[Meta Thread] Pokerole Mystery Dungeon: Primal Shadows

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Basically you gave great points already on what to share and what not to share to Delphox, so I'll spare myself a long explanation and agree with all of them. Explicitely NOT telling her that 
1. we have humans among us, 
2. we're/Platina's in the possession of one Plate and 
3. that we have controlled shadow-y energy among us via Kogeki and Platina 
gets a twice as definite yes from me, I'd feel a lot better if no one bar direkt team members (aka we all and trusted recruited Pokemon) know about that.

Original Message

My take on the matter, @Spirit, @Phantom, @Mika and @NoOne - Don't Trust Delphox yet. Her management style and how she runs the guild, while fairly free when she isn't exerting her authority, leaves a lot to be desired for our Nice Guys Group. Unlike say, for example, Wigglytuff and Chatot, she's fairly strict and authoritative when she does directly act and manage her guild unless you're particularly special (but not TOO special) or high ranked, which means that she is much more willing to potentially shut down our groups with soft or hard power plays if the info we give her sets her Danger Sense off. Her attitude in general has also successful alienated her 'personal human' to the point of them making the attempt to escape the Guild (and by extension her sphere of control) without notice is also not a great look for her, since it's not such a far stretch to posit she'd probably have a similar style to handling the Human PCs ( or worse ) . Or worse, in the case of the Shadowed Members or given that our group members are perhaps the very few beings in the Pokemon Universes to legit say they have meet THE GOD and are their Agents capable of wielding ITS power for the Greater Good. I can already imagine that Delphox would probably want to put a similar overbearing protection detail of Platina if she found out the sheer magnitude of responsibility and power that being a Plate Guardian, or perhaps even tries to exploit them for said power if she is sufficiently pragmatic and/or ruthless/opportunistic to see the need/want to do so with little conniptions about it.

Of course I could be wrong about my assumptions on Delphox, and her behavior could very well be justified by her overall history and the given culture of the region and how Adventurers operate there. Plus having a Boss that actually knows the importance of Humans and is quite willing to protect and provide means for their growth/safety is quite an alluring prospect. The problem is that the groups on the whole A) Are not powerful enough Statwise, experience-wise, AND politically-wise to contest any powerplays on Delphox' part should they decide to put pressure on us in anyway without getting creamed, and B) We just don't know enough verifiable background information on the Guild's Boss and the Guild itself historically to make any GOOD judgement call on Alerting either to the Full Truth of things. Ergo, why I propose keeping the big secrets from her until we can either become enough of a force to content them/the Guild to keep them in check or they simply prove themselves worthy of trust. They still need some info on our groups' quests to prep the Guilds and their wider civilian pops for the disasters ahead and also get our groups support without excessive scrutiny, but not so much of the Big Stuff that they could try to wall us off or start micromanaging our groups into hell, hence why we need to control the narrative carefully for everyone's benefit. What do you mates think about this?

Honestly, I have mixed feelings about Delphox aka our Guildmaster:

On one hand, I/Kee greatly respect her and see her as a at-times-harsh but fair and 'I know what I am doing'-type.
On the other hand, we've interacted not enough with her directly to consider her as a real ally and one that we could entrust with sensitive details.

But I also cannot shake off a lingering feeling of she knowing a lot more than she is sharing/displaying/telling. Like, A LOT more - if she (Delphox) went out of her way to 'adopt' Sheena and keep her in her Guild and be overprotective over her, she must have had her reasons for that, good reasons. She (Sheena)'s a human, humans play a vital role on the fight against the shadow energy, so possibly Delphox's way of aiding in that fight was basically keeping Sheena in a Golden Cage to make sure she can grow in safety and contribute her part to the fight when she's ready. Delphox does/did not share that to Sheena directly though, rendering Sheena having had enough and escaping said Golden Cage.....All in all, I'm curious to see where things go between the two and how important Sheena will become as we progress.

EDIT: I greatly respect her as our Guildmaster, but she has not yet 'earned' my trust just yet.