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| - | "Un pour tous, tous pour un!" | + | "Who I am is not important; only who I am to you." |
| - | //"One for all, and all for one!"// | + | <cite>Jo.</cite> |
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| - | <cite>Les Trois Mousquetaires (Alexandre Dumas)</cite> | + | |
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| The Ideal of Affiliation consists of the aspects of Antagonism and Reconciliation. It deals with the relationships between characters in all their forms. Such [[Muses]] delight in bitter rivalries and childhood friendships, kindly mediators and mischievous troublemakers. They favour narratives of trusts betrayed and friendships forged. | The Ideal of Affiliation consists of the aspects of Antagonism and Reconciliation. It deals with the relationships between characters in all their forms. Such [[Muses]] delight in bitter rivalries and childhood friendships, kindly mediators and mischievous troublemakers. They favour narratives of trusts betrayed and friendships forged. | ||
| - | Muses of Affiliation's power comes from their ability to change the strength and nature of relationships between characters. They can turn competition into collaboration, rivalry into friendship, and love into hate. | + | Muses of Affiliation have power over themes of collaboration, rivalry, friendship, love and hate. They believe that the course of the Narrative is governed by characters' relationships to one another. Hence, when a Muse of Affiliation wants to use their [[Skills]] to manipulate the Narrative of a [[vignettes|Vignette]], they must act to change those relationships. |
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| - | In [[Vignettes]] and the [[Dreamscape]], these powers can be manifested through applications of the Muses' [[Skills]]. | + | |
| ===== Strife ===== | ===== Strife ===== | ||
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| {{ affiliation_strife.jpg?&nolink250|Anger *can* be productive!}} | {{ affiliation_strife.jpg?&nolink250|Anger *can* be productive!}} | ||
| - | The Strife Skill governs uses of powers to attack others. With Affiliation, a Muse could turn allies against one another, or inspire coordination amongst their enemy's enemies. | + | The Strife Skill governs uses of powers to attack others. With Affiliation, a Muse could turn allies against one another, or inspire coordination among their enemy's enemies. |
| Some examples of applications at different power levels are: | Some examples of applications at different power levels are: | ||
| - | * **Weak**: A Muse might stoke antagonism to turn disagreement into an argument, or an argument into a fight. | + | * **Weak**: A Muse might subtly stoke the antagonism between characters, turning disagreement into an argument, or an argument into a fight. |
| - | * **Moderate**: A Muse might project an aura of protectiveness, encouraging bystanders to come to their defence. | + | * **Moderate**: A Muse might reprogram a menacing robot to act as their guardian. |
| - | * **Strong**: A Muse might drive two friends to enemies. | + | * **Strong**: A Muse might reveal a dark secret and have it drive two friends to enemies. |
| - | * **Exceptional**: A Muse might tear families apart, turning love into murderous hate and vice versa - rallying ancient enemies together against a common foe. | + | * **Exceptional**: A Muse might cast a spell of memory wiping to get rid of a character by having everyone forget them. |
| ===== Subvert ===== | ===== Subvert ===== | ||
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| {{ affiliation_subvert.jpg?&nolink300|"Can they still see me with this dress on?"}} | {{ affiliation_subvert.jpg?&nolink300|"Can they still see me with this dress on?"}} | ||
| - | The Subvert Skill governs stealth, duplicity, and forgery. With Affiliation, a Muse could divide themselves others, becoming unnoticeable or conversely distract others by strengthening their connections to extremes. | + | The Subvert Skill governs stealth, duplicity, and forgery. With Affiliation, a Muse might do this by taking on another's identity or tampering with letters between allies. |
| Some examples of applications at different power levels are: | Some examples of applications at different power levels are: | ||
| - | * **Weak**: A Muse might draw the attention of another by strengthening their connection to others, or be mistaken for just another face in the crowd. | + | * **Weak**: A Muse might draw the attention of a character by writing in a old debt between them and the character they are playing in a Vignette. |
| - | * **Moderate**: A Muse might become a faceless crowd of nobodies along with their allies. | + | * **Moderate**: A Muse might quickly strike up a friendship with a legendary outlaw who can smuggle them into an enemy stronghold. |
| - | * **Strong**: A Muse might borrow the connections of another, taking on their relationships for a time. | + | * **Strong**: A Muse might disguise themselves as an evil noble to use their relationship with the guards in order to sneak into a castle. |
| - | * **Exceptional**: A Muse might divide themselves totally from others, making it impossible for others to care about them, or divide them from others, becoming the only person in the world to them and capturing them totally. | + | * **Exceptional**: A Muse might tamper with info-beams between two Hyperempires, leading them to go to war. |
| ===== Seek ===== | ===== Seek ===== | ||
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| Some examples of applications at different power levels are: | Some examples of applications at different power levels are: | ||
| - | * **Weak**: A Muse might quickly extract information from individuals through causal conversation. | + | * **Weak**: A Muse might act as a trusted underling to get a dark wizard's orders. |
| - | * **Moderate**: A Muse might completely understand two people's relationship after observing them together. | + | * **Moderate**: A Muse might come to understand two characters' relationship after observing them together. |
| - | * **Strong**: A Muse might completely read the relationships between others with a glance. | + | * **Strong**: A Muse might get an AI implanted in them in order to learn its secrets. |
| - | * **Exceptional**: A Muse might assemble legions of scholars to piece together the unknown. | + | * **Exceptional**: A Muse might assemble legions of scholars from different schools to piece together the unknown. |
| ===== Sculpt ===== | ===== Sculpt ===== | ||
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| {{ affiliation_sculpt.jpg?&nolink120|"Oooo - shiny!"}} | {{ affiliation_sculpt.jpg?&nolink120|"Oooo - shiny!"}} | ||
| - | The Sculpt Skill governs uses of powers to modify objects. Muses of Affiliation focus on relationships between individuals, and so favour this Skill less. However, they able to enhance the relationships between people and objects, stirring affection or disdain for items. | + | The Sculpt Skill governs uses of powers to modify objects. Muses of Affiliation focus on relationships between individuals, and so favor this Skill less. However, they often try to manipulate the relationships between people and objects, stirring affection or disdain for items. |
| Some examples of applications at different power levels are: | Some examples of applications at different power levels are: | ||
| - | * **Weak**: A Muse might change a person's feelings about an item, enhancing their fond memories of it - or their negative ones. | + | * **Weak**: A Muse might remind a character of their history with an item, enhancing their fond memories of it - or their negative ones. |
| - | * **Moderate**: A Muse might easily trade trash for treasure, making an item appear much more or less important than it truly is to anyone looking. | + | * **Moderate**: A Muse might easily trade trash for treasure, having persuaded a merchant it is the item they have hunted for a long time. |
| - | * **Strong**: A Muse might completelyy hide items from sight by breaking their connection to others. | + | * **Strong**: A Muse might produce the ultimate meal; striving to outdo their rival in a cooking competition. |
| - | * **Exceptional**: A Muse might turn detritus into sacred relics, creating a McGuffin. Even those who did not know of it might find themselves aware of, and desirous of, the target of such an effect. | + | * **Exceptional**: A Muse might create a broadcast revealing a MacGuffin, giving it great personal importance to everyone. |
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