Spending bennie to unshake after crit failure on Recovery roll?

[Cendragon]

If a character starts its turn shaken and rolls a crit failure to unshake can they then spend a bennie to automatically unshake? Normally you can't reroll a crit failure but the rules to unshake by spending a bennie aren't a reroll, so this seems like an exception to being able to avoid a crit failure.

[PEGClint]

If a character starts its turn shaken and rolls a crit failure to unshake can they then spend a bennie to automatically unshake? Normally you can't reroll a crit failure but the rules to unshake by spending a bennie aren't a reroll, so this seems like an exception to being able to avoid a crit failure.

Unless the GM rules otherwise, it could be done, but it doesn't avoid the critical failure. It just avoids the basic failure.

Per Critical Failures <italics added>, "The attempt automatically fails and something bad happens—a weapon is dropped or gets stuck, the attack hits a friend, the vehicle crashes, spells misfire (see Backlash, page 151), and so on."

So, something bad still happens due to the critical failure. If the player spends a Benny, their character simply isn't Shaken in addition to the bad thing.

Hope that helps.