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side his car with the windows closed, David is under full X’s.) He’s a mess and now incurs a -1 wound penalty on
cover. In order for the shots to harm David, the gunman all his actions.
must first hit the window and penetrate it. In the next turn, David turns over the ignition and
The Storyteller’s dice pool starts with 2 Dexterity + floors the gas pedal, wracked by pain the whole time. The
3 Firearms + 2 for the gun’s damage rating + 3 for a long Storyteller requires a Dexterity + Drive roll for David to
burst. Targeting the window imposes a -1 penalty, for a avoid a mishap. His 3 Dexterity combines with his 2 Drive
total of nine dice. The attacker’s pool produces a 1, 3, 4, and the 2 Handling of his car, but his player also loses a
5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 10! That’s three successes. The two 10’s die for injuries and the Storyteller imposes a -1 penalty
are rolled again. One turns up a 3 and the other a 9. That’s for laying low in the driver seat. One success results on
four successes, total. the five dice, and David screeches away from the shoot-
The car window has a Durability of 1 (and Size of 3 ing gallery. The remaining thug curses as police sirens
and Structure of 4). The four successes exceed that Dura- sound in the distance and he has bad news to report to his
bility score by three. That means three dice are rolled as a employer.
second dice pool to see if David suffers harm in the at- David has received the “message” to back off, but he
tack. (The window also loses three of its four Structure doesn’t plan to do so for long. As soon as he recuperates
points, so is all but completely shattered.) (it will take him 12 days to recover from all his wounds at
The Storyteller rolls the three dice and gets three two days each), he’ll go public with the evidence that he
successes! David suffers three more damage to lethal inju- has. If, however, Boss Diodati can find him in that time
ries, reducing him to two unmarked Health boxes. (Six of — or better yet gets to David’s loved ones — the PI may
his 8 Health boxes have lethal damage marks in them — be encouraged to disappear altogether.

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