Faction Perks

AX.C.08.02.04

Faction access, credentials, information networks, authority.

Professional Standing

Stage 1 | Free Action | Self | Session

Once per session, invoke your Profession's formal credentials or recognized standing to bypass one standard access barrier without a roll, a locked professional door, a guarded entry requiring identification, a bureaucratic checkpoint that should require paperwork. The bypass must be plausible given your Profession's actual authority in the setting.

Limit: Once per session.

Genre Note: A Fantasy Guild Mage bypasses a magical ward. A Modern Corporate Auditor bypasses a security checkpoint. A Sci-Fi Naval Officer bypasses an airlock. The fiction changes; the mechanic is identical.

Network Contact

Stage 1 | Free Action | One contact | Session

You have a reliable, named contact within your organization or professional sphere. Once per session, you may reach out to them for one of the following: a piece of specific information they would plausibly have access to, a low-level logistical favor (safe passage, a borrowed item, a covered entry), or confirmation of a rumor. The contact has their own interests and limits; they will not take serious personal risk.

The contact is defined during character creation or at Track Stage 1 unlock, and is a persistent NPC.

Organizational Authority

Stage 2 | Primary Action | Single NPC or small group | Long Rest

Issue a directive to NPCs of lower organizational rank within your structure. Unless they have a compelling personal reason to refuse (direct danger to themselves, conflicting orders from a superior, ethical objection), they must comply. This is not mind control; it is professional authority. NPCs who comply under duress may report it, resent it, or act against you later.

Limit: Once per Long Rest. Does not work against NPCs outside your organizational hierarchy or those of equal/higher rank.

Faction Pull

Stage 3 | Primary Action | Organization-scale | Full Rest

Call in a significant organizational favor, one that requires the organization to spend real resources or take real risk. Scale is proportional to your Stage 3 standing: backup personnel (2–4 NPCs), a cache of specialized equipment, an intelligence briefing on a current threat, an official intervention that changes the legal or political status of a situation.

Limit: Once per Full Rest. The organization remembers this was called in. Overuse degrades your standing.