Hey! Had a few question regarding the Fae, mostly it’s intimacy move. It says to demand a promise from the person you share intimacy with and if they break that promise you gain 2 debts on them.
1st question.
Does a promise demand something on both parts? Like ” Guard the safehouse until you die and I will make sure you get a nice funeral”
Or can it be one sided: “Promise me to guard the safehouse until you die.”
2nd question.
Is it allright for the fae to demand huge promises like “promise to be my slave forever”, intentionally worded to be broken so they get 2 debts?
Hmmm. We played it like a debt, which meant your the request to be a slave forever would be invalid. We also played it one-sided: Our Fae, Roman, asked our Veteran to kill him, if Roman lost what little humanity he still had. The Veteran refused…
It can be one sided if you want it to be. As for the second question, don’t do that; that’s being a dick. 😀 Ask for reasonable promises.
Yeah, if someone asked for a promise like that, I’d immediately check in with both players to see if that was a reasonable thing by our measure. It might be, it might not. I know a lot of people it would moot be reasonable for.
All good responses! Maybe I should explain where I was coming from. I was thinking of playing a seductive Fae who would sleep with a lot of important people (Npcs) to trigger the Intimacy move to gain debt on them. For instance the Fae might ask for the promise “Love me forever” which might be fitting in the heat of the moment but would still be something that most people would say no to which I guess makes it unreasonable?
Would this be a valid way to play the Fae or would it be abusing the mechanics?
That sounds a bit against the spirit of the move; technically it says you can do that, but we wrote the moves with trust in you as players to use them well.
Also, I would argue that sleeping with someone to gain leverage over them is not intimacy, it’s manipulation and you might be better served by the Persuade an NPC move for that. My two cents. ☺️
From my very much Not-Andrew-Medeiros perspective, I’d be interested in the concept. I’d want there to be some separation between they motives of the character and the motives of the player. Like, the fae is just really attracted to people in powerful places and loves very powerfully, but is early spurned. They demand things that are entirely reasonable in the fae world, but just aren’t necessarily doable by others. They end up with debt on powerful people because they keep asking for promises that are unreasonable due to cultural difference their intense lovers rage. Now there’s a concept! Dibs!
Thanks for all the replies! I’m probably gonna play it in a non abusive way and see where it goes! Thanks!