Persuasion (text message) 27 Athletics (race down the stairs) 18
Stealth (vs Lady Light) 20 Perception (Mateo) 9 Mateo's Fortitude tests to stabilize: 16 Treatment (Mateo) 7 CRITICAL FUMBLE Mateo's Fortitude tests to re-stabilize:12, 7, 15
Perception (detect battle) 21 Tentacle Girl's Perception: CRITICAL SUCCESS Tentacle Girl's attack test 18 Lady Light's grapple tests: 14, 17, 10 Tentacle Girl's grapple tests: 19, 27, 11 Lady Light's resistance tests: 17; 24 ,18; 7 Lady Light's attack test: 26 Tentacle Girl's resistance test: 29 Tentacle Girl's Treatment: 5-CRITICAL FUMBLE Lady Light's Fortitude: 24-CRITICAL SUCCESS Treatment (assess Lady Light) 18
Perception (sword) 21
Your Treatment skill is going up by one courtesy of your crit fail on trying to treat Mateo.
You race down the stairs to the front entrance, sailing out the door and quickly bolting past the alleyway on light feet, first aid kit in hand. Let law enforcement deal with the wayward Lady Light, you want to make sure that Mateo is okay.
You don't see Mateo immediately. You remember what direction you heard the scream from, but even though he's not doing a very good job of hiding, the colorful and handsome man is not very easy to recognize. At first you didn't recognize the moans and sobs. His cape has been burned and torn, and his face has been blasted with powerful lasers. He's sitting leaned against the wall of a building.
"Who's there?" Mateo asks, turning his ruined face on your direction, trying but failing to stand up.
"It's me, Enna. Let me help you," you say. "I have a first aid kit."
Attempting to clean the dirt and ash from his injuries leads to a loud scream, and then Mateo passes out, fresh blood pouring out of a wound that you clumsily re-opened. You hear a distant scream that is cut off abruptly, and a crash from the alleyway. The best you can do for Mateo is to phone for help and desperately try to stop the bleeding while that help arrives. He's still alive when he's loaded into the ambulance, although also still unconscious.
By this time, the alleyway is ominously quiet, and your phone is beeping. Midori, wanting to know if you're okay, and also telling you that she needs your help. Arriving in the alleyway, you see a dull dishwater-blonde version of Lady Light with less attractive bone structure and less than perfectly clear skin, carried in Tentacle Girl's tentacles. A rhythmic hissing noise comes from her chest.
"She's not waking up," Tentacle Girl tells you breathlessly. "I don't know how to fix this. Something crunched while I was trying to hold her still, and then she went totally limp and her neck went wobbly. I tried reaching in and pulling the bones back together, but she didn't wake up. What do I do? I think she's dying."
You carefully put your fingers against her jawline to check for a pulse, and her head lolls alarmingly. Shit. Well, it looks straight now. You try her wrist instead, feeling a weak thready pulse and watching her chest slowly but asymmetrically rise and fall, with that hideous bubbling hissing noise. She's alive, at least for now, but she's unconscious with both an apparent spinal injury from Tentacle Girl and a pair of holes in one lung from Mateo. Glancing over, you can see the sword still lying on the ground in the alleyway.
She's certainly not a danger to you right now. The fact that she's still alive is amazing, a normal person would have died. Although, you think to yourself darkly, that could easily be fixed. Without her powers active to provide her with her illusionary make-up, she looks different enough that nobody would probably even connect the body with the sudden disappearance of Lady Light. She's beaten you to a bloody pulp more than once, and even tried to murder you by stuffing you into a woodchipper.
You currently have the famous Lady Light, aka Optics Textbook Woman, at your mercy. She is currently paralyzed from a serious spinal injury and has one working lung. What do?
[] Finish her!
-[] (write in what to do with the body)
[] Just leave her in the alley and walk away.
[] Chain her up and see if she recovers well enough to talk. You've got things to discuss with her.
[] Deliver her to (write-in person or place).
[] (write-in)
Mateo's sword is in the alleyway. This is probably not a normal sword.
[] It's evidence of who stabbed Lady Light, and it doesn't have your fingerprints on it. So ... let it be found.
[] Send it to the Crimson Guard. They'll give it back to him or his next of kin or something.
[] Turn it into law enforcement. It's in the alleyway by your office, you have a good excuse for noticing it.
[] Bring it inside. You'll hang onto it. At least for now.
[] (write-in)
Well... Not something I expected to be deciding this update.
What is Midori's take on our set of actions? Would she be opposed to killing a vigilante? She doesn't seem too enthused about the injury she caused, but that's maybe because she didn't intend it.
What are our options here? I can understand handing her off to either King of Seattle, or the Emperor. Who else?
We could take her to Lewis if we are ready to reveal the fact we know his identity, but then what? He already broke off his partnership with her; what more do we expect him to do? Bring her attempted murder to the courts? Can he be convinced to negotiate (blackmail her?) on our behalf, and more importantly, will Lady Light abide by the agreement?
A classic villainous move, and also a downfall of many a villain. What if she doesn't recover and we suddenly we have a chained dead body in our apartment? What if she recovers too well?
I am not sure what we want from her, aside from some leverage... and maybe payback. What can we do with her civil identity if we figure it out?
To me, the choices look like either kill her (or hand her off to someone who will ensure she isn't a problem), or blackmail her so hard she'll avoid us harder than any restraining order could make her.
Tentatively...
[] Call Lewis and inform him that you have Lady Light in your custody. Maybe it's time to have a chat about what we both know and where to go from there.
[] Send it to the Crimson Guard. They'll give it back to him or his next of kin or something.
Well... Not something I expected to be deciding this update.
What is Midori's take on our set of actions? Would she be opposed to killing a vigilante? She doesn't seem too enthused about the injury she caused, but that's maybe because she didn't intend it.
What are our options here? I can understand handing her off to either King of Seattle, or the Emperor. Who else?
We could take her to Lewis if we are ready to reveal the fact we know his identity, but then what? He already broke off his partnership with her; what more do we expect him to do? Bring her attempted murder to the courts? Can he be convinced to negotiate (blackmail her?) on our behalf, and more importantly, will Lady Light abide by the agreement?
Midori has generally tried to avoid killing humans, although non-lethal self-defense isn't always possible when one is receiving missile fire from an attack helicopter. She feels sort of guilty about that.
Right now, she's an oversized adolescent who is confused, upset, and trusts you like a substitute big sister. She's in full panicky "I don't know what to do!" mode at the moment. In addition, you are extremely adept at verbalizing moral and legal justifications, it comes with the territory of your level of Expertise: Law. What that means is that you can get her to go along with anything up to and including "Well, Midori, now I need to show you how to dispose of a body."
As far as people / places to deposit go, I was initially going to include a list, but it got rather long. Either of the two royals would mean she's out of your hair, at least for the moment. The Emperor said she's a criminal under his laws, and the King has tried to capture her before. Notably, that's what he was trying to do when you started getting involved with supers. Lewis is an interesting choice that can go a lot of different directions depending on how you approach it. Calling him will get very different results than, say, having Midori deposit her on his roof and fly very quickly away.
Law enforcement is a possibility. She's at least technically a criminal in the eyes of the law, even if the police haven't really been actively trying to take her in.
You have a lot you could put on the evidence stand, starting with your missing foot.
You'd have to leave a note explaining who she is, because she doesn't look much like Lady Light.
Note there are several different levels of law enforcement you could target here.
You could do this through a variety of different intermediaries, e.g., Tentacle Girl, Jake.
The nearest hospital is probably the first place mostpeople would think to deliver someone in critical medical condition.
They would, of course, end up contacting law enforcement, but the police would be investigating the attempted murder of Jane Doe, not whether or not she tried to woodchipper someone else.
You could also ask someone else to do this for you.
If you wanted to go for poetic justice, you could drop her off at the Snoqualmie hospital, which is where you ended up after she tried to woodchipper you.
She's a tough super who critically stabilized, she will survive the trip just fine.
That is Jake's turf.
I actually got through rolling out an encounter between her and a SWAT team before I saw the late tie-breaking vote - in that scenario, the battle went out into the next street, and she survived an extra round of being pumped full of panicky submachine gun fire after she went down. She's not dying unless she takes more damage - I'm running things at standard Mutants & Masterminds levels of lethality.
Is there a broad description of directions? I am not sure on the implications of calling a super in his unmasked identity.
But the thing I am most interested in is, what potential consequences this could have for Lady Light. I wanted to approach it with the goal of discrediting her as a hero (with evidence from us and a testimony from her former partner), and then throwing her to the law enforcement, marking her in the public eye as one of the villains she was so intent on fighting.
[x] Call Lewis and inform him that you have Lady Light in your custody. Maybe it's time to have a chat about what we both know and where to go from there.
[x] Send it to the Crimson Guard. They'll give it back to him or his next of kin or something.
[X] Call Lewis and inform him that you have Lady Light in your custody. Maybe it's time to have a chat about what we both know and where to go from there.
[X] Send it to the Crimson Guard. They'll give it back to him or his next of kin or something.
[X] Call Lewis and inform him that you have Lady Light in your custody. Maybe it's time to have a chat about what we both know and where to go from there.
[X] Bring it inside. You'll hang onto it. At least for now.
Is there a broad description of directions? I am not sure on the implications of calling a super in his unmasked identity.
But the thing I am most interested in is, what potential consequences this could have for Lady Light. I wanted to approach it with the goal of discrediting her as a hero (with evidence from us and a testimony from her former partner), and then throwing her to the law enforcement, marking her in the public eye as one of the villains she was so intent on fighting.
Scheduled vote count started by tomwritestuff on Mar 13, 2022 at 3:43 PM, finished with 6 posts and 3 votes.
[x] Call Lewis and inform him that you have Lady Light in your custody. Maybe it's time to have a chat about what we both know and where to go from there.
Expertise: Law: 32 (CRITICAL) Persuasion (Lewis): 12 Persuasion (Gray Knight, Seattle Squidbat): 22 Your critical success on Expertise: Law is going to earn you a ninth skill rank in Expertise: Law.
"Hi, Lewis, I need your help," you say.
"Oh? What is it, Enna?" Lewis sounds curious rather than concerned.
"It's complicated," you say, pausing. "I have Lady Light with a spinal injury and a punctured lung on a table in my office."
There's a pause. "Shouldn't you be calling an ambulance? And the police?" Lewis says, guardedly. "Why are you calling me?"
"I'm calling you first because I'm hoping the Gray Knight believes in justice, and I want your testimony on the record as her former partner. Call up whatever doctor you usually use for this kind of thing and get over here," you say.
There's a long silence on the other end. You hear a muffled voice saying something indistinct, and then Lewis hangs up.
Well, hopefully he's coming. You stare at the unconscious woman on the table for a minute, the rhythmic hiss of air announcing her continued survival. Then you shake your head, start a pot of coffee going, hit the "PRINT" button on the document open on your computer, and wait.
Ten minutes later, your phone beeps, a text message from Lewis saying "roof access." You shake your head, and then head upstairs to let in the Gray Knight in full armor.
"Hope you don't damage the floor," you say as the floor creaks alarmingly. It was the first thing that popped into your mind.
"Monster! Back!" The Gray Knight's hand reaches out to scoop you behind him, but you step back out of reach.
"Hold it," you say. "She's not a monster, that's just Midori. Midori, this is Lewis," you say, warily inserting yourself between the two heavyweight supers. It is not difficult to imagine them demolishing the three-floor building from the inside, burying both you and Lady Light in the rubble.
For a few tense seconds, neither Midori nor Lewis move, both of them cautiously sizing each other up for hostile intentions.
"Pleased to meet you?" Midori says uncertainly, the two augmented fourth harmonic tones of her voice rising in a querulous fashion.
The Gray Knight stands still for a moment. "My … pleasure," he rumbles hesitantly, straining to complete some sort of polite formula.
"Injured woman downstairs," you say, by way of a reminder. "Do you know how to treat a punctured lung?"
The Gray Knight cautiously tip-toes down the stairs after you. By the time you reach the ground floor, Midori is already there. The Gray Knight freezes.
"Still just Midori," you say, steering the armored hulk towards the coffee table. "There aren't two of her, as far as I know. She's not hostile. Focus on Lady Light."
"It's her, for all that she looks different. The biometrics match. Three fractured vertebrae," the Gray Knight says. "Pulse is regular. The doctor will be here soon. How did it happen?"
"The important thing for you to know is that I didn't do it," you say. "Never mind the details of how she got herself injured this time. The other important thing is this."
You pick up a stack of warm paper from the top of the laser printer, glancing quickly at the last page. It's all there.
"Lady Light has been a murderous thug masquerading as a hero. You know this, I know this, and this is a summary of all the reasons why she should be in jail right now instead of lying on my coffee table," you say. "I'd like to be able to add your testimony to the pile, and have you here with me when the police come to pick her up, so they know that you provided that testimony."
"How do I know you're not trying to get me in trouble with the law? Everything about being a vigilante hero is breaking the law," Lewis says. He looks suspiciously at the stack of paper, unable to leaf through it with his heavy armored gloves on. "I've worked hard to make sure that local law enforcement knows that I'm on their side."
"Look. This isn't a case against you, and it's not a case against vigilantism, per se. The things she's done are morally wrong, not just legally wrong," you say. "I'm sure you're aware of other cases where she crossed that line. You stopped working with her for a reason."
The Gray Knight crosses his arms. "Not working with her is one thing. Trying to put her in jail is another ball game. What I could tell you about this could incriminate me in breaking the law and could make things harder for the whole super community, including law-abiding supers who are just trying to keep their heads down. Why should I trust you? Why should I help you?"
How to bridge this trust gap?
[] Because … stretch … you are also a super.
[] Because you've been keeping his secrets. Including whisper very quietly in his ear the fact that he doesn't need that suit to fly.
[] Because if he doesn't help you, you're going it alone, and blowing up Lady Light's reputation without having his side of the story is probably going to end up splashing on him even if you aren't trying to take him down.
[] Because both of you believe in justice, and this is the right thing to do. As discussed at length in that stack of paper that you asked him to read, so just read them already. It's not your fault he's wearing armored gauntlets.
[] (write-in other argument)
[] Because if he doesn't help you, you're going it alone, and blowing up Lady Light's reputation without having his side of the story is probably going to end up splashing on him even if you aren't trying to take him down.
After the Silent Siren escaped, she teamed up with a guy in an armored suit (see Gray Knight); he brought you in for questioning, and while he was out, she strangled you to the point of unconsciousness (at which point she thought you were dead)
...implies unlawful detainment. I haven't read the quest that started it, but I would assume vigilantes do not have legal leave to "bring people in for questioning", and doing it without any legal protections (as an attempted murder right afterwards shows) makes it an act dangerously close to abduction. So he is, potentially, an accomplice in an attempt on our life, even if an unwitting/unwilling one.
I do think that the law should hold him accountable for this, though not sure to which extent. But our character definitely should know.
That we are trying to leave him out of the picture speaks of our intentions more than anything else we could say. We recognize he was set up to be a part of a morally unscrupulous act, and we are offering him a way out so long as he helps expose the guilty party the one person we want utterly crushed, overlooking his responsibility whereas the law would not. As a tit-for-tat, if he helps us we are willing to acknowledge his concerns, and work our case around them.
Basically, there are 3 vectors of pressuring him into this:
1) guilt him into righting a wrong (not much of an argument for us, but he does seem to hold a moral code). (Moral)
2) make it clear we don't require his cooperation, but this is going to make everything worse. (Stick)
3) point out the benefits of a vigilante working with a lawyer as opposed to against a lawyer. (Carrot)
[x] You should help me, because the actions you've taken as a team make it your responsibility as well. You should trust me, because I am not going over your head with this, even though I have enough evidence on hand to send everyone involved to jail. I want her reputation irrecoverably ruined. You want to keep yours, and that of other supers, intact. As a lawyer I can ensure both... if we cooperate.
...I'd like to press all three. The implied threat is perhaps the most effective argument, but I'd like to handle the case in such a way that would leave open the possibility of further cooperation. We'd love to have a friendly super we could call upon in need, and someone working in a grey legal area should not shun a good lawyer.
...implies unlawful detainment. I haven't read the quest that started it, but I would assume vigilantes do not have legal leave to "bring people in for questioning", and doing it without any legal protections (as an attempted murder right afterwards shows) makes it an act dangerously close to abduction. So he is, potentially, an accomplice in an attempt on our life, even if an unwitting/unwilling one.
I think it's not "dangerously close" as much as "definitely legally qualifies as." Here's the installment from Powerless where the Gray Knight (aka "Armored Suit Sidekick" or "ASS") abducts Enna:
"Vile minion of the Emperor! Resistance is futile, I have you outmatched!" Armored Suit Sidekick's voice is clearly artificially distorted in an attempt to make it more intimidating, with an echo effect that sounds vaguely inappropriate considering the claustrophobic circumstances.
Panicking, you burst into tears. Initially, you thought this was a deliberate move on your part to try to defuse the situation, but you are soon blubbering uncontrollably. It becomes increasingly clear that you've got a lot to cry about. You fumble for the brake pedal as a loud whump announces the vehicle clearing the curb.
"Vile minion, cease crying!" CRUNCH goes a mailbox. Your sternum thumps into the steering wheel, hard enough to knock the wind out of you. You're now crying and gasping uncontrollably.
"Vile minion?"
You feel yourself being shaken vigorously. It doesn't help.
"Woman, quit bawling, damnit!"
The slap was probably intended to be gentle, but it still leaves you with a bloody nose and cut lips. The bitter iron taste of blood is the last thing you remember as your vision goes black.
You regain consciousness with a cold wind rushing past you. It feels like you're wearing handcuffs. One of your eyes is swollen shut; through the other, you can dimly see armor. Presumably the hard bar pressed against your back is the arm of a flying ASS. Your face is sticky with gummy almost-dry blood, pressed against the chest of the flying ASS by the force of the wind. With one ear pressed against the suit, you can faintly hear a muffled voice.
"-that she's probably a civilian."
A pause. "Yes, I could drop her in the bay. I don't know, that seems a little unheroic."
Another pause. "Radar's clear. I'm bringing her to the pad. We can decide what to do with her later, and she might have some interesting information for us once she calms down."
A long pause. "That's disturbing. If you're that worried about your reputation, just stay invisible. We're supposed to be the good guys."
A short pause. "This is a powerless woman who folded up like a wet crying napkin as soon as I got in her vehicle. She's harmless, even if she isn't innocent."
A long pause. "No, and that's my final word on the subject. I'll be arriving at base shortly."
A few minutes later, the ASS lands, carrying you through a dimly lit hangar, a brightly-lit hallway, and into a small room with a couch and a potted plant. He deposits you on the couch, at which point you discover your face was sort of stuck to his chest armor by gummy partly-dried blood. It tears free with a painful sensation.
So. You are inside the base of operations of Optics Textbook Woman and her Armored Suit Sidekick. The violent woman who beat the pulp out of you earlier for doing your job as a public defender may or may not be lurking invisibly, and the ASS apparently intends to interrogate you once you're conscious.
[x] You should help me, because the actions you've taken as a team make it your responsibility as well. You should trust me, because I am not going over your head with this, even though I have enough evidence on hand to send everyone involved to jail. I want her reputation irrecoverably ruined. You want to keep yours, and that of other supers, intact. As a lawyer I can ensure both... if we cooperate.
[X] You should help me, because the actions you've taken as a team make it your responsibility as well. You should trust me, because I am not going over your head with this, even though I have enough evidence on hand to send everyone involved to jail. I want her reputation irrecoverably ruined. You want to keep yours, and that of other supers, intact. As a lawyer I can ensure both... if we cooperate.
Scheduled vote count started by tomwritestuff on Mar 20, 2022 at 3:28 PM, finished with 5 posts and 3 votes.
[x] You should help me, because the actions you've taken as a team make it your responsibility as well. You should trust me, because I am not going over your head with this, even though I have enough evidence on hand to send everyone involved to jail. I want her reputation irrecoverably ruined. You want to keep yours, and that of other supers, intact. As a lawyer I can ensure both... if we cooperate.
Lewis Cooper, nee the Gray Knight, formerly known as the sidekick of the Lady Light, runs his fingers over his short hair. "I guess I don't have much of a choice," he rumbles, shooting you a dark look. "I still feel like I'm betraying her," he adds quietly, glancing over at the door leading down the stairs. "She is ... was ... very capable. And she wanted to be a hero."
"She wanted to be thought of as a hero," you say, sternly. "You know better now. You should have known the first time she suggested killing me. See page one seventeen on the supplemental, here. I'd appreciate it if you filled in her side of the conversation here."
He flips the page over. "You heard that?" he says, shrinking under your withering stare. "I guess the suit's not as soundproof as I thought. Yes. I should have known. I'm sorry, Enna. I really am."
You push your shoe off, pull your pants leg up, brace your hand on the table, and then swing your leg up and onto the table with a clunk, putting your prosthetic foot front and center in front of him. "Page one twenty one."
Lewis flicks forward in the document and then slumps further down in his chair.
You pull your prosthetic foot off the table. "Apology accepted, as long as you help me with this monster. I want her held accountable, and I want the precious heroic reputation she cared about so much irrevocably ruined. I don't want to ruin yours. You've broken the law, sure, but you meant well. She didn't. She's just a glory hound, and the super community doesn't need 'heroes' like that."
You leave it unspoken that you yourself are a super in your own right. Lewis has enough to process, you think to yourself. Some secrets are best kept. Jake probably doesn't even know about your powers, although you have used them just a little bit during your time together, when he's been ... uh ... very distracted. Nobody does, except for Midori. Oh. Wait. Except... you have had an invisible stalker, one who watched you during the night of your first date with Jake.
You groan. The Lady Light might know your secret. Not that revealing it will help her defend against the ream of paper you're planning on delivering to the district attorney, but ... that could cause personal trouble.
"I'm going to duck up to the third floor for a little bit," you say. "There are doughnuts in the fridge to go with your coffee, I'll bring you one. Want anything else?"
"Do you have cream?" Lewis says. "I'm not used to taking my coffee black."
You head up the stairs, wanting a little bit of isolation to think. Tentacle Girl is anxiously watching the doctor at work downstairs, so the third floor is alone. Peaceful. You open the fridge and stare blankly at the doughnuts for a moment before taking the box out and setting it on the table. Then you open the fridge again and look harder. It looks bigger on the inside. Also, it looks like Midori has been spending most of her allowance on candy bars, which definitely don't need to be refrigerated. Ah, right, there's the cream.
The increasingly non-Euclidean nature of the fridge is something you'll explore later, you decide, although that does remind you that Queen Victoria's engagement ring is hanging from a magnet somewhere on the other other side of the fridge. You'll have to deal with that at some point, you think to yourself, carrying the coffee and cream to the stairs. Your phone buzzes. And then again, and several more times as you bring down the doughnuts and cream.
You grab some paper napkins from the counter by the coffee machine, put them next to Lewis, and then fish your phone out. A series of texts from a very worried Jake. Apparently Alice called him, frantic about the fact that Lewis got a call from you, refused to tell her what it was about, and then disappeared and stopped answering her texts. You look over at Lewis, who is slowly going through the stack of paper and typing in his testimony on your spare laptop, and then look at the helmet and gauntlets resting on the couch.
The phone buzzes again. Where are you? Are you leaving me for Lewis??
Apparently Alice isn't the only one who's worried about what you and Lewis might be up to.
All this secrecy is starting to get pretty difficult to handle. Your powers, Lewis's secret identity, Queen Victoria's engagement ring... something has to give.
What do?
[] Keeping secrets is part of the job. Tell Jake that he and Alice shouldn't worry, but Lewis is consulting with you on a confidential matter and you're an attorney so that's all you're going to tell either of them, thank you very much.
[] It's time to bring Jake in on the whole "Lady Light got the stuffing beat out of her and we're taking her to jail soon" plan. Call him and tell him to come to your office and you'll fill him in when he gets here.
[] It's time to reveal your powers in case Ms. High and Lighty outs you.
-[] (To whom?)
[] It's time to vent about all of this to Mary. She's always listened to you before, and maybe she'll have some insight into how to handle things.
[] (write in)
[] It's time to bring Jake in on the whole "Lady Light got the stuffing beat out of her and we're taking her to jail soon" plan. Call him and tell him to come to your office and you'll fill him in when he gets here.
This would be my choice -- we may need his help with this anyway -- but Lewis is not supposed to have anything to do with Lady Light. So it must be processed as two separate cases, especially since we just promised Lewis confidentiality, and Jake isn't one I'd be entrusting other people's secrets to.
What are we going to fill Jake in on, should we take this option?
What are our plans for Lady Light, as they currently stand? The doctor will treat her and possibly wake her up... and what then? Who has the legal right to take her to jail?Who will be bringing her case to the courts? I do not want to give her an opportunity to go rogue while our lawsuit is being reviewed.
This would be my choice -- we may need his help with this anyway -- but Lewis is not supposed to have anything to do with Lady Light. So it must be processed as two separate cases, especially since we just promised Lewis confidentiality, and Jake isn't one I'd be entrusting other people's secrets to.
What are we going to fill Jake in on, should we take this option?
What are our plans for Lady Light, as they currently stand? The doctor will treat her and possibly wake her up... and what then? Who has the legal right to take her to jail?Who will be bringing her case to the courts? I do not want to give her an opportunity to go rogue while our lawsuit is being reviewed.
As far as determining what you fill Jake in on, that would be a good choice for a -[] subhead, or a clarified write-in version. I was thinking "tell Jake everything involving this plan" when I put the option in, but you have a pretty wide open field of choices here. You could tell Jake everything including why you called Lewis and the Gray Knight showed up at your place right afterwards, or to just throw this problem at him with the Gray Knight here and pretend that you were talking with Lewis about something else.
Right now, the working plan is that the Gray Knight delivers the Lady Light to law enfarcement (probably on a body board with a neck brace and while still sedated from surgery), and you come knocking at the D.A.'s office with your Ream of Critical Legal Expertise Success from that 32 skill check roll. What you have isn't a civil lawsuit, it's an array of criminal charges that could theoretically see her locked up until such time as your great-great-grandkids are old enough to try to start keeping Midori out of trouble.
The Gray Knight is a vigilante, delivering criminals to the police is the sort of crime he's already been routinely committing already ... and as the Gray Knight, he's one of the few people who can identify the Lady Light in her current condition as being the Lady Light and be believed immediately.
It's a good plan then. We don't need to introduce new variables until after Lady Light is behind bars.
[x] Keeping secrets is part of the job. Tell Jake that he and Alice shouldn't worry, but Lewis is consulting with you on a confidential matter and you're an attorney so that's all you're going to tell either of them, thank you very much.
Is there a reason we are worried? Do we need to register? Are we in danger of being forcefully recruited? What are potential consequences of being an outed super who isn't a vigilante or a supervillain? We haven't made much use of our abilities yet.
[X] Keeping secrets is part of the job. Tell Jake that he and Alice shouldn't worry, but Lewis is consulting with you on a confidential matter and you're an attorney so that's all you're going to tell either of them, thank you very much.
