How to Complete the Confrontation with Journey

Learn how to successfully complete the Confrontation with Journey Atkins in Vampire: The Masquerade — Swansong. Get the best choices to convince her to flee.

Alright, so you've found Journey Atkins in Jara Drory’s apartment, and now you've got a choice to make. If you tell Prince Iversen where she is, you'll miss out on this whole section. But if you try to convince her to bolt, you'll kick off a tutorial Confrontation. This is your first real taste of how these arguments work in Vampire: The Masquerade — Swansong, so let's get through it smoothly.

Stats / Weaknesses:

• This is a tutorial Confrontation, so it's designed to be manageable even with low skills.
• You have 3 misses allowed before failing the Confrontation.
• Failing the final phase means you'll repeat the choice if you still have misses left.

Phases:

1. Phase 1: You need to make Journey think you have leverage over her.
2. Phase 2: You need to pick the right name.
3. Phase 3: You need to assure her she'll have help.

Strategy:

• The goal is to convince Journey to flee the Camarilla and join the Anarchs.
• There's a choice available in each phase that doesn't require any specific Skill or Discipline, so don't sweat it if your stats are low.
• However, if you *do* have the Persuasion Skill at level 2, you can use it in the first phase for an easier Stage Win.
• Make sure you don't exceed your 3 allowed misses.
• Getting the final phase wrong will loop you back to that choice, provided you have misses remaining.
• The correct sequence to guarantee a win is: 1. “Make her think I have evidence against her” (Requires Persuasion 2, but there's an alternative), 2. “April”, 3. “The Anarchs will help you”.