Act on
Try
Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.
Both terms in one sentence
- Similarly, whenever the DM makes a hidden roll or asks for a spot or listen check (that they fail), the players will assume something is going on and, if they're bad metagamers, try to act on it.
- The entirety of the game Beyond: Two Souls is impossible to lose because all failures to act on the game's many Press X to Not Die sequences will either force the player to try again, or the game will simply move on.
Source: Foregone Victory - Although they try their best to act on Brolli's behalf, they end up causing enough trouble to incite the climatic incident.
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