Paying the Price (OOC)

Does that clear everything up?

Well, duh! Complications in your friend's bathroom would be ... complicated. :)

Mark the Corruption on you rsheet.
I am not sure if I have given you is enough [ref]. I am not sure what I gave would cause a Debt?

Do you want more? Else we can treat this as a freebie.

@Delirium Emma can tell that Pers is not well. She looks shaken, upset, ill, and possibly about to cry.

Nah, this works for me! No debts needed at this time.

That’s ok Delirium! I think Pers is gonna need to confide in Emma soon tho. And poor Emma, being a warm friendly person only to have her guest literally opening a portal to hell in her bathroom! Pers is a hot mess.

Oh!! Good point, good point. You're absolutely right! OK nevermind! I tink it's better this way actually. More interesting!

That was not my intention, I would have included Emma in the description if I meant to include her. I thought Sarah was sitting apart from the the rest of the group, not over where Emma was feeding Circe. But the flat is small, so maybe I misjudged how separate she was? She felt pretty out of the conversations, no one had included her till Kat did.

I assumed 'Kat sitting next to her' [ref] was later, once Persephone was in the bathroom and that Kat told Emma then... it seemed a bit weird, but if the player wanted to use an NPC to include them in a conversation that is fine... so long as everyone is happy with them being included.

Do we want to change how much Emma thinks she knows? Her assumption about Persephone is wrong, and she always sorta knew, deep down, that Kat's attendance at the earlier party had a transactional element. We can rewrite that post, @Delirium, you had doubts about it already [ref].

Kat also made a distinction between her having a pimp and Sarah having a manager, suggesting Sarah was not the same.

I am fine with the currently established fiction, as Delirium and I just agreed to. But I will happily go along with a change if you and/or Delirium prefer. I am comfortable rolling with it either way.

If you are both happy its fine by me. Misunderstanding what Persephone was saying and misunderstanding why Emma invited her here, Kat could easily put her foot in her mouth.

Misunderstandings like that are interesting and common!

Alright, draw the evening to a close as you like.

What comes next for each of you? If it flows naturally from the party, carry on, else we can set the scene for whatever you want to do.

Without PC help it is tricky to resolve this, NPCs don't roll dice, but we can still let the dice decide. We can treat this kinda like a Persuade roll, but with a circumstance-bonus rather than a dice mod.

Given that we have established Lizabeth does not want to do the hypnosis we will give it a -1.

On a 10+ she will still have reservations, but will agree.

On a 7-9 her 'counter off, or payment' will be that she needs time to think about it, maybe Benji will gain some level of trust for the sisters and that can transfer over to her trusting them, or their actions will lead her to trust them later.

On a 6- she says no, and you lose that source of answers, and a little of the goodwill of the Night Sisters.

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Or Benji can take a more active role, somehow, and his actions can decide things.

@oopsylon: What say you?

Sure, let’s put it to a roll!

Also, I love how normal (for lack of a better word) Emma's home life is! it is not often I see such domestic tranquility in a TTRPG, especially one with monsters and vampires and demons and so on! it's a lovely contrast, I tihnk.