Archeology 1
Art History 1
Bullshit Detector 3
Cop Talk 1
Criminology 2
Flirt 1
Forgery 2
History 1
Intimidation 2
Languages 2
Military Science 1
Negotiation 1
Notice 3
Occult Studies 2
Outdoor Survival 1
Photography 1
Reassurance 1
Research 1
Streetwise 2*
Tradecraft 2
Urban Survival 3
General: 70/70
Athletics 8
Cover 10*
Disguise 4
Driving 8
Hand to Hand 12 (MOS)
Health 10*
Infiltration 8
Network 12*
Sense Trouble 6
Shooting 8
Stability 10*
Surveilance 4
Symbol: Unconstrained Wildlife. The sight of creatures living their lives unconcerned with the restraints created by the world of man, whether that means deer loping free across the steppes or pigeons roosting in the eves of a skyscraper, reminds Lana that the natural state of life is freedom, even if it sometimes requires struggle.
Solace: Mother. Lana's father died in their attempt to defect to the West (Lana likes to imagine that he did so defending her mother), but her then-pregnant mother made it to the extaction. Now she lives in London where she raised Lana on her own, even though she barely speaks any English. Unlike her Russian father, Lana's mom is Uzbek, and the source of Lana's vaguely ethnic appearance. Now that she's getting older and the international situation has changed, she has become obsessed with reconnecting with her family in the old country, which Lana has tried to facilitate through her connections.
Safety: Grace's Guan. When Grace Shen convinced Lana to do something with her days besides get into fights with townies, the two would end up spending hours on end training in Grace's gym above her parent's dry cleaners. There, under Grace's tutelage, Lana learned how to defend herself using a particularly acrobatic form of kung fu that Grace brought with her from Tibet.
Drive: Altruism; getting people to safety.
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Second run of stats for Edvin Sorenson, now with some built-in plot hooks for @Farangu to comment on and use.
Drive: Mystery - The Organization To Be Named Later
Symbol: Great Paintings
Solace: Annaliese Berg, former girlfriend.
Safety: The Casino Marienlyst
Investigative 32/32:
Accounting 2, Art History 1, Bullshit Detector 1, Bureaucracy 1, Criminology 1, Cryptography 2, Data Recovery 2, Electronic Surveillance 2, Flattery 1, Forensic Pathology 1, High Society 2, History 1, Human Terrain 2, Interrogation 2, Languages 3, Law 1, Negotiation 1, Pharmacy 1, Reassurance 1, Research 2, Streetwise 1, Tradecraft 1, Traffic Analysis 2
General Abilities 70/70:
Athletics 2
Cover 10*
Digital Intrusion 6
Gambling 6
Hand to Hand 8
Health 12 (4+8)
Infiltration 2
Mechanics 2
Network 17 (12 Free +5)
Preparedness 4
Sense Trouble 8
Shrink 2
Shooting 3
Stability 10 (Free +6)
Surveillance 9 (MOS)
Edvin is a Danish diplomat's son who never enjoyed the outdoors but definitely enjoyed art museums, reading, puzzles, and observing the locals quite intensely. Also parties and, eventually, gambling. He spent his teenage years enrolled in a public school in England while his mother's career took her to the Middle East, and spent most of that time studying the classics, mathematics, and whichever of his classmates had bothered him's habits in order to embarrass them later. He has a degree in economics from King's College London and spent several years in his 20s working in the Casino Marienlyst in Denmark as part of their security staff - a friend's father was the casino head at the time, and Edvin had no particular career plans. After providing substantial assistance disentangling a money-laundering ring operating through the casino to the PET, Denmark's domestic intelligence agency, he was recruited to join them as an analyst. Most of his work for the PET involved tracing the movement of people and money by organizations - especially left-wing radicals - that aren't actively criminal but might eventually be. He left the PET last year after his affair with one of his co-workers ended and joined an obscure economic think-tank working on the developing economies in former Soviet Bloc states. He's starting to suspect that something's not quite right.
Edvin is cultured and very polite, but understands people better through trends and numbers than as individuals. Paintings captivate him; he's especially fond of Van Gogh. He has an excellent memory for faces and an intuitive understanding of surveillance, both electronic and physical. Money has never been a problem and he is largely indifferent to it; he is nevertheless an active trader in stocks and commodities across the European markets, as it interests him to see if he can pick winners accurately. His major vice is gambling; he hardly ever turns down a card or dice game and usually knows where to find one. His usually-remote persona tends to crack when he's got money on a table. Edvin has boxed for years and taken some interest in mixed martial arts since being exposed to them in the PET; his reflexes are quite good though his conditioning wouldn't impress a serious fighter.
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I like both these concepts! We can work with these.
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Getting surprised in combat here isn't super pleasant - you automatically go last, and all your difficulty levels go up by 2 for the first round. If the roll is failed badly enough, there could be other penalties as well.
It's not one to boost super high, but it does have its purposes.
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Also - forgot to mention this earlier - if you're using Double Tap, you will need to let me know when your layout is finalized which cherries you are actually taking for the character, as you only get one Cherry.
Other Double Tap clarifications:
I don't know how cinematic you want the thing to get in regards to gear, but if I say a particular piece is attainable then the Q rule is in effect. Certain things are off the board completely, but we'll cross those bridges when we get there.
If one of you two wants to take a more realistic approach in re: spending funds, feel free; I was planning on handwaving lots of purchases and adjusting your fund level per what you were spending, but I'm flexible.
Gun cherries can be in effect, depending on the standard armament your character would carry around.
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In Double Tap there's a section of benefits on page 74 you can assign to your gun which come into effect when you roll an unmodified 6 - small things that often involve a refresh of some kind, or a hindrance to enemies trying to hit you.
In the waning days of the Cold War, in the midst of revolutionary chaos and political jockeying, a young couple made their bid for freedom in the West. A series of dead drops and meetups put them in touch with a man claiming to be an agent of MI6, who said he could get them out of the USSR and into Britain to start a new life together as assets of the state. The extraction went bad, and only the woman was successfully recovered. 8 months later she gave birth to a daughter.
Raising a child in a strange city without speaking the language is a very difficult undertaking, and it took its toll on Lana's mother. She did her best to adapt, but it was all she could do to keep food on the table, even with the government stipend her husband had negotiated before the escape attempt. Her beautiful Svetlana ended up prowling the streets more often than not, getting in to the kind of trouble that a brown-skinned kid could find all too easily in post-Thatcher London.
Luckily, Lana's exploits caught the eye of Grace Se, a fellow import to London who saw a good deal of herself in the young outsider. Grace had moved to Britain with her parents almost two decades before, bringing with her a huge chip on her shoulder and a youth spent training in Tibetan forms of hand to hand combat. Seeking to maintain her traditions, Grace opened a school above her parent's dry cleaning business. Lana was her first and favorite student. The two have developed a friendship that is effectively sisterhood, and Lana remains Grace's prize pupil to this day.
When she wasn't training with Grace, Svetlana was out on the streets making a name for herself as a burglar and car thief. Her skills were such that she was very rarely caught, but she still managed to gain the attention of an MI6 agent who offered her a way out of the neighborhood. In a deal that paid for her college (and a Visual Arts degree that she often uses for covers), Lana signed up to train as a foreign agent for The Agency. Growing up multilingual and possessing difficult-to-place ethnic markers (her mother being Uzbek and her father being from the Mongolian side of the Russian Steppes), Lana was seen as a prime candidate for infiltration. Her mis-spent youth aided in accelerating her training, putting her in the field in a matter of only a few years.
It wasn't long before it became clear that Lana had a knack, and an unusual level of personal drive, for getting people out of dangerous situations. MI6 employed her all across Europe and the Middle East, often dropping her into extremely volatile situations that were either about to explode or in the middle of actually doing so. Lana built a reputation for getting her clients out of some very dangerous situations, but also failed to do so on a number of occasions. Still, she was good enough at her unusual job that the Agency has started farming her out to other organizations to provide the same services.
Investigative: 32/32
Art History 1
Bullshit Detector 3
Cop Talk 1
Criminology 2
Flirt 1
Forgery 2
Intimidation 2
Languages 2
Military Science 1
Negotiation 1
Notice 3
Occult Studies 2
Outdoor Survival 1
Photography 1
Reassurance 2
Research 1
Streetwise 3*
Tradecraft 2
Urban Survival 3
General: 70/70
Athletics 8 (Hard to Hit)
Cover 10*
Conceal 4
Driving 8 (Grand Theft Auto)
Filch 2
Hand to Hand 12 (MOS, Haymaker)
Health 10*
Infiltration 8 (Open Sesame)
Network 12*
Sense Trouble 8 (Combat Intuition)
Shooting 4
Stability 10*
Surveillance 4
Gear:
Laser Sighted, Smooth Action Walther P99
Silencer (currently unattached and stashed)
Taser
Secure Smartphone w/ Tactical Earbud
Burner Phone
Night Vision Optics
European Sports Car (Variable, Stolen)
*Emmu Climbing Gloves
*Grey Anti-Surveillance Hoodie
Symbol: Unconstrained Wildlife. The sight of creatures living their lives unconcerned with the restraints created by the world of man, whether that means deer loping free across the steppes or pigeons roosting in the eves of a skyscraper, reminds Lana that the natural state of life is freedom, even if it sometimes requires struggle.
Solace: Mother. Lana's father died in their attempt to defect to the West (Lana likes to imagine that he did so defending her mother), but her then-pregnant mother made it to the extaction. Now she lives in London where she raised Lana on her own, even though she barely speaks any English. Unlike her Russian father, Lana's mom is Uzbek, and the source of Lana's vaguely ethnic appearance. Now that she's getting older and the international situation has changed, she has become obsessed with reconnecting with her family in the old country, which Lana has tried to facilitate through her connections.
Safety: Grace's Guan. When Grace Se convinced Lana to do something with her days besides get into fights with townies, the two would end up spending hours on end training in Grace's gym above her parent's dry cleaners. There, under Grace's tutelage, Lana learned how to defend herself using a particularly acrobatic form of kung fu that Grace brought with her from Tibet.
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It's used to cover acquisition of gear whose existence outside of cinema is debatable.
If you can find it or something close to it on a real website, with a real price tag, you can get it in-game with preparedness. Spend 12 points between preparedness and whatever skill the device uses - a pen-bomb would use Explosive devices for instance - and you can have it on your person. There's a list of gear that could easily fall into that category on the pages around 63.
Speaking of gear, I'm going to abstract tech to three levels - Common gear, which is street level stuff consumers can buy and is no difficulty to get however you want, Esoteric gear is stuff you need to either deal with Streetwise/Network, Build, Get from a Cache/Preparedness or Steal, and Cinematic, which is Q Rule or NPC negotiation only.
Cherries are pretty easy. I'm not going to have more than a half dozen of them at the most.
But Athletics and Hand to Hand have a ton of associated Maneuvers, and Infiltration has a fair few as well. And all the skills have a couple of tricks besides.
I'm already trying to work out the optimal H-t-H attack pattern in terms of damage output per point spent per round. There's a lot more working parts there than it looks like there should be at first.
Lana doesn't really prepare for things. She's more of a reactor.
I'm figuring she's got the skills to find what she needs in the field via the criminal fraternity. But yeah, she's never going to activate the Q rules.
Edit: I actually skipped a piece of gear (specifically the personal hang glider backpack thing) because it required Preparation to deploy.
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Edvin's pretty unlikely to have anything really shocking put together, but he's the kind of guy who just starts handing you things you might need as you start wondering where you're going to get them. Flashlights, cable ties, keycards, whatever.
Certainly neither of us is a Burn Notice-class "This'll work," type.
Apart from picking a the last four or so languages of the 10 I'm entitled to, I think Edvin is pretty much good to go if we make some reasonable assumptions about what he'd carry on an improv basis.
I think we might be better served by some Q & A prompts at this point than relying on our imaginations exclusively.
Yeah, that's kind of where Lana is on a number of her skills.
She's not a pro at surveillance, but she can spot a tail when she needs to. She's got basically one shot at filching something in her an op. I figure she's going to use her gun only from stealth (with the maneuver) or in very desperate circumstances as she parkours away.
But climbing, driving and kicking things are going to be pretty impressive.
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Well improvised creations are more the purview of Mechanics tests. Preparedness is "Oh I happen to need a stack of bills to bribe this cop? Preparedness roll. Oh it would get really easy to get into this compound with a grapple gun? Preparedness roll."
Well improvised creations are more the purview of Mechanics tests. Preparedness is "Oh I happen to need a stack of bills to bribe this cop? Preparedness roll. Oh it would get really easy to get into this compound with a grapple gun? Preparedness roll."
Yeah, I'm not talking about the "And now suddenly I have a flamethrower because you left me in a shed for 3 minutes," aspect of Burn Notice but the pretty much amazing way they can always just sort of turn up with what they need whenever the writers would like Michael not to monologue about his father and just shoot someone.
Lana's whole deal is she typically gets dropped into a country, given a name and a very short time frame and then sort of free-forms her way back out with them in tow.
That's kind of what I was expecting, too. Otherwise, maybe they've been in that situation before, with Lana pulling Edvin out of some sort of Dutch casino mob throw down.
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Sounds good. I'm thinking start around 1-1:30 CST, and we see how much occurs in the following two hours. Time may shift slightly pending spouse approval.
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Archeology 1
Art History 1
Bullshit Detector 3
Cop Talk 1
Criminology 2
Flirt 1
Forgery 2
History 1
Intimidation 2
Languages 2
Military Science 1
Negotiation 1
Notice 3
Occult Studies 2
Outdoor Survival 1
Photography 1
Reassurance 1
Research 1
Streetwise 2*
Tradecraft 2
Urban Survival 3
General: 70/70
Athletics 8
Cover 10*
Disguise 4
Driving 8
Hand to Hand 12 (MOS)
Health 10*
Infiltration 8
Network 12*
Sense Trouble 6
Shooting 8
Stability 10*
Surveilance 4
Symbol: Unconstrained Wildlife. The sight of creatures living their lives unconcerned with the restraints created by the world of man, whether that means deer loping free across the steppes or pigeons roosting in the eves of a skyscraper, reminds Lana that the natural state of life is freedom, even if it sometimes requires struggle.
Solace: Mother. Lana's father died in their attempt to defect to the West (Lana likes to imagine that he did so defending her mother), but her then-pregnant mother made it to the extaction. Now she lives in London where she raised Lana on her own, even though she barely speaks any English. Unlike her Russian father, Lana's mom is Uzbek, and the source of Lana's vaguely ethnic appearance. Now that she's getting older and the international situation has changed, she has become obsessed with reconnecting with her family in the old country, which Lana has tried to facilitate through her connections.
Safety: Grace's Guan. When Grace Shen convinced Lana to do something with her days besides get into fights with townies, the two would end up spending hours on end training in Grace's gym above her parent's dry cleaners. There, under Grace's tutelage, Lana learned how to defend herself using a particularly acrobatic form of kung fu that Grace brought with her from Tibet.
Drive: Altruism; getting people to safety.
Leaving this here because I need to close notepad.
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Symbol: Great Paintings
Solace: Annaliese Berg, former girlfriend.
Safety: The Casino Marienlyst
Investigative 32/32:
Accounting 2, Art History 1, Bullshit Detector 1, Bureaucracy 1, Criminology 1, Cryptography 2, Data Recovery 2, Electronic Surveillance 2, Flattery 1, Forensic Pathology 1, High Society 2, History 1, Human Terrain 2, Interrogation 2, Languages 3, Law 1, Negotiation 1, Pharmacy 1, Reassurance 1, Research 2, Streetwise 1, Tradecraft 1, Traffic Analysis 2
General Abilities 70/70:
Athletics 2
Cover 10*
Digital Intrusion 6
Gambling 6
Hand to Hand 8
Health 12 (4+8)
Infiltration 2
Mechanics 2
Network 17 (12 Free +5)
Preparedness 4
Sense Trouble 8
Shrink 2
Shooting 3
Stability 10 (Free +6)
Surveillance 9 (MOS)
Edvin is a Danish diplomat's son who never enjoyed the outdoors but definitely enjoyed art museums, reading, puzzles, and observing the locals quite intensely. Also parties and, eventually, gambling. He spent his teenage years enrolled in a public school in England while his mother's career took her to the Middle East, and spent most of that time studying the classics, mathematics, and whichever of his classmates had bothered him's habits in order to embarrass them later. He has a degree in economics from King's College London and spent several years in his 20s working in the Casino Marienlyst in Denmark as part of their security staff - a friend's father was the casino head at the time, and Edvin had no particular career plans. After providing substantial assistance disentangling a money-laundering ring operating through the casino to the PET, Denmark's domestic intelligence agency, he was recruited to join them as an analyst. Most of his work for the PET involved tracing the movement of people and money by organizations - especially left-wing radicals - that aren't actively criminal but might eventually be. He left the PET last year after his affair with one of his co-workers ended and joined an obscure economic think-tank working on the developing economies in former Soviet Bloc states. He's starting to suspect that something's not quite right.
Edvin is cultured and very polite, but understands people better through trends and numbers than as individuals. Paintings captivate him; he's especially fond of Van Gogh. He has an excellent memory for faces and an intuitive understanding of surveillance, both electronic and physical. Money has never been a problem and he is largely indifferent to it; he is nevertheless an active trader in stocks and commodities across the European markets, as it interests him to see if he can pick winners accurately. His major vice is gambling; he hardly ever turns down a card or dice game and usually knows where to find one. His usually-remote persona tends to crack when he's got money on a table. Edvin has boxed for years and taken some interest in mixed martial arts since being exposed to them in the PET; his reflexes are quite good though his conditioning wouldn't impress a serious fighter.
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I just want to try and get Concealment (probably in place of disguise) up to the Cherry, and work in some weapons somewhere.
I'm not sure how useful having a high Sense Danger is if I've got all the combat skills anyway.
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It's not one to boost super high, but it does have its purposes.
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So Sense Trouble is for avoiding ambushes and such, then?
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Also, in Double Tap, there's an additional cherry you can choose with 8 ranks - 1 free point in Notice.
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I think I'm going to keep Sense Trouble at 8 and drop shooting to 4. Lana's ok with a gun, but she's not really into protracted firefights.
Edit: of course, that may change.
Those alternate cherries from Double Tap, I assume they're instead of the ones in the main book? I don't have Double Tap to check myself.
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Other Double Tap clarifications:
I don't know how cinematic you want the thing to get in regards to gear, but if I say a particular piece is attainable then the Q rule is in effect. Certain things are off the board completely, but we'll cross those bridges when we get there.
If one of you two wants to take a more realistic approach in re: spending funds, feel free; I was planning on handwaving lots of purchases and adjusting your fund level per what you were spending, but I'm flexible.
Gun cherries can be in effect, depending on the standard armament your character would carry around.
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What's the Q rule?
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Raising a child in a strange city without speaking the language is a very difficult undertaking, and it took its toll on Lana's mother. She did her best to adapt, but it was all she could do to keep food on the table, even with the government stipend her husband had negotiated before the escape attempt. Her beautiful Svetlana ended up prowling the streets more often than not, getting in to the kind of trouble that a brown-skinned kid could find all too easily in post-Thatcher London.
Luckily, Lana's exploits caught the eye of Grace Se, a fellow import to London who saw a good deal of herself in the young outsider. Grace had moved to Britain with her parents almost two decades before, bringing with her a huge chip on her shoulder and a youth spent training in Tibetan forms of hand to hand combat. Seeking to maintain her traditions, Grace opened a school above her parent's dry cleaning business. Lana was her first and favorite student. The two have developed a friendship that is effectively sisterhood, and Lana remains Grace's prize pupil to this day.
When she wasn't training with Grace, Svetlana was out on the streets making a name for herself as a burglar and car thief. Her skills were such that she was very rarely caught, but she still managed to gain the attention of an MI6 agent who offered her a way out of the neighborhood. In a deal that paid for her college (and a Visual Arts degree that she often uses for covers), Lana signed up to train as a foreign agent for The Agency. Growing up multilingual and possessing difficult-to-place ethnic markers (her mother being Uzbek and her father being from the Mongolian side of the Russian Steppes), Lana was seen as a prime candidate for infiltration. Her mis-spent youth aided in accelerating her training, putting her in the field in a matter of only a few years.
It wasn't long before it became clear that Lana had a knack, and an unusual level of personal drive, for getting people out of dangerous situations. MI6 employed her all across Europe and the Middle East, often dropping her into extremely volatile situations that were either about to explode or in the middle of actually doing so. Lana built a reputation for getting her clients out of some very dangerous situations, but also failed to do so on a number of occasions. Still, she was good enough at her unusual job that the Agency has started farming her out to other organizations to provide the same services.
Art History 1
Bullshit Detector 3
Cop Talk 1
Criminology 2
Flirt 1
Forgery 2
Intimidation 2
Languages 2
Military Science 1
Negotiation 1
Notice 3
Occult Studies 2
Outdoor Survival 1
Photography 1
Reassurance 2
Research 1
Streetwise 3*
Tradecraft 2
Urban Survival 3
General: 70/70
Athletics 8 (Hard to Hit)
Cover 10*
Conceal 4
Driving 8 (Grand Theft Auto)
Filch 2
Hand to Hand 12 (MOS, Haymaker)
Health 10*
Infiltration 8 (Open Sesame)
Network 12*
Sense Trouble 8 (Combat Intuition)
Shooting 4
Stability 10*
Surveillance 4
Gear:
Laser Sighted, Smooth Action Walther P99
Silencer (currently unattached and stashed)
Taser
Secure Smartphone w/ Tactical Earbud
Burner Phone
Night Vision Optics
European Sports Car (Variable, Stolen)
*Emmu Climbing Gloves
*Grey Anti-Surveillance Hoodie
Solace: Mother. Lana's father died in their attempt to defect to the West (Lana likes to imagine that he did so defending her mother), but her then-pregnant mother made it to the extaction. Now she lives in London where she raised Lana on her own, even though she barely speaks any English. Unlike her Russian father, Lana's mom is Uzbek, and the source of Lana's vaguely ethnic appearance. Now that she's getting older and the international situation has changed, she has become obsessed with reconnecting with her family in the old country, which Lana has tried to facilitate through her connections.
Safety: Grace's Guan. When Grace Se convinced Lana to do something with her days besides get into fights with townies, the two would end up spending hours on end training in Grace's gym above her parent's dry cleaners. There, under Grace's tutelage, Lana learned how to defend herself using a particularly acrobatic form of kung fu that Grace brought with her from Tibet.
Drive: Altruism; getting people to safety.
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If you can find it or something close to it on a real website, with a real price tag, you can get it in-game with preparedness. Spend 12 points between preparedness and whatever skill the device uses - a pen-bomb would use Explosive devices for instance - and you can have it on your person. There's a list of gear that could easily fall into that category on the pages around 63.
Speaking of gear, I'm going to abstract tech to three levels - Common gear, which is street level stuff consumers can buy and is no difficulty to get however you want, Esoteric gear is stuff you need to either deal with Streetwise/Network, Build, Get from a Cache/Preparedness or Steal, and Cinematic, which is Q Rule or NPC negotiation only.
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Are we using the Mastery rules from Double Tap?
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Other than some minor tweaks in Investigative skills and your approval of the gear, I'm ready to roll.
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For Thriller maneuvers, though, you're gonna need that sheet.
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But Athletics and Hand to Hand have a ton of associated Maneuvers, and Infiltration has a fair few as well. And all the skills have a couple of tricks besides.
I'm already trying to work out the optimal H-t-H attack pattern in terms of damage output per point spent per round. There's a lot more working parts there than it looks like there should be at first.
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That'll be interesting to see develop.
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I'm figuring she's got the skills to find what she needs in the field via the criminal fraternity. But yeah, she's never going to activate the Q rules.
Edit: I actually skipped a piece of gear (specifically the personal hang glider backpack thing) because it required Preparation to deploy.
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Certainly neither of us is a Burn Notice-class "This'll work," type.
Apart from picking a the last four or so languages of the 10 I'm entitled to, I think Edvin is pretty much good to go if we make some reasonable assumptions about what he'd carry on an improv basis.
I think we might be better served by some Q & A prompts at this point than relying on our imaginations exclusively.
She's not a pro at surveillance, but she can spot a tail when she needs to. She's got basically one shot at filching something in her an op. I figure she's going to use her gun only from stealth (with the maneuver) or in very desperate circumstances as she parkours away.
But climbing, driving and kicking things are going to be pretty impressive.
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Yeah, I'm not talking about the "And now suddenly I have a flamethrower because you left me in a shed for 3 minutes," aspect of Burn Notice but the pretty much amazing way they can always just sort of turn up with what they need whenever the writers would like Michael not to monologue about his father and just shoot someone.
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They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Hangouts it's also a thing that I've used.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Also, one last thing for the two of you to decide - how do you know each other?
Chicago Megagame group
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Honestly, I was sort of expecting for you to have Lana extract Edvin from being in over his head in the first session at this point!
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Chicago Megagame group
Watch me struggle to learn streaming! Point and laugh!
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Chicago Megagame group
Watch me struggle to learn streaming! Point and laugh!