Is an open invitation to alter the mind of the summoner in a way more to the demon's liking different from an invitation to heal someone else?
In that case, couldn't the emergency boost to Integrity simply be justified as being the side effect of summoning a demon not to specifically to alter her mind, but to do something else (i.e. crush a demon she couldn't normally defeat, close a rift, etc.)?
She'd still be cribbing off the demon's notes. Integrity is the ability used to survive that without mental damage; using it to boost Integrity will do something, but even in the best case you'd be rolling the dice.
So you're basically saying that there's no way for Integrity to be boosted by an emergency buy without any sort of drastic side effects. And that even in the case where we're buying it due to something directly trying to squish her brain (i.e. Nyarlathotep, etc.) the extra dot we gain is likely going to come with more permanent side effects (subject to dice roll) than the week-long coma like we got for buying Biokinesis.
Overgrowth. But you don't know about that one yet, and I doubt it'll come up.
I remember that, it already came up once during the training dice rolls.
It's closer to being an attribute than anything. To provide a slight spoiler, it's the psionic equivalent of an Essence score. Though the exact mechanics will have to wait.
My first assumption was that it would result in her winding up in a coma for a week - but if "time estimates" strictly means just "training time estimates" and not "time management for the quest" as a whole, that still means Overgrowth is going to take a while to train and probably everything else will get put on ice until it's done.
One can wonder if certain skills could eventually help remove some of the cost, though one would have to guess which one it would be then. One option would be I guess getting closer to what the actual charas abilities are.
Probably, but I doubt it was in the more likely ones.
It's extremely unlikely. Without spoiling much, I can only say that Utau would never be able to see such a timeline.
If my guess on her backstory was correct and Kana was getting special treatment from the staff/had a doctor who cared about her, I would be inclined to think that, had she never killed anyone to begin with, she wouldn't have wanted to leave.
No. 🤐
There is no other "psionic training school", that was her old school Seiyo Academy. According to the QM, Amu's type of abilities are new and the first one to ever exist was Utau's brother, Ikuto. Even her school principal, Tsukasa, is apparently not a Psionic depsite having precognitive powers.
So she would have to wait for Seiyo Academy to be rebuilt (well, the middle school section anyway) to go back to it. Unless she wants to lend herself to Manticore human experimentation researchers, which I would not vote for.
I also would like Lore 2 for narrative reasons but i think Amu thinking of testing out of school is unrealistic (well, at least right now), for one, her friends would still be going there.
I wonder how amenable her friends would be to Amu teaching them One Weird Trick to study faster after this?
I'm of the opinion that she wouldn't actually need to "test out", in order to free up the time that would nominally be needed to be spent sitting in class.
