Trying to recap the action sequence from last night’s AW2 game

Trying to recap the action sequence from last night’s AW2 game

So in the session before the Chopper Hooch had stolen a turbine power generator and a car from Roark’s hardhold and his gang and him are now trying to transport it to Gunpowder. 

Following them are Torres the Angel and Lux the Savyhead in Torreses combat ambulance (an armored personnel carrier/ Fuchs Spürpanzer) as well as some guy’s from Roark’s gang in a car and a motorcycle.

First thing first, Torres takes a daring maneuver to lose the other pursuers (Act under fire). He wants Hooch and his Despoilers for himself. Thanks to a vision of Lux they know where the Despoilers are and what route they are most likely taking.

They are on the freeway(highway? not quite sure about the right term there). Some time ago the freeway was full of car wrecks and stuff like that but something massive went through there with a snowplough in front and made two routes by pushing all the cars out of the way.

Anyway, as Torres is clearly hunting them we roll Hunt Prey. We get a 7-9 and Hooch decides that they catch up with them, but the chopper gang is on the other side/route of the freeway.

Torres orders Lux to use the machine gun on the car to shoot at them in order to maybe get the turbine lose and crush some motorcycles with it (Thee was an Keep an Eye out here). Hooch responds by asking one of his gang for a Grenade (Fucking Thieves)  which he gets and then orders the Despoilers to return fire in order to Defend something they hold. Lux rolls Seize by force. 

This leads to a result of the Despoilers using their own bodies to block shots at the turbine and Lux being really hesitant to shoot directly at her baby. Hooch himself uses that opportunity to throw the Grenade at the Ambulance but can’t quite get close enough to get a full hit in so the grenade explodes directly in front of the ambulance, leaving them with smoke and debris in front of them.

(Lux: It’s safe and undamaged through the fighting + you suffer little harm

Torres: You inflict terrible harm, You hold it secure, you dismay or frighten) 

Torres remembers there being a school bus half dangling from the halfway and tries to drive around it blind (Act under fire) but hits it hard (6-), sending the ambulance tumbling, crashing first against something at the side and then over something ramp-like and flying of the elevanted highway into muddy ground beneath. 

At this point we roll Harm moves. 

Torres is basically fine and barely hit.

Lux gets thrown out of the ambulance and headfirst into the mud.

Hooch got hit in his arm and his sloppy motorcycle threatens to crash. He must act under fire and gets an ugly choice. He can use his body to slow the bike when it starts sliding sideways or let the bike take the blunt of the crash. Like a badass he pushes his shoulder into the asphalt and his armor takes most of the damage, leaving his heavy leather jacket torn to pieces at one side. 

Hooch for some reason now wants to talk the whole situation out. As he shows himself however, Torres has gotten to the machine gun of his car and lays down covering fire, hitting Hooch slightly and suppressing any action his gang wants to take. The Despoilers are sure that they have won and want to leave but Hooch reigns them in (Pack Alpha 10+). 

The car of Torres is basically nonfunctional at this point. With a few fixes (good they have a Savy there) they might be able to slowly slowly drive it back home where it would need extensive maintenance though. 

Still, Hooch basically screams over the bulletrain that he wants to start a new Hardhold free from the opression of Gunpowder or Roark and that he really could use Lux and Torres there. He rolls to Manipulate and fails. They clearly see that he is lying and that all of this can’t work. Still, Lux agrees (for different reasons as we would learn OOC later) and she asks Hooch to help her back up the highway. She climbs a bit up and Hooch reaches down, wanting to pull her up.

Torres can’t have that though. He seizes Lux by force while hooch is interfering with that. Both roll a miss. 

Just as Hooch has her hand the bullets start flying again, first nearly missing, then hitting him square in the side/arm. Shocked by the pain he lets go of Lux, letting her fall hard back to the ground. Both take harm. 

Hooch is at 11 on the harm clock now but tries for a last time to … something … I really can’t remember right now. The important thing is, he fails his roll, loses the last of his strenght and falls headfirst over the railway, the same way Lux just did. 

The Despoilers are furious. They want to shoot and kill and desecrate Torres but Lamb stops them, instead urging Torres to save his life or they would kill him. They will find him and kill him. He makes them a counteroffer – they should leave, let the turbine stay where it is and he would take care of Hooch. He rolls a 10+ and the Despoilers leave – for now. 

Torres then gets the near lifeless body of Hooch back to his ambulance willing to bring Hooch back, even though life seems untenable. He will be in deep, deep debt. 

While all of this was happening the Maestro’D Giullia had a “nice”(?) dinner with Roark, his sister Hugo and with the leader of the water-cult and learned a lot about all their relations (when she opens her brain she sees relationship maps between people). 

For example: 

Roark loves her but without lust.

Someone wants to kill Naya (someone from her crew)

Hugo is very very afraid of her brother (but she is in denial about it as we later learnt). 

Giullia also proved herself to be very very scary as her Arresting Skinner stops people from basically everything other then looking at her. She used that ability to have a talk with Hugo without the others being able to think about her words or even really hear/understand them. 

Using the Battle moves seemed a bit awkward at first but near the end we had a hang of them. I think the most fun is had when two parties roll opposing moves against each other and figuring out the fiction that is created by their opposing choices)