- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA
Nice to see this going again!
This is my initial vote sketch:
[] You discreetly check everyone you see for supernatural tells.
-[] Give slight priority to members of the staff, the Earl's hangers-on, and other people who are connected to the estate; it pays to get a sense of what our opponent has at hand in the way of supernatural assets.
[] Get a general read of the room; do the guests seem relaxed, on edge, bored, upset? Are there any noticeable cliques among them, and do those cliques line up with what we know of their sociopolitics?
-[] Note how his servants and subordinates dress and act, how they conduct themselves. Are they snobbish (by Britannian standards), meticulous, overeager to impress? You can know much of a man by the company he keeps.
I'm focused on using our first half-hour or so here working out what interpersonal drama is here for us to potentially exploit*, collecting more information about the Earl without asking suspicious questions, and just generally trying to fit the pieces together on what is going on here and how we can best exploit it. We're supposed to be an intelligent (and just a little bit smug about that) young woman still reeling from multiple deaths in her immediate family, who knows she was probably sent here as a way for her relatives to fish for someone they can marry her off to as a way to shore up the family's standing. Playing reserved for a little while and reading the room before committing to any conversations would seem pretty in line with that.
* I mean, if there's some kind of torrid love triangle or drama among the servants, we might be able to camouflage clandestine actions by claiming we're involved. For example, if there's been an issue with high turnover among the house staff recently, we might be able to get away with disguising ourselves as a nondescript manservant and bluffing to any actual employees we meet that we're just a new hire - or if there's two people here who have a long-running grudge and are staying away from each other, we could bluff them into fighting to create a distraction.
Just for reference, this should be "discreetly". To be discreet is to be subtle, surreptitious, or otherwise work to avoid attracting attention to what you're doing. To be discrete is to be separated into easily differentiated elements, compartments, or components, as in "a discrete mixture of sand and pebbles".
[] You discreetly check everyone you see for supernatural tells.
-[] Give slight priority to members of the staff, the Earl's hangers-on, and other people who are connected to the estate; it pays to get a sense of what our opponent has at hand in the way of supernatural assets.
[] Get a general read of the room; do the guests seem relaxed, on edge, bored, upset? Are there any noticeable cliques among them, and do those cliques line up with what we know of their sociopolitics?
-[] Note how his servants and subordinates dress and act, how they conduct themselves. Are they snobbish (by Britannian standards), meticulous, overeager to impress? You can know much of a man by the company he keeps.
I'm focused on using our first half-hour or so here working out what interpersonal drama is here for us to potentially exploit*, collecting more information about the Earl without asking suspicious questions, and just generally trying to fit the pieces together on what is going on here and how we can best exploit it. We're supposed to be an intelligent (and just a little bit smug about that) young woman still reeling from multiple deaths in her immediate family, who knows she was probably sent here as a way for her relatives to fish for someone they can marry her off to as a way to shore up the family's standing. Playing reserved for a little while and reading the room before committing to any conversations would seem pretty in line with that.
* I mean, if there's some kind of torrid love triangle or drama among the servants, we might be able to camouflage clandestine actions by claiming we're involved. For example, if there's been an issue with high turnover among the house staff recently, we might be able to get away with disguising ourselves as a nondescript manservant and bluffing to any actual employees we meet that we're just a new hire - or if there's two people here who have a long-running grudge and are staying away from each other, we could bluff them into fighting to create a distraction.
