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Lavinia in Infernal Donation Drive
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"I'm not worried about Hell's operations, I'm worried about individual demons getting hurt."

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"Yes, that's a possibility, depending—ah—are you aware that mortal magic has reciprocal effects on the user? That is, one who casts for love becomes more loving, one who casts for greed becomes more greedy, one who casts to heal becomes more compassionate, one who casts to harm becomes more cruel?"

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"I had considered it a strong possibility, given the state she was in when we met."

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"...oh, dear." He opens his mouth, hesitates, closes it again, hesitates some more. "...I would like to ask what her particular trouble was, if it's not private."

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"Oh, she'd been cursing people for money. Left her pretty nasty. I managed to drag her out of it by being so curious about magic that she remembered how passionate she was about magic-related curiosity and went back to doing more science and less cursing. ...Not no cursing, but making a shitty politician drop hot coffee on his lap on live TV isn't the same thing."

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"I see." He shakes his head slightly. "...Returning to the topic at hand. Or one of several topics at hand. Yes, having at least one parent with magic will certainly help with many aspects of raising a half-demon child. We can also, as I mentioned, offer you your own magical awakening as a reward, though it's an expensive one."

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"We'll see. I'd like it, certainly, but it isn't necessarily the most important thing."

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"In any case I can't promise anything yet about the existence of this hypothetical child, though I'm optimistic."

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"I'm glad to hear it. Actually, I have an important question that I maybe should have gotten to earlier: do the demon dreams feel like I just had a dream, or like things actually happened."

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"That can depend on the details of the encounter, how long it was, how vividly you normally remember your dreams, and so on. If you have a preference, it's often possible to nudge things one way or the other."

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"Because time-folding combined with high frequency and duration sounds promising, but I don't want my subjective experience of my life to be that the normal things that matter to me are comparatively short breaks between demon rape."

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"Hmm... longer encounters compressed into single nights often feel especially vivid and real after the fact, but you could take the Memory Wipe aftercare option with a note to just use a touch of memory blurring to put the result within range for a memory of a normal dream?"

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"Memory Wipe does seem potentially useful...can I attach it to specific duration-frequency-encounter-etc. groups?"

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"Yes, with separate notes per encounter group for whether you want light blurring or more comprehensive memory removal or something in between."

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"I'm not going to lie, spending a lot of time getting my brains fucked out and then only sort of remembering it seems like a really cheap way to get points."

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"And from our side, it seems like a cheap way to feed large numbers of demons. Isn't it lovely when both ends of a trade benefit by more than they paid?"

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"I think that's how trade is supposed to work. But you said you wanted me to consider these things separately from the rewards, so."

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"Yes, ideally we would like for all our volunteers to be choosing first the things they like, and second the things they comfortably tolerate, and not dipping into the things they uncomfortably tolerate in search of more rewards." He waves a hand in an elegant understated gesture of vagueness. "Making allowances for what a reasonable definition of comfort looks like in this kind of situation."

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"Sure. And I think the only sort of remembering hack falls under 'comfortably tolerate.'"

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"Excellent."

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Okay, so Memory Wipe, obviously, with the note for "blur" instead of "erase," and she goes back up to Mitigations and takes Frozen, and back down to Aftercare and pick up Revitalization and Perfect Cleanup because yes, please. She'd take Perfect Healing too, but Aurelia pretty much already has that covered. 

Encounter difficulty...hmmmm. She'll leave that one alone for now too until she looks through all the "details" options.

Gentle details...

"...So I'm assuming forcefem is just free points, since I'm already a woman."

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"I'm not sure I follow?"

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She points at the "Forced Feminization" option on the clipboard. "Forcefem--a common shortening--is a thing that appears in often-but-not-exclusively pornographic human fiction, generally to people who start out presenting male. I can see how it could apply to a gender-non-conforming woman, also, but I'm not especially that; you could put me in girlier clothes, but this would just not have the psychological impact on me that it would on someone who has an emphatically non-feminine default presentation." 

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"Oh, I see! Yes, the implicit question of that option is whether you'd like that sort of thing to be done to you, regardless of how far from your default presentation it is. If you expect to be indifferent to it for that reason, then you can consider it free points if you like."

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"I'm not going to Special Mention it or anything, but it doesn't seem annoying enough to even qualify it for the word 'tolerate.'"

Hm hm hm...okay. There's enough stuff on the "Brutal" menu that falls into the appealing-or-tolerable category that she feels comfortable picking that up, but Deadly...nothing there appeals to her. If she desperately needed points she could put up with it, but Brutal is fine. 

"Can you elaborate a little more on 'drugs' and 'light mind control'?"

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