That's not most people definition of a *hit*, for most people it's about hiring a hitman to do the murder for you, no matter the reason. It's why it's a *hit*man, after all.
And since the guy is there for personal reason, and not hired by someone else, this is not a hit, just a premeditated murder.
Not all hits involve hiring an outside party.
And in those cases, that would still be premeditated murder(hiring a hitman to kill someone) in furtherance of a conspiracy(conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to keep secrets).
Does he have a physical body? Yes? Then he's irrational.
There is no such thing as rational people given how emotions and physical reactions works.
But even without that: He is intimated by Molly when giving his explanation and took his vulnerable, not in the know relative to initiate her, this is not the method of someone who wants to stop someone from talking first and use the best method to do it, the reason why it's that easy to think that's his post fact rationalization is just that, is because the facts don't align with the scenario he's presenting.
That waters the definition down so much its essentially worthless.
Whampires are only partly human.
And if this dude is as old for a supernatural as he looks, his lived experience is quite possibly playing him false.
Especially if he's arranged suicides for people before and gotten away with it.
Their very first apparition proved that they don't follow the laws and are stupid in their methods, further interactions with them did nothing to remove these suspicions, I can perfectly see them be stupid enough to try that.
Medical experimentation is a whole different level of fuckery here.
Being willing to bend or ignore prescribed law enforcement procedure doesnt necessarily mean they are willing to advance to torture-murder. This is an FBI section on US soil, not the CIA in a third world hellhole.
He might well be the head of his House - he certainly seems old enough. As to needing to give headsup - doubt it, especially if she was investigating supernatural actively enough for it to be motivation to kill her. I'd like to point out that we don't know if she still works for FBI, or what's her standing there is. And this was to be a suicide.
1)He isnt the head of his House.
We see and hear Lord Skavis in canon during White Knight before he gets murdered by superghouls. He has a distinctive voice, and is apparently as pretty most other Whampires. And fucking rich to boot.
He is also described by another Whampire as a misogynist, which means he isnt going to be here shepherding a female fledgeling; he has minions for that.
Also, Lord Skavis might well know a Carpenter on sight. This guy obviously doesnt.
And this dude looks too touched by age to be a major House head; among Whampires, high Appearance is mandatory. Thats why every member of Whampire nobility we see is hella pretty.
2) Sarah Greene is a person of interest in an active, high-profile investigation by the FBI and the CPD; flashy murders and dismemberments of senior law enforcement officers draw all the media attention and special law enforcement resources.
Whampires typically avoid that sort of attention like the plague.
OldSkavis being here is an anomaly.
3)There is no evidence that she is no longer a member of the FBI.
Like I've said previously, most people cannot actually afford to up and resign their jobs willy nilly, and in the case of an agent, abandon the pension they get at twenty years of service. And resignation while an investigation is ongoing is a helluva bad look.
It's a little bit better than making decision for them without all the relevant information, or outsourcing it to someone who has vested interest in their eternal damnation and loss of their humanity. Is it good? No, not at all. But that's how the dice fell for the girl.
I disagree. At this point its just going through the motions.
Between OldSkavis and the social Infernal here, the time pressure and the active Hunger, there is no real prospect that a fledgeling can make any sort of independent informed choice. No real point pretending otherwise.
Apologies, this again seems to be an issue of terminology. By "rationality" and "irrationality" I meant that it isn't a given that the elder vampire set down and meticulously calculated all the possible pros and cons of his actions, or that he calculated those correctly, or that he cared about the same things as we do when trying to reason out his actions. And there's no actual proof that he went after Sarah for her attempting to breach the masquerade in the first place. We have his words, which he is using to try and prevent us from starting a fight. Whiel I doubt he's calm enough to lie outright, post-fact justifications are easy to concoct in the heat of the moment.
I also think you ascribe too much weight to her being a federal agent. I don't think the supernatural forces would care all too much about her status as one.
OldSkavis is attempting to commit premeditated murder of a subject in an ongoing federal and state murder investigation.
One where they already arrested Regional Warden Commander Dresden for, before letting him go.
He did all that stuff. He might be working off faulty data, but he did his prep work.
Our social Perception game is tight.We are rolling -4DC to Perception rolls from All Things Betray + Boiling Sea Mastery.
Its safe to assume he isnt deliberately lying to us; he might be mistaken, but he does at least appear to believe what he's saying.
Shit like this is why we prioritized ATB in the first place.
The whole point of the Masquerade is avoiding the official attention of mortal authorities.
So no I dont agree.
They would care
very much about her being a federal agent.
It is plausible, to me, that she was contacted during investigation of her husband's murder. Depending on how it went and how she investigated afterwards, it's plausible that she would know something about them.
It isnt plausible to me.
There is absolutely no benefit to Daedalus from blowing cover to rope in a Criminal Division officer, when they can get cooperation as a routine measure. Do recall that from their perspective, they havent actually eliminated Agent Greene as a possible accomplice; most murders involve someone the victim knew.
Furthermore, we had access to their mailing list for at least a month.
We stole Agent Wright's passwords and read the messages that they were passing around.
Greene didnt show up on any of them.
And if OldSkavis knew that Daedaulus existed and was sniffing about this case, he wouldnt have brought his relative here.
They were entirely willing to at least circumvent laws, and it would not surprise me at all if they could disappear him indefinitely.
Circumvent laws =/= medical experimentation.
Thats like saying that a willingness to jaywalk means that you have no trouble with serial murder.
And no, I doubt they can disappear anyone for a significant amount of time.
Shoot and bury them yes, disappear them no.
They lack the resources. And Whampires can cross into the NeverNever.
