Oh, you lucky bastard! Somehow, you manage to cheat the Reaper with hair-raising regularity. If a die roll would result in your character’s death, the person who made that roll must roll again. If the second roll allows your character to live, then you and /or your Storyteller mark off one of your nine “lives” and your character survives the thing that would otherwise have killed her. If that roll fails, then one “life” gets marked off anyway and another roll is made. The rolls continue until either the character survives or the lives get used up. As the name suggests, however, this Merit lasts only nine times, tops. And if the final die roll still results in your character’s death… well, your luck was bound to run out sooner or later anyway.