The only difference between the two leaders seems to be triggering TLF. If TLF can be triggered outside of undertown so long as we are cooking for the purpose of feeding people in undertown then there should be no different between the two at all.
The difference between triggering TLF and not triggering it is quite big, tbh. -3 Difficulty is a loooooot.
You do cooking at home, you get to soak in bleach for Essence regen before coming here.
You do it down here, you start down at least -2 Essence from Tool Constructs and a Craft Excellency.
Thats a material difference to consider.
One of the major issues of cooking in undertown would be less the water, which can be filtered and boiled out of what is already down there and more getting rid of the waste heat, steam and smoke. TTC can do a lot but not make physical byproducts of that kind of wide scale cooking go away, so you are going to have some parts of the underground spewing smoke and/or steam which might well draw attention. That said this is not entirely a bad thing as Molly does want to draw in all her potential minions.
Really it depends on how subtle you want to be vs how challenging. I do not think I am surprising anyone to say you will probably face combat from the more territorial beings down there, not least because one of the best ways to avoid social combat (in which DPE gives Molly a hell of an advantage) is to pay the willpower to ignore it and then try your luck in combat.
Im surprised there's that much water available in the train station with no plumbing.
But fair enough.
Yeah, Im expecting someone very strong willed or deranged or drugged or whammied to Join Battle.
The world is full of fools who will test us.
Which is an argument for not spending Essence on food preparation down here, just in case we have to get in a fight.
Better to do it at home, take a bleach bath and come here rested.
It is but the problem if your tools can only be so large, they are tools not a factory. For the same reason you will need actual food to cook and water to boil you will also produce the appropriate among of waste heat/smoke/steam and if you are planning to feed ghouls... yeah that is not a little waste products.
Yeah, even with Mouse and Lydia there, I'd prefer not to be distracted with food prep down here.
Not on our first trip.
After we have at least established initial relations, I'd be willing to cook down here if we have water and waste disposal.
But doing so now with no bona fides, no arrangements and no time for our reputation to get around is just calling for unnecessary violence from desperate people who dont know any better.
And while I'm not averse to shanking fools, I dont think its healthy for Molly to just beatdown on the desperate and the mentally ill. Especially given as her personal weapons deal Agg. Its like walking into a poor, high crime neighborhood incognito while wearing expensive furs and dripping with gold and jewels.
You're just trolling for an excuse to Stand Your Ground at that point.
IDK, should be well within filtration capabilities of TTC, given the relatively simplicities of basic principles and wonders of miniaturization shown so far. That said, Yog or Uju can discuss technical details for its own sake, if they want to - I am really not up to effortposting about how to hide things we don't actually want to hide.
-I guess it might be a conceptual thing. Cooking is generally meant to put out the aromas of preparing food.
Industrial processes, as much as possible, are not.
-Hey I already did as much math as I willing to do on a Monday.
