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INTIMATION

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The art of Intimation is a subtle one, relating as it does to desires and obsessions. It allows the wraith to discover the wants and desires of another, either Quick or dead, and to squelch, modify, or replace those wants. Eventually, the Solicitor can so completely overwhelm the will of his target that only the implanted desire remains, grown to a monstrous obsession. 

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• Unless otherwise noted Intimation is rolled against a subjects COMPOSURE + RESOLVE

• If the target of Intimation is the shadow of a wraith  intimation is rolled versus ANGST + RESOLVE

• If the target is on a different side of the shroud to the wraith, the target adds the shroud rating to their roll. 

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SHROUD THICKNESS RATING

RATING                       AREA                                           

    1                             Cearn                                                

    2                             Node/Graveyard                               

    3                             Deep Wilderness                                 

    4                             Rural Countryside                               

    5                             No mans land                                     

    6                             Most Urban Areas                             

    7                             Downtown alley

    8                             Downtown interior locations

    9                             Downtown Mainstreet.          

    10                           Technocratic Lab*   

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INTIMATION COMMON

◉ IMPULSE (COMMON)
Immediate desires are the easiest for a Solicitor to gauge. With a casual glance at a subject, the wraith can discern the desire that’s uppermost in his mind at the moment. This isn’t always immediately useful information — “I wish I had a pony” isn’t terribly actionable — but it can give an advantage in tight negotiations or con jobs.

SYSTEM:

FREE ACTION

ROLL: MANIPULATION + INTIMATION RANK vs COMPOSURE + RESOLVE / ANGST + RESOLVE  (+ shroud rating if target on opposite side)
SUCCESS
The Solicitor becomes aware of the target’s strongest current desire with one success.

Additional successes provide more detail on the desire’s focus and causes. If the desire in question is a Passion or Dark Passion, the Solicitor identifies it as such, and additional successes provide deeper insight into the Passion’s focus.

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◉◉ EXCISE (COMMON)

Excise removes a want from its target. The affected desire can be as simple as a thirst for another beer or as complex as a five-dot Passion to restore the Roman Empire to its rightful place of global power. This art neither softens nor rationalizes its effects. The subject’s behavioural changes are obvious, while the subject himself remembers his former desire but can no longer find any motivation to pursue it. 

SYSTEM I:

To permanently remove an ordinary (non supernatural) Desire (not derangements)

NORMAL ACTION: 

SPEND: 2 PATHOS

GAIN:  1 ANGST if subject is unwilling!

ROLL: MANIPULATION + INTIMATION RANK vs COMPOSURE + RESOLVE  (+ shroud rating if target on opposite side)

SUCCESS: (Using alcohol as an -example-) 

One - Two successes is sufficient to make the victim disinterested in that beer

Three -Four successes are enough to supress the DT's for a duration = to successes in days.

Five successes would be required for curing alcoholism.

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SYSTEM II

To temporarily suppress a Passion.

NORMAL ACTION:

SPEND: 3 PATHOS

GAIN:   1 ANGST per 3 successes if the target is unwilling.

ROLL: MANIPULATION + INTIMATION RANK vs COMPOSURE + RESOLVE / ANGST + RESOLVE  (+ shroud rating if target on opposite side)

SUCCESSES:

Every three successes reduces the Passion or Dark Passion by one dot.

Lost dots return in full after a number of days equal to the Solicitor’s dots in Intimation.

If a target’s Passion is reduced to zero in this manner, it cannot be used to acquire Pathos.

It is impossible for this art to be used to remove a Passion permanently.

NOTE: If a wraiths passion is reduced to zero, It will trigger a Passion Harrowing! The wraith who used this power will also gain 1 more Angst!

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◉◉◉ UNFOLD THE ANIMAL HEART (COMMON)

The wraith can peer deep into a target’s psyche, mapping his wants and needs in detail. Though other Intimation arts may be more potent, this one made the Solicitors’ reputation and drove their centuries of involvement with Stygian potentates’ machinations.

SYSTEM:

NORMAL ACTION:

GAIN 2 ANGST if used against another wraiths shadow.

ROLL: WITS + INTIMATION RANK vs COMPOSURE + RESOLVE / ANGST + RESOLVE  (+ shroud rating if target on opposite side)

SUCCESS:
One success reveals the target’s Nature. (Archetype) 

Each additional success reveals one of his Passions, starting with the highest rated. If all Passions are revealed in this fashion, then additional successes display one of his desires that isn’t mechanically represented as a Passion.
If the target is currently controlled by his Shadow, this art instead reveals the Shadow’s Archetype and Dark Passions.

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◉◉◉◉ IGNITE (COMMON)

This art implants a complex desire for anything, ranging from really good food to total conquest of all Bohemian Necropoli. This artificial drive becomes the obsessive centrepiece of the victim’s existence. Like Excise, Ignite is unsubtle and psychically violent. Its behavioural effects are obvious to the victim and all around him.

SYSTEM:

The player precisely describes the craving she wants to create.

NORMAL ACTION:

SPEND 4 PATHOS

GAIN: 1 ANGST per success.

ROLL: (See Table) vs targets COMPOSURE + RESOLVE /ANGST + RESOLVE (+ Shroud rating if target on opposite side)

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SUCCESS:

With one success, the Solicitor can implant a desire that naturally follows the subject’s existing inclinations.

With three successes, she can create a desire unrelated to his natural interests.

With five successes, she can build a desire that’s uncharacteristic of his normal behaviour, so long as it doesn’t oppose his Nature or lead obviously to Oblivion.

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The implanted desire lasts until the victim satisfies it or a number of weeks equal to the Solicitor’s composure + resolve total. whichever comes first.

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Ignite is responsible for many of the ghost stories of strange, sudden manias afflicting residents of haunted houses, and wraiths who attempt to intervene against a desire implanted in this way may find themselves dealing with an unexpectedly violent reaction. Ignite can’t create a Passion, nor can its victim gain Pathos from following the implanted desire.

If the target’s Shadow is in control when the Solicitor  uses this art, the Shadow, not the Psyche, gains the desire.

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◉◉◉◉◉ A SINGLE THREAD (COMMON)

The culmination of the Solicitor’s art, A Single Thread is an insidious power that can elevate the ordinary and cripple the mighty. The wraith can rewrite a target’s desires so subtly that even close friends and the victim himself perceive the changes in the victim’s psyche as a natural progression. At the same time, the range of possible changes expands to violent shifts in personality and obvious roads to Oblivion. 

SYSTEM:

A Single Thread creates ENHANCED versions of EXCISE or IGNITE (which must be purchased by initiates dipping back into the common path at this point )

NORMAL ACTION

SPEND 4 PATHOS + 2 HEALTH

GAIN:   1 or 3  ANGST PER SUCCESSES + 2 MORE ANGST IF EXCISE GAINS 5 SUCCESSES

GAIN    1 AGNST PER SUCCESS + 2 MORE IF IGNITE GAINS 5 SUCCESSES

ROLL:     Either EXCISE or IGNITE as normal

SUCCESS:

with more than five successes, the Solicitor can enact changes that directly oppose the subject’s Nature or that are overtly self-destructive.

DURATION: Is the same as EXCISE or IGNITE

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Successful use of A Single Thread is undetectable unless someone specifically assesses the victim for signs of outside influence, a process requiring extensive psychotherapy or self examination.

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SELF EXAMINATION:

INTELLIGENCE + EIDOLON (wraith)

INTELLIGENCE + OCCULT (everyone else)

DIFFICULTY 10 + The Solicitors Composure + Resolve.

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OUTSIDE EXAMINATION:

INTELLIGENCE + EMPATHY  DIFFICULTY 10+ The Solicitors Composure + Resolve

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INTIMATION INITIATE

RESTRICTED TO

◉ MONITORS  ◉ PARDONERS ◉ SOLICITORS ◉

 

◉ KNOW THYSELF  (INITIATE)

he Solicitors’ Guild forbids its members to use Intimation on one another, with the full weight of Oblivion levied against offenders. The most common of the Guild’s secret arts ensures that any Solicitor worthy of the name knows when she’s been subject to Intimation and strengthens her defenses against it. This art also provides some benefit against certain other Arcanoi ( and Dark Arcanoi used by NPC Spectres)  

SYSTEM I :Versus Intimation

The Solicitor always knows when another wraith has used an Intimation art on her — no roll is necessary.

When ever this occurs,

FREE ACTION

SPEND 1 PATHOS

ROLL WITS + INTIMATION RANK

DIFFICULTY : 10 + The opposing wraiths ATTRIBUTE dots + INTIMATION dots used in the effect.

SUCCESS:

Each success negates one of the aggressor’s successes. 

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Know Thyself also can be used to defend against uses of Castigate and Contaminate (see below) But it provides no innate knowledge that such effects have been used, Unless Level five initiate Intimation is purchased.

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SYSTEM II: Versus Castigate or Contamination 

FREE ACTION

SPEND 1 PATHOS

ROLL: WITS + INTIMATION RANK 

DIFFICULTY: 10 + the opposing wraiths ATTRIBUTE dots + CASTIGATION dots used in the Castigation roll.

OR 

DIFFICULTY 10 + the Spectres ATTRIBUTE dots  + CONTAMINTION dots used in the Contamination roll.

SUCCESS:

Every 2 successes negates on of the aggressor's successes.

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◉◉  LAUNCH A THOUSAND SHIPS  (INITIATE)

Turning her art inward, the Solicitor makes herself an object of desire. Observers’ reactions range from sexual fixation to artistic appreciation, depending on their individual ideals. First impressions are more favourable, performance art becomes more memorable, and charm and seduction have devastating effects.

SYSTEM:

FREE ACTION

SPEND: 2 PATHOS

 For the rest of the scene, the Solicitor adds her dots in Intimation to her charisma , even if this raises the Attribute above 5.

NOTE: This Charisma buff only applies to social rolls and feats. It does not count for Arcanos use. As this is more of a "Physical Charm" if one is adopting a horrific appearance, the buff has no effect.

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◉◉◉  APPLE OF DISCORD   (INITIATE)

One of Intimation’s less-subtle arts, Apple of Discord applies an aura of desirability to a material object or relic. The item’s physical appearance doesn’t change but it evokes an acquisitive or possessive response in observers. This can trigger a schism within an affected group, as in the eponymous legend, or can be an “I win” button for a wraithy snake oil vendor. 

SYSTEM:

NORMAL ACTION

SPEND: 1 PATHOS

ROLL:     WITS + INTIMATION RANK

DIFFICULTY: 14+ (10 + shroud rating for objects on other side of shroud)

SUCCESS:

• For the rest of the scene, any other wraith near the ensorcelled object must succeed in a COMPOSURE + RESOLVE ROLL: DIFFICULTY 14+

• Failure means they or gain a temporary but functional Passion with a dot value equal to the Solicitors successes (max 5) 

• Characters who aren’t susceptible to Passions (i.e., non wraiths) must succeed in the same roll or gain an obsession derangement focused on the object.

• Any Passion or derangement gained through this art fades at the end of the scene.

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◉◉◉◉ TWO FIRES (INITIATE)

Sufficient understanding of a subject’s Passions allows the Solicitor to bind them to her own Psyche. In doing so, she and her subject benefit from each other’s emotional experiences. Most elder Solicitors maintain entire Circles of Passion-bound wraiths, ensuring a constant supply of Pathos. 

SYSTEM:

NORMAL ACTION: The player selects one of her target’s Passions

SPEND: 4 PATHOS

ROLL:    WITS + INTIMATION RANK vs COMPOSURE + RESOLVE / ANGST + RESOLVE  (+ shroud rating if target on opposite side)

SUCCESS:

The Solicitor gains one dot per success in the target Passion, with a maximum rating one less than that which the target possesses

EXAMPLE: if the target has the Passion at ◉◉◉, the Solicitor can’t gain it higher than ◉◉

• The target’s own Passion is reduced by one dot.

• These effects last for one day per dot of Composure + Resolve the Solicitor has.

•  While Two Fires is in effect, whenever one of the characters gains any amount of Pathos from the affected Passion, the other also gains one point of Pathos.

•  If the target’s Shadow is in control when the Solicitor uses this art, she must select one of that Shadow’s Dark Passions, which she gains as a normal Passion.

• Whenever her target’s Shadow gains Angst from the affected Dark Passion, she gains one point of Pathos and her Shadow gains one point of Angst.

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◉◉◉◉◉ ADRESTIA'S COMMUNION  (INITIATE)

While no wraith reaches true accommodation with her Shadow, a Solicitor who knows this art understands what her darker half wants. Moreover, she can apply the same knowledge to others’ Shadows, extending the reach of her Intimation to them. The price of such dark knowledge is a few more steps toward Oblivion’s precipice. 

SYSTEM

FREE ACTION:

GAIN 1 ANGST in addition to Angst gained using other Intimation powers against inactive shadows.

The Solicitor can use any Intimation art on a target wraith’s Shadow, even if that Shadow isn’t currently in control. 

Additionally, the Solicitor can apply Intimation to her own Shadow, though this is fraught with peril. Her Shadow always resists with its Angst, and if it rolls more successes, it immediately takes control for the rest of the scene. 

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