Xi-hun who's in the middle of telling a story to two of the crew at the helm "...ya so that's how I managed to steal a bunch of stuff from Lookshy last season, wait what? Mountains? OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT!" No expecting any terrain where she was supposed to come out of Cecelyne, Xi-hun starts spinning the wheel to avoid any potential collision, first at port side before quickly spinning the wheel the other way to take a sharp turn to starboard. The rest of the crew probably gets as violent a warning their out of hell as possible.

Exalted 2.6 houserules https://docs.google.com/document/d/10VAUEYEqWYWcQ9gz4bk9uok8OkAIYl1cy50KEw2y75o

Akemi (Santova) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SMplSA1RArT_AU31tj5U_aQRbC2q7ynRoWo0ywI1-rE
Malice (Calliope) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gMN1DU46FXeCsdJF-v7lllHmD13VO4FEoxVaAgN5mDA
Anjanya (magey) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_uQBXfGzhMslCsqB-GSOJGHBLZEBhc45mJXUveQAM2o
Xi-hun (Eddy) https://docs.google.com/document/d/11_t26qrfc4ZLxEnDYW_ZAi6bfOV_M7UEjvSzJfp5RYk

anyone joining late should include a similar character sheet

every significant action should include a roll, and please be clear what mechanics you're invoking

Malice was asleep, upside-down, in the cargo hold when the whole ship lurched and sent her clattering into a stack of canned crew supplies.

>>1121379
After a few minutes, that lazy batgirl (who Xi-hun only sees during mealtime, if the captain ever pays much attention to her subordinates at all) wanders out onto the deck. Batgirl's fur is nasty with bits of tuna and some kind of pungent sauce. "Squeep?"

rolled 9, 8, 1, 8, 8, 10, 10, 7, 8, 10, 2, 9, 8, 6, 6, 7, 10, 6, 10, 1 = 144

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An hour after dawn and below deck, an armored figure sits, eyes closed and ears still, as the last vestiges of green sparkles fade. Moments later her surroundings shake and judder as the entire vessel rapidly turns one way, and then the other. Granite cat-eyes snap open, just in time to see unsecured cargo tumble over.

"Knocking things over for me? Heh. Well, I'll see what that's about in a moment." she muses in Old Realm.

Anjanya stands, morning meditation complete, and with a flare of Essence, begins casting a spell. As it completes, her skin (exposed only on her head) turns an ashen bronze, a terrible green aura surrounds her figure, and perfect disc of white flame erupts on her brow. She then walks out onto deck (her footfalls seeming more like stomps at her current weight) behind the diminutive bat. "Right then, what's going on?"

The Defiler cast Unbreakable Bones of Stone an hour earlier (17 personal, 3 peripheral) and meditated (recovering 8m personal and allowing her anima to fade). After casting Invulnerable Skin of Bronze she's down to 0/19 personal, (9+18)/40 peripheral, 10/16 anima.

rolled 8, 1, 7, 4, 2, 4, 10, 1, 7, 9, 6, 10, 1, 1, 10, 7, 5, 8, 3, 2 = 106

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Akemi has spent the past 5 days trying to hide from her familiar Seki. Faced with the waking nightmare of becoming... Anathama, disgracing the dragons, the Peleps blood, the realm...
well, she's been doing just about anything she can to avoid thinking about it. To her great dismay, the... thing her tutor has become is seemingly capable of swimming through her flesh to sober her up. Trying to get shitfaced has been all but impossible while confined to this ship, and as such she has spent half the trip in a fugue state dissociating and the other half in some sort of manic-panic, cooking, cleaning, dancing, and trying distract herself by being too busy to think about how she's literally feeding her blood to demons to avoid thinking about what her father is going to do to her when he finds her.

She doesn't know what she's supposed to do here. Start some sort of demon colony? Usurp the natural order of the realm? She's never exactly been good at following the immaculate teachings, but, that doesn't mean she wants to go out and start sacrificing innocents to a cult. As the ship lurches, and people go scurrying to the top of the deck, Akemi crawls out of the dark corner she was hiding in and makes for the surface. She breaths the thin air, feeling it catch in her chest, almost painfully. Seeing the realm, it begins to set in that she's not going to just wake up from this. This isn't just bad luck, or a nightmare- it's her life now. And like it or not, she's stuck with the freaks and the demons, far from home. If this is the reward she gets for rebelling, for going against cruelty and stubbornness... it might be time to embrace her new gifts.

She steps up on to the railing, closing her eyes and taking a deep breath. Her arms, outstretched to either side, feel the wind whip and tug at her. Slowly, then with a sudden lurch, she lets it drag her over the edge, and falls backwards off the rails in a dive.

After feeling the rushing wind envelope her for a moment, then another, then another, the rest of the crew see a massive wasp pull alongside it, Akemi half-screaming, half cackling on it's back.
"YOU BASTARDS COULDN'T BREAK ME! YOU COULDN'T TAKE MY SPIRIT! I AM BACK, AND I AM GOING TO TEAR DOWN EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR! IF YOU WANT ME DEAD SO BADLY FATHER, YOU'LL HAVE TO DO IT YOURSELF! COME KILL ME YOURSELF BASTARD! I WON'T ACCEPT ANYTHING LESS! AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

She and Kai speed through the air, dancing and laughing and chasing birds. Spending 7 peripheral motes on the first malfean excellency for any riding stunts she's pulling off, wanting to enjoy the surge of essence and flare of her anima, feeling her control and power.

The captain was going from side to side on the ship, spyglass in hand to triangulate with the elemental poles (Xi-hun is assuming those would be here)
Responding to both of her fellow Green Sun Prince(ss) while looking around: "This is not the type of locale I was expecting, our pick up was meant to be in North West and this land looks neither cold nor wet."

Xi-hun is rolling Int+Sail 7d10

What's everybody doing for the next few hours? Any unusual senses being leveraged for scouting? Most importantly, which way are you pointing the ship?

The ship is pointed neither up nor down, at most likely pointed in a direction that allows for both viewing the most relevant things from its side while not being pointed at one of the cliffs or mountains.
Xi-hun is trying to figure out where she is, first with trying to find the poles second with trying to find signs of civilization. If it's small enough it probably mean that her and the crew will be going to have fun invading with the rest of the Princess welcome to join in any potential assault.

rolled 8, 8, 7, 7, 5, 4, 8, 4, 9, 5, 3, 10, 8, 9, 3, 2, 1, 1, 4, 9 = 115

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>>1122524
Akemi and Kai (her Agata) will fly ahead and scout past the cliff. Checking to see what's above the overhang. Perception 3, awareness 1, but, if Malice is amenable, we can bring her along too who probably has a better chance of noticing cool stuff vis-a-vis bat powers.

rolled 7, 8, 9, 3, 6, 2, 9, 10, 5, 6, 4, 2, 1, 9, 9, 2, 2, 10, 7, 1 = 112

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>"Right then, what's going on?"
Malice stretches and yawns. "Uff...I dunno. Mountains or something. It's too late, I'm sleepy."

>>1122527
>if Malice is amenable, we can bring her along too
Malice perks up when the foodbringer catches her attention and waves her over. "I better get more pudding out of this. Seeya Anj!" She gently glides over to land on Kai. Addressing Akemi,
"Morning. What's got you in such a good mood?"

>who probably has a better chance of noticing cool stuff vis-a-vis bat powers.
Only power I got is Hellscry Chakra, which I'll go ahead and activate with 5 personal motes, but I do have 5 perception and 5 awareness. Rolling to find a village or anything interesting.

>>1122530
>Hellscry Chakra
>adds (Essence) bonus successes on all rolls to notice natives of Malfeas, track them or pierce any disguise attempts
>automatically recognizes non-demon natives of Malfeas as such upon perceiving them, but learns nothing else

>perception 5, awareness 5, relevant enhanced sense +2, coadjutor +2
>Witness to Darkness negates darkness penalties, and adds +[Essence] sux vs. intentional concealment, but -1 internal when in direct sunlight
>Sprawling Marsh Indulgence negates vegetation-based concealment
>Transcendent Desert Creature negates desolation-based concealment
>rolled 7, 8, 9, 3, 6, 2, 9, 10, 5, 6, 4, 2, 1, 9, 9

Six successes to spot anything with a combined range and subtlety penalty of -5 dice or less, which is about two and a half miles for vision, much further for hearing. Total of twelve successes to spot concealed natives of Malfeas within that range, and short of magic there's not much they could do to impair that.

Above the nearest part of the cliff there's about a hundred square miles of grassy plateau, and a small town built into a canyon leading down toward the hills. Of the town's current 618 (+/- 3) human residents with audible breathing or heartbeats, just over 10% - fifty-two adults and eleven children - count as natives of Malfeas. None of the sheep, poultry, or camels do, so exact headcount of those would be trickier. Only significant structure poking above the rim of the canyon is a narrow stone tower, with a large brass bell visible inside. Some faint Old Realm inscriptions are visible up inside the rim of that bell, which...
>craft 0, lore 0
...Malice doesn't recognize, though she might be able to sketch the shapes for someone else to interpret. Bell itself also counts as a native of Malfeas, and there seems to be a church down under it.
Three people in the basement of said church are currently having a heated argument: a man, a woman, and a boy maybe twelve years old. Of those three, only the man (who seems to be tied to a chair) isn't a native of Malfeas. Can't quite parse the individual words. Probably because it's a language Malice doesn't speak... or it could be due to interference from all the other chatter of the town, multiple thick walls, and the fact that you're still miles away.

rolled 5, 10, 3, 8, 9, 7, 2, 3, 8, 8, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 10, 8, 7, 1, 5, 5, 5, 9, 7, 9, 4, 5, 8, 1, 10 = 164

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>>1122518
"Haha, yes, let your spirit soar!"

>>1122522
"Why were we sailing for cold and wet? The southern sands are a much better result."

>>1122530
>Seeya Anj!
A soulsteel-clad thumb-up is offered in farewell to the departing bat.

>What's everybody doing for the next few hours? Any unusual senses being leveraged for scouting?
Anjanya and Xi-Hun both have 4 dice in (Perception + Awareness), and the captain's spyglass likely provides a tool bonus, so her eyes aren't any better than his. The Glass Spider does have enhanced hearing (+2 dice), though, so with the more-perceptive Malice away, she might be the first to notice something subtle approaching.

As for what do... probably help out around the ship, in interests of being prepared to get to something interesting (and badgering Xi-hun into setting a course). Sail 1 means she's not incompetent, but Athletics 5 (Balance +2) and sky-high (Strength + Athletics) has to be useful for some things that need doing. Stormy sounds like he's going to be composing poetry in her head, again. He usually finds blue skies inspiring.

>>1122557
"Why were we sailing for cold and wet? The southern sands are a much better result."

"I dunno" responded the captain "That's what I was ask, go out drop this, come back in, come back out, do what you want for a while but come back for that."

Xi-hun goes back from looking at the land to the helm and clears her throat: "Listen up! We're not anywhere I know off nor I think anybody. The Poles aren't there so this mean we aren't where we're supposed to be and since I don't think we travelled to any of the demons either that means we're discovering something. Go make yourselves look sharp, we're going to introduce ourselves if the Agata lets their Majesties find anyone interesting over those cliffs."

Xi-hun then goes to position the ship as to be bellow the edge of the cliff, waiting for their scouts to report what they discovered.

rolled 4, 2, 2, 9, 5, 3, 6, 6, 7, 6, 10, 9, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 7, 9, 2 = 95

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>>1122532
Upon returning to the ship, Akemi begins to formulate a plan.

"A feast should do it I think. Leave the demons at home, or, at least, the scarier ones. One of us could pretend to be a sorcerer? Anyways, we need to take over, but stealthy like, right? Don't want to call the attention of any immaculate too early. We go to this down, maybe pretending to be guild operatives? We throw a feast, set up nearby, and offer to have the "sorcerer" heal any sick or wounded. Get them drunk so they don't notice anything funny, get them to eat my food so if they turn on us we have the edge. Malice can tell us who's already potentially sympathetic, we pull them aside for "health" visits. Maybe say we're hear expanding trade on the roads? Our fair captain builds up our base of operations, improves local infrastructure and eventually we have a road paved to hell with a foothold for our evil overlords to make inroads. What do you think? Should we summon a demon who knows the secret guild code? Maybe redecorate the ship? Stonyarse here will probably have to focus mostly on looking tough without doing or saying much. Think you can handle lounging around in the sun doing fuck all for a while?"

rolled 6, 6, 1, 6, 5, 8, 6, 9, 5, 4, 5, 10, 2, 10, 4, 10, 5, 9, 1, 9, 6, 9, 6, 7, 9, 8, 10, 5, 7, 8 = 196

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>>1122532
Still a little bleary, Malice tries to convey all this to Akemi. "Anyway, something really weird's going on in that church. I'm gonna take a look." When Akemi turns around, the batgirl is gone.

Activating Hidden Predator Camouflage (5 motes) and flying up to the village to sneak into that church. Bonuses from Transcendent Desert Creature should apply I think?

>He adds his Essence rating to the difficulty of all efforts to notice him with an Awareness roll in a place of physical desolation

Aaand Sprawling Marsh Indulgence if I stunt in some vegetation.

>Any attempt to perceive him while he is using ambient vegetation to help conceal himself has its difficulty increased by (Essence ÷ 2).

She skirts around a large succulent and slips in through an open window.

Dex + Stealth 10

>>1122576
>Bonuses from Transcendent Desert Creature should apply I think?
Vicinity of the town isn't desolate enough for that, but it does have tall grass - and grape vines on the canyon walls - sufficient for Sprawling Marsh Indulgence. There are even potted plants inside the church large enough to be relevant for visual stealth. Aloe and other medicinals, looks like.
>Dex + Stealth 10
>rolled 6, 6, 1, 6, 5, 8, 6, 9, 5, 4, 5
Not your best work.
>Stamina 3, Resistance 0
Multiple hours of gliding, hiking, crawling, stop-and-start movements are starting to get tiring. Two different kids and a housecat may have spotted you, or at least noticed something odd while you were nearby, though nobody else seems to have taken them seriously or otherwise raised the alarm.

Next problem: door leading to that room in the church basement is sturdy, locked, and...
>intelligence 1 + occult 1
>10, 2, 10
...further reinforced with some aggressive-looking thaumaturgical wards.

>>1122584
>...further reinforced with some aggressive-looking thaumaturgical wards.
Any keyholes or gaps I can look through? Are the woman and child still in there? What kind of state is the guy tied to the chair in? How dark is it down here?

Malice will wander the rest of the basement, looking for anything weird or valuable (gotta satisfy that thievery desire for IHD)

rolled 5, 10, 5, 6, 7, 2, 4, 7, 9, 6, 1, 10, 8, 2, 3, 5, 5, 8, 10, 5, 8, 6, 10, 4, 8, 2, 7, 6, 10, 10 = 189

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(lol how many times have I done this? and i still mess it up)

>>1122567
>>1122576
Before Malice flies off, Xi-hun tells her: "I'm not against the idea but current supplies are not really suited to that. The second part however you seem to have had the same idea I've been concocting." A smile grows on her face "but do go investigate that basement, we'll provide you with cover for your operation, we'll start going in 2 or 3 hours to give you time to get around."

Xi-hun gives Malice her time, and has Akemi give them a rough layout of the town on a map. Xi-hun's plan is to fly high above the town to avoid as much notice as possible before dropping down with her Jump Harness into the town center, in slow decent mode at first so she herself gets a good view of the layout before switching to fast decent to land in the middle of town. The crew which doesn't need to stay on the ship to operate it and the others would gather people who don't go by themselves to see what is happening at the town center to bring as best as possible everyone in one place. The goal is to avoid people being able to flee. The safeword to start killing opposition is Xi-hun going totemic or any of the other princes.

After the allotted time to Malice, Xi-hun starts moving the ship in a quick ascend and when getting some cloud cover starts to go in the direction of the village. When close to her needed position in the sky, she takes in one hand her Tsunami Blade, Ta' MaghwI' and leaps overboard.

When she gets on the ground, she immediately triggers Urban Hell Renovation to creates a column from which to stand above everyone, not that her height of over 7 feet really requires it. She stabs Ta' MaghwI' into the pillar to make her hand free, extending them outward to show that she's unarmed until she grabs her blade again In Old Realm "Everyone. Everyone! Gather around! Now pray tell, it would be regrettable for you all to misunderstand what is happening to you. Are you find with this tongue or is there anybody willing and able to fix this troublesome issue!"

>Wits[3]+Sail[5]+2[Maneuverability](Stealth of 0 if relevant)
>20 -> 15/20 Peripheral motes, making her caste mark shine behind the hair that may hide it
>If grabbing attention would be a roll, Malfeas excellency would be used on it with Peripheral unless it brings me at 11+ spent (aka totemic)

>some discord discussion later
Malice knocks on the warded door. She tries to make it sound as ominous as possible.

rolled 10, 4, 9, 6, 5, 3, 9, 7, 2, 8, 5, 4, 10, 9, 9, 2, 1, 10, 6, 8, 10, 9, 8, 6, 2, 7, 4, 1, 7, 10, 2, 7, 4, 8, 1, 6, 8, 9, 10, 9, 8, 3, 9, 1, 9, 6, 4, 4, 4, 9 = 312

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>One of us could pretend to be a sorcerer?
>Stonyarse here will probably have to focus mostly on looking tough without doing or saying much. Think you can handle lounging around in the sun doing fuck all for a while?"
"Hahaha! Yes, pretend!" Anjanya laughs and gives Akemi an enthusiastic thump on the back that almost bowls her over. "Win them over with your hidden healing bug and fine cooking."

The two clearly have very different ideas about what's going on.

>>1122589
>captain leaves the airship directly above the city
The Defiler peers downward. All right, now that Anjanya can see this place with her own eyes, can she make out anything of interest below? Anything... perched on a ledge? Anything big and shiny (that bell, perhaps)? Anyone strong looking, perhaps marshaling in response to Captain Xi's public speaking? The geometric center may have been momentarily claimed, at least.

Looking for threats and/or opportunities to pursue desires. Perception 3, Awareness 1 (+2 for hearing), possibly Investigation 1 (Shiny Things +1). Assuming we stuck to the Slayer's plan it took more than an hour to get here, so I have personal motes again: willing to throw 4m on an Excellency activation.

>>1122590
>sound as ominous as possible
>strength 1, charisma 1, manipulation 1, presence 0, performance 0, socialize 0
Interrogator hustles back up the stairs, glances around - managing to overlook the only other person present, even though Malice is standing right in front of her in a well-lit room - then leaves, to see what that commotion out in the street is all about. Her apprentice follows, but fails to re-lock the basement door properly.

>>1122589
>Urban Hell Renovation to create a column from which to stand above everyone
>charisma 2 + Craft (Earth) 3 + excellency 5
An elegant Gothic archway extrudes itself from the canyon walls and slams together, keystone neatly positioned under Xi-Hun's descending feet, just high enough off the ground to permit wagons to pass underneath, while those walls themselves are subtly re-textured for improved acoustics - tuning partly based on the echoes from that bell rung with a kick on the way down.

Crowd quickly gathers - probably between a third and half of the town's population. Most don't seem to understand complete sentences in Old Realm, but based on where many of them are pointing, and cheering or chanting, they DO know your blade's name. Lot of excited mumbles about "moon-salt" and "The Prophecy!"

Some foul-smelling goo is dripping from up inside the bell, into a bucket. Leakage only started when it began to ring.

rolled 8, 9, 8, 1, 6, 5, 5, 3, 4, 4, 10, 8, 8, 8, 5, 6, 5, 4, 7, 3, 8, 10, 1, 9, 5 = 150

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Xi-hun tells herself that it seems these people understand good enough to not try high realm: "So the grand news for today. I'm in need of a little base of operation at the moment, your village has been selected to be the base of it. On the good side, you can expect some major build up in the area. Any question?" she clamps her hand together and looks around, not really expecting to really get anything good but so far it seems to be going better than the usual attack on village she's done. Nobody is screaming yet.

>mostly trying dices, but if needed

>>1122607
Malice shrugs and heads down the stairs. What's our prisoner look like?

>>1122592
>Linguistics 1 (Flametongue)
>Intelligence 2 + Martial Arts 5
Scattered across canyon walls, mostly eye level, are posters in a consistent format: Name across the top, close-up portrait on the center left, side view of fighting stance on center right (sometimes with colorful streaks painted around it, suggestive of anima flare or elemental techniques), noteworthy violent deeds and a numbered quantity of money listed below. Overall layout, and exact copies of some designs, standardized enough that there's surely a printing press in use around here somewhere.
>Lore 0, Barbarian flaw
Unsure whether the information being presented is supposed to be bounties on dangerous outlaws, or mercenaries advertising their services, though. Might even be both.

In a side street, two merchants - one in a narrow wagon whose wheels fit into grooves in the ground, the other leaning out of a second story window, under a protruding beam which supports a rope and complex set of pulleys - are haggling over bolts of cloth, seemingly encrusted with alternating stripes of amethyst and emerald.

Bonsai tree on a windowsill with a tiny fired-clay blood ape (glazed in red, with black and white highlights) hanging from one of the branches, slice of actual dried banana (proportionately the size of a huge wheel of cheese) in his mouth and other hand as if he was eating it.

The bonsai tree's wood is tin.

Front wall of the church has lifesized statues of the four of you - somewhat caricatured but unmistakable - along with a fifth figure you don't immediately recognize, posing in front of a bas relief prominently featuring something which at least vaguely resembles the ship. Lot of other details...
>Occult 1
...presumably dense with symbolism, which you know just well enough to realize you're missing most of it.

Slime exuded by the church bell's clapper smells of brine and rock dust, with overtones of ancient rancid fish oil. Like someone took stagnant seawater and magically removed almost all the actual water. Church itself seems to be the most pleasingly symmetrical place in town, but the spire is far too sharp to sit on, while the idea of resting directly underneath the bell and potentially getting dripped on fills Anjanya with shuddering horror.

Eddyall gets 4 xp for proposals eventually integrated, Calliope and Santova get 1 each, and all of them should distribute an equal amount of xp to other players of their choosing.

>>1122631
Male, 40s, northerner. Whitewall, maybe? Brown hair, pale blue streaks on the sides of his beard. Squints like he's nearsighted, marks on his nose from glasses he's not currently wearing. Scholarly, but, based on his callused hands, and overall muscle tone, also has some reasonably recent experience wrangling heavy machinery. Hasn't gotten much sleep in the past week but was eating well before that.

He's scooting the chair backward and trying to steer toward a pile of stuff on top of a cabinet in the corner. Pile looks like... overcoat, chainmail shirt, backpack, couple of books, gold necklace with a sunburst pendant, knife on a belt.

rolled 6, 9, 4, 9, 2, 7, 5, 1, 10, 3, 8, 8, 8, 5, 6, 9, 1, 10, 10, 2, 7, 2, 4, 6, 9, 5, 9, 7, 9, 6, 8, 1, 1, 7, 8, 1, 4, 4, 2, 10, 9, 1, 10, 4, 3, 5, 2, 2, 2, 9 = 280

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Malice circles around behind the prisoner and drops Hidden Predator Camouflage. She steps over to the cabinet and picks up the knife, pulls it out of its sheath, pockets the necklace, leafs through the books a bit. Then she turns around and speaks, trying every language she knows. "Hey! Why do they have you tied up down here? You're not going to hurt me if I set you free, right?"

Can I find the guy's glasses?

>mechanics
Mostly a Dex + Larceny roll (5 + 5) to steal the necklace without him noticing.

Character Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HRodWW0VRJ5_BLe3C_XpgGld3kaaywmEtmqGj4yjHgk/edit?usp=sharing

Proposed character. Would be looking for a place to build up a cult, craft some equipment or artifacts, otherwise solidify advantages. Could very easily have gotten stuck here somewhere, especially since I haven't yet fit Transcendent Desert Creature in here. Need an Urge, Kimberian or Cecelynian, and the Stone of Acrid Understanding could be changed to another background if more appropriate.

rolled 6, 10, 10, 1, 3, 7, 3, 2, 10, 9, 10, 5, 2, 4, 6, 5, 10, 10, 2, 7 = 122

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>>1122567
>Anyways, we need to take over, but stealthy like, right? Don't want to call the attention of any immaculate too early.
>>1122589
>When she gets on the ground, she immediately triggers Urban Hell Renovation to creates a column from which to stand above everyone, not that her height of over 7 feet really requires it.

Aaaaaaand great, okay, full mask off, no disguises, fantastic. That means anyone who's not down to rebel against the realm is going to automatically look for ways to subvert and resist. Lets see, could try to fake a confrontation, but that'd only go so far, and from what she can tell Xi-hun seems unlikely to play along with... well with much of anything, really. These people are fucked either way, no saving them from the realm now which means instead we need to find a way to disappear when the hammer comes down. A fleet of ships? Probably too hard to hide...

While contemplating just how exactly they're going to hide their base of operations from the watchful eye of sycophants and fools, Akemi brings the ship down. Of course, her dad never had her do exercises on demonic hellships before, but honestly there's a lot of overlap. Two miles outside of town, around a bend in the canyon walls so the ship isn't immediately visible through the tall grass. She has the crew make camp here, offloading goods and setting up tents. Using rod of verdant minerals to prep some trade goods- unsurprisingly, there was plenty of brass and copper she could take samples of to propagate. She can spend 8 personal motes an hour then meditate to recover, although for Akemi it looks more like napping. In a day she could reasonably triple the starting volume of material and still have 15 hours (three "shifts") to spare. None of it is worked, so they'd mostly be trading it for the value of the raw materials, but some of it could probably have value for sculpture if you found the right market.

rolled 9, 2, 2, 1, 7, 2, 3, 5, 2, 1, 9, 6 = 49

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>>1122607

"Good no question." Xi-hun bends down while looking at various people who seemed to have spoken in Old Realm. "Now it seems some of you might be aware of some prediction I may not be aware off right this moment. Would anyone of you be willing to correct this mishap? Also the usual landscape aren't present so if you would kindly point out a few, that would be extra useful."