Hi 🙂
I’m not sure what to make of the Fae move Scales of Justice.
At first glance it looks like a great way to earn debts, like: you owe me a debt and I put my magic at your service.
But instead it requires the Fae to cash in (to spend) a debt she already has on the recipient of the magic.
Is this meant to be only used as a punitive action?
If you cross me remember that I can magically burn you because you owe me?
Or am I misreading something?
You always get a debt, when you do someone a favor. That’s a basic rule.
When the Fae does you a favor, you really, really want to reciprocate.
It basically adds “cash in a Debt with the target” to the list of costs for magic
The Fae can basically use Debts as magical currency. When people owe them favors, the Fae has the ability to target that person with magic… because they owe the Fae a favor. 😀
Yes, but the Fae has to lose the favor owed. It’s not currency, it’s blackmail :\
1. You can also use powers not normally available to you
2. Only one of the powers is beneficial and would count as blackmail. I don’t think anyone would blackmail a fae into hitting them with Wither.
I can see many beneficial uses for Heal, Morph and Glamour that people would gladly pay to have used on themselves.
But the power works the other way around.
The Fae has to pay in order to do something to the target… which in turn becomes free of one debt.
It makes sense as a magical threat.
“be good with me, or I’ll mess you up because you owe me”
I was just checking that this was the correct functioning of the rules, because I initially understood them the other way around and was a bit disappointed to realize my mistake.
To me “turning tricks for debts” is more interesting than “supernatural revenge bullets” 😛
Anyone can turn tricks for Debts. “Sure I’ll gussy you up like a rent boy, so you can slip into that vamp party, but you’ll owe me”
True.
But if i need to spend the debt you just grabbed me in order to provide my service, where is my profit?
You can use magic in normal ways to gain a debt…
Indeed. I was just trying to get a better understanding of the Scales of Justice move and it’s possible applications 🙂
“You broke our oath, so now you’re hideous” is the intent I read behind it.
Yup, it’s burning a debt to burn a target, i.e. Fae have more leverage over those who owe them. Healing/morphing/whatevering someone to gain a debt from them is a normal part of the debt economy, no special move needed.
It also paints the whole traditional “you always pay when you cross a faerie” picture.
Thanks to all for the clarifications 🙂