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  1. Whitesnake Pelinal

    Charm Learning Shard (Worm/Exalted) (COMPLETED)

    Well, if we're having this discussion... anyone know how much play Exalted 2 gets these days? How much 3 gets?
  2. Whitesnake Pelinal

    Charm Learning Shard (Worm/Exalted) (COMPLETED)

    Would it be so strange for a Nazi-themed gang in the Worm universe to be right, though? One of the conceits of the setting is that there are a truly huge number of dimensions, we're talking "drops of water in the sea" huge. Another fact is that Earth Bet was chosen by the entities through...
  3. Whitesnake Pelinal

    Charm Learning Shard (Worm/Exalted) (COMPLETED)

    Dunno. She'd have to somehow screw herself out of the excellency because those were explicitly excluded. Oh, I know, a Save The Princess storyline. Uber is captured and Taylor is dragooned into rescuing him by Kaiser, who assigns her the secondary goal of making xbox live more racist...
  4. Whitesnake Pelinal

    Charm Learning Shard (Worm/Exalted) (COMPLETED)

    Well, nuts. One last nod to Taylor's doomed gamer grrl career and I missed it. It ended too soon :( I kind of figured the point wasn't the name but the sound, "bitten", i.e. "hey Sophia, every time anyone talks about you they're talking about how you are bitten. You know. Like that one...
  5. Whitesnake Pelinal

    Charm Learning Shard (Worm/Exalted) (COMPLETED)

    Sad to reach the end, but glad the story finished clean and strong. A shame about those hundred-and-something worlds, but hey. For an omelette you break eggs. The ten thousand or so loose ends that Taylor forgot or ignored because she no longer cared were probably the only element of the...
  6. Whitesnake Pelinal

    Charm Learning Shard (Worm/Exalted) (COMPLETED)

    Heh, not just the government but the system that operated it. Gassing elected politicians alone wouldn't really change long term outcomes, they would simply be replaced. Cull the entire thing though, the financial elites, the media, the educators, the legal-judicial prison complex, etc... and...
  7. Whitesnake Pelinal

    Charm Learning Shard (Worm/Exalted) (COMPLETED)

    Pretty sure they were judged by the content of their character and/or MRI scan. Now that you're finally winning, all you have to do is trust the plan!
  8. Whitesnake Pelinal

    Charm Learning Shard (Worm/Exalted) (COMPLETED)

    Yeah, that one, though not necessarily the specific problem of soul-stealing so much as pathing questions like "how powerful can Taylor become" and "how will Taylor use this power" while guesstimating whether she's a useful tool against Scion.
  9. Whitesnake Pelinal

    Charm Learning Shard (Worm/Exalted) (COMPLETED)

    So, uh... rest in pukerinos? In the grim derp world of Worm they don't have useless eaters, they have useless breathers. Get cucked. Belgarath: Count your lucky stars. Possible interpretation of these repeated instances of timely interference is that Eidolon has been sandbagging all along...
  10. Whitesnake Pelinal

    Charm Learning Shard (Worm/Exalted) (COMPLETED)

    Calling it now: Aisha slips the leash, goes to an Endbringer fight, and gets her body destroyed before Taylor can retrieve it.
  11. Whitesnake Pelinal

    Charm Learning Shard (Worm/Exalted) (COMPLETED)

    Eh, it doesn't have to be an argument, just diss the characters instead of the author. Writing books with Artemis Entreri as a viewpoint character didn't make R.A. Salvatore an assassin. I honestly don't know how Taylor would come by friends a this point. Like, maybe if she decided to camp...
  12. Whitesnake Pelinal

    Charm Learning Shard (Worm/Exalted) (COMPLETED)

    I feel like I should write some real Empire propaganda fic to help them understand the difference. Like a mirror Inheritance, with real challenges, proportional use of force, and moral treatment of captives. Huh. Three birds with one stone: a test of Cauldron's conviction, an enhancement of...
  13. Whitesnake Pelinal

    Charm Learning Shard (Worm/Exalted) (COMPLETED)

    Blasto not showing up is normal, the world's a big place. Taylor having the ability to rip answers out of peoples skulls and not using it at least once would be surprising. Is she going to not pay the 'potential' cost to permanently learn the charm? I guess that would make sense if her...
  14. Whitesnake Pelinal

    Charm Learning Shard (Worm/Exalted) (COMPLETED)

    Heh, then it could work three ways. The Doylist mechanics limitation, the Watsonian trauma, and an extension of the gag about the guy with truth-telling powers immediately getting whacked when he crossed the thin blue line. Also, could be foreshadowing that Taylor will Yozi charm herself into...
  15. Whitesnake Pelinal

    Charm Learning Shard (Worm/Exalted) (COMPLETED)

    Taylor hasn't been held to charm prerequisites before, though. Part of it was presumably to make a specific point about Taylor's moral character. Taylor might choose never to use that charm because she remembers it as a particularly degrading and horrific milestone in her life. I don't...
  16. Whitesnake Pelinal

    Charm Learning Shard (Worm/Exalted) (COMPLETED)

    Never never? But it would be such a perfect addition to Taylor's Simurgh cosplay. I like that interpretation, but my money is on random chance or possibly a particularly aggressive form of shard-induced behavior modification. Taylor comes up with the worst reasons for charm translations after...
  17. Whitesnake Pelinal

    Charm Learning Shard (Worm/Exalted) (COMPLETED)

    Getting drugged always went so badly before the Bridcage. Guess drugs really are best in a controlled environment. Wonder if any of the butchers will be able to bargain their way out of this one.. or perhaps, be bargained? One of them was with the biggest gang, so a hostage exchange could be...
  18. Whitesnake Pelinal

    Charm Learning Shard (Worm/Exalted) (COMPLETED)

    If an Exaltation can make its way to Worm, why not a Raksha? *snerk* This is starting to sound like another fresh-new-hell decision.
  19. Whitesnake Pelinal

    Charm Learning Shard (Worm/Exalted) (COMPLETED)

    Teacher: Legendary Scholar Curriculum. It's close enough to be plausible and fits thematically. Gavel: Notable for his power reducing damage to him to a tiny fraction but not nothing; Scion overcame it with a steady high-intensity beam. Something that reduces damage to minimum of one die...
  20. Whitesnake Pelinal

    Charm Learning Shard (Worm/Exalted) (COMPLETED)

    A normal exalted I could believe that, but this one is a shard, one that consorts with every other shard it can rub its host up against. I'm guessing Wanton Harlot.
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