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

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...I honestly thought it was of the Prismatic Arrangement of Creation :-[
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[X] The cute one-chan with long, wavy brown hair and the gorgeous kimono.
 
You gotta love Creation, what it has in Grimdark it makes up with bullshitting WTF powers and denizens.
 
[X] The cute onee-chan with long, wavy brown hair and the gorgeous kimono.
 
Introspective Tinkerer said:
You gotta love Creation, what it has in Grimdark it makes up with bullshitting WTF powers and denizens.
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It's only grimdark because only a grimdark setting would be a worthy challenge for the Exalted to fix. ;D

In that sense, you probably can't call it grimdark in the first place since the assumption is that yes, you absolutely can make things better.
 
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That's what I said, it makes up for what it has in Grimdark with what it has in bullshit powers and crazy-ass residents.
 
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The Charcoal March of Spiders school. Grandmother Spider Mastery lets you attack everything in your sight twice. Pattern Spider Touch lets you rewrite someone's fate if you hit them, for example: Now their fate is to be a duck. So, head to the top of Mount Meru and stack on every awareness charm you've got. You can now see everyone in Creation. Now combo Grandmother Spider Mastery and Pattern Spider Touch. This combo is known as the Geographical Duck-Punching Method.

Adding in a damage dealing charm to the combo converts it into the Creation-Slaying Oblivion Kick.
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Would changing someone's fate to "be a duck" actually turn them into a duck, or merely apply penalties for not being a duck?

reference to this.

Basically, Fate can help you direct into directions by making certain outcomes more likely. It does not, however, *determine* outcomes; free will and agency are still very much in effect and very important.

One example given is of a Sidereal who wants to kill a king, and creates a Fate that effects various penalties on the king in question in specific situations, so that when the king is faced with an assassin, he will be much more likely to lose and die.
If the king is a powerful enough fighter however, he might still be able to fend off his attacker despite the Fate-imposed penalties.
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If it's the latter, then you should set limits on how fates can be applied, so people can't stuck stack a bazillion penalties on an enemy by giving them fates to do impossible things.

Make it so you can only change someone's fate to something physically possible for them to do?

Sure, you can still climb a mountain, spy an opposing army, then punch them all in the face twice from miles away, then give them the fate to "die in the upcoming battle" thus giving the entire army penalties against you and your own army, but that's the sort of thing that thematically fits a high level Martial-Artist/Fate-Bender, not polymorph punches.

Honestly, it seems like a really obvious rule-patch.
 
iamnuff said:
Would changing someone's fate to "be a duck" actually turn them into a duck, or merely apply penalties for not being a duck?
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The former. It's listed as a shaping effect, which is the local terminology for reality-warping effects. Most fate-spinning effects aren't that potent, and the Duck Punch charm is essence 6 anyways so only elder Sidereals can use it.

Sure, you can still climb a mountain, spy an opposing army, then punch them all in the face twice from miles away, then give them the fate to "die in the upcoming battle" thus giving the entire army penalties against you and your own army, but that's the sort of thing that thematically fits a high level Martial-Artist/Fate-Bender, not polymorph punches.

Honestly, it seems like a really obvious rule-patch.
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Those charms come from Scroll of the Monk, which means they're terrible and shouldn't be used at any game table ever.
 
It's not a Fate Bending Effect here, so much as a Shaping Attack in this case when you talk about the Duck-Punch, it is indeed a thing, it's thematic to the style rather then sidereals as well for that matter, CMoSS's thing is changing, canabilization and other spider themes /shrug the thing to remember her is CMoSS isn't a Sidereal charm, its a Sidereal Martial Art style, different rules and all that /frown I'm probably not doing a very good job of explaining it
 
EternitynChaos said:
It's not a Fate Bending Effect here, so much as a Shaping Attack in this case when you talk about the Duck-Punch, it is indeed a thing, it's thematic to the style rather then sidereals as well for that matter, CMoSS's thing is changing, canabilization and other spider themes /shrug the thing to remember her is CMoSS isn't a Sidereal charm, its a Sidereal Martial Art style, different rules and all that /frown I'm probably not doing a very good job of explaining it
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Sidereal martial arts are similar to the more powerful Sacred Gears in that they are built around concepts rather than actions. Just as Boosted Gear can theoretically do anything that falls under 'doubling' or 'transferring' so too can a Sidereal build an art around some idea that they have learned to completely understand. The Charcoal March of Spiders was created by studying the Pattern Spiders that were created by Autochthon to maintain his Loom of Fate. As the Pattern Spiders can alter a fate by adjusting the threads, a Sidereal who has mastered the school can use the concept of 'Pattern Spider' to adjust fate to her own liking.

It's hardly the strangest martial art they have. The Border of Kaleidoscope Logic school is built around the concepts of 'Identity' and 'Perception of Reality'. Now that's some weird shit.
 
[X] There is a group of little youkai staring at you. Also, something stinks of natto.
 
[X] The black robed monk with a conic straw hat.

As a side note if their is the smell of natto around does that mean the young masters grandfather hasn't left to meet up with the Old Tanuki, as I believe the natto youkai went with him when he did that?
 
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    [X] There is a group of little youkai staring at you. Also, something stink of natto.
    ----

    In truth, the first thing that catch your attention is not something you sight, but something you smell.

    [Woah! What is this reek?!"] Even Ddraig can smell it.

    'This smell...natto?' Indeed, it smells just like the Japanese dish famous for having a string unpleasant odor. But where it comes from? Is the kitchen near your position? You look left and right, finding nothing. Then in a flash of inspiration you look up.

    And see a group of little youkai, small like children, staring at you from the edge of the roof. You stare back at them.

    "Guah! He spotted us!"

    "Eiieh!"

    Crash!

    You look down at the bowl full of natto that fell next to you, luckily without staining your clothes, and then back up in curiosity.

    "Great idea you moron! 'Let's pull a prank on him! If he falls for it, he's not a dragon!' Well looks at it: he didn't fall for it!"

    "This is the end! Ye' dragon will eat us all!"

    "First the foreigner youkai, then a dragon! The Nura Clan is finished!"

    And just like that it degenerates into utter chaos. '...Are youkai usually so fickle?'

    [Usually. They are beings born from emotions and lingering feelings, so their emotional restrains aren't the best.]

    Still, you should do something. "Aehm!" You clear your throat loudly. Instantly they stop what they were doing and look at you.
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    "Nice to meet you. Do you want to talk with me?" You say in an amiable voice while pulling out your best friendly smile.

    They blink. Then do it again.

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    "...Ye not gonna eat us?"

    "For the fifteenth time, no I'm not." You tell the small red-skinned oni. After calming down the group of youkai walked down, and now you and them are talking seated on the porch. "Look, I heard you had a bad experience with a dragon before but I'm not like that. Honest."

    "You mean the tiger-stripped lady? I didn't mind her: she told funny jokes." A youkai with only one eye says.

    "You only say that because when she came you were knocked out by the sake! The left wing was reduced to a crater!"

    "She had big boobs..."

    "Shut up pervert!"

    'Ah ah, they are so lively, they look like a big, close family.' You think, a small smile gracing your lips.

    "So, if you aren't here to take over our turf..." A guy with no eyes and a strange forehead asks you. "Why are you here?"

    "I came here to bring a message as a favor, and when Nura-san asked me to help him with the present problems I accepted." You answer.

    "...Just like that?"

    You proudly cross your arms over your chest. "That's how I am. If someone is in trouble I want to help him."

    "Like?" From the back someone asks.

    "Well..." You stroke your chin. "The first time, it was when I met a beautiful foreigner..."

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    "But of course he can stay!" Wakana Nura, mother of Rikuo Nura, cheerfully exclaims while walking next to his son. "I'm so glad you're making new friends Rikuo. And finally I can meet one: you never presented me those from your school."

    "But mom, this is a house of youkai." Rikuo looks happy, but also troubled. "And Keikain-san is an Onmyōji: Natto and the others almost got exterminated that time they came here unannounced."

    "And? I am a mother, and I want to meet my son's friends." She ruffles his hair. "Nothing that a little organization can't resolve."

    "I am still advising against it." Kurotabou, who is walking behind them together with Aotabou, Kubinashi and Kejorou. "I find it extremely suspicious that he just showed up and agreed to help us straight away. We should be wary."

    "Uh?" She makes a confused expression. "Doesn't it just mean he's a polite and generous young man?"

    "A polite and generous young dragon." He stresses out. "Do you remember what happened the last time one came here Wakana-sama?"

    "But he's not that bi-woman." The four males of the group stiffen, Wakana's smile suddenly unsettling. "So it's all right."

    "..I'm still saying we should kick him out." Aotabou grumbles, one hand reaching for the sliding door. "And I am sure the others think the same."

    He opens it.

    "'I' he said. 'Lost' I finished for him." Issei Hyodo is posing under the sakura tree. "And then I hit him with an uppercut, sending him to the land of dreams!"

    "WUUOOOHH!!" The crowd of youkai cheers loudly.

    "Way to go Issei-dono!"

    "You served him his ass on a silver plate!"

    "Served that phoenix right! Bunch of snobs they are."

    "We met one, when it was only us and the Supreme Commander. He was a hardcore homo who set his eyes on the Commander. We had to flew from Noshu to lose him."

    "I remember! Poor Commander looked like a corpse for two weeks afterwards. What was he called? Gia? Gigana?"

    "I think it was Gigai."

    "Oh my. I think you may be wrong Ao-kun." Wakana cheerfully says.

    The four youkai stares jaw-slacked.

    ----

    "That was fun."

    [Yeah. Be in awe at my prowess!]

    'Your prowess?'

    [What's yours is mine.]

    'Hell no.'

    As you finish to put your stuff on the room Wakana-san had so gently offered you stand up and check out your work. "Good enough. Now all that's left is Eiko's stuff. Speaking of which, where is she?"

    You walk outside to look for her, and meets the guy with a conical hat. "Hello. Kurotabou-san, was it? Did you see my companion?"

    He tilts his head forward. "Yes. She was still talking with Karasutengu when I saw here fifteen minutes ago."

    "She's still at it?" You scratch your head. "I better make sure she's behaving. Can you tell me where you saw here?"

    "Sure. But before that I have a request." At that moment something changes in his aura. You don't know why, but the tension in the air raises. "While I appreciate the help you are willing to offer to the Young Master, those are not lesser youkai that we're facing."

    You raise an eyebrow. "...Go on."

    "I will be blunt: I don't know if you're strong enough to be of help."

    "And how you're going to ascertain it?"

    "With a duel." He raises the tip of his hat, staring at you in the eyes. "You and me. The first to lose consciousness or admit defeat lose."

    ...Well, then.

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