Act 3 Episode 24: A Miscommunication of Malfean Proportions

With a few key victories already under their belt, the Circle enacts a clever scheme to expose Gnosis's trickery and (hopefully) end this war without further demon-attracting bloodshed. Surprisingly enough, however, the army of religious fanatics won't back down easily, and Joktan has horrifying backup plans in the wings to ensure she can still draw the war out for her win condition. Also, the April Fools day interlude was canon after all-now there's also Spider ('s comatose body) to deal with.   Lythander puts some valuable time aside to tend to his mushroom garden; in doing so, he almost gets everyone killed before the Wyld Hunt can do it! Gavel gets into a heated discussion with Exe on what to do with Spider, and somehow the joke episode edgelord robotman becomes the most reasonable member of the cast! Aura makes a big press conference to the Wyld Hunt to explain the Third Circle Demon thing, only for Joktan to hit her with horrifying countermeasures! But, in doing so, perhaps her mask will slip and reveal just how evil she and her actual endgoals are! And speaking of Gnosis, he might have an ace in the hole too!   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: The Horror Maschine 1 by Sascha Ende Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/43-the-horror-maschine-1 License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Dark Secrets (DECISION) by Sascha Ende Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/246-dark-secrets-decision License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license