The Bidding Wars

Participants: Lee, Joren, Jackie, Todd, Dale, Doyce (GM)

Psyche:

Psyche bidding was short and sweet... one of the players decided on a crushing opening bid

Initial bids:

• Jackie: 5
• Dale: 5
• Todd: 12
• Joren: 8
• Lee: 30

The GM was too stunned to try to get anyone to bid after initial bids... Lee managed to win in the first round with a solid lead off bid.

Strength

Strength bidding saw a bit more activity, and to a certain extent, followed a pattern seen in several of the other attributes, with roughly half of the participants bidding high and the other half bidding low and staying low.

Initial bids:

• Jackie: 5
• Dale: 5
• Todd: 10
• Joren: 8
• Lee: No-Bid

Bidding continued between Joren and Todd... Jackie and Dale bowed out immediately. :)

Final bids:

• Jackie: 5
• Dale: 5
• Todd: 45
• Joren: 39
• Lee: No-Bid

Endurance

I don't know why it is, but for some reason, Endurance seems to often be hotly contested in my campaigns:

Initial bids:

• Jackie: 10
• Dale: 5
• Todd: 5
• Joren: 5
• Lee: 12

A Lovely three way battle between Lee, Todd and Jackie ensued, but eventually todd bowed out, leaving Lee and Jackie heading skyward in a Battle Royale. The final totals looked like this:

Final bids:

• Jackie: 63
• Dale: 5
• Todd: 24
• Joren: 5
• Lee: 65

Warfare

By this time, several of the players were getting alittle tapped out for points, but this didn't preclude one small round of bidding after initial bids.

Initial bids:

• Jackie: 5
• Dale: 15
• Todd: 12
• Joren: 5
• Lee: No-Bid

Final Bids went to the man who'd saved up enough points to keep going. The final totals looked like this:

Initial bids:

• Jackie: 5
• Dale: 31
• Todd: 25
• Joren: 5
• Lee: No-Bid

Points were flowing pretty freely in the bidding... Here's how it looked at the end:

 Jackie ((Selena))   : Psyche--05, Strength--05, Endurance--63, Warfare--05 =Total: 78
 Dale ((Ariadne)     : Psyche--05, Strength--05, Endurance--05, Warfare--31 =Total: 46
 Todd ((Naritsu))    : Psyche--12, Strength--45, Endurance--24, Warfare--25 =Total: 98
 Joren ((Jorden))    : Psyche--08, Strength--39, Endurance--05, Warfare--05 =Total: 57
 Lee ((Chance))      : Psyche--30, Strength--NB, Endurance--65, Warfare--NB =Total: 95

For obvious reasons, powers were of the lesser sort, and of only the more basic types. The end result, I feel, was satisfactory... one has the feeling that these characters, while undeniably competent and powerful, are very new to exploring The highest-cost powers chosen were Trump and Basic Pattern... until the no-bid players joined in.

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