Act 1 Episode 5: A Theopolitical Nightmare

After getting their past lives' grave goods back, the Circle stumbles into a fleet of Fair Folk pirates and their pet titan. Naturally, there's more to this story than it looks. Because Fair Folk are stories, y'see. Also: Gavel has a very rough day! Atom becomes the main character of a bad anime! SSD gives out some edibles! There's a flying man in a weird mount! And, most shocking of all: Lythander actually has a good roll in combat!   This is an Actual Play of Exalted Essence, the classic high-fantasy high-powered TTRPG, using the new Essence ruleset hot off the Kickstarter presses! If you're interested, you can pre-order it here and check out the pre-release draft now! https://www.backerkit.com/projects/200664283/exalted-essence-tabletop-roleplaying-game --- 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 --- 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:   Fair Folk Fleet Theme: Dry Floor (loopable) by Horst Hoffmann Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/9115-dry-floor-loopable- License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Seven Days Monster Riff: Flighty Theme by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3764-flighty-theme License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Personality Poison: Dreamlike by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3677-dreamlike License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license