Passious

By Lukasha (lukasha@venice.mps.ohio-state.edu)

Introduction

This Discipline is one of emotions, both detecting and controlling. Born of a combination of Auspex, Presence, and Empathy, this discipline allows the character to accurately read emotions and control them. Higher aspects of this discipline even allow control of the Beast.

* Emotion Sense

With Emotion Sense, you can accurately gauge the major one or two emotions someone else is feeling. This can be done at will and lasts as long as you choose. There is almost no way for someone else to mask their true emotions from this Discipline. Only incredibly powerful PC's and NPC's, at the ST's discretion, can block this reading, and then only with the expenditure of a Willpower point.

System: Roll Perception + Empathy with a difficulty of 6. With every success you can read one emotion.

a drastic change, ie changing their Nature, would this not work.

** Emotion Twin

Emotion Twin allows you to project your emotion into someone else's psyche, causing them to feel the anger that burns in you, the fear that cowers you, the lust that drives you.

System: Roll Charisma + Empathy with a difficulty of the subject's Willpower. Each success will reduce the number of dice the victim is allowed to roll the next action by one if she tries to accomplish something that goes against the emotion being projected into her.

Example: Rebecca is very afraid of being attacked by Ronald, another vampire. She uses Emotion Twin and has 4 successes. Ronald is now also very afraid and will most likely run away from Rebecca. If he attempts to fight the fear an and continue the attack on Rebecca, he will lose 4 dice from his dice pool.

*** The Eyes of Passion

The Eyes of Passion allows the manipulation of the subject's emotional state. You can instill any emotion into another. By looking into the eyes of your subject, you twist her current emotion into one you choose to be more... suitable.

System: After making eye contact roll Manipulation + Empathy with a difficulty of the subject's Willpower. The number of successes determines how long the victim succumbs to the new emotional state.

1 success	One turn
2 successes	Five turns
3 successes	For the duration of the scene
4 successes	One day
5 successes	One week

**** The Reach of Passion

The Reach of Passion extends out and makes others feel as you wish. Eye contact need not be made, but they must be in plain sight and your vicinity. With this, an angry mob could be turned back in fear, or the fires of their fury stoked higher.

System: Roll Manipulation + Intimidation with a difficulty of 7. Those affected can use Willpower points to overcome the effect, but must continue spending Willpower every turn for as long as they remain in the same area as the character.

The number of successes rolled also determines how many people can be affected:

1 success	One person
2 successes	Two people
3 successes	Six people
4 successes	20 people
5 successes	Everyone in the vampire's immediate vicinity (e.g. an entire auditorium of people)

If more than one success is gained, the entire focus of this power may be directed at an individual as opposed to a group. For each extra success, the victim would have to blow an additinal Willpower point to break free.

***** The Storm of Passions

The Maelstrom of emotions unleashed upon the subject can completely incapacitate her as the Storm of Passions tears within.

System: Roll Manipulation + Empathy with a difficulty of the subject's Willpower. The subject must roll her Willpower with a difficulty of 7. This is an extended resisted roll and as soon as you have three successes she is completely incapacitated for as long as you maintain this power.

****** Passion's Beast

The Beast that lies within all of us is controlled by our passions. And she who controls the Beast controls the person. You can entice the Beast from hiding and cause a frenzy and then guide it, telling it who to focus on. And when it suits your purposes, you may calm the Beast and return it to its lair to reside until next time...

System: To bring forth a frenzy, roll Manipulation + Empathy with a difficulty of the subject's Humanity or Path rating. A complete success means you have brought forth the Beast in the subject and she will frenzy unless she spends a Willpower point to negate it. If the subject does not attempt to stop the frenzy at the onset, she will be unable to break the control later. To control a frenzy, roll Manipulation + Intimidation with a difficulty of 8. Complete success is needed to direct the frenzied character. To calm a frenzied character, roll Charisma + Empathy with a difficulty of the subject's Willpower. A complete success means you have tamed the Beast and It will withdraw, calming the subject unless she spends a Willpower point to remain in frenzy.

****** The Soothing Voice

Many have received emotional scars from the horror of their lives. With this discipline, you may help talk someone out of her pain. Phobias, traumatic memories, even derangements can be healed.

System: The use of this discipline will usually be role-played out between the two involved. When it is over, the ST can either decide if it was successful or roll Charisma + Empathy for a complete success using the following chart:

Minor emotional trauma	Difficulty of 5
Lesser Phobia	Difficulty of 6
Major emotional trauma	Difficulty of 7
Greater Phobia	Difficulty of 8
Derangement	Difficulty of 9

******* Beast's Destruction

With this discipline you may strip the Beast completely from another, causing her to feel great apathy. She will also be unable to frenzy and will lack the will, the passion, to fight, whether it be physically or mentally.

System: After touching the subject, roll Manipulation + Empathy with a difficulty of the subject's Willpower. The number of successes determines how long the subject will suffer the loss of her Beast. Without the Beast, a character will be unable to frenzy and unable to expend Willpower.

1 success	One day
2 successes	One week
3 successes	One month
4 successes	One year
5 successes	Permanent

At any time during the loss of the Beast, even if its permanent, the character may embark on a quest, to be decided by the ST, to regain her Beast.