Etiquette is key for Molly.
So she rolled 17 successes on 20 dice at DC5.
Odin rolls 18 successes on 17 dice.
If he beat that roll, he certainly would have beat the Charisma + Subterfuge roll, which was only 16 dice.
The only way Molly could have further increased her dice pool in this situation would have been to make this phone call outside in the snow to trigger Without Honor, or triggered CCC, and both would have revealed too much to Carlos and the kids.
Molly probably needs to pick up Fortune Path as a DC adjuster to apply blessings to herself.
And max out Charisma/Manipulation for that extra dice to her dice pool.
Even Path of Soulfire might help.
But thats for the future.
On the Edge
18th of February 2007 A.D.
COMMENTARY
Fucking Odin.
There's more than one reason why peers are a pain; they can cheat almost as hard as Exalts do.
A god of knowledge is nosy as fuck. He still needed luck to beat that roll, even with the buff spell running
The Reds trespassed on Summer land? Again?
After the disaster that was Summer ambushing their army last June as retaliation for years of offense?
That explains Lily getting to balance the scales again. The fact that they did so this soon suggests this is a fairly important affair.
That he sent a messenger instead of extracting himself and his team suggests that the area is likely locked down against people coming in and out. That explains the conspiracy wizards in South America; likely doing something similar to what they did in canon that prevented the Council from entering the Ways in Dead Beat.
Lydia is wrong.
The ambush/assassination of Morgan has to have been premeditated, not a response to anything Molly just did; the timelin doesnt work otherwise. So both of us are scrambling to respond.
Morgan took a strike team of Old Wardens to the Amazon to hopefully bag himself some higher-ups.
That means that whoever goes after him has to be ready to potentially face a Red Court task force led by one or more Lords of Outer Night, in addition to multiple evil wizards in support.
That essentially means Molly, as the only person here who can traverse rough country without issue and extract herself.
And who can medevac people at need.
So its her and a clone.
Either Song of Perennial Hours Intrinsically Ascending/Sophia or Ascendant Luminous Executor/Alex, who are the Dragonmage and Protector clones respectively.
Sophia talks to spirits and summons them, and Alex has a tracking Gift for finding Morgan.
And both can use RVD with Molly, so she wont have to open a Hellgate and alert every magically sensitive entity in the district that she's in the area. Also, both clones have healing Gifts, which might be necessary if Morgan is in as deep a pickle as it appears.
Leave one of them at Last Station, take the other to South America.
So that went about as poorly as it could have, we didn't so much stonewall as give him a hint. Now we've got to be on the lookout for Odin too. Note that even the guy who's totally going to exploit this information warned us against being so up front about it.
My dude, the man beat a 20 dice dicepool, even if only by 1 success.
I dont see how you can seriously expect that picking the lower dicepool option would have been a better choice.
