Awareness

The trick to any mission is to get it done before anyone notices. Awareness measures how informed your opposition is to your collective efforts, and can increase in three different ways:

1. When a PC fails a check to overcome an obstacle
2. At the end of each round of the mission, as the passage of time makes it incrementally more likely that you will be discovered or thwarted
3. When your activities are disruptive enough to draw attention, subject to GM discretion

As Awareness increases, the challenges become harder and additional Complications occur. If you raise Awareness beyond a certain threshold, the mission enters into the Mission Failure state.