Beautiful Stuff!
Aaron... Good on you Chap!
I'm sure all this is not easy to deal with. You prevailed.
Simple, decent, honest Power. Is the the ticket.
They'll be 'working overtime' for round two... as now their non-reputation is on the line... but fear not. Their over zealousness will without doubt cause them to trip on their own shoelaces. Keep that in mind. Over zealousness is a direct sign of an attempt to out do an imaginary force that one is convinced 'will destroy them' unless they 'out gun it' to death. In most cases where this is evidenced, it is the person or entity that is causing it's own defeat... yet assigning the cause elsewhere. That is why DM and the Co$ are loosing left, right and center. Of course, they are not graced with 'simple, decent, honest' so they will always be stuck in the position of trying to manufacture power.