What I Need When I Need It bag¶
The What I Need When I Need It bag is the satchel or fanny pack through which Andrew Howard uses his Divine playbook ability of the same name, pulling out any small object he could plausibly own. (Walkers 07)
| Type | Item (magic container) |
| Aliases | Andrew's bag; satchel; fanny pack; hammerspace pocket |
| Holder | Andrew Howard |
| Related page | Andrew's satchel, the same bag in earlier arcs |
| First appearance | Walkers 07 (under this name) |
Description¶
Rita's Andrew calls it his "little satchel of odds and ends" when he dresses for the gym, and Andre refers to it as a fanny pack when Andrew reaches into it. The ability behind it, What I Need When I Need It, lets Andrew retrieve "any small object that I own or could feasibly own," held in one hand, from a magical space that nobody else can reach, with no roll. Rita treats it as working only if Andrew reaches into the bag and only if he plausibly thinks he has the item. Andre calls it a "bullshit hammerspace pocket" and "magic bag." (Walkers 07)
History¶
Earlier uses. Andre explains in Walkers 07 that the claymore Andrew once had came out of the bag, and that the team's own claymores did not come with them to Utah because they flew. See Andrew's satchel for the item's earlier history. (Walkers 07)
The gym grenade. On the night of the gym meeting, Andrew takes his camera, pepper spray, pistol, satchel and protective medallion. When the double and its allies close in, Rita says Andrew digs "for a grenade or other explosive device that I believe I have from Kurt and Biz," and Andre has him find one in his fanny pack. He pulls the pin, the grenade slips from his hand as he runs, a horse throws itself on it, and a piece of horse flung by the blast knocks him down for 3 harm. (Walkers 07) This was also the occasion on which the real Andrew was replaced; see Andrew Howard (duplicate).
Playbook change. At the end of Walkers 08 the genuine Andrew wakes at the bottom of the morgue pile as the Monstrous, and Rita rebuilds him (see Andrew Howard (the Monstrous)). She asks to keep What I Need When I Need It, "mostly because it's tied to an item. So it wasn't really, like, his power," and gives up Lay on Hands and Cast Out Evil. Andre agrees, and Rita takes a move from another playbook so that the ability survives. (Walkers 08)
Recovery. In Walkers 09, in the cavern, Andre notes that "the other Andrew did not have the bag and also did not have the pendant." Andrew searches the pile of dead people's belongings (Act Under Pressure, 10) and finds a ruined suit, a fanny pack, and his necklace in a Ziploc bag labeled "Hazardous!!!". The suit is missing because the duplicate is wearing it. Andrew takes the fanny pack and the pendant, which is the item described at Andrew's pendant. (Walkers 09)
Trivia¶
- In Walkers 08, while Rita is playing the duplicate, she has him take a hanky "out of his bag" in the car. The duplicate is later said not to have had the bag, so the episodes do not agree on whether he carried a bag of his own. (Walkers 08, Walkers 09)