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Soul:Soul is the sense of self. You. Seeing as how you’re sharing room with a bunch of other poorsaps however, and this wreaks some pretty horrendous damage to your ability to keep youridentity coherent.Soul is expended as per the guidelines in the ‘Donation and Sacrifice’ section.Maxing the soul track leaves you listless and catatonic, we’re talking full depersonalisationand derealisation in one nasty package.What can’t you do with max Soul: DonateWhat can you do with max Soul: Act, accrue and spend unity.Psyche:The mind. Thoughts, memories, etc. The Soul might be ‘you’, but the mind is how you define‘you’, how you experience the world, how you comprehend all the sense data bombarding youevery day. Gogito Ergo Sum - I think therefore I am. The mind suffers whenever things don’twork with your fellows. Failing a bid for forced dominance or donating to a failed check all addPsyche damage (same way as Soma: one mark per three degrees of failure)Maxing Psyche turns you into a gibbering wreck and a creature of impulse and instinct. Higherfunctions shut down, all that’s left is a scared monkey running for cover.What can’t you do with max Psyche: Accrue and Spend UnityWhat can you do with max Psyche: Act, DonateIf a track goes over for any reason (e.g. Soma: a maxed character taking more damage, Soul:donating to a failure more dice than you had boxes left, Psyche: a maxed character failing adomination bid), the damage exceeding the track is split evenly among all players (rounded up)with a minimum of one damage.Donation and Sacrifice:The core of the game is your relationship with the other players, for better or worse.Donation is when you hand your dice to another player to help with a check. They add the diceyou’re willing to commit to the pool and roll, hoping for a high number. But there’s a catch…well, three catches.First: Failure duplicates all ill effects on the main actor on all donating players (though thedonating characters suffer damage in the mind track rather than the soma track)Second: each player can only donate up to three dice to a pool without sacrifice.Third: if the pile being donated results in the main actor’s pool being three or more dice largerthan the DM’s, sacrifice is also called for.To donate, you simply put your dice in the main actor’s pool.How does Sacrifice work? In game terms, characters are lending little fragments of themselves
in order for the other players to succeed, so they’re gambling their own sense of self for thebenefit of another.When a player adds more dice than the GM, or more than three dice (this doesn’t stack, so morethan three dice and more than the GM don’t cause double badness) and the check passes, theytake a single point of soul damage. On a failure, they take soul damage for every diecontributed to the test, even the ones in the ‘three dice safety threshold’.When a character is under one of their inspirations, they suffer none of the ill effects ofdonating, though a GM could reasonably end the inspired state quickly after a couple offailures or when the moment’s passed.When a character is under one of their adversities, they suffer all ill effects. A success inflictsthe same soul damage as a regular failure, regardless of how many dice are used, while afailure immediately results in the donating character suffering the total number of dice, notjust the ones he added to the pool, in soul damage.Actors and Domination:With all these rules, a point of clarification and an apology is owed…Main Actor: this is the character currently dominating. All characters can ‘act’ and urge the mainbody to do things at any time, which usually works out well because the gestalt has thecapacity for super-human speed, but the main actor is in control.- The main actor’s body is the one currently being inhabited and calls the shots, though asubordinate actor can try and ‘veto’ them by successfully dominating the body.- The main actor rolls six dice on every check without penaltySubordinate Actors: All characters not dominating fall in this category. They might as well bevoices in the main actor’s head, but they’re not useless… just impaired because the main actoris drowning them out.- Subordinate Actors can only roll three dice on a check without penalty, though a main actorcan veto them.- Subordinate actors must expend Soma to add up to three more dice to their pool (one Somaper die).- Subordinate actors have no physical presence, the main actor is the one with the body andthus the current looks, however a subordinate actor can speak through the gestalt and thevoice is theirs, regardless of what the main actor’s voice is like.Domination:A gestalt working together with singular purpose won’t ever see this happen as they’ll simplyrelinquish control to one another, but a divided gestalt will. Whenever a character wants totake over the main actor role, or a main actor wants to suppress a subordinate actor, they rolldomination.Simply: They roll off against each other with their full dice pools. Both sides can acceptdonations without penalty from sympathetic parties but neither side can use Unity points
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