Maeve isn't a role model, and she was basically important enough to do what she wanted on her home turf unless Mab was annoyed by it. Formalwear doesn't always mean a tux or something, white robes seem reasonable for the Eldest Gruff. Odin and Erlking were basically in the uniform for their mantles.
Nobody else was pulling stunts like them that I recall.
Dresden does it multiple times without comment from anyone else in the setting.
The first time he seeks audience with the Fae Courts in Summer Knight, he does so in street clothes.
Both when he goes to Maeve's Court and gets a formal audience, and when we see Aurora's entourage.
When we see Winter Knight Lloyd Slate in Maeve's Court during that visit, he's in street clothes.
When Dresden summons his godmother for an audience? Street clothes.
When he seeks audience with Mab in the Law as her Knight, street clothes.
Both times he officially seeks Odin's audience, both when he went to see him in his Norway HQ during Changes, and when Odin comes to Chicago in Skin Game? Streetclothes.
When he stumbles into the Erlking's Court? You guessed it, street clothes.
I can count once he's ever worn a tux to see the Fae, and that was when someone else arranged his wardrobe.
The sum of the evidence suggests that no, its not considered an issue.
If you have a formal invitation to a formal event or meeting, then not dressing up might be a faux pas, maybe even an insult, especially if there's a prescribed dress code.
But it doesnt appear to be an issue most other times.
This is entirely playing a game, and to be honest I'm more annoyed you're denying it than by tbe difference in approach.
The explicit intent is to manipulate through apperance because the Summer fey are even more obsessed with it than than the most picky mortal. You're just trying to sell your preference as the default natural one that doesn't present issue. Which is sort of funny Molly would be context sensitive in the mortal world and show up with a more formal image to small claims court than a negotiation with Titania.
I dont agree. You dont play games when talking potentially critical shit like this.
Manipulating through appearance requires that you know how the other side will react to said appearances, which gets chancy when you're throwing in touchstones and signifiers from an alien culture.
I would not really have an issue if we were invited to a formal social meeting and people wanted to play dressup.
Those are high profile, but not all that high stakes, and game playing is explicitly on the menu.
But this? Clarity would be a priority in my book.
There's a time and place for games. This aint it. IMO.
Secure contact info maybe, but I'd be shocked if Ivy has permission to sneak into the heart of Summer. That's way too significant a weak point to prevent to a foreign power, even a friendly one.
There's also the potential issue of someone noticing and taking a shot because they detected an invisible person but not exactly who they were. The Archive is impossibly good, but there's a difference between hiding from a seeking party in neutral space and walking into the heart of someone's power undetected.
The high fey have some very effective members, and in that place they're backed by everything from wards to the local nature of the nevernever being biased in their favor.
I wouldnt.
The Archive, and whoever set her up, predate the current Queens, and if IIRC, predates the establishment of the Queens as the ruling/controlling element of the Fae Courts, and the Courts in their current form, at least in canon. Five thousand years. Given the complementary roles of both, you're looking at potentially some serious legacy code involved here.
And that fight with the Denarians in Small Favor gives us scaling for the Archive that gets very impressive.
Especially the point where she veils so hard that the coven of demon-possessed immortals who had literal Fallen Angels looking out of their eyes couldnt see her in an area where they had borrowed power from Lucifer to set up what the Fate universe would call a bounded field.
Hiding from the Queens? Unlikely at best.
Anyone else? I'd find it plausible that she might be able to pull it off.
We are really consistently not taking chances to change things.
This is minor, recognition from Summer will come anyway, but it's still a point where we waste opportunity.
The biggest one was not using the White Court evidence of course, but it's still a frequent issue besides that.
We are making far too few waves, beyond what we can't avoid by being what we are.
I'll be honest, if this were my game rather than a group effort, I probably would have started by jumping into the big-kids pool and then just tried to survive for the next few arcs.
Something like making an enemy out of Mab by freeing the Winter Knight, or going aggressively after the Thule from the moment we had the list, or rooting out the rot in the White Council with fire and sword. Whatever.
Just making a big splash on principle and then enjoying the desperate fight for our life that follows.
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We arent roleplaying a blank slate though.
Our PC is an existing character with a backstory and characterization and existing investment in the setting not blowing up and collateraling her friends and family. Someone with enough prior supernatural knowledge as to have some idea from the beginning why not playing a bull in a china shop.
Roleplaying that person and their priorities is why we're Molly Carpenter and not some random OC Exalting into the Dresden Files Universe.
As for making too few waves?
In the last six or seven months, just counting significant kills, we have killed the
- Eldest Fetch,
- The renegade Valkyrie Kattrin Sigfridsdottir
- A greater akuma of Kakuri
- Two senior White Court vampires, including the White King's nephew and a Ducal House head
- A lesser Walker of the Outsiders
- The daughter of the Red King and her entire entourage of low-generation Rampires.
Molly has averaged a major kill every month, month and half since she Exalted.
In addition that? We have exorcised the Winter Lady of a Nemesis infestation.
Helped mediate a peaceful Mantle change in Winter of one of Mab's senior operatives . Foiled a White Court coup attempt and helped purge the plotters, preventing White Court entry into the Vampire War and the deaths of Cauldron members.
We delivered a Thule Society middle manager to the White Council.
Set up the Final Death of the Corpsetaker at Arawn's hands and the death of an Archmage Marauder in Boston at the hands of Odin's people. Exorcised Lasciel's foothold in Dresden around six or eight months early.
Molly literally just incarnated an entirely new class of supernatural in Lash less than two weeks ago IC.
And thats just the big stuff.
I have no idea where the argument of making too few waves is coming from.
Hurricane Molly has been in full effect since she Exalted.
