Exalted Rnd. 8

"Smile at them" -diplomacy at its best
"As much fun as it would be to flirt with you I think I'm just gonna roll." -um, one of those times the role v roll play problem is easily solved.
"Cause dragons are better then gods." -well sorta...

This was the welcome back to playing your ST hasn't done enough preparing so therefore there will be a minimum of rollplaying but did I mention you'll get 100 XP session. So yea, think it was a little slow but anyhow: teh recap 2.5! So the Realm had their civil war. Mnemon won. Yay an almost identical personality to the Empress. Wonder how she'll turn out as a replacement? Soooo that little fiasco gives our plucky Solars a decade to consume 1/3 of the Hundred Kingdoms completely and another 1/3rd really (really really) likes them. Mask of Winters loses a minor war which only helps to make the Threshold love the Solars even more. Way to go MoW, make your enemies stronger. Or is that what you want?!? The other major events during the downtime: Rathess joins up. Not many details but lots of Dragon King tech went out to the group. Plus several hearthstones. On the downside a fair amount of resources will get drained into Rathess to make it of any use. Finally the Guild got talked into selling 51% of itself to the Solars (well the Eclipse did smile...). However the Solars promptly outlaw slavery and the Guild revolts. Essentially everyone South of Nexus is pro-Solar and everyone North is pro-old school. More trouble except that the Solars now have a powerful supply train and are filthier rich.

So the actual plot: very short. In the aftermath of the Realm civil war the Vermillion legion flees in the general direction of Caelestis. Taking their new airship they flew out and meet the legion. Some negotiations ensue (more smiling yes) and the Vermillion legion joins ranks.