Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Yours also doesn't have Meizhen, or investigate the Dragon. Those two might be dealbreakers for some.
Meizhen's going to be fine on her own--and as I said, the Dragon isn't going anywhere--the social consequences of punching down against the other production things are going to show up if we do it after breakthrough.
Like, even if "Everyone knows it had to be Ling Qi", if we do it while we're still Second Realm, it's just "Welp, sucks to be you". It doesn't hurt our rep very much. If we do it after we're Third Realm, we stop being a daring phantom thief and become a bully then--for one more additional success on the Tests I might point out.
Just because other people are willing to punch down on us doesn't mean that we should fall to their level, especially for people who haven't offended us. The social connotations involved with us being Third Realm and being "Definitely responsible" are far nastier than "Everyone knows" that a second realm burgled them. The former is distasteful, the second is "Well, they knew they had a peer who was super good at sneaking around, they should have had better defenses then"
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