Legacy Power: Buddy Buddy

"Do you wanna be my friend?"

A 2 Gift Emotion Control Power used by Chip Douglas, created by Redchigh.

Description

After a brief conversation, Chip's able to become best of friends with anyone-for a while. He can adapt his personal 'persona' and play off of the behaviors and subconscious tells of the target, by the end of the conversation, they'd do anything for each other.

System

Spend an Action, Exert your Mind, and choose an emotion and an Animate target within Arm's Reach. Make a contested roll against the target, rolling Charisma + Alertness Difficulty 6 vs their Mind, Difficulty 6. If you win, the target must do something they otherwise wouldn't have done, inspired by the chosen emotion. The action they take will be in keeping with their character and the way they tend to deal with strong emotions. The emotion shift lasts 1 Hour, and during that time, they are very unlikely to change their mind about their action.

Combat ends the effect, even if the target started it. If attempting to calm during combat, effect ends if target is attacked.

Example emotions (and example potential actions):
Anger (attacking, losing temper)
Pity (adopting a puppy, stopping an attack, killing you painlessly)
Happiness (stopping a despair-driven action)
Jealousy (stealing a gem, buying something)
Anxiety (run, attack brutally)
Sadness (find solitude, openly cry)

Enhancements

  • Group Therapy (You may target a number of individuals equal to your Charisma rating.)
  • Overwhelm (The defensive Mind roll suffers a -3 dice penalty.)
  • Concealed (Using this Effect is not obvious. Choose a Tell that occurs only when you use the Effect; if-- and only if-- someone suspects that a Effect was used, they must roll Perception + Alertness, Difficulty 8 to pick up on your Tell.)

    • Tell - 3 minutes of Conversation with the target(s)

Drawbacks

  • Elemental (Instead of choosing an emotion, you may only inspire a single emotion or narrow band of emotions.)
    • Emotion - Loyal Friendship
  • Double-Edged Sword (You are affected by this Power to the same extent as your target.)
  • Long Cast (This Effect takes one minute to activate.)

Parameters

Range: 0 ( Arm's Reach ) Duration: 1 ( 1 Hour )

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May 12, 2022, 3:52 a.m. - Improvement Cost: 2. Added Enhancement: Cantrip

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