Sydney: Are you going to be happy when people back down from that escalation? I think that you run the risk of giving them some (in this case unnecessary) negative feedback that could stymie the scene, particularly if you jump the gun and start pushing the mechanics before the escalation is clear-cut and necessary.
Remember, we waited you out on a conflict scene last time. You were practically bouncing in your chair, saying “Well, y’know, you could spend your one and only conflict scene right here in order to get this really cool conflict going,” and we all just sort of looked at you and somebody (don’t remember who, could have been me) said “Or we could wait, and you’ll spend your one and only conflict scene, because you clearly want it more than we do.”
I suspect that having you aggressively push us to spend our resources is going to encounter backlash just like that pretty quickly.