Paying the Price (OOC)

Chablis seems safe enough to go outside with, now. So we have options.

Presumably Benji can invite vampires into his home? Or does the protection not apply since it is not the home of a human?

(And, no. I don't think we should try explore the practicalities of how this 'can't enter' stuff works. (Not till it becomes important to the story, at least.) :)

I definitely think Chablis would still count. I was initially thinking the rule would be that anyone currently inside the building could issue the invitation but it would make sense if it had to be someone who lives there… I can edit my post if we prefer that version.
Yeah I was not sure where the line should be there. I decided to have Benji face this dilemma at the door to the building just because I thought it was a fun little problem to be faced with an open door and be unable to step inside (if it was the door of the flat Emma would just invite him in when she opened it presumably).

There are certainly plenty of fuzzy areas in what constitutes a ‘home’ and its boundaries so perhaps a useable definition could be ‘a residential building where someone lives’ and the boundaries of that home are simply the boundaries of the building (otherwise, if someone is renting an individual room in a share house, would that room count as its own ‘home’? It gets very confusing). So an apartment building is a home. A vacant house is not a home, nor is a hotel. Situations like Jacob’s shop are sort of an edge case there, I suppose, in that it’s a flat above a shop (so residential/business?). Benji brought Teddy into the shop without an invitation because I was thinking of it as a shop, maybe that means only the residential part is considered a ‘home’….? Or maybe Benji was able to bring him inside because Jacob left the city and is no longer living there? In any case, it’s sort of a rabbit hole however you define it :P
Great questions! I’m going to say ‘no’ and ‘yes’ respectively.

Good. That makes the most sense.
Maybe we assume Benji assumed it was clear and this is how Emma learns that it has to be a resident, not just someone inside? Emma tries and it does not work, we get Chablis and it does. Easy-peasy.
That would be a mess. Good call.
Interesting... Maybe this changes if someone stays in a hotel room long enough? Some people live in a hotel, so it might be different... or might just not work and they are always vulnerable (cleaners and such traipsing in and out). We can deal with that if it ever comes up.
The shop had its own protections. But you were duly authorised and empowered to work around them (even if you don't know this), so you were allowed to invite Teddy in. This is more than just 'homes vs vampires'.
That makes sense. Hence the extra protections on the shop.
Better be careful when choosing one's neighbours. :)