The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice LXXIV – Alchemical Factions

With everyone else quietly leaving Martha and Ethan alone to talk for a bit, Charles got towed along down the hall to the executive break room – where they waited. People started getting antsy (and nervous) pretty quickly, but no one was going to crack the door open and go back into the conference room [...]

The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice LXXIII – Primordial Jouten On A Bicycle!

Back at the Water Tower, there was a discussion going on… (Ethan, Elder Terrestrial Fire-Aspect and Family Head) “He casually created a Rank-5 manse for you, in minutes, starting with a demesne-3 that hadn’t even FORMED yet – and he’s coming to see us on a BICYCLE?!?!” (Raymond, Awakened Wood Aspect) “And he didn’t even [...]

The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice LXXII – Manses and Morgans

Howard had been speculating – after all; the boy had a rank-five manse with gates modeled after the “Stargate” movie – meaning the gates, at least, were new and were likely his own work – and he was experimenting with other universes, and thought that Raksha Nobles were cute and fun. All by itself that [...]

The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice LXXI – Meeting the Nocturnals

The Nocturnals, for a wonder, only wanted an opinion… They wanted to show him one of their basic tricks and see what his thoughts were on it – although Catherine didn’t want to be too specific in public. Or even in Dudael, for that matter. Charles offered to set up a meeting in the privacy [...]

Exalted – Stargate Command

In Charles’s ongoing efforts to be nice to people, he wants to give them more room. In fact, he wants to give them the entire cosmos… The Mirror-Shattering Method can allow travel between realities, and thus must be opening (or at least locating and establishing entry and exit points for) a route through Elsewhere. It [...]

The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice LXX – The Djinn of the Lamp

Back at the museum, Matthew quietly took advantage of the press of other investigators – no longer restrained by his wards – to head out to get in touch with his Father and the rest of the House. He… hadn’t been expecting to find that Elzeard’s contact was a youthful dimension. What did you say [...]

The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice LXVIII – Getting Down To Terrestrial Firma

There were swarms of more-or-less official investigator types lurking around the museum as well, just waiting for Charles to come out of the private offices… And the only reason they were waiting was because they didn’t want to scare him off. Elzeard’s pointing of investigators to Charles had made him sort of… public. The first [...]

The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice LXVII – Science and Sorcery

In an undisclosed location Orchid’s report was being received with… some incredulity. A… NEW Primordial? Wandering around Yu-Shan randomly fixing things? Complete with a crew of Devas, a World-Body, an (Internal?) Cult, and displaying thaumaturgic powers at a level equal to fairly high-level charms? Still, if it was indeed true – and there was at [...]

The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice LXVI – Science and Sorcery

Now that Charles was done “confronting” (and cheering up) a greater deiphage, he headed back to the rest of the cured minor gods… They were mostly in a state of shock. While Charles had been speaking with Eighty-Seven Orchid, Ixcatli had been “explaining” things. – and the fact that he didn’t actually have any idea [...]

The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice LXV – Tea with Darkness

Orchid was still probing – very VERY carefully – as they headed for the monitoring room and it’s geomantic privacy wards. The child… not only far more essence than he had ANY right to have, he had vast reserves of power buried inside him and there were… other creatures? POWERFUL creatures – in there as [...]

The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice LXIV – The Dungeon Stroll

Back in Yu-Shans subsurface mazes, Charles was more-or-less wandering around at random; there were such a LOT of fascinating features you could see here! You could see the foundations of the architecture, and you could see the geomancy from the inside… What he DIDN’T see was stairs up. Still, there had to be some somewhere, [...]

Exalted Chronicles – Hearthstones and Motives

Radiant Heart Ruby (Fire or Adenic Hearthstone *****): Glowing with the cheerful radiance of an ember in the heart of the flames, a Radiant Heart Ruby sheds a warm and comforting glow, bringing heartening memories to mind to fortify the bearer with the strength of his convictions. If touched by a creature of death, the [...]

The Chronicles Of Heavenly Artifice LXIII – Traps and Recklessness

Charles sighed and headed back to Yu-Shan… For every step forward, a half a step back! Now he had a bunch of child-“pets” to do something with in all his free time… Many of them had been on the streets, desperately ill, or running away from horrible situations, which pretty much let out the “blur [...]

The Chronicles Of Heavenly Artifice LXII – Moving In Faerie Circles

Charles sighed… there was one REALLY obvious source for information on visiting the Wyld… He could go and talk to the Raksha around Hoenheim directly… It was such a pain to get actual information out of them though! They were fun (and impressive and weird and always full of unexpected twists) – but they tried [...]

The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice Session LXI – Dreams and Iron Bars

The Raksha of Creation’s Wyld Pockets are not the terrifying horde of the Balorean Crusade – or even a significant threat, at least on Earth. Their territory is small, their population limited, and the Earth is entangled in a net of iron. Modern communications, automatic weaponry with steel-jacketed slugs, iron tanks, grenades with iron shrapnel, [...]

The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice LX – The Random Scrounge

Mr Montague’s look at the Elsewhere Net basically involved an introduction to Malinda the Diviner, Mistress of the Aether – and her growing museum of weird items.  was a pleasant, slightly-past middle age, gypsy woman complete with various bits of fortune-telling apparatus. She ran the Sympathetic Loom (which could link in Aden sufficiently to allow [...]

The Chronicles Of Heavenly Artifice LIX – Explanations and Confusions

Charles had been hoping that there would be a bit of a time delay on troubles from extra Sidereal Exaltations… After all, Sidereal Exaltations often incarnated in small children, and the Sidereals normally had to hunt for them anyway – and they wouldn’t be looking for extras. Conceivably, they might not notice until one or [...]

The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice LVIII – Moonsilver Interlude

Righteous Hala didn’t have the time to accompany Charles to the far end of the universe – but she certainly could spare a few hours with a Crystal Arena to see how well he could defend himself – and to offer some advice on possible attackers and tactics. The boy was obviously amazingly resourceful, but [...]

The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice LVII – Aikiko’s Quest

Aikiko had been busy in Yu-Shan – helping clean up Gri Fel’s neighborhood using a variety of disguises, exploring the underground, and visiting Burning Feather’s hookah parlors. There were a lot of things to do! She really hadn’t been expecting an urgent summons from Lytek; he knew that she was working undercover. It had to [...]

The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice Session LVI – The Exultant Avalanche

There were quite a few Sidereals – roughly a third of them, mostly in the Silver faction – who didn’t accept the “Primordial” theory – or one of it’s even more bizarre alternates. It wasn’t so much that the child didn’t seem to possess vast power – he obviously had the world-body, enormous reserves of [...]