Anthropology

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 Anthropology (01%) 

Enables the user to identify and understand an individual's way of life through observation. If the skill-user observes another culture from within for a time, or works from accurate records concerning an extinct culture, then simple predictions can be made about that culture's ways and morals, even though the evidence may be incomplete. Studying the culture for a month or more, the anthropologist begins to understand how the culture functions and, in combination with Psychology, may predict the actions and beliefs of those being studied.

Opposing skill/Difficulty level: The difficulty for this skill is set according to the exposure of the skill-user to their subject.


 * Regular difficulty: spending a month or more with the people.


 * Hard difficulty: spending only a week or less with the people.

Pushing examples: taking more time to study the target/s; going "native" for a period; taking an active role in a ceremony, rite, etc.

Sample Consequences of failing a Pushed roll: being attacked or imprisoned by the people studied, due to some perceived transgression of their laws or social mores; suffering severe side-effects as the result of being involved in a ceremony which involved ingesting psychotropic plants.


 * If an insane investigator fails a pushed roll, they will be lost among the culture being studied, for example like Dennis Hopper's photojournalist character in the film Apocalypse Now.