This skill allows the character to interrogate another character and force one truthful answer from them using physical harm and pain so long as it conforms with the decency standards of LAIRE It takes 30 minutes to use this skill and during that time the character should roleplay his torture and interrogation of the target character. For every purchase of the Courage skill the target character has, they can prolong the time it takes to use this skill by 10 minutes. So a character with three purchases of the Courage skill could hold out for 60 minutes. This skill can be countered by the Iron Will skill. No other skill or spell will stop this skill.
To use this skill, the target character must be restrained and unable to resist. The character may either inflict pain without causing Body Point damage or cause damage if they wish at any point while using this skill; they may even deliver a Killing Blow.
The character using this skill may also force the target to perform one action provided it does not cause the target character to lose permanent Body Points or Power Points or takes longer than 30 minutes. This action can be anything the character is capable of performing. For example, a character can be made to cast a spell or lower a Ward. They can be forced to pick a lock or disarm a trap so long as they have the appropriate skill. If the character cannot perform the action they are directed to do, the skill fails and the Tag is used. The action does not have to be performed immediately. The character may bring the target character to a location where the action will be performed, but they must always be present, the target character must remain restrained, and 7the action has to occur within 30 minutes.
For example, Illium is captured by some Servants of Darkness and tortured. After 30 minutes they want him to lower the Ward on his barracks. They take him to the building and the torturer orders him to lower the ward. Illium must comply unless he has an Iron Will. Also, if the torturer wanders away from Illium, he frees himself from his bonds, he runs away, or the trip to the building takes over 30 minutes, Illium does not have to lower the ward. Finally, if Illium does not know the word to the ward or is not a caster of the ward and has no ability to lower the ward, the torture fails. In all of these instances, the Tag is used for that Tag Cycle.
This skill does not allow a character to mutilate the target character without doing damage or magically preserving the character in anyway. For example, a character cannot remove an internal organ or bone without delivering a Killing Blow. They can remove fingers or toenails but not hearts, intestines, or spleens. This skill does not allow the character to alter the target character’s physiology in any way, the Evisceration skill is used for that.
The character can use this skill to inflict pain upon an unresisting target character without doing damage and without using a Tag for that cycle provided they do not try and force the answer to a question or perform an action.
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