Actions: Investigate
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Concentrate | Secret
Action Downtime activity
Target Varies
Roll Varies
Effect You carefully examine a creature, object, or phenomena you can observe. Depending on the target's number of mysteries, mystery DRs, and mystery complexity, determines what you discover.
Anything with multiple mysteries requires its lowest DRs to be solved first before higher DRs can even be attempted.
Complex mysteries require a greater amount of time to investigate. Obvious 1 action, basic 10 actions (1 minute), standard 10 minutes, complex 2 hours, advanced 1 day, overwhelming 1 week. Some mysteries (such as complex conspiracies) may require multiple creatures, objects, and phenomena to have their mysteries solved before they even become available for scrutiny.
The difficulty to solve a mystery is typically 10 + 1/2 target's level or target's tier + target's Charisma modifier. This difficulty decreases the more familiar you are and increases the less familiar you are. This c
Critical Success You solve two of the target's mysteries, starting with the lowest DR ones remaining unsolved.
Success You solve one of the target's mysteries, starting with the lowest DR one remaining unsolved.
Critical Failure You believe you've solved one of their mysteries but the information you gain is false (unknown to you).
What is solving a mystery?
Solving a mystery is gaining an important piece of information about the target. You can declare specific information you want. The more specific the information the higher the DR (+2 or +5) while the more general the lower the DR (-2 or -5). Regardless of success or failure, you can't learn certain mysteries about a target until you first learn their assigned mysteries.
Every NPC, creature, and phenomena has a basic mystery, which can be assigned by the GM or randomized. Some may have more than one, depending on whether they're involved in whatever mystery you're trying to unravel.
When you examine a target you ask a question about it that is answered with a one-word response on a success. You might get no answer instead of a one-word response if your inquiry doesn't make sense for the target. For example, if you asked "Who is their best friend?" but the target has no best friend, you'd get no information even on a success. On a critical success, you would indeed surmise that they have no best friend and can get up to 10 words in response.
You can analyze vulnerabilities, resistances, immunities, etc. based on the skill you use.