AmbitionObscuringChaosVeil
Ambition-Obscuring Chaos Veil</b>
<b>Cost: 10 motes, 1 willpower\\ Duration: One Scene\\ Type: Simple\\ Caste: Lost Shore\\ Min Essence: 2\\ Prereqs: IrresistibleMirageProposition
Destinations and goals are products of static reality, as no shore would be in sight on a sea of pure and endless chaos. However, the forces of chaos are strong and can serve to obscure these shores. A fae using this charm outside of combat can make a number of people equal to her permanent essence score completely forget where they are going, what they are doing and why they are doing it for a scene. The fae rolls her Essence and her powers of chaos manifest as the hypnotic sounds of gentle lapping of waters on a shore. Everyone in the vicinity makes a Conviction roll. If they get less successes than the fae’s roll, they completely lose sight of their current goals, destinations, or deliberate intentions for one scene as the sounds of lapping waters continue to bewitch them. Characters who succeed on their conviction goal are not affected, but are unaware anything is happening; when they remind their allies about their ambitions, the allies remember instantly and have another chance to roll their conviction. If they fail again, they forget again, just as instantly as they remembered. It will probably not be openly apparent to an unaffected character that his allies don’t have any clue what they are supposed to do until an important action needs to be made and they forget.
For example, Allad and his circle are meeting a fae exalt to negotiate a truce in the face of an Abyssal attack. Allad’s circle also wants to use this meeting to study the fae and learn everything they can about her. The fae exalt activates this charm and Allad is the only one in the circle to make his conviction roll. So Allad pays close attention while the rest of his circle casually look around and seem vaguely uninterested. Allad elbows his circlemate to remind him to pay attention. The Solar pipes up, rolls Conviction again, and fails again. He falls back into disinterested state for the rest of the scene, and Allad is the only one who learns anything about his adversary. Nobody knows the fae is using the charm without the benefit of sorceries.
This charm absolutely cannot be used to delay or prevent combat from breaking out, and it has no effect in combat.
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