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Consort is a term used to describe a member of the Quick attuned to being used as a Host by a wraith. Generally consorts are used by wraiths as hosts to carry out some earthly plight. However becoming a consort is something that requires extended roleplay and a process of Attunement.

CONSORT: Is a "Status" much like "Ghouls" this means it can wear off over time and all associated blessings and powers are lost.

RESTRICTIONS:

A Consort cannot be anything other than a vanilla (non supernatural template /status) mortal. (Can't be ghoul, kinfolk, kinain, thrall, gifted)

• When your character becomes a consort, she is consort to ONE wraith only. She can only be attuned to that individual character.

• This character may NOT be an NPC.

• The consort may NOT  be attuned to multiple characters.

• Consorts MAY be Mediums or Projectors, this is the only cross template combination possible. 

ENDING CONSORT STATUS: Once your character is free of possession or exposure to their possessors Arcanoi for 1 week, it reverts to regular vanilla mortal. Consorts will ALWAYS become wraiths on death, even if the status has expired, Oblivion remembers.

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WRAITH PLAYERS NOTE:

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Attunement is a long-term process of repeatedly applying Arcanoi to a certain (vanilla mortal) subject, investing effort to harmonize the wraith’s energies and the target’s being.

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This most commonly occurs through Embody, Inhabit, and Puppetry, though other Arcanoi may benefit, too.

People to whom a wraith is attuned are called Consorts. Each time a wraith successfully manifests to, Skinrides, or inserts herself into a being or object, the wraith must make a contested roll with the consort. (not more than once per scene).

 

The closer the wraith was to the subject in life, the easier attunement is.

• A stranger requires 5 separate contested Resolve + Composure rolls and successful use of the Arcanoi over time.

• A close friend while you were alive  requires 3 separate contested Resolve + Composure rolls and successful use of the Arcanoi over time.

• A Your last lover while you were alive  requires 2 separate contested Resolve + Composure rolls and successful use of the Arcanoi over time.

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Attunement’s benefits vary by Arcanos. Some arts are usable only on Consorts, while others’ effects are enhanced when dealing with an attuned subject. If an art lists no benefits of attunement, then it made with a  Reduced difficulty or -2  A wraith may never be attuned to more objects or beings higher than their Resolve. However, she is always considered attuned to her Fetters, and they don’t count against this limit.
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RESTING (unpossessed) CONSORT BONUSES

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 PATHOS  PER SCENE

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All resting consorts  Start with 2 pathos each night which they may spend during a scene.  As well as gaining an very basic ability to see wraith (unless they use Enshroud) This ability is automatic and does not need to be rolled. A consort cannot -gain- pathos, once the 2 pathos is spent, it is used for the night.

RESTING CONSORTS MAY NOT USE ARCANOI! (Arcanoi can only be rolled and emoted by the controlling wraith player)

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RESTING CONSORT BLESSINGS

PASSIVES

DEATHSIGHT– wraiths see the world through coffin-colored glasses. Buildings appear to be tumbling down, plants are withered and sere, cars look to be dented wrecks years before their time and people close to death bear a corpse’s pallor. Consorts who have become Attuned suffer this curse as well. It cannot be turned off and is always passively in play, while this is uncomfortable, it does bring with it some minor abilities.

DEATHSIGHT : DISCERN WEAKNESS

The Consort can scan a subject or item located in either the Skinlands or the Shadowlands for innate weaknesses, and possibly strike at these vulnerable points.

SYSTEM

NORMAL ACTION

ROLL:  PERCEPTION + WITS

DIFFICULTY FOR OBJECT 10+ (1 per meter of objects size.)

OR VERUS CHARACTER   Opponent rolls 10 + STAMINA

SUCCESS

• Each success will add + 1 success next strike against the object or character to a maximum of +5 successes.

• At least ONE success must be rolled on this attack however, a failed attack is still a failed attack. 

• It should be noted that this application of Deathsight can only reveal physical weaknesses - -not mental weaknesses, Archetypes or the like.

• This ability may only be used ONCE per opponent /object during a single scene.

DEATHSIGHT: SENSE HEALTH
The consort can fine tune her Deathsight to determine the damage, disabilities or ailments a subject is suffering from.

SYSTEM

FREE ACTION

ROLL:  PERCEPTION + ACADEMICS (MEDICAL)

DIFFICULTY 12+

SUCCESS:

Successes can reveal information on such things as ailments as disease, extent of damage or disability, handicaps and blood loss. It should be noted that unless the consort  has significant, up-to-date knowledge of medicine, it will be difficult to distinguish between similar illnesses.

This power is intended to give an indication of general health, not to provide automatic state-of-the-art diagnoses.

DEATHSIGHT: DIAGNOSTIC SCAN
By closely examining broken or otherwise non-functional items, the consort can occasionally glean information about the cause of the problem.

SYSTEM:

NORMAL ACTION:

ROLL: PERCEPTION + TECHNOLOGY (Relevant Speciality required)

DIFFICULTY 12+

SUCCESS

Success means the consort has isolated the problem, and perhaps obtained a helpful idea or two on how to repair the item. Each success adds +1 to efforts to repair the item.

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DISPLACEMENT - Consorts who are attuned to a particular wraith live a somewhat strange existence, not only are they cursed with death sight, but their control on their own bodies is somewhat deadened while they remain attuned. Their body feels less "integrated" with their spirit and they can become clumsy, yet also more durable.

This manifests in the following way.

+1 Stamina (max 6)

+1 Strength (max 6)

 -1 Dexterity (Min 1)

Immunity to Bashing Damage

NOTE: When these bonuses do -not- apply when the wraith is in control: it must roll the consorts unaltered physical statistics.

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RESTING CONSORT BLESSINGS

ACTIVATED ABILITIES

 

AURA OF DEATH

The consort is able to make herself appear like a zombie for a brief time. The flesh seems to fall from her bones and she reeks of decay. The spectacle is enough to drive most people to abject terror.

SYSTEM:

SPEND: 1 PATHOS

 

For the remainder of the scene, any non supernatural must roll Composure + Resolve vs your Composure + Resolve or flee in terror.

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PROPHET'S CHARM

Consorts  with ghostly powers can have a profound effect on those to whom they preach. This trick makes a speaker’s face seem extremely intense and their voice take on a deep commanding timbre. Each word hangs heavy with portent. The weak willed are easily swayed by such a speaker.

SYSTEM:

SPEND: 1 PATHOS

Add + 3 to all Manipulation rolls for remainder of scene 

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VISIONS OF DEATH

A consort can project visions of what seems to be Hell into the minds of others. While the sights verge on the incomprehensible they Show Souls in torment and a terrible storm raging.

These visions can disorient People and are often enough to convert nonbelievers, Who become desperate to escape such a fate.

SYSTEM:

SPEND: 1 PATHOS

ROLL:    COMPOSURE + RESOLVE vs COMPOSURE + RESOLVE 

If the roll succeeds, the victim is at -2 penalty to all rolls for the Scene. 

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THE FOG

The Consort learns to harness the necrotic energy that they may vomit it out, creating a viscous cloud of white ectoplasm. 

SYSTEM

SPEND: 1 PATHOS

ROLL:  COMPOSURE + RESOLVE

DIFFICULTY :12+

The cloud is 5 meters per success centered on the consort.

The fog is hard to see or pass through. (-2 to Perception, Strength, and Dexterity  rolls, for all but the consort)

OPTIONAL:

If the consort wishes to spend 2 pathos on the activation roll the ectoplasmic fog may be reshaped (And therefore loses the above abilities) into an apparition with the stats of a "Regular Level Summons" as found in the (Bestiary)

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AID FROM ACROSS THE SHROUD - The resting consort may call for the Aid of their controlling wraith at anytime from anywhere. (Providing the Wraith player is online)

As technically the Consort is also a fetter, the wraith may instantly travel to the Consort and enter the scene (it will still need to make rolls to skinride and take control) 

SYSTEM:

SPEND: 1 PATHOS

ROLL: COMPOSURE + RESOLVE

DIFFICULTY: 10 + Shroud Rating at Consorts location. 

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* 

SUCCESS:

The Wraith will appear (if the wraith player agrees to) the next turn.

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WHEN THE WRAITH PLAYER IS IN COMMAND

You are not permitted by second life terms of service to share second life accounts. Your consort character is however expected to surrender control of their character to the wraith when they wish to  posses you. 

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SUGGESTION FOR PLAY WHEN POSSESSED

What we suggest when the wraith character is possessing your character the wraith player emotes on your behalf in your private messages and you relay that emote with any additional commentary to the public channel.

The benefit of doing this, means other characters gain no meta info of your possession.

Note: A consort is not consistently possessed by a wraith and generally there is a time limit of how long a consort maybe possessed determined by the possessors Arcanoi levels and powers. ((most usually puppetry))

Please ensure that your possessor and you have clearly defined the limits of what you will and won't do under the wraiths command. 

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• The consort while possessed is expected to carry out the whims of its possessor.

• The wraith possessing the consort uses the consorts PHYSICAL statistics, any MENTAL  statistics are the Wraiths.

• A consort cannot be possessed if the wraith she is attuned to is off-line (Wraith player must -actively- possess your character and therefore be online, in the scene, and not doing anything else)

• A Resolve + Composure roll difficulty 16+ must be rolled if the consort wishes to act against its wraith possessor, when possessed.

• A successful roll will eject the possessing wraith for the duration of the scene.

• Attunement can wear off after 1 week of inactivity. At which point the wraith must attune your character as if it were a close friend.

• Consorts, unlike projectors do not have access to their own Arcanoi.

• Consorts retain with perfect clarity everything that happens while a wraith is possessing them.

• Powers from others  that affect the mind or emotional states have no effect on the possessed  consort, and can only be directed at the controlling wraith.

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