Dragon: The Embers Core Book - MrGone's Character Sheets

trailblaze a new emotional connection at this
level.
Each pluck takes approximately
three seconds. The Tears Dragon must be
touching the mark to pluck a chain.
Cost: 1 Breath
Dice Pool: Strength + Empathy + Furnace +
Tears – Resolve - Furnace
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The chain injures the
mark’s mind, causing a derangement until
the end of the scene. The Tears Dragon
must continue from a different chain,
moving back to the previous level if
necessary.
Failure: The chain is affixed too firmly for
the Dragon’s tug, which means she’ll have
to pull harder. She cannot move on to the
next level until she succeeds at this one.
Success: As explained, the connection
between emotion and memory is removed,
causing an emotional numbness that
eventually heals to indifference. If the chain
was deranged, the associated derangement
vanishes after approximately one week.
Exceptional Success: Same as Success, but
the Breath is not spent.
Lay Lay the the the Chain Chain ( (●●●●) (
Usually after plucking the chain of
an undesirable emotion, a Tears Dragon
wants to plant a desirable one. At this level,
she can follow Pluck the Chain by laying
down a new groove, connecting any known
memory to an available emotion using the
chain just plucked. Depending on how
radical the connection (Like connecting love
to a murder), there's a chance that the
connection will cause a derangement
(Forced Morality roll by the mark at
storyteller discretion). Each connection
forms a new behavior that is usually
favorable compared to the old one.
To lay a chain, the Dragon must be
touching the mark.
Cost: 1 Breath
Dice Pool: Wits + Empathy + Furnace +
Tears – Resolve - Furnace
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The Tears Dragon
miscalculates the placement, attaching it to
the wrong memory or wrong emotion. The
result is a less than desirable new behavior.
Failure: The chain does not anchor to the
mind, breaking free only moments after it is
placed. The Dragon can pick it up off the
ground and try again, but she cannot
continue to the final level of Tears until she
succeeds.
Success: As explained, the chain creates a
new emotional connect and most likely a
new behavior. While the short term
ramifications of that may seem limited,
clever placement can radically change a
mark’s personality.
Exceptional Success: Same as Success, but
the Breath is not spent.
Rip Rip the the Chain Chain ( (●●●●●) (
On certain foes, creating new
emotions isn't enough to overpower the
burning rage or hatred of a mark, so
sometimes a Tears Dragon is driven to take
this cruelest of measures. The Dragon takes
tight grip of one chain and uses it to rip them
all from the mark's mind. This robs him of
ALL his Willpower points, and instantly
lowers his Morality by two. This act
requires a sacrifice of 4 Breath.
Having all emotional connections
extracted can be devastating to the psyche.
The mark hereafter has no connection to his
past, and can feel nothing until such time as
he forges a new chain (Usually by getting a
derangement). He is essentially made into a
sociopath, having only the false chain the
Tears Dragon supplied as a compass for
what it means to feel. There truly can be no
worse punishment than this.