<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=200351.msg9870242#msg9870242">Quote from: Miroque on 19-04-2014, 12:10:37</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">@Von Doom: Of course, but even if GM is adamant, Ingrid is not.. she can see the flaws in motion .. true or not..<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=200351.msg9870772#msg9870772">Quote from: Ebb on 19-04-2014, 16:34:20</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">If "This Prince seems be lax about security, and that's a crack in his armor that could be exploited" is a plot, then cool. But the GM has said that it is not. Continuing to push on it doesn't serve the game very well.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I certainly didn't mean to convey the idea that the Prince is lax about security. He does not come off as paranoid, but he does seem to be as well-protected as an American president. The chief difference is that his "Secret Service" is a cadre of his own ghouls, some of which are visible inside Elysium at this moment, and others are in various key locations to head off attacks. A gas truck can be stopped, among other ways, by driving alongside it with a pickup truck and a kindred in the back who can rip a door off and kill the driver, then bring the truck to a stop.<br/><br/>I also recall watching one of those "Wild Police Chases" specials years ago where it was discussed that it was possible to stop a car by delivering an electric or EM jolt to the circuitry/on-board computer that regulates fuel injection. The government was experimenting with various methods to deliver that shock (very fast RC car designed to drive under the fleeing car and deliver the shock underneath it, etc.) that were proving to be very promising, if too expensive to implement by most local precincts. If DHS doesn't have something equivalent today, I'd be absolutely shocked, and if they don't have it ready to use in DC at a moment's notice, I'd be floored. And that's a world without the Technocracy, without higher security needs than our own, without the NSA knowing about kindred and the potential need to protect politicians from supernatural parasites who can manipulate anyone into doing their will. I strongly suspect that a gas truck driving through certain parts of DC would quickly get a police escort, just in case, and in America, most semi-trucks are being tracked by satellite at all times (and I would suspect that the government knows where virtually all large trucks are in DC at any given time, thanks to cameras with license plate tracking software and satellite tracking, and that's in our mundane world, and that's just the non-classified technology being used at the moment).<br/><br/>And in the World of Darkness, the 24 hour news networks would be owned, most likely, directly or indirectly by the Ventrue or by Pentex. They have a vested interest in squashing stories that would break the Masquerade, declaring them hoaxes, having "experts" on to talk about why they're clearly hoaxes, and discrediting the few places that report them as actual news. The stories<em>are</em>spread around away from corporate-owned (usually meaning Ventrue-owned) media, though, and that's how Hunters find out about things, but those news outlets are considered unreliable by damn near everyone in the WoD (not to mention that a blogger/vlogger/amateur reporter sticking his neck out like that would draw unwanted attention from the kindred, who could Dominate him into claiming on camera it was a hoax anyway).