@Silently Watches
Can I vote for only two choices since I have no idea who else we can/should take while leaving the third slot open for the rest of the voters to decide?
[X] Chevalier
[X] Miss Militia
[X] Epoch
[X] If the first two win, I'd recommend getting another protectorate member instead of Vista.
[X] Vista
[X] Have Vista invite other Wards who are also going stir crazy, possibly somebody like Clockblocker, but not limited to him.
We really need to recruit more people, at least enough for a full sentai team + Tim for support.
My problem with the choices is as follows:
- Cailleach
Cailleach is a villain, and one we don't really know well. Teaming up with her doesn't seem appropriate.
- Miss Militia and the rest of the Protectorate
Miss Militia is a member of the protectorate. She'll want to do things by the book, and that means not going charging in half-cocked but to gather the evidence and get a warrant to search his base.
The same pretty much applies to the entire protectorate, and that plan to delay and get evidence has been nixed by @Silently Watches.
- Vista, probably the best choice of the bunch, she is a Ward, the junior Protectorate team. Taking her, especially to another city to essentially break the law is probably going to cause problems. If it was an emergency, such if this were back in Brockton Bay and we just saw Diana Alcott kidnapped and taken to the lair, we might get away with it, but in this case, doing it by the book might be better.
- Epoch, and the rest of the Adepts.
We don't really have enough of a report with them yet to ask for a favor. We haven't recruited them yet, though I was in favor of doing so with most of them.
- TSAB members.
This is out of their jurisdiction, a strictly local matter, and we don't have a good enough relationship with them to ask for help. The Endbringers are one thing, this is another.
Especially since we are bypassing the local law enforcement to do it. Again, see the argument for the Protectorate members.
- Dragon
Turning Dragon into a device probably removed the geas to always obey the law, but she is still a founding member of The Guild, and thus has the same issues as the Protectorate on following the law and doing things by the book.
- Other. I can't really think of many others we can call on. Maybe if we take Vista she can get some other Wards to join the assault, like Clockblocker. We just don't have a good enough relationship with anybody else to call upon their aid for something like this.
If it was "I'm under attack and need backup", or "I found where the kidnapped person is, help me get them back", we could call upon Miss Militia and probably the rest of the Protectorate.
The real problem is that we haven't been recruiting an army of mages, or at least a sentai team, and we're bad at making friends.
We really need to focus on getting more allies.
This is actually the first time in a long while where having the Privateers would have been extremely useful. I'd have voted for them if they hadn't just fallen apart.
Seriously, this would have been a perfect use for them.
Although I honestly do not see how we could have used them more than we did, and there just wasn't enough time to manage them.
Also, the thing about doing things by the book is because from the perspective of the law enforcement people, there is no urgency such as an ongoing attack (as opposed to a campaign, which most definitely is ongoing) or a kidnapped person. Thus, they have the time to do things properly so it would stick.
