This one may end up being a bad idea, but I think it's worth considering the possibility of getting ourselves some demon support since we're facing mook spam. Molly regens faster in the FCF anyway so we're not giving up essence by doing those at the same time.
Taking too long out of contact is potentially dangerous, but we can work around that. Molly can bring some back with her if they're ready to go on the spot, but Harry is a half decent summoner even though it isn't his focus.
The big complication with demons isn't really getting them to show up anyway, it's doing it safely. Our presence or prior arrangement makes that significantly less of an issue.
We should pay them somehow, but I find it unlikely there aren't any willing to help their over-soul for secrets or earth luxuries. Maybe some Lord of the Land sourced stuff for whatever they're a part of on the other side.
Get some names and pay scale limits and get out with whatever immortals want to come in our return window, then have Harry summon any others we need up to whatever our practical cap is.
We're playing a god-damned demon planet, we don't need to let them hem us in with anti-murder hobo tactics.
There's also the possibility, either in addition to or as replacement for the above, of using our shiny new arsenal background to up arm everyone with loaners. Those ray guns are bullshit and make poking a group of prepared baselines way more dangerous. For reference:
High quality electro flux gun: Damage 9 Levels; Range 400; Ammo: 5 (Can be recharged with Mana if the user possesses it) Conceal T (Trenchcoat) Special: Aggravated Damage as if it were flame; +2 Accuracy Bonus from the bound machine spirit
Electro-laser pistol: Damage 6 Levels; Range 50; Ammo: 15 (Can be recharged with Mana if the user possesses it) Conceal J (Jaket) Special: Aggravated Damage as if it were fire; +2 Accuracy Bonus from the bound machine spirit
Silver-Weave Armour: +4 Armour -1 DEX
Surge Kit: High end medical nano-tech from vat grown Waste lifeforms magically realigned to human biology The user rolls Stamina+Medicine with each success healing 1 point of lethal damage or two points of bashing damage, starting with the most severe wounds. A botch causes debilitating pain lasting three to five hours hours (-2 Additional Wound Penalty)
Haywyre Grenades: Destroy non-hardened electronics in 30 yards
They're nearly uniformly better than the base version of whatever weapon type they are even without the special rules. I shudder to think of what assault rifles and the like do from the same tech tree.
The first vamps to think they can shrug off the bullets if it gets them to the blood bags faster would very briefly regret it.
Clearly whatever prophecy or divine insight or psychometric reading the old guy here had told him he needed Lydia at his temple.
Possible, but I am unsure. If it's actually a sign, he's likely misinterpreting it. He's not super informed, I feel. He certainly doesn't know that there are three ladies, each of whom might be of interest to his god
He's looking for the girl who called in the warning, which was Molly.
I wouldn't be surprised if the messenger was given the minimum possible information so he couldn't give as much away if captured. He has no reason to think that there's a more appropriate party member for the role of "anti-blamp girl" than the teenage demigod of death who met with him.
Actually, we should probably stunt in Lydia coaching him before meeting Molly so that we don't have a problem.
