His power projection is sharply limited outside of his Hell. We only risked dealing with an Angel level being back then with our party because we went. I'm not sure why you phrased this first paragraph as if your disagreeing with my post.
Flavor text is irrelevant. He was never not going to be locked in combat with the rest of them down there. Especially after we gave him a blackeye in front of his peers. Which is why he sent a plane of troops after us to begin with(according to DP). Which we then killed.
Yeah. Molly brought up using a Fae favor herself at the prospect of raiding the Hell. We put together a nuke to even facilitate it. Judging by how it closed out we needed it.
The reason I bought it the first part is because I think
@Acolyte point if I'm not putting words in their mouth. Is we have a tendency towards picking options that are thoroughly safe for us. In the hell situation we could have gone in by ourselves and probably been fine. We did the thing where we set up a nuke and got a favor from Odin before we set foot there.
Also what do you mean by how it closed out the only reason we got discovered was because we were using the nuke? I thought the whole purpose was the nuke was to break his power to bring hope to the Hopeless. Never deal an enemy a small wound. If it was just a distraction we could have just made an actual nuke we have elicit material contracts from Odin
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If the purpose was just a distraction we could have just bought unenriched uranium from the black market contacts enriched it ourselves using TTC and made a little boy then thrown it in the opposite direction of the tower when we got into his hell.
Before you say we couldn't have done that with our science or something the plans for the little boy are known and on the internet also mechanically very simple using a bullet design which is enriched uranium cap slammed at ultra high speed into enriched uranium cap at the other end of the bomb causing fission. It's a highly inefficient design that, compromises explosive yields but makes up for in how simple it was.
Then there's the whole Sandra situation in Vegas which is multiple periods of us sitting around doing very little while we heal -1 extraneous wound penalties while we have a 20 dice Excellency then doing the same with Essence at a different point.
Then there's us kind of just sitting on the information about the White Court still. Then there's the fact that we kind of just sat on the information about Peabody multiple months as well. We just tend to pick courses of actions that are for a lack of a better word safe for us whether that's outside of quest and not having to deal with even kind of real world politics in the form of White Court or in quest and not having to deal with black Council shenanigans until something forces our hand.
I'm sure there are other examples in the Jade vampires arrival into Chicago and the broken Seekers arrival into Chicago and the fetches in undercity. Any confrontation that inevitably has to come we just kind of sit on our hands for considerable period and then they either Force the confrontation or in the fetches case we don't follow through with the obvious consequences of messing with us which is killing the fetches which we needed a willpower roll to not kill them.
At the time it was pitched as not antagonizing Mab which I imagine only further contributes to Acolyte's point.
Though I do feel the need to point something out now being an angel does not make you beyond an exalted power. They might have large scale abilities that would be really bad for us because we don't have any perfect defenses but that was a choice we made rather than something intrinsic about their condition as angels. Molly did not disfavor herself in shintai and low Essence against an angel buoyed on the screaming Souls of being from the Ebon Road.
So maybe claiming something is Angel level is pushing the importance of it a bit too far. Deities, incarna, high-level demons, angels are supposed to be peer level opponents for the exalted not just endlessly outclass them.
