[Polaris] Problems in Play

[Ben Lehman]

Guys --

You're tying yourselves into knots here.  Here's from the rules:

No aspect on any other protagonists' sheet ever limits the actions of a Protagonist in their own scene.
No action in one protagonists' scene may erase or alter the written aspects of another protagonist.

Thus, in the example where one player (in her own scene) kills some other protagonist's bound demon, the correct answer is:

1) The demon is dead, and there's nothing that the owner of said demon can do about it if the Mistaken won't lobby for them.

2) The aspect describing that demon (be it fate, blessing, ability or office) remains on the protagonist's sheet, and can be used as normal.

Aside: What this represents in the fiction (the demon isn't actually dead, the demon is resurrected, the demon's shade provides its master with power, the memory of an old servant lives on, the demon is a mind-meme that has implanted itself in the owner's brain, etc.) is up to the players of the game, as a whole, negotiated with the standard conflict rules as it emerges during play.

yrs--
--Ben

[Darren Hill]

Thanks, Ben, that puts it very clearly.