*A beat is gained when there is damage in the third to farthest box (first negative modifier) rather than at the farthest box.
*Anytime your character does something that makes them challenge their perception (ie a breaking point) they earn a beat, regardless of whether or not they fail their roll and gain clarity damage.
*To make conditions more meaningful and to improve the rate of xp gained, I will give one beat for appropriately role playing the condition and a second for the mechanical resolution of the beat.
*We are going to use a modified system for group aspirations, in which I choose the aspirations (see below), and as they are approached or reached, all players will gain a personal beat.
*Mundane objects such as mirrors and cameras can only capture a Changeling or Fetch's mask, unless they are objects of Arcadia, the Hedge, or are otherwise supernatural. However, a Kenning roll can be used to unveil a character's mask, even in an old photograph. This is not the same as the clash of wills used to rend a Mask that a Changeling has chosen to "Strengthen" as per page 108. HOWEVER, as per these rules, a Changeling or Fetch's shadow seen by another Lost (in a mirror, video or photo) can still give the character away as it will be a shadow in the form of the character's Mein or true nature.
Spoiler: Contracts
Show
The Night Revelers
The Chorus:
The Second Line (Royal): The musician’s song is a dominating overwhelming force, and all those who hear it can’t help but stop what they are doing to join in and dance or play along.
Cost: 2 Glamour, Dice Pool: Presence + Expression + Wyrd vs. Resolve + Composure + Wyrd
Success: All those within earshot continue to dance or try to play along for as long the musician plays (Note that this does not stop a target from performing other actions such as texting or firing a gun while they are enraptured). Exceptional success: They will follow the musician in a parade as the musician performs.
Loophole: The musician plays with a band made up of at least half changelings.
Soothe the Savage Beast (Royal): The musician’s performance calms the soul, making violent designs nearly impossible to perform.
Cost: 3 Glamour, Dice Pool: Manipulation + Expressoin + Wyrd vs. Resolve + Composure + Wyrd
Success: All those in earshot suffer a -3 to any form of attack. Exceptional Success: Those in earshot are completely incapable of attacking the performer or their allies.
Loophole: The performer must be performing while vulnerable (ie out in the open and close enough to be appropriately be attacked).
Killing them Softly (Common): With this contract the Changeling channels their rage into a cacophany of notes that grow faster and faster till they hurt the head and splits the eardrums, literally damaging all those who hear.
Cost: 2 Glamour, Dice Pool Dexterity + Expression + Wyrd Vs. Stamina + Wyrd
Success: All those within earshot other than the performer and their band take bashing damage that ignores armor equal to the success difference. Exceptional Success: The attack does lethal damage
Loophole: The performer has taken any form of damage from any listener present prior to playing.
Rock Star Seduction (Common): We all know how sexy a musician can be. The Reveler simply mentions that they are a musician, lubricating further social rolls for them.
Cost 1 Glamour, Dice Pool Presence + Presence + Wyrd vs. Composure + Wyrd.
Success: The Changeling gets 2+ modifier to all social rolls with their target for the remainder of the scene. Exceptional success: The target gains the swooned or wanton condition.
Loophole: The target has heard the performer’s work during the same scene before the social interaction begins.
Anyone can Dance (Common): Music can inspire and embolden even the meekest of souls, making them feel more capable of dancing and performing great physical feats. The Night Reveler sings a song of encouragement which emboldens their target thusly.
Cost 1 Glamour, Dice Pool Presence + Expression + Wyrd
Success: A single target in earshot gains 3+ to a single physical based roll in the same scene. Exceptional Success: The effect provides the 3+ benefit for the entire scene.
Loophole: The Reveler has stolen or been gifted an article of clothing from the target.
The Ensemble:
The Speech of Carcosa (Royal):The Changeling speaks in riddles and tongues; an incomprehensible litany of obsenties regarding the far off isles of The King in Yellow that drives the listener mad.
Cost 3 Glamour. Dice Pool Presence + Expression + Wyrd vs. Resolve + Composure + Wyrd
Success: All mortals in earshot take a Breaking Point at -1 and take the shaken condition as part of their breaking point. Exceptional Success: The Contract affects Supernaturals and inflicts Bedlam.
Loophole: The Changeling is on a stage and has the crowd’s full attention before enacting the contract
Perfume Tongue (Royal): The Changeling draws on their ties with the spirit of the performer to make their words unignorable. Even the most meek person speaking in a noisy bar suddenly draws the attention of the entire room, and even the boldest lie is suddenly hard to disprove.
Cost 3 Glamour. Dice Pool: Composure + Expression+ Wyrd
Success: You may reroll as many Expression, Persuasion, Socialize or Subterfuge rolls as you gain successes on the contract, and take the better of the two rolls (Rote). Exceptional Success: You may rote as many rolls as you like for the scene
Loophole: The Changeling must eat an entire head of raw garlic immediately before enacting the contract.
Stage Combat (Common): The Changeling uses their understanding of choreography to drive their fighting abilities to new heights.
Cost: 1 Glamour. Dice Pool: Int + Athletics + Wyrd
Success: The changeling adds their Athletics to their next Brawl or Weaponry roll. Exceptional Success: The effect lasts for the entire combat.
Loophole: Somebody tells them to “Break a Leg” before combat begins; this must be unprompted
Exit Stage Left (Common): The Changeling uses their knowledge of stage direction to move out of sight and immediately vanish without a trace.
Cost: 2 Glamour. Dice Pool Wits + Stealth + Wyrd
Success: The Changeling moves out of eyesight of all witnesses and effectively Portals without needing to find a suitable portable. The Contract always deposits the Changeling in a new and random location in The Hedge (or in reality depending on where the contract is activated). Exceptional Success: By imagining the location very hard, the Changeling is able to dicatate where they appear.
Loophole: The Changeling is dressed in a costume of a figure known for stealth (ie a Ninja or a spy). The costume has to be explicit enough that an observer would know who or what they were dressed as.
The Makers:
Art Walk (Royal): The Changeling steps into a painting or photograph that he/she knows well, and and exit another painting/photograph that they are similarly familiar with.
Cost 2 Glamour and 1 Willpower, Dice pool Wits + Academics + Wyrd
Success: The changeling literally steps through the frame of a painting. Once they are entirely through, they are to anyone who looks at the art piece and take on the medium and style of a piece of art (all jagged impressionistic lines or broad thick paint strokes). The Changeling can bring with them any who it is holding hands with (no chain of hands like in Mirror Walk). All people and objects in the picture remain inanimate and immovable. The Night Reveler may walk “off screen” and appear in another painting or photo.
Exceptional Success: The portal remains open for the scene and anyone may pass through freely with the changeling’s permission in either direction without the need to link hands.
Loophole: The Changeling made the piece of art themselves.
Golem (Royal): The sculptor creates a statue out of whatever material they prefer that with the expenditure of Glamour can be activated to defend them. The sculpture is a mindless brute that neither speaks nor has a personality and simply follows commands.
Costs 1 glamour and 1 willpower to make, then 1 glamour to activate, Dice Pool Resolve + Crafts + Wyrd. Note a Golem can only be created once per Story (not scene or chronicle).
Note that the process of making the Golem takes 10 - “number of successes” in days to make
Success: The golem is created and can be activated once per scene with 1 glamour. Once activated the Golem follows commands or otherwise acts to immediately defend its creator. Exceptional Success: As success but the Golem is able to speak and does not require a point of Glamour to activate.
The Golem has the following stats: Str 4, Dex 2, Stm 3, Athletics 1, Brawl 3. The Golem does bashing damage. Health is 5 + success rolled during creation. Speed 8, Initiative +3, Defense 3, Armor 3. It is controlled by the ST, but follows direct commands from its creator.
Loophole: Blood is the water of life. The creator bathes their golem in 4 lethal damage worth of blood human.
Dream Catcher (Common): The changeling creates two identical piece of art, placing one in their targets bedroom, and keeping the second in their own. This Dream Catcher then acts as a portal directly into the dreamer’s Bastion, activated only by the contract owner.
Cost: 1 Glamour and 1 Willpower to create the Dreamcatcher. Dice pool to create Resolve + Crafts+ Wyrd. No dice to activate.
Success: The Dreamcatchers are successfully created. If the Dreamcatchers are appropriately placed, and the target is asleep, the creator can spend 1 willpower point to open a portal directly to the target’s Bastion. The portal stays open for as long as the creator wills it, though anyone can pass through this portal as long as it is open. Exceptional Success: The Dreamcatchers are so well made, the creator does not have to spend willpower to activate them.
Loophole: The Dreamcatcher is made out of “Weeping Willow” wood, a tree that only grows deep within the Hedge.
No Mistakes in Art (Common): The Changeling paints or patches wounds on a companion, fixing their injuries by replacing their accident with art. The Reveler must have their art supplies with them when activating this contract.
Costs: 2 Glamour. Dice Pool Wits + Crafts +Wyrd
Success: The changeling heals 1 bashing damage for every success. The act takes 1 full turn. Exceptional success: The act of restoring life fills the Changeling with pride, restoring all willpower to the Night Reveler.
Loophole: The Changeling possess a belonging of the one who injured the subject of the Contract.
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