Who let the frogs out? (OOC)

Yeah, that is what it means. The 9 does not actually make it 'take longer', it takes as long as Nefydd takes to get there (which we can arrange to suit your story-needs), it just means you don't get a special advantage when you get there.
Yeah? Maybe? :)

If you want to have Persephone be entangled in the hunt, right up to the end, and you want Viv to be there for the showdown, you could ask your Dark Patron to arrange things (for a Debt and/or other price and complication) with Let It Out to • summon your dark patron's attention? This gives you a little less agency, but also a little less culpability?

Just the gun would be bad. Max doesn't keep drugs on her under normal circumstances. Her cell phone is also in her bag but she's careful not to leave anything incriminating on any app that isn't encrypted and self-deleting. Though them finding her chat with Circe might complicate things, since even if it isn't enough to incriminate her, it certainly implicates her.

The gun is in her jacket. Benji would have certainly felt a hefty weight as he picked it up, and he may know Max well enough to put two and two together (or he might have examined her jacket and found the concealed holster).

The phone is locked?
OK. We can leave that up to Benji if he noticed.

Okay, I won't roll then!
We'll say he didn't see the gun itself, but he noticed that the jacket was heavy and he knows Max well enough to maybe guess. He certainly knows that letting the police search her bag would be a very bad idea

Yes.

I think this is a moment where Persephone has a difficult choice to make. I’ll post about it.

Wait wait wait — is Max naked???? How did I miss this?

She's not naked naked, she grabbed the demon's discarded trenchcoat. But she doesn't have ANYTHING else.

Well she was naked when she was beating up Nefydd, she didn't bother with the trenchcoat until afterwards. ;D

I’m going to say that Persephone was just two and raged to notice until after and then very much noticed.

This is one of those moments when I really don’t like the "no edits" rule. I was using voice to text because I can’t sit at a computer right now to type on a keyboard because of my surgical recovery, and typing on my phone gets tiring after a while.

That was supposed to be "too enraged" not "two and raged"

I immediately understood, for what it's worth.

The rule does say "if this in any way changes the meaning of what was there, drop an OOC note explaining exactly what you changed" [ref]. It is about tracking the provenance, not about absolute immutability.

Sorry about the delay in responding, there has been no time to sit down and type.

Might be this provides an opportunity for Benji to Escape a Situation [ref] if you want to risk rolling that?

Else it might be possible to Persuade [ref] them all to leave you and head down? (With what, though? 'threat of embarrassment'?) But their training probably says to leave a junior officer with you, just in case.

Benji, of course, does not know that this is Persephone's 'distraction' [post]... Persephone might not even know this... And if Persephone is gone [post] by the time Benji gets free the source may remain a mystery? :)

Which option do you pick?
 • you suffer harm during your escape
 • you end up in another dangerous situation
 • you leave something important behind
 • you owe an NPC a Debt for their aid
 • you give into your base nature and mark corruption

I am not seeing how you would suffer harm, and ending up in another dangerous situation seems unlikely, but you can still pick them if you want, and the others all make sense. I will pick one to complement what you pick, but you are welcome to suggest which second option you think would be fun.

Oh, right! Sorry, I forgot I have to pick one of them myself :P
I think 'you owe an NPC a Debt for their aid' makes the most sense for this situation (the NPC being Wentworth or Persephone's patron).

Certainly.
Yep.

@Drgwen: Presumably Persephone also Owes a Debt for them doing you this favour? Benji's is in addition to that, as a result of his benefiting from this action.

It seems to me that you (both) Owe Wentworth and not your Dark Patron for this, right? Unless it transfers? Up to you.

I will pick: '• you leave something important behind'. This being that you are recognisable and they will know your identity.

While the first part is resolved [RP] that sort of thing is up to all y'all.

Persephone could see Benji talking with the police, but she was narrated as 'not loitering' so: up to you how far away she goes.

I don't know where Max is, if she is waiting around for Persephone to get her her clothes for her, or if she has followed Nefydd. Max might not know, yet, that she does not need to follow, that she could track him almost-anywhere no matter what, which may be why she sent someone else to get her things?
He does, but I brought that tidbit back just in case other clothing was useful... and as a reminder that the Landsborough carries complications. :)
Yeah... not sure what the 'plan' was. :)

@Morphling: Where do you think Max is? Does Benji need to track her? This close it should be doable without needing a Bloodhound roll (the possession of the Move give fictional permission to say: 'it happens').