Discipline

Your confidence, determination, and social influence.

• Fear: Fear forces you to check against your heart score. If you fail you lose 1 wits and grit damage equal to your failure margin.
• Flirt: When you invite someone into a romance you spend wits and must succeed in a check against your heart score. If you fail there is no kiss. You make the same check to respond positively to someone else's invitation.
• Focus: Focus allows you to do extraordinary things. You have focus equal to your heart control (will). You may spend focus after you roll any check and that check automatically increases one success level: a success becomes a triumph, a fumble becomes a failure, and so on. Abilities may grant other uses for focus. You recover focus time you achieve a goal. Tedium or special attacks may cost you focus.
• Grit. You have grit equal to your heart score. Grit damage removes bubbles until you have none left. When you suffer grit damage that isn't absorbed by your grit bubbles you must make a heart check, called a resolve check. If the check fails you suffer a grit marker (usually a white token). Your success margin on the check must equal or beat the amount of grit damage you suffered. Note that suffering exactly 0 grit damage (such as losing your last bubble still requires a check. Every 10 grit damage from one attack automatically causes a grit marker, and any remaining forces another check normally. Your first grit marker gives you a penalty on all checks, and is referred to as being shaken. Your second grit marker forces you out, and you may no longer act. This is referred to as being unconscious. You recover a grit marker after each full exchange.
• Insight: You may use a defense and check heart to contest a social attack. You only avoid effects to yourself, so insight won't stop other denizens from being convinced. A retort is considered a special type of insight that will stop social effects against others.
• Skills: Your sense attribute control is used to determine the default score for all your interpersonal skills: Command, Negotiate, and Perform. The starting score is 5, plus your control. You may spend points to increase specific skills. If your sense control improves, all interpersonal skill scores likewise increase. Modifiers for heart count towards all interpersonal skills as well.
  • Command: Intimidation and leadership.
  • Negotiate: Diplomacy and trade.
  • Perform: Art and deception.

Purchasing Intensity

Score	Points	Control
7	0	1
8	0	1
9	0	1
10	1	2
11	1	2
12	1	2
13	2	3
14	2	3
15	2	3
16(*)	3	4

(*) Only available from a 15.

See Also

• Attribute
• Sense
• Strength

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