I had a family gathering yesterday and was to busy to post, but I am happy to hear that everything had gone as planned.

Sorry for the delay, I thought I had all ready posted.

No worries. Thanks for sticking it out for so long!

Sorry for the long absence I was extremely busy at work (ended at 9p.m nearly very day).

You have yet to answer my post.

I was seconded to the cashier department a week ago and missed this... Anyway. Gou has a bunch of objectives now... In rough order of importance:

- Find Lyra
- Free the twins
- Find the Ruby

- Kill the Consul
- Find who hurt the Kraken and avenge it
- FInd and eat the Lintha

Sorry for the late reply, was busy for 2 weeks with reassignment. THings have settled down now though.

My turn to be sorry, I thought I posted last week.

I am still alive. I hade really a shitty couple of week.

I have just posted.

Poor lad. Get rest!

Thanks

These weeks make me hate my job. Fortunately my boss is on my side.

You can continue to post. The game is a good discration from my work :)
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:10, Thu 21 Sept 2023.

Hello. I hope everything is fine for you?

Wait, didn't I reply to this? I swore I replied to this... twice! Ugh. Hang on...

Don't worry. I was really busy these last weeks.

Hello. You have yet to post.

Hello, I hope everything is okay for you.

I am sorry for the delay I could have these last months, I was really busy since my promotion, but I will have soon a co-worker to take part of my workload. So things should be better in December.

For the game I am thinking about adding a bit of Abyssal in it since it what recently put on Indie GoGo. Have you backed it?

Nope. Lost all faith in 3e, but I appreciate the effort you put into the game.

No problem.

If you want to stop the game you can. Playing with someone who dislike the game engine is not much fun. Or we can try to convert in Exalted Essence if you want to continue but want to change the mechanics.

Out of curiosity, what made you lost faith in 3e ?

My objections to 3e mainly revolve around the changes to the setting (a bunch of them were ill-considered) and how the rules changes mean Exalted don't really feel that Exalted any more (mainly Solars, but also because the developers have a vision of character power that I don't really agree with). I came in around 1st edition, and I simply don't like the direction Exalted went. I'm also not inclined to trust Essence either...

In all frankness I'd rather continue/reboot that superhero game you were running some time back, though I think you had your own difficulties with that one.

EDIT: That said, I saw a discussion of abyssal thematics that sort of made me want to try out a concept I've had for a while but never had the chance to play.
This message was last edited by the player at 01:00, Fri 08 Dec 2023.

Unfortunately I never played 2e, so I cannot really have an opinion of which is best.

But if you want to test Essence, or Abyssal, I can share the book/manuscript with you. Abyssal previews are nearly all released (Necromancy tomorrow and NPC the 13th) and some charms have potential (War charms let you bring back your victim as zombies).

For the M&M game I made, I prefer forget it. I think everyone had different idea of what they wanted.

Actually, I kind of want to see if I could build that Abyssal in 3e now, if you don't mind...

Here:

https://drive.google.com/drive...Xvy2c?usp=drive_link

From what I heard, the Deathlords have really changed from 2e. I find nearly all of them interesting.

What are the concept you want to try ?
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:21, Sat 09 Dec 2023.

I added the Preview for Martial Arts and Necromancy Chapters, and the Artifacts Chapter.

Well, a long time ago I had a concept for a Dragon-blooded Dynast who was madly in love with his childhood friend, but he Exalted and she didn't, so he got sent to the House of Bells for secondary school training while she got shipped off to a rural family estate in the North.

DId I mention that they were both from House Tepet?

So anyway, he receives news that the Bull of the North attacked the estate in the North and leads a unit to save her. The problem is that she was a Solar, who handily stomped him and his dragon before leaving him for dead (She seemed really reluctant about it, though...)

After recovering, our hero decides to resign his commission and runs off with the family spear as part of the Wyld Hunt, hoping to find her again.

The Abyssal I want to play is the Solar girl, who ran to the Lover Clad In the Raiment of Tears because she hates the Bull of the North so much and ends up being corrupted into an Abyssal because of a yuri-powered "could you be a dear and help me with a necromantic experiment" request.

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Disregarding all of that, the concept is Rain (her childhood name; she never Exalted so she doesn't get the Tepet family name), whose deathknight title is Rain of Bloody Tears. Exalted in the aftermath of the Bull of the North attacking her estate, she threw in briefly with the Lover Clad In the Raiment of Tears before she decided to leave her service. She now wanders the world (and Underworld) looking for her lover (she's not sure if he's still alive) while taking commissions to speak for and avenge the dead who have been wronged by the living. She leads a unit of war ghosts, many of whom dote on her like a daughter or little sister, and some of whom were part of her ex-lover's unit.

That a great concept.

I am a bit partial on th solar part. I fell it should not be just a foot note in the backstory. So unless its important to you, I propose the following twist:

She never exalted as a solar, she was killed in the estate's attack and was brought back as an Abyssal by the Lover. Killing her aggressors and beating her lover when he came to the rescue.

In the end this your character so the choice is your.
This message was last edited by the GM at 07:09, Mon 11 Dec 2023.

Yeah, just making her an Abyssal from the beginning would work too. Her lover freaked out when he saw her raise a huge army of the dead and just attacked her and she had to knock him out to get him to stop and she ran away after that because she thought she was a freak or something.

The Solar part was actually because it was a dubiously canon backstory for a Solar character I made involving a duel which would have them both on the verge of death, and Rain's lover burning out his Exaltation as the fuel for an ancient prayer to the Dragons to purify her soul and send her on to Lethe, which would actually catch Sol Invictus' attention instead, and he asks her what she wants to do, and she says, "save him at any cost", resulting in her death and him Exalting (technically mortal again since he burned out his Dragon's blood) back to full health, but with her spirit bound to his forever.

Like I said, dubiously canon. :p I think she has lots of potential just going on a big undead road trip, teaching people to honor the dead and so on.