You are Shee Hyul, rebel leader, psychic and Reunited. Your world is ruled by inhuman creatures and this has gone on far too long, it’s time to fight back.
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You stand outside the Pink Delight, the only connection between the victims you have discovered so far. Maybe they had favourites in this blood-whore house, maybe there's more to it than meets the eye.
You stand just across the street from the large explicit holo advertising what the Pink Delight has to offer, your friends are with you and its late at night. You have been investigating the murders of various vampires across the hive, apparently by dust ghosts, except...dust ghosts don't go inside buildings, nor should they be able to cross salt lines, your hand grips the bag of salt in your pocket reflexively. All of you are carrying some, just in case.
In the distance you can hear the sounds of the dust ghosts howling, they're getting closer.
The few people out on the streets don't seem bothered, but then they've lived in the Hive all their lives, they won't know what they're hearing.
Rainya and Dev know, and Lirael and Kae know what to expect. They all turn to you and make suggestions.
“You know how to deal with Dust Ghosts right?” says Kae “a line of salt or something?”
Rainya disagrees “If they'll go in buildings I don't think salt will stop them.”
Dev suggests caution “lets hide” he says “maybe they're after new victims, if we watch what happens, maybe we can follow them, or at least figure out why they're doing this.”
Lirael wants to take a more direct approach “I bet you can beat some weak ghosts sis” she says loyally “hit them until they tell you what they're doing.”
What do you do?
>Draw a circle of salt around the group
>Head inside the Pink Delight (or another building?)
>Hide, watch to see what the ghosts do
>Confront the Dust Ghosts
>Other (?)
>>43519382
>Hide, watch to see what the ghosts do
>>43519382
>Confront the Dust Ghosts
>>43519382
>Hide, watch to see what the ghosts do
>>43519382
>Hide, watch to see what the ghosts do
>>43519382
>Hide, watch to see what the ghosts do
>>43519382
>>Hide, watch to see what the ghosts do
Hiding it is, writing.
>>43519553
Shees new vampire powers + void aren't implemented yet, and Liraels power access needs to be changed in the Ally Powers sheet.
In case you forgot and it wasn't intentional.
Devs suggestion makes the most sense “Hide” you say to the others “have your salt ready just in case, but just get out of sight, and see what they do.”
This late in the evening, there aren't many people out on the streets, and the few that are nearby are headed for the Pink Delight, so no one notices as you all head into an alleyway across the street from the bloodhouse and watch out.
Soon enough the dust ghosts arrive, looking like small whirlwinds with blurred, indistinguishable forms within them. As they get close they seem to quiet down, and they mostly seem to be travelling on rooftops, through back alleys (though fortunately not the one you're occupying) and actually seem to be avoiding people.
“Hivers” Rainya says in disgust, as no one seems to hear them approaching “are they all deaf or something?”
In the typical bystanders defence the dust ghosts do seem to be trying to be stealthy – as much as small whirlwinds can be anyway.
They all start to head around the back of the Pink Delight, for what purpose, you don't know. Leaflets in the alleyway make it clear that the girls offer more than just their blood to clients; they offer their bodies as well.
“Let's get closer” you suggest to your allies, and together you head across the road and into another alleyway, until you're peering around the corner looking at the rear entrance of the building. Around the door perhaps half a dozen dust ghosts gather, waiting for something, their normal shrieks dulled to a low moan. You don't have to wait for long.
A young girl with exotic purple-coloured hair emerges from the door. She's probably no more than a handful of years older than you, and is dressed in an outfit clearly designed to emphasise her generous physical attributes, as well as allow easy access to various places on her body where a strong blood supply rises to the surface of her skin.
When she comes out the dust ghosts become agitated, and then suddenly still. You feel a strong burst of psychic energy from the girl as they do so.
“Not so loud” she cautions them “someone will hear you “listen, I don't have much time, I have more names for you, be quiet!” she insists as one of the whirlwinds starts to moan louder “listen!” she starts to list off names and addresses. You recognise at least one family name of a semi-important vampire family.
“Is she sending them out to kill people?” Rainya whispers by your ear.
What do you do?
>Confront her now
>Wait until the ghosts are gone, then confront her
>Go in the Pink Delight front entrance and ask for 'the girl with purple hair'
>Follow a ghost
>Other (?)
>>43519672
Thanks for spotting, wasn't intentional.
Will be a delay in next update as afk for a bit, 10 minute voting limit as usual.
>>43519707
>Confront her now
>>43519707
>>Go in the Pink Delight front entrance and ask for 'the girl with purple hair'
> Go in disguised with shadows of the dephts
>>43519707
>>Go in the Pink Delight front entrance and ask for 'the girl with purple hair'
>>43519707
>Confront her now
>>43519707
>Go in the Pink Delight front entrance and ask for 'the girl with purple hair'
>>43519707
>Other (?)
Wait for the ghosts to fuck off and then wrestle control away and have them go hang out in the brothel again and make woo woo noises.I kinda want to lecture her about how she's not nearly paranoid enough to be using psychic powers in the hive and she's going to get rektaronid by fae eventually since we're just a couple of kids and even we noticed her mischief.
going in the front it is.
Disguise yourself using Shadows of the Depths?
>Y/N
5 minute follow up vote
>>43519889
>Y
>As a buxom lady vampire
>>43519910
Pleb, clearly Shee should disguise herself as buxom male vampire
disguise it is, writing
“Maybe” you say to Rainya “but why?”
“They didn't give her a tip?” suggests Dev
You bite down the urge to make a joke about that and say instead “C'mon, we need to get her alone to talk to her, let's go around the front.”
“So what, are we pretending to be a rich vamps servants or something?” asks Kae, in tones that suggest that she has no intention of playing a servant.
“No” you say firmly “you all stay outside and watch, in case she runs, I'm going in alone.”
“Is that wise?” asks Rainya, as Lirael shakes her head in disagreement.
“It'll be fine” you say, even as you start to feel warm at the idea of going into a vampire feeding place “I'll just talk to her, if I get in over my head, I'll call you in, or teleport out.” Though you doubt this girl is a danger to you on her own, you're about to go into a building filled with dozens of vampires, fighting all of them could be difficult.
Soon you're heading into the Pink Delight, being greeted at reception whilst disguised as a rich-looking vampire without any insignia to point out which family you're from – common enough in a place like this.
The receptionist greets you warmly, and asks you if you have visited before.
“No” you say “A friend recommended this place to me”
“Oh right!” says the overly-perky receptionist, her eyes shining “then there are some rules” She quickly reels off a list of things you can't do to the 'donors' – at least not without paying extra and then asks “now would you like to peruse our catalogue” she offers you a datapad with pictures of the girls and boys who work here.
“Actually” you say “my friend recommended someone very particular, a purple-haired girl, I can't remember her name though...”
“Oh that's Ohara” says the reception, rolling her eyes and muttering something like “figures” under her breath “Sure, I'll tell her, have a seat” she gestures at the plump chairs in the front hall and you sit, looking through the catalogue for Ohara as she types something into her workstation.
As you wait you read the entry for 'Kinsey Ohara': there's not much, just a description that says that she comes from offworld, her hair colour is natural and that she she's twice the price of the average donor here. There's also a disclaimer and an apology that she is now a 'blood-only' donor, though there's no reason given as to why.
You can easily afford her services and spring for the extra fee for a private room. Eventually the purple-haired girl appears and wanders over to you, bowing gracefully and saying in a diffident voice “If it pleases you Mistress, this way.” She leads you deeper into the Pink Delight, through a winding corridor and into a large room full of long couches and wide chairs where a number of the less private vampires are enjoying their donors in a communal room. You can see exits on the opposite wall of the room and you pause. Within you the hunger to be bitten starts to rise. Walking past dozens of feeding vampires with their partners moaning enthusiastically (real or fake, you can't tell) is going to test you a little.
Oblivious to your hesitation, Kinsey Ohara continues onwards.
What do you do?
>Grit your teeth and follow her
>Call her back, talk to her in the hallway or something
>Other (?)
>>43520206
>Grit your teeth and follow her
>>43520206
>Grit your teeth and follow her
We can just bite ourselves if necessary.
>>43520206
>Grit your teeth and follow her
>>43520206
>Grit your teeth and follow her
>>43520206
>>Grit your teeth and follow her
>>43520206
>Grit your teeth and follow her
Ok, roll Willpower 1d20+14DC isn't very high
Rolled 16 + 14 (1d20 + 14)
>>43520328
Rolled 9 + 14 (1d20 + 14)
>>43520328
Rolled 6 + 14 (1d20 + 14)
>>43520328
Rolled 10 + 14 (1d20 + 14)
>>43520328
Rolled 20 + 14 (1d20 + 14)
>>43520328
Not bad, apologies, forgot to add into previous vote.
How will Shee be talking about this with Kinsey?
>Indirect (discuss crime in Hive/murders in the news)
>Direct ("I saw you out back with the ghosts")
>Disclosure (reveal you're a psychic too)
>Other (?)
Also, bite her?
>Y/N
10 minute vote time as usual.Biting may weaken her will (and thus her powers if she tries anything) and will help you preserve your cover, but might have complications later in the conversation
>>43520400
>Indirect (discuss crime in Hive/murders in the news)
>Y
Oh, we can turn her into our first vampire.
>>43520400
>Direct ("I saw you out back with the ghosts")
>N
>>43520400
>Direct ("I saw you out back with the ghosts")
>N
>>43520400
>>Direct ("I saw you out back with the ghosts")
>N
>>43520400
>>Indirect (discuss crime in Hive/murders in the news)
>N
>>43520400
>Direct ("I saw you out back with the ghosts")
>N
>>43520418
Thats not how it works.
>>43520400
>Other (?)
Vaguely rebellion sales-pitchy
Blah blah you don't seem to be a fan of the established order blah blah why are you wasting your talent on small potatoes vampires
>N
>>43520400
>Not bad
Isn't the DC 10 or something right now?
>>43520400
>Other (?)
Pretend to be one of Kulrathe's agents and blackmail her into working for "him". Say that we're going to need her to put her ghosts to work on some other targets. (This pleases Baalzamon?)Hopefully she'll get resentful and attack him at some point.
>>43520418
>Oh, we can turn her into our first vampire.
Yes, converting the psychic who has been sending ghosts to murder vampires for a yet-confirmed reason that we know nothing about into a vampire of our intentionally overpowered clan is a good idea that couldn't backfire in any way.
>>43520466
12-14 I bet which our will alone covers.
>>43520206
>There's also a disclaimer and an apology that she is now a 'blood-only' donor, though there's no reason given as to why.
$5 says it was rape or something.
>>43520480
>12-14 I bet which our will alone covers.
It should be 10, given DC 16(random vamps 10 + 6Strong Desire) - 6 for strong reason not to.
Direct and no bite, writing
You tough it out and make your ways across the room, quashing the desire to join in the fun. Once you are in the small but expensive-looking room Kinsey Ohara puts on a bright, professional looking smile and asks “What is Mistresses pleasure? The bed, or the chair?” she gestures around the room.
“I just want to talk to you” you say “I saw you out the back with the Dust Ghosts and I was wondering how you did that.”
Kinseys eyes go wide and her breathing and heart-rate rise, with your enhanced senses you can easily see the pulse in her neck. She tries for denial.
“I don't know what you're talking about” she says, the nervousness in her voice mostly under control “I haven't been out since I got here, and I have no idea what 'Dis Ghosts'” she mispronounces the name “are? Is it some sort of drug?” she asks, her voice getting steadier and she sounds like she's reading off a leaflet “because the Pink Delight prides itself on having clean and drug-free donors, now, what is Mistresses pleasure?”
How do you respond?
>Back off, maybe she'll let something slip now she's nervous
>Keep pushing (“what did you send those ghosts to do?”)
>Read her mind
>Other (?)
>>43520765
>Back off, maybe she'll let something slip now she's nervous
>Subtle Psychic Surgery her to be more open and honest to us
>>43520765
>Keep pushing (“what did you send those ghosts to do?”)
>Psychic surgery her to trust us
>>43520765
>Back off, maybe she'll let something slip now she's nervous
As long as we are inside, she can call for security and get us kicked out.
>>43520765
You know, dust ghosts. They go WOO WOO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZD-ADArwXo
>>43520765
>>Back off, maybe she'll let something slip now she's nervous
>>43520765
>>Back off, maybe she'll let something slip now she's nervous
>>43520801
>>43520816
Doesn't that power take a while? Won't it aggro her or ant defenses too?
>>43520765
>Bite her and use Psychic Surgery(Subtle) during feeding
>>43520765
>Back off, maybe she'll let something slip now she's nervous
>>43520853
>Doesn't that power take a while?
A minute at most for this, actually. And it won't aggro anyone if we use Subtle.
>>43520853
What do you intend to do while backing off, we either bite her or stay direct because not biting her means we just get more suspocious the longer we talk.
>>43520765
>Keep pushing ("what did you send those ghosts to do?")
>Subtle Psychic Surgery her to be more open and honest to us
>>43520877
If she's psychic pretty sure she'll notice.
>>43520900
>If she's psychic pretty sure she'll notice.
No she won't. Have you not played this quest before or something?
>>43520900
Unless she is a Reunited too or EXTREMLY powerful, her chance to be better at mindgames than the fledgling demigod of mindrape is pretty slim to nonexistent.
>>43520877
>A minute at most for this
Trust is at least 10 minutes, more likely an hour or six.
Ok, backing off for now.
Follow-up vote on write-in
Use Psychic Surgery (Subtle) on her to get her to trust you?
>Y/N
5 minute vote.
>>43520900
>If she's psychic pretty sure she'll notice.
There is no way for her to do so if we use Subtle, unless she has psychic defenses more powerful than Shees psychic abilities, which is pretty unlikely.
>>43520934
>Y
Assuming it takes no more than 10 minutes
>>43520934
Only if we bite her.
>>43520934
>Y
>>43520930
Which is why we should feed on her to hide it. The addiction will likely make it easier too.
>>43520765
Try to move the conversation towards why she's blood only now.
>>43520961
Which we're not doing?
>>43520978
>Which we're not doing?
We could still do it yet. If we back off we increasingly get need to do that, otherwise it will make questioning her even harder due to suspicion.
>>43520978
Not yet, nothing stopping us from doing it.
I don't want to, but if people want to go indirect you're basically forcing it.
>>43520934
>N
Spite, mostly.
>>43520997
Could just talk to her, vampires getting to know their feeders at least a bit isn't an uncommon practice, IIRC.
ok, Please roll 2d20
Subtle Power
Psychic Surgery
and vote on extra psychic energy used for each, best of 3 rolls, average of 3 votes.
>>43520900
Only risk is that she actually is hired by Kulrathe and got one of those psychic blocks on her.
Rolled 12, 9 = 21 (2d20)
>>43521029
-20
Rolled 17, 1 = 18 (2d20)
>>43521029
15
5
Rolled 4, 9 = 13 (2d20)
>>43521028
>vampires getting to know their feeders at least a bit isn't an uncommon practice, IIRC
Regular feeders maybe, Blood whores though? That seems highly unusual and we already put her on the edge with telling her we know what she's doing.
>>43521029
15/15
>>43521032
Or that she's some kind of psychic and can make them herself.
>>43521063
That wouldn't help her, she can't make any powerful enough to resist our Corruption. The risk is her getting killed by it.
Rolled 15, 18 = 33 (2d20)
>>43521029
15
5
We are using our godling bullshit for this, right?
>>43521063
Seriosu question, are you new here?
Because you seem to have no idea about how powers and all that work and its getting really irritating watching you write such utter nonsense.
A block from Kulrathe would be a problem because it might kill her. A Psyhcic Shield or something from her would be easily overcome with impossibility/Corruption. Shee is the fledgling god of mindrape, a regular psychic stands no chance.
>>43521075
Assuming Corruption is absurdly powerful instead of just adding it's aspect rating, that is.
>>43521105
>Assuming Corruption is absurdly powerful instead of just adding it's aspect rating, that is.
Corruption IS absurdly powerful. And it would work just like Impossibility and gets rolled seperatly if used active. It does passively also debuff all will checks against our psychic abilities.
>>43521105
I'm sure our divine Aspect that could have allowed us to literally revive the dead is not absurdly powerful.
welp, first time I can recall seeing a minus number in an extra power-points vote.
Writing result. Whilst I do, what are players views on using negative numbers in the vote? Should they be counted? or should 0 be the lowest permitted?
Related: Should insanely high numbers (i.e. 500) be discounted, and if so at what threshold?
My own views are that minimum vote is 0 (not minus) and that in regular votes 50 or so should be the max (with higher caps for very important/very high difficulty situations).
I'd like to hear players views before I rule on it though.
>>43521105
We both get a buff from Corruption, and all our enemies get a debuff from Impossibility.
So all attempts to affect other peoples mind have a effective +10 bonus just alone from that.
>>43521158
>Whilst I do, what are players views on using negative numbers in the vote? Should they be counted?
No, its just spite voting nonsense. Someone shouldn't get to sabotage the quest out of butthurt.
>>43521158
I agree.
>>43521158
There is no reason to allow - votes, 0 is perfectly fine if you don't want to spend stuff and the potential for trolling/abuse is way too high.
>>43521158
>My own views are that minimum vote is 0 (not minus) and that in regular votes 50 or so should be the max (with higher caps for very important/very high difficulty situations).
Thats perfectly fine, I don't think the cap thing is strictly necessary, but I don't have a strong opinion on it.
I can't think of a reason for spending so much unless it actually is a important vote.
>>43521158
>Whilst I do, what are players views on using negative numbers in the vote? Should they be counted?
Fuck no they shouldn't be counted. If you let them count some salty cocknose is just going to go and vote -# to cock things up. I mean, they can already do that to a lesser extent with voting 0s or voting stupidly high numbers but this makes it even easier.
>>43521099
Deathblock is a generic application of Psychic Shield that she may have up to avoid being made into some vampire's slave if her past is indeed traumatic towards them, or she wants to protect someone or something in her mind.
We aren't actively using either aspect, so any capability beyond the passive boost is irrelevant.
>>43521158
You can't magically unpend energy.
>>43521158
Count them as votes for 0.
>>43521210
>We aren't actively using either aspect,
If she would be using Psychic Shield we'd be using it reflexively just like when someone would try to block our teleport.
And the Pschic Shield Deathblock is detectable before it triggers.
>>43521210
There is no reason to assume Shees corruption can't negate a self-made death block. A Kulrathe or Garrax implemented one would be dangerous because she would have no control over it, but Shee should absolutely be able to force her to turn it off once she detects it.
Question about Impossibility:
Does the penalty to all rolls stack together with the penalty to defensive rolls or does it only do one or the other? Like, if someone tries to defend against us do they get a -10 or a -15?
>>43521210
>Deathblock is a generic application of Psychic Shield
One thats detectable
>Another psychic who achieves mental contact with the character can tell that there is a deathblock in place unless there’s a deliberate attempt to hide it, in which case an opposed Psychic Sense and Psychic Shield check is required to detect it.
Which might not be the case for a King power block.
>>43521300
It's only detectable after mental contact, which doesn't really help if mental contact triggers it outright.
>>43521329
I find thats a very dubious interpretation.
>>43521338
The default is that it triggers when mental contact is achieved. Detection explicitly requires mental contact be achieved.
Not sure what's dubious.
>>43521358
Since by default the block triggers when mental contact is made, assuming it automatically triggers just from that would render the clause of detection largely pointless.
That makes it extremly dubious.
>>43521358
Because it would mean that by default they instantly die without any way to detect it, which is extremly unlikely.
>>43521384
The clause of detection is because you can set it to only guard certain things, like Charon's did.
>>43521394
Yes.
That is the point of the power.
To not get mindraped at any cost.
>>43521358
>The character who set the deathblock always chooses whether to activate it
If she doesn't know its happening she can't activate it.
>>43521384
>>43521394
It'd also be smart. If the point was to avoid compromise that'd be what I'd do.
You back off for now, you've made her nervous and she might reveal something. But she expects that you're there to feed off her, you need to keep the conversation going without giving her reason to have you thrown out. You need to act like just another customer if she's going to pretend she had nothing to do with the dust ghosts.
But that's where reading the catalogue helps.
“I'd like a shoulder massage” you say, sitting down in the wide chair “I'm tense.”
Kinsey warily goes to stand behind you and starts rubbing your neck and shoulders, kneading with her fingers.
“Mmmm,,, yes, very good” you say “you must have been doing this for some time?”
“I've had my masseuse certificate for over a year” she says with forced politeness “Though I've had lots of hands-on experience prior to that.”
“And the other parts of your job?” you ask lightly. As you talk you reach out carefully with your telepathic abilities to try and get her to trust you. You touch her mind easily enough, but she has a hard knot of suspicion built up there: breaking it down will take time, perhaps an hour or more. You scan her mind for any psychic blocks or other hazards and find several, you don't know what they're protecting, only that they don't seem to be deathblocks – just extra shields around things she (or someone) wants hidden.
“Long enough” she dodges the question, as she keeps rubbing at your skin with her fingers. She doesn't seem to have noticed your intrusion into her thoughts, or at least isn't reacting to it.
You consider what to do next, either you've put Kinsey on edge, or she's just naturally suspicious, either way wearing away her paranoia will take time, meaning you'll either need to draw the conversation out for a long time, or bite her and work whilst she's recovering. Or you could simply try to read the information direct from her mind, but that might be detected.
>>43521409
>like Charon's did
Charon's was definitly not set by Charon and extremly likely not a Psychic Shield block.
What's the plan?
>Draw the conversation out (e.g. ask for a full-body massage)
>Bite her
>Read her mind
>Other (?)
It is assumed that reading her mind will be done using the Subtle power, and will require a further roll and points vote.
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>>43521443
>Bite her
>>43521276
only the higher one is used, they do not stack
>>43521443
>Draw the conversation out (e.g. ask for a full-body massage)
>>43521443
>>Draw the conversation out (e.g. ask for a full-body massage)
>>43521443
>Bite her
>>43521443
>Draw the conversation out (e.g. ask for a full-body massage)
>Bite her
>>43521443
>>Bite her
>>43521443
>Draw the conversation out (e.g. ask for a full-body massage)
>Bite her
>>43521443
>"You know, I'm not really upset. Not yet, anyways. If you wanted them dead, you must have had a good reason, right? Why else take away your business? Were they rough? Or mean-spirited? They were mostly kind people, by all accounts. Except for the one guy. Everyone says he was an asshole. Or is it that this isn't really where you want to be?"
>>43521437
Deathblock can explicitly be used to block specific information, Charon's whatever was the closest example of what that would be like that I could think of, it doesn't really matter what it actually was.
Deathblock on Mental Contact
Is possible, yes.
Mental Contact is the standard way to detect a Deathblock, so at an extreme, one could be set to trigger upon Mental Contact.
However doing so would be extremely limiting - most telepathy powers require Mental Contact, and having such a block would mean the first time someone beats your Psychic Shield you could die.
So its possible, but extreme (and also not completely proof against Corruption-enhanced powers).
>>43521443
>Draw the conversation out (e.g. ask for a full-body massage)
http://youtu.be/29MJySO7PGg
>>43521443
Bite her and try to not enjoy it too much.
Just lean forward and think of Rainya or something.
>>43521443
>>Draw the conversation out (e.g. ask for a full-body massage)
>>43521443
>Bite her
>>43521534
We need to figure out a way to bite people without getting them addicted so we can bite our waifu. And by we, I mean AA.
>>43521158
Set 0 as minimum but let 2 0s block spending any?
It's really not fair to let the last vote try to push the average up if they feel it's too low.
>>43521569
We only need to find a way to make it only addicting to us. Right now one bite isn't enough for addiction yet.
>>43521581
No. The way its currently working is fine and has worked without major problems since PoJ.
>>43521443
>Draw the conversation out (e.g. ask for a full-body massage)
>>43521443
>>43521508
changing to just bite
>>43521622
Vote's over.
I get that you're trying to tie them (literally why?), but that would actually untie them.
looks like a tie, breaking in favour of drawing the conversation out.
Please roll Fellowship 1d20+19 (Deception) to keep her from realising.
Rolled 1 + 19 (1d20 + 19)
>>43521640
>>43521638
>I get that you're trying to tie them (literally why?)
Because I want to do both.
>>43521638
>but that would actually untie them
I didn't see someone deleted his vote before posting.
Not sure why you need to tell me the vote is over, I can see that. Obviously I didn't look at the time when I posted.
Rolled 5 (1d20)
>>43521640
I'm not seeing a tie, there is no reason not to do both.
Rolled 16 + 19 (1d20 + 19)
>>43521640
Its not mutually contradicting at all though. Why tie breaking?
Rolled 16 + 19 (1d20 + 19)
>>43521640
Rolled 6 + 19 (1d20 + 19)
>>43521640
Why though, not complaining but I don't see a reason. It'd be pretty weird to just have her massage us for a hour.
>>43521682
>>43521669
>>43521708
Because its not needed. Either one will buy you the extra time to use Psychic Surgery to make her more trusting.
But sure, if players want to.
Does Shee both bite her and draw the conversation out long enough to use Psychic Surgury?
>Y/N
>>43521708
Why would a full body massage taking an hour be weird?
>>43521708
More importantly not feeding on her kills any possibility of not giving away why we're here.
And if she actually is a psychic she will realise what we're doing.
>>43521721
>N
It's literally getting the consequences for biting we were warned about for zero benefit.
>>43521721
oh, 5 minute vote from my linked post as a time limit, forgot to say.
>>43521721
>N
>>43521729
Except massages are part of the offered services and taking an hour for that isn't odd...?
>>43521721
>Y
It would just make her even more suspicious if we never do what we allegedly came for.
>>43521721
>Y
No reason not to take the extra precaution
Did we promise Lirael there'd be no other donors? If so, N
>>43521721
>N
>>43521768
Other than the warnings about consequences if we bite her.
>>43521766
Massage is one of their offered services, and by the time it's through, she'll be trusting us due to psychic surgery.
At least invent a fake reason that sounds plausible.
>>43521721
>>y
counting votes, only those in before 5 minute limit count.
>>43521798
Yo could try to make it look mlie you're not just posting that to cover your samefagging too.
>>43521798
>Other than the warnings about consequences if we bite her.
You mean the warnings that don't exist?
Please, just admit its a "hur dur muh evil semi lewd things must fight" shit from you.
That extremly transparent samefagging from N is hilarious. Most of them just posted some random bullshit along their vote to evade the duplicate block.
>>43521830
>You mean the warnings that don't exist?
No, I mean the one where he explicitly said biting would lead to complications.
>Yo could try to make it look mlie you're not just posting that to cover your samefagging too.
>too
>So butthurt over losing you accidentally admit that you were samefagging
I'm seeing an 8-7 in favour of no, plus an additional vote for no conditional upon you having told Lirael no other donors. Please check my count.
I think you promised LIrael no one would be feeding off you except her, I can't recall a conversation about who you'd be feeding off.
But it's been a while, I could have forgotten.
Anyway, writing update.
>>43521858
>No, I mean the one where he explicitly said biting would lead to complications.
You mean the thing no one ever said and that makes no sense?
Sure.
>>43521877
Biting others is not the same as being bitten.
>>43521887
>You mean the thing no one ever said and that makes no sense?
No, I mean the spoilered thing from one of Pally's posts you didn't read.
>>43521759
>Except massages are part of the offered services and taking an hour for that isn't odd...?
We already put her on edge and then proceed to visibly stall for time. Surely she is literally retarded and won't get what we are doing.
>>43521877
It's 8-8.
>>43521915
She probably won't. Weren't you fags just going on about how we're the ultimate mindrape juggernaut and that subtle talent makes us literally invisible or some shit?
>>43521830
>>43521887different anon
There was a warning about it in >>43520400 at the bottom but it was more of a "might happen" than a "will happen" thing so whatevs. It's pretty heavily implied that this chick had some traumatic shit happen with a vamp and isn't quitting this place purely because it provides her with more targets.
>>43521920
I've got 8-7. That last y vote with the lowercase letter didn't count, four seconds late.
>>43521930
"complications in conversation" means literally nothing.
>>43521920
No, the last Y is too late by 3 seconds.
N voters samefagged extremly hard because of the old hat of being literally alergic to anything even remotly lewd happening and orgasms scare them or something.
>>43521930
It was obviously referring t the addiction. You have to be very specially retarded to think otherwise.
Also
>being a metagaming shitter
Literally kill yourself.
>>43521954
>being this assmad over not getting lewds.
>>43521928
>Weren't you fags just going on about how we're the ultimate mindrape juggernaut and that subtle talent makes us literally invisible or some shit?
Yes, for the purpose of psychic invasion, not against common fucking sense you retard.
>>43521954
>Also
>>being a metagaming shitter
>Literally kill yourself.
You wot m8? I don't need to metagame shit to think the chick with a vampire problem could react poorly to getting bitten.
>>43521967
> thinking its about lewds rather than keeping our cover effectively
>>43521967
>considering this lewds
This is nothing. Pally doesn't do lewd unless it's a pastebin.
>>43521967
Lewds has nothing to do with it. Its just extremly risky against both her and the rest of the house to blow our cover like that.
>>43521977
Are you dumb? She literally is blood feeding only by her own choice.
>>43521954
alergic to anything even remotly lewd happening and orgasms scare them or something.
>>43521982
>>43521993
>>43521994
Pretty sure it does.
>>43521977
Yeah, thats why she's asking to only get bitten.
Because she clearly has a problem with that.
>>43522010
>Pretty sure it does.
No, the N samefags consider it lewd, because they're retarded.
That doesn't make it true, only them extremly repressed.
>>43521967
Lewds with anyone but Rainya are banned by Shee's in-character feelings and the Family Aspect anyway.
>>43521971
>Every vampire that wants a massage is rewriting my mind, in spite of the fact that I can't detect them at all and ordinarily any vampire that could do that would be old enough to kill everyone in this club!
>>43521994
>Its extremely risky
>blows our cover
Evidently Pally disagrees with it being either of those since he saw literally no reason to do both.
There is the theory that she's here because she doesn't have the strength to fight her addiction and isn't willing to replace it with drugs like Shee did, and is using it as a front to get more victims. May very well resent vampires that bite her, which is probably why she sends ghosts to murder them.
>>43521994
>>43522021
And then she turns around and has her dust ghosts murder the customers later on. Just because she tolerates being fed on in order to accrue cash and targets doesn't mean she'll be friendly with us if we feed on her. She's a mission-driven serial killer with a martyr complex.
>>43522056
>Evidently Pally disagrees with it being either of those since he saw literally no reason to do both.
Pally has no obligation to safe us from our own dumb choices.
>>43522056
>>43522069
You cans top trying to pretend that nonsense was anything but shit you wrote to evade the duplicate ban. You're just making yourself look ridiculous by trying to pretend biting her would have had any problems besides her getting addicted, which was obviously the complication pally talked about.
slight delay in update, please wait patiently, only just started writing now.
>>43522056
>Every vampire that wants a massage is rewriting my mind, in spite of the fact that I can't detect them at all and ordinarily any vampire that could do that would be old enough to kill everyone in this club!
If she notices herslef becoming increasingly trusting, yeah thats a pretty strong give-away.
Not to mention that being strong enough to kill everyone has absolutely nothing to do with the topic.
>>43522056
>and the Family Aspect anyway
I'm pretty sure the family aspect doesn't get int he way of that.
And I'm not confident Pally would veto lewds with anyone based on Shees feelings for Rainya.
I'd wish it were true, but it definitly isn't.
>>43522151
>Not to mention that being strong enough to kill everyone has absolutely nothing to do with the topic.
It does, because to be old enough to do that, we'd have already lived out our Vitoi life and become a Letum. We are clearly not a Letum.
>>43522195
>We are clearly not a Letum.
If we are a Letum that powerful we could easily fake it.
>>43522195
There are both Vitoi who can use Command powers, and Letums who could use Illusions to appear as Vitoi.
>>43522263
Yes, but ordinarily Vitoi can't use Psychic Surgery and some of the other powers. Having ranks in Command doesn't equal all of Command's powers while Vitoi for most clans, in the same way our Vitoi don't get the superior level of gift access.
>>43522302
We could just as easily be using Suggestion for all she knows.
>>43522330
That would require us to ask her to trust us or some such.
>>43522362
It'd also be instant instead of gradual.
>>43522362
Which we could easily slip at some point, besides that say Empathic Projection works just as well.
>>43522386
...
Why the hell *didn't* we just use Empathic Projection?
>>43522406
Its not permanent and wouldn't have allowed us to check her mind out.
>>43522406
I always feel like Empathic Projection is a bit too vague and unreliable.
I prefer having more direct control.
>>43522406
Too many powers to keep track of.
Although you're supposed to be paying to bite her, you insist upon a full body massage to give you time to wear away at the stubborn lump in her mind.
The both of you keep up a meaningless conversation of small talk as you discuss recent events in the Hive, celebrity gossip, even delving into sports (a topic you know almost nothing about). It serves its purpose however, and eventually Kinsey is working away at a particularly tense calf muscle as you lay facedown on the bed, wearing only your underwear. You feel the stubbornness and paranoia fade, replaced by (still fragile) desire to trust you. Your conversation has paused and Kinsey has been working away at your leg in silence for several minutes.
The she speaks, hesitantly “So you really saw them then” she says “the ghosts?”
“I did” you say, not turning, you wait, giving her a chance to speak.
“They're from outside the Hive” she says “out in the dust, I don't know how they survived that long after their hosts died, but somehow they did. They listen to me and they do what I say but I'm not sure why, I never learned how to make a Demon you know, I just, I heard about them.”
A demon? You frown, you'll ask about that later “what are you doing with them?” you ask. Kinseys fingers on your leg stop moving.
“It's not my fault!” she insists “I didn't want to, but she made me do it.”
She who, you wonder.
“Start from the begging” you say “You're from offworld?”
Kinsey shifts as she kneels on the bed next to you, then mumbles something that sounds like “well you've already seen enough to get me in trouble I guess” then starts her story.
“I was born on another world” she says “most people were psychic there, and my parents told me that being psychic made us special, they had a name for it too, but I can't remember it” Her voice is full of longing as she remembers happier times, then it changes “but the monsters attacked, Serec I think they're called, and we fled, I got separated from my parents and someone else found me” her voice turns bitter “and not a nice man either, he was a psychic too, and he did something to me, made it so I couldn't use my powers properly, but they've been slowly returning in the last year. Anyway, he ended up selling me and I wound up working here” her voice has the sound of old pain.
“Go on” you say gently.
“I started hearing them about the time my powers started coming back” she says “I started to notice that vamps mental defences were down after they'd fed, and I could read their minds, little stuff at first, then I could start convincing them that they hadn't bought any cash with them.” She sound defensive “it's not like it was stealing” she says “some girls earn big tips, I just got mine another way.”
“And you could hear the ghosts?” you ask, wondering if she started killing those who hurt her somehow.
“Yeah” she says softly “but Mistress Steel found me out – she owns the Delight, and she found out the other stuff I could do too, and she made me, she made me....oh god Mal...” she stops talking and you hear her sobbing.
What do you do?
>Just wait, let her talk when she's ready (exclusive)
>Push her to talk now
>Ask about these 'Demons'
>Ask about Mistress Steel
>Other (?)
Also, please roll 1d20+24 (Willpower, Metapsionics)
Rolled 17 + 24 (1d20 + 24)
>>43522528
>Just wait, let her talk when she's ready (exclusive)
Rolled 15 + 24 (1d20 + 24)
>>43522528
>Just wait, let her talk when she's ready (exclusive)
>>43522528
>>Ask about these 'Demons'
>>Ask about Mistress Steel
Rolled 9 + 24 (1d20 + 24)
>>43522528
>Just wait, let her talk when she's ready (exclusive)
Rolled 17 + 24 (1d20 + 24)
>>43522528
>Just wait, let her talk when she's ready (exclusive)
Okay, please don't jump me. But, it might be a good idea for Shee to take over this shop.
Not only could she ensure the safety of the feeders here but it would also be a versatile and useful resource.
Income, second hideout, if absolutely necessary a feeding place for hypothetical vampires of our clan or allies.
>>43522528
>Ask about Mistress Steel
>>43522528
>>Just wait, let her talk when she's ready (exclusive)
>>43522528
>Just wait, let her talk when she's ready (exclusive)
>>43522582
I don't think its a bad idea if we have reason to oust the previous owner.
>>43522582
Do we show our hand or use Jade?
>>43522620
I was thinking of 'reforming' the current owner, but ideally we use some sort of screen to do it for us. Someone to handle the daily business if nothing else.
>>43522582
We could harvest the souls of abusive vampires as well.
>>43522656
...Now I want Shee to create a vigilante persona.
Would have been great if we were the only Reunited left in the Hive.
Wait it isfun
>>43522582
I can dig it.
>>43522691
>fun
Good, I was fearing this might end up being easy.
>>43522686
you mean like Night Haunter?
>>43522736
No idea what you're refering to.
>>43522754
I'm fairly sure that violates board rules, you should probably delete that.
>>43522754
Congratulations on being banned, I guess.
>>43522760The Primarch from 40k who became Not!Batman and turned a world of crime into the most law-abiding place in the Imperium - by killing lots of people.
>>43522760
Primarch of the Night Lords in 40k.
>>43522736
Isn't that a WH40k character?
I justr thought Shees MO and character lends itself very well to a vigilante hero kind of character.
Oops, my bad. Here is the link for the picture.
http://imgur.com/a/7i4Ee
Hopefully the album will grow bigger.
You wait, you feel like you should comfort her, but doing so might risk your cover, so you just wait.
After a few minutes the sobbing subsides and she continues “I didn't want to do it” she says, her voice rough “But Mistress Steel insisted, said I had to, and I didn't want her to...to...” She takes a deep breath “anyway, I know better than to cross her, so I did it, even though I didn't know most of them, and even though Mal was really sweet and promised to get me away and-”
Ohara keeps talking, but you miss some of what she says, as you feel a powerful telepathic presence delve into Ohara's mind. She either doesn't notice, or doesn't think it worth mentioning, she just keeps talking.
“So I sent them after the others tonight” she says “and that's what you saw I guess.”
Your mind works fast, someone just read Kinseys mind, possibly the establishment owner, or someone who works for her. They'll know that she's been talking to you and they might wait until you leave, or they could have security on the way right now.
What do you do?
>Keep talking to her, pretend to be a normal vampire
>Convince her you can help
>Teleport out (with Kinsey?)
>Call your allies in
>Other (?)
>>43522951
>Keep talking to her, pretend to be a normal vampire
>Convince her you can help
Can we use Sense Minds or something like that to trace the mental contact?
>>43522951
>Keep talking to her, pretend to be a normal vampire
>Ask more about the misstress
>>43522962
>Can we use Sense Minds or something like that to trace the mental contact?
Yes
New option added
>Trace Telepathic intrusion (Subtle)
>>43522951
>Keep talking to her, pretend to be a normal vampire
>Trace Telepathic intrusion (Subtle)
>>43522951
>Keep talking to her, pretend to be a normal vampire
>Trace Telepathic intrusion (Subtle)
>>43522951
>>43522962
adding
>Trace Telepathic intrusion (Subtle)
>>43522951
>Keep talking to her, pretend to be a normal vampire
>Convince her you can help
>Trace Telepathic intrusion (Subtle)
>>43522951
>Keep talking to her, pretend to be a normal vampire
>Convince her you can help
>Trace Telepathic intrusion (Subtle)
>>43522951
Track it.
Captcha is being a bitch to my phone.
pretend to be normal + track, and seeing a tie for convincing you can help, so tie-breaking in favour of doing this.
Please roll 3d20 for
Convincing her
Subtle Power
Telepathy
and vote for extra power on
Subtle Power
Telepathy
Rolled 14, 11, 7 = 32 (3d20)
>>43523102
5/15
Rolled 11, 16, 5 = 32 (3d20)
>>43523102
10
10
Rolled 9, 6, 3 = 18 (3d20)
>>43523102
10 10
Rolled 4, 4, 2 = 10 (3d20)
>>43523102
10
10
>>43523107
>>43523109
>>43523114
>>43523117
>Spending PE on Subtle Power
Why. It's a flat DC 15 with no benefit for going over. The only thing that matters to it is if we critfail or not.
>>43523164
Honestly because I keep mixing it up with the DC for Quicken.
