Hmm...would it be possible to summon creatures specialized for various tasks? Such as transporting individuals or large groups of people quickly or support capabilities as opposed to direct combat abilities? Or would that be accomplished via creative use of the already existing Summon spells?
I would imagine it depends on investment like most things. Lut seems to have mostly focused on her summoning, while Caro was focused on support magic. So Lut has a dozen different kinds of summon while Caro only uses two.
Or it may be a limitation on type. Insects obviously come in lots of specialized forms. Maybe dragons dont have much between 'shoulder dragon', 'eragon' and 'bahamut'?
Some of it will be summon "species" restriction, and some of it will be what Missy chooses to specialize in. Missy's species are all fairly in-your-face types when it comes to combat, so they themselves will not be able to do support casting. For transportation purposes, sure, just have people climb on one of the siege levels.
It's also mentioned in canon that summoners are almost by definition masters of different transport magics, so we could further explore that too.
Quick question. Blitz Action vs. Sprint from the spells list. Would you describe Blitz as speeding up a mage's physical abilities (movement and aiming) whereas Sprint would speed up a mage's mental abilities (reflexes and prepping magic for spells). So a powerful Blitz Action could have a mage's body move faster than their mind could anticipate and a powerful Sprint could leave the mage's body barely moving from their own perspective?
Sprint is basically a self-directed Crescendo. It directly speeds up the flow of time for the caster, making them think AND move faster. I was pulling spells from the different templates, and that one comes on Extinction Knight. What makes it so nasty is that there is nothing stopping you from combining Sprint and Blitz Action.
Well, since armed device winning is pretty much impossible because people hate the idea of Missy actually being able to take a hit, guess I'll switch to the least bad option remaining.
Probably not much of a salve, but at least with Full Naruto Missy has more protection than she did when she was engaged in hit-and-run fighting back in Brockton Bay; i.e., nothing at all. Keep in mind that she did go hand-to-hand with HOOKWOLF of all people in canon.
And for anything less than a Giant Monster Fight .... you get the lovely trouble of always deciding when a particular Godzilla Threshold has been crossed, because summons take up a lot of space and do a lot of scenery damage compared to the more preceise application of force delivered by a (flaming plasma) blade.
Oh, no no no. Don't try saying this.
ALL Breaker equivalents, whether they be bombardment, melee, or summons, are going to be hell on their surroundings. There is no "precise application of force"; any Breaker is going to be "fuck up everything in that general direction". If you think going Armed Device Breaker is SAFER of all things, you're dead wrong.
Full naruto with a sonic jacket, blitz action, speed serum for a panic button.
Missy go nyoom.
I dear say shell enjoy it too. Speed can be one hell of a rush.
Just don't make her go too fast or she might leave rainbows in her wake
