Expected scene: David calls Marie to join him in going to the Hughes home. Rolled 4 against CF 6, interrupt scene. Current Context rolled on Random Event Focus Table. Trust / Trial is rolled from the Actions Meaning Tables. I'm interpreting this to mean that the trust between David and Marie will be tested somehow.
I'm starting this scene with a roll to see if David calls Marie because of his Chronic Depression. I rolled a 12, so success.
Early Monday evening. David dials Marie.
Does she answer? I rolled a 35, so Yes.
Marie picks up the phone. Before David asks Marie if she'd like to join him on a return visit to the Hughes home, he feels compelled to get to the bottom of why she couldn't meet him the last time. He knows that she's covering something up. He'd like her to open up to him more about it. Before he can trust her with the experience he had Thursday night, he needs to know that Marie is ready to possibly be exposed to psychic phenomena, and he needs to know her commitment level.
Influence Roll to see if Marie gives him information about why she stood David up, Quick Contest of David's Diplomacy skill of 12 vs Marie's Will of 12. 6 vs 9, David wins with a greater margin of success.
After they exchange greetings, David proceeds to steer the conversation towards Marie's erratic behavior, and asks her to tell him why she didn't meet him last Thursday. He tells her that he knows her well enough to perceive that she is holding something back. Marie comes clean and tells David that she suffers from manic depression. She is on medication for it, but sometimes she still has episodes. This explains why she was overly excited to go to the meeting last Thursday, and then why she stood him up - she crashed from her manic episode.
Marie's GURPS disadvantage of manic-depression actually has mechanics that require periodic rolls to determine mood.
David tells her that he appreciates her honesty. He then decides that before he can explain how he also has been suffering from severe depression from guilt, he needs to detail what happened last Thursday between him and Chad. Up until now, Marie knows that David claims he personally has psychic abilities, but David has never been able to prove it to her.
Marie has an anti-psi ability that of course she is not aware of, and David has never assumed that this is the reason his ability won't work on her when he's tried to telepathically communicate to her, because his own ability is often unreliable.
David proceeds to narrate the events of Thursday evening. He then confesses that he's been feeling an enormous amount of guilt from using his telepathy on Chad, which has triggered a bout of severe depression that he's still fighting against. Marie quietly takes it all in, and after a little more discussion, she agrees to go with him this evening to the Hughes home. David offers to pick her up again. He'll be leaving shortly.
Chaos Factor down to 5 - first time since start of the game. List clean-up required again. Lists updated.
Threads List
1. investigate Psi reports
2. meet Chad Hughes
3. Go to Hughes home
4. Pick up Marie and go to Hughes home
Characters List
1. weirdness magnet
2. Dr. Marie Higgins
3. Jesse McManus
4. Dean Pritchert
5. NICPP
6. classroom / students
7. Manny Britero
8. Duncan Britero
9. Catherine Hughes
10. Chad Hughes
11. Eric Hughes
12. military vet
13. Jesse
14. Manny Britero and church members
15. Depression
16. Dean Pritchert
17. Catherine Hughes
18. Marie
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