Provoke is the skill about getting someone’s dander up and eliciting negative emotional response from them—fear, anger, shame, etc. It’s the “being a jerk” skill.
To use Provoke, you need some kind of justification. That could come entirely from situation, or because you have an aspect that’s appropriate, or because you’ve created an advantage with another skill (like
Rapport or
Deceive), or because you’ve assessed your target’s aspects (see
Empathy).
This skill requires that your target can feel emotions—robots and zombies typically can’t be provoked.