Sasha Maran's page

OK I had a chance to read through the demo (thanks for the link btw) and it looks like instead of rolling and adding your points in hot/sharp/weird/cool/sideways you instead add in all the tags that are helpful and substract all of the tags that are unhelpful? That's a realy unusual take on the pbta system - colour me interested.

I love the pbta system - this character was in a pbta game based on Battlestar Galactica so I am familiar with how it works. I hadn't heard about Legend in teh Mist but I will take a look.

That sounds amazing and I@m sorry we are missing out on all those reveals!

Still around, but I'm fine calling it quits since at this point there doesn't seem to be much additional interest and things are only going to get slower going into the holidays.

It's too bad since I think these more narrative/character development focused rulesets with limited dice rolling, fewer fiddly-five-foot-step-type tactics, and no long lists of feats/spells/powers/modifiers are way better for the PbP format.

I comletely agree with this, I also love that they give more power to players to do narative and world builing, which means it's not all on the GMs shoulders!

@Doug, if you would like to join my BitD game then please fell free to dot into the discusion thread and say hi! We're down to 3 which is sustainable but another player would be really nice to have :)

I'm still here but less hopeful than I was :(

Confirm!

I agree 2 PCs is going to be dificult, unfortunaly. I have put someting in recruitment, let's see if it pays off.

Bumping to see if anyone is intersted. This is a great game with a great DM, it's a chance to do a survival horror game *in space* and I don't know what more you want than that?!

The Apocalypse World (PbtA) ruleset is easy to learn and you can make a character in about 5 minutes and dive right into the fun stuff.

tl;dr - come on in, the water's lovely! Jsut watch out for the fungus ;)

I've put a post in the game I'm running but so far no takers :(

I'm realy sory to see you go Hannah, but all teh best and I hoep we can game together again very soon. Happy holidays :)

Okay, I like the idea of a crackdown on booze and drugs on the Cerberus. Things have been getting out of hand. The XO knows that this will drive people to you, so he needs your cooperation. Short rations on alcohol, no pills or anything stronger.

You think this is a terrible idea that will lead to a whole range of problems -- and that's in addition to making you an unpopular enforcer of an unpopular rule. But you /really/ need to be in charge down here.

Work for you?

I'm fine with that, Sahsha will grit her teeth and try to fix the problems it causes ltaer down the line.

I think it's a given that Sasha *has* to agree to teh terms of whatever is offered, whether she lieks it or not. So she'll go along with teh deal, and try to fix whatever problems it causes later on. This is not a sensible way to live your life, but its' the PbtA approved way to play the game :)

As an alternative, maybe the XO orders Sasha to assist the chief engineer - her nemesis - with access to whatever she wants?

Quote:

On a 7–9, the GM chooses two:

-- You can’t do it without help from someone you you’d rather not get involved with.
-- Someone demands a favour in return, or else they won’t help.
-- You attract unwanted attention.
-- There’s an unexpected cost or consequence.

Team, I'm open to ideas here. The game obviously intends the consequences to be pretty harsh. And that makes sense, because otherwise, Pull Strings would just allow you to make NPCs do anything you want. But none of the consequences above are clicking for me right now.

Perhaps they will once I sleep on it -- but meanwhile, feel free to offer suggestions. The goal is, Sasha gets what she wants (autonomy, at least for the next little while), but pays a price or suffers a consequence that has her sincerely cursing or clutching her head.

Thoughts?

I have the Influence move which lets me limits to 1 instead of 2 choices so that means you only need one thing :-) Maybe the XO want something in return? Is he still annoyed that Thea got away with her prank and is still in charge? I don't know how petty he is so maybe that's ooc for him. Now Sasha is in charge on the ground maybe he make it clear (without saying exactly) that he wants a negative report on Thea so he has ground for some sort of case against her?

This kind of screwes Thea over so I'm not sure about it but let me know what you think.

Okay so: nice Mister V is going to put you on a tightbeam through to Cerberus, which will give you that Exec that Hannah is obviously interested in. What a pity she's not here... but you can talk to him just fine.

What he knows is that he has a garbled transmission from the fighters that they've found survivors and that they've engaged the refinery's defenses. He might be just the tiniest bit on edge! So, the default result here is that he'll agree with Mister V and order Gunny and Thea to withdraw, right /now/. If you want a different outcome, you'll need to use some sort of Move.

Sasha of course dones't know any of that, so this should be an interesting convsersation!

Sasha has the definite feeling that there's a lot going on at the moment she doesn't know about, and under Mister V's watchful eye she isn't going to learn anything without him knowing about it too. Still, she's been in worse fixes than this and lived to tell about it. She picks up the comm and salutes the XO as he apears on the vidscreen. "Sir, Captain Maran here on the ground." Lterally in this case. "Discussions with the civilians here are in progress and they are requesting evacuation of some staff in eschange for supply of fuel. Permission to agree to that?" AS always, she leads with the unimportant, and she makes the important stuff sound trivial. "Comms here are patchy, Sir, and the pilots are on edge. With your agreement, Sir, I'll take local command in order to get them to do what's necessary." She makes it sound like a complete afterthought, like she's taking a burden off him so he doesn't have to worry about it at all. Smoothly does it.

Pull strings, do things my way: 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (1, 5) + 1 = 7

Meanwhile, indoors:

The billionaire suddenly pauses and stares into the distance for a few moments. Then he turns back to you:

"I'm afraid some of your colleagues have engaged our defenses. This could be a problem... the refinery is not entirely stable and safe, I'm afraid. There's loose Juice scattered around.

"Let me open a commlink for you, and you can tell them to back off. We don't want any accidents! The Juice is vital to the future of humanity, am I right?"

Sasha rolls her eeyes. "Pilots. They can't resist a dare, I'm afraid. Please do get me a commlink and I'll see what's going on." Outwardly, she's all calm, this is fine, it jsut happens, smooth as glass. But inside she is seriously pissed. G~*!%#it Gunny! Thea too. She *told* them - she did, didn't she? And for all that she told Thea she was worried about the hotshot riding right over the edge one day, sh'es pretty sure that day isn't yet.

Which means something's going on, something not good. She looks around for Hannah, but the student has wondered away. Oh well. She told her to take a look around, and it's come back to bite her. Still, it could be worse. She coudl be visibly armed.

I'm having a bit of a crazy tiem at work but I will post again tomorow.

it's as if she's completly unaware that there's an alien ship partked nearby. Which of course she is.

GODAM IT, GUNNY

(stirdcctly speaking this isn't gunny's fault at all but it's a Thing now so I had to. I'm sure you understand.)

Sasha tries not to look around too obiovulsly like a yokel, but she's never seen anything like this. She never imagiedn you could be this rich, and she tells herself off for such a lack of creativity. That waterfall-

She's brought back to ground by his quesitons about teh Fleet. "Right, yes." She does her best to move smoothly back into the terrain she knows best. "Obviously lots of information is classified, but I can tel you that I'm authorisd to negotiate with you for some of your fuel. More importantly however, as a mark of our respect for you, I have this - " She pulls out some vids she has made of the statue (of *course* seh didn't bring it with them, it's stone - it's safely in the hold of Cranberry). "I understand you are a collector, and if you give our ship permission to land then we can bring this to you. If you'd like to accept it, of course. I hope it pleaess you." Smoothly does it - it's as if she's completly unaware that there's an alien ship partked nearby. Which of course she is.

I don't think there's a move for this, maybe personal touch? I haev overusied that one a bit but I can't see another obvious one

Not to be outdone, Sasha's follows that up with "Take us to your leader."

"Please."

I'm sorry for the really short post but I've been busy

I thought it was funny. I'm having a busy day but will post something later.

Sasha's unable to stop the pain from showing in her voice as she replies to Hannah. "I can't go - sssss - faster than we're going now." She gives another hiss of pain. "These suits are rated for hours and we'll just have to hpe they hold for a few more minuts." She keeps her eyes focusd on their destination. "Just a bit further now," but it's not clear whether she's reasuring herself or her companon.

Climinbg into an EVA suit is not exaclty comfortable at the best of times - the shielding around them makes them a rigid shell, almost like armour. In artificial gravity of the ship, without the servo-motors powering them you'd be stuck trying to shift a half-ton bodysuit under your own msucles. Sasha gives a hiss of pain as she has to contort before standing up, and she feels one of her stitches twinge. Now she's in the suit, she can't take a look to see if it's just complaining or whether it's actually given way. Either way, she's looking at another trip to sickbay and a telling off from Doc Balor.

Once outside, she stamps down a couple of times on the hot rock under her feet, testing it before looking across at Hannah. "You OK in there, girl? You probably figured this out already but - we're gonna have to walk there, if we try to use the compresed air jets there's a real risk we escape gravity and dont get seen again." She sounds cheerful enough about the whole thing, but the walk there is a nightbmare for her. Walking in microgravity requires careful control of your movements, using the core muscles - whcih is exactly what the rebar went right through when it went rigth through her. She's sweating with exertion and pain by the time the two of them reach the airlock, but she gives Hannah a smile. "Don't worry about being unarmed, a gun wouldn't do any use anyway. Your best weapon is between your ears - keep a lookout and if you see antying that looks interesting, you let me know. Don't assume I know what you know." She points at the airlock. "Like, for instance - if we have to leave here in a hurry, could you get that open from here or is it only controlled remotely?" She does her best to reassure the student. "I'm not saying we *are* going to have to leave in a hurry. I just like to plan for stuff."

"Sasha...Hannah...stay alert *static* down there. *static* got signs this place *static* been....*static*static*"

Sasha does her best to keep her voice unconcerned, but she was counting on having contact with air support.

FRAKK

"Say again - you're not coming through clean. Say. Again." She looks at Hannah again. "Right, first test - can you do something to boost our comm signal?"

It never goes smooth. How come it never goes smooth?

Hannah gets a warm smile in return. "First up, it's just Sasha - *Captian* is for emergencies or underlings and you aren't that. And you can count on me to walk you through it all. For now, it looks like we're going to be doing that EVA a bit sooner than I thought - you up for a stroll in teh starlight?" It's not really a question. She pushes a button on Cranberry's intercom, calling up to teh pilot. "Hey Nancy, it looks like I'm going to need you to drop us down on that rock, two East of the main tower. Once we're down, take off again quick but stay in radio range."

With that done, she radios her reply out to the other side. "This is Captain Moran of the Colonail Fleet to the unidentified voice. Me and one other will be dropping down from our fuel ship to your landing site in a few minutes. We'll be unarmed as requested." Except for our brains she thinks scornfully. Her wits and her people skills have kept her alive far better than any gun. She then switches the comm back to private. "Thea, Gunny, hang tight for now. Keep an eye out for any Shrooms and please try not to frakk things while I'm still down there."

Hannah gets another grin. "Right, let's get suited up!" If Sasha is worried, or scared, she is doing a great job of hiding it - she genuily seems to be enjoying herself. It's not everyday you get to schomooze a billionaire. There's a profit here, if she keeps her eyes open for it.

I think in-game it maeks more sense for the pilots to be pilots - the only ohter reason for having us all be there is not to split the party, and I'm asuimg if DMDM was expecting us to all go he'd have said. Of course, if the next 20+ posts are about the landing group then the pilots might not have much to do.

You did roll a full Hit, hm. Let's see...

I think it's something expensive, and odd. And I think you're going to get it from Mr. Luca. In fact, I think he already had it, and gave it to you. Since you rolled a full Hit, there are no strings attached... as far as you can tell. Hey, if the Fleet dies, everybody dies, Nexus included, right?

Anyway: you tell me what.

Organise criem is best crime - predicatble, mostly :)

You mentioned he belives in teh Celstials, right? I think he collects old religios icons - all cultures, so Orthodox brass engravings, animistic wooden idols, statues of Buddha - it's all the same. if he has enough of them - more tahn anyone else - he will be chosen when they retrun. So Mr Luca gave Sasha a stone statue of a winged figure shielding its eyes, like it's crying or something? Aparently it's older tahn space travel. He did't say where he got it and honeslyt he maybe looked a bit releived to be getting rid of it?

Hmm. Okay, going forward I'm going to raise the bar a bit for Personal Touch. I suppose paying attention to someone in a tense situation like this -- combat, danger, possible Corax -- could count. But (from a metagame POV) this would mean that every time we're in an action scene, you can just do a Personal Touch post and tick off a Pressure.

So going forward, I would say that /either/ (1) you have to do something more than just talk -- spend a resource, or some such; or (2) if it's just talking, it has to be in a situation where "just talking" is itself remarkable, if you see what I mean.

Does this seem reasonable?

Taht's fine, it's powerful on NPCs cos you can ask them a question and they *have* to answer so your ruling maeks sense to me :)

@Thea - remember that your rasie pressure move gives you +1 XP, I jsut realised that my personal touch move with Hannah does the same thing.

I've been working in a cleanroom today which is really tiring - I'll read everthink and post tomorrow.

Sasha misses a step as she turns back to look at Hannah in surprise. "That was you?" Her memories of the whole thing are patchy at best. "You kept the explosion to a minimum, saved my life and a whole bunch of others in the process. So - thanks. Next time you're in my bar, don't pay, you hear me? That was some cool work under pressure."

She gives a shake of her head as memories start to pile up. No. Enough. "Well, if you're an EVA veteran you can help me into this when the time comes,vyeah? I'm still not fully recovered, an extra pair of hands would be much appreciated." It's clear Hannah thought she was kidding, so she explains. "I'm gonna have to hook the pipeline up to the Juicer manual, nobody has come up with a guaranteed way to do it without human supervision believe it or not."

Hannah's question get a shrug. "Truth, I don't know if he's here at all. But I hope so, I can handle people, so I'd rather have to deal with a weird bilonare than with a bunch of drones on autopilot." She grins at Hannah. "Seems like I'm done most of the talking! Why don't you tell me about yourself?

Ok so personal touch it is.

2d6 + 1 ⇒ (2, 4) + 1 = 7

Hoo, just! Hannah gets to lose 1 pressure and has to answer a question from the list: What has been troubling you lately? What do you most need at the moment? What secret have you been holding on to? What do you most care about? How could I touch your heart? If one of those jumps at you for RP purposes then go for it, otherwise I'll pick one - but I trust you to pick the one Hannah least wants to answer ;)

A bit surprised I didn't get a "Call You on Your S~@!" roll..LoL.

Yeah, not Sasha thing at all, she might have to show the stick ocadionly but she literally controls the supply of carrot :-)

And then of course there are the people you don't ever need to get angry with because they're already doing their best to make everyone happy. Sasha has a strong sense that the thin, quiet young woman who's trying to fold herself up out the way is one of them. She gives Hannah a thoutful look for a moment of two - not posh, but not poor either - never gone hungry, or known what it's like to have nothing - well educated - no, wait - *very* well educated - split ends, chews her hair? Definitely chews her fingernails - almost certainly no boyfriend/girlfriend - feels like a fish out of water but almost certainly a hell of a lot braver than she think she is.

The thoughts play out in a fraction of a second, on instinct as she clips the comm link - shell reply to Gunny in a bit but Hannah gets her undivided attention right now - to her belt and sits on the floor of the hold, arms round her knees as she gives Hannah the compliment of telling her the truth. "Are things going alright? I'm not sure. The pilots are on a hair trigger, can't blame them really all things considered - and they shot down some blips on the radar they thought were shrooms but turned out to be drones, probly belonging to the guy we're hoping to get fuel from. I've sent o transmission trying to parley but if it goes titsup the two of us are in an unarmed ship with enough Juice in it to make a small sun if it gets hit."

"But there's nothing I can do about that. If it comes to a figh, we've got the best pilots in the Federation on our side. And Gunny, or course." She stands up in one smooth motion, and gives Hannah a smile. "So don't worry. Besides." She gives the student a thoughtful look. "You ever been in an EVA suit? Wanna see what it's like while we wait? Trust me, you step out an airlock in that, nothing between you and the void, and you just look out into space - it's times like that I get the point of religion."

I'm trying for the Personal Touch move, so pls let me know if that's enough to make Hannah feel special or not :-)

For Sasha anger is a tool rather than a state of mind and like all tools you put it away when you're done with it. She switches the comm link back to private and Gunny can hear the grin in her voice as she responds. "Hilarious Gunny, cos I can hear you just fine - in fact, it sounds like you're telling me you don't wanna be drinking in my bar any more, did I hear that right? Going teetotal? Nothing but water for you from now on? I can make that happen."

The idle chat passes the time while they all wait to see if the other side responds.

There's two jokes you're alowed to make about Sashas' height - in her hearing at least, if you want to live. Teh first is that when they told her she was too short for the marines she cussed them a streak that left them begging her to join up to teach troopers how to swear properly. It's certainly put to good effect when she graps her comm-link and lets loose with a stream of cursing while she tells them to stop shooting. "... and I will shove them so far inside and so deep down you'll have to go where no man ahs goen before to get them back! And you will *BE* no man! Now CEASE FIRE unless you ID it as a shroom or it shoots at you!"

Taking a deep breath, she sets the comm link to all channels. "This is Captain Maran of the Colonial Fleet, opening comms with Courcy de Vries. Can we talk? We come in peace, and I have an ofring that might interst you."

It's fine, I'd prbly have done teh same in your place but I didn't so now I get to be judgy about it ;)

*Please* can we give diplomacy a go firtst though before we do any more fighting?

EIT - Imma pay for these good rolls at some point but for now I'm hapy.

Also - you mgith legit say why don't we try and all be on teh same page on this and I agree in principle - but Sasha is a Gemini, she's not hugly into playing well with other so I'm delibratly keeping things close. If any of you are finding that too annoying let me know.

Well, /if/ that's the case, you can just cover the landing of the tankers. Should be no problem.

Sasha's with the tankers, right?

Yes she's in Cranberry

Well if they weren't enemy they are now.

G&~+$+mit Gunny.

EVA suits are rated for several hours in hard vacuum, enough to do inspection,vrepairs or maintenance - under normal conditions. Here, even with the rad-tabs, she's got 20 minutes, 25 at most. Sasha paces the hold of Cranberry, walking it all through in her mind. Ok, so thers three standard types of fit-

*THUNK* The absence of pain is almost a surprise - as the flare of the shuttle blinds her and disintegrates Starr and Buck, and the projectl impales her, there's no pain. Sound, of course - the alarm in her ears, the hiss of air from the EVA brach, and the feeling of cold. Thermodynamicly, it's the warmth leaving her EVA rather than cold rushing in, but it doesn't feel like that - it feels like the fingers of Death Herself have reached in and are pulling out her life bit by bit.

Oh, enough. She turns and glares at the EVA suit - not the same one of course, they had to cut her out of that - as though it's responsible for her memory. She'll have less than half an hour out there, she can't get distracted. She's escaped Death before, she reminds herself. Which is true, but after that thing in Crow Street back home, she'd avoided the place, not gone straight back in. She doesn't even have to be here - she's the boss, she could leave this to Bodie and Stuggs. But she has more EVA time than all the others put together, and in the time window they've got she can't be sure anytone else will get it right. Besides she has a rep to keep with. Nothing bothers Captain Maran, Death took a stab at her and she went outside for more. *That's* the reputation you need to deal with people like Mr Luca and walk away at the end of it.

Besides, it *is* kind of fun. In here, the EVA is half a ton of bulk, but out there with the compressed air jets working in silence, she's transformed into a wingless god of old.

She raps her knuckles against the outer shel. Bring it. I'm ready.

I think that makes sense - there'd be different ships just because we're the last of whatevers left and it all got used up. Different ships have different roles,ctoo. Thea is scouting ahead so I think Deigon's ship is escorting the juicers in to give support - they're not armed and they go boom for obvious reasons.

Sasha is onboard Cranberry, she's tasked with supply and logistics stuf and this counts. I'll do a gameplay post in a bit.

So, the prepped, let's call him - it's almost certainly a him - Courcy de Vries because why not. When the Corax first appeared he was convinced they were hostile and started building a place away from everywhere to survive/ressit when they attacked. He had no evidence but of course turned out to be right, so now he's a complete "they called me mad! Mad!!!" type. Problematic because *extreme* paranoid and also now convinced that all his other loony beliefs are true because of course he is. I'm happy to leave whatever those loony beliefs are to the DM or anyone else who want to add something.

Is he also maybe a relative of someone?

I'm not sure what Sasha would be doing - I don't think I have enough to go on. The obvious answer is to ask what she's been ordered to do?

And like I said, the questions are weirdly invasive to be asking people who are more or less strangers: Hi, I'm Hannah Wessell. Nice to meet you. What do you need forgiveness for?"

Lol but I do know people like that - in science the joke is not so much if you're on teh spectrum but *how far*

It's a miltary ship, so maybe Hannah needs an acting rank in order to sort what sort of pay (ha) and bunk - or other benefits - she gets? She's probably been told not to get funny and try to give orders to us actual soldiers :)

I would think at teh very least Thea would mention it to Sasha, even if it's jsut in passing

@DMDM - I'm fine with it being a Gus Fring type, Sasha doesn't have time for the "burn it all down" types or the people who are too short sihghted to see the long term gain. The fact he's a psycho isn't a deal breaker from her POV. Unles you're time skiping though I think the meeting room is her sickbay - she's still recovering from her injuries.

I'm not sure how the Reach out move works on NPCs - do they get pressure? Otherwise you'll just always choose to reduce the pressure for yourself, no? Have I missed something?

OK, another try to get it right this time! PC relationships: Deigon at +1 and Thea at +2 after that Reach Out. I've kept Oscar listed in case DMDM wants to make him an NPC and/or do stuff off screen. NPC relationships all at 0 for now

Sasha shakes her head at Thea's thanks, her voice slurred and heavy with that accent she worked hard to lose. "Dn't mention it, loik. Thanks for savin' my loife. Owe you for *that*."

When Thea leaves, she gives in to the loss of consciouness gratefuly.

End scene

When she wakes up the next morning(?) the pain is still there but it's more of a persistent dull ache and her mind is sharp. Thea's words from yesterday are still in her mind - the benefit of staying off the durgs is she can remember it all. A good quartermaster keeps things flowing. OK then. Tiem to do what she does best. She picks up her comm unit and places a call through to Morgan Kinnard. "Ensign Kinnard, please report to me in sickbay as soon as you're free." She's back in control and her voice sounds normal again. She winces as she remembers last night. Never remind them where you're from.

Kinnard is a junior officer who would love, love to be one of the ruperts highr up the chain - one of the boys in the "in" crowd - but he doesn't have the talent and his face doesn't fit - he's got as far as he ever will, pretty much. In an efort to be someone important, he joined up with the Nexus and is what they call "Connected" although even there he's never going to be one of the bosses or "Links" in the upper command or "Chain" (Sasha finds all the silly names very tedious but boys will be boys). Tehy mostly stay out of each others way but sometimes his criminal netwark is useful and this is - she hopes - one of these times.

Sasha is very aware that her hospital gown is not a great look so when he arives she quickly reminds him she's in charge. "At ease, ensign. I'm hoping we can hlpe each other. I know that over the years a lot of Juice hs gone missing, and it's got to be stored somewhere before it's sold non the black market, right?" The stuff is nasty, it's not something you keep under the flooring. "What I'm thinking is, *someone* knows where there's a lot of it to be found, somehwhere off the oficial maps where the Shrooms don't know about it. A map to where it is would be a good thing to have right now, because if we're out of fuel then the Shrooms find us and nobody's money means aneything then, right? I think a map like that would be a really good investment in the future, so we can all keep on earning money. That's waht I think, anyway. I'm jsut thingking out loud."

Thus isn't a decision he can make on his own, she knows. He's going to have to go back to his Link, and they're probly going to have to talk to the rest of the Chain. But organised criminals are her favourite kind - they're predicatlble, mostly. They want to make money, and a future where they can't do that is one they;l want to avoid.

This is a pull strings move, using my Play both sides move that gives me +1 on the roll. If I need to do more than that to count as making the move, pls let me know :)

2d6 + 2 ⇒ (3, 5) + 2 = 10

I want to give Thea a chance to add more before the scene closes - I should probly have made that clear!

Sasha is jsut on the edge of consciousness, but she heard everythign Thea was saying and she nods faintly. Every word she forces out in reply is a minor victory over the pain that threatens to overwhelm her. "Someone - hmf - told me recently that - that the thing to do with the dead is rember them - find some way to hnour them - and - and know that it's not your fault they're dead." Her face is grey with pain but she forces herself to stay with it. "If you're still - still seeing them then maybe it's becuase you aren't - ready to let them go? As for. A good night's. Sleep. Maybe find a medic to help with that?" She gives the ghost of a smile. "I hear there's - one or two - around the place." She slumps back against the pillow, breathing hard, not able to say any more for the moment.

@Oscar - I'm sorry to hear that, it sucks when RL gets in teh way of fun! I hope it all works out for you and maybe I'll see you around on this forum at some point in future

I'm using this as a Reach Out move, but it looks like the DM_DM will be rolling because it's an NPC?

In Apocolypse games the DM - like Einstein's god - doesn't roll dice. They jsut tell you what happens.

I see some great gampleay posts, I'm in the lab all day so I won't have a chance to post proprly until this eveining (UK time).

I watn to royally frakk with Foster, make her sorry she got in Sasha's business. I have ideas - many, fun twisted ideas - on how to do that, but first she has to learn Foster was even there.

It looks like that's a "yes" on the Personal Touch move, I get that in future it might nede a bit more than that :)

Presonl touch: 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (6, 2) + 1 = 9

oh so close! Thea gest to remove *another* pressure. I get to makr XP and ask Thea a question from the list. The question is "what do you most need at the moment" - or, possibly "what secret have you been holding onto" - I'll let you decide based on how you interpret our conversation.

Sasha tries not to wince as Thea's hand rest on her shoulder - she prefers to keep people at a distance for the most part. But she apreciates the gesture and the thought behind it. She nods as Thea finishes talking, and lets the silence build for a bit before she breaks it. "Thanks. I appreciate what you said. It helps." She quickly changes direction. "Is that why you've been acting out then, too much to deal with?" She meets the pilot's gaze. "Oh, come on. You've always known how to party but recently it's been more than that - and I'm not jsut talking about the hangar, although that was way past any line you'd have crossed before."

From most people, this would be a calling out, or a confrontation. But the tone here is concern, and Sasha sits up in her bed, trying to ignore the pain of her stitches and closes one eye as she squints at heer friend. "How worried should I be that you're going to ride right off that edge and straight into oblivioun?" Her tone softens. "I've got nothing to do right now but hurt, and listen. And I'd much rather listen. So spill - what's going on with you, hotshot?"

My thought was, if Bodie is left firmly in charge, Stuggs would sulk off. Crooked card game, lower-deck FWB, visit her son, pick one.

Fair. I'l do something nice for her later.

1) Hm! Personal Touch is actually pretty powerful -- it lets you use Smooth to melt away Pressure. That by itself is NBD, but Personal Touch has *no penalty for failure*. That's very unusual for a Move, and it means you can more or less spam it.

So, in this particular case, since it's early days I'll allow it; you can go ahead and roll. But going forward, it'll require something a bit more than just arranging a long hot shower.

In Apocolypse World, if a move doesn't say what happens on a 6 then the default is jsut "on a miss, be prepared for the worst" and the DM makes something bad happen. I think that *has* to be teh same here - all dice rolls need a fail option, or you might as well be playing D&D.

Do you want to make Personal Touch need what BitD calls a "setup move" in order to make it work? Like, maybe Sasha has to Pull Strings to get something special for people, or Reach Out to make them feel special?

Adn I've just noticed that the only moves that give you XP have *nothing* to do with fighting! This is defintly space opera, not an action movie :)

So Reach Out is on page 103. Rolling an 8 means:

-- Either you or Thea remove 1 Pressure; you decide who. (This assumes that Thea "responds positively", which I assume she will.)

@Thea - i'll let you remove 1 pressure, you'll probably need it more than me for your action moves.

By the time Thea arrives, Sasha's had some time to rest, and to think. She knows that giving Bodie that assingment was probly a bad call and she toys with the idea of getting Stugss to do it instead. But she can't face that right now. Anyway, whatver she sends they're going to want to see her in person - it's what you're supposed to do in times like this.

When Thea walks in with the coffee, although her face is grey-lined with pain Sasha gives the pilot a smile. "Looks like the hot water did its thing, you're looking - and smelling - a lot better for it. Don't get used to it, that sort of malfunction isn't something I can work too often." She shifts positio, trying to make the pain stop, and looks at the morphine drip. No. She's seen too many addicts. Pain will pass. She takes a gupl of the hot coffee instead.

"You're right, I did want to talk to you about a couple things. First, I - I could do with some advice." She gives the piolot a look. "I never lost anyone under my command before, logistics division doesn't see a lot of combat, you know?" She leaves unsaid - because it's obvious - that the death rate among pilots has been horrific. "I'm not really sure how to handle it and I wondered if you have any tips. I've got some slack now becuase I'm injured, but if they start to think i can't handle command - I need to show I'm on top of everything."

I'm making the Reach OUt move - show a significant doubt or fear - and using my rleationship of +2 with Thea instaed of Warm

Reach Out: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (2, 6) + 2 = 10

Assming Thea reasponds positivly (ie not "get a grip solder you're in the army now") then we both erase 1 pressure. The mnove also gets me 1 XP, I think?