A place to speculate about what might happen.

Excellent! Welcome, welcome. Of course, it's Friday afternoon where I am and I'm about to go offline for the long weekend, so there will be a slight delay in the next post. But I'm excited. See you soon (figuratively speaking, that is.)

Alice's Outfit of the Day

Love it!

Will update tomorrow.  Loving it so far!  Nice job!  😊

Glad you're enjoying the story. And Phillipe is not one to give up easily.

Miles to go before she sleeps

I agree that Acting is probably the most appropriate skill for you to test in this situation to be suitably sympathetic for him to want to help her. He has just watched her flirting (at least it would seem so to him) with a very rich and handsome man, so the terrified and battered wife may not be a perfect fit at this point. We'll see how you do.

As I remember GURPS, you will roll 3d6 vs your skill level of 11 -- if you roll 11 or less you are doing a credible job. 3 or 4 means a critical success and 17 or 18 means a critical miss.

Roll them bones, if you would.

I shall roll.

The way I usually handle acting is, its a contest of the player's acting skill (modified as the GM sees fit) vs. the target (in this case the steward's) IQ.  The 'average' adult person has a 10 IQ typically.

So player rolls vs. her Acting Skill (as modified by GM if applicable) and DM rolls vs. the steward's IQ.  If Alice's roll had a margin of success higher than the Steward's margin of success for IQ, then Alice manages to 'fool' the other by her performance. If the steward wins, he sees through her performance and knows she's being a disingenuous drama queen (ie, 'crocodile tears').

Even if both parties FAIL their roll, the contest still works. If Alice fails by LESS than the steward fails, she still dupes him.

Here goes 'nuthin!

08:47, Today: Alice Kelley rolled 7 using 3d6.  Alice 'acts' like a damsel in distress (skill 11).

Oh good, she succeeded by 4. I shall let you roll for your NPC steward.

OK, so he failed by 2 points, so she definitely has the right tone to pull on his heartstrings. I will post before the end of the week. Thanks for walking me through the mechanics.

09:52, Today: haruspex, for the NPC First Class Steward, rolled 12 using 3d6.  See through Act.

excellent!

Sorry for delay.  Will catch up tomorrow