I had to check that this was a real thing. Because the name is just too on the nose as a hideout / ritual site for "yeah, we are f*ciing with spacetime here" cultists.
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Sometimes reality is just nice with the coincidences* like that
*Hopefully
[X] Try to question the dead (Lydia rolls Empathy+Charisma at -2 DC; Obvious)
We must let our teammates have their time in the sun, even if that sun is green and shinning out of our forehead as we go nuclear hellfire princess and run down the cultists trying to flee.
For those who didn't catch that, this is a real park.
We must let our teammates have their time in the sun, even if that sun is green and shinning out of our forehead as we go nuclear hellfire princess and run down the cultists trying to flee.
For those who didn't catch that, this is a real park.
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Yeah, main function is quick essence restoration. Normally Exalts struggle with that. Healing Agg... Infernals got two other charms for that, Digesting the Great Beast and Pattern Primacy. They are pretty good.
Digesting the Great Beast in particular pretty much gives Lunar regen if you activate it with big enough dice pool. Given that there is a couple of "regen a health level every turn" effects in Linear Magic, I wonder if we could try a regen-soak build...
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Sort of wish we could get permission to talk to bob on the phone whenever we want. A talk with bob basically always recovers essence with us. That skull is a forbidden lore reactor.
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Molly on the phone with Bob discussing forbidden lore is oddly practical as well as awesome. Might be able to take on a whole supernatural army that way. Could afford to do perfect defenses every round.
Might want to have the conversation in some completely unknown language though.
Also now you can put funny on one post and insightful on the other.
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We do only get bonus essence from forbidden lore once per scene, so there's a limit there, but it still lets us recover pretty quickly. And a hotline to Bob is good for other reasons, since he doesn't have the narrative occult malus for out of date information.
Now if we can only convince Harry that it's a good idea for Bob to have constant access to a cyberdevil hotline directly to us…
Now if we can only convince Harry that it's a good idea for Bob to have constant access to a cyberdevil hotline directly to us…
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This feels really weird to ask but does porn count as forbidden lore?
It is forbidden and lots of it is lore.
Self ninja nevermind
Once per scene The Infernal may replenish two points of Essence whenever she learns secretive or forbidden lore of the supernatural world, or binds an unwholesome being into her service.
Has to be supernatural.
It is forbidden and lots of it is lore.
Self ninja nevermind
Once per scene The Infernal may replenish two points of Essence whenever she learns secretive or forbidden lore of the supernatural world, or binds an unwholesome being into her service.
Has to be supernatural.
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So yes, then. Just get a copy of Lara Raith's Greatest Hits and we're set for an Essence buffet.
(I joke, of course. That's not forbidden at all because she sells it openly.)
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Workings homebrew specifically. Supposedly unfinished.
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Preparations make a big difference. That was everything she had at hand, at that moment. Difference between "just" activating all social charms you got on a short notice, and truly preparing everything you got could easily be 10-15 dice.
You're still missing the point. I'll try and explain the problem one more time.
Faith magic is at best, only partly the provenance of the human practitioner. In the Dresdenverse magic system, most of the examples of Faith magic we've seen have been empowered and guided by the White God or his agents. You are dealing with magical two-factor authentication, and the second factor is botn a little more potent than a mortal human, and under no obligation to do things like you specify.
And Molly has no way to perceive, persuade or compel Divine actors to invest their mojo.
Or any idea of the potential consequences.
To reuse my analogy, you are doing the equivalent of a low to mid-tier DnD wizard assuming that they can get a DnD cleric's Divine patron to do something just by involving the cleric.
Which is not how it works narratively.
Eh.
Not sure I agree.
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1)Point of correction: The question about Ways was in reference to this:
No harm done though; we'll just assume this guard wasnt a sufficiently strong arcane link for it.
The sorcerer would have been though. So would Niemi.
2) If Niemi used a Way to escape his office, it would mean that he has access to at least five Sorcery Paths:
Summoning/Warding/Binding, Hellfire, Fascination, Illusion AND Conveyance.
A sorcerer strong enough to be involved in Summoning Iku Turso, with the Fascination/Illusion to put up perceptual wards around the nursing home, the Hellfire to use entropic magics as essentially demo charges, and the Conveyance to open a Way from his office to a meet point? Is genuinely impressive. And rare.
Or, he could be a straight up wizard-tier talent. Or just using Sponsored Magic, of course.
Okay. *Googles Euclid Beach Park*
I assumed they'd have a safehouse, but if they are gathering in the open on a shoreside abandoned park at 8/9pm on a summer night, then there's good odds they are just going to attempt to open a Way from that location and run away.
The fact they keep ending up on coastlines suggests their patron has strong aquatic links though.
Could be Fomor, which would mean Ethniu, and links to Celtic mythology.
Could be Outsider instead; at least one Old One is supposed to sleep underwater.
Just watch movies starring Lara Romany.
A lot of this is your supposition.
Yeah, that's Charity's prerogative. Molly could only compel infernal actors.
1) Why low-to-mid? As my calculations show, we can be throwing 10+ successes easily. That's not low level in Dresdenverse. At all. When making stuff like thermal underwear for our dad, we could be getting close to 20 successes.
2) Why are you assuming that Michael's and Charity's patrons wouldn't be interested in helping? Uriel wants Michael alive, healthy, and successful. We are allies. We are helping the good guys. I see little to no reason for them to spur us.
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Thats a Way gate.
The termination point of a path through the NeverNever.
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[X] Try to question the dead (Lydia rolls Empathy+Charisma at -2 DC; Obvious)
If successful, this option gives us the most information of all three options.
Lydia questioning the dead at -2DC is a DC4 action.
Pros: it gives us numbers of cultists, any allies, if they are humping gear, if there are any stashes, tells us if they've used this place before, and gives Lydia a chance to shine. Literally.
Cons: It's obvious.
On a summer night; 24th July is a waning moon, so glowing girls will stand out a long way.
What about if it's less a case of trying to improve the Sword as weapon and more trying to broaden it's potential utility?
What I'm thinking is giving it the ability to shapeshift or mould its mass so that the Weapon of God becomes a Tool of God; let it suture wounds, bend into pretzels to lighten the hears traumatized rescued children, act as a climbing tool, and shackle captured foes who Dad shows mercy to. Not purely to help dad, but also to help lift the faltering spirits of Amoracchius itself.
Oh yeah, the fundamantal nature of the Pathfinders is not something you can get off random goons.
It already ensures that he has what he needs. Maybe not what he wants, but really actually needs to fulfil his mission from god. It is already one of the most powerful artifact weapons in the setting that is in mortal hands.
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You are putting a lot of weight on one man.
Maybe they had more Sorcerers and others contributed to the wards and some aspects of the Raksha-feeding machine.
Edit: Actually we definitly know they had more Sorcerers, we killed one after all.
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While we probably shouldn't do stuff like giving Michael combat regeneration, giving him better armor should absolutely be fair game. If better equipment resulted in worse performance, then Charity wouldn't be making him armor, and he'd be going out naked.
He could well be a full wizard, having bartered "no techbane" bonus from powers of hell / raksha / outsiders. We should beware of his deathcurse. In fact, that the sorcerer Lydia killed didn't use his is interesting.
We've seen Faith magic in Grave Peril, in The Warrior, in Small Favor.
It does NOT function like wizard magic. They are almost invariably invoking the White God or asking him to do something; they arent doing stuff of their own power.
Point of order: Charity cannot compel aid.
1)Because, like a young DnD wizard, we have potential, but we are a medium size fish in a colossal sea.
There are much greater Powers out there playing games over thousands of years.
This is a reminder that Michael's backers include literal archangels. Craft has never been the issue.
2)Why are you assuming that they would? Why are you assuming they have the freedom to?
Or that their doing so would be consequence free?
Remember when Lasciel indulging her spite to get Dresden to commit suicide freed Uriel to take consequence-free countermeasures? Or how when Lucifer exerted himself to help the Denarians with the plot to corrupt the Archive allowed Uriel to give Dresden soulfire, and potentially intervene elsewhere?
Molly is an Infernal Exalt. That blurs the lines enough that we dont know where day to day considerations would fall.
There's a reason Uriel did not contact us directly but rather through an intermediary.
Maybe I am.
But full wizards are very rare, and I think sorcerers arent all that much more common either by population standards.
We've only seen Victor Sells(Storm Front. Alchemy, Summoning, Enchanting, Hellfire), Leonid Kravos(Grave Peril. Summoning, Oneiromancy,???), Mortimer Linquist(Death Rites. Ghost Story. Summoning, Channelling), Binder(Turn Coat.Skin Game. Summoning), Aristedes(Ghost Story. Kinetomancy, nonstandard Path) and the Korean kid warlock(Proven Guilty. Fascination, maybe Illusion)in canon as serious human sorcerers.
Kim Delaney(Summoning/Warding/Binding) was one as well, but died early.
So odds are if there's a magic user in the vicinity of a magical effect, he was the one responsible.
Dresdenverse version of Occam's Razor.
Also, if there had been more than two sorcerers on site at the nursing home, I'd have expected more of a fight.
Possible. But I doubt it.
You're more likely to have a sorcerer barter for wizard power and knowledge WITHOUT techbane, than to have a wizard barter for relief from techbane. IMO.
IF he is prepared to use it. Getting oneshotted by a teenage girl doesnt give you the time to do that. Dude didnt even have shields.
Neither Grevane nor Corpsetaker were prepared to use theirs.
Neither was Aleron LaFortier.
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The sword might equalize things, but I doubt that it makes Mikelle weaker. So armor is very useful against any non-supernatural threats his might face. Same logic likely apply to boosts we give him. We are doing it out of love after all.
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The dead guy might have been the expert on warding, for example.
Even two can share the load.
And a sorcerer that has to fight unexpectedly like this one dies easily, no matter how good they are at their speciality.
Might have made any smarter minor practicioner run from the commotion, rather than towards it like the dead idiot.
As for minor practicioners, there are more in the backround than the named ones.
Enough to seemingly make up most of McAnally's business, if everyone in there knows to leave the house when feuding Fey Ladies enter.
We might be a middle of the pool fish in the global cosmic scale, but in the mortal realms we are distinctly not.
If Charity can use faith magic (an asuumption) to make supernaturally good armor when working alone, what is stopping her from using same faith magic when working together with someone else?
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Thinking about the knights swords ability to equalize. The biggest advantage of that likely is reputation. No sane knight is going to gamble on a 50% chance if they can at all help it. God helps those who help themselves after all. They stack the odds in their favor whenever possible. However since all the supernatural nasties out there know that no fight against a knight can ever be a guarantee for them and they very much appreciate their own hide they avoid fighting or attacking a knight if they can at all avoid it.
Even if you are very upset about how this good gooder is going around ruining your plans it still makes more sense to keep track of where he is generally (like knowing his license plate number) then to force a confrontation that you can never be sure you are going to win.
Even if you are very upset about how this good gooder is going around ruining your plans it still makes more sense to keep track of where he is generally (like knowing his license plate number) then to force a confrontation that you can never be sure you are going to win.
On the matter of how good Michael's armor is you guys could just take a look at it and see if Molly feels like she can improve on it, that would be perfectly IC to check and Michael himself certainly would not mind.
Faith magic doesn't rely on a god, let alone the White God, intervening at all.
Harry's use of his pentacle medallion as a symbol of his faith in magic itself is explicitly called out as a form of faith magic that repels red and black court vampires in exactly the same way as a cross wielded by a devout Christian.
Harry's use of his pentacle medallion as a symbol of his faith in magic itself is explicitly called out as a form of faith magic that repels red and black court vampires in exactly the same way as a cross wielded by a devout Christian.