And you want to trust him as the principle caster in a ritual? Cause I'm sure his many issues will definitely play well with what he thinks are white council reps.
Like Ive said, IF Molly is there. Otherwise, I expect varying levels of failure, regardless of who we leave behind.
Harry isnt great at socializing prickly men at this stage of his life, and most of Harrowmont's affectations will rub him the wrong way. And Lash, while much better at wrangling people, is not as good at practical magic.
And we need them both elsewhere.
I'd prefer launching a full raid with the debuff up as well, but practically the options on the table are waiting several hours to get the whole group or striking now with less than that.
You keep treating not acting as some neutral option when what it's doing is spending our most limited resource; time. The chaos magic ritual going off was the result of passivity on our part. There are plenty of things to be concerned about from acting too quickly, but a significant portion of our current problems are rooted in being too slow. Continuing to make the same mistake is unwise.
Not striking now with less, and more striking now with insufficient.
Molly still has that Agg injury, is at 10/15 Essence(still has to spend Essence to convince Harry to not come) and then would have to take those deficiencies into a search and destroy mission against unknown opposition while under a citywide hex.
I do not agree.
Marling has been here for at least six months. She has always had us beat on preptime by orders of magnitude.
This is not some new thing rigged because Molly showed up less than 24 hours ago.
No, they are based on our getting to the city 6 months after our opposition.
We havent been slow since we got here.
That was my mistake, but it ultimately doesn't change the math for me to any significant degree.
Every bit of extra time we've given her has resulted in things getting worse, and we're talking about trading Sandra hours of extra time to spend however she likes for some vampires and handling one of her side projects.
If we asked the cyber devils to summarize this trip here is what they'd give us:
Sandra did not hex Las Vegas for kicks.
We see what it takes for an archmage like Cowl to do something of this magnitude in Chicago in
Dead Beat. Doing it represented a significant investment of time and resources, sends up the equivalent of a magical flare that lets everyone supernatural know that shit is going down, and started a hard timer on someone dynamic entrying the situation.
Ergo, she did it because it was important, if not critical, to her plot. That the power from panic and fear is important.
Washing it all out in a massive torrential downpour kicks out one of the legs that this plot appears to be reliant on, and makes it easier to stop it.
This tactic has been so effective I don't see why Sandra would stop using it. I generally agree with you on taking the meticulous approach, but an important part of this recognizing when the reflex to wait for more information or a better opportunity becomes a risky behavior and manage it like you would anything else.
It's not like this is the only time we've been bitten either. I think the consequences of this approach are generally lesser than dipping too far the other way, but the Will of Kakuri still punked us multiple times when we voted to run hours of prep right before his end game.
I could meet in the middle on delaying while also investing in things that actively take her time and attention for the entire duration. However, if the options are attack now or attack later with a better position and hope she doesn't use the extra hours to screw us again I'd like to exercise some basic pattern recognition.
Because she is on the clock.
Once she started the timer on the open largescale attacks, she has exposed her position to a lot of hostiles, who all want to know her location and those of her minions. From organized hitters like Molly to even unorganized assets like the punk goblins of Wanderland....I mean, Frankie and his lab just got vanished
Even mortal authorities have access to forensics and cellphone location records after 9/11, and in the face of what appears to be a mortal terrorist plot, they are going to try to use them.
And the afternoon's attacks have expended a good chunk of her human assets to boot.
Uh, she didnt use the extra hours to screw us. I dont think they were aimed at us at all.
These attacks were premeditated, and all aimed at chosen targets for a particular effect long before we even came to the city.
What occurs to me is that a lot of these places appear to have been Red Court affiliated
Whys someone hiding in the Red Court would draw attention to Red Court facilities is something I havent figured out yet.
No, sticking a demon in her will not make her any less a warlock. Charm wise you would have to use False Spring Beckon and re-apply it when it wears off. That will work on pretty much anything, if would have made the Loup Garou tame since it is basically the Infernal bulletining the universe into thinking some curse does not exist until it wakes up and realizes that yes it does.
Probably would actually.
But not Inner Devils Unchained. Silk's issues are that she has ongoing impulses to help/tinker that are only controlled by the super-drug that Red Court venom is.
You would want
Latter-Day Devil Implants, the Medicine charm. Essentially you're giving her a bioware implant(Demon InsideTM) to handle her addiction/regulate her impulses.
