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A Few Bulbs Short Of A Planetarium
Like a lot of my games and Quests these days, this one starts with an explanation as to what inspired this bout of crazy. See, I have a confession to make: The Affairs of Ladies and the whole Order of the Jeweled Crest stuff sprung from a story I wanted to do in another setting which I called Super Kemono, well before I heard of Kemono Friends and which I kept because I liked "Super Kemonocross" as a pun for what I imagined as a setting about little critters building crazy shit and then hooning it like a rental. Anybody remember that Quest I tried to do where it was Precure fairy-style mascots in combat mechs? That's what this setting became.
Picture what happens if you cold-brewed Jewelpet, Jimmy Neutron and Redline together in a pitcher in your fridge overnight, and you basically have what the Super Kemono world is like. I had the idea of using them to make fun of a setting I didn't much care for by having them and the magical girls of the Order show exactly how I thought magical girls would really conduct themselves in that story, and I fell in love with the ideas that spawned so much that they had to be their own things, and so both the Order and the Super Kemono were properly born.
This also is something of an experiment: I've never actually played Marvel Heroic before but I've seen a lot of actual play of it and I know how it's supposed to work. One of the reasons I fell in love with it was because of the ability to basically stat anything and have it work out just fine: there are next to no limits as to what you can stat as a character so long as you can boil them down to a power set, some FATE-style aspects, known as Distinctions, and some other details, especially with the rich Plot Points system, which inspired all of my "your players/you get to cheat/trigger special effects" systems from then on.
So I thought: "I wonder if you could play a one-man team as a single entity this way?" and I hit on this as a Quest idea. Super Kemono are small Jewelpet-like creatures that come up to about your knee in height and work on three principles: one, they solve all their problems by driving. Two, if they can't drive it, and even if they can but for some reason don't feel like driving something they're offered, they'll build it and they'll do it in a way that'd put the A-Team or any of the roving gangs of motorized weirdos in Mad Max to shame. Three, they're like the Muppets as Jim Henson pictured them: every story ends with them eating or blowing up something important, or both, in either order. Whichever order is funnier.
Oh yeah, and the Order and the Super Kemono are aware of one another and like each other. The Order think the Super Kemono are upstanding even if they have a habit of eating friends out of house and home and finding new and interesting ways to crash their custom cars through the scenery, and the Super Kemono think the Order are awesome for sticking their necks out to save the world.
So without further ado, I present a truly ridiculous experiment of mine, right up there with the All Outta Bubblegum games where everybody was cats…
***
The Benefactors.
Interdimensional bringers of either pure chaos or a twisted idea of order, neither of which sits well with the Super Kemono, a rolling riot of fun and skyrocketing car insurance rates that wanders dimensions looking for new ideas for stuff to build, new friends, and open roads.
Because of their common enemies and similar desires for freedom for everybody, they're good friends with the Order of the Jeweled Crest, a globe-spanning society of magical girls who fight the good fight against the Benefactors and their agents. It's just that their ideas on how to do that are totally different thanks to solving all their problems with good engineering, a Mad Max-ian level of dangerous convoy antics and a wonder fuel called Detonol.
They'll happily go wherever the Order needs them, whooping, hollering and acting like the world's cutest biker gang, and this first one seems like a pretty simple one: they've got this package, see, and it needs a convoy to get it to this place. You've probably never heard of it, it's called "Strawberry Hill" or something? A bunch of Super Kemono driving real fast should be able to get this done from Le Fay Palace in time for dinner, but just in case, they're going to send some of their best to do it. One of the feared and respected Motor Clubs, guys from the Super Kemono's home of Tinker Land. Specifically, Rumble City, their biggest metropolis and a place where the Motor Clubs rule and always have a place to show their skills (and sell their custom jobs) because there are no speed limits.
This gang of speed freaks is led by…
[] Two awesome best friends
[] A king and his four elite knights
[] A couple of plucky girls
[] Three complete lunatics
Picture what happens if you cold-brewed Jewelpet, Jimmy Neutron and Redline together in a pitcher in your fridge overnight, and you basically have what the Super Kemono world is like. I had the idea of using them to make fun of a setting I didn't much care for by having them and the magical girls of the Order show exactly how I thought magical girls would really conduct themselves in that story, and I fell in love with the ideas that spawned so much that they had to be their own things, and so both the Order and the Super Kemono were properly born.
This also is something of an experiment: I've never actually played Marvel Heroic before but I've seen a lot of actual play of it and I know how it's supposed to work. One of the reasons I fell in love with it was because of the ability to basically stat anything and have it work out just fine: there are next to no limits as to what you can stat as a character so long as you can boil them down to a power set, some FATE-style aspects, known as Distinctions, and some other details, especially with the rich Plot Points system, which inspired all of my "your players/you get to cheat/trigger special effects" systems from then on.
So I thought: "I wonder if you could play a one-man team as a single entity this way?" and I hit on this as a Quest idea. Super Kemono are small Jewelpet-like creatures that come up to about your knee in height and work on three principles: one, they solve all their problems by driving. Two, if they can't drive it, and even if they can but for some reason don't feel like driving something they're offered, they'll build it and they'll do it in a way that'd put the A-Team or any of the roving gangs of motorized weirdos in Mad Max to shame. Three, they're like the Muppets as Jim Henson pictured them: every story ends with them eating or blowing up something important, or both, in either order. Whichever order is funnier.
Oh yeah, and the Order and the Super Kemono are aware of one another and like each other. The Order think the Super Kemono are upstanding even if they have a habit of eating friends out of house and home and finding new and interesting ways to crash their custom cars through the scenery, and the Super Kemono think the Order are awesome for sticking their necks out to save the world.
So without further ado, I present a truly ridiculous experiment of mine, right up there with the All Outta Bubblegum games where everybody was cats…
***
The Benefactors.
Interdimensional bringers of either pure chaos or a twisted idea of order, neither of which sits well with the Super Kemono, a rolling riot of fun and skyrocketing car insurance rates that wanders dimensions looking for new ideas for stuff to build, new friends, and open roads.
Because of their common enemies and similar desires for freedom for everybody, they're good friends with the Order of the Jeweled Crest, a globe-spanning society of magical girls who fight the good fight against the Benefactors and their agents. It's just that their ideas on how to do that are totally different thanks to solving all their problems with good engineering, a Mad Max-ian level of dangerous convoy antics and a wonder fuel called Detonol.
They'll happily go wherever the Order needs them, whooping, hollering and acting like the world's cutest biker gang, and this first one seems like a pretty simple one: they've got this package, see, and it needs a convoy to get it to this place. You've probably never heard of it, it's called "Strawberry Hill" or something? A bunch of Super Kemono driving real fast should be able to get this done from Le Fay Palace in time for dinner, but just in case, they're going to send some of their best to do it. One of the feared and respected Motor Clubs, guys from the Super Kemono's home of Tinker Land. Specifically, Rumble City, their biggest metropolis and a place where the Motor Clubs rule and always have a place to show their skills (and sell their custom jobs) because there are no speed limits.
This gang of speed freaks is led by…
[] Two awesome best friends
[] A king and his four elite knights
[] A couple of plucky girls
[] Three complete lunatics
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A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
[X] A king and his four elite knights
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Douchiest of Bags
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[X] Three complete lunatics
Why is there no wtf button?
Why is there no wtf button?
The Three Stooges: Enter The Nyan1 Club
Hoshino Yumemi
A Few Bulbs Short Of A Planetarium
Huh. Another deadlock...seeing as this just keeps happening with me, a friend off of SV made a suggestion as to which of these should be given the big dance, so here they are:
[X] Three Complete Lunatics
A Knight running an ice-cold stand that appears to be in the business of making crepe cakes hands the package off to a Club led by two cats - a Japanese Bobtail, a Russian Blue and...whatever the long-eared alien-looking thing with them is. Some kind of bunny-cat?
None of them looks even passably normal even if one were to turn them into humans. The bobtail, Bitzer, rocks a full jet fighter pilot's helmet done up in rich red, pure white and deep green like he's a Christmas candy and just wears pants with suspenders...or maybe that's a parachute harness...with no top. It's somehow even weirder than if he just wore a shirt. Then there's the Blue, who goes by Zero, with unnatural hairline-thin seams on his body, a breather mask and augmented reality goggles that obscure his face, a red cloak and a futuristic suit with prints on it all pointing at the idea that maybe he's not entirely biological. Finally, there's Hildegard, the...cabbit? Rabicat? Whatever. The huge, long ears and Mad Max-ian scavenger look of too little chrome and black leather make her look like a unique nut in a group full of them. They're surrounded by other Super Kemono: all of them dress similarly, borrowing bits of each other's dress so they all look like crazy, yet still somehow huggable, wasteland scavengers.
The Knight hands them a box about the size of a stereo and carefully instructs them like she'd had to repeat this several times already: "So, look. This stuff has to reach Strawberry Hill, and that means it's gotta get into the town, hear me? If it gets smashed up, we're toast!"
"Heyyyyy, no worries, lady! You're talking to a Club where it's a megawatt per ton or your money back! We'll get it there for you in time for coffee!" Bitzer proudly boasts, before leaning in and asking "...you've got a pot on, right? Like, percolating and everything?"
"Just get going, will you?!" she snaps.
"Alright, we'll talk about it when we're back."
"Come on, we don't need your back teeth wiggling while we're driving. Let's bounce," Zero says, his mask fitted with an effect that gave him a deep, mechanical, Darth Vader-y rumble almost deliberately at odds with his language and bearing.
"Yeah, we're burning daylight. We need to go."
Nyan1 files out of Le Fay Palace to the underground parking structure, where their assembly of equally insane-looking vehicles all sporting big multi-cylinder engines, screaming multi-rotor rotaries, howling turbojets or shafts, or all three in some cases, wait.
Nyan1: Three Complete Lunatics
A crazy Club from one of Rumble City's most colorful districts, the Fryers, considered where the city goes to eat. They're a threesome defined by their specialties: group leader Bitzer is obsessed with turbine power, his right hand Zero is a genius with all things rotary, and one of the top members, Hildegard, refuses to work on a piston engine with less than a double digit cylinder count. What unites them all is their deep obsession with power: they famously claim to customers that they never sell something with a power-weight ratio of less than one megawatt (that's 1,341 horsepower) per ton, and they've never gone back on that promise. The result? Beautifully-engineered gems that everyone is terrified will blow up on launch.
Affiliation Dice
Solo d10
Buddy d8
Team d6
[This is the first part of a dice pool built in MHRP. Basically, it gives a die based on if you're Solo, meaning you're alone, with a Buddy, which means you're with one or two people, or a Team, where you're obviously with more. It describes how well you work under any given circumstance. The Nyan1 Club is statted like a single character, so if it's just them, they're obviously Solo.]
Distinctions (d8 or d4 +1 Plot Point)
Three Styles, One Roof
More Courage Than Sense
Pint-Sized Mad Scientists
[Distinctions are sort of like Aspects in FATE: you can add them to a dice pool as a positive thing for a free d8, or you can take a d4 and one Plot Point to invoke them negatively. Plot Points are your "you get to cheat" points, adding extra dice from Power Sets, allowing the player to automatically do counterattacks without waiting for their opponent to roll a 1 in their pool, or triggering special abilities and powers. See, that way the d4 is doubly risky because if you roll a 1 on dice - any dice, it opens the way for bad guys to do all sorts of bad things, like activating Limits and creating Opportunities that can be exploited for free counterattacks and other nasty outcomes. On the other hand, some characters can play off this pretty well - as you'll see further down.]
Powers
Power Set 1: Nerds With Gnarly Skills
Bitzer d10
Zero d10
Hildegard d10
Crew Guys d6
SFX: You, You And You: Spend a Plot Point or establish in a Transition scene for free that the Crew Guys are a group. Their presence in a dice pool is now represented as a pool of three d6es. Up to two of these dice can be removed to mitigate damage.
SFX: Areas Of Expertise: Alter pools in the following manner according to circumstances:
If rolling for something concerning turbines or jet propulsion and Bitzer is in the pool, step his die up by 1. Additionally, if Bitzer is in the pool, you can use the Acrobatic Expert d8 Specialty.
If rolling for something concerning rotary engines and Zero is in the pool, step his die up by 1. Additionally, if Zero is in the pool, you can use the Combat Expert d8 Specialty.
If rolling for something concerning piston engines with 10 cylinders or more total and Hildegard is in the pool, step her die up by 1. Additionally, if Hildegard is in the pool, you can use the Psych Expert d8 Specialty.
Finally, during Transition Scenes, all three of these SFX are normally considered triggered.
SFX: Working The Problem: Spend a Plot Point or activate on an Opportunity to add Bitzer, Zero or Hildegard to a roll any one of them is a part of, stepped down by 1. Their Specialties also trigger. Alternately, you may inflict the d6 Complication "Too Many Cooks" on yourself to activate Working The Problem.
SFX: Crazy Enough To Work: Spend a Plot Point to reroll the entire pool. You must take the second result. Alternately, you may inflict the d8 Complication "What's The Matter With You?!" on an ally for a reroll.
Limit: Group Dynamics: Shut down any one die in the Nerds With Gnarly Skills power set and gain a Plot Point. Roll against the Doom Pool or take an Opportunity to regain that die.
Limit: Shorthanded: The Nyan1 Club can show up to scenes shorthanded, missing up to one or numerous members. Their SFX, Limits, and dice are shut down for the entirety of the scene unless circumstances permit their arrival.
Limit: Called Shot: Enemies can call a certain single character's die while declaring an attack. On defense rolls, they must be included in the pool and cannot refuse. This goes for characters in the power set that are actually present there; an enemy can't call an attack on any one member that isn't present for some reason or another.
Power Set 2: A Megawatt Per Ton
Sleek, Sexy Bodywork d6
Aviation Construction Methods d8
Attractive, Yet Inadequate, Tires d6
Detonol Fuel d10
Dyno-Breaking Engines d12
Weaponized Car Parts d8
SFX: The Answer To Everything: Dyno-Breaking Engines can be split into 2d10 or 3d8.
SFX: I'm Giving Her All She's Got!: Add a die of the player's choosing to the pool, but the player then inflicts it on themselves as Physical Stress.
SFX: Cue The Music: Roll against the Doom Pool during a Transition Scene. If successful, the Effect Die the player rolled becomes an Asset representing a hastily constructed contraption of the player's choice that will only last that Scene.
SFX: Undocumented Feature: Spend a Plot Point to gain a d10 weapon of the player's choosing as an Asset for this roll. Spend two to make it an Asset for the entire Scene.
Limit: She's Gonna Blow!: Take a Plot Point and add a d8 to the Doom Pool for every failure rolled with an Undocumented Feature or Cue The Music Asset.
Limit: Finicky Systems: 2's count as 1's for any roll including Dyno-Breaking Engines or Detonol Fuel.
[Here's where it gets crunchy and where the lion's share of interesting stuff in MHRP character sheets happens. In a dice pool, you're obliged to take a die from each Power Set a character has, which is why most cap it off at two Power Sets. But that's not all; you can also trigger SFX, which are cool special dice tricks that may or may not require Plot Points to trigger, or Limits, which let you get Plot Points for exploiting your own weaknesses or rolling 1's.
Another little lesson in MHRP's language: Transition scenes are the bits in between each bit of action, where basically no fighting is kicking off, and the Doom Pool is the GM's own "I get to cheat" pool. Furthermore, Complications are essentially an alternate damage track, except instead of dice just being used as a way to keep score on a five-point track going from d4 to d12, they actively work against the target in some way. Complications can be stepped up with successes that target the Complication in question until they go past d12, at which point they actually force the target out of a scene entirely. Finally, an Asset is an extra die that can be added to the player's pool.]
Specialties:
Vehicle Master d10
Science Expert d8
Tech Expert d8
Menace Expert d8
[Specialties aren't just extra dice to add to a pool: they're also useful for making Resources, another type of extra die that lasts a Scene. This is free, but it requires a Transition Scene to trigger and the Resource is stepped down by one - for example, if you created something with Science Expert it'd be an extra d6, not a d8.]
Milestones and advancement are normally planned out with experience points based by character, but I want to do this more by narrative. I want to see what you guys do with this garage full of idiots.
So for now, what I want to see is...well, to sit tight while I craft an opening to the starting fight.
[X] Three Complete Lunatics
A Knight running an ice-cold stand that appears to be in the business of making crepe cakes hands the package off to a Club led by two cats - a Japanese Bobtail, a Russian Blue and...whatever the long-eared alien-looking thing with them is. Some kind of bunny-cat?
None of them looks even passably normal even if one were to turn them into humans. The bobtail, Bitzer, rocks a full jet fighter pilot's helmet done up in rich red, pure white and deep green like he's a Christmas candy and just wears pants with suspenders...or maybe that's a parachute harness...with no top. It's somehow even weirder than if he just wore a shirt. Then there's the Blue, who goes by Zero, with unnatural hairline-thin seams on his body, a breather mask and augmented reality goggles that obscure his face, a red cloak and a futuristic suit with prints on it all pointing at the idea that maybe he's not entirely biological. Finally, there's Hildegard, the...cabbit? Rabicat? Whatever. The huge, long ears and Mad Max-ian scavenger look of too little chrome and black leather make her look like a unique nut in a group full of them. They're surrounded by other Super Kemono: all of them dress similarly, borrowing bits of each other's dress so they all look like crazy, yet still somehow huggable, wasteland scavengers.
The Knight hands them a box about the size of a stereo and carefully instructs them like she'd had to repeat this several times already: "So, look. This stuff has to reach Strawberry Hill, and that means it's gotta get into the town, hear me? If it gets smashed up, we're toast!"
"Heyyyyy, no worries, lady! You're talking to a Club where it's a megawatt per ton or your money back! We'll get it there for you in time for coffee!" Bitzer proudly boasts, before leaning in and asking "...you've got a pot on, right? Like, percolating and everything?"
"Just get going, will you?!" she snaps.
"Alright, we'll talk about it when we're back."
"Come on, we don't need your back teeth wiggling while we're driving. Let's bounce," Zero says, his mask fitted with an effect that gave him a deep, mechanical, Darth Vader-y rumble almost deliberately at odds with his language and bearing.
"Yeah, we're burning daylight. We need to go."
Nyan1 files out of Le Fay Palace to the underground parking structure, where their assembly of equally insane-looking vehicles all sporting big multi-cylinder engines, screaming multi-rotor rotaries, howling turbojets or shafts, or all three in some cases, wait.
Nyan1: Three Complete Lunatics
A crazy Club from one of Rumble City's most colorful districts, the Fryers, considered where the city goes to eat. They're a threesome defined by their specialties: group leader Bitzer is obsessed with turbine power, his right hand Zero is a genius with all things rotary, and one of the top members, Hildegard, refuses to work on a piston engine with less than a double digit cylinder count. What unites them all is their deep obsession with power: they famously claim to customers that they never sell something with a power-weight ratio of less than one megawatt (that's 1,341 horsepower) per ton, and they've never gone back on that promise. The result? Beautifully-engineered gems that everyone is terrified will blow up on launch.
Affiliation Dice
Solo d10
Buddy d8
Team d6
[This is the first part of a dice pool built in MHRP. Basically, it gives a die based on if you're Solo, meaning you're alone, with a Buddy, which means you're with one or two people, or a Team, where you're obviously with more. It describes how well you work under any given circumstance. The Nyan1 Club is statted like a single character, so if it's just them, they're obviously Solo.]
Distinctions (d8 or d4 +1 Plot Point)
Three Styles, One Roof
More Courage Than Sense
Pint-Sized Mad Scientists
[Distinctions are sort of like Aspects in FATE: you can add them to a dice pool as a positive thing for a free d8, or you can take a d4 and one Plot Point to invoke them negatively. Plot Points are your "you get to cheat" points, adding extra dice from Power Sets, allowing the player to automatically do counterattacks without waiting for their opponent to roll a 1 in their pool, or triggering special abilities and powers. See, that way the d4 is doubly risky because if you roll a 1 on dice - any dice, it opens the way for bad guys to do all sorts of bad things, like activating Limits and creating Opportunities that can be exploited for free counterattacks and other nasty outcomes. On the other hand, some characters can play off this pretty well - as you'll see further down.]
Powers
Power Set 1: Nerds With Gnarly Skills
Bitzer d10
Zero d10
Hildegard d10
Crew Guys d6
SFX: You, You And You: Spend a Plot Point or establish in a Transition scene for free that the Crew Guys are a group. Their presence in a dice pool is now represented as a pool of three d6es. Up to two of these dice can be removed to mitigate damage.
SFX: Areas Of Expertise: Alter pools in the following manner according to circumstances:
If rolling for something concerning turbines or jet propulsion and Bitzer is in the pool, step his die up by 1. Additionally, if Bitzer is in the pool, you can use the Acrobatic Expert d8 Specialty.
If rolling for something concerning rotary engines and Zero is in the pool, step his die up by 1. Additionally, if Zero is in the pool, you can use the Combat Expert d8 Specialty.
If rolling for something concerning piston engines with 10 cylinders or more total and Hildegard is in the pool, step her die up by 1. Additionally, if Hildegard is in the pool, you can use the Psych Expert d8 Specialty.
Finally, during Transition Scenes, all three of these SFX are normally considered triggered.
SFX: Working The Problem: Spend a Plot Point or activate on an Opportunity to add Bitzer, Zero or Hildegard to a roll any one of them is a part of, stepped down by 1. Their Specialties also trigger. Alternately, you may inflict the d6 Complication "Too Many Cooks" on yourself to activate Working The Problem.
SFX: Crazy Enough To Work: Spend a Plot Point to reroll the entire pool. You must take the second result. Alternately, you may inflict the d8 Complication "What's The Matter With You?!" on an ally for a reroll.
Limit: Group Dynamics: Shut down any one die in the Nerds With Gnarly Skills power set and gain a Plot Point. Roll against the Doom Pool or take an Opportunity to regain that die.
Limit: Shorthanded: The Nyan1 Club can show up to scenes shorthanded, missing up to one or numerous members. Their SFX, Limits, and dice are shut down for the entirety of the scene unless circumstances permit their arrival.
Limit: Called Shot: Enemies can call a certain single character's die while declaring an attack. On defense rolls, they must be included in the pool and cannot refuse. This goes for characters in the power set that are actually present there; an enemy can't call an attack on any one member that isn't present for some reason or another.
Power Set 2: A Megawatt Per Ton
Sleek, Sexy Bodywork d6
Aviation Construction Methods d8
Attractive, Yet Inadequate, Tires d6
Detonol Fuel d10
Dyno-Breaking Engines d12
Weaponized Car Parts d8
SFX: The Answer To Everything: Dyno-Breaking Engines can be split into 2d10 or 3d8.
SFX: I'm Giving Her All She's Got!: Add a die of the player's choosing to the pool, but the player then inflicts it on themselves as Physical Stress.
SFX: Cue The Music: Roll against the Doom Pool during a Transition Scene. If successful, the Effect Die the player rolled becomes an Asset representing a hastily constructed contraption of the player's choice that will only last that Scene.
SFX: Undocumented Feature: Spend a Plot Point to gain a d10 weapon of the player's choosing as an Asset for this roll. Spend two to make it an Asset for the entire Scene.
Limit: She's Gonna Blow!: Take a Plot Point and add a d8 to the Doom Pool for every failure rolled with an Undocumented Feature or Cue The Music Asset.
Limit: Finicky Systems: 2's count as 1's for any roll including Dyno-Breaking Engines or Detonol Fuel.
[Here's where it gets crunchy and where the lion's share of interesting stuff in MHRP character sheets happens. In a dice pool, you're obliged to take a die from each Power Set a character has, which is why most cap it off at two Power Sets. But that's not all; you can also trigger SFX, which are cool special dice tricks that may or may not require Plot Points to trigger, or Limits, which let you get Plot Points for exploiting your own weaknesses or rolling 1's.
Another little lesson in MHRP's language: Transition scenes are the bits in between each bit of action, where basically no fighting is kicking off, and the Doom Pool is the GM's own "I get to cheat" pool. Furthermore, Complications are essentially an alternate damage track, except instead of dice just being used as a way to keep score on a five-point track going from d4 to d12, they actively work against the target in some way. Complications can be stepped up with successes that target the Complication in question until they go past d12, at which point they actually force the target out of a scene entirely. Finally, an Asset is an extra die that can be added to the player's pool.]
Specialties:
Vehicle Master d10
Science Expert d8
Tech Expert d8
Menace Expert d8
[Specialties aren't just extra dice to add to a pool: they're also useful for making Resources, another type of extra die that lasts a Scene. This is free, but it requires a Transition Scene to trigger and the Resource is stepped down by one - for example, if you created something with Science Expert it'd be an extra d6, not a d8.]
Milestones and advancement are normally planned out with experience points based by character, but I want to do this more by narrative. I want to see what you guys do with this garage full of idiots.
So for now, what I want to see is...well, to sit tight while I craft an opening to the starting fight.