Even implausible tasks have a possibility of occurring.

This Statistician Procedure is a variant of the Beginner's

Luck rote. However, instead of a mage being able to perform

any seemingly impossible task... once... a Statistician (or

other Technocrat) inflicts a catastrophic fate on his chosen

victim. The actuarial scholar recites the odds of the event

occurring, and by the time is lecture is over, an impressive

coincidence happens... just once.

[The Storyteller should rate the chance of an event

happening on a scale of 1 to 20: a relatively likely and simple

event like slipping on a pool of sludge might be a rated a 1 or

2, while an astronomical occurrence like an airplane falling

out of the sky on someone's head would rate an 18 or 19. This

is the number of successes required on the Magical Feats table.

The roll is an all or nothing affair — you can't have half of a

hurricane strike a trailer park, no matter how well statistics

prove a causal relationship between the two. Keep in mind

that if this Procedure is abused, the overall chance of additional

"amazing coincidences" taking place goes up further.

An alternative Effect involves checking the percentage

chance of an event taking place. If a Statistician gets a

successful roll, the Storyteller might just say there's a chance

of the fabulous event occurring, thus letting the Statistician

decide whether to pursue a possibly risky bit of Inspired

Science in advance.]