[Krylo]

Firstly, I didn't expect anyone to die that time, but Drac/Lyna basically did everything they could do wrong as far as exalted combat goes. From burning ALL the motes on their opening attack, to painting a giant target on themselves by flying in ahead of everyone.

It's like Meiling told you about Crimson Rain during that tutorial Drac found (if you won the first social combat attack): "He spends his essence heedlessly, always gambling on his first strike and leaving nothing for contingency. The first clever opponent he meets will drain him dry and cut him to pieces."

I mention this as a method of pointing out what to do and what not to do to other new players.

By contrast note that the Abyssal himself conserved his motes as much as possible until Lyna was obviously incapable of sufficiently defending herself and then lashed out--hard. Even then he was taking a pretty big risk, and was doing so out of arrogance that he wouldn't need to use essence to avoid anything but your most powerful essence fueled strikes.

In other words, even doing that when up against multiple opponents was a mismanagement of essence.

In Exalted defense trumps offense, which means you can't hurt an enemy who still has essence left, and an enemy without essence can't hurt you (most of the time), and so your goal, in any confrontation, is to force your opponent(s) to use their essence while conserving your own.

Whether that means goading them into using extremely expensive attacks and then perfecting them, or flurrying and coordinating attacks at them is dependent on the enemy and your own personal style.

That said: I'm actually surprised Lyna ended up dead. I had expected that attack to do some serious damage to her, and leave her with some wound penalties and burning for extra damage for a bit until someone could put it out, but alive.

But our Abyssal got some really good rolls there. Luck of the draw, I guess.

However! Lyna's Death is someone else's gain.

I've been pondering how to deal with a PC death and I've come up with this, seeming as there are more people who still wanted to play but didn't get to sign up in time:

You know how when we were kids we'd sit around playing video games with a group larger than who could actually play at any given time? Or at least my friends did, and we came up with the solution that whenever someone dies they hand their controller off to the next person.

So that's what we're going to do here.

Anyone who wants to play and can make the current time post in this thread and prepare to make a character. As people die we'll cycle through whomever has posted here (and put any later comers at the end of the list). Currently Drac is gonna be at the end of this list.

Lunar, Abyssal, or Renegade DB would be best/easiest to work in. If you go with the last option talk to me and we can hammer out how to make you not useless in a group of solars (I.E. how many extra BP to give you, and how 'experienced' your character is before joining to justify it). Edit: Preferably not another Lunar right NOW just because it'd feel less contrived to work in a different exalt type.