GracefulCharmMethodology/SolarSocialise

Socialise

These Charms use the Unified Project Methodology, Principled Organisation Methodology, Acceptable Influence Methodology, and Crunchy Merit Methodology rules.

Dialectic

Culture Hero Approach

• Cost: 2m per dot, 1wp
• Type: Simple
• Duration: One Cultural project
• Mins: Socialise 1, Essence 1

The Solar may start a Cultural project in excess of their normal limit. They may not start a project to influence an organisation with a Magnitude higher than their Essence.

Understanding The Court

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Socialise 3, Essence 1
• Prereqs: Cultural Hero Method

The Solar may undertake a Cultural project to discern the norms of an organisation. Once completed, they may make a read intentions action against the organisation: if successful, they discover all of its Principles, know how recently those Principles have been imparted, and by whom.

Harmonious Presence Meditation

• Cost: 5m, 1wp
• Type: Reflexive
• Duration: One Cultural project
• Mins: Socialise 4, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Culture Hero Approach

This Cultural project has its time increment reduced by one, and cannot be slowed through use of Charms.

Flashing Soul Reform

• Cost: 10m, 1wp
• Type: Simple
• Keywords: Once/story
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 3
• Prereqs: Harmonious Presence Meditation

The Solar automatically completes a Cultural project with only a scene's worth of effort, allowing them to make an influence roll at the end of the scene. This may not be used on an organisation with a Magnitude higher than the Solar's Essence.

Mastery Of Small Manners

• Type: Permanent
• Keywords: Psyche
• Mins: Socialise 3, Essence 1
• Prereqs: Culture Hero Approach

While undertaking a Cultural project to influence an organisation, the Solar is considered a native of that organisation by its members (becoming immune to any xenophobic Intimacies the organisation or its members might have). All of its members gain a Minor Tie of respect toward them for the duration.

Humble Servant Approach

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 3
• Prereqs: Mastery Of Small Manners, Harmonious Presence Meditation

The leader of an organisation the Solar is influencing cannot use Charms to boost the organisation's Resolve. If they wish to stop the Solar's efforts, they must confront them in person and make them abandon the project.

Endless Obsession Feint

• Type: Permanent
• Keywords: Psyche
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 4
• Prereqs: Humble Servant Approach

While a Solar’s Cultural project is in progress, the targeted organisation’s leader is obsessed with the Solar’s actions (or the mysterious effect on their subordinates) to the active detriment of their duties. They may not apply merit dice gained from their organisation.

Unimpeachable Discourse Technique

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 4
• Prereqs: Humble Servant Approach

The Solar’s Cultural projects are undetectable until they are completed, unless the organisation’s leader has Charms that specifically watch for such influence.

Wise Counsellor Stance

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 4
• Prereqs: Humble Servant Approach

While undertaking a Cultural project to influence an organisation, the Solar may use Charms as though they were that organisation’s leader.

Crowned King Of Eternity

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 5
• Prereqs: Wise Counsellor Stance

Each time the Solar succeeds at an organisational influence attempt, they may choose to gain a dot in Backing from it (up to the normal limit of the organisation’s Magnitude).

Insight

Motive-Discerning Technique

• Cost: 3m
• Type: Reflexive
• Mins: Socialise 2, Essence 1

This read intentions action is done reflexively.

Cunning Insight Technique

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 1
• Prereqs: Motive-Discerning Technique

The Solar knows whenever someone they can see uses an Intimacy to boost their Resolve, but not what that Intimacy is.

Intent-Tracing Stare

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Cunning Insight Technique

The Solar knows whenever someone they can see uses a read intentions action, and who it is directed against.

Discretionary Gesture

• Cost: 3m, 1wp
• Type: Reflexive
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 3
• Prereqs: Intent-Tracing Stare

The Solar makes a Manipulation+Socialise roll in response to an attempt to pierce someone else’s Guile. The recipient may replace their Guile with the successes on the Solar’s roll.

Seen And Seeing Method

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 3
• Prereqs: Intent-Tracing Stare

Whenever the Solar becomes aware of a read intentions action used against them, they may activate Motive-Discerning Technique on the initiator without spending motes.

Knowing The Soul’s Price

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Socialise 3, Essence 1
• Prereqs: Motive-Discerning Technique

The Solar may make a read intentions action to determine the suitable enticement needed for the subject to accept a specific barter or intimidate action they have in mind.

Quicksilver Falcon’s Eye

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Motive-Discerning Technique

The Solar may spend a point of Willpower when activating Motive-Discerning Technique to make their analysis uninterruptible. Their subject cannot activate Charms to protect them from the attempt, but ongoing Charms work as normal.

Umbral Eyes Focus

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Motive-Discerning Technique

When the Solar identifies an Intimacy with a read intentions action, they know whether or not it was created by a Psyche effect.

Wise-Eyed Courtier Method

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Socialise 4, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Motive-Discerning Technique

When the Solar activates Motive-Discerning Technique, they may spend a point of Willpower to apply the roll to everyone present in the scene.

Nuance

Subtle Speech Method

• Cost: 3m, 1wp
• Type: Supplemental
• Mins: Socialise 2, Essence 1

The Solar can convey a complex piece of information, or make an influence roll, in such a way that only the intended recipient(s) understand it. Influence cloaked this way cannot be resisted or affected by the Charms of people other than the intended recipient(s).

Penultimate Unity Of Form

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Socialise 4, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Subtle Speech Method

With an appropriate stunt, the Solar may use one kind of spoken influence (bargain, inspire, etc) to accomplish the effects of another. They may use Abilities and Charms based on the type of influence they are using, but it is resisted based on its intended effect.

Friend Of A Friend Approach

• Cost: 3m, 1wp
• Type: Supplemental
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 3
• Prereqs: Penultimate Unity Of Form

For the purpose of triggering Intimacies on this influence attempt, treat the Solar as being someone else that has a positive Tie to the Solar.

Innocent Proposition Method

• Cost: 6m
• Type: Supplemental
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 3
• Prereqs: Penultimate Unity Of Form

The Solar’s words are disarming - no Intimacies can be used to increase Resolve against this influence attempt, unless the target spends a point of temporary Willpower per Intimacy.

Pretence

Guarded Thoughts Meditation

• Cost: 5m, 1wp
• Type: Reflexive
• Duration: Indefinite
• Mins: Socialise 3, Essence 1

The Solar ignores all penalties to their Guile. This Charm ends immediately if the Solar enters Limit Break, and cannot be activated while they are in Limit Break.

Master Thespian Style

• Cost: 3m
• Type: Reflexive
• Duration: One scene
• Mins: Socialise 4, Essence 1
• Prereqs: Guarded Thoughts Meditation

The Solar chooses a false intention. If anyone attempts a read intentions action against them to determine their goal for the interaction, but is defeated by their Guile, they believe they have succeeded and read their false intention instead.

Deep-Eyed Soul Gazing

• Cost: 6m
• Type: Simple
• Keywords: Psyche
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Master Thespian Style

The Solar makes a Manipulation+Socialise roll against the target’s Guile: if successful, they will make a read intentions action against the Solar at the soonest opportunity (outside of combat). Resisting this effect costs Willpower equal to the Solar’s Essence.

Easily-Discarded Presence Method

• Type: Permanent
• Keywords: Psyche
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Master Thespian Style

The solar may spend a point of Willpower when activating Master Thespian Method. If they do, anyone failing to read their intentions will consider them irrelevant: they may not make any further influence or read intentions against the Solar unless the Solar attempts influence against them first.

Soul-Blind Kata

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 3
• Prereqs: Easily-Discarded Presence Method

The Solar may instead choose to show a person affected by Easily-Discarded Presence Method a blinding fathom of light. This renders them unable to make any further influence or read intentions actions against anyone for the remainder of the scene, unless those people attempt influence against them first.

Selfsame Master Facilitator

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 3
• Prereqs: Easily-Discarded Presence Method

The Solar may instead choose to make a person affected by Easily-Discarded Presence Method convinced that the Solar is the only way of accomplishing their goals, rendering them unable to make any influence actions against anyone other than the Solar for the remainder of the scene.

Penumbra Self Meditation

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Guarded Thoughts Meditation

When the Solar activates Guarded Thoughts Meditation, they may suppress any Emotion they are experiencing (removing its effect) for its duration, by accepting a point of Limit per Emotion. Emotions that they accrue while it is active work as normal.

Inverted Ego Mask

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Guarded thoughts Meditation

When the Solar activates Guarded Thoughts Meditation, they may suppress any of their Intimacies (removing their effects) for its duration, by accepting a point of Limit per Intimacy. Intimacies that they gain while it is active work as normal.

Elusive Dream Defence

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 3
• Prereqs: Inverted Ego Mask

If the Solar suppresses all of their Intimacies with Inverted Ego mask, add their Guile to their Resolve while the Charm is in effect.

Heart-Eclipsing Shroud

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 3
• Prereqs: Inverted Ego Mask, Penumbra Self Meditation

When the Solar activates Guarded Thoughts Meditation, they may transform any of their existing Intimacies into different ones, of the same level and type (Tie/Principle/Emotion), without accruing Limit. Each time they apply a transformed Intimacy to raise their Resolve, they gain a point of Limit.

Draw The Curtain

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 4
• Prereqs: Heart-Eclipsing Shroud

The Solar may apply a transformed Intimacy to their Resolve as many times as they like while Guarded Thoughts Meditation is active, gaining Limit only on the first time that Intimacy is applied.

Legend Mask Methodology

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 4
• Prereqs: Heart-Eclipsing Shroud

When the Solar is attempting an action in service of an Intimacy transformed by Heart-Eclipsing Shroud, they may roll the Intimacy’s strength in lieu of the normally applicable Ability. They gain a point of Limit each time they do so.

Hundred-Faced Stranger

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 4
• Prereqs: Heart-Eclipsing Shroud

The Solar may further transform their Intimacies reflexively while Guarded Thoughts Meditation is active. Doing so causes them to gain a point of Limit per Intimacy transformed.

At Your Service

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Socialise 5, Essence 5
• Prereqs: Hundred-Faced Stranger

The Solar may choose to become a mirror of someone’s fantasies when activating Guarded Self Meditation, transforming their Intimacies to become whatever the other person wants most (determined by the ST for non-player characters). Until they act against one of those Intimacies, or the Charm ends, the Solar’s influence attempts against that character cannot be resisted.