Sakura doesn't have the tail, she has the other half of the requisite "scorpion-girl" appendages. Which has/have served her well, since she's seen LOTS more high-powered combat than Saki has.
Only their starting-loadout charms have the potential to be "version 2.0" upgrades to their normal Autochthonian counterparts, so while she may have picked up some of the charms that Saki started with later on they won't possess the same boosts as Saki enjoys (without further tweaking). For example, if she picked up a Spike it wouldn't automatically have the ability to directly drop stuff into SoTI like Saki's does.
That's fair. At least until she pops into the vats for an Essence upgrade and another bunch of spirits kick the workers out and take over.
Do note that allegedly every charm that's invented is automatically uploaded to Autobot's memory banks and cant be removed, which is why charms that give Dissonance are supposed to still be available to anyone who looks.
Any new charms that Sakura has acquired has been through normal channels, so they do possess that leverage. Since Sakura first experienced Alchemical-ness through Taylor and Prayer, however, if they try to pressure her she's fine with the attitude of "okay, I'll just make do with what I have."
Pity.
Ah well. I guess she could always outbid them by going to a different city in a different country and playing them off against each other if she really wanted to. A new charm is only Resources 3 to build IIRC, and most of the detailed translation work is done by the metropolis.
Sakura doesn't have the tail, she has the other half of the requisite "scorpion-girl" appendages. Which has/have served her well, since she's seen LOTS more high-powered combat than Saki has.
I can't wait to see the Earth-Bet group's reaction when Sakura considers coming back home to be a vacation.
Also I can't help but see Lord Grasp going into an uncontrolable fashion tizzy the moment he meets Sakura. Because as has been said the twins have the whole ying-yang theme going on and now he has a chance to coordinate outfits, fashion, comportment, designs; oh there is just so much to be done! (Yanks both twins into his pagoda via a pair of carpets).
I was trying to work within the perceived thematics of a social character and something that would work with her CMA.
Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Style has a limited list of options as form weapons; I quote:
Weapons and Armor: Charms in the Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Style treat attacks made with a whip, weighted rope or rope dart as unarmed attacks. (See the Appendix, pp. 156-157, for the game statistics of rope weapons.) Sashes, capes and ball gown trains can be given the properties of weighted ropes through the judicious addition of lead weights concealed in the layers of fabric. Directly examining such items to determine if they are weapons requires a (Perception + Investigation) roll. Doing so while simply looking at the character over requires a (Perception + Awareness) roll, difficulty 3, instead. War fans are also form weapons for the Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Style.
Several Charms of this style also enable practitioners to attack using the long, flowing sleeves of their robes or ordinary gown trains, cloaks or sashes, without any preparation. Others permit attacks using ordinary paper fans and similar props. In such cases the martial artist empowers these "weapons" with her Essence. All the damage comes from the Charm. Characters cannot use this style while wearing armor.
Whips, weighted ropes, rope darts and their artifact equivalents(monofilament scourge, chain daiklave,.
Flowing clothing items as well. You can even expand to things like hair ribbons and decorative parasols.
Social props, basically.
Thats why I havent suggested things like the Hairpin Blade from 1E, which is basically a hairpin that expands into a fullout daiklave.
Hairpin Blade (Artifact ••)
This slender, white-jade hairpin is, on closer inspection, an artfully carved miniature model of a full daiklave, though a mere five inches long. If its owner commits 5 motes of Essence to it, she can use the hairpin's full powers and, at a moment's notice, lay her hand on it and expand it to a full daiklave — as such, it has all the normal statistics for a jade daiklave, though it does not have any sockets for Hearthstones. The hairpin blade remains at full size for the rest of the scene or until the owner chooses to shrink it back to hairpin size again. It may also be concealed elsewhere in the body beside the hair, if the owner so chooses, or even carried in a piercing of the flesh.
Or just said fuckit, lets give her a Daiklave of Conquest(Artifact 5) or Crown of Thunders(Artifact 5) and watch the fireworks.
But if the GM suggests she's seeing significant personal combat time with melee weapons? Install Transcendent Multimodal Artifact Matrix. Then use the free three dots of artifact to buy a pair of beamweapon razor claws/beamclaws (Artifact 3), and fluff them as long fingernails integrated into her fingers. Voila, you have your scorpion pincers.
OR as an alternative, a pair of beamweapon warfans/beamfans ( Artifact 3).
OR a pair of Black Widow Razors (Artifact 3 for one, Artifact 4 for 2, WoTLA pg 102)
The real big brain move, of course, would be to customize and link TMAM to her shard-charm so it could use any appropriate artifact that the charm has previously processed, from artifact-knife to artillery-piece.
Then sit back and laugh.
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I dont expect Piston-Driven Megaton Hammer to ever show up in the loadout of one of our social characters.
Both for thematic reasons, and because I'm not sure she would have met the prereqs before E4.
She doesnt even have a Dexterity Aug, let alone Dynamic Reaction Enhancement System yet.
On the other hand, Essence Irradiation Corona ? YES.
That's like the Alchemical bread and butter combat charm, and it doesnt require motes to install.
I just didnt include it at the time because, uh,...... it slipped my mind.
So yeah, if I was asked to alter that thing now in the light of the GM's comments?
I'd drop the Doomspike and Penance Stare from her panoply, and replaced them with TMAM and DRES.
Then install EIC as a mote-free installation.
Whats the precise problem; the number of images, or the fact they're in a quote box?
Would it be better if I put them in a spoiler box when I use that many?
Whats the precise problem; the number of images, or the fact they're in a quote box?
Would it be better if I put them in a spoiler box when I use that many?
