Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

Metadiscipline: Terpsichore's Charm

 

Presence 5 (to allure and strike all of the audience)

Auspex 3 (in order to take into account the emotion the artist wanted to inspire in the moment of their creation)

Dementation 1 (to introduce and enhance the aforementioned emotion in the audience)

 

Whether you dance, paint, sing, or practice any type of art, your work invokes true emotion. When you create art or undertake a performance, you can choose one appropriate emotion or state of thought to be reflected in that endeavour. Anyone viewing the art or observing the performance feels that emotion. If an individual wishes to take an action that runs contrary to the chosen emotion, such as attacking someone in the presence of a painting that invokes calm, she may spend 1 Willpower. If she does so, she ignores all Terpsichore's Charm effects for the next hour.

The effects of Terpsichore's Charm are passive, not aggressive, and encourage observers to feel emotion or enter a certain state of mind. The emotion encouraged by the art is felt by the victim, but Absent Sway does not force the victim to act in any specific manner. You might paint a picture that provokes viewers to feel the emotion “anger.” The manner in which the individual responds to feeling anger is up to the player of that character. However, if the character wishes to act in some manner that is diametrically opposed or contradictory to the emotion encouraged by the Terpsichore's Charm, she must spend 1 Willpower. For example, if she was in the presence of the painting that evoked “anger,” she would not have

to punch the person beside her, but she would be forced to spend a point of Willpower if she wanted to start peace negotiations, or announce she has forgiven her enemies for their past slights.

Terpsichore's Charm cannot affect individuals in combat and has no effect once combat starts, but the power can make it difficult for characters to start combat in the first place. 

A character does not have to spend a point of Willpower to overcome Terpsichore's Charm if acting upon the emotion caused by the art would cause the character harm or prevent the character from acting in self-preservation.