Merit
Cost: •
Prerequisites:
- None
Contacts provide your character with information.
This Merit represents a sphere or organization within which the character can garner information. Contacts do not provide services, only information. This may be face-to-face, email, by telephone, or even by séance in some strange instances.
Garnering information via Contacts requires a Manipulation + Social Skill roll, depending on the method the character uses and the relationship between the characters. The Storyteller should give a bonus or penalty depending on how relevant the information is to that particular Contact, whether accessing the information is dangerous, and if the character has maintained good relations or done favours for the Contact. These modifiers should range from –3 to +3 in most cases. If successful, the Contact provides the information.
You may purchase this Merit multiple times to reflect different sources.