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Your influence attribute indicates your charisma, personality, and the overall development of your allure.

==Influence Skills==
{{Main|Skill}}
Your influence control is used to determine the default score for all your influence [[skill]]s: [[Command]], [[Negotiate]], and [[Perform]]. The starting score is 5, plus your control. You may spend points to increase specific skills. If your control improves, all influence skill scores likewise increase. [[Modifier]]s for influence count towards all influence skills as well.

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|'''Skill'''||'''Description'''
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|[[Command]]||Intimidation and leadership.
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|[[Negotiate]]||Diplomacy and trade.
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|[[Perform]]||Art and deception.
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==Insight==
{{Main|Insight}}
Insight is a special form of [[retort]]. You may use a [[Guard]] against any attack that targets you. You roll your defense using your influence against the attacker's check. Range, language, and other penalties apply to your check. If you win the attack is stopped before it happens, no ammunition is used and no other targets are affected.

==Language==
{{Main|Language}}
Your influence control is the number of [[language]]s you can learn. You can leave languages unassigned, which allows you to learn new languages during the game. You add a [[tension]] Penalty (-2) on any influence or influence skill checks against a target who does not share a language with you. The languages you know also reflect your cultural background, and affect what knowledge is common, [[obscure]], or simply unknown to you. You may learn a language by dedicating a full [[respite]] to it and making a successful influence check.

==Rank==
{{Main|Rank}}
Your social rank is equal to your current sway. If you have the highest sway you are either the leader or the largest threat to the current leader. Certain abilities add benefits to [[follower]]s within range equal to your sway. Note that if your sway has been reduced to 0 it still affects adjacent Areas. Some circumstances or abilities require that you have more rank than your target.

==Sway==
{{Main|Sway}}
You have sway equal to your influence score. Every insult result you take eliminates one of your sway. Excess insult causes a [[trouble]] check. Having sway at all marks you as a personality in any [[dispute]].

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|width="20pt"| -2
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|width="85pt" align="left"|'''Sway''' (Cool 0)
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==Trouble==
{{Main|Trouble}}
When you suffer insult that isn't absorbed by your own sway bubbles (see Sway above) you must roll a [[trouble]] check against your influence score. If the check fails, you'll gain a Trouble marker. If the attack deals more than one insult, your success margin must equal or beat the number of extra insult to avoid the marker. Every 10 insult automatically causes a marker, and then you check for any remaining insult normally.

'''''Example:''' Pounded Pete has an influence score of 12, and 12 sway. He is struck by 15 insult. First, his 12 sway bubbles are eliminated, leaving 3 insult. He must make a trouble check with a target of 12, but he needs a success margin of 2 or more. Pete rolls a 10 and barely succeeds, avoiding a Trouble marker. Pete is hit again for another 15 insult. With no sway bubbles left to absorb any, he suffers it all. The first 10 automatically cause a Trouble marker. That leaves 5 insult left, so Pete is rolling against his usual 12- target, but he needs a success margin of 4 or higher to avoid a second Trouble marker.''

==Wit==
{{Main|Wit}}
Influence attacks use the [[Perform]] skill against a target within [[close]] range. You use your taunt effect, regardless of whether you are insulting, slandering, flattering, misdirecting, or so on. A taunt rolls effect dice equal to your influence control. Green results deal insult, blue results deal grief, and red results deal stagger.

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{{Taunt}}
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==Attribute Point Cost==
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|'''Score'''||'''Points'''||'''Control'''||'''Base Skill'''
|-Style="background-color:#afafaf"
|'''6'''|| -8|| 1||6-
|-Style="background-color:#dfdfdf"
|'''7'''|| -6|| 1||6-
|-Style="background-color:#afafaf"
|'''8'''|| -4|| 1||6-
|-Style="background-color:#dfdfdf"
|'''9'''|| -1||2||7-
|-Style="background-color:#afafaf"
|'''10'''||0||2||7-
|-Style="background-color:#dfdfdf"
|'''11'''||1||2||7-
|-Style="background-color:#afafaf"
|'''12'''||4||3||8-
|-Style="background-color:#dfdfdf"
|'''13'''||6||3||8-
|-Style="background-color:#afafaf"
|'''14'''||8||3||8-
|-Style="background-color:#dfdfdf"
|'''15'''||12||4||9-
|-Style="background-color:#afafaf"
|'''16'''||15||4||9-
|-Style="background-color:#dfdfdf"
|'''17'''||18||4||9-
|-Style="background-color:#afafaf"
|'''18'''||23||5||10-
|}

==See Also==
*[[Attribute]]
*[[Precision]]
*[[Reason]]
*[[Strength]]

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