It will rain again tomorrow (OOC)

Someone really has to do something about this rain... but that is an in-game issue. Your real-life flooding takes precedence, good luck with that.

Where does Rhiannon go next? To check the demon-stones you left with Charles? I will assume so and set that scene later if I don't hear differently from you. Take your time.

Yes, that’s next on her agenda.

oopsylon, if you are not being genuine in your offer to contact them with what you learn from Lizabeth [ref], then you will need to roll to Mislead Amira.

No matter what, nothing binds you to keep this promise if you later find out details that make you change your mind. They will remember, of course, but probably would not be all that surprised.

Which options for Mislead do you think are most appropriate for this scene? Benji is trying to get information out of them by playing dumb/naïve

• What are you actually Misleading them about?

Are you pretending to be incapable of using email to contact them (a feasible lie given your clearly outdated style:), or are you lying about contacting with them Lizabeth's answers at all? This will influence the later fallout.

• What sort of information are you trying to get?

Are you wanting something less ephemeral than a disposable email address? They didn't hesitate and were prepared for this sort of thing, so they are somewhat 'professional' and would provide you with a —similarly untraceable— cell phone number (which could force them to meet you again later rather than expecting you to send them pictures via email or something). If you insist on a physical address, they will give you a dead-drop location or PO box (which you could stake out if you wanted to). You will have to work a lot harder to get them to give up their anonymity.

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Whatever the above answers, bear in mind that Mislead does not get you information, but it can Create an Opportunity —maybe for them to drop their guard and reveal something, or maybe for you to be able to followup with a Persuade (for something reasonable)— or could Expose a Weakness or Flaw in their tradecraft from which you could learn something (Possibly via Figure Someone Out, though it will be hard to get more from them than I have already revealed, given your (apparently open and honest approach) they have been surprisingly open in return, if light on details).

I don't think Benji is necessarily lying about either of those things— he genuinely doesn’t have an email and he hasn’t decided yet if he wants to share whatever Lizabeth tells him with them, but it’s a possibility — but, throughout the conversation, he has been deliberately playing up certain aspects of his personality to appear helpful and naive to hopefully get them to share more than they might otherwise. He’s fishing for any information he can use to figure out who these people are/who they work for (so maybe Create an Opportunity to Figure Someone Out would be appropriate?) but obviously they’re not going to share that directly

Shall we say ‘create an opportunity’ and ‘confuse them for some time’ then?

Then your offer to do so is a lie. Either you intend to do what you say or you can't promise it (you can always change your mind later, when you learn more details, but that is an issue for that later time).

I already treated your words as honest, so it feel disingenuous to go back on how they have acted, but that does not dictate your choices. We will say they believe you and deal with any lack of follow-through later.

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The fiction so far does not support your getting them to tell you more information, so maybe we take those two options to mean you have the opportunity to follow them when they leave —thus maybe learning something, possibly via Figure Someone Out— and they don't become suspicious of you and take active measures to lose you as a tail?

If you did not Confuse them for Some Time then they would take immediate, active measures to evade you and you would have to work hard to follow them.

Does that suite you?

Don't say you want to do it. Do it. :)

Focus on the fiction first. Show us what you are doing and we will see if any Moves apply and need to be rolled. You are a Wizard, you can detect the presence of magic, so you might not need to roll that Move if you roleplay how your character is investigating this and are happy with what the roleplay shows you, you can then decide you want more details and open your senses by Letting it Out if it comes to that.

Don't jump to Moves and mechanics and dice, use the fiction first, it is safer. If you want to do a Move, you can shape the fiction such that that Move gets called for, that is fine, but you still need to first do the fiction in order to set up and trigger the Move.

Hey guys, I'm back! Give me some time to catch up and I will post ASAP. Hope you had fun while I was out, and nobody got bitten by any hell hound! ;-)

Someone got bitten, but they are keeping that under wraps. :)

Glad to have you back. Take your time catching up. Ask any questions you might have.

I hope we are all seeing the same strange effects on Google Maps. I see blanks in the Street View locations I linked, and I can not enter the top of Temple Lane [street view], I just bounce off an invisible wall.

I know that we are merely seeing bits where the Google Street View cameras did not go or shoot, but we can amplify this and play with the area as we please.

Sure, that works for me :)

This sure is giving a very good immersion to the gameplay.

I am not keeping up to my agreement just due to a whole lot of things so I think I will have to drop. Sorry everyone.

Sorry to hear that, but we completely understand.

If things change later, let us know and we can look at bringing Rhiannon back into the story. If you leave, we will fade her out of the active events and leave her state nebulous —I usually don't turn PCs into NPCs and don't want to play your character and have them do anything you would not have done— this way you can pick her up again if that is ever viable for you.

Do you want to play out an exit scene? Or shall we just say you were called out of town for some undefined reason?

Ouch! Sorry to hear that, Ysolde, I was really enjoying your character.

OK, I am caught up with the pending messages, but not sure where in time should I start with Jacob, vagueGM. If I understood correctly, Mark can talk to me in the evening about that tracking spell, but otherwise I have the rest of the day "free"? Do you want me to start right away or wait until I am synced with the other players?

We are all out of sync.

Mark's scene is set some time after late morning the day after (hours after) you were on the tracks, we never needed to define exactly when, and it might be afternoon? @Stalker05, do you have a preference about what time your walk in the park is happening or can we set it whenever we find a good time?

Benji is still playing out 'last night', after his running away, so we can finish that scene and jump him forward easily enough or interrupt your sleep and bring you into that scene.

@Rhiannon is in the afternoon, but we are probably losing her, so don't set scenes with her till we know if Ysolde wants to do a farewell.

No need for you to wait, if you want to link up with another player let us know and we can arrange it. If you have ideas about what Jacob would do after the adventure on the tracks, we can do that.