Mind's Eye Theatre - Vampire The Requiem.pdf - RoseRed

To restore stolen or false memories, or to sense when memories have been altered, a character
must possess Dominate at a level equal to or greater than that of the vampire who fi rst
tampered with the subject’s mind. If such is the case, the player then makes a contested draw
in each stage of the extended action, to be compared against the initial user’s attempt, and
must score more successes than the predecessor did.
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2.7 — FORGETFUL MIND MODIFIERS
Modifi er Situation
+2 Power is turned on a vampire with whom the user has a blood
tie (see p. 228).
-1 to -3 The character’s description of the new memories is lacking in
detail.
•••• CONDITIONING
Through constant veiled whispers, subtle hints and frequent sustained manipulation, a
vampire can slowly render a particular victim substantially more suggestible. Conditioning
is normally used only on favored or valuable servants and, over suffi cient time, makes the
character’s efforts to Dominate a subject far easier while making it harder for any other Kindred
to do so. Acquiring such complete control over even the weakest mind is no easy task,
however, and it normally takes weeks or even months to accomplish.
While they are undeniably loyal, most servants subject to Conditioning lose much of their
ability to think for themselves, their own personalities blotted out by the will imposed on
them. They follow their orders literally and to the letter, rarely showing any imagination or
judgment, or taking the initiative to act on their own. Some Kindred have remarked that,
after a suffi ciently lengthy period of Conditioning, their servants actually resemble the walking
dead more so than their masters.
Mortals, thralls, other vampires and other supernatural creatures are all subject to Conditioning,
if it can be performed on them over the required period of time.
Cost: 1 Willpower per draw
Test Pool: Wits + Subterfuge + Dominate versus Resolve + Blood Potency
Action: Contested and Extended (6-15+ successes; each draw represents one week of mental
manipulation); resistance is refl exive.
Draw Results
Failure: The character loses or ties a contested draw and the attempt fails.
Success: The character wins a contested draw and makes progress in his efforts to suborn
the subject’s will.
Conditioning does not have any mechanical effect until fi ve more successes are accumulated
in excess of the victim’s Willpower dots. (If the subject has Willpower 6, Conditioning begins
to take effect once 11 successes are achieved.) Once this benchmark has been reached, all
future attempts by the character to use any Dominate ability (including further uses of Conditioning)
on the victim receive a +1 bonus, and all attempts by other Kindred to Dominate
the subject suffer a -1 penalty. For every additional fi ve successes that are accumulated, the
bonus and penalty each increase by one, to a maximum of +5 and -5. The Storyteller, not the
player, should keep track of the number of successes accumulated.
Once the character’s bonus reaches +3, he no longer needs to make eye contact with the
Conditioning subject to use any Dominate abilities, though giving orders through artifi cial
or impersonal means (such as by phone) imposes a -5 penalty to that particular attempt.