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Hanging from her own chute, Gabriella closes her eyes briefly as the harsh Russian syllables of LAUNCH ABORTED blare tinnily through her earbud. When she opens them, the Predictive Caret of her target lock is highlighting Mace Hunter and the blossoming canopy of his parachute below her. Mace...

The two big disadvantages of PbP tend to be the pacing, and the dropoff rate. Both of which are almost always minimised as problems in the 'honeymoon phase' - the first little while after it kicks off, when everyone's super-enthused - so for a short-duration showcase like this, they don't pop...

Bwahaha awesome. I've said it before, but one of the things I like most is the Assumption of Hypercompetence - the fact that in most cases, when you think "Hey, you know what the coolest thing that could possibly happen right now would be?", the mechanics actively support that being exactly...

Rock. Hung-Ke, expect a data dump to Persephone's backup phone any second now.

Preparedness is a General skill, so it's a Simple Test (1d6 + spend vs GM-determined TN) rather than a straight spend like you'd do with an Investigative skill. Unless, like Persephone, you can just declare a success once per session with your MOS! So if the GM calls it a TN of 4, you can roll...

Hyp: Awesome! Gabriella: Of course he managed to take his pants off in the middle of an op...

One advantage that the original Google Glass frames had was that they didn't occlude the top half of the altimeter readout on the HUD. But there are sacrifices that must be made for fashion. It's not clear if that first digit is a '6' or an '8', but Gabriella's pretty certain it's an 8...

Well, of course I still have the gizmo. Hung-Ke entrusted me with it, and that's the sort of behaviour I'm trying to encourage! But, um, I've been spending Filch pretty heavily so far this scene, and I have only one point left. What I'd like to do here is trigger a Filch Refresh with a TFFB...

I'm still chasing a phone - I think you indicated I could reach it this round, but I'm not sure if that's the whole action or if that's where my action begins...?

I don't believe you!

From the IC thread: We had a chat about this the other day - I think it's still backwards. It's not if someone trusts duBois that duBois can benefit from their assistance on his roll; it's if duBois trusts them. Let's take the extreme hypothetical examples, Aaron the fickle, backstabbing...

I'm not the GM, but I'll state with some confidence that the CSI follow-the-bullet-down-the-barrel camerawork falls well inside the parameters of a Technothriller Monologue! For throwing knives etc, the skill is Weapons - and since you have the Quincy Morris' Bowie Knife cherry, you're much...

Yeah - between the two of them, Persephone and Ashcan have an effective 16 points of Preparedness, plus the 'Swiss Army Prep' and 'In The Nick Of Time' cherries. ... and a surfeit of Explosive Devices on Ashcan's part, of course...

<Business as usual,> comes Gabriella's reply a moment after Quinn shoots. <Mace is flirting with the target - boy has some strange notions of foreplay. Hung-Ke - I should have your codes within the next sixty seconds...>

It's the escape artist training. She's an absolute whiz with buckles, straps, and restraints of all descriptions...

Non-critical in an Encounter format, but in a Campaign, it's worth keeping in mind that unlike most of your General skills, your Cover pool never Refreshes. The only way to replenish it is to pay XP into it, basically. So while it can be super-useful, it's also not something to blithely drain...

Thankful for the stylish Louis Vuitton sunglasses keeping blood out of her eyes, Gabriella takes a split-second to consider the pistol - as, apparently, the only passenger on Flight 383 who didn't smuggle a firearm past airport security, she could use one. But more pressing concerns abound...

The accurate thug smirks... then his eyes go wide behind his goggles as the camera pans to reveal the hitherto-unnoticed Gabriella Castellanos knifing in from an oblique angle to collide with him in midair. She shows brilliant white teeth while wrapping an arm around him, and leans close to...

Right - the purpose of the triangle is to draw a checkmark in when you've used your once-per-session success. That it helps identify the MOS is a fortuitous bonus. Hell yeah :D -Hyp.

I still remember making you do pushups at my first GenCon ;) -Hyp.