Wasn't she already possesed? You act like such tactics haven't been used on her before.
She was. She knows much better now - she essentially let her possessor in when she was. I am not saying that such dangers don't exist. I am saying that going straight for a 5 dot charm as the defense mechanism is not very rational and an overreaction. a 1 dot splendor can make her immune to possession, another can make her immune to mind-altering effect. All are free perfect effects. If that's needed. Mortal enchanted items are also a possiblity.
Please explain your logic to me.
There are two things I was talking about. One is the tendency of the voters to overreact to danger. That Molly is more durable won't stop voters from minimizing chances of danger and going into shintai. The other is that shintai is more than defense. It's an offensive power, and we are mostly suffering damage in fights where we need the offensive boosts it provides.
WHWH does not routinely apply to shintai activation rolls; there is no way that we can count on being able to duplicate sub-zero temperatures whenever we need shintai.
Ditto difficulty adjusters.
Or do you forget the fight with The Will ? Or all the shenanigans around environmental debuffs?
We are unlikely to be the only person around here who can do passive AoE effects.
While I might agree with WHWH not always applying, a very simple 1 dot item that coats us in liquid on demand is on my list of things to build, and should be fairly trivial. And that's before CCC abuse, which I still maintain should be used.
I must have missed any such discussion.
Citation needed please.
I had it with you. Multiple times. You state again and again that there should be a limit on how good something can become with more and more successes, and that going beyond reasonable amount of legendarity degrees of success is useless. And again and again I rebut you, as there's no evidence to this, and evidence for the opposite, at least where it comes to craft, such as when we made Bane.
Crafting 3 to Crafting 4 adds 1 dice of Craft.
2 with excellency, and you were talking about excellency. There are very few cases where we are using craft with excellency.
The stats and expectations for ExWoD zombies are given in the book.
This is beyond their capabilities.
And no we cant afford to be making simulacra as drivers; thats just a terrible way to spend resources.
And there's no evidence she wants one.
She does know Black Rider exists after all.
I'll concede basic zombie stats. For a driver (if needed for a purpose of being stopped by police), a machine spirit and a mannequin would suffice. I only talked about a driver because there's always a chance of being stopped by police on the road.
Thats not true.
We outright know that the Archive has hard-coded mental restrictions that act as protections; she runs the Oblivion War and is aware of anything ever written by humans and human society, no matter how mind-scarring. Mental protections are an obligatory part of the package.
Mental restrictions =/= shaping defense. A 1 dot splendor gives you free perfect mental defenses. Another 1 dot splendor gives you free perfect defense against possession. That's not shaping defense, don't mix the two together. It's like comparing a pocket knife and a CNC lathe. Both are tools, but one is way more specialized than the other.
In the quest so far, Lydia has been both possessed by an evil bodyjumping wizard and gotten into two fights with entities who use Shaping effects offensively. Among the enemies of her father's House are evil wizards and necromancers who can use shaping effects by magic ritual. And she's only been at this for the last six months.
That need very much exists and has been repeatedly demonstrated.
And her father, who knows the dangers far better than us, made no suggestions that she beelines towards such defenses.
They are an established nationstate with allies and resources. Of course they have the actions to spend if they think its urgent enough. You dont run Latin America by collecting bottlecaps.
They have already demonstrated that they have the free resources in the middle of a major war to do shit like dispatch a noble and an entourage of strike operatives to spike attempts by Fomor-run cultists to meddle with Iku-Turso all the way north in Cleveland, thousands of miles from their base of power.
They are a supernatural power at war with another global power and are looking at another front being opened by
the supernatural world's global superpower (Winter, that's your own assertion of its status). They have just recently lost two very high tier officers. They don't have time or resources to devote to an attack on us in the next several months at all. The initiative is squarely on our side here.
