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Apocalypse World / Re: Sniper
« on: February 22, 2012, 10:53:47 AM »
What's the gunlugger's name?
Remember the MC's agenda, principles, and moves. Specifically in this case make Apocalypse World seem real, make your move, but misdirect, look through crosshairs, be a fan of the players' characters, and inflict harm (as established).
To make Apocalypse World seem real, and because I'm a fan, I would allow the ghillie-suited-gunlugger to hide, no sweat. He looks through the scope, lines 'em up, and pulls the trigger. As MC I'd make the inflict harm (as established) move on the biker, while misdirecting its source. I mean, the bullet came from the sniper rifle, not the MC right?
After a vivid description of what the bullet actually does to the unfortunate biker, he hits the broken pavement and skids for a hundred feet. His bike does a 50 mile per hour cartwheel and knocks down a few more bikers before hitting the road and sliding on a shower of white hot sparks (looking through crosshairs, and leaving my bloody fingerprints). I imagine that after this debacle the opportunity for Ghillie to take another safe, clean shot is over. While the bikers are running around trying figure out what the hell just happened and to aid their fallen comrades I'd ask the 'lugger "What do you do?" Does he take another shot? He's still in a position of tactical superiority, so I'd ask him to act under fire, the fire being 'do you give away your position?'. Does he try to get out of there before he's discovered? Either fuck this shit (if he has that move) or act under fire.
I don't see go aggro as the best way of dealing with what a sniper does, I see it as an intimidation move more than anything. "…using violence or the threat of violence to control somebody's behavior, without (or before) fighting." Of course that's open to interpretation and I could be wrong, but I wouldn't use it in a situation like this. Seize by force is problematic here for me too. After the initial shot I would rely heavily on act under fire for this guy, at least until the situation changes. This is where battle-hardened and insano like Drano would really come in handy for him. I'll bet he has at least one of those moves already, since his pastime is murdering people.
Remember the MC's agenda, principles, and moves. Specifically in this case make Apocalypse World seem real, make your move, but misdirect, look through crosshairs, be a fan of the players' characters, and inflict harm (as established).
To make Apocalypse World seem real, and because I'm a fan, I would allow the ghillie-suited-gunlugger to hide, no sweat. He looks through the scope, lines 'em up, and pulls the trigger. As MC I'd make the inflict harm (as established) move on the biker, while misdirecting its source. I mean, the bullet came from the sniper rifle, not the MC right?
After a vivid description of what the bullet actually does to the unfortunate biker, he hits the broken pavement and skids for a hundred feet. His bike does a 50 mile per hour cartwheel and knocks down a few more bikers before hitting the road and sliding on a shower of white hot sparks (looking through crosshairs, and leaving my bloody fingerprints). I imagine that after this debacle the opportunity for Ghillie to take another safe, clean shot is over. While the bikers are running around trying figure out what the hell just happened and to aid their fallen comrades I'd ask the 'lugger "What do you do?" Does he take another shot? He's still in a position of tactical superiority, so I'd ask him to act under fire, the fire being 'do you give away your position?'. Does he try to get out of there before he's discovered? Either fuck this shit (if he has that move) or act under fire.
I don't see go aggro as the best way of dealing with what a sniper does, I see it as an intimidation move more than anything. "…using violence or the threat of violence to control somebody's behavior, without (or before) fighting." Of course that's open to interpretation and I could be wrong, but I wouldn't use it in a situation like this. Seize by force is problematic here for me too. After the initial shot I would rely heavily on act under fire for this guy, at least until the situation changes. This is where battle-hardened and insano like Drano would really come in handy for him. I'll bet he has at least one of those moves already, since his pastime is murdering people.