Vanish in the Shadows

Shaking a pursuing cohort of soldiers is far more difficult than simply hiding and requires intimate knowledge of the terrain and a willingness to exploit this for every advantage.

Activation: As a downtime activity or once per scene as a Movement and Support action, you may make a TN 5 Survival (Air) check targeting your cohort (in a mass battle) or yourself and a number of characters up to your ranks in Command (in any other scene) who are within Confining, Entangling, or Obscuring terrain. If you activate this technique in an urban environment or on the ocean, use Skulduggery or Seafaring instead, respectively.

Effects: If you succeed, all targets become hidden and are not noticed by characters with vigilance lower than or equal to your Air Ring plus your bonus successes. These hidden characters cannot be the target of Attack actions and cannot perform Attack actions. This effect persists until the end of your next turn, or until any target performs an Attack action.

New Opportunities

Air + (Mass Battle): If you succeed, if an enemy army has one or more cohorts within the terrain, it receives 1 panic per spent this way. Air + (Other Scene): If you succeed, each character you did not target who is within the terrain receives 1 strife per spent this way. Air : If you failed, increase the TN of Attack action checks targeting each of your targets by 2. This effect persists until any of your targets performs an Attack action or leaves the terrain.