Songs of Recto-Cranial Inversion

 

That is the polite name. 

 

These Songs are new: new enough to be topical, in fact.  They're technically considered to be common, but a few of the more dignified Superiors on either side are a bit reluctant to give them out.  Considering that the Songs still seem to have a bit of metaphorical rawness to them, that's not too surprising.

 

Corporeal

Yes, exactly what you think happens, happens: the contents of the target's cranium and large intestine switch places.  It also is precisely as disgusting to witness as one might imagine, right down to the sound effects.  Damage is meaningless, for humans (it kills them instantly): for celestials, treat as a ranged attack with a Power equal to (4x the level of the Song) plus (the CD of the successful Song roll).

Despite it's powerful nature, this Song is not commonly used: it's hard to explain the aftereffects, the Disturbance generated is almost frighteningly high and, worse of all, any unfavorable Intervention on the roll invariably results in the user having the contents of his cranium and large intestine switched.

 

Ethereal

The target's ability to make intelligent (or even intelligible) plans goes right into the toilet.  Subtract the CD (the effective level of which cannot be higher than the level of the Song) from any skill roll made by the target.  If this causes a roll to fail, then the target will only apparently succeed: the failure will become obvious at usually the worst possible moment.

 

Celestial

Those successfully targeted with this Song become loud, rude, obstinate, opinionated and often quite prejudiced.  On the one hand, this gives a base reaction modifier of -1/Song level and a -3 to all social-based skills; on the other, someone under this Song's influence get a +2 to resist a Balseraph or Impudite resonance.  Habbalah and Shedim still like them just fine, though.

 

Bonus: Dark Humor

Essence requirement: 6 for the Corporeal Song; 2 for the Ethereal and Celestial.

Degree of Disturbance: (Essence spent) x (CD + level of the Song) for the Corporeal Song, 0 for the Ethereal and Celestial.  Please also note that the above calculation for the Corporeal Song does not include Disturbance generated from the death of a human.

 

 

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