Eddie the trucker can see miens, and that’s a problem for the freehold. This pledge ensures he stays silent and in return, that he gets whatever help he needs.
Parties: Solomon Wisp; Eddie
Type: Vow
Duration: Year and a Day (+3)
Sworn: 12/19/10
Ends: 12/20/11
Eddie
- Medial Forbiddance (-2): Eddie will NOT share information he has learned about the nature of the Fae world (includes Changelings, meins/masks, fae “magic,” True Fae, Fetches, Hobgoblins, Hedgebeasts, the existence of and places within the Hedge) except with other changelings and ensorcelled humans, or with others specifically designated by Solomon (allowing carve-outs for therapy if he should want it, or for reasons that would benefit the Freehold more than breaking the masquerade would hurt it - Solomon would check with Winter for specific individuals). This includes taking precautions not to be overheard by humans or recorded by electronic devices if he talks about it.
- Medial Endeavor (-2): If Eddie hears, sees, or in some other manner witnesses unusual activity related to his knowledge of the fae world (including any magical phenomena he is experiencing or enacting, and also including markedly unusual phenomena in his dreams), or hears rumors about such activity in his travels - including unprompted conversations/interactions/experiences with fae or non-human creatures - he will contact Solomon and provide him with a relevant and full account of the information or incident.
Solomon
- Dreaming (-2): Solomon will watch over Eddie’s dreams at least once within the span of the pledge in order to protect him from oneiropomps (guarding dreams), detect dream poison, provide stress relief, or help return him to a more stable mind-state.
- Lesser Endeavor (-1): Solomon will buy Eddie a beverage, drink, meal, or inexpensive item at least once a month – unless Eddie is dead, or Solomon has no mundane means of reaching Eddie.
Both
Medial Alliance (-2): If Eddie contacts Solomon requesting protection or safety from fae creatures or other nonhumans, Solomon will act in reasonable time to protect him - up to and including providing temporary guarded lodging for Eddie while Solomon resolves the issue that caused Eddie to be in danger. Resolving the issue may include violent, diplomatic, subtle, magical, mundane, direct, or indirect methods as deemed appropriate by Solomon, with the intent to minimize present and future harm to Eddie from the initial source of danger. Solomon will not be expected to drop greater alliances or pledges to fulfill this one, but it should be prioritized above trivial matters or daily tasks.
If Solomon contacts Eddie requesting protection, safety, or temporary lodging (including food, drink, shelter, survivable temperature and air quality, and somewhere to sleep), Eddie will do his best to provide help that does not place him in excessive physical danger. He will not be expected to continue providing support for an extended period of time (as determined by circumstances but understood to be several days or weeks at most).
Lesser Endeavor (-1): Eddie and Solomon will try to meet at least once per month to talk in person; food and beverages are optional, and talking may occur in addition to other activities.
Eddie
- Poisoning of the Boon (Resources -1)
- Poisoning (Danger Sense -2)
- Medial Flaw - difficulty speaking (-2)
Solomon
- Poisoning of the Boon (Persuasion -1)
- Medial Curse (-2)
Eddie
- Adroitness (Resources) +1
- Adroitness (Driving) +1
- Medial Blessing (Danger Sense) +2
- Greater Blessing (Common Sense - 4 dot merit) +3
- Adroitness (Investigation) +1
- Adroitness (Streetwise) +1
Solomon
- Adroitness (Socialize) +1
- Adroitness (Persuasion) +1
- Adroitness (Subterfuge) +1
- Lesser Blessing (Contacts [Teamsters] +1)
- Medial Adroitness (Investigation [Rumors] +2)
- Type: Vow
- Duration: +2 Season
- Tasks:
- Not Katie: Lesser Forbiddance -1 (no one shares secret info from Alice [Climber has Whispers in His pocket, the mercs were Climber’s, and there may only be 2 real Players left] without Katie's say-so)
- Katie: Lesser Endeavor -1 (negotiate a consensus if there is disagreement over whom to tell)?
- Boons:
- +2 Adroitness
- Birdie: +2 Persuasion
- Katie: +2 Expression
- Prymja: +2 Adroitness Specialty (Subterfuge: Playing Dumb)
- Solomon: +2 Subterfuge
- Ruby: +2 Socialize
- Sanction:
- -1 Lesser Flaw (Tongue-tied - should penalize ability to express oneself verbally for a period of time), -2 Poisoning the Boon (Adroitness)
Wording: 'So who's the family?' Well, that's exactly what I'm paying you to find out. I want to know everything about these Whitakers, from their kids' test scores to who the family's hanging out with, to any illegal or, let's say "unusual" activities that might arise. I think you'll find working for me has its advantages, so long as you're discrete, competent, and diligent in your duties. I care about them and want to look out for them, but I can't be their guardian angel, understand? So you're the next best thing. Now I'm paying you for this information, and I expect that information to be exclusive to me. You should see an increase in your bank account's cash-flow in no time, and if you flip on me, I'll know. That would be... most unfortunate. I'll be keeping an eye out for you as well, don't worry.
Parties Involved: Solomon, Mr. Clarence Graham
Type: Vow
- Shared:
- Alliance, Lesser (-0, All)
- Mr. Graham, P.I.:
- Endeavor, Medial (-2) Mr. Graham regularly investigates the whereabouts, people of interest, contacts, progress, and day-to-day life of Solomon's Fetch and family, including looking for illegal, bizarre, or unusual activity, and shares this information with Solomon on a weekly basis.
- Forbiddence, Lesser (-1) Mr. Graham will not discuss his findings with anyone other than Solomon, or through previously designated means of direct or encrypted communication.
- Solomon:
- Task, Dreaming (-2) Solomon guards Mr. Graham's dreams at least once, both for his safety and to make sure he hasn't been compromised.
- ((Fulfilled first night of contract))
- Mr. Graham:
- Adroitness, Medial (+2) Investigation
- Adroitness, Medial (+2) Persuasion
- Adroitness, Medial (+2) Resource
- Solomon:
- Adroitness, Medial (+2) Subterfuge
- Adroitness, Lesser (+1) Intimidation
- Adroitness, Medial (+2) Resource
Sanction: Poisoning of the Boon (-2 Resources), Medial Flaw - Difficulty speaking (-2), Medial Flaw - Untrustworthy Appearance (-2)
Duration: Year and a Day (+3) [Monday, January 3rd, 2011 to January 4th, 2012]
Invocation: 1 Willpower
Description: This pledge is intended to ensure Solomon feels safe hiring a private investigator to watch over his fetch in Searsport for a long-term assignment. Solomon hopes the P.I. will be discrete, not ask questions about why he's spying on a boy and his family, and be competent in the job. The boons reflect "payment" through a mysterious bank account as well as a boost to the abilities that Solomon wants the PI to have to ensure a capable job.
- Type: Vow
- Duration: +2 Season 1/24/11 - 4/24/2011
- Tasks:
- Katie, Prymja, Solomon: -2 endeavor (deal with Nickel's supernatural discoveries?), -2 dream, -1 forbiddence (don't screw with cases?)
- Nickel: endeavor (tell me about supernatural cases)
- Boons:
- Me: +4 adroitness (3 Investigation, 1 Politics)
- Nickel: +2 Resources
- Sanctions: -1 curse
- Type: Vow
- Duration: ?
- Tasks:
- Boons:
- Sanction:
- Type: Vow
- Duration: ?
- Tasks:
- Boons:
- Sanction:
- Type: Vow
- Duration: ?
- Tasks:
- Boons:
- Sanction:
- Type: Vow
- Duration: ?
- Tasks:
- Boons:
- Sanction:
- Type: Vow
- Duration: ?
- Tasks:
- Boons:
- Sanction:
- Type: Higher Power (Den/Hospitality)
- Duration: Season (+2) 12/5/10 - 3/5/11
- Tasks:
- Katie (or other Official Defenders/Hosts):
- Defend those under the Fort's protection against direct and intentional attacks on their person or mental state, to the best of our ability, even unto death should such be required. (-3)
- Refrain from intentional harm to those under the Fort's protection, either to their persons, minds, or belongings, unless it is done by consent or with the purpose of preserving their lives and health. (-2)
- If those within the Fort are harmed despite our best efforts, see that the perpetrators are punished for it, in just measure, though the form of harm may differ from the form visited upon the victim. (-2)
- Provide for the room and board of all taking residence, temporarily or permanently, excepting such sustenance that is unusually difficult to procure, or which negatively impacts other residents. (-1)
- Refrain from intentional harassment or destruction/theft of property of those under the Fort's protection. (-1)
- Katie: Though reserving the right to have an individual leave the protection of the Fort, do not insist they do so less than 24 hours after their arrival.
- If an individual under the Fort's protection brings a grievance against another, address it quickly and fairly.
- Defenders: Do not attempt without permission of Katie, or her Motley should she be absent, to remove someone from the Fort's protection. Should both Katie and her Motley be absent for an extended period, an Interim Authority will be designated and will assume this responsibility until such time as Katie and/or her Motley return. (-1)
- Should someone under the Fort's protection wish to leave or be asked to leave after 24 hours, and such person's safe departure be threatened, assist in providing a safe means of getting clear of the Fort's premises and jurisdiction. (-2)
- Defenders: Do not attempt to access or interfere with the designated private portions of the Fort, unless you are a member of Katie's Motley, or are given explicit permission thereby. (-1)
- Guests:
- Refrain from intentional harm to those under the Fort's protection, either to their persons, minds, or belongings, unless it is done by consent or with the purpose of preserving their lives and health. (-2)
- Refrain from intentional harassment or destruction/theft of property of those under the Fort's protection. (-1)
- Do not attempt without permission of Katie or her Motley to remove someone from the Fort's protection, by any means other than a request to Katie, or Katie's Motley or designated Fort authorities in Katie's sustained absence. (-1)
- Do not attempt to prevent safe departure of those under the Fort's protection from the Fort premises. (-1)
- Do not attempt to access or interfere with the designated private portions of the Fort. (-1)
- Boons:
- Katie: Iron Stamina (+3), +3 Medicine, +3 Athletics, +4 Weaponry, +1 Animal Ken, +2 Intimidation, +1 Persuasion
- Defenders: +3 Medicine, +3 Brawl, +3 Firearms, +2 Stealth, +3 Weaponry, +2 Intimidation, +2 Persuasion
- Motley: +2 Medicine, +3 Brawl, +3 Firearms, +2 Stealth, +3 Weaponry, +2 Intimidation, +2 Persuasion
- Guests: +3 Athletics, +3 Stealth, +1 Subterfuge, Direction Sense (1), Danger Sense (2)
- Sanctions:
- Katie/Defenders: Vulnerability (-3), Pishogue (Fallow Fields, Empty Harvest, 5 Days) (-2), Lesser Curse (-1)
- Guests: Vulnerability (-3), Lesser "Banishment" (-1)
- Type: Nemesis Emblem (Chaser - Lord's Dread Gaze)
- Duration: +3 Year+Day (12/14/10 - 12/15/11)
- Tasks:
- -3 Greater Alliance (come to each others' aid)
- goes to death but not to Arcadia
- forbids harming one another in any way (including non-physically), unless it is done to benefit the target
- -2 Dreaming (Must protect each others' dreams once every ...?)
- Boons:
- All: Medial Blessing (+2 resources), Medial Blessing (+2 ID), Adroitness +2 (Empathy)
- Katie: Adroitness +2 (Athletics), Medial Blessing (+2 Contacts: Car Enthusiasts)
- Birdie: Adroitness +2 (Athletics), Medial Blessing (+2 Contacts: Media)
- Eric: Adroitness +2 (Firearms), Medial Blessing (+2 Contacts: Street Performers)
- Prymja: Adroitness +2 (Weaponry), Medial Blessing (+2 Contacts: Organized Crime)
- Ruby: Adroitness +2 (Brawl), Medial Blessing (+2 Contacts: Fitness Community)
- Solomon: Adroitness +2 (Firearms), Medial Blessing (+2 Contacts: Dock Workers)
- Sanctions: -3 Greater Curse, -3 Greater Vulnerability, -2 Poisoning of the Boon (Resources)
¶ It's My Life (by Bon Jovi)/ Want You Gone/Live and Let Live/ Face-Off Prevention Pledge
Wording: This is my offer. *hands carefully worded document* If you don't know what a pledge is, you're about to get a crash course. We didn't part on the best of terms, but then again, you seem to know more than most of your kind about what you are, and imagine my shock after surviving what I survived to find a doppelganger in my place. I'm fine with you living the life I was supposed to live, but I need assurances that you're living it in good faith. That also means I'm not up every night worried what you might do to my family on a whim or because some Gentry tells you to. I hope you care about my family as much as I do, because that'll make this easier for both of us. Think of me as your absentee mentor. I'll check in every now and then, but not in person. And if you or they are in trouble, let me know and I'll see what I can do. Now would you put aside your rebellious teen angst for a moment and read the document already? Let's avoid any more unnecessary ripples.
Parties Involved: Aldo Whitaker, Aldo Whitaker's Fetch
Type: True Name, Obscured
- Fetch:
- Endeavor, Lesser (-1) The fetch will strive to live a meaningful and productive life that incorporates the ideals of Compassion, Persistence, and Cleverness.
- Forbiddence, Lesser (-1) The fetch will not knowingly (or on suspicion of knowing) work with or for any Gentry or their agents.
- Forbiddence, Lesser (-1) The fetch will not knowingly harm Aldo Whitaker, the Whitaker family, Aldo's motley, Aldo's freehold, or the members of Aldo's freehold.
- Harm = Directly or through gross negligence cause physical damage to the person, or cause significant (derangement equivalent) mental/psychological trauma, or provide damaging information of vulnerabilities or leverage that could be used as blackmail or weaponized against the person or entity.
- Task, Lesser (-1) Once a month, the fetch will update Aldo on its current life activities through the use of Dreams. Meaningful events such as holidays, family events, or times of transition, success, or failure take precedent, but less significant information is also acceptable when little of significance to the fetch has occurred that month.
- Aldo:
- Forbiddence, Lesser (-1) Aldo will not knowingly cause physical harm to his fetch, or attempt to damage or supplant his fetch's role in the Whitaker family.
- Task, Dreaming (-2) Within the span of the pledge, Aldo will guard his fetch's dreams at least once, which may include protecting him from outside threats as well as searching for and/or removing dream poison.
- During his fetch's monthly updates through Dream, Aldo will also inform his fetch if he guarded his dreams since their previous exchange of information through Dream, barring unavailability due to the fetch not upholding the monthly exchange of information, or barring an inability of either to contact the other by Dream due to unforeseen supernatural circumstances.
- Forbiddence, Lesser (-1) Aldo will not intentionally contact the Whitaker family without his fetch's approval, except in circumstances where they are in immediate and mortal danger.
- Shared:
- Alliance, Lesser (+0) In addition to the specific tasks and forbiddences laid out to each party, both parties agree to abide by a general pact of non-aggression toward the other.
- Endeavor, Lesser (-1) Either will warn the other if there is a known or suspected supernatural threat inbound to the other or to the Whitaker family. This includes Gentry, their agents, hobgoblins, other hedge-touched creatures, or supernatural entities that intend one of the parties harm.
- Fetch: +7
- Adroitness, Greater (+3) Academics
- Adroitness, Medial (+2) Athletics
- Adroitness, Medial (+2) Persuasion
- Aldo: +7
- Adroitness, Greater (+3) Occult
- Adroitness, Medial (+2) Athletics
- Adroitness, Medial (+2) Empathy
- Shared:
- Greater Vulnerability (-3) [Both Glamour and Violence]
- Lesser Curse (-1)
- Aldo:
- True Name, Obscured (Special) Next time he encounters his fetch, he loses any and all resistance to the fetch’s Echoes, and his Defense drops to 0 for the length of the encounter. He also receives a dice pool penalty equal to his Wyrd for the length of the encounter. These limitations last for one scene, and are activated the next time he encounters his fetch in person. The fetch automatically senses the weakness in the wyrd, and knows that his chances to strike are at their best in that moment. ((EFFECTIVELY DUPLICATED IN MAJOR VULNERABILITY))
- Poisoning: Adroitness ( -1) Academics
- Aldo's Fetch:
- Poisoning: Adroitness ( -1) Occult
Duration: Year and a Day (+3)
Invocation: 1 Willpower
Description: This pledge formalizes some informally understood agreements made between Solomon and his fetch when he abruptly re-entered into his old life after escaping the hedge. It gives some teeth to the probationary/mentoring/patronage-type role Solomon is trying to create with his fetch.
I owed 1 jar of sunlight and 4 glamour fruit for Casie Willow to get me a new ID.
I (and Birdie?) owe 3 glamour fruit to the Witches at the Bruised Apple for Hedge Spun Notebooks. No rush or time limit.
For each week that Winter Court keeps a (mostly protective) eye on Eddie for me (and shares the details with me), I will make a meal and give it to a homeless person one time. --> Is it to fulfill a pledge for Sophie? Or a catch (Spring contract or gluttonous feast?)
Temporary Pledge with Sophie: I volunteer 5 or more hours at a homeless shelter before New Year's Day and get 1 dot of resources for a week to spend on my new car.