Friends In Low Places

(Severe Favorable Trait)

To take this trait a character must have the skill Streetwise and a Resources value of at least 5.

A character with this trait has been around, and knows lots of folks in lots of places. These folks aren't the movers and shakers of the world, these are the little folks. The workers, laborers, servants, working class and criminal class folks who squeak by.

They've been friendly and helpful, useful or charitable around them and they know it. They think they owe the character some minor favors and will go out of their way to help them out of a jam, get info on trouble or to look the other way if they need to do something less than legal.

They can also help out finding less than legal things to buy, and who to buy it from, or where to find certain people at various times.

As long as the character doesn't rely on them too much, come to them too often or push their association too hard they'll continue to be useful.

This is not the same as a Contact since it is a wide spanning group, which may be found all over rather than geographically limited. The character will have to regularly reinforce this nature in their actions, so it doesn't work if they have certain traits.

This cannot be taken with Bitter Personality, Cadaverous Looks, Cowardly, Loathsome, Greedy, or Miserly.