Option 1: Scan Missy, don't find a core. NOTHING IS LOST
Option 2: Scan Missy, find a core, she shrugs and does nothing about it. NOTHING IS CHANGED
Option 3: Scan Missy, find a core, offer and have accepted deviceless training. Worry about tactics, nothing permanent lost
3a. She has years and years more experience at Hero-ing than Taylor and more than many adults, she knows when to use and not use tricks
3b. She decides to try using a flashy trick instead of her reliable powers
Option 4: Scan missy, find a core, she insists on device or template.
4a. Refuse, argue the superiority of her shard powers, ???
4b. Give her one, results vary wildly on strength of her core and presence of any random Rare Skill
Two of the options (the first statistically most likely, if no narrative weighting) have nothing at all change but now we know, and were able to act on fullest information. Two of the options rely basically on how much we trust Vista's experience and competency (which the QM just made a point to reassure on if you had doubts) and whether we want to try to control and micromanage her.
While yes, tactical players may well want to do exactly that for best results, I wonder if they apply that in all cases (QM has expressed their own views on say trustworthyness of unscanned-potential Kayleigh, and without IC and OOC emotion and pure tactics an extra mage with no shard to worry about would be high value) , and I certainly wonder if Vista is going to start wondering why we've never offered if she learns that Taylor is functionally a support Trump with little or no strings (any evidence PS tampered with Tim the way he did Samantha?)
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@Always Late , are you saying you haven't read any of my arguments, or that you find them non-factual, or weak arguments?
1. I've suggested the value of Kayleigh as another warm-body-linkercore
2. I've suggested how giving her a cape identity for us and a present-for-scanning friend to know would subtly level the playing field without directly aggressing over it so as to relieve tension in the relationship
3. I've brought up the issue of Taylors
extremely limited and precarious friend pool (She almost lost Vista to neglect once already) and I don't think we've had any arguments on the psychological benefits of a trusted sounding board/comrade (even if 65% ? parameter updated Taylor lacking QA-conflict is hard to speculate on psychological stability since Worm canon becomes suspect)
4. The QM commented on their view of Kayleigh's trustworthyness (they were the one to bring up the point of her lingering to try and FIND AND HELP US FLEE at the party attack) and decisionmaking, I've repeated those bits of evidence while pointing out that she kept Cailleach's secret all this time with no apparent leaks
If we want to talk a lack of facts, how about at least one "Never Again Kayleigh" voter outright admitting that there is no act or evidence that will ever change their stance on her?
