To be honest was more a personal joke omake then not and your right getting out matched was cheap though intended for it to be the initial trade off to really get the bad llblood brewing in which cas if i rver did continue this it would be time for her to cometwly overwhelm Tyr. Sorry about the grammar and such was getting rather late where I was which is also why this response took so long. I'll fix it up when I get the time, points are my necessary since this is technically just a play off Simon Jester.
Honestly this was more just a joke omake then intended to be taken seriously an d it's cause the elements from your Lorelei had found on really lined up with Lokiquest and some things going on behind the scenes. behind the scenes. Also it seems I misjudged the time period an d other factors so I'll spruce or up later.If this is meant to be 'my' Lorelei Luthor, the one from The Grand Tour... Uh, you do realize that Lorelei Luthor lived during World War Two, right? She was born in the early 1910s and died, uh... that should actually be up to @King crimson but she's dead as of game start in the '90s. I imagine her dying some time around Lex's tenth birthday.
I can't comment as to whether she ever learned any magic (if so, it was after 1938). She is quite familiar with repeating firearms. Millie carries several.
Also, they're/their.
...I would be very surprised if Circe would try to induce Lorelei to go looking for the Holy Grail and she would be an absolutely terrible choice to send searching for it if you knew anything about the Grail lore.
With that said, getting into spear range of Mildred is probably a good idea. She was a competent pistolera, a good martial artist, and one of the deadliest sharpshooters of the WWII era... but armed combat with large hand to hand weapons was not her strong suit and would probably be the easiest way to defeat her if you could get into range before she blows a few new orifices through you.
She would also have tactfully broken off any association with Circe before reaching a point where she would identify herself that way. One of the defining traits of Lorelei Luthor's personality is that she is very much a free spirit- she's not going to subordinate herself to a hierarchy and she doesn't really even want to operate within one, which is why she took the time and effort to reduce the otherwise fairly competent Leonidas Luthor (her brother) to enough of a puppet that she could control the resources of Luthor Industries when she felt the need, without getting bogged down running the thing.
Which is, in turn, why she's free to spend a year or two wandering Europe on the eve of World War Two.
Having not read Loki Quest, I just found the whole thing... odd.
The personality differences between Lorelei and Loki make it shaky; I haven't had time to flesh out Lorelei as a character as fully as Leland, so it may have seemed natural to you to just arbitrarily grab her and slot her in in the place of a different character who does things for very different reasons.
Again, be realistic; Mari's powers can only accomplish so much. If she's already at Martial 36 then further upgrades to her powers are likely to achieve minimal results. Alternatively, and this seems rather likely, the powers of metahumans at Superman's tier come in large part from traits.
For me, it's frustrating to imagine characters getting stats that are ramped up beyond the limits of their character archetype without any corresponding evolution. A big part of the reason I've spent my big piles of XP on omakes and Lex's noncombat stats was precisely to avoid that.
In a situation where we need some metahumans to fight, having Mari be strong would actually make sense and be nice. I'd just stop investing at like Martial 30 or something, because realistically when she's fighting, she's not going to be fighting alone without supports and 30 is pretty strong.
I may want to consult with you a bit about late 1930s Vlatava to see if there's anything I should know; that can wait.
Well, I'd actually be using two sets of characters- one set from real life on the social side, and at least one character who's quite free to travel.
[hugs]
Mildred in her prime is on the same general tier of Martial/Intrigue as her great-niece Mercy fifty years later. Mildred has a trait associated with rifle markswomanship and is very good in that specific field; as I alluded to earlier, if she were in the Red Army as a sniper she'd have been a serious contender for one of the deadliest snipers of the war. However, by sheer coincidence the author who decided to knock her out of the action almost immediately off-screen DID pick probably the best possible way to do so- somehow ambush her at very close range and start smacking her around with a large melee weapon.
She's good enough at judo and savate that she'd probably be able to handle herself in an unarmed close-range fight or against an ordinary attacker with a knife, but someone who uses a spear very effectively would be tough for her and she might plausibly be wounded and put out of action.
The part that's most out of character here is that Lorelei is kind of... a bit panicked and seeming to grasp at straws in a way that I don't think she would, even staring down a gun barrel. Aand that she seems to kind of think of herself in a subordinate role to Circe, which isn't really... her. I could imagine it if Circe had managed to put a spell on her, but, well. She's got enough willpower (differently specced than Lex but approaching Game Start Lex in terms of talent) that she'd be very difficult to ensorcel, especially on long detached missions. Fairly likely to break out from under mind control.
I think it's because Lorelei is just being straight-up plugged into place as a replacement for another character from a completely different scene and setting. It's as if we had Mercy and Rose going to retrieve an item from some random thieves who'd stolen it from us and they abruptly started quoting the dialogue from the famous scene in Pulp Fiction where Jules and Vincent go retrieve the briefcase.
It'd be kind of hilarious to have Mercy and Rose talking shit like that, but quite out of character. And in my case I haven't read the original source material from the Loki Quest. So it's just confusing, as if I hadn't seen Pulp Fiction and were thinking "yes, I can imagine Mercy and Rose going in like badass hitwomen and doing those things, but why are they behaving the way they do while doing it?"
[I once got good mileage repurposing that Pulp Fiction scene as a space battle of all things; long story.]
Not gonna lie, that was... an issue for me.
I think @DreamCWeaver somehow got the idea that Lorelei is unfamiliar with multiple-shot firearms or something? Not sure.
[Also, oddly, Mildred's main personal defense weapon for situations where combat is reasonably likely but specialized weapons aren't likely to be needed IS a British gun. Specifically, a British Lee-Enfield bolt-action rifle, such as was used by the British Army during both World Wars. It's very well suited for making fast, precise shots. She also typically carries a Colt .45 automatic handgun, and occasionally something fancy depending on the situation.]
I'll try to get the part played closer next time [if there is a next time] . Hopefully when it's not 2am for me.
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