Moves

Basic Moves for the MC (p.192)

- Surface a conflict, ancient or modern.
- Put someone in danger.
- Inflict (or trade) harm.
- Offer an opportunity with a cost.
- Reveal a deal done in their absence.
- Turn a move back on them.
- Offer or claim a debt owed.
- Mobilize resources to shift the odds.
- Warn someone of impending danger.
- Lock down, exploit, or claim a place of power.
- Tell the consequences and ask.
- Activate their stuff downside.
- Make a Threat or Faction move.
- After every move: "What do you do?".

Faction Moves (p.198)

Mortality:
- Adapt to the changing circumstances.
- Gather in numbers to confront a threat.
- Discover information that puts someone in danger.
- Reminds someone of their mundane obligations.

Night:
- Display an aggressive show of force.
- Threatens someone's interests or holdings.
- Claim territory form the weak or foolish.
- Make the best of a difficult situation.

Power:
- Prioritize the long-term consequences.
- Mystically foreshadow a coming Storm.
- Act in opposition of chaos or change.
- Snap up resources vulnerable or exposed.

Wild:
- Reveal the diversity of cultures alien and unique.
- Offer power for a promise or a pledge.
- Pull something from one realm into another.
- Escalate conflict for reasons mysterious or opaque.

City Moves

- Move something out of the city.
- Flood the streets with festival-goers.
- Challenges the status quo.
- Meet someone from another culture.

Threat Moves (p. 250)

Revolution
- Sacrifice to turn ripple into waves.
- Display the nature of the world it inhabits.
- Insult, affront, or offend someone powerful.
- Offer, but with personal strings attached.
- Offer, but with messy and uncertain outcomes.
- Capture someone powerful and important.
- Threaten something vulnerable and crucial.
- Destroy a public figure/landmark/group.
- Refuse aid: escalate with threats.

Power Play
- Reveal a plan too far gone to stop.
- Offer an alliance, temporary or lasting.
- Showcase a weakness for all to see.
- Showcase a strength to a private audience.
- Attack someone cautiously, holding reserves.
- Attack someone suddenly, without warning.
- Exploit hesitation or delays with decisive action.
- Demand reparations or considerations.
- Buy out someone's allies.

Passion
- Exhaust a resource, wastefully and completely.
- Strike out with reckless abandon.
- Display the content of its heart.
- Sacrifice a great deal for a crucial advantage.
- Sacrifice a great deal to send a message.
- Sacrifice a great deal for nothing.
- Cling to reason, tradition, or injustice.
- Beg someone for help with a dangerous problem.
- Ruin something purposefully, callously, or stupidly.

Ritual
- Release something once sealed away.
- Summon something new and original.
- Unleash chaos, fear, or death.
- Kill someone important, violently and publicly.
- Kill someone meaningless, quietly or inconspicuously.
- Bind someone or something to a place.
- Snatch up resources, covertly or cleverly.
- Alter or corrupt a facet of the city.
- Exploit an unrelated conflict or conquest.

Territory
- Shift, move, or rearrange a place.
- Present a new path or structure.
- Seal off something in an obviously magical way.
- Seal off something in a mundane and pedestrian way.
- Seize something, forcibly and quickly.
- Infest and overtake everything in sight.
- Display the reality underneath.