A question about the Vamp’s Web.
A question about the Vamp’s Web.
So Rafael (PC Vamp) is at a movers and shakers function. Amidst the other goings on, Lou (one of his vampire political opponents) has found Mr. Casing (a mortal with whom the PC wishes to do business) and swept him into Lou’s little group of sycophants, talking and smiling and shooting out subtle taunts and threats that the mortal misses because they are meant to flaunt the interception to the Rafael. Finally, Rafael gets pissed enough to go confront Lou and threaten him a bit more blatantly to back off.
Since Lou is threatening the Rafael’s interests, my player asked if Lou is in Raf’s Web. My first thought is no, because Raf went to him instead of vice versa, and I feel thematically the RAW “when someone comes to you to…” is important to the idea of luring someone into a web. Now, is it physical location (like Raf’s stomping grounds) or more metaphorical, (the player needs to fictionally position a little more and make Lou come back at him)? Or is the threat itself enough to enter the web?
I feel like it can’t be just the threat, because that would mean anything threatening a vamp would automatically invoke the web, and even if someone paid off the Debt, they would be back in immediately if they still had conflict of interests. I feel like coming at the player is the part that is important. Am I looking at this the wrong way?