It is my understanding that she has access to all lores, just not as favored (house?) ones. On offense and defense, awakening 4 seems to be the next logical step.
1) She definitely doesnt have access to Lore of the Forge. And I suspect a few others will be off the table for balance reasons
2) <Lore> 4 costs the same as <Lore> 1 + 2 + Survival 2, AND it always costs Faith points to use.
So buying Lore 4 of anything is always a big deal.
I dont really see the argument for Awakening 4; it costs more than multiple lower-tier Lores, it uses an Attribute + Ability pair she's not good at (Intelligence 4 + Craft 0), it burns Faith points per use, and the power itself isnt really all that anyway (temporarily animating objects).
For that 15XP cost, we could buy Storms 1 + 2, or Winds 1 + 2, or Fundament 1 + 2, or any two of Wild 1 + Realms 1 + Spirit 1. It just doesnt look like a good buy.
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That's just telling him that there's definitely something to look for in how we look for things.
Better to lie, worst case is that he sees through it and that just leaves us in the best case of the other option.
No it is not.
This is Odin's canon portfolio:
Odin (/ˈoʊdɪn/;[1] from Old Norse: Óðinn) is a widely revered god in Germanic paganism. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet, and depicts him as the husband of the goddess Frigg.
Never lie to someone who has a good chance of telling you are lying either immediately or in the future.
That just destroys your credibility with them.
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Then you pull out Donnar's card... Given his reputation some of the Senior Council may not thank you for involving him, but that's OK since it means there will be a Senior Council to get upset.
Meh.
With the kind of enemy intrusion they have, they were never going to be able to keep it secret anyway. And its much better to have everyone knowing that the evil wizards dont speak for the Council, than to have them create chaos in the Council's name.
OOC: Maeve would have been annoying in her own way, Odin is inquisitive, that is part of his nature. One thing to just say 'I'm good at divination' quite another to claim to have cracked a conspiracy that has eluded the Council for decades,
He lives in the same universe where wizards get precognition, where Anduriel spies out of people's shadows, where Mab can scry a person across space and time, and the Mothers do this:
Cold Days said:
Mother Summer somehow managed to inject her voice with profound skepticism. "I'm sure he's overjoyed to owe loyalty to you," she said. "Why did you bring him here now, of all times?"
More teeth showed. "He summoned me, the precious thing."
Mother Summer dropped her herbs. She turned her head toward me, her eyes wide. "Oh," she said. "Oh, dear."
Mother Winter's rocker creaked, though it didn't really seem to move. "He knew certain names. He was not wholly stupid in choosing them, or wholly wrong in using them."
Mother Summer's bright green eyes narrowed. "Did he . . . ?"
"No," croaked Mother Winter. "Not that one. But he has seen the adversary, and learned one of its names."
Calculation and thought flickered through those green eyes, faster than I could follow. "Ah, yes. I see," Mother Summer said. "So many new futures unwinding."
"Too many bright ones," Mother Winter said sullenly.
"Even you must think better that than empty night."
Mother Winter spit to one side.
Molly going "Im good at divination" is literally something the dude from the pantheon with the Norns is going to be intimately familiar with, especially since he presumably knows the depth of the bench of minions behind her
The man is just taking the mickey out of the new girl.
VOTE
[X] Stonewall him, you are not going to reveal your sources (Charisma+Etiquette vs ???)
-[X] Etiquette Excellency + Boiling Sea Mastery
RATIONALE
Molly is Charisma 4, Subterfuge 3 and
Etiquette 5.
Charisma 4 + Etiquette 5 + Excellency 9 + Stunt 2 is 20 dice.
Charisma 4 + Subterfuge 3 + Excellency 7 + Stunt 2 is 16 dice.
She's going to be much better at finessing and deflecting Odin's curiosity than trying to outright deceive him.
Play to our strengths.
