Alexa/Max

Perception: A sleek and chubby morning dove.

You: How can she be sleek AND chubby?

Perception: She just is.

Electrochemistry [medium:success]: She's totally wasted right now. A nasty cocktail of speed and weed.

Volition: A woman after your own heart.

You: There's something off about her. What am I missing?

Perception [hard:success] there, clipped to her collar, a necklace. On it is a symbol- not unlike one you've seen before.

You: A communist?

Authority: No. Worse.

Volition [easy:success] a lesbian.

Homosexual underground: Nay brother, even worse. She's a member of the underground-underground. A transsexual. This woman is far more mysterious and dangerous than any other being you have ever met. Proceed with caution.

You: Am I a member of the transexual underground?

Rhetoric: Do NOT say that.

You: "Excuse me, ma'am-"

Authority [easy:success]: If you tell her that, she'll assume you're propositioning her. Likely to bait her into an arrest.

Suggestion [formidable:fail]

You: "I want you to transexualize me."

Wolfish woman: "...okay."

Volition: My god. That actually worked.

You: "Kim, that actually worked!"

Kim: "Yes detective, it did. Now could we please get back to the case?"