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By Chaka
Submitted on 26 May 2008 at 09:19:29 PM EDT
Last updated on 28 May 2008 at 11:42:56 PM EDT
Sidereal Socialize
Cost: 3m (+1wp)
Mins: Socialize 4, Essence 3
Type: Reflexive
Duration: One Scene
Keywords: Emotion, Hours*, Touch
Prerequisites: Any Socialize Excellency
Follow-ups: None
Mins: Socialize 4, Essence 3
Type: Reflexive
Duration: One Scene
Keywords: Emotion, Hours*, Touch
Prerequisites: Any Socialize Excellency
Follow-ups: None
Our pasts define us, and events of our past, as well as our reactions to them, are what define us most sharply. The Sidereal touches the target if thus charm and spends 3 motes, and rolls (Charisma+Socialise+Compassion) against her target’s mental defense value. The Sidereal may choose to spend a point of willpower to add her essence rating in automatic successes to the roll. Should the roll fail, the Sidereal learns nothing. Should she succeed, the character comes to understand something about her target’s past, and how it shaped their opinion, emotion and reaction to current events. This knowledge grants a +2 bonus to all rolls involving manipulation of that character’s emotions with regard to the situation at hand. Should the character gain more successes than the opponent’s essence, she may also spend one mote reflexively and attempt to trigger a specific positive or negative emotion in her target for the rest of the scene (this does not count as charm use). This effect counts as unnatural mental influence, and the target makes a reflexive (Wits+Integrity) roll to resist the unwanted surge of emotions, at a difficulty of the Sidereal’s essence rating.
This charm may only apply to one person per scene, and if it fails to effect a target on the first attempt it may not be re-used on them for the rest of the scene.
The Hours keyword means only the Chosen of Hours, should any exist, may learn this charm without a teacher. Even other characters who have socialise as an auspicious or favoured ability may not do so. Also, there is a 1-mote surcharge on the use of any charm with the Hours keyword by anyone who is not a Chosen of Pluto. Should Pluto be fully healed, this keyword will no longer exist.
