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For Blackwater Creek,

Students: a debutante, and her boyfriend jock fraternity brother.  A foreign exchange student.  A son of a crime family somewhat related to the ones running whiskey.   Weapons skills with these were interesting, but they wove them into their backgrounds. 
A bartender/retired wwi vet.  Added skills for botany for growing up in the area at a farm.
Writer: seen too much already and looking for information on  the next a book.  Sketchy background which lead him to be good with a gun.

I asked them all to provide family back stories and at least one phobia related to the outdoors.

On ‎10‎/‎11‎/‎2017 at 12:45 AM, nclarke said:

Monsters get as many H-t-H attacks as they have listed (2 claws and bite for example. PC (and other humans) get one melee/H-t-H attack per round. You can dodge or fight back once per attack you have and count as outnumbered after that. This makes something with 3 attacks have not only three attacks but three fight backs or dodges. Moving generally doesn't count towards attacks - if you are coming from a more crunchy combat (D&D) forget everything you thought you knew.

forgetting dnd combat really is a great tip.  CoC keeps it simple, intuitive, and turn by turn, which keeps the story moving along.

I'm running that one now, and am thinking of maintaining the gift if any survive. 

My current issue is the womb was destroyed while the Carmody farm was not yet explored. . .

I think you may have to deal with the attack first, right?
Cultist attacks, so Harvey can dodge, fight back, or maneuver.   Those are all with respect to the attack. 
if Harvey grabs for the gun, then he has not dodged, nor has he fought back, nor has he tried a maneuver with respect to the attack.  He has ignored the attack and focused on his gun instead.  So, I'd let the attack succeed and see if Harvey survives to get to his turn.

If it is Harvey's turn, and if you allow Harvey two actions on his turn (grab and shoot), you can always treat the shot as the second action (i.e., give a penalty die for the shot, and a bonus die for close range.  You can then limit the shots he can take during his turn).