Exalted: Dead Waters

[Dracorion]

So, yeah, based on comments of other people on the pad, apparently we can come up with our own charms and knacks and stuff. So, here's a whole tree of Lunar Knacks.

FORM ACQUISITION KNACKS:
MISCELLANEOUS

Dense Body Method
Cost: 6m
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Prerequisites: Stamina 3, Essence 3
Spending five ticks in contact with a solid, inorganic, mundane material allows the Lunar to transform their body to the same material, and returning their body to flesh can be done as a reflexive action. The character's armor, even Artifact armor, is transported into Elsewhere while the Lunar is transformed, as armor is not compatible with this Knack. The character's Soak and Hardness ratings become the same values as those of a human-sized statue of the material he's shifting into. The character suffers no mobility penalty from transforming into any material while on land, but caution is advised when transforming into heavy materials and entering bodies of water.
This transformation is incompatible with spirit shapes, War Form, animals in the Lunar's Heart's Blood library or any other shapeshifting Knacks, it must be done when the Lunar is in their true human form and they cannot shapeshift into another form.
The Lunar cannot use this Knack to turn to bronze by coming into contact with another character under the effect of Invulnerable Skin of Bronze. They must touch actual bronze of non-magical origin in order to transform their body to bronze.

Solid Form Adaptability
Duration: Permanent
Type: Permanent
Prerequisites: Dense Body Method
Enhances Dense Body Method, Exotic Shape Affinity and Artifact Body Transformation so they can be used in any shape the Lunar holds, be it their true human form, spirit shape, War Form, a creature from the Lunar's Heart's Blood library, and other shapeshifting Knacks.

Exotic Shape Affinity
Cost: 9m
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Prerequisites: Dense Body Method, Stamina 4, Essence 4
Works like Dense Body Method, allowing the Lunar to transform their body into exotic materials, as well as Bronze from an individual under the effect of Invulnerable Skin of Bronze, and the rust-streaked black iron of Incomparable Body Arsenal. In the case of Incomparable Body Arsenal, the Lunar does NOT gain access to the spell's ability to extend weapons from their metallic form, nor is there any attribute increase.

Artifact Body Transformation
Cost: 12m
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Prerequisites: Exotic Shape Affinity, Stamina 5, Essence 5
Works like Dense Body Method and Exotic Shape Affinity, allowing the Lunar to transform their body into magical materials (Orichalcum, Moonsilver, Starmetal, Soulsteel, Jade, Adamant). The Lunar cannot, however, attune to themself, so their body becomes as heavy as these materials would weigh when unattuned. In this case, the Lunar suffers from a mobility penalty of -5, and a fatigue value of 5 as well.

Artifact Body Attunement
Duration: Permanent
Type: Permanent
Prerequisites: Artifact Body Transformation, Stamina 6, Essence 6
Enhances Artifact Body Attunement, allowing the Lunar to commit 3 motes to attune with themselves, if they're transforming their body to moonsilver, or 6 motes for any other magical material, removing the mobility penalty and fatigue value of the transformation.




So yeah, there it is.

Prerequisite Essence and attribute costs might need to be increased by one, and/or mote costs could be increased as well.

[Krylo]

@Wiz/Arhra, thank you for taking my harassment yesterday in good spirits and giving me your sheets.

@Drac, probably not going to be okaying that on the basis of theme. Lunars shapeshift into other living beings, not nonliving things. I can't really find any precedent for shifting into nonliving things. That's the sole purview of sorcery. You can take a knack that lets you sacred hunt elementals and gain their forms if you want to be made out of rocks or whatever.

Also, might be an idea to ask me if I'll allow the basic idea before writing up a whole tree.

@Everyone: If Drac can't make it we'll still be doing something for the first few hours. Maybe some backgroundy stuff or some such for each person, but we aren't gonna waste a week just 'cause the lunar can't make it. That kinda stuff is, obviously, going to have to be a bit player driven, though.

Either way, once Drac gets on we can start with the RP proper.

So, you all have about eighteen and a half hours, if my math is right.

Be Prepared.

[Dracorion]

Actually, pretty much my whole basis for the idea was Lunars having a Knack from Glories: Luna that lets them meld into scenery, and another in the Errata that lets them become geography. And, to a lesser extent, the one that lets them turn into plants.

But, I don't wanna push too hard on this. I always have terrible ideas I think are cool, and we're close to game day anyway.

[Dracorion]

Double posting because it looks like I'll be able to make it to the early session after all, though I may be on my phone for the first couple of hours.

A resounding "NYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" to Krylo for being a racist jerk to Lunars.

[Overcast]

It is just a lot of that sounds mad alchemical.

[Dracorion]

No, no, it's got nothing to do with the Knacks. It's because Krylo's always all "Solars rule, everyone else DROOLS" and now he's like "Pfft, we're not going to put things off another week for a Lunar. For a Solar, sure, but not a Lunar."

'Cause he's a jerk.

[Overcast]

Suffer not the alien, the mutant, the heretic.

[Krylo]

Into the chat you lot.

[Arhra]

Today we discovered:

1) We have been hired by an idiot.

2) He is made out of money.

3) We lack sympathy for slavers.

4) Distance is a thing.

5) Random guardsmen will believe our lies.

6) It's a traaaaaap!

7) We can just not go with the suspiciously cheap boat fare.

AMAZING.

[Steel Shadow]

Other things we learned:

Money is the best power.

Little kids had better run, 'cus Syren is going to sell them into slavery.

Shapeshifting is an anytime power, and yet Lyra still wants to hide the fact she's a Lunar.

Kaimi likes books.

We're either being employed by a masterful actor, or a complete idiot. Then again, quite possibly it's both.

Garret likes stealing.

But we didn't learn a thing about Cyl!

... This whole thing is gunna end in so much blood.