From the example on page 65:
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She asks, “Okay, how can I best end this quickly?”
“Observing them more closely, you recognize the technology and the aliens themselves. You’ve heard of them, if you haven’t seen them up close—Menagerists, they’re called. Tey’re probably here looking for metahumans for their zoo. If you can convince them that the metahumans here are too tough to be worth the trouble of capturing, or if you can convince them that there really aren’t any valuable specimens here, they’ll take off. But as you’re putting all this together, they start moving towards the treeline and into the city. What do you do?”
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If the character choose to try and convince them, how would you manage that, with a Provoke and if it’s a 10+ they go away?
Sure. It could start with a provoke. Of course, if there are multiple aliens, it might require more than one. The other moves assume you’re using your powers too, so it isn’t like you just walk up and say go away. I’d probably require some strong fiction to go along with the provoke.
Yeah, there’s lots of ways to convince people of things, not all of them involve moves but some do.
Sure, the Provoke requires them to be susceptible to your words, so fiction is required.
Shaun Ramsey, I’m not sure about requesting more than one roll: it would be multiple rolls for the same thing, basically just making it easier to fail, and not all of the aliens agreeing could be handled with a 7-9 (maybe they start discussing among themselves, and that counts as stumbling or erring).
Thanks for your input!
I imagine that they aren’t going to be susceptible to your words without some action to set up or demonstrate the things suggested – if you’ve been putting up a good fight and causing them a lot of expensive damage, that might be enough to allow you to try to provoke them into leaving rather than fighting it out (probably to search out easier prey from another city, or planet).
Some sort of trickery to fool their sensors into detecting no metahuman signals could convince them they’re wasting their time without even needing to talk to or provoke them at all.
Yes! The provoke requires them to be susceptible, so I think the fiction that makes that happen is pretty important. Which allows for a variety of situations to develop.