Manipulation

You can use MANIPULATION to influence how other people think, feel, or act by lying, flirting, bribing, negotiating, haggling, or using your social skills in other ways. When MANIPULATING someone you describe what you hope to achieve and what you are doing. You also use MANIPULATION to trade or purchase items and services during the mystery (see Gear in chapter 5). On a success you get what you want. Failure means that the other person distrusts or dislikes you, that you take a Condition, or that they are reinforced in their original convictions. Player characters can make an OBSERVATION test to resist your influence. If the other person tries to MANIPULATE you as well, they too describe what they hope to achieve. You must approve each other’s goals before rolling the dice. There are limits to what you can convince people to do or believe. An opposed MANIPULATION test determines who gains influence over the other. The losing party can decide to lay down a Condition for doing what the winner wants. Perhaps you must promise not to tell anyone about what they agreed to do, or maybe they first want to know something about you? When you get more successes than you need, you can use them to impose a mental Condition on your opponent – one for each extra success.