Accounting

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 Accounting (05%) 

Grants understanding of accountancy procedures and reveals the financial functioning of a business or person. Inspecting the books, one might detect cheated employees, siphoned-off funds, payment of bribes or blackmail, and whether the financial condition is better or worse than claimed. Looking through old accounts, one could see how money was gained or lost in the past (grain, slave-trading, whiskey-running, etc.) and to whom and for what payment was made

Opposing skill/Difficulty level: If someone were trying to conceal something, the difficulty level would be based on the Accountancy skill of the person doing the concealing:


 * Regular difficulty: comprehensive and well-documented set of account books.


 * Hard difficulty: disorganized and partial accounts.

Pushing examples: taking more time to review documents; visiting banks or businesses to validate findings; double checking the math and data.

Sample Consequences of failing a Pushed roll: discussion between investigators and third parties alert some enemy faction to the investigators' intentions; a vital part of the accounts is destroyed or lost (perhaps in their tired state the investigator spills coffee over them).


 * If an insane investigator fails a pushed roll, they might be found having partial eaten the accounts.