Mind Effects

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• • Empathic Projection — Emotions carry great weight. By focusing her emotions and casting her attention to a subject, the mage can send a

sudden impulse or feeling. The target can be made to experience the mage's own feelings, or the mage can strike an emotion into the subject. The

successes scored indicate the intensity of feeling. With two or three successes, the subject just has a slight sudden urge or quaint moment of

queasiness, while five or six successes would cause a sudden blast of emotion to scream into the forefront of the target's mind.

Obviously, a sudden influx of emotion can startle a person or cause her to act strangely for a moment (or longer, if the mage places a duration

on the Effect). The target may suddenly laugh inexplicably, drop something or flee the area in panic. Stronger-willed targets are harder to affect.

The target can spend a point of Willpower to resist the urges, as with any sudden impulse. If the subject has reason to suspect the mage's intrusion, a

Willpower roll can be used to resist, so an extended ritual may be required to affect a wary subject. In some cases, a sudden blast of pure, heartstopping

emotion can paralyze or shock a subject (inflicting standard bashing damage).

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The mage cannot send actual pictures or words through this method, but a sudden feeling of danger or need can often be a useful missive when

in trouble. Of course, other Mind magicians in the area may well sense the panicked empathic projection.