It's raining in London... again (OOC)

You walked up to a stranger and touched them? Yeah. Not technically a 'bad touch' but still. A strange child without parental supervision, yeah, that would get you looked at strangely by a 'responsible adult' were any there. Touching anyone without consent would be considered an issue. I get that you did not mean anything by it, and were being 'fatherly', so I treated it as minor rather than having the kid —who you already made nervous— make a big deal and shut down the scene.

It helps that they probably know Jena works here.

I don't think it is a problem, just a strange interaction in this 'stranger danger' world.

@Ysolde, did you see my question above about whether you are Lending a Hand, or accepting Benji's Partial Success and the consequences?

She will lend a hand

Go ahead and add that roll. Cross your fingers if they don't hurt too much. :)

Ha! Thankfully I will be able to keep the tip. I can’t believe my bread knife was that sharp!

She got a 9 so..

I’ll check in again later to post more.

That's great. Modern medicine is amazing.

You have a +1 Night Rating, so it is a 10, good work.

@Ysolde and @oopsylon, this seems like it might count as 'sharing a moment of Intimacy' between the three of you? Take a look at the wording of that Move on your sheets and see if you think it applies. If so, then we can talk about how to make it work in a three-way with two different characters' Moves.

Works for me

Sure! Sounds good to me
For reference this is Benji’s intimacy move:

When you share a moment of intimacy —physical or emotional— with another person, tell them a secret about yourself or owe them a Debt. Either way, they enter your Web and owe you a Debt.

I feel like Benji owing each of them a debt makes the most sense in this context (since the moment of intimacy occurred when they were helping him), although Bev is asking Benji questions so maybe he shares some kind of secret about vampire physiology (maybe a weakness that vampires usually try not to let people know about or something like that)

By the rules you can wait till the moment right before damage is done, after the GM has declared that it happened, before declaring you want to use Shielding. But in this case it makes sense to use it as a buffer, and the protection has psychological affects that can be beneficial.

Depending on how far you are pushing the stave, you might never actually take damage, and if you want to push it to the point of breaking you guys will be safe enough (though I can't speak for the table:).

What are you hoping to achieve with this?

OK.

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Possibly. But remember that you already probably Owe Rhiannon for introducing you to someone who can heal you. And you already Owe Bev a Debt for the healing.

Anything that comes from the Moment of Intimacy we just shared is over and above that.
She would love that. But be warned, she will have more questions later. :)

There are no stupid questions... allowed. :)
So this must not have been one. :)
Once you know how to do a thing, you can do the thing, though you do, of course, still need to do whatever is required in the fiction.

If it is trivial, then we don't need to see it in much detail and can just allude to it, or even ignore it as a 'solved problem', but that is not the case here.
You have learned that breaking the staves is not hard, and are pretty sure that doing so will release all the energy they have stored up. If this is a lot of energy this release will probably kill whoever is wielding the stave or carrying it in a pocket, and would probably also be bad for anyone near them.

You would need to find a way, in the fiction, to break them. The main difficulty is doing so from far enough away to be outside the blast. They are rather small for ranged attacks, but that is an option. A blast from another stave might do it too, but there has been no way to test that.
Did you try that? Or did you just let the power you pumped in dissipate over time [ref]?

If you did the experiments then you will be tired out [ref], but not so much that it counts as Harm or prevents you from taking further action today. It might be enough that you might want to save more actions (Rhiannon's followup?) for tomorrow, but is a non-mechanical, RP issue.
You can replicate what you have discovered in the fiction. There are no mechanics to do any of that, but your actions in doing so may call for rolls (Keep Your Cool to set up a circle; Turn to Violence or Mislead, or something else break a stave; and so on) but that will depend on the fiction you (or someone else using your information) describe at the time.
You did not 'need' any of the research, but it has provided you with possible answers that can lead to solutions. More can always help, but time is a limited resource and you have already spent most of the day on this.

If we want to get the PCs back together, we know that Benji spent hours at the police station, and they can take some more time at Bev's, so we can set the phone call to Rhiannon for later in the day, or even tonight as Benji suggested exploring the rails is better left for when the trains are not all running.

Mark is a few hours ahead of most of the rest of the scenes. This is part of the reason why I had Bev put off the question of vampire feeding till another time when we can give it its due consideration. That way we can speed that scene along to catch up. [ref]

When separated by time it may be best to assume we use asynchronous communications like messages rather than phone calls that expect immediate and synchronous responses. Cell phones made storytelling way more complicated. :)

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Does Mark respond to Jacob's message [ref]? Presumably he can see the message when he is done with his experiments, but you can also easily reply with what you would have said back then, and we can deal with any rolls that may have been called for as they come up.

We don't know yet if the Surveyors are Power, so far these are just rumours that Jacob has heard, but we can easily turn them into a Faction if we like the idea (I was just reacting to the sign on google maps:). If so we can see what Mark's involvement with them is, probably by a Put a Face to a Name roll.

Benji almost definitely has some knowledge of the Underground systems and hierarchies, but this is sorta far from his demesne, so it might take some work to get their help.
It makes sense that Benji would know the people at Piccadilly, we can just assume he has some level of access to the 'behind the scenes' stuff over there. But they may not talk to Jacob who they don't know.

These cameras may be useful in Benji's search for demon dogs on the tracks near Piccadilly, and maybe we reconvene there and see if there is any camera access at that location for that mystery and then see if we can leverage that into access to the cameras at Westminster Station (Debts for an introduction, Hit the Streets, whatever).

Decided Rhiannon knows a Surveyor but, he already paid back any favors he owed. So before she "Hits the street" maybe someone has something valuable to throw in…