Exalted Scenario Base Ideas

Some base ideas for the Exalted scenario. For easy access.

Circle (aka PCs) are starting Solars.

Situation is that they are being sent to one of the Hundred Kingdoms to deal with a threat.

Sender of the mission is Lookshy who are unable to intervene personally in the situation for political reasons.

PCs may/may not be already in a group.
PCs may/may not be known Solars. If known Solars Lookshy accepts the risk of working with Solars as they believe (although they won't nessecarily say it) that fairly powerful forces may be needed to deal with the problem.

Initially the problem is a starting Deathknight. On him is an item (ring/band) that is orichalcum/soulsteel which may/may not be detectable as evil. Regardless it is evil ala Lord of the Rings One Ring. (Have to be careful not to make it too obvious.) However it should have some potent benefits with a subtle but dangerous threat to willpower. Possibly it should "pick" its target by having his/her name on it or having a name from their "past" which they "remember" in its presence or upon handling it.

Figuring that the Solars can kill the lower level Deathknight it will be a trap by a more powerful Deathknight (or devised by a Deathlord and executed by a Deathknight) to kill, capture, or turn Solars. If turning Solars the ring/band is probably involved as a tool. Regardless he comes to mop up from the mess of his lesser and brings along a warstrider (if the Solars are up to it?)

Those are initial thoughts.

Commentary

As an aside if anyone actually was following this (unlikely) they will have noticed that this stopped very abruptly. This is partially because of homework and also because of me being more social. I think I will retain this as a general fiction blog supplementing my normal blog. Sorry to dissapoint!

News of all sorts

Yea been a little lax in keeping this a daily thing. Sorry about that folks. Life intervenes. That whole school thing started. It's pretty cool but like I said can't say much about it right now. Maybe later but I am not quite sure. Wait and see!

One thing I can tell you is that Liz is there! Never saw that one coming. Well maybe I should have, I knew she got in on some military stuff because she was one of those few people whos bright and extremely physically fit (oh and incredibly plane-defyingly hot) and those people the military gobbles up early to use for whatever their purposes are. If they can convince people to join which is rather hard at times. Some of the bright people seriously believe distrust the military. I digress however, I knew Liz from back in school. We were kinda friends. Actually she found me, I'd never get the courage to ask someone like her to hang out (still wouldn't in fact, not any good at that stuff). It was a strange relationship, as in I think she liked me but then changed her mind. It sorta messed me up but I guess things were patched up enough because she didn't seem to mind me at this thing now. Come to think of it she wasn't surpised at all like she knew. Maybe I am deluding myself though. I can't figure out people just computers. If it's programmable I can handle it, people stuff I am horrible at. Really really bad.

Anyhow I didn't really get much of a chance to talk to her. The initial stuff has kept me pretty busy and she almost seems to be observing rather then participating. There are a couple people like that, all military. Kinda creepy but I don't think Liz would participate in anything that'd be illegal or dangerous so I am not too worried. It's a fairly small group overall so I guess I will know the rest of the people pretty well eventually.

Did anyone see the news? There are rumors that a landmass has been discovered. Noone knows where the rumor started but it seems to hold some weight because it is actually in the news. The big news sources too, like Nexus Press and Plane Daily Expanse. If PDE has it then there is a decent chance that it's true because those guys are about as conservative about publishing things as possible. I remember when the United Pillar States ran elections, the PDE wouldn't call it until the UPS did. Most of the other places would wait until it was pretty much a given and call it. The irony is on this that there is no other information. Just some sources report that a landmass was discovered out beyond the western frontier. That means its out our way. Pretty exciting if it pans out. Going to be messy too though as everyone'll scramble to take it over. Have to be careful they don't destroy it or something.

Snow

It snowed today. I always loved the snow. It doesn't snow in many places on the plane. Certainly not around Nexus or the east don't have get any. Dolphins always gets a kick out of the stuff especially if it is snowing heavy enough that it clumps on the water. Not quite sure why but go figure.
Anyhow I walked through Green Park during the middle of the storm. Storm wouldn't be the right term for this though because it was all very peaceful. It was just me trudging through a foot of the fluffy white stuff with huge silent flakes drifting past. The streetlights there are those old fashioned spherical ones which give off a white-orange glow onto everything. I could have spent all night there but as usual had things to do so only got to spend an hour or so just absorbing it all. I am not sure what I'd do if I hadn't found Green Park. GP is just about the most peaceful place on the plane in my opinion. For whatever reason hardly anyone goes there so it's always deserted or near so. It's also far away from any outside noises so it's totally silent.
Filled out most of the paperwork for the thing I mentioned earlier. They must be in a hell of a hurry to get it going because they want me to start in a couple days. Sounds like its a real small group. For some reason too I think the military might be involved. Don't ask me why. A lot of the stuff has a NDA (non-disclosure agreement). So I can't say much about it. However that seems militaryish like to me wouldn't you think?
Anyhow I have other stuff to do, sorry this one is short folks.

Post Work

Yea so work was long and tedious but something really weird happened. My boss knows I am done with primary right, so he ask me what my plans are. I told him that I want to go on and continue my education. It's not exactly the traditional route I suppose but he knows me well enough to understand I think. Anyhow he said that the company is getting involved in a new program relating to technology education. That's kind of my field so he thought I might be interested. I looked over the stuff once I got up today and it looks pretty darn nice. I'll still be in Prussia but not around this area. I figured I'd be doing school and work the whole way but this program just has school. I am pretty excited. Life is pretty good right now.

So what else should I ramble about here? The fact that the latest expedition didn't find anything? That's not really news anymore, sometimes I wonder why they even do short range shots anyways. I mean if anything drifts into that close of range one of the long range surveys should have found it right? These landmasses couldn't travel that fast could they? Maybe I just don't have all the facts that those explorer types do.

Helsinki Corp is attempting to annex territory again. Not sure what the Prussians will do. They don't really protect their overall seas that well. Only where the dolphins and orca's go. It's not like there is anything else to claim. I keep wondering what'll happen if one of the big corporations will try to annex us. Most people say that'll be MIRV Inc but I woulda thought they'd have done it by now if they wanted too. It always surprises me that all these different groups claim the sea as territory. I've been out a few times and it all seems pretty much the same to me. Not quite sure what they are getting out of all of this. Hope it's worth it. They've fought wars over it before. Bad ones too.

I'm just glad we weren't dragged into the WT Wars. Can you believe they actually caused Nexus to intervene? I'm not sure that's ever even happened before. I could check, it should be on file if I am patient enough to look or craft a decent enough program. I guess though if you needed to intervene that that would be the time. 7 Pillars destroyed. Don't think they'll ever have a correct death toll. Had to be in the billions. White Tower 2 had 1.3 billion all on its own and that was the first to go. Strangest thing about that whole war was that it was internal. I hope nothing like that ever happens in prussia. We're all dead then, noone's gonna care if we blow ourselves apart. Betcha then MIRV would come and seize up all the rubble if there was any left.

Wonder what the dolphins and orcas think about all this. Far as I know they've avoided any active fighting with people. Of course they aren't territorial in the same sense we are so for all I know they don't waste time on fighting humans. I think they fight each other sometimes. Hate to think about that, they're both very graceful beautiful races that should never stoop to human conflict. Guess that doesn't make a whole lot of sense there does it?

Go figure.

First Shot

Well I guess I got talked into this whole thing, so here I go...

My name is Silus. Don't think I will tell you my full name though. I suppose if you want to find out you can go and do it. Jinx talked me into doing this. He's already got his own journal floating around somewhere out there. Not quite sure what I've got to say that anyone would be really interested in.

I live in Prussia. Yea that's the pillar way out there. The "frontier" or something of that nature. It's not really that backward, well not to me anyways. To those of you who live in or around Nexus I suppose we're a little out of touch with reality. You can believe that if you like, but I think we're more in touch with reality then anyone that deep in. Out here, we know how big things are. Heck we're on the border of the known plane. I can look out the big windows and know that there is noone out there at all, just the endlessly running sea.

They say the some orcas have gone all the way to the horizon from here. I guess all they could see was more water. No landmasses. Of course if there were we would have found them already I think. With all our radar and stuff like that nothing within site should be invisible right?

I guess I am digressing. Hmm a little about me if you care. I just finished up primary school here. Start tech classes soon. I opted not to join the military. It's not that I don't think I could pass it, I'd prolly eke by but I would make it, it's just that I want to be able to go whereever whenever I want. The military, they get to see the world but only in the context that it affects Prussia or one of her allies. Farthest you might get is Nexus and even that is rare these days. So I am gonna try and get some more computer training in me and then press on with a civilian life. Heck if all else fails I can hit MIRV Inc right? I'd better explain that too.

MIRV is the next pillar over from us. Supposedly we are allies although I've never seen any of their people or anything over here. There was a big deal a few months ago when someone uncovered that a huge amount of our money went straight to them. Noone explained why that money was going there. After awhile it kind of dissapeared so I think it might not be true afterall. Who knows but anyhow they are a huge corporate state unlike our military state. Not sure if they have more freedom then us or not. I figure probably tho. If you're from there drop a message in the comments section alright? It'd be nice to get to know some people outside of Prussia, not that there is anything wrong with Prussians! I rather like us.

In fact I have heard that we have some of the prettiest girls on the entire plane. I guess I can't argue with that, I do know quite a few. Mostly blondes, we're loaded with them. It's kind of tough actually, I am one of those guys who is dooomed to be single. I am not sure how but I am always "just a friend". Maybe I give some kind of creepy vibe or something but none of them will ever get close to me. Well except one but that's not going on here. Well probably not. Anyhow like I said I am still pretty darn lucky to know some of these girls. They're hot. I am mean really hot. I don't think you'll find better look girls this side of Nexus. Who knows tho.

Jeez, I gotta go, work in 5. I'll add more later!