The travel abilities and Diabolism are really good for us though. Travel because it's cheap and DF doesn't have convenient supernatural options for that. Diabolism because we have a lot of options for pulling things from the hells, but relatively few that pull permanent or long lasting summons to apply them to.
Really we could probably get away with being really bad at summoning as long as we can do enough to get things to show up, because st that point we can use charms to deal with them instead of a a high quality binding circle.
I still like the idea of building robotic bodies to animate with cyber devils for physical minions, but we don't have a ruling what limits there would be on that if we're allowed to do so at all.
Even if it does work out there are resource, time, and subtly constraints on mini tanks built around shotguns and RC helicopters with suicide charges.
Human passing creatures like Binder's dumb muscle, or esoteric ones like the many monsters who can travel through mirrors even across a (weak) threshold have their uses.
That feels like killing a wasp with a cruise missile strike supposing it works at all.
If we're leveraging magic why not just use the cyber devil? Talking to it in class would be tricky, but it knows what the material is and can think much faster than a human if I recall what DP has said correctly.
Order it to study our school materials in advance, then put together a cheat sheet for Molly to memorize with that world class intelligence score. It's not even technically cheating to do it that way, and most of public schooling can be managed with rote memorization instead of actual thought.
If that's not enough, put a single low profile Bluetooth earbud and have it periodically whisper information selected from the cheat sheet that Molly struggled with in class. Though if we're going that far we might as well put another one in the school computer system and have to pass answers to the primary one in Molly's phone.
With our craft score low science is pretty sad. I doubt we can justify trying crazier designs without some theoretical grounding IC.
Now that you mentioned this I'm surprised that DP let us make the armor we did, and implied we could set up gem and gold production without intrinsically magical processes, with Molly's complete lack of understanding in regards to what she'd be trying to do.
1-2 dots in science and technology would go a long way for us.
1)Travel is something thats covered mostly from inside the Infernal charmset. We already own a car.
We unlock Flight in a month, pickup Windborn Stride in 2x months, and can open gates into the NeverNever to use the Ways with Sorcery once we buy Calibration Gate.
Also, we could just buy that truck in a couple months and the Sorcery spell Keel Cleaves the Clouds to make it fly.
Or just buy Cirrus Skiff.
2)We need good DF Summoning, because thats the same school as Warding.
If you want to keep unwanted guests out of a location, or to contain something magically dangerous, thats mandatory.
3)Magic robots is basically building golems, and is its own specialty of Crafting.
Expensive, and requires stuff we dont have yet for the good ones, like a Dragons Nest.
If you're talking about mundane robotic bodies, 2022 technology does not incorporate reliable field robots, let alone that of 2006.
And how much time do you think we would have to spend on daily maintenance of a bunch of robots?
Remember, we're not Tony Stark.
4)Does not actually help us. Cyberdemons dont qualify as teachers; they're not summarizing courses of knowledge for us.
And all that trouble to attempt to cheat instead of spending just leaves us vulnerable when we might actually need that knowledge.
Its not just there to clutter up the char sheet.
5)Molly has first hand experience with jewelry, her father's mail, and more. When we see her in Proven Guilty she's wearing gold nose rings. And she is able to literally look up explicit recipes on the Internet. Monkey-see monkey-do copies do not require understanding; most good blacksmiths of yesteryear didnt know what chemical process they were exploiting.
Now if she was trying to improve or document it for the use of others, she'd have trouble.
But not for using it herself.
That said, yes, we do need 1-2 dots in Tech and Science at a minimum.
