I apologize for the feminine pronoun, I'll avoid such mistakes in the future.
Oh, I'll take at least as much blame for my own mistakes. You've been consistent elsewise; re-reading it feels like a simple (and early) slip-up, I'm the one who turned it into a story. And then my "savvyhead" comes out more like a Brainer (although both are presumably using to the Coil to do the better-than-normal things they do . . . ?). So yeah, I made a less-than-stellar entrance to the thread and hope to do better.
Onward and upward!
On Kim's gender: might be hermaphrodite, although it's not how I'm playing Kim just yet. Given Ozair clan covers a rough quarter of the town, I still think somebody or even everybody knows the physiology*, but the
gender is "mind your own damn business." That's how I'm going to (try to) treat it at least until better informed, and maybe after case-by-case.
And Twice too? Maybe this is their idea of romance then, the idiot knucklehead.
Twice and Krone are similar looking: where do they differ?
Twice and Krone are similar, obviously related. Because they are. Krone is not just older, though, he's much older, by fifteen if not twenty years. (Does anybody have a calendar anymore? Would they just use it for outhouse paper if they did?) What you can see of his hair is peppered with grey, and where Twice is thick and obviously bulging with hormones, Krone has the leaner look of That Guy You Don't Mess With Because He's Obviously Survived A Lot Of Fights To Get This Far. Krone is also a stakeholder, which is why he is collecting water. Twice is not. Probably there's no badge or symbol of it in a small survivalist community but everyone watching will include that in their mental estimation.
Aside: stakeholder at its most basic I expected to be someone who "owns a stake" in the water rations – thus bringing it up at the daily draw is a serious accusation. (Which failed to impress Twice. Hothead.) Other rights and responsibilities may be piled on.
Do you know why Krone's being such an asshole? If you don't, you got a guess?
No idea why Krone's acting like a jackass, though. He's usually far more crafty than that. Guess? Relations between a few (not all) Dogheads and Ozairs have been tense lately over hunting rights out in the wilderness. I don't know which side of that Krone's on. Worse, that maybe puts my niece smack in the middle of it Juliet/Romeo style. Could be some roundabout way of warning Kara to back off one of his boys.
((Or something much deeper and cleverer, like a way to deliver
me a message without appearing too friendly. But I'm not expecting a message. The worst kind of jackass is a chessmaster jackass.))
Are organized fights a common thing in Duforne Howe? Are Krone and Twice obeying the rules here?
Fights between clans are uncommon (people would cluck about kids these days if there were two in consecutive years) but tend to be, uh, supervised more often than not. Sometimes you gotta let people work things out. Not really following the rules, but then "rules" is a strong word choice anyway. It would be better if someone from a third clan were making arrangements. Definitely odd to rush things at the Water Pit, usually we would take it outside the Wall. Not even sure why he bothered drawing a circle without asking, that's new to me and I won't respect it.
Feels like a pretty charged situation: you wanna try reading it?
That is my read; I
never object to using an info move but this once I'm not going to actually vote for it. Not seeing where the normal-brain moves help with the lone, obvious, and immediate threat.
The Coil, you say? Keep reading.
((Out of character me notices that the GM was breadcrumbing hard at "more info" last time and we didn't get all of it on that roll. . . . Eh, I'll stick with in-character me.))
What do you do?
Dodge. Dance. Wait for opportunity strikes to hit Twice in (the other) places where it counts. Quick jabs, close combat only plays to their strength. They're big and meaty so I just might have an agility advantage in spite of my layers. Buys more time for someone else to object to any irregularities. No good if I bring them up. Go on long enough and Krone might call it a draw, depending on his jackass plans? Bonus: defensive play can be crafted as
Something Under Fire. I have an ability that lets me roll+weird for that move, my best stat. Drawing it out, gleaning more information the whole while, is Kim's forte.
((Out-of-character me is tempted to throw the match just to see how Twice and Krone react, but in-character me ain't buying that bullshit.))
For equipment, you have something called a personal piece. . . . Could you describe it?
*Unless, of course, Kim has changed physiology.
Remembered that just in time 'cause the stated victory, making a meathead like Twice cry, is maybe even harder than knocking him out cold. Lucky I've got an equalizer. I'm not just a future mechanic-techie-wizard by choice, it's by necessity. Starver's extra text about strange body was never copied into canon, but I'll take a second stab: I have an exoskeleton sleeve on my left arm. It reaches from the upper arm down to my fingertips, and I built it myself because without it those fingers aren't strong enough to pick up or hold anything. Over the years I've put a lot of refinements and durability into it, as well as storing some small tools I'd rather not be without (such as might help me fix the arm, specifically). The most obvious gimmick here is an electric discharge – hand buzzer meets cattle prod – but I bet there are other things to get creative with.
((As I read it over, I worry I'm skirting bad form by being vague about abilities. "Oh it's built in, didn't I mention that?" The key traits: carries its own toolset – but parts? ; shocker))
Body 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?
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