Ok, so I was perusing the skills section a few days ago, and I was flabbergasted by how awesome the ambush trapping of stealth is. Let me give you an example situation to illustrate (because this shiz is good).
Ambush
With the Stealth skill, you can set up an ambush by rolling to hide as per the Hiding trapping, below. Given time to prepare, you might even create aspects on the scene to set up the ambush. When you decide to strike, the victim gets one last Alertness roll to see if he notices some- thing at the last moment. You have the option of keeping your hiding roll or rerolling your Stealth in response to this last Alertness roll. If the victim succeeds, he can defend normally (but not take a normal action in the first exchange). If the victim’s roll fails, he can only defend at an effective skill level of Mediocre.
Ok, so Im working on a character named Isabella Hargrove, she's a red court vampire who managed to hold onto her soul.
She has: Stealth at Great (+4, Fantastic +6 with Cloak of Shadows). Fists at Great (+4, Superb +5 if Might factors in, which it will in my example). She has Inhuman Speed and Strength, and Claws (weapon: 4).
Her High Concept is
Red Court Rebel, and she also has an aspect of:
In Silence and ShadowsIsabella prefers to avoid direct confrontations. She would rather take to the shadows, wait, watch, and strike at the best opportunity. She has the patience of a spider, and weaves webs of deceit.
Invoke: Bonuses to stealth, attacking from an ambush, and lying.
Compel: To get her to wait, plan, slow down, or to get her in trouble for waiting too long, not acting fast enough.
So she has finally found the faerie responsible for beating up her boyfriend, Vidar, and she's found out where he lives, a Manor surrounded by twelve foot high walls.
So here is the setup:
Isabella knocks out the lamp around the corner that the target will be walking by, putting the scene aspect of "Dark Sidewalk" on the scene. She also climbs to the top of the wall and waits, putting the aspect "From Above" on her.
She rolls a 2 on her stealth, making it a +8, and decides to tag Dark Sidewalk to make it a +10.
The target walks by, on his way to the front gate whistling, without a care in the world. (He had to roll a 10 or better on his alertness).
Isabella strikes, tagging the aspect of "From Above", and spending two fate points her aspects of In Silence and Shadows, and Red Court Rebel (she is taking full advantage of her vampire strength). She rolls a 2 on her fists, making it a 11 shift fists attack at Weapon: 4. The target does ***not*** get a chance to use his defence skill, his defense is ranked at 0, since he is caught completely off guard. He rolls a 2 on his athletics. She hits him for 13 Shifts of damage.
Holy crap. Ambushes are sexy.
-edit- Fixing the errors Deadmanwalking pointed out.
