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Woog!

I am all icky-feeling, but pleasantly sore. Next post will be about EXALTED! which has me all squealy and girly because it is basically any given pre-FFVI Final Fantasy game, but with ANGST.

And courtesans.

ANGST!

But first, ( Haru mentioned fandom pairing wankage memes, so here are my two... )

Exalted!

Yes, everyone, it's a new game that Alex wants to natter on about!

Warning: this will be long. I'll probably LJ-cut after the prelude.

( Terms that you may need to reference )

Lena's prelude was fairly simple; her military/rebel unit, the Rangers, was supposed to go to a fortress to fight off barbarians. Annoyed at the lack of real fighting (they used to be rebels against the Imperial Empire), they start preparing to head out. Lena's just finished kicking some new recruits into shape when the sky over the field seems to open up and a voice from above says, I AM THE UNCONQUERED SUN. YOU ARE ONE OF MY CHOSEN.

She comes to with her caste mark blazing on her forehead and a giant-ass sword in her hands. The recruits are terrified. Her superior tells her she's a Solar, who will fight the Imperial dogs, etc. etc., gives her his warhorse and sends her out to the fortress.

Tavis, meanwhile, is out setting traps for logger carts. He's got this cool razor wire stuff that slices the hell out of cart wheels, and he's merrily setting up traps around his home beneath the billboard. The Unconquered Sun speaks to him, and the Zenith caste mark blazes on his forhead. Crazy Hank shows up shortly thereafter, screaming "SO-LAAAAAARRRR!!" and charging him. Finally, Tavis climbs a tree, which Hank picks up out of the ground. Tavis is trying to reason with Hank during all this (Hank basically responds with "SO-LAAAAAAAARRR!!!"), so eventually Jeremy divebombs him from the top of the tree, implanting himself fists-first into Hank's solar plexus. Hank falls over. When he comes to, he's... er... more coherent at least, and says, "you're a Solar! Yeah! We've got to go! Yeah!" and starts marching. Tavis is thinking, well, we'll only be gone a day...

...six days later, he arrives at the fortress.

Cut to Danielle, a month earlier. Having just finished with a client, she is relaxing and basking in the warm weather when she hears a voice, telling her to go to the window. LOOK UPON ME, it says, and she goes to the window and stares directly into the sun. She's a Solar, yadda yadda...

She comes to with Ba'ne shaking her shoulder, saying he's been trying to get her attention for the past five minutes... and then all of a sudden, he backs off. Quickly. Confused, she looks at him, and realizes he's reviled. She catches sight of herself in a nearby mirror and sees the Eclipse caste mark burning on her forehead. She tries to cover it with her hands (which fails, it just shines right through), and he whispers "Demon". She cries that she isn't, and starts gathering up her sheets around her, not sure if she's going to die here or not.

And then she realizes (thanks to a Charm) that if this hadn't happened, he would have married her. For love, since a) it would have taken him out of the running for Emperor, and b) it would have been frowned upon, her not being Dragon-Blooded (they're a pretty inbred lot).

What happens next is a flurry of packing, him making preparations for her to sail to the mainland, et cetera. He also sends her, after she's left, a freaking huge glaive OF POWER!

She decides to head to Nexus, where anything and everything can be bought or sold...

But gets held up. At a fortress.

( Imperial Whore-Dog, meet Rough-and-Tumble Amazon Chick )

This isn't where the story ends, but I'll add more later. Mostly from here it's a large battle scene.