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[Fniff]

Hello. Welcome to the Coil.
This'll be a post-apocalyptic suggestion game.
We'll decide the rest later.

First things first:
Do you wanna be...

Hot (beautiful, stunning, pretty, alluring)
Cool (calm, self-possessed, poised, sangfroid)
Sharp (Smart, quick-witted, clever, cunning)
Weird (strange, creepy, psychic, genius)
Hard (violent, dangerous, badass, scary)

This defines you as a person. If I asked about you, people'd say "She's real sharp" or "He's a weird bastard" or "They're freakin' hot."

Lemme know what you are in the polls.
Until then, some mood music.
See you

[Fniff]

Spoiler: Who We Are (click to show/hide)

Kim Ozair, The Savvyhead
Gender - ambiguous
Clothing - scrounge wear plus tech - layers to keep one warm, layers to keep one cool; keep the nasty rain off, duct the precious sweat into storage; pockets and pouches and projectile-proof where it counts; goggles and mask, which may be being used to Clark Kent, who knows whether Kim also goes around in a more settled style of dress, whatever that might be...
Pretty face - not that anyone sees enough of it, to be sure; is that real smooth skin? Could there be scarring being deliberately hidden by the high kneck-scarf?
Quick eyes - speeds around as if an invisible fly darts about, but who knows what tech is on the inside of those goggles
Strange body - stays covered; could be lean and well-padded, could be muscled and less so; and is there a whirring when the left hand twiddles its fingers?
Stats: Cool-1 Hard=0 Hot+1 Sharp+1 Weird+3
Spooky Intense: +1weird
Reality's Fraying Edge: A workspace component (or arrangement of components) can be used for augury.

Spoiler: What We Have (click to show/hide)

A workspace with a controlled growing environment, transmitters and receivers, and a garage.
Oddments worth 3-barter

Spoiler: Where We Are (click to show/hide)

Places of Interest
3: Tire Yurt, Home of Yorky & Kin (Mice, Missed, etc)
6: Tire Yurt, Home of Hangman & Kin
9: Weaver Bird's garage
15: Tire Yurt, Home of Krone & Kin (Twice, Rum, etc)
19: Tire Yurt with Cellar and Workspace, Home of Kim Ozair & Kin (Mako, Kara)
People of Interest
Yorky Weaver Bird: Tiger Mom, Mother of Mice
Mice Weaver Bird: Sweet Kid, Looks Up To Kim
Missed Weaver Bird: Adventurous Teen
Krone Doghead: Creepy Motherfucker, Can't Tell What He's Thinking
Twice Doghead: Firey Troublemaker
Rum Doghead: Kara's Suitor
Hangman Jackson: Scariest Guy In Town
Abe Jackson: Deadhand Sniper
Mako: Old Storyteller with Nasty Scars
Kara Ozair: Kim's Niece, Hanging Out With The Dogheads
The Pilgrims: Mysterious silhouettes on the horizon. What's their deal?

Spoiler: Experience and Advances (click to show/hide)

You have 2 experience. You need 3 more before you advance. You get experience by failing rolls. We learn more from them than our successes, after all.
Here is Kim's possible advances.
* Get +1cool (max cool+2)
* Get +1hard (max hard+2)
* Get +1sharp (max sharp+2)
* Get a new savvyhead move
* Get a new savvyhead move
*Gget a gang (you detail) for security, and the leadership move.
* Add 2 more options to your workspace.
* Add life support to your workspace, and now you can work on people there too.
* Get a move from another playbook.
* Get a move from another playbook.

When you get enough advances, you can move onto the advanced upgrades.
* Get +1 to any stat (max stat+3)
* Retire your character to safety
* Create a second character to play
* Change your character to a new playbook
* Choose 3 basic moves and advance them
* Advance the other 3 basic moves

Spoiler: Basic Moves (click to show/hide)

Do Something Under Fire
This is running away, sneaking about, or dodging bullets. Most chases, foot or car, amount to this.
When you do something under fire, or dig in to endure fire, roll+cool. On a 10+, you do it. On a 7-9, you flinch, hesitate, or stall: I can offer you a worse outcome, a hard bargain, or an ugly choice.

Go Aggro On Someone
This is intimidation or ambush: any one-sided violence generally falls under going aggro.
When you go aggro on someone, make it clear what you want them to do and what you'll do to them. Roll+hard. On a 0+, they have to choose:
force your hand or do what you want.
On a 7-9, they can choose one of the above, or 1 of the following:
* Get the hell out of your way.
* Barricade themselves securely in.
* Give you something they think you want, or tell you what you want to hear.
* Back off calmly, hands where you can see.

Seduce or Manipulate Someone
This is talking to someone to make them do what you want.
When you try to seduce, manipulate, bluff, fast-talk, or lie to someone, tell them what you want them to do, give them a reason, and roll+hot. On a 10+, they'll go along with you, unless some fact or action betrays the reason you gave them. On a 7-9, they'll go along with you, but they need concrete assurance, corroboration, or evidence first.

Read a Sitch & Read A Person
This is taking a moment to scope out the situation and see what's what.
These are separate moves, but achieve the same effect: just with different targets.
When you read a person in a charged situation, or just a charged situation, roll+sharp. On a hit (that is, 7-10+), you can ask me questions. Whenever you act on one of my answers, you take +1 to your next roll. On a 10+, ask 3 questions. On a 7-9, ask 1.
Read A Person
* Is [character] telling the truth?
* What's [character] really feeling?
* What does [character] intend to do?
* What does [character] wish I'd do?
* How could I get [character] to ____?
Read A Situation
* Where's my escape route / way in / way out?
* Which enemy is most vulnerable to me?
* Which enemy is the biggest threat?
* What should I be on the lookout for?
* What's my enemy's true position?
* Who's in control here?

On a miss, you can ask 1 question, but be prepared for the worst.

Seizing by Force
This is a straight-up fight. To seize something by force, exchange harm (Deal damage to your opponent and take damage from them, then subtract your armor from it) then roll+hard. On a 10+, choose 3. On a 7-9, choose 2. On a miss, choose one.
* You inflict terrible harm (+1harm)
* You suffer little harm (-1harm)
* You impress, dismay, or frighten your enemy.
* You take definite and undeniable control of it.

Communing With The Coil
When you commune with the Coil, roll+weird. On a hit, I'll tell you something new and interesting about the current situation, and I might ask you a question or two. Answer them. On a 10+, I'll give you good detail. On a 7-9, I'll give you an impression.

[ATHATH]

Let's be hot, cool, sharp, weird, AND hard.

Hey, you didn't say that they were mutually exclusive.

Failing that, let's be weird.

[Glass]

Sharp or weird, both if possible, and the latter with a slight tendency toward the former if not.

[scriver]

I recognise those words 

We should totally be as Hard as we can be. Surviving isn't easy, and picking your nose don't fill no belly.

[~Neri]

Weird.

[Puppyguard]

Weird.

[King Zultan]

Hard or Weird I can't decide.

[Fniff]

We end with Weird in the lead by a huge margin, followed by Hot.

Now that we have chosen what we are, let's specify.
We're gonna be choosing what's called a Playbook.
These are not classes, like warrior or rogue or mage. Those are job titles, these are not.
Remember. You are unique. If you pick the Brainer, there may be other psychic people and they might be called brainers, but you're THE Brainer.
It's like how there are other investigators in Sherlock Holmes, but Sherlock Holmes is THE Detective. You dig?

So, I'll be posting some descriptions from the book I'm using for the rules (Apocalypse World 2nd edition), along with my own personal summary of the Playbook and examples from media to give you more of an anchor.

The Brainer
Brainers are weird psycho psychic mindfucks. They have brain control, puppet strings, creepy hearts, dead souls, and eyes like broken things. They stand in your peripheral vision and whisper into your head, staring. They clamp lenses over your eyes and read your secrets.
They’re just the sort of tasteful accoutrement that no well-appointed hardhold can do without.
Wanna read minds and fuck with people's brains? This is you!
Example of a nice Brainer: David from Legion
Example of a bad Brainer: Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear Solid

The Savvyhead
If there's one thing you can count on, it's that things break.
Wanna be a mechanic that makes weird but powerful machines? This is you!
Example of a nice Savvyhead: Kaylee from Firefly
Example of a bad Savvyhead: Rick Sanchez from Rick & Morty

The Hocus
Now it should be crystal fucking obvious that the gods have abandoned us. Maybe in the golden age, with its one nation under god and its in god we trust, maybe then the gods were real. Fucked if I know. All I know is that now they’re gone daddy gone.
My theory is that these weird hocus fuckers, when they say “the gods,” what they really mean is the miasma left over from the explosion of psychic hate and desperation that gave the Coil its birth. Friends, that’s our creator now.
Wanna to sway mobs and preach the good word of [insert god here]? This is you!
Example of a nice Hocus: Jesus Christ, Muhammad, the various Buddhas, etc (Not saying they're fictional, just saying if you wanna be a nice Hocus, follow the OGs)
Example of a bad Hocus: Father Comstock from Bioshock Infinite

The Child-Thing
We are coming. We are the future. We are what you made.
Wanna be a creepy, feral child running from incomphrensible horrors? This is you!
Example of a nice Child-Thing: Newt from Aliens
Example of a bad Chilld-Thing: Buddy from LISA: The Joyful

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I recognise those words 

I imagine it won't be the last time...

[Glass]

[Que Genius: the Transgression]

[Fniff]

[Que Genius: the Transgression]

Oh man, I wish. Someone should start up a game of that.
...
Not me, though, I have this.

[Glass]

[Que Genius: the Transgression]

Oh man, I wish. Someone should start up a game of that.
...
Not me, though, I have this.

We can, though. Everyone vote savvyhead!

[RoseHeart]

The Savvyhead

[Gwolfski]

The Savvyhead

We're gonna be Rick.

[Starver]

No love for a Chrysalids future?

(PTW.)