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This power may only be used on a target once per scene per Revelation user.
While a vampire can gain all manner of information he seeks by use of this power, he must be
prepared for a litany of confessions from a particularly guilty or tormented subject. A longtime
criminal might have many sins to confess, for example, only one of which is important to the
character using Revelation. Should the confession go on for more than a single secret, and the
subject turns to particularly deep, dark or dangerous secrets, a Willpower point may be spent
and a Composure draw made for the subject to break the spell for a turn (see p. 228).
The subject remembers what he confessed after the effects of the power have passed. He
undoubtedly can’t explain his lack of discretion, and depending on what he said he might
do anything in his power to compensate for his “lapse in judgment.”
••• ENTRANCEMENT
This power is perhaps the closest thing that Majesty gets to serious command over the
thoughts of another. Its power warps the emotional state of the subject, making him a willing
servant of the vampire. Subjects retain their sense of identity and free will, believing
that every instinct to serve and admire comes of their own volition. When the duration of
an Entrancement ends, however, confusion and displacement arise, often leading to mixed
feelings. Similar to falling out of love, re-entrancing a former “lover” is diffi cult at best.
Cost: —
Test Pool: Manipulation + Empathy + Majesty versus subject’s Composure + Blood
Potency
Action: Contested; resistance is refl exive
Draw Results
Failure: The character loses or ties the contested draw. The Entrancement fails and the
subject reacts to the vampire normally.
Success: The character wins the contested draw by getting the most successes, and brings
a mortal under his sway for the rest of the month. Kindred and other supernatural creatures
fall under his sway for a scene — at least long enough to complete a single task or set of tasks.
A character may be entranced by multiple people at the same time; if confl icts occur, she
will follow the lead of the character with the most successes on the Entrancement draw, or
in the case of a tie, the character with the higher Blood Potency.
When a period of effect wears off, the subject remembers everything but does not necessarily
bear the vampire any ill will. After all, he has no idea that something unnatural has
taken place. He merely comes to the conclusion that he no longer feels the way he once did
for the character (even if “once” was an hour ago). At this time, he likely returns to going
about his own life, content with never seeing the vampire again. Typically, a vampire who
wishes to retain the attention of an affected subject calls upon more reliable (or stringent)
methods of indenturing, such as the Vinculum. Subjects will defend the character who entranced
them and even perform mildly dangerous tasks if the situation appears suffi ciently
dire to threaten the Entrancement user, but they will defend themselves and fl ee if it appears
that they are about to die or be incapacitated themselves.
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2.10 — ENTRANCEMENT MODIFIERS
Modifi er Situation
+2 Power is turned on a vampire with whom the user has a blood
tie (see p. 228)
-3 The Kindred has already successfully Entranced the subject
within a week.