Stress

Stress is marked:

• when the Grandfather tells you to
• if a Move tells you to. The following moves cost some stress:
  

  • Act under Pressure
  • Army of One
  • Driven
  • Entropic Shift
  • Helping or Hindering
  • Oncoming Storm
  • Resist
  • Ritualist
  • Shadow Dance
  • The Catechism
  • Umbraception
• if you wish to Push your next dice roll (2 Stress)
• if you perform a Flashback (0-3 Stress)

When you mark your last Stress box, you clear all your Stress and take a Trauma and a Completion

You can only reduce stress by making a Relieve Downtime Move when in a safe place to do so.

If you mark more than 3 stress in a scene (combat or otherwise), you are exhausted and may not use any further stress until you have rested:

• In combat this means making a recover move
• Outside of combat this means taking a break and doing nothing for a significant amount of time. A minimum of 15 minutes but could be longer depending on how much stress was used.

Exhaustion causes all your rolls to be rolled at Disadvantage. Exhaustion over-rules any other move that would change the kind of roll you would make except pushing