Winter our discontent (OOC)

I will set that up in a new thread as soon as I get a chance.

Persephone can finish her scene with Viviana —and anything that we still need to see with Circe— in the existing thread and then transition over when she is ready.

First, apologies for my delay--life has been exceptionally vexing lately.
true. I had hoped we'd moved past that, but I understand.

I think this may be a place in which the rules are an imperfect fit for the situation, but I accept that Keep Your Cool makes sense here, if there is to be a roll. I'll RP a quick reaction from Persephone when she senses Viviana's panic and then we'll see if a roll is needed.
THIS is an interesting angle! I think I'll explore this.

It happens. Here's hoping your vexations diminish.
Agreed. The rules of a game are largely there to set the types of things we are expected to engage in in play, one of their biggest uses is letting people know what to expect from a game... we are deviating a fair bit from what Urban Shadows is 'supposed to be', so we will need to stretch the rules around our actions from time to time.
Ah, 'hoping'. Possibly not the most cromulent mechanism for dealing with the problems set before us. :)
Maybe later, to deal with any fallout when things get complicated.
Cool, in your own time.
Does Circe notice? Or, this being the first time she has witnessed you on the prowl, is it all new?

Do you have more you want to do in this scene?

Well, bear in mind that a rulebook is just a guide as to how a game 'is meant to be played', many rulebooks are fairly open-ended about the tone. Urban Shadows is much less versatile and open than something like Monster of the Week, it intends for a more directed style of play, and its Moves tend to only really apply in those types of situations.

We have, on several occasions, found that the rules were not there for us when we tried to reach for them, this is the surest sign that we are off the beaten track. But this is not a problem, we just have to play around it.

The general tone of Urban Shadows is 'supposed to be' much darker than we seen in this game. Also much less friendly. The rules encourage us to call in Debts or manipulate the other PCs when we want to get them to help us out, the rules don't assume we are 'friends' or like each other. I have seldom found this PCvPC part to work out at the table, players always have to make a concerted effort to use Debts on each other.

With the way things are playing out, I don't know if we will ever see the Faction Moves part of the rules come into play. But I am not a fan of 'GM lonely fun' anyway, so losing this (or warping it to fit our limited needs) is fine by me.

A lot of the book assume the PCs will be striving for power and Status, but we have not seen a lot of that sort of things, so far.

So: Mainly 'tone', and that the Moves try to push us in a direction we are not really going?