Parafoxpara: August 2017

Thursday, August 31, 2017

Jump #2: Exalted Mortals + Body Mod

Oh, body mod stuff.

Build: Light

Body Type: Athlete (100cp)

Stats

2 speed

2 dexterity

4 appeal (200cp)

4 shape (200cp)

Flexibility 1

Metavore (100cp)

GENNADIUS - TREECKO - WARRIOR

Destiny

Gem, The City of 1001 Immanent Dooms (+600cp)

Gratuitous Skill Kata (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): you are terrifyingly good at doing things in an over the top manner, even something like cooking can become a ballet of dancing blades and artistry with the colors of spice. Also, it seems that the more over the top you do things, the more chance conspires towards your end. This boost is always enough to lean the task a little more in your favor, but only applies to actions which take pure skill to perform. Additionally, we have become skilled at martial arts, and melee. (free)

Adamant Virtue Meditation (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): we have the ability to channel emotional energy into actions. Specifically, Temperance, Valor, Compassion, and Conviction. In addition, a slight boost to our willpower. (50cp)

Heroic Tale Embodiment (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): a power that allows the Hero to become the ideal we are bound by, as a true archetype of heroes, we have the ability to shift into a different form, one that embodies the hero we can become. This is an Assumption that allows you to suddenly gain a new form tailored to fit an ideal hero, it grants a slight boost in all abilities, as well as some unique features. (100cp)

Secret Power Slumbering (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): we inherently have a greater pool of motes per unit of Essence than the average Mortal should, by around a quarter again. Also magic-based equipment or anything powered by generic life-force/Chi/Kai work better when we use it. (free)

The Flow Of Essence (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): we have access to our Essence and can now utilize it, however this is the rawest form of Essence manipulation, for a single action no longer than eight seconds, we can enhance either our strength, speed, or dexterity to nearly superhuman levels. (free)

Dragon Breaking Feather (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): you have a talent for going completely around defenses, this manifests in an extra sense that slowly accumulates information as you face obstruction. You can act on this as if you had time to review and think on it for a solid minute. The information is gathered as if you had focused your attention on observing rather than some other action. (200cp)

Grasping the Perfected Lotus Root (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): we can now perform and learn Terrestrial Martial Arts. Learning Martial Arts Charms is easy to us and if we had a proper understanding we may even be able to develop our own branches and charms for the Mortal Hero Style, of which we're a master. The Mortal Hero Style functionally allows us to have a slight chance no matter how much of an underdog we are, redirecting attacks force back on themselves, or riding the power of an opponent's strikes to bleed off damage are both right up this style's alley. (free)

The Shogun of Dirt (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): we can now extend our essence outside of our body to act as an aura which shields us from damage and extends our attacks beyond our body. This aura also acts as armor that scales with our Essence, starting as a good leather buff coat, before becoming as protective as articulated plate armor at Essence 3. However, whatever damage it blocks whilst protecting us is taken from the pool of energy within you, and damage can still get through if it is above the armor's ability to soak damage. (free)
Creation's Natural Warrior Pattern Engraining Meditations (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): you are something different, whether through the will of Creation or Gaia you are able to use the suit of natural essence patterns as if they were your own. They're meant for a god of martial arts, but Creation has never told a story of such a being in memory. Granting the ability to learn martial arts simply by observing a master moving through a Kata, and you have the ability to apply divine will upon your own martial arts skills, allowing you to strike and block perfectly, though this costs a vast chunk of essence equal to a third of the greatest Mortal's pooled power. (free)

Items

Weapons (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): a perfect weapon made of gossamer, we can customize it into almost anything so long as it serves its original purpose (200cp)

A Layman's Gear (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): clothes appropriate for the East, a sword of low quality steel, dagger of cold iron, a water pouch, a week's rations, and an empty pack. (free)

A Sword of Glass (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): made from Chiaroscuro glass, this steel-hard brightly colored substance is found only in the southern city of Chiaroscuro, as of set no one has found a way of producing more. (free)

A Storied Sword (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): this is a Daiklave made of Yellow Jade-Steel which has undergone the Ritual of Elemental Enchantment (Fire). Even the slightest sip of your Essence will set it ablaze with flames that last a full day or till you're disarmed. Its attunement will make it sharper, lighter, and invincible to conventional harm. (free)

KARP OF MAGI - MAGIKARP - WARRIOR

Items

A Layman's Gear (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): clothes appropriate for the East, a sword of low quality steel, dagger of cold iron, a water pouch, a week's rations, and an empty pack. (free)

TORKOAL - TORTOISE OF THE LAND - WARRIOR

Items

A Layman's Gear (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): clothes appropriate for the East, a sword of low quality steel, dagger of cold iron, a water pouch, a week's rations, and an empty pack. (free)

Items

A Layman's Gear (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): clothes appropriate for the East, a sword of low quality steel, dagger of cold iron, a water pouch, a week's rations, and an empty pack. (free)

Resources (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): a source of income that is enough to live on if you bought a small farm and lived off the land for the rest of your life, as is it provides enough to survive very simply. It all comes in a small wallet of Imperial Script or Silver Coins, your choice when opened. (50cp)

SABLEYE - GOBLIN - WARRIOR

Items

A Layman's Gear (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): clothes appropriate for the East, a sword of low quality steel, dagger of cold iron, a water pouch, a week's rations, and an empty pack. (free)

ESCAVLIER - GAWAIN - WARRIOR

Items

A Layman's Gear (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): clothes appropriate for the East, a sword of low quality steel, dagger of cold iron, a water pouch, a week's rations, and an empty pack. (free)

CUBCHOO - BEAR - WARRIOR
Gratuitous Skill Kata (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): you are terrifyingly good at doing things in an over the top manner, even something like cooking can become a ballet of dancing blades and artistry with the colors of spice. Also, it seems that the more over the top you do things, the more chance conspires towards your end. This boost is always enough to lean the task a little more in your favor, but only applies to actions which take pure skill to perform. Additionally, we have become skilled at martial arts, and melee. (free)

Items

A Layman's Gear (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): clothes appropriate for the East, a sword of low quality steel, dagger of cold iron, a water pouch, a week's rations, and an empty pack. (free)

Nobody ask me about Gob's name.

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Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Jump #2: Exalted Mortals Gauntlet

Location: Lookshy (100cp)

Destiny: Warrior

Taco Cart x3 +150cp

Good Luck Crossing that Bridge (+100cp)

A Book That Should Never Be Opened (+100cp)

A Pair of Moonsilver Pantaloons (+100cp)

A Lout, a Layabout, a Lice Riddled Beggar (+100cp)

Forgot My Sword (+150cp)

But a Stepping Stone (+150cp)

Fuck me, Sidereal (+150cp)

Slave (+300cp) (can upgrade)

The Mortal From Hell (+300cp)

Ten-Thousand Winter Nights (+500cp)

A Simple Soul Illuminated (+600cp)

Silver Light Scattering (+200cp)

A Plague of Locusts (+800cp)

Thrown Down a Flint Canyon (+1000cp)

Drawbacks

A Dragon's World (+100cp)

True Grit x4 (+400cp)

Race: Children of the Mighty (250cp) (God-Blooded)

Origin: Savant

Perks

Guild Smile (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): our presence is both subdued, and enhanced. We've a decent presence about us, and a fine look, far above average but yet to master walking in a way that would turn heads (100cp)

Sweet-Voiced Beggar's Petition (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): for a mortal is little more than a beggar before a Prince of Creation, but even a beggar's voice can charm the mighty. We've gained a drab hand at social combat, allowing to strike out a person's intimacies, and shield your own by will alone. Striking them can change how they think on things, however this can only do what a very pointed argument could have done before, the argument is merely more streamlined and easier for the target to understand. Mind magics, among other unnatural mental influences, can be countered by beating it back with your own will. But this is mentally exhausting. (100cp)

Silver Dragon Coiled Amongst Ivory Teeth (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): speaking entirely in truth whilst never once revealing anything you don't wish unintentionally. With this you are more aware of what others are seeking, to the point you can answer everything about their question but what they are seeking most of the time, and even when the observant or savvy catch you, you can almost always recover if allowed. And those who wish to break your rhythm with actual combat, will find themselves surprised as you continue to speak even in heated conflict. (400cp)

Thaumaturgy, the Mystical Arts (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): grants access to Thaumaturgy from Exalted. AKA, calling out dead ancestor's ghosts, invoke the perfect form of a mundane weapon or tool for a time, or brew an alchemical mixture that slows aging, in addition you also know the step to enter the first circle of Sorcery, but to do so you must be able to control your essence. Also, you can create lower powered alternatives to any power that uses supernatural sources of energy, and teach them to people. (300cp)

The Gunzosha's Choice (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): we have an expansive knowledge of the Shogunate period Magitech, and whilst it's no First Age it is far and away a more complete understanding than most mortals have, save those taught either by the very best craftsmen in Lookshy or a God of Craftsmen. With time, resources, and a few followers you could craft artifacts like Gunzosha Commando Power Armor, or even a full Warstrider of the Scout or Common Class (400cp)

Dreaming Pearlescent Courtesan (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): An art that focuses on grace, beauty, and finesse. A soft style that emphasizes subtle strokes, skillful motions, and knowledge of the target over brute force. Master of this style are said to twist hearts and wield desires like swords. You have learned this art and fundamentally mastered it’s social element. While you can’t use the martial arts Charms, as they are beyond the grasp of a mere Mortal, you can count as already having learned it should you ever gain the ability to do so, but for now the martial element remains dormant. With this you have become able to ‘see’ the tells of a person through pattern recognition and ‘feel’ intimacies and relationships through pure intuition, while neither of these abilities will improve your skill in social combat they along with a healthy dose of charisma and rhetoric have made you a monster in the social arena, so much so that most magistrates would rather strike you in reality whilst you tie them in a web of words. (800cp)

Creation's Natural Warrior Pattern Engraining Meditations (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): you are something different, whether through the will of Creation or Gaia you are able to use the suit of natural essence patterns as if they were your own. They're meant for a god of martial arts, but Creation has never told a story of such a being in memory. Granting the ability to learn martial arts simply by observing a master moving through a Kata, and you have the ability to apply divine will upon your own martial arts skills, allowing you to strike and block perfectly, though this costs a vast chunk of essence equal to a third of the greatest Mortal's pooled power. (free)

Items

A Layman's Gear (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): clothes appropriate for the East, a sword of low quality steel, dagger of cold iron, a water pouch, a week's rations, and an empty pack. (free)

Weapons (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): a perfect weapon made of gossamer, we can customize it into almost anything so long as it serves its original purpose (200cp)

Armor (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): a perfect set of armor made of gossamer, can customize it into almost anything as long as it serves its original purpose (200cp)

Trivials of Thaumaturgy (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): gives a decent supply of odd regents and resources that you can call on once a month (100cp)

Ghost-Hunting Staff (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): approximately the size of a normal quarterstaff, and topped with a large jade ring from which depend several smaller rings, when in motion it produces a distinctive jangling noise, said to discomfort evil spirits. This staff can strike immaterial spirits when some Motes are committed to it, but other than that is merely a very fine nine-ring bo-staff (50cp)

Book of Infinite Possibilities (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): when touched to another book and ten motes are spent, the book mutates and shifts into a near-exact copy of the book being touched, only having a difference of a triangle of three silver dots on the spine. Indicating it is a copy. It does not reproduce magical effects of the original. (100cp)

A Time Capsule (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): a Cache Egg with a few mementos in it, jewelry that complement your complexion. It can store up to three cubic yards of stuff though. (50cp)

A Scroll of the Silken Scholar (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): this is a small selection of Alchemical and Thaumaturgy enhancement recipes ready to go. They have nifty names like Seven Demon's Potion, Least Wonder, Hero's Recovery, Age-Staving Cordial, and Life's Little Luxuries, among others. They provide a slight boost to various small things, some which are not so slight. This is basically the recipes for every canon form of Thaumaturgy and some that aren't. Also it contains a ritual that allows you to convert a 100 pounds of bog standard jade to yellow jade, you get one per month and they become useless after conversion, it is the only jade that can be attuned to mortals naturally, and a hunk of it is said to calm the Wyld. (100cp)

A Peasant's Raiment (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): a fully operational suit of Gunzosha Commando Armor, providing active camo, high end protection, filter for gases, grants night vision as needed, and slight regeneration as long as we wear it and improvements across the board (200cp)

The Cup Grace (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): those who offer up the Cup use it to invoke empathy in others, you can use it to feed on the compassion of others and undermine Temperance, strangers come to trust you fairly quickly, Creation-born and Raksha alike take comfort in your pleasant nature and attractive demeanor. With this Grace you can Ravish an opponent once you have fed upon all their compa- wait a second we're not doing that. Allows taking shaping combat actions, defending against them, and strengthens compassion (300cp)

A Blade of Sake (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): this bottle of liquor holds a secret weapon forged from valor, with a single sip of Essence, the Liquid flows to form a blade of shimmering splendor which will flow around all armor like so many stones in a river bypassing it's ability to soak damage and any time it deals damage it eats their Essence, and returns some to you. (100cp)
The Ring that Reflects (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): a mirror of an old octagonal make, an 'eight hand' mirror as it were, whose power is the refinement of one's own Temperance into a ring of mirrored steel, when used as a shield, the Mirror Perfectly parries attacks away from the owner by placing itself between the owner and the attack. The attack unless unblockable strikes an equal in the Ring as it reflects the force back, should it be unblockable, or blocks any form of perfect effect, it will shatter into seven pieces, though it still blocks it perfectly. The shards will repair themselves in a year and a day. (400cp)

The Grail (Exalted Mortals Gauntlet): Essence can be poured in this cup and stored infinitely, its only other ability is that a person can only to another who has donated to it before, can tip the goblet over and heal their wounds fully and all of damage, this takes a vast amount of stored power, at a minimum an eighth. Merged with the cup grace. (200cp)

COMPANIONS

The Misfit Circle (500cp) (as Godblooded, technically weaker.

Treecko

Magikarp

Torkoal

Sableye

Escavlier

I've already started this, but I guess I'll post what my companions took later, might as well get my feet wet.

Monday, August 28, 2017

Jump #1: End

I get to take six...
I guess I'll take this Treecko, it'll evolve eventually.
A magikarp too, it should also evolve.
... I. I hope.
And my Torkoal.
And a Sableye, too. I guess.
A Escavlier.
And this Cubchoo.
Which hasn't evolved.
Because.
Its.
Cute, I guess.
That's why.
Yes.