Yeh it would have been fine as like epilogue of the issue but it immediately after beating SB kind sucks. Katie and Yara in FT is a win despite everyhting so it was fine. Same with Learning Hours was gonna tangle with the mysteries.
Yeh Hell WH cant interfere with us since if he did hed have to answer to other hours again since id be disobeying a direct order, which is probably why ND missions are back 1AP.
I would agree with this. Actual roll outcomes worse than "minor success" are quite rare, because typically only rolls in the neighborhood of crit failures are unsalvageable with omake points. In a hypothetical world where there is no safety net with omake points, I could easily foresee a real mission failure occurring and having to deal with that.
Hearing you say there's little tension right after a long post about why people feel like we have no wins is kinda funny. Just goes to show you people have vastly diverging views.
Nobody. Everyone had an assigned "if not selected" fate.
...that would have been terrifying.
Eh, I really do think Fast Pass, while still useful, got fairly devalued post the change in how potency boosting worked when looking at our candidates alongside the impending cap crisis.
Are you using "coping" in the classical sense or the memetic ("cope and seethe" etc.) sense?
It's funny you mention X-COM. Apart from it being one of my favorite series. When I first read through this quest (I only found it around the end of Issue 2), I actually was expecting a lot of hero mortality, if not total defeats. Primarily based on the opening scene where a massive amount of heroes just got slaughtered. But I see now that that was more of a way to reduce the active characters while still having a complex backstory. But yeah I kept figuring Handyman or someone was gonna die in action and then we would have to decide "Do we make a replacement for him, or do we try something new?" Obviously I have no complaints about the actual direction of the quest.
The real 'problem', as with most turn-based quests, is that we'll always have more Global options than we have global actions.
That tracks, given that the Americans only got Towarri because they were trying to catch the Mysteries and Towarri had one of their tattoos because she was raised in their cult (one of their cults, or branches?).
Same, honestly. Or maybe she'd have been forced to sit on the Throne, hanging on merely through sheer willpower??
I would personally say Fast Pass is extremely valuable purely because we don't necessarily want or need every new hero to be boosted by the full +3, which not only would be much more expensive but also require an extra turn of investment. Fast Pass gets us a good amount of tolerance boost for cheaper than +2 from spoonfuls (if I'm understanding the new system correctly) and lets us bring that candidate online in the same turn they're boosted.
To be fair Handyman took a 50% shot of death in Faustian. I think we will definitely face losses in the future.
But if we give her the weapon this turn, she can practice one kick 10000 times next turn.
My argument there is that we always are going to need to take the questline twice to get Leizi fully boosted and so it will get emphasized there somewhat as a 0 cost global action to slot in very easily while paying forward the ability to raise her to 7 hit quickly.
I'd be down for it. Unless we need to fight someone who needs a specific power to beat or properly punish. Like How Zeno is probably a good choice to Savings MG's by reverting to before they got FT Shards.
Fair enough and she should be able to train her Hit even in FT cause New Wonderland should be a decent base. If things go well we can have LL at Hit 8 for I5.
I don't know how much I trust Red Huntress Dynamite not to bite us in the ass if we keep doing it. The circumstances meant it worked out but since it seemed the scaling also pushed Ellie's normal personality down it could very easily lead to an "All Shall Love Me And Despair" situation if we get unlucky.
