10:28 PM
Okay, here's one way you can Fate-ify the first part of the Cloud City duel:
Scene opens: Luke's elevator platform brings him to the Carbonite Shipping Platform, a Dim and smokey room with an Open Floor around a Freezing Pit, and a Raised Platform to one side.
Vader is standing on the Raised Platform, Luke is on the Open Floor.
Goals: Luke wants to save his friends. Vader wants to bring Luke to the Dark Side.
Vader opens by Cleverly exploiting Luke's insecurity to create an advantage and get a free invoke on Luke's aspect Jedi in training.
Luke walks from the Open Floor to the Raised Platform (
you can move one zone for free) and responds with a few Forceful attacks which Vader defends against Carefully. The defense is successful.
Vader makes a few offensive gestures with his lightsabre, but Luke blocks them easily because Vader is actually Cleverly creating an advantage to place a free invoke on Luke's aspect Don't get cocky, kid! He succeeds with style and says, "You have learned much, young one."
Luke, emboldened, rushes Vader to Quickly attack. Vader's got three free invokes and uses at least one of them to defend Quickly (he's not very Quick on his own) and get a success with style that leaves Luke Disarmed.
Luke wants to get out of Vader's reach for a moment so he can recover the lightsabre, so he tries to dodge down the stairs (you can't use the free zone movement if something--like an opponent swordsman--is preventing free movement). He needs to succeed on a Quick overcome action against by Vader's Quick overcome opposition.
Luke fails and chooses to succeed at the
minor cost of falling down the stairs and giving Vader a boost:
The upper hand.
Vader, movement unopposed, walks down to the Open Floor and, with a combination of physical intimidation and reminding Luke that he killed Obi-Wan, uses an overcome action to Cleverly make Luke back up and fall into the open Freezing Pit; Luke attempts to Forcefully stand his ground but fails as Vader has the upper hand and he tips over into the Freezing Pit's zone.
Vader needs another turn to on the Freezing Pit, so Luke gets a turn to Sneakily force-leaps up into the Dangling Machinery zone. Vader activates the Freezing Pit, which would've dealt a LOT of stress... but Luke's not there.
Luke tries to Sneakily disappear into the Dangling Machinery (unopposed create advantage to hide) but fails (Luke's not very Sneaky) and makes a noise.
Vader's turn: Cleverly he uses his lightsabre to cut a dangling pipe, creating the advantage Coolant fog which fills the Dangling Machinery zone.
Luke drops back down to the Open Floor (free action) and spends a Fate point to say that the severed coolant pipe is dangling into that zone. Then he Cleverly uses the Coolant fog from the pipe to justify attacking Vader even though he doesn't have a weapon. Vader uses up the invoke from his Disarmed boost on his defense, so Luke's player narrates that as Vader staggers back Luke takes a moment to Force-grab the lightsabre.
Vader attacks Forcefully, spending a fate point on Luke's aspect Vader killed my father! by taunting him with Obi-Wan's death and using up all his remaining free invokes. Luke takes it hard but wants to stay in the fight, so he fills his lowest consequence slot with Filled with hatred.
Luke accepts a fate point to be compelled by his hatred and immediately spends it on an all-out Forceful attack. Vader's player also gives Luke his own free invoke on Filled with hatred, because in order to achieve his goal he needs Luke to be rewarded for leaning into the hate. Luke succeeds with style and reduces the outcome by one stress to push Vader off the edge of the platform because that's cool.
The conflict pauses while the pair make opposed Overcome checks to see who determines the context of the next phase. Luke is Careful, Vader is Sneaky. Luke's bad at being Careful, so Vader decides:
Luke is in a Control Room with Heavy Machinery and brightly lit by a big window (this is not an aspect yet; it's just narrative description because nobody in the scene knows it'll be important). Vader is in an adjoining Corridor.
Luke tries to move into the Corridor to engage with Vader, but Vader reveals he can oppose the normally free movement by Forcefully throwing Heavy Machinery at Luke.
Vader closes on Luke and engages in swordplay, but his mechanical attack is to continue Forcefully pummeling Luke with objects. Luke uses up the last of his available stress boxes to stay in the fight.
Luke's player decides he needs a breather and concedes, narrating that the objects Vader's throwing around smash open the Big window (now that it's important, it automatically becomes an aspect), sucking Luke out of the fight.
Luke now has a moment to recover, emptying his stress boxes, and he gets two fate points: one for conceding and one for conceding with a consequence. He sadly underestimates Vader's power, though, if he thinks this will help when Vader returns for round two.
Fate Core p. 71
Finally, and this is very important: if a player wants to compel
another character, it costs a fate point to propose the
complication. The GM can always compel for free, and any player can
propose a compel on his or her own character for free.
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