Forces Effects

• • • • Embracing the Earth Mother — The Earth Mother sleeps only fitfully, and the Dreamspeakers can cause Her to stir in Her slumber

with their drums and calls. The weight of Gaia's attention draws around the target, focusing gravity about him. Virtual Adepts and Sons of Ether

perform similar feats technologically, by concentrating and redirecting gravitons. Euthanatos sometimes freeze their targets in place with the

"weight of terror."

Successes scored on such a result focus the force of gravity around the target, making the victim seem to weigh more. A good guideline is that

each success beyond the initial casting requirements increases gravity around the subject by one g (Earth gravity), so with four extra successes a

subject would feel five g's (normal gravity plus four). Thus, a 75 kilo man would feel as if he were a whopping 375 kilograms! (That's about a 165

pound man to an 825 pound man, for all you English weight system users.) The character can probably stand in g forces up to his strength rating.

Beyond that, he's reduced to hugging the ground, and if the forces exceed twice his Strength rating, he starts taking damage from his own body

weight — excess levels of gravity score damage on the damage chart normally.

Hermetic mages are known to concentrate surrounding forces like fires and electricity into their opponents as well, diverting massive power to

strike their enemies