Well after closing (In conflict)

I awoke to the furious sounds of an angry woman. OH NO! It’s that damn librarian! What the fuck did I do to her?!

“It’s 10:00!” She yelled at me! “On top of your behavior earlier, now I’m going to be late getting home! What do you have to say for yourself?!” I was about to begin shouting back when I was interrupted by the sounds of a Raucous cry for victory. The cheers of men and women instilled in a conquering rightness. I was absorbed into a black and gold surrounding where insults against me were leveled. Ambition, sure; but foremost, an immutable pettiness. It’s not enough to succeed, my enemies must fail or submit. Before me. The things I can learn.

Robert Clerk

Inciter:
HP: 6
EXHAUSTION: 9/16
Incitements: None (7 selections available)

MIGHT: 4
SPIRIT: 8
INTELLECT: 5
DEXTERITY: 2
WILL: 9

Learnable Incitements:

MIGHT:
Cow: After Target believes they lost Contest of Might, Compel a sense of shame. Resisted by WILL-.
Goad: After target believes they won Contest of Might, Compel a sense of domineering. Resisted by WILL-.

SPIRIT:
Incite Emotion: Compel a powerful Emotion. Exhausting. Resisted by WILL+.
Incite action: Compel an action. Exhausting. Resisted by WILL+.
Incite relaxation: Compel target to Relax. Resisted by WILL. Can Be kind or soothing to lower resistance.
****: After bringing up unsavory information, Compel subservience. Resisted by Will.
Incite Reflection: After performing an action or emotion, compel another to mirror you. Resisted by WILL.
Incite Competition: Compel target to desire a competition, instilling competitive spirit and reckless impulse. Resisted by SPIRIT.

INTELLECT:
Trickery: After winning a contest with INTELLECT, adjust the action loser takes. Resisted by WILL-, can exhaust for stronger effect.
Overwhelm: After Target believes they lost Contest of INTELLECT, Compel a sense of futility. Resisted by WILL-.
Pride: After target believes they won Contest of INTELLECT, Compel a sense of Pride. Resisted by WILL-.
Advice: Guide the rationalization of an action someone takes. Effectiveness dependent on relevance of emotion. Resisted by WILL
Double Bind: Amplify compliance and subservience if subject was shamed twice by mutually exclusive expectations. Resisted by WILL--.

DEXTERITY:
I'm not this bad!: After target believes they Lost Contest of Dexterity, Compel desire to save face. Resisted by Will-.
Pitiable, Indeed: After target believes they won Contest of Dexterity, Compel feelings of pity. Resisted by Will-.

WILL:
Mental whiplash: After resisting SPIRIT with WILL, Boost your SPIRIT Incitements against loser by an amount equal to the assailant’s SPIRIT for a couple seconds. (Passive)
Victim-and-Offender: After target believes they won Contest of WILL, compel feelings of guilt. Resisted by Will-.
Kneel: After target believes they lost Contest of WILL, compel feelings of submission. Resisted by Will-.
Auto hypnosis: Put self into a relaxed trance, nullifying pain and quickly restoring EXHAUSTION, but vastly lowering WILL for the duration.

These will do. I recoiled for a moment at some of these actions, but I understood. If I want the librarian to submit, I will have to break some taboos. I don’t know exactly what librarians can do, I know that they are strong in their domain, but they aren’t typically tested by real harm. I wonder what her WILL and SPIRIT look like. Probably higher than mine at least, purely due to experience, though I bet her WILL is the lower of the two. In that case, simply hoping to resist should be enough. I can come back when I’m stronger. For now, the goal is just to make it out without being looked down on.

In that case, I’ll take Victim-and-Offender. That will at least give me some satisfaction as she kicks me out the door. I’ll take Incite Action and Incite Emotion as well. I doubt they will do much, but if I’m flailing anyway, may as well. Advice will work well with it if it does work, and I might be able to do something. Let’s take ****. I’m sure I can dig something useful up eventually. And I’ll top it off with Mental whiplash and Kneel. Just in case. A moment of panic shot through me as I realized how much time I had spent in my inner world. But as the world faded around me, and the crowd faded to a murmur, I realized no time had passed around. In fact, the librarian’s lips were still closing from when she was yelling.

Good. The process is fast. That will save me some effort. “Lady!” I shouted back. “You’re not the only one having a time. You think I want to sleep in some stuffy library?!” That set her off. She was fuming already, and she was not having any of this. “Listen. Robert. I don’t have time for some up-jumped non-citizen to be ogling me and insulting MY library when I have shit to do! OUT OF THE ROOM! NOW!” I couldn’t help but comply. I was completely outclassed, and didn’t even have time to pick up my bag as I scrambled out the door. Fortunately, I had the presence of mind to use Victim-and-Offender. Using that skill as I desperately thought up some excuse. “Hey. I didn’t mean to make your day hard. I just got tired while studying. I would have made it up to you afterward!” It wasn't entirely the truth, but that slowed her down a step. I doubt it’d do anything more than keep her awake for a few minutes, tonight, though.

All the same, It did slow her down. As evidenced by her next outburst. “Why don’t you just get the fuck out of my library! You barely even studied!” This time, I felt like maybe I should do as she says, but no crashing. No Compulsion. Is this.. Did I… Resist it? Was it the guilt? Mental Whiplash! My chance! INCITE ACTION! “Why don’t YOU Get the fuck out of those clothes! You’re barely wearing them anyway!” Not missing a beat, she yelled back. “Fine! You want to stare again?! Don’t let me fucking stop you!” She began to violently pull at her straps and laces until her dress and bra were heaped up around her feet. I wasted no time using ADVICE. Guiding her rationalization towards getting off on the situation. The confusion hit her face as she kicked off her panties, putting her hands in front of her slit as she fought her, or in this case, my rationalizations.

“What? Why am I stripping for _you _of all people? Did you make me do this?” Oh shit. She's figuring it out. But wait! one more trick up my sleeve. She’s right, but she doesn’t have to know. I activated Kneel, before denying her claims. “What? I’m classless! I can’t have. You just want me to order you, don't you? Slut.” I’ll have to keep that in mind I don't want to lose a mental battle that way, myself. “Just leave the library.” She tried compelling me again, I assume, but it had no effect. Does mental state affect abilities that much? I’ll have to keep that in mind I don't want to lose a mental battle that way, myself. I knew this next moment was going to be exhausting as hell, but I have to power through. If she did try to command me, this would seal things. Compel Emotion: Lust. Compel Action. “Just lie down and spread your legs like a good bitch.”

She slowly removed her hands to give me a full view of her clean-shaven slit before laying down on the floor. Right in the middle of the entry hall. She moved her dress behind her head. She spread her legs to reveal her pussy quickly getting wetter, and whispered with a voice full of trepidation and eyes of shamed tears. “Please be gentle.”