> (It still kinda bugs me that going by RAW pretty much *any* Contest can
> leave a character dying... I'm used to Knowledge Skill rolls and that just
> seemed sooo wrong!)
I don't know, having played Call of Cthulhu, and the online game Echo Bazaar, it's all too easy to think of such a contest ending with the character afflicted by horrible nightmares! Or some weird obsession.
Remember too there is "socially dead" - perhaps the character can no longer show his face at the University.
Or look at it in pure game terms: there's a lingering consequence. The next time he uses the skill, he either immediately goes off on the same wrong track ("I don't care what they say, surely the Empty King is behind this!") or avoids the right one ("The last time I brought up the Empty King I was laughed out of the room!").
David Dunham http://a-sharp.com Twitter: _at_KingDragonPass
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