Alratan said:
If he doesn't have the talent he doesn't have the talent. It may be more efficient to concentrate on making him a Baddass Normal rather than trying to force him into a category he doesn't fit into. Our magic should be capable of helping with that. Augmentation and Divination could help him learn to be a crack shot
My reasoning was more that, with magic-using spiritual guy like Alex around to help with it, we could perhaps just cheat our way around natural talent through pure power (like, say, give him super-advanced ways of seeing ki and how it works)
...I worry about Larry; looking at how Buffyverse treats normal humans, I want to give him something to keep up.
(Also, I think that Amy is going to be the main source of long-term benefits for Larry's gun stuff... she's the one who'll be crafting stuff, after all, since she won't have the raw power that we do)
I'm not sure that Ambrose is precisely a force for good. We can probably work with him though. One of the things we'd previously decided to do when we had time and mana was to examine the binding on us in more details as we thought we might be able to learn from it. We probably want to do that before we visit the UK and potentially meet him again.
I think he would; he's been raising Altria, far as her supernatural abilities go, and I think we can all agree that she's one of the most good people we know.
We'd need to get Lu-sensei to agree. There's also the question about whether Altria actually uses or wants to use ki. It seems that she uses magic to enhance her physical abilities and perform her special combat techniques rather than ki. We can't assume it's comparable.
She seems to be using something like our own Max. Power (and it sure didn't seem purely mana-based, what she did).
Which means that there's some ki going around there, and that's something Lu-sensei could teach her.
If, indeed, he was willing (though I think he would be - technique trade seems to be something he approves of, given how he was cool with us showing stuff to the ninjas, and there's no question that Ambrose is a better magical teacher)
On a related note, I've been rereading to look for dropped plot hooks recently, and we and Altria agreed to discuss the contents of the symbolic visions we saw of each other when we were in private. We neglected to do so in Japan, so should remember to when we write to her. We know that letters to her move at the speed of email, after all, so we can probably have a conversation pretty easily.
Do it during the summer party with our international friends?
Would have an added benefit in that her parents would be less likely to end up reading the papers.
Alratan said:
And possibly after we've found a way to manage Traumatic Memories. I wonder if this is something that prayer/communion with Naryu would help with. We probably need to find some appropriate sacrifice or service to give to her.
Talked about that in the previous thread; asking the goddesses for help seems pretty natural, since we can just summon a being aligned to one of them to ask for help (like we did with our awesome Goron buddy).
Would also give us an opportunity to ask them what they'd want us to do here, on Earth.
SuperSonicSound said:
Oh dear a Goddess of wisdom on twitter.
"Din, I know you like the boy, but can we not talk about him during poker night. #DamnReincarnation"
"Farore, hunting is not something you do with stars. #ThingsIShouldNotHaveToExplain"
"Made all the laws, but some white-haired boy is telling me I can't hang out where I want."
Alratan said:
OK. We should certainly do this. We have the technology magic. The precedent of Moloch is helpful in this respect. Conjute one of her servants and have it possess a computer, and ask it to create a direct uplink to her.
Do it with Din first, if anyone.
Din should always come first.
