A quick summary of the mechanics involved in determining whether he agrees to the Captivating Princess’ proposal, since there are some unintuivite factors involved.
[spoiler]Secretly, whether you let Alexandra (Mom Princess) know you’re going to meet the Captivating Princess hugely changes the calculations involved, as well as leading to very different scenes between them all.
If you do not fully inform her, the Red Temptations requirement for him to agree is [Enchantment + Disenchantment], a frankly absurd amount that requires you to play every Red Temptation source you can get (except letting him sit out while you report to Alexandra, which is unnecessary and just as likely to tilt things the other way).
If you do inform her, the Red Temptations check is instead an uncertain but very low value - I’ve heard needing 2 Red Temptation mentioned, but it could scale off of Enchantment/Disenchantment in some strange way too. Further investigation is needed.
It seems that having his mother barge in and try to protect her precious child really reminds him how much he’s grown tired of her leading his life, which makes him likelier to accept the Red Honey in the moment.
Speaking more practically, this means that Knows/Untempted and Doesn’t Know/Tempted are much harder to achieve, and Knows/Tempted + Doesn’t Know/Untempted are much easier.
Also, here’s the text for Doesn’t Know/Tempted, since it is one of the challenging ones, and I know people had been curious about the ending. It’s quite neat:
https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Amets%20Estibariz/22529115
https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Amets%20Estibariz/22529233
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