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Fortunately, everything appears to be more or less physically intact.

The problem, of course, is your appearance. You cannot be seen like this.

Your head snaps around, taking in your surroundings. From the sounds, it seems guards will be arriving within seconds. You are not far from the arcade that supports the balcony above. And, on the wall behind it, you see a door half-open leading to a dark room.

And there is the immediate question: what to do with the property owner. Her eyes have not left the purple shapes of your exposed form.

At important decision points like this, the results of many of your options will be keyed based on your trained skills and resources. Force and Agility are usually tied to the resource Endurance; Disguise and Mechanics, to Assets; and Surveillance and Savoir-Faire, to Attention. Picking an option keyed to a specific skill or two will permanently improve the skill(s) by a small amount, and significantly deplete the associated resource (until the end of each chapter). These key outcomes are determined based on both your skill and on the level of its available resource, so it may be best not to rely on a single skill!