Goonhub
04-19-2025, 07:46 AM
I like playing with Violet, especially when I'm a security officer, because she is, in a lot of ways, the quintessential good secoff.
My big issue with her is that she bites down and doesn't let up. She will oftentimes doggedly pursue an antagonist. While this can be good in situations that demand decisiveness and rigor, I think it can also stifle good escalation.
I had a round where I was an antagonist and I had mind hacked someone. This person had come by some contraband and had passed it along to me. Violet (correctly) deduced that this person had to have taken the contraband because of the way it disappeared. But they had passed it to me and no longer had possession of it. My accomplice and I both knew Violet knew we had it, Violet knew we had it. The issue was that Violet had no evidence that we had it -- she only had her intuition or deduction. Instead of moving on and letting things develop after questioning us (or just moving laterally to solve the problem, such as trying to find the actual evidence or observing us from afar for further incrimination), she would not leave us alone, following us for a good while afterwards (to the point of even forcing herself into my office with no real probable cause). This made it really hard to develop our plan and we essentially just had to idle because we couldn't go anywhere or do anything.
I would give a +1 but encourage a less rigid approach to handling antagonists, especially earlier in the shift.
My big issue with her is that she bites down and doesn't let up. She will oftentimes doggedly pursue an antagonist. While this can be good in situations that demand decisiveness and rigor, I think it can also stifle good escalation.
I had a round where I was an antagonist and I had mind hacked someone. This person had come by some contraband and had passed it along to me. Violet (correctly) deduced that this person had to have taken the contraband because of the way it disappeared. But they had passed it to me and no longer had possession of it. My accomplice and I both knew Violet knew we had it, Violet knew we had it. The issue was that Violet had no evidence that we had it -- she only had her intuition or deduction. Instead of moving on and letting things develop after questioning us (or just moving laterally to solve the problem, such as trying to find the actual evidence or observing us from afar for further incrimination), she would not leave us alone, following us for a good while afterwards (to the point of even forcing herself into my office with no real probable cause). This made it really hard to develop our plan and we essentially just had to idle because we couldn't go anywhere or do anything.
I would give a +1 but encourage a less rigid approach to handling antagonists, especially earlier in the shift.