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

Sounds feasible.

• It's going to take you hours of work.

• It will only work for a short time, and may be unreliable.
This means that, to use it:
• First you'll have to construct a magic circle around those wielding the staves.
The quality of the circle setup will affect just how unreliable it is, and if they move out it will stop working.

You could choose to offset the unreliability by doing more test-firings, but:
• It's going to mean exposing anyone nearby to serious fallout (or going somewhere where that does not matter?).

The time you need to spend means you can't really help Rhiannon, assuming she is asking for your help [ref]. If you go out and help her, you will be stuck with untested and unreliable results, but you may find other solutions in the field.

Yeah, we can't know what rolls apply till we see what you are doing in the fiction.
How would you find such locations?

Did you and Benji speak about what he knows? Even though we did not see it, if you both agree, we can say that, before you split up, Rhiannon was made privy to these details. You would need to show us how you tried to follow up on that, and that might call for more rolls, based on the fiction you describe.

We won't use the previous roll for your followup, we already know it is a Miss, and it is hard to describe the fiction after we know the result. That roll stands, though (once the dice hit the table they are set and final (even if we sometimes adjust what modifiers should have been applied), and the consequence is the ramped-up stakes of the demon-bits being a problem for the kids.
What mage? Chaudry? See above. You have no way of knowing their 'last known location' or 'their place', you last heard of Chaudry years ago.

If you want to track this information down, you can try do that. Show us how.

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I am also not sure what the unspoken parts of this post refer to. 'More than one' 'wizard/mage' to summon the squad? Or 'more than one' 'squad of demons'?

Benji would have been happy to share that information with Rhiannon

@Stalker05 Mark, I misspelled it

Sorry still getting used to this form of RPG. I'll add a call to Benji to get more information too and the other part is basically "When there's more than one demon there's more than one demon." basically "get a full count of all the demons you can."

Quite alright. The narrative nature of 'non-traditional' RPGs is hard to wrap ones' head around when coming from systems like DnD and its ilk. My 'DnD' games were already narratively driven, so I did not know there were other ways to run games before the Bakers codified that fiction should come first and people were saying how revolutionary that idea was (there were reasons everyone kept telling me I had to try Dungeon World:).

So long as people don't get fed up with me repeating that the the fiction should come first, I am happy to keep saying it and explaining how that applies to each situation. I am used to it, and patient, so don't stress about it.

I am happy to go into more detail, or give more examples (possibly unrelated to this game) if people want. Just ask.

Remember what the book says: 'to do it, you have to do it' (page 37, Triggering Moves). It might help to carefully read each move and the accompanying notes to see what they say about what needs to happen before a roll is called for, but most of them boil down to 'do it in the fiction, only roll when you need to, and when none of us know what will happen next'.
Can't argue with that logic. :)

The time requirement is a cost, it means you can't really help Rhiannon. If you want to help with the other work (and there are direct ways you —and you in particular— can help find the kids) then you can't take the time to do your research. If it conveniently ended at the point where other things came up it would not actually 'cost' you anything. So it is one or the other, but you get to choose.

Yes, you can do that from your Sanctum. You have a part of the demons, so you can use that to find the other parts.

It will be easy enough for you to get the current locations of the other bits on a map. If you wanted to make something that could follow them as they move, that will require more and we will have to talk about it.

Anything other than tracking the matching bits will be a lot harder, trying to find the unbroken demon that got away would be hard, and trying to find other summoned demons or the summoner would be very, very hard.

Hey just a heads up that I probably won’t be able to post tomorrow!

It is also where a 'treasure hunt' is/was taking place [ref] [ref], and you may have coincidentally heard mention of an archaeology school outing that also had a treasure hunt component [ref], where do we think that might have ended up? :)

If you do the quick location tracking [ref] you will find there are a few bits outside Jacob's —in the drains and cracks— a large collection wherever Rhiannon stashed the remains, ... and at least one piece at the museum... Oh No!

(I have not defined which of the many museums we are taking about, but they are one and the same. Also close enough that the school expedition could get there easily enough. We can define it when we need to.)

Cool, let's leave any followup scenes with Rhiannon's doctor [ref] till later in the day then, give her time to do other things in the meantime. Let us know when you are back and we can pick it up again.

@Ysolde Remember that oopsylon is not around (see above), so Benji's scene will have to wait.

Do you want to deal with Jacobs's question first and get back to Benji later? It is up to you if you know anything or if you have to ask around or hit the books, or you could roll Put a Face to a Name (with Wild) to see if you have had dealings there.

I don't know what you were doing at Green Park station (if you actually went and did not get sidetracked by other things) [ref], maybe Benji would be more able to get answers from such a place once you have helped him with the doctor, so we can come back to that as well?

@Stalker05: Please continue. If you did the quick divination/tracking show us that, else take us to the museum with what knowledge you do have.

@VagueGm Sorry missed they were out. I’ll have her over at the station in the meantime…just assume my second post is earlier in the day from my first

I’m back now and can post whenever Rhiannon’s done with her previous scene! Also, I’m happy to go looking for some bad guys to chomp on if Rhiannon would rather do that then go to her ex-girlfriend for help. (Presumably Benji also has a few other willing blood donors he knows other than Lizabeth but it felt a bit cheap to just keep rolling Hit the Streets for blood until I got a success…) In any case, Benji will definitely help Rhiannon track down the demons afterward and I think he probably owes her a Debt for going out of her way to help him!

Of course. Having things happen out of order is a common part of PbP.

But oopsylon is back, so we can pick up from there. You can pick him up and introduce us to your Ex and her place of work.

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What was the roll to 'Persuade Charles to help Benji' [ref]? I did not see anything in the fiction where anything like that was happening. This means I can't find appropriate GM Moves as the consequence for the Miss on that roll and we would not know how to respond on a Success. I will have to work that consequence into whatever happens next.

Remember to give us the fiction first, then we can talk about if a roll is needed.

Sounds like fun. But bear in mind that they are still 'unwilling', so feeding on them will still Trigger Corruption, even for 'bad guys'.
Presumably so.
Yeah, we can decide that failing to find the thing you want means it is not available for a time, not just that that persons was unavailable.

But you can also try again later. Remember that if you keep rolling until you get a Success, you are rolling Misses until you do, and every Miss adds complications like Lizabeth's arrest and then that becoming a serious issue (due to another Miss) and not just a mistaken identity or something simple. Rolls are risky and complicate the story.
Yes, Benji presumably owes Rhiannon for the in introduction (or you could be Cashing in a Debt to get her to make the introduction, you guys choose), Benji will then owe the doctor a Debt for the service, and Rhiannon may end up owing her a Debt (or a date?) for seeing you, but we will know more after the fact.

That was an unintentional roll. I had a different scenario then changed mid typing and forgot to remove the roll before I posted.