Inquiry System

When you need to get some information you can use your contacts to find out what you need.
This typically takes 6 hours.
You can do this by different means:

• Asking Nicely: Roll Charisma & Persuasion. Involves being nice, asking for favors, cashing favors, inviting beers, etc.
• Trickery: Roll Manipulation & Deceit. Involves lying and tricking people into telling you what they know.
• Social Threats: Roll Manipulation & Intimidation. Involves abusing a position of power.
• Violent threats: Roll Strength & Intimidation. Involves bruising a couple of people.

You spend the time, and after that time you make the roll.

• Critical Failure: Something bad happens.
• Failure: No one you know has the information you need.
• Success: You get the information you wanted.
• Raises: You can use raises for the following:
  • Less time: You can use 1 raise to spend one hour less, cumulative.
  • More Info: You can use 1 raise to give you one extra piece of interesting info, cumulative.

Modifiers to Difficulty:

• Inconvenient Hours: +2 Everyone is asleep.
• Rare Info: +4 the information is known only by a select few.

Modifiers to your roll:

• Incentive: +2 You spend 50 Barter as incentive for cooperation.
• Bribe: +4 You spend 200 Barter as Incentive for cooperation.

Limitations:
You cannot use this edge to:

• Glean well-kept secrets, things that only one person or a tight group of people knows and fiercely guards.
• You cannot use this edge to get very technical information about knowledges such as Tech, Tinker, Nature Lore, Poisoncraft, Brewing, Tactics, Mining, and the like.

THIS SYSTEM IS NOT FEASIBLE IN PC GAME.