Investigation & Tracking

Leaving Points of Interest

There are often cases in which characters may affect the world around them through POIs that can be investigated or tracked - for example, damaging a door when breaking into a home, or leaving behind smeared blood on the street after a fight. When this happens, players should open a Roleplay POI ticket with the Storytellers so they have all the information they need for any other tickets opened regarding the POI.

Players can make an attempt to cover their tracks. Doing so requires a Wits + Survival roll, which the player should screenshot and add to the POI ticket. Successes from this roll are divided by two and rounded down for the purposes of tracking attempts.

POI Ticket Form

  • Character name:
  • Teleport Location of POI (Alt+Shift+L):
  • Detailed description of what occurred:
  • Direction leaving the site (north, south, east, west):
  • Stops along the way (saloons, hotels, businesses, etc):
  • Final destination for the evening (home base location):
  • Screenshots of the scene and POI left behind:

Investigating & Tracking

There are multiple ways to gather information regarding a POI or similar scenario. Two of the most common are investigating the area and trying to track down who may have been there. Investigation is strictly to find information at the scene, and uses a Wits or Perception + Investigation roll to determine the level of detail in the information they can find. Tracking is strictly to track down someone (or multiple people) from the scene, and uses Perception + Survival (or Perception + Primal Urge if a werewolf in Lupus form).

The number of successes needed to gain useful information changes depending on the circumstances surrounding the event:

  • An additional success is needed in both Investigation and Tracking rolls for every day that has passed since the event occurred.
  • A player cannot make more than one Investigation or Tracking attempt on the same POI. However, more than one person can attempt to do so. An additional success is needed in both Investigation and Tracking for every attempt on the same POI.
  • If the player who left the POI attempted to cover their tracks, additional successes for Tracking may be required depending on how successful they were in doing so.

POI Investigation Form

This is to find information AT the scene, not for tracking FROM the scene.

  • Character Name:
  • Teleport Location of POI (Alt+Shift+L):
  • Screenshots of the RP and rolls (Wits or Perception + Investigation):

POI Tracking Form

This is to track FROM the scene, not to find information AT the scene.

  • Character Name:
  • Teleport Location of POI (Alt+Shift+L):
  • Screenshots of the RP and rolls (Perception + Survival, or Perception + Primal Urge if a werewolf in Lupus form):
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