# Description At a time of great stress or need, kobolds find unexplainable disasters can occur nearby. When this effect in invoked by the player, the Narrator chooses something very unfortunate to happen to the immediate protagonist. If there is no immediate protagonist, this effect must find something highly disadvantageous to someone nearby. The Narrator always determines the effect. The Narrator is encouraged to use this effect to the benefit of the player if possible, but if a player insists on invoking it in a setting where there may not be any appropriate disadvantaged creature, the Narrator may make the effect disadvantage the player. The Narrator should warn a player before taking this step. This is a cathectic ability.