Daniel Snuts
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Alabaster actually isn't a case 53. He's one of the very few natural triggers who had their appearance changed by their powers. Might be an interesting red herring/clue for Faultline's crew, and it would only take a single line of her noticing it when she sees him to adjust it.
Or you can keep it as is, of course. Not trying to tell you how to write your own fic lol
As you can see from the most recent chapter, Taylor did in fact notice that offscreen. Because I couldn't figure out how to best have her notice onscreen without interrupting the flow of things, decided to leave it for later, and completely forgot about it. Should probably go back and edit something in.
That charm doesn't work on humans.
It's not at full indestructibility, because it wasn't attuned to an Exalted's essence. You could do it with a craft check and tools suitable to working with Orichalcum. If Taylor attuned to a Daiklaive or Smashfist or whatever she makes out of her chunk, I wouldn't be so certain Flechette could damage it.
Orichalcum is indestructible. Flechette destroys everything, including indestructible things. Flechette wins, homefield advantage (this is the Worm setting).
I thought she wasn't using it in her Low Key disguise so that she could still get training (and thus healing)? IIRC, using the form charm, and benefiting from its effects means using said Marital Arts (which from their understanding, she has no such skill). Was she praying no one was paying attention to her (and that Clock's AAR wouldn't be obtained by the E88)?
Edit: guessing Tay hasn't realized that fact (that she deals Lethal damage while using Mantis style) or she wouldn't be believing herself to be a Brute 1
An unarmed strike uses Martial Arts regardless of whether you pop a form charm or not. So it can't hurt, and Taylor was in full 'I need every advantage I can get' mode, trusting that no one would notice/care about the particular stance she took. It's not obviously supernatural, after all.
She does carry a knife as Low Key, but a knife wound would be less likely to incapacitate him before he can Clockblock her (not that she's proficient in Melee either).
And no, she didn't know about the Lethal damage. It's almost as if the responsible thing would have been to try it out ahead of time, under controlled circumstances, with a healer present. Like, say, in some kind of dojo?
Also will Striker powers like charm of lesser unmaking work through magic hands?
Depends on the charm in question and its exact mechanics. In this case yes.
CoLU only unmakes up to the Exalts Essence in cubic yards, and I was going to try to calculate her effective Essence from that, but I don't feel like trying to wrap my head around Imperial units at the moment, so I'll leave that task to some other poor sod.
Taylor is Essence 3 - she increased it from 2 during her Newter-induced vision quest.
As I mentioned in the other thread but not here, for effects needing to know the 'Essence' of other people, regular parahumans are 2, second triggers 3, Eidolon 4, Endbringers 6, Scion 10.
Oh, and so far no one has figured out the other thing she got from the vision quest:
It has ridiculously thick power conduits drawing energy from... wherever the fuck it is powers draw energy from, you still get vertigo whenever you look in that direction. Whatever it is, it requires much more energy than any other power you've seen.
But it doesn't seem to do anything. There's no functional part. It just draws in a bunch of energy, carefully divides it up and... stops.