[OOC] Sudden Payback

LOL. Feel free to customize by moving a point of skills around here or there. I can see trading Charm for Coercion if you wanted, for instance, or lowering Charm to 1 and then taking Coercion 1. Or improving Perception to 2 but lowering something else to 1 to represent a trained drug-sniffing dog.

Agreed, that was my plan as well. And I'll bank for now too.

Actually going to spend my 5 XP on a rank of coercion.

Just wanna run it by the group. Irl I think I'd buy Jimmy some new clothes but I've got 1 green dice for negotiation, and only 2 greens for medicine, which means the odds of failure than the odds of success for both without boosts. I don't want to burn up our failures on long shots. What do you guys think?

Alternative solutions are possible, too. Like with enough advantages, you could revive Jimmy and get him to tell you where he lives to get a change of clothes. Or Coercion on a lacky to give up his pants. Etc. etc.

I like the sound of using negotiation for new clothes. I've got GG, and I'd argue I probably have some changes of clothes and/or connections for getting more from working at One Two doing maintenance and various messy jobs. Would that be worth a boost or two?

I was also thinking of making a leadership roll for recruiting the Pantones, so not sure if I could roll both.

Both of those sound plausible. In this case, Negotiation represents knowing where to get a cheap pair of pants (Negotiation as bargain hunting in this case). If failing the roll is the fear, just say y'all buy him new pants at a big box store for $30 and be done with it. But rolling opens the door for more successes, and possibly advantages. If you opt to roll, Hank can get a boost for familiarity with the big boxes in Drummond.

Leadership is even better than Charm for the Pantones, I think. Feel free to roll that. Let's say Average if it's just on Tasha; Hard (PPP) if you want to try to recruit a few more folks. Same boosts I indicated for Charm.

I think that's an awesome idea for you to roll negotiation. Didn't mean to close you off from other actions, just thought thought I'd drag you along because Marv would definitely want his bud to back him up (and trying to keep the pace up)

Guy will be the one to spread the word. Since he wasn't involved in the kidnapping he is probably unknown to Petrovich and his accomplices so it should increase the believability of the rumors. Just tell me what to roll lol. Also, what's limited posting?

As far as Max's approach, seems like the 2 main gaps we have currently are getting Lance on board, and spreading rumors within the police force. I think Max may be our best party face, so it makes sense for him to try. Maybe go for the cops first?

I'm still planning on rolling for the Pantones in our "round 2" of skill rolls. If we can get them on board, we may have a few potential boosts for Lance: 1) The overall plan and intel on Petrovich, 2) Jimmy and the Pantones cooperating, 3) Lance's speech in session 1 about making Rumble City a safer place. This is his big chance to put his ideals into action. Bringing Lance in is a big win if we can get him, so it'd be worth a story point too.

All that sounds doable. Let's give Remnant till midday tomorrow; if he's still out, I'll ask one of you to roll for him and the rumors among the police force.

I'm rolling 2 green for any charm rolls didn't know that was the best we got, I'm more likely to hunt down Lance to get buyin from him truth if we still with the story so far about police involvement.

Guy is actually your best charmer with a GGG pool. Same for Leadership.

Nice work, guys! I think we've also got 2 floating boosts from my next success for the next check we make.

I'll let Guy roll since it was his idea first, just wanted to assist where able!

That works. Guy's only got GGG, but with Marv or Hank providing skilled assistance, that goes up to YGG. BB from the other two PCs lending a hand, and BB more from remaining boosts.

YGGBBBB + RPP.

I don't have Streetwise. I just give off that vibe.

I'll get the setup post for the final showdown up later today. Sorry for the delay!

Hey, folks,

I wanted to take a quick check of the temperature of the room. The idea for this final encounter was for you to face off with Petrovich and a bunch of his crooked-cop friends. (Whether that would be a physical altercation or something else is still up in the air.) However, I have to admit to some personal unease with this scenario given recent events in the U.S.

How do y'all feel about this? Police corruption is one of the premises of this setting, but if that's something that you feel is in poor taste (for whatever reason) given current events, we can certainly play down that aspect to make it more of a background element.

So, how do you all feel? Big battles with crooked cops are fair game? Play it down? The game can proceed either way.

Good call pausing here. Definitely unfortunate timing.

I'm personally fine proceeding as normal, but totally understand if anyone wants to play it down. I don't think we need to view the logical climax of this game as a larger statement on anything, but I realize that may be easier said than done.

I'll defer and see what others think.