davebarrack

Grrl Power #1365 - Like mother like golem

Added 2025-06-16 10:00:10 +0000 UTC

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The slow bleed is a actually a surprisingly effective move against Sciona. That is, assuming you can keep her from using any magic or activating any contingencies. Which is usually a pretty big ask. She has more proactive defenses against the overwhelming trauma style attacks, things that will activate automatically, but they necessarily lack discrimination or finesse. She prefers to deal with DoT attacks like bleeds or curses with a more considered approach, since those types of afflictions can potentially to be trickier to deal with, and by their very nature, give you time to explore option.

But simply bleeding out isn't going to kill her. At worst it'd make her need to find a new body, and that's assuming she couldn't revive the one she was forced to abandon.

Scion was intended to be a guard dog/assassin/heavy hitter, and be able to engage in some creative problem solving, but was never intended to be sapient. That makes for a different set of pre-loaded libraries that what you'd install in your sapient robot buddy project. Empathy is not something that a crate lifting, obedient knee-breaker really needs. It is pretty important if you're going to take your new artificial life-form in for show and tell. In fact, I would argue it's one of the very first libraries you'd want to install, once you get the dictionary set up.

And for the record, Sciona understands empathy, but mostly as an impediment to checking things off her to-do list.