u/Sassy_Drow

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So I'm looking for a game where you start on a base where most stuff has broken down and you need to repair things. I would prefer it if the game had resource generating aspects like a water filter or a hydroponics area.

To clarify I was imagining starting in a place where the facility is barely functioning, having to gather resources to repair the base. For example you wake up from cryo sleep in a space station and you need to explore the station in order to find materials and blueprints to upgrade your safe zone, initially surviving off of scavenged food but eventually your base becoming self sustaining.

So I just realized while making another post that SM and TLQ experience of 'Change' is opposite of each other. For the Shifting Mound change is painful but it eventually culminates in gain. A part of her 'dies' but that just makes her more complete. For Shifting Mound change is something painful, something cold but something that leads to something good.

On the opposite end is TLQ. The story of change from their perspective is that of triumph. They defeat their enemy, they get the maiden, they are blessed. However at the end they lose their partner, their companions, everything they accomplished. For TLQ change is something that brings them companions, something that brings thrill but something that culminates in loss.

At the end the narrator dying is painful because it is the culmination of everything he grew to care for being taken by change. However condescending he may have been narrator was with him throughout the journey and him disappearing is the last thing he came to know being taken away. He lost the voices, he lost every princess and even if he was a condescending person he was the last person that stood by the long quiet.

During the confrontation they both share their experiences and they both receive something of the other. The voice of the hero returns after the confrontation and while it feels like voice of hero returns through heroic willpower I believe that after Shifting Mound shares her experience TLQ becomes more in tune with change while Shifting Mound becomes more static. She who throughout the game had been open to new experiences tries to reach the end while TLQ who had always been moving towards the end returns to the beginning.

So I don't know much about Arcanum and I was wondering if how Arcanum is portrayed in HtP is similar to how an Arcanum branch operates? For example is

1)having at least one sorcerer who wields a form of Numina
2)members caring about Dynastic prestige
3)being bound into a hierarchy

common things for an Arcanum branch?

So I run an online D&D game on Thursdays. Last Thursday I got some terrible news(My cat was having surgery related complications and didn't have long.), notified my players and left. I am however worried that it will adversely affect me due to associating the game with what happened and get me a severe burnout. Honestly I don't even want to start up the server at the moment but we have a session scheduled this Thursday. The game has been going for months so I don't want it to die out. If anyone had something similar happen could you give me advise on how to get back to GM'ing that game?

You were going to die. Doctors went on about how they would try their best but you could see it in their eyes, you'll never forget those looks. They weren't pitying you. They saw treating you as pointless, they were thinking 'He is going to die anyways. Why are we bothering?'. You wanted to give up on hope, to accept your upcoming death with grace and make peace with yourself but then she showed up.

Her offer was insane to say the least. She spoke of eternal servitude. You asked her if she was a demon and she laughed. She assured you that she had no interest in your soul. You sometimes tell yourself that it was your choice, that you could have said 'No' to her offer but what kind of person could choose to say no to living another day even if the offer came from a demon.

You remember how she cut her finger with a nail. As the blood dripped into your mouth you expected the taste to be gross but it felt so delicious. Doctors called it a miracle. You smiled at the doctors, bathed in the pleasure of rubbing your survival in their faces and then your new job began. It's not as bad as eternal servitude implies.

She also taught you so much, she taught you how to tell when someone is lying, how to hear things being whispered behind your back. After you got back to work you worked faster and better thanks to her She occasionally asks you to do her some favours and you would have done them even if you didn't have to serve her; she is your saviour after all.

At least that is what you tell yourself to quiet the part of yourself that still resists. It tries to get you to resist, tells you that something is very wrong, that your saviour is not who she seems to be. It nearly overwhelmed you when your best friend caught you. He told you that he knew you weren't corrupt, he offered to help you against whoever was making you do this. You remember how you acted as the voice screamed at you to stop. You remember how his blood stained the room. He would have harmed your saviour. He had to die.

You were nearly suicidal after that, you contemplated turning yourself to the police or just ending it all but she saved you then too. You don't remember how it happened but you remember confiding in her. She smiled and cut her finger. She told you to drink though you would have done so without her telling you, your body still remembered how delicious it was. It cleared your head, reminded you of what mattered in life. You are able to carry on thanks to her, your saviour.

You were going to die. Doctors went on about how they would try their best but you could see it in their eyes, you'll never forget those looks. They weren't pitying you. They saw treating you as pointless, they were thinking 'He is going to die anyways. Why are we bothering?'. You wanted to give up on hope, to accept your upcoming death with grace and make peace with yourself but then she showed up.

Her offer was insane to say the least. She spoke of eternal servitude. You asked her if she was a demon and she laughed. She assured you that she had no interest in your soul. You sometimes tell yourself that it was your choice, that you could have said 'No' to her offer but what kind of person could choose to say no to living another day even if the offer came from a demon.

You remember how she cut her finger with a nail. As the blood dripped into your mouth you expected the taste to be gross but it felt so delicious. Doctors called it a miracle. You smiled at the doctors, bathed in the pleasure of rubbing your survival in their faces and then your new job began. It's not as bad as eternal servitude implies.

She also taught you so much, she taught you how to tell when someone is lying, how to hear things being whispered behind your back. After you got back to work you worked faster and better thanks to her She occasionally asks you to do her some favours and you would have done them even if you didn't have to serve her; she is your saviour after all.

At least that is what you tell yourself to quiet the part of yourself that still resists. It tries to get you to resist, tells you that something is very wrong, that your saviour is not who she seems to be. It nearly overwhelmed you when your best friend caught you. He told you that he knew you weren't corrupt, he offered to help you against whoever was making you do this. You remember how you acted as the voice screamed at you to stop. You remember how his blood stained the room. He would have harmed your saviour. He had to die.

You were nearly suicidal after that, you contemplated turning yourself to the police or just ending it all but she saved you then too. You don't remember how it happened but you remember confiding in her. She smiled and cut her finger. She told you to drink though you would have done so without her telling you, your body still remembered how delicious it was. It cleared your head, reminded you of what mattered in life. You are able to carry on thanks to her, your saviour.

To preface this post(Which is written after the whole thing because I cannot focus and I just need to get everything out of my head to somewhere.): I'm not trying to ask for medical advise or ask something related to medical fees and my cat is currently very much alive(And will hopefully stay that way for a while.)

So for context(This might be too much detail but honestly having trouble gathering my thoughts into a concise whole so it's more like a stream.). My cat has a terrible case of constipation which prevents him from eating. After two days of receiving IV fluids, enema and medication my cat has been unable to pass it on. On his last X-Ray(Which was yesterday) it showed that the big mass(4.7 to 4.2 cm) hadn't moved and my veterinary has said that a colotomy would be required.

Based on what he told me the procedure is relatively safe(Though he made it clear that there were risks of complications and my google search said that the odds of complications was about ten percent. I know google isn't medical advise but honestly at this point I'm just grasping at straws for reassurance.)

He's been at the vet for two days at this point(Though I've been visiting him as often as I can) and each time I see his food bowl I instinctively move to refill it and have to remind myself he's not home and then my eyes tear up. I know he's not gone and he'll probably be fine but between how powerless I feel and how anxious I feel over the surgery every little thing feels like a lot and I am both acting like he's gone but I'm also unable to imagine my life without him.

It's 2 AM and I can't sleep, part of me wants to call the veterinary and insist that he opens the store so that I can be with my cat but I also feel so drained that doing anything other than crying whenever I see something that reminds me of him(Who is very much alive and was okay if a bit annoyed 7 hours ago) feels like an impossibility.

So I was working on a mage game idea and one idea I had was players hearing rumours of fragment of an artifact or a time that was wanted by all mages. (Vampire equivalent would be Sargon codex). Does such a thing exist?

Hint 1: They are joined by their childhood friend who has no magic but is a great cook.

So I saw the blood contract ritual and I had a brain blurb that resulted in me typing for half an hour. It's not something I intend to use but I wanted to share it and hear people's opinions on it. Before I go further thank you for giving it a look.

>Path Of Blood Debt

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>Many folklore warn of the dread consequences of breaking a promise with a witch and the way fate conspires to make one pay their due one way or another. During the early nights of Clan Tremere, Blood Debt was developed as a way to force other kindred to comply with their promises. The use of the path was later expanded in order to enforce the obligations one had towards their dues. A thaumaturge practicing blood debt explores the mystical potential of promises and of hierarchies.

>• Promisory Note

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>The thaumaturge writes a promise of a boon on a paper using the vitae provided by the person making the promise and rolls Manipulation + Occult against the signatory's remaining willpower. When the paper is displayed to the person that person receives a penalty equal to the number of successes to any attempt to cajole out of repaying the debt. Anyone seeing the paper is instinctively aware by whom the boon is owed. Should the boon be cashed in the paper burns.

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>• • Official Duty

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>As the understanding of the thaumaturge expands the details they can write do so as well. The thaumaturge writes down the duties the target has agreed to using the targets vitae and rolls manipulation+occult against the signatory's remaining willpower. For a month the target must succeed at self control/instinct roll against diff 6 whenever they attempt to shirk off their duty. For each additional success the thaumaturge can increase the difficulty by 1 or increase the duration by a month.

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>• • • Karmic Punishment

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>At this stage the thaumaturge understands how karma ties into the promises and how to manipulate it to get more tangible results. While using one of the powers of path of blood debt the thaumaturge can spend a blood point roll manipulation+occult against the signatory's remaining willpower in order to give the target cursed flaw at one dot for a month should the agreement be broken. For each additional success the thaumaturge can spend another blood point to increase the severity or duration of this flaw.

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>• • • • Sins Of The Father

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>For a thaumaturge at this level the debts can be transferred through sympathetic links. Powers in the path of blood debt can be activated by someone's sire allowing a cruel sire to volunteer their childer into duties or otherwise passing on their debts to their childer. The childer immediately becomes aware of this power being used and what was promised. Rolls target the childers remaining willpower as opposed to the sires.

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>• • • • • A Promise Is a Promise

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>At this stage writing becomes an unnecessary hurdle for the thaumaturge as even verbal agreements turn into something mystical in their presence. Upon receiving a verbal agreement promising something a thaumaturge can reflexively spent a blood point to activate a power of this path as if it was written down. The target becomes aware that their words have been bound(And most do not take kindly to this happening).

So I had this realization and I wanted to share it. Hand of the master artisan(V20 Dark ages) combination discipline lets you do a task that would take a minute within a turn. Waking Dream(Lore of the clans) lets you treat an illusionary item as if it was real for a turn.

Now the fun part is that if you wanted to macgyver something you have access to the tool you need for the task and if it is doable within a minute you can do it near instantly.

Both of these are one dot combination disciplines so they are relatively accessible.

Note: Assuming you are of the eight generation or higher(Or you have blood of potency) you could in theory mix this with celerity in order to make it so that you can put in multiple minutes of work within the span of three seconds using a tool that doesn't exist.

So this is more of a discussion question rather than being about some specific splat such as vampire or werewolf. From what I have seen the number of supernaturals given by white wolf are often seen to be on the low side(Which I agree with. Like there are a total of 690 vampires in the entirety of France. There are ten thousand intact castles there and you are telling me that only six percent of them are inhabited by a vampire? Don't get me started with Mage with there being only 58 mages in England meaning most cities either don't have a mage or have a single mage.) though the topic of this has been discussed to death.

What I wanted to ask was how do other ST's handle the numbers of supernaturals in their cities? Is it just as the plot demands or do you have a a thing like multiplying given number by 10 or do you make it so that every important city has enough of a population to represent every faction(Like every city has at least three of every clan or every tradition)?

Hint 1 >!In the game the player is a minionmancer that learns to conjure different types of golems along the way!<.

Hint 2: >!As you progress through the game you recover your girlfriends body, mind and soul which are each at the end of a different stage. !<

Hints go here

So I was thinking on what word 'widderslainte' without any knowledge on what the word actually means. Google translate translates it as resisted from Luxembourgish and maybe it fits like still resisting evil influence though I found myself feeling a tad unconvinced of that being the original word. Has there been any declaration saying 'This word is what Widderslainte is based on' or does someone know what the word may be based on?

Note: This came up in my head as I was thinking on what a mortal hunter would think if they mentioned multiple murders in an area and a mage said that they suspected of it being a Widderslainte'.

So when I was first getting started in Exalted my friend explained the settings structure as everything having a god ranging from kitchens to small rivers with a god being born if some place didn't have one however I couldn't really find something that would confirm that. Is that an actual thing or was it like something specific to my friends setting?