((OOC: Technically, you forgot to roll Esther's Lust score for the Temptation.  But you completely blew that roll out of the water (three successes?  wow...), so...<br/><br/><strong>Rule Discovered!</strong>Successfully resisting Temptation - and not giving in of your own free will - helps control the beast within.  Esther is now immune to Temptation until she feeds, or her Lust reaches a threshold.<br/><br/>Also: Constantly messing with Esther's head is more fun than it has any right to be.  :) ))<br/><br/>For the first time since waking up, things seemed to go Esther's way.  She made it off the school grounds without anyone confronting her, despite lunch being basically over.  Even Officer Smiley, with his knack for showing up at the worst possible time, didn't make an appearance.<br/><br/>That left her with a choice.  There were a couple shops that came to mind when she considered where to find 'lunch'.  The first was a curiosities shop owned by a woman who fancied herself a gypsy - Madame LeVere, she called herself.  She knew Esther, and trusted her, which would make her an easy mark.  Plus business was always slow.  But she trusted Esther; could the new Esther bring herself to betray that trust?  Another thought occured to her - LeVere claimed to deal in the paranormal.  If there was some truth to that...<em>She'd make a useful slave</em>, part of Esther's mind thought.  Or was it the Other?  Surely that dark thought hadn't come from Esther herself...<br/><br/>Another option was the local antiques dealer.  The old man who owned it never bothered to check in on it; he left its day-to-day operation in the capable hands of his grandson, who was around Esther's age but had already graduated, if she remembered correctly.  That was another slow store,  but Esther didn't have as much of an 'in'; it might be harder to get the grandson to trust her.<br/><br/>Option three had a certain irony to it: Fast food.  The local McDonalds had taken over an abandoned building that used to have a much more... interesting... purpose.  As a result, the building had surprisingly good soundproofing.  And she knew from the local drug scene that the bathrooms locked and weren't checked regularly.  It would probably not be that hard to lure someone in there... the drawback here was that she had no real idea who her target would end up being.  Lots of kinds of people eat at McDonalds.<br/><br/>Oh, for that matter, she DID know the ins and outs of the local red light district, to some degree; although it would be pretty quiet in the middle of the day, she might be able to 'arrange' something, especially if she brought some 'trade'; she knew there was at least one pimp who took weed as payment.<br/><br/>Choices, choices...  some part of Esther's mind realized that she was rationally planning how best to find someone innocent to take advantage of, but that part of her mind wasn't really in charge at the moment.