Wanted to see that we'll have to tell at one point or another, right now was indeed out, but there is an expiration date for that whole thing.
That's fair, and I don't expect to keep it secret forever either.
It's just that as a general principle I think it's important to avoid sharing information in a contested environment. Even if other people can learn something every bit they have to find alone is work that they need to do, and an opportunity to get distracted or make mistakes.
It's also worth noting that obvious can be a fluid sort of thing depending on perspective and expectations.
If you're looking for a centuries old jade vampire you're pretty sure just recently got to town you're unlikely to start looking in places where you'd find data on a 17 year old who's barely left it.
They didn't see Molly till she was at the door, they have no idea how we got here.
If we send the car away and get picked up somewhere discreet it could be a considerable period of time before they figure out the connection.
People aren't stupid, but human bias is incredibly exploitable and the less information people have the more they tend to fill in the blanks with what they expect to find.
Yeah, that's more than fair. What would you suggest? How should I change it? The main thrust of the vote is not the stunt, to be honest, but "wipe the computer while planting HMP into it".
I think you pretty much have it. My primary change to your current revision would be to try using Clippy first so that we can avoid using HMP in front of grandpa Skavis, but that's a paranoia thing rather than a construction detail thing.
We are taking the girl as a minion. So they are going to find out anyway. So best get it out now and not later when it can explode jn our face.
Secrets can explode, but this really isn't the time. This one is also not itself terribly likely to cause backlash is revealed at a later date.
Right now the only thing keeping the connection in play is coercion, I think we need to establish a little familiarity before attempting to make gestures like this.
Let me see if I've got positions in this debate correct here:
1a. Use Greene's Evidence ASAP or in October as she planned to cause serious damage to the White Court and kill the Elder Skavis right now, probably the younger one too.
1b. Use Greene's Evidence ASAP or in October as she planned to cause serious damage to the White Court, let the Elder and Younger Skavis live for now
2. Hold onto Greene's evidence, lay groundwork to minimize collateral damage and/or be able to oppose the Fomor on an institutional level before using it, let the Elder and Younger Skavis live for now
Is there anything I am missing here?
For my part what I want to do is less wait until we can take the fomor as arrange for actions against those responsible in a timely but subtle way.
The library would be the big lever for this, and it would also serve as a test. Protecting against this stuff is sort of in their area, so passing the data and collaborating on cutting out the white court in a secure way would solve the problem without causing general chaos.
If they can't or won't act that tells us things about them as an organization, and we have to handle the problem ourselves.
I don't think one person can shut something this large down, but that doesn't mean we should ignore it.
To extend DP's metaphor a bit, my issue with Greene's plan is that she wants to go fishing with dynamite at a public beach at the highest traffic hour of the day.
What if Nemesis was *trying* to destroy them so that people think it wants them dead and hesitate just like you are?
What if the way it was trying to destroy them was the actual reason and not the fact that it was the white court? Like, for example, if the goal was to introduce political instability and they were the easiest targets to make it so.
The fact that Nemesis is trying to destroy them is not indicative of them not being evil and that we should not try to oppose them, at most it is indicative that we'll have to make sure to keep some stability while doing so.
Evil is evil, necessary evil does not exists.
This sort of what it gets you stuck in an infinite loop of second guessing whose stopping point is arbitrary.
In my mind it's better to assume that even when some goals are hidden people's actions will still proceed towards satisfying some desire they have. Or at least attempt to do so in their view if things.
Nemesis is competent enough that I expect it to have more of a flexible priority list it tries to fill than a single brittle plan.
I agree that nemesis disliking you doesn't mean you're a good person or that you should get to do whatever you want, but it does warrant making sure that the situation doesn't change in a way that benefits the Outside significantly if at all avoidable.
