Impairment - does it affect Initiative

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This one's bounced back and forth around my group a couple of times, so ... does Impairment affect Initiative rolls?

On p.104 (2nd printing), it states

Impairment is a penalty applied to all of a character's Attack Checks, Defence value, and skill checks.

Does an Initiative Check count as a skill check under the above or is it like an Up Check, which (as per the Glossary on p.331) is not affected by Impairment?

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No, impairment does not affect Intiative Check.
On page 100 initiative check is marked in bold making it a different check type to Attack, Defence or skills. Also, it uses a single D6 not an open dice roll

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Thanks.
(One of the arguments made was that Impairment is applied to the Defence value, even when it isn't being used for a check at all, but being used to provide a target number for others' attacks, so Initiative could be comparable to that.)

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