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Sep 10, 2025 8:57 pm
Delirium says:
... For her to keep intentionally throwing herself into increasingly reckless situations would feel unrealistic to me, and I can’t make myself portray her that way.
So how do we proceed? This was not 'intentional' but merely the result of her actions (the refusing to go inside, the flashing the money in a bad neighborhood, the turning down the protection of the security guard, the not paying attention to the surroundings). Does it matter what she went back for, this would be a mundane mugging/hijacking that could happen to anyone.

• Do we just ignore any consequences for Emma's actions?
• Does she not notice that Llewis and Max saved her from a potential indecent (in the background)?
• Does the fact that her supernatural contacts saved her keep her in the game?

What do we do?
Sep 11, 2025 3:41 am
Our perception of the scene is very different.

Yes. It is plausible that someone was sitting outside in the heavy rain and witnessed her rummaging through her purse for less than a fraction of a minute, and that person happens to be a criminal, rather than just a law-abiding citizen, and that criminal, rather than running up and snatching her purse, decides to rush to his own car and follow her around the city so he could mug her violently somewhere. It is not impossible. But it feels more like a complication we are choosing to introduce to the game, rather than a logical 'consequence of her actions'. Wouldn't sticking around and waiting for Llewis to fetch his car conceivably put her at more risk that someone might snatch her purse? It seemed that way to me...

Anyways, even if we think it was (more) likely to happen, we still need to consider if this complication contributes to the narrative at this point in time. I intentionally created Emma to be hardy and...let's say 'stoic', but she has been pushed to her limit these last few game days. There needs to be an intermission. There needs to be a positive upside to being involved with the supernatural world. Curiosity sated. Some wonders that don't lead to dangerous and potentially fatal situations.
Delirium says:
vagueGM says:
Do we think Max ends up getting involved in Emma's attempt to keep that money?
Sure, but not in a violent way?
I agree with myself ;)
Sep 11, 2025 4:02 am
Delirium says:
... There needs to be an intermission. ...
Very well. Nothing happens. Max is not involved, and you arrive home without indecent.
Sep 11, 2025 4:14 am
Going for an almost inhumanly business-like, robotic vibe with her date prep, combined with unsettling symptoms (hand shake, burnt flesh smell) tossed in. She is an unhealthy girl!
Sep 11, 2025 9:00 pm
Morphling says:
(in RP) ... she scans the crowd of bobbies, searching for one she might recognize...
Does your 6 mean you don't know Kenedi? Or do you know her, but you already Owe her a Debt for help in the past, making it awkward to run into her now? If you Owe her, tell us about what happened, and show us if you try to avoid her or seek her out.
Sep 12, 2025 4:28 am
Hmm, can I just say that Max doesn't know whether Kenedi is aware that she's a werewolf? She hasn't seen her in a while after all.
Sep 12, 2025 2:56 pm
Morphling says:
... Max doesn't know whether Kenedi is aware that she's a werewolf? ...
Sounds good to me. We can keep that worry in the back of our minds as we play. :)

Keeping your werewolf status slightly secret might have benefits you can use to your advantage, so it might behoove us to not have everybody already know these specific details just yet.
Sep 12, 2025 6:12 pm
So... if I'm tired of dealing with Sergeant Kenedi, can I hit the streets to find someone else who could give me information? Should I use an existing NPC or just make another one up?
Sep 12, 2025 6:42 pm
Morphling says:
... hit the streets ... Should I use an existing NPC or just make another one up?
I could find a few people (*) who may make sense to be around and this, but they are all a bit of a stretch. Let's talk about it and and then decide.

It can be useful for us to have some people Max knows. She is operating in an strata of the world we have not seen a lot of so far from the other PCs. So we can make new NPCs that you would know.

You should have Marked Advancement on Mortalis (the 'Adv?' column on your sheet) when you rolled Put a Name to a Face [ref], so there is benefit to trying to make this someone from a different Circle. But let the logic of the story be the ultimate decider.

You can just say you know them and avoid rolling Put a Name to a Face (but get no Debts), or decide you want to roll to define some aspects of the relationship. If you are going to roll Hit the Streets [ref] you get to Mark Circle Advancement anyway, so we are just talking about the Debts part, unless you want to leave how much you know to chance as well.

Create a post for Max in the Debt Ledger [ref] and add your Debt to Kenedi.

Footnotes:
(*)
  • Maybe the (wannabe) 'vampire hunter' track workers who are looking into missing people in the area? Frank and Ernie (Mortalis)? [ref]
  • Maybe Zhiyu (Power), 'a bit of a folk-hero' over towards Covent Gardens (so a little out of your Territory, if you want that to be an issue)? [ref]
Sep 12, 2025 7:28 pm
How about Lucy the vampire streetwalker, who often works in this area and may well have seen something with her supernatural senses?
Sep 12, 2025 7:44 pm
Morphling says:
... vampire streetwalker ...
Cool

Couple of notes:

• We already have a vampire called Lucy [ref] (see, I told you the NPC notes were not comprehensive:). We can find another name to avoid confusion.

• Do you want them to be both a streetwalker and a vampire at the same time (catering to a specific kink?)? Or was she a streetwalker till she was recently turned... i.e. is this Tara, the vampire ditz who bit Emma? [ref].

We can create a new NPC if Tara does not work for your image.
Sep 12, 2025 9:49 pm
Read the Tara segments but don't know much about her except that she was a minor antagonist to Emma. She's not a streetwalker any longer? What would she be doing in the area? Who would Max know her from?
Sep 12, 2025 10:01 pm
Morphling says:
... Read the Tara segments but don't know much about her ...
That is all there is.
Morphling says:
... She's not a streetwalker any longer? ...
She is currently girlfriend to someone who seems to have wealth enough... but they are not what you would call 'responsible' people so that will be gone pretty soon and she may have to find ways to support herself.

She was only turned in the past week or so (after Elliot vanished), so she would not have been a vampire at the time she was a working the streets. She will need to have been in the know if you want to use her for information and as a past contact, but we could make that happen.

She will not be a very reliable source of information. So she might not actually be a good choice, I was just putting it out there in case.
Morphling says:
... What would she be doing in the area? ...
We can make it work if we need to. There is no shortage of 'reasons' for someone to be around.
Morphling says:
... Who would Max know her from? ...
I don't follow? You could just know her from 'around', you know people.

Same for someone you make up, they don't need to have any special connection, if they can be helpful to you they can be made useful to the game as well.

Feel free to propose or make someone you want to interact with.
Or, feel free to let us know what sort of person (in general terms) you are looking for, and we can find/make someone who fits for you.
Sep 12, 2025 10:28 pm
How about Alara, a vampire streetwalker that specializes in an exsanguination kink, and lives in Max's territory.
Sep 13, 2025 2:59 am
Morphling says:
How about Alara, a vampire streetwalker that specializes in an exsanguination kink, and lives in Max's territory.
Sure, if you want her, go ahead and seek her out. Introduce us to her.
Sep 13, 2025 3:34 am
Oh yeah, one other thing.

Under the Wolf playbook it says that that transformation can occur at will in sight of the moon - not necessarily the full moon. The notes on transformation say it can be any phase but a new moon. Is that what we're going with, or are we doing full moon only like we were talking about before?
Sep 13, 2025 3:47 am
@oopsylon Would you like to keep RPing with Circe? I think she might actually ask to crash at your place. She would likely go buy something stupid expensive with the card and then continue to do whatever she can think of that her big sister would NOT approve of, up to and including putting herself is possible supernatural danger! Little does she know, of course, that Benji is most likely not a danger to her at all. But that is beside the point. Shall I have her reach out via text? Or is she just gonna find the most expensive hotel suite she can?
Sep 13, 2025 4:38 am
Drgwen says:
@oopsylon Would you like to keep RPing with Circe? I think she might actually ask to crash at your place.
Sure! That’s fine with me!
Sep 13, 2025 6:50 pm
Morphling says:
... in sight of the moon - not necessarily the full moon. ...
Oh, wow, yeah. I noticed that when I first read the quickstart, like 3 years before we started this game, and found myself thinking 'this does not feel much like a werewolf anymore, what with all the control'. But since then I have been (mis)reading it as 'sight of the full moon' (by pure 'tradition'), probably remembering The Wolf from 1e.

What do you want to do? Those are 'the rules'. It is up to you how your character works and what you think will be fun.
Sep 13, 2025 6:51 pm
Morphling says:
(in RP) ... she goes roaming Alara's favorite streets ...
With your 9 on Hit the Streets [ref] you have to choose whether they have a immediate problems that interferes slightly with your plans to get information, or whether getting that information will cost you.

If you choose that it will be more costly than you anticipated, we can talk about what it will cost you (calibrate what you are willing to have Max pay).

What will it be?
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