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====== Perform an Investigation ======
{{tag>activity exploration}}

You spend five minutes scouring a room, a crime scene, or a specific landmark for clues, hidden details, and traces of passage.

**Roll+FOR**. You gain favour if you have specialized tools or if the area is undisturbed.
  * **Complete Success**:  Your search is exhaustive. You may ask the Director **two questions** from the list below. In addition, you may spend a further five minutes to roll again immediately, but treat a complete success on this follow-up roll as a success.
  * **Success**:  You find the key details. You may ask the Director **two questions** from the list below.
  * **Partial Success**:  You find something of interest, but your search is imperfect. You may ask the Director **one question** from the list below.  Describe what issue has made it impossible for you to find any more details.
  * **Failure**:  You find nothing of interest.
  * **Complete Failure**:  You draw a dangerously incorrect conclusion. You must choose **one question** from the list below, and the Director will give you a completely false---but plausible---answer.  Your character believes that this false answer is true.

**Constraint:** Unless you achieved a complete success, you cannot Investigate this specific location again.  Even with a complete success, you may only roll one additional time, and then cannot Investigate this area again.

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==== Investigation Questions ====
Choose from the following options when you gain a question:
  * What happened here most recently?
  * Was a certain person here recently, and if so, when?
  * Is there something hidden here (compartments, traps, or loot)?  (Note that this does not say, //Where is something hidden?//)
  * What was the intended purpose of this specific object?
  * Did a struggle occur here, and who appeared to have the upper hand?
  * In what direction did the subjects leave this area?
  * Is there a clue here that points toward a specific foe or faction?