Cutting yourself is a serious exaggeration. Bashing damage is fine for regaining tempesta, and because there are a few tempesta charms that cause bashing damage, it's entirely possible to reach that state without meaning to. Heck, the blessing charm Count No Cost does one bashing damage and is useful enough that i could really see us tapping out with it.
Keep in mind that an Invocation is an ideal and how you think things should be done. The lower levels of an invocation don't require you to actually live your life according to the invocation just agree with some of the ideals. Channeling an invocation is basically calling upon the Queens power to help focus yours.
That's court's, not invocations. A court is what you want to be, an invocation is what you already are.
No, it's realizing that there is genuine evil out there, gaming the empathy system to make every dogooder unable to fight it by taking almost every person on the planet hostage in some way. Storms is when they say "Better to let one die so that ten may not" instead of letting one person live to go on to kill a bunch of people because they've been darkened and we can't fix them.
Every Twilight Court is theoretically good, in moderation, but there's a reason both the original street demagogue and my Mahou Shoujo Punk Rocker idea are focused on... maybe not letting go, but definitely growing past Tempesta, and that's because hardcore Seraphs tend towards things like carbombs. [1]
Man, I find Storms extremely sympathetic, but they're still basically Mahou Shoujo Domestic Terrorism.
Meanwhile Radiants would only use a carbomb if they knew they street was abandoned.
[1] Terrorism is actually a super applicable Ability in the World of Darkness. Seriously.
It isn't just conscious beliefs that are relevant to what invocations you have but subconscious ones. Even the twilight courts have good points that a completely rational magical girl can agree with and get a dot from.
No a court is who you work with in the dreamlands. They are literal courts in there. It is a far more formal connection than an invocation. You can have any invocation you want without knowing what they are but you can't have a court without knowing what is going on with them. With the minor exception of Storms as the storm comes to those who agree with her.
This is accurate. I was summing it up in one sentence in the context of Emma initially embracing it. She isn't going to immediately come upon the more nuanced version of storms right off the bat. She would have to grow a bit for that she would start with more along the lines of "fuck them I am going to make them pay". Remember I voted for storms last round after it became clear swords wasn't winning. It is very good, but it is at it's core about anger and hate. It however is a very effective way of embracing that anger and turning it towards the deserving. Tempesta allows for free uses against darkness, not just any target as brutal is it is Tempesta doesn't do evil intentions. They don't even do hypocrisy as they have self sacrifice as part of their ideals and built directly into their charms.
Perhaps that's the case if we took it as a primary invocation, but this is just a secondary. Emma would probably agree that "they need to pay" but if making them pay would make other's miserable then that runs right into Aria 2.
I'll close it Thursday.
Actually, going by the front-page it's Social-Mental-Physical.
