Internal Obligation

(• • • • Mind, • • • Prime, • • • • Time or • • • Life, • • • Prime, • • • • Time)

Tradition Book: Akashic Brotherhood, Revised Ed. 68

The Shi-Ren use this rote ensure dedication in their bodyguards. The Jnani use it as a therapeutic technique to prevent emotional excess in the undisciplined. Using advanced acupuncture techniques, a Brother alters a subject's Chi flow to engender a set response whenever a certain even occurs. Shi-Ren often incorporate a trigger phrase while they're intensifying the Fire energy of duty, while Jnani merely describe a condition that might arise while provoking the equanimity of the Metal soul.

While the condition arises the subject the subject does whatever the conditions require, from having a certain set of emotions to committing murder. Variants alter the subject's Chi balance to give him certain strengths or weaknesses when the event arises.

System: The threshold for the rote is five successes plus the duration according to the guidelines listed in Mage: the Ascension, p; 209. Because of the use of Prime, the mage need not concentrate on the effect once cast. The Mind version can control memories, actions, and emotional states, which the subject experiences as if they are his own. The Life based version simply moves the subject's body like a marionette. He might shoot someone or fall unconscious when the stimulus occurs. Combining both versions, the mage can weave a contingent Better Body effect or reduce a Physical Attribute. Extra successes must be spent on these variations, however. The rote is usually coincidental on the sorts of people that it's typically used on, but for the average person, it's vulgar.