<strong>Brand</strong><br/><br/>Still circling her cautiously, Brand continued to speak easily and reassuringly. "Have you ever known anyone just to give someone else power? There must be more going on here than we realize." His grey-blue eyes touched hers. "Some people might be seduced by the promise of power. Somehow I think that you are not the type to be a toy for anyone's amusement. I am not asking you to surrender. I am asking you to call a truce; at least until we can figure out what is going on."<br/><br/><em>Roll Result: Brand rolled: 2d10<br/>Comment: Social attack roll<br/>Result: 6, 10, <br/>Total: 16<br/><br/>Compare Action stats: <br/>Brand has a modified Charm of 7 (5 base +2 tactics)<br/>Hereasin has a modified Charm of 5 (5 base +0 tactics) <br/><br/>Consulting the Action table Cross reference Brand’s stat of 7 with the Hereasin’s defense of 5, Brand needs a 9 or better to hit. With a roll of 16, he actually achieves 2 column shifts past the magic number of 11.<br/><br/>Compare Effects stats:<br/>Brand has a modified Passion of 7 (5 base +2 tactics)<br/>Hereasin has a modified Will of 10 (6 base +4 tactics) <br/><br/>Next we go to the results table. Cross referencing Brands Passion of 9, with Hereasin’s Will of 10. With no column shifts, the result is 2. However Brand had 2 column shifts, moving along the table reveals that the damage is 4. Note that if she had not spend 4 points to improve her will, she would have taken 8 damage to her resistance.<br/><br/>Hereasin records the damage from her total resistance value, reducing it from 18 to 14.</em>