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Monsterhearts / Soul Debt on other skins
« on: March 26, 2012, 07:27:45 PM »
When someone chooses the Infernal's "Soul Debt" move off of the "Another Skin's Move" advancement, how would you play it? It gives you candy in exchange for the Power getting strings, and when you hit 5 strings it triggers your Darkest Self. For Infernals, this means that the power makes big demands of you that you're compelled to give in to, and when you fulfill one it loses a string.
But if another skin takes it, they've got a different Darkest Self, which doesn't get rid of the strings. The options seem to be a) go to the Infernal Darkest Self, b) Go to the character's Darkest Self, and wipe strings (or at least lose 5 strings, since you might have called on your bargains while in Darkest Self) when they hit their native escape clause.
Obviously this could depend on the fiction. If a werewolf takes it to represent him drawing on his animal self/moon powers, making him more likely to snap, then option b makes more sense. But does anyone have any input at the relative merits or problems of either approach, or some other ways to handle it?
But if another skin takes it, they've got a different Darkest Self, which doesn't get rid of the strings. The options seem to be a) go to the Infernal Darkest Self, b) Go to the character's Darkest Self, and wipe strings (or at least lose 5 strings, since you might have called on your bargains while in Darkest Self) when they hit their native escape clause.
Obviously this could depend on the fiction. If a werewolf takes it to represent him drawing on his animal self/moon powers, making him more likely to snap, then option b makes more sense. But does anyone have any input at the relative merits or problems of either approach, or some other ways to handle it?