Paul Beakley “Okay but the Den Mother doesn’t actually want any of the mechanical outcomes associated with winning a duel of Influence” – I hear ya. Took me a sec to grok it above, but I added another edit. Seems there’s a missing Option E in Influence. This is admittedly a case of where the translation of “What’s in my head” to “What’s on the paper” missed a piece.

I’m finding these posts of yours exceptionally eye opening. The notes here are directly crafting a third revision to the text, mainly for clarification. I’ll save the final text-push until you’re done with all the posts though.