History

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 History (05%) 

Enables an investigator to remember the significance of a country, city, region, or person, as pertinent. A successful roll might be used to help identify tools, techniques, or ideas familiar to ancestors, but little known today.

Opposing skill/Difficulty level:


 * Regular difficulty: to recall some pertinent and useful information
 * Hard difficulty: to know some obscure, detailed and useful information

Pushing examples: taking more time to examine; conducting further research; consulting another expert; hiring assistants to conduct detailed research, taking months, and at a huge cost.

Sample Consequences of failing a Pushed roll: consultations alert your adversaries, who become aware of your intent; your facts are erroneous and lead you into danger; much time and money is wasted on fruitless research.


 * If an insane investigator fails a pushed roll, they are convinced that they are somehow displaced in time, or perhaps they start believing that they are living in a historic period, dressing and speaking in an archaic manner.