"I am probably the world's leading expert on dungeons and got a decent dungeoneering power set too, or what will be one once I know how to shoot things, sure."

"And are you willing to uphold a truce?"

"I am willing to abide by a truce. I don't know what you have in mind when you say 'uphold'."

"If someone tries to start a fight you tell them to cut it out - regardless of their reason - and you help out in ending that fight if that doesn't get in the way of dealing with the dungeon."

"Again, that's vague, 'ending the fight'. I don't want to agree to anything and then discover that you and I disagree about what I agreed to."

"Hrm, the thing I'd like is to be able to trust your judgement about how to handle situations in a way that leads to everyone understanding the Endbringer truce applies to dungeons in Brockton Bay."

"What happens when people violate the Endbringer truce?"

"Depends on details, but for something unambiguous, everyone works together to put them down, either during the fight or afterwards, whichever's cleaner."

"Are you allergic to saying 'kill' or do they do something other than kill them?"

"They kill them."

"And are they then charged with some flavor of homicide, or are they somehow not?"

"I think when this last happened in the US there was a kill order issued, but capes will do it regardless of what the people in charge say - there was a coup in South America when the dictator violated the truce."

"We are communicating poorly and I do not know why, though I guess the obvious hypothesis is that I'm from another planet."

"Possibly." Or Taylor is just bad at this, that's also possible.

"I don't actually expect you to have to kill someone to enforce the truce, though I think if people knew this, it would make them more likely to violate the truce."

"Okay. What do you expect me to have to do? What reputation do you expect me to have to maintain?"

"I expect that you'll have to remind people of the truce and give the impression that you'll intervene on the side of people who are attacked in violation of it, though if things go well and people take the truce seriously enough that won't happen. What reputation you'll want to have depends on you, and what reputation you think you can maintain."

"Is there any chance we can conduct this conversation under the assumption that I am aware that I will have to do only things I can do and not things I can't do, and am also aware that I want the things that I want."

"Okay."

"Great. So, you don't expect truce violations to come up much, but your backing me for this position requires that I adopt a visible posture of being prepared to escalate up unto lethal force if no lesser interventions suffice to maintain it; you are perhaps unclear on the legal status of adopting such a posture or following through on its promise but this is not important to you and nothing I could learn about it would change your opinion; violent responses to perceived truce violations do not themselves constitute truce violations. Is that all right? What am I missing?"

"You don't need to appear willing to escalate to lethal force, so long as it's clear you'll let me know about sufficient violations of the truce later - most of the time retaliation for breaking the Endbringer truce is done after the battle, not during."

"I construe contracting out a hit to be a form of escalation to lethal force however clean my hands."

"That's reasonable."

"Anything else in my summary not correct?"

"I don't think so."

"Then I'm going to want to look into the legal side of things and get back to you, since some things I could learn are important to me. Anything besides that you wanted to cover?"