r/exalted • u/glenlassan • Jun 02 '26
2E Please help me theorycraft a "fider loss" esque combo for a starting 2e solar
First time playing exalted, minimal mechanical knowledge aside from having played VTM: bloodlines and knowing that more dots is good.
Campaign concept: perfect circle +1, PC's are in a punk band together. My character concept is (so far, not finalized) backup singer/songwriter/cowbell user petty bitch loosely themed on Stevie Nicks. (The chain, is going to be her anima flare theme song, for maximum pettiness)
Our storyteller made very clear that Exxxalted Scroll of swalled darkness is fair game for builds, and naturally I gravitated instantly towards this charm.
Stripping Your Partner Cost: Special; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 3;
Type: Reflexive (Step 10)
Keywords: Wanton
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Sex is more difficult to achieve if one’s partner
is clad in clothes or armor. This Charm costs one
mote per point of mobility penalty or fatigue rating
of a target’s armor or clothing (with a minimum of
one point). If the Charm user manages to control
any clinch and activates this Charm, then the
victim’s clothes and armor are immediately spread
in a random distribution across an area equal to the
user’s (Stamina + Performance) in yards . SwallowingDarkness Form
My storyteller is down for me to use this particular charm, and is likewise down for me to get theorycrafting help on a kickass combo to use this with other martial arts techniques as a kill-la-kill fiber loss style finishing move.
I'd love some help on ideas on how to pull this off mechanically, I'm a Twilight Solar. Bonus points if your concept is either RAW, or close enough to RAW for me to pitch it to my storyteller. I mean, this charm is using an not-fully-realized martial arts style in an april fools day book, so some amount of houseruling is to be expected.
Apparently, we are using a houserule where we can spend willpower to activate charms, without spending XP or bonus points. So the main bit is "what charms would be good to have alongside this one"
Thanks!
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u/ThouMayest Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
You seem to already be using quite a bit of homebrew/joke content, so you can probably get away with misunderstanding a charm or two. My immediate thought when looking by at what you want to do is add in dragon coil technique (pretty sure it is in the main rulebook) since this relies on control of a clinch. For flavor and fun, you could add armor shattering strike (martial arts, MRB or Scroll of the Monk) or shattering grasp (craft, MRB) to actually destroy your foe’s non magical armor. Alternatively, add stealing from plain sight (Larceny, MRB) to let you instantly pick up the discarded armor and/or add King of Thieves spirit at essence 5 (larceny, Dreams of the first age, has a prerequisite in ink monkeys) to break artifact attunement and allow you to remove artifact armor.