loses the benefits of this charm for the rest of the day.

 

[X] The eternal flame

[X] The strength of the Radiant Dragon is tied intimately to the well-being of his flight. If the Infernal takes an action that goes against the motivation of any character to whom he has an intimacy of love, he loses the benefits of this charm for the rest of the day.


yup these sound good!

 

Smuthunter's proposal inspired me:

New Charm Concepts:

Flight

The Radiant Dragon is a greedy being. The primary object of his desires however are not material riches and treasures, even if those are appreciated, but beloved people. His true nature is to be a figurehead, a leader. The Flight are those beings who follow the Exalt and share an Intimacy with him, similar to the Followers Background. However, the Flight also included his more powerful comrades, as the Allies Background: them too must share a positive Intimacy with the Exalt. Examples are: a king and his vassals, the captain of a ship and his crew, the commander of a military unit and his men. The members of a Flight may have a different Motivation from the Exalt, but must be ready to follow and aid the Exalt's own when not in direct opposition to theirs.

[] Yes
[] No
[] Change it?

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Also, is adding the Concept of Hoard appropriate?

 

looks good, basicly Issei's Hoard is his Nakama, he'd fit in fairly well into the One Piece world all things considered /laugh

[X] Yes

 

It's canon that at least some of Auto's charms are infected, including at least his Excellency. It was stated that an Infernal who learns an Infected charm will get robo-cancer shortly afterwards. There is also the possibility (though this was left to storyteller discretion) that the cancer might spread to the Infernals other charms, then back to the charms originators. So if Autocthon opened his charmset to the Infernals, all of Hell might be breaking out in Voidcancer soon afterwards.

This explains the main problem with the disease, its infectiousness. That's why Autocthon sometimes sheds Void-monsters like dandruff, the cancer wants to get off him and infect different forms of life. While the Empyreal could probably keep themselves relatively healthy, dealing with the sickness trying to escape them and infect others, especially during emergencies where they don't have time for safety precautions, would wear on them somewhat.

Also, if the Empyreal work anything like the Infernals, the cancer using the other charms the Empyreal has learned to infect the Dragons is a possibility.

 

[X] Yes

 

So, unless I put house rules to contain it, it's a bomb ready to explode.

Oh well, it was only an idea anyway.

 

I believe its one of the reasons he created the Alchemicals as he did, because his Excellencies were infected, along with his Sorcery initiation, which is why they use something different, it doesn't mean he couldn't think up something, he IS Auto-kun after all, fixing practical problems is what he DOES /laugh

 

But he doesn't use more gun, he uses more science.

 

...Maybe creating a set of special Charms similar to his own but not related, so they're free of robo-cancer? I mean the Charms of the Alchemical have to have come from somewhere.

 

Could a speciality of martial arts be "while using charms"? They do allow for effects that simply can't be done without there use, say catching bullets with your hands for example.

 

That sounds too easy to abuse, like you could put up a scene-long defense and then get the bonus for the whole scene.

 

You can take a MA specialty in armored or unarmored. The general rule is to try and take a specialty in whatever you were going to do anyways.

 

Yeah but then there are surprise attacks where in you just don't get to put one up before they attack you...

 

Umm, what?

If they surprise us, then our DV will be zero and the extra dots wont matter. Then, our first action will probably involve activating FotDF which is a reflexive scene-long (for us at least).

And then there are surprise-negator charms and indefinite duration charms. We don't have them yet, but they are there.

 

just get a speciality for Boosted Gear, there, max of 3 dots extra if its in Gauntlet form, Glove form or bracelet form, tada, no need to worry about silly things like a speciality while charms are active, because seriously that's so out there I don't even know where to begin, and you can parry bullets with stunts fyi, and if someone gets us in a situation we don't have BG then we are in a lot more trouble then not having three extra dots in MA would imply /laugh

 

On the mutation of non-Solar exaltations:

I've read about 'Dragons of a Different Color', Dragon-blooded that, due to exposure to Shadowlands while growing up etc., substitute the normal five Creation-elements with the Underworld Elements (Pyre-flame, blood, prayer, bone, and a fifth one I can't remember currently). Flavortext said something about their auras taking on appropriate changes (whispered prayers being heard from Airs, Fire's Anima not feeling hot and having a green tinge, etc.) as well as them looking pale and sickly, leading to the Dragon-blooded houses locking any Underworld-Dragons away to avoid shame while propably not being quite aware of their true nature.
I've read similar things about Autochton, with awakened (maybe) and unmanifested Dragonblooded being among those embarking on Auto's Ark, and their bloodlines shifting over time to Crystal, Metal, Oil, etc.

Sidereals and Lunars on the other hand, I don't think can actually be shifted in that way, because of one reason: Mutability.
Sidereals are governed entirely by Fate. They can't even invent their own charms on their own, but instead have to get the Maidens to approve of them. So they're likely entirely too rigid to be changed in any way.
With Lunars, it's the exact opposite; They're too mutable. Shifting and becoming something new is the entire core of their being, so everything they could be changed into is already part of their Exaltation in the first place. Or as, I think it was Aleph, expressed it, roughly; "If you change a Lunar Exaltation into it's underworld equivalent, it'll go 'wheee' and be that for a bit, before changing into a Wyld thing and go into the Wyld to snack on yummy Raksha. until it grows bored with that anyway, and decides to do something entirely different again." So the most you could do with Lunars is eating a few demons/hekatonkhires/gods/gremlins/fae/whatever, and absorb part of their powerset, but that's already an inherent ability of the Lunars.

Alchemicals are kind of similar to both Sidereals and Lunars, in that on one hand they'll always by mechanical Inventor-Cyborg-Robo-Cities, but in that framework can express and reinvent themselves in any way they can dream of, kind of like their Patron and his penchant of doing the impossible and breaking all boundaries. They could propably turn from mechanics and cyborgization to genetic engineering and biotech, but as far as I understand that's more or less the robocancer in a nutshell, so that (or the potential for it anyway) is kinda part of them already, too.

 

You get the thumbs up for the quote from Aleph if nothing else. And the rest of that was pretty informative as well.

 

It's a bit complicated.

At its most basic, Shapeshifting is an innate ability - like Anima-powers, for example - rather than a Charm. A Lunar targets a living being, hunts it down, kills it, then drinks its blood/other vital fluids, and can henceforce become this being whenever he chooses. This includes all physical abilities and limitations. Become a bear, and you're suddenly extremely strong. Become a dog, and you can suddenly track scents easily for miles. Become a bird and you can fly. Become a fish and you can breathe underwater. And so on, and so forth.

Initially, however, this is limited, in that it pretty much only works on natural animals, and not above or below a certain size. To taking on the forms
And that is where Knacks come into play. In the vast majority of cases, Knacks allow Lunars to expand or otherwise improve or alter their Shapeshifting abilities. Expand the size-limits for the shapes he can assume, allow his stats to overwrite his chosen forms' where they're superior, and enable creatures other than natural animals to be targets for his hunting, so he can acquire their shapes. Later, this includes supernatural creatures such as spirits, demons, and so on.
And part of those Knacks allows the Lunar to not just assume a supernatural being's shape, but also use their Essence-based powers and abilities, thought it's worth noting that those Knacks are very high up the ladder.

That is what makes the Lunars scary; their incredible versatility. Both from their Shapeshifting, and their reliance on the Attributes rather than Abilities.

 

I was under the impression you could stack on multiple specialties like say unarmored, Boosted Gear. To get 11 pure martial arts skill.

 

it varies, some ST let you, others don't, Alexander hasn't said one way or another which it is here, so I wasn't saying anything definitive on that ^^; just that Boosted Gear would be a great first MA speciality to pick up

 

Well that's kind of why I was asking about whether or not being under the influence of a charm counted as a specialty. If stacking is allowed then why not stack all 4 possible specialties so we can benefit from them? An effective skill level of 17 martial arts would be awesome.

 

I am afraid I will have to forbid stacking specialties, since you have things like the Excellencies. For the "being under a Charm" thing...sorry, nope: it's not a valid specialty.

 

Issei should really learn not to comment on a woman's age.

 

Issei should really learn to stop the voice in his head from causing him physical pain, too. It may not be a big problem now, but once we start seriously disagreeing with her it could mean trouble.

 

Yeah, otherwise he might start to enjoy it...

 

Hmm, well we really should let them know just why we were sent instead of someone else.

[X] Reintroduce ourself using our publicly known titles.
- [X] Speak to them not as their greater or their lesser, but as a young Solar meeting with those rare mortals who managed to become his peers and are thus worthy of his respect.
- [X] Give them the message the HCC asked us to.
- [X] Answer any questions they have. So long as we have the knowledge to and it wouldn't reveal anything we have chosen to not make public in the mystical community. Should they ask such politely decline to answer.

[X] Smuthunter's Stunt.