On a 10+, Pip is inclined to favor your request.

⚄⚂ + 2 = 10.

On a 10+, Pip is inclined to favor your request, take +1 Forward.

"Well, I am dreadfully bored," Pip tells you. She pets her little bat familiar. "And the Head's little pets are getting a little full of themselves." She smiles. "I like the Weirding Woods. Shall we say...midnight? Two days hence is the dark of the moon, that would be perfect."

Roll +AMBITION (+1) (+2 Cunning, -2 Medium Task, +1 Forward) when you TRY TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOAL.

⚅⚄ + 1 = 12.

On a 10+, you ACHIEVE YOUR GOAL. Cross it off. Gain +1 XP. If the GOAL was a FAVOR owed to someone, you may take +1 to ENCOUNTER them.

In a quiet clearing at the edge of the Weirding Woods, you introduce Asteria Hornbeam to Pipistrelle Clawson. With patience, the Leontes Assistant Warden winkles out a story from the bored, whimsical Minerval Prefect as to her surmises for who conjured the Sending against Fay, why they did it, and most especially how they might have gotten through the wards.

"As to how, I don't know," Pip tells the Assistant Warden. "You said Morgan and Fay were trying to amplify contagion when you were testing the wards. Your ill-willed conjuror could have done the same. It would seem perfectly likely that the Wardress might have taken clippings of Fay and Morgan's hair, but that doesn't seem like Euryale's way to seek petty ****, and who would dare to steal from her? More likely the Tutor, or most likely some favorite of Whiplash's. And I'm pretty sure I know which one. She had the Sending turned back on her, and it did some pretty vile things to her before the Wardress could quell it. She'll be out for the term, it's fairly certain."

The Assistant Warden nods.

"What a beautiful night," Pip says. "Still warm for the season. I used to come out here to take my pleasures, since it seemed like I could hardly get peace in the halls of Minerval." She leans forward and whispers a suggestion into Asteria's ear.

The Assistant Warden laughs. "What a half-hearted seduction," she says.

"Had to try," Pip says. "It's expected. And I am good at it."

You tilt your head skeptically. Sure, Pip would pleasure other women during magical exercises and House functions, but she was always hanging off the arm of that Leontes fellow who graduated last year. Her new familiar, the little bat she was always cuddling, seemed hardly a suitable substitute.

"Do you know what good is?" you say to Pip. "You just about never spread your own legs for another woman."

Pip laughs. "Don't have to," she says. "They tell me with their words, or testify with their sighs, moans, and lovely writhings under my tongue."

"I'm better than you are," you say.

"Well, doesn't that sound like a challenge, Morgan, my old rival?" Pip says.

You have achieved your GOAL: Interrogate Pip. Gain +1 XP
You now have 2 XP.

You have +2 Ambition, +0 Bravery, +2 Cunning, +0 Diligence.
Your FRIENDs are Fay and the Warden of Leontes. The Warden owes you a FAVOR.

Roll +BRAVERY(+1) to ENCOUNTER Asteria Hornbeam and ask to HAVE SEX, competing with Pip.

⚀⚅ + 1 = 8.

On a 7-9, Asteria is ****. Choose one.

• Take on a new GOAL as a favor to Asteria. She'll go along with the little sex contest, taking +1 Forward on your next roll.
• Describe what you do to convince Asteria, in character, to go along with what you want.
• Cast a spell on Asteria like CHARM or COMMAND. (This is another roll, +CUNNING).