Urban Intrigue [General]

[The Hive Mind]

Prerequisites: Urban Sarcosan, 1st level only, Bluff 1 rank.

Benefit: You may use the Gather Information skill to counter attempts to learn about you, your location at any given time, or your allies and their whereabouts. The DC of the attempt to learn of you is set to the base DC, or your skill check, whichever is higher. If your opponent succeeds against the DC, he gathers the correct information, but should he fail, he acquires the false information planted by you. If he exceeds the DC by 10 or more, he discovers not only the true information, but also the false information and the specific time and place that the false information was planted.

To use Gather Information in this way takes 1d4+1 hours and plants false information that may be found for the next 24 hours.

Modifier Variable

–2 Per additional person included in misinformation
–2 Per day beyond the first you wish the information to persist
–2 Per 50 miles you wish the information to spread

Normal: Gather Information is used to find specific information.

Source: Star and Shadow, p. 51