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
If they can learn it then there are rules for being tutored in it or learning it from the scraps of old books or off of cave walls. That's how you're supposed to get it if you're not using the merit.
As to utility; Lydia is essence three, and Lash is only a little behind her for all she's a different splat. The utility of an additional attack action for free on your turn is pretty significant. Even most exwod celestial multi attacks make you wait till the end of the round for the bonus attacks so that your opponents can reply mid flurry.
Against the vamps Lydia could have feasibly harvested back the power in short order
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.
Technically, but that doesn't help with a number of things, like counter attack charms or other reflexive attacks. It also uses movement to cover the gap space twice for every attack, which isn't a lot unless we're fighting someone who's only somewhat slower than us. If we want to hit multiple targets it becomes more of an issue, though that only really comes up once we have a trick to let us do that in the first place.
Molly can hover and movement is reflexive, so with a pretty simple item she can dedicate her entire movement per turn to maintaining distance without effecting her combat abilities at all. Your options become switch to ranged combat, have an identical trick, or die.
A significant number of things we've gone up against would be screwed if the only way to touch a target was to run at it faster than the speed of sound while also doing other stuff for any appreciable period of time.
There's also positive synergy with our retaliation charms, because most of them key off of your ability to make a melee attack off the source of an attack. Unless a gunmen is in sword's reach when they shoot us they wouldn't count, and the standing back to shoot things is kind of the point of using them. If our melee range is 10-15 yards then for the purposes of most DF engagements we can counterattack firearms.
I think there's metaphysical difference, but we'll have to ask.
I don't recall any ruling like that, and for whites the more important factor for waking up is power. Mutt shows us the influence of other factors, but they're not reds.
Besides, isn't this closer to what you want? If how you get the power matters this is the most divorced possible approach to feeding as whamps normally do.
Point of order:
There is no combat regeneration for Agg in ExWoD unless you're a Lunar. Even fomor with the regeneration power only regen lethal and bashing by W20 rules. They heal Agg at a rate of 1/day, and they pay Willpower for it each time.
Or someone with a healing Gift heals them.
digesting the great Beast (••••)
Speaking a secret name lost to the grinding passage
of the ages into the quiet vaults of her innermost self, the Infernal summons a single demon maggot into the chambers of her heart. There the maggot vomits forth a scrap of immortal, undying flesh chewed from the corpse of the Great Beast, which briefly lends its vital- ity to the Exalt.
System: Reflexively spend 1 Essence and roll Stamina + Occult against difficulty 7. The Infernal au- tomatically heals two levels of bashing damage or one level of lethal damage at the beginning of each turn for a number of turns equal to the successes rolled. Giving up three turns of healing allows her to heal a level of aggravated damage, instead
Three turns is a long time in a fight, but our ability to do that is still relevant.
If we want to avoid shit like our mandatory nap in the middle of the arc it's worth considering DtGB.
Considering the ridiculous combat movement that Running To Forever provides I have to ask if charge attacks are a thing in WOD and if we should get Molly a lance to better take advantage.
Her melee skill applies to every hand held weapon after all.
There are charms for becoming invisible while moving and utterly silent until you choose to break it. Depending on how the reach splendor root is read it might let you pick arbitrary attack angles too.
So we could force people to fight an invisible, inaudible, brick that's somehow flying right around the speed of sound, who can attack without giving away the direction she's in right now.
"She's definitely somewhere within forty feet of you, just keep trying!"
