I was the keep liege.  In regards to trying to capture that guy, I only ever spent for armor and position.  Now that I think of it, maybe we did things wrong, so I have 2 alternatives to present:
1) (the way we did it in game)
  a) roll dice to determine available points
  b) allocate points
  c) assign harm
  d) check for victory
    i) if tied, assign 3 more points
   ii) assign harm
  iii) check for victory

2) (the way I think maybe we should have done it)
  a) roll dice to determine available points
  b) allocate points
  c) check for victory
    i) while tied, assign 3 more points, continue until no longer tied
  d) assign harm

I think the reason he would have died is that he got harm assigned twice off of 1 roll

This calls for a new custom move!

When you hang out and don't really do much or pursue any kind of agenda roll +Hot
On a 10+ the MC chooses 1 of:
Someone important has heard of you, and wants to pay you an extravagant fee to do a job for them.
You are befriended by someone with hidden resources.
You have a prophetic dream in which the Psychic Maelstrom reveals a hidden treasure to you.

On a 7-9 the MC chooses 1 of:
Someone important has heard of you, and wants you to do a job for them.
You are befriended by someone who isn't really important or powerful in any way.
You have a prophetic dream in which the Psychic Maelstrom reveals a hidden threat to you.

On a 6- the MC chooses 1 of:
Someone important has heard of you, and wants to blackmail you into doing a job for them.
You are befriended by someone with a lot of enemies.
You have a prophetic dream in which the Psychic Maelstrom reveals a hidden treasure to you - but it's actually a hidden threat.

(More seriously - my thought behind this was that if someone doesn't have a particular agenda they want to push, they should be allowed to not push an agenda.  Failing to push an agenda is, in a way, an invitation for the MC to push their agenda instead.  My suspicion (WARNING! WARNING! Attributing thoughts and intentions to other people - may be highly inaccurate!) is that when the OP had his battlebabe walk into town like that, he was expecting something along the lines of 'The Hardholder sees that you are a badass, and offers you a job, which is full of danger, and excitement, and opportunities to kick ass and take names, even if it doesn't really have anything to do with your personal agenda.'  As someone who is occasionally drained by the level of input a lot of story games require, I think that's a perfectly understandable approach.

I got an ereader for unrelated reasons, but I've been pleasantly surprised to find that you can read Apocalypse World on it pretty well.  Kinda small, but what do you expect on an ereader.

So - if two characters have advanced manipulation, and one of them hits a 12 on a manipulation role, that NPC is no longer a threat, and becomes an ally of the manipulator.  What happens if the second character manipulates that NPC, and hits a 12?