I'm mostly good with this plan, but it's worth considering the tree's many branches ancient sorcery as a combat pick for all three of them.
Only Molly can spontaneously manifest it, but presumably a demon and terrestrial should be able to learn it. As expensive as it is for their mote pool and equivalent, it also doubles their dps for a scene. Which makes it one of the most essence efficient combat boosts available to them. There's also potential narrative benefits for a brawl spec with multiple extra arms as well.
If we bought it for Molly and reserved the post training discount exp for the other two it could show real returns in the next big fight.
Im not sure it works that way? I mean, this is what it says:
the tree's many Branches
As the sorcerer gathers her Essence and casts this spell, tree branches sprout from her torso. At the spell's culmination, the bark of these branches cracks and explodes, revealing additional arms that precisely match the Exalt's original limbs.
System: Spend 3 Essence and make an extended Intelligence + Occult roll against difficulty 7. Once the player accumulates five successes, the sorcerer grows additional sets of arms equal to her Essence rating for the rest of the scene. Whenever the sorcerer takes multiple actions using her new limbs, each subsequent action raises its difficulty as normal but doesn't suffera penalty to its dice pool. If the sorcerer has three or more sets of additional arms, she can make up to twoattacks per turn by using multiple actions, rather than being limited to only one attack per turn as normal.
Lydia can learn it, but her Occult score is currently horrible at 1, and it costs almost half her current base Essence of 7/7.
And if she has to use an Excellency to cast it, she's spending 4/7 Essence.
I dont know if Lash can cast it at all; even if she could, and we assume 1 Faith = 1 Essence, it costs her her entire Faith pool.
Maybe Im missing something, but it doesnt appear to make sense for either of them.
And even Molly would have to take the Pentacle charm to reduce the costs, before it becomes worth the trouble for her.
The Asura's Wrath visuals are cool though.
It is a very nice charm. Though it's worth nothing that it technically replaces sleep with motion, and provides another full essence refresh if we stay moving for 24 hours. Sitting in a car someone else is driving counts for this purpose, so it's not totally unworkable.
There's also a potential trick with that running speed thing and a low tier splendor I think it's worth bringing up again.
If we're faster than a melee spec and can make melee attacks from range, then as long as RtF is in active mode we win by default. Now ranged attacks and various tricks counter that, but forcing everyone to screw around because they have to invest in playing games to stay alive is a victory itself.
One of the few areas that infernals are hands down better in than any other type in ExWoD is speed, so we need to be leveraging that as much as possible to keep an edge over the competition.
We strictly speaking dont have to make melee attacks from range.
Since RtF makes fullspeed movement reflexive, we can move in and out at full speed, shanking and running at will.
As long as the opponent is slower, of course.
1) You don't want to use it that way, but it can be used that way. And Lydia is our very close ally. We can absolutely get her this stuff.
3) Lore of Awakening 3 allows Tiffany to negate bashing damage. Which means she can do stat buffs without regards to limits. Meaning, she should be entering any combat with 10s in physical stats. That's a combat boost, and a non-insignificant one.
1)No it cant.
Lydia's constructs have, at last check, the physical stats of zombies, which according to ExWoD is around 4-5 dice.
Thats respectable for mortals, or for disposable meatshields, but it doesnt make them fighters.
2)No it doesnt. It allows her to
heal bashing damage, which is not the same thing.
You have to take the damage and remain conscious. If you overflow by mistake, like when Lash hit Molly with 10 successes while boosting her intelligence, you are still going to go unconscious. Like Harrowmont did.
Unless you have superhuman HLs(>7HLs) like Molly or Lydia, which is something Lash is going to be working on, but doesnt have yet.
It feels safe to say that all of Lydia's attribute are going to be raised to 5 by Tiffany eventually. Molly as well, but that will likely come after the person who has already made a pact.
Im assuming that MOLLY will probably have at least her Stamina raised to 5 by Lash.
