Monthly Archive: February 2024

“I see.  Intimacy. “However so defined?”   

“If you wanted most employers, you’d be working for the Bureaucracy.   “Will you answer my question?”   

I think the chess match analogy is a good one.  Red Queen and Black Queen?    There’s no additional information to be gained from Lia’s observation of Raina’s Body Language; Raina is clearly still...

If you wish, you may make a social roll – I’d suggest Diplomacy, but Acting, Fast Talk or Sex Appeal would all be acceptable. If you wish, you may make a Body Language roll....

Cloth napkin. Raina leans back in her chair, face impassive, head tilted slightly to one side.  She looks carefully at Lia. Does Lia wish to continue, or is she just going to leave that...

“Yes.”   

Gently, “Should we hire a conference venue?  Wait until dinner? Send a memorandum?  When would you prefer to discuss it…” Raina halts herself. “Forget that, I don’t want to sound argumentative, and it’s not...

That’s a good result for a contested roll. Raina is trying to present her usual confident, unruffled self, but there are hints that she too is being very attentive to this conversation; she’s excited...

“In a way that matters to both of us, yes.”