Act 3 Episode 4: A Deadly Heart(eater)Attack

It's here. The Circle has backed The Economy into a corner, and now is the time to take down this monster before he eats the entire Direction. Aided with a special guest star, the other half of the Monster Mates podcast, our heroes engage the Hearteater in a desperate battle deep in the Dreaming Sea. It's a hell of a fight!   Aura and Nue do their tag team signature technique: the Solar/Lunar mount gambit! Lythander uses the Gaol to its full potential! Perhaps TOO MUCH of its full potential! Gavel has to face her ultimate weakness: the power of love! A sick multi-stage counter-counter-counter attack occurs! And the Economy arc, one way or another, comes to a head! Don't miss it!   (Content Warning: Body Horror throughout, Self-Harm (3:01:36-3:01:49))   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 --- Here's a link to our special guest star's podcast, Monster Mates, the hit "romantic advice" podcast (HEAVY NSFW warning): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ1dakh7Z1FcaB6-09W5fCQ @monstermatespodcast6642  https://twitter.com/MonsterMatesPod   --- 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 following music was used for this media project: Music: Bleak Landscape by chilledmusic Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/7236-bleak-landscape License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   The following music was used for this media project: Music: Winds Of War by MusicLFiles Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/9137-winds-of-war License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   The following music was used for this media project: Music: Blacksmith by Alexander Nakarada Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/4756-blacksmith License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   The following music was used for this media project: Music: Cold Mind by Phat Sounds Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/10261-cold-mind License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license