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<blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 6127206" data-attributes="member: 2"><p>[ooc]Not weird at all. Think about a Bourne movie; someone shoots someone, then kicks them in the crotch, then hits them with a lamp. They're <em>actually</em> using Shooting, Hand-to-Hand and Weapons in three subsequent rounds so that they balance out their pools! This is a game where you're encouraged to describe glorious things for yourself, and because you choose which abilities you have and how many you spend, you decide whether or not they occur. </p><p></p><p>As others said, with nothing in your shooting pool you have a few options:</p><p> - The "view inside the gun" description is <em>absolutely</em> cool enough to trigger Technothriller Monologue. That gives you three points back immediately, if I remember correctly. Glad you asked. </p><p> - You have more than 8 points in Weapons (DuBois tends to prefer more intimate weapons than guns; he particularly likes scalpels. Not that there's anything creepy about that. Cough.) and that lets you throw weapons flawlessly. Heck, throw a pistol if it makes you happy. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p> - If you had decided to shoot anyways, you'd just roll a d6 and add nothing. If someone has Trust in you, and is in touch with you, they can also give you 1 point of Trust on a roll.</p><p></p><p>Let's face it, DuBois is an incredibly proficient assassin. For mooks in particular, the question is usually how long you allow him to live and how you choose to kill him, not whether he manages to escape.[/ooc]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Piratecat, post: 6127206, member: 2"] [ooc]Not weird at all. Think about a Bourne movie; someone shoots someone, then kicks them in the crotch, then hits them with a lamp. They're [i]actually[/i] using Shooting, Hand-to-Hand and Weapons in three subsequent rounds so that they balance out their pools! This is a game where you're encouraged to describe glorious things for yourself, and because you choose which abilities you have and how many you spend, you decide whether or not they occur. As others said, with nothing in your shooting pool you have a few options: - The "view inside the gun" description is [i]absolutely[/i] cool enough to trigger Technothriller Monologue. That gives you three points back immediately, if I remember correctly. Glad you asked. - You have more than 8 points in Weapons (DuBois tends to prefer more intimate weapons than guns; he particularly likes scalpels. Not that there's anything creepy about that. Cough.) and that lets you throw weapons flawlessly. Heck, throw a pistol if it makes you happy. :D - If you had decided to shoot anyways, you'd just roll a d6 and add nothing. If someone has Trust in you, and is in touch with you, they can also give you 1 point of Trust on a roll. Let's face it, DuBois is an incredibly proficient assassin. For mooks in particular, the question is usually how long you allow him to live and how you choose to kill him, not whether he manages to escape.[/ooc] [/QUOTE]
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