Apocalypse World OOC

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So healing touch is NOT affected by Sixth sense, which rolls sharp instead of weird whenever "opening brain to maelstrom" happens?

I do think Professional Compassion and Battlefield Grace would fit well in such case. And yeah, as Chiyako says above. It seems... weird. :D

 

Other than that, how would I even start going for Hx questions? Here or somewhere else? And I don't know if I'm missing anything else...

[SataiRolePlayingGuy]

You just pick one of them, ask it here and see who answers.  We have each only done one so far, not sure if we are doing the others after you get your first answered.

[Warning]

In my playbooks, it says that I can ask one, two or three. (For hx purpose). So yeah, I wanted to know how to proceed in that case. Also to find other's questions... x.x

[IsabellaRose]

Just ask your question. If you want to answer mine, it's the same for everyone: can I trust you?

[WritesNaughtyStories]

When they use the move "Open Your Brain" "Sixth Sense" applies. "Healing Touch" is a separate move that can trigger "Open Your Brain" which would roll +sharp if you have "Sixth Sense", but "Healing Touch" rolls +weird.

[SataiRolePlayingGuy]

16 minutes ago, Warning said:

In my playbooks, it says that I can ask one, two or three. (For hx purpose). So yeah, I wanted to know how to proceed in that case. Also to find other's questions... x.x

We each just picked one of them, unless the book said otherwise (Isabella had to ask to a certain one first, and for Dreams it was only figuring out who started with the leash).  It does not matter which for you, me or Chiyako.

[WritesNaughtyStories]

And we're simply taking turns until all the questions are asked. Once an Hx question is asked and answered someone other than one of those two people ask one of your questions.

[Warning]

13 minutes ago, IsabellaRose said:

Just ask your question. If you want to answer mine, it's the same for everyone: can I trust you?

Well, I know the hx question is not the same for all roles. As for my question, my character name is Cassia.

The question I will ask is this: Which one of you put a hand in when it mattered, and helped me save a life?

 

As for Isabella's question itself, answer is Yes.

(And do I need to answer everyone else's question as well? Sorry if I don't know how this works exactly.)

[WritesNaughtyStories]

Each question gets asked and answered once - Violetta just asks the same question multiple times.

[SataiRolePlayingGuy]

Yeah, I just realized it was only one question for the Battlebabe.  After you get your first answer, it will just be 3 of us asking more questions.  Though Dreams and Isabella can answer our questions.

[Chiyako]

@Warning We can say that Kiyo assisted and put a hand in when it mattered, and helped save a life! She enjoys being useful and totally wasn't just doing it for praise and/or treats!

@WritesNaughtyStories Should I be asking another one of my questions now that it seems everyone has gone through and had a turn? Although I suppose Warning still needs to answer the setup question regarding what Cassia was doing during Jazz's gig and if they saw where Yuka went.

Some of us have already answered our own questions regarding that Warning, if you need examples as well!

Edited February 28 by Chiyako

[SataiRolePlayingGuy]

4 minutes ago, Chiyako said:

@Warning We can say that Kiyo assisted and put a hand in when it mattered, and helped save a life! She enjoys being useful and totally wasn't just doing it for praise and/or treats!

@WritesNaughtyStories Should I be asking another one of my questions now that it seems everyone has gone through and had a turn? Although I suppose Warning still needs to answer the setup question regarding what Cassie was doing during Jazz's gig and if they saw where Yuka went.

Some of us have already answered our own questions regarding that Warning, if you need examples as well!

 

5 hours ago, WritesNaughtyStories said:

And we're simply taking turns until all the questions are asked. Once an Hx question is asked and answered someone other than one of those two people ask one of your questions.

With the above, since you answered the last one, I think it is my turn to ask the next question, then you ask one after that.  I'll pick one of those shortly.

[Warning]

7 minutes ago, Chiyako said:

Cassie

The name should be Cassia, not Cassie. Although, I admit I asked chatgpt for this one and they gave me a name that's supposedly related to recovery, battlefield medic like and angelic XD I mean, I am sure that Cassie or Cass might make good "nicknames". Still insecure about trying to find names and my inner side prays it's a good one for her... x.x

Also, despite your explanation, I still have no idea who Jazz (Jasmine?) and Yuka are or what they did and if my character was even partly relevant. With the lack of a set infirmary, she is a wandering healer, I guess? I don't know much if I can make a grand story for her. Not even sure if she has a specific home. I think she'd go where she can be helpful.

Unlike my usual healers, though, she is not the feeble shy personality. (Well the picture speaks for itself and it's another reason I used it). She is not a fighter specifically but also not one who will let herself be stepped on, especially when she is trying to save lives. If there are kinds of "inns" or settlements, she might take rests where it's safe to do so...

[SataiRolePlayingGuy]

Alright, let's go with the big question for Leon:

"Which one of you most evidently dislikes and distrusts me?"

[Chiyako]

14 minutes ago, Warning said:

The name should be Cassia, not Cassie. Although, I admit I asked chatgpt for this one and they gave me a name that's supposedly related to recovery, battlefield medic like and angelic XD I mean, I am sure that Cassie or Cass might make good "nicknames". Still insecure about trying to find names and my inner side prays it's a good one for her... x.x

Also, despite your explanation, I still have no idea who Jazz (Jasmine?) and Yuka are or what they did and if my character was even partly relevant. With the lack of a set infirmary, she is a wandering healer, I guess? I don't know much if I can make a grand story for her. Not even sure if she has a specific home. I think she'd go where she can be helpful.

Unlike my usual healers, though, she is not the feeble shy personality. (Well the picture speaks for itself and it's another reason I used it). She is not a fighter specifically but also not one who will let herself be stepped on, especially when she is trying to save lives. If there are kinds of "inns" or settlements, she might take rests where it's safe to do so...

Sorry! I think I was rushing while I replied. Am busy doing other stuff too. I've editted my mistake!

Jazz should be Jasmine. @DreamsnThings character. They are The Show, a post-apocalypse bard with traveling music set. The setup that @WritesNaughtyStories gave us originally was:
 

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So, Leon: you have Jasmine's leash, tell me about where her gig was last night.

Jasmine, there was someone who caught your eye in the crowd, who was it and what made you notice them.

Violetta, did you go to the gig? If you did who else from your little settlement was there? If not, tell us about what the venue looks like from outside and how the settlement feels about it.

Kiyo, we're you at the gig? If so who runs the venue and what are they like? If you didn't go, what were you doing while Jasmine's music thundered through sky and sand around you.

Oh yeah, and did anyone see Bozzman's squeeze Yuka last night? 

We've answered our portions of that question, for setting up the beginning plot and setting of the game, so they were also trying to set up your character into the scene as well. So far our replies have been the following (just so you don't need to go searching for them):

Kiyo's Reply:

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Kiyo was there! Kiyo was in the dark rafters within the top of the venue, watching everything down below, not because it gave her the feeling of being bigger than everyone else but totally only to get a good view. She was volunteering to be both lookout and secret faraway security from above! It definitely wasn't to keep away from the crowds because she definitely isn't scared of crowds, and she will grumble at anyone who tries to say otherwise!

The person running the venue was some big, burly, sort of handsome in a rough way man. A mutant sort of resembling a big lizard, with a scar over one eye and a sharp-toothed smile that definitely wasn't at all frightening! She thinks his name was Vrax. He seemed like the sort who is reasonable, if not kind of stubborn and kind of intimidating, but also the sort who maybe lets his gaze linger a bit too much on the ladies. Kiyo definitely saw him make out with one or two through the night, and they were definitely getting it on with someone but Kiyo definitely looked away and didn't watch at all because, after all, Kiyo is very good at her job and would never get distracted by things! Also she was promised treats if she did a good job and she definitely kept an eye on everything and missed nothing, not even when Vrax was making deals with some other shady group of people who she may or may not have spied on a little.

Kiyo sees all and definitely saw Yuka. Vrax was looking too but didn't do anything, he probably knew better. She did see Yuka talking to one of the shady group people for a bit but she also had more important things to look at so she didn't watch for too long.

Jasmine's Reply:

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So jasmines attention was taken not by a "who" but more of a "what"... she kept seeing doubles... not the same person next to one another or something like that, but she swore she saw leon in two different places on opposite sides of the location... she saw someone with a unicorn horn enter the bathroom one second before the next she saw the same man hitting on the barkeep... she even swore she saw kiyo mad dash out of the building before spotting her in the rafters in the same glance around? She swore she saw the same people too many times in too many places... one always seeming busy well the other seemed to be enjoying the music.... it was really weird...

But shes used to the weird... she probably asked leon about both things she saw him doing... but he only knew about the one he actually did...

Violetta's Reply:

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Of course Violetta went. Everyone who mattered did. The hyena fixer, Ravik, was there, leaning against a rusted pillar like he owned the air. He had told her he had a job for her, but she told him to wait til after the show. So was Bram, the wall of muscle that protected the hardholder, pretending not to watch her in a way that tagged him as either her next conquest or her biggest problem... maybe both. But her eyes were inevitably drawn back again and again to Velour, the androgynous fox who was either a seducer or a killer. She felt a connection to them; perhaps it was simply two like souls, dangerous, predatory, and hungry... perhaps it was more.

Leon's Reply:

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Leon had not expected this when he was driven off from his old pride and into the city.  But he became something of a mix of a bodyguard and agent to a musician.  Perhaps they were other things in private too.  The fact she wore a leash and seemed compelled to have someone hold it and guide her suited him fine.  It went along with both his Brainer instincts and it in some ways felt both similar and different to the women of his tribe.

All this meant, he was happy to let her perform.  But he was careful about where and protective.  He did not like other males showing too much of a certain interest in her.  Though he was always less bothered by what women did with each other.  It was similar in the old pride.  One man, numerous women, it was not uncommon for the women to do things with each other.  Nothing wrong with that as far as he was concerned.  If anything it helped make them a stronger group.

Granted in a world like this, you often did not have as much control as you would like.  But it at least meant there were some options that were too much trouble to agree to.  In this case it was a basement of an old large building.  Open, a sort or place with a bit of a history of such performances.  While arguably nowhere in the city was completely safe, it was at least a little safer than many options.  He kept his eye on things from the back, where he was just out of sight of most of the audience but able to keep Jasmine in sight.

So the next part of setting up the initial plot setting would be asking about Cassia, which was: tell me what you were doing during Jazz's gig last night. Did you see where Yuka went?

Essentially we're being given some freedom to kind of set up some of how it went in preparation for the first setting, if that helps! Nothing was super elaborated about Yuka, I think it's more a name we can hook things onto for now for building up stuff, and we can kind of make some of the stuff up ourselves.

Also Cassia really does work as a good name sorry I got it wrong!

Edited February 28 by Chiyako

[Warning]

I imagine I still have the time to change the name if I want to? Because I am trying to work on something right now. Trying to find a good healer/angel name. :P

[SataiRolePlayingGuy]

I don't think it was elaborated on who Yuka (or Bozzman) is.  They seem just to be people at the gig that we were asked if were seen for maybe some early story implications.

[SataiRolePlayingGuy]

On 23/02/2026 at 15:34, DreamsnThings said:

Guess I should properly write out Jasmine myself

no matter the point in history one thing always brings people together, be it cavemen on mamoth skin drums, a tavern with a bard playing on a guitar, or something more classy like a piano in a fine hotel... music brings people together, and in a way, is the best way to keep the world worth living in. this was the mindset of jamine, a lover of music in all forms, she just wants to make the world a better place...at least by her own definition.

The problem? she was absolutely horrid at taking care of herself... so doing what any proper musician would do, she focused on making the world better through music... and left that survival stuff to be someone else's problem. they'll like a better world right?...

thats where things get... odd, she has never really answered questions about where shes from properly, always sidestepping the question or otherwise leaving the conversation entirely. no one close to jasmine seems to know anything concrete about her origins.

Cool+1 Hard-1 Hot+2 Sharp=0 Weird+1

Rig Coices
You have a wide assortment of instruments and can play them all
When you play, you fill the air from horizon to horizon, and people miles away feel the earth rumble
There’s basically always some number of people around who want eagerly to have sex with you. Whenever you feel like it, ask the MC who they are this time.

Gear
a flexible neon blue jumpsuit with pink highlights, stockings, black combat boots, and a collar, collectively worth 1-armor.
a weapon... apparently if we did not have a battlebabe I could make a custom one? but since we do i need to pick one or two from another playbook.. I have no clue how this works, but if we can make my Axe both a guitar and a... well axe... that would be cool!
woman, branded wear, enchanting face, liquid eyes, lush body

Leon currently has Jasmines leash

 

 

now a few questions, how do highlighted stats work? do we pick one? two? or are they defined somewhere? is there somewhere talking about weapons i missed? aparently i have a lot of options to generate NPC's, gangs, or vehicles... so well the above is what im going with currently, if someone can... explain those to me i may adjust things

Quoting Jasmine’s profile so it can be seen easier.  That profile and Cassia eventually have to be copied to character thread too.  Though Cassia especially could wait until you have everything figured out and put together.

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57 minutes ago, Chiyako said:

Also Cassia really does work as a good name sorry I got it wrong!

Yeah, I know I overthink a lot. It's not that big of a deal but I hate feeling unsure about things. (Which I always do. XD) Other choices were Seraphina or Astra. I appreciate your input though. I suppose I will never find a name if I search for a "better" one anyway. The curse of being unsure all the time AND indecisive. I hate the feeling.

 

Btw, what I read of your post is really just a cover for "What were your character doing? Period." XD I mean, I get that Jazz/Yuka seems to be a plot point in the timeline but I guess it just mean "Up until the start point, what was the character doing?" Yeah yeah, overthinking again :P Anyhow, I think my old answer for it still holds on.

If I have to narrate it somehow, it's pretty much "She has been wandering around where she might be required to help wounded people." Very archaic medic response but about accurate. Doubt she knows the two before-mentioned characters so she moves and goes around. But this does bring a question to me regarding this.

I believe the story is supposed to bring characters (or some?) for reasons? Either as allies, or enemies or neutral. (From what I read in the playbook). This includes potentially good and bad NPCs. I never did this kind of thing before so it's hard to make up an intro but what she was doing probably boils down to "trying to find "work""

 

9 minutes ago, SataiRolePlayingGuy said:

Quoting Jasmine’s profile so it can be seen easier.  That profile and Cassia eventually have to be copied to character thread too.  Though Cassia especially could wait until you have everything figured out and put together.

Oh shi~ Okay, now that I see that Jasmine is an actual character, that's one piece of the puzzle actually fitting somewhere. AND she is the time plot point used for what others are doing. That still doesn't tell me much since I guess they will meet sometimes. Unless... they're supposed to all know each others, by visuals or by name?

Edited February 28 by Warning

[Chiyako]

2 minutes ago, Warning said:

Yeah, I know I overthink a lot. It's not that big of a deal but I hate feeling unsure about things. (Which I always do. XD) Other choices were Seraphina or Astra. I appreciate your input though. I suppose I will never find a name if I search for a "better" one anyway. The curse of being unsure all the time AND indecisive. I hate the feeling.

 

Btw, what I read of your post is really just a cover for "What were your character doing? Period." XD I mean, I get that Jazz/Yuka seems to be a plot point in the timeline but I guess it just mean "Up until the start point, what was the character doing?" Yeah yeah, overthinking again :P Anyhow, I think my old answer for it still holds on.

If I have to narrate it somehow, it's pretty much "She has been wandering around where she might be required to help wounded people." Very archaic medic response but about accurate. Doubt she knows the two before-mentioned characters so she moves and goes around. But this does bring a question to me regarding this.

I believe the story is supposed to bring characters (or some?) for reasons? Either as allies, or enemies or neutral. (From what I read in the playbook). This includes potentially good and bad NPCs. I never did this kind of thing before so it's hard to make up an intro but what she was doing probably boils down to "trying to find "work""

I don't think we've really fully established how we as a group came together quite yet (although Leon and Jasmine are a bit closer on this note, since Leon holds her leash). I think that stuff gets established more in the game? Or I imagine if people decided they wanted to flesh out more of their background with one another on a case by case basis? Right now I think it is more assumed that we are something of a crew and more of that gets explored through the questions we ask and in the course of the game itself.

This is more what do you think your character might do in this specific situation (so during one of Jasmine's gigs what might your character be doing), and whether or not they saw where this Yuka character went (allowing you to add some things about Yuka through stating where you might have seen them gone, or deciding not to by simply saying you didn't see them, and perhaps then maybe expanding on Cassia by saying what they might have been doing instead). I think answering that Cassia was wandering around making sure everyone was fine and nobody was injured might work well enough as an answer, if you wanted to leave it at that. Or you could make up something else that they were maybe responding to (for example, could say that maybe a short fight had broken out between X and Y, and that Cassia was tending to their wounds after their dispute had been settled, in which case you could completely make up who X and Y were if you really wanted to). It's all about setting the stage while building up Cassia a bit more as a character.

All that said it might be easier to also answer them once you do finish the other things about Cassia, but that really depends on what helps you more with building her as a character.

[SataiRolePlayingGuy]

The Hx answers make some connections, but beyond that, yeah, it is not clear how connected they are other than Leon and Jasmine.  Some or all of them might know each other, but have to see to what extent there is an actual preexisting group.

[Warning]

Right. So if we're somehow "related", either by crew stuff. OR by knowing each others somehow, I'd gladly make up a story for that. I assume this is why Hx questions make sense. However, from what I get, I think hx can be answered by many partners due to how friendship between characters build? It's normally (everyone do a turn of table to see each characters know each others) so it's not just 1 answer per question. The way we're currently doing this seems to be very odd when it comes to actual systems. Or do I get this wrong?

You can normally also ask all questions available in ONE turn. as the playbook says: Go around again for Hx. On your turn, ask 1, 2, or all 3:. Here I was told to only ask one for someone else to answer but not everyone? I think what we want is to group all questions AND answers and mark everyone with a number of hx on our characters. Otherwise, we're breaking out of a lot of possible social stats that we're supposed to get. Just trying to understand but yeah... Each character need to build a social profile with the other characters.

Edited February 28 by Warning

[Chiyako]

So for this system we have each question more or less answered by only one other person, because each question has a related Hx amount (which is a way to kind of show how well you might think you know another character). It also builds unique little things between individual characters that they might not share with another.

For example, Kiyo doesn't trust Violetta as much since she left Kiyo bleeding (which was one of Kiyo's questions that Violetta answered). So Kiyo starts with Hx-2 with Violetta. And I also tied that into her backstory (which I might try to do with the others as stuff is asked further).

It says after each question you ask within your sheet what the Hx amount will be towards the one who answers.

[Warning]

1 minute ago, Chiyako said:

It says after each question you ask within your sheet what the Hx amount will be towards the one who answers.

Riiight. "For that character". And everyone else gets hx+1. OKAY that makes sense now. One who already answered another question COULD answer one from another character no? Since only the question begs for one characters. Point is, should we not just ask all questions we want in a single post? To get a highlight, we just need a character with most hx.

[Chiyako]

5 minutes ago, Warning said:

Riiight. "For that character". And everyone else gets hx+1. OKAY that makes sense now. One who already answered another question COULD answer one from another character no? Since only the question begs for one characters. Point is, should we not just ask all questions we want in a single post? To get a highlight, we just need a character with most hx.

Correct! We ask one at a time, and someone answers. You want to answer only one of some other character's questions but you could theoretically answer one for each character. And each question should only be answered by one person. So my question that I asked for Kiyo was answered by Violetta. Nobody else would answer that one, but I do have others to ask later. Violetta wouldn't want to answer another one of my questions. I did answer one for Casia, so I probably shouldn't answer another of her questions. But I could answer other people's questions. And Leon just asked another one.