Had a great moment in the last (3rd) session of our game. Newly arrived Battlebabe is angling to pick up Amy (an NPC). Aced his Seduce roll, but then the Hardholder intervenes to warn him off. After considering Going Aggro, a Manipulate suffices and the Battlebabe takes XP in return.
First real heat in a PC-NPC-PC triangle.
Afterwards the player mentions that he reckons Magnus is in love with Amy (forbidden fruit an’ all) and that he doesn’t intend to have sex with her, but maybe a custom move would be the trick.
Had a few thoughts and came up with this:
When Amy comes onto Magnus, he rolls+Cool
10+ No worries; you refuse her gallantly – she’s still smitten with you. Take +1 forward
7-9 Pick one:
• You turn her away, but you’re a little bit distracted by thoughts of Amy afterwards. Take -1 forward
• You reject her advances and leave her lying on the bed. Go pick a fight with someone
• You turn the conversation to meaningless trivialities and then head out to deck. Another PC is there, tell them a secret and give each other +1Hx
6- All three above OR You have hot sex with her for most of the night and the neighbours know all about it. You dump Amy the next morning over breakfast, sure it was never anything serious right.
All PCs aboard get +1Hx and Magnus loses this move.
you mean the PC can’t decide to stick it out with her? Why not give the option to sleep with her and live with the consequences whatever they might be.
A fair point – I don’t want to take away player agency or anything.
This is just what I imagine to be centre-mass of the Battlebabe sex move. A change to make the option between dump/stick with her in the 6- flavour text explicit so.
Either way though, I reckon there’ll be consequences vs. the Hardholder and the move is gone.