Russ is a Federal agent, though from the Bureau of Paranormal Investigation.
Given her background, I think Shego
DEFINITELY won't appreciate us siccing the FBI on her territory without her knowledge or consent.
Remember that under the Masquerade, she is still
trying to keep up the pretense that her territory is federal jurisdiction... which means it would make trouble for her if the feds start nosing around her territory. Presumably she has some kind of understanding with the federal government about what they will and will not investigate... but Agent Russ rattling around on the side would violate that investigation.
I think it's more that Hego was attached to Bueno Nacho rather than someone poking around in her terf.
Yes, but the point wasn't the specific
nature of the provocation.
The point was that when she feels she's been provoked, she reacts swiftly and decisively to eliminate the provocation.
She does not stop to think "hm, how can I turn this unwelcome intrusion to my advantage, how is it actually not bad that this happened?" That's Xanatos' schtick. Because Xanatos is a master of
intrigue.
Shego, by contrast, is a mistress of
martial. Shego's reaction to provocations, intrusions, or people giving her a problem is to clench her fist and give them a nice brilliant neon-green balefire hello.
Therefore, intruding on her territory or into her plans without permission is unusually risky.
I am afraid of the same happening to Janna. She's just so much better at Occult than Tobe's squad, and before they showed up she was our only. The trials of being irreplaceable, I suppose.
Well, at least there's a light at the end of that tunnel if we can get the castle over here.
Another problem is that the Occult actions are so high-DC that even with a hero they're pretty high risk. There aren't actions we feel safe taking heroless the way we might with "investigate the cape scene" or "stop the resistance."
Most of them probably only increase loyalty, or make her more settled in DEI. Maybe Prank your Coworkers and Disappear for Two Months might help alleviate I got a little bored?
That's... actually rather clever.
Because when people talk about adapting Khan,like it's a moral duty, that actually love-key offends me. Because Khan hasn't expressed a huge desire to do so. Like, we didn't get a loyalty bonus from him learning English. We did from throat singing and training. This suggest. personally to me, that Khan isn't interested in modernizing per-say, he doesn't mind it, but it isn't what makes him happy. And like, it makes me feel a lot like the way those different, disabilities or non-neurotypical, get treated. Clearly they can't be happy being so disabled. Autism needs to be taught how to be masked. Prosthetic should focus on mimicking abled-bodied people rather than what is actually useful, etc, etc.
Like, yes I suspect high rolls on these will have good effects but this monofocus on Khan as modernizing as the way to actual self-actualization honestly kinda bothers me. My favored action is steed, because that feels like one he actually wants, rather than our projections of what he should want. But since we want to get him a dino-steed, it's a wait. Honestly, if we are going to favor a single action for him, apartment, which allows his own space, feels like the one that is most focused on giving him something, rather than our projections of what he should be.
[grunts]
That's fair.
Personally I don't feel a
pressing need to teach Genghis Khan science and history and whatnot to "modernize" him. I
do think we should get him an SSN (just to avoid potential complications) and pursue the other personal actions that strike me as more self-actualizing.
Simon checked on this a while back, we can do partial upgrade. And I'm betting that OS actions are going to be much more effective after we've researched the major AI actions.
I wouldn't be surprised at all, yeah.
We should be patient and let ourselves spin out the clock a bit on the OS rollout. We were styling all over ENCOM with DoofOS v1 for like a year before they rolled out their new product. We can afford to wait.
I'm not sure what you take the Khan for. Of course he would prefer to be understand modern technology.
Would he prefer to understand than to not understand? Sure. Almost any person will generally prefer being able to 'do' than to 'not do.'
But is it what he
really wants, when he has no steed and no home of his own? I think not.
Besides, a dinosaur mount is probably a bit off. We need to take what is presumably a Stewardship action in order to do that.
It's a Learning action. We're specifically discussing taking it next turn.
Like to give another example I've talked about how I think that Star could benefit from some better learning techniques then she got from her previous teachers. But, if she's not interested in trying them, then we don't treat teaching her as a favor to her. But as a strategic actions for us. I just... I care about respecting people's wants for themselves. Not what we think they should want.
In mitigation/complication, I'm pretty sure one of Star's personal goals is "eventual revenge," and her learning more magical or martial skills would probably help with that.
Yes I do.
Simon_Jester and I both want to get him an SSN due to how low cost it is for how much potential use it could have in the future. I personally want it next turn because it could affect the Xanadu quest. I have already expressed my desire for Khan to have an apartment.
I'm honestly baffled at what you are suggesting. We should keep Khan's wants in mind by continuously throwing him at actions that he simply doesn't understand due to us not putting in the effort into educating him in the time period we have resurrected him in. Wouldn't it be more respectful to educate him so he actually knows what he is doing?
That's not what Clockwork's been saying.
Just...
reread it, without the preconceptions.
Lately you've been bringing so many preconceptions to the table about how situations work. So many that it makes it actively harder for you to understand what other people who don't share your assumptions are saying.
Reread what Clockwork said with an open mind. Don't
assume you know what she wants done, or what she thinks. Just
read. Ask questions that are based on the assumption that if you don't know what she said, you need to fill in the blanks by asking, not by using your mighty powers of cogitation to deduce her answer (and end up with a strawman).
