Aaron Peori said:
Really, she shouldn't be wasting her XP on Charms. As an Infernal (especially a Cecelyne favored one), all her useful and interesting Charms don't occur until Essence 3 at the minimum. Verdant Emptiness Endowment, Fealty Acknowledging Audience (and its wonderful additional effects when you have By Rage Recast)...
Note that she doesn't actually have real XP. It's a simulated amount, used to basically approximate power levels to character development.
You know, like milestones in Promethean: the Created, which give you a special kind of XP, which physically exists inside your Promethean, and can be eaten by Pandorans.
The point is, the question was sort of a lie. In part, it was a "what cool things do you think Louise should do?" thing, and in part a "how fast should she improve?" In a sense, the training-time times apply, even if the XP costs don't (except when I don't want them to).
Hah. Which is one of the reasons to get Nightmare Fugue Vigilance. Gives you more hours in the day. I'd love to have it in real life, really.
Otherwise she should decide whether she's going for melee combat and buy up her Melee skill, or she's going to go for ranged combat and start working on her Cult so she can get Sand Strike Blast.
That's where character stuff comes into play. As far as she's concerned at the moment, she's a faithful Brimirian. She has 1 point of Cult, because all GSPs get it from bleedthrough from being baby Primordials with the metabiology of the Yozi stapled onto them, but as it stands, she'd be horrified to find people worshipping her, because that would be both heresy and blasphemy.
Basically, her personality is already in line with a lot of the Endless Desert's Excellency, which is why she has the link to it. Like... as in, every time she beat Saito, she was acting in line with it. She's just not in line with the way that Cecelyne manifests it, yet.
TheSandman said:
What about Occult, so that she can use Sorcery?
Also, just out of curiosity, would Myoznitnirn be able to control Autobot if she touched him? Or just an Alchemical, if the former is too unlikely?
Nope. Infernal Sorcerers don't need Occult; they learn via emulating the insanity of the Primordials such that their creative psychosis forces their will into reality. Now, with that said, she already has a fair bit of Exalt, and, yes, effectively favours it. It's Halkfuckwhysohardtospell-focussed, but it's still occult knowledge.
And, no. Autocthon is a Primordial. If she tried that, she'd probably only draw his attention, and then get vivisected, Lintha-style because she would
fascinate him. She
might be able to learn Alchemical Charms, Eclipse-style, but she'd have to have them implanted and so be modified like how Eclipoids are.
Tavar said:
And the problem with Occult/Sorcery is that, without a tutor, the training time is greatly increased, especially since it isn't favored. Plus, for spells, she would have to invent all the spells on her own, so to make a simple Terrestrial level spell would take 2 years.
Yeah, that's not really a good choice at the moment.
Ah, for that, she has both the Salinian Working, and Past Lives 5. That isn't a problem for her, really.
randombugger said:
Honestly I don't really like any of the Infernal PD's. Their Imperfections near universally suck, save for SWLiHN's.
Well, yes. They don't follow the same defensive paradigm as the conventional Exalted, and the price you pay for being more interesting (and far easier to write interesting stories about) than Solars is having these gaps in competency.
Now, with that said, yes, Cecelyne's weakness is particularly pathetic, but that's because she's meant to have lots of PDs, with different secondary flaws. She's
not the Ebon Dragon, who's
meant to run away screaming like a
shape-shifting master of darkness little girl when faced with people who know Golden Janissary style, and who can be held off for a few seconds by a particularly brave woman channelling her Valour to protect her children. She's not the most combat-focussed Yozi, but she's not a pushover, even if her true strength lies in Verdant Emptiness Endowment expansion charms.
So we need to get some other Cecelyne perfects, basically. Hah. There's probably one which lets you invoke VEE as a defence, which serves as an action-long perfect against that one person, if they accept the offer.
Delusionist said:
While she may eventually get it, I don't think Louise is even remotely prepared emotionally for any of the uses of SGS.
Oh, Adorjan. Why are you so transyozist?
