GracefulCharmMethodology/SolarInvestigation

Investigation

Charm Tree

Analysis

Crafty Observation Method

• Cost: 3m
• Type: Simple
• Keywords: Mute
• Mins: Investigation 3, Essence 1

The Solar makes a case or profile action in a few seconds, getting the same detail of information that they would from an exhaustive search.

Divine Induction Technique

• Cost: 2m, 1wp
• Type: Supplemental
• Mins: Investigation 5, Essence 1
• Prereqs: Crafty Observation Method

The successes on this case action are also applied as a profile action against one of the people within it, chosen by the Solar.

Miraculous Stunning Insight

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Investigation 5, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Crafty Observation Method

The Solar knows when they have failed at an Investigation roll, and will never draw incorrect conclusions. After a night’s rest, they may return to the scene (or meet the character again) to reattempt the check without penalty.

Evidence-Restoring Prana

• Cost: 6m
• Type: Supplemental
• Mins: Investigation 5, Essence 3
• Prereqs: Miraculous Stunning Insight

This case action is made against difficulty 1, regardless of decay, tampering, or interference. The Solar perceives all evidence as though it was perfectly fresh - including items that have been removed, destroyed, or defaced since.

Unknown Wisdom Epiphany

• Cost: 10m
• Type: Supplemental
• Mins: Investigation 5, Essence 3
• Prereqs: Miraculous Stunning Insight, Divine Induction Technique

By psychologically re-enacting the scene as part of a case action, the Solar may glean insights that are impossible to discern from the evidence alone. If they have met any of the people who were at the scene, they will immediately recognise who they are and what roles they played within it.

Enlightened Touch Insight

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Investigation 5, Essence 4
• Prereqs: Unknown Wisdom Epiphany

By leading a person through the scene they have re-enacted with Unknown Wisdom Epiphany, the Solar can have them experience it in the same lucidity. They infer the same information as the Solar, and can recognise anyone they know who was at the scene.

Empathic Recall Discipline

• Cost: 1m, 1wp
• Type: Supplemental
• Mins: Investigation 5, Essence 4
• Prereqs: Unknown Wisdom Epiphany

If the Solar gets at least as many successes on this case action as the perpetrators’ Larceny, they are aware of what the perpetrator wished to accomplish with the event. Compare the results to each perpetrator separately, to determine which motives are revealed.

Mind Manse Meditation

• Cost: 12m, 1wp
• Type: Simple
• Keywords: Once/story
• Mins: Investigation 5, Essence 5
• Prereqs: Empathic Recall Discipline

The Solar poses themselves a question, and enters a meditation. When they emerge, they will know the answer: composited together out of a vast web of circumstantial evidence, but clear to the Solar in its certainty.

Interrogation

Watchman’s Infallible Eye

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Investigate 1, Essence 1

The Solar instinctively knows when a case scene or profile action would be beneficial, and what it should be focused on.

Inquisitor’s Unfailing Notice

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Investigate 2, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Watchman’s Infallible Eye

The Solar instinctively knows when someone makes a Larceny action within reach of their senses, and what kind of action it is (but not what has been done, or how). They instinctively know when someone is in a disguise if they attempt to perform an action they could not have done without it (but not who they are underneath).

Watchful Justicar’s Eye

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Investigation 5, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Infallible Watchman’s Eye

The Solar is automatically aware when someone has been the recipient of a successful instil action, persuade action, or mind-affecting magic since the last time they profiled them. It does not tell them the nature of the action or effect.

Ten Magistrate Eyes

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Investigate 5, Essence 3
• Prereqs: Inquisitor’s Unfailing Notice

The Solar immediately recognises anyone that they have previously profiled, even if they are in disguise. They cannot automatically see through the disguise, but they are certain that it is the person in question.

Judge’s Ear Technique

" Cost: 6m

• Type: Reflexive

" Duration: One scene

• Mins: Investigation 4, Essence 1
• Prereqs: Watchman's Infallible Eye

The Solar automatically detects when someone tells them a direct lie (but not what the truth is). If they detect a lie in any influence attempt against themselves, they may resist it without spending Willpower.

Dauntless Inquisitor Attitude

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Investigation 5, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Judge's Ear Technique

Every time the Solar detects a lie with a read intentions action or Judge's Ear Technique, they gain an automatic success on all read intentions actions against the liar for the remainder of the scene.

Irresistible Questioning Technique

• Cost: 5m, 1wp
• Type: Supplemental
• Keywords: Once/scene, Psyche
• Mins: Investigation 5, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Judge’s Ear Technique

This persuade (or intimidate, or threaten) action is rolled as Wits+Investigation: if successful, the Solar may pose one question, and an extra one per additional success. These must be answered completely truthfully, or not at all – which costs one temporary Willpower per question to resist.

Judge-General Stance

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Investigation 5, Essence 4
• Prereqs: Irresistible Questioning Technique, Ten Magistrate Eyes

While the Solar's anima is at bonfire or greater, all Larceny actions and influence attempts that use Manipulation have their difficulty raised by the Solar's Essence.