Another Blades session at lunchtime today. The Gentleman Bastards decided to tinker/attune so that the Whisper’s mask could track the strange phials of essence they’d liberated from the Red Sash vault.
The Slide then handed the goods over to Baz and managed to sway him into believing that they weren’t malicious, just inept. He avoided suspicion but the relationship remained tarnished.
The Lurk helped the Whisper prowl around, following the phials through the sewers and onto a merchant’s barge beneath a bridge, and the Lampblacks didn’t spot them, but the merchant did as the Lurk got too close, trying to identify the bloke.
Questions which arose today: If you’re using supernatural means to stalk someone, does that replace stalk with attune? If the Whisper is then stalking, does it mean the Lurk is only prowling? Does this mean a stalk can happen without anyone actually rolling stalk?
Tricky stuff.
The best answers to the questions are specific rather than general. What fits the time of your game and table?
I’m much more partial to rules like this when they aren’t handed down from on high, in any fashion; when they exist for a purpose and only for that purpose. Maybe in this game, you stick to stalk for stalking. Maybe next game it makes more sense for attune to work. Don’t marry anything unduly.
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I wrote a big move for using supernatural means to achieve mundane effects for exactly this issue. But in short I’d say, yes. If the Whisper is using Channel to produce supernatural effects, even if they are trying to do something that could be covered otherwise by a different action, then they are using attune. That means they are exposing themselves to ectoplasmic fallout as well as paying stress for the privilege.