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For the Gala there are a few things that are confusing me.

The first is movement in the senate. They have ~15 minutes for their round so one would assume movement is a non-factor however the Aide mission requires escape artist checks to move between areas..

How does this work?
only the one on the Aide mission has restricted movement?
everyone does?
What happens if you fail your check?

For the discovery mission(Duke Centimus & Countess Pace) it essentially says you discover their voting plans/reasons if you influence them(3 checks).. but in the mission section it says you need to do a perception or sense motive after a single check..

Is this two separate ways to pass the mission?
does this perception/sense motive take a social round?
Would a pc know if they fail? do you get to retry if you fail?
Would martella even know if you fed her false information you believe to be true?

Question 1. Roleplay vs Mechanics. The two main things I was thinking of are the Social Rounds and the Persona Rounds. This will be my first time GMing a campaign and I am confused how these are supposed to be implemented.

How mechanical is influencing/social rounds supposed to be? (aside from normal introductions/questions/rp of course)
Completely mechanical?
Some sort of RP influence statement from the player?
A couple back and forths per influence?
Even more RP than that?

Either way this seems even more difficult to do with the persona rounds because the mechanical impacts of the missions seems to be very insignificant and a ton of RP for no payoff seems crazy. Having 4-8 PCs roleplay out separate missions to gain a +2 on some situational skill/save is dubious at best. The whole persona level system and having agents of your own facet seems really cool but the time/overhead vs payoff seems to make no sense.

Question 2. Each of the first five books has a Succession Loyalties page/map. What time is this supposed to reflect?

At first I thought the end of the AP, seeing as their is no succession loyalties until the end of the first AP.. However Meratt County/Birdsong Palace/Stachys appears to either be in Lawsus or Pythareus territory in the 2nd AP map. If it is supposed to reflect the beginning of the AP than what is the map in the 1st book supposed to represent?