Branding
Levels: 0, 2
Requirements: Tier 3
Syntax: Brand (person) (location) (message)
Example
- Brand John neck `Ra flaming skull`x
Appearance
- He has a symbol of a flaming skull on his neck.
Branding is the go to method of choice for more powerful supernaturals to keep control over less powerful beings and devoted humans. The power conveys an ability to press their hand against someone's exposed skin and leave a permanent mark of their symbol there which will appear as 'He/She has a symbol of (message) on his/her (location)'
It costs the user some amount of life force, generally around 10% for branding someone of equal power level to yourself.
When a victim is branded any compulsions, body compulsions, triggered instructions or triggered body instructions will become sealed in and will never fade until the brand is removed. Triggered instructions that are sealed will fade when satiated, but will simply return again once the trigger occurs once more.
Syntax: Brand phantom (target) (sensation)
- This command uses the brand link to send a message to someone you have branded that will appear as 'You feel the sensation of (message). ' Useful as a easy access tool for disciplining your property.
Syntax: brand incapacitate (target)
- This command sends a surge of pain along the brand link to render your target temporarily insensible in order to easily recapture property that's trying to flee.
Syntax: brand listen/brand listen stop
- For about 0.1% of your life force this command allows you to enter a state in which you can hear everything any one of your branded can hear. Useful for checking on your property to ensure loyalty.
Syntax: brand watch/brand watch stop
- For the truly paranoid human owner, for 2.5% of your life force you can enter an even deeper state of observation where you also see what they are doing.
Syntax: brand remove (target)
- Performed in a faction's magical workshop this command allows someone to be released from a mystical branding. It costs $15, 000 in resources if done immediately, but the longer the person has had the brand the further the cost reduces, down to a minimum of $2000.