Alertness is not knowledge. It's in subsection of talents, which in V20 are described as
It's still a skill though, I can see the argument but don't see a reason to rush for it when it could reasonably have side effects.
Notably, I don't think we can teach that in 7 days. SCCP grants temporary forced understanding, and it's likely to boost learning speed outside that for a newborn, but it's not a part of the training charm granted skillset.
Fair.
To be fair, that sounds like a backstory of a xianxia sword saint protagonist, and is awesome. And would be considered a blessing by many. Brawl would work better here (as it's also a talent), but we ourselves cannot teach it to high level.
Talents are still a type of skill, you can practice them to get better and learn different ways to do the same thing in their area covered by their abstraction.
It could allow for some pretty amazing things, but I still can't get over the idea that choosing something that significant for someone else shouldn't be done casually and could reasonably have unpleasant consequences for them.
Like an atypical development profile making it hard to interact with more normal people. There are some key stages to social development that'd be brutal to go through if your abilities make it hard to understand your peers.
The problem with this argument is that the alternative to this is teaching her nothing at all, comparatively, i.e. leaving it to mortal grade education. I am very hesitant to accept that this is better.
No, that's not the alternative. We can carefully provide baby scale energy fields to gum on that increase with her ability to handle them.
Her "welcome to existence" present from us should be ongoing old realm lessons and paying lash to give her peak human stamina. That's as close to guaranteeing a healthy childhood as we can give her right now, barring the obvious like access to medical care which I assume we'll offer to help with anyway.
That plus the difficulty adjusters and exp cost reduction of any supernatural power she wants to develop are excellent zeroth birthday gifts.
If we're serious about this the responsible thing to do in my view would be to give her a little boost on her birthdays or at significant milestones mixed with little bits of appropriate assistance.
An extra dot of dex and strength when she starts walking, regular occult training in the form of word games in old realm when she starts talking, let her start sitting in on our projects when she's in the 7-10 range. Start more exploratory tutoring around the same time.
Fiddle with the spacing on the dot ups to get her at peak human by 15-18, then offer her the training charm and more dedicated studies in whatever her field of interest is at that point.
If we want to offer more support in the medium term we're already planning to get the path of fortune for ourselves anyway. Once we have it at the 3 dot level blessing a group of 10 or less for a fortnight is pretty trivial, so we can either go out of our way to tune a blessing to help her with training/studying or include her in whatever general good luck ritual we run passively for ourselves.
Maybe a prodigy as well; we don't need a path to replicate the effects as an item as long as we can describe it in terms of an item that is actively used to perform the effect after all.
Living the vast majority of her life under a continuously reinforced blessing of personal development from an infernal exalt seems like the kind of thing that'd let you become bullshit powerful without having the form it takes dictated to you.
Not that I expect this to be relevant to the quest, but it does feel like the sort of thing Molly would consider and act on.
Very true. I would probably pay her in Splendors. At 2 dots, we could strongly boost her ability to shape flesh (Invincible Assertion + Mystic Fortification to either make it harder to resist, or easier for Lash to roll). At 3 dots, we could make it broader, using two Invincible Assertions - one for Intelligence + Medicine, and another for Dexterity + Medicine, which would allow her to always succeed in Body Control, Manipulate Flesh, and Shape Flesh.
Splendors are pricy, I'd prefer cash or prodigies.
We could fairly trivially make her difficulty reducers that are otherwise hard to get.
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