Revenge? (OOC)

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Aug 18, 2025 2:55 am
Good point. Hmm ok let’s just have the disappearance occur, then, right as Circe is talking to her. Persephone is summoned to Wentworth, and Circe is stunned. Then Benji arrives to provide support, but also some context and verification? If Persephone ends up meeting someone from "the other team" at some point, then cool. I won’t try to shoe horn it in here.
Aug 18, 2025 3:02 am
Drgwen says:
... let’s just have the disappearance occur, then, right as Circe is talking to her. ...
Maybe as she turns away to speak to Emma? Turns back and you are 'gone'?
Drgwen says:
... If Persephone ends up meeting someone from "the other team" at some point, then cool. I won’t try to shoe horn it in here. ...
Do you want 'another team'? You could just find the information you need while dealing with Wentworth? You can always seek out another team as a result, if you want.

Do we want this to be a surprise to Wentworth as well? That could give you a few moments to search his office with him away? Or do you want Wentworth to be the one who made this happen? You can still get a moment at some point, this question is about Wentworth's agency in this.
Aug 18, 2025 3:07 am
Yes when she is talking to Emma is perfect!

And by "other team" I meant an angel. One of my ideas was that she meet another patient who has some connection to angels, as a foreshadowing of her going that way when she switches playbooks. But let’s leave it for later. For now it’s just Wentworth.
Aug 18, 2025 3:16 am
Drgwen says:
... by "other team" I meant an angel. ...
Yes. I am saying we can do that if you want to, but we can also do it later if we don't want to commit to that course of action right now as part of the asylum escape.
Aug 18, 2025 3:21 am
Yeah let’s do it later. No need to complicate this further!
Aug 19, 2025 1:37 pm
If Benji wants to swoop in to save the day, now would be good?
Aug 20, 2025 4:41 am
@Delirium: What is Emma's plan? Is she going to take a rest for a few days and regain her strength so she operate alone; talk to her husband; or is she going to prepare for going out soon, possibly with the needed aid of her father in law?

When you do 'go out' where to first? Titanias? Or back to 'Elliot's' once your mind clears enough for you to think that you are pretty sure you had your purse in the car, but not when the orderly wheeled you into the hospital.
Aug 20, 2025 4:43 am
@Drgwen: Do you want to finish up with 'The Education of Circe', or should we set the scene with Persephone's new situation and run them concurrently? Up to you.

The nurse [ref] obviously was there when Persephone was strapped in, so she is working from her own memory.
What is the situation with the hospital? Is there no record of Persephone? Do the computers show she was officially 'released'? Has the doctor who was attending to her been 'reassigned' to another area? Or are they now looking for a 'dangerous psych patient' (who the cops already have on their radar from an indecent at the hotel and the luggage that was never picked up)?
Aug 20, 2025 5:03 am
Emma will go visit Titanias as soon as possible, hoping she could heal her. She wouldn't want to spend the next few days in bed. She will try to get Charles to take her, back and forth.
Aug 20, 2025 2:07 pm
vagueGM says:
@Drgwen: Do you want to finish up with 'The Education of Circe', or should we set the scene with Persephone's new situation and run them concurrently? Up to you.
Both please! I figure Benji and Circe can chat and we can leave Persephone to recover for a moment. Let me know if the way I wrote that scene works for you. I left it open what exactly Wentworth will ask of her.
Aug 20, 2025 2:48 pm
Drgwen says:
... Let me know if the way I wrote that scene works for you. I left it open what exactly Wentworth will ask of her.
We can work with that. :)
Aug 21, 2025 4:51 am
It seems like Circe may need some 'proof' from Benji [ref]

What are we thinking about doing?

(Biting her might work... no, nevermind, I did not say that, that was just the Hunger speaking...:).
Aug 21, 2025 5:43 am
For starters, Benji is planning to ask her to check his pulse. If that is not sufficient, he might show her his fangs or ‘vampiric strength’. It would be convenient if there were a silver mirror around so that he could show her his lack of reflection, but that seems unlikely…
Aug 21, 2025 5:52 am
oopsylon says:
... check his pulse. ... show her his fangs or ‘vampiric strength’. ... a silver mirror around so that he could show her his lack of reflection, but that seems unlikely…
Those are good options.

I wonder if Circe would have any clue about finding a pulse?
How obvious are your fangs?

Do we want to have to roll for vampiric strength or do we assume it works? There is no real 'risk' unless we want to make it so (the risk being Circe's reaction?), and this 'good deed' should not bring Corruption, surely?

This is London, it should also be possible to find an antique shop and seek out an old mirror.

@Drgwen: We can go with whatever you feel is appropriate for the NPC.
Aug 21, 2025 6:07 am
vagueGM says:
How obvious are your fangs?
Pretty obvious, I think, to anyone who’s paying attention. Maybe like twice the length of a normal human canine and very pointy
vagueGM says:
Do we want to have to roll for vampiric strength or do we assume it works? There is no real 'risk' unless we want to make it so (the risk being Circe's reaction?), and this 'good deed' should not bring Corruption, surely?
I don’t think it would make sense to roll as, like you said, it doesn’t really make sense to get corruption from it
Aug 21, 2025 6:16 am
oopsylon says:
... I don’t think it would make sense to roll as, like you said, it doesn’t really make sense to get corruption from it
Cool, you are welcome to just play it out.

If we want to add an element of risk of her not being convinced, we can roll without corruption.
Aug 21, 2025 6:44 am
vagueGM says:
oopsylon says:
... check his pulse. ... show her his fangs or ‘vampiric strength’. ... a silver mirror around so that he could show her his lack of reflection, but that seems unlikely…
Those are good options.

I wonder if Circe would have any clue about finding a pulse?
@Drgwen: We can go with whatever you feel is appropriate for the NPC.
I think Circe would be able to find a pulse normally. And sure, some strength or speed demonstration too!
Aug 22, 2025 12:17 am
Drgwen says:
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Circe hasn’t heard about any of this yet!
She definitely has! She told Benji about it on the phone earlier. She obviously didn't take it seriously then though, so maybe she's just processing it now?
Aug 22, 2025 12:24 am
Oh yes you’re right, I forgot she said that in the phone. The funny thing is, I don’t recall Persephone telling Circe!

But sure. Let’s say she’s just processing it now, like she so entirely dismissed it earlier than she never even considered it could be true, even now
Aug 22, 2025 4:21 am
@vagueGM I thought I'd throw in a wrinkle with that emotion suppressing tattoo. It's demon prozac!
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