Changing appearance gets you through a door. It does not give you the life behind it.
A Faceless can alter outward appearance and imitate a voice they have heard. The transformation has bodily limits and does not change clothing.
The acting principles distinguish inhabiting a role from losing the self. A convincing face alone does not supply the person’s private history.
Scene test: an infiltrator wearing a physician's face passes the guard. Inside, the physician's daughter asks for the apprenticeship fee he promised to pay today. The disguise supplies neither the location of his money nor a reason to break the promise.
Use relationships, habits and commitments as tests. A password should not be the only thing a convincing impersonation needs.
An understudy can borrow the mayor's appearance but none of her memories. While standing in for her at a ceremony, he is asked by her daughter to sign the apprenticeship payment she was promised. Paying requires opening the mayor's private account; delaying could cost the place. Asking where the money is would expose how little he knows to someone who expects a parent.
What can the understudy honestly promise now, and who must be told the truth to keep it?
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Publisher reference guide, Fool pathway, Sequence 6: Faceless, abilities and acting principles.
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Make two useful identities collide through a promise the protagonist must answer now.
Give a displaced protagonist someone who expects an ordinary promise to be kept before the new world is understood.