Lydia could contact Tiffany, but we cant contact her directly.
Stunts dont work that way, unfortunately.
It does matter quite a bit. They don't know how charms work exactly, but the general impression this gives wouldn't be inaccurate because most of them use at least a little. They're already guessing in the right direction, the wizards don't need explicit numerically quantified confirmation.VOTE
[X] Open Calibration's Gate to the Heart of the Labyrinth (-4 Essence)
RATIONALE
While we might top up on Essence by slaughtering our way through the guardians of the Labyrinth?
Our actual goal is retrieving the wizards, minimizing the amount of time the Hollow Man has them at his mercy.
And thats a time-sensitive affair.
So might as well go straight to the center of the tootsie roll.
Especially since the Hollow Man might take his captives and bail if we take too long getting to the center.
And there's a narrative appropriateness in busting in on the proprietor of this particular Overlook Hotel.
Besides, there's almost certainly Labyrinth guardians at the center of this Labyrinth to eat for Essence.
So might as well.
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Presumably because it doesnt matter all that much?
This is Ancient Sorcery, not a Charm. And a lot of our charms dont use Essence to activate either.
Its a datum, but not a huge one.
Plus, the only conscious people here who arent party members or Sanctuary special forces are Langtry and McCoy.
No Outsiders here, because Molly is still in shintai
This is giving away information for free. Sure we have ways to get power they don't know about, but this is a significant step towards decoding how Molly works.
That's just not true.
I dont agree.
When she spends demon chi on hellweaving we recover 1 essence for every 2 points spent.
He didn't disbelieve it, he just wishes that he didn't need to deal with the implications of what he's hearing.
We have a perfect shaping defense, and not having one would be highly unfortunate in a situation like this one.
Are shaving defenses work with either essence or willpower
As long as we have any amount of willpower we are not any more vulnerable at two Motes as we are at 10.
Being mote tapped dramatically increases the chances of these things happening and makes those situations harder to deal with.
No, there's nothing to exorcise.
You know we can making up splendors but we have jack shit in time or resources to make them most of the time.
Splendors only take a couple hours to make.
quite honestly the white council fucking owes us and we still have plenty of bargaining room. Ask for some regents there's no way they don't have things stored over the centuries. You know in exchange for helping the minds, healing injured, and giving them info.
1) Wizards dont have warehouses full of Splendor reagents. They dont make Splendors.
1) doesn't matter if they have warehouses we're not asking for warehouses there's no way they haven't stored corpses of monsters, demons, and other things over the centuries there's just no way no one thought of it or ever didn't collect some for study.
This the highlighted is completely true. That isn't what bronze tongue was saying or what the situation is. We aren't empty though and yet again we don't have a perfect defense so the only uses of our Essence that actually defends us that cannot be replaced with willpower is our Excellency.
Nobody said anything about Exalts not being dangerous when out of motes. The quote from DP speaks for itself.
1) People cant give you what they dont have. This is the Dresden Files, not DnD.
Goodwill nonsense.
Very specifically we don't have a perfect physical defense so both of our defenses are capable of running off of willpower so the second statement is wrong.
Not even saying that we are more vulnerable when we're low on Motes it's very specifically about a hypothetical situation where they made a decision about how to run the quest that got us killed you know where we don't decide to run when we're outgunned and out of essence or we don't decide to do something other than slam our head against the wall and fucking die.
This "Goodwill" you speak of doesn't seem to be very useful because even forgetting that Mai was totally willing to let Merlin die for politics (and don't tell me that everyone on the Senior Council would support her in this because we had MacCoy on our side and he wasn't happy but realized that fighting with this at the moment wasn't great) the things we need for them, the increase in arms sales, joint attacks on the Reds, them helping the FCF fit into the world economy, better contacts with more friendly factions etc, don't need goodwill but trust, which needs time to grow and the way Molly moves in such short bursts we don't have time to wait, and we were proven in this event that the WC high government may like us but doesn't trust us.
Honestly complete agreeance I had some pretty sour grapes with the white Council as a whole before this incident started. The grapes are now poisonous in how sour they are. If these people cannot Supply some material Aid in exchange for the help given to them then they are literally worthless because they can't Supply Military or situational or even really magical Aid in a lot of situations. If they can't even Supply material Aid fuck'em.
M'kay.
It isn't. The point of the quote was to bring attention to the fact that the person writing the story you're reading sees a direct relation between remaining motes/mote expenditure and the player character's chances of getting killed.
Thank you. There's a big difference between a reasonably confident guess, and confirmation certainty.
