ChecksThe Lich isn't the one giving the order to leave? That's odd.Reading: Open fileReadingOpen fileNeed to knowMy clearanceGrey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC10The Lich isn't the one giving the order to leave? That's odd.ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC10Oh, god. Are you stalling?RecordsRecordsIntellectThe totality of facts about the world. Episodic memory, training, and education. The past in the present.DC10A classic and storied CASCADE tactic. See also: the time you had six months to get your parent or guardian to fill out a permission slip for a class trip to the Hothica Lighthouse.ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC11Excellent lore. Definitely useful. Now, let's stub out and go.Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC9Whatever book she's working her way through at the moment, it will remain unfinished.ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC10How is this useful, CASCADE? Are you gaining anything from her that you really need?NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC8Existential dread is a foreign concept to her. Must be nice.ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC8A feeling that should be crushing you right now. Why aren't you getting a move on?BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC9The only reason the one on this tram is still functional is because it's the quietest route on the line.NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC11You imagine her drooling, twitching, brain a fine gruel.ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC10Good. If she goes non-verbal then she won't be able to distract you any more.NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC11You imagine her screaming soundlessly, both legs blown off and hanging by shredded flesh somewhere above her.ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC10Good. If she's blast-zone collateral then she won't be able to distract you any more.NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC11You imagine her crumpled and dead from a stray bullet, blood running down the front of her mirrored sunglasses.ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC10Good. If she's bullet fodder then she won't be able to distract you any more.EntanglementEntanglementIntellectSpooky action across this plane and beyond. Extrasensory awareness. Influence of the stars.DC11Solo-karaoke, no one around to hear her shout-singing along to the griefsludge disc she keeps in her bag for days like this.TechnoflexTechnoflexIntellectThe secret language of machines and consumer products. Bend any device or system to your will.DC9They should have put it behind glass, so it could be treasured. Worshipped. Curated and handled only by the high priests of the conductor class.DoppelgängDoppelgängActionWhen you must do more than a single You could. Internal strength and resistance to pressure.DC8Are you gambling the gäng's fate on a busted machine?StatehoodStatehoodRelationSocial force embodied in presence and coercion. Command and intimidate others. Internalised propaganda.DC9IT IS TOO LATE FOR IDEOLOGY TO SAVE HER, ANYWAY.PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC9Even mid-assignment, the tyrant queen holds his heart in her talons.EntanglementEntanglementIntellectSpooky action across this plane and beyond. Extrasensory awareness. Influence of the stars.DC13Somewhere in a designer hotel, a bleach-clean prison where she waits for her one-way trip to the moon, a twenty-one year-old pop sensation feels a chill, followed by a sudden, uncontrollable bout of nausea.StatehoodStatehoodRelationSocial force embodied in presence and coercion. Command and intimidate others. Internalised propaganda.DC12YOU WILL CATCH THE REACTIONARY IN THE ACT YET.ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC10You're all doomed.NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC8Hopefully a nicotine-addled teenager with expensive taste is what the Lich saw, too.NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC9Gut churn vertigo.PersonalismPersonalismRelationWhat makes people tick, yourself included. Empathy and manipulation. Your humanity at large.DC7Said more for herself than for you.NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC9If she survives, she will be the first to be interrogated. They will make an example of her.ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC9Finally.SensorsSensorsActionPerceptions and pleasures of the phenomenal world. Notice details that others miss.DC10She's savouring it.ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC8What is the plan here, operant?ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC8Pass some time with the stranger, why not. Your quarry is old, slow. The assignment can wait.PersonalismPersonalismRelationWhat makes people tick, yourself included. Empathy and manipulation. Your humanity at large.DC11Behind her mirrored sunglasses, she's around your age.ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC9Is she In On This? Paid off, threatened, fanatical?Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC11This is a normal woman, doing her normal job. She has no clue that she's just ferried up a contingent of the Weeping Eye.Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC11She's playing it too normal. File under 'Goon, potential'.
Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC10The Lich isn't the one giving the order to leave? That's odd.
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC10Oh, god. Are you stalling?
RecordsRecordsIntellectThe totality of facts about the world. Episodic memory, training, and education. The past in the present.DC10A classic and storied CASCADE tactic. See also: the time you had six months to get your parent or guardian to fill out a permission slip for a class trip to the Hothica Lighthouse.
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC11Excellent lore. Definitely useful. Now, let's stub out and go.
Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC9Whatever book she's working her way through at the moment, it will remain unfinished.
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC10How is this useful, CASCADE? Are you gaining anything from her that you really need?
NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC8Existential dread is a foreign concept to her. Must be nice.
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC8A feeling that should be crushing you right now. Why aren't you getting a move on?
BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC9The only reason the one on this tram is still functional is because it's the quietest route on the line.
NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC11You imagine her drooling, twitching, brain a fine gruel.
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC10Good. If she goes non-verbal then she won't be able to distract you any more.
NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC11You imagine her screaming soundlessly, both legs blown off and hanging by shredded flesh somewhere above her.
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC10Good. If she's blast-zone collateral then she won't be able to distract you any more.
NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC11You imagine her crumpled and dead from a stray bullet, blood running down the front of her mirrored sunglasses.
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC10Good. If she's bullet fodder then she won't be able to distract you any more.
EntanglementEntanglementIntellectSpooky action across this plane and beyond. Extrasensory awareness. Influence of the stars.DC11Solo-karaoke, no one around to hear her shout-singing along to the griefsludge disc she keeps in her bag for days like this.
TechnoflexTechnoflexIntellectThe secret language of machines and consumer products. Bend any device or system to your will.DC9They should have put it behind glass, so it could be treasured. Worshipped. Curated and handled only by the high priests of the conductor class.
DoppelgängDoppelgängActionWhen you must do more than a single You could. Internal strength and resistance to pressure.DC8Are you gambling the gäng's fate on a busted machine?
StatehoodStatehoodRelationSocial force embodied in presence and coercion. Command and intimidate others. Internalised propaganda.DC9IT IS TOO LATE FOR IDEOLOGY TO SAVE HER, ANYWAY.
PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC9Even mid-assignment, the tyrant queen holds his heart in her talons.
EntanglementEntanglementIntellectSpooky action across this plane and beyond. Extrasensory awareness. Influence of the stars.DC13Somewhere in a designer hotel, a bleach-clean prison where she waits for her one-way trip to the moon, a twenty-one year-old pop sensation feels a chill, followed by a sudden, uncontrollable bout of nausea.
StatehoodStatehoodRelationSocial force embodied in presence and coercion. Command and intimidate others. Internalised propaganda.DC12YOU WILL CATCH THE REACTIONARY IN THE ACT YET.
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC10You're all doomed.
NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC8Hopefully a nicotine-addled teenager with expensive taste is what the Lich saw, too.
NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC9Gut churn vertigo.
PersonalismPersonalismRelationWhat makes people tick, yourself included. Empathy and manipulation. Your humanity at large.DC7Said more for herself than for you.
NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC9If she survives, she will be the first to be interrogated. They will make an example of her.
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC9Finally.
SensorsSensorsActionPerceptions and pleasures of the phenomenal world. Notice details that others miss.DC10She's savouring it.
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC8What is the plan here, operant?
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC8Pass some time with the stranger, why not. Your quarry is old, slow. The assignment can wait.
PersonalismPersonalismRelationWhat makes people tick, yourself included. Empathy and manipulation. Your humanity at large.DC11Behind her mirrored sunglasses, she's around your age.
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC9Is she In On This? Paid off, threatened, fanatical?
Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC11This is a normal woman, doing her normal job. She has no clue that she's just ferried up a contingent of the Weeping Eye.
Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC11She's playing it too normal. File under 'Goon, potential'.