Web of Toxic Destiny
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fictitiouswhimsigotA watchful eye, a fluttering page.
Discovered secrets of the twilight age.
Fear, pride and cooling rage,
The men who made the mirror.
Molten glass and song of steel
Permit whispered thoughts to reality unreel.
At last their dead hearts fear do feel,
But still they work.
The men who made the mirror.
With hiss and crackle
And muttered word.
With hearts soaked in forbidden verb.
With whisper knife and guillotine ring.
And thousand spiders dancing on ancient string.
They labored their doom to bring,
The men the mirror made.
This is about a perk for CMWGE called Toxic Shine. It modifies the normal Shine skill. You are still charismatic, but it’s a dark charisma. You are not inspiring and uplifting. You are an object of obsession and fixation, and of reverence. Interest in you is sickly and draining and unhealthy.
Toxic Shine functions much like normal Shine, in that other people may use your Toxic Shine to form intentions. However, unlike Shine these intentions act similarly to Magical Skills. They face a natural Obstacle, which renders their use is draining and unnatural. Another character may use Toxic Shine to form intentions that:
These all face an Obstacle of 0 in a place that has been ritually dedicated to you in some way, or while in the Outside. They suffer an Obstacle of 1 in normal places and contexts, and an Obstacle of 2 in places that are notably distant from the Outside or spiritually distant from you, like a place that is consecrated to some principle or ideal that is antithetical to your own paradigm.
If a character uses your Toxic Shine to perform a magical technique with a skill that resonates with your personal ideals, principles, aesthetics or drives- such as one you possess or embody, then that character may claim edge up to the rating of your Toxic Shine.
Access to Toxic Shine is an appropriate reward for a Bindings 4, Otherworldly 3, Emptiness 4 or Mystic 5 quest. The character may convert their Shine into Toxic shine, or move a point from one of their inherent skills into Toxic Shine. Other perks that raise Shine may also raise Toxic Shine.
Discovered secrets of the twilight age.
Fear, pride and cooling rage,
The men who made the mirror.
Molten glass and song of steel
Permit whispered thoughts to reality unreel.
At last their dead hearts fear do feel,
But still they work.
The men who made the mirror.
With hiss and crackle
And muttered word.
With hearts soaked in forbidden verb.
With whisper knife and guillotine ring.
And thousand spiders dancing on ancient string.
They labored their doom to bring,
The men the mirror made.
This is about a perk for CMWGE called Toxic Shine. It modifies the normal Shine skill. You are still charismatic, but it’s a dark charisma. You are not inspiring and uplifting. You are an object of obsession and fixation, and of reverence. Interest in you is sickly and draining and unhealthy.
Toxic Shine functions much like normal Shine, in that other people may use your Toxic Shine to form intentions. However, unlike Shine these intentions act similarly to Magical Skills. They face a natural Obstacle, which renders their use is draining and unnatural. Another character may use Toxic Shine to form intentions that:
- Uplift, protect or directly benefit you,
- Sacrifice themselves or their health for your sake,
- Pursue your stated plans,
- Pursue what they believe your plans to be, or
- Endure unpleasant conditions in pursuit of an obsession with you.
These all face an Obstacle of 0 in a place that has been ritually dedicated to you in some way, or while in the Outside. They suffer an Obstacle of 1 in normal places and contexts, and an Obstacle of 2 in places that are notably distant from the Outside or spiritually distant from you, like a place that is consecrated to some principle or ideal that is antithetical to your own paradigm.
If a character uses your Toxic Shine to perform a magical technique with a skill that resonates with your personal ideals, principles, aesthetics or drives- such as one you possess or embody, then that character may claim edge up to the rating of your Toxic Shine.
Access to Toxic Shine is an appropriate reward for a Bindings 4, Otherworldly 3, Emptiness 4 or Mystic 5 quest. The character may convert their Shine into Toxic shine, or move a point from one of their inherent skills into Toxic Shine. Other perks that raise Shine may also raise Toxic Shine.
