Yep, everything is difficulty 8, one success means you manage it.<br/><br/>Penalties are there to make your life more difficult.<br/><br/>There's no 1s subtract succeses unless you have a special "unlucky" trait, such as from a vampire weakness.  I don't remember anything in werewolf granting it.<br/><br/><br/>EDIT:  Valkyr's character will be joining the story as part of one of the rumors the party is investigating.