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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 5746140" data-attributes="member: 40176">I had one character in Living Spycraft, a soldier named Hatchet, who seemed to have the most atrochious luck with critical failures - and in that system the GM could, and would, spend Action Points to activate those failures for adverse effects.We had a mission to interrogate the CEO of a large corporation, who we suspected of being an agent of the villains we were tracking, and snuck into his skyscraper to do so. According to our varied gifts, half the party went in from the ground floor, using deception and disguise, whilst the others - my soldier and a fixer - went the stealth route, paragliding onto the rooftop.The two of us snuck through the top floor and approached the executive suite, stopping to listen at the door before entering.I rolled a 1 on my Listen check, and the GM ruled that, in my attempt to steady myself as I put my ear to the door, I'd leaned on the door handle. The result was that the door flew open and I fell in, landing at the feet of the CEO, who was relaxing on a sun lounger attended by his personal assistant.He immediately leapt to his feet and pulled a gun. While my ally kept a bead on the PA, my character leapt up and grappled him, trying to disarm him.Natural 1.He stepped aside from my blundering charge, and I landed clumsily on the sun lounger. The GM gave me an Acrobatics check to try and recover before he brought his gun to bear.Natural 1.The GM was running out of bad things that could happen at this point, and ruled that my impact with the sun lounger had started it rolling, and my inexpert attempts to stand had only accelerated it, straight towards the plate glass windows that made up one entire wall of the suite. Not to worry - it would take only a very easy Acrobatics check to roll off the moving bed well before it hit the window.Natural 1.The sun bed smashed through the plate glass window, and the GM, in despair, gave me one last check to save myself.Natural... 18.I was left dangling by my bleeding fingers from the ragged frame of a skyscraper penthouse window whilst my ally successfully finished subduing the CEO and his PA, getting to me just in time to haul me to safety.As for the rest of the party, making their way up the stairwell, their first hint of any trouble was the unexpected sight of a sun lounger plunging past the third floor window.</blockquote>

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