Flute of the Storyteller

By tjdale@gte.net

Level

3

Gnosis

8

Description

This is an extremely rare fetish that may only be used by Galliards of the following tribes: Bone Gnawers, Children of Gaia, Fianna, Silent Striders, Stargazers, and Uktena. Bunyip and Croatan may also use it, if your chronicle permits. These are the only tribes that would accept, use, or even create such a fetish. The Galliard using it must sit and have an audience. A group brawling, so on and so forth, is acceptable, just so long as there is a group present that is within earshot! She makes a Gnosis roll (variable diff, depends on audience's situation, but never to exceed 9) and begins to play the flute. On a successful roll, all of the audience will stop doing what they are doing. Mages and Lycanthropes get a willpower roll to resist, diff 9, 2 successes required. Vampires do not (Toreador curse is in effect). The audience is slowly taken to Dreamtime, where they observe the story the music makes. If the Gnosis roll is botched, the player still plays, the audience is still mesmerised as before, but the Galliard is trapped within his own story, unable to get out until he stops playing, which someone else must get his body to do! Depending on the mood/tone of the music, the story is an epic, ballad, fable, etc. For example, if you play Peter and the Wolf, the story played out is Peter and the Wolf. To attune this fetish, you must first make a performance + charisma roll to see if you can play to the spirit's satisfaction (diff 8). Thereafter, the only requirement is that the Galliard holding it must play it at least once a week, or must re-attune it.