Maybe I am just one of those people who rolls really badly at least once per session.
The other thing I was thinking is how hard it will be for the characters to maintain the conspiracy.
Ordinary spies have a home base. If get exposed they go home and as long as their opponents don't want to strike back at them personally they should be right (when their opponents do want to strike at them they get shot by radioactive pellets years later or something equally nasty). It doesn't matter if their opponent realises that the CIA, ASIS or whoever pulled off an operation. No one will respond against the individual, but rather they will consider what the consequences of escalating the situation with the other country will be. For example if American spies realise that Chinese operatives stole secret plans they may or may not respond directly based on whether or not they want to escalate the situation. Now they may respond by executing spies, but equally those spies are protected by the possible response of their Government (obviously sooner or later one side will have to stop escalating or there would be a war)
'The Company' can only survive as long as no one ever learns that it exists. If the intelligence community found out that there was an independent player there would be little reason not to destroy them outright. The consequences of leaving the Company to exist outway any possible retalliation.
I realise the Characters don't know any intel that could hurt the company, but just admitting to its existence would be catastrophic. Ideally any captured agents could just be palmed off as crazies or assasinated/rescued before any interrogation.
Re: How close did they come in that session?
The other thing I was thinking is how hard it will be for the characters to maintain the conspiracy.
Ordinary spies have a home base. If get exposed they go home and as long as their opponents don't want to strike back at them personally they should be right (when their opponents do want to strike at them they get shot by radioactive pellets years later or something equally nasty). It doesn't matter if their opponent realises that the CIA, ASIS or whoever pulled off an operation. No one will respond against the individual, but rather they will consider what the consequences of escalating the situation with the other country will be.
For example if American spies realise that Chinese operatives stole secret plans they may or may not respond directly based on whether or not they want to escalate the situation. Now they may respond by executing spies, but equally those spies are protected by the possible response of their Government (obviously sooner or later one side will have to stop escalating or there would be a war)
'The Company' can only survive as long as no one ever learns that it exists. If the intelligence community found out that there was an independent player there would be little reason not to destroy them outright. The consequences of leaving the Company to exist outway any possible retalliation.
I realise the Characters don't know any intel that could hurt the company, but just admitting to its existence would be catastrophic. Ideally any captured agents could just be palmed off as crazies or assasinated/rescued before any interrogation.