The Circle makes it to Rockport right as the Prasadi agents are nearly done excavating the legion of flying ships from their tombs. Once more, Exalts clash against Exalts, and our plucky Circle clashes against a rival Circle. Both of them doing what they think is the right thing. But with Shrike's machinations in the background, and with Shepherd and Galik's real goals, there's more to this confrontation than it seems, naturally...

This is an Actual Play of Exalted Essence, the classic high-fantasy high-powered TTRPG, using the new Essence ruleset! If you're interested, you can buy it now, right off the Drivethrurpg site!

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Traveler by Alexander Nakarada

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4770-traveler

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Closing Theme: The Final Show by Luca Fraula

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4704-the-final-show

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Even with Ivory Edge's ambush thwarted and Rohavin's As In The Beginning blast pushed back, the Circle has yet to deal with their Prasadi nemeses' contingency plans. They did not summon a Second Circle Demon without a Plan B to keep them in check. And, with as close a victory as our heroes had last time, Prasad is not going to let them recover in time before their next offensive. As the gang make their way to the next key imperial holding to strike, can they even get there before everything gets set on fire? And on water, and on wood and on earth, and on air? But beyond elemental jokes, that Liminal is still around and now moves to take direct action. Not to mention the other Sidereal who's been here entire Acts. Now the Shepherd steps into the ring...

This is an Actual Play of Exalted Essence, the classic high-fantasy high-powered TTRPG, using the new Essence ruleset! If you're interested, you can buy it now, right off the Drivethrurpg site!

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Opening Theme:

Traveler by Alexander Nakarada

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4770-traveler

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Closing Theme: The Final Show by Luca Fraula

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4704-the-final-show

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Prasad is an empire famed for its riches of both money and magical jade, so naturally our Circle's first target is one of their most lucrative jade mines! Or, it used to be...Dragonblooded of the Realm and elsewhere don't have the powersets to counter the esoteric tricks our heroes can use. But Prasad has always been more...accepting of outside divine help. And today, that includes the Exigent of Ahlat, the Southern God of War. Alongside another mighty demon, and the most potent elemental destruction Charm in the toolkit, and that secret fake Gavel corpse Liminal, and...you get the idea, this won't be an easy first engagement!

Gavel gets added to a fun new group chat, and suffers a bizarre spiritual injury that Lythander actually CAN'T fix! Aura finally gets do some ranching against enemy cattle, and takes on Lythander's position of having massively swingy dice rolls! Lythander fights a nemesis he doesn't remember making, and begins to waver on the nightmare task of corralling Spider! The Ashen Ones fight a foe even deadlier than a Third Circle Demon and an entire Wyld Hunt: cows! Prasad did not come in with kid gloves today, and to survive the turntables is step one of even THINKING of firing all the gang's dominos!

This is an Actual Play of Exalted Essence, the classic high-fantasy high-powered TTRPG, using the new Essence ruleset! If you're interested, you can buy it now, right off the Drivethrurpg site!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/427275/Exalted-Essence

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Social Handles:

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Chills: @DiogoMontesso)

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Opening Theme:

Traveler by Alexander Nakarada

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4770-traveler

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Closing Theme: The Final Show by Luca Fraula

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4704-the-final-show

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

The Circle and their mustered forces march towards Kamthahar! After one or two extra stops along the way! One planned, at the court of Blood Nail to gather allies and use Somnia's dreamwalking to spy on their foes and plan an opening strike. The rest of them...not planned at all. The Sidereal's curse on Spider is not so easily broken, and Prasad's borrowed Second Circle Sorcerers are bringing in a big problem of their own. And, beyond any of that, don't look at those lights in the sky. At least, not without an exorcist on hand...

Lythander gets a cooking class from (arguably) the most dangerous woman alive and gets a really, really, REALLY bad night's sleep! Aura has a heart-to-heart about the nature of power and violence and change, and also finds yet another nightmarishly dangerous foe underneath the Dreaming Sea making advances on everyone! Gavel discovers the problem with immortals and how a lifespan of millennia can mess with your prioritization skills and finally admits out loud that she has friends! Meteor, still convalescing from her defeat in Madara, makes her move to thin the danger pool: but this could backfire on...everyone!

This is an Actual Play of Exalted Essence, the classic high-fantasy high-powered TTRPG, using the new Essence ruleset! If you're interested, you can buy it now, right off the Drivethrurpg site!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/427275/Exalted-Essence

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Here are links to our Twitch and Youtube if you want to see more of our content (mainly video game variety streams and the video archives thereof):

Social Handles:

Gamerex: @Gamerex27

Corrack: @Corrack

Chills: @DiogoMontesso)

Alatos: @Alatos_Diogenes

We also have a Patreon now! If you want more of our RPG content, and can financially afford to spare a bit of money, you can support us here!

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Musical Attributions:

Opening Theme:

Traveler by Alexander Nakarada

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4770-traveler

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Closing Theme: The Final Show by Luca Fraula

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4704-the-final-show

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

As FateBreakers begins its final act, so too does the Circle begin their counter-attack on the Empire of Prasad. After an all too brief respite and triage from fending off that devil star and her Sidereal handler, our heroes address Madara and the Tiger's Nest Coalition to chose targets and onboard further allies. Including a faction from undersea with close ties to former ally Mind-Over-Body Orator. But are he, and they, really still allies? Or do they have more...broadly destructive ulterior motives?

Aura realizes the limits of her diplomatic abilities against other, more esoteric Exalted magics, and gains a cool new eyepatch that tangentially unpetrifies all her bones! Lythander blocks his old ex with his new star monster ex's assistance, and stumbles into yet another antagonist's schemes through sheer comic dice roll luck! Again! Gavel summons another weirdly horny Second Circle Demon as a war strategist, and has to pet a cat: a much more dangerous task than it sounds! Nue considers going on sabbitical again to stop Stinger's advance on coastal kingdoms while the rest of the Circle deals with inland threats. Spider...is still a plant! It's finally time to take the fight to Prasad in Act 5!

This is an Actual Play of Exalted Essence, the classic high-fantasy high-powered TTRPG, using the new Essence ruleset! If you're interested, you can buy it now, right off the Drivethrurpg site!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/427275/Exalted-Essence

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Here are links to our Twitch and Youtube if you want to see more of our content (mainly video game variety streams and the video archives thereof):

Social Handles:

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Corrack: @Corrack

Chills: @DiogoMontesso)

Alatos: @Alatos_Diogenes

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Opening Theme:

Traveler by Alexander Nakarada

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4770-traveler

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Closing Theme: The Final Show by Luca Fraula

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4704-the-final-show

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

The finale of Act 4, wherin Prasad's Sidereal backers pull down a literal star from the literal sky to try and kill our heroes. One of the infamous devil stars is loosed from their prison, the ultimate desperation move from Prasad to quash the Ashen Ones' advance before they can break their hold on Madara. Can our heroes overcome a foe that the First Age Exalted could only lock away at best? Or will they fall as so many other would-be rebels against The Realm's tributaries have in generations past? One way or another, the Dreaming Sea will never be the same!

This is an Actual Play of Exalted Essence, the classic high-fantasy high-powered TTRPG, using the new Essence ruleset! If you're interested, you can buy it now, right off the Drivethrurpg site!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/427275/Exalted-Essence

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Here are links to our Twitch and Youtube if you want to see more of our content (mainly video game variety streams and the video archives thereof):

Social Handles:

Gamerex: @Gamerex27

Corrack: @Corrack

Chills: @DiogoMontesso)

Alatos: @Alatos_Diogenes

We also have a Patreon now! If you want more of our RPG content, and can financially afford to spare a bit of money, you can support us here!

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Musical Attributions:

Opening Theme:

Traveler by Alexander Nakarada

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4770-traveler

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Closing Theme: The Final Show by Luca Fraula

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4704-the-final-show

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

With the Tiger's Nest Coalition at their backs, the Circle advances on Madara, ready to stoke the city-state's rebellious underbelly into a full revolt against their Prasadi oppressors. Not that it'll be easy, given the gaggle of Dragonblooded officers protecting it, as well as the Dragon King merged with a potent war god. And, of course, the Sidereals are here. Multiple of them this time. And this is just the FIRST half of the Act 4 finale!

Aura fights to protect her pride, and sees for herself the consequences of Spider breaking his geass with her! Lythander singlehandedly fractures the Prasadi chain of command to Madara, and encounters a body warping effect beyond even his shapeshifting and curse-breaking skills! Gavel finally gets to punch another god in the face, and her troops prove their mettle against the mightiest foe of all: the weather! Spider once again bites off more than he can chew, with very poor timing when the calvalry arrives! And the Chosen of Secret's backup plan goes into motion: Final Glimmer is no longer the only fallen star the Circle has to contend with...

This is an Actual Play of Exalted Essence, the classic high-fantasy high-powered TTRPG, using the new Essence ruleset! If you're interested, you can buy it now, right off the Drivethrurpg site!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/427275/Exalted-Essence

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Here are links to our Twitch and Youtube if you want to see more of our content (mainly video game variety streams and the video archives thereof):

Social Handles:

Gamerex: @Gamerex27

Corrack: @Corrack

Chills: @DiogoMontesso)

Alatos: @Alatos_Diogenes

We also have a Patreon now! If you want more of our RPG content, and can financially afford to spare a bit of money, you can support us here!

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Musical Attributions:

Opening Theme:

Traveler by Alexander Nakarada

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4770-traveler

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Closing Theme: The Final Show by Luca Fraula

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4704-the-final-show

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

The Circle approaches the Tiger's Nest Coalition, in hopes of building up an alliance to take on the Empire of Prasad directly. Getting there isn't the hard part, after escaping She Who Lives In Her Name's vengeful worldbody and hopping back into Creation. The hard part is that Prasad already has feelers out: even unaware of the extent of the Ashen Ones' victory over the Wyld Hunt, a polity with thousands of Dragonbloods and divine backers at their disposal have a wide reach. And our heroes will only have the element of surprise for so long...

A demon hitching a ride from Malfeas plays a funny prank on the entire Circle, leaving Gavel and Aura flummoxed for the whole episode! Lythander is trapped in the Underworld with a very irritated Sidereal, and of all creatures, his familiar Pedro the necromancer chicken has to pick up his slack! Strawmaiden Janest meets her match against a new foe: a ochilike Dragon King in Prasad's employ, wielding the fearsome powers of MATH! The mystery Abyssal from the AllThing reveals himself and gets the closest to killing a PC since Octavian himself! The end of Act 4 is within reach, and with it, payback against Prasad!

This is an Actual Play of Exalted Essence, the classic high-fantasy high-powered TTRPG, using the new Essence ruleset! If you're interested, you can buy it now, right off the Drivethrurpg site!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/427275/Exalted-Essence

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Here are links to our Twitch and Youtube if you want to see more of our content (mainly video game variety streams and the video archives thereof):

Social Handles:

Gamerex: @Gamerex27

Corrack: @Corrack

Chills: @DiogoMontesso)

Alatos: @Alatos_Diogenes

We also have a Patreon now! If you want more of our RPG content, and can financially afford to spare a bit of money, you can support us here!

https://patreon.com/ActionEconomyPodcasts

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Musical Attributions:

Opening Theme:

Traveler by Alexander Nakarada

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4770-traveler

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Closing Theme: The Final Show by Luca Fraula

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4704-the-final-show

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

HellCon has officially ended, and with it the Circle is finally free to pursue a goal they've had since the very start: payback against the Empire of Prasad for rampant imperialsm and trying to kill them with the biggest Wyld Hunt since the Bull of the North! Or, rather, they will be, once the lingering legal battle in Malfean court is dealt with! Also that other Sidereal who has been lingering in the background! Also also getting cleanup underways for the demon peach cartel!

Aura finds herself on the wrong end of multiple law systems, and considers a devilish bargain to escape unscathed! Lythander's anti-soulsteel artifice is complete by Ligier's hands: or at least, it will be once he adds a mythically difficult-to-craft final piece! Gavel and her troops are threatened with one of the most devious tools in the Sidereal toolkit: weaponizing the concept of a narrative time skip! Nue expands on current Silver Pact politics: local Lunar factors could prove the decisive edge against Prasad, if you can survive talking to them! And the full scope of Prasad's military might is revealed: beyond thousands of Dragon-Blooded, there are other dragons laying in waiting...

This is an Actual Play of Exalted Essence, the classic high-fantasy high-powered TTRPG, using the new Essence ruleset! If you're interested, you can buy it now, right off the Drivethrurpg site!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/427275/Exalted-Essence

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Here are links to our Twitch and Youtube if you want to see more of our content (mainly video game variety streams and the video archives thereof):

Social Handles:

Gamerex: @Gamerex27

Corrack: @Corrack

Chills: @DiogoMontesso)

Alatos: @Alatos_Diogenes

We also have a Patreon now! If you want more of our RPG content, and can financially afford to spare a bit of money, you can support us here!

https://patreon.com/ActionEconomyPodcasts

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Musical Attributions:

Opening Theme:

Traveler by Alexander Nakarada

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4770-traveler

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Closing Theme: The Final Show by Luca Fraula

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4704-the-final-show

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Gavel is finally up for her panel at the Infernal All-Thing, with numerous allies and enemies alike in attendance. As the Circle sets plans in motion to confront Final Glimmer of Fallen Stars, the sheer scope of the Deathlords and their Neverborn masters becomes evident. As does Mnemon Loki's hidden machinations in the con, and Ouroborous still trying to drive a wedge between the elite of demonkind. And...did our heroes really deal with the kingpin of the corrupted peaches of immortality racket? Or was that a false front?

Aura has to walk a social tightrope in the Tepet Etep follow-up, and with confronting an aggressively ambivalent Ligier in the All-Thing royal workshop! Lythander has to make a choice between his soulsteel-breaking motivations and his own current panopoly, and suffers yet another betrayal so soon after Amir soul-divorced him! Gavel takes the measure of the Infernal Host as both allies and enemies, and admits some truths to herself about her relationships with the other Chosen! Bramble-Fist Yao airs the Abyssal Exalted's dirty laundry for everyone to see! And while Ligier gives the champions their due, his reagents for his craft are as enigmatic and taxing as always. Are his prices something our heroes can afford?

This is an Actual Play of Exalted Essence, the classic high-fantasy high-powered TTRPG, using the new Essence ruleset! If you're interested, you can buy it now, right off the Drivethrurpg site!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/427275/Exalted-Essence

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Here are links to our Twitch and Youtube if you want to see more of our content (mainly video game variety streams and the video archives thereof):

Social Handles:

Gamerex: @Gamerex27

Corrack: @Corrack

Chills: @DiogoMontesso)

Alatos: @Alatos_Diogenes

We also have a Patreon now! If you want more of our RPG content, and can financially afford to spare a bit of money, you can support us here!

https://patreon.com/ActionEconomyPodcasts

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Musical Attributions:

Opening Theme:

Traveler by Alexander Nakarada

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4770-traveler

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Closing Theme: The Final Show by Luca Fraula

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4704-the-final-show

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license