A heightened state of awareness allows you to sense impend­ ing harm. This gift could originate from primal perceptiveness, intense conditioning, spirit voices that warn you of danger, nanotech sensors, or other methods of refined cognizance. Whatever the source of this Merit might be, your Storyteller must make a secret Perception + Alertness roll for you when some otherwise hidden threat is heading toward your character.

The difficulty for this roll depends upon the immediacy of the danger; a distant, abstract sort of danger (like a plot to kill you) is far harder to sense than an onrushing disaster (like a sniper’s bullet), and would thus have a higher difficulty (say, difficulty 10 for the plot, difficulty 6 for the bullet). A simple success would tell you that something’s wrong, while a large number of successes could pinpoint the nature and location of the threat.

Your Storyteller, of course, is under no obligation to give you objective details about that threat. She could be as vague as “A chill tightens across your scalp,” with perhaps a hint of the direction and nature of the danger’s source (“A sudden metallic clicking sound echoes in from behind your right side. What do you do?”).