Scrutiny

Basic
Perception
Use the Scrutiny skill to make assessments about people you encounter, to determine if someone is lying to you, to sense ulterior motives and generally appraise the worth of another being. When trying to perceive a falsehood, or some other form of deception, you make an Opposed Test, pitting your Scrutiny against the target’s Deceive. If you beat your opponent by achieving more degrees of success, you get a hunch that something is not right.
Note that Scrutiny does not confer telepathy and cannot be used to reveal all the secrets about a target. Rather, this Skill serves to counteract attempts to manipulate you through Interaction skills such as Charm, Deceive and Intimidate.

Empathy

A successful Scrutiny Test allows you to discern a target’s disposition. This Test is Opposed by the target’s Deceive Test if he has something to hide.

Lying

You may use your knowledge of lying to help make your own lies all the more difficult to detect. If you first make a successful Scrutiny Test you gain a +10 bonus to a subsequent Deceive Test.