Índice 4: Adepto em Mente (••••)

Gain Skill (Mind ••••)

Practice: Patterning
Primary Factor: Duration
Suggested Rote Skills: Crafts, Expression, Science

The mage is capable of temporarily granting the subject a Skill, granting a number of dots in one Skill per level of Potency of the spell. The spell cannot increase the subject’s Skill above the normal maximum.

+1 Reach: The mage may grant an additional Skill with the spell for each additional Reach spent, dividing the spell’s Potency among them. For example, a mage can spend +2 Reach with a Potency 4 spell to gain the Subterfuge Skill at one dot, the Intimidate Skill at two dots, and the Empathy Skill at one dot.

+1 Reach: By spending one Mana, the mage may increase one of the subject’s new Skills above the normal maximum.

Hallucination (Mind ••••)

Practice: Patterning
Primary Factor: Potency
Withstand: Composure
Suggested Rote Skills: Academics, Persuasion, Subterfuge

The mage creates false sensory input in her subject, tricking his senses and creating a hallucination. The mage creates a single illusion that seems completely real to her subject. She affects sound, smell, taste, and sight with the illusion, though she is unable to make the illusion tactile to the subject.

+ 1 Reach: As above, but the mage can make the hallucination tactile to the subject. The illusion cannot attack or harm the subject in any way, but when he interacts with it, the subject believes he can feel the illusion. This may mean that a large illusion, such as a wall or other barrier, may make the subject believe he is incapable of passing through, barring his way.

Mind Flay (Mind ••••)

Practice: Unraveling
Primary Factor: Potency
Suggested Rote Skills: Expression, Intimidation, Science

The mage pulls apart her subject’s conscious and subconscious mind, dealing damage as she does so. The subject suffers one point of lethal damage for each level of Potency of the spell.

+1 Reach: The subject of the spell also gains the Insane Tilt.

+2 Reach: For one point of Mana, the spell inflicts aggravated damage.

Possession (Mind ••••)

Practice: Patterning
Primary Factor: Potency
Withstand: Resolve
Suggested Rote Skills: Medicine, Persuasion, Subterfuge

The mage can send her consciousness into the subject and take possession of his body. The mage takes control of the subject, imposing the Possessed Condition (see p. 261). While possessing the subject, the mage uses the rules for possession as an ephemeral entity, with the following changes. She may use any of her Mind spells on the subject to read his mind, and she may spend a point of Mana to use her own Mental and Social Attributes instead of the host’s Attributes. She must always use her subject’s Physical Attributes, but may spend a point of Mana to reduce the –3 penalty on Physical actions to 0. While possessing the subject, her body is comatose as with “Psychic Projection”, below.

Psychic Projection (Mind ••••)

Practice: Patterning
Primary Factor: Duration
Withstand: Resolve
Suggested Rote Skills: Academics, Occult, Socialize

The mage can project the subject’s consciousness into a state of Twilight or into another’s dreams. The mental projection uses the rules for Dream Forms in Chapter Six (p. 249). It has no ephemeral body, but is instead an incorporeal, intangible mental image. While in Twilight, the subject cannot interact physically with her surroundings, and must use magic to affect anything. She is immune to physical attacks, but she is still susceptible to mind-affecting supernatural abilities. While mentally projected, her body lies in a comatose state, and she has no way of knowing its health or state without returning or the use of other magic. If her projection dies, she returns to her body with the Soul Shocked Condition.

Add Spirit ••: The mage may project the subject’s consciousness beyond the Gauntlet into the Shadow Realm. The spell is also Withstood by the Gauntlet rating (p. 179).

Psychic Reprogramming (Mind ••••)

Practice: Patterning
Primary Factor: Potency
Withstand: Resolve
Suggested Rote Skills: Intimidation, Medicine, Persuasion

The mage rewrites the subject’s personality, changing the very essence of who she is. The mage may change one of the following aspects of the subject for each Potency of the spell: Virtue, Vice, Short-Term Aspiration, Long-Term Aspiration, Obsession, a non-Physical Persistent Condition, or may move one dot between two Social Skills, or between two Mental Skills.

+1 Reach: The mage may also move dots between two Social Attributes, or two Mental Attributes per Potency of the spell.

Terrorize (Mind ••••)

Practice: Patterning
Primary Factor: Potency
Withstand: Composure
Suggested Rote Skills: Expression, Intimidation, Medicine

The spell provokes an overwhelming sense of fear and dread in its subject, draining his strength and will to live. The subject suffers from the Insensate Tilt for the Duration of the spell, or until the Tilt is resolved (for instance, by being attacked).

+1 Reach: The mage inflicts the Broken Condition instead.