It turned out that this other PC was deeply against the Winter Court, and wanted my character to betray it. The player declared that their PC was entering social combat with my own character, with the intent of flipping my character against the Winter Court. They pointed out that A Few Seconds Ahead was a supernatural power, and the GM agreed that the church would fully shut it down; this was a ploy all along. I refused, but the GM said that this was a valid social combat, and that I could not simply refuse it.

I stood my ground and continued to refuse. An argument ensued. The game crashed and burned right then and there, during the very first scene. The fallout was enormous.

I continued to play with that GM for a few more games, during which they mistreated me rather badly. I do not know why I stuck around at the time. Concurrently, I played The Dresden Files RPG under a different GM but alongside the same player; this went okay, though we slowly broke apart for more uneventful reasons.

It took me over a decade to even consider trying a "social combat" subsystem in an RPG again. Exalted 3e's looks fine, I suppose. I have also played out negotiations in Draw Steel over a dozen times by this point; it is okay, but it gets very repetitive, it is easy for PCs to ace right at level 1, and it gets more and more trivial as levels go up.