How Does Jinx Handle the Seraphine Situation?
[ ][Seraphine] Deny Everything: What Magic? That Was Just My New Hextech Thing!
[ ][Seraphine] Ask Mrs. Kiramman to keep this secret.
[ ][Seraphine] Challenge the Ethos: They're already changing the law for Hextech, why not include Seraphine?
Yeah no. Challenging the Ethos is something to be done
after Hextech has normalized magic somewhat, and you know, we've done a bit of work preparing the ground.
As to Deny or Ask...
She'd started off singing softly, almost under her breath, but by the end she was belting it out like a stage performer. Other stuff had been happening along with the song, I could see bits of blue and pink light glistening in the air, and at one point I could swear she was actually hovering in the air. Not that I really registered any of that when her singing had my full attention. It felt like she was pulling the words right out of my heart.
...
Before I could put any of that into words, I heard a loud clatter from the doorway. I looked over, and Mrs. Kiramman was standing there, her mouth hanging open in shock and a platter of sandwiches lying at her feet. "I thought ... you might want ... a snack. What is...?"
The options are deny or ask.
The thing is that Cassandra knows what Hextech does at this point. She's read the reports, probably went over them in great detail at the "So I'm funding Hextech Research" meeting because the Council finding out. Also she is probably
fully aware that no Jinx does not have any of the requisite materials
because really do not give explosive stuff to the only recently coming out of a malaise preteen:
Trauma
Severity: -2 -> -4
"This world is a wasteland. Please let me go."
So Deny is not about convincing her. It is entirely about giving that cover. And... I don't think anyone would actually
believe that cover if they knew about it. Cassandra is taking the same risks. It's asking while letting Cassandra off the hook.
And frankly on this - I think we want the hook. This is the most adorable that Seraphine is going to be - she's already
demonstrably safer than Hextech, and this is the reality of the mage plight. It is someone younger than 11 not hurting someone and putting a random individual who notices into a sudden plight by the laws. It puts Cassandra as having a piece of skin in the game for the fact that yes - we are going to be pushing for changing the criminalization of existence of mages at some point.
"Nothing can be done", "We can't change anything" - that's what I hear so often elsewhere. And the people saying it are rotten liars. Change of laws and systems can be done - but it takes work. It takes effort. And we just got someone slapped in the face by reality.
[X][Seraphine] Ask Mrs. Kiramman to keep this secret.
[X][Undercity] Invite Caitlyn
-Arguments:
1. Caitlyn can either come with her or Jinx is doing it by herself.
2. Jinx doing it by herself means that everyone gets to deal with her testing stuff in the field if anything goes wrong. So really Caitlyn would be doing a public service coming with.
3. Caitlyn was just talking about never having a chance to meet Mylo and Claggor. Ekko is Jibx's friend and the last surviving one in Zion. And Cailyn isn't one to make the same mistake twice.
4. Now shut up and put on these clothes so you don't look like a Piltie across the river - and stay silent until we get there!
Yeah I am not for pulling Seraphine with us. She's like nine? And Zion isn't doing great?
