Scene 2: Let's move like we got a purpose

Macwhirr also takes +1 STRESS when she sees the monstrous figure.

I'm not sure whether Singleton has convinced Dr Komiskey to open the door, so we'll turn to the dice :)

This will be a MANIPULATION (p70) roll opposed to a roll by Dr Komiskey. I'll roll for Dr Komiskey in this post. Singleton needs to get more successes than Komiskey for this to be a success for Singleton.

You're trying to make her see things your way i.e. agree to do what you're demanding of her.

Your Negotiating Positions are as follows (p71)

+1 MODS
You have more people on your side: SINGLETON +1 KOMISKEY 0
What you ask for doesn't cost your opponent anything: SINGLETON 0 KOMISKEY 0
Your opponent has suffered damage: SINGLETON +1 KOMISKEY 0
You have helped your opponent previously: SINGLETON 0 KOMISKEY 0
You present your case very well (determined by GM): SINGLETON 0 KOMISKEY 0

-1 MODS
Your opponent has more people on their side: SINGLETON 0 KOMISKEY -1
You ask for something valuable or dangerous: SINGLETON -1 KOMISKEY 0
Your opponent has nothing to gain by helping you: SINGLETON 0 KOMISKEY 0
You are having trouble understanding each other: SINGLETON 0 KOMISKEY 0
You are talking via radio or shouting at a distance: SINGLETON 0 KOMISKEY 0

TOTAL
Singleton: +1
Komiskey: -1

EDIT Komiskey gets at least one 1 on a STRESS dice so I roll for panic and she gets 10 ie. "FREEZE". Looking at the rules and online a bit, I think this means that she fails her roll, even though she got two 6s from the panic dice. So she'll have 0 success dice in this MANIPULATION opposed roll.

I think Holroyd could loom threateningly behind Singleton, and thus help drive home the message Singleton is sending. So yes, you can add that +1 help.

That's the right roll with you base dice, Singleton/@microtheMacroBear - and you also roll your four STRESS dice. Those are part of every skill/attribute roll you make. The idea is that your stress level helps bring you greater drive to do stuff AND makes you more likely to panic . To speed things up, I'll add those dice here.

EDIT and with that roll, with the one 6, you get a success. In opposing rolls, when you're the 'attacker', you're rolling to test whether the status quo changes. If you get the same number of successes as your opponent, then all their successes cancel out all of yours, so the status quo continues. Here, however, you got one more success than your opponent (who, because they got panic level 10 lost their action). Thus, you successfully manipulate Dr Komiskey.

One of you could make a COMMTECH roll to try and open it - remember, though, that as a group you only get one chance to do a test like that, if it fails, you're not going to be able to open it by hacking it.

If someone other than Holroyd makes the roll, and you fail, then you'll have the option to push your roll once i.e. re-roll with one additional STRESS level and thus one additional STRESS dice added to the second roll.

You might want to think about ways of reducing your STRESS levels.

One way is to interact with your SIGNATURE ITEM - you can do this once this entire game, and it reduces your STRESS by one. I think one of you already did that (Singleton, I think?)

The other main way to reduce stress is to rest somewhere relatively safe for 5-10 minutes - if you do that, Hirsch has the BANTER talent, which means everyone who rests with him, including himself, reduces 2 rather than 1 STRESS when taking such a rest.

However, I don't think you're in a place where you feel that kind of safety at the moment - maybe if you were set up in a room, barricaded in, felt that you were fairly safe from marauding beasts?

Having said that, I'm open to you describing how you do feel safe at the moment.

I find it reasonable one person can help another out while they are trying to hack the door i.e. you can have +1 on that roll, whoever tries to do the hacking.

If you want to take it into account when deciding how to proceed here, the chance of rolling a 1 on one of the four STRESS dice i.e. having to roll for panic, is about 50%

I'll wait until the end of today (Friday) to see if @C1NDER/Holroyd posts. If not, then I'll post for Holroyd tomorrow, as it'll have been three days since the last Holroyd post, and I also think it's fairly likely given the posts so far that he will try and open the door with a COMMTECH roll.

If Holroyd goes for it, it'll be his 7d6 base dice plus an additional die from Macwhirr's help i.e. 8d6 in total.