Unless she's just never takes pharmaceutical drugs ever again and never gets any shots ever again we just view them as different things because the stat aids are essentially medicine they have no effect on mood or even mindset unless Molly considers lotion, shampoo or makeup as some kind of drug.
I would argue she doesn't because nothing stops her from drinking coffee or soda it seems to me she has a really distinct problem with essentially opioids and that whole trauma is not so much just around drugs but what they were doing to her friends and what she did in response to that doing. I would agree that you if you were talking about mind control or essentially hard drugs but we're talking about essentially protein powder, lotion or aspirin for how much it affects mood and mind state.
My willingness to take pharmaceutical drugs does not extend to being willing to take gear for bodybuilding.
A willingness to drink coffee or no-doz or energy drinks when studying does not customarily extend to ritalin or adderall. Alcohol permissiveness does not automatically translate to weed, or ecstasy.
A specops troops willingness to take go-pills on combat duty does not translate to the use of cocaine.
A vegans willingness to use vaccines gestated in chicken eggs doesnt mean they are willing to gorge on chicken breasts.
I am of the opinion that there's entirely too much motivated reasoning going on to justify this.
We are playing a teenager whose ex was medically invalided due to drug use and the magic used to make him stop.
Whose friend almost ruined her life around it. Who had the drug thing as the wedge used by a Nephandus to attempt to destroy her and a lot of her loved ones. Who DID end up on a tree in Arctis Tor.
Thats a very fraught topic for her, and the cavalierness with which arguments are being advanced to ignore the narrative issues around it in pursuit of mechanical optimization ignores the RP part of the RPG.
We put a lot into crafting that we didn't put into Molly's personal abilities. There are benefits to that, but it'd be good to see some feedback into our own kit.
I saw, and still see Crafting primarily as something to affect the larger world with. The Dragons Nest, Lily, Vegas, allies.
Not really something to buff Molly routinely, who has plenty of options inside her skillset.
Especially since high-end reagents arent exactly mass-produced or without consequence.
Not particularly enthused about it.
Especially since there is a hard cap on how many of these things Molly can have at a time.
Molly sure as fuck doesnt need armor at E4.
If she's going to spend her personal Prodigy/Splendor slots on something, they should both be worth the expense, and do stuff that isnt currently in her charmset.
My opinion.
We're in the afterlife though. I don't want to salt too hard over this, but no one here is functionally mortal. Everyone here is immortal the same way greater akuma are on earth, except for greater Akuma themselves who can only die a final death in hell, because Yomi Wan will keep their souls and reconstitute them.
This isnt accurate.
There's significant numbers of both living humans and other shen in Yomi Wan, wittingly or not; Bakemono Bob is not particularly unique.
The point of that charm is to let players banish people from the plot instead of their immortality letting them do stuff like report back to their masters or ready up for round 2. I guess I was reading too much into it, but I figured it was at least somewhat contextual. As in the standard was if something could continue acting on the world after being stabbed to death then we could eat it, but only as long as that was true.
Yes. Agreed.
Agreed. Those things are too useful to not be part of Molly's daily routine.
They're also a good trade resource for buying Tiffany's help. It's poor form to suck up a friend's resources without offering something in return, and I'd argue they should make it easier for her to boost herself since they're already starting a transformation themselves. Even if they don't the social one effects attributes shape flesh has difficulty touching, so it's a pretty even exchange.
Disagree. For some theoretical Infernal with no hangups with regards to drug use, sure.
Not for Molly Carpenter.
Disagree. There's nothing in optimizing the physical, social or mental specifics of a person's body that alchemy can do that a master of the Lore of Flesh and many/most of the memories of a Fallen angel cannot already do for themselves if they so choose. Especially when they live in a house with spirit of knowledge and noted alchemical expert Bob in the basement.
While I do agree in principle with regards to Tiffany and exchange of services, Molly is better served focusing on shit Tiffany cant already do for herself.
At the moment, the ledger is significantly in her favor anyway, assuming we are keeping score.
Molly's drug problem was with party stuff; it made you feel good but ultimately left you worse off than it found you. The alchemical recipes we have don't have a high baked in, and build you up instead of breaking you down.
They also benefit from looking very different. Fancy lotion doesn't feel the same as a needle or snorting a line would.
We dont know that.
We know Molly was arrested at a party and charged with possession. We know that some of her friends used drugs; Rosie specifically used heroin. We dont know what drugs her other friends used, or indeed what drugs (if any) Molly herself used.
The drug culture of American teenagers and college students is not just a recreational thing.
I'd prefer the essence. We're never going to regret having more on hand, but being a few motes short could kill us.
Narrative reasons have at least as much importance as mechanical optimization in this sort of storytelling.
And I can see Molly hesitating about, say, nomming cyberdevils who never knew any better.
As opposed to, say, greater akuma, who went into servitude with eyes open.
Or indeed, other mechanically optimal choices that might have narrative or social effects depending on who her audience is.
Would she want to do this in range of Mikaboshi's sensors and recorders, for example?
Would freed spirits flee her?
The bond drones were very much intelligent and you killed one of them before they could blow
*shrug*
Thats your choice as the QM.
I just didnt see the point of a narrative retcon for 2m of Essence.
