Emotion

By Robert Pool (robert69@usa.pipeline.com)

Description

This is a very special art that draws from the primal energy of 5 emotions: Courage, Happiness, anger, love, and revenge (although the last could be viewed as variation of anger or jealousy or something else totally). The Art of emotions is open only to Pooka, Satyrs, Redcaps, and the Sidhe variant, the rebel. For those who use various net kiths, it's up to you as to whether or not to allow other kiths access to it. What's changed?

Kith limitations

Unseelie Redcaps have to make a willpower test vs. a difficulty of 8 if they wish to use a smile a day, keeps banality away, cupid's song, or nature's beauty. This is due to the fact that the cantrip creates something incredibly beatiful in the eyes of more dark-minded Kithain.

Banality

No changeling can use the emotion cantrips if she has a banality rating of over 8. STs are free to change this if they wish -- particularly if the changeling uses the cantrip when experiencing the corresponding emotion.

* I will Fear no Evil! (courage)

Using this Cantrip, the character's courage goes through the roof and he becomes absolutely fearless. All mental attacks or effects that cause fear (naturally or magical) have a difficulty of 10. The character also adds all successes obtained for the appropriate bunk to all tests for resisting chimerial, cantrip, or magical attacks (includes soak rolls).

Realms: Describes who will become fearless. Note this cantrip cannot be used in conjunction with Scene and actor/fae to produce a area-effect.


Actor: describes who can fearless
Fae: describe who/what of faery nature will become fearless.
Nature: describes the subject of the cantrip.
Prop: describes what will become fearless -- in this case an item or object.

Obviously such use of the cantrip probably means the caster has the mentality of a Malkavian :)

Successes: Each success adds to any roll that requires resisting or soaking magic or cantrips. Each success also adds 2 rounds to the cantrip's duration.

** A smile a day, keeps banality away (happiness/joy)

Casting this cantrip has similar effects as the Satyr Birthright Gift of Pan, however it is much more faster in its effects. The caster must roll his charisma+performance against the highest banality of those present. If the caster gets enough successes, those in the area suddenly feel incredibly happy.

Realms:

Mortal: describes who become happy
Fae: Describe who becomes happy
Nature: Describes the area/what becomes happy.
Prop: No real effect.
Scene: describes who in the area becomes happy.

Successes: When used in conjunction with fae or Mortal, each success lowers the banality of the cantrip's target. As for the Nature+scene version, each success adds a year to the cantrip's duration.

*** The Power of Anger

This cantrip is one of the few offensive-type cantrips available to a changeling. This cantrip allows the character to summon his anger into a physical energy blast accentuated by some type of word/battle-cry. Shishihokoudan (pronouced like Shee-Shee-Hoe-Kow-Daan, which translates to English as 'Roaring Lion bullet' and originates from a famous anime called Ranma 1/2) or Hamehame-ha (Hah-may-a-may-aa which comes from another famous anime, Dragonball) are among the most common battle cries. The color of the blast varies between caster but usually echoes the character's favorite color.

Realms:

Actor: Describes who the caster wants to attack.
Fae: Describes who the caster wants to attack.
Nature: Describes what/where the caster wants to attack.
Prop: Describes what the caster wants to attack.
Scene: In any case where scene is used in conjunction with another realm, the cantrip takes on a different attack form than an energy blast. Ryouga's Breaking point technique from Ranma 1/2 is good example.

Successes: Each success cause one health level of damage. If the person using this cantrip is extremely angry, The ST is free to increase the amount of damage as s/he feels fit.

**** ???

I'm not exactly sure of what to place as cantrip #4. here are two possible canidate derived from a smile a day, keeps banality away. Any suggestions?

Nature's Beauty (beauty)

This cantrip has the special ability to increases the natural beauty of the area when cast at a natural place (like a forest, a waterfall, a glen, etc). This effect even crosses into reality. Unless tainted or cursed by something, the cantrip always succeeds. The number of successes increase the beauty (one success might make it look nicer, while 5 would make it absolutely breath-taking). ST's are free to add in special costs for casting the cantrip in this version (like maybe the caster has to spend 2 points of Temp. Glamour).

Realms: This Cantrip requires Nature & scene and cannot be used with any other realm other than prop, which in such a case, the object becomes more like eye candy, very beautiful.

Successes: the number of successes dictates how long the cantrip lasts:

1 success:	1 day
2 successes:	1 week
3 successes:	1 month
4 successes:	6 months
5 successes:	1 year

Changelings may also spend 1 point of temporary glamour to make the effect last a year and a day.

Cupid's song

This cantrip is also alternatively called 'The Lure of Unsung Love' because it often brings shy people to make their feelings of love known. It requires anyone who listens to make a willpower test vs. a difficulty of seven. If the target gets below 2 successes, the character resists somewhat but has a strong urge to reveal any feelings of love to someone. With more than 3 successes, the target totally resists although there is still a bit of an urge. Mortals with banalities of 10 are immune to the cantrip.

Realms:

Actor: determines who will fall in love
Fae: Determines who will fall in love
Nature: Determines what/area will fall in love
Prop: determines what -- in this case an object -- will fall in love
Scene: determines what in the area will fal in love.

Successes: Each success the caster gets, one success the target gets in resisting is removed. If the target gets absolutely no successes and the caster more than 2, the target falls madly in love with the closest person of the opposite sex. Thus, this is one of the pooka's favorite pranks to do on Valentine's Day to unite mortal lovers and all Pooka receive one success for casting this cantrip. Unseelie pooka often enjoy doing this in public places such as a park in which some cases male targets get arrested by the police for sexual harrasment or unite two totally different people together. Few things agitate an unseelie pooka when the couples they create turn into long-lasting relationships or even marriages.

***** Hell hath no fury like a Changeling scorned (Revenge/anger)

Alternately called 'Revenge's Wrath,' this is one of the mightiest of all cantrips and only Rebel sidhe and Satyrs can even have access to it (others are up to STs). It can only come in effect if the character goes into a state of berserk rage (in the case of a rebel sidhe, when one goes into 'contructive anger' mode). The result is an extremely powerful blast of chimeric power (2 wound levels per success). This, of course, has its boon: characters lose all their temporary Glamour and become unconscious from exhaustion. Storytellers have the final judgement on when the character can use this cantrip or even allow it.

Realms: This cantrip can only be used with actor, fae, or prop. In very rare instances, the storyteller may allow the use of scene for dramatic purposes. Feel free to come up with your own description for the effect, cuz it'll be huge. Think of the opening of the anime akira where Tokyo goes up in a huge explosion >:)

Successes: Each success, the blast causes 2 wound levels of damage. Each success also makes the blast bigger. Just one success is really screwed (and most likely so will be the caster) while 5 successes is about the same magnitude as a blast from the death star ;) It will demolish anything in it's path -- It cannot miss and it cannot be soaked. No defensive cantrips or magics have been found that can block it at all even partially.