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==How to Accomplish actions==


When testing, roll 1D20 and add the value of the main ability you're using, add 1/2 the value of a secondary ability you are using that supports your action, add 1/3 the value of a third ability if it supports your action, and finally add 1/4 of the value of a fourth ability if it supports your action. Round up for each of these fractions. For example, you wish to sneak out of the inn you're staying at without alerting the suspicions of the enemy agents you know are watching you. Your Blend in to Surroundings +7 ability is the primary ability, to which you add half your Silent as a Sutek Mouse +6 ability and a third of your Generous to Servcie Staff +6 ability. You don't have a fourth ability which would help, otherwise you could add a quarter of that score too. This gives you +12 to your D20 roll. If you rolled a 13, you'd have a total of 25. If you have any Flaws or abilities which would adversely affect your attempt, the value acts as a penalty to your roll. You briefly state how you're trying to to accomplish your action - Blending in is obvious, as is being silent; using your Generous to Service Staff Personality Ability is a little unorthodox, but being on good relations with them enables you to easily persuade one of the waiters to go and bug the agents (bring them some complimentary tea, perhaps), distracting them while you make your escape.


Compare with the opposing roll. If you get a total more than 15 higher than the opposing roll, you score a critical success. If you get a total between 6 and 15, you get a normal success, and if you get a total between 1 and 5, you get a partial success (something untoward also happens). If you draw, then nothing happens. If you score -1 to -5, you get a partial failure (and your opponent gets a partial success); if you score between -6 and -15, you get a normal failure (and your opponent gets a normal success), and if you fail by more than 15, you get a critical failure (and your opponent gets a critical success). Continuing the example above, the enemy agents have Keep an Eye on You +6 and Not Easily Distracted +4, giving them +8 to their roll, which unfortunately for them is a 4, giving them a total of 12. Comparing your 25 to their 12, is a difference of +13 (almost a critical success, but not quite). You sneak out undetected. 


Possible examples of other results are as follows. For a Critical Success: As you sneak past, you hear one of the agents saying to the other "Boss Heddik is going to crucify us if we let them go," thus revealing who the agents are working for. For a Partial Success: As you're leaving, one of the agents notices you, but too late, you're off and away and they can't catch you - they know you left but they have no idea where you went to. For a Partial Failure, just as you ae about to make your attempt, your nerve fails - these agents are just too good. You'll have to come up with some other plan for escape instead. For a Normal Failure, you make your move, but the agents spot you, and give chase, right on your heels. On a Critical Failure, not only do they spot you, but the guns come out, and they have the drop on you. "You're coming with us" they tell you as they call in back-up.