There's no real way that ownership of a movie studio is transferred to an unrelated 18-year old without looking sketchy as fuck.
Why would we actually own it in our own name?
I'm still on the fence because I care more about this in terms of if it takes us too far from the perspective of other supernatural powers or not.
On a purely practical level I don't see why we should own most of our own property directly.
Get Thomas to hire a guy we have leverage on to manage a cutout operated as a private trust. Use cyber devils for everything and keep the stooge at the "signs things but doesn't know the bank passwords" level.
The court covers up the death however they usually do and the studio gets instructions to find a new producer independent of us like it'd do anyway.
Financially the transfer would externally resemble a will executing for the idle rich or someone divesting assets they don't want privately. Maybe interesting, but not unusual for Hollywood stuff.
Fair enough I guess, though harvesting it for IP is still a thing.
But Im immediately concerned with the complications of owning a horror movie studio previously run by a sex/fear/despair vampire who, according to Thomas in Proven Guilty, had a distinct record of killing his victims.
Its like taking over a casino previously run by the Mafia, or an airline run by a drug cartel.
Or a youth group run by a pedophile.
Yeah, that could be a problem. I think we can be disconnected from this officially, but Molly would care if it was her responsibility.
The cash isn't enough to actually do anything for us, and we're already probably close to as entangled with the whamps from the perspective of the broader community that will hear about this later as we want to be at this point.
We don't need to do chores for chump change.
If we're going to insist on a bribe, ask for the minion we already took. Preferably with polite vamp speak on how we won't just do something horrible to him for fun when we get home.
Maybe something like asking for a century or two of the smartest skavis bodyguard's time to make a point that we aren't an impermanent mortal element or a crazy spiritual bugbear out to collect souls or whatever.
In fact, let me write that in just to get it on the board.
[X] No
[X] [Write-In]
-[X] Etiquette Excellency
-[X] Ask for the surrendered vamp's intermediate term services instead.
—[X] [Stunt]: " The offer is appreciated, but I think I wear his blood better than I would fill his shoes" Molly says in a voice of a subtly self satisfied fire.
—-[X] Glancing back significantly at her hanger on Molly continues "If I might ask your indulgence in another matter however; this one drew steel on me, but was wise enough to surrender rather than proceed" with an evaluating tone she asks "A century or two of his time perhaps? If that satisfies your sense of justice?".
Dodge a complication we don't need, and tie up the situation with that guy we took responsibility for without jumping in during his execution or whatever later. Cause that whamp is probably going to die if we don't take him on as something before leaving. He was too close to the craziest actor on the stage from multiple angles.
It also has a hint more independence to it, since we're negotiating our bribe and not taking a cash prize like hired help.
