A History of Sin
18th of December 2006 A.D.
COMMENTARY
Wow. Bad fumble on Maeve's part. And she's only rolling 8 dice on Manipulation + Etiquette.
For a centuries old figure in Winter, thats rather embarassing. And suggests she hasnt really been doing all that much social manipulation in her centuries of office. Not much subtlety in that one.
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Ah, Vegas. I remember this story from the DFRPG. So Vegas is a Hellgate.
Im willing to bet horses to horseshoes that Mab knows damn well where Sandra is; probably figured it out before Maeve did.
The fact she's taken no action is interesting.
Also worth noting that Vegas is in Carlos' putative bailiwick, even though he doesnt spend time there
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Maeve's slip up admits that whoever is running Chicago, the dude's power is enough to keep Winter out.
That's....alarming.
Admittedly, Vegas is more Summer Court and Wyldfae territory IIRC, but still.
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Chicago to Las Vegas is ~1700 miles.
So roughly 25 hours at 68 mph. We cant buy a plane ticket of course; thats just putting other people at risk, unless we buy Prince of Ruin. So we probably drive if we're bringing people.
However, the fastest route to Las Vegas is jumping into the Chicago River down to the Mississipi, upriver along the Missouri River to about where Omaha is, then branch off into the Platte River to the North Platte River, which connects to the Lower Colorado. And the Lower Colorado River goes by Las Vegas.
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Im rather reluctant to take Maeve's deal, sight unseen.
I cant see any reason why an Outsider minion would flee to a Hellgate that can conceivably be interpreted as benign; if we dont go handle it soon, it will just mature into a problem later.
However.
Issues on the ground might mean we cannot, or might not want to, deliver the miscreant into Maeve's hands.
We might need to renegotiate.
Malcoffee should have been much more traumatic. And it went more than well enough. Carpenter family is deep in the supernatural world already, much more so than in canon, and it's not just us - Daniel is getting deep into supernatural world too, with Leech next on the schedule. It would be good for Charity to overcome her trauma, and I think she's well on her way there.
Malcoffee = Enhanced coffee/energy drink. Easy to convince yourself its not very different from the coffee that other people take each day. Much harder with a transforming hammer.
Besides, its not our prerogative to tell people what they find more
The Carpenter family has been deep in the supernatural for more than twenty years; Michael was carrying Amoracchius before he met Charity, and Charity's experience with the supernatural dates to high school. A good friend of her husband is a wizard.
Charity still nurses a deep distrust of magic. I fail to see why you think this is going to change things.
While its good for Charity to overcome her trauma, we dont make that judgement for her.
Trying to do so, trying to
force it, is a dick move.
Thats like gifting a puppy to someone afraid of dogs.
Don't have the RPG book, but this is an opportunity. Depending on what the thing Outside is, this escalates to us either killing it, or dealing with it, and resolving the whole situation. This should be a good adventure.
Plus, we get a Vegas adventure.
Citation:
"Ha, good one, a bunch of doddering old fools dealing with one whose master staves off Winter itself," she laughs, catches herself. For a moment you can practically see the wheels spinning behind her bright blue gaze, damage control kicking into high gear. "I say this to you due to sharing common foes and out of respect for thine deeds."
This is not Iku Turso. I dont expect it to be quite that simple.
