Heist in The Heights [OOC]

Often a wise choice.
Often a fun choice.
Probably.

@CESN: [ref]Do you Resist? One of both (separately)?

If you don't Resist, you can deal with the consequence in the next posts.

I think Resisting the alarm might be better than dealing with it, but that is up to you.

Resisting a consequence means it does not come to pass (so it is very powerful) but can cost you valuable Stress.

If you Resist, show us how. For instance: Resisting the Reduced Effect could be something as simple as you acting cool and impressing them.

Yeah resisting the alarm is critical!! I'll try resisting both, again, test run :D

What Approach do you think you will use for each?

Narrate how you do it and add the rolls.

ah! the rolls! forgot those!!!

could these be Smartness (just trying to look cool not actually show any emotion connection) + Influence?

If I push I get 1 stress with potential for extra from resisting right? How easy is it to heal stress?

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by the way, do we need to split this player discussion for each player? Feel a bit like spamming the others discussing things they probably "don't care too much"

That works.
Both seem a bit like Smartness, sure. But that is just because I don't want to say they should be Empathy. :(
Resistance only rolls with the Approach, no adds.
Pushing is 2 Stress.
I don't think you can Push on Resist rolls. Would need to check Blades.

Not that you would want to. Adding guaranteed Stress for the chance of reducing Stress is not a winning strategy.
Yes, Resisting costs Stress:
You get one chance during the mission to Take a Breather
So, if the dice don't favour you, you might only ever get to clear 1 Stress on the whole run. Clearing Stress also means you don't get to ignore the Harm penalties.

This is your last run ever, and things are desperate.
They should care. Everyone should be involved in all of this. Not only is it a learning experience, it is also part of the rules that we all make these decisions. The GM does not make all the decisions, FitD is very player-lead.

That guy at the back is pretty irritable.... erm...

That is a whopping 5 Stress! Yikes! Two away from overload. Do you want to show us how and why these guys got to you so badly? Maybe something from your past?

Mainly to give D. a chance to deal with the interlopers. That done, we should be able to unstick things with the application of a little friction-easing fiction.

Guys! I'm not making out of this place :D

Stress can't kill you, it only feels like it will (or makes you wish it would). Overloading also has it benefits.

The GM also does not impose Stress upon you (*), it is always your own choice when to take on Stress, so you are in control.

If there kids are coming with us, we need to give them names. For some reason I am tempted to go with (or start with) Helena, Hermia, Lysander and Demetrius... but the H&H can get confusing.

I also did not define whether the smaller one who was brave enough to volunteer was the apparent leader or the other shy one. We can decide that or roll dice/flip a coin.

You can make Helena into Elena.

Indeed, that would clean up the collision.

We if we want to start there we can mix them up more, and shorten them to ease typing. Demi and Lysa sound good.

I assumed she was the shy one immediately. Because that triggers D. ;) Probably trying to prove she is useful or some teenage crap :D
She can also be Elena then (mostly because that's the first name I saw)
oh cool. Like El or just E sounds great (we don't know their names in character yet)

Me too. :)
Exactly my thought process.

But we can mix up those assumptions if the others want to.
To match (or just extra-trigger) her overly-protective big brother D.? I think we have to. :)

Though I did not mean us to shorten them that much, just did not want to end up tying Demetrius over and over again. :)
No, but it was asked, and we will need them in a minute.

Gonna wait for after the weekend to see if the Blank or Solovei can come up with a way to open things up.

The kids would have no clue about car jacks, never having seen either.
In general, assume they are not here to be helpful, you will have to solve things yourselves. :)

Ah! Been recovering from Covid, and just a little out of the loop/trying to catch up here! When last I posted, Blank was over Winston's shoulder. I don't have any further idea to add to what is happening right now with the kids, so I'll jump in and follow with that!

/urgh

At least 'recovering' is a good word. Hope it goes well for you and you get over it completely.
Do you need anything from us by way of summary, or anything?
Cool, 'meeting' the kids and going through the door is the next thing. Let us know if you need something to react to.

Hey, had some RL stuff pop up and fell behind on the game. I'm going to be tied up til at least Friday evening, just wanted to check in and let you guys know I'm still around. Will catch up when I have computer access on Friday

Thanks for letting us know. Hope everything is OK.