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A question for the developers
We have some idea of how a single character is expected to handle multiple identities. But what about a single identity shared or passed down involving multiple characters?
For example, the Phantom (one identity passed down from father to son). If a BBEG scries on the Phantom (thinking the current Phantom to be his father), the son's social identity certainly won't show up. But what will? The current Phantom or the father's grave? If the father was buried in his social identity, will the scrying turn up nothing at all?
Another example, the Renegade/Tron from Tron Uprising. General Cutler suspects that the Renegade is not the original Tron (and he makes sure to say so for the benefit of the public, to undercut any hope the Renegade might be inspiring), but he doesn't know for sure. And Tron and Beck certainly intend for Beck's alternate persona to be identified as Tron. Is their plan one scrying away from unraveling?
Another example, this time assuming we're using Silver Games's masterpiece: Ponyfinder. The CE Barbarian Rainbow Dash has been embarrassed and upstaged by the Mysterious Mare-Do-Well for the last time. She travels to the cottage of Zecora, the Zebra Oracle, cursed to speak in rhyme. She asks Zecora to scry on Mare-Do-Well. Who shows up, one pony or four?
What if the secret identity is shared by two characters unwillingly? The Astounding Spider-Knight has just been cloned, and neither of them know which one is the original and which is the clone. Both of them have agreed that one of them should relinquish the identity to the other and adopt a new mantle, perhaps that of the Scarred Spider. But which one? Does a simple scrying resolve this mystery before it even begins?
Will the other parts of Ultimate Intrigue be addressing any of this?
What? Are we just not allowed to know what else is in the playtest? Or are my above examples considered so far out there that they're considered beyond the purview of Ultimate Intrigue?