ChecksFor a moment, hope flashes in his eyes. The possibility that,…Reading: Open fileReadingOpen fileNeed to knowMy clearanceCold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC9For a moment, hope flashes in his eyes. The possibility that, maybe, maybe, this is still the kind of place that diplomats frequent.Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC10No point in lying. Just play it Way Above His Station. Which it is.NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC7The words alone have struck awe into his heart.StatehoodStatehoodRelationSocial force embodied in presence and coercion. Command and intimidate others. Internalised propaganda.DC10DO NOT TREMBLE, CLASS COMRADE. THE WORDS ARE DESIGNED TO INTIMIDATE. THERE IS NOTHING BEHIND THEM.ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC10Here it is -- the best feeling in the world. The moment before you steal a secret.PersonalismPersonalismRelationWhat makes people tick, yourself included. Empathy and manipulation. Your humanity at large.DC9At the very least, you've added a few weeks to his lifespan.ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC8That's right, building keeper. Official, vague business.PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC9You can almost hear the emotional blast doors slamming shut.Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC11The son, prematurely aged. The father, embalmed in ageless maturity.Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC11There are other currencies. Sex. Death. Information.StatehoodStatehoodRelationSocial force embodied in presence and coercion. Command and intimidate others. Internalised propaganda.DC10THESE -- THE WRETCHES BORN SO CLOSE TO THE DEATHBED OF CAPITALISM THAT THEY HAVE COME FULL CIRCLE AND BECOME NUMB TO ITS DECAY -- THESE WE CAN SAVE.Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC8A little sadness alights on his face for the briefest moment.Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC9The world in which his son can succeed is a world not worth living in. Their existences are fundamentally at odds.InstinctsInstinctsActionThe uncontrolled aspects of your physicality. Raw impulses. How your organism perpetuates itself.DC9Could. Shouldn't.BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC8An oddly specific example...EntanglementEntanglementIntellectSpooky action across this plane and beyond. Extrasensory awareness. Influence of the stars.DC10A belt hangs off the railing, the area is cordoned off.BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC8Again with the railing.BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC8Again. The railing. It is imbued with some exceptional significance, a symbol whose meaning you cannot parse yet.BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC11He still sweeps up there, though.BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC8The buildings are old, decaying, but clean. This man is fighting the final battles in a lost war -- polishing broken handrails, painting splintered wood.Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC9Clearly some kind of a slogan from the days when this was built.PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC10'Modern' in this context doesn't mean 'new'. It refers to an old future, as obsolete as the buildings that represent it.PersonalismPersonalismRelationWhat makes people tick, yourself included. Empathy and manipulation. Your humanity at large.DC8First and foremost -- his own.Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC10He's never met a diplomat in his life. Probably doesn't even know what they are, except they sound important.ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC9.... 'Diplomats', he said? An official route to Eszti's door has just cracked open.PersonalismPersonalismRelationWhat makes people tick, yourself included. Empathy and manipulation. Your humanity at large.DC11The state of the Housing Campaign and the state of his life are one and the same.PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC10Man-alley symbiosis, neither doing great.CoordinationCoordinationActionDifferent parts of your body acting in concert. Agile and fluid movement. Physical presentation.DC10He is trying to fend off entropy with a dustpan and brush.BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC8Again with the railing.BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC8Again. The railing. It is imbued with some exceptional significance, a symbol whose meaning you cannot parse yet.PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC8You can almost hear the emotional blast doors slamming shut.InstinctsInstinctsActionThe uncontrolled aspects of your physicality. Raw impulses. How your organism perpetuates itself.DC11Degeneracy everywhere. Thinning bloodstream. Weakness upon weakness.Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC9A value at least as abstract as his son's social currency.RecordsRecordsIntellectThe totality of facts about the world. Episodic memory, training, and education. The past in the present.DC10An insanely subsidised economy of illusions.BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC10Cities made of playing cards.Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC11The broom does not gaze back.CoordinationCoordinationActionDifferent parts of your body acting in concert. Agile and fluid movement. Physical presentation.DC10He sweeps his broom a couple times. A tic that sets the world back in order.RecordsRecordsIntellectThe totality of facts about the world. Episodic memory, training, and education. The past in the present.DC6The Reunión: La Luz's grand annexation campaign -- slow, legal, often bloody. A creeping tide reclaiming, every few years, one more of their old colonies.Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC12Everyone occupying one fixed and immovable place on the pyramid of life.PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC10No dreams of peace, justice or equality -- only those of a well-oiled machine.PersonalismPersonalismRelationWhat makes people tick, yourself included. Empathy and manipulation. Your humanity at large.DC10This is only a philosophical conversation for one of you.BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC8An oddly specific example of societal decay...EntanglementEntanglementIntellectSpooky action across this plane and beyond. Extrasensory awareness. Influence of the stars.DC12A race of primitive sophisticates wanders through the vine-covered ruins of Portofiro. Impeccably dressed in fabrics the secrets of whose production has been lost, they skulk around judging each other's fashion while the day's strip of rat meat dries on the line.ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC10Interesting chimeras do proliferate after the End of History.BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC8Again he returns to that railing, symbol of civilisational continuity.BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC8Again. The railing. It is imbued with some exceptional significance, a symbol with meaning you cannot parse yet.PersonalismPersonalismRelationWhat makes people tick, yourself included. Empathy and manipulation. Your humanity at large.DC7A palliative measure at best, but then again...Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC7You could use the liquidity.ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC10'Their own' tasks, which is your case are the diametric opposite of sweeping, operant.PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC9Life is a palliative measure.ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC9He knows every face and name that has moved in or out of this alleyway. It's just a question of loosening him up.Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC9Too quick on the denial. That's a big, flashing 'yes.'ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC9Oskar told you about her wedding -- that's the grease that will soften him up.Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC8Confirming that he does, in fact, know her. This man would be a terrible operant.PersonalismPersonalismRelationWhat makes people tick, yourself included. Empathy and manipulation. Your humanity at large.DC8Only a subjugated stickler for the rules would call Eszti a 'nice lady'. Cut from the same un-fun cloth.NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC8Excrutiatingly. Robotically.DoppelgängDoppelgängActionWhen you must do more than a single You could. Internal strength and resistance to pressure.DC9A moment of silence -- Eszti has found new gäng.PersonalismPersonalismRelationWhat makes people tick, yourself included. Empathy and manipulation. Your humanity at large.DC9A blankness to the eyes, a downward twitching to the mouth. The beginnings of panic.NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC8The suicide clock ticks one stroke closer to midnight.DoppelgängDoppelgängActionWhen you must do more than a single You could. Internal strength and resistance to pressure.DC9Now he thinks we narc hard! Soon the entire Campaign will know!PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC8The last impression you register is the brush hairs scraping ineffectually over a layer of sad decrepitude that is not exactly filth.BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC7What is wrong with this place, no broom can touch.PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC8Tomorrow, the dust will have spread again. Objects will erode, and total amount of dust in the world will have increased by an infinitesimal amount.RecordsRecordsIntellectThe totality of facts about the world. Episodic memory, training, and education. The past in the present.DC7Influential, feared on the international stage, but not remotely wealthy.StatehoodStatehoodRelationSocial force embodied in presence and coercion. Command and intimidate others. Internalised propaganda.DC9BUT WITH AN ABUNDANCE OF IDEAS. RICH IN THEORY.StatehoodStatehoodRelationSocial force embodied in presence and coercion. Command and intimidate others. Internalised propaganda.DC8THE REACTIONARY WORLD AWAITS YOUR DEFECTION! THE BOSSES WILL MAKE YOU HOLD THE BROOM, THEN TAX YOU FOR HOLDING IT.StatehoodStatehoodRelationSocial force embodied in presence and coercion. Command and intimidate others. Internalised propaganda.DC9YOU ARE TRANSLUCENT WITH THE WORKERS' SPIRIT.NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC8A curious intimation that, maybe... you have found your place. This is what you are meant to be doing. What you should have been doing all along.ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC7Stop this at once, Operant, before it is too late!SensorsSensorsActionPerceptions and pleasures of the phenomenal world. Notice details that others miss.DC8He hurriedly smooths down the single patch of hair which time has yet to steal from his head.Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC8You're dealing with a 'Get Off My Property' type here. Problem is, his property is communal.PersonalismPersonalismRelationWhat makes people tick, yourself included. Empathy and manipulation. Your humanity at large.DC10Not sarcasm. He's clearly proud of the depressing surroundings you find yourself in.PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC8'Nice Campaign' certainly sounds better than 'laboratory of urban decay'.
Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC9For a moment, hope flashes in his eyes. The possibility that, maybe, maybe, this is still the kind of place that diplomats frequent.
Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC10No point in lying. Just play it Way Above His Station. Which it is.
NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC7The words alone have struck awe into his heart.
StatehoodStatehoodRelationSocial force embodied in presence and coercion. Command and intimidate others. Internalised propaganda.DC10DO NOT TREMBLE, CLASS COMRADE. THE WORDS ARE DESIGNED TO INTIMIDATE. THERE IS NOTHING BEHIND THEM.
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC10Here it is -- the best feeling in the world. The moment before you steal a secret.
PersonalismPersonalismRelationWhat makes people tick, yourself included. Empathy and manipulation. Your humanity at large.DC9At the very least, you've added a few weeks to his lifespan.
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC8That's right, building keeper. Official, vague business.
PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC9You can almost hear the emotional blast doors slamming shut.
Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC11The son, prematurely aged. The father, embalmed in ageless maturity.
Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC11There are other currencies. Sex. Death. Information.
StatehoodStatehoodRelationSocial force embodied in presence and coercion. Command and intimidate others. Internalised propaganda.DC10THESE -- THE WRETCHES BORN SO CLOSE TO THE DEATHBED OF CAPITALISM THAT THEY HAVE COME FULL CIRCLE AND BECOME NUMB TO ITS DECAY -- THESE WE CAN SAVE.
Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC8A little sadness alights on his face for the briefest moment.
Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC9The world in which his son can succeed is a world not worth living in. Their existences are fundamentally at odds.
InstinctsInstinctsActionThe uncontrolled aspects of your physicality. Raw impulses. How your organism perpetuates itself.DC9Could. Shouldn't.
BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC8An oddly specific example...
EntanglementEntanglementIntellectSpooky action across this plane and beyond. Extrasensory awareness. Influence of the stars.DC10A belt hangs off the railing, the area is cordoned off.
BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC8Again with the railing.
BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC8Again. The railing. It is imbued with some exceptional significance, a symbol whose meaning you cannot parse yet.
BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC11He still sweeps up there, though.
BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC8The buildings are old, decaying, but clean. This man is fighting the final battles in a lost war -- polishing broken handrails, painting splintered wood.
Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC9Clearly some kind of a slogan from the days when this was built.
PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC10'Modern' in this context doesn't mean 'new'. It refers to an old future, as obsolete as the buildings that represent it.
PersonalismPersonalismRelationWhat makes people tick, yourself included. Empathy and manipulation. Your humanity at large.DC8First and foremost -- his own.
Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC10He's never met a diplomat in his life. Probably doesn't even know what they are, except they sound important.
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC9.... 'Diplomats', he said? An official route to Eszti's door has just cracked open.
PersonalismPersonalismRelationWhat makes people tick, yourself included. Empathy and manipulation. Your humanity at large.DC11The state of the Housing Campaign and the state of his life are one and the same.
PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC10Man-alley symbiosis, neither doing great.
CoordinationCoordinationActionDifferent parts of your body acting in concert. Agile and fluid movement. Physical presentation.DC10He is trying to fend off entropy with a dustpan and brush.
BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC8Again with the railing.
BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC8Again. The railing. It is imbued with some exceptional significance, a symbol whose meaning you cannot parse yet.
PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC8You can almost hear the emotional blast doors slamming shut.
InstinctsInstinctsActionThe uncontrolled aspects of your physicality. Raw impulses. How your organism perpetuates itself.DC11Degeneracy everywhere. Thinning bloodstream. Weakness upon weakness.
Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC9A value at least as abstract as his son's social currency.
RecordsRecordsIntellectThe totality of facts about the world. Episodic memory, training, and education. The past in the present.DC10An insanely subsidised economy of illusions.
BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC10Cities made of playing cards.
Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC11The broom does not gaze back.
CoordinationCoordinationActionDifferent parts of your body acting in concert. Agile and fluid movement. Physical presentation.DC10He sweeps his broom a couple times. A tic that sets the world back in order.
RecordsRecordsIntellectThe totality of facts about the world. Episodic memory, training, and education. The past in the present.DC6The Reunión: La Luz's grand annexation campaign -- slow, legal, often bloody. A creeping tide reclaiming, every few years, one more of their old colonies.
Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC12Everyone occupying one fixed and immovable place on the pyramid of life.
PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC10No dreams of peace, justice or equality -- only those of a well-oiled machine.
PersonalismPersonalismRelationWhat makes people tick, yourself included. Empathy and manipulation. Your humanity at large.DC10This is only a philosophical conversation for one of you.
BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC8An oddly specific example of societal decay...
EntanglementEntanglementIntellectSpooky action across this plane and beyond. Extrasensory awareness. Influence of the stars.DC12A race of primitive sophisticates wanders through the vine-covered ruins of Portofiro. Impeccably dressed in fabrics the secrets of whose production has been lost, they skulk around judging each other's fashion while the day's strip of rat meat dries on the line.
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC10Interesting chimeras do proliferate after the End of History.
BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC8Again he returns to that railing, symbol of civilisational continuity.
BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC8Again. The railing. It is imbued with some exceptional significance, a symbol with meaning you cannot parse yet.
PersonalismPersonalismRelationWhat makes people tick, yourself included. Empathy and manipulation. Your humanity at large.DC7A palliative measure at best, but then again...
Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC7You could use the liquidity.
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC10'Their own' tasks, which is your case are the diametric opposite of sweeping, operant.
PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC9Life is a palliative measure.
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC9He knows every face and name that has moved in or out of this alleyway. It's just a question of loosening him up.
Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC9Too quick on the denial. That's a big, flashing 'yes.'
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC9Oskar told you about her wedding -- that's the grease that will soften him up.
Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC8Confirming that he does, in fact, know her. This man would be a terrible operant.
PersonalismPersonalismRelationWhat makes people tick, yourself included. Empathy and manipulation. Your humanity at large.DC8Only a subjugated stickler for the rules would call Eszti a 'nice lady'. Cut from the same un-fun cloth.
NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC8Excrutiatingly. Robotically.
DoppelgängDoppelgängActionWhen you must do more than a single You could. Internal strength and resistance to pressure.DC9A moment of silence -- Eszti has found new gäng.
PersonalismPersonalismRelationWhat makes people tick, yourself included. Empathy and manipulation. Your humanity at large.DC9A blankness to the eyes, a downward twitching to the mouth. The beginnings of panic.
NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC8The suicide clock ticks one stroke closer to midnight.
DoppelgängDoppelgängActionWhen you must do more than a single You could. Internal strength and resistance to pressure.DC9Now he thinks we narc hard! Soon the entire Campaign will know!
PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC8The last impression you register is the brush hairs scraping ineffectually over a layer of sad decrepitude that is not exactly filth.
BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC7What is wrong with this place, no broom can touch.
PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC8Tomorrow, the dust will have spread again. Objects will erode, and total amount of dust in the world will have increased by an infinitesimal amount.
RecordsRecordsIntellectThe totality of facts about the world. Episodic memory, training, and education. The past in the present.DC7Influential, feared on the international stage, but not remotely wealthy.
StatehoodStatehoodRelationSocial force embodied in presence and coercion. Command and intimidate others. Internalised propaganda.DC9BUT WITH AN ABUNDANCE OF IDEAS. RICH IN THEORY.
StatehoodStatehoodRelationSocial force embodied in presence and coercion. Command and intimidate others. Internalised propaganda.DC8THE REACTIONARY WORLD AWAITS YOUR DEFECTION! THE BOSSES WILL MAKE YOU HOLD THE BROOM, THEN TAX YOU FOR HOLDING IT.
StatehoodStatehoodRelationSocial force embodied in presence and coercion. Command and intimidate others. Internalised propaganda.DC9YOU ARE TRANSLUCENT WITH THE WORKERS' SPIRIT.
NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC8A curious intimation that, maybe... you have found your place. This is what you are meant to be doing. What you should have been doing all along.
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC7Stop this at once, Operant, before it is too late!
SensorsSensorsActionPerceptions and pleasures of the phenomenal world. Notice details that others miss.DC8He hurriedly smooths down the single patch of hair which time has yet to steal from his head.
Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC8You're dealing with a 'Get Off My Property' type here. Problem is, his property is communal.
PersonalismPersonalismRelationWhat makes people tick, yourself included. Empathy and manipulation. Your humanity at large.DC10Not sarcasm. He's clearly proud of the depressing surroundings you find yourself in.
PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC8'Nice Campaign' certainly sounds better than 'laboratory of urban decay'.