Hey heroes, it's James, your game master, and this week for Skyjacks we've got the first part

of a special mini-series. I invited friend of the show Ben Meredith to come on and

reprise his role as Rennington Youngbud, to play out a negotiation scene between him and the

broker, to resolve issues that cropped up in the fallout of what happened in Busion Neth.

And to do this scene, Ben and I played a special powered by the apocalypse negotiation game

that I designed. On the show we pretty much jump right into the narrative, but I thought a few

people might enjoy it more if they understood the mechanics, so we have this special mini-sode

where I am explaining the game and how it works, so that hopefully we can broaden the enjoyment of

a few members of our audience. The basic premise of the negotiation game is that both characters headed

into the negotiation with a core agenda. Each of them has three reasons that drove them to this

negotiation, and those three things need to be resolved in order for them to be happy leaving

the negotiation. Characters move back and forth making moves in order to gain leverage,

so that they can force their opponents into making concessions, which are terms that they'll

agree to in order to resolve the major issues that brought them to the negotiation table.

In other words, they're establishing reasons that their opponent needs to concede to their

demands, while at the same time using any concessions that they're forced to agree to in order to

resolve the main issues that brought their opponent to the table. That allows these two characters

who are on the verge of open conflict with one another to walk away from the negotiation table

feeling like they got something, and that that something was enough to make them back away from

the main reasons that were driving them into conflict in the first place. I decided to design a

custom system rather than using the negotiation rules in Genesis because I wanted more back and forth.

Genesis treats negotiations like combat, having participants put their strain up against the

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