<strong>Destiny Pool:</strong>Dark Side:* | Light Side:*<br/><hr/><br/>The ice proved too durable, even for mechanical fingers that cared nothing for the chill. However, as Lass shifted her grip on the pillar, trying in vain to find a weak point, she noticed something: depending on where she placed her hand, the glimmer would wink out, and appear in a different pillar. Indeed, it seemed increasingly likely that there was no crystal within this particular pillar. It was all just a trick of the light, and the true source of the gleam must be coming from one of the other pillars.<br/><br/>The true depth of the challenge before Lass suddenly became clear. There were dozens of pillars, each made of solid ice, any one of which could hold Lass's crystal. As if to drive the point hope, the ambient light in grew a shade darker, and the chill pressed in against the Nautolan with greater insistence.<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body">Lass needs to make a Hard fear check, upgraded, once, as the challenge before her begins to sink in.<br/><br/>That is the base difficulty. However, I am going to flip a Dark Side point to upgrade the difficulty again. Each upgrade turns a purple difficulty die into a red challenge die.<br/><br/>So the final difficulty pool is going to be 2eC+1eD.<br/><br/>A <strong>fear check</strong> is a specific kind of roll, that tends to impose penalties on characters should they fail. By default, fear checks are rolled with Discipline. However, if a character knew they were going to face a particular stressful circumstance, they may roll with Cool instead. Lass knows enough Jedi stuff to probably realize that the crystal caves would have some kind of spiritual test, and she's known she was up against the clock this whole time, so I'd allow her to roll Cool in this situation if she wanted to.<br/><br/>For reference: Lass's athletics roll: 4 failures<br/>(3 difficulty, 2 setback)<br/></div></div>