Exalted Art Challenge 2024 - The First Botch Comic

The final topic for my try at the Exalted Art Challenge in October! I wanted to tell the story of the first botch I experienced in our very first Exalted game. In the early part of our game, my Eclipse, Kalara, was traveling in disguise as Koh, the Righteous Devil gunslinger and infamous bandit king. A Realm army had come to reclaim the city we had started to scratch out from the wilderness with our band of runaways and outcasts.

We were surrounded on all sides by a force that outnumbered us. Emotions were running high. The people here depended on us for their freedom from slavery. In the early morning light, we rode out to meet the army.

And we smashed them before they could even blink. The battle was over in a turn!

And then the botch came...

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