Assess the Situation

When you assess the situation, roll + Superior. On a 10+, ask 2. On a 7-9, ask 1. Take +1 ongoing while acting on the answers.
 * What here can I use to ...?
 * What here is the biggest threat?
 * What here is in the greatest danger?
 * Who here is most vulnerable to me?
 * How could we best end this quickly?

Description
Assess the situation is the move for when you want to get specific and useful information about your situation and surroundings. In the fiction, this is you taking a moment to survey what’s going on around you, looking for important details.

You can always ask the GM clarifying questions about your environment and what your character would know—assessing the situation is for highly specific and pointed information.

If the situation changes too much, you might lose the bonus for acting on your observations.

If you can take a single course of action that uses information from multiple answers, the bonuses stack, but remember you can never roll with more than +4 total, including your Label.

Options
“What here can I use to ...?”  lets you fll in the blank when you ask the question. This is a great question for fnding useful tools and pieces of your surroundings that will help you accomplish some purpose. The answer might be “nothing.”

“What here is the biggest threat?”  helps you to prioritize dangers and threats in the area. You can clarify to the GM how you prioritize things yourself—so the GM knows whether you’d think that the biggest threat is an enemy or something that endangers civilians, for instance. It’s also useful even when you’re not in an immediately dangerous situation to find out who’s the most menacing in the room.

“What here is in the greatest danger?”  is the inverse of the prior question. This tells you what needs protection the most, and potentially alerts you to the target or focus of a villain’s attention—if they’re after someone or something, chances are it’ll be in the greatest danger.

“Who here is most vulnerable to me?”  is about your own abilities and whom they can best aﬀect. The obvious answers focus on who’s most vulnerable to your particular skills and abilities, but it can also take into account who’s most vulnerable to your words, if someone‘s susceptible to the things you could say.

“How could we best end this quickly?”  outlines a course of action to stop a dangerous or bad situation as quickly as possible. This could be how best to take down an enemy quickly, but it might tell you that the best way to end things quickly is to ﬂee. It might also tell you that all you have to do is apologize to bring a bad situation to a close.