Originally posted by Prince of the Night
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Generally speaking if this house of Outcasts were attempting the Patrician thing then attempting to create ties with one of the Great Houses is a pretty expected move. The kids, both exalted and unexalted, would be pushed towards achieving as much as possible and doing as well as possible in order to make themselves more appealing for things like marriage prospects or just elevation and hiring by a Great House that could lead to benefits for the patrician house they came from.
As for spending willpower to resist social influence, that probably depends on the circumstances and the intimacies being targeted. Defining intimacies are more likely to be met with the person staunchly refusing to let them be eroded and contradicted than a minor one. And of course the way done will factor in as well, I can see a merchant being far more willing to spend willpower to resist social influence in a negotiation than the same merchant would if it was just conversation outside of work.
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