After Arundel (OOC)

Really? The consequence of your choices and roll are not convenient for you? :)

They should not prevent us from playing, but you may need to deal with her clinginess... or face more consequences later.
David could babysit tonight... and you could call in a favour from Charles and Evelyn before they head home?

Sounds good!
Good point! I’m not sure Benji would actually have access to the bookshop and you’re right that a phone message probably makes more sense anyway :P
I agree that the arsenal doesn’t fit at all. +1 to a Circle probably makes the most sense narratively (the scheme involves helping the statues so it tracks that Benji would get +1 to Wild) although I agree it is a bit boring. Fiendish Underlings is very fun, on the other hand, but I’m not sure how Benji would end up with Fiendish Underlings as a result of helping a statue find a lost book. It does sound super fun though so if you have any ideas about how to make that work, I’m all ears :)
Okay, understood!
Done!

Will do! I probably won’t get that up until tomorrow though, as it’s pretty late here and I’m about to go to bed

Yeah, you are friends, but that felt like a bit of a stretch. I am fine with it if you say you are that close, though.

Jacob can always ask you to look in on the place when he is gone, but we can deal with that if it becomes interesting to maintain access (to the pond portal).
I can absolutely see how that could happen. You are fulfilling a demonic deal, after all. The Schemes have mystical binding power. Benji need not know anything about this till they turn up... or start obeying his wishes, or something.

Sorry, guys, I really can't keep up with your posting frequency anymore. ¬¬'

So for the End Move, I will just leave it up to you. If you ask me, I'd say that Jacob returned to his Establishment, but has to suddenly leave the city without further explanation of when he will be back.

He leaves a note for Benji at his place, assuring him that he'll be alright, and asking him to take care of his white raven (!), and feed him often. Not a text to his phone, as Jacob would rather not let anyone else know about the existence of the raven. ;-)

Regarding the scheme, once Benji finds the book, hopefully with Byron statue's help, the payout I suggest would be "solve a problem". So perhaps the statues can have a way to close one of the many threads we have open (climate problems, hell hounds in the subway, the strange artifact found in the river, the Night Sisters...). I just feel that we were starting to have too many. But of course, I'll leave up to vagueGM if he wants to give a different payout.

Sorry, but I don't think I have time to write another post in RP thread! Wish you all the best, thanks again for playing with me! ^_^

No worries, we will sort it out.
We will do it that way.
We might skip that part if it makes our ongoing game too complicated, but might also bring it into play if it works.

We will leave it vague for the time-being and just not mention it, that way we can later say that the request was made.
'Problems' are an aspect of your Establishment: 'A dangerous competitor edging in on your market', and 'A demonic ex-liege seeking your immediate return'. They are not relevant anymore.

Giving Benji 'Fiendish Underlings' seems the most interesting to the ongoing story.
That is a deliberate part of the game. We are not on a simple quest. This is life, and life is messy. There are always many things going on. Since we are not an adventuring party, we don't all have the same goals.

Some of the loose threads are related to PCs that are no longer with us. The hellhound and the residual demon rocks are things we might not care about without Rhiannon; the missing Josephine is, presumably, resolved when Mark left town, and so on. We can ignore them unless they become relevant to what the other characters are doing. We can pretend they are resolved, but we don't need to see that until we care.

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Quite understandable. Thank you for introducing us to Jacob (and Crowley and Hali:). It was great playing with you.

All of the best.

If it’s alright with you, I was just going to add the raven to the description of Benji’s apartment I’m in the middle of writing (implying that Benji has been by Jacob’s bookshop and seen the note and such without needing to get into it or do a flashback or anything). The raven is a trapped faerie knight, yes? So it might very well be relevant to the ongoing story with the fae and I think it's a nice detail anyway

Thanks for playing with us too, gnomius! It was a lot of fun :)

Go for it. I did not want to place it as a burden on the players if they were not into it. But if you are keen than we can keep that in the story. It could be important.

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it :D

Is this a fact? Can vampires not enter a home uninvited?

What time is it now? If they say 'evening', do we go straight there? Or do you want to speak to Sarah, and David, first?

Do you have any thoughts about who 'they' are? I can pull something together if you don't, but your input is welcomed.
Which Circle, maybe? I figure Mortalis is the most likely (and helps with your playbook).
The setup has changed a bit —with starting characters leaving— but we are, technically, in the 'University Hub'. Maybe a university/college activist group, or something like that?

Done.

... though they don't put that on the recruiting brochure. :)

How do they present to lure in victimsmembers?

OK. Henry has not told you this, so you don't know how to dress for the occasion.

I left the time undefined so we can have it happen whenever it suits the story. Maybe it is a dinner arrangement? Emma would know that much, at least, from the arranged time.

Looks pertty fine too. :P