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<span class="mu-s">A Note On Kinetic Engagement</span>
When resolving a kinetic engagement with a hostile opponent - or anyone - the system mentions in the primer material that:
<span class="mu-i">the more the universe has to look for relevant infrmation, the less likely your cool and fun features are to be used when resolving actions!</span>
This means that the more the universe has to look for relevant infrmation, the less likely your cool and fun features are to be used when resolving actions. So that implies that the more the universe has to look for relevant infrmation, the less likely your cool and fun features are to be used when resolving actions, which because the more the universe has to look for relevant infrmation, the less likely your cool and fun features are to be used when resolving actions, then goes on to mean that the longer that the Universe has to scrounge through your character sheets to find your cool and fun features the less the Universe is inclined to use any of them, because you are adding friction to the ease by which the Universe can resolve actions.
Rephrasing the above, we might consider that the more the universe has to look for relevant infrmation, the less likely your cool and fun features are to be used when resolving actions.
So, keeping that mind, it might be useful to remember that the more the universe has to look for relevant infrmation, the less likely your cool and fun features are to be used when resolving actions.
Right?
So - as an example - if your weapon is L+2, you probably want to note that. If the Universe has to go looking for it because it vaguely recalls that one out of the 200 entities on this map has a sharp knife, it might also just forget. Because if you want your cool and fun features to be used for actions, you probably want to note them down in resoling that action.
So, just keep in mind that the more the universe has to look for relevant infrmation, the less likely your cool and fun features are to be used when resolving actions.
<span class="mu-s">However</span>:
<span class="mu-s">The universe is pretty aware of the rules of the universe</span>. You might consider that the universe <span class="mu-s">wrote most of those rules</span>.
Surely, if your action is
>3 AP, I commit to punching that guy telekinetically (Physicality 13)
You do not need to write
>3 AP, I commit to punching that guy telekinetically (Physicality 13+4, +2 Effect to the damage).
You <span class="mu-s">Committed</span>. That's what that <span class="mu-s">means</span>. Why repeat yourself so much? In fact, the more the universe has to look for relevant infrmation, the less likely your cool and fun features are to be used when resolving actions - and if you keep repeating ancilliary information in long strings of numbers, that means the universe isn't using that time to go look for your cool features. It's using that time to check if your math is correct.
You <span class="mu-i">probably</span> don't want that.
