You don't need to Pack Alpha whenever you give an order, it's more like, Pack Alpha comes up when you're doing something that your gang doesn't want to do, but they'd better fucking do it, because you're in charge.  Sticking someone on latrine duty doesn't qualify for it; more like, "Okay, we're marching on Esther's compound," and the gang's like, fuck that, they'll just mow us down with assault rifles from the walls!  Then you want to pack alpha.<br/><br/>For Manipulate to trigger, you've got to have leverage that matters.  I don't know if "i'll pay you" matters to Ruth.  If it does, then might as well, worst case is she was going to do it anyway and marks an XP (or she wasn't, and the move helps to enforce your leverage.)<br/><br/>Anyway, for IC posts: if Ruth goes poking at Havel's eyes, think the Who's Tommy: there's no actual damage here.