{"id":17578,"date":"2025-05-28T19:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T23:00:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:45:08","slug":"hypnotism-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/2025\/05\/28\/hypnotism-mechanics\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypnotism Mechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever someone attempts to use either hypnosis or psychic influence on<br \/>a target they will have to input a list of three pressures as well as the<br \/>message to be followed.<\/p>\n<p>The target will then see a message about the imprint, including the message<br \/>to be followed, they have about five minutes to either resist or accept<br \/>before they accept automatically.<\/p>\n<p>If they resist they need to enter the three pressures most likely to make<br \/>their character succumb to that imprint. These two lists are then compared,<br \/>in the case of hypnosis compulsions if the hypnotizer has perfectly<br \/>predicted the resistance imprints the imprint will automatically succeed and<br \/>will become locked, permanently sealing in place until someone unlocks it.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise the target will be given a cost in life force to resist the<br \/>imprint, this cost is higher the better the hypnotizer was able to predict<br \/>their vulnerabilities. They can then either accept the imprint, or resist<br \/>it and pay the cost in life force. If they do this the compulsion<br \/>backlashes and hurts the person attempting to influence them, charging them<br \/>about half the lifeforce it cost the target in return.<\/p>\n<p>Other factors can also influence this cost, such as vampire blood, siren<br \/>songs, being angelborn, or being drunk. Generally psychic influence is much<br \/>more affected by these secondary factors than hypnosis is.<\/p>\n<p>For these reasons characters who are particularly successful at influencing<br \/>minds need to be adept at understanding and or manipulating the psychology<br \/>of their targets, and skilled at picking compulsions that won&#8217;t be resisted<br \/>at any cost by the target&#8217;s player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever someone attempts to use either hypnosis or psychic influence ona target they will have to input a list of three pressures as well as themessage to be followed. The target will then see a message about the imprint, including the messageto be followed, they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-helpfile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}