Retreat! (OOC)

May 20, 2025 3:14 pm
Out of character chatter about Retreat! can go here to avoid cluttering up the Roleplay thread.
OOC:
Use the OOC tag in your posts in the Roleplay thread, as needed, to clarify what is happening or suggest Moves.
This is for longer questions and answers related to that Roleplay. Basically: if it needs a back-and-forth, put it here.
General rules questions not answered in the Help! or Resources threads can go in General Chat or here if they are directly related to the RP.

Add a link back to the post in question so we can have context. After posting you can right-click on the orange header and select 'copy link address' (or whatever your browser calls it), then paste that in your OOC post.
May 20, 2025 6:51 pm
I'm thinking maybe I should slow down a bit. Pers is also at the hotel, and they might run into each other? Maybe she also went to the spa?
May 20, 2025 7:04 pm
Delirium says:
... I'm thinking maybe I should slow down a bit. ...
Agreed. I figured the spa was a good pause point anyway. We can return to it if we need to see more of what happened there.
Delirium says:
... Pers is also at the hotel ...
Only if she wants to be. There are other ways she might approach this.
Delirium says:
... and they might run into each other? Maybe she also went to the spa? ...
Yep. The spa seemed a logical place for such a meeting. The restaurant is more likely to have social responsibilities attached to any time there.
May 20, 2025 7:10 pm
Can I delete the last paragraph of my last message, to keep things open?
May 20, 2025 7:12 pm
Delirium says:
Can I delete the last paragraph of my last message, to keep things open?
Sure.

Though rather than deleting, you can strike it out, but we can also just include any chance meeting with anyone as something that happened before you went back to your room.
May 20, 2025 7:23 pm
I stroke it out. Might use that paragraph later. I want to give @drgwen the chance to say where and when (or if) they will meet, so I will pause here.
May 20, 2025 7:24 pm
Sounds good.
May 21, 2025 12:16 pm
oopsylon says:
(OOC in RP) ... Hyde Park Corner, searching for any trace of the hellhound. ...
OOC:
This seems like a good time to use Let It Out to ‘extend my vampiric senses’ to pick up the hellhound’s trail. Shall I roll?
Do we think you are actually going that far? The book says:
rulebook page 82 says:
Let it out triggers when you turn to the darkest forces within you for power, allowing the lurking shadows to fuel powerful supernatural and preternatural abilities.
It sounds more like you are merely looking around for clues, and you are in the exact right place, I don't really see any impediment to your finding what you need.

If you do want to trigger the Move, show us how you tap into your darkest self. What you are actually doing to gain this effect will dictate what the consequences might be on a Miss, or the price on a Partial Success.

No matter what, we will still get you where you need to go, but this might change how you feel when you get there.
May 21, 2025 12:18 pm
That's a good point! You're right -- I don't think Let it Out is necessary here
May 23, 2025 4:13 am
Delirium says:
I stroke it out. Might use that paragraph later. I want to give @drgwen the chance to say where and when (or if) they will meet, so I will pause here.
Thank you for pausing! I want to engage this material, for sure, but life was unkind this week. I'll post shortly.
May 23, 2025 9:29 am
@Drgwen: It has only been a few days, but you can decide how much your vampire bite tooth-scratch comes into play with massages and possibly swimming [ref] (you might have a swimsuit that covers that part of your shoulder?)

Mostly up to you... unless the dice say otherwise and it comes up as a consequence (we don't do Hit Point Loss, we do narrative:).
May 24, 2025 4:18 am
Hm, because I am apparently exploring Persephone's transformation into a sexual predator, how about the bite mark is still there, but it looks more like something that might have originated in some rough consensual play? Unless that's crossing anyone's lines, of course.
May 24, 2025 2:42 pm
Drgwen says:
... Unless that's crossing anyone's lines, of course.
No problem from me.
Drgwen says:
... the bite mark ... originated in some rough consensual play? ...
It might be my naivete, but this is a proper bite, with significant bleeding and all, so I would assume most people who see it would not think 'kinky'? You would need to sell it. It is up to you how you want to shape the 'bite', be it a 'scratch line' or a 'bite mark' or whatever, it is your body, you have to live with it.
May 24, 2025 3:42 pm
vagueGM says:
this is a proper bite
Actually, on second thought, given how the bite was given it probably looks more like a tear than a bite. She was lunging as she did it, it had to tear through demon armor, etc. So I think it would look more like an animal bite than a kink mark.

OK, I'll address it if/when it arises IC.
May 24, 2025 3:44 pm
Drgwen says:
... given how the bite was given it probably looks more like a tear than a bite. ...
But that is fungible. You can say that it looks more and more like a bite the more you look at it... if that feeds you anxiety. :)

Up to you.
May 24, 2025 4:17 pm
vagueGM says:
it looks more and more like a bite the more you look at it... if that feeds you anxiety. :)
Ha! Yes. I love it. Like a teen with a hickey.
May 24, 2025 5:05 pm
@Delirium would Persephone know who Henry is, do you think?
May 24, 2025 5:07 pm
Entirely up to you. He broke up with her before she moved to London, but she may have mentioned him in passing.
May 25, 2025 6:35 pm
Ha I think Emma may be a bad influence on the demonic girl! lol
May 25, 2025 8:07 pm
Bad influence? Me????
;)

We can conclude the scene, or is there something more you would like to say/do after the massage?
load next

You do not have permission to post in this thread.