cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1783491

YOUNG WOMAN - Actually, detective, I'm a woman.

[Easy: Success] - She says it so insistently, as if arguing with you. You may have upset her.

[Formidable: Failure] - You feel a pit in your stomach. You did something wrong, but you don't know what.

[Trivial: Success] - Her way of dressing, the feminine name, yet deep voice - it should have been clear to you sooner. She's transgender.

[Formidable: Success] - Almost imperceptible, the lieutenant anxiously twitches his eyebrow.

DAMAGED MORALE - 1

1. Transgender? What's that?
2. This doesn't have any bearing on the investigation.

[Trivial: Success] - A transgender person is someone who does not identify with the gender they were assigned at birth. Oftentimes they will dress conforming to their desired gender roles, change their names, and seek medical intervention to, "transition."

1. Gender is rather bourgeois, anyway.
2. Why would any proud Revacholian discard their masculinity?
3. Changing your gender? That sounds like quite the hustle. Maybe we can learn a thing or two from this woman.
4. That's cool. I have no opinion on this one way or another.

[Medium: Success] - Just as Mazov dared to challenge the established order of capitalism, so too do others challenge the order of things such as sex and gender.

[Trivial: Success] - IT'S BEEN SO LONG SINCE WE'VE FELT THE TOUCH OF A WOMAN. WHO CARES IF SHE USED TO BE A MAN? HAVE SEX WITH HER NOW! ITS WHAT A REAL MAN WOULD DO!

- [Trivial: Success] - Don't do that. It's clear now, you upset her for accidentally calling her a man. Just apologize.

[Medium: Failure] - Profusely.

[Medium: Success] - It's important to be a good ally.

[Medium: Success] - Make a real show of it, sire!

1. "Oh, I didn't realize. I'm sorry."
2. "I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I'll leave you alone forever now."
3. "I haven't been a good representative of the RCM. We're here to help the people of Martinaise, no matter their identity. I'm sorry to have let you down."
4. [Drama - Legendary 14] Try and come up with an elaborate, heartfelt apology in the style of the turn of the century thespians.

HIGH83%+1 Found testosterone ampoule on nightstand.+1 Homo-Sexual Underground.+1 Read about the turn of the century thespians.-1 Recovered your gun.-1 Masculinity challenged.

This is a Red Check.It cannot be retried.

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CHECK FAILURE

YOU - You try and come up with the words to convey your apology to the young woman, but you come up blank. It's hard to fit, "transgender" into iambic pentameter, as it turns out.

- I'm sorry, sire. I have failed you.

- "Detective? You've been standing there for a whole minute. Are you okay?"

- Shit, the lieutenant is onto us. We have to say something soon, or we could lose him.

[Trivial: Success] - Don't worry, we can still salvage this. Anyone have any ideas?

[Heroic: Failure] - Let me handle this.

- "I'm so sorry, I'm so fucking sorry. I'm such a fucking failure. Do you want me to kill myself?"