For anyone interested in the real world "truth serum", many attempts by different countries to use medications as a form of interrogation have been tested. Publicly, the FBI has considered using Medazolam to try to get confessions or information from people and have succeeded in attempts to get information that would otherwise be withheld. However, those types of medications tend to put the person the drug is being used on into a state of mind where any and all types of information is stated without any attempt to either intentionally lie or only tell the truth. In the case of trying to use the information given by a drugged individual you may get conflicting testimonies or even fabricated statements because the drugged individual is simply voicing random trains of thought or ideas they are having. So the conclusion is that drugs can alter a person's state of mind and get them to give up information that might help, but it might also cause that person to just make up stories that are of no use or otherwise detrimental in determining what is the actual truth of a matter.
I don't think separate members of the Elite Four, whose methods vary pretty widely, would necessarily know each other's secret assets, else the shapeshifting slime and the vampire with listening bats would probably be collaborating a lot more.Couldnt they have just asked the slime they captured (with or without) the flame who the spy was? cuz as a former demon general he should know. woulda saved a ton of time and quite possibly let them actually capture the judge dude and question before he got reset.
i would see your point... if they didnt literally have strategy meetings together. an informant would be without question used in strategy meetings.I don't think separate members of the Elite Four, whose methods vary pretty widely, would necessarily know each other's secret assets, else the shapeshifting slime and the vampire with listening bats would probably be collaborating a lot more.
We've seen those strategy meetings and they are definitely not cooperative enough to be engaging in full disclosure of resources even if "two or more of the Elite Four are directly working together in the same place" was rare enough in RPGs to be notable outside the context of final dungeon boss rushes or characters specifically built around multi-enemy gimmicks.i would see your point... if they didnt literally have strategy meetings together. an informant would be without question used in strategy meetings.