Well the easiest way to deal with him is send someone he can't detect up close, and reprogram him to restore his victims to reasonably independent functionality(I wouldn't try to revert them with his powers, since it's unlikely he knows what their personalities were like well enough) and disarm any bombs he remembers.
Saki could probably do it though. Granted, the WP cost is annoying, but its been pointed out that stunts would work. And undoing brainwashing like this would probably get us more trust from PRT and make our nasty spike thing look a bit better.
This is a positive. Excessive aggression is one of the things you can treat with that.
Yeah, but I was talking about going DOWN to 1. 1 dot of virtue is abnormal I believe, while 2 is average. So yeah, taking a Valor 5, Temperance 1 guy to more normal to Valor 2 and Temperance 2 would probably help that person significantly. Pushing one (or worse, all) virtues to 1 on a victim would be pretty damaging though.
While SV has an enormous level of belief in sanctity of mind, there are going to be quite a lot of people willing to pay to end a self admitted toxic personality spiral that they can't dig themselves out of.
Yeah, but odds are these issues can mostly be dealt with virtue modification and/or intimacy removal. A drug addict could likely be more or less cured with increase of temperance, removal of addiction intimacy, and a injection of exalted healing to help with withdrawal.
Particularly for former abused children and the like, the ability to construct something good, even if they know it's fake, to remember is going to be a valuable part of recovery. This is important for the Heartbroken, who're in possession of emotional control powers, were born and raised in a toxic environment, and generally doomed from the start due to that.
Yeah, this is kinda what I brought up with Bonesaw, when we talked about potentially just erasing all memories of Jack Slash and her life among S9. Heck, it occurs to me that in theory, she might even give "permission" if Saki fully socially attacked her.
While she's not going to recover willpower THAT quickly, I'd also note that once they observe the qualities of her Sanctum, we could box up all the Simurgh overstayers and use the Sanctum's imprisonment feature to put them into stasis, while she fixes each one and release them as willpower regenerates.
Are they in stasis though, or just contained? I know Gromweld stated that it forcibly keeps people alive even in cases where someone should die (so a C53 separated from his shard will die if Taylor uses optical cloak on him, but Sakis charm will keep him alive). However did he ever say that it would keep people in stasis, or just immobile? I mean if people are imprisoned, utterly immobilized, and yet fully aware and forcibly kept alive, then that would be a pretty horrific experience.
Bonus in that it screws up Simurgh's plotting even more, since from the point they get slurped up, they don't show up accurately on precog until they come out.
Yeah, though arguably having multiple alchemicals going totemic anima banners and letting go of Loom-Server Migration during the battle would presumably mess up her precog pretty badly already. The anti-endbringer armor will also not help. Also, Taylors expanded SoPA range (especially with drones), means Simurgh will be drowning in butterflies both literally and figuratively.
On the other hand, I could see this causing her to make more "obvious" Simurgh bombs. Less "Rube Goldberg machine" that relies on complex prediction that this person will be at exactly the right place at exactly the right time to achieve exactly the right effect (since Essence use basically guarantees he won't be there, making that "bomb" a dud), and more "When you see this important person, kill him". Or "In 2 weeks, go berserk and try to kill everyone around you".
I had to read that several times to get it.
I did not get it at all.
Trying to figure out if Taylor's new drone is just more fancy tinker-tech, or an essence formed drone that Iris flash forged. Or maybe that was one of the eye drone charm?
Can't be a normal Remote Sensory Drone due to distance limit of 4 miles. Nor could it be a SoPA drone since it has even less range (especially now). Most likely its tinkertech, though I guess in theory Iris could have made something up. Tinkertech seems more likely though, since we know flash forging magic materials is apparently VERY expensive.
Actually no. Pretender's possession is completely undetectable, he passed as Alexandria perfectly after some coaching.
Ah, OK. Was he limited to just one possession, or was he basically just poor mans version of E5 Taylor. Regardless while nasty, its still nothing comparable to Saki being able to easily and quickly do permanent things to someone and then just leave.
Go back to classic Stranger protocols: Test for knowledge that Saki had no reason to be in possession of.
Given that all C53s are from alternate dimensions, there would be no way for PRT to check if the memories Saki restored are real or not. Yeah, it would work on known local victims, but then PRT could probably just assume that in such cases Saki was being extra carefull and not doing any obvious memory tampering.
Heck, if Saki starts restoring memories of Case53s, PRT could easily become suspicious, since all of them conveniently have recovered memories from other earths and don't have anything that could prove to the PRT that the memories are real. We know its because Cauldron has Doormaker and mostly harvested from other Earths. But if you don't know, that, it is kinda suspicious that every case of recovered C53 memory has no proof of its validity.
I dunno, I guess there could be some who bought the vial and mutated massively? But majority are probably like Prayer, and not from Earth-Bet, making independent verification impossible.
does Tatsu have enough space once her Charms are Arrayed to plug in some of the cool charms stored in Lord Grasp's Mini-Vat?
if she doesn't have enough space to plug every thing we want from there in, then TBP is the first charm I think should be to unplugged to make room.
Well, it is pretty handy charm for combat. But its true that its not Sakis primary objective, so if Taylor for example makes her some Perfect tinkertech weapon, I would be fine with getting rid of TBP. Especially if it won't work great with whatever MA style she has. And because the ability to send people to her prison dimension does make its usage slightly obsolete (if she is close enough to slash the target with TBP, she can probably just banish the target instead).
Nah, that's what the Charms to target organisations are for. Nothing could possibly go wrong with Mastering the entire PRT
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I am actually kinda hoping that maybe we could get this past them if we are slow and carefull. Remember that Prayer will presumably be promoted since Backing 5 won, so she will be one of those making the major decisions and helping decide where the organisation goes. We can do stuff such as having Prayer do passionate speech and such, and push toward a desired objective. Then have Saki speak in favor of that and do obvious PR (shh. its a decoy.), while also using the organization charm rarely enough not to be too suspicious, and any changes could easily be assumed to be natural. Or atleast "natural" in the sense that the super-PR person helped one of the leaders campaign for it and wrote the speeches with Linguistics 5 (presumably we will get all those to 5 at some point) and so on.
The obvious APP7, socialize/performance 5 thing might be used to hide the more unnatural effects. Especially with Prayer and Taylor both helping to hide things. If we get a higher Ally status with Legend (which might be smart considering what Gromweld said about it being able to Backing background), this is even more true.
Obviously the organization changed because a member of the Triumvirate and the known hero that helped beat S9 campaigned for the changes so much with the help of a known socialite. Nothing unnatural there. No sirree. No need to worry, no masters capable of altering entire organizations here.
