The Circle makes a move on Shrike's holdout in Kamthahar, wisely calling that the secret Abyssal is unwise to leave alone in the midst of all of their gurellia efforts against Prasad. Except...that holdout is more of...a stronghold. A Void Circle necromancy construct just...showed up in the Kamthahari Underworld mirror, a manifestation of imperial sins come home to roost. The firedust keg's fuel line has been lit: it's up to the Ashen Ones to snuff it out before it hits the dynamite.   Lythander risks being offered up as a sacrifice to secure deathly protection against Shrike's forces, and discovers just how complicated Underworld politics can get! Gavel tests the authority of the Yozi against the Neverborn, and finally meets her biggest rivals face to face after a whole campaign worth of buildup! Aura solves puzzles that are somehow both over and under complicated, and somehow manages to hide her Anathema status from an Immaculate monk for an entire session! And so does everyone else, the dice really didn't like that Dragonblood! Shrike has way more than just himself in his fortress of doom, it turns out: perhaps...an entire Circle of threats. And, beyond them, perhaps a final boss cameo or two...   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 --- 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 --- 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

It turns out that it's the end of Descending Wood when the Circle got to Prasad, which means it's time for a very unusually...sensual festival! As our heroes scamper around Kamthahar for intel to begin their raid on the Dragonblooded kingdom's jade reserves, they realize that Shrike's background plans are more immediately dangerous than they assumed.   Lythander seduces a very legitimate shopkeeper (no, not like that) to trade favors (again, not like that) for Artifacts that definitely aren't stolen! Gavel turns a war room into a war conference hall with all the intricacies of Prasadi and Realm politics she encounters: to get out of this guerilla raid alive, she'll need to use all of this information wisely indeed! Aura visits a hobby shop and learns some really bad news about El Dorado: the messed up hell immortality city has been subject to...corporate espionage! Nellens Liza breaks it to the Circle that the Realm's firedust keg is, somehow, exponentially bigger than the one the whole Dreaming Sea is right now! And, as hinted above, Shrike's exact plans become clear: if he wins, BOTH sides of this war lose. So, the Circle also pulls double duty to investigate his plans and...multiple disturbing conspirators...   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 --- 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 --- 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 our Circle moves in on their sabotage route towards Kamthahar, the heavy hitters of the Sidereal Host are still here. Not just for our heroes, mind: Shrike is planning something disastrous, and that's not even getting into what the Prasadi are trying to pull to safeguard their colonialist interests. Can the Ashen Ones secure the path to their dreams and defang the dragon? More importantly, can they live with any of the prospective fallout?   Aura receives a guaranteed golden ticket towards getting the Tulpa Network online, but the cost from Of Things Desired And Feared is, as usual, horrifyingly steep! Lythander runs into Anys Syn again, and through confronting her may find a way to keep Spider alive without having him murder rampage indiscriminately whenever he's not looking! Gavel reunites with an old ally and discovers who Ruach's new ochilike partner is, and just what her old tutelary god will be bringing to bear for their Prasadi backers! Mantle continues to struggle to deal with how big a clownshow this Anathemic Circle is! At long last, we reach Kamthahar, and there's a lot going on in the Direction's biggest city, for sure!   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 --- 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 --- 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 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! https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/427275/Exalted-Essence --- 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 --- 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  

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

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 --- 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 --- 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 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 damgerous foe underneath the Dreaming Sea making advances on everyone! Gavel discovers the problem with immortals and how a lifespan of millenia 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 --- 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 --- 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 --- 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 --- 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 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 --- 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 --- 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 --- 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 --- 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 --- 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 --- 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 --- 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 --- 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 --- 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 --- 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's war against Iolda. The fallout of Tepet Etep and Hundred Venom Stinger's assault on the All-Thing. The finals of the Ruvelia Memorial Football Tournament. Sky Sundering Shadow's necromantic working. Adrian and Ouroborous' setup to hijack Iolda's successor in the ranks of She Who Lives In Her Name's pantheon. And whatever Amir has been doing all this time, in the background. It all comes to a head tonight, as the Malfeas arc of this campaign nears its end, and we lurch further towards the endgame...   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 --- 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 --- 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   Additional Tracks: Battle Music Vol 1 and 2 © 2024 by Monument Studios is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International    Direct License Link:   https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The ringleaders of the corrupted Peaches of Immortality racket have been brought to light. We already knew Tepet Etep was the one producing them, but the identity of his distributor is...complicated. And even as the Circle closes in on them, the contingencies they prepared ahead of time make this a fight unlike anything our heroes have been in this era. One that could reshape their very selves, even if they win...   Aura fights another hard counter to her abilities, and gets snubbed at by one of the setting's best martial artists for bringing a ranged weapon to a kung fu fight! Gavel readies herself to deal the final blow against Iolda, and prepares a bid to unite the entire Infernal Host! Lythander does some absolutely wild sneak checks and aims to steal the face of one of the games' overall antagonists! Nue has a big musou segment and gets everyone ready for a very deadly dinner! The battle to stop the All-Thing's entire attendee base from having the lifespans ripped out from them begins, and ends, now!   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 --- 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 --- 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 assorted background schemes of the All-Thing have officially begun, as the corrupted Peaches of Immortality begin to make rounds at the con venue. Also, the con venue is still alive, angry, and fighting back as our heroes continue to battle him amidst the Infernal meetup. As these demonic fruits prove capable of killing even the Exalted, our Circle will have to find who is distributing them fast. Otherwise, the Infernal host will be decimated, and the culprits will have thousands of millennia of stored life juice ready to sip...   Aura encounters a horrifiyingly powerful, fourth-wall distorting raksha queen at the convention, and sees the results of Spider breaking his grand oath to the Circle bear fruit in surprising ways! Lythander finally fixes Gavel's spine, but can he fix his fraying relationship with Spider? Gavel wanders into the very depths of Iolda to strike at his heart, and learns just how powerful the upper tiers of Solar Circle Sorcery truly are firsthand! Nue has trouble keeping up with the half dozen evil schemes flying about everywhere! Pedro the chicken necromancer sets up an incredible Chekov's Gun for later! And as Iolda's core is exposed, so too is the culprit of the malfeasance in the Malfean All-Thing...   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 --- 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 --- 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 HellCon continues, the Circle progresses on their plans to slay Iolda for good. In holding a panel for upgrading their warstriders, our heroes learn more about the people at the All-Thing, and at the hidden dangers lurking at its heart. Well, not TOO hidden-with Infernal Exalted some degree of peril is always about!   Lythander perfects his new mushroom surgery technique and enjoys himself at the convention: probably the only one doing so without sinister motives! Gavel's relationships get way more complicated, both with her magical talking dog familiar and the one demon higher in SWILIN's soul structure than Iolda himself! Aura hosts a game show, and finally makes progress on booting Ed back up! The Exigent of Betrayal reveals themself, and with them the worrying collateral damage that follows in their wake! As the gang continues to strike at Iolda's most vulnerable points, so to do other, eviler plans. And one of those might tear Hell itself apart... 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 --- 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 --- 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

Even with Iolda thoroughly defeated, a Third Circle Demon does not go down easily. He survives, wounded but intact, in his castle body. Also, Gavel was grievously injured in the duel. As the Circle searches for ways to treat wounds beyond what Exalted healing factors can fix, HellCon has officially begun. And with it comes a smattering of old allies and new Chosen. The biggest gathering of Celestial Exalted in living memory is happening now, and with it Malfeas approaches an inflection point. Where it leads, not even the Yozi know.   Lythander walks into a verbal beartrap, and discovers a novel new medical technique! Gavel consults the greatest physicians of Hell, and must judge the costs of medical treatment that go far beyond more money could represent! Aura attempts to mend bridges with PSU, and stumbles onto the final puzzle piece for her plan to reshape the cosmos via mass human supernatural agency! A lot of weirdos show up to the convention! Iolda is malding in the corner the whole episode! And, somewhere in his bowels, another fresh Exaltation occurs. A wild card among wild cards, unseen since the Divine Rebellion itself, takes the stage, playing many games at once. But who comes out on top of the house of cards?   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 --- 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 --- 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   Additional Tracks: Cinematic Atmos © 2024 by Monument Studios is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International  Direct License Link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/  

Iolda. Third Circle Demon. One of the architects of Creation itself. Master martial artist. Gigantic bigot. It is finally time for our heroes to take him on personally, in a duel with all of Hell watching closely. Will this world-shaping demagogue be the one to triumph in his crusade of eradicating free will? Or will the Circle be able to pull off what even the Exalted of old could not, and bring him low? In our longest episode yet, we'll see which way the wind blows. One way or the other.   Lythander's patience continues to be tested by his mercurial Solar partner, and he has to adapt when Iolda's sheer power renders amost his entire toolkit compromised. Aura ruminates on a project whose very scope could reshape all reality itself, in the aid of helping those crushed underfoot as Ouroborous was. Gavel finds herself outmatched, and suffers a gruesome injury-can she push past it to save her people? And, beyond all of this, what lies ahead even if our heroes DO win? There's only one way to find out! 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 --- 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 --- 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 Ouroborous makes their move tonight. With Dokuzan's intel, the Circle finds their hiding place in the most perilous place possible. Perilous to themeslves? Perilous to Oruborous and Adrian? Perilous to all of Malfeas and all its denizens? Yes, to all of the above! Their master plan to force every demon in existence to share in the suffering of mortality nears its turning point. Can out heroes save Malfeas (and by proxy Creation) from the brink of interplanar war?   In doing this, Lythander makes a critical mistake, putting the fabric of reality at risk for one of his trademark funny japes! Gavel has the first major sign of strain with her immortal benefactors in how obstinate they are in the face of mortal peril! Aura has to make some big decisions on how to start fixing her past and present mistakes! Nue has to wrestle a Magma Kraken in a highly unusual hold! Adrian has to decide between his grand plans on fixing Malfeas and everyone that would imperil along the way, including his most cherished friends! And just what power is the Ouroborous hiding under their hood?! 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 --- 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 --- 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