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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 7915997" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Alright [USER=42040]@Retreater[/USER] .  Good stuff!  Thanks for posting that.I don't want to do this lump sum in one post and I don't have time.  So lets just focus on a couple things and move through it in continuity of your post.1)  I'm assuming the following is correct about the Undertake a Perilous Journey move:a)  The destination was the Goblin Slave Pits of the nefarious Black City of the Fallen Dwarves.b)  They knew their way there either via map, they'd been there before, a guide, instruction of some sort.Remember if both (a) and (b) aren't in play, you don't UaPJ, its just typical move structure as you set out to wander the wild in search of x.  For UaPJ, the move requires, hostile terrain, a destination, and the PCs know where they're going.2)  What were the results of the UaPJ move (the mechanics and the fallout you put on the group, please)?3)  On this:How did you convey the fiction (your soft move) after the player made their move?  As close to verbatim as you can get off recollection, please.What GM move did you attempt to make (from the list)?  How successful do you think you were at it?Here, might be a way I would have done it (I'm assuming no one speaks Goblin):GM MOVE - Tell them the requirements/consequences and ask"The barking tongue is foreign to you, but you've soaked up a few words in your time.  The one with a chewed off ear, rotted teeth, and a slick red tuft of fur as a neckbeard is gesticulating wildly at the others who are frozen in fear.  His brow is furrowed as he points at you and then points upwards out of the trench toward the encampment proper.  He violently shouts the word <master>, which you're familiar with, and then vomits out an Orcish name that is borderline impossible to pronounce.  He does this repeatedly with greater vehemence each time.When the frozen goblins don't respond, he huffs and makes a purposeful rush for the rickety ladder that leads from the pit up to the encampment. Are you letting him go?"</blockquote>

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