The best love letters from last night:

The best love letters from last night:

The best love letters from last night:

Bish

So you’re basically out of action for a week, but Dew is taking care of you. His advances are getting more blatant. He brought you a bouquet of dandelions; when you come out of your fevers he’s there, mopping your brow with a cool(ish) cloth; he offers to give you sponge baths…

Do you?

* Give in to his advances? Roll +weird.

10+: you don’t pass the spirit of the river on to him

7-9: you pass the spirit of the river on to him, but the river wants to protect him

6-: you pass the spirit of the river on to him, and the river wants to consume him now

* Hold him off? How do you do it? Roll +hot.

10+: he accepts it

7-9: he stays, but he needs some sort of sign that maybe someday something

6-: he bails – who takes care of you the rest of the time?

Elton

Nabisco (a ten year old kid) comes to you and tells you that Kevin (Nabisco’s crowbar and imaginary friend) found a gun and shows it to you. It’s a pretty nice revolver. “Will you teach me how to shoot now, will ya, huh?”

Do you:

* Spend the week teaching him to shoot? Roll +sharp

10+: Good work. He’s: a) an okay shot and b) you’re reasonably sure he won’t accidentally harm himself or others.

7-9: Decent work. Choose just one of the above.

6+: Not such good teaching. Choose neither, and he still has the gun … but is open to more lessons.

* Try to confiscate his weapon by giving him a talking to? Roll +hot

10+: He gives it to you because you promised to give it back to him someday when “he’s ready”

7-9: He gives you the bullets.

6+: He gives you nothing, and Kevin’s mad at you.

* Try to confiscate his weapon by threats or force? Roll +hard

10+: You got it. Kevin’s mad at you.

7-9: You got it. Kevin and Nabisco are mad at you.

6-: You didn’t get it, and Nabisco is hiding from you.

What are some of the hard moves you bring for blown PC-on-PC manipulation?

What are some of the hard moves you bring for blown PC-on-PC manipulation?

What are some of the hard moves you bring for blown PC-on-PC manipulation? (I almost always turn it back on them by treating it as if the other PC rolled 10+, and my players are starting to expect it and gaming me…)

I just realized a few days ago that when I use the internet I open my brain to the world’s psychic maelstrom.

I just realized a few days ago that when I use the internet I open my brain to the world’s psychic maelstrom.

I just realized a few days ago that when I use the internet I open my brain to the world’s psychic maelstrom.

I’m very happy with my love letters for tomorrow’s session:

I’m very happy with my love letters for tomorrow’s session:

I’m very happy with my love letters for tomorrow’s session:

Dear Nabisco,

You’ve been delirious on Bish’s infirmary bed ever since you were shot.

What did you dream? Roll +weird.

On a miss, it’s alright I’ll tell you what you dream.

On a 7-9, choose a question and I’ll answer it, or let me choose a question and you can answer it.

On a 10+, choose a question and answer it.

How did you know your mom loved you?

How did you and Kevin meet?

What was a time when you thought you’d lost Kevin?

Exit taught you to read. What did you do for Exit?

Whatever happens, you don’t need to roll your Companion roll this session. Because when you wake up, Kevin is gone.

Dear Ozma,

You need to break those camera phones you got down for parts. As you’re doing that, you discover you can get one of them working again by replacing a couple parts and alligator clipping on a new power source.

Roll Things Speak, but the questions apply to the original owner of the camera phone.

Dear Elton,

You are pretty much in the clover with a shitload of goods, weapons, and a sweet place to live, out of the rain, in Bish’s attic.

Do you:

Enjoy a little vacation?

During your vacation, you just can’t stop looking at that photo of the father and son you took off Bowdy. Open your brain please.

Find another gig doing murder?

Roll +cool. 

On a 10+ you find a job and you agree, they need killing. Why? You take care of it. 

On a 7-9 you find a job but you don’t agree, they don’t need killing. Why not? Do you take care of it anyhow?

On a 6- you find a job and you agree, they need killing, but catastrophe strikes.

Dear Bish,

You’ve been getting to the bottom of Dew’s affliction, which meant taking samples of the dirt and water by Blackriver. While you’re down there, you notice for the first time (strangely enough – how did you not notice this before?) that a lot of people are making their homes / pitching their tents / parking their live-in vehicles near the shores. Which would make sense if it was one of those magical crystal clean rivers you could actually drink from the stories of the olden days, but in the real world it’s fucking batshit crazy. Would you care to:

read the sitch, 

open your brain, 

or just get the samples and get back to the infirmary, which is acting under fire where the fire is this psychically malignant leech infested acid water?

Hey, if you’re looking for some apocalyptica to barf forth, check out Liz Jensen’s The Uninvited – can’t tell you…

Hey, if you’re looking for some apocalyptica to barf forth, check out Liz Jensen’s The Uninvited – can’t tell you…

Hey, if you’re looking for some apocalyptica to barf forth, check out Liz Jensen’s The Uninvited – can’t tell you much more without spoilage. Might be the best thing I’ve read all year, anyway.

I vaguely remember that Jason Morningstar posted a list of alternative apocalypse world names to Story-Games.com…

I vaguely remember that Jason Morningstar posted a list of alternative apocalypse world names to Story-Games.com…

I vaguely remember that Jason Morningstar posted a list of alternative apocalypse world names to Story-Games.com once upon a time, but I can’t find it now. Did I dream it? I love the canonical names, but all of the players in my game have played before, so I’m looking for some new ones…  anybody seen that list?

Have you noticed “Make Apocalypse World Seem Real” is at odds with “Barf Forth Apocalyptica”?

Have you noticed “Make Apocalypse World Seem Real” is at odds with “Barf Forth Apocalyptica”?

Have you noticed “Make Apocalypse World Seem Real” is at odds with “Barf Forth Apocalyptica”?

Frex, Vincent’s example of the dogs that have evolved inner eyelids of blank bone … part of me is like, “You expect me to believe that would evolve in the space of fifty years”?

So I’ve been daydreaming about apocalyptica but most of it I have trouble believing / swallowing … mutants, radiation flats, nature itself deciding to rid earth of the humanity cancer, whatever…

How do you decide whether some apocalyptica you come up with is worth keeping or should be tossed out because it’s not real enough? Or should I be looking at what seems “real” in a different way?