Re: Pick a Party Unlimited!
I could roll with any of the four, although the Altruist changes with each one. Altruist is a solid Scrupulous alignment - Chaotic Good, or Dishonorably Humane if you are the Lawful Good type looking at him. Shitsumon and him are likely to agree on ends, but they will dispute the means.
I don't have solid readings on the other three yet, except "hey, Pitbull is Gecko now, awesome."
1) Dealing with 90's antiheroes (read: Villain Protagonists) and well-intentioned tyrants? I can work with that. We will always question our government handlers, though, because that's convention.
2) Similar to the above, although corporations are usually motivated by profit and fear liability. Still, it can be much as the above, just with an extra layer of separation.
3) Interesting, with Doc having a split allegiance. Most of us might see him as a government handler, although we might be glad for his patronage.
4) Much like the corp above, fear of liability would be real for rich old dude, although their personal reasons are likely to be all over the place.
The trustworthiness of a sponsor is going to depend on how idealistic this game is. And right now, there is a very untrustworthy branch among the powers that be based on the Game Info. Whether specifically our sponsors are bad guys is likely something we are going to be looking into, whatever their nature.