Welcome to OOC Chatter Part 2!

As I said, boost to the next Rank!  Feel free to make some adjustments to things.  If anyone needs/wants to do a new character, feel free to ask!  Now's a good time!

Reasons for Travelling On:

Harry - I think he feels pretty attached to the Dog and the Driver.  Promises were made.

Kelly - She's partnered with Harry for a while, so I assume she's staying with the truck.  Not sure how beholden she feels to the promises to get it to Bullhead.

Dean - You and Delilah were hired to get the shipment from TexArcana to Lockesburg.  You've discharge your job and then way, way, way more.  Delilah fell in the Battle of Pine Ridge.  Does Dean feel obliged to stick with the Dog as well?  Maybe just to move on down the road and away from another lost friend?

Fletcher - You were sent to escort and help set up the new equipment in Lockesburg.  Did that and, also, WAY way more.  Lockesburg would be damn happy to have you.  TexArcana could use you back as well.  But, you are your own man.  Dog sure could use a mechanic...  What's his reasons?

This, yes. He's also very curious about what they might find in Bullhead, and if The Driver can find whatever it is he seeks.

Oh Kelly wants to get the Black Dog to Bullhead, as far as she's concerned, left on its own, it's a supernatural menace and one that can't easily be defeated by simply killing it.  After all even if you destroy the truck somehow who's to say what the nature of the thing is.

Ughhh  advances are hard.

• On the one hand, I need more Combat Edges because Kelly isn't super effective in combat.  She does okay, but the addition of a small offensive widget like Frenzy or Sweep to actually let her do something besides a basic sword attack could greatly help.  The other problem is do I take the really cool and thematic Templar specific Edges, or the ones that more effective 80%+ of the time.
• On the other hand, very rarely is anything statistically better than just raising your Fighting.  Boring but very effective.
• On the other other mutant growth hand I could take more Power Points which will be beneficial later, but leaves me in the lurch now because it won't really do anything until like 4 advances later...  I'm kind of mechanically penned in to taking two Attribute Advances followed by a skill advance after this advance regardless of what I do, because I need both raw Spirit and Faith traits...
• On the other, other, other mutant growth hand I kind of want to take another power, but my power points pool is teeny tiny and I have a chicken/egg problem, you need the power, you need the power points and you need the Faith as high as possible all at once.  With a d8 Faith I struggle to cast under realistic combat conditions (wound penalties, etc.), much less get the Raise you need to really make those powers sing.

So with the previous Advance we got, does this mean we're effectively at 45 xp? Or are you just bumping us up 3 Advances to the start of Veteran? As far as I recall, we'd only Advanced once before the end of the previous adventure, but I could be mis-remembering that.

You will forgive my using the wrong terminology.  Ahem.

Take An Advance.


Kelly - For Power Points, I am happy to consider the notion of a Fate Chip for Power Point Trade in Scheme.  Or some other last ditch method for power points in extremis.

Eh, to heck with it, I'll take Frenzy-

• It helps against all kinds of opponents
• It synergizes with the Improved Trademark Weapon and Kung Fu (Precision) edges and sort of brings them all together
• It'll work nicely with later advances
• It's more fun than my next 3 advances which will be very beneficial but also really, really boring lol

Ok, so what effective XP should we be at? Looking back at my PMs, it looks like my Tinkering AB was granted as part of a Coup, and not bought with an Advance like I thought, so I am unsure where we're supposed to be, XP-wise. My las Audit had me at 20 xp, which is where we started the game, so I might have missed an Advance.

yeah I'm at 30, which squares to my recollection because I took Kung Fu last and that was the first advance since we started

Kelly, is that 30 with the last Advance?

If so, everyone is at 30!

If not, everyone is at 35!

Then it does look like I never used my previous Advance. So that's 2 Advances to take care of, which I'll do by bumping up all my d6 Skills to d8...that's Driving, Notice, Knowledge (Computer Systems) and Repair.

The first one

Started at 20

got one > 25

just got the second one >30