Started playing a game of EOTE with my regular group of rpg players. I decided to roll up a demolitionist. During our adventure an Imperial ship docked with our and the self destruct was activated. Our Bothan Spy ("Ma'nee") found the explosives so i get to the other ship and was all "I got this, guys." The timer was at 30 minutes before detonation so I got to work, got my pool for the mechanics check YGG. The GM looks at me and says "4 Purple die." At this point I flipped a destiny to increase my odds with YYG. I roll and all the purples come up as failures and all my die come up with advantages. The GM then informs me and my partners on the ship that the timer jumps down to 10 minutes. We then hightail it out of the ship and jettison it before it detonates only for me to remember that I missed a perfect opportunity to quote Lethal Weapon. "Rodger.... Grab the cat!" Oh well, maybe I will save that line for another time.

Wait, the GM bumped down the timer when you scored a load of advantages? That sounds like something that you hit the players with when Threat or Despair comes up.

An all advantage roll should have been something like, "You don't disarm it, but you bought yourself more time."

I'm willing to bet that the GM's thinking was, "You failed to disarm it, but the advantage bought you some time to escape."

Which is kind of lame regardless, 'cause then what was the alternative? Ship explodes and everybody dies?

Still a fun story.

A Despair would be a premature explosion I think, I'm mean two Despairs would be more fitting, but hey...

Failure is only failure, regardless of amount of evil triangles (unless you count Fear checks, it might have a say there, unless that's a typo). I'm with Doc on this one.

I'd go so far as to say that advantages could freeze the timer (for an unspecified number of rounds), provide boost dice to a second attempt, increase the time before it goes off or something along those lines. Jumping down to 10 minutes is a Threat and failure result in my book...

We had a missed opportunity, a PC stuck a missile targeting beacon inside of a giant beast's mouth but failed to say "Chew on this".

Let me also say that when I failed the check, I had 10 minutes left. The device was described as having a strange flashing purple light and after failing the cockpit lit up with 7 other eerily similar flashing purple lights. I think the advantage was letting me find out there were other explosives and that I couldn't defuse them in time.