COMMENTARY
-Financial manager get. And honestly, its probably his most marketable trait.
He's a great fighter, but no displayed experience as a general. And while he has natural talent as a dissembler, he has never really displayed talent as a spy.
-Loling at Molly discovering Thomas is the White King's kid, and just reacting with resignation.
Yes, Molly, embrace the drama. It shall always be with you.
At least you dont have to pay much for medical and dental for Whamps.
-Not surprised Molly didnt get all that much about the complexity of Thomas' emotions for his sisters.
Especially the part where she catches the fear and respect for Lara but not the love.
-Interesting note about this AU:
Its confirmed in Proven Guilty that Whamps can change their preferred emotional wavelength of nutrition. Madrigal Raith explicitly did this when he went from feeding on lust to feeding on fear, and Thomas reaction on finding out was more disgust not windrr .
So if there's largely Skavis and Malvora down here, either they never learned how to shift, or are too traumatized by their families that even shifting to other modes of nutrition foesnt help with the damage.
If she is Nemesis infected already we either get a Nemesis infected cyberdemon or we severely crimp the infiltrator's style
Molly's cyberdevils have fiat-backed loyalty, so infection is unlikely.
But given as Nephandi and Black Spiral Dancers are both CoDs in ExWoD, I am reasonably sure Nemesis-infected people count as Creatures of Darkness for the purposes of Demonic Primacy of Essence.
Which should make for an interesting encounter if she's already been infected.
But she was infected through Kravos, wasn't she?
So, it is very probable that she is under Nemesis' control currently.
We dont know when it happened IC.
Could have been at any point in the timeline, and given that Papa Raith had dealings with Outsiders, could even have been inside the Raith household that it happened.
Nemesis allegedly says it was around when Justine started getting close to Lara ie around this time.
But Nemesis could be lying.
For the current vote, I think I would prefer to just start working and see if any ghouls or gribblies get curious and show up.
You do it the way you approach homeless people.
Funeral services would also offer a lot of despair to feed on regularly, specialise in open caskets and viewings and that should cover a lot of light feeding opportunities. Haunted houses and extreme adventure experiences would do fear, parachuting and bungee jumping would net a lot of fear, especially beginner courses.
It would be useful if Molly could make some kind of storage vessel for the needed emotions, maybe some kind of array in a building that traps the desired emotion and life force in a carafe or something as a liquid to drink.
A despair collector could probably work as a judge, or a prosecutor, or anything, really, related to criminal justice system. Hell, a private detective would be a good job.
Fear:
Horror movie theater. Rollercoasters. Hospitals, especially ERs and pediatric care.
Schools. County jail. Slumlord. Gan
Despair:
The prison system. Mental health system: suicide counsellors, inpatient psychiatric centers.
Homeless shelters and encampments. Foster homes. Terminal care wards. Nursing homes.
Casinos. Debt collection.
On the diamond bit tho. On one hand it's risky. Diamonds aren't expensive because they are that rare, they are expensive because they are very monopolized. It's basically a legal mafia.
Not as much any longer.
De Beers lost its grip on the diamond market years ago.
We'll probably need to up production and set up different revenue streams unless/until we go through with the lottery plans since minions are expensive.
Longterm our Hell is an option for people who wont fit here and trust us.
Mediumterm its always possible to buy a live-in farm outside Chicago and ship people there as a halfway house.
Its the short term thats likely to be ruinously expensive from a Molly "holy shit I need to drop seven figures yearly to meet their bare minimums " perspective. And that doesnt count getting them paperwork.
