Player Name: Solstice Preferred Contact: darkersolstice#9463
Character Name: Coda Sinneslöschen Item/Change Requested & Cost: GAIN 1 NEW ABILITY/POWER/SKILL (PERMANENT) > 3 Booleans (Note--contains two separate innate changeling abilities nerfed at time of app, per discussion on Discord)
Description: Note, both these abilities will only be used with OOC consent. Moonborn kith blessing: Coda, as someone who was made an instrument of torture by their Keeper, has the ability to inflict mental anguish in a form that may resemble a mental breakdown on others. This may resemble a lingering bout of paranoia, depression, megalomania, even hallucinations and other psychoses. The effects last for a few weeks at a time, while Coda suffers from a weaker form of the same mental anguish for a single week. Those with psychic defenses may be resistant to this power.
Pledge sealing: One has to watch what one says around changelings; they have the ability to bind people to their promises. How it works is that if a changeling hears someone state something affirmatively ("No matter what, I'm going to win that competition!") or as an oath ("I promise I'm never going to lie to you again!"), they can call the Wyrd, the active force of fate, to witness that statement. Once the pledge is sealed, if the promise is broken, the person who made it suffers a minor misfortune chosen by the one sealing it (Coda), and they also know that the seal has been broken. Example penalties from the book include: • One point of bashing damage (read: a minor bruise) • A one-die penalty to all rolls for one scene • A two-die penalty on a specific Skill for one scene • A three-die penalty for one specific roll • A minor supernatural effect (character’s reflection faces the wrong way, character causes milk to spoil, cats scratch or bite the character, etc.) for one scene (let's be real, this is the kind of thing I'd be doing to people most often)
When creating a seal, the changeling can also strengthen it. Doing so requires spending a Willpower point as well as a Glamour point. If the character does this, the player can levy a more stringent penalty for breaking the seal, including: • One point of lethal damage (an actual physical wound) • Three points of bashing damage (a significant bruise) • A two-die penalty on all rolls for one scene • A three-die penalty to all rolls with a specific Skill for one scene • A five-die penalty to one specific roll • Use of one of the changeling’s Contracts on the target, activated when they break the seal. The player rolls to activate the Contract and notes the successes; the effect applies when/if the subject breaks the seal.
A seal is broken when the subject either attempts to fulfill the promise and fails or becomes incapable of doing so. For example, someone saying “I’m going to kick his ass” would fail to fulfill this promise if he picks a fight with the other party and loses, or if the other party were to die before the fight happens. If the subject had said, “I’m going to kick his ass if he doesn’t leave my sister alone,” the subject is under no compulsion to start the fight if the other party does, in fact, stay away from the sister. If, however, the other party dates the sister and the subject makes no attempt to fight him, he breaks the seal and the consequences apply.
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Preferred Contact: darkersolstice#9463
Character Name: Coda Sinneslöschen
Item/Change Requested & Cost: GAIN 1 NEW ABILITY/POWER/SKILL (PERMANENT) > 3 Booleans (Note--contains two separate innate changeling abilities nerfed at time of app, per discussion on Discord)
Description: Note, both these abilities will only be used with OOC consent.
Moonborn kith blessing: Coda, as someone who was made an instrument of torture by their Keeper, has the ability to inflict mental anguish in a form that may resemble a mental breakdown on others. This may resemble a lingering bout of paranoia, depression, megalomania, even hallucinations and other psychoses. The effects last for a few weeks at a time, while Coda suffers from a weaker form of the same mental anguish for a single week. Those with psychic defenses may be resistant to this power.
Pledge sealing: One has to watch what one says around changelings; they have the ability to bind people to their promises. How it works is that if a changeling hears someone state something affirmatively ("No matter what, I'm going to win that competition!") or as an oath ("I promise I'm never going to lie to you again!"), they can call the Wyrd, the active force of fate, to witness that statement. Once the pledge is sealed, if the promise is broken, the person who made it suffers a minor misfortune chosen by the one sealing it (Coda), and they also know that the seal has been broken. Example penalties from the book include:
• One point of bashing damage (read: a minor bruise)
• A one-die penalty to all rolls for one scene
• A two-die penalty on a specific Skill for one scene
• A three-die penalty for one specific roll
• A minor supernatural effect (character’s reflection faces the wrong way, character causes milk to spoil, cats scratch or bite the character, etc.) for one scene (let's be real, this is the kind of thing I'd be doing to people most often)
When creating a seal, the changeling can also strengthen it. Doing so requires spending a Willpower point as well as a Glamour point. If the character does this, the player can levy a more stringent penalty for breaking the seal, including:
• One point of lethal damage (an actual physical wound)
• Three points of bashing damage (a significant bruise)
• A two-die penalty on all rolls for one scene
• A three-die penalty to all rolls with a specific Skill for one scene
• A five-die penalty to one specific roll
• Use of one of the changeling’s Contracts on the target, activated when they break the seal. The player rolls to activate the Contract and notes the successes; the effect applies when/if the subject breaks the seal.
A seal is broken when the subject either attempts to fulfill the promise and fails or becomes incapable of doing so. For example, someone saying “I’m going to kick his ass” would fail to fulfill this promise if he picks a fight with the other party and loses, or if the other party were to die before the fight happens. If the subject had said, “I’m going to kick his ass if he doesn’t leave my sister alone,” the subject is under no compulsion to start the fight if the other party does, in fact, stay away from the sister. If, however, the other party dates the sister and the subject makes no attempt to fight him, he breaks the seal and the consequences apply.
Voluntary?: Yes
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