Haggle

Step

 * Rank + CHA

Action

 * Sustained

Strain

 * 0

Skill Use

 * Yes (Novice)

Description

 * The adept drives a “hard bargain” when buying or selling goods by making a Haggle test against the customer’s or merchant’s Social Defense. If successful, the price rises or falls by 5 percent of the goods’ cost in favor of the adept. Merchants or customers can make Haggle tests to readjust the price in their favor. The adept may make a number of tests per transaction equal to his Haggle rank. However, as soon as either side fails a Haggle test, the bargaining stops.
 * Haggle can also be used to get a better price for stolen or illegal goods—shady merchants usually buy stolen or illegal goods for a base 10 percent of their value (see the Goods and Services chapter).
 * The adept can only use the Haggle talent on a number of transactions per day equal to his Haggle rank against a particular target . What constitutes a transaction may vary from a single ring to an entire chest of jewelry.