Any competent investigation would still reveal that we are a known associate of Thomas Raith, that we visit the site of CS, and that we do enjoy the benefits of CS. We might not be on paper, but the most probable explanation is that the reason for that is because we are underage. Incidentally, after we are 18, we should appear on paper, at least in my opinion
The problem here is that you're inviting an investigation we don't actually need to deal with and then assuming people will react the way you want them to.
Especially since the report coming back with evidence contradicting the paperwork doesn't end in the conclusion "well alright then, that's a claim confirmed" it comes with suspicion and scrutiny to manage.
I disagree with the idea of formally signing on. There's no benefit to it. We want the money, getting acknowledgment doesn't spend and does generate an irregularity that could cause problems.
Sure we could probably deal with it, but that's like refusing to use lids because you can just clean up any spills. We have better things to do than mop the floors.
The goals are as follows:
1) Establish a narrative of why Molly is rich which is as close to true as possible, and would stand up to scrutiny.
2) Shift the narrative about Molly. Right now she's a drug-addict (or a drug dealer) black sheep of Carpenter's family, and bad influence on Rosie. I am, frankly, surprised we are allowed to interact. I want to shift the narrative to where interaction with us is, if not encouraged, than at least treated as an opportunity / something neutral.
1) Standing up to scrutiny and resulting in a useful conclusion under examination are different things. Concluding that she's rich, but that something entirely nonsensical and suspicious is tied up in it is not a useful conclusion.
Presenting ourselves as a newly made mafia capo for example would also imply significant money and power, but wouldn't make them particularly enthusiastic about taking our help. Not that what you're doing is that bad, but it illustrates the point.
2) That narrative is bad, but that doesn't mean every possible replacement is equally good and useful.
Honest question - what are we lying about? The only lie I can see is the one mentioned in discussion - the one where Thomas invested into the business (he didn't need to, he works for us for magical benefits). Otherwise, the story of "we have developed a new and innovative way of making synthetic diamonds, and are making and selling them" is entirely true.
On running tech demos - that's only if they ask, one time, and as a mix between proof and a bribe.
We're lying about developing a new way to make diamonds. Specifically in that we have some technology that does the job.
We have a charm for it, but we can't teach, build it, explain it, or develop new things from it. We lack the basic understanding of the principles a mundane group would need to match our capabilities.
This means that there a multiple aspects of the business and our decisions that will make no sense to an external observer.
Things like the lack of IP protection, the inability to sell or license the process, a production rate that varies with our time and income needs independent of apparent infrastructure changes, stuff like that.
If we got a 10 billion dollar buy out offer tomorrow we'd have to turn it down.
Chicago Synthetics doesn't act like any kind of normal technology company because it isn't, and our claims being literally correct doesn't really matter when everything around that is clearly off.
We're not operating in a court room where being demonstrably correct on a technicality means you win. If you act suspiciously people will scrutinize you at minimum.
The issue I have with your plan is that long-term it requires more background work and explanations. As mentioned previously, we have way too much money, and we are way too open and free with using said money to go for a low stakes easily believable explanation
More background work doesn't equate to a significant amount itself.
We don't owe them an itemized summary of our expenses or anything. All we needed to do was make the parts they see look like normal quality stuff and avoid showing them things that make look like there's cash going into nonessentials.
Moot point with the vote closed though.
Chicago Synthetics is a one hundred percent US capitalized
Think it would make him feel better or worse if he knew that we technically rely heavily on illegal cyber devil immigrants to do any job we don't feel like doing ourselves?
