Id (MET)

Converted by Henrik Bogh (henrik_b@post.vuc.nja.dk), based on Id by Robert Maybery

Author's Notes

I found this (I think) great discipline for Vampire: The Masquerade, but since i needed it for a MET-game, it needed a little work. Also, when played we found it had some bugs that needed to be corrected. All this has now been done, and this is the result. The game has be slightly tested, but more could do it well i suppose. But please send your comments to henrik_b@post.vuc.nja.dk if you've got any.

History

Some time ago, an Alexandrian was captured by Toreadors in a Clan-war, where the Alexandrians were making (un-)life quite painful and terrible for the Toreadors with an unknown discipline. This discipline allowed the Alexandrians to make the Toreadors walking bombs that would go to their own kind. Once there they might shoot someone, blow the building up, or something similar. The Toreadors captured only a few of the Alexandrians (due to this discipline among other things), and none of them really seemed to have this discipline, before a new and fresh Alexandrian was captured by the Toreadors. He was aware of his kind having this discipline but couldn't use it. An elder Toreador managed to create a friendship with this young Alexandrian, and through his own experience and knowledge about disciplines, he made the Alexandrian able to use this discipline of his. In his happiness the Alexandrian promised to teach the Toreador this discipline. Because of his youths this took more than a decade for him to teach the old Toreador this discipline. When the elder mastered discipline in early 1997 the Toreadors eliminated the young Alexandrian. This made the old Toreador quite mad, and he killed the Toreador Clan leader and escaped to the middle of France, before passing his knowledge on to others in the town. Now (December 1997), fewer than 100 Toreadors know this discipline, and no other than these Toreadors know of its existence among Toreadors, and not many others about its existence at all.

Basic

At first, the Kindred's command of someone's subconscious is limited. The target can be made to carry out a single command given mentally. This is a pure action of the subconscious, and cannot be used to change a subject's actions, only to modify them. A cashier will 'accidentally' give the Kindred a twenty-dollar bill instead of a one-dollar bill; a running attacker will be persuaded to fall, and an actor will forget her lines. Note that since the conscious must not know what is happening to her, the effects tend to manifest as 'mistakes.'

Because it is such a basic discipline as it is, it can only be used once on a person a night, because the second time might give the person knowledge of the Kindred's ability. If a Kindred still wants to use it several times on the same night, she must take a static Mental-challenge. If the Kindred loses one of two things happens:

Target is not a Kindred: Nothing happens, except for loss of one Mental-trait.

Target is a Kindred: The Kindred senses that a discipline has been used, to making her doing something against her intentions, and a loss of one Mental-trait.

If the challenge is won, the desired effect is accomplished.

At this point, the Kindred may use this power to lull or stir subconscious fears in the target. With each use, the Kindred may alter a target's perceptions of one individual or object. The target won't know why she trusts or suspects the individual, but she will 'just have a feeling' about him/her/it. For this power to affect the subject's perceptions of anyone but herself, the Kindred must whisper advice to the target regarding the individual (the individual (or object) need not to be present). To use this discipline the Kindred must make one to four Mental-challenges with the target. Once The Kindred loses a Mental-challenge, no further can be taken at this time.

Contests won	Effect
One	The target is invoked by this discipline for the next half-hour.
Two	The target is invoked for the next 2‡ hour.
Tree	The target is invoked for the rest of the night.
Four	The target is invoked for the rest of his/her un-life. If the challenge is lost nothing happens.

Intermediate

By whispering a command, the Kindred may give a single command to the target, along with a condition, which will trigger the command. Complex commands, or commands which endanger the subject are possible, but more difficult. Once the command is carried out, the command fades from the target's mind. If the command is not carried out (due, for instance, to failure, accident, or expenditure of Willpower), the command will remain buried until the next time the conditions are met. Simply make a Mental-challenge to use this discipline.

When asked a question, the target will instinctively blurt out the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. The Kindred need only ask a question, and the subject will answer it to the best of her ability. No challenges are needed to carry out this discipline, unless the Kindred wants to use it several times on the same target in one night. The use the same system as for the basic discipline: Mistake.

Those who possess this power have a unique control over the beliefs of others. Friendly Advice enables a Kindred to convince a target of one fact. The target will not usually question why she believes what the Kindred tells her unless the fact is questioned by someone else, and even then the target may become angry and confused when confronted with the truth. To use this discipline the Kindred must spend one blood-trait for the first time a night, and two for the following at that night. It is not possible to spend one blood-trait twice in one night, even if this discipline wasn't activated the night before. Also a target can only hold one fact, even if another Kindred gave this fact. When the the target is convinced that her belief created by the Kindred iss untrue, she must make a static Mental-challenge. If she loses or it's a draw, she frenzies the next time she see the Kindred that gave her the Friendly Advice.