Exalted Rnd. 11

"Pssst, hey demon."

This was a shorter session as we were down 2 circle members (one is indeed out permanently so if anyone is interested in being the new Twilight caste let me know, we meet every other Friday evening at my place). Anyhow the Twilight proceeds to get himself locked in the bathroom for a very long time. Since sorcerers can sorcerously generate food he'll be fine for a long time. The Dawn is forced to lead the collected Solar army plus the Vermillion Legion West to meet the demon led forces of the Realm coming from the Blessed Isle. With them missing it leaves the Zenith, Night, and Eclipse castes to head south and investigate what's up in Chaya.

Luckily the Eclipse is an accomplished airship pilot so they get there in record time after evading a few demon wasp patrols. They approach the capitol one foot and catch it in mid-riot season. As a result sneaking in is relatively easy. They just join the rioting and work their way through town. Eventually they reach the center most area which is gaurded by demons. After the Zenith manages to kill the two demon gaurds (nearly getting himself massively ganked in the process) the Circle proceeds into a zone which the demons were gaurding and all the rioters avoid. Here, in the center of the city, they find the central palace swarming with demons.

At this point they opt to come up with a way for the Night caste to sneak in. So the Zenith and Eclipse split up. The Eclipse starts setting huge fires and draws off about 20 of the demons. The Zenith plays with the demons a bit. He has a hearthstone that he can talk through so he baited a demon over and killed him. None of the other demons noticed however. So he selected option number two. Shoot every demon he can see. Solars have some nasty nasty charms. Thirty shot demons later (three of which are very very dead) the rest of the crowd are drawn off.

The Night caste proceeds to enter through an upper window and takes down two demon apes in one on one combat. However she is hurting a lot. In the meantime the twenty going after the Eclipse caused her to retreat back to the crowd barely making it. Using the crowd as cover she loops around to attempt to get to the Zenith's position. A fair amount of the crowd gets beat up in this pursuit but the demons are thrown off be a well set slow burn fire. So now the Eclipse is converging on the Zenith and the Night is attempting to sort out what to do inside the palace.

Should be interesting next week although not quite sure how to get the Dawn down south.