Legacy Power: Agent Provocateur

“Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.” – Malcolm X

A 1 Gift Emotion Control Power used by Bill Brenner, created by BobDylan530.

Description

Through the use of clever rhetoric, Bill is able hold a brief conversation with a target and inspire a surge of emotion in them.

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 + Influence Difficulty 6 vs their Mind, Difficulty 6 as a Free Action. 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

  • 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 - The subject matter of the conversation relates to the emotion he is inspiring

Drawbacks

  • Conditional (This Effect is only available when a certain condition is met. This condition must be severe enough that this Gift is unusable the majority of the time.)
    • Condition - Must be engaged in conversation with the target
  • Long Cast (This Effect takes one minute to activate.)

Parameters

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

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Dec. 9, 2022, 8:56 p.m. - Adjustment Cost: 1. Text field change

May 3, 2022, 11:46 p.m. - Upgrade Cost: 1. Upgraded from old powers system

- June 28, 2021, 4:52 p.m. - Revision Cost: 1. Added Drawback: Long Cast, Removed Drawback: Focus

March 28, 2021, 12:12 a.m. - Adjustment Cost: 1. Text field change

July 31, 2020, 10:51 p.m. - Adjustment Cost: 1. Text field change

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Gift from playing in Placeholder Scenario for Dogma played on 2020-05-26 19:45:00-07:00 spent on adjusting power: Agent Provocateur

July 31, 2020, 10:51 p.m. - Revision Cost: 1. Removed Drawback: Unique Focus, Parameter Duration changed from 2 to 1.

July 31, 2020, 10:50 p.m. - New Cost: 1. Initial power creation