Revenge? (OOC)

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The difference here is that you did actually abandon David who was relying on you to get back home and take care of him. The situation he has found himself in is your doing. But it is up to you. Maybe reserve judgement till after you get back?

If only it were that easy. :(
Doing your job might work, but there may also be other ways, or other 'costs'.

Oh this is too good! I had actually forgotten that she had lost the power to change! But YES, this is a perfect narrative moment. Now she has to choose between betraying this naive girl that she has just started catching feelings for in order to prove herself to her sister, or find some other solution.

We've talked a bit about the fact that 'getting out of her contract' is a campaign goal, and not something I would want to happen any time soon. So I think it is unavoidable that Persephone do some jobs. Also, I think we got a glimpse of Persephone trying hard to be her better self, but I'm not ready yet for that to actually 'stick.' I think instead she will try to play both sides, doing the job for her patron (and thus regaining her ability to show Circe she's telling the truth), then getting Circe and Henry (and Emma) on board the idea that Persephone wants to get out of her contract, all while continuing to do demon work on the side, maybe.

In short, I want to explore a subtle, messy, fractured response to her traumatic murder, one where she is almost split in two (but not going into D.I.D. territory).

Well, not just 'to prove it to you sister' (and David?), also to avoid any other prices for shirking your responsibilities. :)
Absolutely. This is just a little light at the end of tunnel, not, in any way, a getting you any closer to that goal.
Not engaging with that part of the Playbook would be a pity, so yeah, just sad it is with someone like Viviana... but that may be part of the point... these are not exactly saints you are working for. :)
I worry for her, betraying Viviana may cause her to come unstuck... but that is also part of the Playbook.
Good luck with that.
Sounds like a plan.

Showing her The Devil Inside is not the only way to prove to Circe that you were not teasing her, of course.
It is hard to imaging what having such a thing be proved to be non-permanent would do to someone... :)

Agreed, and, I think, an unavoidable result at this point. Well, at least I don't plan to avoid it!
Yeah, I've thought a lot about what that would do to a person and, well, I think it would fundamentally change a person, scarring them psychologically forever. Can the victim heal from that? Yes, eventually, but that's not something you shrug off.

For some reason that post made me think about Persephone (eventually) changing Playbooks to The Angel...? Not sure on the logic there...

I haven't actually looked at the Playbook, just riffing off assumptions of what it might be...

Yeah, I noticed the 'drinking already'...

I assume they are deliberately left vague, so you can treat them independently of each other (if you only have one but not the other?), or link them together if you have both and want to make the blood and smoke of Dark Bargain be part of your 'brokering deals' and possibly 'collecting souls'.

'They' might not allow you to be part of the 'contract signing ceremony', not until they trust you... but you may be able to convince them?
As we saw in the sacrifice room, you don't have complete carte blanche to makes these deals, (and, this is for sealing a deal, not for negotiating one, as you tried), but something bigger than you enforces them.

These Bargains are not mechanically tied to your Jobs or their 'Contracts', you can use this in the fiction to force someone to do things they agreed to for you (4-Harm will kill most NPCs if they don't), or to make yourselves better able for the duration of a task (Henry (and Circe) won't mechanically benefit from a +1, but you (and Emma, if you can get her helping you:) might benefit from the +1 to Let It Out while seeking your Chaudry Revenge?).
They need not be the same thing. 'Bargains' might be street-level deals with people to help you, the 'Contracts' (a term only used twice in the actual mechanical text of the Playbook (and once as a synonym for Jobs?)) are part of your deal and Jobs. Bargains could be spoken-contracts (with smoke and blood, but that is your doing), while the contracts seem to be more corporate stacks of paper filled with legalese?
How did it happen for you?
You can weave Dark Bargains into the brokered contract, but they both exist independent of each other (you might not have both). Showing the good use of your Dark Bargain ability might get you closer to the paperwork during a signing, but who knows. Depends how you play it?
For the part of this that stems from your character's experience we rely on you for the details. But your experience was unique and may not have much bearing on what Viviana goes thought... it probably serves as a guide for us, though?

We don't need to know till we see (or don't see) the next Contract (Soul) being signed (away). But we can talk about it if it helps your shaping your approach with Viv?
There is no concrete in my mind!

OK this all works for me! Let's figure it out in play! OK, sleep for me.

You will only be able to learn what is reasonable for you to learn within the fiction. So mainly 'hints' from her tone?

You may need to probe her for answers, but, I can tell you for free, she is in the room with David, you maybe don't want him hearing what the nosy neighbour has to say?

Go ahead and roll it if you want, but she is a nobody (unless you roll real bad and turn her into a threat?), so it might not be worth the risk?

Could do, she may be miffed at your wasting her time. Do you want her to agree or do we force you to lean on Persephone ... or even Circe as a last resort? If it is too early to start mending fences, then you may have to Owe Kenedi one for deal with the snooping neighbour. :)