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If Impact passes the test, sure. But until then, and if Impact doesn't pass, Pierce will make his own attempts at leadership when he has to. But of course, he'll find it very hard to lead until after his sidequest, when he can start gaining people's trust.
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Ok... so what kind of test were you thinking of?
Because yeah, I wasn't out for trust or friendship or emotional connection. Just... acknowledgment that Impact's a better leader (and, I mean, he has been proving that he's tactically quite competent), and maybe, just maybe the assumption that Impact wouldn't do anything to actively hurt the team. It might be a bit of a stretch to get Pierce to think like this, but you can find a way, I'm sure. I'll be finding a way to make Impact less... bloodthirsty and more calculating, after all.
Because you do remember, this is supposed to be a bargain, yes? I let you have rivalry, you let me have leadership? As trades go, I think it's fair, but it'll take a bit of effort from both of us.
Anyway, back to torturing matt, if we're gonna strongarm him, I really think we should go pay someone else to do it. After the party, we can invite him to meet us at a cafe or something, and have him kidnapped on the way there. We wait for a while, while they make him talk, then we make a few miraculous realizations, maybe find a few clues, maybe someone talks, and we burst into the room, take out the thugs, save Matt.
Of course, the problem is this:
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And hey, now that Bard is here we can go back to discussing Matt's torture. I still say Impact does some investigating, finds out Matt has been using his ID card to access personel files and finds out that matt accessed some security footage and audio recordings involving higher-ups in PATCA. THen he recruits Charlotte and Pierce to shake him down.
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If this were true, if we knew there was evidence of this, and Impact was in a position to find it, that'd be great. What we're planning on doing is justified. But as long as Dante doesn't tell us what evidence there is to find, or even if there is evidence to find, doing this would amount to GMing. If we wanna torture matt, we have to get dante to talk. Otherwise, it'd be really unjustified, because Impact would have no evidence at all. And while Charlotte wouldn't mind, Pierce might.
Edit: If we could do what you've described, if we could find evidence that makes matt look like a genuine threat, we wouldn't even have to hire someone else to do it, because then we could be motivated by the desire to keep the team safe. We'd see ourself as the good guys. But for that to happen, dante would either need to tell us what's going on, or, at the very least, whether there's evidence that could make it look like Matt is a threat. Because as long as we know that such evidence exists, I can have Impact find it, but be really vague about it, we get our justification, beat up matt. If we don't know, there's nothing I can do, really.