Worm

Worm - The Brainer

Stats

• COOL +1
• HARD +1
• HOT -2
• SHARP +1
• WEIRD +2

Brainer Moves

Deep brain scan: when you have time and physical intimacy with someone — mutual intimacy like holding them in your arms, or 1-sided intimacy like they’re restrained to a table — you can read them more deeply than normal. Roll+weird. On a 10+, hold 3. On a 7–9, hold 1. While you’re reading them, spend your hold to ask their player questions, 1 for 1:

• what was your character’s lowest moment?
• for what does your character crave forgiveness, and of whom?
• what are your character’s secret pains?
• in what ways are your character’s mind and soul vulnerable?

On a miss, you inflict 1-harm (ap) upon your subject, to no benefit

In-brain puppet strings: when you have time and physical intimacy with someone — again, mutual or 1-sided — you can plant a command inside their mind. Roll+weird. On a 10+, hold 3. On a 7–9, hold 1. At your will, no matter the circumstances, you can spend your hold 1 for 1:

• inflict 1-harm (ap)
• they take -1 right now

If they fulfill your command, that counts for all your remaining hold. On a miss, you inflict 1-harm (ap) upon your subject, to no benefit.

Gear and Barter

• Hidden knives (2-harm, hand, infinite)
• Violation glove (hand, hi-tech): For purposes of brainer moves, mere skin contact counts as time and intimacy
• Receptivity drugs (tag, hi-tech): Tagging someone gives you +1hold if you then use a brainer move on them.
• Oddments worth 5-barter
• A thick, padded long coat (1-armor)

Look

Male, limbs a little too long for his heavily worn, heavily aged suit. Bald, network of small incision scars across his head, pale face, deep-set eyes. Awkward body, like he was put together with the wrong size pieces.