Like the dead eye of a white carp, the black sun stares through the haze at the rooftop islands of The Wake.  The Wake.  A massive bay of murk, water poisoned by toxins and the psychic miasma of the maelstorm that came with the End.

In the Before, here was a gleaming city full of promise, its spires raised with Promethean defiance towards the heavens.

But now it is half submerged.  Fewer than a hundred towers rise above the surface, and of these only a few as much as a hundred meters.

A few of the towers are close together and are bridged with metal and bio-cord.  The towers house Those Who Remain.

Carrier pigeons and fanboats flit between them now and then.  And pestilence.  And war.

At the south end of The Wake rises its finest tower, its least haunted ghost.  For now.

Here is Babbel.

I like the idea of a general Hx highlighting but my custom move is as much about encouraging interaction when it's not safe as a general call for interaction.
 
Highlighting Hx might serve as well, but you could have a case where Abe's Hx is highlighted and his Hx with Burroughs is -1 and his Hx with Crille is +3 where he just hangs out with Crille for the session and helps her.  I want him to be tempted to help Burroughs and have things go pear-shaped.

But yeah, the people I play with might actually be more likely to help Burroughs than Crille.  That's part of why my gaming has been so great in recent years.

Yeah, that might be good.  Maybe allow one Hx highlighting per session; if a player doesn't do it, the MC has the option.  The interesting thing about that is that you're effectively saying "I want you to help or hinder this other PC during the session.  I want you to mix it up."

An alternative to my "I might regret this but..." above would of course be "help or hinder" if you didn't necessarily want to recommend a cooperative mode but did want the PCs to mix things up not only when it was relatively safe to do so.

"If yah only stick yer neck out for yer brotherman, what use are yah?"
- Weaver Bird

Here's a universal custom periperhal move I intend to propose for my game starting Thursday.

I might regret this but...: If you help another character with whom your Hx is +1 or less, mark an experience circle.

Intent:

1) Additional incentive in the early game for PCs who may not know each other well to help anyway and later incentive to help not only when Hx is +2 or +3.  Missed helping rolls can drive plot.

2) My GM'ing technique tends to lead to slightly fewer rolls than some but I want character improvement to stay apace.

Hmmm...  Looks like I can't edit my post above, but the song is actually called The Order Of Death which contains the refrain "This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get."

I hate not being able to edit.  It's basically the reason I've only lurked at The Forge the last seven or so years.

I've played a battlebabe (Tavi) and an operator (Waters) in fun one-shots with Harper and Rigney, respectively.  But my main character is my brainer Brace.  I adore her.  Enough to subject you all to "let me tell you about my character."

http://greenland.wikidot.com/brace

Brace lives in a corner unit on the third story of the Waverly apartments.  Once grand, they look like they've been mortared into a kind of quiet acquiesence.  Her unit is missing much of the ceiling.  Its dominant features are a large pre-apoc movie projector, rows of film canisters, various army trunks and a low four poster bed.  Grimy, weathered movie posters adorn the walls: Casablanca, White Heat, Chinatown.  

I did a vignette thing about her from a our first session:
http://greenland.wikidot.com/session-1

I'm trying to play her as a non-menacing brainer.  She doesn't like reading people who don't want to be read but does it reluctantly for barter from the hardholder Partridge.  Sometimes she lies to him about what she reads.  She's done it other time but rationalizes "good reasons" why.  She'll give up her million rationalizations if she can just find someone to connect with in a real way.

When she opens her mind to the psychic maelstrom it smells like burning cellophane and the visuals are of grainy, sepia colored old movies.

She just took the Angel's Healing Hands move.  I'm saying she's had it all along but the first and last time she tried it prior to now she rolled snake-eyes and hurt someone.

I decided yesterday to do an AW conversion of the GOTHIC/ECHO game I conducted briefly as a pbp game on Snail's Pace and then some tabletop last weekend.  I'm excited about the prospect and I thought I saw a little overlap between GOTHIC/ECHO's setting (the city of Meridian) and "Knife & Candle."

So after avoiding it forever, I just joined twitter today explicitly to try out this echo bazaar thing.  You are devils.  Any warnings provided should be insufficient to clear your conscience for another echo bazaar enslaving.

Please work faster so I can get on with the thievery.

also, please friend me (or however it works) if you'd like a fellow echo bazaar traveller.