Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

- The PC must have at least Fame x2 , Academics: Art Criticism x3 and Expression x3.
- Toreador only.

Description:
You know exactly what everyone is expecting when you show up to the exposition. They look with the corner of their eyes while you move piece by piece, and any expression or sound you make people start to guess what you have in your mind. What are you thinking about the Artists and their creations? You finish your visit and go away, but you simply can’t forget about one specific thing you saw there. They were right, EVERYONE must know about this, only you can say to the world what being an Artist really means, and deeply you know: they are all captured by your presence and anxiously waiting for your opinion.

System:
This combo represents the canalization of Toreador’s power to get the attention of the crowd and now use it to point at another subject, highlighting the good (or bad) qualities of an Artist. It manipulates the Auspex ability to perceive the emotions attached to a determined object, using this perception to give to the created piece of critic the desired emotions, that of Awe and Entrancement of the Toreador Presence, to influence the viewer's opinions about the subject.

Touching someone’s reputation isn’t a light task, and demands effort from the one using the power of this combo as well. The use of this demands the expenditure of a temporary Willpower point, to represent the effort of the Art Critic for the production of the evaluation of an Artist’s production. The Art Critic must be exposed to at least one piece of art of the target PC, and then produce an Art Criticism (Role play it!). This production needs to be written by the Player, and must be presented to the public in the words of the Art Critic (eg. send over an e-mail list, read aloud in a live event, etc.) representing the spread of the opinion and the attention being pointed out to the target PC (the Artist).

After that, the target PC is considered to have a +1 level of Fame representing the buzz caused by them with the Art community; Also, a criticism piece contains the opinion about the Artist's competence, and so, how people will perceive them now. The Art Critic must choose a good or bad reputation for the Artist, and in doing so, the target PC will now be perceived with a higher (good review) or lower (bad review) social standing, in other words, the Artist is considered temporarily having the equivalent of the Reputation merit or the Notoriety flaw (with all normal implications of these), and having 1 point lower or higher clan prestige if being a Toreador PC, when on Social interactions. All effects have a temporary duration of 1 month, and the Willpower point expended to activate the power cannot be recovered by the Critic while the effects last.

Restrictions:
- The Combo cannot be used in a self-evaluation.
- The Combo doesn’t strip or add Status/Prestige, it is a temporary and virtual perception (People really want to be around or acquire Art from this person after what has been said about them, for example).
- As this may be used in PCs outside the Critic's chronicle, the effects over the target PC must be approved by their STs to have the mechanical effect (but the STs can’t block the Art criticism from being published or said IC, this is not an automatic cross-chronicle redline tool, only the mechanical effects can be negated if the STs says so).
- The use of the combo doesn’t protect the Art Critic from any consequences of his criticism about the other PCs being said in public at large (so, choose your words and targets wisely).