Well, I'd nix the "On a miss" text, and probably add a third option to the choice list. Something like, "Something nasty stumbles across you as you dally. Zany hijinks ensue."

My boys and girls used some of their personal "expertise" in the matter. We've assumed that most all of the gas is old. Old old old. Stale as stale gets, and probably dirty. Consequently, cars break down and need to be cleaned out much more often, and even then to make the cars run a bit "smoother" they add some moonshine to the mix any time they gas up. I have cheap friends who use old gas looted from junk dealers. They tell me it burns bad but it gets the job done. Usually.

What Vx said. Also, more particularly, is what you're doing and how you're doing it. Are you being all hot, holding your gun like a gangsta, and sayin' "look buddy, either you're gettin' outta my way or you're getting shot," or are you being all hard with your 9mm pressed up against that asshole Vonk's face, trigger halfway squeezed in, damn near shouting, "you get the fuck outta my way right now," like the hardest gun lugger since Doberman? Or, with stat sub, maybe you're all cool with your gun casually pointed at some douche bag's femoral under the table, sayin' all casual like, "you're gonna leave this table alive or in a body bag, your choice, and you make it now." It's all in how you Do It ;)

And yeah, your hard +3 hot-1 machine? He can't use a fake threat of violence cause he doesn't sell it unless he means it, and he just hain't hot enough to fake it. Where the Skinner says, "I'mma cut you if you don't walk away," hand toying with a scalpel, the gunlugger says, "yeah... You're, uh, gonna go. Oh yeah! Or... Or I'm gonna shoot ya. Grrr." 'Cause that's just how hot he is.

Something that might be a little more interesting than rolling two separate h+s rolls would be rolling there dice and dropping the highest. Still, I enjoy the 7-9 stuff better.

From the new "moves explanation" chapter: (if i'm overstepping my bounds posting this, let me know and I'll take it down)

"You Defy Danger when you do something in the face of impending peril. That may seem like a catch-all. It is! Defy Danger is for those times when it seems like you clearly should be rolling but no other move applies.
Defy Danger also applies when you make another move despite danger not covered by that move. For example, Hack and Slash assumes that's you're trading blows in battle—you don't need to Defy Danger because of the monster you're fighting unless there's some specific danger that wouldn't be part of your normal attack.
On the other hand, if you're trying to Hack and Slash while spikes shoot from hidden traps in the walls, you're ignoring a clear and present threat and need to Defy Danger."

Basically, whenever there is danger and you narrate yourself defying it, you Defy Danger.

Actually, on the first time he was Parleyed with a 10+, he said "fuck it, and fuck you". So he rolled Defy (with will, Defying his better judgement with anger), bombed the roll, and I went with a good ol' Seperate Them. I told him he stormed off, furious with the stupid Cleric and his stupid god, and wandered into a group of Kobolds who'd been cowering from previous events. And we all know how terrified animals react when cornered ;)

If he'd rolled 7-9 I'd've given him -1 forward, since he's just kinda ranting to himself in his head and distracted.

Yikes! Totally hadn't meant to open a can of worms with that one ;)

I've no issue with XP coming from Parley per se. My players were doing it a bunch, half because a few of them were being just plain disagreeable, and half because one player in particular was trying to game being disagreeable to gain more XP. Said player, the party Cleric, was largely holding out on healing until folk supplicated his evil god of suffering and blood. CLW was his leverage over allies, trying to get them to do more and more worshipful activities, and he was trying Parley any time there was resistance to it. Largely to game XP for his allies. In addition, he was also having his character be a stick in the mud about pressing onward in a couple ways in the hopes that he would be reciprocally Parleyed.

Again, after I mentioned "Er, guys, we've been playing for an hour and you've been asking every couple of minutes to Parley, can we get on with the adventurin'?" the amount of disagreeableness went down and it wasn't an issue so much.

All in all I was just curious about that XP grab sticking out there when the ways to get XP had been significantly hacked down to more theme addressing things. I saw mention above that 15-20 XP a session wasn't uncommon in some parties, so the drop to "1-4 plus however many times you twig alignment; oh, and Parley," just made the XP mine of Parley seem a little... out of place. I don't see easily better options for it either, outside of ditching it and bringing back "Order Hirelings" or something as a replacement. I like having Parley, though, so I'm not too concerned.

Anyway, off to make some Dungeon Fronts for Keep on the Borderlands. Cheers :)