You could probably get away with using Automatic Augments to "Slightly enhance" yourself, but in most societies starting to "do magic" (whatever that looks like in that society/your game) is going to get people *very* nervous, especially if they are the kind of professional paranoids with sharp weapons called "Bodyguards".
So stroking a lucky rabbit's foot (yeah, I know, "how lucky was it for the rabbit?") unobtrusively is probably not going to get you any bad looks, but calling on "Powers" in the middle of a negotiation will be more than just frowned on. People will walk away from your market stall, or knock you out before whatever-the-heck you're starting threatens harms their charge, or slap your face and call their brothers to ride you out of town on a rail (depending on what you're negotiating for, of course...).
Doing your magic and then coming into a negotiation/social situation is silly, since you'll have your Hero Glow, and everyone will know that you're powered up. They may not know what you've got, but they'll know you have *something*. They'll either refuse to deal with you, or put up their own magic to counter what they think you have. Most high muckity-mucks probably won't allow you to approach with obvious magic - the same as "bearing weapons in the presence of the king" sort of rules.
RR
It is by my order and for the good of the state that the bearer of this has
done what he has done.
- Richelieu
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