I'd like to try reaching out to Silver in a more personal way and make a point about the difference between our opinions and the council's.
[X] Plan Act of Faith
-[X] Invite Silver Phantom to participate in our search for the others if she wants to.
-[X] [Stunt]: Nodding to Lydia in solidarity, Molly turned to the rest of the room.
—[X] A poisonous sort of heat welled up in Molly's voice, echoing her frustration. "I would like to make something clear."
—-[X] "My purpose here is not to threaten anyone. Nor to interrogate, to subjugate, or dictate terms. It would be a lie to say that I do not fear potential harm someone like us could do, but
no one in this room has the right to doubt the potential good in us either". The unspoken 'not after what I have done for you' hung in the silence like a lead weight.
—[X] Turning to the newly styled Silver Phantom Molly catches their eyes with her own, her tone softening as she continues. "I don't know what all of this means, but I believe it makes us something to each other". A dry sort of smile darts across her face "If nothing else, we're going to be sharing this world for a very long time and I'd like it to be as friends"
—[X] "If things were different perhaps this conversation would be different, but you as much as anyone else deserve to be seen for who you are and not the choices others fear you might make".
Thinking about how to cap it off*, but this is already a bit long for a stunt. May be better to just leave it.
The idea is to make a personal appeal, clearly divide our approach from the council's, and instead of asking for a bit of assistance before leaving inviting her involvement as a friend. Maybe she just chooses to help us and then go home, but the substance of the offer matters I think.
Might need some tuning to move towards reaching out in friendship over the current setup, could use some feedback on that.
I don't like how this essentially drives a bit of a wedge between us and the council, even if it's a small one, but LtW is causing us a problem here. We brought him in on this, we made a promise at the door when his presence was questioned. Lydia's outburst helps, but Molly lead this excursion and to an extent by not making a point of the distinction we're implicitly signing on to his messaging**.
* Including a jab about who in this room exactly has a good track record as a judge of character. Cause last I checked Lara and Listens-To-Wind are not the ones picking Outsiders out of our hair.
** As an aside, I personally don't blame him for his opinions on this. The issue is that you should almost always at least try to reach out and never, ever, show a target the knife in advance in situations like this.
I agree on general principle, but on practicality, what do you propose? We need information about other three exalts, and we need it now. Unless you are willing to drop the point for the immediate future, which I didn't think you or others were ready for. So, what do we do? Using the recording of the scene as a focus would be more damaging long term to our relationship, I think.
Thoughts on approach in the rest of this post?
