We're on our second game, and I get a kick out of the re-used names.

Princey, the funny-looking kid who runs errands/self-impressed dancer-whore

Kettle, the desperate old mud-fisher/the guard who's an easy mark for a Skinner

Wisher, leader of the hill-mutants/over-eager wanna-be Savvyhead

The monster section looks awesome. 

One thing I forgot to mention: we did not use formal initiative even with the larger group of four players.  I just let everything flow like AW, with frequent jumps from player to player to find out what they were doing next.  It worked just fine.

Mudfish were the larval phase of garbage eels, reminiscent of the trash monster in Star Wars.

Lobos, giant mutant wolf/coyote/dog creatures.

I never got to use the butterbloods, lovely butterflies who laid eggs that hatched into flesh-eating caterpillars.

Second session, same characters, once again in lieu of our regular AW game.  This one didn't go as well as the first.  It was a "town adventure", just following the PCs around as they tried to get more information about Quinn's observatory and the silver dagger.  The PCs had a lot of failures.  The combination of no specific dungeon to explore, and problem after problem arising from the bad rolls, made it feel too rambly and loose, and a little Keystone Kops.  I think I was running it too much like an AW session.

Some highlights:

- I tried out the fence-the-goods move I posted in the Treasure thread.  The PCs failed (the perils of dump stats), so they didn't get much for their stuff, and attracted some unwanted attention to their dagger and exploits.  It got me thinking of how it might work in different situations.  Do you roll once for the whole pile, or divide the loot into meaningful subsets?   Does each PC roll for their own share?  I guess it would be up to the PCs, and how they played it out. 

- There were lots of maneuvers that didn't map easily on to the available moves: climbing a tree to get away from monsters, bowling over an opponent in a fistfight, fighting over control of a weapon, etc.  We adapted existing moves as best we could: Defy Danger for fighting over the knife, Hack and Slash for tripping somebody with slightly different outcomes (instead of delivering damage, you successfully get your enemy on the ground). 

- There was some frustration about the questions you could ask using discern realities or spout lore.  They break down a bit when the characters want to know about a more general siituation, like best escape routes out of town when you kill a drunk elf in a street brawl while surrounding by a crowd of witnesses...

- It's hard to treat the characters as heroes when they feed an urchin girl to an alligator so they can escape.  I think we've been playing too much AW...

Experience gain from Hx is not going to be a huge contributor to advancement, though.  If no one gives anyone -1 Hx, then on average it will take three sessions to go from +1 to +4 with somebody.  That's going to be a small percentage of total xp gain.  Reset-and-give-xp seems mostly about preventing everyone from having permanently maxed-out Hx with everyone else.

In our last session my PC helped another PC read a person with whom they were having an audience of sorts.  I pictured it as the other PC doing most of the talking while my PC would occasionally quirk an eyebrow, make a comment, etc.  Kind of double-teaming.

Good Cop/Bad Cop: one PC rolls +sharp while the other rolls to help.  On a 10+, choose 2.  On a 7-9, choose 1.

- the Bad Cop received the benefit of going aggro with a 10+.
- the Good Cop received the benefit of seducing/manipulating with a 10+.