Chaos Fold

Discipline Techniques

Dementation 4, Dominate 4

Malkavians among the Anarchs are more common than one might think, and this power proves just how much they can offer the movement if they truly take it to heart. This power allows a Malkavian to "fold" a latent derangement into the mind of a subject and key it to manifest at a certain event. Until the event takes place, the subject is unaffected by the derangement, and it may subsequently vanish thereafter, but to the anarchs, that's the beauty of this power. It makes the victim completely capricious and unreliable, which can be a boon if they're trying to make a case against someone's credibility.

System: The player selects a derangement and rolls Manipulation + Empathy (difficulty 6 if he's trying to implant a derangement that the character using the power already suffers; difficulty 8 if he does not suffer the derangement himself). The subject may resist with a Willpower roll (difficulty 7). If the character invoking the power gains more successes, he implants the derangement, otherwise the power fails.

The trigger event can be as specific or as vague as the Kindred wishes, from "when you next meet with the prince" to "the next time you feel hunger on a Friday after midnight." When the circumstances are right, the subject suffers a full-blown attack of the derangement in question. If the Kindred obtained five successes on the resisted roll, the derangement manifests permanently at that point.

Note that this is a Dominate power as well. As such, it requires eye contact and that the user be of equal or lower generation than the subject. The subject will not necessarily know what's happening as the character puts the derangement in place. In fact, unless she's particularly suspicious or the situation is suitably uncommon, she probably won't give it a second thought.

Experience Cost: 28