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The negative outcome is obvious: Tybalt decides Jill is never going give up on the MC, so he goes ahead and presses charges (and/or sues him). That's what Jill has been trying avoid, remember?
Obviously if Tybalt himself was just bluffing he won't do that, but Jill clearly does not think he is. If some of our fellow forumites are right and Tybalt's case is laughed out of court, the legal threat won't matter. But in either case the result is the same. Jill can see the MC as much as she wants and Tybalt can't do anything about it. So: bluff called and Jill and MC are officially a couple, or bluff not called and Jill is just dumber than a box of rocks. Neither of those outcomes is good for the game (IMHO).
Now, it's always possible Tybalt will manage to make the charges stick, in which case maybe MCs on the Jill path will be forced to spend their $5000 on a lawyer. That would at least be an interesting outcome, but surely it would take the fun out of hitting Tybalt with a tennis ball.
Tybalt is the problem
why should we take him seriously?
in the sixth chapter he is ridiculed by DPC when he sets up his blackmail to Jill with the inside joke on the watermelon at breakfast. that would be the time when Tybalt should be the villain of the moment
then he is ridiculed by Bella in the phone call scene
and finally ridiculed, even rudely, by Sally in the library.
why should we expect him to receive a different treatment? why should we consider him a threat? when it is clear that his is just a bluff
a clarification though: I am convinced that the game of D&G is not an exception to blackmail, it is not yet active at that moment, from how Jill talks about it I think she has not yet accepted, in theory she should do it after the picnic