@DragonParadox could we get CCC benefits here for similar reasons as why we can never have them in our hell? Just as we can't be trapped in our own world a hell by default tries to trap everyone inside. It's an enormous prison by design. They aren't aware that we're here specifically but we're technically subject to the same pressures any soul imprisoned here would be if they managed to duck out of sight for a moment.
Like if we smuggled ourselves into the yard of a mundane prison and then joined a crowd of inmates. We're not registered with the warden, but the walls and locks still bar our way. The guards are still acting to maintain an environment we can't leave.
This whole infiltration is basically trying to slip from one cell block to the next without being caught by the cameras. We're even planning to leave from the cell of the guy we're going to visit; so Molly is heading towards her chosen exit against the opposition of people who would keep her contained instead of just being inside the building if we're going to split that hair.
We are kind of exactly flush with time to heal even if only a bit because we are looking for a place to reorient and plan essentially. Unless planning is going to take less than 30 minutes which fucking I don't know how considering we need to plan both our entrance when and where we're planting the bomb and exit how we're going to carry Joe and literally everything else about this Escapade now that we're here we can definitely have time to heal it. I just really want to make sure that this is as smooth as possible taking two or three bashing damage for a Surefire place that is hidden that we can plan this whole jailbreak from is worth it.
The problem with taking too long is that it gives them more time to find us, either by accident or on purpose. I don't think they know we're here right now or who we are, but we did get seen. If they bought our Akuma act then it wouldn't be crazy for them to think a minor raid might be coming in from the exact vector we used.
Not that they'd go crazy about that kind of thing; for the hells I imagine it's more like when you get a push alert from your weather app about some rain expected this afternoon.
It's minor all told since it doesn't cost resources, but if she rolls more than 3 successes it'd be a pain. I'm surprised we didn't regen essence on the run over here from being in the spirit world, if we had then we could use essence to active the charm and spend a willpower on success. Which would insult us from potentially botching it and push us to the next break point in most cases.
For reference, here's the roll stats I'm working from:
Here are the figures (both cumulative and non-cumulative) for 6 10-sided dice rolled against a target number of 4:
The probability of 6 successes is 11.7649
The probability of 6 successes or more is 11.7649
The probability of 5 successes is 30.2526
The probability of 5 successes or more is 42.0175
The probability of 4 successes is 32.4135
The probability of 4 successes or more is 74.431
The probability of 3 successes is 18.522
The probability of 3 successes or more is 92.953
The probability of 2 successes is 5.9535
The probability of 2 successes or more is 98.9065
The probability of 1 success is 1.0206
The probability of 1 success or more is 99.9271
The probability of no successes is 0.0729000000000202
Cite*
I'm pretty risk averse, but needing to round up to .1% true failure chance seems pretty safe to me.
On the bomb thing; I don't know if that's how we should be treating it. My impression is that we have a flower and when we activate the artifact it'll start spraying pollen that will infect people. That kicks off the WMD immediately. We don't want to leave the flower anywhere because it is not single use and needs manual activation. Anyone who finds it has what they need to enhance studies for a defense and weaponize it themselves.
It's not a bomb, it's the ray gun a supervillain would use to blow up the moon.
Supposing this is correct the closest we can get is spraying it around in currently unoccupied but reasonably well trafficked areas so that people can come into contact with the pollen later, but that's not the same as a bomb and we aren't necessarily limited to doing it once in the course of the trip.
* Note that this tool doesn't account for 1s or 10s. I still think it's good to work off of for guidelines, but it doesn't fully reflect the details of our rolls.
MIght also be the quality in terms of how well hidden the shelter is, or access to Wicked City water supplies or something like that . Point is, more successes is rarely bad.
[X] Allies are here for a reason.
-[X] Molly uses TTC to hack in herself so as not to risk Clippy Use 1 Willpower.
-[X] Ask Tiffany use Lore of Flesh to increase intelligence.
-[X} Stunt: As you emerge from absolute darkness into the poisoned twilight of the Wicked City, the hand of an angel upon your shoulder fueling the already bright bonfire of your intelligence, the air before your eyes and under your hands simmers, forming holographic mandalas reminiscent of the more esoteric prayer-programming interfaces favored by the greatest engineers of your Courts.
Yes, but we do need to be strategic about this. We just need to get off the street long enough to pick our entry point, not fort up. I'm reminded of those times we've decided to wait out our prep and got surprised by our enemies acting while we did so, like the greater Akuma. We're on the clock, and taking wounded penalties for the next hour would be unpleasant.
