Disguise

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 Disguise (05%) 

To be used whenever you wish to appear to be someone other than whom you are. The user changes posture, costume, and/or voice to enact a disguise, posing as another person or another sort of person. Theatrical makeup may help, as will fake ID.

Note that to pass as a specific person in a face-to-face meeting with someone who knows the person being imitated is beyond the scope of this skill, and may well indicate the need for a combined skill roll at a higher difficulty (with Persuade, Charm, or Fast Talk)

Opposing skill/Difficulty level:


 * Regular difficulty: to convince strangers that you are who you say you are. For example, to return to the scene of a crime you perpetrated yesterday and escape notice.
 * Hard difficulty: to convince professionals in a face-to-face meeting that you are who you say you are. For example, to pass as a bank employee to gain access to a bank vault.

Pushing examples: undergoing a fully immersive and intensive preparation (losing oneself in the role); stealing personal items and utilizing them in the disguise; over exaggeration to confound the target; feigning a sudden attack of illness to disorientate the observer.

Sample Consequences of failing a Pushed roll: Being arrested; causing offense, leading to violence or criminal charges; finding that the person being imitated is wanted by a criminal gang who come looking for vengeance.


 * If an insane investigator fails a pushed roll, the investigator no longer recognizes their own face in the mirror, even when the disguise is removed.