Skeins of Fate won the voting this time (although it was pretty close), so they're up next! We're down to just two to vote on now, so let the rivalry begin!
- If you vote for Eastern Promises, you're voting for stories from the nineteenth-century band in a world of colonialism and industry - Leona Middleton, Samuel Vanderbilt and Paniwi Bayteru of the Netjer, Faruza Alinejad and Yadi of the Yazata, Mohini Misra and Padma Billingsworth of the Deva, James Howard and Alvin de Lafayette of the Anunna, and many more. They're currently fighting corruption among local authorities, learning what other cultures have to offer them and finding ways to survive no matter what the cost.
- If you vote for Strawberry Fields, you're voting for stories from the wild-eyed Celtic band - Dierdre O'Riordan, Seamus McMann, Jude Shriver and Auggie MacDonough of the Tuatha de Danann and Alaina Bertrand and Ignatius Rex of the Nemetondevos. They're currently gearing up to challenge the combined might of the military and their shadowy puppeteers, while reaching out to their kinsmen around the world.
And off we go!
Holy fuck this was awesome.
ReplyDeleteJay is awesome here, and I love the interaction with Tezcatlipoca, it's pretty much every reaction a Scion has with the Smoking Mirror. And Sophia's sociopathy and disinterest in social niceties makes the whole thing hilarious. Yes, even when she massacres people.
Question, did Jay use some power on her or was she just overwhelmed by high Epic Charisma?
Mostly she was just Charisma-struck - she's really only ever been around Geoff as a person that awesome, and Jay was at this time on Legend higher than them and therefore that much more compelling. Also, she has Expression, so the fact that he was being compelling through an art form also sharpened her interest considerably.
DeleteJay does tend to use powers all over his concerts, though - he's a fan of Charisma knacks that affect everybody and Chaos boons that cause small-scale rioting or orgies, and probably has relics that help amplify those powers when he's performing.
I did remember the description of Bacchanalia on the second read through. This is a good example of why you should buy Empathy.. And why Charisma characters need to be careful about who they accidentally seduce
DeleteAnd I need to repeat the awesomeness that is Tezcatlipoca going all "your entourage is dead, walk it off, I need you to help build a primitive village in Argentina since a good portion of the pantheon just got killed by Vikings"
"Your [insert here] is dead, walk it off," is a pretty big theme with conversations with Tezcatlipoca in our games. Which is why the PCs have now successfully managed to hide and not talk to him for like nine months straight in the god-level game.
Delete(Or have they?)
Just remembered while a bunch of us were discussing a game we'd just started on Skype, I'd mentioned that I was planning "Tezcatlipoca contingency plans" for my new Teotl Scion, prompting these quotes:
DeleteBrent: I want that sign, though.
"In case of Tezcatlipoca, break glass"
Brent: and inside is just a little booklet with the words "whatever you're about to attempt, don't bother"
Griff: "planning for Tezcatlipoca implies that you'll know it's Tezcatlipoca"
Helpful Tezcatlipoca contingency plan.
DeleteDoes loving the hardcore badassery in this fiction make me a bad person? Yes. Still awesome though.
ReplyDeleteIt's okay, you're still not as bad a person as Sophia is.
DeleteQuestion: how far are we from the Ragnarok story?
ReplyDeleteStill pretty far, sadly - there are a lot of characters involved here driving a lot of plot leading up to the big event. I'm trying, though!
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