Envoy: Difference between revisions

'''Prerequisite:''' [[Envoy#Press the Issue|Press the Issue]]<br>

'''Activation:''' Special Activation<br>

''You draw on your enemy’s innate desire to live and continue pursuing their goals. Sowing seeds of doubt, you encourage them to reach a compromise.''<br>

When your [[Envoy#Steadfast Challenge|Steadfast Challenge]] makes a character Disoriented, you can spend 1 focus to also pacify them until the end of this scene. A pacified character makes no attacks or similar hostile actions without provocation. However, if you or your ally attacks them or similarly acts hostilely, or if one of their allies suffers an injury or dies, the pacified character ceases to be pacified.<br>

Additionally, after a target resists the influence of your Steadfast Challenge, they lose additional focus equal to your ranks in Discipline.<br>

'''Prerequisite:''' [[Envoy#Standing Agreement|Standing Agreement]]<br>

'''Activation:''' Always Active<br>

You have an advantage on tests to negotiate the terms of an agreement.<br>

In combat, if all non-minion enemies are currently pacified (such as by [[Envoy#Calm Appeal|Calm Appeal]]) and all other non-minion characters agree to cease hostilities, you can ease tensions. The combat immediately ends and becomes a conversation. At the GM’s discretion, you can use this talent in non-combat scenes.<br>

=== Press the Issue ===

'''Prerequisite:''' [[Envoy#Standing Agreement|Standing Agreement]] or [[Envoy#Steadfast Challenge|Steadfast Challenge]]<br>

'''Activation:''' 2 Actions<br>

Spend 1 focus to make a Persuasion test against the Spiritual defense of a character you can influence. On a success, you learn the target’s motivation for being in the scene.<br>

Until the end of the scene, when you make a test to leverage this motivation against the target, you can raise the stakes.<br>

'''Prerequisite:''' Persuasion 2+; [[Envoy#Rousing Presence (Envoy Key)|Rousing Presence key talent]]<br>

'''Activation:''' Always Active<br>

When you acquire this talent, you receive either a community reward or a pact of some form. Work with the GM to determine the details of this reward. When determining this reward's benefits, you count as one tier higher.<br>

Additionally, you are recognized favorably by characters who are connected with the provider of this reward.<br>

'''Prerequisite:''' [[Envoy#Rousing Presence (Envoy Key)|Rousing Presence key talent]]<br>

'''Activation:''' 1 Action<br>

''You stand firm, locking eyes with your opponent and speaking a challenge with unnerving calm.''<br>

Spend 1 focus to make a Discipline test against the Spiritual defense of an enemy you can influence. On a success, they become Disoriented and gain a disadvantage on tests against you until the end of their next turn.<br>

'''Prerequisite:''' Discipline 1+; [[Envoy#Steadfast Challenge|Steadfast Challenge]]<br>

'''Activation:''' Special Activation<br>

When you use [[Envoy#Rousing Presence (Envoy Key)|Rousing Presence]], your target recovers 1 Focus.<br>

Additionally, when you use Rousing Presence, you can spend 1 Focus to also make your target Determined until the end of the scene.<br>

=== Chin Up! ===

'''Prerequisite:''' Discipline 2+; [[Envoy#Rousing Presence (Envoy Key)|Rousing Presence key talent]]<br>

'''Activation:''' 2 Actions<br>

Once per scene, choose an ally you can influence. They can roll their recovery die (no action required) and recover health equal to the result.<br>

'''Prerequisite:''' Discipline 4+; [[Envoy#Trouble With Authority|Trouble With Authority]]<br>

'''Activation:''' Reaction<br>

When you successfully influence a character with a social test, you can spend 2 focus as a reaction and roll the plot die as if you were raising the stakes to create an opening that you can seize upon to gain a small boon.<br>

On an Opportunity, seizing this opening also benefits an NPC who considers you an ally or produces a setback for an enemy.<br>

On a Complication, seizing this opening will benefit an enemy or impose a cost on an NPC who considers you an ally.<br>

The GM will tell you which character(s) will be affected by your choice to seize the opening. If you choose to not seize upon the opening, you lose any Opportunities generated by the roll, and your GM can choose how to spend Complication.<br>

'''Prerequisite:''' Deception 1+; [[Envoy#Risky Behavior|Risky Behavior]]<br>

'''Activation:''' Reaction<br>

''Years of covert operations have taught you to dissemble on the spot, concocting a reasonable excuse for the most incriminating behavior.''<br>

After you’re discovered while hiding or otherwise skulking about, you can use this reaction and spend 2 focus to pass yourself off as doing something innocent. You influence each character who can sense you to believe your excuse.<br>

A character can resist this influence, but after they do, they lose additional focus equal to your ranks in Deception.<br>

Additionally, when you acquire this talent, gain a utility expertise in Sleight of Hand.<br>

'''Prerequisite:''' Deception 4+; [[Envoy#Sow Division|Sow Division]]<br>

'''Activation:''' 1 Action<br>

''In social circles where rumors swirl and eddy, your patron’s name creates vast ripples.''

When you make a test to spread misinformation or gather rumors, you can spend 2 focus to add an Opportunity to the result.<br>

Additionally, when you acquire this talent, gain a utility expertise in Scandal.<br>

'''Prerequisite:''' [[Envoy#Chin Up!|Chin Up!]]<br>

'''Activation:''' '''Activation:''' Always Active<br>

When you cause a character to recover health, they recover additional health equal to your ranks in Discipline.<br>

'''Prerequisite:''' Deception 3+; [[Envoy#Plausible Excuse|Plausible Excuse]]<br>

'''Activation:''' 2 Actions<br>

Choose two or more characters you can influence and spend that much focus to divide them. Describe a potential source of conflict, then make a Deception test (DC equals highest Spiritual defense among those targets). On a success, you influence each target to become hostile to the other targets, which sparks an argument, combat, or other conflict until they find a way to resolve it.<br>

A target can resist this influence, but after they do, they lose additional focus equal to your ranks in Deception. If only some of the targets resist influence, the others remain hostile, but their conflict might become easier to resolve.<br>

'''Prerequisite:''' Discipline 3+; [[Envoy#Sow Division|Sow Division]]<br>

'''Activation:''' Special Activation<br>

Before you make a test to interact socially with authority figures, you can spend 2 focus to add an Opportunity to the result.<br>

Additionally, when you acquire this talent, gain a utility expertise in Dissident Groups.<br>