Then again, I think I remember Malfeas being made by turning Theion inside out, makes sense for him to have been, well, inside himself in that case.
Yeah, but it really highlights how far they went.
Primordials/Yozi are super evil, but damn if it isn't unsettling to see the freaky human-centipede style horror of their mutilations anyway.
Aside from all else, Isabela's father is propably congratulating himself for his own wisdom in throwing his daughter at us.
Not only are we a bigger deal in the White Court than one could have guessed last month, but he might even suspect that his succession of the Skavis has something to do with our involvement.
He can't know yet what we truly think about him after all.
If he doesn't suspect at least that we were involved he's not long for the world.
It's pretty obvious that we are a huge part of why Raith thought they could do this.
They sure as hell aren't going to admit they were surprised by our killyness or the presence of an Outsider in truth on the field even if the other are also suspicious of that, so the official-unofficial line is likely going to be that we were a perfect counter brought in for Skavis' ace in the hole because their intel was just that good.
His daughter working for us is too much of a connection to dismiss.
On this note though, we really need some counterbalancing connections to avoid getting cemented as a white court resource.
The precise nature doesn't matter as long as we're active in the community and it involves other players*.
As great as the Ordo is they don't count, too small time to be anything but associated with us rather than the other way around. Winter dealt with us, but they deal with everyone and this is a big shake up in our associations rather than just a deal.
My preference post Naagoloshi would be to call Ebenezer back on those red vampire hits. It doesn't matter if they're particularly high priory themselves, but just doing the jobs would help form a pattern of mercenary work to distance us from a situation like Harry's with Marcone.
He was basically the last one to know that half the underground of the city thought he performed hits for the guy, and didn't manage to shake it entirely once the idea got planted.
They're also a somewhat safe place to network, so trading vamp skulls** for introductions, lore, or training would actually be useful to us instead of resulting in complicated financial issues in dealing with their payments.
* Incidentally, this is probably another foundational checklist item for even trying the paranet. If we look like an influence op people would run from us before they even get in range of our real efforts.
**If we want to be real crazy long to medium term we could even use them to leverage our hell more. Access issues are a thing for us, but wizards can bring their own power to bear from the other side.
They wouldn't trust it fully for ages, if we got them to buy in anytime soon in the first place, but it'd be hilarious to counter the red court's outsider spam with permitting wizards to summon our demons themselves. If we charge information, magical services, and physical goods we'd be the best deal in town purely for the lack of soul dickery.
Tax it, set standards for the deals allowed, and let the wizards bid on the time of interested parties who meet some criteria we set once we have control of a whole nation's worth of paper pushers.
