deal -- consensual soul lien (Demon premium) Demon: deal <name> [type] Debtor: accept <Demon> (or bare accept if one deal waits) How you play Type help deal more for the full writeup. Types (flavor + real debtor payouts): power +2 growth + combat edge x1.15 (~2 RL h); 10h grace fame +1 growth, mood lift, social ease; 10h love +0.75 growth, fear/mood ease; Cadence seeks holder; 8h fortune +2500 dollars +0.5 growth; 12h desperate vitals restore, needs ease, +1 growth, short edge; 4h protection ~9 RL h death ward (cannot die) + vitals; hellhounds still due at 10h -- the soul clock does not stop Sealing costs the Demon 1 banked soul (help soul ledger). You still get fuel now; they carry a soul lien. Grace ends in physical invisible hellhound pursuit until they die -- the pack pathfinds to the debtor, slowly breaches locked private doors, chews goofer / salt barriers, and fights to collect (scaled to you; once they have you, standing still to trade does not work). Celestials and Hellhound-Seeing Glasses can see them (help hellhound glasses); others get [ALERT] pressure tells. Ordinary weapons pass through. Kennel hellhounds under Lloyd's Crossroads stand visible in the room -- same kill kit, not Deal-pack invisibility (help hellhound). With an angel blade, demon-killing knife, or The Colt you can guess-swing blind (~5% to connect) -- misses say the hound is invisible; a blind kill rarely confirms. Best to run, pour goofer, or get glasses. Death in grace pays the Demon; death under the hounds also feeds Hell's tally. Same room to propose/accept. Constructed cannot deal. Newbie-protected characters cannot be offered, accept, or seal a soul lien (including a crossroads kinship rescue bargain) until they forfeitprotection confirm (or the window ends) -- hellhounds cannot collect while death is rewritten (help protection). NPCs and Echoes can take Deals: ordinary Demon-path NPCs solicit under holy-war pressure (gm holywar); Crowley and other tagged Crossroads dealers solicit on their own any time, war or not. Cosmic debtors: while grace holds, the lien is also an Infernal Earth foothold -- CRITICAL homesick tether snap pauses until hellhounds start (help cosmic). Grace clock: score / sheet shows remaining time in game days/hours with real hours in parentheses. Demons see open liens on souls. Past due: lock doors, pour goofer here / salt here, flee, or fight only with sight plus lethal kit.