karabooo says:
... Got a ... five ... :: cough, cough ::
Don't do that, you need to learn to roll better. :)
It was a 'Stealth' type roll so the Stealth Skill applies, you can not fail outright, but you are also trying to set a largish metal trap with only one hand, and right in front of the thing, so...
Succeeding will cost you something. There are two sacrifices that come to my mind right away:
• Either you lose the knife, maybe toss it away and hope the mistling follows its arc to give you the distraction. (This leave you without the protection of that iron. Unless you can find it again.)
• Or (and it may not be thing your character thinks of or does deliberately as
she does not have all the details) you indulge its desire for blood and give it a little.
· Maybe you get a minor cut from the trap (`1d3-2`);
· or you allow yourself to 'Scratch', possibly drawing blood and ticking your 'Scratched' Clock, but also possibly —on a good roll— not having any cost and maybe learning something.
What do you think?