Uhhh, I think people are having some reading issues or jumping to conclusions on what these options actually are. Both explicitly involve cooperation with the Ministries.
[] You will naturally cooperate with the Ministry of law and any others, but you cannot just leave this matter be (Begin Idol Days Political Quest)
This is just saying that parallel to our cooperation with the ministries, we will be engaging in our own direct investigation. This isn't illegal in any way. This is the standard response of noble clans, basically? Like, it's going to vary depending on the precise matters and power differentials at play, I can see arguments for going either direction if someone is bringing a case against their own lieges, for example.
But those issues aren't super in play for us. There's nothing inherently improper about engaging in our own investigative efforts. Also, importantly, this is exactly the kind of shit we actually want to be good at as part of our character concept? And one there's been thin opportunities to properly expand into the narrative space. This is a golden opportunity and it reminds me of advice we've gotten from moon aunties about stuff we got up to in training wheel dreamscapes. Our choices extend past the immediate. What do we want to be good at?
[] You may not like the priestess much, but she is not wrong here. Working within the Ministries bounds is important (Begin Laws Long Hand Political Quest)
This option is making an overt effort to play nice and quiet from the Ministries' perspectives. Importantly, this likely cedes initiative to the Ministries. We send off a complaint and wait for them to hear back before we can do, well, anything. I don't really like that, especially when we do not understand the boundaries of whatever entity struck out against us. If we had a discrete target already in mind we could complain about, it'd be a different matter. But we're in the dark enough at the moment that I'm not comfortable handing over the initiative on finding out more.
It doesn't seem satisfying on a personal, narrative, or structural level. And being good at filing complaints is, well, important, but it's not really our thing is it? As many of you have pointed out, that's Renxiang's thing. And that's useful to us here, but it's also deeply redundant. I believe we can better make use of synergy between our specialties and Renxiang's specialties by, uh, having different ones. Pursuing the bureaucracy path here is less productive on a personal growth level because it has overlap with our boss's dealio.
We want to be distinct. We can lean on her to give us cover while we get more hands-on involved. That works. If we pick the path that is Renxiang's area of expertise though, there's no room for Ling Qi to shine or develop. Either Renxiang sand-bags to teach us a lesson, which doesn't make sense and badly skews the tone for Ling QI's character growth anyway, or she full-asses it and Ling Qi's involvement is cursory. That doesn't work.
[X] You will naturally cooperate with the Ministry of law and any others, but you cannot just leave this matter be (Begin Idol Days Political Quest)
