"You ever wonder why the Accord never catches the best smugglers? It's not the forged manifests or the bribed dockhands. It's simpler. The best ones? They're the ones you don't remember seeing. Just another tired dock worker. Just another passenger with a data-slate. They walk through checkpoints like they own the place, but leave no memory behind. That's the trick—be so unremarkable, you might as well be invisible."
— Nyra Voss, Ebon Syndicate Handler
In the crush of spaceports, the churn of market districts, and the chaos of planetary evacuations, survival often depends on the ability to vanish in plain sight. Face in the Crowd is the art of becoming nobody—a forgettable face in the press of bodies, unremarkable enough that even those actively searching will glance past you.
For operatives of the Ebon Syndicate, it's a fundamental survival skill. For Azure Archivist infiltrators, it's how they access restricted data nodes without raising alarms. Even the Celestial Accord trains agents in this technique, recognizing that sometimes the best way to maintain order is to observe unobserved.
In Starfall, where biometric scans and surveillance drones are ubiquitous, the ability to fool the eye—to be just another commuter, just another laborer—is worth more than any forged ID.
A Face In The Crowd Feat 2
Source Player Core pg. 220
Prerequisites trained in Deception
You know how to get lost in a crowd. You can use cover from crowds to Hide and Sneak, gaining a +2 circumstance bonus to your Stealth checks when in a crowd of at least 10 creatures and a +4 circumstance bonus to your Stealth checks when in a crowd of at least 100 creatures. Hidden creatures don't count as members of a crowd. If you're a master in Deception, you only need 5 creatures to get these bonuses.
How It Works in Play
During Exploration: As long as you stay within a crowd, you can use the Hide and Sneak actions without needing traditional cover or concealment. The press of bodies serves as your concealment.
In Encounters: If combat breaks out in a crowded area (e.g., a spaceport brawl, a market ambush), you can use the crowd to become Hidden as a single action, then Sneak to reposition.
Social Stealth: This feat is perfect for tailing a target, evading pursuit, or infiltrating an event without drawing suspicion. You're not invisible—you're just unremarkable.
Starfall Applications
The Starport Vanish: After a deal goes bad, you slip into the flood of travelers disembarking from a shuttle. Security sweeps past you three times and never registers your face.
The Market Ghost: Tailing a rival operative through the neon-lit bazaars of the Inner Sphere, you move from cluster to cluster of shoppers, always just another face.
The Riot Advantage: When protests erupt in a Commission district, you use the chaos to move freely, hidden in plain sight among the demonstrators.
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