Bedlam

By Fionacat (fionacat@furry46.freeserve.co.uk) and Murray Grant

Description

This is an art that was originally created by me and Murray Grant for a live action version of Changeling when we realised "Crap, Soothsay don't work in a live format, let's re-write it!"  From that, Bedlam was created as a small sideline. Bedlam affects only Glamour; it is quite stupidly powerful but then again it's incredibly rare to find anyone possesing Bedlam, the only way to gain more points in the art of bedlam is to descend into Bedlam.

* Divine

The cantrip Divine enables the changeling to find Glamour in what realm they are using. A Perception+Kenning roll is required to actually spot Glamour when the cantrip is used and only the caster can see any Glamour in the area or object affected.

Successes	Knowledge Divined
Botch	"Nope that iron rod isn't really iron and 100% banal, it is a most powerful source of Glamour!"
0	"Hrrrrm Sensors indicate the only Glamour around is . . . Me."
1	Detect nearest source of Glamour: "Hey look guys my baseball card is glowing!"
2	Detect most powerful and nearest source of Glamour: "I believe we should head that way . . . ."
3	Detect most potent source of Glamour: "Hey guys I found the freehold!"
4	Detect all Glamour within sight: "Wow, hey did you know trees have Glamour?!"
5	Detect all Glamour (This has been supposed to detect Chrysalis, in fact it may even cause Chrysalis in changelings that have not yet discovered their Fae nature): "I think he's like one of us . . . ."

Realm: Where/Who/What you are detecting Glamour in. (Note some realms only specify a single source (e.g., Fae 2 will affect a single Lofty Noble). In this case the cantrip will affect all Lofty Nobles in sight of the caster).

** Tag

This is a very silly cantrip -- Murray made this one. What you do is you touch someone (the normal bunk for Tag is to shout "Tag, You're it!" which is where it gets the name) and infuse her with a tiny amount of Glamour. This is such a small amount that it will only be detected with Divine (at least 2 successes). The great thing about Tag is that it Iis cumulative; the more times you use it the more powerful the Glamour in the tagged thing will be. This is dangerous but can also protect an object quite well as the more times an object is tagged the more "weird" stuff can happen around it. Normally weird stuff is only chimera attraction but all sorts of strange things have happened around objects that have been tagged mutiple times.

Realm: Who/What/Where has been tagged. This cantrip will fade very quickly, incredibly fast around any amount of Banality at all.




*** Infuse

An "upgraded" version of tag, this allows the user to turn an object into a treasure for a short while. It costs one point of permanent Glamour to use this but allows you to either infuse a new object with Glamour (this will cost you temporary Glamour equal to the amount of Glamour you wish to store minus two) or recreate an old treasure by infusing it with Glamour equal to the cost of the treasure.

Infuse works or it does not; it's up to the ST if an object can be recreated by using Glamour.

It should also be noted some strange things can happen when you affect a Scene. Instead of becoming a Treasure the room or place affected will be tagged and attracts a small amount of Glamour (two points for every hour and point of Glamour infused). To affect a room a Wits+Science roll must be used and the number of succsess determines how much Glamour can be spend to infuse a room in this way.




**** Bless

Taking Infuse to silly levels, well not quite. Bless enables a Treasure or object infused with Glamour to be destroyed, releasing huge amounts of Glamour. Much like Bedlam's Touch (see below), this will lower the Banality of the person/place/object affected. No rolls are required; however the object must have at least one point of Glamour in it and must be totally destroyed. The same penalties for destroying a Treasure or using Dross are applied. The amount of Banality a thing can lose is equal to the Glamour in the object destroyed multiplied by two.




***** Bedlam's Touch

The ultimate example of Bedlam, this enables the user to lower the Banality of an object/person/place to very low levels.

The system for this is a Charisma+Kenning roll with a difficulty of 9 to lower the Banality of the affected thing. The one diffenece between Bedlam's Touch and Bless is that Bedlam's Touch can be permanent. The ST will make a secret roll and for every 1 that the ST rolls the loss in Banality is permanent. (Heck I know it should be 10 but I wanna be different!!!)

1-2	A very slight glow with Divine.
3-4	A noticible glow with divine.
5-6	A glow in chimerical form.
7-8	Minor chimera are attracted to the object.
9-10	Major chimera are attracted to the object.
>11	Weird stuff happens; it's up to the Storyteller to decide what (good suggestions are a big chimera appears, the object acts a sort of treasure for an hour or so, the object will alter the wielder ("My hair won't stop growing!!!") or the place it is used in ("Up the stairs, along the stairs, down the stairs and around the stairs?!"