Martin - fuck this double agent sit, I'm jumping ship, Sayonara.
Double? That dude has switch sides so many times that he'll get a free muffin with his next purchase.
"Damn it Harry," she rounds on him. "I'm good at this, investigation, profiling, following the money. This is doing good, more than I ever did chasing fucking Bigfoot for the Arcane. I can't just give it up to... to... take care of a kid whose happy where she is, who already has a mother."
What exactly does she think we're here for? This is about getting the kid out of danger, Susan is a grown ass woman and can make her own decisions.
[] Offer better powers (Inner Darkness Unleashed)
Not sure there's a practical benefit to this, but I'm curious about something coming from an intersection of this issue and how those wizards technically have to sell their souls to Molly in some fashion to use the wheel.
Could we buy the red spiritual hanger on from the half vampires?
It's not exactly part of them, but they also clearly have an intimate link to and degree of authority over the thing before it kills them. From a certain perspective you could almost frame it as a middle ground between selling part of your soul and selling your first born child to the devil.
While popping the parasites out and using IDU to replace the powers is probably more immediately effective I think there's some interesting mad science potential in owning the souls of unborn vampires*.
It's also more politically palatable in a lot of ways. Lower power DF people are always looking for the hook, because it's always there somewhere. We can talk them around, but it'd be way easier if they had a comfortingly familiar fridge horror profit motive to lean on.
"The price of your freedom is damning the soul mutilating parasite waiting to wear your hollowed out face like a mask to hell" puts the awful part they're waiting for out where they can see it and targets it at something they already hate.
Plus it's an interesting in to the soul trade. Molly just wouldn't engage in most circumstances, but this could potentially be the perfect introduction. The seller genuinely benefits from getting rid of what they're offering even independent of any power they get from it.
* Worst comes to worst we could probably put them in cheap essence vessels to use as snacks when we need more motes. It'd be way more infernal than a boring old Jade talisman if nothing else.
I mean, can you imagine sitting down for negotiations with say a red duke and eating a few any time they drink blood? That is how you leave an impression on people.
