====== Gather Information ======
{{tag>activity down-time social}}

You spend time in a community, library, or den of iniquity looking for specific news, rumors, or hidden truths. This activity represents scouring the local area for the answers you need.

**Roll+CHA**. You gain favour if you spend at least five copper pennies on bribes or drinks. You suffer slight if the community is hostile or if the information is heavily guarded.

  * **Complete Success**:  You find exactly what you were looking for and more. You must describe the contact or method you used to find this information. In addition, the Director will provide a valuable secret related to the topic.
  * **Success**:  You learn the information you sought. You must describe how you came across this knowledge and who told it to you.
  * **Partial Success**:  You learn the information, but it comes with a complication. Choose one Bad Thing from the list below.
  * **Failure**:  The locals are tight-lipped or your research leads to a dead end.
  * **Complete Failure**:  You are fed a total lie that sounds plausible. You must **invent this false information on the spot**---your character believes it to be absolutely true. The Director reserves the right to request a different piece of false information, if the one you come up with is too outlandish, too mild, or improbably correct.

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==== Bad Things ====
  * Your questioning was too blunt.  If you didn't want a certain person or group to learn that you are looking for information, they now know.
  * You had to promise a significant favour to a contact to get the truth.
  * You were pickpocketed or otherwise lost 10 copper pennies while distracted.