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servant. Or he could simply be someone who follows the
news and understands the money trail.
Possessed by: Bureaucrats, civil servants, journalists,
lawyers, lobbyists, politicians
Specialties: Bribery, Elections, Federal, Local, State,
Scandals

Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: Your character has seriously mis-
read the current political or bureaucratic climate. At best,
he might find his efforts stonewalled by spiteful civil ser-
vants. At worst, he might be arrested for attempted brib-
ery or be caught up in a public spectacle.
Failure: Your character makes no headway in his ef-
forts in the political arena. Perhaps he can’t get the right
politician to return his calls or a recent shakeup in an
office means he has to work harder to find the right “in.”
Success: Your character achieves his objective.
Exceptional Success: Your character not only gains
his objective quickly and efficiently, he makes new friends
and associates in the bargain, possibly increasing his
chances for success in future endeavors.

Science

The young man’s body looked far worse beneath the
harsh light of the autopsy table than it did at the crime scene.
The antiseptic glare revealed his terrible injuries in gruesome
detail. Even Wagner’s partner Robison had a hard time
concealing his discomfort. Wagner took out a notepad.
“What have you got, Doc?”
Dr. Feingold, the city’s medical examiner, chose his
words carefully. “For starters, the four lacerations across the
victim’s chest are equidistant from one another, and
measurements indicate that they struck the body with equal
force. Thus, I believe that they were inflicted at the same
moment, rather than separately.
Wagner eyed the four deep furrows running diagonally
across the man’s chest. They’d cut through tissue and bone
as cleanly as a saw. “Four guys couldn’t have done that at
the same time. No way.”
“Not four assailants, Detective.” Feingold raised his left
hand to the light. “Four fingers. These are claw marks.”
This Skill represents your character’s understanding
of the physical and natural sciences: biology, chemistry,
geology, meteorology, physics. Science is useful not only
for understanding how the world works, but it helps char-
acters make the most of the resources at hand to achieve
their goals. A character with a strong Science background
could describe the chemical process for plating metals, for
example, allowing another character with Crafts to make
a silver-edged steel sword.
Possessed by: Engineers, scientists, students, teach-
ers, technicians
Specialties: Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Metallurgy,
Physics

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