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The power to communicate with Creatures, corpses, and humans.
Used by Janus Hect, Created by jumbohiggins.
(Activating this Effect is not obvious. The only sign you are using an Effect is Janus eyes change color from brown to blue.. )

Janus reflects on his time in the cult and his slow but progressive indoctrination. How his food was subtly diminished, sleeping times were shifted, independence and decision making were shelved. How all of his behaviors were subtly curtailed to fitting what the cult wanted. He then tries to recreate a minor example of that on another in order to better understand them and their traumas.

BEHAVIOR CONTROL

* Regulate individual’s physical reality
* Dictate where, how, and with whom the member lives and associates or isolates
* When, how and with whom the member has sex
* Control types of clothing and hairstyles
* Regulate diet – food and drink, hunger and/or fasting
* Manipulation and deprivation of sleep
* Financial exploitation, manipulation or dependence
* Restrict leisure, entertainment, vacation time
* Major time spent with group indoctrination and rituals and/or self indoctrination including the Internet
* Permission required for major decisions
* Rewards and punishments used to modify behaviors, both positive and negative
* Discourage individualism, encourage group-think
* Impose rigid rules and regulations
* Punish disobedience by beating, torture, burning, cutting, rape, or tattooing/branding
* Threaten harm to family and friends
* Force individual to rape or be raped
* Encourage and engage in corporal punishment
* Instill dependency and obedience
* Kidnapping
* Beating
* Torture
* Rape
* Separation of Families
* Imprisonment
* Murder

Exert your Mind and spend one minute. Select a human, Creature, or Dead target within arm's reach. Dead targets must have died within the past week, and you must have their remains in your possession. This Effect cannot be used unless The target preforms an action from the B section of the BITE model.

The target can communicate in your language for the next hour.

This Effect is not obvious, and the only sign you are using an Effect is Janus eyes change color from brown to blue.. If someone suspects that an Effect was used, they must roll Perception + Alertness, Difficulty 8 to pick up on your Tell.

You may only use this Effect once per target per day.

  • Communing with creatures does not grant them intellect but does allow you to converse with them.
  • The target of "human" refers to any target that speaks a human language.
  • You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
  • Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.

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Community Commune Gifts

Exert your Mind and spend one minute. You must actively and obviously use an inhaler to activate this Effect.

You may understand and communicate to humans and Sapient beings as if you are fluent in a relevant language for the next hour.

This also includes understanding any recorded communications from the relevant targets, including writings, scent trails, etc.

Whenever you encounter a Language you could commune in with this Effect, you immediately understand which language it is, the dialect, region, and other details about it.

If you use this Effect to spend an hour speaking with a native speaker of a human language you don't know, you may Exert your Mind and roll Intellect + Culture Difficulty 7. With Outcome 4 or higher, you permanently learn that language and accent.

You may only use this Effect once per day.

  • The target of "human" refers to any target that speaks a human language.
  • When reading written communications, you get no information beyond what the writer was intending to communicate.

Exert your Mind and spend one minute. Select a Dead target of which you have Any body part.

The target can communicate in your language for the next hour.

  • You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
  • Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.

You gain the following benefits at all times.

You may understand and communicate to terrestrial animal as if you are fluent in a relevant language.

  • Communing with terrestrial animal does not grant them intellect but does allow you to converse with them.

You gain the following benefits at all times.

You may understand and communicate to Creatures as if you are fluent in a relevant language.

  • Communing with creatures does not grant them intellect but does allow you to converse with them.

'These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.'
t. The Kings of Babylon

You gain the following benefits at all times. You must actively and obviously be using a 1611 KJV Bible to gain the benefits of this Effect.

You may understand and communicate to humans as if you are fluent in a relevant language.

This also includes understanding any recorded communications from the relevant targets, including writings, scent trails, etc.

Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Nicotine Addiction.

  • The target of "human" refers to any target that speaks a human language.
  • When reading written communications, you get no information beyond what the writer was intending to communicate.

Stock Commune Gifts

Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Dead target within 50 feet. Dead targets must have died within the past week, and you must have their remains in your possession.

The target can communicate in your language for the next hour.

  • You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
  • Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.

You gain the following benefits at all times.

You may understand and communicate to terrestrial animal as if you are fluent in a relevant language.

  • Communing with terrestrial animal does not grant them intellect but does allow you to converse with them.