Paying the Price (OOC)

Let's continue in the new RP thread: Paying the Price.

If you need to finish up with David (or something quick with Sarah) you can finish that in After Arundel.

works for me!

Agreed. That was the criteria I was waiting for. If Persephone will be there, Kat will be there. (Though she may be expecting something different to what you have planned?)

Ooh I'm intrigued. Could I get a quick idea of who Kat is?

Ooh! I love it. Possibly competing demonic forces! And Pers probably is kind of a party girl too, as an escape from her feeling of being trapped/doomed.

I enjoy shooting the breeze too! In character, even. I mean, I did go through the trouble of describing my outfits in detail, my coffee choice, etc, so I am happy to have more conversation. But I also know that, if it is unlikely any moves will get triggered, that we could also choose to do a summary if we like.

I'm open!

I think a competing organisation is the way to go. That way Persephone is not working for Emma's 'enemy'.

We can assume you do any small-talk you would have done, and that you can know relevant details about each other when they become relevant. You can explicitly play out anything you want here, but you can also talk at the party.
Triggering Moves is not all that important a part of the game. If you want to keep chatting, keep it going as long as you like. If you want to summarise, or assume things happened and see anything important in a flashback, we can even have Moves happen then (so long as the outcomes make sense for what came after).
Shall we jump there? Do you want to set that up for us?

Yeah I do hope we get to have scenes with all three of us at some point. Scenes with PCs > scenes with NPCs!

Apologies if I am missing your hints entirely about Kat, vagueGM! Sometimes I can be super insightful and sometimes I can't find the tv remote because I put it in the freezer when I went to grab the ice cream, you know?

true story btw

Actual artist of those two is Joanna Barnum, a favorite of mine.

I don't plan these things, so what you say ends up shaping what is happening. So now 'She's doomed to hell, ... but somehow she... doesn't know!'. What players latch onto is what sticks around in the game.

Kat does not know about the demons, so she will misunderstand how your situation is like hers.
Well, yeah. Frozen remotes are tricky. :)
Awesome stuff. Especially that second one.

Depending on what you are asking them to do for you that might be out of the scope of a Debt. If it is at an appropriate level for the Debts mechanic it might be more mechanically advantageous (and more in line with your words: 'I will owe you') to offer a Debt rather than cashing in a Debt. This is because you already have Wild Marked, so Cashing in a Debt does not trigger that, Owing a Debt gives the option for that being Cashed In later when you can benefit from Marking Wild. This is an unfortunate reality of US's Advancement system.

You can always (try) Cash in a Debt you hold to cancel the Debt you Owe from this, giving you two bites of that pie.
If you want to talk to your Patron they need to be paying attention to you. One sorta hopes you need to roll that Move to get that attention... otherwise it would mean they were already paying attention to you in this scene... which might be bad news. :)
Er...? What do you want your Patron do actually do, though?

Generally speaking we don't use NPCs to 'solve our problems' (unless they are too boring to see in play), just asking them to 'fix this' for two other NPCs not only takes away Emma's ability to solve the problems she has been dealing with for a while, but also... do you really want a (seductive, manipulative) demon solving what it thinks their problems are?

Persephone probably thinks her Dark Patron is an all-powerful being —it can look that way from her vantage point— but they are not necessarily more powerful than whoever is running the cult Emma encountered, do we want a 'demon war' over this?

There is a power-vacuum in the vampire hierarchy, so they are probably strong enough to deal with Sarah's current problem. Are you giving them carte blanche to deal with it?

What are you, the player hoping for? What is Persephone hoping for?

I'll specify here rather than writing something in the RP. What Persephone thinks is, yes, her patron can wave its hand and free them. What in fact I am asking for is leverage that Persephone can use to do the freeing herself. That might be information, or some opportunity, to strike at those who control these two women. Especially given that whoever controls Kat is demonic, it is likely that the patron won't intervene directly. But it could empower me to cause my own trouble.

I intended her to be offering another Debt.

I will go ahead and roll, with +0.