ChecksThey don't have to answer to you. Thus, they won't.Reading: Open fileReadingOpen fileNeed to knowMy clearanceGrey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC9They don't have to answer to you. Thus, they won't.InstinctsInstinctsActionThe uncontrolled aspects of your physicality. Raw impulses. How your organism perpetuates itself.DC9You are flea. Insignificant. Squishable.ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC9Foreign accent, questions about the area... you're nothing but a lost tourist.RecordsRecordsIntellectThe totality of facts about the world. Episodic memory, training, and education. The past in the present.DC8An apartment block housing hundreds of families who were displaced after their original homes were seized by eminent domain, victims of the city's mid-century ambitions.Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC11Unhappy to be stuck down here, on the street, when there is action elsewhere.RecordsRecordsIntellectThe totality of facts about the world. Episodic memory, training, and education. The past in the present.DC9There are rumours that a high-speed bullet train is being constructed from Cicatriz-Frontera to the Tenantries of St. Ulwen, connecting Luz's thousands of miles of territory in a trip that takes less than a day.NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC13Your skin crawls at the girlish sound, bubbling out of a woman who it doesn't at all seem to belong to.Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC10Not bootlegs or knock-offs, but the genuine article.ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC9And much like their clothes, the trio blocking your path is genuinely Luzian.StatehoodStatehoodRelationSocial force embodied in presence and coercion. Command and intimidate others. Internalised propaganda.DC10DOESN'T THEIR PRIDE IN THEIR AUTHORITARIAN HERITAGE SICKEN YOU? DOESN'T IT MAKE YOU QUAKE WITH IMPOTENT RAGE?InstinctsInstinctsActionThe uncontrolled aspects of your physicality. Raw impulses. How your organism perpetuates itself.DC11No one's confronted them about it so far.RecordsRecordsIntellectThe totality of facts about the world. Episodic memory, training, and education. The past in the present.DC7The threat of La Luz has been passed down for generations in Portofiro, the colonial boogeyman in the night -- the shadow that bore them, beat them.RecordsRecordsIntellectThe totality of facts about the world. Episodic memory, training, and education. The past in the present.DC10The few members of the Illuminated Empire allowed to expatriate find themselves in high demand throughout the Developed World as mercenaries and bodyguards.Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC11Gun. Gun. Knife and gun.TechnoflexTechnoflexIntellectThe secret language of machines and consumer products. Bend any device or system to your will.DC10Those don't count as actual weapons.InstinctsInstinctsActionThe uncontrolled aspects of your physicality. Raw impulses. How your organism perpetuates itself.DC11Purring in your pocket.Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC11Look, when in doubt, it's always safe to assume the answer is yes.BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC9With none of the griminess of the surrounding neighbourhood.InstinctsInstinctsActionThe uncontrolled aspects of your physicality. Raw impulses. How your organism perpetuates itself.DC10BOOOOOO. HISSSSSSS.DoppelgängDoppelgängActionWhen you must do more than a single You could. Internal strength and resistance to pressure.DC9Shit, should we have been doing that? A gäng uniform?Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC8They wear their clothes like the very mannequins they were sewn on.CoordinationCoordinationActionDifferent parts of your body acting in concert. Agile and fluid movement. Physical presentation.DC9Outfits made for these people. Or, people made for these outfits.DoppelgängDoppelgängActionWhen you must do more than a single You could. Internal strength and resistance to pressure.DC14We fucked up so bad, Hersh, they're never gonna let us through now!DoppelgängDoppelgängActionWhen you must do more than a single You could. Internal strength and resistance to pressure.DC8Then they'll see... they'll all see how cool we really are...TechnoflexTechnoflexIntellectThe secret language of machines and consumer products. Bend any device or system to your will.DC10Agh! Debased! Destroyed!PersonalismPersonalismRelationWhat makes people tick, yourself included. Empathy and manipulation. Your humanity at large.DC8That's what she thinks of your 'taste'.CoordinationCoordinationActionDifferent parts of your body acting in concert. Agile and fluid movement. Physical presentation.DC14Your attempted power move has backfired spectacularly. Now the Luzians are even more high-status than before.Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC12Something about this rejection feels more than just embarrassing. It feels dangerous.Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC8He couldn't care less about your opinion.PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC9The way you phrased that makes it sound like you're in possession of a knock-off.InstinctsInstinctsActionThe uncontrolled aspects of your physicality. Raw impulses. How your organism perpetuates itself.DC10Sour sickness on the back of your tongue.DoppelgängDoppelgängActionWhen you must do more than a single You could. Internal strength and resistance to pressure.DC8They're going to think you're a phoney. A fraud. A poseur!Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC11They're judging you right now.CoordinationCoordinationActionDifferent parts of your body acting in concert. Agile and fluid movement. Physical presentation.DC9Look at their clothes -- these people are decked out!
Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC9They don't have to answer to you. Thus, they won't.
InstinctsInstinctsActionThe uncontrolled aspects of your physicality. Raw impulses. How your organism perpetuates itself.DC9You are flea. Insignificant. Squishable.
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC9Foreign accent, questions about the area... you're nothing but a lost tourist.
RecordsRecordsIntellectThe totality of facts about the world. Episodic memory, training, and education. The past in the present.DC8An apartment block housing hundreds of families who were displaced after their original homes were seized by eminent domain, victims of the city's mid-century ambitions.
Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC11Unhappy to be stuck down here, on the street, when there is action elsewhere.
RecordsRecordsIntellectThe totality of facts about the world. Episodic memory, training, and education. The past in the present.DC9There are rumours that a high-speed bullet train is being constructed from Cicatriz-Frontera to the Tenantries of St. Ulwen, connecting Luz's thousands of miles of territory in a trip that takes less than a day.
NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC13Your skin crawls at the girlish sound, bubbling out of a woman who it doesn't at all seem to belong to.
Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC10Not bootlegs or knock-offs, but the genuine article.
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC9And much like their clothes, the trio blocking your path is genuinely Luzian.
StatehoodStatehoodRelationSocial force embodied in presence and coercion. Command and intimidate others. Internalised propaganda.DC10DOESN'T THEIR PRIDE IN THEIR AUTHORITARIAN HERITAGE SICKEN YOU? DOESN'T IT MAKE YOU QUAKE WITH IMPOTENT RAGE?
InstinctsInstinctsActionThe uncontrolled aspects of your physicality. Raw impulses. How your organism perpetuates itself.DC11No one's confronted them about it so far.
RecordsRecordsIntellectThe totality of facts about the world. Episodic memory, training, and education. The past in the present.DC7The threat of La Luz has been passed down for generations in Portofiro, the colonial boogeyman in the night -- the shadow that bore them, beat them.
RecordsRecordsIntellectThe totality of facts about the world. Episodic memory, training, and education. The past in the present.DC10The few members of the Illuminated Empire allowed to expatriate find themselves in high demand throughout the Developed World as mercenaries and bodyguards.
Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC11Gun. Gun. Knife and gun.
TechnoflexTechnoflexIntellectThe secret language of machines and consumer products. Bend any device or system to your will.DC10Those don't count as actual weapons.
InstinctsInstinctsActionThe uncontrolled aspects of your physicality. Raw impulses. How your organism perpetuates itself.DC11Purring in your pocket.
Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC11Look, when in doubt, it's always safe to assume the answer is yes.
BlueprintsBlueprintsRelationYour knowledge of the city and how people use it. Buried secrets, useful shortcuts, improvised exits.DC9With none of the griminess of the surrounding neighbourhood.
InstinctsInstinctsActionThe uncontrolled aspects of your physicality. Raw impulses. How your organism perpetuates itself.DC10BOOOOOO. HISSSSSSS.
DoppelgängDoppelgängActionWhen you must do more than a single You could. Internal strength and resistance to pressure.DC9Shit, should we have been doing that? A gäng uniform?
Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC8They wear their clothes like the very mannequins they were sewn on.
CoordinationCoordinationActionDifferent parts of your body acting in concert. Agile and fluid movement. Physical presentation.DC9Outfits made for these people. Or, people made for these outfits.
DoppelgängDoppelgängActionWhen you must do more than a single You could. Internal strength and resistance to pressure.DC14We fucked up so bad, Hersh, they're never gonna let us through now!
DoppelgängDoppelgängActionWhen you must do more than a single You could. Internal strength and resistance to pressure.DC8Then they'll see... they'll all see how cool we really are...
TechnoflexTechnoflexIntellectThe secret language of machines and consumer products. Bend any device or system to your will.DC10Agh! Debased! Destroyed!
PersonalismPersonalismRelationWhat makes people tick, yourself included. Empathy and manipulation. Your humanity at large.DC8That's what she thinks of your 'taste'.
CoordinationCoordinationActionDifferent parts of your body acting in concert. Agile and fluid movement. Physical presentation.DC14Your attempted power move has backfired spectacularly. Now the Luzians are even more high-status than before.
Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC12Something about this rejection feels more than just embarrassing. It feels dangerous.
Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC8He couldn't care less about your opinion.
PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC9The way you phrased that makes it sound like you're in possession of a knock-off.
InstinctsInstinctsActionThe uncontrolled aspects of your physicality. Raw impulses. How your organism perpetuates itself.DC10Sour sickness on the back of your tongue.
DoppelgängDoppelgängActionWhen you must do more than a single You could. Internal strength and resistance to pressure.DC8They're going to think you're a phoney. A fraud. A poseur!
Cold ReadCold ReadRelationAttunement to facial expressions, tics, body language. Read the room and act before anyone else.DC11They're judging you right now.
CoordinationCoordinationActionDifferent parts of your body acting in concert. Agile and fluid movement. Physical presentation.DC9Look at their clothes -- these people are decked out!