Crack the lid open. Apply liberally around your eyes, lips, and nose using broad strokes. Pat dry to aid absorption. When you no longer recognise yourself, that’s how you know it’s working.

PersonalismMaximum rank: +1
EntanglementMaximum rank: +1

Exerting on Relation Checks cost -1 Anxiety

Pull faces to express yourself

Dissonance active

When covering your face.

The unread half

Order

SkillThresholdNearest threshold

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

This man isn't just high. He's on a dirigible coasting stratospheric over the Noscorrentes Sea.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

Somewhere behind his bloodshot eyes, a slow, yet impeccable calculation emerges.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

The jovial words are accompanied by a shaky voice as if from some kind of wounded animal.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

Ramses may be high, but this guy is somewhere in low-orbit.

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Struck a nerve there.

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Cagey.

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He smooths back his hair, temporarily revealing the creaselines of stress beneath.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

He wants you to be gone when he opens them again.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

Too quick. Practiced.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

Underneath the cold and calculated exterior, rage boils.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

Like an unfavourable omen.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

Light blooms behind her pupils.

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Not fading. Shimmering.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

You watch her nose physically turn upward a few degrees.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

Slightly self-conscious all of a sudden.

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'Never. Please.'

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Aimed for nonchalance, flew wide of the mark.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

The first time she's reckoned with another person turning against her. The real her.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

His eyebrows meet in the middle as he contemplates this new aspect of being.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

Relaxed, casual. She assumes you're like her, that you feel the same way.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

She winks, her finger tracing the rim of her glass -- she thinks you're in on a secret.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

Her eyes sparkle, delighted. She's inviting you to participate in the ritual humiliation of a third party.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

Her face adjusts, then sets. She believes this.

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She is into this. Use it. Flirt, get her drunk.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

Visibly relieved.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

The last time you spoke, there was a hint of desperation in how he insisted he was the original. Not anymore. Now he's had days to indoctrinate the idea into himself.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

He strips you naked with his gaze, on his expression a desire that is not lust.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / < 10

Opposable thumbs- check.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

The autopilot is immaculate, all things considered.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

A fanatic's certainty, forged through sheer trauma.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

The light cowers from you.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

A slightly weightless tone in her voice. Gravity suspended.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

Excitement sliding into her voice. This gorefest is a painting of her own personal revenge.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

His voice is reasonable, calm -- utterly at odds with the sparks of fear behind his eyes.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

None of that sounded real. It was a scene from fiction, from an espionage novel.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

And he can't wait to tell you.

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A laser beam of suspicion.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

No irony here. No dress rehearsal either.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

The way he pronounces the name tells you there's no love lost there.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

In times of uncertainty people naturally gather in large groups, perceiving safety in numbers. This behaviour is widely observed even when the opposite is true.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

Still vibrating a little from the adrenaline and the death whistle, Ramses, too, slowly comes back into himself.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

Something tells you that their teeth are yellowed with decay.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

Her intonation is deliberate, forced. Direct to camera, gun just off-screen.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

You detect a slight tremor in the hand holding the book she was reading.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

A look of worry, like she's just broken an agreement.

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Gulp. Dry mouth. A skeleton of fear.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

A shadow passes over her face. In the darkness, her pupils momentarily dilate.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

It's as though you proposed something unseemly at the dinner table.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

You glean she is... largely unimpressed.

Cold Read1 + 6 = 7 / ≥ 10

Nothing fake about her reaction.