Only now noticing this but it seems that abilities that expend special armor or pushing yourself within the same ability doesn’t cost the 2 stress to push yourself like it normally would.
Does that mean if I’m using, say, FOCUSED, that I can use the ability to push myself after a consequence of surprise or mental harm, without spending stress and that I can keep tapping that ability so long as the Fiction lines up?
Or are both options a one time deal until the end of a score? I’m really surprised I didn’t catch that, and it has me more puzzled than it ought to.
Yes. and No. You can use your Special Armor to Push yourself and not spend two stress, but that uses (expends) your Special Armor for that score. (There’s a Special Armor checkbox on the character sheet to keep track of when such things have been used.)
You expend the special armor to push yourself. So you replace the 2 stress cost with the cost of using your special armor.
It uses up your special armour, so just once.
^per score