's literally one exaltation vs. several hundred exaltations + a major ritual. More than two orders of magnitude difference. Molly getting her kingdom might be on the same scale. Molly exalting and using shintai? Nah. Like, we have evidence that mystically sensitive people in the same city didn't notice our shintai.
It doesnt follow that the signal strength of one Exaltation bears an arithemetical relationship to that of several hundred others.
Emma-O detected us and sent a war party from Yomi Wan. Yomi Kings can detect kueijin using Demon Shintai, and stalk people in their dreams. I have full confidence that several hundred autonomous godkiller constructs with the capability to home in on candidate humans from across the realms can tell when other godkiller constructs are active.
That's a very big assumption right there.
No it isnt.
Its a incarna-level spirit shapeshifter that has no requirements to work through human society, and whose normal stomping grounds are Native American reservations in the southwest. If it must work in human society, it can literally steal and discard people's faces at will.
I'm not sure that Emma-O will have been able to capture any mortal Bodhisattva on the edge of becoming a Buddha here, so may not be able to grant Saint of the Godbody. He's also very Yin, so I'm not convinced at all about Crimson Tiger General rather than Graceful Reed Angel Treatment. As this is a delicate ritual and it's a treatment that can be applied simultaneously with others, I'd expect the other Treatment to be Beatifically Enhanced Tutor Treatment.
Also remember that they'll have a full set of Investments as well as the much more expensive Treatments, it's a waste for them not to.
Note that, as I say, 'no free will' doesn't actually mean no free will. It just means very constrained ability to act on their free will. Greater Akuma can politic against each other and scheme for advantage in the courts of their masters. They can even defect or betray their masters if their personalities develop in that direct after their treatments and they don't get caught and ordered to act differently.
They are boiled in yugen.
Noone says the yugen has to be extracted fresh, as opposed to mined and stored whenever some poor victim falls into their hands. I would bet that Emma-O's treasury has as much synthetic yugen as Plot requires.
Graceful Reed is primarily for assassins, Crimson Tiger for warriors.
And looking at Thousand Hells, there's no indication that Treatments are limited based on Yama King alignment.
I'd bet on Crimson Tiger.
Especially given the choice to live in an abandoned plant facility suggests an inability to pass among human society, unlike with Graceful Reed. And Im almost as certain that BET wasnt used here. Investments, but not BET.
Fair point about free will.
Holy water doesn't effect Wan Kuei, unless something has been changed here.
Wan Kuei are vulnerable to items and focuses of True Faith, just like standard vampires.
All the standard banes of WoD vampires and Dresdenverse Blampires apply to eastern Kindred in greater or lesser extent, from fire to sunlight.
Holy water should apply.
The more so when you are dealing with not just a vanilla Kindred, but one actually rocking infernal power boosts from a Hell.
That's... we don't know that. We don't know how high up the totem pole she is.
She isnt.
Yama Kings might be powerful enough to be low-level incarna; their servitors are not.
This might be counter-productive, if we are going hard for "destroy them".
Might, or might not.
And I suspect we earn more XP from subverting people than just killing them.
Certainly gets us more brownie points with Michael's boss.
And its more likely to serve as a deterrent to adventures like this if a Yama King has to fear us subverting anyone he sends.
If nothing else, it shrinks the pool of people he can afford to send.
This is solved within ten or so minutes - phone Harry (he should be using our super-coffee already, so he's likely awake), tell him what's going on, send him to deal with Dragon Lines (with Mouse and Thomas as backups / bodyguards)
Not how it works, Im guessing.
He'll need to work out the exact influence, and either disrupt or invert it. Thats gonna use some study.
And our applying our Occult there will certainly help.
This should be an hour, maybe hour and a half. And that's if we are escorting her ourselves, instead of handing her over to a party of ghouls we can call now.
Cant just send her off with a bunch of ghouls she's never met.
And we actually need to talk to Porter before leaving her there. In case akuma come looking.
