What you know is only half of your skill set; the other half is who you know. In Unbound Tales, your contacts and your social influence is measured using the Prestige system.

Prestige is applied in categories; there is Noble Prestige, Commoner Prestige, Guild Prestige, Mercenary Prestige, Temple Prestige and many others. The Director can cheerfully create their own as well; if you do something that particularly benefits any person who practices carpentry, he could create a Carpentry Prestige.

Prestige is applied in points. So long as you are engaging socially with any person that belongs in a category for which you have points in Prestige, you may add your Prestige points in that category into your total die roll.

For purposes of Prestige, the skills to which these rules apply are Deception, Diplomacy, Intimidation and Performance.