Well, there's another character that can work on people without an angel kit: a savvyhead with lifesupport in his workspace.  In the game I was  (and maybe will be again, I have no idea at this point) MCing, one of the players has a savvyhead and was asking about it, because we have no angel.

I told him that he would never get to just roll dice to see if he can heal somebody straight up, like an angel can.  He'd have to approach it like fixing the driver's car.  I'd tell him things he needs, much of which would probably equate to "angel kit stock" and he'd have to acquire it, then probably make some rolls to act under fire as he applies the stuff, and if all goes well, the person would be in better shape.

I realize I'm probably not telling you anything you don't realize, but I see the medlab, or a workspace with life support, as being more narrative power than mechanical.  If they didn't have that stuff at all and they wanted to patch someone up, I'd basically just say "How?"  Now they can say, "We want to use the medlab to patch this guy up."  and then I have to say, "No problem.  You need this stuff, though."

I've always assumed if you take a new character or switch playbooks you can make the new character or new playbook any playbook, regardless of what's currently in play.  But that isn't based on anything other than my own reading of the text.

Make your moves as the MC. If the Skinner is just gonna stand there stripping for all to see, have more people show up. And then more people. Dozens of people stop what they're doing and go nuts when a) the Skinner stops short or b) hits the naked zone and tries to get dressed and bug out.

The solution to this problem, as the Skinner, is simple: go full bore stripper ninja!  Arm her with knives or a sword, and take, as your out of playbook moves, Impossible Reflexes from the Battlebabe book and Devil with a Blade from the Maestro D' playbook.  So yeah, now you're naked and you've got a bunch of worked up people who want you somethin' fierce, but you've got 2-armor and with your sword you're gonna seize their fuckin' family jewels by force rolling +3.  Bring it!

My understanding was, that as the MC, I needed to answer those questions honestly.  So if there really was no way in fucking hell that Flint would join her family, I think you should have told the player that.  I mean, you could say that Flint says what you said, but since Acacia successfully read him, you should have, in my opinion, made it clear it was a big ol' lie and there really was no way to do it.

As an aside, I also think it's kind of lame if there's really NO way to win him over.  I probably would have presented something difficult but possible.  Like demonstrating conclusively the divine (or whatever) nature of her visions to show she really is the prophet she claims to be.

Well, to drift back into the grammar stuff again, I want to point out that "acumen" and "synergy" are nouns, so they don't fit with the others.

But I think I agree that Hx is "weirder" than the others to try to do this with.

This makes stats narratively full of potential.

Oh they totally are!  And I love that the names of the stats (as adjectives) allow players to say stuff like that, "Crille?  That's one fuckin' hard bitch, man.  You don't wanna mess with her."  And have it be directly related to a stat.

And I like your idea a lot, of calling people with low hard "soft" or people with low cool "volatile."  I'm just glad it's not, ya know, a rule, cuz I think in my case, i'd have to be consulting your chart all the time.  :)

Not that it makes much odds, but doesn't Brett hold the copyright on the Faceless playbook?

Probably at least for some/most of it, yeah.  I dunno if it was ever anything "official" or "legally binding" but I'd gotten the impression that he more or less "gave" it to Vincent to do with as he wished.  I "like" quotation marks.