Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27460754-20160124200151/@comment-27713488-20160401085520

But please, continue with the personal remarks that you were warned about last time, it really helps your case. My case? The heck, man. No one's on trial here. Well, okay, guess I've been more offensive than I thought if you feel this kind of hostility is warranted, and I do admit I could've worded that less personally. So, apologies.

everything she has done, others have done without going through her transformation as I can't imagine that getting caught would have been any easier on Histara for example, so her deeds are not as singular or monumental as implied. Carina went out into the wastelands with her men, confronted Simon after shadowing him, and I think working and sleeping with an IK trumps standing outside the prison Dari was held in terms of how much trouble one could get. My point wasn't that this required her to be an Unwoman; it was that this isn't what a person does when they're the kind of person who takes the safe/easy route. The safe/easy route here was to leave Dari in a hole forever, especially since Unpeople like Vhala are subject to execution for even a hint of disloyalty. Besides, Vhala probably didn't have overwhelming backup when she was fighting The Incubus King's army. If you recall, Vhala never actually entered the hole, that was Simon, Robin, Aka, and Carina, and since Vhala still had that spell up, she could easily call on those unpeople and take down those guarding the rope with her if it came down to it. She didn't enter the hole because it would've been needlessly difficult to slip her through the anti-Unperson barrier, and then slip two Unpeople - her and Dari - back out. It wasn't for lack of willing. She didn't have that spell up - that was the Unforge, a legitimate investigation which would not have gotten every Unperson involved executed if discovered. If it were a matter of travel or saving time, then yes your point about efficiency being a virtue would be valid...but we are talking about wisdom and enlightenment, things you cannot 'take a faster route' to without making a hard sacrifice for Why not? Some people gain wisdom much faster than others. They're not all doing progressively greater corner-cutting; they just learn better.

But more specifically, in this case she removed her libido and probably her reproductive drive. Now they're not a distraction anymore. Think of it as an addiction. Addiction is hard to overcome, requiring a not insignificant amount of time and willpower. But... what if you just weren't addicted in the first place? That's cognitive load, lifted. That's time you don't have to spend on that problem. Thus, it's a shorter route. On the more lighter subject of the architect succubi, I recall Yarra's comment being in relation to spells and preservation magic, and we've seen plenty of examples in the Orgasmic empire that succbui can sustain both buildings and cities. The Empire enslaves other intelligent races; I suspect they do a lot of the work. But on the other hand, we do see some succubi who just happen to get off on whatever their job is, or at least parts of it. It's not impossible.