Rats' Rage/Lost Cousin (•• Mind, •• Life)

Caged rats recognize their own; when one member is

taken out of the cage and cleaned of his familiar scent, then

returned to his "family," his former friends turn on him. If an

they accept him as one of their own. By following the same

principles, some sociobiologists from the NWO and Progenitors

teamed up to replicate the effect on a human scale.

By "scenting" a subject, a Technocrat can either turn a

mob against the subject, or get it to accept her as an intimate.

Various agents employ different tools: Some mark the subject

with a special pheromone "perfume," implant her with biofeedback

nanotech or subject her to mental conditioning.

Others take an external approach and condition the group to

reject or accept the individual (usually with subliminal propaganda,

mental conditioning or simple mass-psychology).

While the Procedure isn't perfect — humans are far more

complex than rats — it gives the operative an essential edge.

[This Effect is best left to roleplaying. By "scenting"

himself, an agent can gain acceptance in a particular group —

among a street gang or some partiers at a bar, for instance.

Alternately, the Technocrat can make an individual stick out

from a group. In most cases, the subjects of the groups won't

know what's going on, but this Procedure is good for a +/-1 on

social difficulties.]